WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Fruits Basket Season 2, Episode 4, "I Got Dumped..." now streaming on FUNimation and Crunchyroll.
In the latest episode of Fruits Basket, Yuki, Kyo and Hatsuharu butt heads, but the real enemy is the Sohma family curse, not each other. And they know it.
Rin Sohma hasn't spent much time on-screen yet, but she is an important part of Hatsuharu's life, being his girlfriend and his main source of happiness (and he carefully kept all this secret from Akito). The problem is, Rin is in a bad mood, and right there in her hospital room, she coldly dumped Hatsuharu. He took it as hard as one might expect.
At school the next day, Uotani, Tohru, Momiji, and the rest are happily chatting about their upcoming school trip to Kyoto and Nara when Momiji mentions Hatsuharu's current tantrum. Alarmed, Yuki and Kyo check it out, and find the "dark" side of Hatsuharu, who trashed the room and angrily confronted the other Sohma boys.
Hatsuharu scorns Yuki's pretentious princely ways and shares Yuki's scorn for Kyo, the unwanted 13th member of the Zodiac. Kyo, by now, has strong feelings for Tohru and is quick to shield her from the rampaging Hatsuharu, and fortunately, the teacher dumps water on everyone before things get really ugly. Haru doesn't defend nor apologize for his misdirected anger; instead, he walks off. He just wants to forget that this all ever happened, and perhaps he's greatly internalized his light/dark duality and his cursed life by now. He's found ways to cope with it, but Yuki is ready to do more than just cope.
Yuki, through both his actions and his words, proves that he's not just willing to put up with the curse and the family's dark fate; he is now ready to shine some light on the situation. Hatsuharu comments on this new development after his rampage, how just the fact Yuki came to calm him down is a big step. In the old days, Yuki wouldn't have even bothered at all.
After school that day, Tohru finds out that Yuki hasn't yet come home to Shigure's house. Instead, that evening, Yuki travels alone to the main Sohma family compound, a place that houses horrible memories for him. Despite being one of the most pampered Sohmas, Yuki endured horrors there as a little boy, mainly isolation and verbal abuse. But he fights them back down and proceeds to Hatsuharu's room.
It doesn't take long for both boys to make peace. In his knockoff Final Fantasy game, Hatsuharu even named his characters after himself, Yuki, and Kyo. The moment Yuki comes in, Hatsuharu gets out his smartphone to takes a selfie with Yuki, and gives him a calm but genuine "welcome back" to the main compound. The good news is that there's no bad blood between anyone despite Hatsuharu's heartbreak and rampage, and he still loves Rin and will do anything (short of a crime) to get her back. Yuki has no problem with that, and as another kind gesture, Hatsuharu recommends that Yuki call Tohru by her first name (a friendly and somewhat intimate thing to do in Japan). Yuki's flustered and says no, but he just might do it someday. He goes home in fairly high spirits.
The Sohma curse casts its shadow over everyone, but starting now, the Sohmas are really fighting back, and are acting like a real family at last.
New episodes of Fruits Basket Season 2 premiere Mondays at 1:30 PM EDT, dubbed on FUNimation and subtitled on Crunchyroll.
