All Shapes and Sizes

Kyo enrolls at Tohru and Yuki's school, but curious classmates and a fresh quarrel with Yuki quickly drive him to bolt. As Tohru stumbles into the fallout, she starts to understand there is far more to each boy than their endless fighting suggests.

Fleeing prying students through a window, Kyo is found by Yuki, and a scuffle nearly exposes the curse before Tohru accidentally turns Kyo into a cat. Stung by his shouting, she walks off believing he hates her, all while quietly relating to the excluded cat of the zodiac legend. Shigure gently encourages Kyo to spend time around others, and later Tohru, remembering her mother's advice to simply be herself, accepts Kyo's fumbling apology and tells him she has always liked the cat and wants to be his friend.

A card game at school ends with Saki as the unlikely winner, and a renewed argument reveals that beating Yuki would let Kyo claim a place in the zodiac. Waiting for Tohru after work, Yuki is jostled into his rat form and confides that Akito once caged him, that he still feels penned in, and that he longs to live plainly among ordinary people, the mirror image of Kyo's wish to be welcomed into the family. Caught in sudden rain, the two shelter by a vegetable patch and talk of kindness taking many forms, and Tohru catches what feels like Yuki's first genuine smile before they gather leeks to cook.

The third episode of the 2001 anime adapts chapters 3 and 4 and corresponds to the 2019 episode Let's Play Rich Man-Poor Man!. It aired in Japan on July 19, 2001, and in the United States on October 29, 2002, with the opening For Fruits Basket and the ending Chiisana Inori.