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-Chapter 1-

Kyo

"Stupid. Stupid! STUPID!" With each word Kyo punched the brick wall of Kaibara High School as hard as he could. "How could I be so stupid?!" He fell to his knees and put his head in his hands, he was fighting an internal struggle. He couldn't blame Tohru, he could never blame her. He couldn't blame Akito… The curse took care of that. The only one to blame was himself. Of course it was his fault, he was the cat. The cat ruined everything. He could practically hear Akito's sneering voice mocking him. He would let out a cruel laugh and say, "Of course, of course. I never expected anything less from the cat."

Just a few minutes ago, Kyo had accidentally revealed the secret of the Zodiac Curse to the whole school. He shut his eyes, as if that would help block out the incident playing over and over in his mind. It didn't.

"Kyo-kun, what are you having for lunch today?" A peppy as usual voice penetrated Kyo's thoughts. He looked over at the smiling face of Tohru and couldn't hold back a small smile himself. Over the past few weeks Kyo had been getting a lot more comfortable around the people at the high school. The orange haired teen was happier and actually thought he could fit in with normal people… And felt he was getting closer to Tohru.

"Er, I'm not sure what I'll have. What about you?" Kyo watched Tohru look at the choices and then walk forward towards a small vat that was probably filled with soup.

"I might have thi-i-i-" Tohru stuttered as she slipped and started to fall backwards. Without thinking, without even considering the consequences, Kyo reached out to catch her. "Kyo, no!" He heard Tohru's voice, but didn't realize what she was trying to tell him until he disappeared in a puff of smoke and reappeared as an orange cat.

"What the Hell?" Kyo heard a loud (Or maybe it was just loud because the hall had suddenly become silent) female voice from somewhere behind him that he knew came from Arisa Uotoni, one of Tohru's best friends. "I'd like to know what is going on also," a softer voice said. That was undoubtedly Saki Hanajima, Tohru's other best friend. "I- Um- Ah-" Tohru stammered. Kyo could see her looking down at him helplessly.

Noise suddenly broke out again and people were pushing through the crowd to see what the commotion was. He heard a fe voices, most saying things to the effect of, "Where's Kyo? Did he... Turn into a cat?" Tohru was saved from further explination by a loud whistle and Haru Sohma's loud voice saying, "Yo! Everyone look away from the cat." The crowd quieted again, Haru hardly ever shouted unless he went over to his black side of course.

Tohru had reacted faster than Kyo did, grabbed him and his clothes, and carried them outside to a place where no one was, but it was too late, everyone had seen. He assumed that Yuki was probably calling Hatori now to come and erase everyone's memory, but he didn't know how they would manage to keep everyone in the cafeteria.

"Kyo!" Kyo blinked and raised his head, remembering that Tohru was there. She was sitting on her knees next to him, her hands in her lap were twisting nervously. She sounded slightly frantic, it was probably because of his meltdown and the fact that his hand was bleeding pretty badly. Kyo winced, seeing his hand made him aware of the fact that it hurt. He looked away and said gruffly, "Sorry." He turned his head at the sound of approaching footsteps and saw an annoyed silver haired boy.

"Nice going, Cat," Yuki said with obvious distaste. Yuki's voice was relaxed, but he had already adopted the familiar fighting stance he used so often around Kyo. "Akito is coming with Hatori, to say he's angry would be an understatement. You really screwed things up this time."

Kyo jumped to his feet, replacing his expression with an angry grimmace, and yelled, "Shut up and stay away from me!" Akito was coming, Yuki was right (Although he would never admit it), he really had screwed things up. He prepared to have the fight with Yuki that was no doubt coming... If only he could win. That would make the situation a little less awful.

"Kyo, your hand..." Tohru said feebly, as if that would stop him.

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More next time. Sorry it's kinda short :-P I'll try to get the next one up soon. Tell me what you think, please