The Shadow Zodiac
Chapter 1: Meeting Kyo and Tohru
Calti (Lauren)'s pov:
It was a warm sunny day and I was watching over my little cousins at playing, it was the most annoying thing I could do in life "Hey Lauren, what time are we leaving?" one of my cousins asked me "In about 1 hour, why do you want to know Tex?" I asked looking at him confused "I was just wondering, plus think if we could leave a bit earlier please?" Tax said while looking at the floor "Why? What's wrong?" I asked him looking over at the other kids "Because I don't like it here" Tex said hiding behind me while some kids came running up to him "Hey Tex you coming to play, we just thought of a great game to play" a kid asked him with a look like he had a plan or something, I looked behind me and saw that Tex didn't really want to play with them "Sorry kids but we're about to leave, maybe some other time" I said grabbing my coat along with Tex "But the club hasn't ended" another kid said looking up to me "Well sorry kid but we have family problem waiting back at home, FAY COME ON WE'RE LEAVING" I said to the kid and shouted for my other cousin to come and get her coat "You leaving already" a woman asked standing at the door "Yes we have, a big problem with the family and we need to be there ASAP" I said to her trying to get my cousin out of the building as quick as possible "Ok, well come again soon" the woman said with a bow and let us go out of the building, "What's the big deal of getting us out of the club so fast?" Fay asked as we got far away from the club building "Tex wanted to leave, plus those kids were going to do something which would have lead them to learn our secret, so I had to do something" I explained to Fay as we stopped at the cross road "Oh right, well we still have sometime before we have to go back to the house, so you have to take us some where" Fay said with a cheeky smile on her face "Fine but you better listen to what I say, ok" I said looking down at her "Sure" she said looking up at me with a face saying 'like hell' but I didn't say anything that would course a scene.
We walked all over town, went into some toy shops to look around at all the different kinds of toys there was "Hey Lauren, look at this" Fay shouted to me "Yeah what about it?" I said looking at the toys she pointed out to me "Could you buy it for me please?" she asked me with puppy dog eyes, well tried to anyway "Why?" I asked looking at her with a confused look "Because every time Donna, brings us to the shop after the club she buys it for us" she said picking the toy up to say 'please buy it for me' "Donna's an adult, who is older then me, plus has a job which means she gets money, so she is bound to buy something for you guys" I explained as I turned around to walk off to find Tex "And your point is?" Fay asked know what I meant "My point is that I don't have the money to buy anything" I said tilting my head to the side to speak to her "Fine but when you do you'll buy it for me" she said while putting the toy down on the shelf "By the time I get money that toy will be out of sell" I said while looking around to spot Tex "Then borrow some money from Ian" Fay said to me knowing full well Ian would kill me "Hell no" I said as I spotted Tex in the reading area "Ok" Fay said while catching up to me "TEX COME ON TIME TO GO" I shouted over to Tex, he popped his head up from the book he was reading and placed it back on to the shelves and walked towards me, once Tex was near me we started heading out of the door.
As I walked out of the door a group of people was walking in, I bumped into one of those people and turned around to apologize when I realized who it was, I turned back around a carried on walking and with out thinking I turned my head and saw that the person was following me with an angry look on his face "Tex, Fay go home" I said still looking behind me "Why?" Tex asked me as he turned his head but when he did he saw the boy following us "Lauren your not going to…" Tex asked with a bit of worry "No, he dose know who I am so don't worry and go home, tell the others I got hold up with something ok" I said stopping in my tracks and they carried on "Be careful" Fay said grabbing hold of Tex's had and ran home with out looking back.
I turned around to face the person following us, "What do you want?" I said while standing five steps from him "You to apologize for bumping into me" the boy answered back to me "Normal people forget about it" I said crossing my arms "Well i don't so, apologize" the boy said taking one step forward "Ok am sorry for bumping into you" I said looking straight at him but I felt a part of me just fell apart "Thank you" the boy said standing four steps away from me "KYO" someone shouted which made the boy turn away, a girl was running up to him in a worried stat "You really shouldn't worry your friends" i said looking at the boy "Shut up" the boy said truning to face me "Kyo, why did you run out of the shop like that, you had me worried, I thought you might be in trouble" the girl said as she catched up to the boy "Jeez Tohru, you don't need to come after me, you know that I can take care of myself" the boy explained to the boy "I guess your right" the girl said to the boy 'Tohru where have I heard that from' I thought to myself but didn't bother asking, so I turned around and headed off towards home.
"WAIT" someone shouted, I turned around and saw the girl running after me "Can I help you?" i asked her "Yeah, is your name Lauren by any chance "Yeah it is" I said looking at her with a confused face "I thought so, Its Tohru we use to be in the same class back in middle school but you moved to Amarica three years ago, remember" the girl explained to me where I would have seen her before, I stood there trying to remember my middle school years then it hit me "Oh yeah, know I remember" I said making her look at me confused "Sorry about that, my memories are a bit foggy" I explained to her, "That's ok, it was a long time ago" Tohru said with a chuckle "Tohru what are you doing" someone said from behind her "Oh just catching up with an old friend" Tohru said turning to face a girl that kind of looked like a boy "Oh right, well we're going down to the river we'll meet you there" the girl said looking pass Tohru to look at me "Ok" Tohru said with a nod and turned to face me again.
We walked across a bridge and stopped to look at the water below, "So, what you been doing over the years" I asked her while looking up at the sky "Well, my mum died a year ago" she started off which made me look towards her "I'm sorry" I said with a bit of sadness, for I knew how it feel to lose someone special "It ok, I've made some great friends over the pass year too, so it isn't all that bad" Tohru said looking down at the bridge "Oh and the boy who chased after me is one of them" I asked her while looking back up to the sky "Yeah, his name is Kyo and am sorry about that" she said then apologized about the event "Don't be it was my foult for not apologizing to him in the first place" I said with a smile on my face "But still" she said still feeling depressed "I said don't, so don't ok" I said facing her "Ok" she said pulling her head up to face me, we stood there laughing at the things that happened during the years that went by, even tho I don't remember most of it "Well it been a blast seeing you again Tohru, I hope we can hang out again sometime" I said while standing up straight to walk off home "Yeah, same here" she said facing me with a smile "See ya" I said before taking off towards home.
As I reached the end of the bridge, I was greated by the boy from earlier that Tohru calls Kyo "So, you a friend of Tohru's" he started to ask "Yes" I said while stopping in my tracks to talk to him "I'm sorry about earlier" he said out of the blue "It's ok" I said as I started to walk off again "Oh and Kyo, I hope Tohru is safe living with you" I said before disappearing from his eye sight, 'Tohru, I'm sorry but you will eventully find out about something that the Sohma's are hiding from you' I said in my head as I reached my apartment where my brother Sky waited for me outside.
"Where was you?" Sky asked me as I unlocked the door to my apartment, "No where, why?" I answered him as I walked into my apartment "Because Tex and Fay came home alone without you following behind" Sky said reminding me about them ranning home alone "I had some business to attend to" I said picking up my mail, "Business? With who?" Sky asked sitting at my table in my kitchen "A Sohma" I said as I place my mail on to the table then went into my cupboards "WHAT?" Sky shouted as he stood up in a flash "Don't worry, I handled it" I said looking over at him "But still, you came in contact with a Sohma which is bad" Sky had to remind me why "I know but he didn't know who I'm besides am the cat, what's it got to do with me?" I said pulling out two glasses, "Its good that he doesn't know who you are but if they were to find out that your member of this family, it wouldn't matter what animal you are" Sky said as he headed to the door "You going to tell Ian" I said looking out of the window then to him when there was silence between us "No but be careful next time or I will have to, ok" Sky said looking to me, then walked out of the door 'Don't worry I will' I said to myself and looked back out of the window.