Yuki arrived home after a long student council meeting at school. He was exhausted, and he was not feeling well. As soon as he walked into Shigure's house, he plopped himself down on the couch and tried to take a nap. However, before he could sleep, Tohru burst in from the kitchen to greet him.
"Oh, welcome home, Yuki! How was the student council meeting?" She greeted in her usual manner.
"It went well, Ms. Honda. Do I smell something from the kitchen?" Yuki asked.
"Oh, yes! I tried a delicious piece of cake from the supermarket earlier this evening! Some nice old woman was giving free samples, and she was so nice as to give me the recipe! So, I'm making some for everybody." Tohru recalled.
"That's very thoughtful, Ms. Honda, but I'm afraid I won't be able to have any cake today." Yuki said in his usual elegant manner.
"Why not? Are you alright?" Tohru asked worriedly.
"My stomach isn't feeling well, and I have a headache." Yuki said exhausted.
"Oh no! Should we call Hatori? We should do something!" Tohru said getting all worked up and panicky.
"No, that won't be necessary. I just need to take an aspirin and get some sleep, that's all." Yuki said heading towards the medicine cabinet in the kitchen.
"All right, but if there's anything you need, anything at all, you let me know, okay?" Tohru said concerned.
"That's very nice of you, Ms. Honda. I'll keep that in mind." Yuki said as he swallowed the pill and crawled upstairs to his room and went to sleep.
The next morning, Yuki felt a little better. He didn't feel sick enough to the point where he had to miss school, so he headed downstairs for breakfast.
"Oh, good morning, Yuki! I hope you're feeling better!" Tohru beamed as she served him pancakes.
"I do, thank you very much, Ms. Honda." Yuki groaned as he tried to get out of his morning state.
"Ah, Yuki! Glad to see you're feeling better. Tohru made the most delicious cake yesterday! You should've had a piece." Shigure greeted as Tohru poured syrup on his pancakes.
"Heh, he probably didn't have any because he was worried that cake would go straight to his thighs." Kyo smugged as he drank his orange juice.
"I didn't have any because looking at your stupid face all day made me lose my appetite, stupid cat." Yuki shot back calmly.
"Don't worry, Yuki! I save you a piece. And I made enough for you to give some to the student council and for Uo and Hana." Tohru said as she pulled out the big cake box from the fridge.
"Indeed, also I'm going to give some to people back at the main house!" Shigure cheered as he patted a big container of cake slices.
When they went to school, Yuki met up with the student council in their normal meeting room.
"Yun-Yun! You brought me cake! I knew you loved me!" Kakeru cheered as he hopped on Yuki.
"It's not just for you, I brought it for everyone. Ms. Honda made it." Yuki explained as he wiggled his way out of Kakeru's grip.
"That means you brought some for Kimi, too! Right?!" Kimi assumed.
Yuki sighed, "Yes, Kimi. I brought some for you, too."
"Why the heck did you bring her some?! You'll only encourage her!" Naohito barked as Kimi and Kakeru ate their pieces of cake.
"When I said everyone, I meant everyone." Yuki responded as he handed Naohito his slice. Then we went over to Machi in the corner.
"You can have some, too, if you like, Machi." Yuki offered as he gracefully put the slice in front of Machi. At first, Machi was speechless, and then she just took a fork and took a bite. She savored it and swallowed.
"It's…delicious. Thank you." She said bowing her head. Yuki just smiled and returned to his work.
Meanwhile, out in the hallways, the Prince Yuki Fan Club listened in on the events taking place in the council room.
"Did you hear that, president? The prince brought cake! From that Honda girl!" One of the representatives whispered. Motoko, the president of the fan club, held her hand to her mouth.
"Girls! That cake could be dangerous! She could have put some secret ingredient in that cake to make the prince fall for her! That witch! Has he taken a bite, yet?" The president asked.
"Not yet, president." The representative replied. All the girls sighed with relief.
"Alright girls, right now we must put Operation: Retrieve Cursed Cake into action!" Motoko announced to the crowd of followers.
"How do we do that?" One representative asked. Then, everyone huddled together as Motoko revealed her plan.
A few minutes later, two members rushed into the girls' restroom, and stuffed one toilet solid with toilet paper. Then as they tried to flush, water poured out from all sides and ran all over the floor of the bathroom. Then, the girls rushed back to the council room.
"Hey! There's a major clog in the girls' restroom!" They reported. All the student council members looked at each other, and then rushed out to see the mess. While they were out, another club member walked in and then took off with the cake. She returned it to the club president.
"President! I got it!" She cheered proudly.
"Excellent work! Now we must test it to see this cake's abilities." Motoko deducted as she examined the cake. She called the representatives of each grade level to her side.
"We must each eat a piece of this cake to see what it does, and if my hypothesis was correct." Motoko ordered.
"Ay-ay, president!" They saluted as they grabbed forks from the cafeteria and dug in.
After a while, the student council returned to their room with Machi armed with a plunger. Yuki looked around to see his cake missing. Hm. That's odd. Oh well, at least everyone got some. I'll just let it be. Yuki thought to himself as he drifted his mind away from the cake.
At the Sohma Main House, Shigure arrived with only a couple slices of cake left. He'd already given it out to the rest of the zodiac, now he was bringing it to Akito.
"Akito, I brought something!" Shigure said cheerily as he walked into Akito's room uninvited.
"Don't you ever knock?" Akito groaned as she sat by the window admiring the bird on her finger.
"I let myself in! I got some delicious cake for you!" Shigure said wagging the bag in a swishy motion.
"Shigure, I'm not well, and cake only makes me feel worse. Who made it anyway?" Akito asked crankily.
"Actually, if you really want to know, Tohru did." Shigure answered. Akito just groaned and turned back out the window.
"Alright, I'll just leave it here, in case you change your mind." Shigure said as he left the cake on the nearest table and turned to leave. A few minutes after he was gone, Kureno walked in from the other room.
"What was Shigure here for?" He asked.
"Oh, he just left some dessert that that girl that lives with him made." Akito said not caring. Then, she turned around to see Kureno staring at the box.
"You want a piece, don't you?" Akito accused him. Kureno perked his head up and looked speechless.
"Eh, go ahead and have a little bit. I'm not going to have any anyway." Akito said as she figured whatever the girl made would be disgusting anyway. Kureno, kind of nervously, took a slice and went to the kitchen for a fork.
Meanwhile, Ren peeked around the aisle. She'd snuck out of her room to entertain herself. She managed to hide herself from Kureno as he passed by. Cake? Why would he have cake? Akito is actually letting him have sweets? Ren thought as it was odd that Kureno got to do anything enjoyable. When Kureno had his back turned, she snuck a fork out of the drawer and scurried towards Akito's room. She peeked in to see an open cake box sitting on the table near the entrance. She crept towards the cake and picked up a little bit with her fork. She tasted it, and she had to admit it was very tasty. As she reached for another bite, Akito turned around to see her mother taking a bit of her cake.
"REN?! What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Akito yelled as she marched up to her mother.
"I was just trying a bit of the cake. You would've made it go to waste." Ren responded cattily.
"Look, Ren! This is my cake! You have no right to it! You can't take anything that belongs to me!" Akito shouted as she grabbed a fistful of cake and shoved it in her mouth to show how it belonged to her.
"You have such improper manners. No wonder no one likes you." Ren shot back.
"Go back to your room! That's where you belong! That's the only place you ever need to be!" Akito ordered as she pointed out the door.
"Fine, I'll go back. At least there, I can have some peace and quiet." Ren said as she left towards the door. As she left, Akito swallowed the piece of cake still in her throat.
"Kureno, get me some water to wash down this wretched cake!" Akito called out as she licked the icing off her fingers.
As the day passed by, everyone went through their normal schedule. Tohru made dinner and talked to everyone with a smile, Shigure acted like a perverted old man, and Kyo tried to fight Yuki. That was an average day for them. After Tohru wished Yuki a good night, he drifted off to sleep.
The next morning, Yuki went downstairs for breakfast.
"Good morning, Yuki. I hope you slept well." Kyo greeted as he served Yuki a bowl of cereal.
"Thanks, Miss H-" Yuki looked up to see orange hair on the person who served him. He rubbed his eyes because he must have seen it wrong. He looked again and confirmed his suspicion.
"What are you up to, cat?" Yuki asked accusingly. Kyo just stared at him kindly.
"Nothing, Yuki. I just made breakfast." The carrot top said casually.
"What's in this?" Yuki asked suspecting some kind of trick.
"Yuki, I assure you it's only cereal and milk. I just wanted to do something nice for you." Kyo assured him.
"Okay, honestly, I thought it was funny at first, but now you're actually starting to scare me." Yuki said staring a Kyo as if staring at a stranger.
"What ever do you mean?" Kyo asked elegantly.
"Seriously, the joke's gone far enough. Just go back to being your normal disgraceful self." Yuki barked as he back away from Kyo.
"Ouch, that's harsh, Yuki. If you don't want cereal, I could just whip up some waffles." Kyo said looking a little hurt. Yuki couldn't take this anymore; he stormed out of the kitchen and into Shigure's study.
"Shigure, Kyo's pretending to have manners, and honestly it's getting on my nerves." Yuki complained. Shigure looked up from his work very annoyed.
"Is that all? What do you want me to do about it?" Shigure spat out.
"I…I was wondering if you could tell me what he's up to." Yuki stuttered seeing as how Shigure's behavior was a little unusual as well.
"Look Yuki, you're a teenager. You probably have a lot of time on your hands and a lot of possible ways you could fill up that time. I, however, have a job and need my precious time, and you have now wasted some of it. I have a very important manuscript due by noon and I've been trying to finish it for the past three hours! So, I don't have time to deal with your pointless teenage problems. Now, let me get back to work." Shigure lectured as he gave Yuki a dirty look. Yuki back away slowly. A trick, this had to be a trick. They were probably playing a prank on him. Then, he thought he smelled smoke. He followed it to the staircase to find…Tohru…smoking a cigarette.
"Ms…Ms. Honda? What are you doing?" Yuki asked he tried to process the image in his head.
"I'm smoking a cigarette, dumbass. What does it look like I'm doing?" Tohru responded vigorously. Yuki examined her from head to toe. She wasn't in her school uniform; instead she wore a leather mini-skirt and a black tube top with a string off the shoulder. Honestly, it looked like she'd raided Rin's closet. She also had some deep shades of make-up on.
"Ms. Honda, what's wrong with you?" Yuki managed to ask after overcoming the lump in his throat.
"What? Besides the fact that I'm a freakin' orphan that bunks with a screwed up family? Seriously, I'm shocked the authorities haven't taken custody of you guys! And cut the "Ms. Honda" crap! I've got a name, you know! Or are you too stupid to get it through your thick skull?! Screw this; I'm getting out of here!" Tohru ranted as she put out her cigarette and charged out the front door.
"Ms. H- Tohru, where are you going?" Yuki asked completely shocked.
"Why do you care, you freakin' stalker?!" Tohru shouted as she slammed the door. Yuki felt so weak in the knees, he needed to sit down. There was no way Tohru could pretend to be that disrespectful. She couldn't even pretend for the play! She must've been serious. What was happening to everybody? Was there a bug going around?
"Yuki, you don't look so well." Kyo noted as he put his hand to Yuki's forehead. Yuki was too deep in thought to swat the cat away.
"Kyo, what is going on around here?" Yuki asked the cat without any sense of rivalry.
"Well, I guess Tohru is acting a little strange. Don't worry; I'm sure everything will be alright." Kyo tried to comfort him, but that wasn't what he wanted to hear. Yuki was helpless at this point so he got up and raised his hands into fists.
"Kyo, if you want a fight right now, I'm ready to give it to you!" Yuki said trying to get him back to normal.
"I do protest I never injured thee, and so good Yuki, which name I tender as dearly as my own, be satisfied." Kyo recited gracefully as his way of turning down a fight. Yuki grabbed his bag and ran all the way to school. Kyo quoting Shakespeare, that must've been the most terrifying thing Yuki had ever heard. He hoped, no, he begged that school would be normal as usual.