I hate it when authors talk about themselves instead of just writing...and they're all like "YAYAY! LOOK AT MY AWESOME NEW STORY!!! BEFORE I WRITE MY STORY, I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT SOME RANDOM THING THAT JUST POPPED INTO MY HEAD..." And they go on and on and on andonandonandonandon...(I'm such a hypocrite...) ANYWAY!!! On with my very first entry!!!

.:KEY:.
Italic : Dreams
Bold : Flashbacks
'abc' : Thinking
"abc" : Talking

Chapter 1 : The Dream

Sitting in the room, not a room, the room. I don't know this place, but in a sick way, it is so familiar. Where is this? Where is the light? Is there any light? I can't tell if it is night or day...or nothing. Maybe it is nothing. maybe I am nothing. No, I have to be something, because If I wasn't anything, I wouldn't be here...would I? But if I am nothing, maybe this is where the nothings go? But there's only me...am I the only nothing? It's so lonely here...nothing...nothing...nothing...

Kyo Sohma awoke, sweating heavily.

'This is the 3rd time this week...what the heck? This dream...I don't get it'

Kyo had been having the same dream for over a month now...but it wasn't always exactly the same. Sometimes he got a little further into it before something would wake him up; but sometimes, it was always the same.
A soft, nervous knock was heard, and Tohru said through it,

"Kyo-kun...? Are you awake? Breakfast is ready now."

Kyo's anger softened as it always did when he heard her voice.

'The one thing he wish I was brave enough to do is tell her how I feel about her...aagh, that's my only weakness, I don't do well with any other feeling than anger.'

He reluctantly got up and pulled a tight black shirt on over his bare chest. He was almost out the door when he got a dizzy, sick feeling, and barely made it to the bathroom before he was sick.

'Geez! What the heck was that?'

He made his way down the stairs to get his breakfast. Shigure had a new bump on his head from Yuki's frying pan, and Tohru was fretting about something unknown to anyone else.

Sigh 'At least no one else is having an abnormal day.'

"Oh, Kyo-Kun! There you are, your breakfast is on the table." Tohru said, bowing so cutely to him.

"Thank you" Kyo answered.

"Yuki, are you feeling okay?" Tohru asked Yuki, worriedly

"Hm, um, not really. I'm feeling kind of ill. But I'm sure it will pass." He replied, as casually as possible, so as to try to keep Tohru from worrying...as much.

As he was scarfing down his miso soup and steamed rice, something brushed his leg under the table. Startled, Kyo reached down to push away what he thought was just another cat that was attracted to him because of the curse; but when he reached down, and made contact with the animal, he realised that it was much smaller than a cat, or even a kitten would be. Kyo looked under the table, and to his horror, there on the toe of his shoe, was a rat, looking up at him as if it was meant to be there.

"Aagh!!! What the--a RAT!?!" Kyo screamed and flung the rat off his foot, so it went flying across the room towards where Yuki and Shigure were.

"Don't be such an idiot, Cat, it's just a rat." Yuki said, reaching up, lightening fast, catching the flying rat in his strong, but thin fist.

"But what was it doing on me!?! I've never even TOUCHED a rat on my own free will before!!!" Kyo retorted

As Yuki was about to tell him off, something extremely weird happened; the rat that Yuki was holding, half protecting it from Kyo's wrath, let out a desperate squeal and bit Yuki on the finger, drawing blood. Yuki dropped the rat, astonished. The rat landed on the floor, turned around, gave him a dirty look, and scurried out of the room. For the first time in a long time, the Sohma household was dead silent.

"Has that ever happened before, Yuki...?" Shigure asked, breaking the awed silence

"N-no, never" Yuki said, weakly.

"I'm not going to school today." Kyo said bluntly, and walked out of the house, oddly calm.

'What's happening, what's happening to me?!?' Kyo thought, franticly

"Yuki, do you feel okay?" Tohru nervously asked him.

Yuki stared blankly at his half empty bowl of rice and said,

"Tohru, are you ready to leave for school?"

"But, umm, your food, Yuki, are you done?" Tohru asked,

"Yes, We really need to be going now." Yuki said, blankly, not fully comprehending everything

"Are you sure you want to go to school, Yuki? Because it's okay if you want to skip today." Shigure asked, tentatively

"I'm FINE!" Yuki said, suddenly angry.

Tohru was startled, and a tear welled in her eye, and quietly made its way down her quivering cheek.

Well, that's it for the first chappy! . please Read and Review! This is my very first entry, so let me know how I can improve my writing, kay?

Onigiri-shoujo