Authors Note:

Hi everyone. This is my first fanfiction ever typed so please bear with me if there are any typos. If you have any comments or suggestions for me please don't be afraid to submit a review or message me on my account. I do not appreciate flames so if you have criticism make it constructive. Thank you. ~Orin

Disclaimer:

I do not own any of the characters in this fanfiction. They are property of Natsuki Takaya.

"Spoken" 'Thought'


Kyo glanced around the empty kitchen nervously. It was very unusual not to see anyone awake by now. It was already 10:00 and so far no one had descended from their bedrooms.

'Hmmmm…I wonder what's goin' on here…usually at least Tohru is up making breakfast, even if it is Saturday…'

With another glance around the room he decided to go outside and train some more while he waited on the crew upstairs to wake up.

Unbeknownst to the training cat, a scheme was being played out beneath his very nose. His very delicate-to-scents nose…


Yuki glanced over his shoulder once more as if expecting the enthusiastic cat to jump out of nowhere and foil his ingenious plot to destroy the growing affection that Tohru was experiencing for the said cat.

'Stupid cat, always wants to have whatever I have. Well, soon he'll learn the hard way to cross me…I'll make sure Tohru sees him at his most embarrassing…then perhaps her favor will lean more my way…'

He put away his trowel and gloves with a secretive smile on his face. Soon Tohru would look at him again.


Kyo twitches anxiously. He knows that something is up, and that it isn't going to turn out well for him. He can feel it.

'I know something is up. Wait…what's that wonderful scent…?'

He follows the scent to a clearing with a small patch of green plants at its center. They are only about 2 feet tall. Kyo steps closer and notices two of the plants had been broken and were releasing most of the intoxicating aroma…

"Is this what I think it is?" He says to himself bending down to "examine" the plants at a closer distance. He glances around to see if anyone was watching, and in finding no one, plucked one of the plants and rubbed it against his face.

'Yesssss…catnip from heaven…'

He slumps the rest of the way to the ground and lies there for a moment just taking in the scent of the blessed catnip, which seemed to have appeared from nowhere.

Rolling over languidly, he begins to swat at the other, still standing, plants.

'Hmmm…this is the life…'

With a sudden pounce he lands in the center of the sizable patch of catnip and proceeds to roll around, while purring so loudly Yuki could hear it from about 20 feet away on the trail he was leading Tohru down. He had asked her to join him on a peaceful walk in the woods to relax. Leading her right into, what he hoped would be, a very embarrassing moment for Kyo.


Yuki," Tohru asked with a nervous glance about, "Do you know what's making that noise?"

Yuki looks down at the skittish girl and has to suppress a triumphant grin. It was all working out to plan.

"I'm not sure," Yuki responds carefully, "Why don't we go check it out. It doesn't sound too dangerous."

"Okay?" Tohru responded looking around once more. She had a feeling something was going on. What with Yuki asking her to take a walk while she was in the middle of preparing him breakfast, and then taking her down some deer trail into the middle of the woods, she felt that she was correct in her assumption. Not that she thought Yuki would ever do anything inappropriate, after all he was called the Prince for a reason, but something about the situation just felt off.

The curious sound was becoming louder as they walked and was making Tohru very nervous.

'Why did I let him lead me here? Why didn't I just turn around and go home like my gut was telling me too?'

As Tohru berated herself for coming she almost didn't realize that Yuki had stopped. She twisted a bit barely missing running into the rat. She didn't want to transform him again. He always got so upset about it.

"What is it Yuki?" Tohru asked while slowly peeking around his shoulder.

She was completely unprepared for what happened next.

"HA HA HA HA HA!"

Tohru looked at Yuki, not believing what she saw. He was laughing. Hard.

When she managed to process this she looked up to try and find the source of his amusement. Then her eyes landed on Kyo, who was innocently lying in the middle of a patch of green plants with a very pleased expression on his face.

But that wasn't what was funny. What had Yuki in the throws of mirth was the fact Kyo was almost completely naked. All he had left were his boxers, and they were beginning to slip down his hips, an inch at a time.

"Ahhh!" Tohru exclaimed hiding her eyes while her face become redder than any tomato in history ever dared to be.

Kyo was jerked from his revelry of the catnip by the scream of the girl he had begun to consider a very close friend.

'Is that Tohru? What is she doing here?'

He rolled over to face the direction of the sound and found a guffawing Yuki and a furiously blushing Tohru Honda.

'Tohru is very pretty…,' Kyo takes in a glance at Tohru's form. 'Why aren't we together? I can't seem to remember…'

Gathering himself up, Kyo slunk over to where Tohru was standing, her face still buried in her hands.

Kyo lets out another rather loud purr and begins to rub against the embarrassed girl's legs.

'Eeek! Please tell me that that isn't Kyo, it's just my imagination.'

Tohru nearly feel over after the next rub of the human form cat.

She peeks through her fingers cautiously.

'Please still be dressed. Please still be dressed.'

She looks down at the amorous cat, who looked as if he couldn't be happier than right that moment.

Suddenly, he seems to realize that he can get up on his knees and lunges forward and wraps his arm around her waist, burying his face in her stomach and proceeds to purr louder than before.

"Uh Kyo are you okay?" Tohru carefully places her hand on his head and pats his hair.

He nuzzles his nose into her stomach in response earning a yelp from the surprised girl. Never had she seen Kyo this loving since she meet him. It was completely different from his usual tough guy façade.

'He's going to hate himself in the morning. He has to be drunk.'

The innocent girl looked around to see if she could find any bottles or cans to prove her assumption, but all she found was a discarded towel and the rest of the cat's clothing thrown haphazardly around the patch of dark green plants that Kyo had been rolling in.

Wait. She paused in her search to focus on the plants. They seemed to be planted, not naturally in rows. She looked over at the still chuckling Yuki and realized he must have something to do with her favorite Zodiac animal's ailment.

She glanced back at the green patch and looked down at the, still purring, Kyo.

"Kyo," she asked the cat slowly, "What is that plant over there?"

The drowsy cat blinked up at her and opened his mouth to speak, but then he looked around cautiously. Noticing the rat for the first time, Kyo hissed and began to drag Tohru further into the clearing away from the rat's prying ears.

Yuki watched with a bemused expression on his still smiling face. He would step in if the cat tried something inappropriate, but until then he'd watch the cat make a complete fool of himself and then take the girl back to the house to console her broken dreams of the Zodiac accepting the cat. Yes this was all working perfectly.

Kyo glanced suspiciously over at the amused rat and told Tohru his secret.

"It is catnip," He murmured while nuzzling into Tohru soft abdomen once more, "Do you want some?"

'I'll share it only you Tohru. My little Tohru.' Kyo's addled mind couldn't seem to recall that humans don't like catnip the way cats do, so offering Tohru some seemed the polite way to go about things.

Tohru glanced down at the intoxicated cat with a bemused look on her face, but she didn't want to be rude so she didn't rebuke him on assuming that she'd want some.

"No thank you Kyo," Tohru said smiling, "Why don't we head back to the house and get some rest. You seem a bit sleepy."

Kyo looked over at the patch of catnip longingly but nodded his head in acquiesce to her idea. He could come back later after all.

Yuki realized then that Kyo was actually hugging Tohru's waist. Why hadn't he transformed into his feline counterpart? This was very confusing, and why was Tohru helping the staggering cat pick up his clothing and heading back towards the house.

As Tohru past him, she looked over with a very disapproving look on her face.

"I know you two don't get along, but did you really have to pull something like this Yuki." She turned from him back to the trail supporting the catnip-drunk cat, "I thought that something like this would be beneath you…Prince."

And with that parting remark she left the very confused rat behind in the field where he tried to destroy the relationship of a cat and a rice ball. Only to end up demolishing the one he had built with the seemingly naive girl.

'And everything was going so well. Why didn't I factor in her forgiveness? How could I make such a miscalculation? And why could he hug her and not transform! And how did she know this was planned? This is all so confusing…'

Yuki gazed in the direction the two had gone and began his next plot. He may have lost the battle, but with a little hard work he could still win the war…


Tohru stumbled under the weight of the sleepy cat again as they tried once again to master the stairs. They had made it half-way but it seemed that Kyo was going to give up and sleep in the stairway.

"Just a bit farther Kyo," She encouraged the drowsing cat, "Come on you can make it."

"But I'm sooo tired Tooohruuu," Kyo slurred in response to the girls words, "Can't we take aaa breaaak? Pleeeaaaseee?"

"Not yet," Tohru said trying not to slump under his bulk, "But when we make it upstairs you can lie down in a nice soft bed. Doesn't that sound good?"

"Yeah…" Kyo sleepily rubbed his eye with his free hand.

"Okay then all we have to do is get up the rest of these stairs and into your room," She lurched up another step as she said this and the sleep-drunk Kyo dragged himself after her, picking up a bit of speed at the mention of a soft bed.

After they reached the top Kyo lurched forward and wretched open the first door that came to hand, which just so happened to be Tohru's bedroom.

"No Kyo," said girl coaxed softly, "your room is two doors down from here. Wouldn't you like to sleep in your room?"

"I like this one," Kyo plodded over to the huge bed and crawled into the center and promptly fell asleep.

Tohru sighed and decided to go clean the living room and finish the meal she had been cooking before Yuki dragged her out to see Kyo in this state. It was getting close to noon so Shigure should be rousing himself soon and he would probably be hungry.


Later that day Kyo woke up surrounded in pink fluff. Sitting up quickly he glanced around quickly realizing with horrifying clarity that he was in Tohru's room. He glanced down at himself, and only in his BOXERS.

'Oh God, why can you hate me so damn much, what have I done to deserve this?'

He cautiously got out of bed trying to remember how he had ended up in Tohru's bedroom. A slight blush covered his face as he glanced around once more. It had been pleasant to wake up surrounded in her scent.

'Focus Kyo! There is no time for fantasying you have to get you ass out of here and into some clothes!"

With renewed purpose he quietly slid open the door peering out cautiously to make sure no one would see his dash for freedom.

Easing open the door he slipped out and gently closed the door behind him, and then ran as if the Hounds of Hell were after him right back into his room.

"I made it!" Kyo congratulated himself while walking over to his closet to get some clothing, but when he reached out his arm he caught a whiff of…

Suddenly it all came back to him in a flash.

"No way in Hell that Tohru saw me like that," He groaned in denial, "No freaking way am I that unlucky."

Quickly gathering his clothes he makes another dash for the bathroom and washes off the scent of the catnip. It wouldn't be good if he was tempted again in front of his girl.

'Wait…my girl…since when have I thought of Tohru like that…?'

Rubbing his temples hoping to relieve the headache he felt coming he decided it didn't matter. Shrugging, he headed out of the bathroom and back to his room to hide for the rest of eternity. That us he would have if his stomach hadn't interrupted his course.

'Okay just go scrounge the fridge and high tail it back up here and prepare for a long winter. Sounds like a plan.'


'I hope Kyo is okay,' Tohru worried while heading up towards the bedrooms.

Opening her door she was shocked to find no Kyo curled up in her bed.

"Oh no, please don't let him have wondered off in his state!" She panicked.

As she went to rush to check his room she almost ran the person she was searching for slap over.

Kyo steadied her by holding her upper arms, far enough away for him not to transform, but close enough to feel the heat coming off of her from her blush.

"Sorry Kyo," She apologized immediately, "I was worried that you might still be a bit…" She searched for the right word, "Off?"

Kyo let her go quickly, now blushing himself.

"I'm okay now, so you don't have to worry," He shifted nervously, "And sorry about… you know… that whole mess."

Tohru looked at him in confusion. Then reached out as if the touch his arm and then pulled back, not sure if the now normal Kyo would like to be comforted.

"Kyo I should tell you that it wasn't your fault," Now it was Tohru's turn to shift nervously from guilt, "Yuki planted the catnip there on purpose I still haven't figured out why though…"

Tohru looked away as if in contemplation as Kyo absorbed this information.

"I'm going to kill that rat!" Kyo suddenly yelled as he took off in search of the rat.

"Wait Kyo! Please don't fight. I don't like it when you fight," She called after the charging cat.

She was surprised when he slowed down and turned to look at her. Not wanting to let him get any further in his thoughts of revenge she suggested the first thing that came to mind.

"Hey how about some dinner Kyo?" She started towards the cat, "I bet you haven't eaten today with all the excitement."

In response to the thought of food his stomach growled loudly. A light blush colored his cheeks causing Tohru giggled as she gestured for the cat to follow her to the kitchen.


That night as Kyo got ready for bed he went over Tohru's reactions to his drunken state. She had been gentle and understanding, not pushing him away when he clinged to her in his haze, and not just leaving him in the clearing to continue on the way he was.

'Maybe she cares for me too…maybe she could stand being my girl…'

Kyo glanced around his drastically masculine room, in comparison to Tohru's anyway, and considers they way her fingers had felt when the were running through his hair, and how soft her skin had been against his when he rubbed against her.

"Maybe she could be mine one day, but today I'll let sleeping cats lie…"


Authors Note:

Well how did ya'll like it? Have any suggestions for a sequel? Wonder what other mischief Yuki can think of? Click the pretty review button and you could find out...lol You don't have to review to get the next one just let me know how I'm doing so far. 'Kay? -Orin