chapter 2, Everybody loves...Kyo?

A week later Kyo was walking by the train station when he saw somthing in an ally. Some one was being mugged. "Hey! Get the hell away from them!" cried Kyo as he ran towards the guy with the mask.(I know that's so cleshay) He kicked the guy across the ally way, he was unconcious. "You all right?" Kyo asked the kid. It was then he noticed the person being attacked was a girl his age. She had green eyes and long, curly red hair.

"Merci monsieur." she said. Kyo couldn't under stand her.

"I'm sorry I don't speak your language." Kyo said slowly.

"Oh! I'm sorry I mean thank you sir." she smiled. "I forget that I'm not in Brittany any more. Heh heh heh. I thank you again kind sir, if there is anything, anything at all you just say it and it is yours."

"Thats okay. Really you don't have to do anything. I'm just glad you're all right." he said, but she wouldn't hear it. She gave him the number of the host family's house she was staying at and walked away. He started walking home without looking at the number.

When Kyo got home he was shocked to see the girl in his house. "Oh Kyo you're home." said Tohru, "This Annick Rioux, she's from France. She's the forign exchange student that our teacher was talking about. She will be living with us for the rest of the year." Kyo just stood there with his jaw open.

"But how... I mean you were just at the... and you walked... What the hell is going on!?" Kyo freaked out.

"I believe Tohru just explained that Kyo weren't you listening?" said Shigure.

"Kyo. So that's you name? I forgot to ask you that when we met at the train station. It's so nice to see the man who saved my life again so soon." Annick said with a lovley smile.

"Now there's something you don't here every day. Our little Kyo saves a beautiful young french girl. Well done" Shigure said giving a thumbs up and then came up to Kyo and stamed his forhead.

"What the hell was that for!?" screamed Kyo

"Stamp of aproval." Shigure responded with a sraight face. That made Kyo really angree. "Ah France the country of love. Sadly I know but two words, Hello and where's the bathroom."

"You don't know how to say good-bye Shigure?"asked Tohru.

"Not the word, no."

"Then how did you?"

"I shall show you." Shigure stood up and walked to Tohru and kissed on both her cheeks. Pow! Kyo and Yuki both punched him on the noggen.

"Will you cut that out! I swear you're worse then a dirty old man and what was with that stright face?" Kyo hissed and Annick giggled. It was a crazy night and Kyo was glade to be able to escape with his guitar on to the roof without any one seeing him. He took a deep breath and begain to play.

The next day was choas at school. All the boys were all over Annick and she wouldn't stop talking about how Kyo saved her. "There I was getting my self forced on by some thug when all of a sudden I hear someone shouting "Get the hell away from them!" and then he come running towards us and kickes guy all way down ally. I could not believe it. Then he come up to me and ask me if I am all right. I still in shock that when I answered him I was speaking in french."

"After I corrected my self I asked if there was anything at all that I could do to repay his kindness but he said no and that he was glad I was all right. But just in case I gave him the number of host family that I would be staying at and left. On my way there I remembered I forgot to ask him what his name was. I was really depressed then. When I got there few minutes later he showed up! Turns out that I am staying at his house. So now is much easier to find out what do in order to repay kindness."

"You wanna know how to pay me back? Stop telling that story!" said Kyo.

"But eveyone must know what hero you are Monsieur Kyo." she explained. They argued on the matter all though the day. After school Kyo was rushing out of there before all the girls trampled him. "Monsiuer Kyo! Wait! Where you going?" called Annick.

"Away from here!" he called back running.

"I can see that, but where?"

"That's none of your business!" he spat, and then he was gone. He finally made it to the dojo and was ready to forget about earlier and kick some butt. "Okay you sisies who wants to show me what they've got?" Everyone groaned. "Quit your wining! I'll let you wimps practice with each other today." and he went and sat down on a chair with a deep sigh when...

"Monsiuer Kyo there you are!" Kyo jummped. Annick followed him! He didn't know how. He thought for sure he lost her. "Why you sit here and not fight? You are scared of all these men who throw down?"

"Hell no! I'm just giving them a break from the last week of torture I've given them!" Annick rolled her eyes. "You don't believe me, fine, I'll show you!" and he got up and started walking towards one of the boys who was the best that day. "Hey, you and me bud. Now."

"But I thought we were getting a break from you today." he said.

"You are, right after you give me what you've got." Kyo said with a smirk. They got on the mat and the boy threw the first punch. Kyo dodged and punched him in the stomach, then kneed him in the chin. Kyo then fliped the guy over his head and let him hit the ground hard.

"I give! I give!" he cried. Kyo helped him up, then cried,

"Who's next? Come on I'm all pumped up now. Anyone want to take a shot? No? Fine then, you're all a bunch of babies!" he walked off to Annick. "There you see? I can beat all these guys."

"You truly are amazing Monsiuer Kyo! Your girlfriend must be lucky." she said with a sad look in her eyes.

"I don't have a girlfriend." Her eyes lightened up with hope. "But there is someone I'm really into. We haven't known each other very long but, I'm crazy about her." Annick blushed. "But, you didn't hear that got it? I can't have anyone finding out about this okay?"

"Do not worry Monsiuer Kyo, no one know about this. It be our seceret. Shall we not walk home together?" Kyo dismissed the students and then went with Annick. They were deep within the woods when she opened her mouth and said, "I bet she feel the same way. This special girl of your's. All you do is say words and she will leap into your arms."

"Nah I can't tell her. It would never work out." he said lookind down. Annick thought that he was talking about her and how she'd be leaving at the end of the year. "Do you really think she would except me?"

"Depends, do I know her?"

"It'd be hard for you not to."

"Then yes I do, and I say take your chance now. Grab bull by it's horns. I'm right here Kyo and I've been waiting to here you say it."

"What are you talking about?"

"Were you not talking about me? We have not known each other long, It be difficult not to know who I am, anyone think it would never work out since I am leaving in five months, and I am in love with you! And I thought, I thought..."

"You thought I felt the same." It began to rain and Annick couldn't stop crying. She lunged for Kyo and embraced him. Poof! She coughed in the smoke and was shocked at what she saw. In her arms she held an orange cat and Kyo's clothes. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to mislead you." the cat said in Kyo's voice.

"Kyo?" she whispered. He nodded his head and she gaspesed. "How? I mean why you cat? I know I not dreaming because I feel cold rain drip down my face, I feel your soft fur-."

"My family, the entire Sohma family is cursed. Thirteen of us are posessed by the animals of the chiness zodiac. I know that there are only twelve animals in the zodiac but the legend mentions how the rat tricked the cat into missing the banquent and was left out of the zodiac. We who are cursed tranform into our animal state when hugged by the oppisite gender or when we're under stress. How ever members of the zodiac can hug each other. We try to keep this a seceret and those who find out usally get their memories erasied but only if Akito, head of the Sohma family, finds out. So you cann't tell anyone that you know about this okay?" She nodded.

"So Tohru know about this?"

"Yes, and for some reason Akito is letting her keep her memory and having her stay at the house. I don't trust him and doubt he'll let you keep yours so keep your mouth shut. Don't tell any one, not Shigure, not Yuki, no one. Oh, one more thing when I change back I'm..." Poof! "naked." Annick quickly looked away until Kyo said it was okay to look. He helped her up and they walked together back to the house. When they got there who else but Kagura came charging towards them.

"Kyo! You're home! I'm so happy cause now we can spend time together." she cried hugging him.

"Get the hell off me Kagura!" Kyo yelled.

"Kyo you're so mean!" she cried then started beating him up. Kagura stopped when she spotted Annick. "Oh hello I'm Kagura Sohma. You must be Annick. Tohru told me all about you. Kyo you better not be cheating on me with her."

"How can I be cheating if we've never been together!" he spat and Kagura started crying again.

"Kyo your so cruel! If you keep it up I'll leave you forever!"

"Well I gusse mearacles do happen."

"Wahhh! Kyo why are you so mean when, when, when you know how much I love you!!!" she cried then went on a violent rampage on Kyo. She threw him all over the place with constant punches and kicks.

"Is she always like this?" Annick asked.

"Only when she's with that stupid cat." said Yuki. Then Annick remembered about the curse and how Kagura had hugged Kyo and he didn't transform.

'She must be a 'member of the zodiac' that Monsieure Kyo mentioned.' "She fights like a wild boar. Is that normal too?"

"Only when she gets super emotional." Tohru said. Annick was facinated by this all. If her guess was right Kagura was the boar.

'A pig that loves a cat, how very strange, but then again, are not all forms of love strange?' She giggled. The madness continued through out the night. Kagura spent the night and Kyo slept on the roof as a sanctuary from Kagura. Luckily by day break, when Kagura was leaving, there was little chaos.

"Kyo, I love you." Kyo let her hug him just that once, since no one was around. It was difficult for her to know that she would never be apart of his life, but she was willing to except it. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she walked out the door.

"I know how you feel." said Annick, "I to have feelings for Kyo and had told him how I felt. But alas, he did not return them. Instead he said that there is someone else he loves." Kagura's eyes widened. She never knew that.

"So Kyo has finally found someone huh." She rubbed her eyes and left. Later at school it didn't take one of Hana's signal reports to tell that Annick had a bit of a dark cloud following her.

"Jeese Orange-top, what'd ya do to her?" said Uo.

"I didn't do anything, now shut up Yankee!" he hissed. The day was long for both Annick and Kyo, and Tohru could tell. She was depressed knowing that some thing was wrong with her friends.