"calm down Kyo," said Zu as she, Kyo, Yuki, and Tohru walked to school. Each was in their uniform and it was sunny that day. Zu seemed calm, eating some cheese on a stick (out of dango) and looking at kyo with mocking exasperation. Yuki seemed annoyed and his fist twitched every once and a while. It looked like he wanted to punch something. Tohru was looking startled, watching the seen unfold. Then there was kyo, his shirt not fully buttoned, his ties loose, shirt untucked and his face contorted in rage.

"I WILL NOT CALM DOWN!" he yelled.

"Well, worth a shot," said Zu putting her hands behind her head in a calm manner. "Yuki, your turn to knock some sense into him."

"Gladly," there was a load sound as Kyo's head snapped backwards due to the force of Yuki's fist.

There was a silent moment where everyone was shocked (except for zu, she was too busy with her cheese on a stick to care) and everyone just stopped. That silence was quickly broken.

"DAMN RAT!" screamed the male cat.

"Stupid cat," said the rat, before all four of them walked on again in even more noise than before.

When they got to the school Hana and Uo were waiting by the doors.

Zu and Hana stared at each other for a while, both displaying an expression of utter unintrest to the point where they almost looked like each other. Uo patted Kyo's head, ruffling the bright orange locks while Kyo screamed, not able to do anything about it without hitting a girl, and that was something he wouldn't do.

Kyo and Zu were led into the school and were quickly bombarded by curious students all wanting to know exactly who these two were. When it was found out that the tall girl with curly brown hair and the boy with weird orange hair were cousins of Prince Yuki, they weren't left alone. Zu ignored them mostly, slowly but surely making friends in her class with her jokes and light laugh. Kyo was different, with every attempt a classmate made at trying to become friends with the scowling boy Kyo got more angry.

That was when the cats came.

The came through the door and jumped through the windows, and all of them landed right on Kyo's lap. Zu had shot up from her chair and layed a hand on his shoulder.

"Calm down," she said quietly.

By this time the class had noticed the cats that seemed to have magically appeared in the room and their specific placement next to Kyo.

"Aw! KYO! You a cat person?" asked one of the guys in the class "You always act so tuff but deep down your just a big softy aren't you?"

Kyo let out a roar of frustration and jumped out the window, onto a tree and off the tree onto the roof.

Zu turned to the boy, flames dancing in your eyes, and slapped him across the face before following Kyo out the window.

"I'm going to check on them," said Tohru.

Yuki nodded and Tohru left to go to the roof by way of the hallway instead of jumping out the window.

When she got to the roof she found Kyo and Zu sitting quite relaxed (Though kyo looked a little irritated, but that was normal) and surrounded by cats.

"Are you ok?" Tohru asked.

Kyo and Zu turned. Kyo turned back around immediately, his annoyance renewed, but Zu smiled and waved Tohru over. Tohru sat down in front of the brown haired cat zodiac. Zu was sitting cross legged with a black and white cat in her lap, stroking the fluffy fur as the cat purred.

"I just came to check on you," said Tohru.

"Kyo is fine," said Zu "Just hurt his pride. Cats aren't exactly manly." Zu laughed a bit.

Tohru was amazed, this was the most emotion she had ever seen from Zu. Usualy the girl was quite, content to eat her dango and read a book in silence. But now she was bright eyed and happy. Almost playful.

"But Kyo," said Tohru "You didn't need to run from the room like that. Everyone is worried and…."

"SHUT UP OK?!" screamed the angry red head. (This exclamation scared every one of the dozen or more cats on the roof) "I GOT IT! I'M A SCREW UP! JUST SHUT UP!" With that the male cat stormed back into the school and shut the door with a load slam behind him. Zu winced when the door closed.

"I'M SORRY!" said Tohru "I'M SO SORRY! I DIDN'T MEAN TO GET HIM MAD LIKE THAT! I'LL GO FIND HIM RIGHT NOW!"

Zu grabbed her arm before Tohru could run off. "Don't bother. He just needs to cool off." Zu looked at the door smiling slightly. "I know Kyo better than anyone and I don't know him that much."

"Do you know him so well because your both cats?"

"No, not really. I know him because he was always like a brother to me somehow. Just because we're both cats doesn't mean we get along. In fact the two cats are very different."

"Different? How?"

"Well," said Zu shifting her position slightly. "You know the zodiac story right?"

Tohru nodded.

"well, there's a bit of a longer story, and that's what our curse is based opon. See, all the zodiacs had mates see. And, true to the original story god invited them to a party."

"Right," agreed tohru.

"But, you see, the rats decided to play a prank on the cats, but the female cat was sneaky and she found out their plan. The rats made her promise she wouldn't tell the male cat, that it was just a joke, that nothing would happen. Well, the female cat was also lazy, and so by time she got to the party it was late. God was mad at the two cats. He said that there would never be a cat in the zodiac to punish them, then he took it a step further for the male cat. He cursed him because he didn't come to the party at all. And so, Kyo bares the bulk of the curse, but I'm sort of stuck in the middle, not sure what I am. I stayed with Kyo because he was the one who knew most about what I was going through. Being an outcast I mean."

"What do you mean Kyo bares the bulk of the curse?" asked Tohru.

Zu looked up "Pray that you will never find out what I mean," she said. Then she smiled "I think that's enough zodiac history for the day." Zu stood up and began walking to the door.

"How come your acting so different today?" asked Tohru.

Zu stopped, turned back around and smiled "The more I get to know you, the more I change for the better. I promise." With that the door opened and closed and Tohru was alone on the roof.