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Pairing: Still not sure yet (Though I have narrowed it down to either Akito (male), Yuki, or Hatori), Kyo/Tohru


'Zoo escapees?' Kagome first thought as she stared at the rather unusual animals. She raised a brow, kneeling down to the injured animals. She hesitantly and lightly touched the orange and black striped fur of the tiger cub, the feline twitching in obvious pain. There wasn't a zoo around for miles.

'Well either way, I just can't leave them here,' Kagome quickly thought, lightly and carefully grabbing the two, making sure that she didn't make their injuries any worse. Her arms soon became bloody, the crimson liquid dripping down off the animals and onto her hands. 'What the hell happened to them?' She thought, frowning while her blue eyes flashed. She also noticed two pairs of clothing underneath them, slightly stained in blood.

'What is this?' Kagome thought, looking at the clothing weirdly. Just why was these clothing near (resembling a girl's and a boy's middle school uniform) animals? 'Whatever, I'll just grab them too, I guess.' Kagome thought, sighing as she glanced at the animals' condition.

How could someone do this? And to two rather defenceless animals?

'People are just disgusting.' The vague thought crept across her tired mind and she didn't even bother to correct herself either. It was true; the human race was the cruellest on the planet, hurting others for their own pleasure.

Kagome smiled slightly as the shrine steps came into view about ten minutes later, having practically run the rest of the way home because the animals really did need to be treated right away. She ran up the shrine steps the fastest she ever have, opening the door and carefully putting the animals onto a small towel so she wouldn't get blood all over the place.

"Alright, I'll need bandages and disinfectant." Kagome muttered, rushing to the bathroom that held all of the supplies. She opened the medicine cabinet, cursing rather loudly as she noticed that nothing she needed was there. "Damn it!" She swore, now getting worried for the animals' condition. It would take her around twenty minutes to get to the nearest store and back. 'If I run, it'll take maybe fifteen.' Kagome thought, quickly running out of the bathroom and shoving back on her school shoes, glancing at the tiger's and sheep's condition.

She was slightly glad to see that the wounds did seem to have stopped bleeding, their obviously better animal healing kicking in. "I'll be back in a sec." She muttered uselessly to herself as the animals were unconscious and wouldn't really be able to understand her anyway.

She quickly ran out the door and down the steps, heading towards the nearest convenience store that she knew carried what she needed.


'What happened?' The thought slowly registered over his mind, his brain finally waking up from his forced unconsciousness. Unfortunately, the first thing that registered was pain and a lot of it. 'Itai!!' He finally opened his eyes, looking at the surroundings with a panic that could only be found in a cornered wild animal. He realized slightly after a few moments, after seeing that he didn't seem to be in any danger.

He could remember what had happened, how those high-school kids and ganged up on him and— "Kisa!!" Hiro shouted worriedly, wondering with panic what had happened to her. He had tried to defend both himself and Kisa from those high-school thugs, but even his martial arts training just weren't enough against the knives that the thugs had and used.

He tried getting up, almost immediately noticing that he was no longer in his human form but his cursed animal form, a little sheep. "Damn!" Hiro cursed, getting up to his feet wobbly, ignoring the shallow slashes on his legs. He looked around, noting with great relief that Kisa was lying right beside him, also injured and in her cursed form.

He looked her over with concern, immediately blaming himself for her condition. First, it was his fault that Kisa was injured by Akito (his fault because he had told Akito that he loved Kisa), then he couldn't even help her with the bullies at their school (and effectively silencing her for a while), and now this? He couldn't even protect her from some mere thugs?

He really hated himself even more in that moment.

He closed his dark eyes in slight pain when his wounds throbbed a bit, but he ignored it, more worried for Kisa then himself. She was still unconscious.

"Kisa? Kisa, wake up! Kisa?!" Hiro shouted as loud as he could in his sheep form, nudging her slightly with his nose. They would somehow have to drag themselves back to the Sohma estate, drag themselves to Hatori, who could heal them and maybe make this pain go away.

The tiger moved slightly, her tail twitching as she neared consciousness. "Kisa!?" Hiro asked again in concern, nudging her a bit harder. He moved back a little, wondering why they still seemed to be in their cursed animal forms. He didn't know how long they were in their animal forms but it just seemed to be too long already.

"What," Kisa suddenly mumbled, Hiro immediately hovering over her in concern. "happened?" She finished, wincing as she felt a lot of pain rush over her small body.

"Kisa!? Are you alright? Do you hurt?" Hiro asked in a blind panic, slapping himself mentally for his last question. Of course she hurt! What kind of question was that?

"Hiro-chan?" Kisa muttered, looking up with her amber-brown eyes, wondering why he was in his cursed form and blood all over his— "Hiro-chan! You're hurt!" Kisa suddenly said, trying to get up but failing as her weak legs gave out due to her own injuries. She finally noticed that she was in her tiger form…

"Don't worry about me." Hiro muttered, lying back down wearily. He knew that they had to walk back to the Sohma estate but he just so tired at the moment. Their wounds didn't seem to be bleeding anymore, so they didn't seem to be in a life-threatening situation just yet.

Kisa closed her eyes, feeling the pain but not saying a word. If Hiro wasn't scared, then she would try and not to be either. She looked around, her feline-enhanced vision catching everything perfectly… "Where are we?" Kisa asked, her tiger instincts kicking in as she started to lightly lick her wounds.

And for once, Hiro couldn't say anything, finally noticing that they were actually in a house.


"Got the bandages and the disinfectant." Kagome muttered, grabbing the items off the shelf quickly, wanting to get back to the injured animals before they could wake up. Despite being small, they were still (semi) wild animals and might wake up in a panic due to being in unfamiliar surroundings. She walked towards the counter, stopping for a second to watch as a very tall blond girl bump into an even taller male.

She watched in slight disbelief and humour as the blond immediately turned around to apologize, only for the man to bow and dropping all the snacks out of his arms in the process. The blond girl and Kagome could only watch in amusement as the chips seemed to have a domino effect, the bags all falling to the floor in an order. Kagome snapped out of her amusement as the blond immediately started to laugh loudly, covering her mouth to stifle the sound. "I can't believe it! There really is someone else like her!" The blond snickered while Kagome rushed to the front, needing to get back to the animals as soon as possible.

"Thanks." Kagome muttered, grabbing the bag as the clerk handed it to her, running out the store and now ignoring the tall blond girl and the man.

However, she did notice something a bit unusual in the air, something that was… familiar.


Both Kisa's and Hiro's ears immediately perked up as they picked up a noise with their animalistic hearing, tensing slightly. Their tensed positions did hurt but they ignored it for now, obviously someone was coming into the unfamiliar house that they were in.

The sudden transformation caught both Kisa and Hiro off guard, a light puff of coloured smoke covering their forms, clearing away to reveal their naked forms…

Exactly in the moment that Kagome walked in the room.

All of them could only stare at each other for one split second, before Kisa finally broke the moment, completely embarrassed as she tried to cover her body with a pillow.

"Ah, Kisa!" Hiro said, also embarrassed for two reasons. His cheeks burned as he looked away from the tora, also trying to cover himself up in front of the stranger. He was too embarrassed to even make a snarky remark to the girl.

"Please don't tell me you're robbers." Kagome sighed and said sarcastically, surprisingly calm for a situation such as this. In the moment that they had stared at each other, she had immediately noticed the same slash wounds on these two people that were on the tiger and sheep. It certainly didn't faze her that these two were possibly the little animals she had picked up. Even if they did feel completely human, she had seen too many strange things in her life to be even remotely surprised.

Hiro glared, though the effect was less than he wanted as his cheeks were still stained with the embarrassing red. He opened his mouth to say something sarcastic, despite the situation, but he was cut off before he could even speak.

"I suppose I should get you some clothing." Kagome said with little amusement, she was really too tired to deal with any of this right now. All she really wanted to do was go for a nap (though she really doubted that she would get some actual sleep).

"…!..." Hiro, again, opened his mouth to say something but stopped when the girl quickly walked out of the room, obviously intending to get them clothing. He said nothing, just making sure that he was looking away from Kisa's general direction to give her some privacy.

Kisa merely huddled into herself, wishing that Tohru-nee-chan was here.

"Here." Kagome said simply, tossing them over clothing. To the little boy, she tossed Souta's old and unused clothing and to the little girl, she tossed her old and unfitting clothing. She held back her sad sigh, her blue eyes turning greyer as she thought of her little brother.

Hiro and Kisa caught the clothing with their good reflexes, perplexed on why the girl was acting so calmly. They were sure they she was the one who picked them up in their animal form, so how could she act in the way that she was?

Shouldn't she be… disgusted?

Kagome smiled slightly, effectively making her look even more exhausted, if that was even possible. She looked away in the moments that they quickly shoved on the clothing.

Her blue-grey eyes looked on to the unusual eyes of the two Juunishi, almost demanding answers.

When she spoke, it certainly had a slightly dangerous undertone to it, causing shivers to run down their spines.

"Now, does anyone want to tell me why you turn into animals?"


Uo looked up at the long steps, smiling slightly as she thought of something. The conversation that she had with that 'Kureno' she had in convenience store had elevated her mood but this was just even better! She had noticed that 'Higurashi Kagome' in the store and followed her to her house, curious to see where she lived. Uo knew that Tohru was disappointed yet again when she realized that Kagome had just skipped the last class. She quickly grabbed her cell phone out of her pocket, dialling a number. She held the phone to her ear, grinning even wider as the person picked up.

"Tohru-kun?— You're with the Sohma's right now?— Well, just bring them along— I have a surprise for you— This is you chance to meet Higurashi-kun—"

Uo smiled as Tohru sounded excited over the cell phone, before looking up at the steps again.

"Yeah, just come over to Higure Shrine…"