Hi people, sorry it took so long, but i had reall, reall, REALLY bad writers block T.T

Thanks to every one who gave me ideas about names XD

/blah blah/ animals talking to Zodiac members

Looking out of the window on his left, Shigure looked at the refection of the classroom, sighing when he saw that yes both the seat behind him and on his right were empty in the refection too. Looking past the refection he saw that the sky was as overcast as it was that morning, if not more.

Shigure Sohma was bored; very bored. Today was the most boring day in Shigure's eleven year old life. Not evening looking under the girls' skirts was any fun. The Dog Zodiac looked at the clock for the millionth time that day. He only had fifteen minutes until he could get out of the hell-hold called school; the teacher was talking about some math problem that was written on the bored, Shigure was never that good at math, he preferred to sleep in the lesson then get the answers form Hatori, who was one of his two favourite cousin's, the other being none other then Ayame. But today Shigure couldn't go to sleep because Hatori wasn't there. To make matter's worst Ayame wasn't there either. Hatori was with his father, who was the family doctor learning some of the tricks of the trade, while Ayame was with his mother and father picking up his baby brother from the hospital. One thing Shigure couldn't understand about Ayame was the way that he treated his brother; Shigure had always wanted a younger sibling, someone to look up at him and someone who was always there to play with him, even when he was grounded because of something that he did; but when he asked his mother and father for one they just looked at him, then each other and then carried on doing what they were doing, they wouldn't even answer his question about where babies came from.. Shigure wasn't aloud to go see the baby at the hospital because he was very sick and if there was one thing that Shigure hated, par working, it was being sick or seeing some who was sick.

Looking at the clock again Shigure noticed that he only had fifteen minutes left of school, and then he would have a whole week off because the school was closing for improvements, mostly fixing up rooms that Ayame and Shigure messed up when they broke the school boiler. How where they supposed to know that the boiler's pipes were old and leaked if the water went thought too fast and was boiling hot. Luckily everyone was out at break when it happened so no one got hurt, though everything on the ground floor was floating in three foot of hot water; and because the classrooms on the second floor were small and there were lots of classes, they decided to close the school of a while. Pity it was only for a week. Shigure wondered what he could do for the whole week; Hatori was gone with his mother, who worked at the hospital. Shigure sometimes felt sorry for Hatori, both his parents were doctors so he couldn't say he was sick to get off school because they would know straight away. He was also supposed to keep Shigure and Ayame out of trouble at school, but that was really a two people job, but they didn't mean to make his job hard, it was just that they were active people, but they both made sure no one hugged them.

He couldn't go see Ayame because his family wanted to spent some time together, just them and the baby; Shigure really needed to ask someone what the baby's name was. Akito was sick again so he couldn't go play with him. Kagura was no fun because all she talked about was how cute something was, girls were something that Shigure would probably never understand. Rin was just plain weird. Ritsu was always apologizing about everything, but he was fun to tease sometimes. The other baby that he know about, Kyo didn't live in the Sohma Estate so he couldn't just go round and see him and all the other Zodiac members were too old to play with, they had jobs and no time to enjoy the little things in life. He couldn't even go out to see Kazuma because he was away on a training trip. So all Shigure had to look forward to was a week of pure boredom, and after all that hard work he and Ayame put into that prank.

Looking at the clock, Shigure and the rest of the class quietly counted down the last ten seconds until the bell rang.

10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5…

The class quickly and quietly packed their things away while the teacher droned on about something or other.

4... 3… 2…

Everyone was slowly getting out of their seats, making sure not to make any noise.

1…

And there it was. The teacher just had enough time to jump out of the way to the door, missing the stampede of children running to get home and enjoy their small holiday. The hallways were packed with rushing people making their way to the metal double doors. Less then ten seconds after the bell rang, the doors were swinging open. Normally Shigure and Ayame were one of the first people out, but today Shigure was in no rush so he took his time. Also normally there was someone sent to pick them all up, but not today. Poor Shigure had to walk all the way home, on his own for once. Deciding on making his parents wait, Shigure went the long way home, which was his favourite way. Part of the long way home was to walk though the park which was his most favourite part of the walk because people would be walking their dogs, and even though dogs were loyal, they loved to talk about their masters, they were who Shigure got most of his gossip (SP?) from; like how Miss Niwa hated cats and large places, or how Mr Mustang was cheating on his wife with both of his next door neighbours, who were both males and one of them worked for him. Then there was the Yuy couple, they were from America, but where both Wanted for some reason so moved to Japan, where they live with their three dogs, Shigure like the Yuy's, they both gave him money ,to make him go away, and the long haired one, who said to call him Duo, was always giving him new ideas about pranks, while their dogs went on about their sex life, which was one thing that Shigure REALLY didn't want to know about.

The park itself was quite beautiful; it had four entrances, one on each side and was surrounded by woods. The woods were thicker on the north side, so many people treated to avoid that entrance. In the very middle of the park was a huge pond, with a fountain in the very middle. The fountain had a mermaid facing each entrance, and each mermaid was different, water fell from the stone bowls each one had in their hands. Above the mermaids were some dolphins, with water coming out of their mouths, which landed halfway in the pond. The only time water touched the mermaids was when it was raining. Stone benches were placed around the pond. Off to the west side of the park was the play area; it was perfect for kids of any age, even some adults because there was a small football field and a court that could be used for many different sports. Food stands were placed on the east side and were always changing with the weather, if it was hot, they sold cold food and drinks, and if it was cold they sold hot food and drinks.

Today was no different. Expect for one thing. It all started just when Shigure was heading out the north side of the park, Charlie, an old police dog came running up to him, which was odd because Charlie didn't like to run and didn't like him much, called him a nosily brat.

/There you are, come with me/ in his mind, the old dogs' voice was like any other old persons, rough.

"What? Why?" Shigure didn't get an answer. Grabbing Shigure's sleeve with his mouth, Charlie pulled the boy into the tree line. After walking deeper and deeper into the wooded part, Charlie brought him over to one of the biggest trees. In among the exposed roots was a small green bundle. Lifting the bundle up, Shigure saw that it was a young child. Realising what Charlie wanted him to do; Shigure picked the child up and ran the rest of the way home.

After running for thirty minutes, looking to make sure it was safe to cross the roads and keeping out of the old people's way, Shigure was finally standing at the entrance of the lane leading up to the Sohma Estate, with the houses of the 'Outer' family members on both sides. Shigure was starting to worry about the baby; the ride must've been bumpy, but the baby was still fast asleep, the piece of cloth coving its left arm was getting dark and wet, and Shigure know from expectance that clothes only do that when it's wet or bleeding, unless it was white, then it went see-though and pink. Looking down at the cute face, Shigure noticed how pale it was. Not wasting anymore time Shigure ran up to the gates and threw them open, and ran into one of the older Zodiac members. Seeing it was only the Ox, he ask him to telling his parents that he needed to see Hatori's father and he wanted to talk to them about something really important. The Ox didn't notice the bundle he was hugging close to his chest, only nodded his head and went off in the direction of his home.

Walking quickly Shigure cursed both the head of the family, for making the no running in the Estate rule and Hatori's parents for having their home at the far end of the Estate. Ten minutes later and Shigure was flying through the doors of Hatori's home; Lucky Hatori's mother was there, Sakure.

"Hatori's Ka-san, thank Kami you're here." Shigure gasped out, trying to recover quickly.

"'Gure-chan, what are you do here? You're not hurt are you?" She asked in her claming voice, looking him over for any injures.

"No, I'm fine, but can ya have a look at him? I think he hurt his arm." Shigure rushed out, holding the bundle at arm's length. Taking the young child from his arms, Sakure looked him over, carefully removing the blankets.

"Shigure-kun where did you find him, where's his family?" Shigure know this was important; Sakure only used his name when she was working.

"In the wooded part of the park, no one was around and he was in the roots of that really big tree." He rushed out. After a few minutes he asked in a quite voice, "What happened to him? Why was he left there? What happened to his arm?"

"I don't know Shigure-kun, I really don't know." Sakure was growing more worried by the minute, even though she was being careful, the baby boy should've woken up by now. The only reason that she know he wasn't dead was how quickly blood was flowing from his wound, but if she didn't stop the bleeding soon, he'll die from blood loss. Just by looking at his face she could tell that he wasn't from Japan or any part of Asia. She didn't know Shigure was also looking at the baby until he pointed at the wound.

"Looks like he was bitten by a big doggie. He isn't dead, is he?" Even if he didn't act like it, Shigure was a really smart boy for his age, not as smart as Hatori, but smarter then most people in his year. He knew that if you bleed, you won't die, unless it doesn't stop, and after a while, if it doesn't stop you run out of blood and your body needs it, so you die. He also knew that when your asleep your chest moves up and down, but he baby's chest wasn't moving and if your chest isn't moving you die.

"No Shigure-kun, He isn't dead, not yet, but if you left him where you found him he would be. Now, I need you to be a good, brave boy and help me, you think you can do it?" Seeing the determent (SP?) look on his face, she knew that he would do what ever she asked him to. Grabbing the blanket she held it to the wounds and ordered Shigure to press it tightly to the wound, to slow the bleeding, while he did that she rushed around the examination room, gathering the stuff she'll need to heal the poor child. While she was a good doctor form the 'Outer' part of the family, the one thing she rarely had to deal with were animal bites, those were her husbands departments because he grow up in the 'inner' family because his father was the Boar Zodiac and the family doctor. The only bites she treated before where when Shigure bite the head of the family when they were playing to hard and when Ayame bite Rin by accident, that was also when they found out that Ayame was poisonous.

Fifteen minutes later and the door to the examination room was slamming open, leaving a dent in the wall; and in walked Shigure's mother, Hatori and his father, little Akito and the current head of the family; Akito will become head when he turns ten or if the current head dies before then.

"Shigure-chan are you alright, your not too hurt are you, what happened, are you bleeding…" Shigure extremely overprotective mother asked in a rushed voice, hardly stopping to breath nor giving her son time to answer.

"My dear, if you don't allow Shigure-kun room to breath, I think he will become hurt." The head of the family chuckled as she turned a bright cherry red. Noticing the small hardly breathing form on the table, he walked closer to get a better look. "And who's this then?" he asked in a kind voice.

"I found him in the park; we think he was left there." Shigure said in a small voice.

"Aww, poor thing." The head replied.

"For now though he is my patient and I'd like it if I could have some room to heal him, so if you'd all like to go out to the living room, it'll be much apprehended. Shigure-kun, thank you for all your help, but can you go help Hatori make some drinks." With that the small group went out on the doctors' orders when they heard her speak up again, "Oh no honey, you stay and help…"

Once everyone was in the cosy living room with a hot drink in their hands and sitting in the comfy chairs, Shigure started to tell everyone about what happened as soon as Charlie came running at him. Hatori's home was one of the larger one's on the estate. It had three bedrooms upstairs, two which had en suites, the third bedroom was used as storage for all the medicine that they needed. Shigure himself had only been in one of the bedrooms, so he didn't know what Hatori's parents looked like; Hatori's himself had light sea-blue bedroom, with a large futon in the centre of the room. Below the window was a small white desk and a solid oak dresser opposite the door to the en suites. Because of how much time Ayame and Shigure spent at Hatori's house, he had large TV on top of a chest of draws that held cloth for Shigure and Ayame for if they decided to stay for the night. On top of the telly was a VCR and many different videos sat on the shelves. Unlike Shigure's and Ayame's bedrooms, Hatori's room was clean and relaxing. Downstairs was no different; the whole place was made to be as relaxing and comfortable as possible. The living was done in warm browns and light earth tones and the kitchen was modern and new. The only room that wasn't cosy was the examination room.

After explaining three times what had happened to everyone, Shigure looked at his mother with big puppy-dog eyes and asked in a pleading voice "please can we keep him, pleaseeeeee?"

"I'm sorry Shigure-chan. He's not part of the family and I'm not the one to ask." She said in a sad tone. Shigure just signed mournfully and looked out of the window, watching the full moon raise, sometime during his run the clouds had disappeared. Just as the moon was rising there was a pain filled screech from the examination room that probably woke the whole estate up. Shigure was the first to get up and see what make the noise. Swinging open the door, making the dent bigger Shigure took two steps before he froze. The small baby boy was arching up, silent screams pouring out of his mouth, tears falling from bright green eyes, while bones were rearranging themselves. Both of Hatori's parents couldn't stop him from hurting himself, his nails were turning into long sharp claws, the blood from the bites mixed with the sweat that was pouring from his body and the deep cuts that the claws made coving the table he was laying on in a thick red substance. People from the other houses came to see what was happening. The baby somehow pushed both adults over to the door, were they needed help to get back up. Shigure was slowly walking towards the table, making sounds that people normally made to calm animals, it seemed to be working. By the time Shigure was next to the table, the baby seemed to be some half wolf half human thing. Slowly he climbed onto the table, gently put the baby in his lap and made soft whining noises. The moonlight was shining off all the metal in the room, blinding everyone who tried to see what was happening, after a few minutes, they slowly walked into the room. The table was bathed in moonlight and they saw Shigure holding what looked like a ball of fizzy black fur, which turned out to be a four week old baby wolf.

This caused mixed reactions. Hatori's mother fainted; Hatori's father had to quickly grab his wife; Shigure's mother was being sick because of how much blood there was and the smell; Hatori closed the blinds so no one could look in though the window; while Akito's eyes widen at the sight of the wolf. Shigure was happily petting the small blind cub. After telling it how cute it was and how he wasn't going to hurt him, Shigure looked at head of the family, who had a soft spot for the dog Zodiac and asked with his best puppy eyes, "Can I keep him?"

All the head could do was nod his head. Akito asked in his quite voice "What's his name?"

"I'll name him…"

TBC

Again sorry, still trying to write my other chappie, but i know what will be happening in each one, just have tp try writting them