"I'll say" said Shigure coming down the damage stairs. "Says you! All you did was watch if I didn't interfere your house would be gone in less than 2 minutes!" Grimmjow look Shigure as he finally reached the bottom of the steps. "Also hey you didn't answer my question, who are you?" Shigure looked up at Grimmjow observing him using his eyes. He was very well built, short teal hair slit back, and clear blue eyes. He smirked looking up at Grimmjow.

"My name is Shigure Sohma, owner of this house. I told you that if you interfere in the fight between Yuki and Kyo this would make this much harder on Kyo. And oh my they destroy my stairs yet again."

"Again?"

"Yes, again. They fight all the time to prove a point, Grimmjow. Yuki's comment earlier about the Sohma name is because that he is the rejected member of the family."

Grimmjow didn't really understand how all this made sense. Why reject only Kyo and not the scrawny brat that just tosses him around like trash. He let out a sigh running his hand through his hair. "None of this makes sense to me at all. They can't just reject him cuz' of this there is something else you're not telling me." Shigure was surprised. 'Oh, he has a much sharper mind than Kyo .Interesting. I guess I should tell him about that since he is part of the Sohma Curse.' He let out a light chuckle. "Sharp minded you are Grimmjow. Come sit and I'll explain this all to you." Shigure said sitting at the table. Grimmjow took his seat across from him arms crossed. Shigure let out a sigh. "Okay, then where to begin."

"How about telling me where the hell am I and how did I got here. That's what I wanna know first before you go any further."

"Fair enough. You're in the semirural area of Tokyo, Japan and you were found in the forest by Torhu, our little house wife," he chuckled," she mistook you as Kyo when she found you half conscious. She brought you here and treated your wounds." Grimmjow looked down letting out a sigh then looking back up at Shigure. "Wait how the hell could she mistook me from that Kitty? My hair is teal."

"Kitty? Why did call him that" trying not to laugh at the pet name he gave Kyo.

"I noticed that he had a cat scent on him when I attacked him this morning. Plus when he was sleeping he purred and snored so, it really wasn't hard to tell that he was like a cat."

'His sense of smell is perfect. My my, this Grimmjow has more abilities useful than Kyo.'

"Well, now that I've answer your question I will explain something to you that might make sense to you. The reason why Torhu mistook you from Kyo is that your were transformed into a little blue panther cub." Grimmjow looked bewilded. 'so that's why they kept calling me Panther!' in his thought. "B-But how was I turned into a Panther?!"

"Have you ever heard of the Chinese Zodiac?" Grimmjow nodded. "Well, then I'm about to tell you a little story Grimmjow." Grimmjow leaned against the table all ears.

"In the Chinese's legend, God had 12 places to be taken for the 13 animals he had invited for the Chinese New Year's. The animals were the cat, rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, sheep (ram), dragon, pig (boar), dog, roster, snake, monkey, and the horse. Back then, the cat and the rat were best friends."

"Pfft! That's hard to believe." Grimmjow scoffed.

"Well, yes it was hard to believe at first but this is how they became enemies. Upon receiving the words of the race, the rat wanted to win the race. It didn't even want its best friend to win. The cat wanted to race too. It told the rat that he would sleep and trusts the rat to wake him up in the morning of the race."

"That selfish little—" he was cut off.

"However, on the morning of the race, the rat slyly didn't do it and ran off. At the last leg of the race, the ox had taken over the rat. Even more determined to win, the rat jumped onto the ox's back. As the rat was light, the ox didn't know and carried on running, at the finish line, thee rat jumped off the ox's back to win the first place of the Zodiac. When the dragon finished the race, God wondered why he had not taken first place. In reply the dragon said that he had to first bring rain to crops and help the people. God was pleased at that.

The pig was far too lazy to wake up. However its friend, the dog, woke it up and told him to get going. That's why the dog and the pig's positions are close: the dog ran in front of the lazy pig who walked all the way in the race.

As for the cat, he remained sleeping, waiting for his best friend rat to wake him up.

Only after God declared the Zodiac the cat had woken up. It rushed to the end of the race, only to find out the rat betrayed him. From that day forward, the cat and rat's relationship soured till the cat kept on chasing the rat."

Grimmjow was trying to put the story to get the part about Kyo and Yuki and the story together, but still didn't add up. "This still doesn't make sense! How does this added up to them or even me in fact?!" "Oh pipe down little Grimmjow I was getting there. The part of how does this connect to us is that we can transform into a member of the Chinese Zodiac also known as the Sohma's Curse from being weak, or hugged by the opposite sex."

"So I must've transformed because I was weak?"

"Yes. But Grimmjow I must warn you on this, no one outside of the Sohma family shall not know about the Sohma Curse. Only one person outside of the Sohma's know about our secret and that's Torhu." Grimmjow cocked his head to the side. "Torhu? Who's that?"

"The one you nearly scared this morning."

He thought for a moment. "Oh you mean that chick standing by the door helpless?" Shigure nodded. "Yes, we took her in and got permission from Akito to let her stay and keep a secret." Grimmjow was stunned since she is staying in a household full of guys, poor chick. Grimmjow scratched his head. 'Wow, this family has some fucked up issues I wonder how they still lived with this so called curse.'

"What doesn't make sense to me is that how did a panther show up? Your part of the cat family though." He let out a sigh getting up, "Anywho last few words and warnings before I leave for the main house. How old are you?"

"16" (Yes I'm making him younger)

'Same age as Kyo, Yuki and Torhu. Hmph… Akito is just going make me enroll him to his school. How lovely.'

"And last thing. Stay from girls that try to hug you, don't stress out and stay away from Akito no matter what, just keep your distance." Shigure let out the door. Grimmjow jumped from his seat wanting to ask who Akito was but before he reached the door he was already gone.

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