N.B: This isn't finished but I've taken so long to get anything up so enjoy what's there. The rest should be up by the end of this week. Enjoy, be patient, please review!

Chapter 4

"Good morning!"

It was the sound that brought loathing, the sound of sheer madness: it was the shrill of Ayame Sohma. Kyo looked at the clock, 6:00.

"If you hadn't noticed you idiot some people are trying to sleep around here!"

"Oh but dear Kyo, sleep on a such a glorious day, I think not."

Everyone was picking up their heads, although Yuki seemed to be the only one pretty much asleep, surprisingly enough. Shigure got up, stretched, and looked out the window.

"Well Aya is right. The sky's blue, birds are chirping. No this isn't a day anyone would want to miss."

"Say's who," Kyo grumbled.

Shigure continued unabashed, "Well we should keep our voices down, don't want to wake the women just yet". Yeah like Kagura.

"That means you Ayame," Hatori sat up.

"Oh Hari' you're awake now the day can officially begin!" Hatori gave a dull look to the titter of Ayame.

"Now I know why spending time with you all is completely annoying," Hiro sat up now.

Haru lightly punched his shoulder, "You know you love every minute of it," Hiro didn't like his smile.

Shigure put on his robe, "Well since we're all awake I think we should take care of Kaiya's car."

Kazuma stood next to him now after asking Kyo how he was, when Kyo merely stared at him, he gave up. "That's admirable, the roads look like their drying."

"Well come on men, let's use our man power and defeat this car!" Shigure beamed.

"Why are you excited?" Kyo frowned. "That rat's not even awake."

"Well wake Yuki up," Shigure shrugged matter-of-factly.

"Why me!"

"If it's any consolation he was the one who woke me up," Yuki sat up groggily, scowling at Ayame.

"Oh it feels so nice to have done something for you," he tittered again.

"What good you can do is to shut your mouth," Yuki finally stood up.

"AHHH! I OVERSLEPT, everyone's awake and probably ate breakfest, the day's over, I'M SO SORRY!!!"

"Ritsu shut up!" Yelled everyone at different intervals.

Momiji had a smile for everyone, "Well I don't know what we're waiting for," he stood up and punched his fist in the air," Let's get this car out!"

"That's the spirit!" Shigure and Momiji skipped out.

"What's the big deal, we don't need everyone to move a stupid car," Kyo mused.

"I'd pay to see you try and move it by yourself, stupid cat."

"FINE! I will then and show you what a real man can do!"

Hatori stared, "Come on you two, nobody's in the mood for anything this early in the morning." After I barely fell asleep.

All the "men" went out. Ayame raised his arms and head to the sky.

"Feel that sun so glorious on this fine spring day!"

"Shut up and come on," Yuki scowled, while everyone trudged sleepily through the path. After a few moments they saw the car in the clearing.

"Well this confirms our serial killer theory was false. The car's here, stuck, that poor woman-,"

"Shut up Shigure!" Yelled many voices.

"Well excuse me, but this car isn't going to move itself!"

Ayame frowned, looking at the mud the car was stuck in. "You mean we're going to have to push this car out of this filthy mess."

Yuki fumed and rolled his eyes,"What did you think we were doing, coming here just to look at it? If you want to be any help, watch or go home."

"I am certainly not ready to go back home yet," that's not what I meant, Yuki thought and sighed.

Kyo crossed his arms, "If you're gonna watch do it with Ritsu."

"Why me?" Ritsu said meekly.

"You feel like moving the damn car?"

"No," so Ayame and Ritsu watched as the rest pushed.

Hiro had Kyo's sentiments that it was stupid to have everyone push "one lousy car" and barely pushed. Momiji fell over started wailing and Kyo picked him up and put him with the other "cry babies". But with their brute force managed to move the car.

"Mission accomplished!" Momiji exclaimed brightly after he got up, as though he never fell over.

"You didn't even help," Kyo frowned.

"Like you were," Yuki stared.

"What's that you damn rat!"

Shigure pulled the handle of the car, and lo and behold! It opened, so he got in the car and found the keys still in the ignition.

"It works alright, she should be able to get home now. Although you may want to check her fever, Hari", he winked.

Hatori, who was next to him and eager to find out if her car worked too, just rolled his eyes.

"Hmm...what's this?" Shigure picked up something off the seat.

"You shouldn't be looking through her car,"Hatori scolded.

Kyo shouted, "Hey I'm getting hungry can we stop being perverted and go back?"

Shigure ignored him and held up a strange root. Hatori hypocritically came for a closer look.

"Well medical man, what is it?" Hatori took and examined it.

"It seems like a mandrake root. I haven't seen one before, but I read about it in a book. They resemble a human, and while it has some folk lore attached to it, it's more commonly used for herbal medicine and sometimes narcotics."

"Narcotics? Well thank you walking textbook. Now what does she have a mandrake root for?"

Wow! What a beautiful day. I hope everyone will be hungry, I have a special breakfast planned. Oh Kisa looks so sweet asleep, I won't wake her. It's only 6:45 after all.

Tohru crept downstairs trying to be quiet, when she realized it was too quiet. Everyone was gone.

Where is everyone? What if my dinner made them all sick? What if, OH NO! What if they were kidnapped? What if I offended them somehow? What do I do? What do I do?

As Tohru freaked out, the men walked back to the house. Shigure tried to keep the subject of the root alive, and wondered if she was a doctor, but Hatori didn't know himself where she worked or much else about her. Shigure wanted to bring it back and ask her, but Hatori rolled his eyes, told him he was just searching for trouble where there was none to be had, to mind his own business, and to put it back.

"Oh Hari! You're no fun!"

"And you're not much of an adult, I feel like we've had this conversation before."

What do I do? What do I do?

"What are you doing?" Kyo was first back and stared at the frantic Tohru.

"Miss Honda is something wrong?"

"Oh thank good ness, I was so worried something awful happened to you, I woke up and-,"

"I suppose it was pretty careless of us not to leave a note. We moved Miss Hatsuto's car out of the mud is all," Yuki smiled reassuringly.

"What he said," Tohru gave a big smile for both of them as the rest entered.

"Momiji you're all dirty!" Tohru cried out.

"It's hard work moving a car, but somebody's gotta do it!"

"What the hell are you talking about, you fell on your ass!"

Kazuma put his hand on Kyo's shoulder."Kyo keep you're voice down. Everyone else is still asleep."

"Right," he didn't want to wake up Kagura for the world.

"You nearly fell you stupid cat."

"ARGGHH!"

Shigure put a finger to his lips, "Voices".

Now that I knew everyone was safe and sound, it was time to make some breakfast. It was a beautiful day but nobody seemed happy. I love all their company, but it must get stressful when they all go to the banquet together. I wonder how all the original zodiac members got along, well besides the cat and the rat. They were fighting again but at least it didn't seem like anything had changed, I mean nobody was acting any different than how they usually act, which is a good thing. Ahhh, I should pay attention to my soup!

"I'm bored, you're all so boring, so predictable," Hiro looked at the scene of arguing, fighting, and giggling going on and scowled menacingly.

"Let's play a card game!" Momiji suggested.

Ritsu cringed, " No, no I always lose at card games, even at solitaire."

Haru who was falling asleep on the table, raised his head.

"How do you lose at solitaire, you're playing against yourself?"

"I'm so pathetic, even solitaire thinks I'm a loser."

"Was that a pun?" Shigure put a hand to his forehead.

"It should be ready soon, so hold on." Tohru called out.

While everyone, "fought", giggled and just waited sleepily, the last voice Kyo wanted to hear shouted out.

"KYO!!! My love, how are you??!"She ran as Kyo's eyes widened and made a run for the door.

"Go-away-Kagura!"

"But my darling baby, how are you feeling, can I do anything for you?!!"

"Yeah, you can go home now!" Then she embraced or crushed him, Kyo stiffened up, arms straight at sides. "Kagura." He muttered under the strength of her arms.

"Hug me, damn it! That means put your arms around me!" Kyo looked like he was about to explode.

"Breakfast's ready!" Kyo shot out of her grip. Kisa was next to come down. "Good Morning Kisa!" Tohru said brightly taking off her cooking mitts.

"Morning sissy!" They hugged, Hiro's foul expression deepened. Haru came out of no where and scooped Kisa up.

"Did you sleep well?"

"Very well," Haru hugged her tighter.

"Did you sleep well on Kyo's bed cause if you didn't I can take care of that for you".

"Hey what were you saying last night about food and violence." Kyo said indignantly.

"There's always after breakfast." Everyone was awake now, except Kaiya.

-There will be more soon!!!