Sorry for the late update everyone! Here's chapter 7! Please review!

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Momiji gave out a loud sigh to express his obvious boredom. He had received an urgent call from Hatori stating that he needed to come home immediately for urgent "family matters". Yet another pointless excuse to get him home and away from school.

He shifted his bag in irritation and glanced at his watch. Hiro, who was seventeen and perfectly capable of driving on his own, was supposed to have picked him up thirty minutes ago when his plane arrived. As usual, Hiro's needs came first and he was late…And Momiji was really starting to get impatient.

Just when he felt the need to scream out in frustration and call a cab, Hiro came rushing in, spotted him, and quickly raced over and grabbed his bags.

"You're late." Momiji said coolly, crossing his arms.

Hiro murmured something inaudible and began to lead Momiji to his car. Before he did so, he did pull out a cigarette…No doubt loaded with pot. Hiro's features really hadn't changed as much as some of the others. He still had the same tousled dirty blonde hair and dark brown/red eyes. The only difference was that he was taller and his shoulders were a lot broader, and he was a lot more muscular. Ever since Tohru had left, it was obvious that her leaving had effected Hiro. Although Hiro had always referred to Tohru as a "stupid girl" it was obvious that he had some sort of soft spot for the teenager. Since she had left, he had become more of a tough guy, seeing as he didn't have Tohru around to lead him on the right path, or telling Kisa for him to stop. Often times Hiro was suspended from school along with Kisa. Both of them had become extremely close, and it was hard to tell who got whom started on drugs first. The point was that they had gotten into the wrong crowd, and no one seemed to have the authority or the guts to stop them.

Momiji shook his head in exasperation at the young ram. No doubt this would be a fun reunion as usual…

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"Dumb ass." Haru said as a greeting.

Hiro glowered at him and shoved past him, cursing him all the way. For some reason these two hadn't gotten along since Tohru left. Reasons were unknown, but what the family believed happened was Haru had tried to stop Hiro from doing drugs, and it had caused a major argument which lead to where they were today. Momiji still wondered why Haru had tried to even help Hiro, sure he was young and all, but Haru was just as screwed up as he was. Momiji could even smell the booze on Haru, and it wasn't even noon yet.

Momiji gave out another sigh at his two cousins and narrowed his eyes at Haru, who he used to consider one of his best friends.

"That's no way to welcome your cousin home who was on a completely different continent."

"Who missed ya?" Haru shot back before storming into a room a little ways down the hall.

"Yep…One big happy family." Momiji stated to himself before following Haru.

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Hiro swallowed as he watched Yuki enter the room. All ready he could feel himself trying to swallow the bile that was rising in the back of his throat. Hiro hated this feeling he got. Yuki was his cousin for God sake. He shouldn't have to have this sense of fear, he hated being afraid, and it wasn't fair! He wasn't afraid of anything except his own cousin! Stupid curse…He hated it right down to his marrow…Whoever created this curse…Which was most likely the first Rat…He hoped he was rotting in the depths of Hell.

Yuki knelt down in front of the family, which even that appeared to intimidate Hiro, who twitched involuntarily.

"We are all gathered here because Hatori and Shigure have both discovered something significant to our family." Yuki said monotonously,

Hiro glanced up sharply at Hatori and Shigure, who both shifted. They appeared to be having a small argument with each other and it looked like Hatori lost.

Hatori cleared his throat before speaking, "It's come to our attention," Hatori emphasized the word "our" and glared at Shigure before continuing, "that there might be a slight problem with the curse."

Yuki blinked as Hatori paused.

Soon, he continued, "The other night Shigure and I were at a local diner, and Melody was there. She knew exactly who we were. Seeing as Melody was only a baby, and memories don't develop until the age of three, we found this quite odd. Although I do recall that Melody was supposed to be the new God of the Zodiac before Akito died. We're beginning to wonder of perhaps the curse of the God did not fully leave Melody, and that as of right now, she is God."

"God, I could really care for a cigarette right about now." Hiro muttered.

Hatori glared at him reproachfully.

"This makes no sense, you told me that the spirit of God was inside me, and you have the same fear that you had towards Akito." Yuki said darkly.

"Yes, well, we're still not sure how that worked out. We think it might be half-and-half in a way. The half of the God that evokes pain inside us is with you, and the half of the God that makes us feel a sense of love is within Melody. So, we basically have two Gods which is not possible within our family." Shigure said.

"So…What does this mean exactly? Our family is being thrown into complete chaos?" Momiji said impatiently.

"Not exactly…See the last time something like this occurred it was within the 1500s era and it caused a major war between the Sohma family, basically the cursed against the rest. What was decided was that there should be a sacrifice and everything would be restored to normal within the family." Hatori said.

"WHAT?" Kagura exclaimed.

"Who have you decided?" Yuki asked.

"You're not going to sacrifice Melody are you?" Kagura asked, panic rising in her voice.

"Well we can't kill Yuki either." Hiro shot back.

"It would make more sense to sacrifice Melody seeing as she hasn't lived as long." Hatori said thoughtfully.

"I can't believe we're actually discussing this! This is just wrong! We should go against the rules just this once! It's not like we're going to get penalized or hunted because of it!" Kagura shouted.

"But…It's the way of the curse…" Shigure began.

"To Hell with the curse!" Kagura screamed.

"KAGURA! WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE!" Hatori finally thundered, losing his temper.

"Yes we do! We've always had a choice! Always! We didn't always have to obey the rules. We didn't have to obey Akito when he asked for Tohru's memories to be erased, we didn't have to listen to Akito when he wanted Kyo put into confinement, we didn't need to do any of it. There's the curse, and then there's ourselves. We should've always followed what we felt what was right. We knew most of the stuff that happened was wrong. We could've stopped it if we just really stopped and had the guts, we could've prevented this huge mess!" Kagura yelled.

Hatori glared at her.

"Honestly Hatori, our lives are all ready screwed up with what's going on with Tohru, but do you really want the murder of a little girl to be on your conscious?" Kagura snapped.

"What's going on with Tohru?" Momiji asked.

"Oh, that's right, you wouldn't know. It appears that Tohru might've gotten her memory back." Shigure said calmly.

"What?" Momiji asked.

"Nobody tells us anything." Hiro whined.

"Yeah! Thanks for leaving us in the dark!" Momiji snapped.

Shigure gave out an exasperated sigh. "Can we please get back on topic?"

"I refuse to discuss this!" Kagura exclaimed, on the verge of hysteria.

"Kagura…I understand that this is difficult for you…But there's a good possibility that Melody will most likely be sacrificed." Hatori said softly.

Kagura's eyes slid over to Yuki who had paled considerably, and he looked disgusted with the very idea of killing a young girl. Kagura, of course, knew better than to come out and point something out like that. That wasn't how it worked in this family. Yuki would probably shout at her for even revealing something like that.

Kagura gave out a sigh in defeat. It looked like everyone's minds were made up as she stared at the faces of her family. Melody would be killed and Kagura would be powerless to stop it.

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Tohru wearily dragged herself into her apartment. After the hysteria that occurred today, the young woman was thoroughly exhausted.

Just as she was about to doze off, she noticed Melody watching her.

"What's the matter? Can't sleep?" Tohru asked groggily.

Melody wriggled around uncomfortably before looking up at Tohru again. "Why don't we live with 'Gure anymore?"

Tohru's eyes widened in horror. This could not be happening, now.

"How did you find out about Shigure?" Tohru asked slowly.

"I saw him at the diner." Melody said with a shrug.

"And…You recognized him?" Tohru asked.

Melody nodded.

Tohru watched her for a long time. "We'll discuss this in the morning."

Melody stood up and walked away, pouting. Tohru pondered over the predicament that had occurred.

Standing up with a frown on her face, Tohru went over to her laptop and opened up onto a search sight and typed in the words: "Zodiac Curse". Tohru was surprised to find pages upon pages of information on the Curse and she clicked onto one that claimed to know the whole history of the curse.

The web page went on to describe basic facts that she all ready knew, and it also went into a few theories. Many scientists seemed to believe that the Curse might've been caused by some genetic mutation that gave these people advanced x genes. It also went into how the people might only transform when hugged because added body heat caused some sort of reaction that set off their animal forms. Others even went so far that scientists or even aliens had run tests on these "specimens" and had created a new type of human.

Tohru shook her head in disgust at the ridiculous knowledge. Nobody could just accept a curse for a curse anymore. Everything had to have some scientific meaning to it. Tohru was about to exit the site when she noticed a theory on how the cursed classified their God.

Tohru furrowed her eyebrow and went onto read how the God might have come about. The article also went into some information about specific laws with God. Tohru came across one that made her heart stop.

"In some rare cases in a cursed family, there may sometimes be two Gods. This does not come across very often, and can often be rare. It has occurred. According to a recent historical expedition done by archaeologists, there were some transcripts dated back to the late fifteen hundreds. The author has stated that there was one God that was dying, and one God that was all ready to come forward to replace the death of the ancient God. The story goes to tell that the dying God refused to have this new God lead His family. He requested that an ancient ritual be performed to place the spirit of the God into the body who he felt was most worthy to lead his family. The ritual was done, and it was soon discovered only days after the ancient God's death, that an error had occurred. The spirit had appeared to divide itself in half. This accessed one person to a lovable side, and another person to an evil side. Call it a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde occurrence if you will. At any rate the two Gods fought against each other dividing the cursed, and the humans. In the end one was killed, and it was decided that should ever an occurrence happen again, that one shall be sacrificed to prevent any other family wars…"

Tohru's blood ran cold as she suddenly got a flash of a memory in the back of her mind. Melody had been the chosen God and Akito had refused. He had asked that Yuki become the new God in Melody's place. The deed was done, but according to this article, that was not so. Melody could still possibly have the spirit of God still inside of her. That would explain how she had known who Shigure was, after all, this was an unbreakable bond.

Tohru frantically looked around the room, as if at any minute she would become ambushed. She couldn't allow Melody to get taken away from her by the Sohmas. She had to leave. The Sohmas knew where she lived.

She darted to the door to her room and frantically packed a few things, having no idea where her destination would even lie. In a panic she ran into Melody's room and hastily packed a few of her things, and swooped Melody into her arms before running to the door, stumbling all the way.

Tohru fumbled with the lock as she tried to get free. Finally, she was able to fling the door open.

"Going somewhere?" A cold voice asked gruffly.

Tohru stumbled backwards in shock and tried to slam the door, but the figure quickly stopped it from slamming and held it in place.

Tohru gave out a scream of pure fear and…

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I hope that was okay, I know it was short and I'm sorry. I also apologize for the late update, and I'm sorry if the ending was kind of stupid. Please review to tell me what you think! If you don't review, I'll be forced to think you hated the chapter!