A/N: Hola! Hey, I am on my new laptop right now! Eep! You have no idea how happy I am right now! So I just had to update! Although this is the only one I'm updating, and I know a lot of other readers won't be too happy about this, but yeah... I'll update later (ON MY NEW LAPTOP!)

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Chapter 7

Simple

The three felines lounge around the TV room with the heat cranked up as it starts to pour.

"Hey, how come you're not gone yet?" Kyo wonders towards Bass as he stands and stretches.

"Ivory talked me into staying here for a little while longer since it's a holiday," Bass says simply, her head resting in her sister's lap as they watch some weird show on TV.

"You just realized that this was the beginning of a holiday didn't you?" Kyo says in a monotone.

"Shut up! It's too hard to keep up with every culture's holidays and what not," Ivory waves off then looks at him more in depth. "Are you going somewhere?" she wonders.

"I gotta go for a little bit." Kyo says simply as he puts on a sweatshirt. "I'll be back soon," Ivory frowns.

"It's pouring outside," she says concerned.

"Don't worry, I'll be inside the whole time," Kyo says with a shrug. Ivory decides it's nothing to worry about since Kyo's a terrible liar and if something was wrong she would be able to smell it a mile away.

"Well, bye cat," Bass says cuddling more into her sister's lap.

"Bye," he says as he walks out the door.

"Hey, have you changed lately?" Ivory wonders as a commercial comes on.

"Nope, not since last week…I broke my record ten minutes ago though," Bass says looking at a clock hanging on the wall.

"That's ama—!" Ivory starts excitedly but then sees something flick in the corner of her eye. "You're growing a tail," she finishes in a monotone.

"Damn," Bass says simply, strips quickly and transforms. "Now I just have to break this one," Bass says determined. Ivory smiles in admiration. It would be a little too dangerous for her to try to break the curse by pure stubbornness. Don't think she hasn't tried, no she has several times, but transforming into a tiger and into a house cat are two completely different threats.

"We're home!" Tohru says excitedly as she and Yuki enter the traditional Japanese home and quickly slip their shoes off. Ivory goes and meets them to help with the groceries. "Hi!"

"Hi! How was shopping?" Ivory wonders as she grabs a few bags. It's been a few hours since they got home from the water park, soon after Tohru accompanied by Yuki went to scavenge for food and now they're back.

"Very nice! How was the rest of your afternoon?" Tohru wonders as the three of them walk to the kitchen.

"Lazy," Ivory says with a shrug as they enter the kitchen.

"Well that can be—there's a black cat!" Tohru says pretty shocked as she sees (unknowingly) Bass on the counter licking her paw.

"I don't know how sanitary that is," Yuki says in a monotone and Bass gives him a look. Ivory laughs and points at her older sister.

"Haha Bass!" Ivory teases as she starts putting food away.

"Oh my gosh! You're in your cat form! How cute!" Tohru says petting the top of Bass's head who purrs happily.

"So, what's for dinner?" as she stores the plastic bag and hops up on the counter next to her sister.

"Um, it's between beef stew and fish—,"

"Fish!" Ivory says lifting her hand and Bass says lifting her paw.

"Right, fish it is I guess!" Tohru laughs as she keeps out all of the ingredients she needs to prepare the meal for tonight. "Oh yeah, where's Kyo?"

"Don't know, he said he was going to be gone for a little bit but be back later," Ivory says with a shrug.

"In this weather," Yuki wonders curiously. If Ivory and Bass didn't know better…it would sound somewhat like concern. But that's not possible.

"I know, but he seemed OK, and he most likely won't be that long—,"

Ding Dong!

"I'll get it!" Ivory says before Tohru. The tiger hops skillfully off of the counter and rushes to the sliding door. She slides it open to see— "Dad?" Ivory breathes in pure shock.

"Hello Ivory," Siberious Williams says in his booming voice. Siberious stands seven feet tall, with broad shoulders and an extremely muscular built. He has piercing orange/hazel-ish eyes, medium toned smooth caramel skin, and a completely shaved head. "Don't you wanna give your old man a hug?"

Ivory stares at her grandmothers first man and tries to decide if he's her lackey right now, or a man who misses his daughter. She decides the latter and tries to wrap her arms around his torso but it's like trying to hug a red wood tree.

"I've missed you Daddy," Ivory says honestly. She after all, is just a girl who's missed her father.

"I've missed you too suga',"

"Ivory!" Ivory releases her father and looks around him to see her two little sisters Lio and Tabs!

"Lio! Tabs!" Ivory shouts as her two sisters move past their father and tackle their older sister. Before they know it Bass is on the dog pile purring happily.

"Stop leaving us!" Lio mutters trying to hold back tears.

"We can't go through this without you!" Tabby adds also trying to keep her emotions in check. Bass and Ivory meet each other's gaze. If only it were that simply…the two sisters think in unison.

But, let's face it, the Williams and Sohma's lives…are never that simple…