A/N: IT's 3 a.m. I'm am so tired right now. I'm sorry I haven't updated in a little wihile, to be honest I forgot. I want to thank you guys for your support, despite the fact that I've been slacking off. I'll try to write a bit sooner next time.I know you guys will like this chapter, it's quite interesting. In other news My birthday's coming up on August 2nd I'm going to be 20. I feel so old now.


"Hanajima? Do you think we could get married too someday?" Yuki asked, as they walked, today he was taking her to his secret base.

"I never thought I'd be they type to get married, to tell you the truth, but ever since we started dating, I feel like a completely different person."

"So do I…Hanajima?"

"Yes?" She said suddenly becoming aware of a change in Yuki's signals. His signals had been marred by her affections for him as of late, but she was still sharp enough to notice such a dramatic change.

"If I tell you a secret, that only Tohru and my family share, I can trust you to believe me and to still want to be with me, can't I?" It wasn't a question he thought needed an answer, but he still needed to hear her say it.

"Yuki, everyday, whether I spend it with you or not, everyday I wake up just a little bit more in love with you. Anything you could say to me would sooner stop my heart than stop my love for you."

"Before we started dating, for my entire life up until a few weeks before. Whenever I hugged a woman, or overexerted myself, I would change…into the rat from the Chinese zodiac." He looked into her eyes stopping momentarily. "It doesn't happen to just me. Shigure would turn into the dog, my brother Aaya the snake, and Kyou the cat. My cousins Momiji and Haru are the rabbit and the ox. For generations my family has been under this curse, and Tohru is the only person outside the family who knows, except you now. There are people in my family who don't even know." He said laying all his cards on the table.

"I always felt something strange about you." Hana said caressing his face comfortingly. "After Tohru's accident though, things slowly changed, I noticed it in both you and Kyou. At first I thought you two had just changed because of the accident, but for you to change this much, now it seems obvious. I only regret that we hadn't started dating before the accident, I think you would have been a cute rat." She smiled.

Ignoring this as they walked the rest of the way Yuki remembered something else, he'd wanted to tell her. "There's more that I should tell you. But I think it should wait till we get back, Tohru will want to be there too." He said as they arrived at his base. "In the meantime what do you think of my garden?"

Hana looked around she'd wasn't quite the person to talk to about gardening, while some were born with green thumbs both her thumbs were flesh-colored. "Well, it's vegetables." She felt at a loss for a moment, but kneeling down in front of the garden she sensed a great calm. "I like it here. It reminds me of you. Calm and reserved, but despite itself it stands out from it's surroundings."

Yuki smiled at the analogy. She was right he was his garden. /She knows me better than I know myself./ "Yes. I suppose that's why I like it so much."


"Tohru." Yuki called as they entered the house. "Wait here for a second, I'll go get her." He sat Hana down in the living room. "Tohru." He said walking towards the kitchen.

"Yes." Tohru called from within.

"Hanajima's here, and I told her about the zodiac. I think we should tell her about your pregnancy, I know that she'll understand." He said quietly so that Hana wouldn't overhear.

"Ah!" Tohru's eyes grew large. "Yes. Yuki that's great! Let me just wash my hands and we'll go share the news."

Yuki went to the living room to sit with Hana. "Tohru will be right in."

"What is it that you're going to tell me? Can I have a hint?" Hana said, curious as to the kind of thing both Tohru and Yuki would keep from her.

"Well when you said that me and Kyou started to change after Tohru's accident you were right, but there's more to the story than that. A lot more."

"I wanted to tell you sooner." Tohru said entering the room. "But I knew without knowing everything it would really upset you."

"Tohru, you don't have to keep things from me, I care about you." Hana said.

"I know but I care about Kyou, that's why I couldn't tell you just yet." She said, drawing a puzzled look from her friend. "I'm pregnant, Hana."

"What!" Hana said for the first time in her life expressing shock. Yuki put his hands on her shoulders sitting her down again.

"After the accident, Kagura and Aaya donated their blood to me, it saved my life. Because they have zodiac blood, something happened inside me. I've never . . . But I am pregnant." She finished

"And it's because she pregnant, that I can hold you without changing. Once the baby is born it will be permanent." Yuki added.

"I don't know how I feel about this. I'm so happy for you though Tohru I know you'll be as good a mother as Kyoko was." Hana said hugging her. "Uo can't know about this huh? She'd kill Kyou anyway."

"Yes. We're going to wait till me and Kyou have been married a bit longer, before we tell her. I know I can trust you to keep it secret."

"Yes, you can."


A/N: I let the cat out of the bag a bit. Now Uo is the only one who doesn't know. She's gonna be so mad when she finds out she's the last to know. Anyway please review. Please, it can be my birthday present.