Author's Note: Hi again everyone, I got bored and I decided to write this chapter, even though I promised myself a break, oh well. It's jumps around a bit. I hope you enjoy.

P.S. You might notice that I changed the summary for this story, it more summaries part 2 not 1, so yeah

Chapter 9

A New Beginning

Kazuma walked along the street, towards the apartment block where he had been directed. It had been five months since the curse had been broken and the Zodiac members memories erase. Kazuma stopped in front of the apartment and stared up at it. She should be home, by now, he thought to himself and walked inside. He walked to the top level of the apartment and knocked on door 12. He heard a squeak from inside and a loud meowing, before the door was flung open. Kazuma smiled at the young girl who was standing in the doorway, blinking up at him for a moment before breaking into a bright cheerful grin, before stepping back to let him in, though as she did do, he notice how swollen her stomach was, and felt a surge of guilt fell him up.

"How are you, Shishou?" Tohru asked as she severed him some Tea.

"I am very well, how is yourself?" he asked her, eyeing her stomach, Tohru shrugged her shoulders.

"I'm fine, well apart from the morning sickness that last all day, and my very strange eating habits, I'm great." Tohru said, smiling at him, Kazuma returned it though sadly, Tohru face went serious.

"How is everyone? How are they coping with every thing?" she wasn't looking at, she was staring out the window, an big orange Cat trotted out from behind her chair and jumped up on to her lap. Kazuma stared at with amusement, the cat stared straight back at him, with big observant, intelligent amber eyes.

"His name is Zodiac, Zodie for short." Tohru said once she had notice that human and animal where observing each other keenly. Kazuma took his eyes from the Cats and raised an eyebrow at Tohru, who merely shrugged calmly. Kazuma decided to answer Tohru question then to pounder on the strange Cat.

"They are doing well physically, but mentally, they are confused, they can't understand why they can remember certain things or places. They are frustrated and angry." Kazuma said sighing, remembering the first couple of days after the event, how many fights had he had to break up between the Ex-Zodiac members.

"But they also seem to be stronger, then they where before they met you, they want to get out of the Main House, the younger members want to go back to school and the older members want to get back to the lives they had before they where un-cursed." Tohru nodded, she smiled though her eyes where sad.

"So their moving on, ok then." She asked, scratching Zodie's head, Kazuma sighed.

"yes and no, as I told you they are very confused and all of them are having the same strange dream," Kazuma noted Tohru sit up a little straighter at this, "they say it's the same as the dream they had the night before the curse had been lifted, and none of them can work out its meanings, not only that, they do get short flashbacks, memories of you and that of cause confuse and upsets them more." Tohru looked miserable.

"They don't remember me and I still cause them pain." She whispered tears flowing down her face.

"No Tohru-san, their memories of you however short, gives them strength and determination to find out and remember what they have lost and forgotten, you are in away causing them pain but that pain is helping them move on and not to quit on the journey of life, they are fighting for their own free will and are determined to do what they want to do with their life, their not going to give up, not so easily. They are strong people after all, you helped them by bring out their strength and though they don't remember you, you are still bring out their strength, their hope, their faith and their determination, you are still helping them. Remember that." Kazuma took Tohru's hand and squeezed it. "You yourself are a strong girl, don't give up; there maybe hope in them remembering you." Tohru nodded and smiled up at him.

"So when are you expecting the baby." He asked, changing the subject some what and watch with amusement Tohru go bright red.

"Late February." She mumbled quietly, smiling softly.

"Kyo's the father, isn't he?" Kazuma asked, Tohru shifted uncomfortably in her sit, she didn't meet his eyes and nodded.

"It's not like I can go up to him now and tell him." She said defensively, Kazuma held up his hands to show her no offence was meant.

"I know, I know, but I was wondering what you will tell the child when it comes of age to ask you why it doesn't have a father like most children." He watched Tohru chew her lip.

"I'll tell it the truth," Kazuma raised an eyebrow in surprised and Tohru carried on quickly, "I tell it that it's father was in an accident that made him loses his memory of us and that his family took him away and that we couldn't see him because they won't let us and he won't know who we are." Clearly she had already thought about this, Kazuma had thought about it too and found the story reasonable.

"Well, it's true for the most part, just a little stretched in places." Tohru said still sounding defensive, Kazuma nodded.

"May I know the child?" He asked gently, Tohru blinked in surprised.

"Of cause, you can, you are, well, his grandfather." Tohru said, smiling at him, Kazuma tilted his head and stared at her.

"You think your going to have a Boy?" he asked, Tohru went red.

"I just have a feeling that's all." Tohru said red face, Kazuma nodded, thinking deeply, remembering something Kyo had told him a few nights ago.

"Shishou?"

Kazuma glanced at Tohru, who looked at him with concern, he smiled at her reassuringly.

"I should head off its getting dark outside and Kunimitsu and Kyo are prone to being worrywarts, not such a good thing when they are together, because one or both of them will be on the floor with blood noses." Tohru burst out laughing, Kazuma noted the light shining in her eyes as he mention Kyo's name.

She truly does love him, he though sadly as he left the apartment blocks and walked back to the Dojo.

"Shishou, where the hell have you been?" Kyo yelled at him the moment he step into the house, Kazuma patted Kyo on the head gently, giving the orange hair an affectionate ruffle, Kyo raised an eyebrow at his adopted father, his father seemed sad about something.

"So where have you been?" Kyo asked again though his voice was softer.

"Oh, I was just checking on a friend who has been going threw a rough time, though I think she's a lot happier now." Kyo raise a suspicious eyebrow at the mention of "she" but let it past.

"Rough time, huh, seems to be going around." Kyo grumbled, stomping back to the kitchen where he was cooking. He was cooking curry and as he worked around the kitchen, every so often he could hear a girl's laughter in his head; he was coming to the conclusion that he was either going insane or the kitchen was haunted, he preferred to go for the latter; for strangely he wasn't bothered by the idea of the kitchen being haunted, he had always thought it had been, now it just seemed to be a little bit more. Also, this might have been because nearly everywhere he went was seemingly haunted by the same girl's voice or her laughter, sometimes, he could have sworn that his minds eye was placing a outline on a girl in the kitchen or at the Dojo, but every time he tried to focus on the outline it was gone to the wind and he fell into a temper, blowing up at anyone about anything.

Kazuma stood, by the kitchen door, watching his son; he had grown so much from the time before Tohru had come into his life. It doesn't seem fair that they should be reaped away from it each other, when they could have been together at last, Kazuma sighed, yet when had life ever been fair, especially for the Zodiac members. He turned away and went to think about everything that had happen over the past 5 and half mouths.

Yuki was walking threw the town, relishing in the freedom of being able to be outside the Sohma Main House, he had been fighting for freedom to be able to go out into the town for two months, ever since Kakeru and Machi had come to visit him. They where who he was visiting now, he was allowed to go out of the Main House as long as he came back at a certain time. He shook his head, not total freedom, but he was getting there. He was so enthralled at taking in the scenery that he didn't not notice that he was going to crash into someone until it was too late.

"Ouch!"

"I'm so sorry." He and the person he had knocked over gasped out at the same time, Yuki couldn't help but smile, the voice was familiar to him and he had missed hearing. He frowns in confusion. Familiar, he had missed hearing it?

He bent down and helped the girl pick up the contents of her bags that had flown out as she had fallen. As he helped he noticed the slightly swollen stomach of the girl, and wondered why she was out alone carrying all these bags, in her condition.

"Oh thank you." The girl gasped, looking up at him smiling, though the moment she saw his face clearly she looked away quickly.

Yuki felt a surge of disappointment; he had wanted to see more of that familiar, beautiful smile. Familiar, he felt a surge of excitement; maybe he would get some answers to his lost memories

"Have we met before?" he asked her gently, the girl looked up at him again and nodded.

"Yes, we have Yuk…Sohma-kun." She said, he blinked in surprise, she knew his name, his excitement rose several more notches, yet he couldn't place her any where in his memories, not that he actually relied on his memories these days, they where rather unreliable at late.

"Really? Where?" He asked, he really wanted to know, even though he could see the discomfort and distress in her face.

"We were in the same class in high school for 2 and half years." She mumbled, not looking at him, Yuki felt his mouth drop, he couldn't place her in his minds eye of his class, though then again a lot of the sits in his class where blurry.

"Stupid memory lose." He grumbled to himself, to his surprised he heard the girl giggle somewhat sadly.

"I'm really sorry, but I can't remember you at all." He said apologetically, but the girl shrugged, muttering that she really hadn't expected him to remember her, he wanted to ask her why she thought that, but decided to drop the topic.

"When are you expecting." He asked, thinking that this was a safe topic changer, but the girl only looked at him confused.

"When is the baby due?" He tried again.

"oh." The girl laughed in embarrassment, her laughter was a rather pretty sound and pick at cords in his brains and heart; he felt himself smiled at it sound.

"Oh, late February." She said, still laughing quietly.

"Hope all goes well for you." He said and he really did hoped, the girl seemed a nice person and he was surprised to find he cared about her, but I only just met her, he argued silently. The girl stared at him worriedly.

"Are you alright, Yuk…Sohma-kun." The girl asked, her face filled with concern, he nodded, but he notice that she had once again correct herself, when saying his first name before quickly switching to his last name. He glanced down at his watch; he was late, really late.

"You have to go, thank you again for helping me pick up my stuff." The girl said, smiling at him.

"Uh, yeah, sorry about knocking you over." He said going red in the face, the girl laughed cheerfully.

"So I'll see you around." He called hopefully after her as she waved goodbye as she walked away. The girl stopped and stared at him.

"Maybe" she called before she ran off.

"Strange girl." He mumbled, staring after her, before once racing off the restaurant where he was meeting Kakeru and Machi.

"Gee, Yun-Yun, you took your pleasant time." Kakeru teased as Yuki walked hurriedly towards them and their table, Yuki merely scowled at him, before happily greeting Machi, who gave a somewhat shy hello.

Now how many Sohma's was that, she had run into, now? Tohru flopped on to her coach and stared up at the ceiling. Even though they had their memories erased they seemed to have a talent for finding her without even trying, or maybe she had the talent of finding them without trying. Either way she had run into the Sohma far too many times then she was ready for. She had run into Momiji first, at work, in which running into him made her decide to quit her job there and find another job, which she did at a restaurant down the road from her apartment, she had found that job, surprising quickly, because it was run by her landlady and landlord's second son and his wife.

She had almost run into Momiji again, along with Hatsuharu and Isuzu, a few weeks ago at the shopping mall, she was sure Momiji had seen her but she pretend not to notice him and once she was out of sight she had bolted for home. She seen Hatori soon after that, and Ayame and a man who looked like Shigure, though she thought it was a safe bet to assume it was him, for one he had greeted Ayame and Hatori in the way Shigure had and, two when she had walked past them, not by choice, but because of the pushing crowd, their eyes had met, though she hadn't been able to see his face clearly, she could have sworn she saw his eyes widen, before they both looked away.

Then she ran (literally) into Ritsu at the fruits store, he had been dressed as a girl and had bumped into her, bumping her into the stack of oranges behind her, and then start his usual screaming routine, Tohru had calmly helped him pick up the oranges and took him outside, brought him a drink to help him calm down more, before they had parted ways, though not before he had given her a few looks the she was growing use to as the "trying to place where I've seen you before" look, she had met Kagura very much the same way, both shopping, Tohru tripping on a stand and Kagura helped her up, they didn't say any thing to each other, apart from 'thank you' and 'that's alright', but Kagura kept giving her the look of trying to place her in her mind, for all the time they where in the shop together.

And only last weekend she had seen Kisa and Hiro, with Hiro's little sister at the playground where Tohru had taken them all that time ago, they, too, had notice her and given her the "trying to place where I've seen you before" look, but they said nothing when she walked past and she said nothing to them, though she had felt, like with all the other times she bumped into a Sohma, as if her broken heart was breaking even more.

And she had of cause seen Kazuma only a matter of days ago, but he had chosen to meet her and he still remembered her, which was a big plus.

She sighed, checking the Sohma Zodiac members off on her fingers, Momiji, seen him twice, Isuzu and Hatsuharu, Hatori, Ayame (she wondered if he and Yuk and filled the rift between them yet) Shigure (maybe, but likely), Ritsu, Kagura and Kisa and Hiro with his little sister. I wonder if those two are together now, she wondered smiling to herself. And now Yuki to add to the list, the only Zodiac she hadn't seen where, Akito, but she really didn't want to see her, Kureno, didn't want to see him either, Uo had moved on, she was actually dating someone from her work, Tohru knew she wasn't exactly happy about it, but at least she was moving on, and Kyo. Kyo, she wanted to see him, but didn't want to see him. She wasn't sure how she would react if she saw him, probably fling herself at him sobbing, how much she missed him and that she was pregnant with his child and how hard the past few months had been without him and the other Zodiac members. Yeah, and Kyo would pay both taxi fee and mental hospital bill if she did that. She sighed again, was she some kind of Zodiac magnet or did they just like to rub it her face that she could never be truly a part of their lives and family.

She felt a twinge in her stomach and sighed, heading for the freezer, pulling out an icy poll, it seemed to be one of the few things she could keep down. She gave it a suck, shivering at its coldness, before once again sitting down on the coach in front of the TV, Zodie, crawling on to her lap.

"December came and went quick didn't it." Uo said as they walked back to Tohru's apartment carrying groceries, for News Eve.

"Yeah." Tohru said laughing, her small face was glowing, at first glance no one could really tell Tohru was seven an half months pregnant and was really only the fact if you knew you could tell that she was.

"Are you sure you don't want us to stay with you, News Eve." Hana asked her, but Tohru waved her off.

"Positive, I'll be fine, anyway my landlord and lady invited me to spend News Eve with them if I like, go spend time with your families for once, I swear you spend more time being with me then with them." Tohru said gently. "Any way, I'll see you tomorrow for our first Temple visit of the year."

"yeah, that'll be fun, just think this time next year, there'll be four of us going to the temple again, right Kyoko the second." Uo said laughing, patting Tohru's stomach.

"How do you know it's a girl?" Tohru asked, looking between her two friends, Hana and Uo looked at each other, and then turned to Tohru.

"We just DO." They said at the same time, smiling at her, knowingly, Tohru raised an eyebrow, she herself had no idea what the baby would turn out, because she never went to an ultrasound thing, but she had a strange feeling that the baby was a boy, deep down she hoped it was, though she didn't know why.

She smiled as she waved her friends off, though as soon as they disappeared around the corner she felt her loneliness kick in.

"Guess it's just you and me, Zod." She said the big orange Cat who had become a permanent member of the family; she felt a strong kick inside of her.

"Oh and you too, I haven't forgotten you." She laughed, rubbing her stomach, but it didn't ease the pain at all, actually she felt as if it had grown worst. She blinked, and shook her head and went to sit on the coach, when she felt another twinge.

"Oh no." she whispered, as she felt the skirt of her dress suddenly cling to her upper legs.

"Oh no, this is not good, your early, way to early, six weeks too early." She gasped as a contraction hit her, she tried to breathe and think calmly. Limping slightly to the bathroom to grab a towel and then tried to get to the phone, which annoyingly happen to be on the other side of the apartment.

"stupid." She chided herself, as another contraction hit her, forcing her to sit down on her cold, hard bathroom floor. Why hadn't she gone to the doctor more threw her pregnancy, she had been of cause, a handful of times, but not nearly as many times as she knew she should have. What if something was wrong, with the baby or something?

"Please, oh please, be safe, please let it be alright." She whispered, closing her eyes, wishing for the umpteenth time that Kyo was with her, this was his child he should be here for its birth, instead she only had her orange cat for support; Zodiac came and sat by his mistress rubbing his head against her shaking arm.

She was in labour for around five hours and the stroke of midnight and New Years; a baby's cry could be heard from flat 12.

Tohru stared down at her new born child her eyes wide, with amazement of what she and Kyo had created together; she felt a twang of sadness that he could not see this little breathing miracle. Tohru cautiously pick up her child, please, please, she thought, as she wrapped her arms around the baby tightly. Nothing, nothing happen, Tohru sighed with relief and start to take her child's features in.

Tuffs of dark orange hair covered the baby's head, Tohru couldn't tell what colour eyes the baby had because they where squeezed shut as the baby cried.

"Tohru-san. Tohru-san are you alright." Came the desperate voice of her landlady, Tohru lifted her head as her landlady came into the apartment followed closely by her husband.

"I'm in here." She called, rocking her baby backwards and forward, shushing softly.

"Oh, Tohru-san?"

Tohru looked up once more to meet her startled, Landlord and lady faces.

"You're to early, six weeks to early." Her landlady said weakly.

"Maybe we should go to the hospital to see if the baby and Tohru-san are alright." Her husband said, trying to calm his wife and himself.

Tohru ignored them, all she could see was her little miracle, all she could hear was her miracle's voice. She smiled down into the bright amber, ruby brown eyes that stared back at her

"We leave you for five hours and you have a baby." Uo complain, as she stared down at the small baby in her arms.

"His waves are fine, different though, but then that is to be expected." Hana said softly, Uo and Tohru glanced at each other.

"Different? How?" Tohru asked from the hospital bed that she was currently sitting on.

"His waves are different from most other peoples, they are sort of like Kyo's and Prince's but different from them to, they seem in between, yet not." She sighed, "It's all very confusing."

"You don't say." Uo said, raised eyebrows, "don't listen to your Auntie Hana over there, she's a little crazy." She said bouncing the baby, Hana raised an eyebrow.

"So what are you planing to call him, Tohru?" Hana asked Tohru.

"Yeah, you can't very well call him Kyoko, it might get him teased a school." Uo said wisely.

"well, I was thinking of calling him Kaioka." Tohru said shyly.

"KaI-o-ka?" Uo and Hana asked, looking puzzled.

"What does it even mean?" Uo asked her, Tohru went red.

"I don't know, I just thought of it and it sounded nice, so it sort of stuck." Tohru admitted sheepishly, her two friends rolled their eyes.

"Kai, just so you know your Mother is even weirder then us, you remember that." Uo said, before laying the baby boy gently in his mother's arms. Feeling his mother's arms around him, Kaioka open his eyes and smiling up at her, Tohru smiled back down.

A week and half after Kaioka birth; Tohru, Hana and the baby, head for Kazuma's house, so that he could meet the Kaioka. Uo had wanted to come but hadn't been able to get time off work, but Hana had more then happy to come.

"So this is my little grandson." Kazuma laughter when he opened the door to find Tohru, Hana and a stroller with a week and half old baby. Sitting down in Kazuma living room, Tohru gently pick up the small baby and place him Kazuma's arms. Kazuma was somewhat surprised when Tohru had done this, he had little experience with babies, all the children he had look after had been over the age of five, but he grew more sure of what he was doing with some quick easy instruction from Tohru as to how to hold the small boy and such.

"Look at his hair, it's like Kyo's only maybe a shade or two darker." Kazuma said laughing, the small boy open his eyes and stared up at the man holding him, he's eyes where curious, moving around, taking in Kazuma's face, the baby smile a toothless smile up at him. Kazuma smiled back.

"What's his name?" he asked Tohru.

"Kaioka." Tohru said, reaching out and brushing at her son's hair away from his face.

"Interesting name, what does it mean." He asked, Tohru's head dropped and Hana took over.

"She, we, don't know, Tohru thought of it and it stuck with her." Hana explained calmly, Kazuma nodded and handed Kaioka back to Tohru.

While Hana and Kazuma talked about anything and everything, Tohru stared out into the gardens towards the Dojo, she wondered if Kyo was currently there, training, maybe even teaching. She felt a tug on a strand of hair that was falling over her shoulder, Tohru looked down to meet her son's eyes, her son eyes took in her face, trying to understand why she was sad. She shook her sadness way, and smiled down at her son to reassure him, that all was fine.

"Hey, who are they." Haru asked suddenly, out of the blue, looking towards Kazuma's house.

"Who's who?" Kyo demanded bad temperedly, he had been caught of guard at Haru question, which result with him flying across the court yard by one of Yuki's killing kicks.

"Damn Rat." He grumbled as he stagged back to the group, just as both Yuki and Momiji exclaimed.

"It's her." They gasped, before looking at each other strangely.

"who's her." Kyo demanded crankily.

"The girl I met." Yuki and Momiji said together once again, Kyo and Haru looked from one to the other.

"How do you know it's the same girl that you both met?" Haru asked, Yuki and Momiji both stuttered, trying to think up a good answer.

"She has the same hair colour." Momiji gasped out at last.

"Oh yeah, and there aren't thousands of girls that have the same hair colour as her." Kyo snarled, they all looked at him, Kyo seemed to be in an even fouler mood at the moment. Kyo sighed, he didn't know why he was so pissed and the fact that he didn't know he was pissed made him even more pissed. He stared at the girls that where leaving Shishou's house, one was pushing a stroller, while the other, the one who was shaking hands with Shishou with one hand while holding, from what he could guess was a baby, he couldn't really tell from the distant between them, but he could have sworn that the baby had orange hair and had looked right at him and the others.

"didn't you say that the girl that you met, Yuki, was going to have her baby in late February, it's only early January, that's awfully early." Haru said, breaking threw Kyo's thoughts, both Yuki and Momiji wore stubborn expressions on their faces, Kyo shook his head and looked at the brown hair girl, carrying the baby in her arms. As if sensing their gaze the black haired girl, pushing the stroller looked towards them and waved, and all the boys felt as if an electric shock had gone threw them and that a dark grim cloud hung around and a small voice whispering in their minds, a small payback of revenge, count your blessing that I don't do more to you, yes there many things I could do and I wish I could do to you. Then the voice was gone and the dark haired girl looked away from them. The brown haired girl looked from her friend to the direction that she had been looking towards moments ago. The four boys and girl eyes met, and a connection seemed to glow between them, the girl gave them a sad smiled and wave before she walked away, turning her back on them, forever. Well, maybe.

hey, thanks for reading, I forgot to ask you guys if you thought Tohru's baby was a boy or girl.

Oh and the name Kaioka, well I like the nickname Kai, I read it in another fic and it stuck to me, and then I had a dream, oh months ago now, that Tohru had a son called Kaioka. Question, does Kaioka actually mean anything, or is a no meaning name, just wondering because I think I made the name up, but I'm not sure. Hope you enjoyed, please review, only two more chapters now. I don't know whether to be happy or sad by this fact.

Also, does any one like the Orange Cat, Zodiac, and does anyone think that the curse will return?