Wow, Chapter 10 already. My chapters are adding up to something worth reading. I'm sorry I haven't posted in forever. Well, last chapter I said we'd check up on Tohru so I guess we will in this chapter. Uhhh...disclaimer...Kyo.

KYO: It's the same as all the other chapters, Stupid!

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There was a knock at the door. Hana woke up; still drowsy she rolled over in the futon. Suddenly, she remembered the events of the night before and sat up with a start. The person at the door knocked again. Hana looked at the door and slowly got up to answer it.

Before she got to the door, it opened slowly and Kunimitsu poked his head out from around the door, "Hey, Sleepy Head. It's 12:30. Do you want to wake up?"

Hana glared at him sleepily, "What are you? A morning person?"

Kunimitsu chuckled a bit, "Heh, maybe. Well, the bathroom's free. Why don't you go freshen up a bit and I'll fix you something that will wake you up." he said and walked out of the room and into the kitchen.

Hana stood there for a minute and slumped into the bathroom. 'I look like hell.' she thought to herself as she looked into the mirror and tried to straighten her hair a bit and rid the sleep from her eyes. After about ten failed minutes of trying to improve her appearance, Hana walked into the kitchen where Kunimitsu had prepared onigiri.

Kazuma sat at the table looking even more hellish than Hana. When he noticed her, he stood up walked over to her and bowed, "Hanajima-san, I must apologize for my atrocious behavior toward you the other day. I realize there are no excuses for those sorts of behavior but please, accept my apology."

Hana stared at him for a second and bowed back, "I accept your apology Kazuma-sensei. You were worried about Kyo. Any caring father would be just as worried."

At that comment, Kazuma stared at her open mouthed. He grinned a bit and chuckled as she grabbed and onigiri and sat a crossed from Kunimitsu at the table.

Kazuma was about to sit down and eat onigiri with them, when Kyo walked in the door.

Out of the three of them, Kyo looked most hellish. All he had on was a pair of boxers. He stood in the doorway, shivering. He was pale, and sickly. When he spoke, it sounded like someone had ripped out his voice box, took out some of their excess anger on it, and then glued it back using Elmer's glue. "...I... ... ... (coffcoff)...hate... ... (coff hack)... Akito..." was all he managed to rasp out. Kazuma helped him to the table. Kyo sat at the table dripping with sweat, yet shivering insanely.

Hana ran into the other room and grabbed him the blanket that lay on the couch. She ran back into the kitchen and threw the blanket over him. He struggled to turn around but when he saw who she was, he just gave her a weird look and pulled the blanket tightly around himself.

There was an awkward silence... awkward silence...Kyo coffs...awkward silence. "Um, Sensei..." Kunimitsu started, "why don't I take Hanajima-san back to her house and you can take care of Kyo. Maybe you should tell Tohru about this."

Kazuma nodded, "That's a good idea. You can drive Hanajima-san back to her house, and I'll drive Kyo to his house and explain the situation to Tohru."

Kyo just gave them confused looks and started coughing again. Kunimitsu gestured for Hana to follow him out the door. She gave one last look at the sickly cat and slowly walked away. When they were both outside Kunimitsu asked Hana, "How far away do you live?"

Hana looked confused for a minute, "I'm not sure."

"Hmm," Kunimitsu said after a pause, "Let's walk."

Hana was confused, "Ok...why?"

"Because," he explained, "we only have one car and I think Kazuma would find more se for it then we would."

Hana nodded understandingly. They started walking. They walked along in silence for a while before Hana said, "So, Kunimitsu, do you live at the dojo?"

He nodded, "I live there. I'm a student and also secretary there." They talked for a long time. Hana found out that Kunimitsu wanted to be a martial arts teacher like Kazuma but his family wouldn't support him. So he's working as secretary toward Kazuma to pay off his lessons. (A.N: I just made that up)

Finally, they reached Hana's house, "If you ever need someone to talk to," Hana started, "I'll listen."

Kunimitsu smiled, "Thanks. And if you ever need someone to teach you martial arts, you know where to find me." Hana smiled. (She actually smiled!)

She was about to turn around and walk in her house when Uo ran out of the house. "Where have you been!" she yelled. Hana just stared at her. "I have been looking all over for you!" Hana was about to explain, but then Uo spotted Kunimitsu. "Hey, Punk!" she yelled out and jumped toward him, "What did you do to her?" she yelled out of anger. She went to punch him, but he dodged the punch. She went to go kick him but he dodged that too.

"Uo," Hana said, "he didn't do anything to me."

Uo was about to try to kick him again when she stopped, "What? Then where were you all last night?"

Hana explained, "With him, but he didn't do anything. Just chill, ok?"

They sat down and Hana explained everything to her. Of course leaving out the Zodiac curse.

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Tohru was cleaning the bathroom when she heard the doorbell. She bounded for the door, expecting either Hana or Uo. She was surprised to see Kazuma, with a bundle of Kyo in his arms.

Tohru stared at them for a moment before she was able to choke out, "What happened?"

Kazuma said, "I'll explain everything in a moment." and went inside. He went straight to Kyo's room and laid him on the bed. The two sat down and had everything explained.

Kyo was asleep. Kazuma left at about 3 o'clock. Tohru was left alone to take care of Kyo. She put on some tea. She was sitting on a chair next to Kyo's bed, watching him sleep, when the doorbell rang. Tohru wiped her eyes of the felled tears and went to answer the door.

She opened the door, her homeroom teacher (Mayu) stood on the doorstep apprehensively. When Mayu saw Tohru she was quick to apologize, "Tohru! Um, hi. Uh...I must have the wrong house...so...I'll be leaving now. Uh...bye."

She turned around to leave, Tohru called her back. "Wait! Who are you looking for? I might be able to help you."

Mayu looked like she didn't know what to do, "Uh...I'm looking for a man named Shigure Sohma."

Tohru piped up, "You're looking for Shigure? Why?"

Mayu looked confused, "You know him?"

Tohru paused for a minute, she nodded slowly, "You could say that." there was a long pause. "You have the right house; may I ask why you need to see him?"

Mayu was looking even more confused, "Uh, it's just...he ordered this book a while back and hasn't come to pick it up...so I thought I'd just drop it by." she said as she held up a thick hardcover.

The tea from inside the house started to whistle, Tohru didn't know what to do. "Uh, come on in." she said as she bounded for the kitchen.

Mayu stood on the doorstep for a moment longer before cautiously taking a step into the house. She looked around the entryway. Tohru was out of site. She heard movement from the kitchen and slowly walked in that direction. She opened the door and saw Tohru running around getting cups and pouring drinks. Mayu heard coughing from upstairs. Tohru grabbed one of the tea cups and ran upstairs. Mayu followed her.

She found Tohru in Kyo's room. She was helping him sit up and holding the tea cup to his lips. Mayu stood at the door to Kyo's room; she just stared at the helpless Kyo lying on the bed.

In the background, the phone rang. Tohru looked at Mayu then back at Kyo, then back to Mayu. She looked at her with pleading eyes, "Could you get that?"

Mayu speechlessly turned around and found the telephone. She placed her hand on the phone, paused for a minute, and picked it up, "Hello."

"Tohru?" sounded Shigure's voice from the other line. "Tohru, are you okay? You don't sound like yourself."

A voice spoke from the background of Shigure's line, "The flower misses us already, Gure-san. She never realized how important we were in her everyday life. She must be bored out of her mind. Can I talk to her?"

"Aya, be quiet. Now, Tohru--"

"Shigure, you perverted creep!" Mayu yelled at him from her line, "How could you do this to an innocent little girl?"

"I didn't do anything to Kisa!" Shigure said, defending himself, "Wait...Mayu?"

Mayu could hear a door slam on Shigure's line and a voice yell, "What did you do to Kisa!"

Shigure yelled back while being beat on, "Hiro, ow, Hiro, listen to me, ow, I didn't do anything to her! Ow! Stop hitting me! I'm on the phone!"

Hiro was about to yell something rude at Shigure, but Ayame put his hand over Hiro's mouth and said arrogantly, "Hiro, Gure-san didn't do anything. You need to calm yourself, and learn some manners."

"Arg," Hiro yelled, pushing Aya off of him, "Get off me you homo snake!"

The room went completely quite, Ayame took a step back from Hiro, looking like he was about to cry. Hiro got this shocked, apologetic look on his face. The only noise in the room was coming from Mayu's voice on the phone, "Shigure? Shigure, are you there? What's going on?"

Hatori entered the room. He quickly observed the situation, pointed a finger at one corner of the room and said, "Hiro, go sit in the corner." Hiro was feeling to guilty to remark about this and slowly went and sat in the corner. Hatori pointed to the other corner, farthest away from Hiro and said, "Aya, go sit in that corner." Ayame, looking pale, stumbled over to the corner and slumped down in it.

Shigure got back on the line and said to Mayu, "Mayu...why are you at my house?"

Mayu stuttered a bit, "Uh, err, well...you ordered a book a while back and haven't come to pick it up, so I thought I'd just come drop it by...and guess who opened the door? Tohru Honda. Now, why would Tohru be at your house, Shigure? I can think of couple explanations, but none of them are clean."

"There's a clean explanation, I swear. But it would be better if Tohru told it to you." Shigure said, "Now you need to answer me some questions. Number one, is Kyo there?"

Mayu nodded into the phone, "Yes, he's here in bed. What happened to him, he looks like hell."

"Damn." Shigure swore under his breath, "I'm not entirely sure what happened to him, you'll have to ask him. Now, number two, is Kazuma there?"

Mayu was shocked, "You don't know what happened to him? Where are you?"

"You didn't answer my question. Is Kazuma there?"

"Who?"

Shigure sighed, "A tall, blond guy in a kimono."

Mayu got a little nervous and looked around the room, "Not that I see."

"Ok, that's all I need to know from you," Shigure said, "now put Tohru on the line."

"Wait a minute," Mayu said, "where are you?"

Shigure paused, " America."

Tohru walked into the room, "Who's on the phone?" she asked Mayu.

Mayu paused, "Shigure."

Tohru ran to the phone and took it from Mayu's hands, "Shigure? Shigure, what's going on? Kazuma was able to explain something's to me but not all of them. Why isn't Kyo in America with everyone else?"

"Tohru, I'll be able to explain everything." Shigure said calming her down, "Now, sit down, and listen." Shigure explained everything from when they left up till Shigure saw Kyo out of the back window of the leaving bus. Then Tohru explained everything Kazuma told her.

After everything was explained, Shigure sighed, "Ok, Tohru this is what I want you to do. I want you to take the book that Mayu delivered, the big, red, hardcover one, and I want you to read it."

Tohru started to speak, "Ok, but why do you want me to read it?" she asked.

"I'll explain later, but right now I have to go. I need to go comfort Aya. Bye." he said.

"Um, bye."

Tohru hung up the phone, and turned to Mayu who was sitting on the couch, skimming through one of Shigure's books, "Where's that book that you dropped off for Shigure?" Tohru asked her.

Mayu grabbed the thick book sitting next tot her and handed it to Tohru.

Tohru stared at the title, The Breaking of the Cursed.

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I don't care what anyone says, this is a long chapter! But it makes up for me being away for a week and not being able to post anything. Ok, I need to apologize for one thing in this chapter; I was really getting into Aya and Hiro's argument. For some reason, I was really drawn into that. I think I'm going to have sort of a crossover with this story, but it would be Ayame's point of view. Oh, now I'm all excited! I want to start a new story!

This is WHPIAR signing off...