Chapter 11

Chapter 11

After reading another entry he remarked her page and put the book back. He went to his new room thinking about what he read and smiled, she thought he was a good guy that is now her best friend. Only thing was after the past week and a half he wanted her to be more than just friends but as he thought, that would be hard.

He slept well that night, better than any. In the morning Kyo was the first one up as usual and made rice and salmon for breakfast. I woke up to the smell of the salmon and went downstairs. "Morning Kyo. You didn't have to make breakfast though." I said coming up behind Kyo.

"I was hungry. My treat to you, a traditional Japanese breakfast." He said serving me a plate. I sat down and waited for him to join me. When he sat down I tasted the food "Oh my God Kyo this is delicious. Where'd you learn to cook like this?" I asked.

"In the mountains. I had to know how to make my own food because my dad is so bad at it." He said taking a bite. Cindy came down stairs and sat next to me and started eating my food quickly. "Thanks to no-one. Now I'm late for work again." She looked to Kyo "Why are you here so early?" she asked. "I'm staying here for a while got a problem?" "No, no problem. What did you have girlfriend problems? No worry I'm sure Cass will make you forget her." She said with a wink.

I didn't bother hitting her in the head because I was too amused by the look on Kyo's face. All I could do was shake my head at her and laugh at his face. Cindy got up "My boss wants me in earlier today for some reason she's such a pain though. Well breakfast was good so I'll see ya'll later." She said walking out the door.

When the door shut I burst out laughing. "What's so funny?" Kyo growled. "Nothing just the look on your face when she said that." I answered still laughing. I finally laughed hard enough and passed out. Kyo looked at Cassidy 'She still must be tired from yesterday.' He thought as he smiled and shook his head and carried her to the couch.

I woke up about 5 minutes later and walked into the kitchen where I heard clashing dishes. There in front of the sink was Kyo. I snuck up behind him and jumped on his back, wrapping my legs around his waist. Kyo jumped and said "Geez Cass you know how to give someone a heart- attack." I giggled. "Do you think you can get off me now?" He asked holding my legs so I wouldn't fall.

"Mmm no. I'm taller up here." I said. "Okay then we'll have to do this the hard way." I braced myself as he went into the living room and sat on the couch "Ready to get down?" he asked and I shook my head. He lied down on top of me moving so he could get comfortable "How bout now?"

"I got a better idea. Instead of trying to squish me go to my room so I can make my bed." I said. He sighed and got up with me clinging to him. We climbed the stairs and he dropped me on my bed. He spotted my journal and stared at it for a second until I said "Is there a reason your staring at my journal? You can read it if you like, nothing bad in it."

"Really you'd let someone read your diary?" he said. "Well yeah what's wrong with that?" I asked. "Because there might be something private in it." I shrugged. "Nothing in there worth to say out loud really. Just think of it as a book. Besides you might be interested in my life though I highly doubt it." I said.

"Why wouldn't I care about your life, after what you told me?" he said sitting next to me. "I don't know. Just think it might be a waste for someone." I said. He pulled my face to look at him "I care and I appreciate that you'd let me read your journal." He picked it up and lied back against the bed.

I watched him read intently. I'm surprised he wanted to read it in the first place, I mean it starts off when I'm in like 4th grade so yeah it's a pretty big book. After like five minutes he had read like 10 pages and he looked up at me something unreadable in his eyes. He pulled me down to lay beside him with his arm behind my head.

Next door Chris was sitting on the couch when someone knocked on the door. She opened the door to find Haru "Haru what are you doing here?" she asked. "No reason in particular just decided to drop by. Can I come in?" he asked and Chris motioned him to come in.

Haru stepped in and followed Chris to the sitting area. "I stopped by to see if you wanted to hang out sometime if you wanted to." He said. Chris smiled "That'd be fine. How about Friday?" She said. "Cool we can go out for dinner or something." He said getting up. "Okay so I guess I'll see you then." Said Chris walking him to the door. Haru said goodbye and left for the estate.

Back at Cassidy's, Kyo was still reading her Diary. I was still lying there watching Kyo read the last couple pages. When he was done he put the book down and looked at me. "Cass…" was all that came out of his mouth before he hugged me. A moment or two past when I finally hugged him back and he only hugged me tighter. "You cried alone didn't you Cass?" he asked. I nodded into his shirt.

"I can't let people see me cry." I said but the words were a mumble. He let go "It's alright to cry ya' know." He told me. "I know that Kyo but I have a better way than crying when I need to." "What's that?" he asked. "Can't tell you. It's one of the things in my life that keeps me going and well I don't think that it is interesting to you." I said.

"You'll find that secret place of mine soon. Hey you never really looked around the house or in any room besides mine so why don't you do that while I clean up a bit." I said as he watched me pull out some paint splattered, ripped jeans and a pink thin T. "Wait so you mean you have your own room in this house besides this one?"

"Yup and not even Cindy is allowed to disturb me unless of an emergency." I said. He got up "I'm good at finding places." I shook my head after he left and got dressed and cleaned up a bit before heading to my private room downstairs. As I shut the door I heard Kyo come down the stairs. The room was dark so I opened the window blinds and turned on the lights. The room was unfinished except for 2 walls that I worked on as canvases.

Paintings were everywhere along with paints, brushes and sketches. I sat at my easel with a variety of pencils and brushes. Right now I needed to escape into myself and this was my way to do it. I painted hues of blue then reds and oranges for the sunrise. I was working on the scenery when Kyo opened the door. I was so absorbed in my work I didn't notice him shut the door and come up behind me.

He looked at my works then at the walls. Even the floor had paints splattered on it. He took a chair from the corner and sat down still watching my hand fly across the canvas. 10 minutes later I finished and looked at my work, a sunrise and blooming flowers and other plants; a new life of mine and the happiness of new creations.

"Did you do all these paintings?" Kyo asked walking over next to me. "Yeah. This Kyo, is how I escape the world and its displeasures, but also how I express myself to others though they can't read paintings like I can along with other artists." "Their beautiful Cass." he said picking up a sketch. His eyes widened when he saw himself.

"When did you do this?" he said showing me the piece. "A couple days ago. I was hoping you would be a model." "Why?" "Because there is a project I'm doing at the Center and I wanted to do a person." I said taking the piece from him.

He walked around for a minute staring at one of the murals "Alright I'll do it." He said. I ran over to him "Thank you so much Kyo!" I said hugging him. "When do we start?" he asked. "Um we can start tonight, I'll need to sketch you first so we'll just go to bed earlier and go to your room but I need something first but we have to go to your house."

"Your kidding. I can't go back there." Said Kyo. "Fine you can sit in the car while I go into your room." He nodded in defeat and followed me out to the car. "Are you going to wear your painting clothes?" he asked pointing to my outfit. "What's wrong with that? There's nothing wrong with this."

He shrugged and got in. The ride was quiet except for the CD player that was playing an American country CD. "What are they saying?" he asked. "Oh um you don't know that much English yet sorry. It's a country music CD, very good." I said. "Really? Can you sing it in Japanese for me?"

I cleared my throat and sang "Traveln' Soldier" by the Dixie Chicks and Kyo listened intently. When I finished I took a deep breath and Kyo said "Whoa Cass didn't ever in my life think you could sing. I like the song but it's a little to lovey-dovey for me."

"Hey bet you never hummed in your life." I retorted at him. "Yup and don't plan to neither." He said as we pulled in the path to the house. I got out and Kyo sank into his seat as I walked up to the door. I knocked and Shigure opened the door.

"Oh the lovely Cassidy is here at our time of need and sorrow. Our poor Kyo has gone missing again." He said dramatically. I can in and saw Yuki at the table "Good to see you too Shigure and Yuki. Um where's Tohru?" I said. Yuki looked up "She's in a panic in her room because that stupid cat has disappeared again." He growled the last part.

I nodded and went up the stairs to Tohru's room and knocked, soon the door opened to reveal and red eyed Tohru. She motioned me inside and shut the door. "Cassidy-san why are you here? If your looking for Kyo he's gone." She said sadly. I smiled "Tohru don't worry about Kyo alright. Didn't he leave you a note?" she nodded and showed it to me.

"Can you keep a secret Tohru?" I asked. She nodded and I said "I'll tell you where he is staying as long as you promise to call me Cassidy and not to tell where he is." She looked up "I promise! Please tell me where Kyo-kun is and if he's safe." She said frantically.

I giggled a bit and said "Kyo is fine he came in my window last night. I told him a while back if he needed to get away he could stay with me and Cindy so that's what he did. If you want to see him follow me to the car in a bit to say goodbye to me."

She smiled and nodded. I smiled back and went to Kyo's room with Tohru following curiously. I entered his room and went through his stuff till I found what I wanted, a beaded bracelet of black and white. Tohru ran over "You can't take those Cassidy they belong to Kyo-kun." She said. "I know Tohru he told me I could find something that represented him and this does."

She cocked her head to the side and I clarified what I meant "I'm an Art major. Ya know painting and drawing." She looked to me "Oh okay that sounds like fun are you any good?" she asked. "Kyo says my work is beautiful and so do my co-workers, well they say it's better than their own but I like beautiful better." I said putting the beads in my purse and walking out.

"There's more to the beads I know it and I tend to find out." I mumbled loud enough for Tohru to hear. "Your right about that but it's not my place to say. Ask Kyo he might open up to you." She smiled "I'm glad Kyo has found someone to love and someone to live for. You have my thanks Cassidy and all the other Sohma's thanks." She added as we walked to the dinning room where Yuki and Shigure were.

Yuki looked up at the sight of Tohru and got up to hug her. "Are you alright? I'll kill that Damn cat if he worried you into a fever." He said. Tohru smiled "I'm much better Yuki thanks to Cassidy." He turned to me "Thank you Miss. Cassidy." He said bowing.

"No problem Yuki. Well I have to get going to get my latest sketch in." I looked at Tohru who jumped and said "Yes um let me walk you out." And she was about to lead me to the door when Shigure said "Cassidy could I be your sketch I'm sure I could pose wonderfully with you there to keep me occupied."

Yuki smacked him in the head and I said "Shigure as much as that sounds um appealing I'd rather stick with my volunteer model." Shigure looked at me "Oh your doing art with a teen model. I wish I could be that young again." He sighed. "Maybe next time." I said then Tohru led me outside.

I saw Kyo's head laying back so I opened my door, got in and poked him. Tohru waiting patiently at my window when I finally put my fingers on his stomach and drew circles. He grabbed my hand "Alright I'm awake so stop." He said sitting up. "Kyo-kun I was so worried!" Tohru said through my window. Kyo looked at Tohru "I left you a note silly. Cassidy you weren't supposed to tell anyone." He said.

"Well she was in her room all day so I only told her." "And I promised not to tell anyone about where you were staying." Tohru cut in. Kyo nodded and said "Okay Tohru I'll see you around come with Haru and Momiji next time they go to Cass's okay?" she nodded and waved bye to us as we left.

"I didn't see anything in your hands what did you get?" Kyo asked as I got out the keys to the house "Um your bracelet." I said walking in. Kyo sat on the couch "I know there's more of a story to this bracelet but I haven't figured it out yet. Yuki called you a cat when I talked to him so that has to have something to do with this."

I sat next to him with it in my hand. He looked at me and took the trinket. "Yeah there is more to it. It belonged to all the cats of the zodiac and I was the final cat." He said. "So your family was cursed?" he nodded and smiled. "Yes. We couldn't hug anyone of the opposite gender or we'd transform into our animal.

"The cat was the cursed of all it had two forms a monster and a cute cat. That's where the beads came in; they'd stop the beast from being released. Last year Tohru broke our curse some how and the only person I hugged was her. Now I can hug you." I hugged him tight.

"It must have been painful." I whispered into his shirt. He nodded against my shoulder as he hugged me back. "I love your hugs Cass they make me stronger." "I'm glad Kyo you do the same to me." We let go of each other and he looked at the clock. "Hey you wanted to learn from Master Right?" I nodded.

"Okay then let's get going it's almost 5 we can eat there. But I'm going to teach you too." We left to the Dojo as Cindy pulled up. She got out and came to the window "Hey I'm going to dinner with Momiji so I might be back around 8." She said. I nodded and Kyo said "We won't be back till 10 so don't wait up."

She looked at me "I'll be fine Cindy we're just going to the Dojo." I said. She nodded and went inside. I pulled out and drove the short ways to the Dojo. I parked and Kyo ran up the steps to the door with me following. I opened the door to be greeted by Kazuma's secretary "Hey Kyo your dad is in the kitchen." He said.

"Oh no, he isn't trying to cook. Please God let him not be cooking." Kyo said before he ran to the kitchen. I followed him but the secretary stopped me "Sorry Miss but your not allowed back there." He told me. Kyo came back and grabbed my hand "She's always allowed back there okay?" he said and dragged me to the kitchen.