Chapter Eleven… Goose Chase…

"Alright, thanks Shigure. Bye." Kyo hangs the phone up and shakes his head to Tohru, "She wasn't there either…"

Tohru's eyes start to water, "But where else would she have gone?"

"I don't know…" Kyo walks over to her, giving her a hug her hoping to calm her down.

Kazuki had been listening from the stairs and decides to leave out a side entrance so he wouldn't have to face his parents and heads to school.

The rain had finally stopped and Kyoichi was staring up at the sky as she sat on a park bench. She blew at her bangs and stood up then started to walk in a random direction, "Akihiko don't run off on your own!" A voice in the distance yelled.

A young boy turned the corner and ran into Kyoichi. The boy fell backward, "Oof!" Smoke covered the area but when the smoke had cleared, all the boy saw was an orange cat with a black and red bandana tied around its neck, "Kitty…"

Kyoichi sat up and shook her head, "Akihiko!" The voice from before got closer and Kyoichi knew they would be suspicious of her clothes lying on the ground and decided to try and run for it but the boy was quicker and picked her up.

"Akihiko," A woman with semi-long golden hair comes around the same corner the boy had, "Akihiko Sohma what do you think you're doing running around a corner like that! What if you ran into someone?"

Kyoichi's ears twitched at the boy's last name and he turned around to face the woman, "But Mom I found a kitty!" The boy held Kyoichi up to his mother. Kyoichi looked into the woman's eyes and something about them bothered her. "Can I keep it Mom?"

Kyoichi's ears twitched at the thought of becoming someone's pet and starts to struggle. "Sure you can Akihiko," The woman smiles at her son.

"Awesome!" The boy hugs Kyoichi and the two of them start to walk.

Kyo was on the phone again but he hung up shortly after and shook his head, "I've called all of the places she might have gone… but she hasn't been to any of them."

Tohru took his hands and smiled at him, "If anyone can find her, it's you Kyo." Kyo smiles at her then walks upstairs and into Kyoichi's room. He lies down on the wooden floor and thought for a long time but when nothing came to him he sat up and his eyes lock onto a single sheet of paper on Kyoichi's desk. Kyo got up to read it, "Kyo, I'm sure you'll be the one to discover this letter. I have decided to decline your offer to be the heir to the dojo and leave it to Kazuki. He wants it much more than I do. You might have realized by now that I haven't gone to any of my sulking hideouts. I want to let you know that I have no intensions of ever coming back to a Sohma residence ever again; thank you for everything, and goodbye."

Kyo grips the paper making it wrinkle and tears drip from his cheek onto his hand, "You fool…"

Kyoichi woke up having fallen asleep on Akihiko's lap and she yawns. When she sees her surroundings she remembers what had happened and bolts around trying to find some way out of her new found prison but there were no open windows. She was starting to get anxious. There was no way of telling how long it would take for her to transform back and didn't want to stick around to find out.

Akihiko's mother came out of a room down the hall, "Akihiko, let's go buy some food for dinner tonight!"

Akihiko closed a book he had been reading, "Okay!" He ran over to his mother and they left, leaving Kyoichi in the house all alone.

"Okay, so hopefully I'll transform back quick and then I can find some clothes and get the hell out of here." With less than a second's thought smoke covered the room and Kyoichi was back to normal. She started to look for the master bedroom hoping that there would be some clothes she could wear.

Kyoichi found a tan dress shirt and some black cargo pants that were way too big so she found a belt to keep them up. She got dressed and headed for the door but stopped when she saw something. It was a piece of paper with hand writing. Kyoichi's pupils thinned into sharp slivers and ran to the door, and left not bothering to shut it behind her.

"Thief!" Kyoichi's ears twitch and she turns to see a man in his fifties pointing at her, "Thief!" The man had a briefcase in one hand and was wearing a suit but that didn't keep him from running.

Kyoichi quickly turned and used her speed to lose the man but turned the corner to run into Akihiko's mother. Both Kyoichi and the woman fall to the ground. Kyoichi shook her head, "Ouch…" Finally realizing what she had done she jumps up and offers the woman a hand, "I'm so sorry ma'am. Can I help you up?"

The woman accepted Kyoichi's help, "Thank you."

Akihiko had watched the whole thing but was a little distracted by the black and red bandana around Kyoichi's wrist. The boy grabbed Kyoichi's hand, "Kitty!"

"Akihiko don't be rude to her," The woman turned to Kyoichi again; "You'll have to excuse his behavior. It's strange though… You remind me of a cat that we just pick up off the streets. And those look like my husband's clothes…"

Kyoichi started to get nervous, the woman was putting the pieces together, "Well I should probably get going."

"No! Onee-chan stay with Akihiko," The boy yelled gripping her hand tighter.

"Maybe you should come eat dinner with us. Akihiko sure has taken a liking to you."

"No, I really can't…" Kyoichi's eyes shifted back and forth between Akihiko and his mother.

"Miu get away from that girl," The man from earlier had caught up. Kyoichi's ears twitch and she froze. The man walked over and grabbed Kyoichi's shoulder, "I'm calling the cops on you, you little thief!"

Kyoichi just stood there; still as stone.

The man noticed Kyoichi's odd behavior, "got something you want to say?"

With a blink of the eye Kyoichi had the man's arm behind his back, "How dare you," Kyoichi yelled, "You don't have the right to punish me anymore!"

"That hurts, let me go!" The man yelled.

"You don't have the right to tell me what to do! You gave that right up almost sixteen years ago!

"I have no idea what you're talking about!"

"That's because you chose to forget! You forgot your oldest and only daughter!" Kyoichi let the man go and fell to her knees in tears, "And it's buried so deep not even the wound you inflicted on me jogs your memory!"

Akihiko walked over to Kyoichi and places a hand on her hand, "Does it hurt?"

"Yes…yes it does…" Kyoichi kisses Akihiko's forehead then runs away.

"My life is worthless," Kyoichi yells as she runs, "I don't want to live!"

Kyoichi ended up on the edge of a cliff and she looked down, "Kyoichi!" Hearing her name she turns to see who yelled it to find it was Kyo. Kyo started to walk towards her, "Kyoichi… come home."

"You come any closer and I'll jump!"

Kyo stopped, "You won't do it…" He took another step closer and Kyoichi took a step back but there was nothing to set her foot back down on and she started to fall, "Ah!"

"Kyoichi!" Kyo jumped sliding on his stomach to the edge of the cliff and grabbed her hand. "Kyoichi, don't let go!"

When Kyo didn't get a reply he looked down to find that she had passed out. "Oh no, Kyoichi, you have to wake up! Kyo started to lose his grip and he pulled his other hand out from beneath him and grabbed her wrist with both hands but he started to slide closer to the edge. Kyo got anxious, "Somebody help!" It was no use, they were in the middle of nowhere and nobody could help them. Kyo started to cry, "Somebody…" One of his tears dripped onto Kyoichi's face and he started to give up but something tugged at the end of his pants snapping him out of it. He looked back to find a tan cat tugging on his pant leg.

All of a sudden several more cats appeared and did the same. Within one minute Kyo had twenty cats pulling on his clothes and helped him pull Kyoichi up. Kyo quickly examined Kyoichi for any major injuries and found blood stains in her hair. Suddenly Kyo was having flashbacks of the past, "No… not again!"

Kyo quickly picked her up transforming her into her other form and ran to the nearest building he could find, "I need to make a call. It's an emergency!"

"Sir calm down."

"She's going to die! I need to use your phone!"

"Sir, it's just a cat…"

"Just let me use the damn phone!"

After that to employee put the phone in Kyo's reach, he grabbed the phone, dialing as fast as he could, "Hatori! I need you to get here as fast as you can! It's Kyoichi!"