A/N: I kinda forgot about all of my dance practices before my vacation so this chapter came up slow. Sorry about that everyone. Thanks for staying with story. I love you all! Oh, btw, I got a kimono! I'm so happy! And thank you Arrei! I guess I'm writing this story just for you! LOL. Keep on reading! Thanx a bunch!

Disclaimer: If I owned Fruits Basket, Momiji and Tohru would have gotten together. They deserve each other. Not to be mean; I love Momiji, but it would just work so well!

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~~Transformation~~

Yuki and Kyou walked home together in silence, not sure what to say to each other. Every now and then, Mari shifted herself in Kyou's arms and sighed deeply, as if she was deep in sleep. Kyou smiled to himself whenever he felt Mari grasp her arms around his neck.

Yuki always looked over at the two and smiled a few times himself. He didn't feel jealous of Kyou anymore. He understood what he was going through and how Mari became so attached to him.

Kyou looked over at Yuki and a thought from the morning came to his mind; about Yuki possibly getting interested in Kagura. Kyou played with the idea of asking Yuki about it and the devil part of Kyou won this internal battle.

"So Yuki, what so you think of Kagura comin' over soon? You don't mind, you do?"

"Of-of course not. Why do you ask?"

"I mean, whenever her name is mentioned, your face gets all blushed." Kyou felt this mischievous grin group across his face. "If you want her, you can have her. Get her off my back for a while. Let her forget that we're 'soul-mates'."

"You baka neko! What ever gave you the idea that I have an inter--"

"Shhh. Mari's sleeping. You wouldn't want to make her cry if she woke up."

"Oh. You play dirty. Too dirty. You'll get it later."

Kyou laughed at the fact that he finally had something over Yuki since his face just kept on getting redder and redder. For the rest of the walk home, Yuki kept mumbling to himself and scrunching his eyebrows together.

When they finally reached home, Tohru greeted them. "Ohh, hello you two. I was wondering where you were. " Yuki just walked past her, dumped Kyou's stuff on the floor and walked over to the kitchen. Kyou came in after him, smiling a bit.

"Oh, Kyou-kun, what's wrong with Sohma-sama?"

"Nothing really. I just kinda asked him about something I shouldn't have." He handed Mari over to Tohru, who instantly started stroking the top of Mari's head.

"What did you ask Sohma-sama about, if you don't mind me asking."

"Well, I asked him if he was interested in Ka--" Out of nowhere, Yuki came out and jumped on top of Kyou.

"YOU DAMN CAT!!!!!!" (A/N: Yuki is losing it! Hehehe. I always wanted to see him really, really lose it.)

So this started an on going fight between the rat and cat. Tohru, watched on in fear since she knew that she would never be able to stop it. She set down Mari on a huge pillow in the sitting room and then rushed to watch the fight. She was afraid and didn't want either of the boys to fight. In fact, ever since Mari had come, there had been no real big fights between them.

Luckily, Shigure was walking down the path when he spotted the two appearing to attempting to bite the other one's arm off.

"AH! Kyou-kun! Yuki-kun! Stop this instant!" The two boys looked up at Shigure, who was frowning, scary anime style, at them. They got up, dusted themselves off, and walked into the house.

Tohru stood there, looking at Shigure, who had a very troubled look on his face. "Tohru-kun. We're having company tonight. Mari's teacher wants to come over and talk with all of us."

"Hai. I'll go add some more food for dinner." She hurried inside. "Oh, yes. Mari's sleeping in the sitting room," she called over her shoulder.

Shigure stood outside of his house and shook his head before coming in.

" 'I just want to see the environment that Mari lives in right now, if that's alright with you,' " is what Mikki had said. " 'I also would like to get to talk to everyone that she is growing up in the house with so they can talk to Mari about this very crucial time in her life.' "

"Good thing Ayame isn't here; he'd never understand that this teacher takes everything seriously." Shigure let out a sigh of relief as he sat next to Mari, who was still sound asleep. "She won't be sleeping tonight, but I would hate having to wake her up."

Then there was a knock at the door and Shigure got up to answer it, thinking it was Mikki, early. But no, it was Kagura. Kagura. It had slipped Shigure's mind that he had invited her to come spend a few days with them earlier that day. "Oh crap," he thought.

"Kagura! How nice to see you!"

"Nice to see you too Shigure-san. It's been too long. Where's Mari?" Kagura stood up on her tiptoes, trying to see over Shigure's shoulders.

"Kagura," Shigure began seriously, "Mari's teacher is coming for dinner tonight to make sure that she has a normal family I guess. Please don't go throwing Kyou through of any windows. PLEASE!" Shigure was bowing in front of Kagura, who was wearing a shocked look on her face.

"Su-Sure. I'll just try to keep away from him and not let him get on my nerves."

"Please try!" Shigure got up. "Well, Mari's asleep right now; I really hate having to wake her up."

"Let me wake her up. She'd like the surprise."

Kagura walked over to where Mari was sleeping and placed her hand gently on Mari's back. "Mari. Mari. It's time to wake up." Mari frowned in her self and tried to ward off the hand on her back.

"Go away. I'm sweeping."

"Mari. It's me Kagura."

"Ka-gur-a?" Mari rubbed the sleep from her eyes. "KAGURA!" Mari launched her arms around Kagura and started jumping up and down in her lap. "Oh! I'm so happy! Did daddy call you to tell you to come today?"

"Yep. I came here to see you."

"Let me show you this." Mari pulled out the orange cat from her pocket. "I nameded her Kagura so you can always be with an orange cat." She held it up to Kagura and Kagura kissed Mari's forehead and before smiling so very sincerely to the girl who named a cat after her.

"I love it. Did you tell Kyou-kun already?"

"Hai! He doesn't mind."

The two girls sat in the room, chatting about this or that. Every once in awhile, one of them would break out laughing. From his room, Kyou heard the sudden laughter and he came down the stairs, trying to figure out what was so funny.

"Mari, what's going on down--"

Kyou saw Mari playing with Kagura's orange cat backpack and Kagura sitting beside her.

"Ka-Kagura? What are you doing here?"

"Shigure-san invited me over." She put on an emotionless face and turned back to Mari.

"Kagura?" Kyou was shocked to see her act to shyly. "Kagura. Can I talk to you for a moment?"

"Sure. I'll be right back Mari."

"'K."

Kyou stood with Kagura in the hallway before speaking to her. "Something's up. What is it?"

"What do you mean? Nothing's up."

"Spit it out."

"Fine. Mari's teacher is coming to visit."

"I know that. Shigure just told me."

"Well, Shigure-san asked me to not throw you out of any windows. You get what I'm sayin'?"

"Yeah. I get it. It just bothered me that you weren't attempting to put me in a headlock yet." Kyou rubbed the back of his neck. Kagura laughed and then gently kissed Kyou on the cheek.

"I guess that'll have to do for now then?"

"Kagura." Kyou motioned slightly with his head to a room near by them. Kagura let her eyes follow his gazed and she spotted Yuki, blushing, obviously because he had just looked over towards her.

"Yuki-kun?" Kagura whispered.

"Yep. I think he's. "

"No. Really?"

"Yeah. He got all bent out of shape when I asked him about it."

Kagura felt her face blush and Kyou tapped her on the nose. "Just something to think about." He walked away to help Tohru in the kitchen.

"Oh. My." Kagura placed her hand on her cheek and tried to stop blushing before walking back to Mari.

Shigure had seen everything from his office and smiled to himself. The world was finally starting to piece together.

Then he heard Kagura scream.

~~Later that Day~~

Mikki arrived about an hour and a half later. Kagura opened the door.

"Hello?"

"Hello. I'm Mikki Hakuu. Mari's teacher."

"Oh. Nice to meet you. I'm Kagura Sohma. One of Mari's cousins."

"Another cousin? You sure have a huge family."

Kagura shrugged. "Mari's very sick right now."

"How terrible. So very terrible. Is she feeling any better?" Mikki's voice fell soft and her eyes started to shine.

"We have Hatori-san, her doctor coming over to see her." Kagura paused before going on. "How rude of me. Come on in. Shigure-san will see you as soon as he comes down."

Before Mikki and Kagura could get in, Hatori came up.

"Where's Mari?"

"Hatori-san. She's upstairs in her room. Shigure-san's with her."

"I'll be up there." Hatori nodded to Kagura before noticing Mikki. "Hello. You must be the teacher."

"Y-Yes."

"I'm sorry you had to see our family in this state. I'm Hatori Sohma." He stuck his hand out for her to shake.

"I'm Mikki Hakuu. Please, go help Mari." Hatori nodded before heading up the stairs.

"Another cousin?"

"Yeah. You can say that. But Mari calls him her uncle since he and Shigure-san grew up together."

"I see."

Next through the door Momiji came running in. "Where's Mari? Is she okay? Can Hatori-san help her? Tell me Kagura-kun!" A pair of rabbit ears became apparent on his blonde hair.

"Shhh. She'll be fine. Hatori-san is up there right now." Kagura quieted down Momiji.

"Oh. Hello! I'm Momiji Sohma! Nice to meet you!" Momiji stuck his hand out for Mikki to shake.

"I'm Mikki Hakuu. Nice to meet you too." Momiji's rabbit ears disappeared.

"So are you here to see Mari too? Are you Shigure-san's girlfriend or something?"

Mikki felt her face blush and Kagura let out a loud sigh. "I'm Mari's teacher. Nothing more."

"Oh. I see." Momiji than turned towards Kagura. "Ayame-san came."

"Ayame-san? No! What's he doing here?! Didn't Hatori-san know to leave him at home?"

"He tried but Ayame-san insisted he came to see Mari. You know that he loves seeing Mari!"

"Yeah. But. " Kagura stopped and looked over towards Mikki and before she could say anything, Ayame came bursting through the door.

"How's Mari doing, the little dear? Is Ha-chan helping her?" Ayame stood looking longing at Kagura.

"Hatori-san is up there right now Ayame-san. Why don't you stay down here?"

"Very well. Very well." Ayame looked over at a very scared Mikki. "How rude of me. I'm Ayame Sohma, brother of Yuki Sohma! Cousin of Shigure- kun! Uncle of Mari! Nice to meet you!"

"I'm Mikki. So you're a Sohma too?"

"Why yes! So you've heard of us. So why don't you come down to my shop downtown. I'm sure you'd be interested in the clothing that I sell."

"Aya. Stop it please." Shigure was coming down the stairs. His eyes were already tired and his body felt heavy.

"Shigure. I'm sorry. I'll stop." Ayame stepped aside to stand by Kagura and Momiji.

"Mikki. I'm so sorry you had to come see our family in a crisis like this." Shigure bowed to the teacher.

"Oh. Don't worry. But is Mari feeling any better?"

"Her fever won't go down, she's mumbling constantly, coughing. I hate seeing her like this. Her body doesn't take illnesses well."

"Does Hatori-san know what to do?" Tohru came in from the kitchen. "I'm sorry for eavesdropping." She and Yuki appeared from the doorway, both wearing very concerned looks on their faces.

"Ha-chan is trying his best. So far, no luck." Shigure took a deep breathe and forced a smile-the type he wore whenever he was falling apart inside-and motioned towards Mikki. "Please. Come on in."

"I couldn't. I see your family is busy and I don't want to be a bother."

"No. We decided to meet tonight and tonight we will. Tohru-kun has prepared a great dinner for all of us to eat."

"Well, I guess so."

"Great. Please come on in. Tohru-kun would be glad to show you around."

"Shigure! Mari's coughing up blood!" Kyou came running down the stairs and motioned for the man to come up stairs. "Hatori thinks we better take her to the hospital!"

"Shit." Shigure ran up the stairs and in a few moments him, Kyou, and Hatori were coming down the stairs with Mari wrapped in a blanket, still coughing up blood. Hatori ran out to start the car and Kyou carried Mari out and Shigure told everyone else to stay here and he'll call in as soon as he could.

And they were off. Left behind was Tohru, Yuki, Mikki, Ayame, and Momiji. No one said a word as they watched eth car drive off into the distance and as they turned to walk back into the house. Fear ran across each of their minds. Momiji cried, as did Tohru.

Sitting in silence was the greatest torture that they ever endured. Waiting for an answer was just as horrible.

Minutes turned into hours. Hours that never seemed to move.

Then, finally, the phone rang.

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I'll write more soon. You'll know everyone's fate soon. I promise. Until later ~D-Yai~