An American Family of Soemah's

By OoHs0sWt ---------------------------------------------------------------- --------------

Continuation... pg. 2

So far in the story, they met two girls who also had the same curse as them. To turn into an animal when in close contact with the opposite sex. Now it goes on...

Daisy's usually bright glossy yellow hair was smudged in soot and her face was covered in it as well. But all the soot couldn't hide that mischievous smile on her face.

Katrina, "Daisy, why did you do that? People could have been really hurt" Daisy, "Well no one got hurt see?"

A guy with green spiky hair came up from the shadows. He said in his lazy tone, "At least she's safe, she's alive, that's good, I think..."

Tamika, "Nice to see you again Bailey, you hardly ever show up, Where've you been?" She said in sarcasm. Bailey, "around..." Jett, "Can't you ever answer in a complete sentence? God. Well just so you know Adrian and Jackelyn have been looking for you. You know you have to face the consequences. Why go in hiding?" Bailey, "Because..."

Tohru, "Who's going in hiding?" Then the whole Soemah family realized Yuki, Kyou, and Tohru were still there. They had forgotten them in the last commotion with the whole house on fire thing.

Bailey, "Who are the dorks?" Katrina, "These are the Souhma family. They are well... like us, in a weird way" Bailey, 'Oh I see" Katrina, "They're really nice, so stop being rude. Well * some * of them are anyways." She looked at Kyou.

Kyou, "ahh will you come off it? I'm SORRY ok?!" Jett, "You see, Katrina is usually really nice and sweet but when something ticks her off she well... Let's just say she keeps grudges.

Katrina, "Jett stop that" Tohru, "where are you going to stay since your house just burned down?" Tamika, "That's a very good question" Tohru, "You can stay with us. Oh wait I'm sorry that's not my decision." Yuki, "Miss Honda of course you have a say in this. But as for me, if you cannot find a place to stay you're very welcome to stay with us." Kyou, "well I guess we have enough room"

Firemen began showing up and soon the flame had been reduced to small cinders.

Jett, "That would be very kind of you, but I think we can manage. You see we have another house up the hill that we just bought." Bailey interrupted, "Oh your mom sold that house yesterday to pay some debts"

Tamika, "we'd be happy to accept your invitation."

They all walked up to Shigure's house. They came there soon enough and saw that Shigure was having a meeting with Hatori. Shigure said, "Wow company, Ooh, pretty girls, high school girls, high school girls." He sang.

Kyou punched him right on the nose. Shigure, "You've really wounded by feelings this time Kyou."

Kyou, "You perverted old man!" Tohru, "Well Shigure, you see these poor people don't have anywhere to stay and so I, well we, Yuki and I offered them to stay here if you don't mind." Shigure, "Of course I don't, being the very generous kind-hearted person I am." Kyou laughed and snickered. Tohru, "This is Jett, Daisy, Tamika, Katrina, Hayden, and Bailey.

They walked in, but there was another * accident*. Tohru tripped backwards onto Jett, who pushed over Hayden onto Tamika and Daisy, which pushed Bailey onto Tohru. It was like a chain reaction. There were several rainbow colored poofs. After the smoke cleared, there was a wolf, a duckling, a canary, a frog, and Tohru and Hayden standing in the middle.

Shigure remarked, "Well at least now I know who has the curse and who doesn't" Kyou was laughing so hard his sides ached and Katrina was giggling so hard she was turning purple. Even Yuki couldn't wipe the small grin on his face.

Shigure, "Let me guess. The blue wolf is Jett, the canary is Tamika, Daisy is the Duckling, and Bailey is the frog."

Then before they could answer there were rainbow colored poofs and everyone was back to their human self. But with clothes, that was a mystery to everyone.

Hatori stood up and asked to talk to their head leader. Jett looked at Tamika and they both had urgent desperate looks in their eyes. Yuki wondered what was wrong.

Katrina spoke up "Well you see, our head of the family is well currently unavailable." Jett, "Well she is not in the best mood right now ever since um Bailey..." Bailey, "shut your mouth Jett, it's none of their business!"

Tamika, "Bailey maybe it's YOU who should shut up, and to the Souhma's I am very sorry, please excuse Bailey for his disrespectfulness, he also is not in the best of mood." Shigure, "it's okay, right Hatori?" Hatori looks at him coldly.

Hatori, "Well maybe not now, but I will have to speak to your head of the family because there is miscommunication at the moment. Akito heard word of this American family and none of can see how this could've occurred." Tohru, "What misunderstanding?"

Hatori, "There was never supposed to be more than one family with a curse, and they are not even the animals of the Zodiac, something is seriously wrong."

There was a silence that didn't exactly fold over them like a warm blanket. They walked into the house this time thankfully without * accidents*. They all settled in their rooms. Everyone was happy except for Kyou. He had to share rooms with Bailey. So he took his trip to the roof. Except someone was already there.

He almost got a heart attack. No one ever comes up on the roof. "What the hell are you doing here?" It was Katrina sitting down looking at the moon. Katrina, "Don't yell, everyone can hear you" "I came up here to look at the moon. Did you know today is the first night of the full moon? It looks so amazing."

Kyou was surprised because he had thought Katrina was the one with the * attitude problem* who was really tough. This was a whole new side to her.

Kyou, "yeah I guess, it's cool" "I've heard a lot about you" Kyou, "same here" even though that was a lie. She laughed. He hoped she wouldn't ask what he heard. "Oh really, well I've heard that you've practiced for over a year just on martial arts. I'd like to fight you sometime" Kyou was really taken back. Where had she heard that from? Seeing that he hadn't answered "You don't have too, I just want to know if you're any good" She smirked.

Kyou thought a little angrily, she was smirking at him. She thought he was scared to fight her. Humph, that was all wrong. Kyou, "HEY, I'm NOT afraid to fight you. I was just surprised ok? I didn't think you do stuff like fighting?" Katrina, "stuff like fighting? Haha I've practiced martial arts since I was 6 years old. But you're right it's not like my life or something."

Kyou was thoroughly impressed. She had done martial arts and had the discipline to continue it for many years. Wow she must be really strong. Now Kyou really wanted to fight her.

Kyou, "How long have you been fighting? How old are you?" Katrina, "I'm fourteen, and so I've been doing it for about eight years, give or take." He was only a year older than her. He looked at her again. She was of course, looking at the moon. Her long brown hair swayed with the wind, and her golden brown eyes looked starry as she was gazing at the moon. She's not that bad looking he thought.

Katrina was watching the moon. He had died on a full moon just like this. She remembered Shayne. He was the animal, the lion. She really loved him. Why did he have to die so young? Sometimes life was so unfair. If he hadn't gotten into that stupid gang, and had to be shot during a battle. If only she had convinced him that it was wrong for him to join the Vipers. Then maybe he would still be alive today.

She heard a shuffle beside her, and saw that Kyou had sat down. She noticed that a lot in him reminded her of Shayne. They both had that courage to go up against anything, sometimes reckless. They both never wanted others to see them weak or vulnerable. They were both strong. Well Katrina guessed he was strong. But they also both had a real softness inside that was shown only to a few special people. Both were tough to strangers, and had a hard time expressing their emotions. He also wasn't that bad looking. She almost laughed at that comment.

Kyou, "What's so funny?" Oops, she had almost forgotten that he was right besides her. Katrina, "Oh nothing." Kyou, "c'mon you can tell me anything, it's not like I'd tell. "Well I was remembering someone. Someone who died last year on a full moon." "I'm sorry. Was that person really special?" "Yes, he was my boyfriend." "Oh. What was his name?" "Shayne, he reminds me a lot of... oh never mind" She had almost said that he remind her of Shayne. How stupid could she get? "He reminds you a lot of... what?" "I said never mind" "C'mon you can tell me. It's not like I would laugh. You can trust me. Was he a cool guy?" "Yeah he was, he was really brave. He was in a gang. That's how he died." "Sorry. I don't know what to say. Nothing like 'that' has ever happened to me. But my mom died when I was really little."

Wow he's also really considerate just like Shayne. Is he like some freaky reincarnation?"

"It's okay, and I'm sorry about your mom. Well when he died, another lion was born; he's my step brother. He's really mean and snotty, nothing like Shayne. As he lay there dying he told me that he loved me. He said that he would never forget me and hoped I would never forget him. I wish I had said something, I couldn't I was so speechless and in shock I said nothing as he died in my arms. I regret that to this day." Tears started falling down her face. She didn't make any noise at all. They streamed down like small rivers. She couldn't help it. Memories of Shayne brought back painful tears.

Before she knew what was happening, Kyou moved closer and gave her a hug. Katrina was astonished. But it felt so right. She continued crying in his arms.

Kyou, "I'm so sorry something this terrible happened to you.