Classes were due to start any minute. Breakfast, which had just ended, had been rather uneventful. Most of the Jyuunishi missed breakfast. Some of them, like Haru, got lost, while others like Kyou, were trapped in their animal forms.
Tohru Honda hadn't attended breakfast. After smashing Snape in the face and turning Kyou into a cat, the girl was slightly disgruntled. Determined not to let anything get her down, she had hidden Kyou and his clothes in an out of order girls bathroom.
"Don't leave me here!" Kyou shouted, his tail twitching as he looked at a pool of water coming out from under one of the stalls.
"Kyou-kun, gomen . . . . . I have to go get some clean clothes from my room and don't think that your allowed in there . . . . ." her voice trailed off as the neko glared lasers at her.
"And since I look like a cat nobody would know," Kyou answered.
Tohru crouched down beside him. "But what if you transformed back while I was going through the common room? Akito-san would probably be very upset."
Kyou's tail twitched again. "If you were carrying me, I wouldn't turn back because you'd be hugging me," he said.
Tohru smiled brightly and patted him on the head. "It's for the best, Kyou. You need to transform back so you can attend classes. I'll be right back, okay?"
Kyou reluctantly agreed to let her go. "Why has it got to be a girls bathroom. . . .?" he muttered darkly under his breath.
Wandering down the hall, it occurred to Tohru that she didn't know where her house dormitory was. She turned around to ask Kyou if he knew, but the staircase had sifted and led in a different direction.
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Haru followed Professor Sprout to the doors leading into the Great Hall. The dumpy little teacher smiled at him politely.
"I'll see you at classes later," she said before she left.
Haru waited for a moment and then walked over to the doors. They swung shut in his face. He blinked in surprise and reached out to pull them open.
A sound like a raspberry being blown came from the door, and it stayed closed. Haru blinked slowly. "Did you just . . . . . ?" he asked quietly. In response, the door made another rude noise and the sound of another lock clicking into place snapped his temper.
Black Haru snarled at the door. "What the hell do you think you're doing? You ain't gonna lock me out of no damm room! I've had up to here with you and all your fellow doors attitude!"
And with that, he smashed the doors to the Great Hall to pieces with his fists before anyone realized what was happening.
Professor Flitwick, the pint sized Charms teacher, came running over. "Stop! Stop!" he shouted. "Detention! Detention! Take ten points away from your house! And STOP!" he bellowed at the top of his lungs.
Haru stopped kicking the door. He looked at Flitwick darkly for a brief moment. "What?" he hissed. "This - "
"That's enough," Professor Flitwick said. "I believe that you owe the doors an apology."
Haru just stared in shock at the teacher that came up to his knees.
"I'm waiting," Flitwick said, crossing his arms.
Haru sighed heavily and it looked like he was calming down. Then he shot foreword and sent Flitwick flying through the doors with his fist. "Just who the -" he shouted, fully prepared to continue his assault.
Hatori, who had made it to breakfast, caught Flitwick and quickly erased his memory of being kicked. "Haru, go to your classes and don't do that again!" he snapped.
Haru sulked out of the room like a naughty child who felt he was being unjustly punished.
Hatori quickly assessed the damages of the little teacher. Since they weren't bad, he set him down in a chair and waited for him to wake up so he could explain a new series of events for the small teacher.
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Hana, Kagura, and Yuki made their way to their first class of the day. Transfiguration was taught by Professor McGonagall, and they had the whole classroom to themselves.
All of the Slytherians in the room took their seats quietly and waited for the teacher to arrive.
Akito leaned across his desk towards Yuki. "Where were you last night?" he asked softly, a smile stretching across his face.
Yuki froze for a moment, still undecided where he wanted to stay.
"I was looking for you!" Aya exclaimed. "I thought that maybe we could share a bed and tell scary stories and think up jokes to play on other people and -"
Yuki decided to stay in the girls dormitory. "I was in my dorm room," he said. "Looks like we didn't get put in the same room . . . . ."
He let his voice trail off as Haru entered the room with a dark expression on his face. "That dammed idiot! Did he really expect me to apologize to a door?" he snarled. He was obviously Black Haru at the moment.
He dropped himself into a chair and started to slouch before leaping a foot in the air. Not paying attention he had sat down beside Akito. He started to spring to his feet when the tabby cat sitting on the desk transformed into Professor McGonagall.
"Good morning," she said.
Akito sneered at her. Haru snarled at the same time, as his stomach rumbled angrily at the lack of food in it. Neither of them thought that it was a good morning.
"Good morning!" Aya exclaimed. "It's such a beautiful day, but a little on the chilly side, don't you think?" he asked.
McGonagall paused for a moment, looking over the three of them with a serious look on her face. "Slightly," she acknowledged Aya's comment. "Let's begin."
"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarst," she said. "Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."
Then she turned her desk into a pig.
The pig squealed with delight and sailed through the air, landing on Kagura's lap just as it turned into a desk again.
"Oaf," the sweet looking girl grunted. The desk was really heavy. "Someone get it off me!" she shouted as everyone stared in shock.
Yuki and Hana both stood up, moving foreword to help while Haru went White with surprise.
"What happened?" he asked stoically.
McGonagall quickly waved her wand. "Wingardum Leviosa!" she called. The desk floated up in the air and quickly settle down where it belonged.
Then the stern faced woman quickly hurried over to Kagura. "Are you all right?" she demanded. Her hat was askew and she looked disturbed.
Kagura blinked rapidly and sat up. "I should be fine," she said. "I was mostly worried about my robes. I just finished embroidering them and didn't want to scuff the thread."
McGonagall blinked. "What?" she asked in confusion.
"See, I got little cat heads all over them!" Kagura exclaimed.
Several people leaned foreword to get a better look. Sure enough, in pale orange thread, little cat heads were outlined all over her robes.
McGonagall sighed heavily. "Let's continue with the lesson then," she said. She pulled her wand out again and waved it over Kagura's shattered desk while saying a repair spell.
Kagura, it seemed, didn't have a bruise on her.
Class continued. Akito, who was getting bored with his match that wouldn't turn into a pin, laid his head on his hands and fell asleep.
Kagura match ended up turning the same shade of orange as Kyou's hair. It didn't even get pointy. She looked slightly disappointed in it's performance. "And I wanted to turn it into a replica of Kyou," Yuki heard her mutter.
Yuki's match got slightly pointy both ends, but it kept it's real colors throughout all his attempts. It did turn into the correct shape, which he though was a plus.
Aya's didn't do anything, so he started to braid his hair. The match was rather boring, and his hair was so much prettier.
Hana's match burst into flames when she attempted to Transfigure it. She decided to call it a success. "It's original form is lost," she pointed out to McGonagall. "All that's left is ashes."
McGonagall wasn't impressed. She gave Hana a new match and showed her what to do once again.
After showing Hana the drill, she turned to see Haru heading out the door. "Mr. Souma, just where do you think you're going?" she asked. "You have to wait until the end of class to - "
"I just realized, this class is for Slytherians. . . . . .I'm White Haru right now, so I should be in History of Magick. I'll just let myself out . . . . . " he said slowly.
McGonagall, who still wasn't sure what to do about Haru let him leave the room. Sometime after he left, she noted that his match had been turned into a needle with a nice size eye. She kept in mind to give him five points for the successful task.
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Kisa sat through History of Magick with an enthralled expression on her face. The teacher was the strangest thing she had ever seen.
Professor Binns, who was a ghost, had been really old and boring when he had been alive. After dying in front of the staff room fire, he had gotten right back up and continued teaching.
It wasn't that his lecture was that interesting. In fact, it was downright boring. Kisa would have fallen asleep if he hadn't been a ghost. If he didn't keep floating through his desk.
She was diligently taking notes, making sure to copy everything down correctly. Sometimes Professor Binns got his words mixed up.
Hearing giggles behind her, she glanced back just as a boy finished sticking something wet and gooy in her hair. She raised her hand, tentatively touching the goo. It was dripping along hair on the sides of her face, and it was really sticky.
Her fingers got stuck. She tugged, trying to get them loose.
The boys who had played the joke started to laugh louder.
"Let me help," one of them said. It was a dark haired boy with a cruel look on his face. He pulled out his wand, waving in front of her face and making the gooey gel in her hair swell and spill down, engulfing her whole hand before it hardened.
"Oops," he said, an innocence look on his face. "Did the poor little mud blood get her hand stuck in her icky hair?" The others all laughed again.
Kisa stood up and raced out of the room. She woke Shigure and Uotani who had fallen asleep during the lecture as she shot past them.
"Kisa?" Shigure questioned.
"What's wrong with her?" Uotani asked.
"I don't know, she just ran out of here for no reason," the cruel boy said.
Professor Binns continued droning on about Emeric the Evil.
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Tohru finally found the Hufflepuff common room. She raced to her room and put on fresh clothes before hurrying down the stairs.
Momiji was sitting on a big, fluffy pastel yellow chair. "Tohru-kun!" he exclaimed. He leapt foreword, remembering not to hug her. Instead, he hugged the air around her.
"Where were you?" he asked.
Tohru smiled. "I got lost," she explained. She hugged the air around Momiji, something they had started doing to make up for all the times they couldn't hug.
"Oh, at least you got back in time. We got Potions in a couple of minutes," he explained. "Actually, we'll probably be a little bit late, but that's okay."
Several moments later they were in the dungeons opening the door to the classroom and stepping inside. "You're late," Professor Snape said. He had a black eye and large bruise on his face.
Tohru recognized him immediately. Her first instinct was to apologize. "Gomen nasai," she said, bowing her head. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to be, but I got lost and then this little man - "
"That will be quite enough," Professor Snape said. "Ten points will be taken from your house for your tardiness."
Tohru sat down, feeling that he didn't understand what she was talking about. 'I'll explain after class,' she thought determinedly.
Professor Snape began his class with a roll call. Then he went on to ask some basic questions. Momiji knew the answers to most of the questions. Apparently he had been looking through the book the night before for a potion that would make him transparent.
Wetick, the Hufflepuff perfect that he had been following had been trying to give him a hug all night long.
"There's just something about you that say 'squeeze me,' and I mean to do it!" she had exclaimed.
While he hadn't found the potion to make himself transparent, he had picked up a lot of other information. Professor Snape didn't look too pleased with the results of his first class of the semester.
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Kyou sat sulking in the girls bathroom. He was still in his cat form and it was starting to piss him off. Not to mention the fact that Tohru had left his clothes on the edge of the growing puddle of water coming from the stalls. They had gotten wet and it was rather irritating.
He started pacing back and forth. It was getting rather late. By now, he had probably missed his first two classes. Or at least the first one.
He heard a crash as the door flew open. Panicked, he slipped in the water and slid under the stall.
The sound of running footsteps faded as someone opened one of the stall doors and locked it.
Kyou stood up, shaking the excess water from his body before creeping out. The bathroom was no longer safe. He couldn't risk turning back with someone in the room. He caught his clothes in his mouth and crept out of the room silently.
Ms. Norris was standing in the hallway. Kyou raced off, trying to outrun her. POOF! he changed back to human form with his clothes in his mouth just as a group of sixth year Ravenclaws stepped out of their Transfiguration classroom.
Professor McGonagall stepped out after them, hearing them scream in shock. "What is it?!" she demanded. She had her wand drawn and looked prepared for trouble.
Kyou felt like he was caught in the blinding glare of headlights. He couldn't move at all.
At first McGonagall didn't understand what she was seeing. She waved her wand, transfiguring Kyou into a cat.
The cat's tail twitched and it meowed.
Kyou panicked. He was supposed to be able to talk in human form. With fear and adreneline pumping through his body, he tore down the hall, still biting his clothes.
It was then that McGonagall realized that she had just turned a student into a cat. It had been her second mistake of the day. The second mistake that had gotten a Souma hurt.
She had marked Kyou down for detention but hadn't taken any points away for his absence. Now, while she felt slightly guilty, she decided to take fifty points from his house. That is, she planned to take the points after she found him.
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Author's notes;
Okay, I stopped so the chapter wouldn't get to big. However, just keep reading because I'm putting the next chapter up at the same time.
Hope you all enjoy, and thanks for all the great reviews.
Kissa-chan
Tohru Honda hadn't attended breakfast. After smashing Snape in the face and turning Kyou into a cat, the girl was slightly disgruntled. Determined not to let anything get her down, she had hidden Kyou and his clothes in an out of order girls bathroom.
"Don't leave me here!" Kyou shouted, his tail twitching as he looked at a pool of water coming out from under one of the stalls.
"Kyou-kun, gomen . . . . . I have to go get some clean clothes from my room and don't think that your allowed in there . . . . ." her voice trailed off as the neko glared lasers at her.
"And since I look like a cat nobody would know," Kyou answered.
Tohru crouched down beside him. "But what if you transformed back while I was going through the common room? Akito-san would probably be very upset."
Kyou's tail twitched again. "If you were carrying me, I wouldn't turn back because you'd be hugging me," he said.
Tohru smiled brightly and patted him on the head. "It's for the best, Kyou. You need to transform back so you can attend classes. I'll be right back, okay?"
Kyou reluctantly agreed to let her go. "Why has it got to be a girls bathroom. . . .?" he muttered darkly under his breath.
Wandering down the hall, it occurred to Tohru that she didn't know where her house dormitory was. She turned around to ask Kyou if he knew, but the staircase had sifted and led in a different direction.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Haru followed Professor Sprout to the doors leading into the Great Hall. The dumpy little teacher smiled at him politely.
"I'll see you at classes later," she said before she left.
Haru waited for a moment and then walked over to the doors. They swung shut in his face. He blinked in surprise and reached out to pull them open.
A sound like a raspberry being blown came from the door, and it stayed closed. Haru blinked slowly. "Did you just . . . . . ?" he asked quietly. In response, the door made another rude noise and the sound of another lock clicking into place snapped his temper.
Black Haru snarled at the door. "What the hell do you think you're doing? You ain't gonna lock me out of no damm room! I've had up to here with you and all your fellow doors attitude!"
And with that, he smashed the doors to the Great Hall to pieces with his fists before anyone realized what was happening.
Professor Flitwick, the pint sized Charms teacher, came running over. "Stop! Stop!" he shouted. "Detention! Detention! Take ten points away from your house! And STOP!" he bellowed at the top of his lungs.
Haru stopped kicking the door. He looked at Flitwick darkly for a brief moment. "What?" he hissed. "This - "
"That's enough," Professor Flitwick said. "I believe that you owe the doors an apology."
Haru just stared in shock at the teacher that came up to his knees.
"I'm waiting," Flitwick said, crossing his arms.
Haru sighed heavily and it looked like he was calming down. Then he shot foreword and sent Flitwick flying through the doors with his fist. "Just who the -" he shouted, fully prepared to continue his assault.
Hatori, who had made it to breakfast, caught Flitwick and quickly erased his memory of being kicked. "Haru, go to your classes and don't do that again!" he snapped.
Haru sulked out of the room like a naughty child who felt he was being unjustly punished.
Hatori quickly assessed the damages of the little teacher. Since they weren't bad, he set him down in a chair and waited for him to wake up so he could explain a new series of events for the small teacher.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Hana, Kagura, and Yuki made their way to their first class of the day. Transfiguration was taught by Professor McGonagall, and they had the whole classroom to themselves.
All of the Slytherians in the room took their seats quietly and waited for the teacher to arrive.
Akito leaned across his desk towards Yuki. "Where were you last night?" he asked softly, a smile stretching across his face.
Yuki froze for a moment, still undecided where he wanted to stay.
"I was looking for you!" Aya exclaimed. "I thought that maybe we could share a bed and tell scary stories and think up jokes to play on other people and -"
Yuki decided to stay in the girls dormitory. "I was in my dorm room," he said. "Looks like we didn't get put in the same room . . . . ."
He let his voice trail off as Haru entered the room with a dark expression on his face. "That dammed idiot! Did he really expect me to apologize to a door?" he snarled. He was obviously Black Haru at the moment.
He dropped himself into a chair and started to slouch before leaping a foot in the air. Not paying attention he had sat down beside Akito. He started to spring to his feet when the tabby cat sitting on the desk transformed into Professor McGonagall.
"Good morning," she said.
Akito sneered at her. Haru snarled at the same time, as his stomach rumbled angrily at the lack of food in it. Neither of them thought that it was a good morning.
"Good morning!" Aya exclaimed. "It's such a beautiful day, but a little on the chilly side, don't you think?" he asked.
McGonagall paused for a moment, looking over the three of them with a serious look on her face. "Slightly," she acknowledged Aya's comment. "Let's begin."
"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarst," she said. "Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."
Then she turned her desk into a pig.
The pig squealed with delight and sailed through the air, landing on Kagura's lap just as it turned into a desk again.
"Oaf," the sweet looking girl grunted. The desk was really heavy. "Someone get it off me!" she shouted as everyone stared in shock.
Yuki and Hana both stood up, moving foreword to help while Haru went White with surprise.
"What happened?" he asked stoically.
McGonagall quickly waved her wand. "Wingardum Leviosa!" she called. The desk floated up in the air and quickly settle down where it belonged.
Then the stern faced woman quickly hurried over to Kagura. "Are you all right?" she demanded. Her hat was askew and she looked disturbed.
Kagura blinked rapidly and sat up. "I should be fine," she said. "I was mostly worried about my robes. I just finished embroidering them and didn't want to scuff the thread."
McGonagall blinked. "What?" she asked in confusion.
"See, I got little cat heads all over them!" Kagura exclaimed.
Several people leaned foreword to get a better look. Sure enough, in pale orange thread, little cat heads were outlined all over her robes.
McGonagall sighed heavily. "Let's continue with the lesson then," she said. She pulled her wand out again and waved it over Kagura's shattered desk while saying a repair spell.
Kagura, it seemed, didn't have a bruise on her.
Class continued. Akito, who was getting bored with his match that wouldn't turn into a pin, laid his head on his hands and fell asleep.
Kagura match ended up turning the same shade of orange as Kyou's hair. It didn't even get pointy. She looked slightly disappointed in it's performance. "And I wanted to turn it into a replica of Kyou," Yuki heard her mutter.
Yuki's match got slightly pointy both ends, but it kept it's real colors throughout all his attempts. It did turn into the correct shape, which he though was a plus.
Aya's didn't do anything, so he started to braid his hair. The match was rather boring, and his hair was so much prettier.
Hana's match burst into flames when she attempted to Transfigure it. She decided to call it a success. "It's original form is lost," she pointed out to McGonagall. "All that's left is ashes."
McGonagall wasn't impressed. She gave Hana a new match and showed her what to do once again.
After showing Hana the drill, she turned to see Haru heading out the door. "Mr. Souma, just where do you think you're going?" she asked. "You have to wait until the end of class to - "
"I just realized, this class is for Slytherians. . . . . .I'm White Haru right now, so I should be in History of Magick. I'll just let myself out . . . . . " he said slowly.
McGonagall, who still wasn't sure what to do about Haru let him leave the room. Sometime after he left, she noted that his match had been turned into a needle with a nice size eye. She kept in mind to give him five points for the successful task.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Kisa sat through History of Magick with an enthralled expression on her face. The teacher was the strangest thing she had ever seen.
Professor Binns, who was a ghost, had been really old and boring when he had been alive. After dying in front of the staff room fire, he had gotten right back up and continued teaching.
It wasn't that his lecture was that interesting. In fact, it was downright boring. Kisa would have fallen asleep if he hadn't been a ghost. If he didn't keep floating through his desk.
She was diligently taking notes, making sure to copy everything down correctly. Sometimes Professor Binns got his words mixed up.
Hearing giggles behind her, she glanced back just as a boy finished sticking something wet and gooy in her hair. She raised her hand, tentatively touching the goo. It was dripping along hair on the sides of her face, and it was really sticky.
Her fingers got stuck. She tugged, trying to get them loose.
The boys who had played the joke started to laugh louder.
"Let me help," one of them said. It was a dark haired boy with a cruel look on his face. He pulled out his wand, waving in front of her face and making the gooey gel in her hair swell and spill down, engulfing her whole hand before it hardened.
"Oops," he said, an innocence look on his face. "Did the poor little mud blood get her hand stuck in her icky hair?" The others all laughed again.
Kisa stood up and raced out of the room. She woke Shigure and Uotani who had fallen asleep during the lecture as she shot past them.
"Kisa?" Shigure questioned.
"What's wrong with her?" Uotani asked.
"I don't know, she just ran out of here for no reason," the cruel boy said.
Professor Binns continued droning on about Emeric the Evil.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Tohru finally found the Hufflepuff common room. She raced to her room and put on fresh clothes before hurrying down the stairs.
Momiji was sitting on a big, fluffy pastel yellow chair. "Tohru-kun!" he exclaimed. He leapt foreword, remembering not to hug her. Instead, he hugged the air around her.
"Where were you?" he asked.
Tohru smiled. "I got lost," she explained. She hugged the air around Momiji, something they had started doing to make up for all the times they couldn't hug.
"Oh, at least you got back in time. We got Potions in a couple of minutes," he explained. "Actually, we'll probably be a little bit late, but that's okay."
Several moments later they were in the dungeons opening the door to the classroom and stepping inside. "You're late," Professor Snape said. He had a black eye and large bruise on his face.
Tohru recognized him immediately. Her first instinct was to apologize. "Gomen nasai," she said, bowing her head. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to be, but I got lost and then this little man - "
"That will be quite enough," Professor Snape said. "Ten points will be taken from your house for your tardiness."
Tohru sat down, feeling that he didn't understand what she was talking about. 'I'll explain after class,' she thought determinedly.
Professor Snape began his class with a roll call. Then he went on to ask some basic questions. Momiji knew the answers to most of the questions. Apparently he had been looking through the book the night before for a potion that would make him transparent.
Wetick, the Hufflepuff perfect that he had been following had been trying to give him a hug all night long.
"There's just something about you that say 'squeeze me,' and I mean to do it!" she had exclaimed.
While he hadn't found the potion to make himself transparent, he had picked up a lot of other information. Professor Snape didn't look too pleased with the results of his first class of the semester.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Kyou sat sulking in the girls bathroom. He was still in his cat form and it was starting to piss him off. Not to mention the fact that Tohru had left his clothes on the edge of the growing puddle of water coming from the stalls. They had gotten wet and it was rather irritating.
He started pacing back and forth. It was getting rather late. By now, he had probably missed his first two classes. Or at least the first one.
He heard a crash as the door flew open. Panicked, he slipped in the water and slid under the stall.
The sound of running footsteps faded as someone opened one of the stall doors and locked it.
Kyou stood up, shaking the excess water from his body before creeping out. The bathroom was no longer safe. He couldn't risk turning back with someone in the room. He caught his clothes in his mouth and crept out of the room silently.
Ms. Norris was standing in the hallway. Kyou raced off, trying to outrun her. POOF! he changed back to human form with his clothes in his mouth just as a group of sixth year Ravenclaws stepped out of their Transfiguration classroom.
Professor McGonagall stepped out after them, hearing them scream in shock. "What is it?!" she demanded. She had her wand drawn and looked prepared for trouble.
Kyou felt like he was caught in the blinding glare of headlights. He couldn't move at all.
At first McGonagall didn't understand what she was seeing. She waved her wand, transfiguring Kyou into a cat.
The cat's tail twitched and it meowed.
Kyou panicked. He was supposed to be able to talk in human form. With fear and adreneline pumping through his body, he tore down the hall, still biting his clothes.
It was then that McGonagall realized that she had just turned a student into a cat. It had been her second mistake of the day. The second mistake that had gotten a Souma hurt.
She had marked Kyou down for detention but hadn't taken any points away for his absence. Now, while she felt slightly guilty, she decided to take fifty points from his house. That is, she planned to take the points after she found him.
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Author's notes;
Okay, I stopped so the chapter wouldn't get to big. However, just keep reading because I'm putting the next chapter up at the same time.
Hope you all enjoy, and thanks for all the great reviews.
Kissa-chan