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Chapter 2: Curiosity kills the mouse.

If you thought about it, Kyou has been acting strange since this morning. He's been glancing to me many times and stare then even denied it. Not to mention, I saw him gazing at my I.D. outside the school council's room. Now he even approached the fan club for my picture… Is it because of our fight yesterday? I don't think so, it's just a normal commotion and that he loses. But hey! Why my face? --. That Baka Neko, whatever he's up to, he'll never wins against me. Yup! Because he is stupid.

"…….."

"…….."

"You better not plan on doing anything stupid, Baka Neko." Yuki finally broke the silence in the room.

"Huh? And what did I do, you damned mouse! Making a spotlight?"

"Talking about spotlight, it was you whose making things weird! You're awfully quiet this day. And that's irritating." Tohru and Shigure keep looking vice-versa at the two.

"And what's with me being quiet? I'm free to do things anyway I want!"

"…Coz, maybe you're plotting something." he glares at him.

"I maybe plotting something and that's totally none of your business!"

"So you're plotting something?"

"Drop Dead!" Unable to keep his anger, Kyou slammed his fist on the table and stand-up. He leaves the room and went upstairs.

Tohru and Shigure relieve. Finally, the two got in quarrel. It will be pretty unusual to have a peaceful dinner with Kyou and Yuki together.

"Nice Yuki-kun!" the older Sohma give him a thumbs-up.

"But Kyou-kun…" the girl glance at the boy's half-eaten food on his plate.

"Don't worry Honda-san, he'll go down when he gets hungry." Yuki smile.

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It's already past 11pm and everyone seems to be asleep since the lights are already off. Yuki went downstairs to have something to drink. He's thirsty ok? Nighttime is a perfect time to run his thoughts. It's peaceful and relaxing, that even drives him into melancholic mood. Just when he thought that he got privacy, he notices that he's not alone. Someone is outside just beside the sliding door. He doesn't need to get close to see who, the moon is bright and a shadow of a young boy is reflected inside the room. And there can be only one… Oh boy, just when he's feeling peaceful, there is the troublesome.

Speaking of him, what happened earlier is still unusual. Because he's expecting Kyou to gone wild or something like that, like he always used to. This time, Kyou ended their quarrel soon and didn't even glare at him when he left. That is bothersome. He know his cousin well, because they're been fighting for years, because he is the cat. For once, he's curious. He wanted to know what's happening to him. He have to ask.

"Is the Cat still pondering even until now?" Kyou jerked. He stand up gently while leaning his back on the wall then passed the mouse who gaze at him. "

"Surprising. The Cat is avoiding the Mouse. Truly surprising…" said the silver-haired boy who's still gazing at the other.

"Then, what did the Mouse wants from the Cat?" the orange-haired boy stop on his track without looking back. He knew that the other boy is still gazing at him. And also knew that the Mouse won't let him get away until it gets what it wants.

"I just wanna ask something…" the other boy's head moved, sighing annoyed.

"If you have something to ask, ask right away!" this time, the crimson eyes met with his, gazing back,

"Okay, straight to the point. At breakfast, why are you staring at me? And at school, you're gazing on my I.D. and you even ask for my pic from the fan club. What are you up to? Why are you examining… ME?" he said with his voice pressed on the last word.

Kyou twitch and quickly look away. Roaming his vision on the room, avoiding the other. He doesn't know what to say since he doesn't know either, he stutters.

"I don't know..." he finally said. He knows that it's not convincing and the other is still asking for more clear answer. "I said I don't know! That's why I wanna find out why!" He pause. "Something new". There's no way he's going to say that, coz he find it absurd and he know that his cousin will also does.

Still gazing at his cousin, the look on his eyes say's that he'd said what he have to say. He can't help it, but to laugh quietly. His cousin is really stupid isn't he?

"Don't worry, I won't do it again. Just forget about it…"

"Okey." The silver-haired boy only said in a teasing tone. Kyou jolted and finally look at his cousin who's still gazing at him.

"Oh…" he roams his vision. He doesn't want to hear what will Yuki going to say next, so he decided to go back to his room. He's a bit surprise coz he's expecting to be called 'Stupid' again but he's happy he's not. It's finally over and it doesn't matter anymore.

Yuki watch his cousin as he disappeared from the dark. He smacks his forehead. Kyou got him in there. He is no threat and no harm, because he is stupid, he thought.

"Now now, my glass of water."

- tsuzuku