Chapter 3

(Kyou)

"Hatori, you tired?" Shigure asked, "I can take over. I do have a license you know."

"If you're driving, I'm walking," Hiro said.

"Fine, you can walk 800kms. Let me drive Hatori," Shigure said.

"Don't do it," I said.

"Ano…can you stop the van? I sort of…got to go," Momiji said.

"Go? Go where?" Tohru asked.

Haru began shushing.

"Please don't do that," Momiji said.

"Do what? This?" Haru asked and began shushing again.

"Hai-niisan! Tell Haru to stop," Momiji said.

'So bothersome,' I thought, 'I told them it was a bad idea to have all 12 of us sitting together.'

"Are we there yet?" Ayame asked for the nth time.

"Ha-niisan!" Momiji cried.

"Tori-san! Why are you ignoring me?" Ayame whined.

Yuki sighed, "You may want to take out his earplugs."

(Kagura)

When we arrived at the mansion it was evening already. Guess I shouldn't be that surprise, considering how we had to make pit stops every five minutes. Pit stops that lasted at least 20 minutes each.

"Need help with dinner?" Momiji asked sticking his head in.

Tohru smiled, "We're fine."

I drained the water, "With Tohru-chan as our head chef and us as the sous-chefs how could we not be?"

"But Kisa's crying," Momiji noted.

Hiro rushed in, "You made Kisa cry?"

"…"

"It's not Tohru-san's fault…" Kisa said, "onions."

"You shouldn't be holding a knife. What if you cut yourself?" Hiro asked and said, "let me help you."

I smiled, 'How cute. I got to find myself a boyfriend.'

"I want to help too," Momiji said raising his hands, "what can I do?"

"I don't think the kitchen's big enough for the five of us…" I said.

"It's alright," Tohru said, "if you want to help you can stir the soup and make sure it doesn't stick to the bottom."

'She really can't refuse people.'

(Kyou)

Ritsu just took the drumstick and took a bite out of it, when Momiji pouted, "I wanted that last drumstick."

"Gomen nasai! Sumimasen! I didn't know! You can have it, I just took one bite you can eat from the other side! Sumimasen!" he cried and began bowing which was really just banging his head on the table and making everything spill.

Ayame smiled and added cheerfully, "Ri-chan, you're spitting all over the food."

"Ahhh! SUMIMASEN! GOMEN NASAI! I didn't mean to!"

Shigure grinned, "Now would be a good time to take out any meat that needs tenderizing and putting it under Ritsu's head. After all raw meat's good for bruises, ne?"

Hatori glared at him.

Momiji who was beside Ritsu grabbed him, "It's ok."

I sighed and tried a vegetable and spat it out.

"Is something wrong?" Kagura asked.

"It's sandy."

"Kagura washed and cooked that," Hiro pointed out.

"…"

It was suddenly very silent and everyone was waiting for her to explode but instead Kagura pulled the dish towards her and smiled, "Gomen. I guess I didn't wash it clean enough. You guys better not eat this."

"…"

Haru grabbed the vegetable and ate it, "It's not so bad."

"At least it's edible, unlike Yuki's cooking," Shigure said.

"Yuki-kun's cooking is fine. You guys just don't know how to appreciate it, ne Yuki-kun?" Ayame said.

"Easy for you to say. You never eaten it before," Shigure said.

The arguments commenced. I looked at Kagura, 'I'm not use to this Kagura at all. But I guess I'm lucky she's not violent.'

Next afternoon:

(Tohru)

Hiro and Kisa were building a sand castle and debating how big to make the mote. Ayame and Shigure were trying to get Hatori to go into the sun, and to put on Ayame's newly designed swim trunks. Momiji and Ritsu were out shelling hunting, and trying to dig up clams for tonight's dinner.

"Tohru-chan, lets play some beach volleyball," Kagura suggested.

"Ok, but I don't think we brought out the ball."

"I'll go get it."

"I'll come with you," I said.

We got back to the house to see Haru and Kyou fighting. Usually Kagura would grab Kyou fling him away, and scold him for the danger of getting into the fight. Then Kyou would scream back and Kagura would eventually calm down and apologize.

Today was a bit different as Kagura gasped, "What should we do!"

"It happens all the time," Yuki said, "don't worry about it."

"It does? Why?" Kagura asked, "but they both seem very furious. Stop them…please…"

'Kagura-san…'

"I understand," Yuki said and went over.

He stood between them and with a punch sent both of them flying across the ground.

(Kyou)

I got up, "Teme!"

"You got a scratch on your cheek," Kagura said and pulled a bandage out of her teddy bear backpack and put it on my cheek.

"…"

She went to Haru, "You ok?"

"Fine. Yuki, what did you do that for? You should know not to-"

"The cut looks deep. We got to disinfect it," Kagura said and pulled him away, "Tohru-chan, I'll be out as soon as I can. Get everything set, kay?"

'Disinfect?'

"I'll help you set up," Yuki said.

"Arigatou. Kyou-kun, you want to come too?" Tohru asked.

I looked at Yuki, "No."

"Well…ok…" Tohru said.

Evening

(Kagura)

Kisa smiled, "And the final dish. Fish."

She slipped but Kyou caught her and the dish.

"Told you to dry you hair before walking around," Hatori said.

"Yeah, you left dangerous pools of water everywhere," Hiro said.

"Don't make others look after you," Yuki added.

"Demo, Tori-san you know that blow drying is bad for hair. It makes it all bristle and yellow, I can't do that. And Yuki-kun-"

I tuned him out, 'Impossble…Kisa didn't change even though he hugged her. Could Rin or Kureno have died in the earthquake and no one told me? But even so their replacement can't be as old as Kyou… What's going on!'

TBC