Steph: ::Does happy dance once more:: Yay thank you all who have actually
reviewed ::Anime water fall tears:: In regards to
Foxgrl991's question- The thing about fox not going to hatori is that Akito and everyone else besides shigure, yuki, kyo, and tohru knows about her. It was for her own safety
Kyo: ::Wakes up mutter:: Stupid.....
Steph: ::Sweat drops:: I don't think my reasoning is stupid.....grrr don't make me get more leeks!!
Kyo: ::Whimpers in his semiconscious state::
Steph: ::smirks in satisfaction and turns to the other smiling cheerfully:: And I don't have to worry about anyone else now do i?
Everyone: ::Shakes there head quickly: no not us!!
Steph: ::Evil chuckle:: good....good ....
Chapter 4 Feelings are a bit confusing
Fox took off towards the forest her only sanctuary; she sighed and shook her head sadly she didn't know what they would think. She stopped and dropped to her knees cringing lightly as the blood began to seep from the wound in her side, she was lucky to have the bandages on or else it would have stained her cloths. She breathed hard and heard footsteps approaching quickly, kyo came into the clearing his red eyes looking around wildly. He spotted her and ran over, he fell to his knees his eyes dancing with worry. "Fox are you alright?" he asked touching her shoulder softly and looking at her with worried eyes. "I'm fine Kyo don't worry" she said standing and smiling lightly. That air of arrogance once more around her, her pride wouldn't let alone if she went to a hospital. "I'm not leaving you alone until you go to a hospital fox" he said glaring at her. She sighed full heartedly and asked meekly. "If the wound is gone by tomorrow will you leave me alone?" She asked and he nodded. "Sure why the hell not but if it's not the guess what....your going to the hospital" he said smirking smugly. She looked up at him, her shinning blue eyes catching his. He blushed and looked away; she smiled lightly and teased him. "Oh kyo I didn't know I was so beautiful, because of the way you blush...." she giggled and shifted from foot to foot a bit restless. Kyo looked at the ground blushing red hot. His bangs covering his face for the most part, and it was dark out so it hid it a little, she had still seen him blushing. "Kyo if you want to go home I am ready to go back" she said cheerfully. She considered them close friends already and they had only known each other for a day. Fox stretched out a hand and offered it to him smiling, her soft blue eyes glittering with friendship. "Let's go home" she said smiling. Kyo nodded and grabbed her hand, he was pulled up with ease by fox that had smiled and hugged him for the hell of it.(A.n man that would hurt like hell......have a wound that bad and hug someone!!) A puff of smoke surrounded him and he transformed into a cat, she smiled and picked up his cloths. He hissed angrily at her. "WHY DID YOU HUG ME!?!?!?" he asked her. She smiled and held his cloths in her hand she laughed. "Oh so you don't like me hugging you my feline friend?" Kyo choked and looked up at her with red cat eyes and shook his fur and didn't reply. She picked him up and laughed, kyo stiffened.
"Why are you carrying me?" He asked angrily. She smiled and said cheerfully. "Well I wanted to get home faster and you go to slow" she said laughing "Unless you want me to leave you alone, on the ground and leave you in my dust." Kyo glared through his cat eyes and scratched her arm, she dropped him and glared.( a.n -- bad kyo!!) "That wasn't nice" She sighed and shook her head "Ok Neko I am going back to the house" she set his cloths down next to him and hopped into a tree then jumped from one tree to another quickly and was out of site.
Kyo sighed and transformed in a puff of orange smoke into a human and slipped his cloths on, he looked at his right wrist. The black and white beads that kept his inner cat demon in ((It's the evil cat spirit thingy I call it a cat demon), he wondered if it ever came off what would fox think?
He sighed and jogged back to the house and thought about Fox....He liked her already she had spunk and was strong, arrogant, and she looked lost and he knew the feeling. 'Maybe fox and I could help each other out and find ourselves' he thought and smiled lightly.
Fox entered the door to see three faces staring at her; she smiled and waved to all of them. She walked towards them and smiled.
"Where is kyo,fox?" Tohru asked quietly. Fox felt a smile tug at the corner of her lips, she smiled at them.
"He is on his way I am a lot faster then him" she said laughing. "Well I am tired now I think I will get some rest thank you all for being so kind to me" she said as kyo entered the front door.
"Good night miss fox" yuki smiled at her. She didn't know why but she didn't like yuki..... Not as an enemy she just didn't trust him.
"Good night fox" Tohru and Shigure said in unison and smiled at each other and giggled. She waved to them and padded up the stairs and into her room. She neared her door and opened it and slipped inside, she shut the door quietly behind her and turned off the lights. Kyo didn't speak to them just ran up to his room and shut the door; the other three looked at each other. ((time lapse.....its now morning!!))
Fox was the first one to rise, she undid her braid and let her silver hair fall gently down into curls, she was in her human form as to fit in better. Her sapphire eyes gleamed happily, as she got dressed in a white tube top and white petal pushers. She had on a light white jacket; around her neck was a sapphire heart on a gold chain. She smiled and went down stairs and started to cook breakfast with what they had. She was not used to the Japanese style so she smiled and took some things and concocted a breakfast of her own. It consisted of 5 glasses of milk around the table, and on each plate were a few steaming rice balls. Around the edge of the plate was fried rice with a bit of soy sauce and some fish and chicken on the sides. She smiled at her handy work. She washed all the dishes she had used to make the breakfast and then waited for them to all come down.
Tohru, Shigure, kyo, and even yuki walked in extremely surprised that Fox had cooked breakfast usually that task was left up to tohru. Kyo's mouth watered and he sat down on a mat, everyone else followed suite, and fox smiled and kneeled down and ate some of her own. She chewed a piece of fish that she had seasoned with lemon pepper to give it a tangy taste to it.
"Is it alright I just made it from scratch" she said smiling broadly. Tohru nodded cheerfully somewhat sad that she didn't cook breakfast.
"Its great Fox!!" she said smiling, fox smiled at her warmly.
"Thank you tohru that's so kind of you I thought that you all deserved a nice warm meal for taking me in and hiding me from my hunter" she said. Tohru looked at her likewise yuki, she smiled and waved the worried looks away.
"Its alright I am ok I am hoping that he doesn't discover where I am" she said quietly and munched on her food with little appetite. They finished their meal in an uneasy silence, tohru and fox gathered the plates and went off to clean up breakfast, yuki and kyo got ready for school and fox let tohru go off to get ready. She finished and put the dishes away; she went up to Gure and smiled softly.
"Shigure do you know of any job's that I could get while I am here, I need new cloths and I need other things, plus I wish to pay rent to you for letting me stay." Shigure smiled and thought of a job and smiled broadly.
"I thought of the perfect job for such a lovely women like you" he said smiling happily "And you don't have to pay me I already have two free loaders, kyo and yuki, tohru helps around the house. How old are you?" Shigure asked he had been wondering that.
"Well I am about 16 and a ½ she said smiling" Shigure nodded and thought.
"Shouldn't you be in school?" He asked. She smiled and shook her head.
"I already went through high school I am 16 I know but I took it when I was 14 it was easy I passed high school and got on with my life" she said smiling.
"So what is that job you were talking about?" She asked. Gure brightened extremely and took her hand.
"Yuki's has a brother named Ayame, Ayame runs a shop for women clothing and he is looking for a model for his clothing. He is also a member of the zodiac" he said. Yuki, kyo, and tohru came in as she said her answer smiling.
"Alright I will be ayame's model" she said giggling cheerfully "Yay I have a job!!" She took Gure's hands and danced happily. They stopped and looked to the three of them and smiled, she said cheerfully.
"I have a new job" Yuki was glowing darkly, kyo had the same aura, she stepped back lightly.
"Uh what is wrong with Aya? Is there a problem that I can't be his model?" she asked innocently and watched there expressions darken and they lunged at Gure and him soundly upside the head.
"You stupid perverted dog!!" Kyo said hitting him.
"God's my brother Shigure how could you!!" yuki said and hit him again. Fox ran in front of them and growled lowly, standing protectively over Shigure.
"Leave him be" she growled out at the two, they stepped back and looked at her sheepishly. Yuki was about to reply when kyo spoke quietly before him.
"I'm sorry Fox go ahead and work for Aya" He said. His eyes downcast, everyone looked at him in disbelief and shook their heads.
"Yes Miss Fox please excuse us we just were looking out for your safety." He smiled warmly at her. Fox smiled lightly then said smiling.
"Alright I think its time for you to go to school" She hugged tohru lightly in a friendship manner and smiled. "Bye tohru, bye kyo, bye yuki!!" she said waving as they walked out the door. She turned back to Shigure and smiled warmly at him and tucked back a piece of curly silver hair.
"Alright Shigure lets go see if Ayame needs a mode!!" she said with a smile on her lips. Shigure had oh the so lovely saying in his mind. Ayame would have it to most likely. 'High school girls high school girls all for me high school girls he he he...'
Fox and Shigure got in the car and drove off to Ayame's shop smiling cheerfully; fox turned on the radio and searched around until a small smile formed on her lips. She put on a rock station that she adored and wondered if Shigure wouldn't mind her music.
"Um Shigure do you mind if I put on some punk/ rock music?" she asked meekly. Shigure smiled warmly and replied.
"Anything you want my dear!!" They both laughed and fox turned the music up and smiled it was one of her favorite songs. It was by a band called Queens of the Stone Age, no one knows was the title of the song. She smiled and turned it up louder and tucked a few strands of curled silver hair behind her rounded ears. Today she had in diamond shaped sapphire earrings and a sapphire necklace in the shape of a heart.
Shigure smiled at her enjoying the song, sure he didn't really listen to her type of music more the classical, but the song had a nice beat to it. He started tapping his hands on the wheel in rhythm to it; Fox giggled lightly and felt her body moving to the song unconsciously.
They arrived at Ayame's shop and got out of the car after a few good loud hard rock songs, Fox had a large smile on her face and she thought aloud.
"Hmm I should take Yuki, tohru, and kyo to a rave that would be fun " she said smiling cheerfully. Shigure imagined tohru at a rave and let out a small giggle. He pictured her standing there in a nice sweet little outfit and had that dazed confused look on her face and yuki near her. He shook his head at her sadly, fox remembered the curse and sighed sadly, she yawned lightly.
"Well that is terrible that you guys can't go to a rave, there awfully fun" She said pouting and went in after Shigure into Ayame's shop. Ayame's assistant popped her head up and smiled warmly, she was wearing a nurses outfit with glasses and smiled warmly and ran over to them.
"Hello shigure!! Who is your little friend here?" she asked smiling. Fox held out her hand and smiled at the girl.
"I am called fox and what should I call you?" Fox inquired smiling extremely warm. The girl smiled and said doing a little twirl.
"My name is mina nice to meet you fox!" (A.n i have no clue, i think ayame's assistants name is Mine(mi ne') Can someone tell me? ) she said shaking fox's hand. Ayame called out in a sing song voice he always used.
"Be there in a minute!!" mina showed shigure and Fox to the waiting room. They sat down for no more then 2 minutes and a voice rang out crisply through the room.
"In the words of a great drama high school teacher.....it takes two strokes to make the character person." Gure had stood and went over to a silver haired man and made the Japanese symbol for 'character' they then said in unison.
"YOSH!!" Fox let out a tinkling laugh that filled that air of the room, the silver haired man turned to her. His green eyes drifting over her, he smiled broadly.
"Might you be fox?" He asked and went over to her and took her hand and placed a kiss gingerly on it and smiled at her. Fox blushed lightly and stood smiling softly.
"Yes my name is fox I am assuming Shigure told you about me" Gure was whistling and fox narrowed her sapphire eyes and they glimmered slightly angry. "Shigure!!!" She sighed and smiled at a confused ayame.
"So I would imagine you are the owner of this fine store, Ayame Am I correct?" She asked her blue eyes glittering with mischief. It was almost always there, being the stealthy, thin, and sleek person she was. Ayame smiled brilliantly and replied.
"Yes my dear I wish Gure had told me of how beautiful you were" He pouted and flipped his long silver hair over his shoulders; she smiled and shook her head lightly laughing at him. The tendrils of soft silver curls flew up in a wave of molten silver casting an illumination on fox that magnified her beauty even more. Aya was awe struck at her over all appearance.
"You will be a lovely model for me come!! I must have you try on one of my new designs!!!" he said turning on his heal and heading into the back. Mina followed after him and tugged her along, she told shigure to stay behind, and he sat down pouting and waited for them to come out.
Finally Mina and ayame came out from behind the curtain smiling in approval, next out was fox. Shigure looked at her with disbelief; her eyes sparkled questioning her appearance. Her soft silver hair was pulled up into a bun and some lose pieces of silver hair were curled to frame her face. She had on a light blue eye shadow; her cheeks were adorned in a light blush.
Her lips had a light pink lip stick on, but it wasn't only her face that shigure was stunned at. She was wearing one of Ayame's creations; it was an old renaissance dress. Down the front it was laced to about her midsection, the front of it was white to about as wide as her hips. Then it went into a dark deep blue that made her eyes glimmer even more then shigure saw before.
She had a small dark blue purse that glittered with small white gems, it looked like thousands of stars or diamonds shigure wasn't sure which. She wore a pair of dark blue sandals that matched her outfit perfectly; the dress fit her snugly around her bosom. Then it fit a little snugly to her midsection then tightened at her hips then let out in a large flow of material at the bottom.
Ayame's eyes sparkled brilliantly at her, his green eyes full of approval; shigure still was too stunned to say anything. Ayame turned to him and pouted extremely feminine like.
"Gure you are staring and you haven't even said if she looked wonderful yet" He tossed back his braid impatiently. Shigure snapped out of the trance he was stuck in and smiled warmly at aya and fox.
"You look absolutely beautiful fox dear, and aya I was stunned by her beauty!! I will talk to you tonight about this ok but I must go for now. I will come back and pick Fox up" He smiled and went chibi and went up to Ayame who was now a chibi and they made the character symbol.
"YOSH!" the put a thumbs up in fox's direction, she blushed lightly and smiled. She let out a tinkling laugh that rang through the room. Shigure smiled and said to fox.
"See you in about 4 hours!!" He walked out and shut the door behind him; Mina had an evil look in her eyes and aya smiled.
"Well let's get outfitting Fox dear we have a lot of cloths for you to try on!!" He said clasping his hands cheerfully, Mina took her arm and led her back into the dressing room and started changing her into something different. It was going to be a long day!
Meanwhile shigure torment his editor smiling cheerfully until she strapped him down and made him write, but anyway back at high school. Kyo sat in class his head on his hands; he ignored everyone around him and thought of fox. It was weird they had only met a day ago but he still couldn't keep her off his mind. The last bell of the day rung and kyo jumped up and was out of class faster then anyone could catch his movements. He flew past Haru, tohru, yuki, momigi, and all his other class mates.
Haru raised a brow and looked at them.
"Where is kyo in such a rush yuki?" He asked still upset that yuki was going out with tohru but he dealt with it all the same. Yuki thought for a moment then a frown crossed his features.
"He may be rushing home to see fox" He thought and then bit his lip, they didn't know about fox yet. Momigi went up to them and tugged on yuki's sleeve, Haru quirked a brow.
"A fox?" They asked confused and in unison, Tohru laughed lightly and shook her head.
"No Fox is a women she is living at Shigure's house with us" She smiled and the scooted closer. She backed away and looked at them smiling.
"Does Akito know?" Asked Haru, yuki shook his head and looked at him seriously.
"Fox could kill Akito with out a second thought she is extremely powerful Haru" Haru laughed and then saw the look on his face.
"I want to meet her." Haru said running a hand through his black and white hair. Momigi smiled and chirped.
"I want to meet her to!!" Yuki sighed and shook his head lightly.
"Fine you can come alright?" They all nodded happily and went on their way to Shigure's house. Kyo had already reached the house and slammed the door open, he ran up stairs then looked around the house. He quirked a brow and heard Shigure's voice.
"Fox is still modeling for ayame at the moment relax kyo" he said smiling and came out from around the corner. Kyo growled something under his breath and shigure smiled broadly.
"In love aren't we kyo?" Shigure giggled and got hit on the head; he had anime water fall tears flowing down his face. He whined pawing at the air.
"That hurt kyo!!!" Kyo sat on the couch and sighed waiting for her to get home, he growled and stood up and ran up to the roof and laid there waiting for her. Yuki, tohru, haru, momigi all came in and looked around.
"Were home and Haru and momigi came to visit!!" Tohru said cheerfully, shigure walked out a small bump on his head.
"Where is Miss Fox shigure?" Asked yuki. Haru and Momigi looked around and shigure smiled.
"She is still modeling for aya!!" he smiled, and hummed lightly then looked at the clock and said.
"I am going to pick her up in about an hour,make yourselves preoccupied, I'm going to go now and see if I can get her home earlier" He said walking out the door, her hopped into his car and drove off leaving the sohma's and tohru in the living room. They all preoccupied themselves with homework and smiled and chatted about this and that.
Shigure pulled up to Aya's shop and stepped out of the car and went inside ringing the bell lightly, fox heard it and ran to the front in a black skirt with a slit up the side, and a sparkly black shirt, her hair still in the bun and the make up now with added eye liner. She smiled warmly at him and said.
"Aya gave this to me isn't it stunning Shigure?!?" She squealed with delight and ran up to aya and gave him one of those distant hugs that you don't physically touch the person just there arms lightly. Aya smiled and patted her on the head.
"See you tomorrow my dear!!" Fox smiled and said bye.
"Bye aya!! Bye Mina!! Thank you so much for the job and the outfit!!" Mine gave her the cloths she had been wearing today. Shigure took them and smiled lightly.
"Come on Fox there are some people I want you to meet alright?" he said walking out the door, fox waved and then ran out after them. Mina and Aya smiled and talked about what to put her in next, the laughed lightly and headed back and started making a few new outfits.
In the car fox was listening to rock again and said smiling at shigure, she turned the music down so he could hear her. "Can we stop at a music department real quick?" Shigure nodded and drove off to best buy she smiled broadly and pulled out some money that aya had given her to start off with. Shigure smiled and the stopped at best buy, they went in and looked around.(A.n do they even have a best buy? Ohh well its there for this story!! Hehee)
Kyo sat on the roof and waited for her to get home; he didn't know why he liked her so damn much. Maybe it was because she was strong, stubborn, proud and a number of other things. He heard Shigure's car pull up and went down off the roof and waited for her to get there.
Fox stepped out of the car and smiled at him, she waved quickly and went into the back seat and got out a stereo she had bought and carried it with ease up to him. She set it down and smiled; he looked at her and said smiling.
"You look beautiful fox" He blushed and looked at the box and looked at it quirking a brow, Shigure had a bag full of cd's that she had bought. She smiled and asked kyo smiling sweetly which made his knees soft.
"Can you get the cd from shigure and bring them into my room?" She asked and picked up the box again and went into the house past everyone and up stairs. Everyone looked at her bringing the big box up the stairs, yuki was running after her.
"Do you need help Miss Fox?" She shook her head and went into her room and set the box down and started setting it up, she had it set up in 5 minutes flat. Kyo came in after her and set the cd's down on her bed and looked at her smiling and asked.
"What's with all the new things? The cd's and stereo and where did you get the money...oh yeah aya?" He asked as she picked up a cd, she took it from its case and put it on. It was Korn, man where they all in for a surprise, she plugged in the speakers and let the music drown out all sound. Kyo's teeth chattered and he went out of the room, Fox was content with her music and turned it off. She jumped down the stairs and landed on her feet cheerfully and ran to shigure and held his hands laughing.
"YOSH!! My stereo works wonderfully thank you for letting me stop shigure!!!" She laughed cheerfully and then turned around smiling.
"Hello" She said sweetly tucking a curled strand of silver hair behind her ears. Haru and momigi looked at her slack jawed ((A.n she gets that expression a lot ne?)). Momigi came up to her and held out his hand.
"Hi I'm momigi and Yuki said your name was fox right?" Fox nodded and smiled.
"Yes I am, Momigi it's nice to meet you" momigi smiled broadly and shook her hand; fox smiled lightly and hugged him causing haru to gasp.
"You are the bunny I see, you are so cute!!" She laughed and held momigi happily. She kneeled and folded his cloths up quickly and set them on the couch. She smiled broadly and came up to haru and held out her hand.
"Fox" she said, haru took her hand and smiled lightly and looked to yuki and sighed.
"Haru, nice to meet you fox" He said taking momigi from her arms.
"Nice to meet you to haru well I think I am going back up stairs and changing out of these cloths, aren't they just lovely? Ayame gave them to me he is so kind" She said with a large smile on her face, she ran back up the stairs and changed from the cloths into black leather pants and a black leather top. She let her hair stay up all the same, she came back down, and her sandals were gone now replaced by leather boots.
Her punker style coming out, she smiled at them and saw momigi was fully clothed again. She laughed lightly.
"I'm sorry momigi I wanted to see who you were and Haru I will just ask you which of the zodiac are you?" Haru looked at her, secretly hoping she would have hugged him.
"I'm the cow" He said waiting for her to laugh but she didn't she just smiled. Her blue eyes glittering brightly.
"Hmm that's nice, cow's are adorable to!!" She said laughing. She yawned and licked her teeth and frowned lightly, she looked at yuki and tohru.
"Did you tell them what I am?" She asked they shook there heads in a no fashion; She changed her forms becoming the fox. They looked at her and blinked; momigi pulled her tail and received a yelp from her. She pawed the air much like aya and Gure did.
"Don't pull my tail" She changed back into human form. "Im going to go shopping for some cloths I have absolutely none except the ones I was wearing when I met you and the one Aya gave me" She smiled warmly.(A.n and a few other hehehe she just wants to shop)
"See you later hey kyo are you coming?" She asked and he nodded and came up to her and smiled lightly. Haru looked at kyo stunned that he would follow her like that. He started laughing earning a glare form both, fox walked up to him causing him to step back.
"What's wrong with kyo coming with me cloth shopping? I need a second opinion, well maybe tohru should come to" She smiled. "On second thought I think I will make it girls only trip come on tohru!!" She said dragging the girl along, tohru smiled happily and yuki started following.
"Yuki dear your not a girl" She said looking at him with a sarcastic look in her eye. She smiled warmly and whispered lightly to him
"Oh and I think im fitting in just fine" She said smirking and walked out the door; yuki got angry and ran out after her. She let go of tohru and looked at him lightly amused, kyo ran up and stood in front of her glaring at yuki. Fox touched his arm lightly.
"I fight my own battles my feline friend" She said and walked up to yuki. A soft smile tugging on her lips, yuki's face was calm and expressionless. Only his eyes fumed and showed fear, she smiled lightly and stopped a few feet away from him.
"So what are you going to do now yuki fight me?" haru saw the look of stubbornness in yuki's eyes and knew that even though fox may be strong that she couldn't beat him (a.n aha that's funny).
"I would but, you are women and if you touch me I will turn into the zodiac rat" He said bitterly, she smiled.
"Then I won't touch you like that but I will have free range of kicking and hitting you im not afraid to hurt you know that" She said so calmly it sent shivers up yuki's spine, he turned around and walked back into the house. Fox looked at tohru and smiled lightly.
"Go back inside with your boyfriend and comfort him it has taken a toll on his pride" She pushed her towards the door and tohru ran after him. Fox sighed lightly.
"He was and idiot to challenge you fox" Kyo said in a small voice. She looked up and smiled sadly.
"I think I will go shopping another day, I need to think about some things anyway" she sighed and looked to momigi and Haru smiling broadly. "Plus I would like to know about you to a little bit more" They smiled at her, haru still a bit afraid of her she was intimidating. So the day drawled on talking about different things and yuki still angry at Fox for making him basically flee a fight. Haru and Momigi went home and fox went to bed softly listening to her music. They ate dinner; fox was asleep and didn't want to eat really. Kyo went to sleep and finally everyone else slept for the on coming day.(An. Jebus she never eats does she?)
Steph: ::Yawns lightly rubbing her eyes and smiles happily:: Well fourth chapter is up...and so is kyo!!
Kyo: ::in chibi form with a collar around his neck currently with the chain in his mouth, small fangs over the chain:
Steph: ::Makes ooo and ahhh noises!!: How kawaii!!!
Kyo: ::Sits there sighing:: Get this off of me you damn women!!
Steph: ::smiles: nope I was afraid you were gunna kill me last time. Now you have metal to hold ya down!! Muahhaha!! Im so great
Aya: ::nods lightly smiling and looks at her:: Hey in this story could you make yuki be nicer to me?
Steph: ::Sighs lightly: Maybe it all depends ayame I will try though!!
( Fox walks in) Fox: ::Smiles:: Ello teffy- chan!!
Steph: ::Happy smile and pounces on her:: My friend!! My character !! yay you decided to get up from your nap ::Sweat drops:: finally...
Fox: ::Sweat drops and rubs her eyes:: please r/r !!
Foxgrl991's question- The thing about fox not going to hatori is that Akito and everyone else besides shigure, yuki, kyo, and tohru knows about her. It was for her own safety
Kyo: ::Wakes up mutter:: Stupid.....
Steph: ::Sweat drops:: I don't think my reasoning is stupid.....grrr don't make me get more leeks!!
Kyo: ::Whimpers in his semiconscious state::
Steph: ::smirks in satisfaction and turns to the other smiling cheerfully:: And I don't have to worry about anyone else now do i?
Everyone: ::Shakes there head quickly: no not us!!
Steph: ::Evil chuckle:: good....good ....
Chapter 4 Feelings are a bit confusing
Fox took off towards the forest her only sanctuary; she sighed and shook her head sadly she didn't know what they would think. She stopped and dropped to her knees cringing lightly as the blood began to seep from the wound in her side, she was lucky to have the bandages on or else it would have stained her cloths. She breathed hard and heard footsteps approaching quickly, kyo came into the clearing his red eyes looking around wildly. He spotted her and ran over, he fell to his knees his eyes dancing with worry. "Fox are you alright?" he asked touching her shoulder softly and looking at her with worried eyes. "I'm fine Kyo don't worry" she said standing and smiling lightly. That air of arrogance once more around her, her pride wouldn't let alone if she went to a hospital. "I'm not leaving you alone until you go to a hospital fox" he said glaring at her. She sighed full heartedly and asked meekly. "If the wound is gone by tomorrow will you leave me alone?" She asked and he nodded. "Sure why the hell not but if it's not the guess what....your going to the hospital" he said smirking smugly. She looked up at him, her shinning blue eyes catching his. He blushed and looked away; she smiled lightly and teased him. "Oh kyo I didn't know I was so beautiful, because of the way you blush...." she giggled and shifted from foot to foot a bit restless. Kyo looked at the ground blushing red hot. His bangs covering his face for the most part, and it was dark out so it hid it a little, she had still seen him blushing. "Kyo if you want to go home I am ready to go back" she said cheerfully. She considered them close friends already and they had only known each other for a day. Fox stretched out a hand and offered it to him smiling, her soft blue eyes glittering with friendship. "Let's go home" she said smiling. Kyo nodded and grabbed her hand, he was pulled up with ease by fox that had smiled and hugged him for the hell of it.(A.n man that would hurt like hell......have a wound that bad and hug someone!!) A puff of smoke surrounded him and he transformed into a cat, she smiled and picked up his cloths. He hissed angrily at her. "WHY DID YOU HUG ME!?!?!?" he asked her. She smiled and held his cloths in her hand she laughed. "Oh so you don't like me hugging you my feline friend?" Kyo choked and looked up at her with red cat eyes and shook his fur and didn't reply. She picked him up and laughed, kyo stiffened.
"Why are you carrying me?" He asked angrily. She smiled and said cheerfully. "Well I wanted to get home faster and you go to slow" she said laughing "Unless you want me to leave you alone, on the ground and leave you in my dust." Kyo glared through his cat eyes and scratched her arm, she dropped him and glared.( a.n -- bad kyo!!) "That wasn't nice" She sighed and shook her head "Ok Neko I am going back to the house" she set his cloths down next to him and hopped into a tree then jumped from one tree to another quickly and was out of site.
Kyo sighed and transformed in a puff of orange smoke into a human and slipped his cloths on, he looked at his right wrist. The black and white beads that kept his inner cat demon in ((It's the evil cat spirit thingy I call it a cat demon), he wondered if it ever came off what would fox think?
He sighed and jogged back to the house and thought about Fox....He liked her already she had spunk and was strong, arrogant, and she looked lost and he knew the feeling. 'Maybe fox and I could help each other out and find ourselves' he thought and smiled lightly.
Fox entered the door to see three faces staring at her; she smiled and waved to all of them. She walked towards them and smiled.
"Where is kyo,fox?" Tohru asked quietly. Fox felt a smile tug at the corner of her lips, she smiled at them.
"He is on his way I am a lot faster then him" she said laughing. "Well I am tired now I think I will get some rest thank you all for being so kind to me" she said as kyo entered the front door.
"Good night miss fox" yuki smiled at her. She didn't know why but she didn't like yuki..... Not as an enemy she just didn't trust him.
"Good night fox" Tohru and Shigure said in unison and smiled at each other and giggled. She waved to them and padded up the stairs and into her room. She neared her door and opened it and slipped inside, she shut the door quietly behind her and turned off the lights. Kyo didn't speak to them just ran up to his room and shut the door; the other three looked at each other. ((time lapse.....its now morning!!))
Fox was the first one to rise, she undid her braid and let her silver hair fall gently down into curls, she was in her human form as to fit in better. Her sapphire eyes gleamed happily, as she got dressed in a white tube top and white petal pushers. She had on a light white jacket; around her neck was a sapphire heart on a gold chain. She smiled and went down stairs and started to cook breakfast with what they had. She was not used to the Japanese style so she smiled and took some things and concocted a breakfast of her own. It consisted of 5 glasses of milk around the table, and on each plate were a few steaming rice balls. Around the edge of the plate was fried rice with a bit of soy sauce and some fish and chicken on the sides. She smiled at her handy work. She washed all the dishes she had used to make the breakfast and then waited for them to all come down.
Tohru, Shigure, kyo, and even yuki walked in extremely surprised that Fox had cooked breakfast usually that task was left up to tohru. Kyo's mouth watered and he sat down on a mat, everyone else followed suite, and fox smiled and kneeled down and ate some of her own. She chewed a piece of fish that she had seasoned with lemon pepper to give it a tangy taste to it.
"Is it alright I just made it from scratch" she said smiling broadly. Tohru nodded cheerfully somewhat sad that she didn't cook breakfast.
"Its great Fox!!" she said smiling, fox smiled at her warmly.
"Thank you tohru that's so kind of you I thought that you all deserved a nice warm meal for taking me in and hiding me from my hunter" she said. Tohru looked at her likewise yuki, she smiled and waved the worried looks away.
"Its alright I am ok I am hoping that he doesn't discover where I am" she said quietly and munched on her food with little appetite. They finished their meal in an uneasy silence, tohru and fox gathered the plates and went off to clean up breakfast, yuki and kyo got ready for school and fox let tohru go off to get ready. She finished and put the dishes away; she went up to Gure and smiled softly.
"Shigure do you know of any job's that I could get while I am here, I need new cloths and I need other things, plus I wish to pay rent to you for letting me stay." Shigure smiled and thought of a job and smiled broadly.
"I thought of the perfect job for such a lovely women like you" he said smiling happily "And you don't have to pay me I already have two free loaders, kyo and yuki, tohru helps around the house. How old are you?" Shigure asked he had been wondering that.
"Well I am about 16 and a ½ she said smiling" Shigure nodded and thought.
"Shouldn't you be in school?" He asked. She smiled and shook her head.
"I already went through high school I am 16 I know but I took it when I was 14 it was easy I passed high school and got on with my life" she said smiling.
"So what is that job you were talking about?" She asked. Gure brightened extremely and took her hand.
"Yuki's has a brother named Ayame, Ayame runs a shop for women clothing and he is looking for a model for his clothing. He is also a member of the zodiac" he said. Yuki, kyo, and tohru came in as she said her answer smiling.
"Alright I will be ayame's model" she said giggling cheerfully "Yay I have a job!!" She took Gure's hands and danced happily. They stopped and looked to the three of them and smiled, she said cheerfully.
"I have a new job" Yuki was glowing darkly, kyo had the same aura, she stepped back lightly.
"Uh what is wrong with Aya? Is there a problem that I can't be his model?" she asked innocently and watched there expressions darken and they lunged at Gure and him soundly upside the head.
"You stupid perverted dog!!" Kyo said hitting him.
"God's my brother Shigure how could you!!" yuki said and hit him again. Fox ran in front of them and growled lowly, standing protectively over Shigure.
"Leave him be" she growled out at the two, they stepped back and looked at her sheepishly. Yuki was about to reply when kyo spoke quietly before him.
"I'm sorry Fox go ahead and work for Aya" He said. His eyes downcast, everyone looked at him in disbelief and shook their heads.
"Yes Miss Fox please excuse us we just were looking out for your safety." He smiled warmly at her. Fox smiled lightly then said smiling.
"Alright I think its time for you to go to school" She hugged tohru lightly in a friendship manner and smiled. "Bye tohru, bye kyo, bye yuki!!" she said waving as they walked out the door. She turned back to Shigure and smiled warmly at him and tucked back a piece of curly silver hair.
"Alright Shigure lets go see if Ayame needs a mode!!" she said with a smile on her lips. Shigure had oh the so lovely saying in his mind. Ayame would have it to most likely. 'High school girls high school girls all for me high school girls he he he...'
Fox and Shigure got in the car and drove off to Ayame's shop smiling cheerfully; fox turned on the radio and searched around until a small smile formed on her lips. She put on a rock station that she adored and wondered if Shigure wouldn't mind her music.
"Um Shigure do you mind if I put on some punk/ rock music?" she asked meekly. Shigure smiled warmly and replied.
"Anything you want my dear!!" They both laughed and fox turned the music up and smiled it was one of her favorite songs. It was by a band called Queens of the Stone Age, no one knows was the title of the song. She smiled and turned it up louder and tucked a few strands of curled silver hair behind her rounded ears. Today she had in diamond shaped sapphire earrings and a sapphire necklace in the shape of a heart.
Shigure smiled at her enjoying the song, sure he didn't really listen to her type of music more the classical, but the song had a nice beat to it. He started tapping his hands on the wheel in rhythm to it; Fox giggled lightly and felt her body moving to the song unconsciously.
They arrived at Ayame's shop and got out of the car after a few good loud hard rock songs, Fox had a large smile on her face and she thought aloud.
"Hmm I should take Yuki, tohru, and kyo to a rave that would be fun " she said smiling cheerfully. Shigure imagined tohru at a rave and let out a small giggle. He pictured her standing there in a nice sweet little outfit and had that dazed confused look on her face and yuki near her. He shook his head at her sadly, fox remembered the curse and sighed sadly, she yawned lightly.
"Well that is terrible that you guys can't go to a rave, there awfully fun" She said pouting and went in after Shigure into Ayame's shop. Ayame's assistant popped her head up and smiled warmly, she was wearing a nurses outfit with glasses and smiled warmly and ran over to them.
"Hello shigure!! Who is your little friend here?" she asked smiling. Fox held out her hand and smiled at the girl.
"I am called fox and what should I call you?" Fox inquired smiling extremely warm. The girl smiled and said doing a little twirl.
"My name is mina nice to meet you fox!" (A.n i have no clue, i think ayame's assistants name is Mine(mi ne') Can someone tell me? ) she said shaking fox's hand. Ayame called out in a sing song voice he always used.
"Be there in a minute!!" mina showed shigure and Fox to the waiting room. They sat down for no more then 2 minutes and a voice rang out crisply through the room.
"In the words of a great drama high school teacher.....it takes two strokes to make the character person." Gure had stood and went over to a silver haired man and made the Japanese symbol for 'character' they then said in unison.
"YOSH!!" Fox let out a tinkling laugh that filled that air of the room, the silver haired man turned to her. His green eyes drifting over her, he smiled broadly.
"Might you be fox?" He asked and went over to her and took her hand and placed a kiss gingerly on it and smiled at her. Fox blushed lightly and stood smiling softly.
"Yes my name is fox I am assuming Shigure told you about me" Gure was whistling and fox narrowed her sapphire eyes and they glimmered slightly angry. "Shigure!!!" She sighed and smiled at a confused ayame.
"So I would imagine you are the owner of this fine store, Ayame Am I correct?" She asked her blue eyes glittering with mischief. It was almost always there, being the stealthy, thin, and sleek person she was. Ayame smiled brilliantly and replied.
"Yes my dear I wish Gure had told me of how beautiful you were" He pouted and flipped his long silver hair over his shoulders; she smiled and shook her head lightly laughing at him. The tendrils of soft silver curls flew up in a wave of molten silver casting an illumination on fox that magnified her beauty even more. Aya was awe struck at her over all appearance.
"You will be a lovely model for me come!! I must have you try on one of my new designs!!!" he said turning on his heal and heading into the back. Mina followed after him and tugged her along, she told shigure to stay behind, and he sat down pouting and waited for them to come out.
Finally Mina and ayame came out from behind the curtain smiling in approval, next out was fox. Shigure looked at her with disbelief; her eyes sparkled questioning her appearance. Her soft silver hair was pulled up into a bun and some lose pieces of silver hair were curled to frame her face. She had on a light blue eye shadow; her cheeks were adorned in a light blush.
Her lips had a light pink lip stick on, but it wasn't only her face that shigure was stunned at. She was wearing one of Ayame's creations; it was an old renaissance dress. Down the front it was laced to about her midsection, the front of it was white to about as wide as her hips. Then it went into a dark deep blue that made her eyes glimmer even more then shigure saw before.
She had a small dark blue purse that glittered with small white gems, it looked like thousands of stars or diamonds shigure wasn't sure which. She wore a pair of dark blue sandals that matched her outfit perfectly; the dress fit her snugly around her bosom. Then it fit a little snugly to her midsection then tightened at her hips then let out in a large flow of material at the bottom.
Ayame's eyes sparkled brilliantly at her, his green eyes full of approval; shigure still was too stunned to say anything. Ayame turned to him and pouted extremely feminine like.
"Gure you are staring and you haven't even said if she looked wonderful yet" He tossed back his braid impatiently. Shigure snapped out of the trance he was stuck in and smiled warmly at aya and fox.
"You look absolutely beautiful fox dear, and aya I was stunned by her beauty!! I will talk to you tonight about this ok but I must go for now. I will come back and pick Fox up" He smiled and went chibi and went up to Ayame who was now a chibi and they made the character symbol.
"YOSH!" the put a thumbs up in fox's direction, she blushed lightly and smiled. She let out a tinkling laugh that rang through the room. Shigure smiled and said to fox.
"See you in about 4 hours!!" He walked out and shut the door behind him; Mina had an evil look in her eyes and aya smiled.
"Well let's get outfitting Fox dear we have a lot of cloths for you to try on!!" He said clasping his hands cheerfully, Mina took her arm and led her back into the dressing room and started changing her into something different. It was going to be a long day!
Meanwhile shigure torment his editor smiling cheerfully until she strapped him down and made him write, but anyway back at high school. Kyo sat in class his head on his hands; he ignored everyone around him and thought of fox. It was weird they had only met a day ago but he still couldn't keep her off his mind. The last bell of the day rung and kyo jumped up and was out of class faster then anyone could catch his movements. He flew past Haru, tohru, yuki, momigi, and all his other class mates.
Haru raised a brow and looked at them.
"Where is kyo in such a rush yuki?" He asked still upset that yuki was going out with tohru but he dealt with it all the same. Yuki thought for a moment then a frown crossed his features.
"He may be rushing home to see fox" He thought and then bit his lip, they didn't know about fox yet. Momigi went up to them and tugged on yuki's sleeve, Haru quirked a brow.
"A fox?" They asked confused and in unison, Tohru laughed lightly and shook her head.
"No Fox is a women she is living at Shigure's house with us" She smiled and the scooted closer. She backed away and looked at them smiling.
"Does Akito know?" Asked Haru, yuki shook his head and looked at him seriously.
"Fox could kill Akito with out a second thought she is extremely powerful Haru" Haru laughed and then saw the look on his face.
"I want to meet her." Haru said running a hand through his black and white hair. Momigi smiled and chirped.
"I want to meet her to!!" Yuki sighed and shook his head lightly.
"Fine you can come alright?" They all nodded happily and went on their way to Shigure's house. Kyo had already reached the house and slammed the door open, he ran up stairs then looked around the house. He quirked a brow and heard Shigure's voice.
"Fox is still modeling for ayame at the moment relax kyo" he said smiling and came out from around the corner. Kyo growled something under his breath and shigure smiled broadly.
"In love aren't we kyo?" Shigure giggled and got hit on the head; he had anime water fall tears flowing down his face. He whined pawing at the air.
"That hurt kyo!!!" Kyo sat on the couch and sighed waiting for her to get home, he growled and stood up and ran up to the roof and laid there waiting for her. Yuki, tohru, haru, momigi all came in and looked around.
"Were home and Haru and momigi came to visit!!" Tohru said cheerfully, shigure walked out a small bump on his head.
"Where is Miss Fox shigure?" Asked yuki. Haru and Momigi looked around and shigure smiled.
"She is still modeling for aya!!" he smiled, and hummed lightly then looked at the clock and said.
"I am going to pick her up in about an hour,make yourselves preoccupied, I'm going to go now and see if I can get her home earlier" He said walking out the door, her hopped into his car and drove off leaving the sohma's and tohru in the living room. They all preoccupied themselves with homework and smiled and chatted about this and that.
Shigure pulled up to Aya's shop and stepped out of the car and went inside ringing the bell lightly, fox heard it and ran to the front in a black skirt with a slit up the side, and a sparkly black shirt, her hair still in the bun and the make up now with added eye liner. She smiled warmly at him and said.
"Aya gave this to me isn't it stunning Shigure?!?" She squealed with delight and ran up to aya and gave him one of those distant hugs that you don't physically touch the person just there arms lightly. Aya smiled and patted her on the head.
"See you tomorrow my dear!!" Fox smiled and said bye.
"Bye aya!! Bye Mina!! Thank you so much for the job and the outfit!!" Mine gave her the cloths she had been wearing today. Shigure took them and smiled lightly.
"Come on Fox there are some people I want you to meet alright?" he said walking out the door, fox waved and then ran out after them. Mina and Aya smiled and talked about what to put her in next, the laughed lightly and headed back and started making a few new outfits.
In the car fox was listening to rock again and said smiling at shigure, she turned the music down so he could hear her. "Can we stop at a music department real quick?" Shigure nodded and drove off to best buy she smiled broadly and pulled out some money that aya had given her to start off with. Shigure smiled and the stopped at best buy, they went in and looked around.(A.n do they even have a best buy? Ohh well its there for this story!! Hehee)
Kyo sat on the roof and waited for her to get home; he didn't know why he liked her so damn much. Maybe it was because she was strong, stubborn, proud and a number of other things. He heard Shigure's car pull up and went down off the roof and waited for her to get there.
Fox stepped out of the car and smiled at him, she waved quickly and went into the back seat and got out a stereo she had bought and carried it with ease up to him. She set it down and smiled; he looked at her and said smiling.
"You look beautiful fox" He blushed and looked at the box and looked at it quirking a brow, Shigure had a bag full of cd's that she had bought. She smiled and asked kyo smiling sweetly which made his knees soft.
"Can you get the cd from shigure and bring them into my room?" She asked and picked up the box again and went into the house past everyone and up stairs. Everyone looked at her bringing the big box up the stairs, yuki was running after her.
"Do you need help Miss Fox?" She shook her head and went into her room and set the box down and started setting it up, she had it set up in 5 minutes flat. Kyo came in after her and set the cd's down on her bed and looked at her smiling and asked.
"What's with all the new things? The cd's and stereo and where did you get the money...oh yeah aya?" He asked as she picked up a cd, she took it from its case and put it on. It was Korn, man where they all in for a surprise, she plugged in the speakers and let the music drown out all sound. Kyo's teeth chattered and he went out of the room, Fox was content with her music and turned it off. She jumped down the stairs and landed on her feet cheerfully and ran to shigure and held his hands laughing.
"YOSH!! My stereo works wonderfully thank you for letting me stop shigure!!!" She laughed cheerfully and then turned around smiling.
"Hello" She said sweetly tucking a curled strand of silver hair behind her ears. Haru and momigi looked at her slack jawed ((A.n she gets that expression a lot ne?)). Momigi came up to her and held out his hand.
"Hi I'm momigi and Yuki said your name was fox right?" Fox nodded and smiled.
"Yes I am, Momigi it's nice to meet you" momigi smiled broadly and shook her hand; fox smiled lightly and hugged him causing haru to gasp.
"You are the bunny I see, you are so cute!!" She laughed and held momigi happily. She kneeled and folded his cloths up quickly and set them on the couch. She smiled broadly and came up to haru and held out her hand.
"Fox" she said, haru took her hand and smiled lightly and looked to yuki and sighed.
"Haru, nice to meet you fox" He said taking momigi from her arms.
"Nice to meet you to haru well I think I am going back up stairs and changing out of these cloths, aren't they just lovely? Ayame gave them to me he is so kind" She said with a large smile on her face, she ran back up the stairs and changed from the cloths into black leather pants and a black leather top. She let her hair stay up all the same, she came back down, and her sandals were gone now replaced by leather boots.
Her punker style coming out, she smiled at them and saw momigi was fully clothed again. She laughed lightly.
"I'm sorry momigi I wanted to see who you were and Haru I will just ask you which of the zodiac are you?" Haru looked at her, secretly hoping she would have hugged him.
"I'm the cow" He said waiting for her to laugh but she didn't she just smiled. Her blue eyes glittering brightly.
"Hmm that's nice, cow's are adorable to!!" She said laughing. She yawned and licked her teeth and frowned lightly, she looked at yuki and tohru.
"Did you tell them what I am?" She asked they shook there heads in a no fashion; She changed her forms becoming the fox. They looked at her and blinked; momigi pulled her tail and received a yelp from her. She pawed the air much like aya and Gure did.
"Don't pull my tail" She changed back into human form. "Im going to go shopping for some cloths I have absolutely none except the ones I was wearing when I met you and the one Aya gave me" She smiled warmly.(A.n and a few other hehehe she just wants to shop)
"See you later hey kyo are you coming?" She asked and he nodded and came up to her and smiled lightly. Haru looked at kyo stunned that he would follow her like that. He started laughing earning a glare form both, fox walked up to him causing him to step back.
"What's wrong with kyo coming with me cloth shopping? I need a second opinion, well maybe tohru should come to" She smiled. "On second thought I think I will make it girls only trip come on tohru!!" She said dragging the girl along, tohru smiled happily and yuki started following.
"Yuki dear your not a girl" She said looking at him with a sarcastic look in her eye. She smiled warmly and whispered lightly to him
"Oh and I think im fitting in just fine" She said smirking and walked out the door; yuki got angry and ran out after her. She let go of tohru and looked at him lightly amused, kyo ran up and stood in front of her glaring at yuki. Fox touched his arm lightly.
"I fight my own battles my feline friend" She said and walked up to yuki. A soft smile tugging on her lips, yuki's face was calm and expressionless. Only his eyes fumed and showed fear, she smiled lightly and stopped a few feet away from him.
"So what are you going to do now yuki fight me?" haru saw the look of stubbornness in yuki's eyes and knew that even though fox may be strong that she couldn't beat him (a.n aha that's funny).
"I would but, you are women and if you touch me I will turn into the zodiac rat" He said bitterly, she smiled.
"Then I won't touch you like that but I will have free range of kicking and hitting you im not afraid to hurt you know that" She said so calmly it sent shivers up yuki's spine, he turned around and walked back into the house. Fox looked at tohru and smiled lightly.
"Go back inside with your boyfriend and comfort him it has taken a toll on his pride" She pushed her towards the door and tohru ran after him. Fox sighed lightly.
"He was and idiot to challenge you fox" Kyo said in a small voice. She looked up and smiled sadly.
"I think I will go shopping another day, I need to think about some things anyway" she sighed and looked to momigi and Haru smiling broadly. "Plus I would like to know about you to a little bit more" They smiled at her, haru still a bit afraid of her she was intimidating. So the day drawled on talking about different things and yuki still angry at Fox for making him basically flee a fight. Haru and Momigi went home and fox went to bed softly listening to her music. They ate dinner; fox was asleep and didn't want to eat really. Kyo went to sleep and finally everyone else slept for the on coming day.(An. Jebus she never eats does she?)
Steph: ::Yawns lightly rubbing her eyes and smiles happily:: Well fourth chapter is up...and so is kyo!!
Kyo: ::in chibi form with a collar around his neck currently with the chain in his mouth, small fangs over the chain:
Steph: ::Makes ooo and ahhh noises!!: How kawaii!!!
Kyo: ::Sits there sighing:: Get this off of me you damn women!!
Steph: ::smiles: nope I was afraid you were gunna kill me last time. Now you have metal to hold ya down!! Muahhaha!! Im so great
Aya: ::nods lightly smiling and looks at her:: Hey in this story could you make yuki be nicer to me?
Steph: ::Sighs lightly: Maybe it all depends ayame I will try though!!
( Fox walks in) Fox: ::Smiles:: Ello teffy- chan!!
Steph: ::Happy smile and pounces on her:: My friend!! My character !! yay you decided to get up from your nap ::Sweat drops:: finally...
Fox: ::Sweat drops and rubs her eyes:: please r/r !!