I'm so excited! I have a faithful reviewer! GO YOU DAINE!! Whoo! I don't have much to say beside that, so I'll go right to the story. Enjoy!

Standard disclaimers apply. Uh duh.

"Thank you so much for helping me unpack, Tohru!"

"You're very welcome! I'm so happy we'll be rooming together!" Tohru exclaimed as the pair mad their way down stairs to cook dinner.

"Me too! But I feel bad about staying here and not doing anything in return. (A/N: sounds familiar...) I know! How about tomorrow I make dinner, American style!"

"Um... sure! I'll be looking forward to it!"

"Great!" The girls worked together on dinner, and that night it was prepared twice as fast as usual.

"This is great, Honda-san. You've really outdone yourself," Yuki commented between bites.

"Yah!" Kyo said with his mouth full. "Iss reey guub." (Translation: Yeah. It's really good.)

"Thank you, but Kass-kun helped too!" Tohru smiled.

"We're so lucky! We have two wonderful cooks now!" Shigure chuckled.

"Um, actually I can't cook at all. I make sandwiches and instant foods. Tohru told me exactly what to do," Kass said.

"But I thought you said you were going to cook an American meal tomorrow," Tohru said slowly.

"I will! ALL INSTANT FOODS!!" Kass yelled, standing up to reveal a bag full of various instant foods. "I brought them with me!" she beamed. (Cue the anime face plants and multiple sweat drops.)

At school

"How ya doin', Haru!" Kass said, smiling as usual as she took a seat beside him.

"What?"

"Uh, sorry. I keep speaking in English! Sorry," she said, a little embarrassed. She turned her attention to the shoulder bag on the floor beside her (A/N: she doesn't have a locker yet, or a school uniform), pulling out a small black object and some very small headphones. She plugged in the headphones and threaded the wires through her long sleeve so there was a small speaker in each hand. She switched the black device on and put her hand to her ears. She looked over at Haru and said quietly, "Mp3."

Haru nodded in knowing, then watched as Kass began to slowly bob her head to the music and move her lips ever so slightly. He got a funny feeling in his gut watching her and tried to pay attention to the

Teacher, who was yapping about some old haikus written by a dead guy (they're in language arts or whatever they call it in Japan), but the feeling wouldn't go away.

The bell soon rang and Kass followed Haru to their next class. (They have the same schedule. Heehee!) Her hands were still glued to her ears, and when she noticed him staring she said, "Wanna listen?"

"Sure," Haru said as she pulled a speaker out of her shirt. He got another funny feeling, but it vanished when the American music was suddenly blasting in his ears. How did she have it that loud without anyone hearing?

"It's the Aqua Bats!" she smiled up at him. "They're my favorite band! The song's called 'Pizza Day.' I'll translate it for you later," she said quickly and went back to listening. The song ended right as they reached their next class. She took her headphone back from him before the sensei saw and took a seat in the back corner.

This was math, and Haru sat two seats to her left. He leaned back in his chair again, not listening to the endless drabble about how numbers are friends. Instead he focused on Kass, who was also ignoring the drabble to doodle on her notes. He leaned back a little farther to see what she was drawing and- CRASH! His chair slid out from underneath him and his head slammed against the back wall.

Everyone turned to see what had happened, even Kass, who stared at him awkwardly, doodled on her paper again, and held it up for him to see.

It was a quickly drawn sketch of a chibi style Kass laughing at a chibi style Haru. He couldn't help but grin as he picked himself up and the rest of the class went back to studying. He drew a return sketch of a chibi Haru giving a chibi Kass a noogie. Beneath that, he wrote: 'Wanna meet after school again?'

He crumpled up the note and chucked it over the other kid's heads, so it landed right in the middle of Kass's desk. She stared at it, then Haru, then quickly tore open the note, almost ripping it in half. She grinned at the doodle, then turned back at him and nodded 'yes.'

They sent doodles back and forth for the rest of the class. (A/N: I think that was so OOC!!! Sorry!! Whaa!)

Next was science. They walked slowly down the hall, now listening to 'Hell's Bells' by AC/DC, when suddenly Momiji appeared.

"Guten tag!" he shouted, suddenly between them.

"Guten tag, Momiji! Wie geht's?" (Good day, Momiji. How are you?)

"Gut, danke! Und dir?" (Good, thanks. And you?)

"Danke, sehr gut!" (Thanks, very well.)

"Yey!" Momiji cried out, smiling and throwing his hands into the air.

Haru ignored him and Kass handed him a headphone so he could listen to Nirvana, which had just began playing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' They received some weird glances walking down the hall together, tied together by the wire from Kass's headphones.

"What is he saying, Kass?" Momiji asked.

"Um, I'm not sure...."

The rest of the day passed quickly for Kass and Haru. They continued the sketch war, she translated the songs, except for Nirvana, which no one can understand. Kass was caught drawing on the wall and had to stay after school to wash the entire wall, so their after school outing was postponed until she was allowed to leave, which both were disappointed about.

Tohru had convinced Kyo to stay after with her and Momiji while Yuki was with the student council and Haru was sitting on a bench near the school to avoid getting lost.

"This is stupid! I shouldn't have to waste my time waiting for some dumb American!" Kyo grumbled, leaning against the school.

"Kass-san doesn't know the way home from school yet, and Sohma-kun will be staying longer than her, so he can't show her. We have to stay."

"Whatever," Kyo muttered, turning quickly to go inside and drag Kass out ... just as she was coming outside. They ran into each other and- POOF!

"Ah!" Kass shrieked quickly. She peered down at Kyo, now in cat form, with a confused expression on her face. "Kyo?"

"What!?" the orange cat hissed.

"Ah! You're a cat!"

"Naw, I thought I was a monkey," Kyo growled.

"That's Rit-chan!" Momiji giggled.

"Great," Haru said, slowly walking up to the scene. "Kyo's let another person find out."

"She was gonna find out anyway! With her always following you around! And with you quieter than usual around her it's a wonder she hangs with you at all!" Haru winced slightly.

"Stupid cat," Yuki's voice floated over the scene. "Stop trying to blame someone else for your stupidity."

"Would someone mind telling me what the heck is going-" POOF!

"Eek!" Tohru and Kass cried out at once.

The six teens gathered around the table at Shigure's house, who was out at the moment.

"We're not like normal people," Yuki began.

"No shit," Kyo grumbled in the corner.

"Shut up, stupid cat." Yuki spat. He continued, "We are possessed by vengeful spirits of the Chinese Zodiac, and we transform when our bodies become weak or when we're hugged by someone of the opposite sex. Kyo is the cat, I am the rat, Momiji the rabbit, Shigure the dog, and Haru the ox."

"Is Hatori part of the ... Zodiac too?" Kass asked, still a bit confused.

"Yes, as well as seven other members of the Sohma family."

"Ah," she said, and fell silent, as did everyone else. "I think I'm gonna go upstairs now," she said stiffly, standing and walking slowly up to Tohru's room.

"Great," Haru said to himself.

Next Chapter:

"Don't get too attached to her."

"Haru? Haru, what are you-mmf!"

"Ha!"

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