26 is a Lucky Number

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Chapter 2 – Priestess

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It was Saturday at the Sohma's house. Well, for it to be Saturday at the Sohma's house, it would have to be Saturday at everybody else's house. So it was just Saturday! Kyou was still in utter (A/N: Ha ha. It sounds like udder!) shock of what had happened the day before. He hadn't told anybody about it, but Tohru and Yuki already knew.

Tohru had rejected Kyou for Yuki, so he was in a great depression/anger stage after that. He promised himself he would never love again. It pained him to see Tohru and Yuki together. He often wondered why Tohru couldn't just leave the house. Or he could always leave the house. But he would still have to live with the pain.

Shigure proceeded to tease Kyou about his condition, saying he was love-struck. Of course, he wasn't. He made a promise to himself and he couldn't break it.

"I hear there's a new girl at your schoool! Is she your secret love-love, Kyou?"

"NO, YOU BASTARD!"

"Actually, I would be a dog. Just because a female dog is a bitch, that does not mean a male dog is a bastard," Shigure said with a cat-like grin on his face. Is it possible for a dog to have a cat-like grin? It is now.

"BAKA INU!!!" Kyou had several vein marks all over his head.

On the same side of town, not too far from the Sohma estate, was Sachi. She had searched for hours to find out where the Sohmas lived. If you want to stalk Kyou, you certainly can't do it without his address! She arrived at the house and gasped. It was beautiful. Sachi quickly ran up to the door. This was always her favorite part of going to somebody's house...

Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong. Ding-dong.

Several ding-dongs later, Shigure answered the door. He had many bruises on his face, and from behind him you could see a gargantuan hole in the wall. Sachi paid no attention to this.

"Hija! I'm Sachi Ivan-Dyke! Where's orange-head?"

Shigure sweatdropped before answering. "In the corner, quietly steaming..." Emo tears silently ran down his face.

"Are you okay, Sohma-sama?" Sachi asked with concern. Then she realized something. The curse. She gasped. "ARE YOU PART ANI-MAL?! If you are, I wanna hug you!"

The emo tears came to an abrupt stop. It took a while for the information to sink into his head. A very, very long while. In fact, it took so long that Sachi had time to go out to a diner for breakfast, watch the Harry Potter films, play 18 holes of golf, and teach a homeless child how to play Scrabble.

"You know...about the curse?"

"Of course I do, Sohma-sama. My mommy told me! She said it was my duty to find out who all of the cursed Sohmas were. Kyou's not cursed, though," Sachi said. She pouted, obviously wanting to have held a cute little animal in her arms when she ran into Kyou.

"But Kyou is part of the zodiac..."

"Then how come he didn't transform when I ran into him?! It doesn't make any sense."

"Let me tell you something that almost nobody knows. 13 members of the Sohma family carry a terrible curse. But even though they have a curse, it can be easily broken. There are 13 people scattered across the globe that are the priests and priestesses of the zodiac. When these people hug a specific zodiac member, nothing happens, meaning they can fall in love with a Sohma without having to worry about the Sohma transforming every time these two people embrace each other. You are the priestess of the cat."

"...So I have some sort of magical power?"

"Yup!"

"I'M SPECIAL! WH00T!"

"Yes, you are quite special! Why don't you come inside for some tea?"

"Can I have Mountain Dew instead?"

"Of course... Kids these days..."