What happens when you can never change back!

Hi, PinkGoddess here again. Now this time I'm really going to get on with the story! So here we go! (Oh and by the way, my PC has mucked up the chapters that I put up on the net, so please excuse if there is any mistakes, don't blame me, blame my PC!)

The early morning sun was blazing through the window, like an uncontrollable forest fire; there was a slight breeze that gently rustled through the towering oaks that surrounded the Sohma house. A pair of small, colourful, humming birds sang their chirruping song on the window ledge of Tohru's room. They suddenly tumbled away with the breeze, when Tohru threw open her window to breathe in the refreshing summer air.

"Ahhhhh…"she sighed "it's such a beautiful day Mom, look at the sky, it's so clear, I think that where going to have a heat wave soon…won't that be so exciting? We haven't had a heat wave in more than five years! I can't wait! And just think, we wouldn't need to worry about it raining when we watch the eclipse! Oh I can't wait to see how beautiful it will look."

After a few seconds of tranquil silence, Tohru heard her stomach growl out to her in warning.

"Oh no!" she gasped. "I totally forgot, I'm supposed to make breakfast for everyone. They must think that I'm a dreadful housekeeper! That will never do!"

Tohru rushed out of her room and down the stairs as fast as her little legs would carry her.

"I wonder if they are all sat round the table waiting for me to came down" she panted to herself.

Tohru was so oblivious to her surroundings that, she hadn't noticed Kyo coming out of the kitchen, drinking out of a carton of milk.

"Yo, Tohru… hey… hey Tohru… if I would you, I would watch…"

Too late.

"…Where you are going…"

There was a loud poof, a lot of orange smoke, and a small scream.

The smoke quickly cleared and there, lying on top of his jeans and white T-shirt was Kyo… but as an orange cat!

"Ahhhhhhhhh! God damn it Tohru, why don't you watch where you where going for once? And why the hell were you in such a hurry anyway!" he raged.

"Oh… Kyo I'm so sorry… I didn't mean to bump into you… I just… I just thought that I was late coming down stairs to get your breakfast…" Tohru started to go into one of her uncontrollable babbles. … "So I was rushing… oh know you hate me… don't you? I mean, I don't blame you if you do, because I wouldn't like someone that turned me into a cat all of the time…" she sobbed, as she fell down to the floor onto her knees.

The orange cat's tail twitched with annoyance, but he managed to keep his cool. "Why the hell does she always have to cry when she thinks she's done something wrong… can't she just say sorry, and be done with it…" Kyo thought to himself.

He placed a small ginger paw affectingly on her pale knee and said quietly "Look Tohru… I'm sorry… It's just… I…I wasn't expecting you to come charging down the stairs so fast… that's all… you don't have to cry you know," he assured her.

"Oh well… if you are sure…?"

"I just said that didn't I?" he was trying so hard not to shout at her, but he didn't know how long he could keep it up!

Tohru whipped her puffy, blood shot eyes, and rose from the floor.

"Umm yes, of course you did… Ok… um, I'd better go into the kitchen to make breakfast before you turn back to normal then!" Tohru said, giving Kyo her usual beaming smile.

Kyo sat and watched from the doorway, as Tohru bustled around the kitchen getting breakfast ready, quietly humming her mothers tune to her self.

"I still don't know how she does it… how can she always be so happy after all she has been through… her mother dying… being pushed out of her grandfathers house… having to live in a tent all on her own…" Kyo thought to himself. "If I was her, I wouldn't want to carry on living anymore… I would just stop… I would try to hide myself away, not speak to anyone… until I died…"

Kyo was brought of his sorrow thoughts by Shigure hopping down the stairs behind him.

"Oh… Kyo…" he said, eyeing his cat figure, and an annoying, mischievous grin spreading over his face. "What have you been up to… I hope that it's nothing to with Tohru," he sang as he walked into the kitchen.

"Ahh… good morning my little summer flower, did you sleep well?" Shigure asked as he came up behind Tohru.

"Oh, hello Shigure, yes, I slept very well thank you, how about you?" "Yes, yes, I slept fine… but come to think of it… I had the strangest dream… it seemed to be about me and Ayame… we seemed to be sleeping in the same bed as each other, and…"

"You sick pervert, do you have no shame, how can you even dream about stuff like that!" Kyo roared, it was no good, he was trying to keep his cool, but wasn't doing very well at it!

"Well, my little Kyo, do you want me to explain," Shigure teased bending down to Kyo's level.

"Hey, I'm not little!"

"Are you sure about that, because at the moment, you don't look any higher than my knee," Shigure smiled, as looked down at the fuming kitty.

"God damn it! When I change back your goin' to feel my foot against the side your face, you stupid dog!"

"Awwwwwww, Tohru… Kyo's being mean to me again…"Shigure whined like a child who's out side of a candy store.

"How can you make that much noise, so early in the morning?" mumbled a voice from the doorway. Looking round, Tohru saw Yuki standing in the doorway, although he has just woken, his hair was in perfect shape!

"Oh, good morning Yuki, it looks like you still haven't woken up the then" Tohru laughed as she piled something deliciously edible onto a wooden tray.

Yuki shuffled into the dinning room, knelt down at the low table, and rested his head on it.

"Ah, my sweet Tohru, what might you be cooking for our breakfast

today then?" Shigure asked as he too sat down at the table.

"Well, I thought that I was late coming down stairs today so, to make up for it I was going to make honey pancakes, but it turns out that I wasn't late, but I made them anyway!" she giggled.

"HONEY PAN CAKES… HONEY PANCAKES… OH MY DEAR SWEET SNOWDROP Of DECEMBER, HOW DID YOU KNOW! HONEY PANCAKES ARE MY FAVARATE, IT JSU SHOWS THAT YOU TRULY ARE MY PRINCESS!"

With a small scream, Tohru spun around to see Ayame standing in the doorway of the kitchen dressed in red kimono with a golden sash wrapped round his waist. He had his gleaming white hair put up in a long neat French plait, which went all the way down his long slender back.

"Ha ha… he hee…" chuckled Shigure nervously "looks like it wasn't a dream after all!"

"AH, DO YOU KNOW HOW SICK YOU ARE SHIGURE? HOW COULD YOU…! I CAN'T EVEN BERE TO THINK ABOUT IT!"

Kyo roared, his short ginger hair standing on end, making him look like a toilet brush. "YOU AND AYAME…" but no more was heard, because he was sent flying through the air by Yukis' foot!

"Umm… Yuki… Kyo… if it's not too much of a problem… do you mind not destroying my house this time, maybe you could fight outside for once, because…" but it was too late, Kyo was send flying through the paper door and up the gravel path.

"The main house refuses to pay for the damage anymore…" he finished.

"Oh, Yuki I thought that you where still asleep," Tohru said to the now fully awake boy.

"Yes Miss Honda I was, but their stupid shouting woke me up," Yuki muttered as he sat down at the table once more.

"Umm Shigure… will Kyo be okay," Tohru asked as she placed the tray of pancakes on the table, before the hungry eyes of her housemates.

"Yeah, he'll be fine once he has got over the embarrassment." Shigure sniggered in return.

"I don't under stand why they can't get along…" Tohru thought. "I know that they have the zodiac legend to live up to… but… I don't see why Kyo thinks that it is so important for him to beat Yuki, especially by fighting…! If he has to beat him at something, can't it be something like 'the first one to wash the dishes' or 'the last one to school' or something like that!" But there was no time to think about that now, they had to eat their breakfast soon, or they would be late for school.

"Why don't you come and join…" Tohru started to asked Ayame who was hovering near by, but he was sat at the table stuffing his face with two pancakes at the same time before she could even finish her sentence!

Shaking her head, Tohru to knelt down at the table, and started to eat her home made sweet surprise. After a few minutes of silence, there was a low grown that came from the garden. She was upset to see that Kyo was rising form the ground, and from the looks of it, having some trouble. But more important of all, he was still in his cat form!

"Um… Shigure… is it normal for your family to stay in their zodiac from for this long?" she whispered in his ear. Shigure looked behind him, and frowned, wondering.

"Yeah, she's right… this has been the longest that I've seen any of our family stay in their zodiac form…," he thought to himself. "But if I say that there might be something wrong, knowing Tohru, she'd probably get a fever, from worrying so much… it best to say that there's nothing to worry about…"

He glanced over next to him at Ayame, who was looking at him with an unusual grim expression on his face. He moved his head ever so slightly from left to right a few times… Shigure understood. He mustn't tell Torhu, no matter what!

"Well… this has been the longest he has been like this," Shigure said trying desperately to make it look like he was thinking hard (but not doing a very good job at it!). "But there is no reason why he shouldn't change back is there?" he concluded, returning nervously to his plate.

"Yeah your right Shigure!"

"I know, I know, I always am!" He sang, sounding really pleased with himself!

A small sigh was heard from the other side of the table, that sigh came from Yuki. "You just like hearing your self talk don't you?" he said as he put the last of his pancake into his mouth.

"Oh… does everybody hate me! Yesterday it was Kyo, and now you Yuki, why do you all hate me? I can't understand, what have I done wrong?

Tohru smiled to herself as she watched the rat and the dog fight, she must be the luckiest girl in the world, having a family that she had hardly known before, taking her in, and treating her as another member. How lucky she was!

There was a strange sound coming from the door-less doorway, which had broken when Kyo was set flying through it. Looking up she saw Kyo licking the dirt off of him.

"Awwwwwww he acts so sweet when he's a cat!" Tohru thought sweetly to her self. "Ah, Kyo, I'm so sorry, I forgot that you don't like honey Pancakes," Tohru gasped as she jumped up suddenly from the table.

"I'll make you something extra special," she added as she started to rummage through the cupboards. "Umm… let me see, what would he like?"

"Hey, wait," Kyo suddenly stopped licking himself, because everybody was looking at him in astonishment! "…Um, look… you don't have to do that, I'm not that hungry. Anyway how would I be able to eat it?"

Everybody at the table was looking at him in astonishment, he was being nice for once… but more especially… to Tohru!

"Awwww, Kyo, you don't want our little petal to get her hands dirty," Shigure sighed. "I think that somebody has the hots," he added jokingly.

"Hey, no I don't!" Kyo shouted back, his ginger cheeks turning a deep shade of red. "One more word out of you, you damn dog, and I'll scratch your eyes out!" he roared putting a ginger fist up to the giggling dog.

"Why can't anyone just leave me alone!" Kyo fumed as he stormed out again through the broken paper door, and into the woods. Tohru made a move to run after him, but somebody grabbed her arm to stop her.

Looking round she saw Yuki standing behind her, with his usual sweet smile on his face.

"Don't worry Miss Honda, he will come back in his own time, after all this isn't the first time that he has run off, is it?"

Tohru thought for a moment, and then said "No… I suppose that you're right, I just get worried when he's like this" she looked awkwardly down at her arm while she spoke "…um… Yuki, if it's not too much of a problem… um, do you mind letting go of my arm now," Tohru muttered politely, as she felt her cheeks turning a deep shade of crimson.

Yuki looked down at his hand that was gently closed round the skinny wrist of Tohrus', he smiled for a moment, and then said "Oh yes I'm sorry Miss Honda, did I hurt you?"

"Oh no, no, but what I do know is that if we don't leave soon, we are going to be late for school," she laughed.

Yuki looked down at his watch, and nodded in agreement "We have to hand in that English essay as well, I'll go up stairs to get my bag, and then we will head off, okay?"

Tohru nodded in return, and picked up her bag that was lying next to the shattered door that Kyo had run through. She suddenly thought, how would he be able to go to school!

"So um I guess that Kyo won't be able to go to school today," she asked Shigure who had sat down behind Ayame, and started to re- plait his hair.

"Oh God no, can you imagine what people would think if a cat turned up to take their class? But worst of all, they would get a big shock when that cat turns into to Kyo… who is half naked!"

Himself and Ayame started to giggle madly at some inside joke that Tohru didn't get!

Well there we go folks! That was my next chapter! I hope that it wasn't to long! So as usual pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese R&R! (I'm sorry if I ended it a bit abruptly, I couldn't think how else to do it!)