I was so happy when you smiled,

Your smile breaks through the clouds of gray,

Far from the sunny days that lie in sleep.

Waiting with patience for the spring,

When the flowers will bloom renewed again,

Knowing there's more beyond the pain of today.

Although the scars of yesterday remain,

You can go on living as much as your heart believes.

You can't be born again,

Although you can change,

Let's stay together always.

-English opening theme.

One Cat, Alone no More

Chapter Two

The Fate of a Rat

Last Time: "Um, Kyo? I think I'm pregnant."

Startled, Kyo lurched upward, nearly falling off the roof. "What?" Tohru grabbed his arm to steady the sick boy.

"Um…Kyo, are you okay?" Kyo's eyes were unfocused, and he was slightly swaying. He took a deep breath and lay back down.

"Oh, wow, I, you, you're…kid…dad…I'm gonna be a dad!" He giggled lightly before his eyes snapped back in focus. "Okay, I'm okay. Dam women, you do know how to scare a man shitless." Tohru looked really worried, so Kyo reached up and kissed her lightly, embracing her lovingly. She noted that his skin was again unnaturally hot with fever, a shame she thought, Hatori had hoped that he was finally getting better. His eyes rolled back in his head and he fell backward off the roof. Tohru's scream could be heard for miles around.

Shigure smiled and poured more coffee for Hatori. "You should really stop and take a breather Ha'ri. One of these days you're going to collapse under all the pressure. Actually, I think you should go the bed right now.

Hatori looked at Shigure with one eyebrow raised, "I'm fine Gure. You don't have to worry about me all the time." Hatori smiled slightly, raised his mug of coffee to his lips, and downed it all in one swig.

Shigure still frowned at Hatori skeptically. "If you won't go to bed, you at least need to take a nap, and after all this trouble with Kyo is cleared up, I'm taking you to the mountains, just the two us so you can get some peace and quiet for a few days."

Hatori smiled, what could he ask for besides a good friend like Shigure? "That's really nice and thoughtful, but unless something drastically changes, I don't think that will happen for a while."

"Don't worry, I'll-" Shigure was cut off by a loud scream that echoed around the house. "Tohru!" Both men jumped up and ran outside, and in their haste to find the girl, neither one noticed Kyo on the ground, that is until Hatori's foot caught Kyo's arm and sent Hatori sprawling onto the grass. He was quickly pulled back onto his feet by Shigure and joined by Tohru.

"Is he okay? Please say he's okay."

Kyo frowned. "Would you get off of me? I'm fine for Heaven's sake! Obsessive old man!"

Hatori straightened and scowled at Kyo. "I take offence to that. I'm only 27. And besides, you've had a fever for almost a week, and you just fainted for no reason. I want to make sure you're really okay. You're not going to school tomorrow, and if all goes well, you can go back next week." Kyo sighed and pushed himself farther up in bed, and then he scowled.

"I did to have a good reason, which reminds me. Riceball! Get in here, and hurry up about it!" Tohru came into his room. "Well, you gonna tell Hatori already?"

"I have to get back to Sohma House and check up on Akito, but I'll be back on Wednesday to check on Kyo. Make sure he stays in bed until tomorrow. After you get home, you can try taking him out for a little while. I don't want you over-exerting yourself either. You should come by the clinic tomorrow so we can see if it's a boy or girl." Hatori zipped his bag and handed Tohru a bottle of sky blue liquid. "Give a capful to Kyo twice a day until I get a chance to come and see him again, and call me immediately if he gets any worse."

Tohru nodded and took the bottle from Hatori, smiling as he walked out the door. "Bye Ha'ri!"

It was the fifteen minute break between lunch and P.E., and Tohru opening her locker to put her left over lunch away.

"Hey Tohru, want to come to the park with me and Hana after school today?" Uo asked.

Tohru frowned; she really did want to go; only she had already told Hatori she would stop by the clinic after school. Hatsuharu choose that moment to walk up. "Hey Tori, you're going to the clinic today right?" Tohru nodded and smiled at Uo apologetically. "Good, Momiji got a cold and Ha'ri made him stay home, and I'm not sure I can find my way alone…As it is I'm gonna get lost on the way to half my classes…" Haru trailed off, and Tohru smiled.

"No problem, I'll pick you up from your home room right after classes." Haru nodded. "It's time for first period; we better go…Do you need me to walk you to the locker room?" Because there were so many students, all three years of D-block had P.E., music and auto shop together.

"You go with Miss Uotani and Miss Hanajima, I'll take Haru." Yuki grabbed Haru by the arm so he wouldn't get lost in the quickly growing crowd and walked in the direction of the boy's locker room.

Uo and Hana each gave Tohru a hug, then Hana said, "We should come home with you some day, we never get to hang around anymore."

Tohru nodded, "I know, I've been really busy, but I might be able to convince Shigure to allow you over this weekend. I have to go pick up Haru now, he's probably wondering where I am. Bye." Tohru smiled and hugged her two best friends in parting before stepping out the door to the hallway, stopping and listening when she heard her name.

"I miss Tohru, she spends way to much time with those Sohma boys now, and we never get to see her…"

"Arisa, you shouldn't be jealous, I'm just happy that she is so well after Kyoko's death. Although I would be lying if I said I didn't want to see her more."

Tohru ran down the hall crying, not wanting to admit what she had just heard her two best friends say. When she arrived at Haru's classroom, half the class was still wondering around gathering their things. She spotted Haru's white hair in the corner with his friends, and she ran up to him and hugged him without a second thought.

"So Bronce, do you think we can-" Haru was cut off by something hitting him full force in the chest, something wet with a lot of hair. Ignoring Bronson Kaanta and Nekko Mioji's laughter, he wrapped and arm around Tohru, then put both his arms on each of her shoulders and held her at arms length, so he could get a good look at her. "Hey, what's wrong Tori? Did something happen?"

She shook her head, "Let's go home, please?" She asked, once again moving closer to him, burying her head into his shoulder.

"Okay." Haru turned to his friends. "Hey Bronce, Nek, I have to go, I'll see you soon."

"Alright, bye."

Haru led Tohru the way he thought was out of the school, but he ended up somewhere near the front office and stopped scratching his head. "Why for Pete's sake can I never remember were to go?" Tohru pulled her head from his shoulder at last. She looked around in confusion for a moment, and then smiled, taking Haru's hand and leading him out of the school, and a mile away to the hospital Hatori worked at.

"Hello, can help you?" The receptionist asked.

"Um, actually yes, we're here to see Dr. Sohma. Is he busy?" Haru asked the new desk lady nicely.

"He is right now; his appointments will be done in an hour and a half, so you might want to come back another time."

"No, we'll wait." Haru said patiently, while thinking that he must tell Hatori to get a desk lady who wasn't such an airhead. Hatori's last one, Kyki Kaanta, his friend Bronson's older sister, had finished medical school and was now a doctor too.

"I'll let him know you're here. Can I have your names, and then if you'll go take a seat." She motioned toward the chairs like she thought they were stupid.

"We'll wait in his office." Haru walked over to the door that said employees only, and pushed it open.

"Now wait just a minute!" The secretary said loudly, attracting the attention of every one else in the waiting room. "You can't just go barging in like that, you don't work here, you can't go back there. What are you names anyway?"

Twenty eyes turned to Haru to see how he would respond. "Hatsuharu Sohma and Tohru Honda."

The secretary froze, "Um, okay…I'll tell him you've arrived…" Haru went through the door and she muttered to herself, "A Sohma? He's probably a relation to Dr, Sohma; I'm going to be in so much trouble!"

Hatori stepped into his office an hour later, not surprised to see a boy with white and black hair and a girl with brown hair, what he was surprised to see was Haru was sitting on the floor and Tohru's head was in his lap. He had also covered her up with his long white coat.

Haru looked up when the door opened, smiled at a tired looking Hatori. "Hey, she was crying when she picked me up after school, I don't know what happened, but she seemed real upset so I let her sleep."

"That's okay; I'm free now, so why don't we go check that up?"

"Tori, come on, Ha'ri's here now, come on."

Kyo looked up when the door to his room opened and Tohru walked in. "Hey, what's up?" She smiled and sat beside where he was laying on his bed. Noticing the bittersweet happy/sad look on her face, he asked her what was wrong and pushed himself up to a sitting position."

"Nothing's wrong, but I just went to visit Ha'ri at the clinic, and well…" She trailed off looking around the room and taking care not to look Kyo in the eyes.

He took her face and his hands and turned it towards him; meeting her eyes he prompted her. "We have twins." He smiled, relief washing over him. "One of each, a boy and a girl." She answered his unspoken question, and he took her into his arms, not letting go.

A few moments later Hatori, Shigure, Yuki and Jaca come into the room, and Kyo let Tohru go at last. "Sorry to interrupt, but we have something serious to discuss." The look on Hatori's face was the same as always, serious. More disturbing was the look on Shigure's face, it to was serious, and his eyes held none of their usual laugher and joy, Yuki looked scared and Jaca looked lost.

"Hey guys, what's going on?" But Kyo had a sinking felling in his stomach, and he was pretty sure he knew what was about to happen.

Hatori proved his fear right. "We need to inform Akito of what has happened lately."

"I'll tell him." Yuki's voice was filled with fear. Jaca held him close.

"Yuki-"

"No, I don't want anything to happen to yours or Miss Honda's kids, Kyo's too sick to go anywhere, and It's not right to make Hatori or Shigure do it, because this isn't there problem."

"Are you sure Yuki?" Hatori asked, concern lacing his voice.

"Yes."

"The sooner this is done, the less furious Akito is likely to get. We'll do it now. I'll walk you to the main house. Everyone else stay here."

Jaca hugged Yuki, worried for him. "I-I'm going to get c-changed." Yuki's voice shook and he ran from the room. No one spoke, and suddenly Kyo shot out of his bed and ran after him.

"Yuki, be safe."

Yuki looked up; he was sitting with his head in his hands at the foot of his bed. "Kyo. I-"

"Just listen. I know I always said I hate you, but you're my best friend and I love like a brother. Be safe, I don't know what I'll do if anything happens to you."

Tears came to Yuki's eyes, and he stood up and embraced Kyo. "I-I love you too. Like a brother. If anything happens, please do me a favor. Tell Ayame I love him. Tell I was so happy when he protected me from that guy at school and punched for me. Tell him I'm so, so sorry things worked out the way they did. Can you do that for me?"

Kyo nodded, and they broke apart, Yuki running down the stairs out the door where Hatori was waiting, and Kyo collapsing onto Yuki's bed from exhaustion.

"Are you ready?"

"Yes."

Hatori embraced Yuki. "If you're not out in ten minutes, I'm coming in after you."

Now let's all gather,

Enjoying the company we share.

Our tears will dissolve into thin air,

As we drink up this wonderful life

La la la la la la la

Taking all sweat love and life

La la la la la la la

Drinking up all this good love and life

La la la la la la la

Take it in all sweat love and life

NEXT CHAPTER, CHAPTER THREE

Akito finally makes his appearance? Kyo goes back to school, and him and Haru, Momiji and Tohru are in tears…

A/n: A little later than I said, but no one reviewed, so I didn't think you'd mind. I was gonna tell you more of what's gonna happen, but I can't say any thing else without giving something major away. just stay in touch it's spring break, so I'll have a new one up soon.

ArkMage