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.


One Cat, Alone on More

Chapter Three

Kyo Returns


Tohru, Shigure and Jaca looked worriedly at each other for a while, and when the door to the house opened and shut, leading Yuki away from the house Jaca burst into tears and hugged Shigure. Tohru begin worrying a few minutes later when Kyo had failed to show up after he ran from the room. Suddenly afraid for the health of her friend, she ran to Yuki's room, Shigure coming after her.

She came in to find him sleeping on Yuki's bed and Shigure carried him back to his room so he could rest comfortably in his own bed.


Hatori watched from the far end of the hallway as Yuki gathered up his courage and pushed the door open roughly. Unlocked, it opened easily and he disappeared inside. A few seconds later he came out, relief written all over his face and eyes. "He's gone; he's not home right now."


(School, Wednesday, two days later)

"Hey look who it is, orange top is alive!" Uo joined Yuki, Kyo, Momiji, Haru, Jaca and Tohru as they stepped out of Hatori's car. After a lot of persistent begging and whining from Kyo, Hatori allowed him to come to school, on condition that Kyo call him if he stared felling any worse. Kyo agreed, and Hatori had given Yuki a doctor's note to get Kyo out of P.E.

"Yea, so, got a point?" Kyo scowled at Uo.

"Hey, no need to get nasty! I was just pointing out that you were never just a fragment of our imagination."

Cries of, "Hey look, it's Kyo!" and "Look, that nasty Sohma kid is back!" Followed the group into the school and through the hallways to D-block.

"Okay Momiji, don't let Haru out of your sight, he's a little out of it today, and I doubt he'd be able to find his way to his classroom from here." Yuki smiled and placed Haru's hand in Momiji's.

"I feel weird, like something's wrong with me…" Momiji pulled the dazed Haru down the hall.

"Class, sit down!" Mr. Allutria, the 2-D homeroom teacher, called the class to order.


It was just after lunch, during the fifteen minute break that was supposed to be spent in their homerooms, and the 2-D Sohma's were standing in the corner, or, in Kyo's case, he was sitting on the windowsill with his head pressed against the glass. Yuki looked at him worriedly. "Are you okay Kyo? You look pale."

Kyo looked at him, trying to smile a little. "Yea, let's just go sit down okay?" He started to stand up and move to his seat.

"Miss Honda, will you please go get Haru from his class, tell his teacher that I want him, and I think he'll let him come." Yuki pushed Kyo back into the impromptu chair.

"Uh, okay." Tohru walked down the class to Haru's classroom. "Mr. Harrison, may I barrow Hatsuharu for a moment?" The teacher nodded and Tohru grabbed Haru's arm and led him from the classroom.

"Hey, I'm feeling better, I won't get lost from here to your room. What to you want, anyway?"

"Yuki wants you. I think Kyo's sick…"

They entered the classroom. "Oh good, you're here. Haru, I want you to take his pulse rate." Haru nodded.

He walked over to were Kyo was sitting, put his hand on Kyo's wrist. "Time me. Go."

After a little while Yuki called time. "Was that a minute?" Haru asked Yuki, looking worriedly at Kyo. Yuki nodded. "It's technically safe, but it's still a little too high for him. If you start feeling any worse, call Hatori. I have to go back to class now. Bye." Haru walked out the door, than paused for a minute.

Yuki looked up at Haru still in the doorway and called out to him, "It's left Haru." Hana and Uo walked past Haru as he left.

"Is he okay? He looks a little iffy." Uo looked at Kyo, whose head was lying in his arms on his desk.

"I think so; we'll just have to see how it goes." The bell signaling the end of break rang and the three classes of D-block all left their classrooms and headed down toward the gym to P.E.

In the boys locker room Kyo was leaning against the wall, trying to catch his breath from walking down the stairs. Yuki pulled his gym shirt on and put his and Haru's normal shoes in the locker, closing it behind him. He scanned the locker room and found the subject of his interest leaning against the wall, breathing heavily and clutching his side.

Kyo was trying desperately to take a deep breath but kept on finding he could not, and his lungs hurt from the effort of breathing. "Kyo?" He didn't look up, and his mind barely registered the voice of Yuki. "Kyo are you okay?"

"Uh, uh, uh-ah." Kyo could only mutter a few awkward sounds, and couldn't muster up the strength look stand any longer.

Yuki watched as the cat's eyes began to swing in and out of focus. "Kyo?" The cat collapsed, no longer able to support the weight of his head. "Kyo! Haru, call Hatori, quick." Haru, surprised at the worry in Yuki's voice. "What are you waiting for? Hurry!"

Haru shook his head to clear irrelevant thoughts and ran from the room. With Haru gone, Yuki turned his attention to his cousin on the ground in front of him. Loosening Kyo's collar, he pulled of is own sweatshirt and put it under his head. Haru returned. "He's busy with Akito; he can be here in an hour."

Yuki nodded. "Kyo, I have to go to class. Hatori will be here in an hour, will you be okay until then?" Kyo nodded his head slightly. Yuki stood up and turned to the rest of his classmates. "Shows over, let's go to class." He turned his attention to Haru. "How come you aren't lost or something?"

"I don't know, I never get lost when it's an emergency. I guess my mind knows where to go, the conscious part just never remembers."

Half an hour later, in the middle of a couple of volleyball games, a man in a white jacket walked up the sidewalk and right up to the courts. "Yuki." The boy, who was about to spike the ball back to his opponent's side, paused and turned around, "He's in the locker room."

Yuki stepped off the court and walked toward the teacher. "This is my family doctor. He's here to take Kyo home; may I be excused for a moment?" The teacher nodded.

Hatori followed Yuki into the locker room. Kyo was lying on the floor, shivering. Hatori walked over to him and checked his fever. He then took his pulse rate. "This could get bad. It was too soon to allow him to come back. I'm going to take him to the hospital while I work so I can keep a close watch on him, but I'll bring him home around six or seven."

Yuki nodded, "Okay." Hatori put one arm under Kyo's legs and the other under his back and pulled him off the floor.

"How do you do that, Kyo's pretty heavy even for me…" Yuki looked at Hatori, not for the first time amazed by the strength that the man hid.

"He's lost a little bit of weight, so it's fairly easy, especially compared to Shigure or Ayame; they're the ones I'm usually carting around." Yuki nodded in understanding, and then held the door open so the dragon and cat could go home.

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, More Than a Baseball Game

A Transfer student, Stephanie Coal Branson, comes from America. Shigrue and Mii get to understand each other. The Sohma's get to together for a ball game!


A/N: Sorry it's short; it just seemed like a good place to stop! Next chapter may not be for a while, because I'm going on vacation, so we're probably looking at Saturday morning.

ArkMage