Chapter 23: Umm…Yoshiko?

Princess Sango

Last Time:

Tohru smiled at Hatori and nodded to him and turned back and continued what she was doing when you heard a yell from Yoshiko. Everyone stood up and walked over to Tomiko's room where she sat there staring at Kazuki in his dragon form, yup, so much for not transforming…

This Time:

Tomiko ran behind Tohru horrified, "Who is that?"

While Kazuki on the other hand looked slightly sad and shook his head, his silver mane flying everywhere, and big tears fell down, "It's me Yoshiko-chan, it's me Kazuki."

Tomiko looked at her younger brother, no fear in her eyes as she approached, "You're so kawai Kazuki-chan, and you look like all those dragons in story books."

Yoshiko looked at Tohru horrified, "What's going on Tohru-san?"

"Let's just say the family Kazuki was born into isn't normal Yoshiko-chan, and this is the result. Unless you have the necklace, which Tomiko and I have, you can't hug Kazuki, call it unnatural but that's the truth," Tohru answered, used to telling the secret by now.

Hatori watched as the girl approached Kazuki when, poof, he transformed back into his normal self. Yoshiko turned around, when Tohru pulled his clothes out and dressed him, "You've got to be careful Kazuki-chan, she was only able to hug you since we had the necklace around her, be careful."

Kazuki looked up at his mom, complaining with his eyes, but Tohru shook his head, "Don't complain, your father had to go through the same thing."

Kazuki nodded and looked over at his dad, then at Yoshiko, "I'm sorry if I scared you."

Yoshiko blushed, "It's okay, I'm just not use to hugging someone and watching them transform into something like that. Tohru-san, you said his dad had to go through the same thing, what's he, another dragon?"

Tohru shook his head, "No, he's the rat, a different zodiac."

Yoshiko eyed Yuki, when Yuki shook his head, "No, I haven't transformed in five years, well not totally but still, I'm not a toy."

Yoshiko nodded as Tohru excused herself and left the room to go finish dinner. Yuki sighed and picked up his son, "You okay Kazuki?"

Kazuki nodded, looking down so no one could really tell, and ran to his father who picked him up, "It's okay Kazuki, come on, let's go to your room."

Kazuki could only nod as Yuki walked out of the room with Hatori in suite. When they reached Kazuki's room, Kazuki looked up at his father, "Is it going to always be this way?"

Yuki looked down at his son and couldn't help but feel bad for him, "Only until someone's born in the year of the dragon again, and that's not for a long time."

Kazuki sniffled when Hatori kneeled down next to Yuki, "Hey Kazuki, cheer up, at least you didn't have my dragon transformation, it was embarrassing."

"What was it Hatori-san?" Kazuki asked innocently.

"The seahorse, so trust me, that dragon form is most preferred," Hatori answered him, slightly reluctant to even tell the boy.

"Hmm, I don't see what's wrong with a seahorse," Kazuki said nonchalantly before kneeling down besides his open books and started to continue what he was doing earlier. Yuki also noticed his son's ability to draw.

"You're a great artist Kazuki-kun!" Yuki told his son, who beamed for glory.

"Thanks dad, I'm hoping to become a manga-ka one day!" he answered back when they heard Tohru's voice, telling them it was dinnertime.

Kazuki smiled as he stood up, gave the two men a goofy grin, and raced out of the room, silver hair flying. Looking confused, but interested, they followed Kazuki and found him already sitting at the table with Tomiko and Yoshiko. Sitting down at the table, Tomiko smiled, "Guess you never had dinner with mom before in a long time huh? This is the kids table, the table over there is for you, mom, and Hatori-san."

They looked over confused, but sure enough another table stood not too far away from the table they were sitting at. Going over to the new table, Tohru came out and placed the two different dishes on each table and took her seat at the adult table, "Sorry about not telling you about this. You see, I had so many people that I needed space. So go on, eat!"

Yuki looked at the selections and found some miso, sushi, and even onigiri on the table looked more like a snack. He didn't mention it though and everyone started to eat. Soon everyone had eaten and Tohru was cleaning the kitchen when you heard a poof, and a delighted shriek from Tomiko and Yoshiko, "Can he fly?"

"I don't know!" Tomiko shrieked back.

"Will you let us go now?" asked a very annoyed Kazuki.

Tohru, this conversation catching her attention, walked over to Tomiko's room to find Yuki and Kazuki, both in their zodiac forms, looking up at the two teens slightly annoyed. Tohru looked over to see Hatori just staring but Tohru found this event comical and started laughing, "You should let them go, can't you see they're annoyed?"

Yuki looked at Tohru hopefully, "Come on, see, you've seen both of us, and I need to return to normal. Let me go!"

Tohru laughed and held out her finger so Yuki could crawl off of Yoshiko and onto her, and Tohru ran out of the room quickly, so Yuki could transform without anyone seeing. Taking Yuki into her room, she let him transform back, turning around quickly. When he said it was okay, Tohru turned around to see Yuki blushing slightly, "Sorry, must be a lot for you to take in."

"No it's okay Yuki-kun, after all, haven't we both seen each other, that night?" Tohru asked him.

"Hai, but that was a long time ago," he answered her, and pulled her close, digging his nose into her brown hair, "Even though I remember that night."

Tohru leaned in, "I remember too, but it's a sad memory too. Heck, if it wasn't for Akito-san I wouldn't even be here either, I would probably not know you. Although I'm glad I did know you, because with out you, I don't think my life would be full."

Yuki smiled, even with his eyes closed, he could still visualize her in his arms, "I don't think mine would be either Tohru." Leaning down he kissed her, and Tohru knew then and there, the ring was coming on, for they couldn't live without one another.

TBC…