"Oh. Yes, of course. Well, to put it simply, my people are at war. As I was fighting, the enemy almost got me, but my sensei opened op a portal to this world, and I ran through. But, unfortunatly (A/N sr?), one of them got in too. We fought, but right before I killed it, it broke a tree, which fell on me. I threw a shiruken at it, and it died. I was immobilised by the tree, but luckily Yuki saved me. Anyway, thats part of my story." Alanna ended. Tohru, Kyo, and Yuki were all wide eyed. Shigure was scratching his head.

"I'm afraid I will have to tell Akito about this." Yuki grew tence at Akito's name, but stayed silent. Dreams got bored and left.

"And who is Akito?" Alanna asked, intrested.

"Akito is the head of the household. He pretty much controls everything."

"OK, I want to meet him," Yuki had fear in his eyes, "But, I want to know about your curse that is placed upon your family." Alanna said, yawning, as if it's no big deal."Oh, yeah, and I want to go to school here." Shigure raised his eyebrow

"How did you know about the curse?" Kyo and Tohru blushed, but Shigure didn't seem to notice.

"Simple. I can detect peoples auras and stuff like that. Yours, Kyo's and Yuki's are different than most. Though Tohru's is normal. Dreams said she smelled a curse, so that confermed my thoughts. So, whats the curse? I might be able to help."

"Well, do you know the story of the Zodiac Banquet?" Shigure asked.

"Of course. My mother told it to me when I was little. It's my favorite story." Alanna said, smiling at the thought.

"Ok then, to put it simply, we are the cursed Zodiac. And when we of the cursed Zodiac hug a member of the opposite sex, we transform into our animal. I'm the dog, Yuki's the rat, and Kyo's the cat."

"Interesting. I wish to see Akito even more now." Alanna said, growing a serious expression. Shigure nodded.

"Okay, I'll tell him. But now, I must go CoughTortureCough my editor. Farewell!" Shigure left, chuckling.

"Right... So why does he torture his editor?" Alanna asked, confused.

"It's his favorite pastime." Kyo said snickering.

"Ah. Kyo, Torhu, would you mind going inside? I want to talk to Yuki." Alanna said, noticing the worried look on Yuki's face.

"Of course not! Come on Kyo!" Tohru said, pulling Kyo with her to the house. Alanna walked over to Yuki, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"What's wrong, Yuki? You seem...Distressed." Alanna asked, looking into Yuki's eyes. Yuki looked down, saying

"Why did you ask to see...Akito?" Yuki asked, voice low, and Alanna senced fear coming off him.

"Why not? It's not like anything'll happen to me." Alanna said, smiling reassuringly. Yuki was starting to get annoyed by her over-confident personality.

"How do you know! Akito may be sick all the time, but he is supernaturally strong! If you get him mad, he'll kill you!" Yuki screamed, face getting slightly red.

"How do you know! You dont know what I can do! I can protect myself you know!" Alanna screamed back, getting up in Yuki's face, there faces inches apart. She was pretty distracted, so she did not notice a shadow creeping through the woods.

"What do you mean, you wont get hurt! Akito is so terrifying, I can't even describe it!"

"I've been fighting in a war, with... THINGS, that are so evil, it makes a normal person cower at the sight of it! You think I'm afraid of a person!" Alanna's aura was getting to be quite angry, and that atractted the shadow even more. The thing got ready to pounce at them, crouching down, firey eyes blazing.

"Fine, but if he hurts you, don't bl-" Alanna finally noticed it, and hit Yuki so he would not get hit by it, but could not move out of the way soon enough, and got pinned to a tree by a long, black arm. Yuki got a look at it, and it was a shadow figure, moving swiftly, and it had blazing firey eyes. Yuki got shivers just by looking at it, but was more concerned with Alanna being stuck to a tree!

'I hope she's okay' He thought, running to Alanna foolishly. The shadow streched a arm from its back, and hit Yuki, knocking him into another tree, knocking him unconsious.

"YUKI!" Alanna screamed, her battle aura going from a soft blue, then to a dark purple. She freed one of her arms, and grabbed a shukusen from her belt. She cut off one of its arms, but it came back almost emmeadiatly, but she was free. Grabbing her other shukusen, she got in a fighting position, waiting for it to strike. It was fast, and before she could do anything, it cut her arm. She winced in pain, getting far enough away so she could concentrate. She closed her eyes for five seconds, and when she opened her eyes, they were glowing blue, and the blue spread down into her arms and shukusens. She gained speed, and she quickly sliced off one of the arms of the creature, and it didnt grow back. The thing screeched in pain, backing up. Alanna quickly cut off another arm, then slashed at it, inflicting as much pain as possibe on it, then cut off its head, finally killing it. When it did, it dissapated into a smokey substance. Alanna stopped glowing, and remembered Yuki. Running over to him, she sat next to him, and noticed that Yuki had a dangerous-looking gash on his forehead. Putting his head in her lap, she consentrated again, this time only her hands glowed. She touched his head, and the gash dissapeared, healing before her eyes. Yuki woke up with a start, looking at Alanna.

"What happened?" He sat up, and Alanna thrust her hands around his neck, hugging him tightly... and Yuki didn't transform.

"Oh, Yuki, I'm so glad your okay!" Alanna said, and noticed what she was doing, and quickly unatatched herself from his neck, blushing."Um. Sorry."

"Okay. What happend to your arm?" Yuki said, noticing her arm. Alanna covered it up with her arm.

"S'nothing. I've had worse. Lets go inside, okay?" Alanna said, getting up. They started walking, but Alanna's knees buckled, Yuki catching her before she fell. Alanna drifted off into unconciousness. Yuki carried her inside, putting her on the couch

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