Chapter 7

"Are you ready?" Kyo asked Tohru.

"Yes." Tohru had her eyes closed and Kyo was slowly approaching her. Tohru opened her eyes and started hearing something talk to her. It was saying, 'trust your instincts'. Did she have instincts? Anyways, she trusted whatever she had in her and approached Kyo. They were seconds away from each other. She trusted herself, she really did. 'No you don't.' Kyo walked up to her and hugged her. He transformed. A cat head popped out of Kyo's clothes.

"I am so sorry!" Tohru said.

"Its not your fault. Its our curse." Kyo said. He dragged his clothes over to the corner with him. Tohru was now sitting on the floor.

"Come on Miss Honda. It wasn't your fault. We just have to figure out a way to work around this curse." Yuki said to her.

"I know. But it is patially my fault. There is this voice in my head that is telling me stuff and I lost my concentration." Kyo transformed back. He threw on his clothes and came back to join the group.

"Well if there's a damn voice in your head then take it out. Even better, ignore it!" Kyo said.

"I've been trying. But it keeps telling me what I should do."

"Well what did it say?" Yuki asked.

"It said that I should trust my instincts. Do I even have any instincts?"

"Everyone has instincts, they just have to figure out what they are." Kyo said.

"But I have no clue what those are." Tohru said. Kyo and Yuki fell to the ground. "Oh my gosh, are you alright?" She said worried.

"We're fine, do you really not know what an instinct is Miss Honda?" Yuki asked from the floor, looking up at her.

Tohru didn't want to seem dumb, but she shook her head for no.

Kyo suddenly got up with glasses and a book in his hand. He flipped through a couple of pages and then led his finger down the page twice. He then cleared his throat and said in a creepy old voice, "Instinct-Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished. It can be used as a noun or an adjective." He closed the book and looked down at her. He pulled off his glasses and asked in his regular voice, "Do you get it now?" They applauded at his good acting. Tohru wasn't really sure what it all meant but at least she knew now.

SHHHKKKK!!!!!

SLASHHH!!!!!

CLINK!!!!

There were sword fights going on. Izumi against Akito and Yume against the other two people. Yume had knocked out the less skilled guard and was now taking on the main female. Akito and Izumi were well matched. It seemed that the old man, Akito, had experience with swords. He defintely knew his way around swords. The guy that had thrown them the swords was still not seen. He was no where to be found. Izumi and Akito had back away from each other to catch their breath.

'God, how can he be so good?' Izumi thought. 'No one is even able to match me except Kyo. How the hell is he doing this? And his age should be helping him either!' Izumi was breathing hardly. Akito might have only been about 30 but most people that age can't move like was moving.

'She's good. I see that freak cat taught her well.' Akito thought and attacked.

Izumi jumped and said, "Is that all you got?" She bounced against a wall, back at akito with both swords. She cut the sleeve of his shirt off. She also left a cut in his arm. He turned with his sword. Izumi was in ready stance and suddenly fell over. There was so much pain in her left leg. She looked down at it and found a very deep gash in it. She dropped one sword and cut off some of her fabric from her clothes. She used it as a bandage to stop the bleeding. The wound bleed through the cloth. The blood was not stopping.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I hurt you badly?" Akito said with an evil snicker.

Without Izumi noticing he had snuck up behind her. He was starring down at her waiting to see what she would do next. Right when Akito was about to strike she grabbed her swords and did a roll that landed her 20 feet away from him. She got up in a ninja crouching stance and winced at the pain in her leg.

Akito started moving towards her in a freakish walk with his sword. "I see. You can't even move without pain can you? You can't stand!" Akito charged at her catching her off guard. Izumi closed her eyes and heard the most gruesome noise. Blood being splurted everywhere.

TO BE CONTINUED