Hello! Hello to one and all! Well here you go! The actual 1st chapter! Let me tell you a few things about this fic: 1) this is just after the end of the ANIME (2) Tohru's mom had a sister go with it, it's for the story (3) I am currently writing 4 fic's including this one so I'll be juggling chapters gomen (4) Review! It always encourages the author ; ) OK with that ove rwith let the reign of chaos begin!

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When Family Comes Calling:

Wounded Relatives

It was one of those nights that, once again, Kyo couldn't sleep. Too many thoughts kept darting around in his head like busy little mice. Kyo scowled glaring up at the stars 'Mice? That damn Yuki..." Once more the rat had beaten Kyo and once again Kyo came out the loser. Just as his temper was about to flare something at the edge of the walkway caught Kyo's attention.

Getting up on his hands and knees Kyo began to quietly creep across the roof to see what
was there. He focused his eyes and could barely make out the image of a person stumbling down the path. Curious about this rude person he just watched until the figure went under the overhang , disappearing from his point of view. Tilting his head Kyo waited to hear a knock on the door, but soon became agitated when after a minute or two there wasn't even a peep from
the doorway.

Huffing and grumbling about the poor manners of people coming in the middle of the night Kyo went back into the house and headed for the door. If this was one of Yuki's admirer's she would be tossed out on her butt in seconds flat.

Reaching the door, all ready to give a scorching remark Kyo threw open the door and blinked when no figure met his sight. Now even more pissed that he didn't have anyone to vent his rage on he was about to slam the door shut once again when a sound caught his attention. Looking down he saw a girl out cold on the porch… she was bleeding.

Blinking once in shocked confusion Kyo took this as well as any hypersensitive teenager would, he then panicked.

Being that it was a girl he couldn't very well pick her up so he did the only other thing his poor mind could think of at the moment.

"Shigure!"

This of course woke the entire household except for the girl in front of him. Looking down at her again he noticed she was shivering. Kyo quickly took off his shirt and put it over the girl.

"Baka neko, what do you think..." the words Yuki was about to say got lost in his surprise at seeing the wounded girl in their doorway.

"What is all the commotion about?" yawned a barely awake Shigure.

"This" Kyo said indicating the girl.

Shigure's eyes immediately snapped open and he turned to Yuki saying "Go call Hatori and tell him it's an emergency. Kyo go get a blanket so we can carry her inside."

Just as they were all about to take off in their separate directions they heard the girl murmur "find Tohru..."

Of course at that moment who else should come down the steps except said person.

Confused by all the activity Tohru murmured "What's going on?"

Not wanting Tohru to see the injured girl Kyo shifted to try to hide her but that only brought Tohru's attention to what was behind him.

Seeing the girl there Tohru gave a wordless shout and rushed to the girl's side. "Lian! Oh what's happened to you?"

Shigure eyed the two boys as Yuki and Kyo came back from their assignments and nodded as he saw Kyo holding a good blanket.

Tohru brushed the clinging bangs from the girl's face murmuring "It'll be ok Lian, you'll see."

Looking up at the men watching them Tohru said with tear filled eyes "it'll be all-right won't it Shigure?"

Shigure thought his heart would break at the sight before him, plastering a small smile on his face he answered "of course she'll be fine. If you look it's only her leg that's hurt."

Tohru sniffed and wiped her eyes saying "of course you're right. She'll be fine won't she."

Shigure sighed "I know we really shouldn't move her but she'll freeze if we have her stay out like this. Come on you two, help me with her."

After a minute or two the three managed to get the girl onto the blanket and carried her into the living room with Tohru trailing worriedly behind. Once they put her down Tohru immediately put the girl's head in her lap and began stroking her hair softly saying words of comfort.

Unable to take Tohru's sorrow any longer Kyo abruptly turned to the kitchen saying "I'm going to boil some water and get a few clean towels."

The three men knew just how worried Tohru must've been at that point because she didn't immediately hop up saying she would get the items. All three of them looked at each other helplessly, wishing that Hatori would get there faster.

A few minutes later they heard a knocking coming from the front door and Yuki dashed off to get it.

In a matter of seconds Hatori and Yuki were back in the room just as Kyo appeared with the fresh water and towels.

Seeing the supplies Hatori raised an eyebrow and nodded approvingly. He then turned his serious gaze to the two girls before him.

Kneeling down he pulled the blanket away from the girl and lifted her skirt high enough to clearly see the wound.

Seeing the blood and the wound that ran across the girl's thigh Tohru gave a muffled whimper and hugged the girl's upper body.

Ignoring Tohru, Hatori took one of the towels from Kyo and with the sterile water began cleaning the wound.

Though unconscious the girl still whimpered when the cloth came in contact with her skin. A few more tears fell from Tohru's eyes only to disappear into the young girl's hair.

Trying to distract Tohru from what was going on Shigure asked "so who is this young lady Tohru? It seems that you know her quite well."

Tohru sniffed and seeing that everyone was watching her with interest she replied "This is Lian Leviathan, my cousin."

Yuki's brow furrowed in thought "your cousin? We didn't see her when we went to take you back from your grandfather's house. Was she out that day?"

Tohru shook her head "No, Lian is my cousin from my mom's side of the family. Lian's mom was my aunt Akane.

Tohru smiled at some memory "Mom always said that her sister Akane was as wild as she was but as soon as she had Lian, aunt Akane became a great mother."

"If your mother had a sister why didn't you go stay with them when your mother passed away?" Kyo huffed.

Tohru looked over at Kyo "I couldn't. Aunt Akane and uncle Leon died in a car accident one year before my mom did."

Immediately Kyo looked ashamed at what he had asked and when Tohru saw that she slowly shook her head "it's all-right Kyo, you didn't know. I don't talk much about them I suppose."

Shigure saw Hatori pull out a needle and suture thread and knew he had to keep Tohru's attention away from what was going on.

"Why didn't you ever tell us about her, about them?"

Tohru tilted her head as if thinking how to reply "I suppose it's because a month or two after her parents died Lian disappeared. After searching for her for a month everyone except me gave up hope of ever finding her. To my surprise that night an owl flew into my room, dropped off a small envelope and flew out again."

Tilting her head and smiling brightly Tohru continued "It was a letter from Lian telling me that she was ok and not to worry about her. If I wanted to talk to her then I was to write a letter and hang it out my window. The owl would check every so often and take our letters to each other. I still don't know where she was all that time or what happened to her but I was glad to know that she was doing well where ever she was."

Smiling softly from the memories Tohru murmured "she always had such wonderful stories about the things she was doing."

Tohru's eyes then clouded a bit from the rest of the memory "Almost a month before my mother's accident Lian wrote in her last letter that she had to go do something and she didn't know when she would be able to talk to me next. She said that she loved me and hoped that one day we would see each other again. After that I only received one more letter. That was two months after my mother died. In the letter was a strange crystal pendant and an even stranger request in the letter. Lian wanted me to twist the top of the small crystal heart off and put a drop of my blood in it. I read the rest of the letter and was comforted by her sorrow about my mom and her wishes to be there with me. I did as the letter asked and put the heart back in the envelope. When I tossed it into the air the owl caught it and that was the last I heard from her."

Tohru finished her story with a sigh and turned just in time to see Hatori cutting the thread that he had used to sew up Lian's leg.

Every one looked at the two girls in amazement at what had been revealed.

Hatori stood up and handed Tohru two bottles of medication "Tohru, the first bottle is pain killers and the second is antibiotics. I only want her to take the first if she needs it and the second twice a day with food."

Holding the two bottles to her Tohru said "How can I repay you Hatori?"

Hatori gave a rare smile "just make sure she does ok and we'll call it even."

Overwhelmed by everything Tohru just gave a watery smile and nodded.

Shigure escorted Hatori to the door and was showing him out when Hatori stopped to face the man he called friend. "Shigure, I just wanted to tell you be careful. The wound Lian received is a graze from a bullet."

Shigure's eyes widened a bit and then he gave his typical smile "a dangerous mystery girl, I like it."

Hatori sighed and wondered why he even bothered half the time and left.

What he didn't see was Shigure suddenly becoming serious with thought. Then giving a shrug Shigure decided to just wait and see what happened.

Shigure entered the living room and saw the sun slowly peaking over the forested hills and said "well it looks like we're all going to stay home today."

Seeing Shigure's attention focused on the open porch way all the teens looked to see the rising sun and sighed.

"I'm really sorry about this" Tohru said with her head bowed.

Yuki went over to the distraught girl and placed his hand on her shoulder "this is not your fault Honda-san. You couldn't ha..."

At this point Yuki was interrupted by a small groan of pain that came from Lian.

Hearing Lian's pain Tohru gently put Lian's head down, leaped up, and went to get a glass of water so Lian could take the pain medication.

The three men of the Souma clan looked over Lian as she slowly regained
consciousness.

Lian had reddish-brown waist length hair with white bangs that trailed down the sides of her face. From what they could see of her she had an athletic build and her skin had a healthy peach glow to it. When she opened her eyes they were surprised to see forest green eyes with flecks of amber gold stare at them.

Lian's eyes widened in awareness and panic seeing that she was surrounded by three men, in a house she was not familiar with, and no real idea how she got there.

Before anyone could guess Lian shot up off the floor then gave a cry as her bad leg collapsed beneath her. Being the closest Kyo dived to catch her then mentally smacked himself for what he had just done. He felt Lian come in contact with his body as he heard Tohru cry out in dismay behind him.

"How are we going to explain this?" Kyo thought as he fell to the floor with
Lian on top of him.

After a second of lying there Kyo's eyes shot open to see everyone just staring at him and Lian. Looking at his chest he saw two haunting green-gold eyes staring at him. Not a cat, but HIM.

Kyo Souma was holding a girl and he hadn't transformed.

So what do you think? How is it that Kyo didn't transform? Is the curse broken or is it something with Lian? To find out the answers to these and all your other questions you have to review and wait for the next chapter!
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