Hello! Hello to one and all! Well here you go, the fourth chapter. The monetary system is going to be in American dollars, sorry but I don't have the time to look it all up right now... Take five seconds to review! It always encourages the author ; ) OK with that over with let the reign of chaos begin once more!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the idea of this story and the
character Lian.

When Family Comes Calling:

Stolen Inheritance and Wandering Eyes

The next morning the Souma household once again awoke to the delicious smells of breakfast cooking. Kyo pushed aside the kitchen curtains muttering "Morning To..." The rest of Kyo's sentence was cut off as he stared at the girl in front of him. That wasn't Tohru…

Lian was smiling gently while she arranged the food on the plates to her liking. The morning sun filtered through the window to cast a golden aura around her. If Kyo had been in his cat form his ears would've been twitching at the soft melody Lian was humming as she worked.

"Good morning Kyo. I hope you like omelets and pancakes."

Kyo gave a quick start at the sound of Lian's voice and muttered "they're fine" before stalking out again hoping it was hiding the slight blush that had appeared.

Lian grinned as Kyo retreated to the living room and she saw the not so wide awake visage of Yuki come stumbling in. Sighing indulgently Lian handed him a cup that had a mild herbal aroma to it. Grasping the cup and sipping it automatically, Yuki's eyes popped open in surprise as the drink began to quickly revive him.

Lian giggled at the now wide awake Yuki looking curiously at her "it's my own blend of herbal tea. It wakes you up faster than coffee but none of the jitters you tend to get from that stuff."

Winking she held up a finger she continued "and personally I think it tastes better too."

Blinking Yuki stared at her for a moment more before saying "Ah, thank you Lian, but where is Tohru?"

Lian's smile turned impish as she turned back to preparing the last bit of breakfast "Tohru is sleeping in today."

Seeing the gleam in Lian's eyes, Yuki thought it would be more prudent to wait for Tohru in the dinning room then to try and see what Lian thought was so amusing about Tohru sleeping in.

As Yuki left he could've sworn he heard Lian say in a sing song voice "pressure points are
wonderful things to know about..."

After Yuki left Lian finished up what she had been cooking and then placed it all on a tray to take to the dinning room. As she entered the room she sighed while shaking her head at the familiar sight of Yuki and Kyo bickering.

"Good morning everyone!" Lian greeted as she began to place dishes in front of them.

Shigure took a big sniff then said "ah, it seems we have another great cook staying with us."

Lian grinned while wrinkling her nose "well someone in my family had to learn or we would've starved. Both mom and dad had this strange habit of turning anything edible into blocks of charcoal. I can tell you the nearby art school was happy with our contributions but it didn't do much for us..."

Shigure held his chin in his hand as he rolled his eyes towards Yuki muttering "Mah, I wonder why that sounds so familiar."

Yuki calmly took another sip of his tea not even bothering to dignify Shigure's taunt with a reaction. Yuki then glanced over to Lian and noticed Lian watching the ceiling while counting down for something.

"Lian, what are you doing?"

Lian gave a grin that set the small hairs on the back of Kyo's neck upright.

"You'll see. 3, 2, 1,..." At one Lian lightly clapped her hands over her ears just in time to miss the startled yelp that came from upstairs. Everyone watched the floor above them as a distressed wail was issued and a loud thump followed it.

Lian snickered as she musingly said "That was Tohru getting tangled in the sheets and saying good morning to the floor."

The Souma men turned their gaze to Lian who had her head tilted while she listened to the commotion above them. After a few moments footsteps were heard tearing down the stairway. Giving a nod Lian went to stand by the doorway and opened it while keeping one arm out stretched across the threshold. Sure enough Tohru came down the hall to tear through the doorway and if it hadn't been for Lian standing there Tohru would've run right into everyone at the table.

Tohru began to babble apologies for being late as Lian sighed and straightened her cousin up, fussing over her.

"Now Tohru" Lian began as she re-did the ribbon holding her cousins hair "you really shouldn't say your sorry when it's not your fault that you slept in."

"But Lian..."

"The location of pressure points is really a wonderful thing to have you know" Lian replied conversationally as she smoothed down Tohru's upturned collar.

Lian stood back and gave her cousin a going over and decided that everything was fine "now why don't you sit down and have something to eat."

Just before the two girls sat down the three men realized what Lian had been implying about pressure points.

Shigure's eyebrows reached new heights, Yuki choked on his morning tea, and Kyo, well being himself shouted "you knocked Tohru out?"

Lian raised one eyebrow towards Kyo snorting "how crude. I did not 'knock her out' as you say, I just encouraged her body to stay asleep a little longer, that's all. She deserves it every so often don't you think?"

No one could deny that Tohru was a very hard worker so no comments were issued forth.

Shigure then spoke up saying "so what does everyone have planned today?"

Yuki replied "I'm going to be working in the garden."

Kyo snorted "training."

Tohru smiled saying "Lian and I are going to look for houses for Lian."

The three men turned to look at the two girls with startled eyes but before they could say anything the phone began to ring.

Tohru quickly popped up saying "I'll get it!"

As she left out the door Shigure turned his attention to Lian "So you are going to look for a place to live?"

Lian smiled into her cup as she watched the faces of the Souma men watching her with slightly worried visages "you needn't worry. I will not be taking Tohru from here even if I
find a nice enough place for the two of us."

Seeing the surprise written on their faces Lian began to laugh a bit while saying "here's a thought guys, never play poker. You all have faces that are like an open book at the moment."

Just as they were about to reply Tohru came in "Lian you have a call from a Mr. Yamamoto?"

"Ah good! He has some explaining to do..." Lian got up with a scowl crossing her face. "Thanks cousin."

Lian walked past Tohru, who in turn shut the door behind her.

Yuki turned to look at Tohru "do you think we should wait for her to return before we begin?"

Tohru shook her head "no, she would scold us for waiting for her if we tried."

After a while everyone was startled when the door was suddenly flung open and Lian stood there obviously furious for some reason.

"Tohru, it seems we are going to have to stop by the bank before we can look at places today" Lian ground out

"Lian what's wrong?" Tohru asked a little distressed at the attitude her cousin was displaying.

"Well it seems our darling aunt has been slowly stealing the money I left to you during my travels and now we are going to get it back." Glaring at nothing Lian then muttered "and I'm going to have a talk with that conniving underhanded little bi" Seeing Tohru's wide eyes staring at her Lian amended what she was about to say "conniving underhanded little witch."

Blinking in confusion Tohru said "Money? What money Lian?"

Lian ground her teeth in anger "that further proves she's been at the account. Tohru, you sort of know why I traveled all over the place for a few a while but what you didn't know was I also inherited treasures from some of the people I trained with. Some of the things I gave to museums but others I sold off and made quiet a bit of money from. From that money I made three accounts; one was for you to be able to live off of while you went to school, the second
was for my spending money, and the third was a savings account."

Lian slumped down beside her cousin before continuing "Slowly over time money from the account that I made for you was being used so I had thought it was you using it but when I had found out you were here and saw that you had to work to pay for your schooling I knew something was up. I checked out the bank logs and found the bills for places that I knew you wouldn't go. I delved further into things and found that our dearest aunt had gone and placed the account under her name."

Standing up Lian went to the direction of the stairs "so now we are going to get your account back to you and auntie dear is going to answer to me."

"Lian, wait a moment, don't you think you might be over reacting?" Shigure said slowly.

Lian slowly turned her head and looked coolly at Shigure over her shoulder "When I made that account for Tohru it had one and a half million in US dollars in there. I don't think that is anything to laugh at, do you?"

With that said, Lian then turned and went back up the stairs leaving everyone in shock.

Yuki turned his lavender eyes to Tohru "Tohru, just who has your cousin been dealing with?"

Not quiet realizing what she was saying as she stared towards the doorway her cousin had just gone through Tohru whispered "myths and legends..."

Concerned by the look on her face and the vague answer Yuki leaned towards her "Tohru is something wrong?"

Tohru gave a slight jump but before she got control of herself they all saw how wide and unfocused her eyes were.

Giving a quick bright smile Tohru said "everything is fine Yuki." Then quickly hopping up she began to clear the plates from the table.

While the men sat at the table trying to grasp anything that might make sense Tohru finished up the dishes and returned to the room.

Seeing that Lian wasn't in the room with the others Tohru said "I better go check on Lian."

"No need for that cousin, I'm here."

Seeing her in the doorway Shigure let out a low appreciative whistle while Yuki and Kyo just stared at the figure Lian cut.

She stood in the doorway in a close cut black business suit. The jacket tapered down her arms into points which rested halfway down the back of her hands while the skirt reached just above her knees with a slit on the side that went about halfway up the skirt. A simple white shirt gleamed from underneath the open jacket while a crystal heart with a glittering red center gave it a bit of color. Black heels gave her another inch or so and the whole ensemble gave her an air of maturity The black of the suit set off the russet and white of her hair while her green-gold eyes flashed with laughter.

"So I take it you approve hmm?"

"Mah, it's such a waste that you're only in high school..." Shigure said mournfully.

Kyo's mouth dropped open as Lian tilted her head back and laughed.

"Thank you for the compliment Shigure. Ne, I was wondering if you could do me a favor and drop Tohru and I off at the bank, we'll catch a cab for the rest of the day but I would really like to be with friendly people before I have to go through all this."

Shigure's eyes took on a slightly serious quality as he realized what Lian was really asking for. Even though she seemed like a mature adult she was still a young girl in high school and she still needed her friends around her.

Shigure stood up and walked over to Lian, he then picked up her hand saying "your wish is my command dear lady" and kissed the back of her hand.

Shigure then blew it by grinning "people will be so jealous that I get to escort two beautiful ladies today!"

While this was going on Yuki got up and moved to Lian's side "do you mind if I come
along as well?"

Lian's smile grew brighter as she said "that would be great!"

Peering around the fair haired teen beside her Lian asked quietly "Kyo will you come with us as well?"

Kyo was about to shout, hell no, when he saw the slight pleading in Lian's eyes. Giving a slight blush Kyo muttered "feh,"

Shigure rolled his eyes "translation, he would love to go."

Kyo blushed a bit more when Lian smiled softly at him "thank you Kyo."

"Hmph!"

"Translation!" Shigure sang out "not a problem!"

Tohru and Lian gave identical squeaks of surprise as they held each other while the room exploded into chaos as Kyo began chasing Shigure around, until fed up, Yuki kicked Kyo into a wall; which in it's own turn, started a whole other bickering session.

Lian looked at her cousin with wide eyes "and this happens almost daily right?"

Tohru gave a gentle smile to the squabbling pair and just nodded.

Lian smacked her forehead saying "this is going to be a long day..."

Later on they all arrived at the bank safely and after everyone got out of the car Lian slightly bent into the window saying "thanks for the ride Shigure."

Shigure smiled as he saw Kyo begin to growl at a guy who was watching Lian's backside as she leaned in the window. "It's all well and good Lian, just get everything fixed and come back soon, ne?"

Grinning Lian piped up "I will!"

Lian turned to see a slightly glaring Kyo standing right in front of her "is something wrong Kyo?"

Realizing that he would have to tell her he had been warning guys off Kyo just huffed and began walking towards the bank building.

Lian and Tohru gave each other identical puzzled looks while Yuki just smiled at the clueless pair. "Well shall we go ladies?"

Both girls just nodded their heads and entered the building. Once inside they could literally see the change come over Lian. She stood straighter and her pace took on a no nonsense quality. With heels clicking on the marble floor, eyes flashing as if irritated that she had come into this place and no one had helped her yet.

Sure enough one of the people at a desk to the side noted that obviously a VIP had just entered and he had better snap to it "Ah welcome to the bank of Tok..."

"I know just where I am thank you" Lian snapped. "Now I want you to get on the phone and tell Mr. Yamamoto that someone is here to see him."

Cowed the man scuttled to his desk as Lian and company followed him with her eyes burning holes into his back. He quickly dialed a number and spoke into the phone.

After a moment of murmured speech they heard the employee say "Ah yes, I'll ask her. Miss? May I ask your name?"

Lian's eyes narrowed a bit as she replied frostily "tell him Lady Leviathan is here."

"Ah, yes..." The man said as he quickly relayed the message. A few seconds later a door near the other end of the building was thrown open and a small man came towards them at a hurried pace.

Bowing repeatedly the small man nervously said "Miss Leviathan, it's so good to see you. Please follow me to my office."

They all followed the man into a rather large office in the back and watched as he settled into a overstuffed leather chair.

Seeing that she would now have her audience time with the head of the bank Lian smiled warmly at her cousin and handed her a credit card "now that we have that all smoothed out, how about you all go and make sure my cousin gets some new clothes?"

Tohru began to open her mouth to protest when Lian gently placed a finger on Tohru's mouth, silencing the other girl. "Little cousin mine, we are together again and I want nothing but your
happiness."

Lian's eyes misted a bit as she continued in almost a whisper "all this is nothing in compare to what you gave me over the years when we lived like sisters. Your support kept me going when I would have died, you held me when others shunned me, and your smile was the only light I had during the struggles when I was gone."

"Please" Lian whispered "it would make me very happy to see you smile."

Tohru nodded and Lian took her finger away from Tohru's mouth. Lian stepped back and grinned when Tohru gave a bright smile, then squeaked in surprise when Tohru tackled her in a hug "I love you sis."

Lian's eyes widened a bit and then Lian hugged Tohru fiercely "I love you too sis."

Backing up Lian gave a watery grin "Now why don't you scamper off to that store across the street and start looking for some new clothes, ne?"

Tohru smiled brightly while nodding her head saying "Sure!"

After watching all this Kyo surprised everyone, and especially himself, when he suddenly spoke up "Yuki and Tohru can go, I'll stay here."

Seeing the challenge in Kyo's gaze Lian just nodded an assent and turned to Yuki saying "when we meet back up with you guys over there I had better see a receipt with three outfits on it or you're in trouble mister."

Kyo had to snicker at the pole-axed look Yuki was giving Lian's finger as she poked him in the chest.

Lian then rounded on Tohru "and I do not mean one skirt with three shirts, I mean three Whole outfits..."

Even Yuki had to smile at the blush on Tohru's face which meant she was thinking of trying to get away with the shortened version of three outfits.

Lian waved in a shooing motion at the two "Now that is over with, off with you, the shops are calling you."

Tohru and surprisingly Yuki gave a slight bow and left the room. After the two had left the office got noticeably chillier as Lian now stood ram-rod straight.

Turning her chilled gaze to the small man cringing in his seat Lian began speaking "Now as for you Mr. Yamamoto, I believe we are all going to settle a few things before my darling aunt comes storming into this office."

As Lian turned Kyo noticed that Lian's eyes had turned almost totally gold. Her normally green eyes were usually just flecked with gold but now it was as if her eyes were gold with just a ring of emerald surrounding the cold metal her eyes now were. Hearing a whimper Kyo looked to the banker who seemed like he wanted to disappear into the floor.

Lian slowly glided up to the desk like a predator stalking her prey causing the manager to shrink even more into his leather seat, if that was possible.

In a dangerous purring voice Lian said "Now here is what will happen, my aunt will typically come storming into your office demanding why her precious money is now denied to her. You will do nothing but sit there because at that point I will take over, do I make myself clear?"

Sputtering Yamamoto said "but why would she come here about being denied money?"

Lian hissed out "because you are going to cut off access to it since it was never hers to begin with!"

Mr. Yamamoto just gave a squeak of assent and visibly relaxed a bit as Lian smiled saying "good. Now how about we have some drinks while we wait, hmm?"

As Lian turned to him Kyo noticed the ring of gold was still there but it had retreated somewhat to become a thin band around the green of Lian's eyes.

"So Kyo, what would you like to drink?"

"Coke"

Lian giggled a bit and shook her head "ever a man of few words, eh Kyo?"

Kyo gave a small gulp as he stared at Lian. She was leaning a bit against the cherry wood desk with her hair spilling over one shoulder as she grinned playfully at him.

To cover up his reaction Kyo snorted and turned his head as if pissed.

Lian just laughed and Kyo wished he hadn't turned his head away since the small glimpse he got of Lian with her head thrown back laughing really was not as much as he would've liked to see.

Turning her head Lian said "I'll have a root beer."

Mr. Yamamoto just nodded his head and quickly ordered his secretary to get the drinks.

Lian then moved away from the desk to flop, yes flop, next to Kyo causing him to look over at her startled.

Blinking her green gold eyes Lian said "what?"

Kyo gave a little smirk at how normal she was acting right now and just sat there saying nothing.

Lian's eyes narrowed in mischief but before she could do anything to a slowly panicking Kyo their drinks had arrived and soon she was then busy with that.

Much to Kyo's surprise he felt a slight disappointment that he wouldn't find out what Lian had been about to do. Eyes widening in surprise then narrowing in self recrimination Kyo though Jeez what was wrong with him lately? Didn't most people annoy him?

Giving a quick glance at Lian, Kyo thought that maybe it was because she was like Tohru in a way. Kyo then shook his head with a snort, yeah right, just in what way were the two alike? Lian was outspoken and fiery, Tohru was quiet with a gentle flow.

As he gave her another subtle glance Kyo realized that it was the way both of the girls just accepted people that made them the same. Most other people would've still been suspicious of the Souma men but Lian had accepted them quite readily.

Kyo's quiet introspection of the girl next to him would've continued if he did not see Lian's eyes suddenly bleed into pure raging gold.

"So she comes" Lian all about growled just before the door to the office was thrown open violently and a grayish haired woman came storming into the room.

Completely missing the two teens on the couch by the door the woman stalked up to the desk and slamming her hands down upon it shouted "Mr. Yamamoto, I demand to know why my account has been shut down! I have a long standing with this bank and I demand to know on whose authority you decided to lock my money away."

Kyo watched as Lian's eyes got colder and colder the more her aunt raved.

Finally Lian decided enough was enough standing up Lian straightened her back and with a chilling tone said "Mr. Yamamoto closed My account on My authority dear aunt."

With the first words out of Lian's mouth her aunt's mouth snapped shut and she whirled to face the furious young woman standing off to the side.

Lian then began to glide slowly towards her aunt, never once shifting her golden gaze from the petrified woman. "How interesting you say the account is yours when I specifically left it to Tohru. How strange it is that Tohru never even knew about the account."

Lian's steps ended as she stood in front of the woman she called aunt. "Don't you think that is a little odd, Sasami?"

As if hearing her name broke her from a spell, Sasami shook her head slightly before saying "Oh Lian you know Tohru, she wouldn't know what to do with the money. We had to put it to good use, and "

"ENOUGH!" Lian roared cutting the older woman off in mid ramble.

Stalking up closer to Sasami, causing the other woman to press tightly against the office wall, Lian hissed "enough of your lies, enough of your selfishness, enough of it all. I will not force you to pay back what you have stolen but I will tell you this, if in any way you try to take Tohru's money from her again or make her uncomfortable in any way I shall break you. Yes Sasami, I have enough on my little boy cousin to make sure that he never gets a job as an officer or any other upstanding job that you and that pack of snakes are contemplating."

Giving a cruel smile Lian said softly "have a good day auntie dear."

Lian then turned to Kyo "let's go meet up with everyone" Giving a molten amber stare to the two adults in the room Lian continued "there's something in here that's making me sick."

Kyo quickly followed Lian out of the bank but almost stopped in surprise when Lian headed away from the store that held Yuki and Tohru. In a split second decision Kyo turned away from the store building and followed Lian to a small shaded park.

There he saw Lian suddenly stop with her head bowed and began taking in great gulps of air. Cautiously Kyo approached her not knowing what to expect from her when he got the greatest shock in his life.

Just as he placed one hand on Lian's shoulder the young girl suddenly wheeled around and began sobbing into his chest. Unsure at what to do Kyo just sat there frozen for a few moments.

As Lian continued to sob Kyo began to get a little worried and he put one arm around her protectively. To his surprise Lian seemed to lean into him a little more and her sobs slowly began to abate.

After another minute or two Lian's crying stopped and she looked up at him through tear blurred eyes and a grateful smile "I'm sorry for crying on you Kyo, it's just that I hate to
act like that. It reminds me of too many painful memories."

Lian then sighed and placed her head onto Kyo's chest saying "I'm sorry but
do you mind if I just stay like this for a moment?"

Feeling his face flush at her request Kyo was about to tell her off when he found himself saying "do what you want."

He wasn't sure how his face could get any brighter but he was sure it did when he felt Lian smile and heard her whisper "thank you."

The two stood there for a moment, Lian leaning against Kyo, and Kyo having one arm circled protectively around her. All too soon, in Kyo's mind at least, he felt Lian pull away a bit and he reluctantly let her go.

Lian then pulled a tissue out of the small purse by her side and wiped her eyes. "Thank you for being there Kyo" Lian said softly.

"It's fine" he said gruffly, not really meeting her eyes, still confused by his own behavior.

After a moment Lian took a deep breath and smiled up at him "why don't we join the others before they begin to wonder what happened to us ne?"

Kyo just nodded his assent and the two headed for the shopping mall. Once there the two teens began looking for the other pair and soon Kyo spotted them. Tapping Lian on a shoulder he pointed out Tohru and Yuki to her. Smiling Lian grabbed Kyo's hand and began pulling him towards the others not fully realizing she had a hold on him.

Much to his surprise Kyo didn't yank his hand away and let himself be dragged across the store to where Tohru was now waving for them. When they reached Yuki and Tohru Lian let Kyo's hand go, but not before Yuki saw it and raised an eyebrow towards the slightly blushing teen.

Kyo just turned his head as Yuki gave a slight smirk. He saw Lian talking with Tohru animatedly and watched as she told Tohru about the new account cards that would be coming in a few days.

Realizing he was watching her Kyo shook his head and thought to himself "I am really going to have to figure out what's wrong with me."

That was the last coherent thought the poor boy had for a while as Lian once again, grabbed his hand and Tohru grabbed Yuki's so the girls could get the items they needed, or just plain wanted.

Ok! Ok! Im sorry for not having this up sooner! bows repeatedly For those of you who
have guessed a Lian and Kyo pairing congratulations! You're right! I'm sorry if this was mainly focused on Lian and Kyo but it will go back to the all around cast in the next chapter. Thank you for coming and please review!