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Chapter 3

' Poof! ' and then everything was gone.

" Yuki! Yuki, Where Are You? " Machi exclaimed, panicking a little. ' He was holding me just a minute ago. 'she thought.

" I'm right here", she could hear his voice on the bed.

She saw the pants he was wearing and moved them aside.When she did, a tiny white mouse with beautiful but sad violet eyes spoke to her "Do you understand now? That is why I can't hold you" it looked down.

' No way…. It couldn't be.' she thought shocked. ' am I stuck in some crazy fiction story? This talking mouse can't be Yuki 'she thought.

"My family has been cursed from hundreds of years now" Yuki explained, sighing in his mouse form.

"I'm not the only one either. Twelve members of the family are cursed with the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. A thirteenth member is cursed with the vengeful spirit of the cat. Whenever we get huggled by a member of the opposite sex ,or become too weak or nervous ,we transform into our animal form…" he told her the story.

" How long do you stay like this? in your other form I mean…" Machi mumbled softly.

" The time is not fixed " Yuki frowned in his mouse form.

" But when we do change back, we are.." ' Poof! ' " Naked. " he finished in his human form.

Machi quickly turned around ,blushing furiously. ' I did not see what I just saw…I can't believe I'm sitting on my bed with a naked Yuki!'she thought.

She got up and walked out like a perfectly instructed robot.

" I'm done. " . A completely dressed Yuki stepped out in the hallway.He continued, " I'll be leaving now.About the curse….don't tell.. or…..or I'll have to…"

Machi gripped his arm. " Don't leave. " she said. " Eh? " he looked at her, surprised.

" Yuki, I love you. I'll love you even if you turn into Godzilla and destroy Japan.."she smiled at him and her eyes were starting to water up. " Machi…" he was finding it hard to believe his ears.

" Even if you can never hold me…its okay.You have given me your presence so far, that is very important to me.Please don't take it away from me…" she earnestly looked at him in the eyes.

He bent down and softly kissed her on the lips. " Arigatou Machi. I love you too.."he whispered softly in her ears.

" Say.. what did you mean by ' don't tell or I'll have to? '.." Machi asked with a small frown.

" Usually , when the curse leaks out , we have to inform it to the head of our family.He then gets our family doctor to erase the memory of the person by hypnotism.." Yuki answered.

He looked at the shocked face of the girl beside him. " Don't worry, silly! " he lightly bonked her on the head." I'm not going to let anyone erase the memories of my friends, not you and not even Manabe when he finds out , in the future."

' Though it'll be annoying' Yuki mentally shuddered at the thought of Manabe having a ball on the discovery of his curse. ' I'll worry about that moron later…' Yuki decided.

" I see. " Machi relaxed a little.

" So you have never been really held before? " asked Machi." Nope " Yuki answered.

" Well then…" she suddenly embraced him " Machi! " he exclaimed.

' Poof!' she was holding a white mouse in her hand.She placed him in the palm of one hand and gently covered him with another , like a blanket.

"So how does that feel? You won't change back right away , as long as I hold you , isn't that right? " she inquired.

" No I won't…"Yuki answered.

This was the first time someone had held him like this.Yuki felt so protected.Being completely surrounded by warmth was a feeling he had never experienced before.

Machi was walking back to her room , Yuki comfortably nestled in her hands.He looked up at her. ' She is so radiant..' he thought.

" Machi , if I'm being a bother…" Yuki started in his mouse form.

" Shhh! I don't mind. I don't mind at all. I can hold you like this , forever if you want me too…"

Yuki closed his eyes , happily. ' A place that I can return to…a warm place …filled with happy people, smiling at me….it exists…a place that is mine,I've found it at last ' he thought.

Yuki's long battle with loneliness was finally over.