Intense breathing. Cold sweats. Thrashing.

Kisa Sohma awoke one morning with a start from her terrible nightmare, sitting up quickly and looking around the dark room. No one was there, as usual. Sighing, her golden eyes traveled to the digital clock beside her queen sized bed to read 4:36. It then without warning changed from thirty-six to thirty-seven and the girl threw herself onto her back. The pillow let out a fwoosh of air as Kisa's head landed on it, crisp gold hair fanning out messily across the cotton cover. This tigers hair was longer now, after five or six years of just trimming after the age of twelve, the locks now reached mid-back.

With a groan, Kisa twisted strands of hair around slender fingers that had touched many things, all things but a boy that was. Well, there was an exception.

The Sohma Family.

Kisa could hold and touch whomever of them she wanted since they were all cursed… Freaking A, if Kisa had her way she would chuck the curse out the window and hoped it smashed like the glass.

Raising her hands before her face and looking at them, palm then back of the hands, the near adult wondered why she had that dream. It was disgusting and she'd never thought of such a thing before in her life.

Stupid Hiro, haunting her in her sleep. Couldn't he just leave her alone!

No, he couldn't. He loved Kisa and felt terrible about it.

As Kisa's mind raced with these thoughts her eyes widened and she bit her lip. So she had thought about these things before, it wasn't as if it was wrong. She was old enough to think about it if she wanted to, it wasn't like she could do it anyhow. Might as well imagine it right? Bleah, it wasn't even fun to think about with anyone else.

It was always Hiro. Always.

"Hiro-chan you suck!" The girl then yelled as she felt her eyes watering.

Kisa couldn't even think of all the times he'd broken her heart one way or another. It was obvious he cared but he just couldn't stop insulting her and other people. It was like a bad nail biting habit, gross and unstoppable. He always apologized for it afterward, but only when no one else was around. Hiro couldn't even say I'm sorry in public. It was rather pathetic in a cute kind of way and Kisa hated her mind for thinking that as well.

Sitting up and looking to the clock once more, she noticed ten minutes of nothing had past. Deciding she wasn't going to get back to sleep anytime soon, Kisa pushed aside the blankets and got out of bed. On her way across the room, she grabbed a purple silken bathrobe and threw it on over her otherwise naked body.

"Kisa-chan I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." she mocked angrily as she snatched at her wash bag. This really wasn't Kisa's style, mocking Hiro and being mean, but she was just so furious that he'd done it again that she had to say something. How she would face him today at school she didn't even know.

It was the first day of her senior year, the summer had seemed to fly by so fast. Everyday was spent with Tohru Honda and company, though many of them were now off in college. Tohru had decided to wait a few years and gather herself, get a place of her own. When she'd told this to Kisa, the tiger was rather upset but no doubt Kyo and Yuki were more so than she. After living with Tohru for three or so years, it was hard to say good bye.

Yuki had gone on to a college in a place just South of Hiroshima and Kyo was still running from Akito, not wanting to be put in a cage for the rest of his life. Tohru had tried to help with that, keeping him safe… It hadn't gone well, and her wrist had been broken in the process.

With a deep breath, Kisa grabbed her apartment keys and pushed open the door to her room. Once outside she looked the door and headed down the hall to the washroom. Not many would be there this early in the morning, so perhaps she'd have it to herself. That'd be nice. However it wasn't so when she got there. Two others were in the room as she arrived. One of the girls was from Kisa's class the year before though the tiger cared not to remember her name. The other she'd never seen before, but was obviously a friend to the other since they were talking and smiling as if sharing deep secrets.

Quietly, Kisa walked around the edge of the shower room and into a locker room. The girls didn't seem to notice, all the better for Kisa. However the girl stopped as her company continued to whisper something that sounded interesting. Though she knew it was wrong, Kisa couldn't help but eavesdrop and leaned against the lockers quietly so she could hear.
"Did you see that Sohma boy in our year the other day?" The unfamiliar girl with brown hair asked her friend with a small giggle.

"You bet I did. Wow, he grew over the summer didn't he?" the blonde from Kisa's class replied with a sigh.

"In what way?"

"That way. You know what I'm talking about."

"You didn't."

"I did."

"How! Tell me, I need to know, this is too good to miss."

"Easy, didn't you know there was a window in the boys washroom wall?"

"No. When did this happen."

The blonde sighed as her friends stupidity. "The mirror stupid! It's one of those that you can see through from one side and only see your reflection on the other. Casey told me about it. She claimed she found one day on her way to class Junior year and got lost. I think her boyfriend told her about it. Only the council know about it, and they aren't about to tell the others."

"Oh… I see, well I can't believe you spied on him."

"Hiro wasn't my target, but he is now."

After that Kisa stopped listening and slammed her locker shut was she pulled out a fresh towel with wide, shocked eyes. There was a trick mirror in the boys shower room, what if there was one in the girls. Kisa glanced and then stared at it and decided it was a real mirror. Sighing, she walked to the far end of the room and turned the hot water on in the shower stall. Should she tell Hiro, even after what he'd said to her? She could… but when? He didn't have a working phone at the moment and she wasn't allowed in the boys apartment rooms. Perhaps she could catch him on his way to class or the shower rooms. No, that wouldn't work either. Kisa wasn't sure where either were at any rate.

Sighing, she washed and dried quickly, though she wasn't in the mood to go anywhere fast. If only time could be paused, then Kisa could go to Hiro with a note, give it to him and then get away before anyone was the wiser… Wait, that was it! She'd write him a letter and put it in his box at school. They never got different boxes unless something was wrong, and even if he had a knew one, they all had the names on them! Score! Kisa would write Hiro a letter telling him to be careful when using the mirrors in the shower room.

Grabbing her robe -she threw it on over her slightly wet body- and wash bag before starting back towards her room in a hurried pace. By the time she got back, it was nearly five thirty, the usual time to wake up and found the alarm was ringing off. Or was that her phone? Ah! They had the same ring!

Cursing, Kisa dove at her purse in panic and pulled out the phone. She only had a text… Making a face, she clicked the 'Read Mail' button and opened the message. It was from Hiro on a friends phone.

I'm sorry about last night, my first class is History. See you then. -Hiro

"As if I should see you!" The young woman hissed but chucked the phone to her bed and wrote the note down swiftly. Folding it she put it in her purse and dashed off to get dressed. Her classes started at seven AM sharp and if she was late, that would be terrible.

Thirty minutes later, it was quarter past six when Kisa was finally ready. Dressed in her uniform, bagged packed, hair done -much like Tohru's-, Kisa picked up her things and left the room, locking the door behind her.

Hiro can be so stupid. How anyone can not tell that a mirror is trick is beyond me. She thought as she marched along past a building that she never cared to look much at before. It was just a brick building, much like the girls shower room was, or the school. Slowing down, Kisa saw a large window centered in the side of the building. It was about one hundred and seventy centimeters across and ninety down and curious, Kisa walked towards it after rounding that side of the building.

She smiled at her reflection as it was a pretty one, Kisa done up her best for the first day, but the smile faded as she saw something move. Glancing over her shoulder, no one was there, she turned back and gasped as she focused on the window.

It was the boys shower room trick mirror that the girls had been talking about.

A hand slapped over Kisa's mouth to keep her from saying anything as she was somehow completed to look closer and she did. Not many boys were in there at the moment, most probably had early classes as well and worried Kisa looked to her sides to make sure no one was coming. Golden eyes falling on the trick mirror again, she squinted slightly before seeing through it like a regular mirror. It was Hiro on the other side, or at least, he was the closest. The other boys that were there were hidden behind shower stall walls and towels, but Hiro most defiantly wasn't.

Mouth open in amazement, Kisa's fingers rested on the glasses as she stared at the boy who loved her.