"What the hell?!" Kyo yelled punching the desk. "She wasn't here again!"
"Miaka?" Tohru asked him quietly, it was the end of the school day, but there still was some students left in the classroom.
"Yeah! Who the hell else?! Ever since that damn Hatori ran into her, she hasn't been in school for three damn days!" Tohru nodded sadly, it had been bothering her as well. Even more so when the doctor refused to say another word on the matter, even though Kyo had yelled at him through the whole check up.
It made her wonder, how did those two know each other? She remember the terrified look on Miaka's face, did she know of the curse? She looked up to asked Kyo, but he was already gone.
Kyo felt the round pole of the light post in front of an intersection. He bit his bottom lip. It was where he met her, where he saved her life. He shook with anger; it felt like so long ago. He had only been to Miaka's home only once, and it was dark
"Why can't I remember?!" he growled frustrated. He had gone to that spot by the cherry trees ever since she left the Sohma house. She was never there, Kyo knew his last chance to see her was to find her house. The thought shot a pain through his chest, not a real pain, but a void. The cat walked across the intersection, he would let his heart find the way; it was his only hope.
An hour later Kyo finally reach the small duplex he believed Miaka lived in. Breathing in deeply, he walked up the front steps and went to knock on the door. He paused, what would he say to her? He wondered, he couldn't just spaz on her, as much as he wanted to, it could completely drive her away for good. The cat swallowed hard, and knocked on the door praying the right words would come when she answered the door.
However it wasn't her that answered the door. A tall man opened the door and Kyo reeled from the smell of alcohol that wafted from his body. He gasped for fresh air, feeling like he, himself, could get drunk from just standing there.
"Umm..." he stammered, I must have the wrong house... do you know where M,Miaka lives?" The man looked Kyo over, and stood there for a long time just trying to comprehend the boy's existence. Finally he made a disgruntled gesture inside the duplex.
"Shhe lives hhere....room in the back.." he slurred and stumbled away from the doorway back to the couch he was sitting in before. Kyo walked in slowly and looked around, he now knew the real reason why they never study here.
"Shut the door!!" Miaka's father yelled, after Kyo stood there for a second. The cat slid the door shut carefully, took off his shoes, and walked to where the man had pointed. He knocked quietly on the door at the end of the hallway, when no one answered he let himself in. He saw the window open leading out to a roof. He crossed the room, and climbed slowly out the window.
Half way through the window, Kyo saw the teenage girl lying on the roof, her eyes shut tight from her tears.
"Why are you so stupid?!" Kyo snapped, then he bit his tongue. In a much nicer tone he added, "You got to go back to school or else all that studying would be for nothing." Miaka sat up and stared at the cat with disbelief.
"Wha, what are you doing here?" she cried out, "My father... Kyo you have to leave. We can't hang out with each other anymore..." Kyo slammed himself down beside her.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?!" He asked angrily, "I already know you lied about having a little brother and all, but that understandable, and...wait.... what happened to your eye?" One of the girl's eyes was swollen shut, completely black and blue. He was so frustrated that he completely missed it. Miaka looked quickly away.
"N..nothing.." she said quietly even though she knew he wouldn't believe her. Kyo shook, he wanted to scream out in frustration, but didn't. Instead he reached out to her and touched the girl's shoulder.
"Look, Mia. This is a bunch of bullshit." He said quietly, "I don't care what damn Hatori thinks or what your home life is like. I just have to know the truth, about everything. I'm just so sick of being the one that doesn't know what's going on." Miaka slowly turned back to Kyo, and her broken face show a hint of a sad smile.
"No one's called me Mia for a long time." She said in a calm voice. She looked Kyo in the eyes, "Alright," she said, "I'll tell you everything...."