When Penny and Tina took the exams they were both embarrassed about the turnouts. They were called into the principal's office separately Yuki went with Tina and Kyo grudgingly went on Shigure's orders (haha, Shigure giving orders) to accompany Penny.

Tina was told she would be in the freshman class along with Momiji. She blushed furiously, knowing that she should be a sophomore with Yuki and embarrassed that she looked so dumb. Yuki gave her a kind smile and congratulated her as if her cheeks weren't the color of roses and told her how he had enjoyed his freshman year.

Penny was blushing even harder under the out right stare from Kyo when she was told she had scored high enough to be placed into the junior class. She requested to be put in the sophomore class, not wanting to go into a grade where she knew no one but also being embarrassed, wishing she had filled in some questions wrong on purpose. She hadn't because she didn't want to end up in a class lower than sophomore, where she knew more people and had been in at her school.

They got their schedules and saw that Tina had a class with Momiji and a class with Haru, the boy with the black and white hair Penny had seen. Tina had declared secretly to Penny that Haru was almost as gorgeous as Yuki and said the far off looks he got in his eyes were absolutely dreamy.

"It makes me not mind being in the freshman class as much." She said smiling.

Penny found out that she had a class with Yuki, Kyo, and Tohru, two classes with Kyo and a class with Torhu and her friend Hana-chan.

"She is really nice." Tohru said of her friend. Penny hoped that Hana liked her and didn't try to shock her or anything.

"Oooooo," said Tina when she had heard of the two classes with Kyo. "I sense romance."

"Actually it's Science and P.E." Penny retorted, thinking Tina was being stupid. "You have a class with Momiji, ooooo." She mocked.

"I also have a class with Haru. One class is lucky." She said, holding up one finger. "Two classes, are fate." Penny rolled her eyes at her boy crazy friend who would think it was "fate" if her hair was frizzy. "Now I have to straighten it, and you know how boys love my hair straight. There must be someone I am going to meet today." She would say as Penny yelled at her that they were going to be late.

"And look!" Tina continued. "Chemistry!" she smiled "How can you argue with that?"

"Just because I don't like Science and didn't do my homework, doesn't mean it's fate! I chose not to do it." And she walked off before their meaningless conversation could continue. She was walking down the hallway of the school now, having just been in the girls' bathroom talking with Tina, when she rounded a corner and bumped into someone and fell backwards onto the floor.

"Oof." was the noise she made as she landed. She looked up to see Kyo starring at her, wide eyed. "Are you ok?" she asked him, thinking something was wrong from the look on his face.

"What did you say your name was again." Well that was a weird question.

"Penny Dear." She said, trying to figure out what the look on his face was for.

He looked like he wanted to say something else, but stood up and began to brush himself off. "Watch where your goin' next time."

Penny was surprised at the rudeness after the way the Sohmas seemed to carry on so politely all the time. "I-" but he had started walking off. She ran after him "Who do you think you are, talking like that?"

"Who do you think you are walking into my house and taking my seat?"

"Don't tell me your still sore about that! What are you, five?" She wasn't sure why she was acting like this. She guessed that she didn't take rudeness well.

"If I'm five then you must be two, your smart, why don't you grow up."

"That was one of the stupidest things I have ever heard."

He stopped walking and yelled. "If you're so much smarter than I am, why are you in two of my classes!"

"Maybe they mislabeled my schedule and it's supposed to say 'Babysit in the Nursery' I would take that over Chemistry with you!"

"So you would rather change my diaper than have to do homework eh?" he laughed at her horrified expression. "Trust me, you would rather change diapers all day than take that class." He was laughing still. This had taken a strange turn. What was this guy doing? One minute they are fighting and the next they are joking around?

"Yeah, I took it last year too." Said Penny softly out of confusion.

"Me too, I don't know about you but they're a lot of things I would rather do than homework."

"Just because I score high on some test doesn't mean I love school."

"Oh yes, I thought you looked so proud when he announced your score in there." he said sarcastically. They were walking down the hall now.

She nearly blushed realizing that he had noticed. What was with her? She almost never blushed. Tina on the other hand, always blushed, but this was Penny! Stupid Kyo. She blamed him.

"Here." Kyo stopped walking in front of a door as if they had been coming here all along. "It's where you get your uniforms." He said as though answering her question. There was noise coming from inside and as they both looked at the door there was a scream and the doors burst open to show Tohru, red cheeked and out of breath.

"Um...uh...Tina..."

"Oh crap." said Penny, turning to run.

"PENNY!" Tina ran out the door and grabbed her arm. "They have the cutest stuff in here! You just have to see! There are all these clothes that you need to try of" she kept talking as she pulled the resigned Penny, who was near tears, into the room.

"I was so close to getting away." She thought as she saw Kyo laughing as Tohru closed the door.

Ten minutes later

"Oooo, I wanna see!" Tina was jumping up and down outside of a changing room that Penny had locked herself into.

"No way! I look ridiculous! Tina, have you taken your medicine today?"

"Oh Tina!" said Tohru, not catching the sarcasm and thinking something was wrong.

"I'm fine, now if you don't come out I'm coming in!"

"I'd like to see you try Cruela De'vil!"

At that moment Tohru and Tina's attention was directed to a noise behind them. When they turned around they saw a little cat with orange and black stripes.

"Ki...tty, kitty, aw how cute." Said Tohru, catching herself before calling Kisa by her name.

"What? What's going on?" asked Penny.

"If you come out, you can see."

"Nice try!"

Tohru scurried over to the large cat that was Kisa and picked it up, pretending it was lost.

"Aw, can I help kitty find its home?" she asked it rather robotically.

Tina gave her a strange look as she ran off. There was a puff of smoke and Tohru came back a few moments later.

"Look you guys! Kisa's here!" Kisa was following her in a school uniform.

"I didn't hear the door open, aren't there only two?" said Penny.

"Yeah, I didn't see her come in." Tina looked at the uniform "And isn't she in Junior high?"

"Oh, no," said Tohru nervously. "There is another door over...there." She pointed to a random spot in the gym that could not be seen because of lockers in the way. "She came to...uh...model! She came to model for us." She nudged Kisa, trying to get her to pretend with her but Kisa just stood there.

"I don't see what your problem is, Penny" said Tina to the dressing room diva. "The uniform is adorable

"This," Penny slammed open the door to the room she was in, revealing her in the school's uniform. "Is NOT adorable. Maybe on Kisa, it is adorable, Kisa is adorable in the first place," she smiled at Kisa and then set her blue eyes to glare at Tina. "This uniform on someone my age is...it's..." she couldn't find the right words.

"Oh don't worry, we'll make some adjustments and you will look stunning. It looks good with your black hair." Tina assured. What a liar, thought Penny.

"Ha! Good luck, see if I let you anywhere near my clothes." Penny crossed her arms and mumbled "You would probably turn all of my clothes PINK if you got the chance."

"All we have to do hun, is.." Tina walked up to Penny, hands extended toward her skirt.

"AH! Don't come near me! Don't touch me! AH!" she slapped Tina's hands frantically as she altered the skirt to go from knee length to six inches shorter.

"There!" Tina stood back to look at her work and the girl who was trying to cover her legs up again.

"It's bad enough I have to wear a skirt every day!" Penny was yelling as the skirt wouldn't go back to her knee. "But I don't want to be dressed like... I'm looking for attention or something." She said, remembering Kisa was there.

"Well you do want attention." Tina said as though it was a fact. "You want Kyo to think you're hot, don't you?"

"NO!"

"You like Kyo?" asked Tohru, surprised.

"No!"

"Yes, I think it is fate that they be together."

"You think it's fate when your alphabet soup needs extra time heating up!"

"Oh wait, Tohru," Tina turned to her with a shocked look on her face as Penny tried and failed to lengthen her skirt again. "You don't have a claim on him, do you?"

"What? Oh, no no no no no. He's all your's" she smiled. There was a noise at the door as someone entered

"I DON'T WANT KYO!" she yelled at the top of her lungs.

And of course, you can imagine who was there when she turned around. Penny nearly screamed (she let out a squeak instead) when she saw Kyo standing there, slightly shocked at the sight of Kisa, who was supposed to be at the house, Tohru giggling, Tina, who smiled flicked her brown hair over her shoulder like she was primping, and Penny standing stock still for a moment before bending over like she was hiding and running into the dressing room to hide her short skirt and red face.

"Um...Shigure and the ra–Yuki are waiting for you." He said, nearly calling Yuki by his animal form because he was so surprised.

"Ok!" Said Tina cheerily. "A little bit longer and we'll meet you out front."

"Um, ok." He said before turning on his heels and fast walking to tell Shigure. Girls could be wierd.

"Tell you what Tina," Penny said from the dressing room. "I will get a shorter skirt, not as short as this one though, if I don't have to wear it until I am used to this school." She figured she could hide it in her closet and Tina might forget about it.

"Fine, but after you get used to the school you have to wear it when I tell you to."

"What! I won't-"

"All right hurry up, your keeping the boys waiting." Penny gave up and just mumbled, knowing she had lost. When she emerged wearing jeans and a T-shirt she realized how different she looked from the other girls. Tohru was in a skirt, Tina was in some weird fancy capri things with some weird fancy shirt and Kisa was wearing a dress. She didn't really care except that she felt like she stuck out. Shigure had given Tina and her money to get some new clothes, to Penny's dismay. She didn't like shopping in the stores that Tina liked and she didn't like having to model every piece of clothing how Tina suggested. They had stumbled upon a dress shop that Tina dragged her into, where she really did stumble and knocked into Ayame, who owned the store. Now she had a dress hanging in her closet that Tina had insisted she looked great in and Ayame had given a discount on. It wasn't that she didn't like the dress, she assured Ayame, she just didn't like that Tina was once again going to have her way with Penny's wardrobe. To this Ayame laughed and called her stubborn, shooing them both out the door for several more hours in which Penny wanted food and Tina didn't care.

Penny and Tina still hadn't let on that they knew about the curse. No one seemed to have any suspicions either, except for Kyo.

Later that night

Kyo almost wanted Penny to accidentally hug him, just so he could see if he was right. When he bumped into her in the hallway, he thought he would transform, but he hit the floor as himself, no tail visible. He asked Penny what her last name was, trying to find a hint that she was a Sohma. He wasn't sure about Tina, he hadn't really talked to her, seeing as she was almost always with Ratboy. For some reason Kyo was attracted to Penny. Not the lovey dovey dating sort of attraction but the sort of attraction that happened between magnets. He couldn't believe he was describing it with something so Sciency as magnets. But they kept running into each other. She was in his seat the first night she was there, they would be coming and going from the house and pass each other way more than Kyo passed his own family members that he had been living with. They had literally bumped into each other more than once now. He would have been convinced that they were Sohmas except that he wasn't sure they had an animal form and before they came, no one seemed to know who they were, except Akito that was. Akito probably was the one who said they were to stay. How he knew that they were there, Kyo wasn't sure, but he wondered about that sometimes when he was bored on the roof at night.

He thought that Shigure knew more than he told, since he talked with Hatori the night that the girls came and the next day he announce that they would be staying with them in Tohru's bedroom.

At the thought of Tohru, Kyo's mind went on a different track. Tohru was so kind, so sweet, so innocent...the innocence had started to bug him more lately. When she didn't notice danger because of her faith in people, when she didn't understand things because she couldn't see the bad. He wasn't sure why he was thinking like this but it might have had to do with seeing girls who were nice, fun, but...were different. Tohru was...Tohru, but seeing these girls made Kyo see how innocent Tohru was to other people, not just his family. It made him not want to be around as much, didn't want to see her happy face when someone did her a common courtesy. He still had feelings for her but...sometimes he wished that she would get mad at someone. He shook his head violently while gazing up at the sk, trying to shake the thought out of his head.

It was late, the house was quiet, and tomorrow was their visitors' first day of school. He had hurried to the roof and laughed when he saw Penny's reaction when she found out it was tomorrow. She had looked shocked and when she recovered, smiled and excused herself to Tohru's room, glaring at her friend Tina as she went up the stairs, who was speaking loudly of how excited she was for school to start. She had then gone to her closet, took out a skirt and threw it out the window saying something like "Stupid Tina." Kyo remembered when he found out he was going to go to the school. He didn't like admitting it but he had thrown a fit that nearly brought down Shigure's house. Then again Kyo and Yuki did that quite a bit. They had held themselves back at the guests' courtesy but... the stupid Rat boy had something coming to him.

Kyo climbed down from the roof to go take his anger out on a tree until he got tired.