"K-Kyo…" Lira stuttered looking at the monster that was once Kyo.
Kyo jumped into he air into the woods.
"It's over! They saw me Lira and Tohru! Lira, she saw me! It's over! It's all over! Everything…is lost. …Hopeless" Kyo thought running through the forest.
"That is what he's been hiding. The cat's other form." Said Kazuma "Only those possessed by the cat change into that grotesque form." He looked at Lira but she was looking into the woods where Kyo ran off. "Did you think he was frightening? Were you…disgusted?" Tohru's hand slipped into Lira's. Lira shook off her fear and nodded towards Tohru and they both ran forward into the woods. "Will you heal him?" Kazuma thought holding Kyo's bracelet close to him.
"Gah…ugh!" Tohru fell to her knees vomiting on the ground.
"Tohru! Tohru are you alright?" Lira said helping her up.
"Y-Yes…I'll be fine." She said wiping her mouth "what incredible horrible smell!"
"I know…it's like the stench of rotting corpses everywhere…I've only smelled it once before."
"You've seen"
"No I haven't seen him like this…only smelled…I've never seen anything like it…"
"What in the world should we do?" asked Tohru "I-It's"
Tohru fell again and Lira made Tohru put one arm around her shoulder then helped her to her feet.
"I know it's hard but…I won't give up…and I can't do this alone, please help me Tohru…"
"Yuki? Where are you going?" asked Kagura
"I'm going…" said Yuki pulling on his shoes.
"But where?"
Yuki didn't answer, he opened up the door and ran off into the forest.
"Be safe…yuki…please help them…" whispered Kagura.
"It's okay Lira, I can do It." said Tohru as they walked through the forest.
"The smell is getting stronger…" said Lira letting go of Tohru hand holding her stomach.
"Kyo…" said Tohru. Lira looked around and saw Kyo sitting on the rocks.
They both walked out the forest and approached Kyo who was sitting on a rock.
"Kyo…" Lira whispered.
"GET AWAY!" he yelled when he saw them "What…what are you two doing?" he yelled "How can you just act like…nothing wrong? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"
"Kyo…" said Tohru moving closer to him
"GET AWAY FROM ME! I'M DISGUSRING AREN'T I? WHY DON'T YOU LEAVE ME ALONE? I DON'T NEED YOUR FUCKING PITTY!" Kyo yelled, "I'm begging you…please stop."
"But Kyo..." Lira said stepping forward
"Kyo, we just want to…" Tohru said reaching out to him
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" Kyo swung one of his big claws and it swiped Tohru's right shoulder. "I'm going to make you miserable!" he was about to attack her again but Lira jumped in front and grabbed Tohru but Kyo's claws still sand deeply into Lira's back and Lira landed on Tohru. "Get Lost! I hate you! You drive me crazy!" His eyes turned on Lira as she got up off Tohru. "I can't stand to look at you! Next time I'll cut your stupid face to pieces! GET LOST!" Lira fell to her knees and her eyes grew big and empty. "If I'm going to lose her anyway…I'll make it so bad, I'll hurt her so much that it possibly hurt any more!" he thought as he saw Tohru help Lira up and they both walked away. "I'll make it so bad that they'll never feel sorry for me again! That they'll both never want to look back!"
"Lira!" Yuki said running up to them "Miss Honda, where is he…" they both said nothing
"Lira! Snap out of it!"
Lira looked up at Kyo and a small smile formed on her face.
"Don't give up okay?"
"I'll never give up on Kyo. Tohru what is you want more than anything right now."
"I…I just…more than anything…want us to be together! I'm afraid Kyo won't come home!"
"He's coming home, weather he likes it or not."
Lira turned around and ran back to Kyo and stood in front of him. "I won't give up…I refuse…why would I throw it all away?" she thought as Yuki joined her said and Tohru was at the edge of the forest.
Kyo tried to run and both Lira and Yuki tackled him each of them grabbing a leg. Kyo sank his claws into Yuki's arm and the other one into Lira's back.
"Kyo!" Lira let out a blood-curdling scream "Kyo please stop! You're scarring me! Right now I'm so scared! This isn't like you Kyo!" she said between sobs.
Tohru walked over and put her arm around Kyo's and Kyo growled and swung them all around. Lira held on tight as she felt her leg crack against a rock. Kyo stop swinging them and yelled
"LET GO OF ME! DON'T YOU GET IT!"
"NO! I don't get it!" yelled Tohru back at him. "It's scary…the smell, the way you look, the tone of your voice! Everything!"
"But from now on I want to understand everything!" Lira cried, " I want you to tell me everything, your hopes, your dreams. When you're weak, sad…I want you to let me care about you…"
"I want us to be together!" both girls shouted "more than anything! I want us to live together! I want us to go home!"
The sun slowly came up over the horizon and Lira hung on to Kyo as if she would die if she let him go.
"You know…you don't have to…love everything." Kyo said softly, Lira opened her eyes and saw the old Kyo back and Yuki behind him holding his injured arm. "It's okay…if you two were scared." Lira let go of him and sat up slowly. "This is what I wanted…all along. To have someone to share my worries with. Let's go on living together." Kyo grabbed Tohru and pulled her into a hug and Lira sighed and gave Yuki a small smile.
"Why would…someone like Tohru and Lira...stay near me…and cry for me?"
There was an explosion as Lira got up and stumbled over to Yuki.
"Kyo?" Tohru said softly and there was a cat on her lap crying.
"Lira?" Yuki looked at her and she put her head on his shoulder
"Yuki…I believe my heart…" she said smiling "has finally healed."
" How can I ask for that? I don't deserve something like that. You ended near me by mistake."
Tohru picked up Kyo and his pants and Yuki helped Lira back to the house where Kazuma was waiting for them.
"This time will be different, Lira…I want to care for you like you've always done for me. I don't want us to be apart. How can I ask for that?"
The Next Morning"We're back Shigure!" said Tohru walking in with Kyo "we just said goodbye to Kazuma. Is Lira up yet?"
"I don't know, as Hatori. He's still up there with her." said Shigure.
"Ha-Hatori?" Kyo stuttered
"Yup, he came over while you two were gone. He already patched up Yuki. You did the most damage to Lira, Kyo."
"Hatori's going to kill me." Kyo thought walking up the stairs to Lira's room. "He's going to murder me!"
"Kyo." Said a voice
Kyo looked up and saw Hatori coming out of Lira's room.
"Ah…Hatori…"
"You did quite a number on Lira." He said softly "you know as her older brother it its my duty to protect her."
"Hatori…it wasn't spouse to be like this…"
"Don't worry, I don't blame you."
"Huh?"
"I can't blame you, how could I?"
"Hatori? Is that Kyo?" asked Lira from inside the room.
"Yes, it's him." Hatori said opening the door for Kyo. Kyo walked towards the door and Hatori whispered "good luck."
Hatori closed the door behind Kyo and Kyo looked to see Lira in her bed with bandages wrapped around her chest and a bandage over her right eye. She had a couple of bruises but she looked happy.
"Good morning. How are you?" she said happily as he sat down.
"Don't go starting that cheerful crap!" he yelled at her
"Did you get to talk to Kazuma? He talked to me before her left."
"What did he say?"
"Well he asked me about my wounds and then he told me that my love for you is everlasting, even if I'm in love with someone else at the same time."
"What? You're in love with another person? Who?"
"That's not important."
"It is important! It's important to me because, because I don't want you to be with anyone else! I want to be the one you run to! I want to be the one you cry on! I want to be the on who spend the rest of your life with!" he took her hand in his hand and held it tightly. "Don't you get it? I've never thought of you as friend Lira! Never! I've always loved you! I love you Lira! I'm sorry it took me so long to say it but…I can't stand the thought of you being with someone else!"
"I've waited so long…"Lira said trying not to cry "for you to say those words to me…I love you too, Kyo."
Kyo cupped Lira's face in his hands and pressed his lips against hers. It was if nothing ever changed and everything had remained exactly the same.
"Just like that…it didn't matter that I was in love with another Sohma…because I had Kyo, but…even though I knew Kyo was my true love. I was still deeply in love with Akito."