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KS:

She began to eat her meal, eating like she hadn't in days. Once she was done, she got up with her plate and brought it to the kitchen, washed her hands and face, and walked out to the table again. "Kaye," started Shigure, "You have to take an entrance exam if you want to stay here." Kaye looked startled, but remembered what Kyo had said last night.

"Okay," she said, and stretched out a bit. "I'm gonna go train outside for a bit, 'kay?" Shigure nodded and Kaye sat up happily, running out the door with a few heavier weights.

She started with punches, then kicks, then forms, practicing everything she could remember from each school she went to. Finally, she picked up her plastic gun that all her buds from the camp had signed and began to do a form with that. It was graceful, but steady, each beat in tune with the next, making a melodious stamping noise against the grass. It was a drill team routine, something she had done extra while she was in America. She stopped, panting slightly, but smiling at the gun, looking over the names.

Applause sounded from the door leading out to the backyard. Kaye turned around, startled for the second time that day. "Good job, Kaye," Shigure said, stopping his clap and watching as her face began to turn red.

"You were watching me?" she asked, blushing. She hated when people watched her perform.

"Yep, now go take a bath and get dressed, you have to take the entrance exam soon." he walked back inside, waving. Kaye glared slightly at the door, then slowly walked inside and up the steps to take a bath. She dumped in a container of lime smelling soap into the bath, inhaling the sharp, but sweet, scent. She sat in the bath, relaxing and washing her worries away, then got out, draining the bath. She wrapped a towel around herself, letting her normally tied up chocolate hair drape down to her rear.

She walked to her room, dressing into something comfy; some American jeans and a Maroon 5 shirt. Shigure was waiting for her downstairs, saying that the others had already gone off to school. He walked Kaye out to the black car waiting out front, and Kaye hesitated before getting in, letting out a breath of relief as she realized that Hatori was driving. Hatori and Shigure talked about random things; Shigure talking and Hatori either making fun of what he said or ignoring it. Kaye sat and stared out the window, listening to her MP3 player hidden in the pocket of the black hoodie she had donned before leaving Shigure's home.

'Sunday morning rain is falling
Steal some covers share some skin
Clouds are shrouding us in moments unforgettable
You twist to fit the mold that I am in
But things just get so crazy living life gets hard to do
And I would gladly hit the road get up and go if I knew
That someday it would lead me back to you
That someday it would lead me back to you.'

She hummed along to the song, whispering the words every once in a while. She loved this song; they were such a good band! She hadn't toured with them personally, but saw them at a radio fest where she had been performing.

'That may be all I need
In darkness she is all I see
Come and rest your bones with me
Driving slow on Sunday morning
And I never want to leave.'

"Kaye?" Kaye instinctively pressed the pause button as quickly as she could. Shigure was speaking. "We're here you know." Kaye half smiled then stepped out of the black car, waving at Hatori.

At the first step inside Kaibara High School, she let out a gasp of disgust. "Ew! Skirts? Uniforms?!" Kaye looked around. "Are we in the right school, Shigure?" Shigure nodded, he had anticipated this reaction from Kaye, a tomboy.

Shigure walked her to the office and she sat down on a comfy chair, her legs sprawled in an un-ladylike fashion. The secretary, a lady herself, looked at Kaye with a hint of shame, thinking of how Kaye's good looks were being wasted. Kaye turned on her MP3 player again with a smirk to the secretary; she got that reaction from a lot of people.

"Kaye is here for the entrance exam." Shigure was speaking to the principle. The burly man nodded and looked at Kaye with her face was covered by her hood as she bobbed her head to the music she was listening to.

"Kaye, it's time to take the entrance exam!" Shigure said, shaking her then leading her to an office. She was sat down and Shigure was told to wait outside. Kaye turned on her headphones again and began to answer the questions. It took her nearly ten minutes to finish a normally half hour long exam. Even for the smartest in the school it was at least twenty-five minutes. With a smirk she walked out of the room with "Die Dead Enough" by Megadeath playing, and she handed her exam to the principle. He looked at her amazed, then went to his office to correct it.

IS:

Kaye gave Shigure the thumbs up and he did the same back to her. Both waited patiently for the principal to come back, Kaye shoving her headphones onto Shigure's ears every once in a while.

"What are they saying Kaye? I can't understand this, he goes so fast!" Shigure complained, and spoke the lines more clearly for him.

'I'm backing out, I'm no pawn,
No mother-fcking slave to this,
Never lied
Never left
Never lived
Never loved
Never lost
Never hurt
Never worry about being me, or anyone else
Not a care, no concern, don't give a shit about
Anything'

"Ehem," the principal interrupted. Kaye and Shigure looked up, and Shigure shook himself. What disturbing lyrics.

"How'd she do?" Shigure inquired.

The principal cleared his throat again. "Well, surprising as it may be, she passed with flying colors. She's in. Now Kaye," the principle sat down in his chair and folded his hands in front of him, twiddling his thumbs. "I expect the same of you as I do every other one of my students here at Kaibara High."

Kaye mimicked him, leaning forward in her chair and folding her hands before her. "And what is it, Mr. Takoshi, that your expecting from me?"

"Discipline, maturity, and a respect for rules. Just three main things, Miss Sohma. Can you do it?"

Kaye just snorted out a laugh and Shigure smiled and shoved her. "Sure, I can do it," she said softly. "With flying colors." She stood up and, with Shigure, shook the principal's hand. Then, his secretary handed her the uniform. "Yeah… no," Kaye said, shaking her head. "I don't do skirts."

"But Miss Sohma," the secretary argued, "This is the girl's uniform."

"Then give me the boy's uniform." The secretary and the principal glanced at each other, both thinking about Momiji. "Are all you Sohmas difficult?"

"Only the ones you'll come in contact with," Shigure said jokingly. Eventually Kaye got her way and the secretary handed over a boy's uniform for her.

"Now, you start tomorrow. Good day." The principal took a bow as did Shigure. Kaye didn't bow, however. She stood stock still up straight and saluted him.

"Sir yes SIR! I'll report here tomorrow SIR!" Kaye shouted before stomping out of the office. Shigure shut the door behind them and, once outside the office, he burst out laughing.

After school that day when Yuki, Kyo and Tohru came home Kyo had a fit about his sister's uniform. "Why would you want to willingly be the female Momiji?! Why don't you just wear the girl's uniform?"

"BE-cause skirts are annoying and ugly," Kaye shouted back, her arms folded across her chest. Tohru perked up and looked down at her own uniform and self-consciously tugged at the hemline of her skirt. Of course, Kaye and Kyo hadn't seen though, for Tohru was in the kitchen preparing their dinner for later. She had to work really, really late tonight.

"Skirts are skirts," came Kyo's voice.

"Yes, and pants are more comfortable. Do you have any idea how awful it is to maneuver in a skirt? And forget about being active. It's… ugh." Tohru sighed. She'd never had a problem wearing skirts. She put the meal in the refrigerator for later and walked into the room where Kaye and Kyo were.

"You know, it's okay for you to wear a boy's uniform. I don't know why people make it such a problem. It's just like how Momiji wears a girl's uniform. You should wear whatever makes you feel the most comfortable." Tohru walked between the brother and sister and headed for the stairs. "I'll just get my bag and be on my way. Kyo," she said, pausing, and Kyo turned to look at her. "Dinner's in the fridge. You and Yuki just have to heat it up, okay? 15 minutes should do it." She continued and disappeared up the stairs.

Kaye scoffed. "Did she have to listen in?"

"Kaye, we were kind of yelling," Kyo tried to reason. "It's not her fault."

"Anyone would be able to hear you two, the way you go at it," Shigure called from the office. Yuki had already finished his homework and was helping him with something.

"Whatever." In search of a new subject to touch upon, Kaye started laughing. "Momiji wears a girl's uniform? Really?"

Kyo nodded and sighed. "Eh… Tohru's right I guess. Wear whatever you want. I have homework to do." Kyo smiled and went up the stairs to his room. Tohru came down a minute later carrying her bag. She walked towards the door, stopped, and turned to Kaye. She waved with a little smile and then slid back the door. Kaye watched her disappearing through the window. "Yuki," she called, "How late will Tohru be out?"

"She works a lot of hours tonight. Double shift. Her work lets out around 12:30."

"I see," she said with a smirk on her face.

"Whose turn is it to pick her up?" Shigure wondered aloud. Yuki told him it was Kyo's night and she bristled.

"Doesn't she know her way back by herself?"

"Well of course," came Shigure, "but there's a bunch of weirdoes running around and it's just not safe for a young girl to be walking around alone at night."

Kaye scoffed. If someone came after her she'd be able to defend herself. She headed up the stairs and stopped in at Kyo's room. "I want to go with you to pick up the girl tonight, okay?"

Kyo stretched. "Is it my night to pick up Tohru?"

"That's what they tell me."

"Sure. You can come."

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"Sounds great," Kaye said and walked over to her room. She looked over at the black uniform and searched it for pockets. There was one the pants and one on the shirt, perfect place to hide her MP3 player. She laughed remembering Shigure's reaction to her music, then grabbed the player and put it in the pockets of the jeans she was wearing. She trotted over to Kyo's room and hovered over him until he got pissed.

"Just because you can't do math, doesn't mean you can yell at me, Kyo-Kyo!" Kaye retorted. Kyo gasped as she realized his weakness and she sat down next to him. He had been at his desk, but fell to the floor once Kaye tackled him. She grabbed his notebook and homework and did a problem as an example for him. He looked on in shock, his homework was college prep stuff.

"Kaye, what grade are you going to end up in?" he asked. Kaye stopped working on the other problem.

"Well, in America I quickly finished up all of grade school in a matter of months. I would have finished high school, but the woes of being away from my Kyo-Kyo were too much to handle." Kyo looked on, speechless.

"Shigure, what the hell is this?!" Yuki nearly shouted after he had stumbled upon a naughty book that had been written by Shigure.

Shigure laughed sheepishly and snatched the book away from the blushing rat. "Oh, just a side story," he said laughing again. Yuki looked awkwardly at the grinning man then stepped out of the room, blushing, minding himself never to go snooping around Shigure's room again.

Finally, midnight arrived and Kyo remembered it was his turn to pick up Tohru. Kaye actually did tag along. She bothered him the entire time there, however.

Twenty minutes of traveling through the woods and the city later, they reached the Sohma building where Tohru worked. They hung out for ten then waited for her to come down. Kaye had left Kyo in front of the building to go buy some CD's. She grabbed a bunch of American CD's that were on sale and some J-pop CD's as well.

By the time she made her purchases, Kyo and Tohru had been waiting for a few minutes. Kaye turned the corner to the front of the building and saw Kyo trying to explain where Kaye was, a light blush crossing his face. Kaye glared at Tohru.

IS:

"Oh, there you are Kaye," Tohru said, turning and smiling wearily at her. "I appreciate you coming to pick me up like this. It's very late."

Kaye rolled her eyes and started walking. "Whatever." Tohru looked up at Kyo and he returned her sad glance.

As they walked Kaye tried not to walk too fast so as to eaves drop on her brother and Tohru. She pretended to be listening to her headphones when really she had the volume down way low, but all she heard was them talking about things like school and if everyone liked dinner and did Kaye get enough to eat and are you going to Sohma house for New Years and blah, blah, blah…

Sighing as though her spy efforts of tagging along were useless Kaye turned up her music and walked farther ahead of the two.

Tohru sighed. "I don't understand… I thought Kaye might've been warming up to me. She was eating well today…"

"And she offered to come pick you up with me," Kyo added. "I actually thought she was done being cold too…"

"I guess we were both wrong," Tohru said sadly.

"Maybe not," came a familiar voice from behind them. Kyo and Tohru turned around swiftly, but Kaye, who was now so entranced by her music, didn't hear and kept on walking.

"Oh Hatori, good evening," Tohru said brightly. Kyo's response was much less welcome, yet most definitely expected.

"What the hell are you doing out here? Where'd you come from?"

"I came by to see Momiji's father to get him caught up on some things," Hatori explained, catching up to them. He lit a cigarette and the three continued walking.

"Hatori?"

"Yes Tohru?"

"What did you mean by 'maybe not'?"

Hatori thought a moment, blew out a puff of smoke in Kyo's face, and stuck the butt back in his mouth. "Kaye won't be so cold anymore," he said softly around the cigarette. "I had a talk with her last night."

Kyo scoffed, half laughing. "What the hell do you think you can do? She basically spat in my face when I asked her to be nicer to Tohru."

"Yes, but you didn't have the power of example on your side, now did you?" Hatori blew out another smoke ring in his face, this time on purpose.

"WILL YOU CUT IT OUT?! DAMMIT, WHAT THE HELL IS THE BIG IDEA?!"

"Besides Kyo," Hatori continued regardless of Kyo's outburst, "Kaye's mad at you as well."

Kyo stopped dead in his tracks. "What the hell did I do?"

Hatori left a little after to go find his black Buick, and Tohru and Kyo hurried home. Once inside Kyo ran straight upstairs to his sister's room and wrenched open the door.

"Uhh, changing here!" Kaye shouted from behind a dressing curtain.

"Tell me what I did, Kaye," Kyo demanded. He slid the door shut behind him and lowered his voice. "It's one thing for you to be angry with Tohru for no reason, but to be pissed at me too…?"

"I'm not pissed at you, Kyo-Kyo, I don't see how I could be," Kaye muttered. "I'm just aggravated."

"Look, I can understand what you're going through seeing as I know you hate when things happen outside your knowledge, but really, what's your issue?"

"I don't like Tohru, okay? I just don't like her. Deal." She slid a shirt over her head and shook her hair out of her eyes.

"Alright, let's pretend for a second that this doesn't bother me, okay? Now what have I done?"

"You like her!" Kaye screamed, whipping around fast. Kyo took a step back and her face contorted. "How could you?"

"Hey, you need to get a clue before you start making assumptions, kid. There is nothing going on between me and Tohru," Kyo said in a rather scary voice.

"Bull," Kaye whispered. "I've seen the way you look at her, and the way she looks at you."

"Yeah, and you want to know why you see these things? It's because you're paranoid," Kyo accused, crossing his arms. "Look Kaye… you were hurt once. But you can't protect all of us like you wish you could have protected yourself. Despite what you've been telling yourself for years Tohru is not the enemy." Kyo left swiftly, the door snapping shut behind him.