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Kaye cleaned up and washed the dishes, thinking of the many ways she could brutally maim Axle. She began to boil some water for soup when Kyo walked in.

"What are you doing, Kaye?" he asked slyly, hoping she hadn't stolen his leek soup idea.

"Oh, nothing, just making some leek soup for Tohru."

'DAMN!' Kyo thought, but used cleaner words. "Shoot, well, can I help?"

Kaye thought about it and nodded, telling him to get a bowl, a tray and ingredients. Kyo did as his little sister asked and more. He got things that she forgot and made sure she didn't cook things too long.

"Stop yelling at me Kyo! I've never cooked leek soup before, okay? Or at least, this form of it," Kaye said, shaking the ladle at Kyo.

Kyo cowered from her weapon and tried to stop bossing Kaye around; he knew it was for his own good. He laughed at her a little though, unable to fully help it. He knew it was risky but after a second, Kaye started to laugh as well.

Kyo took over and told Kaye what to do. They salvaged the nearly destroyed soup and made it perfect. Kaye laughed and finally presented the leek soup in all its glory. The phone rang and Kaye called it, using her knack for guessing whoever was calling. She handed Kyo the soup and he nearly dropped it, but caught it just in time.

"Oh hey Alice! Uh huh, yeah, that's totally fine!" Kaye continued to talk with 'Alice' and Kyo started his way upstairs, kicking through doors and whatever else went in his path. He continued on until he made it to Tohru's room, where he heard her sighing inside.

"Hey, Tohru, you there?" Kyo spoke to the door.

A muffled response. Kyo walked in for further investigation, his soup in hand. He slid open the door and looked in to see Tohru sitting by her windowsill, just staring out the window. She had been thinking of Axle and how he had stolen her first kiss, something that was treasured by all females.

"Tohru, you seem really down since you came home." Kyo said, stating the obvious, but he went on. "What did that cheap bastard do to you?"

He set down the soup, blowing on it and adding quickly, "If it tastes messed up it's cuz Kaye helped cook it."

Tohru had to smile as he blamed his little sister for whatever dislike Tohru would have towards the soup. Not that she'd ever admit to it, though.

"I admit, I didn't have the best time and it was best that I left when I did." Tohru said, searching for the words that would make poor Kyo rest better.

Kaye came up, interrupting the peace and saying, softly enough, "Hey there Tohru!" Tohru smiled and welcomed the girl in, who immediately latched onto Kyo.

"What have you been doing up here the whole time, eh Kyo?" Kaye made a face at her older brother and poked him in the ribs.

Tohru blushed, deeper than she usually would have and realized it must be because of… She didn't want to think of IT right now. Whatever Axle thought would come of the kiss was wrong and Tohru would never trust him ever again.

"Who was it on the phone then, Kaye?" Kyo asked, thinking if he knew anyone named Alice.

"Oh, just the person at the hair place. I'm getting the ends trimmed off, lest they die!" Kaye said, thinking only of her poor frizzled hair. She looked over to Kyo who had asked if there was anything else, and she twirled her fingers in her hair and looked Kyo in the eye.

Kyo nodded, smiling slightly now, 'It's a twin thing,' he thought and turned on Tohru.

"Oh, well, it sounds like fun," Tohru said in her unusually sappy voice.

"Umn, well then you can come too if you like!" Kaye said, taking Tohru's place where emotions become involved. Kaye clapped her hands together joyously as Tohru weakly smiled and nodded.

They talked a while whilst Tohru ate, Kaye was hugging Kyo every now and then, or abusing him.

Tohru turned her attention to the newest attraction to her eyes. "Kaye, Kyo," she addressed the two of them and they both stopped wrestling to look at Tohru.

"Why is it that, whenever Kaye hugs you, or anyone for that matter… why don't you transform?"

Kaye smiled and prepared her answer.

IS:

"You see Tohru, it's a twin thing," Kaye said with a grin.

Tohru looked extremely dizzy as she glanced between brother and sister. Twins? They looked nothing alike. Kaye had a darkness about her, an untamed forest of mysteries whilst Kyo was a burning fire dancing with an energy that never tired. Twins? "H-how…?"

"My hair is dyed," Kaye explained gently. "When I was in America they wouldn't let me in to military school with such distracting hair. Apparently it was so vibrant it would have distracted the other student's training, so, I dyed it."

Nodding slowly Tohru took another sip of her soup. She surveyed them again and then glanced down at her lap. She saw her uniform and remembered school. "But, you two are a year apart!"

"No, not really," Kyo said, arms folded. "She changed that too."

"I had to be a certain age to get in to a certain school, so, I also changed my age and I've lived with the lie for so long that I guess I just forget that I'm really 16," Kaye said, running a hand through her hair. She grimaced again. "While we're at the salon you have to remind me to get more Big Sexy Hair Products," she directed towards Tohru, who laughed despite her casual tone. Kyo shook his head.

"I guess that explains a lot of things," Tohru said thoughtfully, "but it still doesn't really explain why no one transforms when you hug them."

"Well, the Sohma curse has a bit of a twist to it," Kaye said slowly, trying to choose her words carefully.

"A twist?"

"You could say that I guess," Kyo said, shrugging. He sat beside her on the bed and looked up at the ceiling. "Since I'm cursed and Kaye's my twin something was transferred into her while we were incubating I guess. When a zodiac member is born with a twin that twin can't cause other members to change because those twins have a bit of the change in them themselves."

"It's like how Kagura is allowed to hug us, still a mystery," Yuki said smiling as he entered Tohru's room. "How are you feeling Miss Honda?"

Kyo quickly stood up from the bed. "Ya damn rat! What the hell were you doing eavesdropping!"

"It wasn't eavesdropping, I was coming to check on Miss Honda."

Kaye sensed a storm in the making and gestured for Tohru to follow her. The two girls slipped out, leaving Yuki and Kyo squabbling in Tohru's room. Once outside the two giggled a little, knowing it would take them several minutes to figure it out.

Kaye and Tohru went to Kaye's room and Tohru set the tray down on the bedside table. "Oh, thank you very much for the soup, it was very kind of you and Kyo to think about me."

'I think he thinks about you more than you think…' Kaye shook her head a little, confused by all the 'thinks' she was thinking and smiled up at the girl before her. "Oh no problem, we couldn't help but notice you were feeling a little down."

Tohru sighed and looked out Kaye's window with an expressionless face and cloudy eyes. "Yes… I'm sorry to have put you through the trouble…" She looked at the ground.

"No, no," Kaye said, shaking her head, "No trouble at all! We were just worried, it's not a crime or an inconvenience…" Tohru shrugged and Kaye sat down on her bed. "Tohru, what happened at Axle's?"

Tohru hadn't been very talkative before, but her silence wasn't even ringing like a normal silence. Kaye could have sworn she couldn't even hear her heart beating. This wasn't the Tohru she knew. Tohru got upset sometimes but she never allowed sour feelings to overtake her... not like this…

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"Like, what did he DO to you?" Kaye said, letting her curiosity take the best of her.

"Ah, well! Umn, he…" Tohru shook her head, her thoughts coming in a jumble of words rather than straight out sentences.

"Did he… grope you?" Kaye said, thinking of a certain perverted monk from an anime she loved to watch.

"Erm… no…" Tohru began to blush deeply as Kaye prodded on.

"Did he kiss you? Like KISS kiss you?" Kaye asked, hitting it on the dot.

Tohru's hands flew to her lips, covering her mouth and she nodded softly, unable to make herself say a simple yes to the question.

"That's sick! I'll have to beat the shit outta him tomorrow…" Kaye said, placing a hand to her chin in a thoughtful pose, "How to kill, how to brutally kill… hmm… we could leave his mangled bo…dy… umn… Tohru?" Kaye looked at Tohru again as she began to cry.

"Aw! It's not that bad Tohru! Unless… no… that wasn't your first kiss… was it?" Kaye said, jumping to her feet.

Tohru slowly, carefully nodded and Kaye clenched her fists, "First, you defile my friend, then you steal her first kiss! You're goin' down you bastard!"

Tohru recognized Kaye's colorful vocabulary, discerning it from Kyo's own.

It was truly astonishing and heartwarming that Kaye would go to such extents as murder to help out Tohru. As a matter of fact, Tohru found it simply hysterical and began to laugh.

"Ha! Oh Kaye, thank you, thank you truly. But don't you have your own Sullivan to look after?" Tohru said pointedly, reminding Kaye of her other adversary.

"You are right, I must demolish ALL of the Sullivan children! Mwahahahaha!" Kaye punched the air in elation and laughed manically. Tohru watched Kaye's little show, and how it was stopped by Kyo walking into the room and tackling her.

"Kaye! What are you going to do? The last time you laughed like that, you swore that you were going to take over the supermarket!" Kyo shouted over Kaye's giggles.

Tohru relaxed, watching Kaye and Kyo struggle with each other, fighting and thwacking each other. Siblings, twins even. Tohru smiled warmly, glad that her friends had been able to get her out of her silly depression, before she had done something drastic.

"Anyways, tomorrow, we have to kill Axle." Kaye said, shoving her brother off of her.

"Ne? Why now? Why would you want-" he paused as Kaye and Tohru gave each other a look and Tohru nodded solemnly.

Kaye whispered something in Kyo's ear and he turned bright red with anger. "- to kill him first without mercilessly torturing him?" Kyo shouted, finishing his last sentence.

Kaye grinned and Tohru laughed again, "Why didncha say so earlier?" The two highfived and started to exchange torture plans.

After a while, Tohru decided it was late and went to her own room to go to sleep, bidding good night to Kyo and Kaye.

"That just pisses me off!" Kyo started, glaring at the floor. Kaye nodded.

"Well, at least we have her back to normal." Kaye sighed and leaned back on her hands.

Kyo grabbed her in a bear hug, "Just like we have YOU back to normal!" he joked, and Kaye laughed, agreeing.

Kaye went to bed soon after, and Kyo left the room to do the same. She lay on her bed, her flannel pajama's comfy and warm on her body. She snuggled up to her covers, drawing them over her shoulders, and knowing that Kyo was doing mostly the same thing.

At the same time the sighed, rolled over, and fell asleep.