I'm back! Did you miss me? YAY! I have a solution for my little problem involving the story name change and summary change. It will affect the way I am writing the story, but not in a bad way! It will make it more interesting. So…I am gonna cheat and tell all of my readers before hand the new title and summary!

Forgotten (I just dropped the birthday! Clever, right?) : Stress can cause people to forget things, and living with the Sohma's can be quite stressful. Especially with Akito as the head of the family. It started out with her birthday, but where will it end? What all can be forgotten?

Tell me if you like it or hate it! I will change the title (that is of course if you guys approve) on Wednesday, whether I am ready to update by then or not. So be on the look out for it!

Disclaimer: I like puppies…oops. I mean, I don't own Furuba.

Stress

"Rain." It was coming down hard, and Kyo had taken shelter under a tree. He had long been transformed due to combined stress of the rain and…her. Finally deciding that the rain had let up a little, he continued to walk down the path to his Master's house. The process was slow and his mud covered orange paws drug through the puddles…but he didn't care.

An hour later, Kyo found himself on Kazuma's front steps with no way to get in. The rain would drown out any cries he made to be heard and he couldn't use his pathetic paws to knock on the door. Spotting an open window, he streaked into the rain. He bumped his back a little as he squeezed into the small crack, but other than a little pain he was fine.

Kyo smiled the best a cat in pain could. The open window belonged to his old room, which still had his bed and a number of clothes hanging in the closet. 'I really should let Master know that I am here.' The orange cat padded down the carpeted hallway and watched his muddy paws leave marks on the floor.

Kazuma was in his study, reading the evening paper by a small lamp on his table. The light fell on four photographs in matching black frames on the large desk. The first picture was of Kyo after a tournament at the age of 9. He had a wide small and was holding up a small first place trophy.

The second picture was of Kazuma and Kyo practicing in the dojo. Kyo was a little older in this picture and had a determined expression on his young face. If you looked at the picture close enough, you could see a small smile curved on his Master's lips as he blocked Kyo's punch.

The third picture was of all of Kazuma's students he had taken a couple years ago. Kagura was clinging to Kyo in the picture and Haru was looking at Yuki lovingly. Both younger Kyo and younger Yuki looked upset by the unwanted love they were being shown. If it had been an ordinary visit for Kyo, he might have laughed at the frustrated look on the rat's face.

Guilt washed over Kyo when he saw the final picture. It showed Yuki, Tohru, and Kyo walking down the sidewalk carrying umbrellas. How Kazuma had gotten it, Kyo didn't know, but he remembered the day well. It had been the day before Kyo's true form had been revealed to Tohru. They were walking down the street in the drizzle which made Kyo's shoulder slump with tiredness. Tohru was sneaking a worried glance at Kyo out of the corner of her eye while talking to Yuki and Kyo gave her a small smile. (A/N: I couldn't really remember if the day I was talking about was the day before his true form, or after. So I just made it before.)

'Maybe I was to rough on her…It's Akito's fault, not hers.' His face softened, but hardened again when he though of the purple bruise on her porcelain face. 'What the hell did she go and get him mad for though? If she would just leave me alone, then none of this would have happened!' The hair on the back of his neck involuntarily rose at the actual thought of her leaving him alone…never speaking to him again.

"Kyo? Do you plan on standing there all day? Or are you going to tell me why you are here and such a mess at that?" Kazuma said folding his paper over. Kyo jumped in the air but, like all cats, landed on his feet.

"Um…well you see, I was walking around in the area when it started to rain. The rain made me transform." Kyo said unevenly, trying to calm his still racing heart.

"That's odd…it normally takes a much bigger storm to cause you to transform." Kazuma tapped his chin, but Kyo had a feeling he already knew part of the problem.

"Listen!" His voice was harsh but softened when he realized how tired he was. "Will you just let me spend the night? I'll have to leave early in the morning so I can get to school on time, but I won't bother you." Kazuma nodded and Kyo went to his room and curled on the bed.

Kazuma woke Kyo a few minutes later with a clean towel and showed him where he had put his extra school uniform.

"And Kyo?" Kazuma said, leaving the room.

"Huh?" the cat replied sleepily.

"If you stay away from Tohru, like Akito wants, you may end up hurting her more than he could ever do." And without another word, Kazuma slipped out of the room. 'How could he have possible known?' , were Kyo's last thoughts before drifting off into an exhausted sleep.

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"Class, we have a new student with us today!" The teacher of Yuki, Tohru, Kyo, Hana, and Uo's homeroom teacher exclaimed excitedly. Tohru wasn't busy paying any attention however, she was staring out the window wondering where Kyo was. 'He didn't come home last night…Mom? What did I do to make him so angry? I want to show him that no matter how much Akito hurts me, he could never make me leave the Sohma's alone. They all mean so much to me.'

Tohru glanced up when she saw the new student enter the room and her breath caught in her throat.

"Class, this is Ronin. He's from the United States and his father is an army general who just got transferred here. His father is American, but his mother is Japanese." Ronin had dark brown hair that fell into his piercing green eyes, and had lighter brown highlights. He was tall and looked muscular, but also lean. He smiled at the class and the teacher looked around for him a seat. His eyes fell on the empty seat next to Tohru.

"Ah, Mr. Sohma doesn't seem to be here today so why don't you take his seat? I'm sure he won't mind." The teacher pointed next to the seat and Ronin smiled at Tohru when he sat down.

Kyo ran into the classroom, half an hour late. He roughly handed the teacher his note from the office and stared at the boy in his seat. Instead of starting an argument, he just sat at an extra desk two seats behind Tohru. 'Atleast I won't have to face her.'

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Gahh! I thought I made this chapter a little bit boring…I AM SOOO SORRY! I will make it up to you, I swear! Anywho, tell me what you think of my idea for a title and summary (see top).

I'm a little drained and in a hurry, so I won't do my comments to my reviewers on this chapter…maybe next though! If I keep getting so many reviews, I might just have to pick out five or six good reviews and comment to those people. Sorry peeps! So leave good reviews! And Merry Christmas! Umm…Happy Birthday? Er…Happy Hanukah? JUST HAVE A GOOD DAY DAMMIT!