Chapter Five, When Best Friends Fight
Fortune cookie say: 'There is a true and sincere friendship between you both.'
((2:45 p.m. the roof, September 1st))

A/N: Thanks reviewers! Jaime: give me a particular instance, I don't have any ideas of how to incorporate anything into the current plot—email me. And yes, I know that "we" are growing to have different personalities than we normally have… OK! This one is action packed! Yay!

Dusty leaned back, putting her hands behind her head and sighing contently. She glanced at Kyou.

"Three pages." She said aloud. He turned to her.

"Huh?"

"Three pages of poetry." She explained.

"Oh." His gaze returned to the sky.

A soft mewing sound came from Dusty's bag. Kyou turned sharply towards it with a mild look of fear on his face. The second mew caught Dusty's attention. Her hand slowly reached toward her bag but she paused, inches away.

Whoa... dé·jà vu… She laughed to herself and grasped her bag, beginning to rummage through it.

"Midnight!" she exclaimed, blue eyes dancing with delight. Kyou's eyes widened in surprise as the kitten lunged at him from Dusty's grasp and began to rub up against his side.

"Wha—what the hell?"

Dusty began to laugh.

"How did you get there, silly thing!" She sighed and plucked up the cat. She held him tenderly to her chest, stroking his silky fur lovingly. "I've always loved cats…" She said aloud, dreamily. "No matter how upset I would get, my cats have always been there." She turned to face Kyou, eyes a bitter-sweet steel-blue. "I didn't even have to tell them how I felt, or explain why…They just…just seemed to understand." She chuckled, "I know I must seem so childish…" She avoided his gaze.

"No," he smiled, leaning closer in "I think you're…"

"DUSTY!" Dion's voice rang through the entire property as she came dashing to the house. "YOU ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE!" Dusty's eyes grew purple with fright as she straightened up and as midnight went to hide in her bag.

"Oh no…she's mad…"

"You don't say…" Kyou muttered

"DUSTY!" Dion's eyes screamed anger and Dusty jumped off the roof to face her 'certain doom'.

"Well…hello Dion, how was…"

"WHAT THE HELL KIND OF STUNT WAS THAT?"

"I…"

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY MINDS I HAD TO ALTAR BECAUSE OF YOU!"

"Good thing I taught you that yesterd—"

"WHY THE HELL NDID YOU JUMP OUT OF A TWO STORY WINDOW?" Dion began to grow an eerie white color as her anger began to rise.

"Dion…calm down…"

"CALM DOWN? OH, YOU'RE ONE TO TALK; LITTLE MISS "I-CAN'T-HANDLE-SOME-TEASING-SO-I'LL-MAKE-PEOPLE-THINK-I-KILLED-MYSELF!" Dion began to grow wings and her voice became a deep growl. "I WAS SO WORRIED THAT YOU WENT OFF AND KILLED YOURSELF!"

"Too late…" Dusty whispered, dodging the tiger-griffin's first charge.

You're already blind with anger… Dusty thought to herself; picking up a tree. She attempted to throw it at her friend in order to stop her but Dion took off into the air and the tree went flying…

Shigure walked to the door, being disturbed by all of the shouting.

"Now what's going—" the tree flew straight into the house, barely missing the place where Shigure had just fled from.

"Aw, now look what you've gone and made me do! Now I have to fix the house!" Dusty began to gather energy for a binding spell but was knocked down by a swing of Dion's paw.

Jeeze, she's gotten mad before but never like this…I wonder what's up. Dusty teleported behind Dion and finished chanting the binding spell. She struggled to hold it as Dion mentally thrashed around. Dusty clenched her teeth as the spell tore and Dion broke free.

Damn! Too strong!

Yuki walked into the clearing and almost dropped his books in surprise.

"Wha…What is that?" his eyes widened. Dion whirled around in a snarl but immediately softened. It was as if the sound of his voice had broken her anger spell.

"Y-Yuki…" She stammered, changing back into her normal form. His eyes were wide with shock.

Dusty groaned and rubbed her head.

At least I'm not too wounded…I'm sorry to say it but, I'm glad he showed up. She shook her head in disbelief. I would've never thought that someone such as himself could tame her so easily…

Shigure arbitrarily appeared.

"Is it safe to come out now?" he caught sight of Yuki's shocked expression. "Oh, my…"

'Is it wise to tell them?' Dion asked.

'I don't see why not, I don't know how they could be anymore shocked.'

Shigure and Kyou approached Dion and Dusty.

"W…Well…" Dion stammered, looking at Dusty for support. Her companion nodded approvingly. "You see, whenever I loose control of my temper, I change into my true form, if you will…" Kyou flinched, only Shigure seemed to notice. "I'm not even sure why myself but that's what happened…" She caught sight of the house. "Oh. Did I do that?" she feebly asked.

"MY HOUSE!" Shigure sobbed, weeping over his half-standing shelter.

"No, I did." Dusty laughed.

"I guess we should get to work then or we won't have any place to sleep…"

Midnight padded up to the five and innocently mewed.

A/N: Sorry, it was a bit short… Jaime, email me!