Author's Mini Blurb – My deepest thanks to everyone who's read so far, I really appreciate all the comments. You people are lucky today, two chapters in a day is my new little record! Anyways, enjoy the next chapter and keep looking out for the next update!

Back at Shigure's house…

Tohru lay in her room on her bed, she hugged a stuffed animal close to her. She didn't want to give up hope for Kyo. Why was she getting so worried anyways? Kyo was not a little boy, he could take care of himself. She needn't be worried over him, he would be okay. But he hadn't told her he was going out, he always told her when he was leaving….

She got up and slowly, delicately even, placed the stuffed animal on her pillow. She went to get a small mirror she kept on her dresser. She picked it up a long ray of light glinted across it shimmering on the wall. She looked into the mirror, into her face, into her soul. For a brief second she saw Kyo's face where hers should've been. Startled for a moment she dropped the sheet of glass.

The mirror landed with a split crack sound on the hard dresser's surface. "Ahh! Ohhh, eep! What do I do? What do I do!" She squeaked and bounded out the door to get a towel to pick up the shards of the split mirror. She returned in only a moment and scooped up the pieces.

"Oh no… Broken mirrors are seven years bad luck…" She mused to herself. It's not that she was superstitious, but mirrors seemed to hold the kind of power that could grant bad luck if one was broken. Tohru went downstairs to throw out the shards. Her feet paced very lightly down the stairs, no one heard her coming. She stopped for a second and held the towel holding the broken mirror to her, there was someone at the door.

She head at least two familiar voices.

"So Kyo's gotten himself lost has he?" The deeper calm voice of Hatori Sohma.

"Aww! I'm wanna go see Tohru!" The more childish voice belonging to Momiji Sohma.

"No Momiji, leave Tohru alone for now, she'll join us when she is ready." Hatori's response was calm, but Tohru knew that he knew she was there. He wouldn't tell anyone but he knew. That being revealed, and she not really wanting to eavesdrop, finished her walk down the stairs.

"Miss Honda, Hatori, Momiji, and Haru have agreed to help us look for Kyo." Yuki greeted politely. She looked through the entryway, and sure enough leaning against the wall was Haru, he appeared to be white at the moment. Why had Haru agreed to help? He didn't really like Kyo… Maybe Yuki had asked them to help?

"Really! Oh that'd be wonderful!" Her face showed she really meant it, for she wore a glowing smile, hope spreading through her eyes.

"So, we gonna go look for him 'er what?" Haru's voice suggested shifting himself into a visible space.

"Yeah, c'mon Tohru! Let's go look!" Momiji grabbed at Tohru's sleeve and pulled her outside. Hatori, Yuki, and Shigure walked at a more reasonable pace out the door. Momiji and Tohru were already halfway out of sight by the time the others got there even.

"Do you really think we even have a chance of finding him?" Yuki asked innocently of Hatori.

"I couldn't really say Yuki, it's not for me to guess. We have no clue where Kyo is the best we can do is look." Hatori turned quickly Shigure was leaning into his shoulder at an uncomfortable angle.

"Hari! Have a little faith why don't you? We'll search to the ends of the earth to find our lost Kyo!" Shigure wandered off into a little blurb, "And Tohru will return to her normally happy state! Poor sweet Tohru!" How like Shigure, Yuki silently thought. But if Tohru will be happy…

He turned and looked ahead, Momiji and Tohru were skipping along the path into town, he ran to catch up with Shigure and Hatori, who had since walked ahead.

The darkness parted briefly, long enough for Kyo to realize that it was a door being opened. He shut his eyes, he wanted to convince himself the whole thing was just a nightmare, and that he would wake up soon. He denied himself that though, at the last second he did look to see who it was, somewhat to his delight, it wasn't Ivy or Molly.

Jeffery quietly snuck into Ivy's room. He paused only momentarily to search for the stroller. As he approached, Kyo shuffled farther into the blankets lining the stroller.

"Did she bury you in there Peaches?" Jeffery noted somewhat amusedly to Kyo. "Well try not to take Miss Ivy's actions too much to heart, she's not all that bad really." He unbuckled the straps that bound Kyo to the stroller. He leaped free and ran as quickly was possible for the door. He didn't make it.

Jeffery shut the door approximately seven seconds before Kyo would've reached the door. "Goodness that was close." Kyo spat a rain of curses as Jeffery proceeded to carry him over to the enclosed section of the room set aside for Kyo or as they knew him, Peaches. He lifted a few latches and locked Kyo safely into the pink prison.

"Well off now to clean up lunch, bye cat." Jeffery managed to say over Kyo's agonized howls. He shut the door, and with it locked away Kyo's hopes of escaping. Kyo backed up into the walls of the enclosure. He ran forward and rammed his head into the walls repetitively. He only stopped after the pain numbed his head and with that most of his sense.

"I can't take much more of this, how could anyone live with this? How do they stand her!" He went on about how awful his situation was in the safest corner of his mind, where no one could hear. He had to come up with an escape plan, there was no other way, and he had to get out of here, before his mind was polluted! He pondered over this for a long time, till the shadows outside coming from the windows sent bars across his face.

Eventually he came to the only conclusion he could think of. When Ivy and Molly finally came back they wanted to play house with him right? Well, they sure had a shock in store for them.

Shigure paced the ground he was slightly uncomfortable as he was. He was standing around in public as a dog. If that weren't odd enough, he was on a leash and collar, he had to abide by the strict leash laws. Although he actually didn't mind as much since Tohru was the one holding the end if the leash.

"Any scent of him?" Momiji asked curiously prying.

"Hmm.. no really, but then I'm just going by memory, I don't have anything of his to smell."

"Wait! I might have something," Tohru fumbled with her hair for a moment and untied one of her yellow ribbons, "A few days ago he chewed on this, but I don't think he meant to." It was true, Kyo had indeed not meant to partially eat Tohru's Hair ribbon. Tohru had been cooking rice balls and the ribbon had fallen from her hair into the rice cooker.

She held out the ribbon in front of Shigure's nose. His eyes lifted slightly as he inhaled the lingering scent of Kyo.

"What is it Shigure?" Yuki poked Shigure's side.

"I think I smell something…."

"What direction is the scent coming from Shigure?" Hatori also kneeled to be at eye level with Shigure.

"I'm not sure… North perhaps?" He put his nose to the ground and sniffed casually. He headed off in one direction and the others followed. Far off in the distance a grand mansion could be seen.