Peace roams over Shigure's home as Kyo is in the backyard practicing his punches over and over, Yuki is in his room studying, Tohru at the dining table writing a letter, and Shigure is lying his head on the dining room table across from Tohru. Kyo ceases his punches to turn Shigure's way.
"Yo! If your goanna sleep, do so in your room!" Shigure turns his head sideways to stare at Kyo. "And who may I ask is the one who pays the bills around here?"
"It doesn't matter! You're bothering Tohru!"
"N-no! It's all right! I don't mind at all!" a ringing noise is then heard causing Shigure to sigh.
"Aww… the phone." Lazily, Shigure stands up walking to the phones direction in the hallway. As Shigure was answering the phone, Yuki was already running down the stares to go answer it himself. "Hello? It's Shigure…" Yuki shrugs and then decides to go into the kitchen.
After grabbing himself a glass of milk tea, he notices Tohru in the dining room. Yuki smiles as he walks up to her. "Tohru, would you like something to drink?" Tohru shakes her head before turning her head to face Yuki.
"No thank you. I already had something to drink."
"Hey! Tohru!" Both Yuki and Tohru face Kyo's direction as he enters the house. "What're we having for lunch?"
"Ah! Lunch! I almost forgot!" Tohru jumps up, running into the kitchen. Kyo sighs.
"Damn, I'm getting hungry… huh?" Kyo reaches out to grab the letter Tohru was writing. "Dammit… I can't read this."
"Stupid Cat," Yuki says before taking another sip from his glass. "You're not supposed to read it anyways."
"Don't call me stupid! And besides, look!" Kyo waves the paper in front of Yuki. Irritated, Yuki grabs it before trying to read it. Seconds later, Yuki places it back onto the table, walking away.
"We're not supposed to read it anyways stupid cat."
"See! You can't read it either!" Tohru laughs as she enters the living room with a bowl and a mixing spoon in hands.
"That's great!" Tohru says with a wide grin.
"Huh? I don't get this! The characters are in the English language but…"
"Oh… no, that's just Kyo again." Shigure says to the phone. "So is that the only reason you called Ayame? Or did you want to talk to Yuki?"
"Hahahaha! Oh no…" Ayame says from the other line. "Even if I did want to talk to Yuki, he wouldn't answer it! He'd probably tell you to tell me that I'm not even here!"
"Then what did you call for?"
"Can we at least have that in soup?" Kyo says in his loud voice.
"Have what in soup?" Ayame asks. Shigure laughs.
"That was Kyo again."
"Oh! I wanted to tell you that Phoenix is here." Shigure frowns. "Her mother has a business meeting here, so the two of them will be staying at the Sohma household for a while. Of course, with Phoenix being in Akito's guest room."
"Is that it?"
"Well yes! I just wanted to warn you is all. Because who knows? She might come over there to mess with Tohru's head."
"Alright. Thanks." Shigure hangs up with a deep sigh. He leans against the wall behind him while looking up at the ceiling. While dwelling in his thoughts, he could still hear Kyo talking to Tohru in his loud voice. Shigure sighs one more time before walking into the kitchen. "What's all the yelling in here about?" Tohru smiles at Shigure as she chops miso.
"Kyo is trying to crack my letter's code."
"Well there's no way this could be English!" Shigure smiles as he rolls up his sleeves.
"Ok! The novelist is here!" Shigure yells out, "Show me this letter and I'll crack the clue!" Kyo hands the letter to Shigure. "Lets see now…" Shigure takes a pair of glasses out from his yukata, putting them on. Little seconds later, he responds, "Is this the English version of Pig Latin?"
"Eh? You know about it?" Tohru cries, halting from her chopping.
"I do, but it's hard to read it still. So who is it that you're sending this letter to? She must be very flexible with her languages."
"A cousin of mine in America. It's been a while since I've been able to reply to her messages partly because she was still sending them to my grandpa's house. So today I just got the letters back and found out she's visiting Japan." Tohru sighs, "But it's too bad that she'll get this letter when she comes back from Japan."
"Why is that?"
"It takes 2 weeks for a letter overseas to come over here and plus I didn't get this letter for a month partly because it was at my grandpa's house. So when I send this to her, another two weeks would have gone by and she'll be back home a week before she gets this."
"Do you have any clues where she'll be?"
"With her cousin on her moms side. But I don't know where that is."
"Ya know…" Kyo says scratching his chin. "If you know her last name, you could probably look it up." Shigure looks at him with a shocked expression.
"MY GOD!" Shigure yells backing away from him, "This isn't Kyo! This one sounds to smart to be Kyo!"
"What the hell's that suppose to mean?" As the two start bickering back and forth to each other, Tohru smiles as she prepares the stew. But then a frown appears on her face along with the question in her mind, "I hope Tammy is alright… she never did get along much with her family sorta like…" she turns around to look at Kyo.