"I'm surprised she left without her shoes." Yuki says, eating a pocky stick. It's the next day and Yuki, Tohru, Kyo, and Shigure sat at the heater table watching TV.
"I'm surprised Tohru's related to her." Shigure says, leaning his face against his hand. "That must mean we're related to Tohru as well."
"Wrong." Both Yuki and Kyo say. Shigure looks over at Tohru, noticing she keeps staring more at the front door instead of the TV.
"Tohru, "Shigure says.
"Yes Shigure?" Tohru asks.
"Did Phoenix tell you her side of the zodiac story?" Tohru nods.
"Yes. She did."
"Good." Shigure stood up, stretching. "Would you like to go and visit her today?" Tohru's eyes grow wide.
"But… I thought you hated her as well."
"I do." Shigure says bluntly. "But that doesn't mean you should as well. Come on, let's go." Tohru smiles with delight as she heads out the room to the front door. As she puts her shoes on, she reminiscence on what happened yesterday, when Kyo threw her off the roof. She turns back around, calling towards Kyo.
"Kyo… you don't mind if I go do you?" Kyo turns his head towards her a bit, before facing the TV.
"No, just go." As Shigure and Tohru leave, Kyo and Yuki are left in the room alone.
"Tohru looked her maddest yesterday." Yuki says reminiscing as well.
As soon as Phoenix hit the ground, Tohru stared in horror at her, turning her hand that was reaching out to her into a fist. Phoenix was lying on the dirt ground, with little flames lit onto the bush; she turned into a Phoenix, but one that looked dead. Kyo, smiling with satisfaction, looks up at Tohru.
"Hey! Come on, get down from…" One of Tohru's teardrops hit Kyo right on the forehead. Feeling this, Kyo felt regret about to overcome him. As Tohru climbed down the ladder, Kyo moves back into the house through the window thinking she would follow. Seeing that she didn't, Kyo looks back outside, seeing her aid to Phoenix's side. "Tohru! You got to stay away from her!"
"I can't…" Tohru replies, barely loud enough. Kyo raises a brow, before calling out to her again.
"Come on! She's goanna mess with your head!"
"I don't care!" Tohru yells back. During this whole time, the two didn't even realize that Yuki had already stood up, and is now walking around the house towards Tohru and Phoenix.
"Ms. Honda, Phoenix isn't someone you should go near." Yuki says, still grabbing hold of his shoulder.
"Why? She's hurt! What if she broke a bone?"
"It…" Yuki looks to the ground. "It wouldn't be the worst thing." Tohru glares at him angrily.
"Why did you try keeping her away from me?" When Yuki didn't reply, Tohru asked again. "Why?"
"She… isn't a very good person." Yuki looks towards the ground.
"Yuki… what did she do?" Tohru asked as calmly as possible. A moment of silence passed again.
"I…"
"What did she do?" Yuki gulps.
"… Nothing… nothing at all."
"No kidding. Looked like she wanted to kill ya." Kyo says in reply. "Well, me too, but still…"
"Still what?"
"I… I don't get why I hate her. Every time I see her, I know my spirit wants to strangle her for some reason."
"Really? Mine wants to run away..." Silence went between them again as they waited for commercials to come back around. "Do you know the rest of the story?"
"Huh?" Kyo asks. "What the hell you talkin' about?"
"The rest of the zodiac story. Do you know it?" Kyo thought for a moment.
"I thought you would."