A/N: I hope this chapter is less solemn then the last. I really was hesitant about making the first chapter so serious. But this one should be on a lighter note.

I'm so happy! My first chapter and I already have four reviews! Thanks to everyone for your encouraging comments! I love you guys soooooooo much!

Kyo: Aw, geez, don't get so mushy, airhead.

Me: Oh, hush. Youre just mad because Shigure gave you catfood for dinner today.

Kyo: Shutup! (stalks away)


Disclaimer: I sadly own none of these characters
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Chapter 2: The Naked Truth About Headaches
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Kyo was looking down on her, his face full of concern "You okay?" he asked dubiously.

Tohru held her breath. Is it really you? She had to know if it was the real thing this time. I mean, after the night she had, she was starting to get a little iffy about the line between reality and her imagination. She hesitantly reached up and touched his chin. Tohru felt the warm skin jump beneath her fingers. She stared at her hand then trailed her gaze up to meet his quizzical one.

"Kyo, it's you!" she cried and threw her arms around him, squeezing him as tightly as she could.

'Poof'

Toru found herself squeezing the life out of an orange cat a second later.

"...need-….AIR!" he gasped.

Tohru looked at Kyo in confusion in a second before her eyes dropped down to the death-lock she had him in. "Oh!" she exclaimed and immediately released him.

Kyo's ear twitched in annoyance. "…Don't- wor-ry about it." he gasped.

Tohru nodded and looked down at her hands shamefully, unable to look at him.

Now I've done it, she thought. First I start crying all over him and now I turn him into a cat.

He probably thinks you've lost your mind.

Tohru grimaced. I've really made a muck of things, haven't I? There is no way this day could get worse.

Don't be so sure. The day has barely begun- it's not even light outside yet!

She broke out of her reverie when she felt Kyo's paw touch her arm. She looked at him.

"Uh," he said, "Do you mind telling me what the heck happened?"

Tohru blushed. "Um, well, you see… there was this dream and you fell and I wasn't fast enough and I thought it wasn't a dream, but then I woke up and you really were gone and I wasn't sure if I was still dreaming but then you got stranded in the forest and you were hurt and it's not good to let wounds get dirty and bleed all over because infection will set in and-"

Kyo interrupted, "Does this have a point or are you going to keep uttering meaningless nonsense?"

Tohru sighed and dropped her head caus' it was still hurting from before. He was probably irritated with her again. She started to explain once more, "I-"

Suddenly, Kyo-san went "poof" again and between one blink and the next, Tohru went from having a cute little orange cat in her lap, to a stark naked teenage boy sprawled across her legs.

"OH MY GOD!" Tohru squealed and tried to get out from under him as fast as she could while averting her eyes else-where. The end result was both of them crashing to the floor in a heap. Kyo was now practically on top of Tohru, who squeezed her eyes tightly shut and clenched her fists in determination.

Kyo fortunately, was quick. He managed to untangle himself from her in record time and swiped his clothes off the bed in a flash.

When she noticed Kyo had moved she slapped a hand over her eyes and scrambled up.

"Well," she heard Kyo say dryly from the other side of the room, "This is definitely awkward…"

Tohru wanted to put as much distance between them possible at the moment. "Um, uh...uh…I'll just g-go over here to give you some privacy." Shesaid in a rushthen took a step forward.

"Tohru, WAI-!"

Too late. Tohru walked straight into a wall. "Ow!" she yelped and brought her free hand up to soothe her bruised forehead. Her other hand was still blocking her vision, hence the reason for colliding with the wall.

"Never mind..." Kyo said flatly as he shrugged his shirt on. "Hey, you can look now…"

Tohru dropped both hands and slowly, very slowly,turned to face him. His hands were firmly planted on his hips, his brow furrowed, and his eyes had his ready-to-do-battle-look in them.

Uh oh. He looks kinda mad.

We of course he is, dummy! You're the one who made him transform!

Yeah…maybe I should apologize for that.

...Maybe!

Tohru opened her mouth to do just that when Kyo held up his hand to silence her. She snapped her mouth shut.

"Tohru," He gritted out as he paced her room, "What do you think you were doing? You were lying on the ground in the middle of nowhere in the dark! Don't you know what kind of creeps are out there at that time? You could have been kidnapped! I…I thought you'd been killed!"

Tohru was about to point out that she had thought the same of him but thought better of it. He didn't really seem like he'd listen to her at the moment anyway.

"Are you stupid!" he fumed, his voice rising. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU-"

Just then, a spasm of pain shot through her neck that made her gasp. Theache was nothing like it was a moment ago. It was like it had gone from mute to full blast. It was draining the energy out of her rapidly.Tohru felt her whole body growing weaker by the secondand knew her knees were about to give.

"K…..K…Kyo-kun….I'm…gonna fall again!" she barely managed to breathe out.

"WHAT!"

He reached her sidelikea shot, grabbed her arm and pushed her onto her bed in one fluid motion. Tohru groaned when her head hit the pillow.

Kyo ran a hand through his mussed hair in frustration. "God, woman what's wrong with you!"

"My…head…..pounding….hurt…" Tohru lamely brought a hand up to her neck and tried massaging it but couldn't really reach the spot that waspaining her.

Kyo batted her hand away. "Where does it hurt?" he asked softly- a remarkable change in demeanor considering he'd been livid a moment ago.

"Uhhhgghh…below…my neck…." she moaned.

Kyo put one hand between her shoulder blades and gently rubbed in circular motions. The tension slowly ebbed as he continued his soothing ministrations. It was heaven.

"Kyo-kun….that feels soooo good…." She whispered into her pillow.

Kyo smiled a little and continued to massage her back. She was practically purring!

"You know what you sound like?" he asked.

"Hmmmm?" she sighed.

"A cat."


Shigure passed by Tohru's bedroom. She was probably awake since he could see light seeping through the crack under her door. He halted. He could hear…voices? Meaning more than one? He paused, briefly considering the fact that this was a huge violation of her privacy. Then he shrugged and shamelessly pressed his ear to her door.

"Oh, Kyo-kun, please don't stop just yet…" someone cooed.

Shigure heard a husky laugh. "You like that, huh?"

He'd heard enough. Shigure ripped the door open, startling the room's occupants and exclaimed in horror, "Good God, Kyo! What are you doing to our little flower!"


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A/N: Is that soooo Shigure or what? (rolls eyes). By the way I work on the next chapiie as we speak, so it should be up sometime tomorrow.-I'm having some kind of writer's un-block lately, thus why I post so fast-

PSSSST!( It's gonna have something to do with pandas.)