Me: Welcome back. I hope everyone has been well, including my readers.

Kyo: You only left us for a day or two.

Me: And have you been well, those two days?

Kyo: No, you've been keeping us hostage in a place with only white walls. No TV, radio, no beds.

Me: Oh sorry, I'll make sure to make bedding arrangements. It'll be here by tomorrow morning! (Note: I'm in a different time zone, so when you're sleeping, I'm wide awake and vice versa)

Yuki: I must agree with him for once. White is such a poor selection for wall-painting.

Me: Hmmm, let's change it to black! (Evil grin)

Yuki: Eh? No-- wait a second… I like white. Such a fine color. I'm perfectly fine with this. Heh heh.

Kyo: What's with him?

Me: Hatori drop you're book. I'm about to start.

Kyo: DON'T IGNORE ME!


"Hi, Kyo, how have you been?" My voice was shaky and my heart was racing.

"Who are y--"

Flashback

Kyo was playing all alone in the sand, when Mina appears at the gate. She walks over to Kyo.

"Hi, I'm Mina. You're Kyo right? You're the cat right?" Kyo nods, staring wide-eyed and in disbelief that someone would talk to him, knowing who he was. "Yay! I'm so glad to have finally met you! Now, I've met all of the jyuunishi! Yay! By the way, I'm not part of the zodiac, but I can hug members of the zodiac without making the transform."

"Uh hi" Kyo said awkwardly.

"Let's be friends!"

Flashback end

Kyo was staring at the wall, his eyes wide, his mouth slightly agape letting drool escape. "Kyo-kun? Kyo-kun?"

"Huh? Wha?"

"Kyo-kun are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine." Kyo replied to an anxious looking Tohru. "No need to worry"

"You shouldn't worry Honda-san like that you stupid cat." Yuki said in a tone of distaste.

They both immediately started bickering. Tohru was trying to make the stop and Shigure returned to his study leaving the silent Mina to ponder her thoughts. I wonder what happened to him. I hope he's okay, did I do something wrong while erasing his memories? I don't think I did. She immediately realized what had happened.

"Kyo did you have a flashback?" Mina asked hoping she was right.

"Huh? Yeah, you're Mina right." Mina nodded very excited that the flashback had revealed so much about her. "How the hell do I know you? I mean, I don't remember anything at all! You're like suddenly here and I have flashbacks an--"

Mina's cell phone rang, interrupting him. "Hold on I've got to take this.

"Hello, Shoishou."

"Hello, can you come back home? It's dinner time and I'm starving."

"Ok, oh wait Shishou! Don't try to cook okay?I don't want you to burn the house down!"

He chuckled "Don't worry I won't, just hurry back you have to go to school tomorrow. You need a good night's sleep after this tiring day."

"Ok, I'll hurry back." She hung up.

"Mina-san was that Shishou you were talking to just now?" Yuki asked

"Huh, oh yeah. I'll be living there from now on--"

"WHAT?" yelled Kyo. She couldn't worm out of this one so, she lied that Akito let her live at Shishou's house from now on. And Shishou accepted the offer. I'll tell you the truth soon. But today that Honda girl is here and she's the last person that needs to know.

"Ok, bye. I gotta go. Shishou'll burn the food."

"Bye, Mina-san. Hope to see you again soon"

"You will, I start your school from tomorrow."

"WHAT?" they all yelled in surprise, but Mina had already run off.

Yuki went upstairs, leaving only Kyo and Tohru. Well, Tohru was in la-la-land. "Tohru? Hello? Earth to Tohru? Hello?"

"Ah, sorry Kyo-kun I was just….thinking." Tohru said, giggling.

"About what? Are you alright?"

"No, I'm fine! Please don't worry about me! Oh no, I have to go finish dinner!" And she ran off, but not before Kyo caught her at her wrist.

"Don't lie like that to me. You'll only make me worry more. Are you ok? Does it have anything to do with that Mina girl?" He asked with a bit of gentleness.

She couldn't possibly lie now. She had to tell him the truth. So she told him what was on her mind. "When I had encountered Mina in the morning, she seemed as if she was running away, not as if Akito had sent her. So I was wondering why she would lie to us and the only reasonable explanation I could find was, that she didn't tell you the truth because of me. She didn't want me to hear. So I feel that I'm interfering when I shouldn't. I'm sorry" Tohru finished, she looked like she was about to cry.

"Urgh! Don't cry! Don't worry either. If she didn't want you there, she will find a moment with us sometime or another. And, second, why are you worried. It's not like that damn rat nor I really care. So stop worrying. Jeez you're such a crybaby."

"Thank you Kyo-kun. But I really should get back to cooking now!" And she rushed off to the kitchen. Kyo followed her and told her about his flashback.

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After dinner Mina went to bed. What a wonderful day it was today! Ah, I finally go to meet Kyo after all these years. Yuki and Shigure as well, I'm very glad. But I don't like that Honda girl. There must be an initial reason for Akito to allow her to stay there. But I wonder why.

Tomorrow, I start school. I'll be in the third year with Yuki and Kyo, but I'm not sure about Honda-san. She looks a year younger, but I don't know. I hope she's not in our year though. Oh! And in the second year we have Momijji and Haru. I hope I get to meet them as well. But their reaction will probably be like Yuki, still I can't wait to meet them. With these thoughts Mina slowly drifted to sleep.

Me: Another chapter, done. Yay, I'm happy.

Kyo: Actually, I have a question.

Me: Ok what is it?

Kyo: When are we going to get out of here!

Me: When I'm finished with this story of course.

Yuki: Aaaand how long will that take?

Me: I don't know, but I'm thinking of making it around 10 chapters or more.

(thunder in the background and then a pause)

Yuki: You're kidding….right?

Me: What do you mean? Of course not.

Kyo: Suicide has never been an option until now

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