Haru wandered around the halls of his old high school. It was lunch-time so all the students and most of the teachers were eating lunch in the cafeteria. That's where Yuki would be, now only if Haru could find the damn place. At the moment however, Haru didn't mind being lost. Each hall he went down triggered memories of him and Kyo, and he let himself remember them. He let them fill him, even if it made him miss Kyo more it was better to remember. Haru was looking out of a window when he heard two people enter the hall.
"Come on! You know you wanna fight me!" Haru turned at the voice. He saw a young girl, dressed in a boys uniform no-less, talking with Yuki. She was short and small. Everything about her was small. She had blond hair with streaks of orange that reached shoulders. She had a smirk on her face as she leapt out in front of Yuki.
"I'm not going to fight you," Yuki said calmly as he turned to the girl.
"Its cause you're scared huh? You're scared that I'll win! And you know I will!" The girl was practically bouncing with energy.
"If you keep this up I'm calling Tohru and telling her to make leeks for dinner…" Yuki didn't have much time to say anything else. The girl pounced on him as he pulled out a cell phone. Haru watching in amusement as the girl tackled Yuki to the ground and stole the cell phone from his hands.
"Ah HA!" She shouted as she jumped to her feet. "I won!..." She looked down at Yuki in shock for a second. "Wait, I won…what's the matter? I never win…are you sick?"
"No, I'm fine," Yuki muttered as he stood up from the ground. He snatched the cell phone from the girl and scowled at her slightly. The girl, however, didn't notice. She had a huge grin on her face.
"Haru?" Yuki said when he finally noticed his cousin. "Hey, glad you came."
"You didn't give me much choice," Haru said simply. "You called Hatori over and he practically dragged me here."
"Who are you?" The girl asked as she came to stand next to Yuki, her arms crossed over her chest.
"I'm Haru."
The girl blinked and looked over at Yuki. Yuki sighed and rolled his eyes.
"He's our cousin. The cow. The one who never comes to anything and the one you keep bugging me about. I swear stupidity must be a trait of the…" Before Yuki could finish the girl had jumped into fighting stance once again.
"Don't call me stupid you damn rat! Come on, I'm calling you out right here, right now." The girl glared at him and Haru felt a sharp pain as he realized that this girl was the cat. The cat was no longer his Kyo. It was this girl.
"You're the cat aren't you?" Haru said slowly, voicing his thoughts. The girl looked away from the perturbed Yuki.
"Yeah, I'm Leiko," She said as she turned to face him. She opened her mouth to say something but before she could her face paled.
"Tohru? You know I have this craving for leeks for dinner tonight…" Yuki was cut off by Leiko tackling him once again. She stole the phone and ran off with it into an empty class room. The door slammed shut behind her and Haru could hear Leiko telling Tohru that if they had leeks for dinner she would jump off the roof.
"So that was her?" Haru asked looking after the girl.
"Yes," Yuki said his voice cold. "That was her. She's even more annoying than Kyo…" He trailed off before realizing what he said. "I mean...she's crazy and I'll leave it at that."
"So, she lives with you and Tohru?" Haru asked ignoring Yuki's last comments. He wasn't sure what to think about this girl. It would be interesting to see how she affected him. Haru knew she would. But, he wondered, will it be in a good way or bad?
"Yes, she does. It's a long story."
"We have time," Haru commented absently.
"She'd been living abroad with her parents for a few years when Akito demanded that she stay in Japan. He was about to stick her in that house-cage as soon as she got here. Shigure changed Akito's mind so instead she wound up living with me and Tohru. However Akito plans to have her put away as soon as she turns eighteen."
"When's that?"
"In a few months."
"What's she like?" Haru asked after a few moment of silence.
"You mean is she like Kyo," Yuki said his purple eyes flashing. "Yes and no. She acts a lot like him but while Kyo reminded me of a cat she reminds me of a kitten. I think you two would be good for each other. She asks about you all the time. Or she started to when she found out about you and Kyo. She looks up to you, or what she's heard about you. And you, you just need somebody."
"Will I hate her, I mean for not being Kyo?"
"You don't need to be asking me that," Yuki said as he poked Haru in the chest. "Ask yourself that after you spend some time with her."
It was at that point when Leiko came out of the classroom beaming. "Ha!" She shouted. "We're so not having leeks! We're having mushroom soup!" Her red eyes flashed with mirth as a smirk grew over her lips.
"I hate mushrooms…" Yuki said slowly as his eyes narrowed.
"I know," Leiko commented. "If you won't let me fight you I'll totally beat you by being passive aggressive! HA!"
"You little…" Haru could tell that Yuki was seething with anger as he glared at Leiko. "Give me that cell phone."
The smirk on Lieko's face grew into a smile as she bolted down the hall way with Yuki hot on her heels. Yuki was right; she would be good for Haru, if not only to see Yuki be tortured by the cat, no by the kitten.
Authors Note: ok so after getting three chapters done I've finally decided to post this story. Hopefully since I already have three chapters done I'll actually finish this story. blushes and I know how this one is gonna end. It's just the middle stuff that kills me. Anyway reviews would rock my socks off. They really would. So till next time!
