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POOF! Ivy opened her eyes to see an orange cat sitting on a pile of Kyo's clothes, where Kyo was sitting a second before. She was thoroughly confused and could not under stand what had just happened.
She opened her eyes wide. What had just happened?
"Umm Ivy." Ivy looked around she swore that Kyo's voice had just come from the cat in his chair. "Ivy um I think I have to explain something to you." The cat looked at her and continued, "My family, that is the Sohma family, is cursed by the zodiac. Each member is cursed by a different animal. And when we are hugged by a member of the opposite sex or our body is under a great amount of stress we transform to that animal."
"Wait," she thought about this for a minute, "But the cat isn't part of the zodiac."
The cat or Kyo sighed. "I know, have you heard of the old story about the rat tricking the cat into-"
"Yes." Ivy said, she had been told somebody when she was little but she couldn't remember who had told it to her.
"Well as you can see, I am the cat, Yuki is the rat, Hatsu Haru is the Ox, and Momiji is the rabbit. I think those are the only people you know." He sighed. POOF! Kyo was back, naked. Ivy felt her cheeks getting very red. She got up and ran home.
Kyo slammed the door behind him.
"Kyo where were you, you damn fool! Miss Honda made us a very nice dinner and you miss-"
"I told her." Kyo interrupted.
"You," Yuki stopped, "YOU WHAT!"
"I told Ivy about us."
"SHIGURE!"
"Yes Yuki? Please don't destroy my house."
"KYO, KYO-" He couldn't get the words out.
"Yuki calm down and talk with an indoor voice. Now what did Kyo do this time?"
"HE TOLD SOME TRAMP ABOUT THE CURSE!"
"That's it." Kyo threw himself at Yuki He couldn't talk about Ivy like that. He knocked Yuki to the ground, putting him into a head lock. "Don't call her a tramp." He said softly in Yuki's ear. Yuki's face was slowly turning blue, He couldn't breathe.
Kyo let Yuki go and ran out of the door. He was calming down now and walking with his eyes watching his shoes. And he collided with another solid object. POOF!
She couldn't handle being home. Her mother had just announced she was going to have a baby; Not very exciting news for Ivy. But her step-fathers whole family was coming over all the time sending their congratulations and all that crap. So this time Ivy locked herself in her room after a rather long time with another very annoying cousin. When she got in her room she got out her razor from its hiding place and started to cut. She couldn't help but sigh. It felt so good letting all of her stress out with her blood. But then the music and voices were getting louder and Ivy couldn't stand it anymore so she went for a walk.
Ivy started reading to herself.
And she got so into it that she didn't even notice where she was walking or who was in her path until she hit something that made her book fly from her hand right as Mrs. Coulter was about to fly the intention craft. POOF! She looked up and saw an orange cat looking up at her from a pile of Kyo's clothes. Her eyes widened as she looked around seeing if anyone else saw what had just happened. But no one was there. She quickly picked up her book and Kyo's clothes.
"Umm, Kyo?" She felt a little embarrassed at what she was about to say, "Do you want to come over to my house? I-I could carry you." Kyo just glared at Ivy but he started to follow her because after all she did have his clothes. Ivy climbed the tree closest to her window and climbed into her room. When she got there Kyo was already lying on her bed, looking at her. POOF! He changed back, then of course because it was so convenient there came a knock at the door.
"Ivy, let me in now." That was the voice of none other then the evil step father.
"Ummm, not right now."
"Where are my clothes?" Kyo whispered to her.
"Um, Um," Ivy was looking franticly around the room trying to remember where she had put them. And then she remembered.
"Is someone in there with you?"
"Umm… No." She had put them on the low branch of the tree as she was climbing up. She looked through her window and sure enough they were neatly sitting there. Then the door opened.
"IVY I TO-" He was stopped mid sentence at seeing a tuft of bright orange hair sticking up out of one of Ivy's blankets next to her bed. He was storming over to Ivy's bed and grabbed the blanket and threw it off to see a naked Kyo. "IVY WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING!" Ivy couldn't get any words out she was so startled to see this all happen.
"It's not what it looks like I-I swear!" Surprisingly those words came out of Kyo's mouth.
He just stared at them both in turn. "Um it's true it um isn't um what it looks like." Ivy was deeply embarrassed to see the body she had longed for so defenselessly naked on her bedroom floor with nothing to cover him. She slowly walked to her closet, chose a shirt and a pair of pants and slowly made her way towards Kyo.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" Ivy was so incredibly scared of him He had left not only psychological scars, but physical ones too. And she was afraid he'd do it again maybe to Kyo too. And that would be just awful.
"I-I um am um… just um," she looked down at her feet, "Giving him uh clothes?"
Kyo was absolutely mortified. He was now sitting in Ivy's living room, wearing Ivy's clothes (which fit very nicely by the way) being watched by Ivy's parent, and was about to be interrogated by them too. And Ivy wasn't looking too happy herself. She was constantly shifting in her seat, looking into Kyo's eyes apologetically than quickly turning her head to look at something different in the room.
"Boy," Ivy's mother said in a harsh voice, which Kyo could tell she used screaming for communication more than talking. "What has my daughter done to you?"
'Wait a second,' Kyo thought 'she's blaming this on Ivy? Aren't they supposed to blame me first?'
"Our daughter has had a pretty bad record when it comes to boys. And we would like to know if she has done anything to you yet."
"Um… well," he looked around uncertainly. "She hasn't done anything to me. And I think we're more friends than anything else." He looked at Ivy and saw a flash at what seemed to be a hurt expression on her face, but it quickly disappeared leaving the masked face that Kyo always saw at school.
"Oh please," Her mother scoffed, "Ivy doesn't interact with boys unless she plans on getting them to share her bed for a night or two. After she gets that accomplished she leaves 'em flat on their asses."
Ivy left the room. Kyo stood up, he still didn't have his rage totally in control. "Now listen here Ivy did something very nice for me today okay! She helped me out a lot, You're her parents, right, for god's sake you should act like parents here! Good parents don't act like this!" Kyo now had tears in his eyes, he knew how it felt to be blamed and insulted, it didn't make you fell warm and fuzzy inside. "This isn't fair to her! If she, in fact used to be like that, what if she wanted to start over, to change. If she does you're not making it too easy for her." At that he stomped towards the door that Ivy had left through not even five minutes before. As he opened the door He found Ivy sitting in the hall crying.
