Tohru came up and grabbed my hand. "Come on! Let's go see Shawna and Kyou!" She exclaimed happily. I noticed Uotani, Hanajima, and Dean behind her. So THAT'S where he was. Yuki was talking politely to some girls who were absolutely drooling over him. I shuddered. That was SO uncouth.

I allowed myself to be dragged to the table at which Shawna and Kyou were situated and listened to them. "Hi Shawna, Hi Kyou!" Tohru exclaimed.

"'Lo." Shawna said. It wasn't very friendly a reply, in fact sounded quite grumpy, yet somehow managed to be the politer of the two as Kyou said nothing.

I suddenly felt someone brush against my pocket. Turning to look, I noticed that, A) the drink that had been in the pocket was gone, and B) Dean was sliding away with a suspiciously familiar drink in his hand. I narrowed my brown eyes dangerously. NOT in the mood to mess around with my stupid brother right now, so I just started the yelling, instead of slowly leading up to it like we usually do. "Hey! You took my drink!" I was annoyed, and I wanted my Vitamin water. NOW.

"Did not!" So this is how he was going to play it. Denying he took it. I narrowed my eyes some more, giving a pretty good imitation of Shawna's death glare.

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"SHUT UP!" Shawna screamed at the top of her lungs. Stunned, I turned around to see her giving the death glare I had imitated so well, then get up and stomp away. Everyone was staring after her in surprise. No one had expected such a violent reaction to Dean and my bickering.

"I'm sorry about her. The rainy weather makes her irritable," I explained hastily, then ran after Shawna, seeing her on a war path. I felt bad for leaving Dean behind to explain Shawna's behavior better, but it was his own fault for not learning Japanese from Tomoko, the maid back home.

Finally, I caught up with Shawna, and was relieved to see that the kids were smart and had stayed out of her way. "Shawny! Shawny! Are you okay?" I asked running up to her and panting slightly.

"That boy, Kyou. There's something strange about him. He's not normal. I accidentally fell and hugged him, but nothing happened. I didn't change. I'm telling you. Something about those Sohmas. Yuki, too. There's something off about them." Shawna said in a rage. I was surprised she was telling ME this. She hates me after all.

I don't know, I don't know, I'm not supposed to know, how do you explain you were following her? Pretend you don't know. My mind said over and over. "Relax, Shawny. It probably wasn't a satisfactory hug. That's all." I said, try to calm her down the best I could.

"Excuse me Curna-san."

Both Shawna and I turned around and responded, "Yes?"

Yuki had walked up with two other guys. One was another hottie, and the other was really cute, like a little kid. Kinda made you want to pinch his cheeks. "I wanted to introduce you to my other cousins that go to this school, Momiji and Hatsuharu." Yuki said, softly.

"Hello," The hottie, Hatsuharu said. He had white hair with black roots, like Lilah's, supporting my, 'The Sohmas are cursed, too' theory.

"Hi!" Momiji smiled widely and grabbed Shawna's hand. "You look like Kyou!" Thank God I wasn't the only one who saw the resemblance. Hatsuharu was staring at Shawna strangely.

"What?" She asked, still annoyed from earlier.

"Come with me." He walked away, motioning for Shawna to follow him.

"What?" Shawna asked, this time she sounded confused. Then she followed him.

"Shawny?" I called after her. I had to make sure she was no longer on her war path.

"You can handle introduction, right, Kai?" She called back to me, sounding a lot lighter than she had two minutes ago.

"Umm... okay." I replied. How was I supposed to handle introductions if the two guys were going with her? That girl confused me sometimes.

Yuki was smiling at me slightly. "So there is something off about me?" He asked sounding amused. So he had heard Shawna's rant, well, at least the tail end of it anyway.

"Apparently." I replied dryly. "Don't feel bad. Kyou and the rest of you family is in the boat with you." I grinned slightly. It was kind of funny, actually.

"What did she mean by that?" Yuki asked, running his hand through his hair.

"Umm..." I didn't know how to answer that. I decided I might as well kill two birds with one stone. Answer the question and satisfy my curiosity. "Are you, well, your family, cursed with the chinese zodiac." And the was why I was know as the bluntest girl in school back home. Absolutely straight to the point.

Yuki almost fell over. I could tell from the look on his face that the answer was yes. I almost laughed at his reaction. "Don't worry. Your secret is safe, after all, I've been keeping my family's." I smiled.

"You- how- wha-" Yuki was stuttering. "Relax. I don't bite. Now, Shall we go see what my dear cousin is saying to yours? I have to keep tabs on her." I walked away and was aware of Yuki following me.

"How did you know?" Yuki finally got the question out.

I laughed softly. "Resemblance is never supposed to be that closed between two separate families. That and, I told you. I have to keep tabs on Shawna, and you'd be surprised how much spying on her will reveal to you."

"But you took a huge risk, asking me th-" Yuki began, but I interrupted him by turning around, grabbing him and pulling him against me while I leaned in the wall, and placing a finger on his lips. "Sh." I hissed, the pointed around the corner where we could hear their voices.

"I- I have no idea what you're talking about." Shawna's defiant voice floated to us, and I winced. It was lucky they didn't know her well. Only Dean and I could recognize the slight waver in her voice that showed she was afraid.

"You change." Hatsuharu said, and we heard a flurry of movement. So there were people who guessed from the Sohma's side, too. "You are the cat." Hatsuharu continued. On the dot, I thought.

"Seriously, I have no idea what you're talking about." The fear was becoming more and more apparent.

"You can tell us, Shawny!" Momiji's happy voice cried. God knew where he came from.

"I really don't-" Shawna tried again, but I knew she was losing all confidence in herself.

"Awww, Shawny, you don't have to lie. We know what you are because we are them ourselves!" Momiji sang. I noticed Yuki wince as Momiji easily gave up the information.

"You... are... like me?" Shawna whispered. "Aaaaaand, she lost." I whispered, so only Yuki and I could hear it.

"Yes." Hatsuharu answered.

There was silence for a few seconds, then Shawna spoke again. "I... I believe you, but that doesn't mean my cousins will. I'll keep you're secret safe if you keep mine. That means nobody but the three of us can know about the Zodiac."

"She's a lot weaker than her exterior displays. Hatsuharu had her frightened." I said, in that same soft voice.

"YAY! Shawny's like Kyou, Shawny's-" Momiji cried. Yuki winced again, but looked like he wanted to laugh, too.

"What did I just say?" Shawna said harshly. Please don't be strangling him, please don't be strangling him, please, please, please... I thought. I would be strangling him. There was silence. "That better," came a few moments later. No sound from Momiji. please don't be dead... I thought. "So, what animals are you?" Shawna's voice came again.

"I'm the rabbit!" Momiji's voice was bouncing again. I relaxed. "He's not dead" I muttered. Yuki looked at me strangely. "Haru's the ox."

"Uhhh... Momiji?" Shawna's voice sounded hesitant, as if worried about asking this question.

"Yes?" He replied.

"I'm not from around here, so I could be wrong, but I thought Momiji was a boy's name." I almost snorted with laughter at how Shawna worded the question.

"Yup! It is! I just like the girl's school uniform much better!" It became harder to hide the laughter as I heard how easily Momiji answered.

"Oh. Okay." It sounded like Shawna was getting grumpy again. Suddenly, I looked up at Yuki's face and noticed how close we were. i hastily let go of his waist (which I had grabbed earlier to keep him from walking around the corner and blowing our cover) and slid away from him. We had been intimately close. I was glad no one had walked past during that. I felt a blush rise in my cheeks.

After a moment of staring at me, Yuki walked around the corner, figuring my releasing him meant he could go. A followed, fighting the blush back down.

"Hatsuharu, what did you so urgently need to speak to Curna- san about that you pulled her away before the introductions were finished?" Yuki asked politely. Shawna jumped a mile off the ground.

"Nothing, please forgive me, Yuki." Hatsuharu plastered himself to Yuki's side and stroked his face. That was worse than the position Yuki and I had just been in.

"Incest much?" I whispered jokingly to Shawna.

Apparently she took it seriously and glared at me. "They're our new friends. don't be rude."

"Sorry." I said, exasperated. I put on my, you hurt me pout, but she just ignored it.

"Yuki, please, call her Shawna, like everyone else. Formalities are lost on her. You won't find an ounce of 'polite' in her body." My annoying brother's voice rang out. I couldn't help but laugh as Shawna chased him around punching him on occasion.

Over the next few weeks, Shawna became pretty much attached to Hatsuharu and Momiji. I myself was busy with pleasing all the people at the school and checking up on Shawna repeatedly. At least Lilah was appreciating my efforts.

I had just finished checking up on Shawna and was about to leave when I heard Momiji, and his voice made me stop. I've become very accustomed to plastering myself onto walls and eavesdropping on Shawna. What would I do when I had to stop?

"Um, Shawna?" I listened to Momiji's nervous voice.

"What happened, Momiji? Are you okay?" Shawna sounded slightly worried.

"Remember when you said that the only people who could know about you and you're family was me and Haru?" Momiji was sounding more and more scared by the second.

"Yes." Shawna no longer sounded worried, she sounded murderous.

"Well, what happens if one other person accidentally found out?" Momiji's voice was quivering so bad, I could barely make out what he was saying. I would be scared if I was in his position, too. All of Shawna's rage, aimed right at you.

"I would hurt whoever told." If i thought her voice was murderous before, I don't want to know what it was now.

"Um, maybe you should just come see?" I could almost hear the need to flee in his voice. They rushed off, and, of course, I followed.

"What the hell do you think you're doing! Can't you see you're scaring him?" My eyes widened as I saw that none other than Tohru Honda was slumped on the ground with Dean in her hands. "I- I'm sorry, Shawna." Tohru stuttered.

"Tohru!" Shawna cried out. She was obviously shocked.

"Y- yes?" Tohru cringed.

"Shit." I could understand why Shawna didn't want to hurt her, but I saw how much Dean was shaking in fear, and felt an unmatchable rage rising in my gut. As much as we may argue, i love my 'little' brother (I'm the older twin) and to see him this scared was something I refused to take lightly. She would pay.

"Shawny, Tohru already knows about our secret, so you shouldn't worry about her knowing yours." Momiji tried to help.

"Why didn't you tell me she knew!" Shawna yelled.

"You never asked." Hatsuharu said, sounding WAAAAY too calm.

"I- I thought you said that you weren't related to Kyou." Tohru stuttered. She noticed they looked alike, too?

"As far as we know, we're two totally unrelated families." I said softly, stepping out from where I was hiding. Shawna whipped around to see me there. "Nobody else saw you and Momiji run across campus, don't worry." I answered the frantic question in her eyes.

"But how-" Tohru started.

"My family has always know that there were other families like ours that we scattered all across the world. We just were never expected to meet them." Shawna said. I think she was having problems taking it all in.

"The two families are expected to look a lot alike. I thought you guys looked a lot like us, but there was no way to tell for certain that you were one of 'the others'." I added, remembering I wasn't supposed to know.

"There really is no way for us to tell if that is one of the other families, short of hugging each other. We don't poof then. But if we're wrong, you could see where that could become fatal, can't you?" Dean said, from Shawna's shoulder. He was still shaking a bit, and that made the rage flare up even more. He could sense it, and kept shooting me 'calm down, I'm fine' looks from his perch, but i could feel in my gut he was afraid.

"So there's just one thing that I want to know," I began, trying to make it seem like i had no idea what was going on.

"How'd YOU find out, Shawna." Dean finished my sentence for me.

"We told her." Momiji tried to help.

"Why would you tell a person you just met something big like that?" I really wanted to know that. What had possesed them to tell Shawna that secret?

"Because she told us." Momiji said. I turned to look at Shawna, feigning shock. Dean bit her ear our of anger. She flicked him, and he went flying, turning human mid-fight. That was the last straw for me. I whipped out my cellphone, anger burning in my eyes.

"Yes, is this Rebecca? Hey, Becky, what's up? We have a little bit of a stiuation here in Japan. Yes, some one found out. Actually, there's three of them. You might want to send Jesse. Oh. Are you sure? I think Jesse could handle it. No, no, I'm not the one who makes the judgment. If Uncle Mitch wants to come all the way out here, he's welcomed to. It's fine by me. Thanks, Becky, It was great talking to you, kisses, bye." My revenge on my brother's behalf was complete.

"Y- you didn't." Shawna stuttered.

"Uncle Mitch is coming out here to fix this mess personally. Keep you're mouth shut. If it wasn't for you, we would have never been in this mess in the first place." I stated, ice clinging to my words. I was angry at all of them, and about to explode from bottled rage.

Dean rested his hand on Shawna's shoulder, then moved away and came to me. "You didn't have to do that. I was fine..." He wrapped his arms around me and tried to take away the rage. It was only then that I realized what I had done. I may have just endangered lives...