I could feel the blush creeping into my cheeks as he held me, and Yuki and Shigure stared. And they had a right to stare. After everything Kyo had told me, this shouldn't be possible! He should be a little orange cat right now! I had to admit, though, it felt good to be in his arms, I felt truly safe for the first time in my life.

"Kyo, what is going on?" Yuki asked, still standing in the doorway to the kitchen. Kyo let me go but made no move to move away. Instead he just leaned down and grabbed my bags.

"You got these?" I nodded. "Good. Just head upstairs to my room. It's the first on the right. I'll get things sorted out," then he leaned in close and whispered so just I could hear. I could feel my blush spread furiously across my face from his closeness. "If I yell for ya to, run. There's a balcony in my room, and you could easily reach the lower roof from there, and it's not a high jump from there, got it?" I slightly nodded as he pulled away. I grabbed my bags and walked quietly upstairs to where his room was. I walked in and quietly shut the door behind me. The whole house was quiet for a moment; then it exploded in yelling. They were all yelling at each other at the same time. I was only able to understand some of it, but I managed to catch "manners," "hurt," and "could have killed her," from Kyo. Shigure seemed the most relaxed, so I wasn't able to hear much of what he said. I did hear, "insanity," "Akito," "Hatori," and "memory" from Yuki, who seemed uncharacteristically angry. I'd seen him irritated, or annoyed, but never outright angry; except maybe for when he kicked Kyo, but he didn't really seem angry then.

I realized it was about noon, so I pulled my smaller duffle bag over to Kyo's bed and sat down and dug through it until I found my neon green bag. To most people, it would just look like a regular purse or make-up bag, but it was much more important than that. I quickly pulled out my lancet, glucometer, and insulin syringe. Yes, I'm diabetic. I blame my mom for smoking while she was pregnant. There's nothing I can do about it now, so there's no use complaining. I quickly pricked my finger and squeezed my finger so the blood would pool on my finger. I quickly grabbed my blood glucose test strips and put it into the glucometer. I got out my insulin syringe as I wait the moments it took to measure my blood sugar, which was 69. Hmm. That's pretty low, and I haven't eaten anything today, which means Pixi-Stick time. I thought to myself. I was just about to inject my insulin when Kyo walked in, still extremely angry from his happy little conversation down there.

"How much do they hate me?" I asked. He looked down at me, but then his eyes locked on the needle in my hand, about to inject myself.

"Hey! What are you doing?!" he yelled, and grabbed the syringe away. "What the hell is this?"

"It's my insulin that I need, so if you would kindly give it back…"

"Why would you need insu-whatever?"

"Because I'm diabetic, and without what's in that needle I will die." Ok, that might have been a bit of an exaggeration, but it didn't change the fact that my blood sugar was low, so I really needed it.

"Really? Well, uh, hurry up and do it already," he said as he tossed the syringe back to me and I quickly poked myself in the stomach. I finished and grabbed one of the Pixi-sticks I kept in my bag, while I put everything else away

"So, like I said, how much do they hate me?"

"They don't hate you. Come on," he said grabbing my stuff.

"Where we goin'?"

"Your room."

"Are you serious?! Oh my gosh! I'll be right back!" I quickly ran down stairs, trying not to trip and looked around for Shigure. I didn't see him, but I did see Yuki. I felt kinda awkward about asking him, since it was kinda obvious I wasn't really wanted here, but it was quicker that searching everywhere.

"Um, Yuki, do you know where Shigure is?" he turned and looked at me.

"He's probably in his study. I'll show you where it is." I noticed he still lacked a shirt, as he walked over and began walking down the hall as I followed. He stopped in front of a closed door.

"Ms. Takahashi, I'd like to apologize for earlier. We don't exactly get surprise visits like this very often. We were surprised that Kyo had told you about the curse, which he really isn't supposed to do, but its ok. I'd also like to apologize for my lack of manners."

"It's no big deal. I've had worse problems from people than being tired." I began to turn around to knock on the door, when I felt a hand on my wrist.

"Wait, um, Ms. Takahashi, there is one thing we were all rather curious about. We were wondering if, well, it was just Kyo, who wasn't, affected." He looked up at me, asking with his eyes.

"Fine with me. Gimme a hug!" I didn't really mind. I love hugging people. Hikaru always made a joke that I would 'turn any guy you hug, on," just because I always hug everyone by wrapping my arms around their neck, and I have a tendency to lean into hugs, so, yeah. I think you know what I mean. It's just something I've always done. So, I automatically did to Yuki as well. It kinda felt like he sucked in a breath, but it was too late to fix anything. It didn't make it any less awkward since he still didn't have a shirt on; it definitely didn't help the blush creeping up my cheeks either. Nothing happened, so we kinda awkwardly stood there for a second, then let go.

"I guess I'm just weird like that," I said, smiling.

"Maybe," Yuki responded, smiling back. "Well, Shigure will be inside there, probably writing."

"Thanks!" I said, before opening the door and slipping inside. Shigure didn't seem to notice. He was facing away from me, so I ran over to him, and wrapped my arms around him neck.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I promise you won't regret this!" he jumped when I grabbed him, which almost made me laugh.

"It's no problem at all dear. When Kyo told me the tragic story of your horrid mother, I could never let a lovely young lady stay with such a terrible person!" he dramatically swooned over the words. "I am delighted to have you staying here with us!"

"Glad to hear it! Well, I gotta go unpack! See ya!" I quickly ran back upstairs to see Kyo still waiting outside his room. I reached over and grabbed one of the bags he was carrying, which seemed to surprise him.

"What? If I'm living in a house full of guys, I need to be able to pull my own weight." He shrugged and led me to my room. It was the second on the right. It was actually pretty nice; made bed, a little desk, I could definitely get used to this.

"This is mine?" I asked. I'd never had a room this big before. I'd seen my friends' rooms before, so this seemed pretty average sized, but it was pretty big compared to what I'd always had.

"Yeah, what'd ya expect? Your own bathroom?"

"No! I mean, it's perfect! I've never had a room this big before! My old room was like a quarter of the size of this one!"

"Oh, well, glad ya like it," Kyo said, looking down, and seeming kinda awkward like he had on the walk here. Like he wanted to tell me something.

"Hey, you ok?" I asked, dropping my bag and taking a step closer to him.

"It's nothin'. I gotta go." He set my bag down where he'd been standing and quickly exited the room.

Yuki…

He could hear her excited talking from his room. He'd finally taken the time to put a shirt on which he found in a large pile of cloths, which was evidence enough that his room had probably never been cleaned, ever. He couldn't believe Kyo had even brought her here. He should have gone to Hatori; immediately. But no, he told her everything. He didn't have anything against Ms. Takahashi, but she really shouldn't be here; if she were to ever see the stupid cat's true form… he didn't even want to imagine what would happen. She seemed to have accepted Kyo, and through him, everyone else, but still.

There was also that hug, in the hallway; he hadn't transformed. She was someone he could be with who wasn't another member of the zodiac. That, and there was the hug itself; did she like him? Or had he just imagined it? Because most of time, you don't just hug someone like that. Now, he definitely hadn't been hugged by many girls, but still. It had definitely piqued his interest.