A/O: I have spent a long time deciding on wheather to make Akito male or female and I can't decide so I'm doing both! xD You can interpret it however you want to. When I use the following word it means Akito: (s)he. This way if you think of akito as a boy you can take the 's' away. If you think of Akito as girl then add it! It's entirely up to you~! It makes no difference to me.^^

THIS STORY IS PURELY FAN-MADE AND IS IN ABSOULUTELY NO WAY ASSOCIATED OR RELATED TO THE ANIME COMPANY AND I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING!

Chapter 12- Visiting

All of the blood left Yuki's face and Kyo's eyes narrowed.

"What the hell did Akito want?" Kyo asked coldly.

"Well..um... (S)H-He wanted me to come visit..." The brown hair girl replied quitely.

"There is no way in hell!!! You're not going and that's final!"

"You stupid cat, just because you say that doesn't mean that she can do that,"

"So we should just let her go! Is that it!?"

"Of course not, but what choice do we have?"

The orange cat didn't reply. What choice did they have? If she didn't go Akito would get angry but why would (s)he want to see her? If Tohru did go she could potentially lose her memory.

"M-Maybe I could go..just to see what Akito wanted,"

Both of the boys looked at her astounded. After a few moments Yuki finally said something, "But Tohru, you realize if you go..you might not be able to come back..don't you?"

"Yeah..but if I don't we'll be in just as much trouble. Akito will know that if I don't go it will be because of you guys and the first people (s)he'll blame is you and I won't have that..." She said sternly looking both of them full in the face. Her determined gaze didn't falter and she didn't look away. She knew perfectly well what would come if she did but she wasn't going to let them hide her and then have them get hurt at the expense. "If anything happened to you guys..I don't know what I'd do... I can't..lose you..." she added quietly

"Tohru, think about this for a second," Kyo begged "You can't go. What if it turns out that you can't come back?"

"Well..then I guess that's what's going to happen. I'm not going to say that I'm not scared because I am. I'm terrified..but I love you guys... You're my unbiological family" she said with a small laugh "..I can't have anything happen to you... So if I can prevent it by going and letting Akito do whatever (s)he wants to do then that's what I'm willing to do..." she replied calmly tears beginning to run down her cheeks.

"So there's no way you're going to reconsider and think this over?" Yuki asked a little hopeful.

"No... I've made up my mind. You'll be with me though..right?"

"Of course, every step of the way." Kyo replied wiping the tears away. Yuki smiled and nodded in agreement.

Tohru looked at them she wanted so desperately to tell how much that would mean to her. How much seeing them their gave her more strength then they could possibly imagine. However, no words were coming and no amount of words seemed to do it justice. Instead all she could say was, "Thank you so much," as more tears began to fall. She tried to put all of her gratefulness and her appreciation in those few words and even at the end she still wasn't statisfied.

Yuki gave her a pat on the shoulder. "There's no need to say thank you," he said smiling warmly

Shigure came in and for prbably once in his life he was completely speechless. Apparently, he had over heard everything. "You're a brave girl Tohru..I tip my hat to you."

"Who me?? No, I don't think so..."

Both of the guys rolled their eyes. "So when are you suppose to go?" Kyo asked after a little bit.

"Well.." she hesitated "It was suppose to be tonight..."

"What time??" Yuki asked urgently

Tohru looked at the clock. "In two hours..." she whispered.

"Well then..we better get started on dinner hadn't we?" Shigure stated calmly.

After they had eaten dinner they heard a car beeping for them. Guessing it was Hatori Tohru went to go look out the window and sure enough Tohru could see the shiny black car pulled up next to the house.

She had opened the door but couldn't manage to bring her feet forward. She felt frozen where she was standing and she couldn't for the life of her move forward or backward.

After standing there a few more moments she could feel a gentle hand on her back trying to get her to move forward.

"Its okay Tohru..don't be scared I'm right here," Kyo whispered.

Slowly Tohru began moving forward every so often making sure Yuki and Kyo were still behind her. Finally they got in the car and were on there way. Tohru took a deep breath attempting to calm herself down. When that didn't work she tried distracting herself by looking out the window. Neat! Its snowing. She thought to herself. It seemed oddly silent when she looked out. Normally she would see kids making snow men, or having snowball fights, the wind blowing the snow this way and that. Today, it was different. She continued to watch the snow fall slowly straight down. After another ten minutes they were there.

Are you ready?" Yuki asked.

"As ready as I'll ever be," Tohru replied

Yuki gave her a big half hug so he wouldn't transform, "You'll do fine. Tohru..we're not going to let anything happen to you... I promise,"

Tears began pricking at her eyes again but before they could fall Yuki had wiped them. "I'll miss you..."

"Don't say that because you won't have to because you're going to be coming back. You'll see and you'll wonder why you doubted me,"

"Come on Tohru," Kyo said.

Yuki smiled encouragingly and motioned her to keep moving.

Tohru started walking towards the door of the main house and it seemed like everything was moving in slow motion and every second that had passed by seemed like an hour. Finally after what seemed like like years she had reached Akito's door and was about to open it but hesistated.

"What are you waiting for?" Kyo asked.

"Its just...if I take one more step... I might be the last time I see the inside of this building,"

"You're just realizing that now??" Kyo asked a little agitated. Tohru flinched. "I'm sorry... I just don't feel like losing you right after I finally got you,"

"Kyo...I don't think I could ever truly forget about you..."

Tohru took a deep breath once again and opened the door. Instantly she could feel an icy shiver engulf her as if the wind from outside were in the room. Slowly she walked forward and kneeled infront of Akito. Shortly afterwards she could hear the door open and see Hatori coming in followed by Kyo and Yuki. Hatori went to stand behind Akito's right side as Yuki and Kyo stood on both sides of Tohru a little ways back.

"..Do you know why you're hear?" Akito asked.

"Well um... N-Not really," she replied quietly.

"Because it's your fault everyone hated me!" (s)he snapped. "Do you really think they would smile at you the same way as me!?"

"T-That's terrible..." she replied quietly tears begining to fall. "I'm so sorry... That wasn't my intention at all." she contined desperately.

"W-WHY ARE YOU CRYING!?"

"Because I'm scared..Akito. I'm scared of being alone. You're scared too..aren't you? You're scared because you think everyone is going to leave you and you'll be alone,"

"How dare you! You don't know me! Don't pretend to know me!!!!"

"I-Its true though... Akito..please.... I-I..don't want to leave!! Not after doing everything with them! Like going to school, eating meals and...staying together!!! I-I-I-... I love them..I don't know what I would do without them. I can't...be alone anymore... I need them..."

Akito slapped her hard across the face and she fell to the floor half-motionless. Everybody fiber of Yuki's and Kyo's body wanted to scream out in outrage and rush to her side but Hatori shook his head a worried expression on his face.

"SHUT UP!!! YOU CAN'T DO THAT! YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM THEY WERE SUPPOSE TO BE FOR ME! ALL FOR ME!!! YOU STOLE THEM AND THEY WERE SUPPOSE TO BE MINE!!!"

"I-I'm sorry..Akito..." Tohru whispered tears begining to fall. "That must be really hard. I can't imagine how hard that is. I'm so sorry..."

"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!! YOU'RE NOT SORRY! YOU'RE NOT! HATORI!!! ERASE HER MEMORIES!!! DO IT NOW!!!

"No!!" both the boys screamed. Hatori was stircken and he looked down at the girl. "I SAID DO IT NOW!!!" Slowly Hatori walked over towards her and made sure she did not have any injuries. Tohru looked up at him. "Its okay Hatori please don't be sorry okay? Its not your fault,"

A single tear began to form on Hatori's usually expressionless face. How did she know? How did she know to say exactly those words? "Thank you Tohru..." Was the only thing he could mangage to get out.

All Tohru could hear were Yuki's and Kyo's voices and then there was nothing.

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It was about two days and slowly Tohru began to wake up and she began to make the figure of a small man sitting at the edge of her bed.

"Grandpa?"

"How are you feeling?" The small man asked

"I'm doing fine why wouldn't I be?"

"Well when they dropped you off you seemed pretty sick,"

A puzzled look crossed Tohru's face. "They? Who's they?"

"Well you're friends from school that you're always with," Tohru's grandpa replied a little confused.

Of couse! Now everything made sense you was probably talking about Uo and Hana. Only she couldn't remember spending time with them recently. She couldn't remember spending time with anyone.

"Are you sure you're feeling okay Kyokyo?"

Tohru laughed a little. "I'm Tohru granpa."

A few moments had passed when she heard a knock on the door.

"Oh no! Grandpa, what time is it!?" Tohru asked urgently.

"Its 7:30 why do you ask?"

"I'm going to be late for school that's probably Uo and Hana waiting for me!"

Quickly after her grandfater left she got dressed and dashed down stairs. She opened the door to see Uo and Hana standing there.

"Are you ready to go?" Uo asked.

"Yeah, let's go!" she said in her usual cheerful tone.

They got there shortly and continued with their classes same as usual. Only Tohru couldn't shake the feeling off all day that there was something that she was forgetting. In a daze she went off to lunch trying to think of what it could be. What she didn't realize though was the line was closer than she thought and she ended up bumping into Yuki's shoulder. **A/O: He's pretty tall so we're going to say that her head bumped into him so it wasn't enought for a transformation**

Just like predictable Tohru would normally do she went into a panic. "I'm soooo sorry Sohma-kun! That was all my fault!!!"

"No no its okay. You did nothing wrong really." he replied faking one of his sweet smiles. It was true... She really had forgotten everything.

"If you say so..." she said quietly and she smiled and went off to join Hana and Uo. Yuki counted the steps she took. He wanted nothing more to go after her but he knew that she wouldn't know what was going on.

Several days had gone by until it was a week at the Sohma Estate and Shigure's house. Everything seemed empty and oddly quiet even Shigure and Ayame had lossed their bounceness and will to be well we'll say different. One day everyone decided to gather at Shigure's house.

Momiji frowned "There has to be something we can do though! I for one am getting tired of all this gloom!"

"You're forgetting that even if tried something it wouldn't amount to anything because she doesn't remember," Hatori commented.

Kagura started pouting. "So we're not even going to try?? We're just going to give up then?"

"Unless you can come with something brillant!" Kyo lashed out.

"Kyo! You're so mean to me!!"

Hiro rolled his eyes. "Is this really the time for this? Seriously, maybe you two would be better off getting a room,"

"You little brat!!" Kyo said through gritted teeth.

Kisa kept her eyes on the floor. "Hiro... Please? Could you try not to be so mean to everyone. Just try..please?"

Hiro remained silent and didn't say anything for a while and after a bit he nodded.

"Ha'ri... Are you sure there isn't anything we can do?"

"Not that I'm aware of..."

Shigure got of his looks on his face, "Maybe there's something Kyo could do,"

Everyone turned Kyo who was trying to hide the fact that is his cheeks were turning a darker red as each second went by.

"Awww how cute!" Shigure said giggling and as expected Kyo hit him upside the head.

"Haaatoriiii!!!"

"I'm sorry but you deserved it that time..."

"So what are you waiting for you stupid cat go do something about it..." Yuki ordered.

"Who said I could even if I wanted to!?" Kyo shouted angrily. "Don't you think I want to!??"

The little tiger slowly walked up to him lightly began tugging on his sleeve. "Please Kyo... Could please try to bring sissy back? Please? I..I really miss her..."

Kyo knelt down so he was at eye level with her and he gave her a hug. "I miss her too," he said as was patting her head.

"Again, this raises the question: What are doing still sitting here?"

"Alright fine! I'm going, are you happy!?"

"Yes. You better bring her back though because if you don't I'm going to kick your ass. No pressure though..."

"Thanks..." muttered Kyo.

"So..so you're going to try?" Kisa asked pulling on his sleeve.

"I'll do my best Kisa." he said patting her on the head and with that he headed out the door. Meanwhile Tohru was out with Uo and Hana hanging out and doing a little window shopping. **a/o: there're memories were erased as well because of Tohru losing her memory. To them they are people from school.**

"Hey Tohru, come look at this!!" Uo called

Uo was a few buildings a head of them at the end of the block in front of a pawn shop.

"Very interesting..." Hana commented was they had all met up. "Its a zodiac calendar,"

"Ow!!" Tohru winced as she was holding her stomach.

"Tohru, what's wrong!?" Uo questioned.

Zodiac...? Where did that come from? How could that seem so familar. "I..I don't know..." she answered breathlessly. Why? Why is my heart feels like its being squeezed? Why do I feel like I'm forgetting something mom? Tohru looked at the calendar again. It was beautifully decorated with yellow and purple stars boardering it and a red background with light blue numbers. Year of the dog..that's my year... I still remember the stories mom would tell me but why do I still feel something is missing? Tohru glanced at the little picture of the rat that was beside its year and could feel her chest want to shatter. Lightly, she placed her fingers on the picture and there was a small flash and suddenly for a split second she was in a open air bath. I've never been in a open air bath before though..have I?

"Tohru..perhaps we should go back you look like you're about to faint," Hana suggested.

F-fainting...? Tohru repeated to herself.

"Yeah you need your rest kid maybe it was something you ate," Uo agreed.

"Yeah..you're probably right it was probably something I ate. I'm so sorry to put you through all of this though and we've been planning this for so long."

"Don't worry about it we would much rather have you resting. There will be other times we can do this." Hana replied.

"Hana's right, so do you think you can head back?"

"Yeah I'll be fine, let's go."

It wasn't too long before everyone had reached Tohru's house and were walking with her every step of the way. It was when they could see her house that Tohru had politley made them go home and told them not to worry about her.

"You're sure right?" Uo asked giving her a skeptical look.

"I'm positive!! I feel fine now, really! So don't worry. Thank you so much for worry about me though. It makes me so happy!"

"Just don't go scaring us like that ever again! I swear I think I was having a heart attack and you just shortened my by 10 years!" Uo said jokingly.

Tohru looked down a guilty look plastered on her face. "I'm sorry..."

Hana gave her a reasurring smile and hugged her. "Its okay just as long as you're okay now. We'll see you tomorrow okay?"

"Alright!" she answered brightly.

After a few moments they turned away and started walking home. While Tohru was waving from behind same as usual. Suddenly, she could hear someone behind her and turned around to see the source of it. Just roughly 2 feet from her she could a tall boy with bright orange carrot top hair and amber eyes. Tohru's legs began buckeling and she thought she feel the ground move beneth her.

"Tohru..."

"Um...Hi. H-How..how do I know you?"

"Tohru please you've got to remember!" Kyo looked at beseachingly.

Tohru was paralyzed where she shold looking back into those same amber eyes. Why do those eyes look so familiar...? "I..I'm sorry..?"

"Tohru its me! You've go to remember. You have to come back we miss you... Kisa misses you, Yuki misses you... I MISS YOU!!!" he screamed.

Tohru still continued to stand there looking back at him confused as ever. Absent mindedly she put her fingers to the side of her eyes and could feel hot tears wanting to be released. Why am I crying? Why do I feel so sad?

Without even realizing it Kyo's face was inches away from her own and he was placing both hands on the corner of her eyes wiping the tears away.

"How do I-" But before she could finish Kyo placed his lips on her own lacing his fingers with hers. There was a flash of whit light and all the memories washed over Tohru liake a wave for the ocean.

"Who's in the forest strolling?? The birds and the bees sing Momiji." "What the hell is that...?" "Its my song I made it up!" "So why don't you sing something that isn't so annoying?? "Just sing it! Tohru you sing too!!!"

"My word, do my eyes decieve me or is there a strange young girl standing on my porch?" "Ahh I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!! I was just looking I didn't mean to barge in without permission!!"

"Tell me..when the snow melts what does it become?" "Huh? Hmmm..let's see... It becomes spring right?

"Hatsuharu I don't understand how did you manage to convince hime that's your natural hair color?" "Heh alright...why don't you come with me and see for yourself?"

"You know you can tell people what you want its annoying it you do it all the time but I'd say in your case you can stand to speak up for yourself a little more complain a little get upset or something. Let people know what's on your mind. Its what you gotta do sometimes."

"So you're one Yuki's classmates from school. Lets start again hi I'm Shigure Yuki's older and much less violent cousin."

'I know one thing I know I always want to remember the way I feel right now..about everyone... Every moment I live in this house is dear to me. I don't ever want to forget it..."

"Ah! You're Tohru!! Right?? Tohru Honda??? Did I get it right?? "Uh-huh,that's me!" "Now me, guess who I am!" "You're Momiji." "Ah! You remembered my name! I'm so happy! Tohru, let's be friends okay??" "Sure!"

*Yuki drops bookbag on Shigure's head* "Please forgive my cousin Ms. Honda. He's a bit of a flirt but he's harmless. In general its usually best to just ignore him." 'Ah! Yuki Sohma! Oh Mom I don't believe it! The prince of my high school is standing right here before my very eyes and I'm standing in front of his house!! *Shigure rubs his head* What do have in there?? A dictionary???" "No, I have two of them..."

'I have so much to be thankful for right here so..where else would I rather be? Except I didn't think leaving Yuki and the others would make me fell..so lonely... There was still so much I wanted to learn about all of them. I wanted to go on eating our meals toghter like a family. Where I could talk to them about so many things..everything... The truth of it is I didn't want to leave them at all... It felt like I belonged there... I wanted to stay in that house with Yuki and Shigure. I wanted to stay..." "In that case... Why not come home?"

"Tohru..I hope we can be friends from now on." "Yes I'd like that."

"I'm assuming you're Tohru Honda then?" "Yes! Its very nice to meet you." "Indeed."

"I hope I can be like you when I'm trying to find the good qualities in the people I care about. There not always easy to see." "You..want to be like me...?" "Uh-huh, Its wonerful how you can find so many things to like about one person."

"I'm so sorry! Are you alright!?? Ahhh!!! I turned him into a cat I'm so sorry! I don't know how it happened but we're going to get you better! Hurry!!! We need to get him to a doctor righ away!" *board falls on Tohru's head and falls on Shigure and Yuk causing them to transform* 'Oh mom I think this must be a dream! Everyone is turning into animals!!!'

"Are you Tohru Honda?" "Uh..yes." "Well..that's um... I'm Kagura. That's my name Kagura Sohma." "Kagura..? Hi." 'Aw what a cute little girl."'

"This probably sounds pretty stupid to someone like you huh? Oh no, its fasinating. I guess I just don't know anything about fight is all. Not to say I'm not interseted in learning I mean I do know a couple moves I could show you um... RIGHT STRAIGHT!" "You suck..."

"Wait Yuki... I hope I'm not prying but if there's something bothering you know you can talk to me about it if you want. I'm sorry, its just that anytime I had something on my mind that was bothering me it always made me feel better to talk about it. *Tohru gets pushed into Yuki and he transforms* ...but then you don't have to. I wouldn't want talk to me either if I kept turning me into a rat..."

"He couldn't stand to see her tear herself apart over him so he made her forget the two of them had ever been in love. Kana left. Hari cried and inspite of all that he never once blamed Akito." "Why?" "Well, that's the curse. That's why I can understand a little of what Hari feels. He doesn't want anyone else to end up like Kana did. He doesn't want you to get hurt like she was. Tohru??? Are you crying? Did I make you cry? I'm sorry, I'm sorry okay!" "Its not that... Its just I was so worried about coming here and he was just tring to help me...He was just being kind but after everything he's the one who should be shown kindness..not me..."

"Haru this is Honda." "Well then Tohru it is a pleasure to meet you." "Oh no, the pleasure is all mine, really!" 'He's so polite. You wouldn't expect him to be in his third year of middle school.'

'I'm starting to get the impression that Ayame's personality is very..different from Yuki's' "Oh by the way, this is the one only Tohru Honda you came all this way to see her right?" "Oh, yes! I'm sorry about earlier. I'm Yuki's older brother Ayame." "Oh , right! Please to meet you."

"Damnit! How am I suppose to come up with an exuse if you guys transform too!?" "Don't you dare try blameing this on us you stupid cat!!" "Go ahead say that again!" "Stuuupid Caat." "Why you little!" "Cut it out both of you!" "You mean they talk too...?" "Anyway its too late for exusues we might as well tell her the truth. Tohru...I'm a dog Yuki here, he's a rat. That's Kyo don't let his temper scare you he's got a bit of a chip on his sholder." "So..this is..normal...?" "Strange choice of words but, yes. Our family has lived with this curse for generations. We transform into the twelve animals of the Chineese Zodiac." *Kyo glares at Shigure* "Sorry twelve aniimals plus the cat. Anyway, whenever we are hugged by a member of the opposite sex or our bodies come under a great deal of stress we transform afterwhile we change back only this is uh...whe're naked. *they transform and Tohru screams then scurries away*

"Why is it? Why do I have to act like such a child?" "Hiro you're amazing..." "You know I wasn't really asking for your opinion, and if you think flattery is gonna work on me don't even bother..it won't." "I mean it really. Its scary when you realize you're still a child and you think about all of the things you still can't do. My mom said its the kinda thing most people are too afraid to admit. She said it takes a lot of courage to admit something like that to themselves. But you know there are still a lot of things you can do and one day you're going to grow up to be a valiant prince who can always protect Kisa. I know you will because you have a lot of courage in you and all the limitations you think you have now they won't be for very long." "So, let's see if I got this straight what you're saying is right now I'm nothing like a prince?" "Well..uh..uh..uh..uh.." "Well I suppose that's true." *Tohru gets money to pay for ice cream* "Hold it, I guess that little speech was enough to earn you something so this one is on me just don't get used to it."

*Kyo hits Tohru upside the head* "See what happens when you look like a space cadet??" "Oh uh..was I?" "At least try to stay alert when you're alone otherwise its gonna be your own damn fault when somebody kiddnaps you." "You're right!" "I said when you're alone. You don't have to worry about it when you're with me. You can space out as much as you want." "Right..." "I didn't mean anything funny by that either I'm just sayin' so don't get the wrong idea!"

"My mom told me one time when she was a parent she finally understood what it felt to be an adult. But still as important as that was she said she never wanted to forget. She always wanted to remember how it felt to be a child. Like the first time you turned a flip on the monkey bars or the first time something upset you. She said if you can remember those feelings and when you become an adult and have children of your own you'll be able to understand eachother much better, and even when you don't agree you can still meet half way."

'No matter what I'm glad to have met a new member of the zodiac and Hiro seems like such a smart boy but he's still so young and all.' "No, I won't forgive him even if he apologizes! He's gonna have to be punished and that's that!" "Punished? What do you think you can do?" *pause* "I can hug you!" *Hiro transforms* "Lets start over okay? Its wonderful to meet you, Hiro."

'Ah... There's nothing like relaxing with a cup of hot tea at the end of a long day, and especially after a nice visit. I'm really glad I could introduce you to Yuki and Kyo today mom. I can't even begin to tell you..those two... They both take such good care of me and maybe someday soon I'll get a chance to intoroduce to Shigure too. I really have found a wonderful home here. Living in this house together with all of them and I'm so grateful for everday I've had here. So mom..I just want you to know that while you're up there watching over me you don't have to worry anymore..I'm home...'

"That's why all of my memories are precious to me... I don't think it would be okay to forget a single one...and that's why the truth is I didn't really want mama to forget about me, I didn't, what I wanted was for her to hold on but I guess that was selfish of me. It will be our secret...?" "Me too... I believe that too...." 'All of my memories I want to keep them close to my heart and I want to go on believeing. I'm going to hold on no matter how hard it might be sometimes. I never want to forget because someday I will be strong enough and those memories that are painful now they won't hurt anymore and when that day comes I'll be glad that I have them. Yes, all of my memories are precious to me... Every single one...'

"You know...it could be she didn't know how to tell you. She was afraid of what you might think or she was worried that she'd disappoint you... Maybe..she was afriad ...or maybe...she didn't want anyone to know...so she tried to hide it... She put on her bravest face and she did her best to be strong infront of everyone... Still..she knew..she knew she wasn't strong...and the more she tried to hide it the more ashamed she felt. The more she began to hate herself and the more she began to worry that you would hate her too if you knew the truth. If you knew how scared she was to face the other kids and maybe...that's the reason she couldn't say anything to you. Maybe that's why she ran away because the thing she was most afraid of..the thought that scare her the most was if her mother would reject her. ..That she would be hated by someone she loved."

"Hey, I came all this way to meet you. You could at least say thank me. Do complete strangers come up to see you often? Put it together it should be pretty obvious who I am." *pause* 'He's a member of the zodiac!' "You're not too quick are you?"

*Tohru picks up laundry* *Kisa picks up laundry* *Tohru starts walking* *Kisa starts walking* *Tohru stops and Kisa bumps into Tohru* Awwwwww! THAT'S IT! I love you!!!!

*shoe falls in front of Tohru* Hey! You there pick that up!" 'Aw what cute little boy' "C'mon pick it up!" "Oh, right! Here you go!" "What are you stupid or something? Why did you do that?"

"Just knowing that I have so many wonderful friends..that's what gives me strength."

"Oh, by the way I doubt I'll ever see you again, so I might as well tell you who I am. I'm Hiro Sohma. Bye, oh, and thanks for such a boring time it was a blast..."

"Oh but, where are my manners I never properly introduced myself. I'm Ritsu Sohma and I'm sorry about earlier." "Oh no, its okay! I'm Tohru Honda its very nice to meet you!"

"We're all searching for a reason to our lives..everyone... We have too because no matter who you are I don't think anyone is born knowing the reason why they're here. It just something you have to find as you go along..and...its different for everyone. There are as many reasons to live as there are people in the world maybe even more. So the reason for being born the reason for being put here in world. I think its something we have to find for ourselves. So we search with our hopes and dreams, our work, the people in our lives, and everything we do. And even the reason we find seems hazy or unclear, even if it seems so tiny that you can hardly see it, the improtant thing is that you always have one. As long as I'm alive that's what I want. To have a reason to go on and you know you can always find one if you know where to look. The people in my give me a reason for living. I want to live my life for the people I care about and someday I hope I can find someone who wants to live their life for me. So even when things our tough and its hard to go on it makes me want to try harder because I'm not just living for me I'm living for them too. And so, I think its good that you're bold, that you're still here cuz you know the world really is a much better place with you in it." "Maybe I will find my reason..someday..and..and maybe I can find it in someone I care about. I'd like that someone to live for, to share my life with. That would be good and when I do find that special someone the first thing we'll do is eat jelly buns."

"What I want to say is thank you for worrying about me. But really its okay. I'm not scared. So don't worry. I mean I completely understand if you and your family don't want anyone to know about your secret that's why it's called a secret right?? So whatever you decide is fine with me. I want you to do what makes you feel comfortable." 'I don't like the idea of losing my memory and I don't want to forget meeting Yuki, but he's done so much for me without asking anyting in return. So I guess..if that's what I have to do...' You can erase my memory but afterwards promise you'll still be my friend friend friend friend?"

"K-Kyo!"

"Tohru..you're back..." Without even thinking about what would happen Kyo hugged her. Only this time there was no puff of smoke. There was no orange cat burried under clothes. "Kyo... you're..you're not a cat..." Kyo quickly looked himself over and blinked a couple of times to make sure he wasn't dreaming. After he was sure he was not he looked back into Tohru's eyes that had doubled in size.

"Thank you..thank you so much..." Again Kyo pulled her close to his chest and wrapped his arms around her. "I'm never letting you go..." he whispered in her ear.

Tohru turned a light pink and then said, "T-that's okay with me..."

Kyo smiled and kissed her on the forehead, "Come on, we've gotta start going home everyone is waiting."

"They they they are!" she squeaked.

"No of couse not they wouldn't be worried at not even because you've gone for a week and half!" Kyo laughed.

"Well let's hurry then!" Sure enough everyone was gathered at the door and had come rushing out at the first sign of them. Momiji was the first one to come bounding towards them.

"Tohru Tohru Tohru!!! You're back you're back!" he said jumping up and down. "Tohru you're not allowed to leave anymore!" he added sternly

"Welcome home Tohru, welcome home." Shigure beamed. "What are standing outside for?? Let's go inside its freezing!"

"For once you're making sense..." Yuki commented.

"I'll make hot chocolate!!!" Momiji piped up.

"Oh no you won't!!" Kyo shouted. "You're not setting foot in that kitchen!"

"Waaaaaaah somebody Kyo won't let me make hot chocolate!!!!"

Tohru followed everyone inside and smiled to herself. "It really looks like I'm home again mom... There truly is no girl on earth who is lucky enough to have a family like I do."