Tohru walked into her and Kyo's apartment, closing the door behind her softly. She was still wearing her work uniform, and still in shock at how it looked on her. She had decided that she would sneak into the bathroom to change into regular clothes, and hopefully Kyo wouldn't...

"Tohru, is that you?" Kyo asked from the other room of the apartment. Tohru let out a cry of surprise and looked behind her to see Kyo moving around the corner. She sprinted from the room so that Kyo only had a glimpse at someone in black and white as he came into the next room.
"Hey- Tohru? Is that you? Answer me." Kyo said, now starting to get wary of this intruder. They had tiptoed through the house so that he had to strain his hearing to catch them, and now they weren't responding to his calls- instead they were trying to flee. He ran after the person, almost tripping over a chair as he tried to catch up. He saw another glimpse of a black and white outfit and sped up enough to grab the person's hand as they rounded the next corner. Kyo yanked at the arm until he saw Tohru's cherry-red face looking back at him in horror.
"I-I don't know why they gave me this! I never had to wear this kind of uniform for my last job!" She stammered, smoothing down the rumbled black fabric of her skirt.

Kyo looked at her in shock as he realized she was wearing some sort of goth lolita outfit, but in a more maid-oriented style.

"Where are you working?" he whispered, putting one of the black ribbons between his fingers to see whether this was actually the outfit she was wearing or not.
"it's just a hotel! I looked it up in the phone book, and all it said was a hotel of love! I thought it sounded so romantic, with all the happy couples..." She trailed off at Kyo's long, deep sigh.

"You applied to a love hotel?" he said, trying to hide a grin behind his hand, which was covering his face.

"I-I don't know. I guess I did. How is it different from a regular hotel?" Tohru looked up at Kyo with big, brown, innocent eyes. Kyo swallowed a lump in his throat and put a hand on her head to ruffle her hair playfully.
"You really shouldn't be working there. It'll freak you out when you realize what people do there." Kyo said, looking her over in the new outfit. Black wasn't really her color, and it made her look far more dark and depressing than it actually was. Now if it had been in pink... He shook his head at his own stupidity and guided her toward the bedroom.
"You get changed out of that silly thing, and I'll get dinner started. I thought we might have some homemade sushi as a celebration. I even got real crab." he said, with a far too eager voice. Tohru giggled and smiled brightly.
"You're still like a cat. I like it." She laughed and shut the door to the bedroom to get changed, while Kyo walked down the hall to the kitchen with a smile.

"Akito? What's so wrong that you would call me?" Yuki asked into his cell phone, shocked at the idea of Akito actually calling him over a phone instead of summoning him to the main house. Although the zodiak curse was now lifted, the idea of Akito not being in charge anymore still felt a little... strange.

"I need to talk with Tohru. And... Kyo." She said the last word as if straining to be nice. "We've been getting alarming letters, and I think they need to know what is happening."

"Letters? What do they say?" Yuki said, now alarmed. Akito wanted to talk with Kyo... this must be bad.

"I don't know if I should tell you." Akito said softly, revealing the all to rare womanly side to her. it caught Yuki off guard, who looked at the cell phone in surprise. It was hard to believe that this was the same Akito from his childhood...

"I suppose I should, since you're involved too. Before I say anything- don't worry about Machi, Ayame is keeping her safe."

"What's going on? Why would Machi be in danger?" Yuki said, panic starting to rising.

"Calm down. There have been threatening letters, at first saying 'novelty will die'. Then it... started talking about the individual zodiac members. More importatly, you and Kyo. Although it seemed Hatsuharu and Momiji were mentioned as well for some reason."

Yuki froze, his blood chilling. That meant someone knew what had happened, and wanted to reverse the cure. Could it be possible for the curse to be put back on?!

"Mostly it talked about Tohru in a deep level of hatred. Someone wants her hurt. Or worse."

Yuki stayed silent for a minute. "Who would want to hurt Tohru?"
"I don't know. Wouldn't you think I'd stop it if I knew?" Akito said, her voice turning harsh temporarily before she cleared her throat. "I just need Tohru and Kyo's number in Hokkaido."

"I don't have it. None of us do." Yuki said, his eyes widening when he realize the situation.

A long, tense silence followed. "Then we may be in trouble." Akito said, and hung up the phone.

Tohru slipped on the last ribbon as she got ready for her first day of work, dreading the day ahead of her. What would this place be like, it Kyo was so worried about her working there?

She went into the doors of the lobby and looked around, signing herself into the computer for her shift before going upstairs to start cleaning the rooms that had been occupied overnight.

She rolled the cart of cleaning supplies down the ornate hallways, stopping at the first room. She knocked softly on the door, standing on her tiptoes to try and look through the peep-hole before knocking harder. With no response still, she used her master key to unlock the door and walk into the room to start cleaning.

She whisked the bedsheets into a large basket on the cart, and got out the cleaning solution and dust rag to start scrubbing the room down. As she emptied the trash, she noticed something strange at the bottom of it. A small gleam of silver. She looked closer, and nearly dropped the dustbin when she realized what it was. She looked around the room for other signs of the antics that had gone on the night before, and saw more clues that only confirmed her suspicion.

"Oooooooooh no." She whispered, the hair on the back of her neck standing on end at the idea of cleaning up after such an act like that. She went back to the cart to put on the heavy duty gloves, and put the plastic gloves over those. She turned back around, now realizing why Kyo had been so concerned about her.

After a long day cleaning who knows what, Tohru was exhausted as she started walking down the street toward the apartment building. She was carrying the bag that had her uniform stuffed into it, and she was planning to somehow clean it when she got home. Tohru looked up as she heard some sort of rustling in the ornamental bushes to her right, and bit her lip nervously as she started to walk faster in the darkness of a new moon night. As she heard the footsteps quicken behind her She turned around to see a tall figure advancing toward her. She prepared to start running, but before she could take her next step a cloth covered her mouth and nose and the world went black...