Sohma Curse

Miyu's POV

Tohru bolts down the stairs with all the animals in her arms. She's in complete panic mode while I follow her down much slower and then almost pass out in the living room after my shaky legs give out under me.

"Uh…" I groan and hold my head in my hands while I lay on the floor, wondering how the hell I got myself into this.

A delivery guy knocks and opens the door, "Hello, delivery! Sohma-san?"

Tohru panics in the poor guy's face with all the animals in her arms, "They're all animals!" She cries and the man looks a little take aback then amused.

"Ah yes, they are animals. Sohma-san has pets?" He asks pleasantly then adds, "That'll be 1600 yen, please." The dog trots up to him and gives the man the exact amount of money in his mouth. "What a clever dog! Thank you for your business!" He takes the money and hands Tohru the package and leaves.

I pull myself up off the floor and stumble over to where the animals are now having a heated argument. "You guys changed too, you can't blame me!" The orange cat hisses with his back arching at the rat and dog. The rat is laying on the dog's head and giving the cat a pissed off look, well, from what I can tell. t's a rat for Pete's sake!

"You let your guard down first, you stupid cat!" The rat counters with an irritated tone.

'…oh my god, the animals are talking!' I just fully register this in my head after the rat finishes.

Then the dog barks and speaks as well, "There's no other way! Why don't we just tell them?" It turns it's dark eyes on Tohru and I and begins to explain, "In other words, I'm the dog, Yuki's the rat, and the idiot there, Kyo Sohma, is the cat. We are possessed by the zodiac animals, and there are another ten people in the Sohma family who are also possessed." Shigure, the dog, explains bluntly.

He continues before I can open my mouth to speak, "The cow, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, boar, and the chicken. Like the twelve zodiac animals. From several hundred years ago, the Sohma family members have been possessed by the same zodiac animals. Although it doesn't give us any special powers, we can communicate with the animals. Our bodies are weak, so when we are hugged by the members of the opposite sex, we will transform. After a while, we will change back to our human form."

And, at that moment, they do change back, "But… completely naked." Shigure finishes and I gawk at them while Tohru presses her face up against the wall in embarrassment.

I smirk and don't bother looking away, "Hey Tohru, you're missing the show." I bark in laughter when the guys each give me different looks at that comment.

A few minutes later and they're all dressed and Shigure apologizes, "We let you see something you shouldn't have. Are you okay?" Shigure directs that last question mostly to Tohru. She's still recovering from the shock, and he can tell that I'm not as fazed by this as her.

"I almost understand this…" She trails off and I shrug.

"It isn't that hard to figure out. Your family is cursed by the animals of the twelve zodiac, and you change into those animals when you are hugged by members of the opposite sex. So what?" I shrug nonchalantly. Yuki and Shigure blink at me in surprise.

Then Shigure leans in closer to Tohru, "By the way, Tohru, you said that to have the sign of the cat. Now that you've seen the real person, what do you think?"

'Now that I think about it; I didn't register that point of our new situation.' I glance at Tohru curiously for her answer.

Tohru looks over at Kyo, the cat, in excitement, "What kind of person is he?" Kyo is obviously ignoring all us us with his back to us and sitting a few feet away. My guess is that he's sulking and/or grumbling in the corner.

Shigure laughs, "Just a big idiot! For someone who studied martial arts since he was a kid, he can actually get grabbed easily from the back!" Tick marks begin to appear on Kyo's head, no doubt he hears what his cousin is saying about him. "He should have at least sensed her! Things turned out this way, how are you going to take the responsibility?" Shigure continues obnoxiously, and even I think he should shut up now. "He only has eyes for Yuki." Shigure say with a stupid smile on his face.

My eyebrow twitches and I turn my head to look at Kyo. 'What kind of relationships do these people have?'

Kyo whips around to yell at his cousin with his fists clenched, "Don't say it so strangely!" He has an angry blush on his face that almost matches his hair. "And I didn't notice her, what can I do?! Plus why is there…" He glances at Tohru, then at me, "two girls here?!"

"Quiet." Yuki replies with an extremely annoyed expression, "Whether there is a girl in this house, it is none of your business. Because you are only a outsider."

Kyo reacts instantly to the insult, "SHUT UP!" He punches the table in fury. Unfortunately for me, I happen to be sitting right next to the table, and it hits me on my forehead.

"Miyu, you're bleeding!" Tohru and Shigure gasp in sync.

I stand up and glare at Kyo, "What're you five years old?!" I shout at him and uppercut him in the chin. He yells out in pain and anger, and Tohru pulls me away from him before he can retaliate or I can do any more damage.

When Tohru finally convinces me to sit still, Shigure begins to dab my forehead with medicine that stings. "Ow!" I flinch and pull away from him.

Yuki backhands Kyo across his face, "Today, just for your stupidity, I'll be especially serious and fight with you!"

Kyo looks anywhere but any of our faces. He has two red marks on his face. One from my punch and the other from Yuki's hard slap.

"Kyo, you are not going to bore me, right?" Yuki unbuttons the first few buttons of his shirt.

Kyo quickly aims a kick to Yuki's head and shouts loudly, "Just what I wanted to hear! You girly-boy!" I laugh at that last comment despite that it was towards the guy who hurt Kyo because he made he bleed.

Tohru stands up in surprise and cries in worry, "Yuki!"

Shigure reassures her, "Don't worry, their relationship has always been extremely bad. Whenever they see each other, they will argue and fight."

"Apparently." I laugh once I think of something, "Do they have a love-hate relationship?" Shigure gives me a look and I shrug in amusement.

Shigure addresses Tohru while dabbing at my bleeding cut, "Now that you've seen Kyo, it's ruined your dreams about seeing the sigh of the cat, hasn't it?" He chuckles.

Tohru glances over at the two boys fighting, "Sh-Shouldn't we stop them?!"

Shigure lets out a breath, "There's no need. Anyways, it'll be over soon, win or lose. And, today should be the same." I look over at the two boys who are still fighting. "Yuki will win." Shigure finishes and I agree silently. It's definitely looking that way to me.

There's one point in the fight when Yuki gets so close in Kyo's face that it looks like they'll kiss. But then Yuki sends a powerful kick to Kyo's face. "Hahaha, ow!" I comment, "That looks like it hurt like a bitch!"

Tohru gasps and Shigure finally puts a damn bandaid on my forehead.

Kyo falls through the sliding door and breaks it. Yuki gives him a death glare from over his shoulder, "I told you, don't let me feel bored!"

Tohru sweatdrops and I sigh, "Uh, Yuki, you probably shouldn't destroy the house, too." We say together.

Yuki walks over to me and bends down with his hands on his knees, "I didn't expect him to fly that far. He didn't put up a guard at all… Miyu, how's your wound?"

I shrug and pull myself up off the floor, "I wouldn't really call it a wound. It barley hurts." I glance over behind him to see Kyo lying in a bush and not moving, "Uh, what about orangey?"

"Mmmmm, he'll be fine." Yuki shrugs and I get the message that he doesn't particularly care if Kyo will be alright or not.

'Huh, this guy is stronger than I thought. I know Yuki excels in sports at school, but this is a completely different league with martial arts.'

"SCHOOL!" Tohru and I freak out together after my last thought. "WE'RE LATE!"

In a flash, we have our uniforms on that we wore yesterday. "They're dirty." Yuki and Shigure comment.

"We can just say we tripped and fell, it'll be okay!" Tohru says but the two guys look like they aren't buying it. Tohru bows to Shigure, "With this situation, I'm sorry, but we promised to go to school."

Shigure holds up a dismissing hand, "But, I have to report to Akito… The current head of the Sohma family about this. Because someone knows the family's biggest secret."

I nod impatiently, but I'm not entirely listening, "Okay, you do that." Then I drag Tohru up to our damaged room, and we change in flash. Tohru almost falls down the stairs in our rush, but I catch her at the perfect time.

We bolt out of the door and through the woods to school. 'Geez, it's barely even nine o'clock yet and we already witnessed something really freaky. Hope this won't affect us too badly later.' I ponder as we run through the halls to our second period class.

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Sorry I cut it off there, I had to put up a chapter sometime so I decided to stop there. Hope you guys liked it though!