Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up. I've been so busy moving the last bits into our new house. Plus I've got the job of baby-sitting now. It sucks because the pay is lousy but at least I know the kids. Ill tell you why the pay is lousy its cause im babysitting my niece and nephew so since its family for some reason I have to be cheap. Can't wait to start working but with rehersals and band camp i dont have time this summer. I dont feel like all day at work then all evening marching and playing till my lips burn. Anyway hehe I kinda blabbered there so this chapter is kinda slow and more of a filler one then a major action filled important to the stry kinda chapter. So on with the next chapter. I promise to be on updating faster next time.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

" Tohru you seem so fatigued." Hana said placing her hand on Tohru's forehead. " You're so cold too."
" Yeah and Orange-top hasn't shown up for three days." Uo said.
Kyo. Tohru started crying. She fell to the floor cupping her face in her hands.
Uo and Han turned to face Tohru. The shock and surprise evident on their faces. They had concluded he was sick which would explain Tohru's fatigue but seeing her there on the floor told Hana it went deeper.
" Tohru." Uo said dropping beside Tohru followed by Hana.
" It's all my fault. All my fault that he's gone. If I just would've done something instead of staring like an idiot. What if he's hurt? What if while I'm here at school he's out there huh? What if he's dead…. because of me." Tohru sobbed.
" Miss Honda." Yuki said coming up behind the trio.
" It is Yuki! Its all my fault!" Tohru shouted banging her fist against the wall.
" Miss Honda perhaps you should go home." Yuki said

" Its rained non-stop for three days. I've got to go find him. If anythings happens to him. I...I don't know if I could forgive myself." Tohru cried.

Hana looked out the window at the dark, menacing sky that showed no sign of the sun coming anytime soon. For Tohru's sake I hope your alive Kyo. Hang in there she needs you too much for you to die on her. The last thing she needs is to think she's killed another person he loves.

Yuki became enraged at Kyo's ignorance to what he was doing to Miss Honda. By running of he was killing her. If he ended up dead so would she. " That Baka Neko."

Hana looked up at Yuki her eyes curiously inquring. " Stupid cat?"

Yuki looked over at Hana realizing he had said his insult out loud.

Flashback

" A cat and a mouse." Hana stated.

Yuki and Kyo froze in fear that their secret had somehow been exposed. The had grown pale and tensed up. Dammit could that freak wave girl know they thought.

" The way they fight it's like a cat and a mouse." Hana said.

Flashback

Maybe Hana thought I was more right then it seemed.

" So." Uo said. " Now you have pet names for each other."

" Arisa I don't think this is the time for you to be yourself." Hana said holding Tohru. " I think it best that I take our little one home."

" No Miss Hanajima I..." Yuki began.

"Perhaps you misheard me Yuki." Hana said. " I stated quite clearly I would take my little one home."

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

" Tohru what happened?" Shigure said worriedly.

" I did it Shigure. It's all my fault Kyo's gone. Its my fault." Tohru cried falling into him but still concious enough to not get to close.

" She's been shreiking that all morning. She's been crying too but that should be obvious. I am curious about Kyo's sudden disappearence and this...stupid cat."

Shigure sighed.

" It seems to me." Hana said. " You have some explaining to do Sohma."

" Yes it seems I do." Shigure said.

" But first." Hana said. " I suggest you find Kyo."

Tohru lifted her head up from Shigure's arm. " No I have to find him. I don't know why but something is telling me I have to find him.'

Hana looked at Tohru...at the sadness darkening her eyes. This was not her Tohru. There was no innocene or naivety in her irises. Just pain and fear for the one, whom Hana was convinced, she loved. " Maybe it is for the best." Hana said. " Bundle up Tohru-chan..." Hana watched as Tohru ran out the door into the woods and into the storm. " Be safe." She whispered.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

" Kyo!Kyo!." Tohru yelled. " Kyo please answer me!" What if I can't get to him in time? What is its already too late? Why did I listen to Hatsuharu? Why did I stay put just twidling my thumbs? Waiting...just waiting. Waiting for what? Why didn't I listen to Kyo?

Flasback

Kyo brought his flushed face back up and looked into Tohru's eyes. This time he spoke in a softer tone. " Like I said be selfish for once and say no when someone asks you for something. Get angry when things don't go as perfect as you thought they would just scream. Complain a little when something isn't the way you wanted it to be. Demand you get something that you want."

Flashback

" Kyo please help me find you." Tohru whimpered. " Please I'm running out of tears to cry."

Just as she said that she saw the familiar shock of bright orange hair. She ran feeling as though the distance would never end and that she would never be able to reach Kyo.

" Oh my god Kyo." Tohru dropped to her knees beside him. He's soaked and he's so cold. He's shivering so violently...I don't think he's concious. Tohru placed Kyo's head in her lap. He's in so much pain. I just can't leave him here by himself something could happen. I'm not sure how deep in the woods we are. How will I get him back though? Oh if he were a cat I could carry him but if Hana is still at Shigure's...I'm sorry Tohru thought. " I hope you all can forgive me."

Just as Tohru said it Kyo transformed into his cat form. Shivering and shaking just as viloently his little body quaking with the sting of the rain. She held him close againist her. She zipped and buttoned her jacket up and snuggled him to her as close as he could could get.

He must be really sick to transform on his own. He's been out in the days for rain though it can't be good for him or the cat. He's so weak and all I can do is run and hope he makes it to Shigure's. Tohru rested his shivering head beneath her chin. Please Kyo hang on..." For me."

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

" So Saki." Shigure said. " What exactly do you think you know?"

" Tohru has always had an obsession with the Junnyshi." Hana said.

Shigure stiffened.

" I am not as dumb as I seem to be." Hana said. " Your families electric signals have always seemed odd. Your cousins always followed by strange occurances. Kyo is always followed by cats though unseen I can sense their signels oddly like Kyo's. Yuki can have any girl in the school...desired by almost all the school. Yet he seems to have this fear of commitment and any physical contact. He also has his own pet name which is odd itself. A rabbit take's the place of Momiji while he has disappeared yet his clothes remain. Kyo and Yuki also have seemed to aquire as I have said their own nicknames. Now where in the world would damn rat and baka neko comefrom. I began to notice all of these occurances had something in common. All of these animals belong to the Junnyshi." Hana said.

" Saki your a paranoid." Shigure said waving her remarks with a silly grin.

" Where's Spot?" Hana asked.

" Huh?" Shigure said clueless.

" Spot your dog. Where is he?" Hana asked. " Don't give me some pathecti excuse like you had to give him away. My Tohru would never give any animal that needed a home away. She's too sweet to give up something like a dog."

Shigure was left in semi-shock doing in spite of what Hana said. Thinking up some pathetic response when his door was broken down

" Shigure." Tohru called breathlessly. " He's so sick."

Shigure and Hana caught Tohru's voice I pivoted from their positions of staring at the small garden blow recklessly in the gale force winds. They ran to the entrance to find Tohru clutching something beneath her jacket and a familiar orange head resting underneath her chin.

Tohru held Kyo closer to her a tear sliding down her cheek splashing on Kyo's head.

Kyo pried one of his eyes open and gazed wearily into Tohru's extremely worried ones. " I'm sorry Tohru." He whispered hoarsely before he sighed painfully and let his eye slowly shut as he snuggled closer to Tohru.

Hana looked upon Tohru and Kyo not shocked by the sight of a talking orange cat. " The Zodiac Curse." She whispered.

Shigure looked over at Saki then slanting a look towards Tohru. " Pardon."

" When I was little and my power still new to me. Just a painful burden that made me not like the other children. My mother like Tohru's told me stories at night. I guess she'd been trying to ease my pain by telling stories of those to be different and isolated from the world...the cursed ones. Tohru got stories of the granduer of the Zodiac banquet...of the feast of all the animals excluding the unknowingly betrayed cat. I on the other was lulled into slumber by stories of a Zodiac curse. The spirits of the zodiac beasts possesing twelve children of one family and a thirteenth by the vengeful spirit of the cat. How for eternity they would live in secrecy knowing if found out they would be shunned and made out to be the freaks they truly believed they were. To wander alone...to never know love outside the protective walls of the family that knew of their horrible secret. Maybe even the love avioded them there." Hana said looking over at Kyo snuggled deeply againist Tohru. " And the walls were those of a prison cell trapping them in a world of hatred and loneliness. I meerly put the obvious together Shigure. Your families strange waves, the strange occurances, all the secretiveness ,and now an orange talking cat with Kyo's voice. I can hear your soul Shigure know what it is saying...fear." Hana paused as the cat began sneezing.

" Oh Kyo." Tohru cried as she watched him shake with pain.

Hana watched Tohru run upstairs with the weak almost lifeless cat held to her chest. " So Sohma. How far-fetched am I?" Hana asked.

Shigure sighed once again. " I've certainly dug myself a whole this time huh. Yes I'm in a grave I can't crawl out of."

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Tohru held a damp cloth to Kyo's head as she held him. She was propped againist the head board of her large double-sized bed. Yuki would be home in a few minutes and she would have to go and start dinner. Truth be told though she didn't want to leave Kyo. She was afraid if she left him even if it was just for one moment he would leave. That if she didn't hold him snuggled tightly to her and nurse him back to health he'd just disappear. That finding him would have just been a dream she would painfully awake from. " Why did you run Kyo." Tohru whispered the tears collecting in her eyes. " You were so close to death. I don't know what I would have done if you didn't make it back here. You can't leave me okay promise you'll still be here when I get back." Tohru placed a motherly kiss on his head. " Hurry up and get better." Tohru placed Kyo gently on her fluffy pink pillow. She pulled her new cherry blossum covers up to Kyo's chin. " I'll bring you dinner later." Tohru stood up and gave Kyo's still damp head one last loving stroke before exiting quitely so as not to wake him.

Yuki slid away from the door leading to Tohru's room just as she came out her eyes still glazed with worry for Kyo. He had just gotten back from another student council meeting concerning the Harvest Fair in two weeks. When he had passed by Miss Honda's room and had paused to say hi when he had heard her muttering sweetly to someone. At first he hadn't had a clue who could be in there with her and how she wasn't so devestated about Kyo as she had been that morning. He heard it then. " Why did you run Kyo?". So she had found him. He couldn't resist peaking his head in. He saw her clutching him close to her in a very intimate embrace. She had her lips pressed againist is forehead. Yuki had begun to pull back. I guess its obvious now how she feels. I was just fooling myself by ignoring all the signs that said this would happen. Why does that baka neko get Miss Honda's love. All he's done is yell at her and run like a fraidy cat( A/N: I JUST HAD TO PUT THAT IN!). I may hate it but if Miss Honda is happy with that baka neko I won't kill him...for now. After all I think that's Miss Honda now humming her cute little song. She is a little happier now...she even smiled as she walked down the hall.

" Yuki-kun are you still up there?" Tohru called.

" Yes Miss Honda?" He answered coming from his room as though he saw nothing.

" Dinner'll be ready in a moment. It's just a quick miso soup. Is that okay?" Tohru said smiling at him from the bottom of the steps.

" That's fine Miss Honda." Yuki said smiling back as she walked to the kitchen. If that stupid cat can make her smile like that then maybe giving her up won't be so bad Yuki thought. He walked into the kitchen a few moments later and sat down as Tohru smiled again and placed his soup down with her cute giggle and the hop in her step again. I'll always love you Honda-san but for now that'll be a secret. I'll let Kyo have you for now just to see you smile like that.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

So what do you guys think. I am a major KyoXTohru shipper and I will always believe that they should end up together but some Yuki Tohru fluff is okay sometimes its really cute as long as its not overly romantic. Anyway I promise to be quicker in posting chapter five. It'll be more a slow chapter too but remember this isn't really supposed to be action-packed but im thinking about bringing Akito in and maybe put a beginning of Haru/Rin in later chapters. I tell you now this story will at be at least 10-12 chapters long. ANyway Please Review and If you muxt please only mild flames. I will warn you againist Haru/Yuki there will be some hinted before i bring Rin into the story but not too much I shall sacrafice my wish of them to see your interests meet so I will try to please you who are Haru/Rin or Haru/Yuki. Byes