Disclaimer: Wow it's been awhile since I last wrote this fic, K well I've chosen two betas, Musa Rox and Whispering Lillies. I'll try them out for awhile and see who I like better. Anyway, hope you enjoy chapter 5.

Chapter 5:

The One After Chapter 4

"I'm just saying, when is Calculus ever going to come in handy in the real world anyway?" Hiro complained to Kureno and Tohru as they walked back from his new school.

"I'm not sure, truth be told, I've probably spent more time out of Sohma house the last few days then I have in my life," Kureno said with a hint of nervous laughter as he reached to open the sliding door.

"See exactly, Kureno, never used it so what's the poi…" As the door opened Hiro found himself sitting on the couch watching TV, "What the hell are you doing here!, my school's not out for another thirty minutes!"

"Yeah well if I had to watch another damn minute of Mogeto or whatever the hell you call it, I was going to kill someone," Kyo snapped in his normal way then went back to surfing through the channels.

"Hmph probably ran scared from the bullies," Hiro smirked remembering the day before and watched as Kyo's face turned red.

Kyo opened his mouth and prepared to yell back when Tohru got in the middle of them, "Please please stop fighting, if you're going to yell, yell at me. This is all my fault because I'm so selfish…"

As Tohru ranted on and on about how selfish she was and how she didn't deserve the Sohma's kindness and such, Kureno headed up the stairs, 'I wonder if the rat would change color if I dyed my hair?' When he reached the top step, a foreign sound hit his ears, the strange sound of "Ding dong". Having lived on the "inside" of the Sohma property, and always having servants to announce his guests, Kureno had once heard the noise a few times before in his life, the night before included. He walked down the stairs and waited for someone to answer the door, but by the third ring, it became apparent that the others were to busy arguing and whining about how selfish they were to notice. So Kureno decided that he would have to be the one to answer. When he opened the door, a tall boy he recognized as one of Yuki's friends was leaning against the wall.

"Hey Yun-Yun!" Kakeru yelled as he invited himself into the house.

"Um… hello…"

"I came to bring you my precious pornos I know you've been wanting," Kakeru said pulling out ten videos from his backpack as Kureno shook awkwardly, "Just make sure to return them to the video store by about… five two months ago."

'Wow, I am finding out so many things about Yuki,' Kureno thought as he noticed Rin and Kisa walking up the path and hid the videos behind a nearby lamp.

"Well I'll see you around," Kakeru told him casually as he walked away with his hands behind his head, not truly paying attention

Kureno saw he was about to collide with the girls and shouted, "Hey you never told me which store!"

Kakeru turned around as two puffs of smoke went off in front of him. Seeing this in his peripherals, the black haired boy turned around to see a horse and a boar in front of him, "Yun-Yun, does you're family normally keep farm animals on the front lawn?"

10 Minutes Later

"Woah that was close, what the hell was that guy doing here anyway?" Rin complained to Kureno from behind a screen as she got dressed.

"He's one of Yuki's friends. He came over to give me por… I mean homework," the former rooster laughed nervously.

"Where is that rat anyway?" Rin asked, not having seen him when she trotted in.

"Oh, I'm not sure, he's probably around here somewhere," Kureno said, becoming curious himself. He quickly slipped away and snatched then videos from their hiding spot. He dashed up the stairs as quickly as he could without losing his grip on the adult material Upon once again reaching the top step, he could hear the faint sound of a television coming from a nearby room. When he awkwardly opened the door to Shigure's room, he found Yuki sitting with his back to him. On the screen was a woman in a hospital bed with bandages wrapped around her head, surrounded by two men.

"Doctor, will Emily be alright?"

"Yes the brain transplant was a success, but it appears that when she was attacked by her evil identical twin Heather at your wedding, it also caused her a severe case of… AMNESIA!"

"Oh my God why didn't you tell me this earlier?"

"I was about to when I too was struck with a case of… AMNESIA!"

As the Man gasped, another man ran into the room, "Wait that's not really Emily, that's her identical half twin sister Carlotta, jealous that you chose Emily over her."

"Half father why didn't you tell me before I married her?"

"I was going to but on my way to you're wedding I was hit by a truck and fell into a five month long coma, and when I woke up I had… AMNESIA!"

"Oh my god," Kureno said in shock as Yuki turned around in surprise.

"Kureno I can explain…"

"This is the third time he married the wrong girl, even if he only remembers two because of his… AMNESIA!" Kureno exclaimed as he became engrossed in the big screen TV.

"I was just watching this because there was nothing else on and I don't really know how to write," Yuki said as his face turned red.

"Don't worry about it, I watch them to. Akito doesn't let me go out to much so I have to keep myself entertained," Kureno told him with sigh then remembered the pornography he was currently carrying in his arms, "Oh, I almost forgot, here's your porn."

The former rooster expected his face to turn even redder or at least to be surprised or disgusted, but instead all he received a cold stare from his relative, "You met Kakeru didn't you?"

5 Minutes Later Downstairs

Rin heard the front door shut as she came out from behind the screen, "Hey where'd Kureno go?" she asked breaking Kyo and Hiro from their argument and temporarily stopping Tohru's ranting.

"How the hell should I know?" Kyo grumbled and turned back towards the TV, showing a brief smile to the girl as a reward for what she had done for him the night before.

"I think I saw him leave a few seconds ago, he looked like he was hiding something, but maybe I'm wrong," Kisa said meekly in a tiny voice that was unfamiliar to Kagura' vocal chords.

"Kureno must be upset because of what I did to him. He must be mad at me too because of my selfishness," Tohru began to cry unreasonably.

"Don't be sad Onee-chan, I got you a present from Kagura's college. It was really expensive but, the girl who sold it to me said it would make you happy," the former tiger told her then pulled out a bag of "oregano" from her bag. Upon sight Tohru jumped and began to laugh nervously at the gift.

"I'll be taking that," Haru, who appeared out of nowhere with Momiji, told her emotionlessly, grapping the bag out of the once younger girl's hand, then running frantically up the stairs.

"Hey wait for me," Momiji complained then raced after him, catching up quickly with his new longer legs.

"I'd better make sure those idiots don't go kill themselves," Kyo said nonchalantly then boosted himself off the couch and followed them.

"Boys," Rin commented insultingly then walked calmly out of the room, dashing up the stairs as soon as she was out of eyeshot.

Tohru could only laugh nervously as Hiro and Kisa stared at one another, "Hiro-chan why are teenagers so strange?"

"I have no idea."

One Hour Later

Kureno looked around cautiously as he exited the adult video store, frightened that someone might see. He sighed in relief to see that no one he recognized or whom was Yuki's age and might recognize him was around and briskly walked to the end of the street. It wasn't until he reached that point that he realized that he had come from the other direction and had no idea of how to return to Shigure's home.

Having been in a rush to leave the house, Kureno forgot to bring a cell phone to ask for directions and didn't want to walk back through the Japanese porn district, the man/boy decided to walk around for awhile and see if he recognized anything.

He wandered around aimlessly for twenty minutes, before coming to a building that seemed familiar. It took Kureno a minute before he realized it was the food store where he had first met Arisa. He walked inside, half expecting the blond to be standing at the counter laughing at some other poor fool who had dropped his groceries. To his disappointment however, an old man was standing in her place, waiting for his laxatives to kick in.

"Hello young man, may I help you?" the elderly man asked smiling at his customer.

"I was just wondering… if Arisa Utoni is working anytime soon." Kureno responded cautiously, not wanting to seem too eager.

"No I'm sorry young fella, she gave in her two weeks notice three weeks ago," the man smiled then sighed realizing the boy was not a customer but a 'horny teenager'.

"Well thank you anyway sir, I have to go now," he told he man, not having much experience saying goodbye to strangers.

"Me too, have a nice day."

As Kureno walked out of the sore, he collided into an unseen force and fell to the ground. "Hey idiot, why don't you're watch where you're goi… oh Yuki it's you."

"Oh Aris…Uo-chan, what are you doing here?" Kureno blushed as he scratched the back of his head in the normal anime embarrassment style.

"I was coming to pick up my last pay check, wait, what are you doing here?" the blond asked "Yuki" accusingly a she stared straight into his violet eyes.

"Well... I was… um… well you see I was doing this thing and I uh... kinda got lost andI saw this place and I, I, I remember … Tohru telling me you worked here s o I stopped in to ask directions and um… yeah," he stumbled to explain in his own rushed way in but was met with the strangest look of bewilderment.

"You sure are acting strange lately Yuki, you alright?" she asked referring to his lack of his usual collected attitude.

"Oh… uh yeah I'm fine… well I'd better get going?" Kureno told her as he go up and quickly began walking in the opposite direction.

"Hey wait, don't you still need directions?" she asked and grabbed the boy's hand.

"Oh yeah, uum so do you know how to get back to Shigure-san's house from here?"

"Uh now that I think about it, Tohru's always led the way. Oh well let's just walk around for awhile, we're bound to run into something familiar," she told him and he and he began to laugh.

"But what about your paycheck?"

"Eh it's four thirty, Mr. Ugasaki going to be in the bathroom for another hour," she shrugged as Kureno winced because of the disturbing image now plaguing his mind.

One Hour Later

"Wow I didn't think it would take this long get back to your house Yuki, or that we'd be attacked by that gang of senior citizens," Uo-chan laughed as they approached the house, worn down from their epic battle.

"I know, who would have thought there used to be so many ninjas," Kureno joined in. As she laughed, Kureno's heart melted the same way it id the first time he met her, "Have I ever told you how much I enjoyed your performance in Cinderella?"

"Oh God, that was so embarrassing," she broke out hysterically as 'Yuki' continued to grin.

"I thought it was cute, but I was wondering, who were you talking about when you were yelling in the middle of it?"

"Oh… I wasn't talking about anyone in particular, I….uh… just really in character, yeah that's it." Arisa lied with an uncontrollable, and slightly out of character, blush on her face. She could tell the boy wasn't convinced and figured she knew him long enough, she'd might as well tell him, "Alright there was just this guy I met awhile ago at the store where I used to work…"as the teenaged girl continued on wit the story, Kureno couldn't help smiling just knowing for sure that she thought about him too, "But the thing is I'm not even sure if he's even interested, I never saw him again and I mean even if I did I doubt he'd even remember me."

"Who could ever forget a girl like you?" Kureno smiled warmly, moving in closer to the girl whose face had just turned an even brighter shade of red.

"I'd better get going, my parents are going to flip out if I'm no home soon, seeya around Yuki-kun," the blond stood up, inadvertently dodging the 'teenager's' attempt at a kiss, having just realized the time to Kureno's disappointment.

"Would you like me to escort you home incase that woman with the prosthetic hip's still looking for you?" he said hopefully, wishing for another chance at a perfect moment with the girl.

"Nah, I think I'll be alright, I'll just clear of the bingo district. Good night."

"Good night," Kureno sat on the porch of Shigure's home until the girl was no longer in sight and begrudgingly dragged himself to the door. When he walked in Kisa and Hiro were on the couch with a twitchy Tohru watching some show on TV and something that sounded like very bad sing was coming from the upstairs, "What are they doing up there?"

"Sound's like 'Space Cowboy'," Hiro replied, leaving his relative with more questions then answers.

Sorry this chapter took so long, I was doing a play and it took up all my free time for 3 MONTHS! It really sucked. But luckily I went on a weekend field trip this weekend and on the 8 hour drive there and then back I wrote 2/3, which also had to do with the fact that I just got over my writer's block as you can see this chapter has no plot except at the end, originally it was going to but I forgot what it was because of my… AMNESIA! Thanks to Whispering Lillies and Musa Rox and everyone remember to review.