A/N- Hey thanks for everyone who has read my story. It makes me super happy that it has gotten so many hits and that someone bothered to review. This chapter I'm not really excited about because nothing too terribly important happens. I promise that more will come.
"Three days!" Everyone shouted except for Tohru who stood there smiling. She swayed a bit when everyone shouted and lift her hands to her ears.
"Talk about last minute." Kyo muttered under his breath so no one could hear.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you. Truly I'm sorry." Tohru smiled sheepishly. "Guess it just slipped my mind."
Every one sighed. It was just like Tohru too forget some important detail. She was lucky to have the 3 boys with her at almost all times because she was constantly forgetting things. Most often it would be Yuki who reminded her of things. They swore that if her head weren't attached she would forget it.
"Never mind," Shigure said at last breaking a small silence. "Well, we better get to work if we want to have any chance in winning this contest." He smiled.
Kyo and Yuki smiled too, but their smiles were fake.
"Cheer up you two," Shigure said and he placed his arms around both of their shoulders. The two moved out of the way and pushed the dog to the ground.
"Tohru! Kyo and Yuki are being mean to me." Shigure whined on the floor.
Tohru laughed at the threesome. She had begun to know them so well and she could practically predict what they were going to do next. Every once in a while they would do something out of character, but those times were few. Tohru loved how she had grown so close to each one of them and how they seemed to consider her family.
Tohru bent down and picked up the three remaining bags on the floor, all the rest were in the kitchen where Kyo had put them. She went through the paper door and into the kitchen. Behind her she heard snaps from the boys, many times it was name-calling that was being said.
Tohru placed each bag on the counter and she began to unpack them. She moved swiftly around the kitchen, placing cans in this self and boxes in another. It had almost begun to seem like some kind of dance for her as she swirled throughout the kitchen. One time, as she returned to the bags she clipped her side on the corner of a counter. The pain was miniscule so she brushed it off. Continuing in her placing dance she saw Yuki come though the sliding door. The noise from bickering from the other side grew when he opened the door and subsided when he closed it.
"Yuki" She said when he came in. As she turned to come towards him her side caught on the counter corner. She felt that all to familiar feeling of falling and she landed against something. She felt Yuki tilt back before a poof. Purple smoke filled the room. Kyo and Shigure stopped their fighting to come at the sound of the poof.
Yuki sat on his clothing as a tiny rat.
"I don't know why I even try?" He muttered out loud as Tohru picked him up off the floor. With gentle hand she placed him on the counter and bent to pick his clothes off the ground. She began to fold them and put them by him.
" I'm sorry, Yuki. I didn't mean to trip." She apologized. Tohru felt guilty every time she did this to change. She knew that she couldn't do anything about it, but the guilt still came.
"It's fine, Miss Honda." He placed his tiny paws on her hands and looked up at her. She smiled at him.
"I don't get why you make such a big deal out of it," Kyo stated in a low voice. "It's just the way we are and we can do nothing to change it."
Tohru looked at Kyo and came towards him. In a quick movement she wrapped her arms around him before he could get away.
There was a poof of orange smoke and Kyo was gone. In his place was an orange cat that hung from Tohru's arms.
"Hey, what was that for," He yelled, it was surprising how loud that a little cat could be. Tohru just cuddled Kyo tighter. Kyo made a face, but on the inside he was enjoying it. Yuki watched as the cat bobbed up and down in Tohru's arms
"Tohru," He was breathing hard. "You're making it hard to breath." She released her grip a little bit, but still kept him in her arms.
"Tohru, the longer you hold me the longer I stay a cat." Kyo said and he began to wriggle in her arms. At his movement Tohru lost her grip and dropped Kyo. The gene for landing on his feet obviously skipped over him because he landed on his head.
"Owww…" He groaned rubbing his head with his paw.
Suddenly, there was a poof and purple smoke made another appearance. Tohru turned around as quick as she could knowing that Yuki wouldn't have any clothes on when he changed back.
She stood with her back facing him for a few seconds as Yuki slipped into clothes.
"You can turn around now." Yuki said as he buttoned the last button on his shirt.
Tohru turned to see a fully dressed, fully human Yuki.
"I'm glad it didn't last that long." She smiled.
She turned back to her groceries and scanned over what she had left to put away.
"I forgot eggs." She exclaimed with surprise.
Shigure, who had been standing in the corner the whole time, rolled his eyes.
Tohru grabbed her small wallet and slipped out the door before anyone could offer to come with her.
Because she hated to lie.
A/N- Tohru isn't going to become some evil secret agent or something. It's a more innocent lie. I hope that the characters aren't to out of character (that's my biggest worry). So shoot me a review and I'll give you a cookie.