Tohru checked worriedly over the bluish dog while apologizing for basically letting himself get in trouble with another non-zodiac member. Though Shigure would wave off such nonsensical statements with a more playful comment, he was currently reviewing his nickname once more. 'Of all the things, Poochie-san.' He mused in a slighted tone. Though Tohru could prove wisdom beyond her years at times, at other times she was a normal high-school girl with teenage tendencies.
"Shigure, should I call Hatori-san?" Tohru asked concern, since the dog zodiac was strangely quiet. Shigure blinked, and suddenly the familiar smoke appeared heralding his changing back to human. Tohru squeal lightly turned to give Shigure some privacy.
"No, don't call Ha-san." Shigure told her as he slipped his novelist kimono back on. "Tohru, what's for lunch?" He asked as his stomach informed him of the fuel burnt off in his run. 'Now to work on my manuscript.' Shigure thought and walked into his study. As he sat down, he balanced a pencil on his upper lip, his thoughts on the two cats. 'Was I imaging that?' He wondered, now tapping the pencil on his desk. His eyes turned to the blank pages, and he smiled. 'It was my imagination working on my new book!' Shigure declared, offering no more thoughts toward the subject and instead began working on his manuscript.
Tohru frowned lightly as her eyes fell on the untouched bowl of milk she put out this morning for the white cat of last night. Shrugging she picked it up, and dumped it, before going back to making lunch. All the while humming about rice balls, Tohru's eyes were fixed downward so she did not see the male standing in front of her. In a familiar scene in this shrine, a puff of smoke and a brunette apologizing to an animal. However, instead of a dog, this time a silver-gray mouse with dark eyes stared at her. "Sorry, Yuki-kun." Tohru apologized again, while the mouse just sighed.
"It is all right Honda-san." 'Yuki,' the mouse replied back. While Tohru frittered about her lack of awareness, the electric rice cooker alerted her to the fact the rice was becoming burnt. Yelping, she apologized once more to the mouse, before going to the rice cooker, only to find Kyo standing there scooping out the rice. "I've got it Kyo-kun, you should relax after training." Tohru told him while ushering him away. Kyo balked at her insistence at being the housekeeper still. However, Tohru still believed she owed them. As lunch was prepared and set out Tohru turned to the now human Yuki. "How's the gardening going Yuki-kun?" She inquired to the normally quiet youth. He smiled kindly at her with a soft tilt of his head.
"Just fine Honda-san." Yuki answered. Meanwhile, Kyo was trying to restrain the want of fight against Yuki. Today Tohru had made one of his favorite dishes, and he didn't want to fight with the damn mouse, losing the lunch that normally happened in their fights. So, instead he looked around, his senses pointing out that the cat adopted last night was gone. Thinking the cat was getting in to trouble or plotting with the mouse against him he turned to Tohru with a question.
"Hey, where's the cat?" Kyo asked, and Tohru sighed while Yuki blinked. Of course Yuki passed it off as one of Kyo's more absent moments.
"Baka neko, we don't have a cat." Yuki reminded him. Both Tohru and Shigure sighed as this started another round of fighting between the two. After all what would be a meal in this shrine without the arguments of the cat and the mouse?
Usagi sighed as she disentangled the two cats from her shoulders. After a few minutes of them resting on her bed, she was greeted with a shaky laugh from Artemis. Confused, Usagi watched on as the shaky laughed turned confident, and his target was Luna. "You should have seen your face!" Artemis teased, breaking the tense atmosphere, or at least that had been his intention.
Luna on the other hand still owed him for this morning, and now for his hair-brained ideas for this afternoon. 'Really, sleeping in a house that could discover that he could talk!' She thought angrily, though she cared for her companion, at times she wouldn't place her faith in his idiosyncracies. Usagi was privy once more to the Indy 500 races around her room. A sweat drop crawled down the side of her face as she observed her two guardians. It was obvious she would have to wait for answers to her thoughts on the creature met yesterday. Sighing, she shrugged her shoulders and walked downstairs to grab a snack.
Luna had finally caught Artemis by the time Usagi came back upstairs. Separating her two guardians, Usagi sighed and ruffled her bangs. Only to blink as Artemis sat up straight with a surprised expression on his face. Raising an eyebrow she turned her full attention to her white guardian as did Luna.
"That dog talked!" Artemis yelled out, Usagi face faulted at the off the wall comment, though while she fell she saw Luna mutter something. Luna walked over to Artemis and rap him on his head, muttering that Minako must of rubbed off on him.
"Wha?" Usagi commented as she sat back up.
"The dog talked!"Artemis reiterated. Usagi realized she sorely missed something as Luna shook her head.
"Dog?" Usagi proffered.
"The dog that was chasing us." Luna finally commented. Usagi looked back and forth between her two guardians before shaking her head. Luna sighed, and whistled slightly to draw Usagi's attention. "It's true."Luna declared.
Usagi screeched slightly while gripping her broach. "Oh no, is a new enemy sending cuddly animals to destroy us now?" She asked worried. Her imagination thinking up scenarios like an army of evil talking dogs to take over the world. Luna and Artemis were stunned silent by the jump the blond had made because of their comment. Obviously Usagi took this as confirmation on her worries, and finally she fainted. The two guardians stared incredulously at the fainted blond. 'This was the savior of the universe?' They thought in sync. Luna sighed and stared evenly at Artemis.
"She's worst then you are at times." Luna stated. Artemis balked, shaking his head, and frowning at Luna.
"My charge never reacted like this, it must be your tutoring." Artemis responded.
"Are you thinking of the same Minako I am?" Luna inquired. Both cats sweat dropped as the remembered the vivacious Venus.
Sorry it's a bit short, but I have many idea's for the story to sort out. Uh, let's see, I didn't describe Yuki because I haven't decided which look I am going for yet. Whether it be manga or anime. Anyway, I also fought over how Tohru should address Yuki. For the majority of the manga/anime she called him Sohma-kun, and then after a visit from a certain zodiac critter, which was a bit before Kyo changing form, she called him Yuki-kun. So I have two questions for you. One, how should Tohru address Yuki, and the other is the romance issue. Most are assuming it's Kyo, but I don't have a set pairing in mind. 'Shrugs,' so get your voice heard. Anyway, please review, much care, WCB.