Kyo was silently amused as his two captors struggled in his hands. He knew without a doubt that the two cats he held in his hands were the ones that had been at the school earlier. They had tried fooling him with their innocent eyes and their torrent of pitying cries. He had not caved to the foolish behavior, because they were far to intelligent for normal cats. Kyo stopped his trek for a moment, and turned his glance to the celebration in progress. He pondered on whether to thank Kagura for pointing out the spying cats or not. Then a shiver ran his spine as he caught those determined grey eyes of hers. Personally, he rather not risk harm to his physical being and losing the pair of cats. Speaking of the pair, he glanced down, they had grown still.
"I know you can talk." He said with a smirk. Reliving the information as he had snuck up upon them talking. Well the white one had been talking, but it wouldn't be a far off guess that the black one could as well. As he walked away from the main Sohma building, he was joined by his archenemy Yuki, and his taunter Shigure. Kyo did not miss the gaze that Shigure had fasten on the pair of cats.
"Baka neko, where did you pick up friends?" Yuki asked while staring at the pair. Kyo bit his tongue in agitation, he didn't want to rise to the bait. Right now the strange cats were more important, though if Yuki said one more word. The consequences would be forgotten, he would beat Yuki today if he mention even one more syllable.
Shigure must of sensed this, or at least read the familiar signs. For with his smooth intercalated mannerisms he interceded the bubbling brawl. In other words he asked Yuki a question drawing his attention away from Kyo. Kyo if he was anybody, but himself would have thank Shigure. No matter, as Shigure would rely his actions to Ayame with a novelist's flair, or lie about the matter to make him to be a dashing hero. Shigure however did not miss the calculating gazes on the pair of cats that had visited his home once before. He remembered quite vividly the day they had been at his home, and a dreamy grin lit his face as his memories collided with him. Maybe he would see that blonde again, and the grin on his face stretched further.
Kyo glared at Shigure with a disapproving structure, not noticing that Yuki was doing a similar reaction to the leering grin on Shigure's face. He instead began to walk faster leaving the pair behind, because he wanted more information out of the cats.
Luna glared at her partner, who merely sighed silently. She had been caught unawares, and it was all Artemis's fault. Though if she had thought about that, Artemis couldn't be responsible for her not hearing Kyo behind them. As Luna caught the baleful expression on Artemis's face, she instead turned her glare to the youth that held them. He had them so her claws could make no purchase anywhere. She stopped squirming figuring he would drop his guard eventually, and then her claws would be ready. A dark grin etched her kitty face to which Artemis shivered at, sometimes his chosen mate scared him.
Artemis turned his gaze away from Luna's berserker mode, and instead focused on the orange-haired youth again. He stifled a sigh, this was the third or fourth time the youth had caught him. A dry chuckle escaped his mouth, he must of inherited some of Minako's air head attentions. He turned back to Luna to try to convey any sense of escaping Kyo.
Usagi stretched, slipped into her pajama's fairly early, and splayed herself across her bed. A contented sigh escaped her lips, her eyes slid close, and her world went dark.
It didn't take long for Usagi to meet the realm of dreams. Though as soon as her conscious did so, strange images assaulted her. She was floating above two of her schoolmates. Usagi only recognized them, because they had been the pair that always argue. They traveled with a third member, who seemed the same age as Ayame. With short black hair that brushed the edge of his nape and soulful brown amber eyes, he was quite a heartbreaker. Her eyes traveled over his dark colored flowing kimono, which drew her attention to something in the orange-haired youth's hands. As they had been walking side by side, before the orange-haired youth began to pick up speed.
Usagi focused on the youth's hands, and she withheld a small growl of agitation. He had her guardians again! For not to long ago he had cornered Artemis at school. She suffered a sigh as she wondered about the cats lately and their affinity for getting into trouble. Vaguely she wondered at how she maybe seeing this, but she figured it had something to do with being a senshi. As she understood it the guardian's had always been with the senshi, so maybe they had a link to one another. It made some sort of strange sense to her anyway, after considering this, she could of sworn she heard several different female voices laughing.
Throwing her attention back to where the youths were walking, she memorized what she could. Her eyes widened as she watched them by pass first their school and then Kisa's. She smiled in relief at having some recognizable landmarks to guide her. Then to her amazement, they approached a very familiar forest, observing as they walked in a different direction then she had taken. They arrived at a small Japanese home, and walk through the outer courtyard doors. The dream faded, but not before she caught a brunette female greeting the orange-haired youth with a hug, and then strange smoke filling her vision. Nothing more could be seen as she felt herself being roused by a shake.
Ikuko sighed while shaking her daughter awake, seeing the blonde beginning to awake, she drew back her hands. Instead she placed them on her hips, on her familiar mothering position. 'Really, sleeping in the afternoon!' She huffed silently, and then her eyes trailed to her daughter's messy desk. Immediately she picked out the not done homework with her parental vision. As dreary blue sapphires winced open, Ikuko whirled back to her daughter.
"Usagi." She began sweetly, gaining her daughter's attention. "Homework." Ikuko muttered while pointing to the cluttered desk. Usagi let out a weak chuckle while rubbing the back of her head. "Then clean that desk!"She ordered, and then turned, exiting out of her eldest's room. Ikuko instead entered Shingo's room with a gasp of horror, at the state of his dwelling. It was worst then her daughter's at times, and this was one of those times.
Usagi chuckled as she heard her mother heckle her brother, and Ikuko with her mother hearing caught her. "I don't hear pencil's scratching on your homework." Her mother's voice carried into her room. Usagi blanched at her mother and instead stumbled over to her homework. She quickly did the majority of the papers, as she had understood the material, and left the ones she had questions about undone. Then Usagi offered them to her mother's scrutiny, Ikuko nodded, and explain the few problems for Usagi to understand. Usagi quickly finished those, and then yelled as she dashed out of the house that she was going to a friend's home.
She bypassed her father entering into the house. He was just in time to give his statement, but of course not be heeded. "It better not be a boy's house." He scolded after her. Usagi merely waved back at him with her 'daddy smile.' As every daughter knows, this is the smile given to lower dad's guard to whatever they may desire.
Usagi sped pass the school with an establish flair, flew pass Kisa's school, and skirted into the forest in her dreams. She couldn't believe that the cats had gotten cat-napped. In the name of kitty justice everywhere, she'd teach that youth not to mess with her guardians. A wind blew pass her ear carrying strange laughter, that she swore she knew. Ignoring it, she pumped a fist up high and renewed her vow for kitty justice.
Usagi going to get to meet Shigure face to face, and Yuki! Along with finally interacting with Kyo, and Tohru. Though, it seems that's not going to be the only visitor to the small Japanese home. Also what about that strange laughter? Sorry for the wait, I was just wrapped up in college and my birthday. So sorry. Enjoy, and I should have the next chapter up in no time. Please review. Yes, I am still counting the romance pairing votes. Later, and MUCH care.
WCB.