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So, here's the 4th chapter! Thank you Kitty Kyon Lover, and I'd like to add another thank you to moonflower! I've heard this story is hard to follow with all the Japanese words, so I'm limiting my Japanese vocabulary. Here it is!

Chapter 4

"Oh no, where did she go? Will Amaya be alright? What if she gets hurt!" Tohru was running around, thinking of millions of ways that Amaya could get hurt.

"Oi, Tohru, Amaya will be fine, she's a skilled swordsman and if she loses her katana, she'll fight anyone off with her bare hands." Kyo laughed at the thought of Amaya sparring with bears like Tohru thought he had. Now that would be a funny sight.

"Tohru-san, he's right, Amaya is better off by herself anyway. I'll go out and find her in the morning." Hatori the walked out of the kitchen, leaving Kyo and Tohru, becasue Yuki was changing (You wouldn't go around with food all over you, would you? I can't see Yuki doing that) and Shigure was (supposedly) working on his latest story.

"Kyo, I'm still worried about Amaya..." Tohru looked up at Kyo with one of her rare sad faces.

"I'm sure she's fine, Tohru. Trust me, even though she's a handful she can handle herself." Kyo walked up to Tohru and bopped her lightly on the head. "You oughtta worry about yourself more."

"H-hai, Kyo-kun! I better start cleaning up the mess, though." The pile of spoiled food was still on the ground where Yuki had been, and was scattered around the kitchen a bit more.

"Let me help you with that." They both smiled at each other, and started to clean up the mess, smiling and talking happily at th same time. Who knew cleaning up a mess could be so much fun?

"Amaya, I think we should go back now, for Hatori-sama" Rei hopped down from the tree she was in, landing on her feet with ease.

"He won't come looking until morning, so we can go back at dawn." Amaya was fiddling with a leaf, still sitting up in the tree Rei had leapt down from. "Let's go somewhere else."

Rei laughed, well, as much as a cat could. "You mean you want to stalk Megumi. That's fine with me." She laughed some more when she looked up to see Amaya's face completely red.

"I do not want to stalk him! I'm just worried, Akito hasn't yet done what he said he would." Amaya tried to defend herself, earning only an unconvinced smirk from Rei.

"Ok, Megumi's house it is." As Rei pounced away, Amaya took out her katana, jumped down from the tree she was in, and threw thesword that the next tree trunk she saw. It hit dead on, and Amaya let her angerflow out before going to get her katana.

"Baka neko..." Amaya muttered, before slinking after Rei.

"Kyo-kun, thatnk you for helping me, but we should get some sleep now." Tohru smiled at Kyo wearily, it was around one 'o clock and she was truly tired.

"Yeah, I guess. Goodnight Tohru." Kyo got up to go upstairs, but there was a weight on his shoulder. "Tohru?" She was asleep, leaing on him. Normally, he would carry her to her room or put her on the couch, but he couldn't carry her, he would turn into a cat. "Tohru? Wake up, I can't bring you anywhere to sleep!"

There was no answer, she was already deep in sleep. So, he did the next best thing to do, her gently layed her down, as gently as he could, and then went to get her a blanket and pillows. When he came back, she was still sleeping soundly.

"Here you go, Tohru." Kyo slipped the pillows he brought under her head, and layed the blanket over her. She suddenly grabbed his arm, and then rolled onto her stomach, making him fall onto her. His arm was around her, so he torned into a cat with a poof of colorful smoke.

"Oh great..." Kyo was wondering what would ahppen if Shigure caught him this way when Tohru hugged him to her and snuggled under the covers more.

"This is actually... comfortable..." So, Kyo stayed in Tohru's arms all night, in cat form, sleeping.

The sun was shining in Kyo's eyes as he woke up.

'Since when does the sun come into my room?' Just then Kyo noticed her wasn't in his room, but in the kitchen, being held by Tohru.

"Oh god..." Kyo thanked the heavens that Shigure hadn't woken up yet, and tried to pry himself out of Tohru's arms.

"My, the sun is bright today..." Tohru had woken up! She let go of Kyo to rub her eyes. Then, she looked down, and saw Kyo. "Oh, Kyo, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hug you, I mean, I'm sorry!"

Just then did Amaya walk in, talking to Rei. "I know it's a bit later that dawn, but it's Saturday, Hatori would-" She froze as she saw Tohru holding Kyo up, appologising profusedly.

"Did I interrupt something, again?" Amaya spoke to them both, and as they contintued to stare at her, blushing, Kyo became a human again. This caused both of the girls to shriek, which woke up everyone else, including Shigure.

The three other occupants of the house cam running into the kitchen to see two screaming girls, one naked boy, and a laughing cat.

"I think some explaining needs to be done..."

"Uh, well, I had bumped ito Kyo, so he turned into a cat, the he changed back." Amaya was lying through her teeth and everyone could tell, but they decided not to question any further, for Kyo and Tohru's sake.

"Talking about explaining... Ha'ri, you never told us how Amaya got to be a neko. If my memmory serves me right, she wasn't born with a tail and cat ears." Shigure lookedat to Hatori, who, at the moment, looked troubled.

"It is Amaya's past, she will be the one to tell you about it, if you will be told at all." Hatori looked over to Amaya, who nodded and sat down. In turn, everyone sat down around the table as well. Once Rei had leapt into her lap, Amaya started to talk.

"When I was born, my mother died in the process of birthing me. Myfather, blaming my mother's death on me, committed suicide to be with her. At the time, they were the only ones Akitowould side with. So, he hated me for taking them away, itdidn't take much to push him over theedge." Amaya looked away, remembering all those times she had been broken by him, always fixed up by Hatori.

"So when she becamemore that friends with a boy, he went beserk, because he didn't want her to be happy while he suffered. So, he punished her by making her a neko, so she would be rediculed by him and everyone else." Rei decided to finish for Amaya, knowing it would be hard for her to say this.

"He lied about my death, saying that Iwas run over by a truck.That was, of course, after I had been shunned by everyone at school. Now he wantsme to stay at the main house, so I won't see anyone I was friends with, and so I can't tell you guys the cure." Amaya looked away as everyone's eyes widened substantially. Even Rei hadn't known that she knew the cure.

"Y-you never told me you knew the cure!" Rei was dumbfound, just like everyone else. Finally, Kyo spoke up.

"How come you didn't tell anyone! How could you be so stupid!" He was hurt that he had been deprived freedom by one who hadn't actually hated him for being the cat.

"You can't just use the cure. It isn't some magic potion or string of words. You can't just do something and then, poof! You're free!You're just lucky there is a cure for your curse. My curse, I can never become human again. And, I can never go to heaven, I'm a demon now." Amaya hung her head, thinking about her fate. Yes, she could die. Would she go to heaven, the paradise in the clouds? No, of course not.

"So, you don't play a role in the zodiac curse?" Tohru was sad for Amaya, but she was just too curious to go on without asking.

"Well, I kind might be in the future. If you don't break the curse before Akito dies, the weight of the curse and the title of god of the zodiac goes to me, you will not have a time free of the curse, even if the god dies." This brought much sadness, for they expected when Akito died, they would be free, if only fora short time.

"Let us not linger on such sad things, it will bring a foul mood to this wonderful Saturday." Rei grinned her cat grin and pounced on top of the refridgerator. "Lover boy, you were in such a good mood this morning, what has happened to that good mood?"

"Yes, Kyo, you were in such a good mood last night, what has happened?" Shigure brought a picture out of the folds of his kimono. It was a polaroid of him and Tohru last night, sleeping.

"And I lied through my teeth to get you two out of suspicion, too." Everyone,at this point was laughing. but out of all the laughs, Rei's was the loudest and the clearest, ringing through the woods around Shigure's house.

Poor Kyo... Oh well, ha ha! Well, I hope you liked it! R+R if you have the time. Until next chapter, Sayonara. Neko Warrior signing out!