Kyo didn't wait around to find out how the family was going to deal with Akito's death. Though his beads were white, Kyo still had enough anger in him to hate Akito for everything – the mocking, the social pressure put on his mother, the fear in Tohru's eyes after meeting with the head Sohma.

He pulled himself onto the roof of the Main House and sighed, leaning back for a moment. Then, he sat bolt upright.

Kazuma, bringing him home. His childhood no longer tinged with the sense of reservation that a child can pick up from an adult. The bond was stronger now.

Kagura, struggling to prove that she loved Kyo without hitting him. Kyo realizing that he wasn't hopeless or stupid after all. Kagura kissing Kyo for the first time, Kyo finally understanding what Shigure had meant when he'd told him that someday someone would love him. At the time, he'd thought that the dog had been referencing Tohru, but now he understood. Hatori, warning them against telling Akito for fear of injury.

Then, Yuki, standing up and looking at Kyo as the beads faded to white. "After all this time, all you needed was to take me down?"

Tohru, freaking out as usual, and Shigure noticing the beads. Kyo slipping them off experimentally, fear weaving its way into his heart as he doubted that he could do anything but transform. Yuki gasping, Tohru running to his side.

No evil creature stood in Kyo's place, not any longer. The grand lion that stood there with stunned red eyes roared in triumph before slowly becoming human once more. Kyo slipped the beads back on; there was no need to be anything but amazed right now.

Telling the others, Akito dismissing him as the cat monster who thought he was human. Taking his rejection out on Yuki (who won, this time). Maki, Shigure's sister who had married and moved out, comforting him.

Being called to the Main House, unable to decline the request. Furthermore, unable to let Tohru go in again without him, for she was expected to arrive, too.

Kyo blinked. The day had changed so drastically in a few short seconds, it had changed everything. He remembered that Kazuma had changed something, and wondered if it had to do with raising himself, but decided that the matter could wait until he saw Master at the dojo.

The beads stayed white and Kyo stood on the roof, looking out over the gate that lined the Sohma's estate. The hatred that he had shouldered for so long was gone- Yuki was annoying and self-centered and altogether too pretty, but he wasn't an enemy. Not anymore.

And Kagura! The fear and annoyance and anger at the boar subsided entirely. He loved her, not in the way he loved Kazuma or Tohru- his father-like Master and his best friend – but the way Hatori loved Kana. Kyo didn't know how to handle this affection, but he couldn't go in and find Kagura. She would know where to find him, she always did.