Chapter 12
At the restaurant Haru and Chris were eating Raman and trying to think of conversation. "So why'd you move here?" asked Haru. Chris looked up from her dish and said "I don't know really. I guess because I like the view here. It's something new." He nodded in response. "So I hear from my friend that you have 2 sides to your personality." She said.
"Yeah I do. I hate it but it shows itself when I'm mad or aggravated." He said. She looked at the door when an all too familiar voice came through the door then Cindy ran over. "What are you doing here?" she asked. Chris put her head in her hand and said "Eating. What's it look like?" she said.
"Well it looks like you two are on a date. Nice to see you again Haru." Said Cindy as Momiji came over. "Hey Haru I didn't know you were here. Oh I know lets make a double date!" he said. Cindy nodded and Chris finally said "We're not on a date you idiot." Haru looked at her then at Momiji "Sure Momiji we can have a double date."
Chris sighed seeing it was 3 to 1 so she gave in. Haru learned almost everything about Chris from Cindy's big mouth. She has a temper and like's to read manga and she is mostly confused all the time. Chris learned all about the times Haru got lost on the way to the bathroom and how he tore the classroom apart.
After enough embarrassing tails Chris made the excuse that she didn't feel good and winked at Haru "Oh well I'll walk you back home Chris." He said as they left. Momiji shrugged and enjoyed the rest of his date with Cindy.
Once away from the restaurant Chris said "Thank God we got out of there. I don't think I could handle anymore." Haru nodded in agreement. "Uh Chris where is your house again?" he asked looking around. "Got lost again did we? Come on." She said leading him back to her place. Teasing him will be so much fun.
Around 8 Momiji and Cindy were standing in front of the front door. "I had fun today Momiji. Thanks for taking me out." Cindy said as she opened the door. "Yeah it's fun hanging out." He said. "Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow after work." She said. "I'll pick you up and we can go to a movie." Momiji said with a short bow then kissed her on her cheek and left. Cindy stood there then ran upstairs.
"You're burning it Dad. Move and get out while I cook." Said Kyo while pushing his father out of the kitchen. I just watched from where I stood. "Yes, yes son I'm going." Said Kazuma. Kyo turned to me "You too." He said grabbing me easier than he handled his dad and pushing me to the door. "No I want to help." I protested.
"No not this time, next time." He said as I got out to the hall. "I promise next time." He said and shut the door. I clucked my tongue and left to find Kazuma. I finally found him sitting at the table in the dining room. "He kicked you out too?" he said.
I sat down "Yeah. I told him to at least let me help since he made me breakfast this morning but he refused." I said. "He made you breakfast?" he said a little shocked. "Yeah When I woke up this morning he was cooking rice and salmon." I said.
"Why was he there so early?" he asked. "Oh I'm sorry um he's staying with me for a while. He said he needed to get away from that house. I can't believe he lets Shigure and Yuki get to him." I replied. "What did Shigure do now?" "Apparently saying things about our love affair and other perverted things." I said rolling my eyes.
"Same old Shigure. It sounds like Kyo is helping out while staying with you. That's good I'm glad he has found someone to live for." Said Kazuma. "Why do people keep saying that? First Tohru know you." I said.
"I presume he's told you about the Sohma family Curse." I nodded "Only the basic stuff." I said. "Have you heard the story of the zodiac?" he asked. "No not all of it at least." Kazuma told me the story of how the rat tricked the rat and the cat was known as the outcast.
"I know Kyo is the cat. He told me when I brought his beads back to the house. He told me the cat had another form." He nodded. "The cat was never loved by anyone until Tohru broke the curse a year ago. Only a hand full of people saw his form and one of them was Tohru. She saw he suffered and broke it mainly for him and Yuki."
Kyo yelled for me in the kitchen and I went to give him help. "What is it Chef Kyo?" I said teasingly. Kyo rolled his eyes "Well Chef Cassidy I need you to help me bring in the food." He said. I went over to the plates and said "OO I get a title too nice." As I grabbed the food and walked out.
We sat down to eat then after a few seconds of silence Kazuma asked "Before you left I wanted to ask you about why you have Kyo's beads?" Kyo looked up and cut me off before I could even open my mouth. "Cass is an Art major and she thought they'd make an interesting piece."
"That's a lie. I asked Kyo to be a model for a sketch and he agreed. I told him I needed something that represents him so I went through his room and found those because I knew there was some kind of past to them and I was right." I said smiling.
"So my son has taken up modeling instead interesting." Kazuma said grinning. Kyo gave a death glare and we finished our dinner and left to get ready. Unfortunately there was one locker room. I pulled the curtain shut to separate us and changed.
The lesson went okay for a first time run. At the end Kyo hugged me saying that I did great while his master looked at us with a smile on his face. Today I learned so much more than I bargained for. We got back home and went upstairs to my room. "You were good for your first time Cass. This is going to be fun training you myself too." He grinned as I grabbed my stuff. It was 10:30 and I was a little tired. I put his bracelet in my bedside table and left for his room.
"You know if your tired we can go to bed." Said Kyo sitting on the end of his bed. I sat down in the front of the bed "No I've got some ideas and I plan to do at least one now." I said. He shrugged posed himself. He watched as my hand flew across the page and glancing at him once in a while.
When I finished like 3 sketches of Kyo I laid back on the bed, my head on the pillow. Kyo lied next to me looking at the drawings. I was now fully exhausted and dozing off. "Cass these are really good. You know what you should—" he said looking at Cassidy to see her sleeping peacefully. Kyo placed the drawings aside and got up carefully when Cassidy snuggled into his arm.
He pulled the blanket over her and lied back down with his arm stretched out behind her head. Cassidy welcomed the warmth hugging Kyo in her sleep. Kyo smiled and rested his head on hers and went to sleep.
Kyo woke up with the view of Cassidy's face. He got up and left for his morning run. When he came back Cassidy was still asleep and fixed himself some breakfast and sat down to eat. Cindy ran down the stairs "What did you do to Cass last night?" she said in an angry tone.
"I didn't do anything to her. She was determined to get her sketches in and she wouldn't listen to me that she should go to bed." He argued back. "So you let her stay in your bed? Nice. Otherwise she'd probably trip down the stairs and laugh herself into a coma."
He was about to retort when he heard Cassidy scream. "Oh no not another nightmare." Said Cindy and ran upstairs with Kyo right on her tail. They ran in the room to find me hugging my knees. "Cass are you alright? What was it about this time?" asked Cindy.
I shook my head violently and Kyo sat next to me on the bed. "Cass your alright. What happened?" he asked. He hugged me and I gripped his shirt. "I'm fine just a little shaken is all." I said taking a deep breath and letting go of his shirt with tears sliding down my face.
"I'm going to get dressed so I'll be back later." I said getting up and walking out of the room. Kyo looked at Cindy. "She's not okay does this happen a lot?" he asked her. "She has them once in a while. Only her close friends know why." Cindy said.
"Why are they caused?" he asked. "Dreams happen a lot Kyo hers just like to use her greatest fear against her and they bring back the pain from during her cancer." She said. "Well what's her biggest fear?" "She hasn't said much. Sometimes she's to shaken and only said things like 'kills' and 'no' and 'please' other times she ends up taking an aspirin for the pain."
"I've got to help her." Kyo said. "Try Kyo maybe you can but we never push her to tell." Then she left. Kyo got up and went into Cassidy's room. She was sitting at window. "Hey Kyo sorry I worried you." I said not looking to him.
Kyo pulled up a chair "You did have me worried and I'd like to know what you dream about. I only got part from Cindy." I looked at him "My dreams come from one major fear. I dream my friends are dead and I witness them being murdered. Last night was a dream where I witnessed you being killed then Cindy being drowned."
Kyo hugged me tightly "I'm not going anywhere and neither is Cindy." He whispered. "I know that Kyo. There just dreams, they mean nothing. It's just the thought of losing people you love and care for." I said hugging him back. Kyo's eyes widened when she said that then relaxed a little.
"Come on we need to go downstairs. Kazuma asked if we would go camping in the mountains with him for a week." He said pulling me up. I nodded remembering when we used to go camping and followed him downstairs. "I can do beautiful sketches that way."
The next day I told Cindy that we would be gone for a couple days so she could hang with Chris. "Be careful and try not to lose to much sleep." She said. I nodded "Don't worry I'll be fine. Kyo will be there." I said "That's what I'm worried about." I shook my head and hugged her bye along with Chris who had come over to go out with Cindy for the day. Kyo loaded our stuff and got in the car as I walked up and got in.
"Okay so we're off to the Meeting point." He said. Then he looked at me. I was wearing a black tank my famous pair of ripped jeans. We arrived at the meeting place and were greeted by a tall man with long silver hair.
"Hello Kyonichi who is this lovely flower?" he asked. "My name is Cassidy." I said holding out my hand. He took it quickly then bowed "I am at your service madam my name is Ayame Sohma and that gloomy looking fellow over there is Hatori Sohma." Hatori came over "Ayame what are you saying now?" he asked then saw me and bowed "I presume you're Cassidy. I've heard lots about you. Now shouldn't we be on our way? Kazuma made different plans so we are heading to the Lake House."
Shigure, Kazuma, Tohru and Yuki came forth. Shigure said "Finally the wonderful Cassidy has rescued us from riding in one car. Okay in Cassidy's car will be her, Kyo, Tohru, and Yuki. In Hari's will be us. I nodded and helped load everyone's bags in my car and let Hatori lead the way.
When we arrived I looked at the house and gaped at it. It was huge. We got everything inside and Ayame popped up "Rooming arrangements are as followed: couple of Yuki and Tohru in one room and couple Kyo and Cassidy in the other. Me and Shigure will share a room and Kazuma can share with Hatori." He said. Everyone was complaining as we were shoved to our rooms to unpack.
I entered our room first to see two beds. That was a relief. We unpacked and went downstairs. Me and Kyo decided we would go down to the lake and train while everyone else did whatever. I brought my camera and sketch pad with me.
We finished training when I finally managed to kick Kyo to the ground. I sat next to him and reviewed the memory card of the pictures we took. After Kyo stretched out on the ground and I got out my pencil and sketch pad.
I looked over to the lake and saw the geese and started drawing. After about 15 minutes it started getting dark. Kyo looked over my shoulder and saw the landscaping and the birds. "Come on we better get back. I can look at your drawings over dinner." He said pulling me up and walking back with me right behind him.
During dinner Ayame and Shigure were making conversation when Shigure asked "So where are you staying Kyo? Maybe with Cassidy?" Kyo looked at me then to Shigure "I'm not telling you where I'm staying. Mind your own damn business." He said. Ayame popped in the conversation and blurted "I bet he is staying with our dear Cassidy. Maybe he has already deflowered the flower."
Before Kyo could hit him I spoke up "It's none of your business where he is staying or if he has done that to me unless he wants to say and he obviously doesn't want to say, so just drop the subject." Kyo gaped at me then as I thought everyone dropped the subject and it was quiet for a moment till I spoke to Tohru.
"So Tohru how long have you lived with the Sohma's?" I asked. She said "3 years I've been living with them because I didn't want to be a bother to my Grandfather." I nodded "And how long have you and Yuki gone out?" "4 months." Yuki said proudly.
Dinner ended and we all were playing cards. After about an hour I yawned and Kyo nudged me "You all right?" he asked. I nodded and another hour passed and as Cindy warned me I started laughing. Everyone looked at me, which made me laugh harder and then I passed out.
Hatori made a move to see if she was okay but Kyo stopped him "She's fine. She's just over tired she hasn't slept well in the past 2 days." He said. Hatori said "What's she been doing?" "Sketching. Last night she stayed up after we came back from the Dojo. When she did get to sleep she had nightmares again."
Hatori looked at her worriedly "Does it happen often?" "Not really she has them once in a while." Replied Kyo as he picked her up. Shigure looked at him "What are they about?" he asked. "Not telling you that dog you might make them worse."
Kyo walked up the stairs to their room and laid her on a bed. Soon after that everyone went to bed. In the morning Tohru was up making breakfast when me and Kyo came down to go running. "Ah! Cassidy are you alright?" she said running over to me. "I'm fine Tohru. I was just a little sleepy." I told her. "Yeah right you were out like a light." Said Kyo.