DDL: To make an understanding I know the rabbit is a boy and the monkey is a boy. K'?
Julia: Sure you do.
DDL: -whins- I do! I do!
Kyo: Shut up! You sound like Momiji!
DDL: No reviews but someone added the story to their favorite list! -breaks out cans of RC-
Reina:...enjoy this chapter? Is that good DDL?
DDL: uh...yeah...
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"Good morning, Reina-san!" Shigure said with his usual chipper voice. "Tohru-kun made breakfast."
"Right..." Reina slurred rubbing her eyes. She took a seat next to Julia and watched Tohru smile to herself while setting out the food. Kyo stared at the leeks on his plate.
"I hate leeks." Kyo murmured.
"Don't waste food." Yuki picked up his chopsticks and swallowed some leeks.
"Disgusting..." Kyo glared at Yuki.
"I'm so sorry, Kyo-kun, I forgot again." Tohru bowed several times in apology.
"It's fine!" Kyo shouted standing up.
"Kyo," Reina's emotionless voice cut in. "Where is my brother?"
"On the floor; he won't wake up." Kyo's rage grew and then out of now where Reina picked up a bucket of ice cold water and tossed the contents on Kyo.
"Where do you keep those? In a black hole on the inside of your pocket?" Julia asked staring at Kyo.
Reina just dropped the bucket and went silently upstairs.
"Well, you all seem to be getting along greatly." Shigure said with a smile.
The tension grew in the room until Laharl's sudden screaming broke through the house.
Laharl ran down stairs shivering. "Cold! Cold! Geez; so cold..."
Julia snickered. "I guess Kyo wasn't the only one to get a wake up call today."
"Does she always do that?" Yuki asked watching Laharl run around in circles.
"I guess so..." Julia answered.
- School lunch time -
Julia giggled as she watched Uo drag Kyo by the ear with Tohru and Hana tagging along behind. "Did you guys think you could get out of eating lunch with us?" Uo asked.
"Of course not." Julia answered nervously. "We were waiting for you."
Reina rolled her eyes and looked away. "Why do I have to eat with you guys?" Kyo shouted.
"Because I said so." Uo got up in his face with burning rage.
"Fine..." Uo let go of his ear and he pulled up a chair.
"Where's Yuki?" Julia wondered
"Oh, he has president duties to do." Tohru took a bit of her rice ball. "Where's Laharl?"
"Who knows." Julia shrugged.
"Laharl? Who's that?" Uo asked Tohru.
"Reina's older brother."
Hana suddenly pointed at Julia and Reina. "Your electric vibrations are strange like Kyo's. Why?"
Julia and Kyo fell out of their seats from shock. Reina looked up at Hana. "Your strange yourself, Miss Hanajima."
Hana sat down and Kyo and Julia climbed back into their seats. Silence finished the lunch period.
- Outside after school -
"Julia, Reina." Tohru waved at them as she ran towards them. "Why are you still here?"
Julia smiled at her. "We're waiting for Laharl...well speak of the devil there he is and he's with some people..."
Laharl walked out of the school building with a girl with short blonde hair and a boy with black hair on top and white on the bottom. They seemed to be good friends.
"LAHARL!" Julia yelled. Laharl stopped talking and lead the two people over to where Julia was standing with Reina and Tohru.
"Julia, sister, look! I have friends!" Laharl said gleefully.
"That's new." Reina stared at the girl. Something was odd about her but she just couldn't put her finger on it.
"That's mean...anyways, this is Momiji," Laharl pointed at the girl. "And this is Haru." Laharl pointed to the boy. "They're in my class."
Momiji walked over to Tohru. "Tohru, do you know these people?"
"Yeah, they moved in with us just yesterday."
"Haru, are you good at schoolwork?" Reina asked looking from Laharl to Haru.
"Sort of."
"For the last time, Reina, I don't need a tutor!" Laharl gritted his teeth together.
"Fine, fail yet another year of school."
"Bite me."
"Tohru," Momiji smiled up at her. "Does that mean they know about the curse?"
"Uh-well...I don't really know."
"Hey, what are you two talking about over there?" Julia cut in.
"How cute I look in a girl's uniform." Momiji told Julia.
"You're...a cross-dresser?" Julia gasped in shock.
Momiji eyes filled with tears. "Tohru, Julia is being mean."
"How is that mean!? It's true." Momiji whined to Tohru more.
Yuki and Kyo saw the group hanging outside the school building and decided walked over to where they were. "What's going on here?" Yuki asked.
"I'm sorry!" Julia groaned.
"But you don't mean it." Momiji cried.
"Cause its true!"
Reina's fingers twitched as they dragged on the argument. "SHUT UP ALREADY!"
Everyone stared at Reina as Julia pulled out a notebook and wrote 'Reina's first sign of human life : anger towards Momiji and I'.
"What are you writing?" Laharl asked peering over Julia's shoulder. Julia closed her notebook quickly.
"None of your business, but I guess it doesn't matter since you can't read anyways." Julia said walking away from the group.
Laharl stared at the ground piecing together what Julia said. Julia was half way down the road when it clicked. "I can to read!" Laharl turned to face the group and noticed something was different. He counted the people standing in the group...one...one...just Tohru? "Where'd everyone go?"
"Yuki as more work, Momiji made Kyo mad and they ran off, Reina followed, and Haru noticed that Julia left something behind so he went to go give it to her."
"...Right." Laharl paused; then continued, "Let's walk back to the house together. I'll get lost by my self." Tohru giggled. On the way to the house Tohru tried to explain, to her best ability, how to get to Shigure's house.
They were walking by a river when Tohru stopped completely. She stared into the gently flowing water as if she were drowning in thought. Laharl studied Tohru as she went down towards the river. He followed slowly behind without saying a word.
"This is where I first met Haru. I thought he was an old man who'd fallen down because of his hair color." Tohru tapped herself on the head.
- The spot by the lake -
Kyo sat on a rock, happy to be away from Momiji. He picked up a couple of rocks and threw them across the water. He thought about getting some training in when he heard someone humming a strange tune...then, he began to pick up some of words.
"Meet me in St. Louis, Louis.
Meet me at the fair.
Don't tell me the lights are shining
Any place but there.
We will dance the hoochie coochie.
I will be your tootsie wootsie
If you will meet me in St. Louis, Louis.
Meet me at the fair."
"Who's singing?" Kyo wondered as he stood from the rock. "I should probably hide." he ran off to one side and jumped into the tree.
Reina appeared humming the song followed by a group of birds. Kyo smacked his head against the tree and then looked again. "That's Reina...well at least her appearance...Ah crap! If she finds me she'll think I'm spying on her and then..." Kyo worried himself so much that stress turned him into his cat form again.
Reina heard a poof noise and looked in the direction the sound came from. She saw Fiery in a tree. She skipped over to the tree and called for Fiery. Kyo felt like clawing her eyes out but decided it was better to hop down so she'd hold onto him.
Reina took hold of Fiery and held him to the sky. "Sorry I didn't give you a better introduction yesterday. Tohru was there...and...I really hate humans."
Kyo didn't think about what she had just said. He was panicking. Reina wasn't holding him close enough to her body. He could transform any minute and, the worst of all, without clothes. Kyo ran through his thoughts quickly and finally decided he had to run away. He flashed his teeth and bit down into Reina's hand.
She dropped Kyo but didn't scream. She just stared at the wound as Kyo ran off. "Maybe...Fiery smelled the birds..."
- Computer Lab at school -
"...a bird...what does this all mean?" Yuki flipped through file after file on Reina Hayes off the computer. "Can there really be...?" Yuki shut down the computer and laid his head down. "I don't understand."
- By the river -
"So Haru was in love with Yuki?" Laharl repeated as he stared at Tohru.
"Yeah, I was quite shocked at first too." Tohru bent down and looked into the water. "I guess that's the way things are..." Tohru picked a flower and went to stand back up. She lost her balance and started to fall forward.
"Tohru!" Laharl shouted as he quickly got in front of her, breaking the fall.
Tohru slowly pushed herself up. "Laharl, are you alright?" his eyes whirled. Tohru tried dragging him out of the river when she noticed something odd. Although Laharl's upper body was the same; the bottom, well, was that of a horse. "Laharl...what are you…?" Tohru splashed cold water in his face.
Laharl came back with a jolt and turned back into his normal form. Tohru turned away and climbed out of the water as Laharl put his wet pants back on.
"I'm guessing you want an explanation, huh?" Laharl said shaking the water off. Tohru nodded her head.
Laharl sat in the grass. "Well, you can't tell, but I know you know about the Chinese Zodiac curse." Laharl paused trying to find just the right words. "Have you ever heard of the Western Zodiac?"
"The one they use in America that comes from Greece?"
"Yep. Well, you can think of ours as the Western Zodiac curse. In my family people change similar to those of the Chinese Zodiac but our animals are extinct. For example, I'm a Sagittarius which is the sign of the half man half horse." Laharl blushed, "Which you've seen."
"What about Leo or Scorpio?" Tohru asked
"You'll find out in time...I believe that they'll all come down to pay a visit sometime; or one might be right under your nose right now. Besides me." Laharl stood back up. "Let's go home."
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DDL: On the next exciting episode of DBZ...
Kyo: Wrong anime.
DDL: Right. Next time of Breaking the Curse...watch out cause I don't know till I start writing.
Reina: somone should stab you in the eye.
DDL: Bird freak.
Reina: What was that! -jump attacks DDL-
Julia: Where's all the other Sohmas and Hayes?
Haru: Coming soon in chapter who knows