Love of the Mabudachi Trio

By: Tanokai

Disclaimer: Nope. I still don't own them.

A/N: Sorry for the short chapter last time. Um.. Dunno what else to say here.

Chapter Four: The Beach

The Next Morning

"Ah my love, you are here to inspire my creative spirit!" Shigure pranced to his girlfriend and stopped in front of her.

"Huh?" Anishi was still half-asleep it seemed, and she drove there?

"Of course you have! In order for that to work, however, I need you to go on a date with me."

"A what?"

"A date!"

Anishi took a moment. "Ah! Yes a date. We had a date planned?"

"We do now! Let us go and spend a relaxing day at the beach."

"What?"

"Of course, that is if it's alright. Your friends won't hate you for leaving them will they? Just for a night."

"When did we plan this?"

"Just now."

"Oh. Ok. I'll just have to go and get my stuff from my house, as well as tell Mayumi and Losan."

"How are they?"

"They're well. Losan just ate something at the carnival that made her stomach upset. She took some time off work to relax though. Mayumi is spending as much time as she can to make sure Losan is fine. She is always worried about people more then is necessary."

"Sounds a lot like someone else I know. So, are we off?"

Anishi noticed the bag that Shigure was holding in his hand. Something large enough to carry what he would need for his one night stay at the beach.

She nodded and smiled.

Shigure fallowed Anishi into her house, and then into her room. As she packed her stuff, he explored her room and happened to find a drawer filled with her underwear.

What do we have here? He thought to himself as he pulled out light pink underwear with little black dogs and red hearts on it. "How about you pack these," Shigure said with a broad smile upon his face.

"Huh?" Anishi turned around to see what he was talking about. She turned bright red as she snatched them from his grasp and slapped him. "Stay out of that drawer!" Anishi was so flustered she didn't notice that she put the underwear in her bag.

Shigure gave one of his silly grins as Anishi gave him an angry glare.

Shigure blinked as he looked over his shoulder. He could here voices from the room across the hall. The voices were muffled, but he could still hear them.

"Mayumi! I'm fine!" Losan desperately said.

"I know but you should just rest today to make sure," Mayumi seemed sure that she was doing right.

"But Mayumi," whined the ever energetic Losan.

"Lo, I hate making you stay home all day, you know that, but I'd hate it even more if you really were sick and you just made it worse."

"Oh, alright."

"So," Shigure said to Anishi, "The monster can be tamed."

"Hm? Oh Losan? Yes she can be a bit energetic, but when Mayumi let's her know it's enough she calms down."

"Sounds a lot like Aya and Ha'ri."

"Strange. The more we find out about each other, the more we seem alike."

"Yes, that is a little odd."

"So, I'm ready. I guess I'll tell those two now." With that Anishi grabbed her bag and walked to the room across the hall. She knocked on the door and Mayumi answered.

"Oh, Anishi. You're back? Where did you go?"

"I went over to Shigures."

Mayumi looked over Anishi's shoulder and saw Shigure. He waved to her with a smile on his lips.

"I just wanted to tell you we were going to the beach for a night."

"Have fun-ak!" Mayumi stumbled to the side as Losan pushed passed her and Anishi.

"Doggie!" She yelled and hugged Shigure.

"Anishi," whined the black dog. "You said she'd be calm."

"She was or a while. Ok Losan get off of him, he's mine!" Anishi pulled Losan off of the dog and then hugged Shigure herself. "You just so cute! How could anyone not hug you?"

And so, after Shigure transformed back to his human form, and got his clothes on, They were off to the beach, Shigue giving directions to the beach house they'd be staying at.

"Wow, this place looks great!"

"Yes, it's always a great place to relax."

"You come here often?"

"Yeah, it's the advantage of having such a large family, a lot of things belong to the Sohma's, this included."

"I'm jealous."

"Oh, There's something I forgot to give you at the end out our date yesterday."

"What's that?" Anishi turned around and her eyes widened as Shigure gently kissed her on the lips. Poof!

Shigure blinked. Anishi was now a little bit taller, and well, she had four legs. Her horse half was as black as the midnight sky.

"Hey! What's the big idea!" Anishi yelled at Shigure. "Just for that!" She hugged him.

Now they both blinked.

"Um…Why didn't anything happen?" Anishi asked a bit confused.

"I don't know, but why are you half horse now?"

"Huh? You mean, Hatori didn't tell you guys anything?"

"No, but could you tell me exactly what Hatori didn't tell me?"

"Myself, Losan, and Mayumi are all affected by a similar curse as you Sohmas…" With that, Anishi began to tell him about their curse. "So, that's it. Now, what about the fact that I was able to hug you. What's with that?"

"Well, I assume that it's because you aren't in a human form."

Anishi thought for a moment. "I suppose that makes sense. Well, now that I'm in this form, ever ridden a horse?"

A few minutes later Anishi was galloping along the beach with Shigure on her back, her horseback that is, and his arms were wrapped around her midsection to keep himself from falling off. As the area was secluded, and no one else was going to be there that day, they didn't worry about being seen. After a while, Anishi slowed her pace to a walk.

"It's funny, how similar we are, isn't it?" Anishi said, walking a little ways into the water.

"I suppose it is. The fact that we both have a zodiac curse makes it even stranger."

"And we both have two friends, and our friends are alike as well."

"Not to mention you are cursed with the sign I was born under. Mayumi was curse with the sign Hatori was born under, and The same with Aya and Losan."

"Seems like we were made for each other."

Shigure couldn't help but laugh.

"What's so funny?"

"I never thought that would ever be true for me or any of the other zodiac."

"Neither did I, but even so, I can't help but feel we were somehow the lucky ones when compared to Hatori and Mayumi as well as Losan and Ayame."

"Why's that?"

"We found a way to be closer."

Later that day, they made their way back to the beach house. After Shigure got off her back, Anishi sat down. "I'm tired. I don't think I've ever been in this form so long."

"I don't think I've ever been on horse back so long either. My legs are going to kill me tomorrow."

Anishi laughed. Then…Poof! "Whoa…" Anishi swayed on her feet, and then she collapsed.

When she fell she fell toward Shigure, so all he could really do was catch her and then… Poof! Now he was a dog, and Anishi was disoriented. It was a good thing for her, that she wore long and baggy shirts. As her top half remained in a human like form, her shirt stayed on. Since she wore a long one, everything was covered when she transformed back. An advantage she used well.

"Anishi! Are you alright?"

"Yeah," she said a bit dazed like. "I'm just a little dizzy. I'll just rest here."

"I'll get you a pillow and a blanket then," Shigure left to one of the bedrooms to get the items. He would have offered to call Hatori, but he couldn't in this form. He tried and failed miserably one time.

When he came back, he though Anishi asleep, so he carefully raised her head and put the pillow under it, and then drew the blanket over her. As he was about to leave, Anishi grabbed him and gently wrapped her arms around him, pulling him close to her, as she was on her side.

"Just stay with me please," she said quietly

He turned his head to look at her and licked her face before he found a comfortable spot against her to sleep in, her arms wrapped around him for comfort, and so he didn't transform.

"You know," Shigure said in his voice that made him sound dirty, "I though women waited until a few dates after the third to ask their boyfriend to sleep with them."

But, alas, his joke was useless. Anishi had fallen asleep.