Kami understood the others feelings about Shigure as he laughed. Even she felt hitting him might be a good course of action.

"Then... you really made it back here like this?" Shigure giggled as Haru cow tugged at his sleeve.

"What's so funny?" Kyo growled angrily.

"Shigure we just need to get Yuki up to his room." Kami sighed. "Will you please help us?"

"Alright." He said, still giggling slightly.

Natsuki frowned angrily and slapped him on the back of his head. "Knock it off you idiot." She sighed. "Come on, let's take care of Yuki."

It took a little effort, but they finally managed to get Yuki up to his room. "He's asleep now. It doesn't seem like a very serious attack." Shigure said sitting on the edge of the bed. "He has a slight fever, but it's not a bad one."

"I'll go make some soup for when he wakes up." Kami said heading down to the kitchen.

Tohru sighed in relief.

"Tohru, don't worry about it... You can go back to school now." Shigure said calmly.

"No...I want to stay by his side..." She looked down. "Going to school is... very important. But, I just don't want to leave him here alone... My mom used to say the same thing... Also, a cold can be very serious or be very minor. We shouldn't ignore it."

Shigure smiled getting up. "All right, then. I'll go to school and get your things for you."

"Oh... You don't have to make a special trip for me..." They walked out of Yuki's room so not to wake him up.

"Don't worry, no need to mind me! Kyo, go contact Hatori and let him know."

"Why don't you get Kami's stuff too Shigure. She's going to be busy making sure Yuki's alright as well."

"Why do I have to do that?!" Kyo growled.

"Hatori's been very busy lately, so he's a bit stressed. Be careful. Seems like the whole family caught the flu." Shigure said cheerfully.

"Hey! Why ME?! Why do I have to do it?!"

"It's okay, I can do it instead." Haru said turning back. "So where is the phone?"

Natsuki flushed and transformed into a lion and looked away.

"Don't prance around naked you!" Kyo yelled angrily.

"Okay, I'll be leaving then. Please take good care of Yuki." Shigure waved walking out, after looking over at Natsuki lion. He chuckled and walked out humming to himself.

Natsuki glanced over after a few, Haru was now borrowing some of Kyo's clothes. Haru paused staring at her. "A lion? Where did that come from?"

Natsuki flinched and transformed back. "YOU IDIOT! WEREN'T YOU PAYING ANY ATTENTION!"

"Hey it's you... You're a lion?"

"Shut up, and just call Hatori." Kyo growled walking out.

Natsuki grumbled. "Who is this Hatori guy anyways?"

"He's the Sohma family doctor." Haru said calmly as he dialed up the main house. "He is also part of the zodiac."

"Huh... I'm going to let Kami know. That way she's not suddenly surprised."

"Alright." Haru said calmly, then went to concentrating on the phone call.

"Hey Suki... How's Yuki?" Kami said, as she stirred the pot of soup she was making. She tossed something in and turned to look at her cousin.

"Still asleep." Natsuki said sitting down. "That Haru guy is strange."

"I guess so... But he's no more strange then the rest of the Sohmas... and our own family." Kami smiled. "Is he still a cow?"

"Uh... No... He transformed back..."

"Okay." Kami nodded.

"Is that your special soup? The one you make when any of us get sick?" Natsuki asked, sniffing the air.

"Yep. My mom's special 'vegetable spice soup... with a bit of meat'... I hope Yuki will like it... Maybe I should have asked Shigure if he was allergic to anything..."

"I'm sure he'll be fine... Is it almost done?"

"Yeah... Do you mind taking a bowl up to him? I store the rest for leftovers." Kami said digging through the cabinets in search of a bowl.

"...I'm going to go see what's going on up there... It's too quiet." Natsuki frowned. "Make sure Kyo isn't killing Yuki as he sleeps."

"Good idea." Kami smiled. "And make sure Haru isn't killing Kyo at the same time."

"Right." She headed up just in time to hear Haru and Kyo talking.

"He was mad at me and yelled at me. Because I was missing for three days." Haru said calmly, no longer sounding as angry as when he was 'Black Haru.'

"And then what? Anyways, that annoying Yuki seems to be all right now. Should we continue our battle?"

Natsuki perked, she found it entertaining to watch the two idiots fight.

"Well... No, never mind." Haru said, crushing Natsuki's entertainment dream. "Kyo, you're very strong. I think I need some more practice."

"ALL THIS WORK FOR TODAY, AND THEN YOU WON'T DO IT?!" Kyo yelled angrily. Natsuki looked over and watched as Kyo started wrestling slightly with Haru. "When did you turn back into the 'white haru.' huh?!" Kyo growled.

"Ow, that hurts." Haru said calmly.

"Huh? You're not the 'black Haru' anymore?" Tohru asked walking up.

"Ah.. uhm..." Haru blinked.

"It does seem like two different people." Tohru smiled.

"It's kind of confusing that way... I kind of like the black side more." Natsuki said walking out from her hiding spot. "He's more entertaining, especially when beating up Kyo." Haru shrugged. "What about Yuki?"

"He's still asleep."

"You should ambush him while he's asleep, Kyo." Haru said shocking Natsuki.

"Who would do something like that? Idiot! I wouldn't feel good using dirty tactics like that!" Kyo smirked. "I'll beat him fair and square!"

"Yeah right." Natsuki smirked. "I'm going to go get the soup from Kami.. Is Yuki allergic to anything."

"No." Haru said calmly.

"Right." Natsuki nodded and headed back down to get the soup. After Kami handed her the bowl she headed back up to Yuki's room. She paused as she heard Haru and Tohru talking.

"My.. my first love was actually Yuki." She almost spilled the soup hearing Haru talking. "Well, I like Kyo too... But to me, Yuki is a very special person." Natsuki paused, and listened from the door. "Even though I hated him when I was young."

"Oh... Why did you?" Tohru sounded a bit shocked about Haru's statement, as well as Natsuki.

"Simply because he's a rodent." Haru said seriously.

"Huh?"

"Haven't you heard the story of 'the mouse riding on the back of an ox to attend the banquet?'... Because of that, I thought of him as my enemy. And on top of that... When I was young, all the adults used to laugh at me. Because the ox was dumb and was used by the mouse. Of course, I understood that they were half joking about it. But still, I... I still hated it when they said that Hatsuharu was a stupid being with no brains..."

Natsuki felt bad for the guy, but wanted to find out more. I don't know why... But I wanted to learn more about him...

"I got laughed at very often, so when I lost confidence, I blamed it on the mouse. When I was little, I had no patience and got made very often. My parents just sent me to practice martial arts, to relieve some of that pressure. That was about the time when my other half developed. Practicing martial arts didn't help relieve any of that pressure, though. I found martial arts to be fun. But people still laughed at me."

Natsuki paused imagining a little Haru practicing martial arts, and smiling. It was kind of cute to imagine.

"And then one day... I met Yuki by chance." Haru said pulling Natsuki back into the conversation. "We went to different elementary schools, so we only saw each other at new years and stuff. We never even talked before that. And so I told him all the things buried in my heart... Ever since then... I calmed down a whole lot. The words that had been buried within me all found an exit. Yuki helped me to unbind those shackles.. I was surprised. Yuki was completely different from how I had thought. That's right... I used to think of Yuki as the 'dirty mouse.' The day when I met Yuki was a great one... If I hadn't met him, I'd still have misunderstood and hated him. And then I would truly have been an idiot."

So he really just looks up to Yuki, not love him as in want to kiss him love... Natsuki flushed slightly and turned into a cat, dropping the bowl.

Haru opened the door and looked down seeing the mess, and a cat tail disappearing around the corner.