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p class="Paragraph SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;"span class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"It was a beautiful day the wind was whipping through Tohru's hair. "/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Mmmm/spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;".../spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"that breeze feels so good against my skin." her thoughts instantly /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"going/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" to her beloved mom. I really wish you were here mom whispered Tohru in a low saddened tone. "Yuki /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"you're/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" going to be late if you don't hurry up." Tohru snapping out of her thoughts hearing a manly voice talking in the distance and wait did he just say Yuki it /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"couldn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" be could it? Thought Tohru./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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Wow /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"it's/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" the Twelve Zodiacs. She thought. And what a beautiful collection "They are so /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"gorgeous/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" she said aloud without thinking. "Um/spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;".../spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"" said a tall man with black hair and dark grey eyes he was wearing a robe she could see his well toned body through the robe, the robe hugged him tightly that it was impossible not to notice how fit the man "He's beautiful" said Tohru not realizing she had said that aloud. "Um...What?" said the man with a small grin on his face while running his hand through his hair Tohru red faced and panicky waving her hands back and forth "I..I /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;" /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" your zodiac figurines they are very beautiful the man looked in confusion for a couple seconds then went and sat down next to the figurines "Yes they are. Stated the man "But /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"your/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" missing the cat Tohru /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"stated/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" "The cat?" questioned the man "Oh you must be referring to the old zodiac folk tale. "/spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Yes/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" I always wanted to be the cat since I was a little girl." Tohru said sheepishly "How come?" asked the Man with curiosity behind his eyes. "Because no one should be excluded no one should ever feel alone it saddens me to think of anyone have to suffer like that so from the moment I heard that story from my mother I vowed to be a cat and not a dog." replied Tohru "How sweet." the man said without thinking embarrassed he turned his head slightly to the side that showed his reddened cheeks. The man coughed recollecting himself he then finally introduced himself "Oh my I forgot my manners /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"I'm/span span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" I /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"don't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" mean to be blunt but what brings you out here? asked /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" quizzically. "/spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Oh/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" sorry my name is Tohru Honda and actually I live near here." /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" raid an eyebrow "Near here?" /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" questioned. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"That's/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" odd this is /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Sohma/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" property thought /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"."/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" who are you talking to?" asked a boy within the home. He then stepped out and his face was seen clearly "Yuki /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Sohma/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"?" asked Tohru curiously. Yuki completely taken back by the young girl "Miss Honda?" asked Yuki. He knows my name /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"thought/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" Tohru. "What are you doing here?" questioned Yuki. Tohru putting up her hands again frantically "Oh I um I'm sorry for the intrusion I was just walking to school and spotted your /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"home/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" and I was just really curious I didn't know anyone lived out here." replied Tohru nervously. "You live near here?" asked Yuki. "/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Y. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"" stuttered Tohru. All Yuki could say in response was "Curious." Tohru now /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"very nervous/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" they were asking her /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"questions/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" and she /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"couldn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" lie to save her life so she needed to get out of here before they questioned her any further "I'm so sorry but I really must go." Tohru exclaimed and ran off before /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" or Yuki could say anything. "She is a very odd /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"girl/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" Yuki." stated /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" "Yes I must agree." replied Yuki. "But she is quite beautiful" said /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"Shigurne/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" sheepishly. /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif; font-weight: bold;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"THUMP/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag:
none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;" !/span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;"span class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" A sharp pain radiated throughout /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure's/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" head "DAMN YUKI WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" shouted /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" while still holding his head after Yuki hit him with his school bag. "Keep your thoughts to yourself perv." stated Yuki coldly. Then Yuki quietly walked off to go to school. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" still in /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"pain/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" started to wonder what the girl meant by living near here? It /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"peeked/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" his curiosity. Why did she say that she lived near here? Who was she? He /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"Didn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" know why but the girl consumed his thoughts. "I must know more." said /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" looking down at his precious zodiac collection with a sheepish smile./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;"span class="EOP SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;"span class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 29.1375px; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', 'Book Antiqua_EmbeddedFont', 'Book Antiqua_MSFontService', serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"End Chapter One/span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;"span class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 42.0875px; font-family: 'Browallia New', 'Browallia New_EmbeddedFont', 'Browallia New_MSFontService', sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"Author notes:/spanspan class="EOP SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 42.0875px; font-family: 'Browallia New', 'Browallia New_EmbeddedFont', 'Browallia New_MSFontService', sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;"span class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"It was a beautiful day the wind was whipping through Tohru's hair. "/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Mmmm/spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;".../spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"that breeze feels so good against my skin." her thoughts instantly /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"going/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" to her beloved mom. I really wish you were here mom whispered Tohru in a low saddened tone. "Yuki /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"you're/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" going to be late if you don't hurry up." Tohru snapping out of her thoughts hearing a manly voice talking in the distance and wait did he just say Yuki it /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"couldn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" be could it? Thought Tohru./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;"span class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"She decided to go investigate her theory when she stumbled upon a small home as she got closer it was a beautiful home not to big not to small, It must be so peaceful to live out here secluded from everything else Tohru thought then she spotted something on the porch her curiosity was peeked she decided to go up and look she knew she shouldn't she knew that was nosey but her /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"curiosity/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" took over. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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Wow /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"it's/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" the Twelve Zodiacs. She thought. And what a beautiful collection "They are so /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"gorgeous/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" she said aloud without thinking. "Um/spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;".../spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"" said a tall man with black hair and dark grey eyes he was wearing a robe she could see his well toned body through the robe, the robe hugged him tightly that it was impossible not to notice how fit the man "He's beautiful" said Tohru not realizing she had said that aloud. "Um...What?" said the man with a small grin on his face while running his hand through his hair Tohru red faced and panicky waving her hands back and forth "I..I /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;" /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" your zodiac figurines they are very beautiful the man looked in confusion for a couple seconds then went and sat down next to the figurines "Yes they are. Stated the man "But /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"your/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" missing the cat Tohru /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"stated/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" "The cat?" questioned the man "Oh you must be referring to the old zodiac folk tale. "/spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Yes/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" I always wanted to be the cat since I was a little girl." Tohru said sheepishly "How come?" asked the Man with curiosity behind his eyes. "Because no one should be excluded no one should ever feel alone it saddens me to think of anyone have to suffer like that so from the moment I heard that story from my mother I vowed to be a cat and not a dog." replied Tohru "How sweet." the man said without thinking embarrassed he turned his head slightly to the side that showed his reddened cheeks. The man coughed recollecting himself he then finally introduced himself "Oh my I forgot my manners /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"I'm/span span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" I /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"don't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" mean to be blunt but what brings you out here? asked /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" quizzically. "/spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Oh/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" sorry my name is Tohru Honda and actually I live near here." /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" raid an eyebrow "Near here?" /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" questioned. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"That's/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" odd this is /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Sohma/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" property thought /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"."/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" who are you talking to?" asked a boy within the home. He then stepped out and his face was seen clearly "Yuki /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Sohma/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"?" asked Tohru curiously. Yuki completely taken back by the young girl "Miss Honda?" asked Yuki. He knows my name /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"thought/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" Tohru. "What are you doing here?" questioned Yuki. Tohru putting up her hands again frantically "Oh I um I'm sorry for the intrusion I was just walking to school and spotted your /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"home/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" and I was just really curious I didn't know anyone lived out here." replied Tohru nervously. "You live near here?" asked Yuki. "/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Y. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"" stuttered Tohru. All Yuki could say in response was "Curious." Tohru now /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"very nervous/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" they were asking her /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"questions/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" and she /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"couldn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" lie to save her life so she needed to get out of here before they questioned her any further "I'm so sorry but I really must go." Tohru exclaimed and ran off before /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" or Yuki could say anything. "She is a very odd /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"girl/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" Yuki." stated /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" "Yes I must agree." replied Yuki. "But she is quite beautiful" said /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"Shigurne/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" sheepishly. /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif; font-weight: bold;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"THUMP/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag:
none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;" !/span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;"span class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" A sharp pain radiated throughout /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure's/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" head "DAMN YUKI WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" shouted /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" while still holding his head after Yuki hit him with his school bag. "Keep your thoughts to yourself perv." stated Yuki coldly. Then Yuki quietly walked off to go to school. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" still in /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"pain/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" started to wonder what the girl meant by living near here? It /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"peeked/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" his curiosity. Why did she say that she lived near here? Who was she? He /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"Didn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" know why but the girl consumed his thoughts. "I must know more." said /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"Shigure/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" looking down at his precious zodiac collection with a sheepish smile./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW184547509 BCX8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;"span class="TextRun SCXW184547509 BCX8" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 29.1375px; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', 'Book Antiqua_EmbeddedFont', 'Book Antiqua_MSFontService', serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"End Chapter One/span/p
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