Hey, first of all I LOVE KYO, and YUKI! And HATORI! OMG, I can't decide!! Maybe

you can, review and tell me who you think is the best and that's how the ball will roll.

^_^;;

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"WAAAH!" screamed an orange haired boy from the house hidden on private

property.

"Shut up you stupid cat, you'll wake up miss Honda. You know she hasn't been

feeling very good lately." Chimed in a handsome purple-eyed boy.

"You damn . . ." the orange haired boy lowered his voice to a whisper, "damn rat,

nobody asked you." Upon hearing the noise, a tall, black haired man walked into the

room.

"Yuki, Kyo, are you two fighting again? *Sigh* Oh well, just make sure you

don't wake Toru and try not to smash the house." He grinned and went into his study.

"Eh, what all the noise about?" A brown haired girl appeared in the doorway,

rubbing her sleepy eyes. WHAP. Yuki flung a hand across Kyo's face. "Wah! Oh Yuki,

no need to do that I was only half sleeping, yeah, that's right, and I was just about to get

up and make dinner anyway! By the way what would you like for dinner, I can make you

what ever you like, just name it!" babbled the sweet girl that everyone called Toru

Honda. Yuki grinned devilishly at this remark.

"I am terribly sorry this stupid cat woke you up. I guess leek soup sounds good!"

"Hey, you damn rat, leeks are the nastiest food in the world!! Toru, please make

anything but that!!" Toru blushed and giggled a little. She loved living in Shigure's

house with Kyo and Yuki, but she couldn't say if they enjoyed it as much as she did,

although she had lived there long enough to know that Kyo and Yuki fighting was a

normal occurrence.

"I'll make some miso soup, does that sound good to everyone?" Toru asked, half

to Yuki and Kyo, half to Shigure who was in his study writing.

"Hey, miso is ok as long as its soup." Said Kyo.

"Oh, and Yuki, if you'll pull up some of those strawberries we planted I'll make some

strawberry pie for dessert!"

"Oh Toru, Toru, Toru! You really are too good to us. To think this precious

flower should slave in a kitchen every day just so we three have decent food to eat. It

truly is noble of you my dear!" Said Shigure, coming back into the room. Toru blushed as

Yuki and Kyo both bonked Shigure on the head."

"Have you no shame!?" they said together, then they realized that they were

talking at the same time and turned away from each other and folded their arms and

pouted. Toru laughed out loud, receiving confused looks from all three of them.

"Well, I guess I'll start on that soup." She said as she bowed and left the room.

Yuki got up to leave too.

"Where do you think your going!" said Kyo.

"Stupid cat, did you already forget? I'm going to get those strawberries miss

Honda asked for."

"Grr, Don't call me stupid you damn rat." To this Yuki didn't say anything but

just walked out of the house, leaving Shigure and Kyo alone.

"You know, your never going to even begin to get along if you keep fighting like

that. Think about it, how happy would Toru be if you two got along better?" said Shigure

wagging his finger.

"I know, but I hate that damn Yuki's guts. I don't even want to get along with

him! Besides, Toru seems happy enough now, you saw how she laughs when we fight!?"

"True," said Shigure, "But she is the kind of person who finds the best in any

person or situation. In this case it seems that she is happy and laughing only because you

two are even talking to each other."

"Hmf!" said Kyo propping his head on his hand as he sat down at the table with

Shigure. He knew what Shigure was saying was true but he hated Yuki so much, hated

the way he always bead him at everything. It was hard enough being nice to Toru, and if

he had trouble being nice to the girl he loved then he couldn't stop hating Yuki!

"WHAA!" Kyo jumped into the air. Had he just thought the word love!? He couldn't

believe it. His subconscious was telling him he loved Toru, but he couldn't, they were

just friends, if even that!!

"What wrong with you now, what even caused this row between you and Yuki

anyway?" Said Shigure. Kyo was still in shock from his thoughts; he couldn't love Toru,

could he? He got up and stormed out of the room. "Kyo, you're going to wear a hole in

my roof if you keep doing this!" shouted Shigure after him.

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"Dinner is ready!" said Toru as the all sat down at the table, all except Kyo that is.

"Where is that stupid cat, it's a shame to let a wonderful meal like this get cold

and go to waste." Said Yuki.

"I think he's still up on the roof thinking, maybe I should go get him down." Said

Shigure. "I'll do it!" said Toru cheerfully.

"No, no Toru, its alright, you don't have to do everything around this house, you

know!" Said Shigure in his silly sad way.

"Don't be silly, I want to go. I'm glad to do this for you all." She said. She arose

and left to seek out the sulking cat on the roof.
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"What the hell is wrong with me? I'm not the kind of guy who gets along with

anyone! How could I love that goofy little Toru? But, I am happier when she is around,

and it's easier to ignore that damn Yuki too . . .WHAAA!" A pair of big, blue, innocent

eyes peeping over the edge of the rooftop interrupted Kyo's thoughts. "What's your

problem, do you always have to sneak up on me like that?! You're going to give me a

heart attack one of these days!" Said Kyo, sitting up quickly from his lazy position.

"Oh, I'm sorry if I scared you Kyo. I just . . ."

"Hey, I was not scared. I'm not scared of anything!" Interrupted Kyo.

"Right, I knew that." Said Toru blushing. "But I wanted to tell you that dinner is

done and on the table and, well, it would be a lot more fun if you were down there."

"Eh?!" said Kyo. He felt his face get very warm and he knew he was blushing.

"I'm such an idiot! Snap out of it Kyo!" he thought to himself. He just couldn't bring

himself to say no to Toru, so he nodded clumsily nodded and jumped off the roof, landing

on his feet while Toru climbed down the ladder.

"WHAA!" Screamed Toru. Her foot slipped and she fell off the ladder.

"Whoa! Watch out!" yelled Kyo as he, without thinking, ran to catch her before

she hit the ground. POOF. Three seconds later, there was Toru on the moist night grass,

an orange cat being swallowed by a now enormous shirt and pants laying next to her.

"Oh I am so sorry Kyo, I'm such a clumsy idiot and well, I guess I wasn't

thinking and are you hurt at all cause I'll be happy to . . ." she babbled frantically, but

was cut off.

"Toru, it's all right. I'm the one with this damn curse so don't you apologizing for

it." Said Kyo shaking his head.

Here, I'll get your clothes and we'll go inside. I'll warm your dinner up for you

too. Maybe, if we're lucky, Yuki and Shigure won't see us and say anything." She said

with a sweet smile. Kyo tilted his cat head as he watched he pick up his pants and shirt.

He had never seen this side of her. She was being slightly sneaky.

"Uh, Toru?" Said Kyo.

"Uh huh?" she said in her sweet voice as she looked down at the orange cat.

"I'm, well, thanks! There I said it, now lest go inside before Shigure sends the rat

out to look for you. With all his talk about all the weirdoes hiding in the woods around

here the only one we've seen is him!" He said with a chuckle and started to head towards

the door, Toru close behind him.

They snuck in quietly on tiptoes. They could hear Shigure in the other room

laughing about something, probably one of his own jokes. When they got past the dining

room and at the bottom of the staircase Toru tied Kyo's pants and shirt around his neck

loosely and scratched behind his ears. Without thinking, Kyo started purring! He blushed

under his orange fur, but didn't say a thing. He really didn't want to explain his turning

into a cat to Shigure and Yuki. He shook his head away from Toru's touch and stopped

purring as fast as he could, hoping she hadn't heard it.

Toru left Kyo at the foot of the stairs and went back into the dining room where

Yuki and Shigure were talking, well, actually, Shigure was talking and Yuki was staring

at the ceiling in a bored way.

"Oh, your back. Couldn't get him off his perch, eh?" Said Shigure.

"Oh, yeah." Said Toru, blushing a little at her small fib and sitting back down

across from Yuki. He looked at her in that curios way he sometimes did and Toru blushed

a little bit more, afraid that he might have heard her and Kyo outside.

"Is everything all right miss Honda? You still look a little under the weather.

Perhaps you should go to bed early, Shigure and I will do the dishes." Said Yuki.

"Speak for yourself Yuki, I have a lot of work to do tonight. If you want to do the

dishes your on your own tonight." Said Shigure with a slightly childish grin. Yuki shook

his head, his hair whipping against his pale cheeks.

"Oh, no its fine! I'll be all right, I don't mind doing the dishes, really Yuki, its

fine! Leave it to me." She said determinedly.

"No, miss Honda. I insist that you go to bed early this time! I promise I won't

break anything. Now go get to feeling better, all right?" Said Yuki. Toru smiled at the

prince. She really did feel sleepy and was glad, deep down, that she didn't have to stay up

any longer. She got up from the table and bowed.

"Thank you so much Yuki!" She said, and she left for her room upstairs. As she

passed Kyo's room she heard a POOF.

"I guess Kyo must have changed back. I sure hope he isn't mad at me. Although,

he has been getting mad a lot less lately. I wonder why?' she thought as she passed his

room. She put he face up close to the door.

"Kyo, are you all right?" she whispered into the door. There was a thump hat

sounded a lot like someone falling on the floor and a small "ow!" after.

"Yeah, just leave me alone for a while!" came Kyo's voice back through the door. Toru smiled to herself and went to her room. She was glad to have met Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure, and now it was hard to imagine her life without them.

"Well mom," she said as she climbed under the covers of her bed, "So ends

another day in the Sohma house. I am glad I found them, even if the animal thing can be

kind of embarrassing when it happens, but I love all of them. Good night mom." She said

as she snuggled down under the soft sheets, listening and giggling softly to the sounds of

Yuki as he dropped a dish downstairs and grumbled to himself. She loved it there.