12. Poof (1/2)

did

that chapter satisfy you, readers? i hope so! now then.. say hello to

the chapter in which you find out my exact intentions for calling

this 'remnants of a curse'. at least i think so... thank you for wait

patiently!! and this one is short, just so you know, but i'm sorry!!

please don't hurt me...

ooo

kyo

had gotten himself somewhat under control; he could at least say

"morning, tohru" when he saw her. but that was all he could say.

she became very confused when he said "morning tohru" at six in

the evening. when she asked, he would merely blush and dash away.

argh!!

how had he talked to her in recent times??

he

hoped he would loosen up soon, and maybe be able to have a normal

conversation for pete's sake!! another difficulty his love

sickness posed was how completely obvious it was.

shigure

would snigger and make faces at him.

yuki

would look like he was suffocating and make a mad dash for the door.

and

tohru... looked like a puppy dog... an extremely adorable puppy dog.

one that made kyo want to kiss her again.

though

it wasn't just love sickness that was getting to him... there was

something funky going on with his

ain. he seemed to have headaches

all the time, and often found his thoughts being scrambled and his

vision blurred. and he knew that was not a normal sign of love.

it

was almost like a flashback of...

nah,

he would tell himself, stopping the thought. that was stupid. or at

least, he thought it was stupid.

then

again...

it

probably wasn't as stupid as he thought it was.

ooo

shigure

could feel it coming back; he knew it hadn't ended. it was a dark

something weighing at the back of his mind, a presence of foreboding

and hate that was dragging down his usual happy go lucky mood. even

though normally, his happy go lucky mood was fake...

oh

well.

he

also saw the effect it was having on poor baka kyo, that undeniably

naive sohma. sometimes shigure just had to laugh at him, even if the

poor cat didn't appreciate it one bit.

but

anyways...

he

knew it couldn't be

oken, at least not the way that tohru went

about it. what a silly way indeed... like the blood of a girl of

meager importance could do anything to unravel an age old curse. ha!

such a silly hope...

he

did wonder, however, why it had worked, for as short a time as it

was, the way it did. and then he remembered.

duh...

how stupid of him to forget.

it

was to give 'god' a

eak from the pathetic animals he had to watch

over.

of

course...