A few days had passed, and Masayuki and Emiko went to Shigure's house for a nice visit. Today was again to be Masayuki's day-off from his part-time job. After taking a train, they arrived at the stairs leading to Shigure's house.
"Well, Emiko-chan," Masayuki said to Emiko, "another set of stairs to climb, I guess."
"Yeah, big brother," Emiko agreed with him. "This is gonna be hard."
And so, she and Masayuki started climbing the stairs.
But, along the way, Kagura came downstairs with happy feelings for Kyo, only to slip at a step. Luckily, Masayuki noticed this, and he catch Kagura before she would fall, hugging her and transforming her into her zodiac animal form, boar.
Emiko quickly noticed this and ran to them, only to see clothes on the ground.
"Big brother! Are you okay?" she asked Masayuki.
"Yeah, I think so," Masayuki responded back while stroking his head because of the pain. He then opened his eyes and asked Kagura, "A-Are you okay, ma-" His sentence was cut off when he saw Kagura in her zodiac animal form. Kagura noticed this and she freaked, thinking, "Oh, no, someone saw my animal form!"
But Masayuki freaks out the most, and he responded to Kagura, "Uh, um, what did I do to turn you into that?"
"Woah, calm down, big brother," Emiko tried to settle the situation down. "I think you didn't do anything to turn that person to an animal."
But, luckily, Kyo noticed this, and he called their names.
Upon hearing that, Masayuki and Emiko looked at him from the distance, and Kyo said to them, "Quickly, you two, grab her and her clothes and come inside."
"Oh, right, Kyo-senpai," Masayuki responded, before he and Emiko grab Kagura and her clothes and quickly ran upstairs towards Shigure's house.
Masayuki and Emiko had discovered zodiac curse secret of the Sohma family.
Not long after, Masayuki, Emiko, Kyo, Shigure, and Kagura are at the dining room, with Masayuki panicking and saying the question, "What did I do," multiple times. Handa, meanwhile, was upstairs reading his favorite book, and Tohru and Yuki are outside at Yuki's garden.
But, Shigure said to Masayuki with a calm, stylish tone, "Calm down, Masayuki-kun, we'll explain."
"What is it then?" Emiko asked in concern.
"It's our zodiac curse," Shigure answered back, "and that includes me, Yuki, Kyo, Handa, and that girl."
This completely shocks Masayuki and Emiko a lot.
"What? Zodiac curse? Is that for real?"
"I never heard that before."
Shigure then nodded. "Yes, it's for real, and it turns out Handa-kun had the same zodiac animal as mine. We transform to our zodiac animals when being weak or being hugged by the opposite gender."
"Woah, I didn't know that," Masayuki responded back.
"I thought he was an ordinary boy," Emiko added.
Then, suddenly, Kagura transformed back to her human form.
Seeing this, Shigure and Kyo covered Emiko's and Masayuki's eyes, with Kyo saying, "And when we transformed back to our human form, we're naked."
"What?! Thanks, Kyo-senpai."
Kagura, who is now a human, looked at them, and realized that she was naked, so she apologized, grabbed her clothes, and ran to the bathroom to dress up.
Then, Handa, who had heard all that noise, went downstairs while asking, "What is going on here?"
Upon hearing his voice, Masayuki and Emiko looked at him, and Masayuki asked him a question, "Handa Sohma, is that true that you had the zodiac curse?"
Realizing that his secret had been exposed, Handa felt bad about it, and he responded, "I'll explain everything."
Not long after, once everything had settled down, while Kagura came back all dressed up, Handa finally revealed the zodiac curse secret to his two childhood friends. A few minutes later, Masayuki and Emiko, who had been listening to their friend's story, understood his struggles, and Masayuki said to him, "It's okay, Handa Sohma, we understand. You can have our support. Besides, we had been friends for a very long time."
"Thanks, you guys," Handa responded with pity happiness.