THE GIRL - A Test of Acceptance
Kazuma returns from a training trip and comes to Shigure's to visit Kyo. He meets Tohru and sees how happy Kyo is around her; a complete personality change from how Kyo was before. He decides then to expose Tohru to Kyo's true form.
Evening comes and Kazuma removes Kyo's bracelet by force. He transforms into a hideous monster in front of Tohru and is absolutely mortified. Kyo runs away into the woods, assuming that Tohru will be just as disgusted as everyone else who has seen him like this and he believes that his happy days are now over. However, Tohru chases after Kyo. She throws up because of the sickening stench eminating from him but she manages to reach him. Kyo tells her to leave and begins to insult her, lashing out of her and cutting her with his claws across her chest. He hopes that she will be so put off that she will leave but instead, she holds onto his arm tightly and tells him that he must come back home.
Tohru admits to Kyo that she is scared because she's never seen him like this before but she wants to understand so that she may share his burden of grief and help him learn to cope. She cries desperately, telling him that she wants to stay with him, eat meals with him, study together and face life together. Kyo is able to calm down and change back into his human form. He tells Tohru that it's okay to be afraid of him; her fear proves to him that she is being honest. He says that he too wants to face life together with Tohru and feels like an idiot that he believed no one would ever say those things to him. He pulls Tohru into a tearful embrace that lasts for a moment before he transforms into a cat. As he lands in her lap, Kyo feels that he doesn't deserve to have someone as wonderful as Tohru cry for him and Tohru picks him up, carrying him back to a tearful Kazuma.
Later on, Kyo asks Tohru how she is feeling. She says she is great and has healed fine; there are no scars from that night. He's very much relieved and they innocently flirt before being interrupted by Shigure.