Kyo is a member of the Sohma family. Various people in
this clan have a strange curse handed down from the
Chinese Zodiac where they turn into different animals
if someone outside their family of the opposite sex
hugs them, or sometimes, falls on them with their
arms open. Kyo changes into a cat when he gets hugged.
He lives with his two cousins who are also under the
same curse. Kyo has an intense rivalry with his cousin
Yuki and is constantly trying to beat him in fighting.
Kyo takes a shining to their new housekeeper, the
orphened Tohru who discovers their secret and goes
to the same school as him. Kyo has a fiance though in
his female cousin Kagura who can hug him, although he
is scared to death of her. Kyo hopes to be accepted
more by some of the family elders, which he thinks he
can do by defeating Yuki.
