I hate it too, unless the differences are still in keeping with the original story. somehow, and don't change the characters too much. The main reason the second season is different from the manga is that they've cut off all the things in which the story criss-crosses with TRC, and that's a lot in the chapters it involves. For example, they don't get the jars of water from the well for the TRC cast in acid tokyo, but rather for the neko-musume, because of some sob story about the corpse of a kitten in the well... and the eggs are payment from her rather than from Fuuma and Sakura. It annoys me that they've cut almost everything that linked the two series... though in past animated CLAMP works they've done the same (like in the case of Chobits and Angelic Layer).

Yesm, that's what I thought, too. And he makes a really funny "I'm dying here, in case you didn't notice" noise that always makes me giggle. XD

Yeah, but that's no different from their other series. Even Touya and Yukito, who are practically the most transparent couple in their entire works, never openly admit to their relationship... though both of them admit, seperately, to loving the other. "he's my special person" and stuff, but you have to read between the lines. :P