I Let Go

Summary: When Akito's threats on her life became to great Tohru leaves the Soma's right after she graduated. She moved to Tokyo to start collage. Now finds her self neck deep in trouble.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket or its Characters

Chapter I: Return Home

Twenty-five years The mahogany hair girl thought as she took a shot of dark brown liquid. Twenty-five years since I left the womb, eleven years since I meet them, eight years since I fell into hell, seven years since I left and six years since I fell even deeper into hell. Tohru thought as she placed her glass on the wood coffee table that was in the middle of the room. As soon as the glass touched the table she began to pace up and down the length of her apartment.

For the first time in six years she was afraid. She dreaded what might happen in the next hour. She would get a call and they would send her back to that place where she ran from. Back to the Sohma's, back to Yuki, Kyo, and the others. Could she face them after she just up and left with barley enough time to say goodbye?

-(flashback)-

A month after her third year in high school Tohru was summoned to go to the main house. She went the very next weekend. She left with bruise covering her body, her lip busted and a black eye. Akito had beaten her. He beat her for two hours but refused to cry out or let a tear stream down her face.

When she returned to her home she found that not all her luck had run out. Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure were out of the house. Quickly she ran upstairs and changed into a tan long sleeved turtleneck shirt and a pair of blue jeans. She hurried to her bathroom and looked herself. There were still bruise on her face and then she would have to do something about that black eye.

As soon as she remembered the makeup her two best friends had bought her last month as a joke (they had said she was too pretty for makeup)she heard the door open. Tohru panicked. They couldn't see her like this. She reached into the makeup kit and pulled out a black compact and covered her face with its skin colored continence. Now the bruise were hidden under long sleeves and makeup, only existing in her memories and under her new skin.

This went on for what seemed like forever. But lucky for Tohru no one noticed or if they did, they never said anything. The secrets and pain slowly tore her to peaces. Two weeks before graduation, Akito called for her for the thousandth time. This time he told her that he would never beat her again. Her heart had skipped a beat and her breath caught in her throat. But the joy came to an immediate end when Akito told her the catch. She had to leave right after graduation and never speak to any of the Sohmas again. Reluctantly Tohru agreed.

The day of graduation came all too fast. She had all of her stuff packed and ready. The Sohma's begged her to stay but she told them that she needed to go. She lied and said she'd write and come and see them. The hurt on their faces tore Tohru apart. It was the only thing that could have ever hurt worse than the beatings. The look on their faces when she left became permanentaly engraved in her memory.

When Tohru came to Tokyo she found a job similar to the one she had back in her old hometown. For awhile things were starting to look up. Her classes to become a teacher were going very well. She graduated collage with some honors and a job offer. She ended up working in a local high school.

Bad luck found her yet again. On her final day of working her first job in Tokyo Tohru witnessed a murder. The guards of the building took her to the company owner where Tohru described the events that she witnessed perfectly. This however, did not work in her favor. The man however, was not impressed. He wanted the murder to go cleanly. They made a deal with her that she would work for them until her "debt" was paid and they would let her live.

Within months she was the wanted person in Tokyo or her alter ego was any how. This new personality was known as Crimson Butterfly the name was inspired after her mothers gang name. As the years went on Tohru locked her emotions in a vault, never to be opened.

--(/end flashback/)--

Brrring

Tohru jumped ten feet in the air as her cell brought her back to earth.

"Yes" Tohru stated with an emotionless voice

"There's quite a bit of trouble back in your old home town and you will fix it." The monotone voice spoke "You will be leaving with in the next two hours. Your first assignment will be given to you two days after you arrive."

"Of course" Tohru turned off her phone and headed for her room to start packing

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Tohru walked into her new apartment. She walked the length and walked back. The nervous manager watched her with worried eyes.

"Can I help you?" Tohru asked him

"No ma'am it is just the first time someone booked flat and it was not the same person." The manager twisted his hands nervously together

"Don't stress about it …. that was ….. my previous employer making sure that I was comfortable in my new home."

"He must have liked you."

"You could say that"

"Well Miss Honda I will leave you to your new flat."

The manager quickly walked out of the apartment and closed the door rather loudly on his way out.

"How can the general population be so thick." Stated Tohru after the manager shut the door

Tohru sighed as she looked at her new apartment. It was a simple two bedroom one bath apartment with wood floors and walls that were painted a white with a hint of blue that came to meet a low ceiling. The furniture was still in its boxes waiting to be unpacked. But unpacking was one of the last things Tohru wanted to do so she settled for looking at the one thing that littered the kitchen counter...todays mail.

Hmm let's see bill, bill, paycheck, welcome to work letter, bill, bill, a high school reunion invite, and bill. WAIT! High school reunion that means---

Brrrrring

Damn cell phone

"Yes"

"How's the new flat?" It was the same monotone voice of her boss

"Fine" She gave up on telling him how much she liked her apartments along time ago.

"Good"

"Sir I thought you told me that I would not give me my assignment for another two days?"

"I know I am just checking in"

"So what's the problem?"

"..."

"Sir?"

Beep beep

Of coarse he calls for no reason and then hangs up without telling me why the hell he decided to even bother me. That jerk called. He calls and hangs up. He calls and then hangs up. He calls and hangs the hell up. That asshole.

So lets see what was I doing the weird call. Oh yes the mail. What's on top a invitation to my high school reunion. I wonder...?

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Two days passed rather quickly. Torhu spent the time unpacking and regaining her baring of the place she once and would yet again called home. It would soon be time for her to get ready for the reunion. What would her old friends say? What would he say? The answers to those questions would soon be found since the party was only six hours away.

Well thanks for reading the first chapter in my story please review and let me know if I spelled anything wrong. Thanks for everything.

Lost and Frogotten20

(signing out)