Tohru was in the kitchen washing the dishes while humming a cheery tune. I wish Kyo, Yuki, and Shigure would hurry home! It's getting late. Tohru paused and stared out of the window, looking at the black, starry night. Something's not right. She resumed washing the dishes with a troubled expression.

Tohru heard the front door click, and turned around anticipating that the boys would walk through the door. Instead, someone else walked in. Someone like Akito.

"Hello Tohru," Akito Sohma greeted. Tohru lowered her eyes and gave a weak 'Hello' in return.

Akito walked over to Tohru and smiled evily. This girl deserves some punishing! Think you can walk right into the lives of my family and not get punished? Think again, bitch! Akito lifted the girl's chin up, and saw fear in her eyes. Her lips started to tremble, catching his attention.

"What beautiful lips you have," he whispered. The girl nodded, and swallowed the lump in her throat. Tohru whimpered as he neared her. Akito traced her lips with his index fingers. What soft lips you have. A virgin in kissing, perhaps? Well, I'll change that. The psychotic look in his eyes didn't help the fact that she was trying to calm down. Squeezing her eyes shut she prayed for the boys to come home and save her."Why are you squeezing your eyes closed like that!" Akito's tempered flared, "How dare you disrespect me by not looking at me! You should be honored to be bestowed with my presence! What are you trying to say with the closing of your eyes? Are you saying that I am hideous?"

Tohru's eyes whipped open and she shook her head furiously, "I do not think you are ugly! I'm sorry, Akito-san! I'm so, so, so sorry! I -" Akito cut her off by slapping her. Tohru fell to the floor, bleeding in the places Akito's nailshad scratched her. Akito's eyes shone like onyx.

He crouched down to meet her gaze, and got a centimeter away from her face, "Having fun?" Tohru frighteningly, whimpered.

Akito whispered, "Good." Then he ripped off her dish-washing gloves and threw them on the ground. Then he slapped her so hard, she fell unconscious. Leaving the note he had pre-written for Shigure, Kyo, and Yuki, Akito carried Tohru out the door, not bothering to shut it.Akito placed the unconscious girl in the backseat of Hatori's car.

"Drive," he instructed, harshly. Hatori turned around to look at Tohru, a bruise was forming on the left of her cheek. He winced, he felt guilty he had been a part of this. He wanted so much to have stopped Akito. He had failed Tohru miserably.

- FLASHBACK -

"Akito, please! Don't do this," Hatori begged, "What has she done? Spare her!"

Akito whipped around, "Are you questioning your god? I'll tell you what she has done, that filthy bitch walked right into the lives of the cursed ones. There's a reason why there are cursed Hatori. They are not meant to have any luxuries or pleasures! They only serve their god, me." Akito's voice was laced with venom and hate.

Hatori desperately tried once more, "Akito, your condition! Your health! You would risk your well being for -"

Akito silenced him with a glare, "Start the car Hatori. You only live to serve me, your god. What I says goes."

- FLASHBACK OVER -

"Well, what are you waiting for dammit!" Akito snapped Hatori's head back to face him, "Stop worrying about the little wench and drive." Hatori nodded and started the car, shifting the gear to reverse. Hatori turned back around to make sure he didn't hit anything, and took a another quick glimpse at Tohru. Hatori, now facing front, started the long drive home. He prayed that Kyo and Yuki would not come after Tohru, it would only cause more of a stir. He prayed that their affection for Tohru would not overlook the fact that Akito would punish them, as well as Tohru, if they did come. God, don't fail me now.

Akito smiled pleasantly. She ought to know her place, and who better than I to teach her, her lesson?