Neither Fruits Basket nor the Fruits Basket characters belong to me. They are still the property of Natsuki Takaya. heavy sigh
Hi all, I'm back with a relatively short fic this time. The plot is quite simple compared to those I have devised in the past...this is due to a lack of time more than anything else. If I wanted to finish a story, I had to keep it simple.
I hope you will read and enjoy...please let me know what you think...good or bad. Thanks so much.
Our Spring
by: Otaku Mom
Prologue
He sat up in bed; it was going to be another sleepless night. There had been too many of those lately. Tomorrow Akito would be buried but tonight he had to deal with his memories once again. He was cursed with the ability to remove a person's memory and had been called upon to do so many times by the head of the family. The most unfortunate part of the curse was that he could not remove his own memories. He slipped his robe over his pajamas and took a seat at his desk. The picture of Kana stared back at him, a reminder that spring had existed for a while. It had gone away by his own hand and then come again with a young woman who had come to live with the Sohmas for three short wonderful years. He's had to erase her memory and that of his younger cousins. She disappeared from their lives and memories but the effect of her presence never did. That was a small blessing. He remembered that day. It was the one that kept him awake every night.
Tohru Honda walked down the path to Hatori's office. She kept a smile upon her face as she bowed politely to each of the younger Sohmas. Yuki…Kyo…Kisa…Momiji…Hiro…Hatsuharu…Kagura…Ritsu…they were all along the path. Yesterday they had been her friends; today they were strangers by the decree of Akito. Ayame and Shigure were nowhere to be seen; they were probably in Akito's quarters. She approached the doctor who was watching her with solemn eyes. He invited her in the office and shut the door. The forced smile on her face hurt more than her tears would have. "Hatori-san, no one else will remember, not even me…but I hope we will all be friends when we meet again.
"Honda-san, I will remember."
He'd kept that promise and allowed Ayame and Shigure to share in it as well. It would have been difficult to do otherwise given their absolute refusal to have their memories erased.