Chuuin: Watakushi wa Fruits Basket no shoyuuken issai arimasen. Douzo yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

A/N: This chapter was quite fun to write. I got to do a scene I have been planning since the moment I conceived this story. In fact I wish I was better at drawing, because I would love to see it. I have this image of their faces that is just priceless.

Title comes from Sugar, We're Going Down by Fall Out Boy, but you should know that, and I don't what to hear any complaints about the verse being gun instead of god. I have used the right lyrics, so get over it.

Trouble just seems to follow us wherever we go. It's probably why I keep ending up in the hospital. If it's not a megalomanic trying to take over the world, it's out of control battle androids. At least, Mahoro is easier on the ears then Kurumi. If only these worlds would put as much time into finding cures for medical problems, as they did into finding ways to kill each other, I wouldn't end up in these situations. Next time Tokino wants to help fight whatever is attacking at the moment, I'm going to lock her in the subspace warp until the urge passes.-- excerpt from Unexpected Detours. A Drifters Dairy.

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"You failed! We gave you ten of our best men, and you still failed!"

"Yes, this is not tolerable. You had promised us results, yet the drifter eludes us still."

"The four Pillars were given this task, so far none have succeeded. Perhaps you are not worthy of the title bestowed upon you. We will take this matter up with Deva."

"Return to your task, Jarvis, the fourth pillar, guardian of the east tower, and pray that our lord Deva is forgiving."

Jarvis slammed his fist against the wall as soon as the door closed behind him. How dare those pompous old men try to hold power over him.

"Their best indeed. Weaklings all of them. The cybernetics worked perfectly, if their best couldn't handle it, it's not my concern."

Footsteps in the corridor drew his attention away from his rant. A woman appeared before him, a small girl following close at her heels.

"Now, now Jarvis don't let it bother you. Romm and the rest of the council are fools. Sheep pretending to be wolves have no real bite. The council is just there for appearances, we need not worry about what they say. We four answer to Deva and Deva alone."

She ran a lacquered fingernail down his chest in a manner that would have been seductive, if she wasn't so openly trying to be so. Instead, Jarvis looked down to the child at the woman's side. She had a split lip and the area around the corner of her mouth had turned purple.

"You shouldn't be so hard on your little toy. You might end up breaking her beyond repair. I won't fix her again, Frill. Not without payment at least." He gave her a lecherous look. Frill smiled cruelly and backed away.

"Come along Silk, we must be going now. We don't want to keep Deva waiting. Do we?"

The girl shook her head so violently it might have flown off if it wasn't so well attached. Jarvis scowled down at her and she fled off down the hall after her mistress. He watched them disappear around the corner, then headed to his own quarters. Deva indeed. The man was rarely seen anymore, not even by the council of eight. Not since that day. The other three took it lightly and the council couldn't care less so long as their own ambitions were met.

The chances of Frill actually being summoned by Deva were small, and Jarvis chalked it up to her trying to make herself sound important. He had better things to deal with. A talk with Legion was in order.

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When Tokino had offered to heal the wound, he had declined. Hatori would be checking on him and was planning on removing the stitches in seven days or so. It would be suspicious to have the cut suddenly gone without a trace. So, Kyou had dutifully remained slashed and stitched, and took his pain killers and antibiotics without complaint. They made him tired and sluggish, causing him to sleep though anything. At first this had been a nice change from waking at every gust of wind, now, however,...he stared at the bandage covering Tohru's cheek and seethed.

Akito would pay for this, oh yes, she would. Perhaps a few hard lessons were in order. A demonstration of his capabilities, and he knew just the place for it. Tokino will be pleased, ever since she had heard, she worried about it. He was also under the impression that Tohru knew as well, now. She hadn't said anything and she wasn't acting different, but she kept giving him this strange look, when she thought noone was watching. She hadn't acted this way yesterday, and he could only assume the whore had told the poor girl just to upset her. Kyou certainly wouldn't put it past Akito to do something like that.

A talking to first, then massive property damage. He could get on the grounds easily enough, security for the main house sucked, the problem was, he didn't really know his way around the grounds. He had only been there once to his knowledge and that had been because of his disappearance. He knew how to find the room he had been in but that was all. Night was the best time for this, when everyone was asleep in bed and unaware. He would need to find Akito's bedroom, get in and get out without anyone else knowing of his presence. A layout of the place, the three-dimensional scanner would work. He'd have Tokino do surveillance tonight, and go in tomorrow night. It'd be over and done with before school on Monday.

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Kureno had been working late and finally sleep was demanding his attention. The sky had long ago turned dark and the moon was almost full. He was about to leave the office when a noise caught his attention. A strange sound like the hum of a computer, but he had just turned his off. A cursory glance at the machine proved it's innocence. He listened closely, determining it was coming from the hall. He moved to the door, his hand was on the handle ready to fling open the door, when a green glowing lazer line drifted across the room. His eyes followed the light as it passed over the entirety of the room, including himself. The hum was moving away and he could just make out something moving outside the window.

Peering out into the night Kureno watched as small round objects floated about. The things were emiting the light and now seemed to have finished whatever their task had been. Was the family under some kind of attack? Had someone found out their secret? Aliens planning abductions? Okay so, maybe the last one was a bit far fetched. His eyes found a silhouette of a person sitting on the property wall, the light of the moon casting their features into shadows. Still, he could make out the form of a laptop balanced on their knees as they closed it. The small, floating orbs were moving toward the person and dissappearing just behind. Suddenly, they stood and for a moment the light of the moon reflected off their eyes causing them to glow bright yellow. Not just a small part of the eye, but the whole of them, and so brightly it was as if the person had lightbulbs for eyes. Peoples eyes didn't do that.

Kureno rubbed at his own and when he looked at the wall again the person was gone. He decided that he must be more tired then he thought and went to bed.

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Tokino threw open the door to announce her triumphant return. The remote scanners zoomed around her before docking in their assigned spaces.

"Mission Accomplished, Master." she beamed at him, then continued into the lab. "But you haven't used this in awhile. I thought you had decided not to do the grand theft thing, and your own family? What happened to keeping a low profile? Not that I care really, but what are we stealing? Valuable jewels? Priceless works of art? Conspiracy evidence? The property wall?", she handed over a disk from the computer.

"Try Akito's sense of self-righteousness. I just want a private talk with her and then if she still doesn't understand a few things, a little surprise for the whole family." , he said, as he finished loading the disk into the main console. An electronic voice rang out from the speakers as Kyou started the program.

"Initializing three-dimensional graphics display." the area they stood in was suddenly filled with a grid display of the Sohma House.

"Adjusting to actual size." the grid expanded until they were standing in the middle of it.

"Commence layering." the grid became solid looking and they could tell they were in a hall.

"Adding color and texture." the smooth, grey of everything was filled in with brown woods and eggshell colored walls. The glossed floor showed off their reflections.

"Adjusting for sound." one could faintly hear the outside nightlife now, the rustling of trees, the chirping of insects, the creaking of floorboards, and the nocturnal sounds of the houses inhabitants.

"Well, shall we?" Kyou gave a mock bow and swept his arms to one side of the hall. Tokino curtseyed in response.

"Yes, let's."

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Akito was sleeping rather peacefully tonight, and in fact, had done so the night before as well. And why shouldn't she be, she had put the gorgon in her place. True, she hadn't expected the rabbit to be there, or to interfere, but still... Tohru Honda shouldn't be a threat to her control any more, not after that. She shifted slightly as something niggled at her awareness. Something strong and angry seemed to fill the room and she woke with a start.

The room had gone pitch black. So much so that she couldn't even make out the outlines of the furniture decorating her bedroom. She had left the window open, the light from the moon should allow for some vision. She began to panic. Was her illness now taking her eyesight? Or had the darkness in her own heart finally escaped into the rest of the world?

"What's the matter? Are you scared?" a familiar voice. Akito became angry. The darkness retreated to normal night.

"You! You do not have permission to be here. Come out where I can see you!"

"You attacked Tohru. And Momiji. Now why did you do that?" Kyou stepped out of the shadows and moved toward the futon, his every move as silent as a grave.

"I was merely educating the ignorant."

"Really, it's not your place to do so. Why were you even out there so late at night."

"It's Sohma property, therefore mine. I can go wherever I want on it, when ever I want! And noone, especially you, has a right stop me! Now, get out!"

"You're awfullly full of yourself. It still doesn't give you the right to hurt people just because you feel like it."

"I'm god, I can do as I please!" she moved forward to strike him, to prove her point if nothing else, but instead he caught her wrist.

"You. Are. Not. God. You are nothing more than a host for a spirit with no body of it's own, that is unable to move on. Your only power is the fear you instilled in those younger then you and the mind games you play with those older. You're not as special as you seem to think you are. You're just a human like the rest of us. I was hoping not to resort to extreme measures, but you leave me little choice. Let me show you just how little power you have over us. Over me."

He let her go with just enough force to send her stumbling back, and when she looked up after regaining her balance, he was gone.

Tokino watched her master stomp away and she let the kekkan drop. She followed after him around to the back of the house, and along a path that led to a flight of concrete steps. Kyou didn't bother with them, choosing instead to simply leap to the top. The building at the top was in a sorry state. Looking old and dilapidated, save for the bars on the one window. Even the stone walkway was cracked. He gave the handle a jiggle. It didn't open.

"Now, on quick examination I'd have to say this building is not suitable for living conditions. I'm afraid I'm going to have to condemn it." He said with a straight face.

"Wow. There is a lot of negative energy being discharged. It's all flowing into the main house. Destroying the source should cause it to dispel. We'd be doing them all a favor." Tokino assessed.

"Bakusai Tenketsu should do the trick.. With luck this structure is all that is keeping the tortured souls trapped in it from moving on." he walked around it, studying the walls. Finally Kyou came to a stop at a spot that looked no different then the rest to the normal eye. He reached out and poked it, the barest tap with one finger. A small crack appeared were he had touched it, slowly it spead. A great webbed pattern began to rapidly grow along the wall. It trembled, minor at first, then violently as the cracks picked up speed.

Then with a great shudder the whole thing collapsed in on itself. Tokino looked up at Kyou in silence.

"That was kinda pathetic for a Bakusai Tenketsu."

"Give me a break it's been a while since I've used it. The actual breaking point was on the inside and it still did the job."

"If it was on the inside, why didn't you just go inside to hit it?"

"The door was locked."

There is quiet contemplation as the two consider the pile of rubble that was once known as The Cat's House. The door is in there...somewhere.

"Your logic astounds the mind, Master."

"Oh shut up. It's been a long night. Let's get going, we have school tomorrow."

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The ruckus had awoken the bulk of the Sohma family. Lights are turning on in windows and people are coming out of the their homes to see what has caused the commotion. Soon the news spread, and whispers of awe and fear grew. The entirety of the main house is now aware of the destruction. Kyou and Tokino are moving swiftly though the trees, heading to Shigure's house when Akito's scream is heard. They are moving to fast to be distinquished by the human eye. Tokino has gone back to the apartment and Kyou is safely in bed when the call comes from the estate. Whether, it's the wrath of heaven or hell apon them the cat's cage had been destroyed. A ripple is felt by the cursed, something has changed and for good or evil, an end is coming.

In a brightly lit room, a man sat. He was what one would call handsome, his light brown hair neatly combed, his clothing starched and pressed to perfection. The food lay before him, steaming and untouched. He would eat it eventually, there was no point in starving himself over his worries. He couldn't afford such weaknesses or illnesses that a lack of proper nutrition would bring. Not with the Drifter still in control of the gate.

They were close to gaining the relic and with it the key to opening paradise. The universe, all universes would bow to his reign. He would rule as god on high. A servant came and shut the drapes over the window, blocking off the view. That was fine with Deva, there was nothing out there to see. He finally picked up his fork and began his dinner. Zero space just wasn't a pleasant view to have during ones meal.

Omake

Cagey Intentions Pt.1

Akito allowed himself to smile. The day everyone(at least in his mind) had waited for was finally here. School was over and the cat was his now. He glanced behind him to get a good look at the boy. Kyou was trudging behind him, head lowered, a duffel bag slung over his shoulder. The monster was finally getting what he deserved. Akito took great pleasure in opening the door to the one room house and gestering Kyou in. The boy suddenly looked a bit defiant. Akito figured it best to stop any attempt at backing out now.

"Don't even think of running now. You promised to go willingly. I don't want to have to call someone to drag you in, but I will if I have too."

"I said I'd go and I'm going." and with head held high he stomped into the house. Akito all but slammed the door shut and practically squealed in glee at the sound of the lock sliding in to place. He would have skipped down the steps if he hadn't been to frail to do so. He certainly didn't want to get hurt falling down the stairs now. This was the best day of his life, it would be a shame to ruin it. He was half way down, when a crashing noise reached his hears.

Akito froze and turned around to look back at the cage in time to see Kyou walk up behind him. The cat continued on as if nothing had happen and began toward the main gate. Not bothering with the lock, Kyou had simply ripped the door off.

"W,w,w,what do you think your doing?"

Kyou stopped and looked back at Akito. His head was high and his step had been light as if he was merely going out for a stroll. As if he had the freedom to do so.

"I said I'd go. I never said I'd stay. It's boring in there and I have a date with Tohru tomorrow. She'd be upset and mope the rest of the day if I canceled on her. I can't have that, now can I." With that having been said Kyou walked away, leaving Akito standing, dumbfounded on the stairs.

Japanese Word of the Day

Hakai - destruction

Nekkyo - crazy ( /\/\ hehehe fun with japanese to english spelling)

Original Character Bios

Frill

Frill's childhood was much like Kyou's up to a point. She was always being compared to other family members children only to be told by her parents that she didn't measure up. Finally, having enough of this treatment she set out to prove just how good she really was by killing the whole lot with their own poisons when she was fourteen. After that, with no family or money, she turned to a life of crime and prostitution, offering up her services both in the bed and in the hired killers business. It was Deva who found her and took her in after recognizing her value in the field. She only seeks to attain glory and fortune for herself and is more then willing to let others do all the hard work for her. In a twisted way she is in love with Deva because he was the first person to outwordly praise her abilities. She picked up Silk out of a desperate atempt to mimic Kyou and Tokino in order to get more attention from Deva.