Title: Tohru's Task
Summary: Tohru made a pact with a god to save haru's soul, but what consequence does the onigiri have to pay? Sequel to Demon Days, the adventures of the afterlife abound, but somehow she has to keep up with a normal life. What's a messenger of the dead to do?
Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket, but I do think I own the idea of Tohru becoming a reaper! Just think about her ushering souls into the afterlife! Oh and Remi and almost any reaper in the future...
Chapter 21-
"Who's Yenma Sohma?" Kyo asked curiously, knowing that something had happened.
"Ask Saki he says he knew her," Shigure said slyly.
Saki frowned, "No."
"No, what?" Yuki asked.
"I don't know what he's talking about," Saki stated firmly.
"Obviously you do," Shigure said, going on to point out, "you're talking coherently. There's something you don't want us to know."
"Who's Yenma?" Yuki asked repeating the question.
"She's the Ox, before Haru," Saki sighed, not looking at anyone.
"SAKI!" Remi growled warningly.
"Umm… I think I have to leave now," Saki said and quickly got up, but was too late Kyo pushed him back down, holding onto his arms so he couldn't get away.
"Tell me who you are!" Kyo hissed angrily at the struggling blonde.
"I told you already!" Saki whined, trying to roll the cat off of him.
"No, you're a liar! Saki Edema Jiho- Sohma is dead! He died twenty years ago!" Kyo hissed.
"Oh, so that's your game," Remi snorted quietly.
"Yes, that's what we know," Yuki said eyeing the Egyptian.
"Well, if we're going on how long ago someone died, it has to be me," Remi said bluntly.
Saki and Kyo immediately stopped their fighting.
"Remi, what are you doing!" Saki asked him worriedly.
"Maybe, we should tell them, what have we fucking got to loose? Tohru almost fuckin' finished anyway," Remi sighed, "knowing anything wouldn't do them any fucking good. And it'd get them off our backs."
"But you know Jullen might be mad!" Saki whined helplessly.
"Saki's right," Tohru said, "just go."
Remi shook his head, "Jullen, won't be mad. Kyo's fucking captured Saki. And they want answers. Answers, I'm going to give them."
"All right," Tohru sighed, glancing away from them.
"Do all remember a certain event? One involving a certain demon ox; like six months ago? He was going to lose his soul?" Remi said hinting to the other three males.
They wearily shook their heads.
"And do you all remember how that problem just sort of miraculously went away?" Remi went on.
Again they shook their heads.
"Well, your dear little Tohru made a deal with Jullen, a god, in order to save his soul," Remi explained to them. They stared at him shocked then they're attention turned to Tohru. She looked back at them nervously and then back at the ground. "The deal she later learned involved being a repear."
"A reaper?" Shigure asked suddenly.
"That's what Saki and I are," Remi informed them, "Jullen adamantly picked me to buddy up with her and keep her alive. Remember I didn't like her then."
"Great. Pick the one person who didn't like her," Shigure said, seeing as how Yuki and Kyo were finding this all very hard to swallow.
"But with reason!" Tohru told them, "There's this snotty bitch named Narcise and she looks exactly like me!"
"Really?" Kyo asked.
Tohru nodded.
"So, this whole time you've been…" Yuki asked not finishing his sentence.
"Remember that day that that woman died in the grocery store and you guys thought I was all weirded out by it? I wasn't… I'm the one that took her to the afterlife," Tohru explained.
"And the both of you are dead?" Shigure asked curiously.
"Me and Saki… and Lulu… Eve… Fergie… all of us really," Remi pointed out.
"And so you taught Tohru how to block out the memory suppression?" Yuki said asking the blonde.
Saki nodded, "I've done it before."
"And how long ago did you die?" Shigure asked Remi.
"About 2,000 years ago," Remi shrugged.
"2,000 years ago!" Yuki and Kyo both asked stunned.
"He is Egyptian," Saki sighed, "and he's always angry about Egyptian Exhibits, I think it's because he wants them to leave his body alone."
"Okay, that just sounds really weird," Kyo sighed annoyed.
"Eve died about 650 years ago, Lulu died about 500 years ago, and Fergie died about 200 years ago," Remi told them off-handedly. "Probably why you couldn't find anything on them. I'm surprised someone gave you information on someone that died 20 years ago.
"Okay, that's kind of weird," Kyo told him annoyed.
"Well, we're reapers, so no, it's not," Remi replied with a small mischievous smile.
"Hey, you wanted to know and know you do. So how does it feel?" Saki snickered.
"Knowing that Tohru deals with death on a weekly basis," Remi added.
"It's weird," Yuki sighed, "I guess I really didn't want to know as badly as I thought."
"No one does," Saki stated, and he turned to Kyo, "Now could you get off of me!"
End of chapter 21-
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