AN: Alright everyone! This is the last time we go into Fruits Basket land! This one will be kind of short but the last one was kind of long so I'm sure you'll forgive me.
I don't own Fruits Basket and blah blah blah...
The next day, Shigure came over but I pretended I wasn't home. I wanted to see what made me disappear before I talked to him again so I sat in bed, watching movies. Only getting out to eat. Around 6, Shigure finally left, giving up. At 10, I fell asleep.
When I woke up, I was in the kitchen with Tohru, talking, "So I think we should ask now."
"Yes, I agree," she said and we carried the last plate out.
Shigure sat down at the table and said, "Ah! Where to start..."
"Shigure?" I asked.
When he turned to look at us, Tohru said, "Tomorrow... we'd like to go see Akito, if that's okay." Yuki and Kyo, in the doorway, gasped.
Shigure sighed and said, "Can I talk to you two outside for a moment?" he stood up and we followed him outside as Yuki and Kyo went in. He turned to face us, "About Akito... the reason he only has a short time left to live... is because he bears what you might call the core of the Zodiac Curse. This was decided at the time he was born. And despite what may hope, there's nothing he or any of us can do to change it. All we can do... The Sohmas, I mean... is live the way he tells us. But that's us... as for you two... I think it might be best if you stayed away from him... okay?"
"Okay..." we said.
But the next day, he took us anyway. So we headed over to the main house. Tohru kneeled up front, Shigure and Yuki behind her then Hatori and I in the back. Akito was laying down right outside.
"I admire your nerve," Akito said, "What've you come here for? Go on... tell me... I won't be angry... What have you come here for?"
After a moment of silence, Tohru said, "I don't know..."
Akito sat up quickly then stood up and walked over to Tohru, standing in front of her. Then he grabbed her hair and yanked her down. Yuki and Shigure jumped up and rushed to restrain him. I, however, jumped up to kick his ass and Ha'ri knew it so he restrained me so I wouldn't. He had a hold of my upper arms.
Akito looked around in surprise then said angrily, "It's not that you don't know, is it?! You just can't say it can you?! Well, let me say it for you! You want to tell me that you want to go on living with everyone in that house! But I won't allow it! I will make you regret you ever had anything to do with the Sohmas. I will make you suffer! I will make you suffer as we suffer! Did you think by coming here and kneeling before me you could change anything?! Well let me tell you, you can't! None of you can! You can never leave the Sohmas! Just like you can never go against me!" he stopped t look down at Tohru, who had started crying, and laughed. "Now... I want to hear you beg me for forgiveness... Say you'll never interfere with the Sohmas again."
Tohru let out a few more sobs then said in a watery voice, "It must have been very painful, Akito, being told on the day you were born... That you were going to die. It must have been so painful."
"What was? What do you know about it?!" Akito asked angrily.
"You're right... I can't even imagine... How awful it would be to know something like that... or terrifying Shigure... and Yuki... and Kyo... I'm sure they feel the same way... and Hatori too... And when you pass away, we'll be sad... We'll be very sad to lose you... And so..."
There was a pause then with a sneer, Akito replied, "Who's going to be sad? Everyone is able to live, thanks to me. They all hope I'll be gone quickly. I was born in order to die... That's what was decided."
"But why... Who decided it had to be like that?" Tohru lifted her head, "Akito, right now, you're alive, aren't you?"
"Alive? You call this being alive? It's been decided! It's been decided and hey never even asked me!" Akito yelled and Yuki, Shigure and Ha'ri all gasped.
"I... I didn't know my mom was going to die..." Tohru said tearfully.
Akito yanked her hair again, saying, "Silence! Stop talking! Hatori! I want you to erase these girls' memories! Do it! Now! Hatori!" but Ha'ri didn't leave me side. He moved his one of his hands down my arm and grasped mine in his.
"I wanted her to live a long time... I wanted her... to be here, to watch me..." Tohru continued, tears falling to the floor.
"Stop crying... Stop it! Stop crying!" Akito pleaded.
"And I don't know what your family's curse is... but... I'm happy... I'm happy that I know you... Akito..." Tohru said, making Akito's eyes widen, "And I don't regret meeting you... or anyone... not at all..." Tohru looked up at Akito and looked right into his eyes, "I wanna know you...Please tell me how you feel... Even if you're angry, or bitter, or frustrated... that's okay! Because the important thing is... right now, Akito... you're alive."
Akito stared at her with a whirlwind of emotions playing about his face. He released her hair and moved away from her. Yuki and Shigure straightened up tentatively, making Akito push them both down. Then Akito back away, staring at Tohru.
"I don't know," he mumbled.
After that, we were ordered to leave and we left in a hurry. We were almost to the door of the gate when we heard Kyo yell, "Hey!" he jumped down from the wall and ran toward us then stopped in front of us. After a pause, he said, "Well, come on, you damn rat! Tell me what happened in there!"
"Oh, uh... nothing, really..." Tohru assured, "I guess it was presumptuous of me to think anything would change if came here today."
"Oh, no... That's not true at all..." Ha'ri said.
"No... indeed, it's not," Shigure agreed.
"What're you talkin' about?" Kyo asked Shigure.
Who said, "Oh uh... nothing. Just thinking out loud."
"No you weren't!" Kyo insisted.
"Um, I promise to explain everything once I get home, okay?" Tohru said.
"And Kyo?" Yuki said.
"What do you want?" Kyo asked.
"We should have a fight once we get there, too," Yuki suggested then continued walking.
Kyo closed his eyes and punched a fist into his palm then said gloatingly, "Ah, ready to face the music, huh? Well it's about time!" Then, realizing Yuki had walked past him and was already close to the gate, said, "Hey! Hold on! I'm not letting you out of my sight!"
He pushed between Shigure and Ha'ri and ran up to Yuki. Shigure said, "Well I see he's feeling lively again today."
I turned to Tohru, "You were great!"
"Really?" she asked happily.
"Oh yeah! I was gonna kick his ass but someone restrained me," I gestured at Ha'ri, who smiled at me.
"That's okay. Thanks for the support though," she smiled and hugged me.
"Hey!" Kyo yelled, getting our attention, "Can we hurry up already?! I don't care if it's leftovers or what, I gotta eat! I'm starvin' over here!"
"Right! Coming!" Tohru ran between Ha'ri and Shigure toward Yuki and Kyo.
"Well, gentlemen," I said, getting their attention then, I took Shigure's right hand and Ha'ri's left and we started walking, "Let's go home."
we walked like that all the way home. When we got there, I told Shigure and Ha'ri to wait in the living room and I went to make tea. The door to the kitchen opened and I turned around, expecting Tohru. Instead, there stood john... with a gun that he was pointing directly at me.
"Come with me!" he ordered, pointing the gun at me, "Or I'll go in there and kill your boyfriends."
"Okay, don't be hasty. I'm coming!" I said, hands raised, "Can I at least leave a note?"
"No! Come on, hurry!" he said, grabbing my arm and running out the back door.
We ran through the woods for a very long time. I was thinking the entire way what Ha'ri and Shigure will think when the tea kettle goes off and I don't come back. They'll probably go in there and find me nowhere. They'll search all over the house, I'm sure. They might even comb the forest when they realize I'm not in the house anymore. We reach the top of a hill and I got the last glimpse of our house before we ran down it again. We got to the end of the woods where a car sat, waiting for us. We jumped in and drove off.
"This is how this is going to work. You're my girlfriend now, all right? We're going to be very happy okay?" John ordered.
"Got it, please stop waving that thing around, you're going to shoot my head off or something," I said.
"All right, here we are, at a friend of mine's. He's going to erase your memories of those dorks," he said, gesturing that I get out. We went inside and then my world went black.
AN: Only one more left....