DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fruits Basket or any of the characters except for Fury.

FURY'S POV

My head hurt like hell as I sat up in the dim room. For a moment I wondered how I had gotten here, but then the memories of the previous night came flooding back to me. Taking a quick glance around the room my eyes changed so they could better see and instantly horror made my blood ran cold.

I was in a cell, with bars on the blackened windows and a heavy steel door bolting me inside. This room was exactly like the one I had been kept prisoner in for so many years. Why? Why am I here? I began to grow panicky. I knew he would make me pay for my failure and at the thought I could almost feel my heart stop.

"Do you think she's awake yet?" I heard a voice ask from the other side of the door.

"No. She shouldn't be awake for another three days." A stern voice replied. "She also won't be able to move well either." No wonder my body hurts like hell.

Suddenly the door swung open and the man who had dropped the vial walked in followed by Shigure. For a moment they just stared at me in shock and I couldn't help but to smile. "I guess you're not happy to find me awake?"

The man I didn't know gained his composure first and asked, "Can you move?"

"Why don't you come closer and find out." I asked innocently, yet he knew that if he approached me he would find I could move, if awkwardly, and he'd be in some serious pain.

"Shigure come help me for a second." The mystery man said. "I need you to hold her down for me."

"B- But I don't wanna, Hatori!" Shigure said with a pleading look on his face. With one cold look from the man, no his name was Hatori, he shut up and approached me cautiously. I didn't even put up a fight as he grasped my arms and put them behind my back. Hatori, who I was guessing just had to be a doctor, stepped forward and in a highly professional manner injected me with a similar looking vial.

"Pick her up and escort her to the meeting room." Hatori said and walked out the door. I sighed inwardly, now I couldn't even feel my body anymore.

KYO'S POV

Kyo wasn't quite sure why he, Yuki, Shigure, Hatori, Ayame, Haru, Momiji, and Tohru had been forced to come to this room, but he had a sinking feeling that this had to do with the girl, Fury.

Suddenly Akito came into the room, wearing his usual robe and sneer and sat down at the window. Kyo had explained the whole story to Akito last night and now that everything had been explained he wondered why he was here. Why are we all here?

"Bring her in." Akito demanded and immediately Hatori and Shigure left the room and came back with a limp but fully awake Fury in their midst. They helped her to sit down in a mat in the front of the room as if she was on display and she just sat looking for all-the-world like she didn't even care.

"This is the girl that almost killed you?" Akito asked, still looking out the window.

"Yes, Akito." Shigure replied.

For a while no one spoke and just watched Akito and Fury, who looked like she had fallen asleep. "Didn't I warn you about this?" Akito hissed softly. "Didn't I warn you that people would want to deny you the right to live? But did you listen?" Akito stood up and slammed the wall with his fist. "No! You did not listen! You so easily gave an assassin your trust! You all could have ensured the demise of the Sohma family!"

Everyone remained silent. Suddenly Akito turned to Fury and grasped her face in one hand. "Did you think you could kill us all? Who wants us dead? Who?" When Fury remained silent Akito pulled a whip out from behind his back and said sinisterly, "You don't want to talk? Now I'll show you what happens to traitors!"

Everyone winced as Akito viscously slammed the whip into the girl's back again and again. Kyo suspected Fury to cry out in pain or beg for him to stop, but instead she said nothing making it look as if he were merely stroking her back softly. How can she keep such a straight face? Tohru began to cry and sobbed into Yuki's shoulder, while Haru turned Momiji's head away from the beating. Hatori and Shigure watched with emotionless faces and Yuki wore one of horror. Kyo could not help but to want to leave the room, but knew if he did he'd probably receive similar treatment.

YUKI'S POV

Memories flooded Yuki's mind as he looked at the savage beating Akito was giving Fury. He remembered the room that had been reserved for him and how much the whip had hurt, even when Akito hadn't put his full strength into the blows. As he watched, he found himself in disbelief at the lack of emotion or pain on the girl's face. It has to hurt… How can she not cry out?

Absentmindedly he had begun to stroke Tohru's hair in comfort. Poor Miss Honda. This might too much for her…

Suddenly Yuki heard a sound he thought he would never hear at this moment. Fury was laughing.

KYO'S POV

Why is she laughing? Is she insane? Looking at Fury, Kyo noted how fast her eyes were changing colors and how she seemed oblivious to the blows being dealt to her. Is she made of ice? Her mirthless laugh made him get goose bumps.

Stunned by the display Akito stopped the savage beating and screamed, "Why are you laughing? Are you mocking me?"

"You really want to know?" Fury asked teasingly and Kyo could see Aktio's features darken. Without warning she pulled her shirt off, leaving only a bra on, turned around, and lifted her hair from blocking the view of her back.

What he saw, almost made Kyo feint.