Tohru's Demons

Chapter Two: Tohru's Strange, Strange Behavior


"What is that...?" Kyo said, eyeing the winged thing warily. Tohru, ignoring him, reached up and gently took the thing from her shoulder and, holding it at arms length, looked it up and down critically.

It was about the size Kyo was whenever he transformed into a cat, with dark blue gray fur and black markings tipping its bottlebrush tail, pointed ears, snout, and running it strips down its legs.

"Rahallion, what are you doing here?" she finally said breathlessly. The Sohmas stared at her incredulously at this statement, and then all started talking at once.

"Honda-san, you know who that is?!"

"Don't you mean 'what'?!"

"Tohru-kun, how did it get here?!"

"That isn't an animal from around here..."

"Is it an alien?!!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Honda-san, say something!" Tohru shook herself and looked around confusedly and her eyes landed on the shattered mess on the floor.

"OH MY GOD, SHIGURE-SAN I BROKE ALL OF YOUR TEACUPS!!!"

Dead silence greeted this statement.

"Uh, Tohru-kun, that isn't really what I'm worried about..." said Shigure, waving a hand as he and the rest struggled up from the floor shakily. They'd all fallen on their faces for some reason. "Now, can you please explain that... thing...? And what it's doing here? You seem to be acquainted."

"Actually, I don't know what he's doing here, either," she answered, setting Rahallion on the table, then stood back and surveyed him piercingly with her hands on her hips, her brows knitted together in thought.

"Human." She said firmly and clearly for no apparent reason, and snapped her fingers. Kyo would have asked her why she was acting so oddly, but a blast of wind came out of the table beneath Raha, blowing his fur in all directions and his body blew apart and upward with a sound like a rain maker, and then instantaneously reformed. Before them stood a boy who looked exactly like Tohru, but for his much shorter, slightly wind blown hair, and slightly narrower red eyes because he was currently glaring down at them all from the table with a look of minor disgust.

And he was completely naked.

"Eeeek!!!" shrieked Tohru and clapped her hands to her eyes.

"I forgot about that..." she muttered regretfully. "Kyo-kun? Could he please borrow some of your clothes?"

"Yeah... Sure..." Kyo answered vaguely, not really knowing to what he was agreeing to. "Come on, I'll... show you to my room..." Raha hopped off the table and swept by him.

"Don't bother," he said shortly. "I know where it is." And he disappeared into the hall and Kyo sank back into his seat, staring disbelievingly, before he turned on Tohru.

"How does he—?!" he started but Tohru whirled, crying in a high-pitched voice, "I'm going to clean up that mess now!" and ran into the kitchen at top speed. She came back with the trashcan and began throwing broken teacup into it.

"Tohru, how does he know where my room is?" Kyo demanded.

"More importantly, Honda-san," said Yuki. "Is he human? And what is his connection to you?" Tohru stopped cleaning and sighed. The other Sohmas turned rapt attention on her, waiting for her to say something.

"Answering your question, Kyo-kun," she said slowly and Kyo smirked at Yuki, who ignored him. "He knows where your room is because...How can I say this? Well, to put it bluntly, he's me. Well, not technically, but... That is... well, the thing is..."

"Just spit it out!" Hiro snapped angrily.

"You've heard the saying, 'face your inner demons', right? Well Raha is my inner demon. He's my unconsciousness, put into physical form. A familiar of sorts. And I believe that answers your questions as well, Yuki-kun."

"But... how is that possible?" Shigure asked slowly.

"Magic? I don't really know myself. Why are you all looking at me like I'm crazy...? You all turn into animals whenever you're hugged, he's my unconscious self," she said, pointing at Raha who had just walked back in, fully clothed in Kyo's black T-shirt and green cargo pants. "It can't be any less possible."

"Ren, I see the animals have domesticated you," Raha commented with a smirk. Tohru shot him a reproachful look and said with a sigh, "Being the semi-demon that he is, he's a lot more meaner than I am." She turned to look at her familiar. "Now I have some questions for you, now that everyone can understand you."

"Shoot."

"What are you doing here?"

"Yeah, I heard that one already, anything else?"

"But you didn't answer it!" Tohru protested.

"And I'm not going to. Second question."

"But why...?"

"Because I'm not allowed to!" Raha barked furiously, making poor Tohru jump nervously.

"Don't talk to Honda-san like that." Yuki warned in a dangerously quiet voice.

"Yeah, you better watch your mouth, punk!" Kyo snarled, raising a fist threateningly.

"Wh-who says you can't...?" Tohru asked shakily, trying to calm the two of them down. Raha sighed irritably and ran a hand through his hair.

"Artemis. But you won't remember him."

"Remember him...? Come to think of it, I don't remember you either... I mean, I've never seen you, but I knew your name... And somehow I remember that you never do what anyone says, so... Oh... Oh, I'm confused..." Tohru sat down, her head spinning, and rubbed her temples. "Why is that...?" she asked, looking at Raha.

"I'm not allowed to answer that, either."

"Are you going to answer any of my questions...?"

"That depends on what you ask," Raha replied carelessly. Again, everyone had to get up off the floor. After they were seated, again, Tohru said, "So what can you tell me?"

"I thought you'd never ask," Raha said sarcastically. "I can tell you where we are going and that we have to leave immediately."

To be continued...


Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket

Well, there's the second chapter! Hope you liked reading it as much as I liked writing it! Anyway, this is my first fanfiction ever in my entire life and I can't believe how well it's done. I actually didn't want to write one for a long time, I just enjoyed reading them, but I got this idea, and as an attempt to inspire myself in another original project I'm working on I started this, but then I got obsessed and now I can't stop. I just have to know how it ends! Or rather, I just have to tell you, because I already have a vague idea...

- Raha -