You don't belong in a Fruits Basket!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own fruits basket. IN ANWAY/SHAPE/FORM…Maybe I do…-looks nervously at lawyers- I DON'T! –CRIES AND THEN TRIPS ON MEH FACE-
*mention of abuse, and some CRUDE curse words*
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"Mary had a little lamb…who went to school?"
A transparent girl laughed. "No, that's not how you do it, silly head!"
"Oh really? Please tell me how to sing it." A boy asked, holding a young soul girl's hand.
Roku was currently walking down to 'The Doors of Death' with a little girls tiny hand. Her parents had gotten into a fight, and in her father's drunken rage, he slammed a bear bottle on his poor daughters head. In the process, killing a little 4 year old.
"Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb! Mary had a little lamb, who's fleece was white as snow!" the girl giggled and grinned. "Wow, your very smart. I wish I was as smart as you." He lied to the little girl.
"Yes, I am very smart!" she puffed out her chest. "I can be a lion, or a zebra, or a doggie!" his eyes widened. "Wow! I wish I could do all those things!" she laughed. "I can't show you! A magician never reveals her secrets!"
He 'laughed' a fake laugh. "Are you happy?" she smiled. "I always wanted to be a teacher when I grow up." She smiled a sad smile. "And thanks to you, I got to be a teacher!" she giggled and ran to the doors of death, with an outstretched hand, and a deep laugh echoed as the doors closed. There, she would see her big brother again. He smiled. A real one this time. But he stopped smiling when he felt a presence nearby. Catching his aura, he relaxed. "Hey dude, what's up. You feeling cool?" Ice joked.
"That was the most corniest joke in history." He commented.
Ice rolled his eyes, and sat down on the rugged ground. The ground was soft, as it was made of clay. "You know you're in big trouble with the chief, right?"
Roku laughed nervously. "So what if I punched his son in the guts…I had every right to. He doesn't deserve to talk freely about my family. Especially not about Tohru…"
Ice shook his head.
"I thought, 'Hey, maybe if I break some ribs, maybe you can SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT MY SISTER.'"
Flashback
"OI, ROKU HONDA." A boy called out. Roku stopped walking through the corridors of the hall way. On his shoulder, his scythe sat, while he was holding some homework papers that he had gotten from his chief. On the paper, he was assigned to go to where a four year old was about to die. Shinigami had to get there BEFORE the person died. "What the hell is it, Kei?"
Kei was the chief's son, so he had to 'respect' him… The best to his ability of course…
"I haven't seen that slut in a while." Roku visibly stiffened. Though, being the stubborn fool that Kei was, he advanced. "Maybe I could…have a ride with her some time?" Roku's fist was in a white ball. 'No punching…no kicking…just walk. WALK DAMMIT' his feet were stuck to the ground. Then when his utterly disgusting aura came near him, he started to walk, very stiffly I might add.
"Yeah, I bet that little girl would love to have me inside her…screaming…" he whispered. Roku stopped. His eyes wide in disgust. "You are a disgrace." and he continued to walk. "Using such simple sentences, because your small walnut sized brain can't handle such complicated words?" he laughed out.
Next thing Kei knew, he was wheezing, before he could even take a breath. Roku was punching him repeatedly. A bunch of guards had to pull him up. Not one, but 5 guards had to pull him off the chief's son. As of now, Kei was a sore sight for the eyes. Roku as well. Had a fist print in his face, purple around his stomach, while Kei was wheezing for breath, and holding his stomach. With MULTIPLE bruises on his 'lovely face'. "I'M GONNA F****ING KILL YOU. HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT F***ING MY INNOCENT AND PURE SISTER. I'LL MAKE SURE THAT YOU GO TO THE DEEPEST PART OF HELL WHEN I KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP!"
The guards then put a tranquilizer gun near his head. He did NOT want to fall asleep, and let them take him where ever they please.
"I hate you…I will make sure that you NEVER touch a strand on my sisters hair. If you do, I will make sure that I beat the living F*** OUTTA YOU."
Roku shook himself out of the loosened grip of the guards. Grabbed his scythe, gave a cold wolf glare at him ( which he had perfected over the years ) and in return, got a 'glare' from Kei. He walked off. Oh. he was in big trouble. "Gosh, I need to go talk with Tohru…"
End of Flashback
"Come on, I was sent to take you there…" Roku sighed and put a hand on his forehead. Tohru can be a mean female dog when she wanted to…
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"Um…I think it was…No…"
Tohru was walking from work. After such a long day yesterday, they actually expected her not to come. 'Fat chance of that happening…' "Oooh…what am I supposed to say to the prince? I mean, you can't just go with the most popular person in school, and then act like a big gaping FISH. I mean…I haven't ever been with anyone of the opposite sex…alone anyway…"
As she was talking to herself, people looked at her, and shook their head sadly. Their faces saying 'You poor mental child'
She sighed when she finally got to her little tent. But what surprised her made her break down. "N-N-NO!" she ran quickly to the little tent that had everything inside. Her book bag, her homework…her album…under a pile of rocks.
"I don't like this place. It's to unsturdy. The walls could fall any minute."
"MOM! I'M SORRY!"
And her mother's picture. Her face red, and she sneezed, but continued to pull out the rocks. A big nasty looking red bruise formed on her arms, hands, and face.
She felt a calming presence behind her, and couldn't care less who it was. She winced when she felt a calming hand on her shoulder, and continued to cry, and pull out the rocks. Her hands hurt, but she shouldn't care. Mom was in there!
"It's useless Ms. Honda, come on, let's go tend those wounds." He grabbed her hand, but Tohru pulled away, like his hands were made of hot fire, or cold ice.
"No, Mom is still in there, I can't let her die!" she was moving to go and grab another rock with her bruised hand, but Yuki grabbed her hand again. "Come on, it's late. Come to my house, maybe we can do something for you? Get something for you to eat?" Tohru sniffed, then sneezed, and then walked behind Yuki, holding his hand with her burning hot one.
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Shigure was laughing.
He was laughing his pants off.
"AND YOU WERE LIVING IN A-" broke off in laughter. Yuki sighed. Shigure was sniffing, and coughing before stopping completely. "Are you done yet?" Yuki asked, and Shigure nodded stupidly. Tohru sneezed again, and sniffed. Yuki looked at her. "Are you ok?" she nodded and yawned. "Oh, I'm really sleepy…but I can't go back there…" Tohru had a VERY bad habit of talking out loud when she was thinking. "Maybe, you can stay here for the night?" Shigure asked hesitantly, knowing the Yuki was glaring at him, but did not disagree nonetheless. "OH NO! I CAN'T BURDEN YOU WITH MY STUPIDITY! I MEAN, I'M JUST WASTING THE AIR THAT YOU ALL ARE BREATHING, I SHOULD BE SOMEWHERE ELSE, A-A-AND-" she stopped when she saw the heavy look from Yuki. "It's no burden for us. We can't let you go out there. It's a bit chilly, and there are hobos in these woods who would love to take advantage of a innocent girl like you." Shigure said, in a perverted way. "Ad…vantage?" Tohru asked, still uneducated of the 'real world'
In reward of that perverted response, Shigure got punched in the back of the head by Yuki. "Would you like something to eat?" Tohru shook her head vigorously. "OH NO! I've already eaten dinner for free at work…so…" she coughed a bit. "Well, we weren't actually expecting you, so we don't have a room ready for you. Do you mind sleeping in the living room, with a futon?" Yuki asked.
"No! No! I don't mind at all actually!" she smiled. "Thank you for letting me sleep here. It truly is an honor." And she bowed her head. Yuki smiled. "It's no problem for us." Tohru sneezed and yawned again. "You can go take a shower, if you want Ms. Honda."
"Why thank you Yuki!" and grabbed her extra clothes from her work bag, and went upstairs to take a hot shower.
O.O.O.O.O.O.O
Tohru had already showered, and laid herself into the futon. But for some odd reason, she couldn't sleep.
Shigure sat beside her. "So, why exactly where you in the woods?"
Tohru sneezed, and smiled a bit. "I was with my twin brother." She stopped, then started again, her voice cracking from the coughs. "Our grandfather had a renovation, but we couldn't bother Hana, or Uo."
"Why didn't he take you with him?" Shigure asked quietly.
"Cause, where he was going, they didn't allow children." She looked up at the blank ceiling, suddenly finding it very interesting. "You have a mother, or a father, don't you? Why don't you go stay with them?" Tohru smiled sadly. A smile that Roku always told her to wipe off her face. "Daddy died first. Then mommy. It was a really long time ago though. So I can't remember everything. I remember the day she died." She sighed softly. "I remember how we were just celebrating my brother's birthday, his birthday was a day before mine. Which meant he was older one, and I was the younger one. We had just came back from eating and watching a movie. We were so tired. Our energy had been wasted by running from our mother in the mall, or starting food fights in the Chinese restaurants." Smiling softly, she sighed in remembrance. "I remember how me and Roku passed out right on top of each other the moment we got into the house. The next day, we slept in, and our mom went to work. Knowing we could keep each other and the house safe. Usually, before she leaves we say 'Be safe Mommy!' or usually Roku would hug moms feet, then say "DUN GO MUMMY!" but then, she has to leave anyway. She said "I'll always come back. Even if I don't, know that I'm watching you. So no stealing cookies!" and grabbed his little nose."
"But that day, mommy didn't come back. We…or I should say, I was to young to understand what had just happened. When dad died, I always thought he was asleep. And every single day, I was hoping that, he would come home, with open and wide arms. Just for me. I would always wait by the door, like I used to when dad was alive. I waited by the door. And sat there. All night, eventually falling asleep. But every day, I would wait for him. Him to say "OPPISITES, DADDY'S HOME!" but he never did. Later I realized that death is a peaceful sleep."
"One that you can't wake out of." Shigure was quiet. And Tohru just smiled. "Me? Well, in the family, there is no white sheep. There's only black sheep. And when I was born, you could see it so well. I was the only white sheep. It made me so different from my whole family. And I was shunned by my whole species." Shigure looked at her quizzically. Tohru put her hand up to her face, examining it. "I always looked at myself at night, wondering 'What's wrong with you? What makes you indifferent from everyone else? Why do people hate you? Why are you so different?' Mom always told me that no one is born perfect, ya see. We can't all get the body we want, we all can't get the same hair, eyes, nose, mouth. Or else, the human race, wouldn't be the human race. Just a species of the same looking mammals."
While talking, Yuki was there, listening to each and every word.
"I remember when I had a bully. He would always tease me about everything. I always felt like a caged animal. I felt like I wasn't a human. I felt alien to them. I never thought about being social, and I was always the odd numbers."
Tohru smiled softly. "We had a photo album, in the tent that Roku and I called home. It had everything there. From us first being born, to our 5th birthday. It had us at our first day of school. It had us as we first started walking, it had everything." She smiled. "I'm glad that at least there's someone who's watching me. My brother is always calling me stupid, and slow, but I know he doesn't mean it. He might act rough because of what happened in the past, but really, he's just a big and soft teddy bear." She was slowly falling asleep. "And, even though, people are mean to us, even though, we humans fight each other. And even though, we humans kill our own species, just like wild animals. We are still humans, and every human has feelings." She slowly closed her eyes. "Even people like him…"
( A.N. CAN YOU GUESS WHO 'him' IS? Oh, and I KNOW that Tohru lost her mother in may in the start of the series, but in this one, she lost her in her childhood.)
Tohru closed her eyes, and her breathing slowed down. Yuki decided to show himself, and opened the sliding door that led outside. "You know, you shouldn't go alone." Yuki looked at him strangely. "Who said I was going alone?" he told him mysteriously, and a bunch of purple eyes formed from the darkness. And Yuki walked out, concealed by the darkness. Shigure just sat and smirked.
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By the golly, it was Saturday! Tohru was feeling rejuvenated and absolutely happy. She wiped out the sleep in her eyes, and sat up. She looked around, and wondering why her senses weren't going off…she was in a strange place…what she was laying on, was defiantly NOT grass. She blinked once, then twice. Then sat up fully, just to see that mom was lied beside her, and the album, sitting right under it. Mom was cleaned off of all the dirt and rocks that was most probably laid inside it. Tears started to form. And she hugged the picture close to her heart. "Thank you so much…" suddenly, the smell of burning pizza was smelt under her over-sensitive nose, and she gagged. Then, she quickly got up, and ran towards the place that was smoking. A sweat drop appeared on her forehead. "Oh, good morning Ms. Honda. Would you like something to eat?"
"YUKI! IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU? ARE YOU TRYING TO POISON OUR GUEST?" Shigure popped outta nowhere, holding a fire extinguisher, and extinguished the 'fire' A.K.A food. "You do know, that, that was for breakfast, right?" Shigure nodded. "Then why the hell did you use the fire extinguisher?"
"I'm saving her life, and mine." Yuki twitched his eye, but sighed. "Well, since we can't cook anything for dinner…let me go show you to your room." Tohru smiled, and followed Yuki upstairs to the guest room that looked like it was made over night. "Um…does that mean, I have to be living here from now on?" Tohru asked, and Yuki felt that she was going to start having excuses not to stay, out of modesty of course. "I know the thought of living with two grown men might seem strange, but we can't let you stay out there in the forest." Tohru blinked once. "Ok! Thank you!"
For some odd reason, Tohru felt the need to cover her head, and push herself against the wall. So, she did just that. "Um, Ms. Honda, is there something wr-" his sentence was cut short when a teen with orange hair came crashing down through the roof. "EH YO, TIME TO PLAY THE PIPER RAT BOY! I'M HERE TO COLLECT!" Tohru shook the dust that came off the roof. It seemed that the orange haired one was completely oblivious to his surroundings. "Funny, I thought he would send someone bigger." Yuki said to 'himself'.
"That's right you better get your tough talk out of the way because I'm about to wipe that stupid smirk right off your face!"
As she dusted herself off, she noticed that she was now alone in the empty room. Kyo and Yuki had wrestled themselves down the stairs. She winced when she saw blood on the steps, and slowly walked downstairs, to see the two boys fighting like a cat and rat.
She hated to see people fight. And did something REAL stupid.
She tried to break them apart. BY TALKING OF COURSE.
But instead, her reflexes decided, "HEY! WHY DON'T WE GO ON A VACATION FOR A BIT?" and in the process of her sleeping reflexes, she tripped over the rug.
And fell.
Her reflexes decided to kick in, and grab the nearest thing to keep her standing.
Which was Kyo.
At the moment.
There was a loud 'poof!' and before she knew it she was holding something soft and furry…
Something like a cat.
One blink.
Then two.
Then a scream, and she tripped backwards, Yuki just coming up from the floor, tried to catch her, but instead, she landed in his chest.
And yet another poof.
"I heard some commotion, what seems to be the problem-" Tohru was in the process of falling back. Again. Into Shigure's chest.
Another poof went off.
Then there were more blinks.
The doorbell decided to ring.
Tohru raced to grab all of the animals, and opened the door. And a mail man was in the process of putting the mail through the slot. "Oh hello young lady-"
"YOU GOTTA HELP THEM! I TURNED THEM INTO ANIMALS! ANIMALS! FIRST I TRIPPED, THEN I FELL ON THEM, WE NEED TO GET A VET, OR A DOCTOR, OR A-" she was cut off when 'the dog' grabbed the letters from the mail man's hand.
"You poor girl, no wonder you have a dog, cat and a rat living with only you.…WELL, I wish my dog was as smart as that one! Enjoy your day!" and walked away. With a confused Tohru.
"Well, now that, that's done. I guess we should tell you our little secret now, huh?" Kyo was scrambling out of her hands. "WHY THE HELL IS THERE A GIRL IN THE FIRST PLACE?" Tohru blinked. "You can talk…and…" there was a pause. "Y-y-your Kyo…"
"YEAH, SO WHAT THE HELL OF IT?"
"Which means…you're the zodiac from dads story…"
Shigure, Kyo, and Yuki looked nervously at each other. "And…you can talk…"
Tohru's eyes looked far into space. "Woah…"
"And…you can talk…" The males eyes were looking at her strangely. "I never thought I would see the zodiac again…"
And passed out.
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"AND PUNCHED HIM IN THE GUTS, REPEADTLY! THIS IS AN ASSULT!" a man bellowed into Roku's ears. Roku was sitting cross legged, on the floor, and was reciting thoughts and plans on how to escape Tohru's wrath.
"AND YOU SHALL STAY HERE FOR ANOTHER FREAKIN WEAK, SINCE YOU DO NOT WANT TO LISTEN TO ME." Now, THAT got his attention.
"I'm sorry, but I think I have gone deaf from all that screaming." He put his pinky in his ear and twisted it, trying to see if there was anything blocking his hearing. "Nope, it's your screaming."
"Plus, you can't do that. By law, I belong on the earth plane, with the humans. I do not belong in this dirty ass species that are called Shinigami."
"YOU DID NOT HAVE TO SEND MY SON TO THE HOSPITAL!" Roku was getting pissed. He stood up, and looked at the chief straight in the eye. "And did not have to speak about my sister in such a crude way. Yet he did it anyway? My sister is NOT a slut. Unlike these scum bags that live up here."
Roku trotted out, dragging his scythe with him. But not before giving him a long cold glare, and left the room. The girls there looked at him in disgust.
"Look at him, disrespecting the chief. What a disgrace!" the girl with a pink scythe told another one.
"But he is cute…"
"But have you seen his sister…she's only like that because her parents-"
"SHUSH, YOUR NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TALKING ABOUT IT!" and the girl pushed her away, laughing nervously under his hard stone gaze. He broke his gaze and walked. "I hate Shinigami. They think there so high and mighty. HA! How stupid." Why couldn't human phones work? Why couldn't he contact Tohru from his head… He sighed, and continued to walk. "See you in another week Tohru."
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( Um, I dunno why, I updated this at like 12:00 AM, and yet, it STILL doesn't show up. )
Ok, something REALLY funny happened yesterday.
*waking up and watching television* "And a lovely fruits basket that could be yours for 29.99…"
*cousin* You know, should I get a FRUITS BASKET full of CANDY or a FRUTIS BASKET filled of FRUITS.
*bestest friend* I JUST READ THIS COOLEST FANFICTION, but it had the weirdest thing, and it was centered on a fruits basket…
And all day, I COMPLETELY forgot that I was supposed to update YESTERDAY. Then, a FRUIT, and a BASKET hit me in the HEAD (LITERALLY) And I was like. 'OH CRAP!' and zoomed down to the finishing touches on meh fanfic.
Let me just say something real quick:
I LOVE MEH HOMMIES:
SPRINGFALLIONLETTUCE
SPRINGFALLIONPUDDING
WAHHHHHHHH, I WOVE YALLS SO MUCH! YOU DA BEST SISTA'S EVA. –HUGGLES-
Anywhozels, I gave yalls EXTRA time to answer the question which was:
What does Roku's name mean in Japanese?
ANSWER ISSS: Roku means 6 in ROMANJI. I am so sorry. I got that wrong. But if you said it was in Japanese, I SHALL ACCEPT IT!
Let's announce the winners!
The sakura trees, DaughterOfTheSeaGod1
THANKS FOR ANSWERING! Seriously, I am SO OVERLY THANKFUL FOR ALL THAT HAS REVIEWED!
NEXT QUESTION FOR CHAPTER!
Other than Kyo and Akito, who ELSE does Yuki not get along with?
