Title: Tohru's Task
Summary: Sequel to Demon Days. Everything is back to normal, or close to it, now that Tohru has saved the day; but all is not right. Tohru must now repay the debt she owes to the god, Jullen, for his help, try to have a relationship with Yuki, and oh the Hilarity that ensues... (Sing-song voice) Tohru as a Reaper!
Long summary!
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!
Chapter 6
Tohru, Yuki, Haru, and Kyo were all on the way to the grocery store a few days later when a foreign-looking man came up to them. He looked either European or American with his blonde hair.
"Excuse me!" he shouted, trying to catch their attention.
"Yes, sir," Tohru responded, turning to face him.
"Can you help me find the Hirato Building? I'm lost," He asked, looking both ways, but still looked as lost as ever.
"Oh, it's that way," Tohru said and pointed to her left, "you go just down the street until you..."
"What she saying to him?" Kyo asked Yuki, feeling rather stupid.
"I don't know either," Yuki sighed, watching Tohru speak in English to the foreigner.
The two were done talking and the man went on his way. Tohru turned to them in time to see their strange looks.
"What?" she asked, not comprehending why they were staring at her.
"You speak English?" Yuki asked, "since when?'
She gave him a funny look, as if he was crazy.
"What are you talking about?" she asked and started back to the grocery store.
"You were speaking English," Haru pointed out, "to that foreign guy..."
"No I wasn't," Tohru shook her head, still very confused.
"Then what language were you speaking? It sure as hell wasn't Japanese," Kyo stated.
She thought for a good minute before she came up with anything: she'd talk to Remi about it later.
"Oh right, of course it was English!" Tohru shouted with mock laughter trying to cover her tracks, "I was teasing you all. Good job for not letting me get away with it!"
Kyo and Yuki blanched at her 'antics' but said nothing.
"What are we picking up for dinner?" Haru asked, not really listening to their conversation.
"Um... we're going to have takoyaki tonight, so I need some octopus and some side dish ingredients," Tohru said thoughtfully.
"Oh, Tohru, your home!" Shigure yelled happily as they came in.
"Hey, we're home too," Kyo told him, malice lacing his voice, "don't you forget!"
"Hmm… who?" he laughed, other than that, he said nothing to Kyo and turned back to Tohru, "so, how was the trip to the store?"
"It was good," Tohru said as she wandered into the kitchen to start dinner.
"Say, Tohru, you know the Egyptian exhibit I was talking about the other day?" Shigure asked casually watching her cook. She made a small nod and he went on, "well, I know how much you were looking forward to going but..."
"Oh don't tell me that it's been cancelled!" Tohru shrieked, ringing the dish towel. She really did want to go. It would be the best way for her to find out more on Remi's culture and stuff.
"No, they can't cancel an exhibit!" Shigure laughed and waved her worry off, "the opening has just been put off for a week. Apparently, they had some problems with the exhibit that needed to be sorted out first."
"Oh, that's good," Tohru sighed and continued on dinner, humming happily as she cooked.
"Look bitch, I don't fucking like you!" Remi snarled and gestured at her. They had gone through about a third of the days work and she just kept doing things that seemed to irk him. She just couldn't figure out what it was though. Tohru frowned, turning toward him after having sent their latest soul off.
"Remi, please don't say that!" Tohru pleaded, about to cry.
"Well, you need to fucking get that through your fucking thick head! And stop your damn crying, there's nothing you can fucking do to change my mind!" Remi yelled at her, hateful rage flaring skywards.
Tohru couldn't take it. She'd had enough of his abuse. The girl quickly spun on her heels and started to run, crying loudly. It tore her insides out when people hated her, especially when she had done anything to receive such hate.
Remi gaped at the running girl. She wouldn't get far; she was shaking way too much to make it anywhere. But it was the fact that she was running away from him and crying hard. He hated her crying, but he always made her do it. Even on their first mission he made her cry. Remi wanted to be nice to her; he really did. But the fact was near impossible; the girl looked just like Her. Remi hated, hated- HATED Her.
He bit his lip, he really needed to get over it. They weren't alike, not really.
She collapsed after several feet and skid on her knees, still crying.
Remi had enough. He had only taken a few steps towards her when something big caught his eye. A fairly large evil spirit was headed Tohru's way.
It was at least eight feet tall and was at least seven feet wide. It was ugly and putrid. The face contorted and inhuman. Five inch claws jutted from the fingers. Its whole shape wavered, and it smelled worse than death itself. It made Kyo's demon form look friendly.
It was going after Tohru. She glanced up between a sniffle just in time to see it lunge at her. She screamed and got up to run, but tripped again. Fearing the worst, she covered her badly shaking head, waiting for death.
After several seconds, death still did not come. Well, at least she didn't think so, but previous experience has taught her she could be wrong. She nervously turned towards the beast.
Remi had stopped it! He was now furiously fighting the creature with a scythe and the ugly beast was losing! Remi had to be a better fighter than even demon Haru! Tohru gaped watching the fight. Finally the beast fell and Remi took its head off with his scythe.
Blood-covered and slightly bruised, he turned to her. She unconsciously took a step back.
The scythe disappearing once more, he growled loosely and stormed over to her. He grabbed her hand and quickly and roughly yanked her to her feet. "Don't be fucking stupid!"
"I'm sorry!" Tohru said and began to cry again.
"Forget it!" He shouted angrily and yanked her route slip from her in anger. He glanced at it, "Shit! Now we're late!" He disappeared with her route slip and left her there.
Tohru gaped in surprise. She was stuck here, realized and paled. He took her route slip! She didn't know where she was supposed to go next without it. What should she do!
She dropped to her knees in shock. She just had the scare of her life and Remi abandoned her!
After a moment or two, as if just to prove her, wrong Remi appeared again and glared down at her.
"Remi!" She cheered, realizing he was there again. She jumped to her feet and hugged him.
"What I have I said about you hugging me?" Remi yelled, squirming to get away from the ecstatic girl.
"You left me," Tohru pouted and looked up into his eyes still hugging him.
He flinched and pushed her off of him.
"Yeah, sorry," Remi said gruffly and rolled his eyes, he handed her back the route slip, "let's get going. I caught that last soul in time, so go to the next one."
"Oh, okay," she said, still rubbing the tears from her eyes. Remi waited for her. She glanced down at her next location and less than a minute later, they were picking up their next soul.
"Oh, this destination is close to my home!" Tohru commented, seeing her new destination, she was starting to get her bearings again after the scare she had had.
"Oh, goody," Remi snorted, "let's go."
They teleported themselves to the middle of grocery store in Japan. The two reapers began to search for their next target. Just then, Tohru spotted Yuki and Kyo and her eyes went wide. She forgot that she'd asked them to go to the store and buy some food for dinner that she'd forgotten on their last visit.
"You baka neko!" Yuki said angrily in his quiet manner, remaining still with his hands in his pockets and a bored look on his face.
"You think you're so smart!" Kyo yelled back, pointing an accusing finger.
"Look, the list says 'leeks' and that's what Tohru wants, so just deal with it," Yuki sighed. He didn't withdraw the list from his pocket, but continued to stare at Kyo.
"No, I'm going to knock that pretty boy smile off your face, you damn rat!" Kyo hissed he was using his whole fist to point at Yuki now.
"You fucking know these two!" Remi snorted, stopping his search for the soul to stare at the two bickering Sohma cousins.
"Baka neko, I'm not smiling," Yuki stated with a glare, "and you know you can't beat me."
"Yes," Tohru stated, and turned to Remi a very guilty expression on her face, "Oh, this is my fault I should have never asked for leeks! I know Kyo hates them."
"Look, it's not your fucking fault that the damn bastard can only think about his fucking self. If he doesn't fucking like it, so what? Tell him stop being so damn selfish," Remi snorted, uninterested in the fight, and then changed topics, "that's the Sohma?"
She nodded, "Why? How do you know them?"
"Oh, all the Reapers fucking do. Its not every family that's fucking cursed, especially like them," he said off-handedly and then, before she could say anything to him, he spotted their target, "and there's our damn target."
He pointed to a woman standing in the first aisle, dabbing her forehead repeatedly. She was sweating profusely.
"She's going to die. How?" Tohru asked in a concerned manner. The woman wasn't old and the store was in no apparent danger, but she did look sick though.
"Accidental overdose: she took too many prescription drugs this morning," Remi sighed and watched the women, who all of the sudden collapsed, knocking several cans off the shelf in the process. Those in the aisle turned to look at her.
The women couldn't see and struggled to get up off the floor.
Others in the store were now turning toward her. Kyo and Yuki stopped their fight. The poor woman was turning blue.
"What's the number for 911? SOMEBODY CALL AN AMBULANCE!" someone in the back shouted.
Just then, the women took one last strangled breath and relaxed in the slumber of death. Her soul hovered over her body.
"What!" she exclaimed, seeing her own lifeless form.
"Its time for you to cross over," Tohru told her before Remi could say anything, "c'mon, its time."
The grief stricken women took one last look at her body before accepting Tohru's hand. And, in a flash, the white light came.
"Go on," Tohru urged, pointing to it.
The women fretted for a second, but did as instructed. The white light swallowing her up.
"Well, fuck," Remi commented. Tohru had always surprised him when it came how well she could calm others down; even though she wasn't so calm herself.
Tohru turned to him surprised, "What?"
"Nothing," He said, "Let's fucking get out of here. We can't be fucking late."
"Remi," she asked quietly after a couple jobs since she'd seen Yuki and Kyo. She didn't necessarily know how to bring such a topic up, and she was just barely bringing up enough courage to even ask. She'd suddenly remembered her question after Tohru had watched Yuki and Kyo. If she didn't ask now, she didn't know when she'd be able to. They only had a few more souls to get for today.
He looked at her, but said nothing. His previously somewhat good mood had, somewhat, faltered.
"Um... how do I understand what people are saying in other languages? I mean, it's happened even when I wasn't doing this…" she blurted out.
"Are you really that fucking dumb?" Remi shot as he spotted their next target. The man was already doubled over and staggering towards the building on their right.
Tohru stared at Remi blankly.
He snorted and stalked towards the man, ignoring Tohru and her request. Remi was standing over him now, but was staring intently at Tohru.
"Well?" Tohru asked, staring back at him.
The man jolted and died.
His soul separated from his body. When he saw them, he gulped.
"I can't be... dead!" the man frowned and pleaded to Remi, "Please don't take me!"
"You're fucking dead so deal with it," Remi told him, very annoyed, and staring him down. He grabbed the man's shirt, hauling him to his final destination.
"Remi!" Tohru yelled at him, "Answer me!"
"The fucking bracelet, idiot," Remi snarled and tossed the man into the white light.
Tohru finally got home and flopped down on her bed. She had a particularly long day: she had to work both her jobs and on top of that, she had almost gotten attacked, Remi had yelled at her a lot, and she saw Yuki and Kyo at the grocery store. And at dinner, they had mentioned the lady's death when she got home. She had to completely pretend she knew nothing of it. Of course, they just thought her weird behavior contributed to the fact that they were talking about death. They had no idea that she worked with it every weekend for the last month. All in all, it was a rather exasperating day. If she had anymore like today, she'd be the one going to the afterlife!
She was just about a sleep when there came a knock at the door. She audibly groaned and sat up, quietly admitting entrance, and wondering who it was. Yuki came in and stood close to her bed.
"Tohru are you feeling all right?" he asked, worry wrought through his voice.
"Oh no, I'm fine," she told him, not wanting to burden him. Plus, she then would have to say something about her job and she couldn't have that. "I just had a long day and I'm tired, that's all."
She hoped having said that, Yuki would get the message and let her go to sleep. He smiled bashfully.
"Oh. I'm sorry for bothering you," Yuki told her with that warm smile, "I was just a little worried."
"That's fine," Tohru said and yawned sleepily and drifted off to dreamland right there saying, "your allowed to worry about the ones you hold closest."
Yuki smiled again and tucked her in before leaving her to go to his own bed.
End of Chapter
AND end of fic if I don't get at least five reviews! I hate to do this but I haven't got a review for this story in the last two chapters. Do you all hate it? And if you do review feedback, please. I'm mean my one-shot has more reviews than this does and that's just pathetic...