Title: Tohru's Task

Summary: Tohru made a pact with a god to save haru's soul, but what consequence does the onigiri have to pay? Sequel to Demon Days, the adventures of the afterlife abound, but somehow she has to keep up with a normal life. What's a messenger of the dead to do?

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! Oh and Remi and almost any reaper in the future...

Chapter 16-

Shigure went to get the door in fear Yuki and Kyo would clobber him. Akito was standing out on the porch.

"Akito! What are you doing here?" Shigure asked in surprise.

Yuki and Kyo stiffened hearing Akito's name. Yuki snuck upstairs as fast as possible and Kyo fled for the roof.

"Hello, Shigure, I just wanted to visit," Akito told him. "So where is Tohru?"

"So, you've come looking for her?" Shigure asked.

"I don't think that's any of your business," Akito told him, "Where is she?" Shigure pointed toward the kitchen, Akito muttered something indiscernible and went into the kitchen.

"Tohru Honda," he muttered.

Tohru jumped dropping a dish. It shattered on impact with the floor as she quickly turned to face him. "Akito."

"I heard about your latest escapade," Akito snorted coldly.

"Yeah, why does it matter to you?" Tohru asked as she went to grab the broom and dustpan, preparing to sweep up the broken glass.

Akito's face turned livid, "What did you say!"

"I said, 'Why does it matter to you?'," She looked up from her sweeping, she wasn't in the mood to be dealing with him and she wasn't afraid. Akito was nothing to be afraid of, she seen things far worse than him and she knew 'he' was just a sniveling whiney brat. Clearly 'he' was a little deaf too. "You and I aren't anyway related. What does it matter the things I do?"

"It matters because the Sohma's shouldn't associate with garbage like you!" Akito spat out angered.

"And you're so much better than me, why?" Tohru asked staring him straight in the eyes, before sweeping the last pieces of glass into the dustpan. "Akito, yeah I get that you didn't have a choice when you were born but you can't keep using that as some excuse when it's not. Get a life."

"How dare you!" Akito shrieked angrily trying to grab her but she moved quickly. "You don't know anything!"

"I know more than you think I do! I even know more than you know!" Before she could stop herself the words had spilled out her mouth. It was true, Remi had told her a lot about the Sohma curse. He even remembered how it started, who cursed them, and how it happened. He told her. He also told her a lot about the Sohma's heads of the family, in particularly Akito.

"I doubt that a stupid girl like you would know anything!" He hissed angrily.

"Really, than why is it that Ren doesn't love you! Why did she raise you as a boy!" she asked in flat voice.

"Who told you that!" he hissed angrily, but she could tell in his voice that he was panicked.

"You wouldn't know that, would you?" she asked dodging another attack.

"You stupid idiotic miserable monster of a girl!" Akito spat out like poison.

"Oh, so were down to name calling are we? You're just like all the girl's at school. So envious that Yuki's with me." she said not taking the Sohma family head seriously and twisted back Akito's hand as he grabbed for her again.

Akito let out a shriek in pain and Tohru released him. He settled for glaring at her for several minutes. Then he fled the room in anger yelling back that she'd be sorry.

"You're okay," Shigure asked after observing Akito flight. Tohru nodded nervously. "How do you know about that?"

"What?" she asked as she checked on dinner again.

"You said something about Ren and that you know about Akito being a girl," Shigure asked, he wasn't aware before that Tohru knew more than they told her. "Who told you?"

Thinking of a way to cover her error she took dinner out of the oven. She didn't even attempt to make a reply. All that worry and stress over everything had come out rather rashly. She bit her lip worried. Covering her blunder about her knowledge wasn't her only concern; it was probably going to cost her, one way or another.

"Tohru, are you okay?" Kyo asked once he'd heard that it was her that Akito had been after. Kyo silently checked her over. She didn't have any visible bruises or cuts.

"Oh, I'm fine," she muttered distractedly, what was she supposed to tell them? What was she going to do?

"You don't seem fine," Yuki said worriedly, observing the apparent distress etched onto her face.

"Let me worry about it," she told him with a smile, trying to mask the worry and panic.

"Akito's going to order her memory erased," Shigure sighed, letting Kyo and Yuki know what she was worried over. He didn't look at anyone; instead he opted to stare at the floor.

"WHAT!" both Yuki and Kyo yelled in shock.

"She pissed him off and she obviously knows too much," Shigure said and sighed again, still staring at his spot on the floor. "It can't be helped."

"Knows too much?" Yuki asked curiously glancing at the brunette.

"It's become quiet apparent she knows more than what we've told her," Shigure sighed, stealing a glance in Tohru's direction before facing Yuki and Kyo.

"True," Tohru sighed, turning to look at them, "but I won't go down without a fight. Let me handle it."

"Are you sure?" Shigure asked concerned.

Tohru nodded as Kyo asked in confusion, "Who told you?"

"Well, if I told you that I'd have to kill you," Tohru told them in half sarcastic tone. It was a phrase she'd heard Remi mutter. Right now it seemed most appropriate, so that's what she decided to say to them. Thinking about Remi made her worry a little more.

To emphasize her point she got up announcing she was off to bed, "I'm not hungry right now. I'll eat something in the morning."

They nodded deftly as she got up leaving the kitchen to go to bed.

"That was odd," Yuki sighed worried.

Kyo sighed angrily they started dinner. "You're right she was acting weird. But who else could she get information about our curse from?"

"She said she knew everything," Shigure muttered, staring at him. "That's what she told Akito. No one we know knows everything. So I really can't help you out on that one."

"Do you think she knows about the cat's cage?" Kyo asked quickly looking at Shigure before staring out the window.

"If she does indeed know everything than yes," Shigure replied thinking about.

"She can't know everything when none of us know everything, can she?" Yuki asked quietly, setting down his cup.

End of chapter 16

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