"Remi, I need to learn how to block my memory from being erased," Tohru sighed, after about the fifth job of the day, "if I don't I'm completely fucked."

She'd been unbelievably happy when she first seen Remi. He was just as Jullen had said, 'as good as new.' He explained that reapers heal fast.

She'd been so happy that she'd forgotten all about Akito; until now.

"You do?" Remi asked thinking about it.

"I just know that Akito will order it," Tohru said, "I blew up at him the other day."

"Well than we should start in on it as soon as possible," Remi said out loud, silently wondering what had made her go off, it wasn't like her to just yell at people. "I think the best person to help you with that is actually Saki. He can help you out."

"Really!" Tohru asked half curiously and half surprised.

Remi nodded, "After we're finished today. I'll take you back to the apartment and you can ask him."

Tohru thanked him.

After they were finished Tohru had to ask, "Why would Saki know how to help me best?"

"Because he's dealt with dragon of the Jyuunshi's power before," Remi told him, "and they could never erase his memory."

"You ever think that it would be because he's got nothing to erase?" Tohru asked him nervously.

"You know he does," Remi sighed, "besides memories are different."

They entered the complex and kept up their chatter until they were inside Remi's apartment.

"Yo! I'm home!" Remi shouted out as he wandered into the kitchen

Stunned Saki fell backward off the chair he'd been standing on.

"Owe!" Saki whined like a child, rubbing his hurt backside. "Why'd you do that?"

"What?" Remi asked him in taunting manner.

"I was changing the light; it burnt out," he said whining a little more.

"Oh, than I'm sorry," Remi apologized, seeing that Saki was actually doing something productive.

"I didn't get to screw it in all the way," Saki muttered pointing at the bulb still lying on the ground.

"I'll do it, kay?" Remi told him with a small smile. He nodded in thanks and moved out of the way but was now sitting on the floor staring up at Tohru.

"Umm… Saki, I need to ask you something," Tohru said nervously as Remi picked up the chair, hoisting himself up, "please try and be normal or I won't ask."

"That wasn't the question?" Saki asked her. She shook her head, and he muttered, "Monkeys," very distractedly eyeing the chair Remi was on.

"Saki!" she protested.

"Do it, Saki," Lulu said as she came into the room, "Remi, be careful of that light bulb."

"Did he do something to it?" Remi asked, glancing at her still holding onto the bulb.

"Fine, I will," Saki sighed, curiosity always got the best of him.

"No," Lulu said shaking her head, "just be careful its dangerous."

"Can you teach me to stop the Sohma's memory suppression?" Tohru asked Saki as he got up off the floor.

Saki stared at her for a moment, a weird glint in his eye.

"If you don't want to than Lulu will," Remi told him simply, as he got down.

"No, no, I'll do it," Saki said shaking his head violently.

"Okay, then stop that," Remi ordered, as he put away the chair.

Saki stopped and stared at Tohru very intently for several seconds. "Do you my name is actually Saki Edema Jiho- Sohma?"

"No," Tohru said in surprise.

Saki nodded, "I found out about the curse and then they were like that dragon will erase your memory. Well, I couldn't have it. Figured out the secret to not getting your memories erased. You really wanna know?"

Tohru nodded without hesitation.

There was silence for several moments.

"Come with me," Saki told her as he got up left the room. Tohru followed him very nervously.

They exited the kitchen went down a hall that Tohru hadn't remembered ever going down. They went up a set of stairs and down a hallway. Finally Saki opened the one of the doors and led her in.

This room was very brightly colored and a total mess; clothes, clothe, shoes, papers, and large amount of other things that Tohru couldn't identify were strewn around the room. A large scratched up dresser sat on one side and a battered desk covered with papers and a computer. On the far side was what Tohru thought could be his bed. It was too covered in clothes and bits of paper. The walls had splotches of different brightly colored paint and a nicely drawn tiger in permanent marker.

"This is your room, isn't it?" Tohru asked seeing the mess.

"You think I'm a neat person?" Saki said, with a hint of surprise, turning back to stare at her.

"I didn't think about it," Tohru sighed, as she followed him in. The mess on the floor had to be at least an inch deep, she took tentative steps not wanting to break anything. She came to a stop in the middle of the room. "Why are we here?"

"I have to find something," Saki sighed and started to shift through the mess.

"Find what?" Tohru asked curiously staring at him as clothes and various other things were shifted through as he searched. She imagined the mess overflowing and gobbling him up as he searched. The images made her pale.

"You'll see," Saki told her ignoring the look on her face. He straightened up for a second and pointed to what she'd had decided before was a bed. "Sit."

He went back to searching again as she went to the bed. She shoved some of things further onto the bed and took a seat. She turned to look back at Saki as she wondered how he slept on that bed.

It took about ten minutes of searching until Saki finally made a happy noise having found what he was looking for.

It was a small wooden box. He sat on the bed next to her.

Saki opened the box and started sifting through its contents. Pulling out a picture he handed it to her. In the picture was a young female about Tohru's age, with white hair spotted with big patches of black, ivory skin, and slate grey eyes. She looked very odd, yet very beautiful at the same time. She was reminded of Haru. Saki handed her another photo this one had a man with graying orange hair. She thought of very old Kyo as she saw him.

"Ai, that's Yenma Sohma and the other is Kazuma's grandfather," Saki told her, "he was still pretty old when I died. He was a nice guy. She- god she was older than me. I was in love with her. She thought I was weird but she hung around me. Almost like a friend. The closest I had when I was alive."

Tohru stared at him silently for a moment. "How'd you die?"

He stared at her for a moment, and smiled at mischievously. "Take a guess."

"You did something stupid," Tohru said after a moment, "did you get electrocuted?"

Saki laughed, "No, I was hit by a truck."

"Why didn't you get out of the way?" Tohru asked him incredulously.

"There was this little girl crossing the street and this drunk driver in the truck, came whipping around the corner. She was going to get hit. I pushed her out of the way and got hit instead," Saki sighed, and drew his knees to him silently, "if you think its horrifying to see some other mowed down body just think about it if you saw your own."

"I'm sorry," Tohru said suddenly feeling very sorry for bringing it up.

Saki shook his head, and stared back at her, "you know that those that are destined to become reapers are different than those that go to the afterlife, right?"

Tohru looked at him curiously, "somewhat, Jullen mentioned it to me once."

"Well, it is," Saki sighed and neither spoke for a long moment. Then he snapped to attention so suddenly it made Tohru jump in surprise. "Enough about that, I'm getting off track. You wanted help not some story telling from me, right?"

"Oh, but I like it," Tohru said, "if you don't mind anyway."

Saki nodded his head, "but we need to get down to business…"

End of chapter 17-

Okay, need some help:

To those who seen POTC2, I need to know some of the good/funny lines. I saw but it's been a while. What I remember is CJS chanting 'I got a jar of sand', 'Don't touch my dirt', and 'I love those moments, I love to wave at them as they pass by.' I also remember something along the lines of him asking why the rum is always gone… or something like that… If you can remember a direct quote of that I'd be really happy. I need them for chapter 19…

AND remember to review! I like reviews it tells me people actually like this story, or at least care enough to review. At this point even if have lots of critism I don't mind. But not flames, they make me sad.