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?
Shisaki: HELLO!
Maxlinrose: Who said you could talk here?
Knox: He mentioned something about wanting to introduce himself... meh...
Remi: (to Shisaki) No one likes you go away
Shisaki: (Big fire ball appears and says in overly sweet voice) Care to say that again?
Remi: (smart enough to inch away from the blond) Shisaki is the god evil Saki from an alternate deminsion ... still nuts.. just evil too...
Maxlinrose: Hence me finally deciding to call him Shisaki, basically God Saki... I still need help with the POTC 2 dialogue if anyone wants to help, I need it before the next chapter. That's all I wanted to say... and if your annoyed with author muse dialogue don't worry this is the first and last time... Shisaki just wanted people to meet him and i just needed to once again ask for those quotes (I'll remind you again at the end of the chapter)... but if you like author-muse talk your going to have to ask for it otherwise i don't usually do it.
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 18-
Tohru knew that Hatori would come for her today. She just hoped that Saki had helped her enough otherwise she was fucked.
She leaned out of bed and fell out. She wasn't really tired; she just felt sick with worry. No, that wouldn't do any good. In fact it would probably hinder her progress. No stop worrying, she told herself and shook her head violently trying to get the fear and nervousness to leave her.
She wandered downstairs to make breakfast. Kyo was already up just like usual. He didn't talk to her. He had a big knot in his stomach. Soon even Yuki was up. They all gathered round the table as Tohru served breakfast.
She'd just sat down when someone knocked on the door. Tohru bit her lip and was about to go get it when Shigure got up.
"It's okay, I'll get it," he said, two minutes later he came back with Hatori. Hatori was pale. He really didn't want to take away all Tohru's memories. In fact she'd been with them so long that he'd wondered all yesterday how he could do it. But he'd finally come up with an answer and was determined to do it. He'd known since meeting the girl that one day he might have to do this. Still he felt really sorry for her.
"Shigure, please get Yuki and Kyo out," he directed to the dog, his voice betraying no emotion.
"Come on you guys," Shigure muttered trying to get them to leave.
"No way, I'm not leaving," Yuki said firmly, staring at the doctor.
"I'm not leaving, either," Kyo told him stubbornly, "so just forget it."
"Fine, stay," Hatori sighed, "but you can't stop me."
No one said a word. Hatori took that a sign to start. He held his hands up and secured Tohru's head.
"I'm sorry," he told as she saw white spots.
She jerked forward, but she still remembered everything. She would have let a happy cry— if it hadn't hurt so much.
"It didn't work," she opted to tell him again.
He frowned and tried it once more.
"You know it still didn't work but now I've got a head ache. That hurts," she muttered and got up; going for the pain reliever.
"How could it not work?" Yuki asked to no one in particular.
"A friend told me," Tohru muttered as she found the pills, "Ah, there they are! Wonderful little pain relieving pills of joy."
Then she realized what she'd said and paled, "I'm mean, yay! pain pills."
"That doesn't sound any better," Kyo told her annoyed.
"Sorry," she sighed, getting some water, 'being around Saki really does rub off sometimes.'
"Who'd you get that from?" Yuki asked curiously, "it just doesn't seem like something Remi would say."
"Oh, guess I've been around Saki a little longer than I should," she told him quickly, and swallowed the pills washing them down with water, "he's fucking nuts you know. Smart as hell though… I guess there right about them saying geniuses are usually all insane."
"You know you could watch your mouth," Hatori told her, he hadn't seen her in a while and wasn't aware of anything really current with the brunette.
"My mouth?" she asked him not comprehending his meaning, she pointed to her mouth with her free hand before touching her lips.
"You swore again," Kyo told her with a sigh.
"Oh, I hadn't noticed," she muttered and put away the glass.
"So, I want to what's going on," Hatori told them.
"Well, Tohru got a new job, started hanging out with this foul mouth Egyptian guy named Remi, remember us talking about him before? Also he has some friends, and she started swearing herself, and recently she told off Hiro and the other day she went off on Akito hence you coming here, you remember us telling you about any of that?" Shigure sighed explaining, "is there anything else I forgot to mention?"
"Tohru skipping school to hang out with Remi and friends," Kyo snorted.
"Actually now that you mention it I do remember Yuki telling me about it," Hatori sighed.
"Well, I'm willing to bet she recently figuring out how to avoid your memory erasing technique," Yuki added, "because she was still worried the other day."
"How did you do it?" Yuki asked Tohru.
"Oh, well same answer I told you the other day," she said quickly, "I've got homework to do, don't want my grades to slip. See you later."
She disappeared around the corner.
"What about yesterday?" Hatori asked.
"Oh well, one of the things…" Shigure was cut off.
"The main thing that pissed Akito off was Tohru telling Akito that she knew more about the curse than he did. When we asked her about she joked that if she told us than she'd have to kill us," Kyo snorted annoyed. "Who the hell knows about us!"
"Do you think that it's Remi?" Yuki asked curiously.
"No way that guy knows," Kyo muttered annoyed, "he's doesn't look smart enough…"
"You don't look very smart either," Yuki told him, "he's probably smarter than you."
"Do you mind?" Kyo hissed angrily at him.
"Still it remains that it is increasingly apparent that Tohru knows more about the curse than what we've told her," Hatori sighed ending their fighting, "where and who is she getting this information from?"
"The internet," Shigure said.
"You're just saying that!" Kyo hissed angrily.
"Well, maybe it's true," Shigure told them.
"I doubt that she got it off the internet," Hatori sighed annoyed with Shigure.
"How do you know? The internet has everything," Shigure told them simply.
"You're an idiot," Hatori told him.
"What it's true," Shigure told them. Yuki and Kyo looked like they were going to hit the dog.
"Look, why don't you look it up on the internet, but I doubt you'll find anything," Hatori sighed.
"Besides she would've told us if she'd just gotten it off the internet," Yuki pointed out.
"Plus you really can't trust what you get off the internet," Kyo sighed annoyed.
"Maybe she doesn't know that," Shigure told them not letting go of the idea, "besides she could've checked the sources."
"One, Tohru's not that dumb, and two, what reliable sources on the internet would know anything about our curse," Yuki asked, "everyone who knew about the curse had their memory erased, accept Tohru anyway."
"I'll look it up," Shigure told them enthusiastically.
"God, you're dumb," Kyo sighed and was about ready to take off to his room.
"Off the subject but I think it's time we had another confrontation with Remi and I want to meet these friends of his too," Yuki said. Kyo stopped dead in his tracks.
"It might be a good idea," Hatori agreed.
"Why don't we invite them over for dinner," Shigure suggested. Kyo turned and came back into the room.
"That's the best idea you've had all day," Hatori told him.
"I think we should invite Uo and Hana too," Yuki said, "they're worried about Tohru as well, and we could use Hana's psychic sense."
"I suppose," Hatori said.
"But that's just adding more girls," Kyo snorted, "girls that don't know about our secret that's more trouble than it's worth."
"No, it's not," Yuki told him annoyed.
"You just don't like girls," Shigure teased him, "we can invite Haru too."
"Fine, as long as Haru can come," Kyo snorted and took off towards his room.
"Try to get names; first and last," Hatori said as grabbed his coat.
"You're going to have Maison look them up again," Shigure asked.
Hatori paused and then nodded to Shigure and Yuki, "now that you've reminded me. Try and get Remi's real name too. We do need something on these guys."
Shigure nodded and said goodbye to Hatori as he left.
End of chapter 18
All right PLEASE I need Pirates of the Caribbean 2 quotes! If anyone especially remembers what Jack was saying about the rum always being gone I'll be happy! Once again I NEED them for the next chapter, thankies.
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