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 still don't own Fruits Basket, nor do I own Story of the Year's "Swallow the Knife," or the Rasmus' "In the Shadows", or any other song for that matter. I've never wrote a song in my life. Oh and I of course do NOT own Pirates of the Caribbean I or II...

I hope that this is a good chapter and not crap...

italics- song lyrics

Chapter 19-

Hana and Uo arrived first since Kyo and Yuki had told them to come earlier.

"So, where are these co-workers of Tohru's?" Uo asked as she came in.

"There not here yet," Yuki told her quickly. "We wanted you to come here first. I seriously have no idea what to expect with them."

"Really?" Hana asked, "I think they're having a negative effect on Tohru."

"Agreed," Kyo said, "yesterday, I caught her swearing at the garbage can." Purposely stressed the last part of his sentence.

"Oh, you think that's bad you should have heard her little talk with Hiro," Shigure said, coming out from the house. "I fainted. Hiro, apparently didn't speak for a week."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Kyo asked staring back at the dog.

"Oh, hello," Tohru said as she came outside. "Shit! I forgot! Be right back, fuck…" she ran back into the house muttering fuck over and over.

"Umm… hello," a tan girl with brown hair said flatly. Beside her was a blonde, he had a wide grin playing across his lips. Yuki swore that he looked exactly like the Cheshire cat. Kyo was having the same sort of feelings about the blonde too.

Before anyone could respond to the girl the blond cut them off.

"Good Morning, Starshine, the earth says 'Hello'!" He announced in a rather disturbingly crazy voice.

Yuki could have sworn that Kyo jumped back at least ten feet. Yuki reasoned that this was the Saki that Tohru had talked about the other day.

Fergy started laughing merrily, pointing at Kyo. "That's funny, Saki! You see that! Good one!"

Saki stared at them still smiling, his amusement increasing ten-fold.

Yuki stared at him wide-eyed. He'd already been warned that Saki was 'nuts' but that didn't prepare him for the crazy blond in front of him. Even if he'd not been told he knew that one would think him insane upon first meeting him.

"You're fucking crazy!" Kyo yelled and pointed at him, having gotten over the initial shock.

'Course not if you're name was Kyo,' Yuki thought to himself annoyed.

Saki leaned his head to one side and stared at Kyo.

He whined to the girl next to him and pointed at Kyo.

Kyo edged away from the deranged blonde.

"Oh, I'm Fergy Nelson," the girl said, "and that's Saki Jiho, and yeah, he's crazy."

"Yeah, well that's what happens if you 'feed' him he keeps it up," Lulu told him, standing right in between Yuki and Kyo. She seemed to have come out of nowhere and it took both boys by surprise as they jumped back. They looked at her as if she were insane too. "I mean if you keep reacting he'll keep acting up. He only does that to get a reaction out of the two of you, you know, because he thinks it funny."

"He does that to me too," Tohru said as she came out onto the porch.

"You're psychic," Hana half asked- half said to the newcomer.

She nodded, "Lulu Houston, at your service."

Saki decided that Tohru was much more 'fun' to play with than the two boys and wandered over to her. He laid his head on her shoulder.

"Happy bunny," he muttered as she bristled but let his head stay there.

"Tohru," Remi coughed and eyed her casually.

She nodded dutifully and smacked the blonde, hard, over the head. He whined fretfully, but got off of her. He wandered over to Lulu still howling.

"Mean!" he whined with a small hiss, staring back disdainful at Tohru, before wrapping his hands around Lulu and burying his head in the crook of her neck.

Lulu rolled her eyes annoyed, but decided to let him stay that way… for now anyway.

"When did you get here?" Yuki asked Remi, having not seen him until the point where he talked to Tohru.

"Just a second ago, you should fucking pay more attention, martial arts master," Remi teased with a rather devious smile on his face.

"Its not my fault you people seemed to pop out from nowhere," Yuki muttered annoyed.

Just then a redhead came up to them. Remi was almost instantaneously by his side.

"Hey, Eve, glad you could make it," Tohru laughed with a pleasant smile on her face.

"What and have Remi- kill- me," Eve said sarcastically as the over happy Egyptian wrapped his arms around him and pulled him into a kiss.

"Well, at least now you know you don't have to worry about Remi trying to steal Tohru away from you," Kyo whispered to Yuki.

"Who said I was worried about that," Yuki told him annoyed.

Eve and Remi stopped kissing and looked back at the two boys.

"What!" Remi hissed anger flaring.

"Yellow!" Saki rambled pointing to Momiji crazily.

"Does he talk normal?" Kyo hissed, 'he's even worse than Momiji.'

A malicious smile crossed Remi face, "Watch this."

He strolled over to the crazy blonde as Momiji was giving the blonde funny looks.

"Saki," Remi said slowly held out a small gold chained necklace. Saki's eyes got huge and he took off running into the house muttering something that sounded strangely like scary, dead, mean Remi, and something else no one could understand.

"See problem fixed," Remi sighed as walked back over to them, "he'll mind now."

"What was that all about?" Hana asked curiously.

"If I told you I'd have to kill you," Remi sighed as he held up the small golden necklace. They all saw that there was a heart shaped gold locket on it.

Kyo and Yuki were immediately angered, 'that's were she got it from!'

Remi saw their angry looks, and threw back an innocent looking one, "what?"

"Well, the locket reminds him of his mother, she… you don't want to know about her. Let's just leave it at that. Or Remi will kill you," he turned to the Egyptian and sighed, "You know you're really merciless."

"Ai," Lulu agreed.

"Heartless," Fergy teased.

"You have no room to talk, Lulu," Remi snorted, "you've done worse to him."

"Why, do you hang out with him?" Uo asked.

There was a sudden silence and no one said a word. Just then Saki came back out; silently singing to himself.

"Saki, are you ready to mind?" Remi asked curiously.

"Yes, sir!" Saki teased and began sing a little louder so everyone could hear, "So are open wounds will bleed, until our veins run dry, so now we have to take this thorn, and tear it from our side…"

"Could you sing something besides that?" Fergy said crinkling her nose in annoyance; Saki actually had a fairly good singing voice, as in it didn't make you want to shove socks in your ears and head for the hills.

"Oh, I forget you don't like 'Story of the Year'," Saki said and stuck his tongue out.

"I have nothing against them," Fergy snorted, "it's just a strange- morbid- song."

"No sleep, no sleep until I'm done with finding the answer. Won't stop, won't stop before I find a cure for this cancer. Sometimes, I feel I'm going down and disconnected. Somehow, I know that I am haunted to be wanted," apparently Fergy liked this song she said nothing so he kept singing it.

I've been watching
I've been waiting
In the shadows, all my time
I've been searching
I've been living
For tomorrows all my life

In the shadows
In the shadows

They say
That I must learn to kill before I can feel safe
But I
I'd rather kill myself then turn into their slave
Sometimes
I feel that I should go and play with the thunder
Somehow
I just don't wanna stay and wait for a wonder…

Then Tohru came out and telling them all dinner was ready. Saki stopped singing ran over to where they had set-up for everyone to eat.

"You know for very obnoxious, peppy, insane person your choice in music is strangely morbid," Momiji told him, "it doesn't fit you."

"I've liked Nine Inch Nails, since I was a kid," Saki sighed thinking back on it.

"Wow, a noncrazy sentence," Uo commented.

"Like I said before, Saki just likes do things for the reactions he gets out of people. He's always been the one to experiment with people and see how they respond; push them to their limits, its funny to him. He's quite smart and could easily put normal sentence together but chooses not to," Lulu sighed.

"He rarely chooses not to," Eve sighed in agreement.

"That doesn't make sense to me," Yuki told them.

"It's his mother," Remi pointed out, upon hearing that word Saki shot up and back-handed Remi. Remi just sniggered as a red mark appeared on his cheek. Saki sat back down and a little annoyed

"Okay that was weird too," Kyo said in observation.

"Maybe to you," Eve told him, "that's just normal to us."

"You mention the M word around Saki and he'll slap you," Fergy told him. "He pointed it out himself. We've come to just accept it. Plus, we know why. That sorta helps. Most of us don't. Saki slaps really hard."

"And you just let him do that?" Yuki asked Remi.

"I knew what would happen when I said it, I take full responsibility," Remi sighed with a little smile spreading across his face and he went on, "it's still kind of funny to me when he does it. Of course Eve tells me that I'm very sadistic."

"You are," Eve repeated so they all knew he had said that.

Remi nodded and went back to eating again.

Saki went to take a drink from his glass to find it empty. He whimpered and turned to Tohru. "I love you all. But, why's the rum gone?"

Yuki spit out his drink and several other people looked at him annoyed.

"Rum? Saki there's no rum here," Fergy told him quickly.

"But why's the rum gone?" Saki repeated looking genuinely sad and distraught.

"Cause there was none to start with," Fergy said shaking her head. Then pick up the salt shaker and waved it above her head and started chanting merrily. "I got a jar of sand. I got a jar of sand."

Yuki and the some others were all thinking the same thoughts, 'these guys really ARE nuts.'

Saki looked at her sadly. "I want a jar of sand."

"Don't touch my dirt!" Fergy yelled at him irately, as he grabbed for it.

"You are without a doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of," Tohru said suddenly.

"Ah, but you have heard of me," Remi said smoothly and making a small gesture imitating Captain Jack Sparrow's.

"No survivors, than where does the stories come from I wonder?" Fergy said thinking aloud and smiled at Uo mischievously. Uo shrank back as if on fire.

Saki got up and moved closer to Uo he looked down at her and she looked like she'd jump at any moment. "'ello, Poppet."

Uo stared at him bewildered as he once again took his seat.

"It is real I've seen it," Eve muttered from out of nowhere.

"You've seen a ship with black sails, that's crewed by the damned and captained by a man so evil that hell itself spat him back out?" Remi asked him seriously.

"No, but I've seen a ship with black sails," Eve told him and started laughing.

"I'm sorry it's just that it's such a pretty boat- I mean ship," Fergy chortled.

"I love those moments; I love to wave at them as they pass by," Saki said, and made a waving gesture with his hands.

After everyone was done eating Eve walked over to Saki.

"You won the bet," Eve sighed handing him some money.

"Yeah, but we just barely got through dinner, the bet was all night," Saki told him not accepting the money.

"You've been a nutcase long enough for the whole night," Eve told him shoving the money into the blonde's hands.

"Wait a minute you two made a bet!" Uo asked shocked.

"Oh, it's nothing really," Eve told her off-handedly.

"Eve, spill it," Remi told him pointing an accusing finger at his scheming boyfriend.

"Oh, I bet Saki that if by the end of the night he could scare them that I'd give him seventy five dollars," Eve told them as if it was nothing.

"I knew Saki was acting crazier than normal," Fergy said with a cheer.

"Hey, you want thirty bucks?" He asked Fergy.

Fergy nodded and Saki gave her the thirty bucks and she started chanting, "I got thirty bucks."

"You put him up to that!" Lulu said to Eve annoyed, ignoring Saki's chatter and Fergy's chanting.

"This whole night of craziness was because of you?" Uo yelled accusingly at the red-head.

"Saki, would have been acting like a nutcase anyway," Eve told her.

"But you made it worse," Yuki pointed out.

"And your point is?" Eve asked him not even fazed.

"That you made things worse," Yuki told him annoyed.

"But a lot of it was true anyway," Eve sighed, "no one else here was in on it."

"You know your probably sleeping on the couch when we get home," Fergy told him.

"Ahhh, I am?" the red-head whined and turned to Remi, "you're not going to make me sleep on the couch, are you?"

"No," Remi told him, "I thought it was fucking hilarious."

"You'd think that wouldn't you," Lulu sighed, and muttered more to herself than anyone else, "you'd think with him being as old as he is that he'd mature by now."

Uo half caught her words but no one else did.

End of chapter

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