Disclaimer: Fruits Basket is (c) to the great Takaya Natsuki-sama. Not KrimzenAngel...She only wishes it was.

Summary: For Tohru to realize her feelings for Shigure, he got engaged. But for Shigure, it was far worse than anyone could've ever imagined...(Shigure/Tohru)

Authors Notes: Yay! More reviews! I'm surprised that people like this story. Thank you!

Important Notice! Must Read: I forgot to mention this in the beggining of the fic, but here it is now. This Shiru fic is kinda different from others that you might've read. It's like a different approach on how they get together. Unusual yes, but it works with the story like you wouldn't belive. I'm not going to spoil it, so read on. Also, possible future OOC-ness, especially for Tohru! Read on!

Whatever It Takes
Chapter 3- The Visit With Akito

"Shigure..." Yuki said. "Is everything alright?"

"Remember when I told you that Tohru-kun could possibly become engaged to one of the Juunishi?" Shigure asked. Yuki's eyes widened in shock. "Well...She has been...But the worst part of it is..."

"Is what, Shigure!" Yuki asked. "Tell me, I want to know!"

Shigure just looked up at Yuki with a grim, apologetic smile as he said his next words.

"How nice of you to come on such short notice, Honda Tohru-san." Akito said as he sat in front of Tohru.

"Well, you said it was urgent, so I just couldn't say no, Akito-san." Tohru replied with a small smile, and showing no signs of fear. Ever since the incident with Kyo and his true a year and a half ago, she had visited with Akito on a regular basis. With every visit, she became less afraid of him and started to trust him more and more.

"How very like you...Here, Honda-san, are you thirsty?" Akito asked as he pushed a cup of hot tea in front of Tohru. "It's just been made. It's my own special recipe..."

"Oh, thank you, Akito-san." Tohru replied as she picked it up and took a sip. She felt the warm liquid go down her throat and warm up her insides as the after taste of raspberry and lemon lingered on her taste buds.

"Wow, that's delicious, Akito-san." Tohru replied. "It's very...Very...Uh-ugh!" The teacup slid out of Tohru's hands as she felt a strange pain take over her body.

'Wha...What's happening to me! Why do I hurt so much!' Tohru thought in pain a she fell over to her side and started squirming around in pain. 'It hurts so bad! Somebody help me! Shigure! Yuki! Kyo! Anybody! Make it stop!'

"Why, Tohru-kun...I belive you're crying." Akito said as he layed down next to her and rested his head in his hand proped up on it's elbow, watching her. "Tell me, does it hurt that bad?"

"A-Akito-san...Wh-why...?" Tohru asked as she felt her insides burn.

"Honda Tohru, you are considered part of this family." Akito said as he lifted a finger to wipe a few stray tears off her face. "You're family in everything, but two things. But, luckily, I can easily change those two things."

"Nnh! What do you mean, Akito-san!" Tohru nearly shouted. The pain seemed to be getting worse. Akito gave an evil smirk as he said his next words.

"As of now..." Akito said, sick amusement rolling off with every word. "Honda Tohru exists no more..."

"...Instead, Tohru-kun will be known as Sohma Tohru..." Shigure said, his head hanging low. "Part of the cursed Juunishi..."

Yuki stood there in shock. He couldn't belive his ears, and truth be told, he didn't want to either.

"W-wait..."Yuki stammered. "You...You mean to say that Honda-san is...Is now...But how? How can Akito do that!"

"It's a special potion." Kohana said as she seemed to appear out of nowhere, Kyo behind her with a stunned look on his face.

"A what!" Kyo asked.

"When Akito engages the Sohma, he makes them drink this tea." Kohana replied. "They turn into either their zodiac, or one that's compatable with the one they're being engaged too. I drank it, and I became the year of the snake, my own zodiac."

"But how...Why?" Yuki stammered as he felt his knees growing weak. "Why Honda-san?"

"I'll kill him." Kyo said, his voice filled with venom. "I'LL RIP HIS HEART OUT FOR DOING THIS TO TOHRU!" Kyo then punched the wall so hard that he broke right through it. Usually, Shigure would just say things like, 'Kyo, please be gentle to my house!' or, 'Stop that! The main house isn't paying for repairs anymore!'. But this time, he just didn't care. Tohru, his 'delicate flower', was now in the hands of Akito, who all the Sohma feared, and was being turned into a Sohma. Forced to endure the curse they had carried for centuries, and forced to marry one of their own. This wasn't the life he had wanted her to have. Not one as dark and depressing as the life the Sohma's led.

'Why can't this just be a bad dream?' Shigure thought as he walked away from the scene to seek refuge in his bedroom. 'Why can't I just wake up? Why is Akito doing this? Why is he putting Tohru-kun in this? She doesn't deserve this...Not this kind of life...It'll only hurt her...'

For countless hours, Shigure just layed in his bed, tossing and turning as he tried to think of what was happening to Tohru right now. He couldn't help but feel like something strange was happening. And he couldn't help but feel that whatever this strange thing was would bring nothing but future disaster. It was a feeling he just couldn't shake off.

Finally, at close to three in the morning, Shigure finally decied to fall asleep. In his mind, he didn't want too, but his body took more control. He looked out at the pale blue full moon and whispered before he closed his dark eyes.

"Tohru-kun...Please be safe..."

It was a little after six in the morning when Shigure woke up. He'd only managed about three hours of sleep and felt exauhsted from worry and lack of sleep.

'I guess that's the price I pay for worrying...' Shigure thought as he quietly crept down the stairs. The house showed no signs of life. And no signs of Tohru. 'She wasn't in her room either...So, that means...'

"...She never came home last night..." Shigure said, feeling unusually nauseous. He didn't want anything to eat, so he grabbed a newspaper and went out onto the porch. Hopefully that would help clear his mind.

Outside, the sky was still dim. The sun hadn't risen yet, but there was still enough light for Shigure to read.

For little over an hour, Shigure sat with the newspaper in his hands. He didn't read it. He just stared at it blankly, his mind elsewhere.

He then threw the paper at his side and rubbed his tired eyes as he leaned back. 'Why am I just sitting and staring at a newspaper...Why am I not out there looking for her...Something could've happened to her...'

That thought seemed to have motivated Shigure enough, but when he looked up, he stopped all motion.

In the distance, he saw a lone figure staggering their way towards the house, almost as if they were forcing themselves to keep walking until they got there. As the figure got closer, he couldn't make out any facial features, but he could see that she had silver hair with a brown tint to it, and her clothes were torn. When she got closer, she lifted her face so that he could see her face. Shigure's heart skipped a few beats when he saw her face.

"To...Tohru-kun!" Shigure nearly shouted as he jumped up to see her.

"Shi...Gure-s...San..." Tohru forced out when he came to her. She stummbled a bit when he got closer.

"Tohru-kun, are you alright!" Shigure asked as he grabbed her shoulders to help support her.

"Shi...Shigure-san...I..." Tohru said, her voice hoarse.

"Tohru-kun, where were you last night?" Shigure asked as he looked into her exauhsted eyes. They were now a darker, steely-blue color, unlike her bright blue eyes. "Tohru-kun, your eyes...And your hair...What happened to you last night? Why didn't you come home! I was worried sick! Tohru-kun?"

"Shigure-san...I don't feel good..." Tohru said as she passed out and landed into Shigure's chest. That's when he realized how warm she was. He put his hand up to her forehead and pulled back almost as soon as he sat it there.

'Oh my God...She has a fever...And a dangerously high one, too...' Shigure thought as he picked Tohru up and carried her into the house.

"Yuki! Kyo! Somebody call Hatori!" Shigure shouted loud enough to wake up all the occupants in the house. He had placed Tohru on the couch and raced towards the kitchen to get a cold wet cloth to put on her forhead.

"Shigure, what is it!" Kohana asked as she raced into the kitchen after hearing Shigure's desparate plea. She then looked down to what Shigure was tending too and her eyes widened. "Shigure...Is that...Tohru-kun...?"

"Yes, now please go and call Hatori." Shigure begged as he dabbed the cloth on Tohru's pale face. "She has an insane fever...It's high enough to possibly kill her...Now please, go."

Almost instantly, Kohana shot out of the living room and into the hallway where the phone was and frantically dialed Hatori's number.

"Uh, Hello, Sohma Hatori speaking..." Came the dazed voice of a newly awoken Hatori.

"Hatori, it's Kohana!" Kohana replied. "You need to come over right now! It's Tohru-kun! Shigure found her and she has a dangerous fever!"

"Slow down, Kohana." Hatori replied. "Now, Shigure found her with a fever?" 'I thought Tohru-kun was with Akito all night...'

"Yes!" Kohana replied.

"How high?" Hatori asked as he started to get dressed.

"Shigure said it could kill her!" Kohana replied frantically.

'That high!' Hatori thought as he grabbed some random clothes out of his closet. "Alright, Kohana listen to me. Take Tohru-kun to her room and put her in some thin night clothes. Her building up body heat from her fever isn't going to help any. Fill up a bowl with cold water, but put ice in it too. And change it about every two minutes. We need to get it down as fast as we can. I'll be right over okay? Just do as I say until I get there."

"Okay." Kohana replied as she hung up the phone to do what Hatori had instructed.

"Hatori, where are you!" Kyo said as he glanced out the window, the averted his gaze and watched Shigure and Kohana take care of Tohru. She looked terrible. She looked paler than ever as she layed in her bed, wearing nothing but one of Shigure's tank tops that he usually wore under one of his suits whenever he wore one. She looked ghostly.

"She looks so different..." Yuki said as he looked at her new features. The Tohru he knew never had silver-brown hair, or a curse for that matter.

"It's the curse." Kohana said as she rung out a towel and placed it on Tohru's head. "For some, their features stay the same, like mine did. For others, like my cousin, Nyoko, hers changed. She was year of the horse, but when she got engaged, her zodiac changed to year of the rabbit. Her features then changed. It all depends who they get engaged to."

"But...Tohru's looks so different from the rest of the zodiac's features..." Kyo said as he examimed her. "What year is she?"

"It is hard to tell, isn't it?" Shigure replied as he replaced Kohana's cloth with his. He then looked out the window as if he had heard something. "Yuki, go to the door. Hatori's here."

Yuki then stole a glance at Tohru as he stood up and walked towards the door. He didn't even have to walk out the room because Hatori didn't even bother to knock. He just raced in and up to Tohru's room.

Everyone could tell Hatori had wanted to wince at the sight of Tohru. Her looking like that was just not normal. He walked up to her side and sat his bag down and opened it.

"I need everyone to leave." Hatori said as he rummaged through his bag. "I need total concentration and I can't get with everyone in here asking questions.'' Nobody replied, and they just got up and left.

Shigure was the last one out and when he looked behind him, he could see Hatori pulling out things like syringe needles, thermometers, and liquid antibiotics. He got the chills as he closed the door and walked down into the living room.

Everyone was in a daze as Hatori worked on Tohru. They didn't know how long it took him because they never kept track of the time. They were surprised when he came down and announced that he was finished.

"So...How is she?" Shigure asked.

"Right now...She has a fever of a hundred and seven degrees..." Hatori replied, looking down at the table. "It's keeping her from regaining conciousness..."

"What does that mean?" Kyo asked, thiniking the worst.

"She's in a comatose..." Hatori replied. "Until her fever breaks, she won't regain conciousness...It might even kill her unless it breaks...But how long she's going to be like this is something I don't know..."

"You mean she could be stuck like this for any period of time?" Kohana asked. "Like a week, month, or year?"

"That's how I see it." Hatori replied.

"What's causing this?" Yuki asked, his voice unsteady.

"Her engagement to one of the Juunishi." Hatori replied. "Since she's engaged to a Sohma, she has to be turned into one, Zodiac and all. Since she's not a blood relative, the tea Akito gave her is having a worse effect on her, unlike the blood related Sohma's, who are fine a day or two later." Everyone was silent for a moment, digesting the new information.

"Hatori, do you know what Zodiac Tohru is and who she's engaged to?" Kyo asked. "She looks so different from the others that I just can't make it out..."

"Yes, I do know." Hatori rpelied.

"Can you tell us?" Shigure asked.

End of chap. 3! I'm so evil. Another mind racking cliffie. So, what zodiac do you think Tohru'll be? And who will she be engaged to? Hmm, doesn't really matter who she's engaged to. This is a Shigure/Tohru fic anyway. Oh, and for those who think Tohru's curse will help her get a better chance at Shigure, it won't. It'll just make things worse for her, leading up too-! Sorry, can't tell ya! You'll just have to read to find out. Til next chapter!