I do not own Fruits Basket
Author's note:
I still have writer's block.
So I'm going to make do. And you know what?
I'm just going to go strait to the part where Ryouko goes to Sohma house, because I am stuck.
Chapter 8
1873
1874
1875
"1876! Found ya!" (I don't know, I just made up some random address)
Ryouko looked at the huge gate. "Oh, I better knock."
Knock knock
The door creaked open, which really creeped Ryouko out.
"Um, Hello?" Ryouko said as she entered. The gate closed shut behind Ryouko, making her jump. She walked slowly through the pathways between the houses; it was almost like a little town. She came up to the larges house and knocked on the door.
A maid opened the door and asked "Are you Ryouko?"
Ryouko nodded and was ushered inside. The maid directed her towards a roomand closed the door behind her.
The room was empty, other than a man who looked to be in his twenties wearing a long loose robe. He was sitting on the floor apparently waiting for her.
"Please, sit." His voice was sickly, yet had authority.
Ryouko obeyed, sitting carefully before him.
"So, you are the one who is different, the one who causes the zodiacs not to transform. The one who separates me from my subjects."
Ryouko gulped. "I guess you could say that."
"Why?" Akito snapped ,eyes glaring, full of hatred. "Why do you give the impression of breaking the bond?"
"I-I don't know."
"Liar! You're hiding something!"
Even if he is the head of their family, I can't tell him. Ryouko thought.
"No I'm not."
Akito stood up suddenly and slapped her.
"Liar!"
Ryouko looked up, here single red eye almost glowing in the dark room. "If I were, why would I tell you."
Akito hit her harder this time, causing blood to trickle from her mouth. "You are more than you seem. You are no innocent girl; I can see it in your eye." Akito leaned down close to her.
"Ha!" Ryouko spat blood into his face. "I may be, but I can act like one if I want." Akito wiped his face with his sleeve. "But I can be a little bitch when ever needed."
"And you are a little monster on the inside." Akito sneered, and then hit Ryouko again, this time, on her scar.
Ryouko shrieked with pain, her scar reddening and started to bleed. Now Ryouko stood up, Akito had stuck a nerve.
"And what the hell would you, know bitch?" Ryouko yelled. "All you do is rule your zodiacs from afar, afraid that one of them would stand up and hit you." At this Ryouko slapped Akito, but he caught her arm, he squeezed it tight, nails drawing blood.
"How would you know?" Ha snarled. "How would an outsider like you know about this family? What would you know of how it works?"
"If you knew," Ryouko drew her face close to Akito's. "You wouldn't come within a mile of me." She spit blood in his eye this time.
Suddenly, Akito spied the necklace around Ryouko's neck. "Nice necklace, reminds me of the beads on another monster."
Speaking of the other monster…..
Kyo had been worried about Ryouko, he hadn't seen her walk home with Usagi, she had headed towards the Sohma house. Kyo had gone to Sohma house to, in hopes of finding her. He was prowling around the largest of the houses when he heard voiced shouting, and a shrike of pain.
He stalked up to the room that the noises were coming from, and saw Akito grasping Ryouko's arm and heard her say "You wouldn't come within a mile of me"
Back to Akito and Ryouko
Akito grabbed Ryouko's necklace and ripped it from Ryouko's neck. Ryouko screamed and clawed at Akito to get the necklace, but Akito threw it across the room.
And then, Ryouko began to change.
First, her scared eye opened, to reveal a red eye, with a jagged black line splitting it. The pupil was blue, but it was tiny, the eye was ugly and discolored from red to white in some places. Her other pupil became a slit. Then, her skin turned red, and red scales burst from the skin, everywhere but her face, which the skin simple became red.
Flesh ripped as huge leathery, red, wings burst from her upper back, unfolding to reach both walls. Her fingernails became black, curved claws, as did her toenails.
A terrified Akito rushed out of the room not noticing Kyo at all.
Kyo stared at Ryouko, totally in shock at the ugly bond that they shared. He wanted to go to her, to comfort the monster that been his friend, but he couldn't move.
A roar ripped from the throat of the Ryouko monster.
And then she broke down. She curled up into a ball on the floor, wings folded to cover herself. Her claws dug gashes in the floor and an earsplitting wail emitted from her.
And she screamed and cried, for everything, her family that left her, the friends she would miss, and everything terrible that had ever happened to her.
And then she summed it all up in one last defaming scream:
"AKITO YOU BITCH!"
Author's note:
I know that terrible things happened in this chapter, but I just don't think that I did justice to all of Ryouko's pain. I will probably pay tribute to it later.
And I must say, after reading this, you must agree with Ryouko, Akito is a bitch, and I agree with her.