Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Blanket of Fear ❯ Chapter 5 ( Chapter 5 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]


Tohru groaned and opened her eyes. She blinked a few times before realizing she was on the bed in “her room” at Akito’s house. How did I get here? She sat up slowly and tried to organize her thoughts. She looked up and saw Akito staring at her worriedly. When he saw Tohru looking at him his gaze became cold and unfeeling.
“Leave. Now.” Tohru nodded and fled from the room, each step bringing a sharp pain. When she reached Shigure’s house she found a note on the table that said they had gone out to eat and would bring her something back. She sighed and put a hand on her stomach. I can’t go back there. For the sake of this baby. She sighed and took her hand away.
“I think I’ll just take a shower and go to bed,” she muttered to herself before heading upstairs. She stepped into the shower and was about to turn the water on when she felt something warm and wet trailing down her inner thighs. Panicking she looked down and saw blood. No! What’s going on? She scrambled to get out of the tub and hit her head, knocking her out. When she came to she was laying in the bottom of the bathtub covered in blood. She looked around and saw a small, blood covered baby lying in the bottom of the tub. She shrieked and scrambled backwards before tentively reaching out and touching the baby’s flesh. When she realized that it was dead she picked up the baby and clutched it to her chest, letting out a loud sob she stood up and turned on the water; letting it wash away the blood on both her and her child. After a while she turned off the water and got dressed. Then she ran up to her room and found a small wooden box. Then she placed her baby in the box along with a few pieces of cloth. She was still crying but her eyes had a glazed look over them as she put the baby in the box and closed the lid. She headed downstairs, pausing long enough to write a short note on a piece of paper and then she headed outside, not paying any attention to the to the freezing rain or the fact that she had forgotten her shoes and coat. She just continued walking until she reached a place she knew how to get to only by memory; the place where she had originally pitched her tent. She carefully set the box on the ground and began looking for a stick. She found one and began digging. Soon the stick snapped.
“No!” she shouted and at that she threw the pieces down and began digging with her fingers, ignoring the pain as the rocks and dirt scrapped away at her fingertips and hands. No more pain! No more pain! No more… she chanted in her head as tears continued to stream down her face. Once she finished she tenderly placed the box in the hole and covered it back up.
“Along with this box I’ll bury my heart, so I don’t have to feel the pain anymore…” She stood up and grabbed the knife she had brought with her. She walked over to a nearby tree and sat down before swiftly bringing the knife across her wrist.
“No more pain,” she repeated as she made more and more slashes on her wrist before moving on to the next one. As her world began growing dark she smiled her first true smile since this had started.
“No…more…pai…” she trailed off as she slipped into blissful unconsciousness.


Okay…I know that poor Tohru has suffered enough already and I have some good news!!! Not in the next chapter but in the chapter after that things will start turning around so you have that to look forward to. I love tragedies and all I just can’t stand to write them about my favorite characters. Thank you all for reading my story and double thanks to those who reviewed and/or added me to their favorites or alert list. This is all for now but I am already almost done writing my next chapter!!! I’ll have it typed and posted soon. Bye!