Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ I was gone now I'm back ❯ A pain from the past, and somewhere else ( Chapter 15 )

Note from author: I've heard that Akito is woman, but I won't believe it until I read it in the manga. I'm currently up to date with the ones released in the US, vol. #12. And so far I still know very little about Akito and that he's still a guy. But I HATE spoilers so don't tell me anything. Lol. So in my fic Akito is going to be a guy.

 

Pain from the past, and something else

 

It's early in the morning, around 5:00. Everyone but Daieki and Shigure are asleep. Since its vacation everyone sleeps in. Daieki and Shigure are down stairs, preparing to leave for the main house.

“You know, you really don't need to come.”

“Well, I need to be there incase anything goes wrong.”

“What could possibly go wrong? Like I said yesterday, the man has nothing on me.”

“Don't be so sure.” Shigure said so quietly that Daieki didn't hear him

Begin Flashback to when Shigure was at the main house:

“Shigure, you know that Akito wishes to meet with Daieki right?” Hatori asked

“Yes.”

“Well, as you know Daieki and I have been meeting for a while now to have our talks. And well Akito found out.”

“What!”

“Yes, and I'm afraid that he knows everything we talked about.”

“This isn't good. This means she's just as vulnerable to Akito's cruelty as we are.”

End Flashback.

“Shigure! You coming, or what?”

“Yes.” Shigure finished writing a note to everyone else in the house telling them where Daieki and he would be-of course he lied. “Lets see.” He read the note to himself

Good morning everyone! I went on a breakfast DATE with Daieki; see you when we get back.

~Shigure

Daieki and Shigure walked out the door and headed towards the main house. Daieki had been suggested to dress nicely today, so she wore jeans and a nice t-shirt. Shigure had on his black suit. Shigure glanced at Daieki's face and sensed a slight glimmer of worry in her.

“Daieki, you're not worried are you?”

“Me! Worried about meeting Akito! Hell no! Say Shigure did you leave a note so everyone else knows where we are?”

“Ya, I told them we were on a breakfast date.”

“What! What the hell is your problem! You're such flippin' perv! I leave you the simple task of making up an excuse to where we are, and you write that we went on a breakfast date! I should kill you for that!”

“Now Daieki, there is no need to overreact.”

“Overreact!” Daieki punched Shigure in the head. “Overreact that!”

“Owwwww!”

Daieki and Shigure continued walking until they reached the main house's gates. And to Daieki's surprise Hatori was waiting for them.

“Hey Hatori.” Daieki said

“Haa-san! Good to see you again.”

“I'm not sure if “good” is the word I would use.”

“You're so cruel!”

“Are you ready Dai?”

“Yup.”

“Then follow us.” Shigure added

Hatori and Shigure walked through the gates and into the main house-with Daieki right behind them. The trip to the room seemed like the longest stretch of time in Daieki's life. But finally the trio arrived at a set of sliding doors, and Hatori knocked of them.

“Akito, she's here.”

Daieki hated the way she was referred to as a “she”. She didn't like the way it sounded coming from Hatori. While they were waiting for a reply Shigure whispered some last minute advice in her ear.

“Remember, don't tell him anything you might regret, don't tick him off, and most importantly….”

“Send her in.” A cold voice came from behind the shut doors

Hatori opened the door, Daieki walked in, and Hatori shut the door behind her.

“Now what?” Shigure whispered to Hatori

“We'll sit down in the hall, listen and wait, in case we need to jump in.”

“Right.”

Daieki walked into the plain room. There was a vase and some dead flowers in it, on a small side table placed oddly against a wall. It looked as if it didn't belong there, sort of the way Daieki felt just then.

“Please, take a seat.” The voice said again

Daieki sat down with her legs under her, and put her hands on her lap. She could hear the person but there seemed to be no body to go along with it. Then she noticed a small doorway that led to the outside, just a little ahead of her.

He must be out there. I wonder what Shigure was planning on telling me. He said it was the most important thing. But what could possibly be so important.

Just then a frail looking man came in from outside, and took a long look at Daieki.

His eyes! There're so cold. I feel as though he's looking right through me! Pull yourself together Daieki! You can't loss your nerve now! When he starts saying “hurtful” things you have to stand up for yourself. Remember you wouldn't be here if it weren't for him! He ruined your life! You're angry at him! Get angry! GRRRRR!

Finally he spoke, “It's good to see you again. Didn't I tell you we would be meeting soon.”

Daieki did remember. He told her that the night she came here looking for Hatori, when her parents came to visit her.

“Yes.” Daieki replied

“So Daieki, tell me. How do you like it at Shigure's house?”

Daieki had to think her answer's through because she didn't want any information to slip. “It's okay.”

“Really? And how is everyone?”

“Good.”

“Good. That's good.”

His cool demeanor is really starting to aggravate me.

“So, how do you get along with everyone?”

“Fine.”

“That's nice.”

There was a long pause before Akito got up and went over to Daieki. He touched her cheek with the back of his hand, and Daieki cringed.

“What's wrong Daieki? Are you scared of me?”

Daieki forgot all about controlling her words. “Scared? Why would I be scared of you?”

“Why? Why! Because I did this to you?” And with that he walked back over to where he was sitting

“What? What do you mean “did this to me”?” Daieki now stood up

“If you are going to be part of this family you are going to behave like one of them (meaning the zodiac members). Now sit!”

“What if I don't want to!”

“Daieki listen to me….”

“No! You listen you bastard! You have nothing on me! I didn't grow up a Sohma! You know nothing about me!”

“Oh ya.” Now Akito stood up, “Well I know when your Aunt was in the hospital dieing you weren't allowed to see her. And when your mom came home from visiting her, she hit you. She said it was your fault her sister-in-law was dead, and your father blamed you as well.”

This brought a flood of painful memories back into Daieki's mind. Memories she tried so hard to suppress. It was so overwhelming that she almost had to sit-but she remained standing. She wanted to show Akito that his words didn't hurt her-even though deep inside, she knew they did.

“And what about the New Years Eve, after her death. You weren't allowed inside. You had to sit outside in the cold while everyone was in the warm house eating. Celebrating, having fun. And what happened when your brother brought out some food for you?”

Daieki remembered what happened.

“He spilled it, on purpose right by your feet. I bet you were so hungry, and then he just let the plate go.”

“Shut up.”

“What!”

“Shut up!”

“You have no right saying that to me.” Akito ran over and grabbed Daieki by the wrist and pulled her face close to his

“Let me go!”

“What about your brother? The way he used to bully you all the time? Hit you, punch you? Beat you up! And your parents didn't even care! They saw you as a murder! They still do! Oh and speaking of that. The only reason they came looking for you was because I looked for them. I wrote to them and said as head of the family Daieki was just dieing to meet them. Face to face after all theses years.

“So it was you.”

All of this was too much for Daieki. She couldn't even yell. But she had to.

“It was you!” The tears that Daieki was trying to suppress filled her eyes and clouded her vision. She went to punch Akito, but with her eyes filled with tears she missed and Akito grabbed her other wrist and pushed her as hard as he could into the small side table.

SMASH! The vase fell off the table and shattered

“AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!” Daieki screamed a blood curtailing scream. All she could feel was an extreme pain in her left arm. And when she opened her eyes all she saw red all around her. She soon realized that this red, was blood, her blood. Akito had pushed her into the table with the vase on it. When the vase fell, it fell next to her left arm cutting from where her thumb ended to the end of her wrist.

“This is what you deserve!”

Daieki was crying hard now. She was still on the floor holding her wrist.

“Get up!” Akito reached down and grabbed Daieki by her injured arm, squeezing tight right over the wound.

“Aaaahhhhh!”

Shigure and Hatori, hearing the screams, burst in and saw the bloody sight.

“Akito! Daieki!” Shigure yelled

Akito let go of Daieki and she fell back on the floor.

“Hatori you may treat her wounds.”

Hatori rushed over and picked up Daieki in his arms and with Shigure by his side rushed out of the room to give Daieki some medical attention.