Disclaimer: Unlike Natsuki Takaya-san, I don't own Fruits Basket...I only worship it...
A/N: Hey, I updated quicker this time! Anyways, they're 3 years older in this fic and may seem OOC at times, and the Zodiac Curse is broken, and that seems to be all the important things I have to say right now, so, happy reading!
Forget Me Not
Chapter 3- Reasons
"Of course." Akito replied as he wrapped an arm around her. Yuki had to try and resist the urge to smack Akito and tell him to never touch her again. "Everyone, this is Shimakaza Nyoko, my fiancee." Everyone's eyes widened, but Yuki was the only one who let out an audiable gasp.
'Fi-fiancee! Shimakaza Nyoko!' Yuki thought, full of anger, saddness, and confusion. 'No! This can't be! This just can't! She's Honda Tohru, not Shimakaza Nyoko! She can't love Akito! She can't...She just can't...' With all his build up of emotions, Yuki had punched the table everyone had croweded around, startling them all.
"Akito..."Yuki growled. "I need to talk to you...Outside...Right now."
Akito's look of surprisement changed to a slightly evil looking smirk.
"Of course..." Akito replied. Yuki then stood up quickly and stormed outside as Akito followed.
"Um, is Yuki-san okay?" Tohru asked. "He seems a little...Upset about something."
"He's just...Having a bad day..." Shigure replied. "He's going through a difficult time right now..."
"We all are..." Haru said.
Outside, a little ways from the house, Yuki was fuming. He tried his hardest not to explode on Akito while staring at him.
"So, Yuki," Akito began, his voice full of fake wonder, "what do you want to talk to me about?" Yuki had now lost it.
"Tell me why, Akito!" Yuki shouted as he grabbed Akito by the throat and slammed him against a tree.
"Tell you...What, Yuki? Ugh!" Akito said. He was just playing with Yuki now. And Yuki's response to that was to tighten the grip he had on Akito's neck.
"TELL ME WHY YOU DID THAT TO TOHRU!" Yuki replied, his fury growing by the second.
"Why should I?" Akito shot back, waiting for Yuki to tighten his grip on his throat. But it never came. Instead, Akito got backhanded right across his left cheek.
"Because I'll spare you the torment of having me kill you and dumping your worthless body somewhere in this forest." Yuki replied, his voice cold and emotionless.
"Heh...I don't think Nyoko would like it if her future husband died..." Akito replied, toying with Yuki again. Only this time, Yuki didn't hit him. He had dug his fingers into Akito's neck, pulled him foward, and slammed him against the tree as hard as he could.
"You have one more chance to say it before I start killing you..." Yuki replied, giving Akito an icy cold glare. As for Akito, he just coughed as he gasped for air and reached for the back of his head. Yuki had slammed him so hard against that tree that the back of his head was bleeding. He could tell Yuki was dead serious about this now.
"So you really want to know?" Akito asked, a hint of evilness in his voice.
"Tell me." Yuki replied.
"Fine then, I'll tell you." Akito said as he took a breath and began.
"Hey, Ha'ri, you okay?" Hiro asked after Tohru went to the bathroom. "I mean, you looked so pale and frightened when you saw that jerk Akito and Tohru come in."
"I...I-I have to go!" Hatori said as he shakily stood up and raced towards the backdoor in the kitchen.
"Ha'ri, wait!" Ayame shouted as he and Shigure ran after him.
"Everyone, just stay here!" Shigure ordered.
Hatori had bolted out the door and ran down the road as fast as he could. Ayame and Shigure were telling him to stop, but Hatori ignored them. He didn't want to stop. He wanted to keep running and not go back.
"Hatori, stop!" Shigure shouted.
"No!" Hatori cried. 'You wouldn't understand...You weren't there, you weren't part of it!'
"Hatori, stop!" Shigure shouted again. "HATORI!" This time, Hatori's foot had gotten caught in a hole in the ground and sent him falling down a ditch. Shigure and Ayame went after him.
"Hatori! Oh my God, are you alrght!" Shigure asked frantically as he kneeled down by his side.
"Yes, are you!" Ayame asked as he went over to Hatori's other side.
"No..." Hatori said, the scar on his back stinging as he started to cry. "It's all my fault..."
"What is...?" Shigure asked. Hatori then looked up at him. His eyes looked liked those of a scared, lost child as he said his next words.
"I did it because I want you to suffer, Yuki." Akito replied, an evil smirk starting to play across his face. "I wanted you, the most happiest of the cursed Juunishi, to suffer the most. And so far, for the past three years, it's worked." Now Yuki had officailly lost it.
"WHY!" Yuki shouted as he kneed Akito in the gut. "WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME!" He then grabbed a hold of the back of Akito's head and slammed it into his knee, kneeing him in the face. "WHY DID YOU TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME!" Yuki then grabbed the hair on the back of Akito's head and jerked his head back. "YOU KNEW I CARED ABOUT HER!" Now Yuki had punched Akito in the eye, sending him backwards. "SO TELL ME WHY YOU DID THIS! TELL ME BEFORE I SNAP YOUR NECK!"
"You...really want to know why?" Akito asked as he struggled to sit up.
"Tell me." Yuki growled.
"I did this because I couldn't stand you being so happy when I would be suffering all the time..." Akito replied. "All you ever did was waltz around like you didn't have a care in the world while I sat in a room, bearing all the weight of curse, doing nothing but suffering...So then, I decided to take away the thing you loved the most, make you experience true pain and suffering...So, Yuki...How does it feel now that the tables have turned on you?" Yuki's face was full of shock and pain as he heard this. And Akito enjoyed it. But it then turned to anger, hate and rage.
"You...YOU SICK LUNATIC!" Yuki screamed as he started advancing towards Akito, ready to do some serious damage to him, but stopped when he heard a voice filled with terror.
"AKITO-KUN!" Tohru shouted as she saw a raging Yuki advancing towards her fiancee, who was laying on the ground, all bloody and battered. She then ran over to him and threw herself on top of him to protect him.
"Nyoko, don't!" Akito said as he wrapped an arm around her. "I don't want you to get hurt!"
"I DON'T CARE IF I DO, AS LONG AS YOU'RE ALRIGHT!" Tohru shouted, then turned to Yuki. "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS, YUKI-SAN! PLEASE, DON'T HURT HIM! I LOVE HIM!" Yuki couldn't belive his ears.
"I...I'm sorry, Shimakaza-san..." Yuki said as his eyes filled with tears. He then tore off into some random direction and just kept running, his heart breaking even more with every step...
End of chap 3! Well, you know why Akito did that to Tohru, but what's Hatori got to do with any of this? Hmm, guess you're gonna have to wait til the next chap!