Fruits Basket 13 - Akito and Yuki
Yuki, Kyou and Tohru are now second year students. Today, the ceremony starts, and this is the day that Momiji and Haru will join the High School life with the rest of the bunch. Because in Japan this is so important, Tohru ‘forced’ Kyou to come with her to greet the newbies. But, she has forgotten in which class they are.^^ While Kyou asks in which class they are, Tohru spaces off.^^ Too funny. Once again. Kyou warns her that when she is alone, that she has to be on her guard the whole time, but she doesn’t really understand. But when she is with Kyou, she can space off all she want. See the picture.^^ I find it amazing for someone to space off that much. I wish I could do that.
They found the class! And Momiji managed to wear the most ‘interesting’ schooluniform ever. He wears a girl uniform. But you have to say, he looks really good in it.^^ Yuki comes by as well, asking why on earth he is dressed up this way, but he is not the only one that comes.
Campus defense force, or: the student council. In Japan, the student councils are powerfull youth movements in the school and they can really make a difference. This time, the president is just angry at Haru because of his hair. Saying that it’s his original color doesn’t help, and the president goes on bickering at Momiji. Momiji’s soul is still a kid, so he can’t take all this critism. The president really sets his life at stake the moment Haru is pissed off.^^
We all know what happens then. Haru scared the hell out of the whole Student Council. That guy is good in his arguments, but: it’s a little scary and impulsive. And black.^^ I remain in silence because the most utterly wrong situation was used to prove the natural haircolor of Haru. I can guess what happens, but I have a strange feeling that it is a good thing that it wasn’t showed on screen. In fact, I don’t want to know anything else about it. The question of Tohru afterwords, gives Kyou and Yuki the permission to beat the hell out of that guy. The bell rings, Tohru is off. And then, plottwist for the coming time in this episode: Namely:
Akito is at school. And Tohru runs into him. That can’t be a too good situation. 
Tohru is suprised by him and caught off guard. She doesn’t know how to behave in a situation like this, because she has never been in such situation before. She greets him, and Akito greets as well. The air was too thick in this scene, because we would have expect any moment an attack on her. Remember, this guy is the one that hurted the eye of Hatori. In the moment that Akito wants the two of them become friends, and we all know that he was lying, Yuki bursted in.
But, he is scared to death. Akito comes to him, and we get the most terrifrying scene ever. Akito talks to him and said that it was hurting to him that Yuki didn’t show up at New Year’s party. He has been tolerant lately, and yet, Yuki disobeys him. Yuki is more scared and scared by the moment. I wondered about this, because we’ve never seen Yuki scared before. With this scene, it all becomes clear. Yuki is abused, beaten, mentally tormented by Akito and is traumatised by it. That’s why he can’t stand the house of the Soumas, because he is reminded by all his memories of Akito. It’s too scary, even the moment Akito threatens to ‘re-educate’ him. We can all guess what that could be. Yuki is too scared by him, but yet, he shows up, to protect Tohru for what he fears that will happen: That Tohru will lose her memory and that he will be alone by himself once more. I also wondered about Akito. He is the badguy of this anime, that is clear, but even so, he incredibly soft. But he is manipulating, indoctrinating, and just too evil by doing that his soft way. He is the perfect badguy. He is cunning. I wouldn’t be suprised if he manages to do something to Yuki far more evil. The comment that he made that it ‘would be nice if Yuki had a nice High School time’ convinced me that we haven’t heard all of Akito. Later when Hatori and Shigure talk about the incident, we can see that it’s Akito’s mission to make Yuki unhappy. He can’t be happy when Akito is around, because Yuki is too scared by him, even now.
The tension is broken by Tohru, and she pushed Akito away. Akito leaves, and Tohru takes Yuki with her to play with the whole High School Bunch badminton. Yuki is happy once more, because there are warm people that he can trust and that can make him feel alright again. And that is something that Akito fails to see.
