Chapter 6

Chapter 6 is the sixth and final chapter of the first volume and the overall sixth chapter of the Fruits Basket manga series, written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya.

Plot
The chapter begins with Tohru giving the Sohmas instructions for continuing her chores once she's gone, and she gives Shigure her grandfather's address. Shigure tells Tohru thank you for taking care of the Sohmas, but Tohru replies that she should be thinking them and that she will never tell anyone their secret. Shigure tells her to take care when she gets home, and Tohru replies that she will not dispair.

Once she leaves, Shigure tells Yuki and Kyo he thought they would try to convince Tohru to stay. Yuki and Kyo are clearly bothered by her leaving, but Yuki points out that from the beginning Tohru had only planned to stay until her grandfather's house was finished being remodeled, and Kyo says it's weird having an outsider around. Meanwhile, Tohru sits in an empty room and reflects while looking at a picture of her mother. She thinks that she was wrong, and that she could never become one of the Sohmas' family members.

Here, the story cuts to a flashback of Tohru's childhood. She played the game "Fruits Basket" with her classmates, and while the leader assigned each child a fruit, he gave Tohru the assignment of "riceball." Now, she recognizes that the boys were picking on her, but she remembers thinking riceballs were tasty and waiting for one of the kids to call her food so she could join in. But the kids never called "riceball" and instead enjoyed the game in front of her while she watched, alone.

As the story returns to the present day, Tohru greets her relatives, thinking, "Ever since the start, the riceball could simply never join the fruits basket." It seems she feels left out of both her family's social circle and the Sohma family's lives.

Trivia
Capítulo 6 Chapitre 6 Capitolo 6