A/N: I'm really sorry it took months for the conclusion! Honestly, I all of a sudden lost my writing drive and I didn't get it back until a while ago. At least I didn't abandon the story all together!
As soon as they landed in the New York Airport, the Sohmas headed as fast as they could to the county jail. This was nearly impossible because the place was jam tight, and they couldn't move an inch without bumping into somebody.
"This is bad! This is bad! This is BAD!!" Ritsu shouted as he lost his nerve.
"With so many people, we'll change for sure!" Yuki stated as he started biting his nails. Tohru greatly disliked seeing the family so worried; she had to do something! She had to remember something, some flaw in the curse that would let them pass through peacefully. She thought back until it finally popped into her tiny, yet sufficient brain.
"The sheets!" Tohru cried out.
"Don't worry, Tohru. The maids back at the hotel will clean the sheets we used!" Momiji said thinking she was talking about how she didn't get to wash the soft hotel sheets.
"No, Momiji, that's not what I meant. Although, now that you mentioned it…"
"Don't stray from your train of thought! Why the heck did you yell 'sheets'?" Hiro asked rudely.
"Oh, right. Well you see, one time Kyo and I were able to embrace without transforming because the bed sheets were in between us!" Tohru explained a little too loudly. Everyone had a giant animated sweat drop fall from their foreheads.
"My, my…Maiden Tohru and Lucky Kyo in between the sheets! How romantic! Ahahahahaha!" Ayame shouted.
"Sounds like something I could use in my next novel!" Shigure added.
"Oh, stop it you two. I'm sure that's not what she meant." Hatori told his friends.
"HEY! WE DIDN'T DO NOTHING!!" Kyo exploded in front of everyone. Once again, the Sohmas had managed to bring the attention of dozens of Americans to themselves.
"I don't understand. What did I say that made everyone so uncomfortable?" Tohru asked naively.
"You insinuated that you and Kyo…" Rin started explaining to her child-minded friend.
"…had slept together." Haru finished Rin's sentence.
"EEEHHH?? NO NO!! That's not what I meant! You see I was doing the laundry and I was hanging the sheets up to dry and then Kyo came and started asking about my father and…" Tohru tried to explain with an even dew of sweat on her face.
"Whatever! What's the point of this anyway?!" Hiro asked.
"She wants us to wear sheets so we don't transform!" Kagura put it bluntly.
"If Sissy says it works, we should try it." Kisa said.
"Here Tohru, take my credit card, let's experiment to see if what you claim worked between you and Kyo will prove effective on us. Go get a dozen bed sheets or curtains and see if they'll work." Hatori instructed as he sent Tohru off to the airport shops with his credit card. While she went shopping, everyone else tried to avoid being bumped into by other people. About half an hour later, she returned with the sheets.
"I'm sorry, but all they had was pink! I hope you don't mind." Tohru sulked as she distributed sheets to everyone.
"Well, beggars can't be choosers, I guess." Shigure commented as he put on his sheet like a toga.
"BOO! Look everybody I'm a ghost!" Momiji squealed as he pulled his sheets over his head.
"Momiji, this is no time to be messing around. We're here to bail out Akito, remember?" Hatori reminded him.
"Seriously, what is so bad about Akito being in jail? If he broke the law, he should pay the consequences!" Rin protested.
"We can't help it. Our spirits are telling us to help him. Plus, he'd probably break out eventually and then unleash his wrath on us for not helping him." Shigure answered. Rin just groaned.
Honestly, when the Sohmas finished putting on their sheets, they looked like complete dorks. However, this humiliation proved fruitful. They must've bumped into several members of the opposite gender, but there were no transformations.
"Wow, Tohru. It actually worked." Kagura said as she pushed through to the exit of the airport. Then they took a cab to the county jail.
"Ok guys, no one mention this sheet idea to Akito. If he knows there is a flaw in the curse, heads will roll and Isuzu will go out the window again." Shigure said.
"HEY!" Rin shouted, but she got distracted from Shigure's comment when she saw her god lying on the benches in the cell. Outside the cell was Kureno just sitting casually and playing with his thumbs. As soon Akito saw her family, she jumped up and pressed her body to the cell door.
"Aha! I told you, Kureno! I told you the family would come looking for me! They always come to me!" Akito cheered rather proudly despite the fact she had not bathed in days and she had a bruise on her left cheek that was a gift from a cellmate.
"Don't worry; I'll take care of the bail." Hatori said as he turned to talk to the officers. After a long conversation and a large payment, the guards unlocked the cell doors and let Akito free. Kureno was in front to greet her, but she pushed him aside and ran to Hatori.
"Oh Hatori, it was terrible! The food was disgusting; the other inmates had no respect for me at all, and look at my cheek! I was attacked by a wretched woman! I just want to go home and take a nice bath!" Akito complained as she hugged Hatori tightly.
"Aki! How lovely to see you!" Shigure greeted as he tried to get near Akito, but she pushed him away.
"Don't touch me! I'm still mad at you for lying about this trip!" Akito yelled. She turned to look at all her precious zodiac.
"What happened to all of you?! Rin, what kind of earrings are those? And Kyo, why does your shirt have a number on it? I hope you all enjoyed your little vacation because we're going home right now!" Akito lectured as she marched out of the building with everyone following her.
On the plane home, she made everyone sit in coach except for herself, Kureno, Hatori and Yuki, who were all in first class. However, Yuki excused himself to the bathroom in order to sneak into the coach section with everyone else.
"I hope you had fun Ms. Honda." Yuki smiled at Tohru.
"Oh, yes! I had a lot of fun!" Tohru exclaimed.
"Check out all the pictures I got! There's some from LA, and Vegas, and here's Haru in the cowboy hat when we were in Texas, and here's our beach trip!" Kagura reviewed the pictures of everything they did with Tohru.
"My word, Shigure, what is that you have in your hands?" Ayame asked.
"It's a recording of Akito's arrest on TV. I'm going to show it to Ren when we get home!" Shigure exclaimed as he laughed mischievously.
Back in first class, Akito just stared at the clouds while mumbling to herself.
"Stupid jail, stupid food, the whole country is just stupid. When is Yuki getting back from the bathroom? Geez, please don't tell me he has a stomach virus."
Kureno just listened to her rambling and sat quietly as he waited to return to his small comfortable place at the Sohma Main House. All of a sudden, he noticed something tucked into Akito's kimono. He looked closely to see it was a DVD, he looked even closer to see the title of the movie and the director: QUENTIN TARANTINO'S KILL BILL V.1+2. He raised his eyebrows at this; maybe there was something that had caught Akito's interest after all.