(本田 透 ''Honda Tōru'') is the protagonist in the
Manga and
Anime entitled ''
Fruits Basket ''. Her altruistic nature, benign heart, and usually cheerful bearing earn her a special place in the story.
Arisa Uotani and
Saki Hanajima are Tohru's best friends. Both of her parents had died before the story took place, leaving her
Orphaned and living on her own.
During the beginning of the story, Tohru lives in a tent because both her parents (
Kyoko Honda and Katsuya Honda) have died, and her Grandpa's house is under construction. Despite the less-than-comfortable conditions, Tohru remains characteristically optimistic, affectionately calling her tent 'my castle'. While leaving her tent to explore the area, she was discovered by
Shigure Sohma and
Yuki Sohma , whose land she had been camping on. This, the earliest major advance in the plot, leads to her entrance into the Sohma household, where she cooks and cleans in return for shelter. Over time, Tohru's relationship with the Sohmas grows much more complex.
Tohru has helped many of the Sohmas, most notably
Kisa Sohma , helping her regain her confidence and voice, and
Kyo Sohma , staying by his side even when he attempted to push her away by physically harming her. Later in the manga, Tohru and Kyo fall in love with each other, but when she confesses her feelings to him, consumed by guilt over Kyoko's death, Kyo tells her it's a delusion and runs off.
Tohru goes to follow him, but is confronted by Akito, who has heard the whole thing, and tries to stab Tohru. Akito stops however, when Tohru tells him how she now knows how it feels to be left behind, causing Akito to flash back to the previous banquet, where he was all alone, even though everyone was there. Tohru wants to start anew with Akito, since the way they met was so poorly done. After a bit more encouragement, Akito extends his hand to Tohru, just as the ground beneath Tohru crumbles, causing Tohru to fall. Fortunately, Akito starts screaming for help, which brings Shigure and Yuki running. They bring Tohru back to the house and call an ambulance. Kyo also comes back. He starts crying and asking her not to die. For a moment she regains consciousness. She tells him that she's alright, but it sounds almost like she's saying goodbye. He tells her to stop talking and that he understands. Then, he gives Tohru what's probably her first kiss.
Luckily, Tohru appears to have survived the fall, and is currently recovering in the hospital, waiting for Kyo, who had been distancing himself from her, to come visit her.
Tohru once had a symbolic experience in
Kindergarten . The class was playing a game called
Fruits Basket , in which everyone sits in a
Circle . The leader of the game, who stands in the center of the circle, names each person after a
Fruit ; when the name of a player's fruit is called, that player gets up and hurriedly changes positions with others with the same fruit name while the person in the center attempts to claim a seat for himself. The player left standing will then take up the center position.
When Tohru first played this game, she was assigned "
Onigiri " (rice ball), which was fine with her, since she thinks onigiri are delicious. However, it turns out that she was the only person to be assigned ''onigiri'', and as everyone but her got called and she was the only one left sitting, Tohru realized that an onigiri isn't a fruit, and that she'd never be called. Tohru was purposely excluded from the game, merely another of the cruel tricks classmates used to pull on her. She came to realize that there would be no room for an onigiri in a Fruits Basket.
However, as the series progresses, Tohru, though rejected by classmates at school, finds a place in which she can belong with the Sohma family, and brightening their days with a
Kind word or
Smile .
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