In the very beginning of the series we find a young girl named Tohru Honda living in a tent after her mother's fatal car crash. She had a lot of people to choose to live with but she chose to live with her maternal grandfather since he was always so nice to her. She promised to take care of her school expenses and got a job working at an office building taking out trash and cleaning and doing everything she could to earn a little extra money. She could have asked her two best friends Oluou who has a one bedroom apartment and Hanajima who has a large family at her house so she decided she would live on her own for a while on Sohma property though she didn't know it at the time.
When she realized that she was tresspassing on sohma property she walked to school with Yuki, the "prince" of her high school and was nervous about walking with him so she didn't talk much. It was decided that even though it was strange, that Tohru would be living with Shigure and Yuki. Somehow Tohru ended up finding about the Sohma family curse after school when she got home, and the Shigure turned into a dog, Yuki , a rat, and Kyo, a cat , and they would have to alert Akito of the discovery and ultimately he decided Tohru could continue staying there if she kept their family secret and did not tell a soul about it. He decided to trust Tohru for the sake of Yuki and Kyo.
The first time Tohru met Kyo she was excited about it since he was the year of the cat, and she was a fan of the cat when she was told the zodiac story by her mother when she was little. Her mother's accident was something of a shock and she was blacked out afterward. Her grandfather had to do some construction work on his house so some family could move in with him and had asked if she had a temporary place to go, and she said yes, but she did not want to worry her friends, and she was going to be staying at the Sohma's for the moment. Eventually she continued meeting all of the members of the zodiac knowing that she was accepted into the family she was happy to call them family, and she knew Akito was in pain, despite his sadistic, ambitious, and stoic personality.Β
LEGAL NAME: Sohma, Akito. NICKNAMES: God Complex. GENDER: Male. SPECIES: God. DATE OF BIRTH: January 23. AGE: 28. PLACE OF BIRTH: Tokyo, Japan. CURRENT RESIDENCE: Sohma House. ORIENTATION: Homosoexual RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single. PAST RELATIONSHIPS: N/A. OCCUPATION: Heir of the God of the Zodiac Family. EDUCATION: College. HAIR|EYE COLOR: Purple (in the anime), Black (in the manga). HEIGHT|WEIGHT: 5'9'' | 50kg (110 lbs). ETHNICITY: Japanese-American. TATTOOS|PIERCINGS: N/A. | N/A. SMOKE|DRINK|DRUGS: Yes. | No. | No. BRIEF BIO: Akito is the head of the Sohma clan of a secret zodiac members family. Each member of the family is to transform into the zodiac animal they are most like, and can only transform if they are under a great deal of stress or are hugged by the opposite sex but they do NOT transform if they hug the same members of the zodiac, and nothing else. It's a mystery to all of them, but no one seems to question about the situation and accepts it as part of the zodiac curse. DISORDERS: Delusional, Borderline Personality Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, Asthma, Social Anxiety, Seasonal Depression, Bipolar I Disorder, Schizo-affective Disorder, etc. LIKES: animals, herbal tea, sleeping and taking naps, watching tv, music, talking on the phone, playing video games, reading, writing, journaling, dogs. DISLIKES: his position as the 'god' figure of the zodiac story in the zodiac animals., cats, spicy foods, burnt foods, leeks, carrots, his disorders and sickness, dealing with doctors and appointments with Hattori. FEARS: being alone, being forgotten, reliving painful memories. BRIEF PERSONALITY: Akito is extremely sadistic and stoic toward the other zodiac members of the zodiac clan, he is especially cruel to Yuki who he seems to be superior to and does cruel and unusual things and is a source of great suffering and pain for Yuki. Yuki still has trouble trusting others because of the harsh way he was treated by Akito when they were younger. He dislikes getting close to others, and Akito couldn't care less about his pain or that he is the one causing it. The joy he finds in inflicting pain on others makes him a sadist. Sometimes he will even inflict pain on Shigure and Shigure knows Akito is hurting so he allows him to get rough with him.
LEGAL NAME: Sohma, Akito. 
