Disclaimer: I do not own any character/situation/environment in Fruits Basket except Faia Uber. Delar: Hey, there! This is Delar Eriath, here to bring you my first fanfic about Furuba...I hope you like it...[frets about using evil brackets instead of asterisks] This takes place in Momiji's third year of high school, and he is about eighteen years old. Tohru and Kyo are nineteen or twenty, and Yuki is, of course, the same age. I know it's short, but it's only the default chapter. You will hear more about everyone else in time, and....[things]...are explained. Italics are thoughts. Anyway, with that straightened out, I hope you enjoy!

"Who's in the forest strolling, the birds and the bees sing Mo-mi-ji..." the song of his middle-and-beginning-of-high-school days.
Momiji felt a light breeze stir strands of his gold-yellow hair on his forehead, and as he sang, he mused to himself that there could be a hundred other activities that he could do rather than take a hike in the forest, especially when Akito allowed him to leave the compound only every so often.
But he enjoyed the smell the new spring brought with it, the rabbit spirit dormant inside him hungering for the tender green shoots of budding plants.
"I guess the whole point of coming here is because I would rather not be doing those hundreds of other things," he said to himself. And besides, the forest had been drawing the rabbit inside Momiji to itself, and he could hardly rid himself of the feeling.
"May be the allure of the scenery." Momiji reasoned with himself.
A faint sound reached his ears and broke into his idle thoughts, then drifted away again, leaving him in doubt that he had, indeed, heard anything at all. He heard it again...louder, this time, and it was definitely a human voice. It sounded like someone was crying, and it was getting closer by the minute...accompanied by the sound of footsteps.... And then... BAM!!!!