I do not own Fruits Basket and I do not own Naruto.

I couldn't help but look up from my newspaper to look at Tohru who had a slight daze on her face. I looked besides me to see Kyo and Yuki also looking at Tohru with a worried look on their faces.

Sure Tohru daydreams a lot, but this was getting ridiculous. For the past few days, she'd been muttering nonsense under her breath and been shifting her eyes like there was someone out to get her. And not only that, Tohru had been tired lately which was strange for her.

"Tohru," I spoke out with worry in my voice. "Is everything alright? You're acting strange lately."

"...Hmm..? W-What?" She stuttered before looking at our expression before giving us a small meek smile. "Don't worry! Everything's alright! It's just I haven't gotten any sleep lately."

"I see..." But for some reason I couldn't bring myself to believe her. She was hiding something. It was then I remembered something. "Oh, Tohru. There was a letter for you this morning... Well, I wouldn't call it a letter, more like a scroll."

I then brought out a red scroll which Tohru instantly eyed at with expectation. "Do you know who sent it? There doesn't seem to be an address. There was a note attached to it, but all it said was it was for Tohru Honda. Not only that our mailman looked slightly... Mysterious."

"Mysterious how?" Yuki finally spoke out as I turned to face him while Tohru took the scroll from me.

"Well... How do I put this... He isn't exactly a morning person when I asked what happened to the other mailman. All he told me was that he was sick before he just suddenly left." I said, remembering the mysterious mailman who just suddenly walked off without any other mail for us.

I sweatdropped at how serious the man was. He also had strange clothing, like he didn't even care what he dressed like.

He had a pineapple hair, wore a green vest and a black long sleeve shirt underneath with a strange metal plaque sewn to his sleeve with a strange symbol on it. He wore black pants to match the long sleeve shirt and open toes sandals.

I then remembered something else. "Now that I think about it, he didn't look all to serious... In fact, he looked lazy. Not only that, he looked around your age. He's probably a dropout." I shrugged, but what confused me was that Tohru snapped her head to me with recognition in her eyes.

"What's up with you Tohru?" Kyo asked irritated while Tohru then gave a small smile.

"I know him, he was a friend of mine back then." She then gave a smile giggle. "I wonder how he and the others back from the academy are doing now, it's been a while since I've seen them.

We were all confused. "You use to go into an academy?" Suddenly Tohru looked scared like she had done something very horrible. "I'm interested, what was this academy called?" I asked while Tohru looked very nervous.

Tohru started to stutter that we couldn't understand. Question marks appeared over our head as she started to mash and stutter her sentences together, and once she was done, we gave her a blank and confused look as she stood up before chuckling nervously.

"W-Well! I've got to go read this scroll now! B-Bye!" And with that, Tohru scurried off upstairs causing all three of us to stare after her.

I was getting suspicious. She was suddenly starting to get more absentminded more often than she usually was getting.

It couldn't be about the monster form of Kyo or with the meeting of Akito since it was all three months ago. But ever since last week, she's been being suspicious. Not only with us, but in school also or according to Yuki and Kyo.

"Someone needs to go talk to her." I said as I stood up. "But if you two don't want to... I can do it-" "I'll go!" Kyo and Yuki both said simultaneously before they both glared at each other.

"Or I can do it!" Momiji exclaimed, popping out form the door with Hatori, Kisa, and Haru came out from the door as the three of us blinked at them in surprise. Right before we could ask, Momiji started to explain. "You see, Haru and I noticed Tohru was acting really weird. So I thought she was sick so I brought Hatori. Kisa heard and she insisted on coming. So is Tohru getting enough rest? Is she eating right, how is she?"

I couldn't help but give a small chuckle before calming down the blond hair boy. "She's not sick at Momiji... But, she has been acting strange." I said as I took off my glasses while Hatori looked at me curiously.

"Strange how?" Hari asked while Kisa took a seat besides me along with Momiji while Haru just stood there before looking at the stairs where Tohru quickly ran up.

"How can I say this... It all happened around last week, she's been spacing out more often, she's been shifting her eyes like someone is about to attack her, and she's been getting tired lately." I explained while Hatori had a small thoughtful look on his face, trying to figure it out as he gave a small sigh. I'm guessing he has no clue either.

"I'll still go check on her just in case she doesn't have a fever or a cold." Hatori said as I felt a smirk coming up.

"Oh? Is Hatori worried about Tohru? I knew it, you are in love with Tohru!" I exclaimed while Hatori just stood there, staring blankly at me while I gave a smug smirk. "Oh, so you do admit it with the silence!" "No, I'm surprised with your stupidity." And with that, he left upstairs with Momiji and Kisa following upstairs.

All three of us were in a conversation, well mostly an argument between Kyo and Haru, until we heard Kisa screaming from upstairs before Momiji and Kisa scrambled down stairs. They had almost tripped as they looked up at us with horror filled eyes. Instantly our guard was up. Kisa had tears in her eyes along with Momiji as they started to stutter.

"Kisa, Momiji, please clam down." Haru soothed them as Kisa burst into tears. "What happened?"

Though the two had failed to answer again, but the one who answered us was Hatori who also had shock in his one eye. "Tohru... Tohru's window was open and there was blood all over on the floor, there was a note." Hatori said, handing me a note as Kyo scrambled towards Tohru's room while I read over the note.

If you want the girl back and alive, bring us the ancient scroll by the full moon in the park by the lake.

I looked at Hatori who had a blank looked as he stared at the note, but I could tell he was beyond confuse of what was going on. I then started to wonder, was this the reason Tohru had been acting strange for the whole week? And if she did know, why didn't she tell us a single thing?

"Shigure, what is that note?" Yuki said with a slight fear in his voice as Kyo came back in with wide eyes like he had seen something very horrible. "What does it say."

I looked at Hatori since I was hesitating to tell them for many various of reasons, but Hatori nodded. "The note... Is a ransom note."

"A ransom note for what?!" Kyo snapped, glaring at me. "What do they want?!"

"They want the scroll from this morning." I explained, remembering when Tohru had looked at the scroll with expectation. "I don't know why, but it seems that Tohru had been waiting for it all week, and now the kidnappers want it." I explained to Hatori who seemed to be in deep thought.

"We have no choice then." Hatori said as Haru grabbed the crying girl while Momiji was now oddly quiet. "We have to do what they want, give them the scroll... Do you know where it is?"

Kyo, Yuki, and I all looked at eachother before we shook our head. "No, we don't. Tohru probably hid it somewhere in her room. I'll go look." Yuki said with a nod and ran upstairs with Kyo right in his heels.

I looked at Hatori. "The full moon is in 3 days, right?" The man gave a somber nod before he escorted Haru, Kisa, and Momiji out leaving him last. But Hatori stopped and turned to me. "Shigure, should we tell Akito and the police of this?" He asked as I was about to say yes, but something possessed me to say no while Hatori gave me a look of curiosity.

"I... Just have a feeling we shouldn't say anything unless this situation becomes more worst than it could get." I explained while Hatori gave a nod before he left while I looked down at the table. I then looked up as Yuki and Kyo came in view with frustrated face, and I didn't even have to ask to know they couldn't find it.

It was then we heard a so familiar voice we froze at.

"Tohru! Are you here today?"

It was Tohru's friends, Arisa Uotani and Saki Hanajima.