Author's Note: Taking Place During season five of Buffy. For Fruits Baskets I've only seen up to episode 16 so bear with me. I'm trying to find a site, which summarizes the rest so I can better flesh out the story. Oh and I have nothing against the Japaneese but I'm looking at it through the slayers eye's so she'll probably see some strangeness in a lot of things…a major one being the school uniforms. I'll continue this story if I get enough reviews.

Release

            "WHAT!!!" The slayer and the scoobies exclaimed. "Giles, what do you mean by expanding?" Buffy gives her former watcher a frown. Taking off his glasses, "It seems by my sources, the First has found another opening for…" "Another bloody "uber-vamp". Bloody 'ell" Spike exclaimed in the back of his room, his arms crossed.

            Giles starts cleaning his glasses nervously. "Uh well, yes. Buffy, I have already received the plane tickets for us. You, Spike, Dawn, Willow, and Xander will be accompanying you on this little mission. I'll be staying home watching the other possible slayers.

            In the back Xander raises his hand. "Uh question, I don't mean to be rude but well, I don't believe we're fluent in Japanese. That may be a problem getting around. I mean, it's not as if we won't stand out enough."

            Suddenly Andrew with his apron on runs out. "I know Japaneese. I learned it through watching subtitled Dragon Ball Z and…" The rest look at him. "I'll shut up now." And he quickly quiets himself, moving back in to the kitchen.

            "Xander, to answer your question I believe Willow know a spell that will for a period allow you to speak and understand Japaneese as though it were the kings English." He gazes at Willow who nods her red head gently, a still a little weary at casting any spells.

            "Okay…then where are we going to stay." Buffy asks sitting next to Dawn. "The Watcher's council had a building there for their Watchers in case of an occurrence of a Japaneese slayer. There you'll find all the recourses you need including a large supply of their local currency, which is yen."

            Buffy nods. "What will be our cover then. Tourists?" "Well that/…I haven't yet found out yet….but…" Buffy interrupts. "I understand why you want Dawn with me so I can protect her but what about her schooling. I mean, her grades aren't up there as it is and…" "Hey!!!" Dawn exclaimed.

            "I already have her newly enrolled in the local high school. As you may know the Japanese have a very advanced education and high school to them is like college to you. They spend a great deal of their times preparing for exams to enter a good high school where they study mainly at a college level."

            "And they also get to wear those nice sailor outfits like Sailor Moon." A voice is heard from the kitchen. "

            "I have got to wear what!!! Oh no. No uniform for Dawnie. Uh uh, no way." She crosses her arms.

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            The dark street was lit only by the moon in the pitch-black sky. A shape could be faintly made out in the distance. Walking closer she could make out some slight details. He was male. He wore a long …what looked to her like a robe and his hand was held out. Getting closer she could make out the faint shape of some avian creter perched on his finger. A cannery or something. He turned around and gave her one of the most frightening smiles she ever seen. Suddenly the figure lunged at her.

Waking up in cold sweat and shuddering, Buffy held the blanket close to her. She had just arrived …she looked at the clock…nine hours ago and already her dreams were being compromised. Couldn't she get some sleep before the denizens of evil ruined it for once? "Why can't evil ever take a nap for one…" she mutters rising.

The house…if you could call it that was very …foreign. The doors were not really made a great deal out of anything solid but just sticks and paper to her eyes. What was holding it up was a mystery but then again, when in Rome.

            What really bothered her though was the lack of chairs. She first thought that the dinner table was a coffee table because it was so short till Willow advised her other wise. Sitting down for dinner was going to be hard on her knees.

Walking downstairs she found Dawn in living room…giving Buffy a "I'm never going to speak to you again" stare. As Buffy was going to ask, she realized that Dawn was wearing her Japaneese uniform and suddenly burst out laughing.

            "That's right, our little Dawnie has all grown up and joined the navy. How you must be so proud." Xander managed to blurt out between fits of laughter. "I'm going to kill you Xander." Dawn growled.

Spike was smirking in the background. "You've got to admit little bit, you do look rather comical in that ridiculous outfit." He takes out a cigarette and starts to light it. "Hey!!! Do you want this house to burn down? I mean, the doors are made of some sort of paper." Willow exclaims. Spike snorts and continues to light the cigarette.

"Dawn, have fu…" She says, still chuckling. "If you want to live, don't finish that statement." Dawn points at Buffy as she carries her backpack off to the local high school.

            As soon as Dawn left Buffy turns to the other three. "Ok, down to business. Last night I had another one of my slayer dreams." "Oh, was it about the first and the uber-vamp?" Willow spoke up hoping it was so they could find it, kill it, and go home.  

            "You would think but no." Buffy sits down. "I saw some Japaneese guy in a robe holding some sort of bird. A canary or something." "Kimono." Buffy looked up at Willow. "Wha…" "A kimono was what he was wearing. That's like a Japaneese robe sort of. Very traditional."

            "Well I'm glad you know what it was. He then was there to give me one of the most frightening smiles I had ever seen but I have no absolutely good reason to be scared from it." "Gave you the wiggins?" Xander asked. "Yeah, it had my spdey-sence tingling to the max."

            "So what now?" Willow asks. "I'm going to check around the city by myself. See if I can either find that guy or the first or even something that creeps me out. Anyways I need to get used to this new terrain."

            A few minutes later a fully dressed Buffy makes her way down the sidewalk of a very long street peering over into what seems to be a small forest or something. In the middle she could just make out a house somewhere in there. "Wow, that's like so cool." As she looks ahead she sees a body emerging from a path to the house. A man in a business suit and jet black hair continues near the sidewalk towards her and stops a few feet away, smiling an awful lot for some reason.

            "Uhhh…hello?" Buffy asks the guy. "OH I'm sorry, it's just that your beauty stopped me in my tracks." She was already starting to dislike him. He was cute, she gave him that but seemed to be a pervert... and not afraid to say anything. "I'm Shigure Sohoma." He raised his hand. "Buffy Summers." She took it. "Your Japaneese is very good for being American. Flawless. Moving here?" "No, just staying a while."

Suddenly she realized that he was still holding his hand. As she pulled her own back, with her enhanced strength it knocked him forward and into her open arms and they hell to the ground. Buffy could swear she hear a boom noise as she fell, hitting her head, and opening her eyes to the site of a black dog.