Author's note: First Furuba fanfic! Yay! dances I'm happy. Not that I don't love FFX, but I love Fruits Basket more. And seeing how as all my other fanfics are Final Fantasy, it seems fitting that I present this to you now. This is all I have at this moment, but I might add more later. Please review and tell me if you think I should continue this. Not real sure where it should go, but if there's interest in a continuation I'll figure out something. I've read the manga up through 13 (I have to wait until AUGUST for 14! I hate living in the States. ), and seen all the anime. So that's as far as my knowledge goes (or is it…?), so if you've read farther, please don't get mad at my ignorance. As always: thanks for reading! 3 & X

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket. All I own is my cat. But don't tell her I said that. She might cut my throat in my sleep.

Kyo prowled through every room, corridor, and linen closet of the house, his panic growing at every empty space. Eventually, he scowled and flung open the door. Yuki and Shigure looked up at him in surprise.

"Problems, Kyo-kun?" Shigure said calmly, returning to his newspaper.

"She left the house again! I can't find her anywhere!" he roared.

"Honda-san is…" Yuki began, then stopped. He tried again, frowning slightly. "She said she was going…" He shut his mouth, thinking hard. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember Tohru saying anything about leaving. "Do you know where she is?"

Shigure shook his head, looking up from his newspaper again. "No. I thought you two kept track of that sort of thing," he said.

"I don't think she said where she was going today. Maybe she and her friends went somewhere spontaneously this morning," Yuki said, but he knew that wasn't right. She wouldn't just leave without saying something to at least one of them.

"Call 'em! That crazy psychic and the Yankee bitch. See if they know where she is," Kyo said stubbornly, crossing his arms over his chest.

"If you're so concerned, why don't you do it yourself?" Shigure sighed, sounding a little annoyed. He glanced longingly at his paper. It seemed that his peaceful Saturday morning simply wasn't going to happen.

Kyo turned bright red and mumbled something about not wanting to call girls. Yuki stood up and walked toward the phone. "I'll do it," he said.

Kyo looked at him suspiciously. Was Yuki being…nice? No way. Wasn't possible. He was too idiotic to be nice to anyone except Tohru, but everyone was nice to her.

"Stupid cat," Yuki added.

–Told ya,–Kyo thought wryly.

Yuki dialled the numbers and waited for a moment. "Uotani-san? It's Yuki Sohma. I'm sorry to bother you at home," he began politely. There was a slight pause. "Actually, I was wondering if you knew where Honda-san is. We seem to have misplaced her." Another pause, in which the worry in Yuki's eyes became evident. "No, please don't worry. I'm sure she's just gone to the store or something." More silence. Kyo was starting to get annoyed. Crazy-Yankee-Lady obviously didn't know where Tohru was, so why didn't Yuki just hang up already? "Thank you for your time. If you hear from her, would you please tell her to call us?" Another pause, much shorter, and then Yuki told Uotani good-bye and dialled another number.

"If the crazy Gothic girl doesn't know, we're screwed. She knows everything. Too much, if you ask me," Kyo grumbled.

Yuki rolled his eyes and was about to shoot back some sort of insult when Hanajima picked up the phone. "Hanajima-san? It's Yuki Sohma. I'm sorry to bother you this early in the morning," he said, almost exactly as he had to Uotani. A surprised expression came over his face. "Well…um…yes. I was calling to find Honda-san." Kyo grunted, an 'I-told-you-so' noise. Yuki ignored him. "Oh. Well, thank you. If you hear from her, would you please tell her to call us? We're starting to get a bit worried." Kyo was starting to get sick of pauses. "Oh. Um…yes. I should have figured that. Thank you. Good-bye."

Shigure raised one eyebrow. "They don't know where she is?" he said flatly.

Yuki shook his head. "No. Hanajima-san said Honda-san's waves were very faint, like she's far away. She also knew that we were worried. More wave-reading, I suppose."

"That girl's going to wave-read her way into trouble one day," Kyo said darkly.

Yuki just kept ignoring him. That was, after all, generally the best thing to do. "Maybe we should go look for her. It's not like her to disappear without telling anyone," he said, glancing toward the door as if he expected Tohru to come bouncing in at that very moment.

"I'll call Haa-san. Maybe he's heard from her. She likes visiting Momitchi and Kisa-kun," Shigure said absently, and he walked toward the phone to call the Sohma doctor.

"I'm going to the roof." Kyo suddenly vanished, scrambling away before anyone could protest.

Not like they would.

Yuki sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose between thumb and forefinger. Worry was building in him, no matter how hard he tried to push it down. Tohru was always so concerned about the feelings of other people; it was definitely out of character for her to just up and leave. In anyone else, the behaviour could have perhaps been excused as just lapse in judgement, but not for her. She was different.

"Haa-san hasn't seen her, and neither has Kisa-kun. She wouldn't go to the estate without seeing one of them, so she must not be there," Shigure said, hanging up the phone.

Yuki scowled. "So now what? We call the police?"

"And tell them what? That we've misplaced our teenage girl? I can hear it now. 'Yes, officer. She's been gone half an hour. No, officer. I'm not joking. Yes, I want a search party. The whole town. Yes, officer. I'm sure I'm sane.'" Shigure gave Yuki an exasperated look.

"We'll just have to go after her ourselves, then," Yuki said fiercely.

Shigure raised one hand. "Now, now, Yuki-kun. We shouldn't panic yet,"
he said serenely, but Yuki heard the nervousness in his voice.

"Can't you…I don't know…sniff her out or something?" Yuki demanded.

"I'm the Dog, Yuki-kun, not a bloodhound. I'm not meant to 'sniff people out'," Shigure said delicately.

Yuki suppressed a groan of annoyance. Of course Shigure picked now to be an ass. Wait…he was always like that.

Nevermind.

The rest of the day passed in agony. Shigure refused to let Kyo or Yuki leave, so they were trapped, confined to the house that Kyo never even wanted to be in to begin with. Every little noise made them bolt for the front door, and every time the phone rang (which Kyo was sure it was doing just to piss him off), they picked it up before the first ring had finished. By the time the sun slipped behind the horizon and darkness crept into every crevice of the outside world, their nerves were beaten nearly to death.

"Maybe we should be worried…" Shigure said, standing at the door and looking out at the dark.

"I told you that twelve hours ago," Kyo and Yuki said in unison, the anger in their voices matching.

Shigure made a 'hmmm' noise and drifted back into the kitchen. "I should try calling Haa-san again…"

He left Kyo and Yuki sitting alone in the middle of the floor. Their eyes were trained on the door, as if they could will her back.

"So what now?" Kyo asked quietly, his voice breaking the deathly silence.

"We go after her. Police or no police," Yuki said firmly.

"Sounds good. Let's go."

They were too preoccupied with stressing about Tohru to even remember to hate each other. They stood up and stepped out of the door, the darkness swallowing even Yuki's pale hair. When Shigure walked back into the room, he wasn't surprised at the empty room. "You lasted longer than I thought you would," he said mildly.

His only answer was the wind that whispered through the open door.