Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING! Nothing of Harry Potter or Fruits Basket is mine. Though both are fabulous in their own rights.

Warnings: There is some male/male pairings in this along with some death, torture, violence, language and a whole lot of comedy. Have fun everyone.

A/N: ok, new story. And somewhat different from what I did before. The first chapter isn't all that funny but there are some snicker worthy spots and the later chapters have much, much more planned.

Enjoy. And review. Flames are welcome if you don't mind me tracking you down to your stories and picking them apart bit by bit, exposing your every fault to the world and showing you exactly how much right you have to criticize my work. Thank you.

Chapter One.

Harry couldn't believe that Dumbledore was doing this. It was a week before the start of his sixth year at Hogwarts and the attacks from Voldemort had dwindled to nearly nothing, though he was still making himself known, Harry having a front row seat. This basically meant that Riddle was up to something.

So instead of trying to find out what it was, he sends Harry and a few of his classmates, who are major targets in the war, to go live with muggles. Japanese muggles. In Japan!

Harry was miffed to say the least.

Thankfully Hermione would be going with him. Her family had been targeted many times over the summer, so the entire family was moving to Japan for the time being. His other comapanions came as more of a surprise, and not a welcome one.

Apparently one Draco Malfoy and one Blaise Zabini had refused the Dark Mark this summer and were now under the protection of Dumbledore. Zabini, who carried less animosity towards the Grangers, was to be staying with them.

Malfoy and himself were to be spending their time with a family called the Sohmas. Apparently Dumbledore had known many generations of the family heads, and had racked up a number of favors owed to him. Having Harry and Malfoy stay with this guy Shigure was his way of seeing the debt paid.

So here Harry was, packing his things again under the sympathetic and pained gaze of Remus Lupin. They had grown closer after the… incident… and this parting was hard for them. They were, after all, all the other had left.He looked backat the room, making sure that he had left nothing but the empty cage. Hedwig was staying with Ginny from now on because a snow-white owl would have been quite out of place in modern Japan. Besides, Ginny had needed something to care for. Her family had lost Percy and Charlie earlier in the summer, but on two different sides of the war.

The pair made their way down the stairs, steadfastly ignoring the Dursleyswho were glaring at them from the kitchen doorway. Outside was a gathering of Order members, the Grangers and the three other students.

"Is this your house Potter?" Spat Malfoy, "Pretty tacky, though I wouldn't expect anything else from you." He let out a yelp of pain as Moody smacked him upside the head. Harry just ignored him and turned to Lupin.

"Now everyone," the kindly ex-professor began, "this should be a wonderful new experience for all of you. You will all be attending a muggle school so that is why you have all had a crash course in Japanese muggle education as well as those memory helper spells. All of you should be at the level of your classmates by now. Before we leave, my fellow members here will perform a language spell on each of you allowing you to speak, read, write, and understand the local dialect. The family that some of you will be staying with is an old friend of the headmaster so please be polite."

At this point he turned to the Grangers who were standing behind their daughter. He handed them a small green cardboard box. "This is the portkey that will take you to your new home. Make sure that everyone is touching it in exactly fourteen minutes and thirty-two seconds. Tonks, Kingsley, could you perform the language spell on these four now?" he indicated towards the Grangers and Zabini. "Thanks. I've put a Forget-Me charm around us so that if any of the neighbors are watching they will forget after we leave. Harry, Draco, would you come here now?"

He motioned for Moody to join them as the two boys came forward. The two men performed the charm and Harry felt a warm weight settle into his mind before dissipating. The men then repeated the process on themselves. Lupin held out a rather nice looking silver chain and gestured for the others to grasp it. "This will take us to the Sohma house in 3… 2… 1." With a sharp tug to his navel, Harry Potter was thrown halfway across the world.

( 8 )

He fell into Lupin as he touched ground. Cross-world portkeys were not something Harry wanted to experience again. The screaming that was filling his ears wasn't helping matters much. Wait… screaming? Harry rolled to his feet, instantly throwing up a shield, which proved to be a good idea. In those few seconds that the group had been orienting themselves, two blurs of red and gray began pummeling the shield.

"What the hell is this?" said an angry voice coming from the red blur.

"Not sure, but we cant get through it so there is no point in continuing to hit it baka neko," The gray blur had stopped after the first few punches to form a very attractive young man with violet eyes and silver-gray hair.

"Shut up!" the red blur stopped as well to form a fit looking young man with orange hair and red-amber eyes. "And stop calling me stupid you damn rat!"

To Harry, this was fascinating. He stood at the front of the group, at the edge of the shield, watching these two opposites face off. A whimpering drew his attention from the bickering couple. A brown haired girl was sitting on the ground, clutching her chest, over to the side. Redirecting the shield to protect the others only, Harry went to kneel beside her.

"Are you alright? I'm sorry if we frightened you." He said gently. He heard something fly through the air behind him; it was almost as fast as a bludger. Throwing himself to the side, his hand shot out to catch the object before it hit the girl. It turned out to be the fist of the orange haired boy. 'Thank you Quidditch' harry thought as he pulled the fist forward and swept his feet, trying to trip the boy. He was jerked off balance as orange head jumped, avoiding Harry's foot and pulling out of his grasp. Harry rolled to his feet as Orange Head lunged at him again. He managed to dodge most of the hits until Gray Head joined the fray.

He was distantly aware of the others yelling but they were safe so he paid them no heed. He dodged another low punch only to receive a roundhouse kick to the face that sent him flying. Shaking off the ringing in his ears, Harry tried to stand again. This wasn't an easy task, but he forced himself to be ready for another attack. When none came, he glanced around for the young fighters only to find them being held by the back of the neck by another man.

"What the hell do you two think you are doing?" the man said around a cigarette that was hanging out of his mouth. His longish black hair covered one of his light brown eyes, giving him a hard, attractive, air about him.

"Hatori, what the hell? That bastard was attacking Tohru!" Orange head yelled, currently struggling against the hand clamped to the back of his neck.

"From where I'm standing, it looked like he was trying to defend himself from the two of you. He didn't take the offensive against you once, if you hadn't noticed, and he had plenty of opportunity." The man, Hatori, released the two boys and put out his cigarette. Gray head hadn't moved through all of it and just continued to stare at Harry speculatively. Orange head turned away glowering.

Harry inclined his head towards Hatori, who was studying him, and smiled his thanks. Ignoring the blood running into his right eye and the waves of pain flowing up his leg, Harry turned back to the brunet. He limped over and extended his hand.

"Are you alright?" He asked again, his hand still outstretched. When she just continued to stare at him with those wide eyes he turned back to Hatori with a sad smile. "I think she is in shock, can you help her?" All three men were staring at him; it was a moment before Hatori moved past him towards the girl.

Harry turned back to his companions and lifted the shield. He prepared himself for the rush and sure enough he was soon enfolded into Lupin's embrace and Moody was shouting obscenities into his face.

"Moody… MOODY!" Harry cut through a rather long list of the reasons why locking down his allies was stupid. "I understand that what I did wasn't the smartest of moves but you were all safe. That's all I thought about. I'm sorry if you don't agree." Moody just continued to glare at him. Even his magical eye was focused on Harry.

"Harry we need to get you some medical attention! You're bleeding everywhere and your glasses are broken again! Maybe I should get Hermione over here. Why don't you ever consider wearing contacts?"

"It's ok Remus." Harry replied soothingly, extricating himself from the werewolf's arms. "I've survived worse and Dumbledore fixed my eyes at the beginning of summer. I just continued wearing them out of habit. I'm more worried about the girl, she seemed pretty shakenup."

"Leave it to Harry Potter to be the perpetual martyr." A cold voice said scathingly from behind him.

"What no hug Malfoy? And here I was hoping for at least some sympathy reward," Harry mocked a sad sigh causing Malfoy to sputter and Lupin to chuckle. Moody just continued to glare.

A cough brought all of their attention back to the group before them. The older man stepped forward as the two boys hovered over the now standing, and blushing, brunet.

"I think we should move this inside the house. I just so happen to be a doctor and I am willing to look after those wounds." He made to move into the house when Moody stopped him.

"Now look you, we are not going to trust you after you almost kill our-"

"Moody," Harry cut in firmly, "it is fine." Everyone turned to look at Harry. Moody, for one, looked stunned at the commanding tone. "Why don't you go check to see that the Grangers and Zabini are settled? I don't entirely trust Tonks to not break the house even with Kingsley there. You are the only one who can keep her in line from what I have seen." Moody stared at him in astonishment, obviously trying to find a way out. "I am quite confident that Remus here will be able to keep out mutual interest protected, don't you?"

Trapped, Moody huffed out an irritated 'Fine', turned and stumped down the walkway, when he turned the corner, Harry heard the pop of him apperating. He turned back wearily to find everyone staring at him again.

"That was very well handled Harry," Lupin said. Harry just shrugged and followed Hatori into the two-story house.

( 8 )

A/N: Special thanks to my beta Cithara, with out her this fic would be a rash of spelling mistakes and bad grammer. bows down many thanks to my wonderful, charming, smart, pretty ( though i have never actually seen her ) beta. stay kind to my future chapters would you?. im open to and suggestions, comments and corrections on anything i have writen an the japanese culture. i also appologize in advace if i insult anyone because of said mistakes. im always open to suggestions so review if you have anything to say.

toodles -nys-