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Chapter one: Only a dream?

Slowly a knife stabs through a person's body. The body is male, but it is hard to make out who exactly gets stabbed. Blood is everywhere.... Slowly a bright light happens and someone is calling out a name. A Lady's voice it seems. She is saying something... "Sha..... dow?..... Sha...dow.... Shadow?" "Shadow wake up! School has started." A teacher with short yellow hair, yellow eyes and was about 6'8 was standing in front of Shadow. This lady was wearing a long sleeve blue shirt with a white tie tucked into her shirt. Also she wore a blue skirt with brown stockings, seems like a teacher.

She hits the student called 'Shadow' upside the head with his notebook before staring down at him. Shadow had black hair, spiky a bit and had dark red eyes. Shadow was about 5'5 right now, a teenager it seems. Shadow is wearing a long sleeve white shirt with black, long pants, school clothes though at it's minimum. Shadow was missing his tie and his sleeves were rolled up, not the best way to dress at school. Shadow has been in school for a month now yet knows very few people there. Shadow is usually lectured by the teacher every day because of his sleeping. His teacher is his homeroom teacher, Ms. Kiki. Ms. Kiki usually sees her Homeroom at the beginning of the day and at the end. Currently it is the end of the day.

One Shadow was done getting lectured about going to bed earlier from Kiki, she goes back to her desk then starts writing the work for the day onto the board. Slowly, one of Shadow's closest friend, Yasha a girl, leans over to talk to Shadow. Yasha's hair was short, curly and bright yellow. Yasha also had bright red eyes that matched Shadow's a bit. Yasha was wearing her school clothes, a white, short sleeve shirt and a short black skirt with white lines that were like patterns on her skirt also long white socks and black shoes. "What were you dreaming?" Yasha ask with a soft and quiet voice, trying not to get caught.

Shadow played with the front part of his hair a bit by twisting a strand of hair the was in his face. "Same dream as usual, someone getting stabbed by someone." Shadow replies with the same soft and quiet tone. Shadow then smiles at Yasha before looking forward. Yasha nods a few times then leans back into her own desk, looking forward at the board as well. Ms. Kiki finally finishes writing the assignment onto the board then everyone gets to work. After a while of working, the bell for school to be over rings and the students are off.

Shadow and Yasha are now walking home during a sunset when the sky is orange and about to turn black. Yasha stayed with Shadow since her home was usually empty since her parents left some where and have yet to return after a whole year. Also another reason is because she can't cook. Even if she is a girl she can't cook to save her life, which in her case was true. Shadow didn't mind her staying at his house, it has already been six months. Shadow didn't leave with his mom, but alone. He knew how to cook and didn't have much trouble cooking.

As Shadow and Yasha walk, Yasha decides to ask Shadow a few more questions concerning his dream he has had for a long time now. "Shadow, can you tell me a bit more about your dream? Isn't there two of them?" Yasha ask softly, her voice normally soft and sweet when she isn't in her normal bad mood. Shadow tilts his head some as he places his index finger from his right hand onto his forehead, trying to think. "Well...." Shadow says, silently with a pause in his words and movement before slowly placing his hand into his pocket. "....the first dream.... is someone stabbing someone in the heart. I can't ever make out who is stabbing or who is getting stabbed, but they are both male, hehe...." Shadow pauses again to do a short, nervous laugh. "...To tell the truth, it is a bit scary."

Yasha nods a few times then turns her whole body towards him before tilting her head some. "What is the second dream?" Shadow puts his index finger onto his forehead again then rubs their for a bit before remembering what it was. "Oh, I saw you sitting down in a bright light. Your hair was long and golden like. You were wearing a short white dress and nothing else. Thi-" Shadow is interrupted with a smack to the head by Yasha. "Pervert! Only you would think of something so perverted! I bet you were doing all sorts of kinky things with me huh! Nasty, perverted little boy!" "Let me finish! Sheesh... you asked me anyway." Shadow rubs the stop where he is hit then looks at Yasha. "Back to what I was saying. What really caught my attention was the fact that you had wings. The limbs part was made out of metal, a living type of metal it seems. The actual feathers were made out of crystals, stretching out greatly. It was a beautiful site and gla-" Shadow is smacked on the head again by Yasha. "Pervert!"

After their little talk they both slowly walk home, night time finally has come. Shadow and Yasha both take off their shoes at the door. Yasha heads to the living room while Shadow went to the kitchen to cook some food. Yasha saw one of the students from school in their house, it was actually a friend of Yasha, a girl. This girl was sitting down on the couch, watching tv, a anime show it seems. "Remilia?" Yasha says softly as she slowly walks over to Remilia then sits down next to her. Remilia had dark red hair with purple eyes. Remilia's hair went down passed her shoulders and was straight, unlike Yasha's. Remilia also still had her school clothes on, but no shoes. Seems like she was as their house for a while.

"So... why are you here... Remilia?" Yasha ask, as she watches the anime show with Remilia. Remilia took a while to replay, but when she did it was her usual slightly high pitch voice. "Waiting for my future husband to get home of course~" Remilia giggles then Yasha sighs then points towards the kitchen. "He is in the kitchen, if you want food you better tell..." Remilia jumps off the couch then dashes towards the direction of the kitchen. "...him." Yasha finishes before standing up with a sigh. Shadow just got through boiling the rice and has already started putting the Steak into the oven. Once he put it into the oven Remilia tackles him from behind, knocking him onto the ground.

"Shadow-kun! Your future wife is here!" She winks, making a small, pink heart fly out. Shadow was laying down on the ground, wondering exactly how did she get into his house? Shadow slowly leans up, pushes Remilia off of him, which takes a while since she was stuck to him like glue then he stands back up, recomposing himself. "Now..." Shadow clears his throat. "How.... the HELL.. did you get into my house?" Remilia reaches into her pocket then pulls out a key."I got a key made for your house." Shadow smack his faced then slides his hand off of his face. "You made a key.... great...." Shadow grabs the key then starts stomping on it. Remilia screams then when Shadow is done she grabs the key, small fake tears running down her face.

"Anyway, new question... why are you here?" Shadow ask, watching his hands since he touched the floor with his hands. Slowly, behind him coming from the oven, smoke was rising. Remilia salutes to Shadow, looking dead at him with intense and cute eyes. "Sir, I came because I am your wife." Denied!" Shadow sighs then sniffs the air. "Do you smell something..... burning?" Shadow thinks then realizes the meat was burning. Shadow quickly opens the oven then takes out their Steak. Shadow looks at all the meat, three pieces out of two were burnt, though not that badly. The other two pieces of Steak seems perfectly fine. "Chance." A glint appears in Shadow's eyes as he sees the two perfectly fine pieced of Steak. Shadow reaches for one of them, but the piece he reaches for is grabbed by Remilia. "Mmm looks delicious, thanks Shadow!" Remilia wraps that piece up.

Sweat runs down Shadow's face then he sees one more piece that was perfectly fine was left. He reaches for it, but Yasha's voice was heard. "Shadow! Their better be some decent Steak left in the kitchen! If not I will hit you twice as hard as before!" More sweat rolls down Shadow's face as he hears Yasha's scary attitude. Shadow hesitates then moves his hand back. Dinner is ready after a while and Shadow is the only one without meat. Remilia stayed it seems and was eating with them. Everyone getting rice, a few rice balls, a salad and some vegetables. Shadow was the only one who didn't get meat it seems.

"Thank you for the food, Shadow. As usual you cook well." Yasha says to Shadow, her eyes closed as she slowly eats her food, complimenting Shadow. "Geez, thanks." Shadow says, staring at the steak Yasha was now eating, enjoying the steak. Shadow sighs then starts eating his rice slowly, going to have a light lunch it seems. Lunch soon ends then Remilia leaves back to her own home. Yasha went to bed a bit early while Shadow washed dishes. Most of all the lights were out as Shadow washed the dishes. Shadow finishes then turns off the small light above the kitchen sink. "Alright, time to head to bed." Shadow slowly dries off his hands as he walks into the main room.

The minute Shadow walked into the main room everything in the room starts to get all colorful and fuzzy. Shadow starts to wobble, feeling extremely sick for some odd reason. Shadow then falls across the arm rest, feeling even worse. Shadow soon faints on the couch from odd feeling. Shadow soon wakes up, blinking a few times as he does. Shadow slowly stands back up then starts to look around. "What.... happened?" Shadow starts rubbing the side of his face then feel something wet there. When Shadow looks at his hand he sees it is blood then his eyes quickly grows wide. "Bl-Blood?" Shadow quickly looks around then notices he was in town, though the buildings and roads were destroyed, the sky was dark red and water seemed to have flooded some of the area. "Where... am I-" Shadow stops in his tracks as a black figure appears behind him with a gun to his head. The figure slowly starts to talk with a dark and ominous voice. "It is over....Shadow Ryusaki." Shadow tries to run, but is shot in the head. Everything goes black then Shadow wakes up out of bed out of bed screaming.

When Shadow wakes up in bed then he realizes he is sweating pretty badly and that it was still early in the morning, school was no where near about to start. Shadow slowly starts to take in deep breaths before looking at his hand, seeing there was no blood there. Shadow then looks over at Yasha who was tossing around a bit, not waking up any time soon it seems. Shadow sighs softly then places a hand over his right eye, under his black hair. "It was.... only a dream?"