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did.well never mind. Please enjoy my fic and REVIEW!!! Sorry it's so short, the other

chappies are longer. Thanks? ~.^

In My Dreams

Chapter 1

"Chichiri!" the girl screamed. "Kouran!" he yelled back. The girl was running

toward him but being pulled back in the opposite direction. "No! Don't leave me! Come

back! Please!" Now she was to far away to see anymore. "Please! .I don't want to

be.alone. No. KOURAN!!!" Chichiri woke up yelling, beads of sweat clung to his head.

"Kouran." he whispered. "It was just a dream. But why did I have it?" His hand softly

brushed against his scar. (A/N Just so u know in the first chapter he doesn't have his

mask on) He remembered, he remembered the pain, the pain that the flood had caused. "It

seemed so real, it was so real, so real and so horrible."

He looked out his window and saw the sun just to peek over the horizon. He

climbed off his bed and got dressed. He placed his kasa on the ground and hopped into it,

hoping to be as silent as possible. He landed on the river edge looking out at the sunrise.

He leaned over the edge, cupped his hands, filled them with water, and splashed that on

his face. "Kouran, how are you and Hikou now? Are you both happy? I.I miss you."

Chichiri's eye began to fill with tears. "Kour.an." He began to cry, he couldn't hold it

in anymore. His pain-filled tears splashed into the river, the river that the flood had

occurred in.

"Chiri, you awake yet? Breakfast's ready! Time ta eat!" Tasuki stood outside

Chichiri's door, waiting with all his patience. After about five seconds he burst open the

door. "Chiri! Wake up already, damn it!" Then he looked around and saw that Chichiri

was gone. "Hey! Where'd he go to this early in da mornin'?" He stood there for a minute

thinking. "Oh, well. I get his share!" With that he left, running down the stairs to get his

food. (A/N Sounds a little like Miaka, ne?)

"I.I shouldn't cry about a dream, but I can't help it. Why? I need to stop

crying." Chichiri wiped his face with the sleeve of his shirt, attempting to wipe away the

tears, but they kept flowing. "Why.why can't I stop crying? I just think of Kouran

and." he choked back tears. He could barely speak anymore. "Kouran, why did you

leave me? You promised me that no matter what you would never leave me. YOU

WOULD NEVER LEAVE ME!!!" Chichiri was over-whelmed by tears right now.

"You'd.never.leave me."

After about half an hour, he had gained his composure and was staring into the

river at his reflection. "Mizu-Kagami." he said quietly to himself. "Water- Mirror." He

couldn't help but stare at his scar. As long as he loved Kouran, it would remain there.

Never would it leave then. "I can't stay depressed forever, ne?" he said to himself. "It's

not like everything is gone. I still have Tasuki, Nuriko, Miaka, and everyone else." Then

a picture of Kouran appeared in his mind. "But the most important thing.is." Tears

began to come now, slowly at first, then gradually flowed more and more until he was

completely tear-stained. "What am I crying for? It.It's not going to bring her back.

Nothing can bring her back now. Nothing.at all." As he said this one last tear fell into

the river. No one saw him sitting near the river, no one saw his tears, no one.but

Kouran.

A/N- I hoped you liked it. REVIEW PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!