A/N: Well, here I go off on another little story adventure while I'm in the middle of another one! I have another story on the way that is gonna be Re- He-HELLY weird. Well, this is just a one shot unless people actually like it. If you do please tell me or I wont continue it. If you don't like it this will sit in my closet and gather dust with the rest of the bad stories people write R/R

'Man, I haven't studied this much since.. EVER!' I thought to myself pulling my hair in frustration. I sighed and threw my English book to the ground laying myself on my bed. Pulling my glasses off my face, I rubbed my eyes sleepily. It had been at least 24-hours since I had last slept. I closed my eyes and turned over on my bed.

'Ummm.. Sleep.' I thought to myself.

My eyes flew open and I groaned as I heard a knock at my door. I slowly rolled out of bed and made my way to the door. I opened it to the smiling faces of Reika, Emiko, and Iselia, my three best friends.

"Hey g-g-g-guys." I said trying to stifle my yawn. The three girls laughed as they saw my tired visage gazing at them through drooping eyelids.

"Late night again Hardy?" Questioned Reika as her eyes reached the piles of papers, text-books, and Mountain Dew cans littering the floor.

"Yeah, what do you expect? I mean, it's REGENTS exams this year." I said groaning at the thought.

I looked at Iselia and Emiko as I slid onto my bed and curled into a ball. My blue-black, waist length hair cascaded over the bedside and my sapphire eyes gazed blankly at the ceiling.

"It's a little dark in here don't you think?" Questioned Emiko.

I sighed drearily replying, " I don't know. I was at my desk till a little while ago. I guess I didn't really think about turning on the lights."

Iselia walked over to the light switch and turned on the lights. As everyone's eyes adjusted to the newfound light, they grabbed things for balance. Reika shook her head as she looked at me falling asleep on my feet.

"You really study to hard ya know." She said laughing.

"Yea, but I have 15 years of studying to catch up on. I NEVER used to study, you know that."

The three girls stared at each other and laughed. "I guess you don't wanna go to the Ashihara then." They said turning there heads away smirking.

"Aw!! You guys know I cant turn down the Ashihara! They make the best cake.. And Crepes! AND POCKY! MAAAAANNN!!" I said smiling. They knew bakery's were my weakness. "Ok then, lets go."

Iselia smiled and said, "Well, since we ARE gonna be by the mall, we can go play DDR AND PIU."

Reika, Emiko and me turned to Iselia and smirked. " What's with you and the dancing games?"

"Shard.DUH!" She replied in a mocking tone.

AH YES! Shard, she had had her eyes on him for a couple of weeks now, and no matter how hard we tried to persuade her to talk to him she wouldn't. Actually... none of us had gotten the courage to talk to him. It could be that he was so tall. Or maybe that long black cloak was a little intimidating, who knows.

"Hey you guys?" I popped in nervously.

Emiko, Reika and Iselia turned to me with questioning looks. "Hum?" They asked.

I looked down at the ground wondering if I should tell them about the dreams I had been having as of late.

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'Huh? What's that?.... It's. It's the world! And, it's in ruin.The cities are destroyed. Everyone is dead. And what about me... How am I still up here? Wait. up where? I'm floating? GREAT! No. I'm flying. I'm.. what am I..'

"Hardy.. The world is dying. The end of the world is near. You and your friends must find the last protector of the earth. Until that day, your true identity will not be shown. Just find the last protector."

'Huh? Find the last protector. End of the world? How am I mixed up in this? And what do you mean my 'True Identity'?'

"Find the last protector.. Find the last protec~"

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"HEEELLLLOOOOOO? Are you there Hardy? Dude your zoning again!" Yelled Emiko.

Snapping myself out of my dream, I decided not to tell the group for fear that it might cause my friends to think I'm psycho. "Sorry guys. I was just thinking."

"Bout what?" They questioned.

I waved off the question with a flick of my wrist. "Don't worry about it's stupid."

They answered with a shrug their shoulders.

To break the awkward silence now forming I pointed my finger to the Ashihara. "Hey guys we're here! FOOD!"

Everyone ran to the front door and opened it running up to the counter. Me and Reika looked at each other and pointed to the total stud behind the counter. We read his name tag so we would know his name when we got up there. "Hey Ryuu! We would like one crepe each."

Ryuu looked at us strangely and pulled out 4 crepes. "Ok there ya go." He said in a voice that asked 'Have we met before?'

I smiled and took the crepes from him. "Thank you very much."

We all walked over to the table and every once in a while we would stare back at Ryuu. We had never seen anyone with such silver white hair as him. And his green eyes were as deep as the ocean. Oh well. He looked HELL of a lot older than all of us. Finishing our crepes we left the Ashihara and wandered over to the mall.

"Hey you guys. Lets skip and freak out some people!" I whispered.

Everyone nodded and we linked arms and skipped our way to Time Out, the only arcade in the mall. Sure enough we did freak out lots of people, and left quite a few people talking about us. I looked over at Iselia to see a trance like state about here. Snapping my fingers in front of her face to wake her up, I looked in the direction of her stare and saw Shard. He was doing that weird DDR game. I laughed to myself thinking it looked like some tribal dance or something!

Suddenly I grabbed my head. I just got a flash of something in my head. It was as if someone had shook me to my core. My body trembled at the remembrance of the image. The mall was destroyed, everyone in it was bloody and for the most part dead. I looked around... bodies were strewn everywhere. My friends lay at my side, dead. I fell to my knees my body screaming in pain. My vision was being blurred by light.

'What's going on? Why does it hurt so much?'

"Hardy, he's here, the destroyer of the world."

'Destroyer of the world?'

"Soetsu is here."

'Soet..su..'

I looked up as a dark figure came down outside of the mall doors. He was covered by a dark black cloak. All that I could see was his smile... It was a smile darker then the depths of Hell. Soetsu... I looked around, nobody else seemed to see him. I collapsed to the ground. The last thing I heard was my friends screaming to me... then the world went black..

TBC....

Hardy: Yay!

Reika: Not bad.

Sesshoumaru: I agree. am I mentioned in the story?

Hardy: NO! No other anime characters are in this story..it's my own. But if ppl don't review this story I wont write any more chapters!

Shard, Reika, Emiko, and Iselia:: Review or we won't be in the story! (Reika cries and Iselia has Chibi eyes)

Hardy: (Trying to calm the guys down) PLEASE REVIEW SO I CAN WRITE! THEN THESE FOUR WILL CALM DOWN!