I was sitting on the couch at my friend Jamie's place typing up another chapter in a fanfiction on my laptop, while she wrote up the next chapter of her soon to be published book in a notebook from the seat next to me. We could hear Dee in the living room behind us watching Vampire Knight on the tv. It was normal for us, a group of antisocial friends absorbed in their own tasks just enjoying each other's company. A loud crack of thunder startled everyone and soon we were racing around the house trying to unplug things, or get windows closed as the wall of rain moved closer over the mountains. An earsplitting crack followed by a sickening ripping sound made me halt in my tracks, had something been struck? I looked around and couldn't find anything wrong so I reached for my laptop to close it only to be thrown backwards into a wall as soon as I touched it knocking the wind out of me.

I gasped as the sound of one of my guardians spoke up in my head... "Great job graceless 'did something get struck? better touch my laptop' Baka! Are you trying to get us fried!"

"Sorry, Sasuke. I-" I was interrupted by what sounded like tearing metal right by my head and then I was being pulled, or dragged backwards by something.

I screamed for help but no sound came out... Everything went cold and silent; both inside and out, no comforting or chastising voice of my guardians, no hey are you okay from my friends. The bright blurry colors whizzed and whirled past my head, and I had to wonder if I had been dreaming with my eyes open in the car again.

I couldn't see anything I recognised... it was like something out of Dr. Who or Twilight Zone or something. The panic set in as I tried to take a breath and couldn't, then another loud crack, and despite the panic I was glad to know I could hear then everything went black.

I'm not sure how long it had been since I awoke laying on my back, I just lay there looking up at the sky watched the time float by one cloud at a time. I could breath again I noticed, I could also hear the relaxing sound of birds chirping in the trees nearby so it was a safe bet to say my ears were working now too.

I started to feel drowsy and lethargic after a few dozen clouds had passed and so I fell asleep listening to the birds and the breeze through the grass, the warm sun on my skin soothing my sore muscles, honestly I would not be surprised if things were broken or bleeding but I was too tired and numb to care. I felt like I had been shoved through a woodchipper, then forced through a hose or something and somewhere along the way I lost my motivation to do much of anything more than lay here and think to myself.

I woke up to the sun being blocked from my face by someone standing over me, I recognised the silhouette but couldn't place from where. The man standing over me kneeled down and started poking and prodding, most places felt like I was badly bruised but nothing felt broke, not anymore anyway. I hissed in pain when he prodded my ribs gently, okay so apparently those were still worse for wear.

"Can you stand?" Wait that sounded like Sasuke's voice, my brother and my head guardian. Guardians are like Guardian Angels except well more often than not they are not angels, but a multitude of different things like elves, beast folk (Anthros), fairies, mers, dragons, vampires, weres, elementals, even true demons. And on that note I will clear something else up; true demons are things like kitsunes, and things like Hiei from Yu yu Hakusho or Lord Sesshomaru from Inuyasha. NOT the nasty sickly sweet con-artist evil thing that is depicted in the bible, what they speak of in that book is what the other races call villis it is an abomination of corrupted energy and malicious intent that was so strong that it eventually gained sentience, and not in a good way.

Now there are some rogue true demons out there that bring shame on the race as a whole, but these are exiles or soul junkies aka the demon equivalent of a crack addict and you will get those in any race. Sebastian from Black Butler is a great example of one of these even if he is on the reform. If these soul junkies get bad enough they can actually become Villis. I have ADD can you tell? Anyway back on topic Sasuke adopted me a long time ago after I rescued him from becoming consumed by the villis he had unwittingly let into his body and fixed his friendship with those he cared about after he murdered his brother but that still doesn't make sense... how was he here... guardians are on the astral level a sort of in between state, slightly out of phase so that we can hear them and if we are astral traveling or in trance we can see them and interact with them but never on the physical level so where the hell was here anyway?

He waved a hand in front of me to break me out of my wandering thoughts "I think so, is that really you?" I asked suddenly suspicious of a look alike as he backed away so I could stand, he was already used to my mental wanderings.

"Baka." he said as I tried to stand on my own and stumbled, he grabbed my arm and slung it over his shoulder as he helped me walk.

I giggled, 'Yep, definitely Sasuke.'

Sasuke's POV: My little adopted sister was always getting herself into plenty of trouble. Fortunately she was also relatively good at getting herself out of it as well. This was not one of those times, she hadn't really done anything and she was too out of it to help herself. I wasn't sure exactly what had happened but somehow she was physically on the same level of existence as me. As I helped her walk I wracked my brain to try and explain this. I guess it wasn't really all that important, or at least I hoped it wouldn't cause too many issues.

"Come on, we are nearly back to my camp." I said as I helped her hobble her sore exhausted ass, to someplace other than where she was prior.

"Wait... camp?"

"Hn." I responded plainly.

"When did you have time to set up a camp?"

"Wasn't sure how long we would be out here, or how cold it might get tonight or even how long it might take to find the others. So I fell back on my training, I set up a rough campsite real quick and got a fire going while you were resting. Then I came back for you and I think I sense Dee and Jamie over that way somewhere, but they seem to be moving our way so they are at least able to walk." I explained.

She blinked at me wide eyed and stared... I knew why, she wasn't used to hearing me talk this way.
"Don't look at me like that. It's creepy." I said deadpan.

"Password." she demanded, glaring at me and now refusing to move.

I smiled and sighed "Blood Over Water. It's me I just fell back into old habits from back home. Now move it, the suns setting soon and we still need to catch dinner."

"That's better..." she sighed and smiled as I continued to half drag her in the direction of camp.

"You're paranoid." I mumbled at her flustered at having to waste time, but pleased that she would think to check.

"Yep!" And there she goes all giggly again.

A few minutes later we stepped through the trees and could see the fire burning low inside a circle of stones, there were four knee sized stumps to use as chairs sitting around the fire pit and a set up so we could cook later, if we managed to catch food anyway.

"I'm going to see if they need any help getting here, then I am going to catch us some dinner." I told her.

"Jamie doesn't eat fish..."

"Tough." I said as I stalked into the woods again. I heard her chuckle at that, she knew I meant it too. If someone was going to be picky about what they ate I would make them get it on their own. I was a natural at catching fish with Kunai and we were short on daylight.