Facing your fears is probably one of the hardest things to do. Especially when they've haunted you for so long, creeping their way into your dreams and taking over your life to the point where you just can't take it anymore.

-x-

Kyoya's eyes shot open as he threw himself forward, sweat ran down from his forehead onto his cheek, merging with the tears that were also present.

'Just another nightmare.' He panted, wiping his face.

For the past week Kyoya had been waking up from strange and truly terrifying nightmares. The nightmares had all been based on the same thing, which caused them to have exactly the same ending. They reminded him of something. Something he wanted to put behind him, but never could.

He looked around the room, all of his team mates lay happily tucked up in their beds, unaware of what Kyoya had just been through. The nightmares all seemed so real, that they were hard to forget.

Kyoya got out of bed and headed downstairs. Maybe a cold drink would help him calm down.

He quietly got out of bed making sure not to wake his team mates. Once he got downstairs he opened the fridge and got a bottled water. He sat down and quickly drank it, finishing it in a matter of seconds.

"What are you doing up? It's 4 in the morning." A tired Nile asked.

Kyoya turned to his friend, "nothing. I was just thirsty. Anyway, what are you doing up?"

"I heard you, your not exactly the quietest person in the world, Kyoya."

Kyoya said nothing as his friend sat down on the seat opposite him. Kyoya didn't make any eye contact, instead he looked out of the slightly open window. It was raining. Even the weather was miserable.

"What's been up with you lately Kyoya? You haven't been the same since you started having those nightmares…"

"Nothing – wait, what? How did you know about the nightmares?"

"I just do. They must be really bad if they cause you to be this emotionally unstable."

"I'm not emotionally unstable."

"How come you still have tear marks on your cheeks then?"

Kyoya quickly wiped them away, turning away from his friend as he did so.

There was nothing but silence now, as the two friends had no idea what to say. About 5 minutes later a booming voice entered the kitchen, almost deafening the 2 bladers sitting at the table. "Good morning Kyoya-san"

"What am I, Invisible?"

"Sorry, Morning Nile!"

"That's more like it."

Benkei opened the fridge door, grabbing as much food as he could. Kyoya and Nile both sat watching the bull as he dumped the food onto the bench and began making a sandwich. Almost instantly a foot long sandwich appeared on the bench, he must be a pro at preparing a sandwich, he's probably done it more times then anyone else.

"At least Nile's stopped talking about my nightmares" Kyoya muttered under his breathe.

Benkei then joined them at the table, stuffing the whole thing into his mouth as the others watched with wide eyes.

Kyoya then got up, not saying a word. He headed upstairs to the room he and his team mates shared. Since he was now alone, everyone was downstairs except from Damoure who was in the bathroom. Kyoya kneeled down on the floor, reaching for something under his bed. He pulled out an old tattered book that looked like it had been through the washing machine 20 times.

Kyoya made himself comfortable, flicking through the pages of what seemed to be a scrap book. The memorys flowed back into Kyoya's brain, he even smiled at a few.

But then he stopped at a certain page. It was of him as a young kid, in a hospital bed with multiple broken bones. Next to him sat a beautiful turquoise haired lady. She had a warm smile, kind eyes and just looked the total opposite of Kyoya. His finger ran across the picture, spiralling around the lady.

He lay there for what seemed like hours, staring at the picture in front of him.

"Kyoya, it's time to go!"

Kyoya snapped out of his fantasy, hiding the book under his bed once again. "Where are we going?"

"You've forgotten already? Today's the day you and Ginkga arranged to have a rematch. So you could pay him back for the world championships."

"I didn't forget, I just have more important things on my mind."

"Since when has ANYTHING been more important than you beating Ginkga?! It was the only thing you went on about."

"If you knew, you'd understand." Kyoya then grabbed Leone and walked out of the door way. As usual, Benkei followed him like a little lost puppy.

"What's been up with Kyoya lately?"

"Honestly, I have no idea."

"Wow, your best friends with him and he still doesn't trust you. That tells us something…"

"What do you mean by that?"

"If he trusted you then wouldn't he have told you what was going on?"

"I suppose so….. But let's not worry about it. If Kyoya wants to fight away whatever it is by himself then, that's his problem, not mine."

Nile and Damoure walked out, running up to Kyoya and Benkei. The 4 walked silently across the pavement, heading straight towards Madoka's work shop. It was a nice change for Nile, he was usually the one stuck in the house while the other were out. But most of the time, it was by choice.

Entering the work shop they found Madoka, Ginkga, Tsubasa and Masamune all sitting on the couch talking.

"Hey guys!" An excited Ginkga shouted, "ready for our battle Kyoya?"

"Mhmm.."

"Well then, let's not stand around. Let's do this thing!"

"Ok."

Ginkga looked at Kyoya puzzled. Where was that over confident blader that he knew so well? He certainly wasn't there.

Ginkga was just about to ask him when Nile gave him a small nudge.

"I know what your thinking, and I want to know what's bothering him too, but he won't tell us so we better just leave it for now."

Ginkga nodded, he thought it was best to listen to the Egyptian teen so he wouldn't get onto Kyoya's bad side, because that's a side nobody wants to be on.

I imagined this story going alot better then that, but it's only the first chapter. Hopefully future chapters will be better.

Please leave a review, but please don't point out spelling/grammar mistakes. I'm not the best person at grammar or spelling, i know. But I don't need other people to tell me that.

Thanks :)