Red

Pain

Passion

Pleasure

Rage

Seduction

Mourning

Death

Power

Life

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Prologue

Dreams are somewhat fickle things. They open doorways to the future. Dreams give the comfort of oblivion to the restless. They give pain to the broken, and hope to those with none.

Prophets are people able to dream whether waking or asleep to interpret the images in the astral plain and interpret what is to come. A priestess with the ability to see the future is rare, but not impossible.

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Red.

Blood. Fire lights the sky illuminating the grotesque battle waging below.

A naked body lies on blood soaked grass. Long wild black hair frames the face that holds dead blue eyes. The only reason that one could tell the girl was alive is the rise and fall of her chest. Bruises and smears of blood cover her body.

The battle in the background was one of good and evil. The terror now in the girls eyes as she looks at the two combatants. Makes one wonder who is the true evil.

On the ground not to far from the woman- child lay two bodies. One of them held a staff, his other arm wrapped in a covering with a stand of broken prayer beads lying around him. His robe that at one time may have been a bluish-purple was now a crusty brown, the color of dried blood.

The other was a woman that had a skintight armor; a mask lay near her on the ground. A kitten lay under her head mewling to the heavens as she grieved. The shiny metal of the weapon that killed the girl was still sticking out over her heart. A chain connected it to a boy wearing a similar armor was dead on the ground.

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Kagome shot up in her sleeping bag, her breathing was labored and sweat was heavy on her brow. The smell of fear was heavy on the air to the hanyou up in the tree. So to would it be for the as of present asleep kitsune.

Miroku looked at Kagome in silent contemplation. Kagome's eyes met his over the dying fire. Stark terror was apparent in her eyes. Pain and anguish over her dream and the realization who each of the people in it were brought on a new wave of terror.

With out truly realizing what she was doing Kagome ripped herself out of the confinement of her sleeping bag and ran to the bushes at the edge of the clearing. Only the slight rustle of cloth marked the passage of the hanyou from tree to ground.

Kagome was hurling what little she had been able to stomach that day as the uneasy feeling that all was not right. With her strength gone Kagome turned around and sat down hard. She pulled her knees to her and rocked herself, images, and reminders, of the dream haunting her.

"Kagome are you all right?" Asked the worried hanyou.

". . ."

"Kagome-sama what did you see?" asked Miroku cautiously.

"Red. Blood. Death. Two evils."

"Was this dream a prophecy?"

"Maybe."

"Can you tell me anything else?"

". . ."

"What the hell has you so scared bitch?"

" Which of them is the lesser of the two evils? Why does blood turn brown on a purple robe, held by a backdrop of a hand clutching broken prayer beads? Why does the wound inflicted by a brother hurt the heart twice as much?"

"What the hell does that mean Bitch?!"

"Does the rape of the body hurt more than that of the soul?" by this time Kagome's voice was hysterical but her body was rocking calmly, as though soothing itself from the images inflicted in the dream.

"Calm down Inuyasha she can tell us no more than she has. She also confirmed my suspicions."

"What would they be bouzo?"

"She has had a prophetic dream and was terrified of it."

"We have to figure out what her riddles mean." Came the voice of a Sango a new participant of the conversation. She startled both of the boys.

"Her second one seemed obvious enough."

"How do you figure that lady Sango?"

"What color is your rope Houshi? And what color is dried blood. If that is not enough for you than the hand with broken prayer beads should clue you in."

"Well the third is in obvious reference to you Sango, but what it is referring to is still a mystery."

"Feh. You humans get your rest I'll keep watch we can figure this in the morning and question Kagome more, she already fell back asleep."

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Okay people I know I shouldn't start another story but I am putting all my other stories on hold so I can continue this one. I have this one mapped out and it should be done in about two months give or take. This story is going to be the first I will finish and I hope that it will be enough that I will get out of my rut of writers block. Pleas read and tell me what you think. If you get really fed up with this ask me to do a chapter for one of my other stories.