Chapter 1 - Weird Stuff Always Starts With Weird Dreams

"Find the one whose voice touches the soul. Only then can you be truly happy."

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A very sleepy and royally pissed off Aya Mikage kicked a rock in front of her as she trudged her way to school. She had been having the same dream every night for a month now. It always showed a young woman with long black hair singing, but no sound came out. Then a voice from inside herself always said the same exact cryptic saying before the alarm would wake her up. 'Stupid dreams bothering me all friggin' night. I don't even know what the hell they're about!' She fumed and gave the rock one last good kick.

"OW! Damnit Aya!" The rock had hit her twin brother, Aki, in the head. Not wanting to put up with her gloom-and-doom attitude all the way to school, he decided to walk ahead of her and leave her to stew.

"I didn't do it on purpose! Turn around and leave me alone!" Aki faced forward and rolled his eyes.

Despite the sleep deprivation, Aya's day went on as normal and she was caught sleeping in class only once. When the lunch bell finally rang, she ran to join her friends in the cafeteria and after the usual bout of Beat-the-Line-Cutters-With-Your-Lunch-Tray, they were seated with their food at their usual table against the back wall. Aya was about to swallow her pizza whole when something caught her eye. Back in the lunch line was just about the hottest guy she had ever seen. He had delicate features with short highlighted hair that reached his shoulder blades at the longest bits while the shorter strands framed his face. He was talking animatedly with a group of people she had never seen before. Forgetting her pizza entirely, she grabbed her friend Chidori's head and turned it towards Hot Guy.

"Why haven't we seen that guy before?! He's gorgeous!" The smaller girl's eyes widened.

"Wow! I don't know! Where has he been hiding?" The three boys sitting with Aya and Chidori also turned to look at the guy the girls were ogling. The tallest boy, who was sitting next to Aya, frowned in confusion.

"What guy?" Aya turned to him, her hands still holding Chidori's head in place.

"What do you mean, 'what guy', Touya?" The guy sitting across from Chidori reached across the table to pry Aya's hands from the sides of the smaller girl's head.

"What the hell are you guys talking about?" Chidori rolled her eyes at her friend.

"The hot guy right there in the lunch line, Yuuhi! The one talking to those girls." Aki finally saw who they were talking about and sprayed his sister and Touya across the table with chocolate milk as he choked.

"Aki! What the hell!" Aya reached over and hit him upside the head.

"That 'guy' you're talking about, that's Shuro Tsukasa from the Drama group. That's a girl!"

"What?!" Aya stared at her brother as if he had lost his mind. "I think you got chocolate milk in your brain, Aki." Yuuhi realized who the girls had been referring to and frowned in the He-She's direction.

"I hate that girl." Touya laughed at him.

"Just because she beat you in basketball that one time in eighth grade-"

"That Shuro?!" Aya remembered the basketball incident.

"She cut her hair! And what's with the boys clothes?" Shuro was wearing a plain black T-shirt that said, "I'M WITH THE BAND", boy's cargo pants, and a pair of black skater shoes.

"I didn't know she came to our school. How long has she been going here, I thought she moved after junior high?"

"Nope." Began Aki, "You've just never had any classes with her and she and her friends usually hang out in the drama theatre during lunch." Yuuhi narrowed his eyes at his friend.

"Why do you know so much about the theatre nerds?"

"I have my sources!"

As Yuuhi and her brother began to argue, Aya took another good look at Shuro as the girl was leaving the cafeteria with her food, still chatting away with her friends. After examining the other girl's face, it hit her. Shuro had the same face as the girl in her dreams. As the Shuro opened the door to walk outside, she turned to look directly at Aya. She froze as Shuro's hazel eyes met with her blue-grey ones. Shuro simply gave her an unreadable look and walked out the cafeteria doors.

"HEY AYA!" She was brought back to reality by her brother assaulting her eardrum at close range. Before he could react, Aya grabbed her open milk carton and dumped it over his head. Grabbing her backpack, she ran to the cafeteria doors and stepped outside; if she hurried, she could still catch up to Shuro. 'Man! Weird stuff always starts with weird dreams!' She thought to herself.

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I've been on an Ayashi no Ceres kick lately. Just finished re-watching the anime and got really pissed about how small a role Shuro played in it compared with the manga.

SHE WAS IN JUST ONE FRIGGIN' EPISODE! My anger drove me to start, not one, but two new fanfics about her.

Tell me what ya think with a review

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