Screams of women and children echoed around. The sound of blood dripping from bodies and being slung off swords. Flashes of white and red. People being murdered. Then a new scream would tear through the night.

Kaien raced down the hall for the third time that night and into his daughter's room. She was curled in a ball in the middle of her bed crying again. For weeks now, every night it was a fight to make her go to bed. And like clockwork, four times a night she would wake up screaming.

When he would ask her what was going on, it was all the same answer. It was the same dream of people in a past time killing each other. Rather graphic for a child of five years old to be dreaming. But Kishiko seemed happy and normal except for those damned nightmares. "I just hope that they stop soon. I don't know how much longer she can handle it."

That following morning, Kaien took Kishiko for her first day of preschool. He looked over at her smiling happy face and sighed. During the day she showed no sign ever having those awful dreams. "Kishiko, you sure you want to start school today?"

Kishiko turned her bright green eyes toward her father. "I am ready papa. I want to go to school!" Her voice turning more into a pleading wine toward the end.

"But you are my baby."

"Papa! I am not a baby anymore! I am a big girl and they go to school!"

Kaien sighed as he reached over and laid a hand on her head with a smile. "I know. But remember that no matter how big you get, you are always going to be my baby girl."

"Can I go now papa?"

"Get. I will be here when you get out of school."

Kishiko smiled and giggled as she hopped out of her father's car and walked toward the school doors. When she got there she told the woman at the door where she needed to go and followed her as she took her to her class. Trying her best to remember the way so her father wouldn't have to walk her in or keep asking for help.

When she got to the classroom she walked in with a nervous smile and went straight to the teacher. "Hello. I am Kishiko Shima. This is my first day!"

Risa Kinomi smiled at the child as she stood and walked around to the front of the desk. "Well hello Kishiko. I am Mrs. Kinomi. I hope you like it here. Let me show you where your desk can be." Then she took the girl by her hand and walked over to the only empty desk there was in the room. "You can sit here next to Otohime Akechi. Otohime, this is Kishiko Shima. She is brand new so help me make her feel welcome will you?"

Otohime nodded and then turned to Kishiko. "It is really fun here and everyone is really nice. I hope we can be friends!"

Kishiko smiled and gave a sharp nod. "Best friends!"

Then the two girls gave each other a high five, but then gasped as their eyes go wide and they stare at each other. Flashes of the same people, the same deaths, the same sounds echo in their ears, then flashes of calm, pleasant scenes. Showing two women grown with children of their own. With their eyes!

Mrs. Kinomi reached out and put their hands down as she once again addressed them. "Girls! Are you two okay?"

Kishiko forced a smile and looked up. "We are fine. Why?"

Mrs. Kinomi arched an eyebrow. "Are you sure? You gave each other a high five then didn't move and both let out a gasp."

Otohime thought quickly for a second then gave a nervous laugh as she rubbed the back of her head. "It is just that we thought we did it too loud. We are sorry if we worried you Mrs. Kinomi."

"Very sorry." Quickly added Kishiko as she vigorously nodded her head up and down.

Once the teacher walked away Otohime turned to Kishiko with wide eyes. "You saw it too didn't you. And heard it?"

"I was about to ask you the same thing? For weeks now I have had the same nightmare over and over again. It scares me."

"I know. It scares me too." Then she bit her lip and sighed. "Do you want to talk about it later?"

"What do you mean?"

"My brother and father won't let me talk about it. They tell me that I shouldn't talk about bad things that upset me. But I feel like I have too. And if I don't get to talk about it to someone then I will….."

"Go crazy."

"Exactly."

"May I?"

"We can talk about it together whenever you want!"

The two small girls hugged and from that day forth were inseperable. The only time they were apart was when they had to go home and go to bed. As fate would have it, from first grade all the way through 12th grade they had every single class together.

Their first job was as a waitress and they worked the same place, the same hours. As they went through high school though, because they were always together and not all that social with the rest of the students, it lead to them being picked on. Otohime, whom from the start had always been extra sensitive when it came to what others thought about it always took it really hard compared to Kishiko.

Kishiko would just shrug it off her back and be done with it. Yet seeing her best friend suffer at the hands of the bullies proved to be too much for her. And instead of not saying anything and going on about her own business she started standing up to them, and defending both herself and Otohime. Which drew the girls even closer together.

Finally, they were 18 years old and were old enough to move out on their own. They were still working as waitresses so money wasn't plentiful, but they did find a small two room efficiency apartment that was just the right price for them and moved in together.

And even through all this time, the nightmare persisted. They stopped screaming when they woke, so their families thought that the nightmares had went away. But that was far from the case and soon the two of them would be sent on an adventure of a lifetime. To reunite with friends they have never met. To find a love that stood against the passage of time. And fix what has been undone.