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pure-thornless-rose: Hiya! Welcome to the FIRST chapter of my FIRST fic! But don't you worry... you'll like it... hopefully. I don't own anything here but my story. Oh and please keep reading cause this story gets better every chapter, okay?
Enjoy!
Hope in Destiny
By: me! heheh...
Chapter 1: A Stranger's Visit

It was getting late at night. Destiny was in her room, reading a magazine and listening to the rain splatter against her window along with the thunder and lightning. It had been a long day for her, especially since she just finished moving in and unpacking her things with her family for they had just moved in from America to Japan. Destiny wasn't happy to hear about their upcoming migration and was sad when she left. But now, it had been three days since they left America and Destiny starts school the next day.
"Man, it's getting late... and I start school tomorrow too." she sighed, "Heh, I haven't been here in Japan since I was three... now I'm sixteen and here I am... again" Then, she put the magazine down onto the nightstand and got off her bed. She headed towards the window and sat on the windowsill. The rain continued to fall and the thunder kept flashing. Lightning bolts struck and the wind blew through the trees as she sat there quietly, gazing out her window onto the woods, which was next to her backyard.
"I wish I was home right now... I'd be with my friends, hanging out somewhere." She said solemnly, "well we all know that's not going to happen anytime sooner." She was quiet again. But this time she had fought back sadness from taking over. "I just hope things go well at school tomorrow."
Then there were small scratches at the door. Destiny, knowing whom it was, got off her windowsill and let her dog, Blizzard in. He entered, wagging his tail happily with his tongue sticking out. Blizzard was a full breed Alsatian dog and a very smart one too.
"Aw hey Blizz! Ready for bed boy?" she was smiling now and scratching him behind his ears, "C'mon boy, let's go to sleep." So she did what she said.

But as she walked to her closet to go change into her pajamas, a loud crashing noise emitted from the woods. It sounded of lightning cracks and a tree falling down. This startled her so she walked to the window to take a look. To her surprise, what she heard was that a tree had indeed fallen down... along with other trees surrounding it, making a cleared path from her back yard, to somewhere in the middle of the woods. Blizz walked up to Destiny's side and looked out the doors leading to her balcony. He whined a little.

"Hm, that's strange." she said, "I'm going to go check this out, Blizz. You come with me... come on, boy! Let's go!" She cheered him on, making him get up and wag his tail. Then she grabbed the umbrella in her closet and as she closed the closet doors, the power goes out and everything goes black, except for when lightning flashes. "Looks like I'm going to need this too..." she sighed, blindly reaching for her desk drawer and pulling out a flashlight. But before she turned it on, lightning flashed a couple of times, revealing a silhouette of a figure, his shadow flashing on her wall. With her facing directly where the shadow was, she saw this immediately and twisted around to face the balcony... nothing.

"What the hell was that?" she said, "and I'm pretty sure something was there... on the balcony." She became slightly frantic yet somehow calm. But Blizz on the other hand, wasn't. He was now glaring towards the balcony, fur rising, teeth and fangs bared, and growling. He knew something was there, watching them in the darkness. "What is it, Blizz?" she asked, turning the flashlight on, "Oh, then I must've been right... there was something there... err, someone."

Blizzard continued to growl as she beamed the light over to the balcony, walking closer to its doors to open them. As she reached for the doorknob, Blizzard growled louder and deeper. Then she opened the door, wind blew in but the rain didn't, then more lightning. She exited with Blizzard at her side, sniffing the air and alert.

"You smell anything?" She was expecting any sudden gestures from her dog. That's when he ran out to the balcony, turned around, sat down and faced up, sitting on the rainy area on the balcony. He barked once, then once again, continuing to sit under the rain. "So you do..." she inferred, running out to see what Blizzard was looking at. She opened the umbrella and stood next to Blizzard. Then, just as she was about to face the flashlight towards the roof (where Blizzard was looking) it goes out. "Damn, why is everything going out on me now?" she shook the flashlight but it never lit up, "Never mind you..." Now she was looking up to the roof. More thunder rumbled and lightning flashed again. She narrowed her eyes and saw a figure on top of the roof. "Ah ha, I knew it," she whispered. The figure was facing away from her. Suddenly, he looked left to right, then jumped down to the other side of the house and disappeared. "Where is he going?" she asked herself.

So she ran into the house, went downstairs and out the front door, dropping everything in her room as she ran by. She continued out into the rain and looked around, seeing nothing; especially since the streetlights were out too. Then she turned around and suddenly she's face to face with someone. It was the figure, standing there in front of her. Though it was still too dark to see, she could only tell that he was taller than her. Again, she narrowed her eyes to see, but it never helped. A quick flash from lightning and she was able to get a glimpse of his emerald green eyes and long red- red hair.

"Things aren't what I expected... But, it has been a long time." she heard him murmur. He was narrowing his eyes to see her better, but it did not help much for him.

"Who are you?" she asked, fearlessly, "And what are you talking about?"

"There is no time for this, Kurama! Let's go!" A voice called out from behind her. Destiny turned around and saw another figure. This one stood far so she couldn't see him either. Then she turned back to the redhead. He hesitated a little, but the other one called out to him again. "Before that demon of a dog arrives too!" he urged on.

"What?" she exclaimed. Then he nodded and left. She watched him run past her and join the other. Then they left together, none of them looked back as they disappeared. That's when Blizzard ran out to her side, into the rain, which was still pouring down on them. They were gone, whoever they were. "That's strange," she said, "How did that guy know I had a dog? I don't even know them... or do I?"

Blizzard barked, waiting on Destiny to say something. But she simply turned around walked into the house, leading her dog in. As they entered, everything that happened within the last five minutes ran through her mind. She didn't care about how wet she was since she was going to change anyway, nor about the power outage. The words the two said went over and over through her mind. Especially what the redhead said.

"What did he mean by, 'Things aren't what I expected'," she said in verbatim. "And it's been a long time since when?" She then dismissed this and went upstairs and got a towel to dry her shoulder-length brown hair. Blizzard had already shaken everything off before entering completely into the house. Anyway, Destiny entered her room, shut the balcony door, and changed from her wet clothes. Her parents were already asleep so she continued on quietly. She lit up a candle and placed it on her nightstand as she sat on her bed. Blizzard was with her so he jumped up onto her bed and curled up on an empty space at the foot of the bed. Shortly, she lay in bed, and began to think again about her eventful night and what the two figures said. Like if the distant one meant anything by, 'That demon of a dog' and how he knew she has a dog. Or what the redhead meant by anything of what he said. Yet all in all, she slept that night, blowing the candle off and turning her lamp off in case the power ever came back in the middle of the night.

pure-thornless-rose: Well... uh... That's the end for now! Chapter two will be coming up! Oh and sorry not much happens today for Destiny... except for that Kurama character's visiting her. But of course you know who he is... it's just that she doesn't. Oh and the 'distant' guy, you can guess who he is right? If you can't, it'll be in chapter two.
blizzard: bye and see ya!
pure-thornless-rose: what?! you can speak?! but you didn't even move your mouth! And how did you get here? wierd... anyways! see ya in chapter two! And don't forget to review!