Aqua543: Well then, hello everyone how you doing!

I'm doing great chapter four now next five.

This story might have twenty chapters or more but not over thirty I promise you.

Trust Me, I'm not that cruel. By the way this is M for gore, language and partial nudity. I know I said sexual content but no. It will be I think the third book or second? I don't now, on with the story and we begin two weeks after they first saw each other. This chapter told in Shadow and Kai's P.O.V. If you don't know who Kai is then...Your slow dude. On with the story! First part Kai second part Shadow. Now we start!

(Kai)

I'm so bored

I lay in bed it is 12:00 in the morning and I can't get to sleep for some reason, my eyes aren't heavy, I don't feel tried but anxious. Why am I anxious? I have no clue myself. Maybe it was because of last week when that hedgehog saved me now I just can't stop thinking of him. I toss and turn trying to sleep and maybe forget him, but I can't.

I decide to just look up at the ceiling, my white ceiling I was quiet and it worked I felt my eyes dropping as the room got darker and darker I was finally asleep.

What I began to dream was more of a nightmare.

Where I was in a dark long hallway with number of doors that I couldn't count because I was focus on running ahead and not stopping.I was running away from something but I don't know what? I hear growls that weren't animal nor human, I look back this dark monster chasing me Purple scales, Black eyes, and long red nails with long yellow teeth. I tried to run faster but it was futile it jumped in front of me as it stepped forward, but I stepped back. It them got on its to back legs standing at least eight feet tall and slash its claws it front of me.

I covered my face but slashed my arms and threw me to the other side of the room slamming into the wall. I scream from the pain, the pain in my arms as blood is released from the scratches and from the back of my head. As it came closer towards me it smelled its claws and grinned darkly and stared at me with those cold, lifeless eyes and lick some of my blood on it claws.I was panting afraid and scared. It came closer towards me I tried to stand but no good it ran at the blink of an eye and was in front and did the same to me it slammed me towards the west of the wall and was on the floor.

I let out another gasp as the pain became more and more painful I saw it sniffing the floor and lick my blood and smiled again this thing seemed please of my pain and I began to whimper my hands began to shake and I was breathing heavy. As I tried to get up it was circling me I could only keep my eyes on it and watch it walk around the room then it was in front of me face to face.

I tried not to breathe, not to move, not even to open my eyes, It pressed it's nose on my face and I felt the cold tongue licking across my cheek, this made me shiver then it stepped back and did something. It grabbed me by the throat and slammed me against the wall, I let out a scream so loud that it slammed me on the floor and placed it's paw on my face, I couldn't breathe.

I continue to scream and the more I did the hard it pressed it's paw on my face, I felt my breathing slow down and I stopped, I felt my soul slipping and I just gave up. The thing finally let go of my face and saw me weak and helpless, I suppose it smiled at me because I could hear laughing. One last thing it did was it grabbed me by my shirt and threw me to the other side. I felt as I slipped through the floor and land on the wall.

I saw my blood across the floor and for the first time I was scared...

Before I found out what happens next I wake up.

I see my room brighter than before, it is...1:30 A.M., Damn, I haven't been asleep for that long. I try to get up but my body refuses, so I just lay there staring into space. I have had that dream so many times that I usually know what will happen before I sleep, the nightmare, The waking up before I get killed, and yet it all feels so...real?

Like it is happening to you but it isn't. Do you get what I mean? Wait...am I talking to myself? Yikes. I sigh and try to get up--with success--from my queen sized bed and start my walk to open the light red curtains. Walking through the cold floor, I'm just getting goosebumps by touching it, makes me think about the nightmare. It's just a nightmare I tell my-self but my I refuse to accept it. Finally reaching the curtain I open it the black night with clouds covering the white moon;why is it that ever since last month the weather has been... gloomy.

But wait I like gloomy, well the weather, but still it is sad to see it like this. I close the curtains again, I didn't want to stay awake through the entire night. I go back to bed and this time I lay there to wait until I drift to Cloud Nine, it works, I'm out like a flame that was to weak to stay lit.

I dream again... But this time it's different.

I lay in a field of flowers staring towards the blue sky with a smile on my face I was laughing about something...but what?

I heard someone calling me, my smile widens across my face and laugh again. I never felt so care free.

(Shadow)

Tonight, is the worst night I have ever experienced.

Walking through the city of Station Square feels like a ghost town, more or less, still thinking about last week if I might recall: A girl jumped trying to kill herself and I saved her and she didn't even thank me. Anyway, who cares what a girl thinks about me, then why does it bother me so much. She must think of me as some freak or a weird... just who cares. She doesn't know who I am, and I don't know her. Though from the latest experience I can see one think, she is ungrateful and has a big temper.

But for some reason I have to find her? Why? The voice in my head won't shut the hell up! It's like, You have to find her or What if she is going to kill herself now, it's just so annoying. But it might be right about something, maybe I do have to find her. What if she is going to kill herself again? Why do I even care? She isn't my problem. As go to the cove the voice in my head continues.

She might be dead it said. So what I replied, She is dead and it's all your fault it said, Shut up I shouted she isn't dead and if she is then it isn't my problem. Oh, well it is you know she is suicidal and you didn't tell anyone, you did then she might get some help for it. I stopped what if the voice was right, I knew she was suicidal and if I told someone they might help her break the habit but I didn't, and she might be dead by now.

Are you going to check at least! the voice shouted at me, telling me to make sure she isn't dead, Shut up I'm going right now I shouted back at it I was all ready in the forest though one thing is... where does she live! I ran through the forest searching each end of the dark forest that I knew she would be around here she had to be. I climbed towards the highest tree saw the entire city the light from the towers and street lights.

I searched away from the city and saw the ocean and then I thought the ocean she might be around there, maybe. I jumped through the trees now, hoping that maybe she is around here, as I got closer towards the ocean I saw a small house and stopped, Is she there?, I wondered well it time to check. I landed towards the ground and walked as silently as I could. The house was small, one story, white paint around the house, with small windows, a brown roof, I wasn't sure what the color of the door is but that didn't matter to me.

I searched to see if a window was opened, I found one, I opened it as quietly as possible and entered the home. I was in the living room dark as always, the living room was tidy there was a bookshelf, a red couch, a white carpet under the dining table on top of the dining table were purple Iris, baby's breath, and a cat's tail. It was assorted beautifully, she must love flowers, as I walked around I saw behind the vase was a dead rose. The rose was as black as coal I went to pick it up and held it.

It's a pity that this flower died, roses were Maria's favorite and she would be sad if a flower died. I was sad as well, I held the flower in my hand and walked through the room and saw an open door and entered. There I saw a bed and someone in it I came in as quiet as possible and saw her. She laid there asleep, but I could tell that she was dreaming of something pleasant, as I walked closer to see her face I noticed that the curtains weren't fully closed.

The clouds appeared to have passed, because the moon's light shined at her serene, peaceful face. She breathing broke the silence I stared at the clock it was only 3:15 A.M. as I stared at the clock I heard her mummer something "Daddy" she said. I looked at her hoping she was still asleep;she was but only dreaming about her father. I heard here whimpering, I saw her serene face fade away, she must be having a nightmare. I remembered her speaking in her sleep when she was unconscious, she whisper the words "Mom" and "Dad," I didn't like her to feel like this.

I wondered if I was able to comfort her by pretending that I was her father, I caressed her cheek and whispered "It's all right, I'm right here" her whimpering stop and her face returned to the serene and peaceful face and a small smile emerged from her face, I took my hand away from her face and grabbed her hand I got the black rose and placed it in her palm and gently placed it on the bed. I though to myself , This isn't real, I have to be deaming, But I knew I wasn't this was real.

I watch her sleep through the rest of the night until the sun was about to rise and I left her home thinking to myself but one question I asked myself and this one I wasn't even sure if I could answer it.

Am I in love?

(Kai)

In this dream I remembered being with my dad him holding me while I was sick with the flu he cared for me. He would never leave my side and would say, "It's all right, I'm right here" it would always comfort me and keep me safe.

I remembered the last time I saw my dad before he... died. He was black fur hedgehog with my blue eye, he wore his necklace which had a star, and the wedding ring around his left finger showing my mother and father's love for each other. I wondered if I would ever find someone who would love me like that. When I was little I remembered when I use to pretend I was getting married to the love of my life but now I know that is a lie.

My dream became a nightmare once more I remembered the first time in months that I saw my dad in pieces. He wasn't recognizeable, I couldn't tell if it was daddy or not I began to cry and sob, this wasn't him, it couldn't be, IT JUST CAN"T BE HIM!

Then I heard a voice "It's all right, I'm right here" I looked up and saw the hedgehog that save me a week ago right in front of me I stared at him and he held out his hand I wasn't sure what this was anymore but I grabbed his hand and he pulled me up and embraced me, I didn't fight back. I like it I hid my face in his chest and smiled, he is so warm I felt tears fall from my face but I didn't hold it in I allowed them to fall as I sob, he said once more to me "It's all right, I'm here" he brushed my quills and comforted me until my tears stopped.

He grabbed my hand and placed in it something I looked at it, a dead rose, I look up to him and ask "Why did you give me this," he answered, "The flower is dead, but a new one will replace it." I didn't understand what he meant "What so you mean?" I asked, "A flower is like a life" he told me he grabbed the flower and closed his hand on it, "Ever so delicate, once you crush it" He clenched his fist on the flower, "It can never be perfect again, but a new flower is born, replacing the old flower" he opens it and there was a red fully bloomed rose.

I wondered how he did it, I looked up at him and he smiled his red crimson eyes were beautiful and I just thought of them lovely he came closer to my face and we were now face to face I closed my eyes as he came closer, then our lips touched. I held him closer kissing him back, I wasn't sure if this was a dream anymore to me it felt to real, I didn't want it to end, we finally pulled away and a smile came on my face he whispered to me in my ear "I love you" I looked up at him and said "I love you, too."

When I wake up I looked around my room to see if the dream was real, it wasn't though I can say I did let my imagination get to me but is this how I really feel about him? Do I really love him? I have to find him I told myself I need to see the truth if I do like him, and I got out of bed I saw the same black rose from my dream and I knew that he was here. I got out of bed took a quick shower and checked out side today is... sunny? Wow for the first time in months the sun is out and not a cloud in the sky.

So I dressed the same as always and got out of the house in record time. I ran through the forest as fast my legs can take me and through the bright lit forest. I reached the end reaching towards the ocean where we first met. I look all around the area and saw him at the far end staring at the ocean, the sun lit his black fur and made him different he... was... beautiful. I walk cautiously hoping not to scare him.

I was lost in my thoughts about him I have to be with him now he was my everything. I just need to if he was still mad at me then he should be, I can apologize and ask him to be... to be... I can't even say the words, I can feel tears in my eyes emerging I couldn't control them I just let them fall I began to sob and I fell to the ground crying, why am I crying? Why? I then saw someone in-front of me I look up and saw him there.

He knelled down in-front of me and said "What's wrong" I shake my head as if telling him nothing was wrong but that was a lie and he knew it. "Come on, don't cry" he said with much sympathy, I then asked him "Why are you doing this to me?" I asked.

"Doing what?" he asked, I knew he was in my room last night and he gave me that dead flower and said everythingis going to be all-right, "Doing what? Toturing me like this, I can't stop thinking about your face since you saved me" I said. I heard him laughing and I looked at him with my eyes filled with tears, "You think it's funny?" He looked up and shaked his head and said, "I couldn't stop thinking of you're face either."

I stared at him blankly and wondered he thought of me and I thought of hm we bother where alike but by how much I wondered but then I remembered I didn't get his name I then asked him, "What is your name?"

He smiled at me and then whispered to me "Shadow."

Shadow I thouht, I like that name it was every new to me he then asked me, "Yours."

He asked for my name I felt my heart racing so quick, that I felt I was going to have a heart attack if I don't calm down, I breathed in and said "Kairianna, but you can call me Kai."

He smiled and said my name once more, "Kairianna."

AQUA543: Wow, sorry it took so long to publish this chapter but I hope the next chapter is going to be good. BYE BYE :)