Downstairs Dan was sitting on the too long table looking at the others feeling slightly awkward, he wasn't sure what to do should he talk? Stay quiet? Leave? Drag Shun down here so it wasn't quite as awkward for him? The last option sounded the most appealing to him and as he was about to push himself back from the table and excuse himself a familiar black haired boy came to the doorway.

Shun stood by the door looking across the room, everyone's eyes had turned to him and he could feel the tension that had invaded the room shatter at another's presence. As they stared at him he made up his mind on who he was going to sit beside, Dan. Now all he had to do was decide if he should tell him about his dream. It could have just been a dream fabricated by his mind to create a past for him and his friend.

Sitting beside him he saw the relieved smile on his face.

"What?" He asked leaning in slightly so the others wouldn't hear them talk. It felt almost wrong to break the silence.

"It was so awkward around here, no one was talking and I really need some noise, but I guess I won't be getting that. Seems like you want to stay quiet" Dan answered as he looked around the room of people all eating quietly, the only one standing was Kato but he was stood by the door as though awaiting something. What they weren't sure.

"Dan, after dinner I need you to come to my room"

"Why?" He asked louder than he had meant to moving backwards slightly, not liking the closeness anymore.

"Don't think like that you idiot, I just mean I need to talk to you later." He answered tempted to slap the boy for his idiocy.

"What do you need to say to Dan Shun? You can say in in front of us all if you want to" he hadn't realised that he had spoken so loud till Marucho had spoken.

"No Marucho, that's ok I just need to talk to him, it doesn't concern you or Julie, just something between us" he answered, he didn't want them to know about his dream or they would surely think him crazy, and to be honest he was beginning to suspect that he was just that.

"Oh ok then, if you're sure it's nothing then that's fine, we'll stay out of it" the blond answered as he turned back to his food, the tense silence reforming.

The only sound in the entire room was that of a slurping drink. Coming from the only person who didn't seem affected by the tension; Julie. Looking across at the girl Shun shook his head he would never understand her. She confused him more than anyone else he had met recently, almost as much as that strange dream he had had. Half the time she was bubbly and lively nothing seeming to bother her, not even the tension in the room which was thicker than a brick wall, the other half the time she was suspicious, doubtful, almost like she was trying to be a detective.

The changes in her personality confused him and concerned him slightly, was this normal? He didn't know. Now he wondered how she could do this, be unaffected while the rest were in silence from how awkward everything was.

"So, does anyone want to start a conversation?" Marucho tried to start some form of conversation, but it seemed that they weren't in the mood to talk, there was no reason for the lack of noise but he stopped trying for a conversation. He put his head back down and continued eating. Why this awkwardness had come to be was beyond them all.

Dinner seemed to stretch, seconds becoming minutes and minutes feeling like hours, had it not been for the clock hung on the wall Shun would have guessed he had been there for three hours, though in actuality it had only been twenty minutes. Placing his hands on the table he pushed backwards, mindful of Kato who was taking his plate. Tapping the brunette's shoulder he motioned for him to follow him.

The questions from Dan which were thrown at him as they walked from the room being drowned out by his own mind questioning what he had to do; should he tell him everything, or just what he understood?

"Shun will you just tell me?" Dan asked as he grabbed the black haired boy's upper arm.

"Patience" was the only answer he got. He turned down the hall that led to their rooms. "I'll explain everything, I promise" he had just made up his own mind, without even realising.

"You will?" He checked as he stopped before their doors.

"Of course, who do you think I am Dan? I am your friend" the brunette nodded at his friend before stepping forwards as the door was opened, the room dark though light soon flooded it. "Come on then I'll tell you"

"Finally"

"Don't Dan, you're being a child." The black haired boy retorted grabbing his shirt and pulling him into the room. Slamming it behind him, he didn't want there to be any chance that someone could hear. No matter what Marucho said he would be paranoid.

"Can you tell me now?" Dan asked pressing him more now that they were alone.

"Yea I guess, I had a dream" he paused when he saw Dan's less than interested expression. He would slap the boy but he noticed the moth flying around, seemed he had a less than generous attention span. "Dan" he tapped his side "leave the moth, you'll never get it, I know you won't be able to grab the thing"

Turning from the flying bug he turned his attention back to the black haired boy.

"Sorry Shun, it's annoying me" he apologised as he turned his full focus on his friend. "Go on" he smiled slightly as he looked over his friend

"I had a dream, one about our pasts...I think" he added the last part as he saw the sceptical look on the others face.

"You think?" Dan asked

"Yes I think, I'm sure it was but I don't know where it comes from or when it was, just that we were kids." He couldn't help scratching the back of his head as he talked starting to doubt himself, what if this was just his mind working to create a past? But if that was true then why was it so clear so familiar so normal? Normal but not, familiar but alien. It was very confusing for him but it made sense to an extent.

"Kids? Like five, six?" Dan asked trying to picture himself, it was quite difficult, despite the fact that it was himself he found that he was unable to picture it.

"Yea, I guess we were, but it was really strange. We were in a facility of some sort and we were numbers instead of names." Dan cut him off there, confused.

"Numbers? Really? What were they?"

"Um, thirty-four and forty, I was thirty-four and you were forty" he answered trying to think to make sure he was correct. He could picture himself from the dream and could hear his younger self calling a brunette forty.

"Really, I wouldn't imagine myself as a forty" he mumbled to himself making Shun smirk.

"You've thought about this?" He asked a little incredulous, though he didn't fully believe his friend would think like that. The brunette's next words proved him correct.

"No I'm just saying that it doesn't sound like a name I'd have, if I had a number for a name that is." Waiting to tell him the next part he decided that it'd be more fun to hear what Dan would see himself as.

"Really? And what number would you want?"

"Oh I don't know sixty? Fifty-nine? Anything really just not forty, it doesn't sound right" he scratched the back of his head as he thought. "Why were we numbers?"

"I don't really know Dan, it was just a dream, a stupid strange dream. Oh yea and we had a fight and I won" he added the last part to see the reaction.

"Oh yea really? Well that just proves that it was nothing but a dream. A figment of your imagination; I would never lose a fight to you" he smirked as he thought it through. It was definitely just a dream. Shun chuckled slightly at the brunette. He may have no memory but he knew a personality, and Dan's was the same as it had always been. Prideful.

"Whatever you want to believe Dan, all I know is if you hadn't woken me up I could have found out if it was true or not" the brunette's eyes held something though Shun couldn't determine what. It was like he realised something.

"If you went back to bed you'd be able to know?" He asked as though making sure something was right in his mind.

"Yea I guess I would. Where are you going with this Dan?" He shook his head as he spoke, the brown haired boy knew how to confuse him.

"Nothing" he answered though the smirk on his face betrayed him.

"What?" He asked again, his tone telling Dan that he had best tell him the truth.

"I was thinking that I could perhaps have a dream like that, and if they match up with the other, yours, we'd know if it was true"

"That's the first smart thing I've heard from you Dan, I'm impressed" Shun told him, smiling slightly.

"Well you know I do have my moments" the brunette smirked at him before looking around the room "so you going to finish the story?"

"Yea, sit down, I'll explain it fully from the beginning" Dan dropped onto the bed staring up at the black haired boy, smiling slightly as he looked up.

"Come on then Shun, story time"

"Don't be a baby Dan" he chastised as he started to tell the story. "It started with a man shouting out over this room-"

It took him half an hour to fully explain the story, Dan cutting in every now and then to check something. By the time he had finished they had both ended up on the bed and Dan was sitting Indian style listening intently to the words his friend was saying.

"Really?" Dan asked as Shun told him the final part, the black haired boy nodded. "Shun I think we should tell them, they might be able to shed some light on things"

"When did you become the rational and thinking one?" Shun asked, he couldn't remember any instances from when they were younger but something told him that Dan was the impulsive type and he was the voice of reason.

"When you started to slack in that area" he quipped making the other boy smirk. Shun resisted the urge to slap the boy on the back of the head

"Funny, so you really think we should tell them?" He asked hesitant though he wasn't sure why. They were nice people weren't they?

"Yea, why not? They said they'd help us didn't they?" The black haired boy nodded accepting that it would be for the best.

"Alright then, off you go, fetch them" he patted the brunette's shoulder before leaning back against the headboard, legs stretched out.

"Why do I have to go?" Dan asked his voice coming out whinier than he had expected.

"Cos I told the story, it's time you start to earn your keep" with a sigh the brunette pushed himself up from the bed. There was no point in starting a fight, if his friend had told the truth then he'd lose.

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