Last night I entered Satoshi's dreams. It was an accident.
I was standing on a rooftop. I looked around. "Wh-Where am I?"
"Kuri?" Satoshi said from behind me.
I turned. "I-I am so sorry, Satoshi! I didn't know I could go into your dreams, I swear!"
"I know, but you have to leave," he said. "Someone's coming…"
"I think I know the way out," I said. "I've been somewhere like this before…"
I turned, took a step, and jumped off the roof.
"Wait a second! You can't just—" Satoshi grabbed my wrist.
"It's a dream, Satoshi," I replied. "Just let go. I can't die in someone else's dreams, I don't think."
"I can't just drop you!" he exclaimed.
"I don't belong in your dreams. It's an invasion of privacy." I wrenched free from his grasp and started to fall.
I woke up in the den, but I had fallen off the couch. That's when I saw him. Shimano, my little brother. Or at least, his ghost.
"Kuri! You woke up!" he smiled at me.
I rubbed my eyes. "Shimano…I thought you crossed over."
"I did, but there's trouble, so I was sent back."
"What kind of trouble?"
"Him." Shimano pointed at Satoshi. "His enemy is going to kill you."
"Shimano, you don't know that," I said. "And besides, you don't need to worry about me—"
"Kuri?" Satoshi woke up. "Were you in my dreams?"
"Go," I whispered to Shimano, and he faded from view.
"What did you say?" Satoshi asked.
"I said, 'no,'" I replied. I didn't want him to know about my all access pass to the dream world and to the ghost plane. "You must have been dreaming. I've been awake this whole time."
Another thing. Before I went to bed, Satoshi came up to me and asked, "Did you murder your little brother?"
I gasped and my hands flew to my mouth. "You know about Shimano?"
"Krad told me what he saw," Satoshi said. "What did you do?"
He was serious. I wanted to cry. "Satoshi…I tried to save him! It was an accident! He died saving me!"
Satoshi looked shocked at my outburst. "I-I'm so sorry!"
"Forget it," I replied, and went to bed.
Satoshi stopped me. "I know what Shimano said to you. You ARE in danger, as long as I'm here."
"Krad doesn't—"
"Not Krad." Satoshi said. "My father. Kei. I'm sorry." He kissed me, using magic to disappear. "Goodbye, Kuri."