Okay, this is my first Flame of Recca fic, and I still haven't seen all of the series. Oh well. I don't own anything, well... Actually I do... But I don't own the Flame of Recca characters :( so sad... I wish I did though... Anyway! Read and Review... Please!?






Fuuko followed the trail infront of her, she didn't know where it lead to, all she knew was that she didn't have much choice since her feet wouldn't stop walking. But then they came to a halt, right infront of a split in the path. There was a wooden sign above it... With two names, but they were too blurry to make out. Fuuko looked at the two paths, both of them looked exactly alike. Beautiful with flowers all around. But there was also a sense of death in both of them. Something was coming. Loud foot steps could be heard rushing towards her, along with loud panting with the foot steps. A monster. She could stay and fight it... Or she could run. At that moment, Fuuko didn't have a choice, the monster was right upon her now. It has stopped running and was crouching on the ground, growling fiercely at her. He was almost like a giant dog, about the same height as her. Its skin looked rough, and its teeth sharp, and golden eyes watched her like a hawk. It has big paws with what seemed to be sharp claws flexing in and out. There was no way she could kill it, or probably even harm it. She didn't have much choose in the matter anyway. Before she could run, or even do anything, the beast was ontop of her. She could feel its hot breath against her face as she closed her eyes, prepared for what it was going to do to her. She had tried to move out from under it, but its weight was just to great for her to remove. It attacked then, the finishing blow. Its right paw raised into the air, and then suddenly went right through Fuuko's skin, and into her heart, sticking its claws into it and then pulling it out.
Fuuko eyes flew open and she pushed herself up from in her bed. Her eyes moving around the room frantically, searching for the beast.
"It was only a dream..." She whispered out loud to herself. She turned her head to look at her clock next to her bed, groaning as her eyes adjusted to the darkness and she read the small hands that pointed to the 5 and the 45.
"Arg! Its too early to be having dreams like that... I have to be up and ready for school in 2 hours and fifteen minutes!" She flopped back in bed and closed her eyes. But try as she could, she couldn't get back to sleep.
Finally her alarm clock went off and she groggily turned it off by slamming her fist onto the top. Slowly she got out of bed, and went and had a warm shower. When she got out of the shower, she brushed her teeth and got ready for school. She was 45 minutes early, not having to actually wait to be completely woken up and walk around in a tired state actually made her mornings quicker and gave her more time to do whatever homework she hadn't done yet. Unfortunately, her teachers hadn't given her any homework the day before so she was forced to watch cartoons on t.v. Oh the horror of it all. Within about half an hour, her doorbell rang and she was forced to go and open it, it being around 7:30 and her parents not being home and her not having unlocked the door yet... That was a disadvantage. She missed the end of a funny cartoon. She opened the door and looked out to see who it was, too her surprise, it was Tokiya.
"I'm surprised your already up and ready," he said in his normal monotone.
"What are you doing here, Mi-chan?" Fuuko asked, ignoring what he had said.
"Do you have to call me that, Sea Monkey?"
"Do you have to call me Sea Monkey?"
Tokiya just shrugged and was about to tell Fuuko why he was there before her phone started to ring loudly.
"Moshi moshi" Fuuko answered the phone with her usual cheerful voice.
Tokiya let himself in and started to look around the clean house. "So this is Fuuko's house... Cleaner than I expected..." He thought to himself. He could hear some of what Fuuko was saying on the phone...
"Yes he's here... No! He's your what!? No he didn't tell me. I doubt that. Well fuck you too then." And then the phone was slammed down with a loud bang, and Tokiya twirled around from where he was standing, looking at a slightly pissed of Fuuko.
"How come I didn't know you were dating Ami, the head of the cheerleading squad!?" Fuuko asked him a little annoyed.
"Who said I was going out with that bitch?" Tokiya asked, getting pissed off. He always had girls hanging all over him. All of them baking him cookies, cakes, almost anything.
"She just told me that she was going out with you and that she had seen you coming into my house and that I should keep my hands off you or you and her would beat the crap out of me."
Tokiya stormed out of Fuuko's house, and she could hear screaming and yelling from across the road. Within a few minutes Tokiya was back and held his hand out to her.
"Now, I came here to see if you wanted to walk with me to school." He said in a calm voice.
"Why?" Fuuko asked, not as pissed off as she was now surprised. Tokiya just shrugged and put his hand back in his pocket.
"I just wanted someone to walk with today, and I knew that Yanagi and Recca were probably going to walk together, and I wasn't about to go and walk with that gorilla Domon."
Fuuko smirked, she had always enjoyed the way Tokiya referred to Domon as "that gorilla," and then the result from him calling Domon that was even more amusing. Domon would lung at the ensui holder, and Tokiya would merely take a step to the left or right, leaving Domon to fall flat on his face. One time Tokiya was standing right infront of a window, and Domon lunged right through it. It was always funny, no matter how cliched it was.
"Sure." Fuuko grabbed her bag and put her shoes on quickly, grabbing Tokiya's hand as she rushed out the door.



By the time the two made it to the school, they had about 20 minutes left to spare. Thanks of course to Fuuko's fast running, and Tokiya's ability to keep up with her dragging him along.
"Do you always run to school like that?" He asked, slight amusement showing in his eyes.
"Of course." Fuuko replied smiling. They meet up with the rest of the Hokage ninjas, along with the healer, Yanagi, were waiting on top of the school gym. That was where they always met. The year wasn't even over from the Urabutousatsoujin, so they weren't quiet over it. Of course, the Uruha Jyusshinshuu, and Kurai were supposedly good now, and they had parties where the Hokage ninjas attended, but an old enemy should never be trusted. That was why they were still meeting up there, to tell if they had seen anything unusual going on around them.
"My beloved Fuuko!" Domon yelled as she attempted to hug his darling Fuuko as she reached the top. Fuuko of course just whacked the giant boy upside the head and moved out of the way as she watched him tumble down the stairs, an occasional "ow!" being hear. She dusted off her hands and took her normal seat on the side on the building with her one leg hanging off of the side.
"I had better go and check on him..." Yanagi said as she sighed and got up to go and look at Domon at the bottom of the stairs.
"I swear, Hime, you should make him pay for every cut or bruise he makes you heal! We would be rich then!" Recca yelled at her, a grin pasted on his face. Yanagi smiled and shook her head as she started walking down the stairs.
Fuuko's attention seemed to be focused on a tree in the school yard, she was thinking about her dream. She had had that dream before, a long time ago. But the monster wasn't there.
"Fuuuuuukoooo! Fuuuukoooo! Wake up Fuuko!" Fuuko suddenly shook herself back into reality and looked at Recca, who was now staring at her.
"Huh?" Fuuko asked, shaking her head.
"Its time to go to class. We're going to met here after school again, okay?"
"Yeah, okay." Fuuko, being her normal self again, decided to take the quicker way down to her first class which was math, by jumping down the side of the gym building and running towards the school building across the yard.
All of her classes were going pretty good that day, she had passed her math test with a hundred, she was sure she had passed the biology test they had just taken, and she was now in her favorite class, gym. It was the girls turn to play Volleyball today, being one of Fuuko's favorite gym games. Her side was winning, of course, since she was always the leader in these sports and always chose the best plays, and a couple bad ones so they wouldn't feel left out. Yanagi was in her class with her, and she was always on her team, surprisingly, Yanagi was pretty good at volleyball, not as violent as some of the other students, one being Fuuko, but pretty good. It was nearly time for them to go and get changed, when a man in a suit walked in and started talking to the gym teacher, who just nodded at almost everything they said.
"Fuuko, these gentlemen would like to have a word with you." Mrs. Konkeshi yelled to Fuuko, as she went back to her office, mumbling something about "I always knew Fuuko would be the first to getting trouble with the government."
Mrs. Konkeshi never really liked Fuuko, maybe because Fuuko was always better at any sport, unlike Mrs. Konkeshi's daughter and son, who Fuuko always managed to bet in any game.
Fuuko smirked and walked over to the two men in suits. It was a quick talk, which at the end, finished with Fuuko screaming with tears rolling down her cheeks as she ran out of the class in her gym shorts and shirt that were already drenched in sweat. The men tried to grab her, but the managed to squirm away from their strong grips, and run as fast as she could. Yanagi, along with the whole gym class, heard the loud scream and ran over to the men to ask what was wrong. They simply told Yanagi everything they had told Fuuko, which consisted of, "Ms. Fuuko Kirisawa's parents died in a car accident, they're bodies were identified by their drivers license, and their bodies were too burnt to actually figure out if they were the right people. Fuuko will now be living with her Aunt who is waiting for her at their home." With that the two men walked away, leaving Yanagi just standing there looking out the door which her best friend had just run out of screaming and crying.

Fuuko had gone to the first place that had come to mind, on top of the school gym where her team mates usually met. She didn't think the school would go looking for her there. She knelt down in a corner with her knees up against her chest and her face against her knees, crying. She had loved her parents, loved the memories that they had shared. Maybe she wouldn't be crying so much if those bastards had told her about it a little more gently. Instead of "Oh, ya know, we think your parents are dead since we found they're drivers licenses next to two bodies that were too burnt and mangled to actually tell if they were your parents. And parts of the car that we found them in looked like the car they had been driving, you'll be living with your aunt now. Have a nice day." Fuuko cried even more at the image that she had created in her mind of her two parents dead bodies. All the memories that they had shared through out their life time came rushing back into her mind, all the good and bad. Memories of the first time she had gotten grounded, memories of her first tooth coming out and her parents putting money under her pillow for her, all kinds of memories came back... Nightmares, parties, videos they had watched together, her parents worried faces when she explained to them about her fuujin. The memories evaded her mind, and she cried more and more, until she cried herself to sleep.

Fuuko was woken up later by peoples voices. Her eyes opened lowly and she felt the stiffness of her face from the dried tears on her cheeks. She looked up and saw all her friends, excluding Ganko and Kaoru, who were probably still in school. The first eyes she meet with were Tokiya's... His gaze was locked on her. She stood up weakly and everyones gaze turned to her. She whipped her face with the sleeve of her school shirt and got most of the stained tears off of her face. Her eyes were still slightly red and showed depression.
"Fuuko-chan... I'm so sorry... Those men told me what happened..." Yanagi said with pity in her voice. She was truly sorry for her. Fuuko just nodded and sat back down. Everyone except Tokiya had crowded around her, all with blank expressions on their faces. They still didn't know what had happened.
"We all just got up here, and we saw you here asleep. Hime was just about to tell us what happened when you woke up." Recca said, his concern for his best childhood friend showing. Domon was now sitting infront of Fuuko, worry written all over his face. They could probably tell that she had been crying, the first time Fuuko had ever cried... This was something that they would probably show concern and worry about. Suddenly Fuuko found her arms around Domons big waist hugging him tightly, crying against his chest. In-between sobs they could hear her muttering, "they're gone..."
"Who's gone, darling?" Domon asked, a bit surprised at his beloved actually hugging him, and crying infront of him as well.
"My parents." Fuuko managed to say.
Yanagi told them what the men had told her. They had all meet her parents, one way or another, and had all told her how lucky she was to have such wonderful parents. Lately, they had often come over to her house knowing that her mother always had home baked cookies or a cake, or brownies. Domon hug Fuuko tighter, Yanagi was quiet and seemed sad, and Recca knelt down by Fuuko and put his hand on her back in a comforting manner. Tokiya just stood there, watching Fuuko.