Disclaimer: Esca ownership; never will be truly mine; i do not get paid
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(You know Kira's REALLY bored when she starts doin disclaimers in haiku -.-;;)

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Rant: This rant has to be dedicated to my new CD. *happy* I can't help it. I JUST LOVE OUR LADY PEACE!!!!!!

*cough*

Okay, so maybe that's not today's rant topic. I WOULD like to talk about why nailpolish remover and morphine do not mix well. So, kiddies, grab a tank of morphine, three bottles of the remover, and meet me down by the lake in about an hour. *evil gryn* We gonna do some *ahem* experiments.

Dedication: Chibi Jenks, Mara, and everyone who has reviewed in a previous chapter. Also, to my junior (as in 11th grade...) sister KATIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *waves like a freak* Who rules the friggin world. And power to the FROSH! YEA! SCHOOL SPRIRT! (time to take away kira's coffee)

BGM: Aika from Inu Yasha (bgm for all dream sequences), One Man Army; Stealing Babies by OLP, Blurry by Puddle of Mudd

Other: Has anyone noticed that I never seem to finish anything? (eg: Webpages, fics, drawings, commitments, homework, books, etc etc etc) That means that you people need to motivate me to finish. In other words: E-MAIL ME! REVIEW! READ! YEAY!

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Rai opened her eyes slowly, and looked around her. She was in a large grassy field. She rubbed her hand over her sleepy face, and stood up. She realized that she had been wrong before. It was a garden, not a field. There were ivory-covered walls all around her. The sky was sprinkled with bluish white stars. She couldn't see either of the moons.

"Samurai!" A voices called for her. "Samurai! Come back!"

For some reason, Rai felt like she needed to hide from whoever was calling her. Something about the voices...she knew them...but she couldn't remember them. They were itching in the back of her mind, but she couldn't seem to place where she had heard them before.

Rai slunk towards the ivy covered walls, to look for a place to hide, but as she neared them, they grew farther and farther away. She looked around again, and noticed that a lake had appeared to her left. The voices were growing louder, so she ran for the water. Her long dress tripped her, and she stumbled, falling into the ground, almost into the water. Her reflection startled her.

A seven year old girl looked back at her instead of an eighteen year old woman. The girl had long, smooth black hair, which was tucked behind her pointy, elflike ears, and a thin, pale face. Her large, frightened eyes were the most prominant feature on her face, not because they were so clear and beautiful, but because one was blackish blue, and the other was pine green. The little girl who was Rai wore a long, flowing blue dress, with even longer, draping sleves.

"Samurai!" The voices were right behind the girl. Rai spun around to face a group of seven figgures, dressed in black robes. She could not see their faces. One of them reached out a bony hand to her. "Little samurai...come with us. You should not be in the gardens after dark...."

The little girl barred her teeth at the group, and bolted. She practically flew towards the walls, which kept getting farther away. Not watching which way she was going, the girl crashed into someone tall. She looked up slowly, and met the red eyes of the stranger from her other dreams. Her breath came in quickly, raggedly, and she tried to get away from him, but her muscles wouldn't let her move. She felt nausious, and turned away from the tall red-eyed man. Her stomach emptied itself on the grass of the garden. The man waited for her to finish, before picking her up in his arms, and walking towards the walls.

Little Rai watched as the walls grew closer. When she had tried to get to them by herself, they grew farther. But with him....[Take notes, children! Stuble forshadowing! Oooooh!]

The man opened a door in the wall, and--ignoring the shouts and protests of the shadowy figures--walked out of the garden.

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"Sir!" Gatti bowed before Dilandau, who was walking down the corridor from the room where Rai was now being kept.

"What?" Dilandau asked, still walking. He was distracted from what Gatti was saying. Rai had been having another one of her nightmares, and had not yet awaken when Ai took over for her shift.

"We have intercepted a group trying to break into the castle. They say they are here for the warrior we have taken from them. We can't get anything else out of them." Gatti tried to keep up with Dilandau's brisk stride.

"Warrior?" Dilandau asked, not slowing down. "Daijin probably. Ten to one they want their brat, Rai, back."

"But sir, isn't the Daijin militia all female?"

Dilandau nodded.

"The group captured is made up of five men."

Dilandau stopped walking.

"Five men?" Gatti nodded back. "Five...damn...they might be here for the other one...."

"Other one, sir?"

"That spy..." Dilandau muttered. Gatti knew now who is comander was talking about. "Is he still alive, by the way?"

"Ah...just barly...you knocked him around pretty badly, sir...."

"Mm..." Dilandau sighed. "Lets just hope it's not Naza. Shin'll rip me in half if he finds out I hurt one of his men...."

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End chap 5

DUN DUN DUN! CLIFF HANGER!!!!! WAHAHAHAHHA! Why did Rai look differently when she was little than she does now? Is this all just a dream? A memory? AHHHHHHHH! WHAT IS IT?!?!??!?!?!??!?! ^___^;;; Find out next time.

(sorry this chapter was so short...I had to do the cheet sheet and TONS of homework at the same time)

Dilly has officially morphed into a Folken clone. *grrr* Gotta work on that. Well, he IS more normal in the morning before he's had his coffee, but.....

Dilly: Uhhhhh *dead*
Rai: ::pokes dil:: You awake?
Dilly: Unnnnnn
Rai: I guess not....
Ai: ::pours coffee down Dil's throat::
Dilly: AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ai: I guess it was just a little too hot....
Kira: -.-;;

Anyways, that cheet sheet should help ya. If it doesn't the...well, you're helpless. Get over it.

MWAH! \^o^/, Kira