CHAPTER ONE : THE DREAM

One night, Rukawa is dreaming about something he kept dreaming about since past 2 months.

"Kaede! Kaede!" said a girl's voice.

"Huh?!" said Rukawa in reply.

"Please, come rescue me, from Oxvera!!" said the girl's voice.

"Who the hell is Oxvera? And who are you?" asked Rukawa.

"Who am I isn't important right now. I can give you a page long of explanation if you want to. It has something to do with your past lives." said the girl, then, tears start rolling down her cheeks. "Kaede, don't you remember me?" asked her, with a very sad expression on her face, that looks like she really demanded him to remember.

"I wish I am, but sorry, I am not" said Rukawa very politely. It hurt him so hard just to see the girl cry with such expression on her face. Somewhere in him doesn't allow him to see her face like that. He wanted to see her smiling at him, as it seems that it's a total refresh for him. However, somewhere in him just doesn't want to see her cry. "Don't cry" said Rukawa. Then suddenly when he's walking towards her, she was tied up so tightly into something that looked like a disgusting wall full of blood, and the situation became just like hell.

"Kaede! Help me!! Not much time! I'll explain everything for you but just now, help!!! I don't want to lose you for the second time!!!" said the girl. *Second time? What is she talking about?!*. Then soon, a very ugly woman with total black clothings, with purply-black hair which resembles of a heating fire, and a very evil look on her face, just enough to send shivers down everyone's spine. Rukawa doesn't feel good at all, he's not scared about this woman hit him and that he died. He's worried that she'll do something to the girl with golden hair that was tied up. Rukawa can't see her face clearly, and when he neared there, he was blown out by a very strong wind. Rukawa lost his consciousness, until.

That morning, Rukawa finally woke up from his most unwanted dream of all.

"Why from all dreams you can have, you always had this dream?!" Rukawa muttered softly. But somewhere in him told him that he wanted to see the dream again, wanting to see the girl again, wanting to figure out who she is, and wanting to find out the mystery beneath all of them. *No, that's not true. I could never fall for any girl, in my entire life.* thought Rukawa, as he began showering and dressing afterwards. Then, he goes to school by his favourite bike. As usual, he got stares from all those girls who go gaga over him. He ignored them, pretending to sleep, while listening to a classical music. That way he calmed down himself way better.

Just then, Rukawa felt something went past him. A fox. *A fox??* thought Rukawa. There shouldn't be a fox anywhere around. But he didn't care anyway. Just as always.

The rest of the day went ever-so-smoothly. He didn't get scolded by the teachers for sleeping in class, and the basketball practice was just as usual, fun, only to be bothered a little by that 'idiot' Sakuragi Hanamichi he really hated.

And as he went home by his bike (again), he noticed the fox again. The fox is disappearing as fast as lightning after the fox seems to realize that Rukawa's looking at him/her (still unknown gender). Rukawa became curious, but continued going home anyway.

That night, Rukawa had a different dream, well, we can say it's different. In this dream, the girl with golden hair who got tied up in the previous dreams of his, slowly turned into a fox, a very beautiful fox, with golden furs that still shines out even without any light around. Its furs are so soft. Its tail leaving golden glitters every time it's being moved. Just then a blinding light stroke him and he woke up, on the next morning.

"What was that dream? Pretty different.hmm.golden fox.fox?! Does it have anything to do with the fox I encountered twice yesterday? Well, better check it out" muttered Rukawa, as he prepared himself for school. On his way to school, he met the fox again. Its colour is golden.

"Aah, can it be? Can it be the fox in my dream? Could it be that.this fox is the girl I met several times in my dreams? Ah, of course not." muttered Rukawa. Suddenly, another voice inside him says, "No Rukawa, that is NOT the fox you encountered in your dreams. Yeah, it has the same colour, same type, and everything. But this fox doesn't shine even with sunshines, the one in your dream shines without a single light. Come to think of it, Rukawa.". Then, Rukawa felt like the fox is smiling at him. Of course, he didn't smile back. He rushed his way to school.

When he arrived, he quickly got into his class and started sleeping. After a little while, the other students came in, used to how Rukawa behaves, just sits down at their appropriate seats. Then, the teacher came in, who is called Nanako-sensei. She's the kindest teacher of all. She never even scolded Rukawa about sleeping in class, unlike any other teachers who seemed to be very short tempered.

"Today, we're having a new student. Fiona de Rosmenta. Come in" said Nanako- sensei. The girl came in, with very elegant steps. The minute she stepped in, drools are formed around the guys' mouth, some even fell on their table. She's indeed beautiful, with foxy eyes, exactly like fox's eyes, even more exact than Rukawa's. She's very slender. Her height is the most shocking thing. She's around 180 cm tall! Her long legs are so adorable, and her golden hair hung loose 'til her waist. Her foxy eyes are considered large for a fox's eye but its colour really looked like a fox. Icy blue, with aurora blue around the middle. She seemed pretty cold though.

"Good morning, everybody. My name is Fiona de Rosmenta. My mom is Italian and my father's French. My auntie married to a Japanese man, and I live with them here now. Pleasure meeting you all" said her with a smile that totally drove the guys out crazy.

"Ok Miss Fiona. You may take the seat there, next to Monica" said Nanako- sensei, pointing at the seat. Fiona nods and sit there. Rukawa's really startled when he saw the girl. She looked so much like the girl in his dream!! But another voice in him said, "No. She isn't the one. The one in your dream has warm looks that softened you. This one has icy glares, and seemed cold. She can't be the one.".

At the practice, Fiona is watching Rukawa. Rukawa gave her a single glance. Somehow, Rukawa did not feel good when she's around. However, his glance seemed to turn into a glare. But somehow, the girl did not budge. She even grinned to him. *What's with this girl?! I gave her a cold glare and she gave me a grin?! How weird!!!*. Suddenly, Sakuragi noticed that Rukawa's glaring into someone. He quickly followed the direction of Rukawa's eyes and found the fox-eyed blondie girl.

"Nyahahaha! Hey look everybody! Rukawa's staring at someone! A GIRL!!!!" said Hanamichi, stressing the word 'girl' as hard as possible. Everyone turned to look. All the guys drooled (as she is still grinning, at Rukawa though), and all the girls turned jealous, except Ayako and Haruko. They watched while sweatdropping hard at the view in front of them. The team members drooled much, and looks like the gym is at the risk of getting flooded. Ayako took a quick act.

"Hey everybody!! Don't drool too much! Now clean them up!" ordered Ayako, while swatting each team member with her infamous paper fan. Everyone turned conscious, holding their poor butt ^^;.

"A-Aya-chan!! Pity that you did such a thing to me.can't you be any sweeter?" asked Ryota with a puppy-look on his face.

"No way, Ryota-kun, if you cannot be sweeter to everybody else" said Ayako, swatting on Ryota's head this time. Ryota gave up and stopped drooling by now, because he realized that he needn't drool over the blondie girl. He can drool over his Aya-chan instead ^^.

However, the other guys seemed to be back into their own dreamlands, even Mitsui. "She's incredibly beautiful. I specially admired her eyes. She's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen." thought Mitsui. He immediately fell in love with Fiona. Her charm is simply irresistible. He was surprised when he found out that Rukawa's glaring at her. He just can't believe it, even though he knew it won't be like Rukawa to give a passionate stare to a girl, no matter how goddess-like the girl is. *Rukawa is just strange. He is really gifted as a guy. He has fully-built body, tall, very handsome, sexy, a very skilled basketball player, and has that rare undescribable attraction towards girls. He should've used those things properly. A normal guy, I would say, if he had all those qualities in him, he would use it to flirt with as many girls as he can, and to show everyone that he's above them all. This one is not. He's just so quiet and never showed any attraction towards any girl, just remained silent. Then towards this beautiful girl, he made a glare. How weird can someone be???* thought Mitsui. After that, he concentrated back on the game, until the practice ended. Rukawa showed no attraction towards Fiona. Something in him wouldn't allow him to fall for her, somehow. After the practice ended, Rukawa cycled home without noticing that a SHINY golden fox just went past by.