Hi once more, Thank you those who reviewed, muchly appreciated. And I do apologize for taking so long. My mother has been hiding the cables for the computer thus I wasn't able to type.. Well enough of my excuses. I want to know what Kuramas step brothers name is… As well as his step dads, it would help a lot. Thanks.

This story contains yaoi, not this particular chapter, but whatever.

Embracing The Ice Knife

Continuous Dreams

A broken path etched the beginnings of a dark and solemn forest. Black clouds rolled across a blood red sun, making the shadows dance and form eerie illusions. Kurama tore his gaze away from sky and looked ahead to the path and into the sinister forest. Cautiously he walked towards the opening of the woods and strained to see where the path would lead. Then something caught his eye, gradually a small red light appeared off way into the distance. The light around him faded as the sun began to sink through the far off mountains. With no other option he decided to follow the light.

He walked on for hours, deeper and deeper into the woods. No civilization or movement made its presence known. Kurama noticed as well that the light became none the larger, and appeared to be at the same distance in which he had begun at first. The moon was out now, the large silvery sphere had created some light, at least.

Soon he came upon a clearing, the meadow yielded all sorts of pasture and flowers. And as he came to the center of the meadow, a single flower grew. Kurama's eyes enlarged as he noticed the odd shapes of the petals, and from what he could see the color was not ordinary. The flower possessed a soft brown color. He came closer and caressed the flower with his finger tips. So enthralled with the flower he did not feel the presence of something or someone watching him from the wood he had just only exited.

Kurama wheeled around as he heard a rustle from the wood, and ducked when something shot out at his head. He heard the flapping of wings and followed the noise with his eyes. A bird, a black bird was silhouetted against the moon just above him, casting a shadow over his own form.

'A crow?' Kurama thought. 'But why would it come after me?'

Again the crow dived towards him.

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Kurama sat up abruptly, clutching his blanket. It was his third time waking up the very same dream. He put a hand to his head and shook it slightly.

He noticed red eyes watching him. He turned his head and watched Hiei who was bearing an appearance of utter confusion and alert wariness. Kurama, knowing the question which Hiei would ask, lied quickly.

"I thought I heard something, It must have been my imagination." He had not told any one of his dreams, and he was not planning to do so now. They where foolish dreams, and nothing more. Hiei just responded by nodding his head slightly, and drifting back to sleep. Kurama sighed softly and decided to do the same.

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Kurama awoke to the irritating sound of the alarm clock, and lazily reached out to turn it off. He squinted his eyes as the vibrant sun shone bright rays of light into his room. Kurama frowned a little as he noticed the window was slightly opened, Hiei had already left. He shrugged to himself, yawned, and opened his dresser then brought out a red school uniform. He dressed quickly and brushed his hair. He was soon downstairs and heard his mother rustling in the kitchen.

Shiori looked up as her son entered the kitchen. She smiled at Kurama and waved a hand at the dinner table.

"Breakfast is on the table dear." Kurama smiled back at her mother and then looked to the table with his brother already sitting there.

"Hello brother." Kurama said to him.

"Hi shuu-" He was cut off as a wave of violent coughing hit him. Kurama winced and looked up to his mother who had a frown on her face.

"Are you sure you want to go to school today?" She asked her younger son.

"Yeah mom, I'm fine." He said flustered as he swatted his mother worried hands. He put down his silver ware and picked up his back pack which had been placed at the foot of the table.

"Bye mom, bye shuuici." He was already out the door before they could respond.

Kurama looked up to his mother. "You really shouldn't let him go off, at least until he gets better."

Shiori sighed and sat on the chair. "He will be fine, no need to worry." She said it more to her self then anybody.

After finishing a quick breakfast Kurama hurried off to school. As usual it had been a dull ordeal, quadratic equations didn't exactly make any one cry out in joy. And Kurama, feeling the frustrated looks of his classmates, resisted the temptation from raising his hand, obviously they where not having such an easy time at it as he was.

After class had finished, painstakingly slow, he hurried towards the nearest exit. Leaving the campus was quite a struggle, being pursed by a bunch of rabid girls was not very enjoyable nor simple. Sadly for him, he had not succeeded

Shuuici can I-? Shuuici will you-? Where some questions that rained down on him He ignored them by pretending to be interested in a book he was holding.

"Hey Minamino!" Kurama turned to the familiar voice. Kuwabara Yusuke and Botan where standing by the lamp post just next to him. The girls seeing Yusuke and Kuwabara fled silently.

"Mr. Popular aren't you?" Said an irritated Yusuke.

"Err, I hoped you guys would never have to encounter that." Said Kurama, blushing slightly.

"Well enough chit chat, Koenma's got a job for you guys." Whispered Botan.

"Crap, and we just did a stupid job for him yesterday." whispered Yusuke.

"It seems more demons have been entering ningenkai, no idea how though." Said Botan, ignoring Yusuke's comment.

"Well, lets go see what Koenma's got for us then." Said Kuwabara.