Black and White Dragon Wave: Prologue

Dojouwtich: Quick! I don'townYYHeventhoughtthey'restayingatmydojoandmakingaHUGEmess! IonlyownKuuichi! *takes a huge breath then passes out on the floor*

Malik: Is she dead?

Hiei: I hope so.

Marik: *slaps his face*

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He should have been searching for a safe place to spend the night instead of just waiting to get dark.

It was cold-a soft breeze cutting into his slight form. Shivering, he drew his cloak more tightly around himself. *Strange.* He thought, he wasn't usually like this.

The sound of ice crunching beneath boots, caught his attention. He cursed, he was getting careless; how could he let someone sneak up on him so easily? Turning around his hand reach for his katana, only to touch empty air. It was gone.

"You don't need it," A dark, deep voice murmured in his ear.

Jumping slightly, he whirled around his mind confused; the sound had came from an entirely different direction. There was no way the stranger could have passed him in order to walk up from behind him like that.

"Who are..." His voice trailed off into a strangled noise.

He was staring at... himself.

"Do you like it?" The doppleganger asked, doing a complete turnabout. Lifting his hand to touch his face. "Not quite as impressive as I could have wished."

"What do you want?"

He laughed an odd but not unpleasant sound coming from that particular form. His crimson eyes gleaming like twin rubies in the dimming day, not *his* eyes though. For an image of a youkai, who measured his life span in the centuries; this impostor had eyes bespoke a timelessness that came from an existence strecht a millennium or more.

For a while he struggle for the sense of wrongness about this entire encounter. He remembered bedding down in a tree: looking around, not a hint of green marred with empty white landscape. He didn't sleepwalk nor did he recall waking up.

"Who are you?" He snarled, reaching out to grab the other look alike shirt, jerking him off his feet.

He laughed again, this time there was an almost triumphant edge to it.

"I am you..... Hiei."

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