Doot doot. Good day at school. If anyone cares, I have an online journal.

Livejounal. com/ ~chibichaossama

Yeah. ^^

Oh, and umm, MAJOR NOTE HERE: The plot will start in teh next chapter. Okay, so, as you should have figured out, this story will take place in TWO places. More like, it will focus on TWO groups. So, the original plan was to go off-and-on throughout chapters, y'know? But It's gonna be kind of random. . . Hope no one especially minds.

You 'ought to be able to tell just where/who it's focusing on by the first paragraph though.

Sailor of Tears: Sankyuu for ze review! *proceeds to be bitter about only getting four reviews... In all.*

Bonnie aka The asakura gang : O_____O I'm sorry, but I DIDN'T understand your review at all. "I can't believe I had written my first flamer"? Is that saying that prior to reviewing my fanfic you wrote a flame, or that you're flaming my fanfic? "Its ok nothing interesting but not UPDATING!!"? Uhmm, that'd probably be because the plot starts in, like, the next chapter. Anyway, even if it was confusing as hell, I appreciate your review/flame/whatever-it-was-supposed-to-be. BUT HA! I UPDATE! HAHAHAHAHA!

.....

.........

*spontanious combustion*

________________

Byakko Cafe'

"Chapter Two : ::: : . . . Dark Dreamer"

"Rei!" Violet eyes snapped open. Kiki's breathing slowed from it's fast pace after a moment and he let out a heavy sigh before reaching over to his side-table alarm clock.

7:32 AM

"That weird dream again." Kiki muttered, recalling the dream. He'd been getting it often and it was very strange. [1] It usually started out in the middle of some fight - between some black haired boy, a purple haired. . . Person, and Rei. By 'person,' of course, Kiki meant that gender was difficult to determine.

He was always watching. Mao and himself, simply watching as Rei fought off the two. Sometimes Shuilan was there too. She seemed to just be watching or not there at all. The very end. . . He'd never gotten that far. That, or the end was Rei being held - unconscious - in the arms of some boy with wings of fire, before the boy left. And then the other. . . People. . . simply gave a glare before leaving in the same direction.

The clock numbers blinked to 7:33 AM.

Kiki stared through bleary eyes, a full two minutes until it clicked to 7:35 AM, and there was a loud call of:

"Kiki! Are you up yet?" From Mao, downstairs. The world seemed to suddenly come into focus - sounds included. The radio was on, playing some song or another, and he could hear Mao cooking. And Mao's voice as she happily chattered away with. . . Whoever was there. He couldn't hear any specific words, just sounds.

Wait, three voices? Kiki thought, stumbling his way to his dresser as gracefully as someone who woke up three minutes ago could be. If anything, it should only be two. He shrugged and, after getting dressed, headed down stairs.

To be met with Shuilan eating pancakes enthusiastically and Mao flipping some in the air quite skillfully while also talking to-

Kiki's mouth opened and closed as gaped long while at who he saw, with no one noticing his presence. Eventually, Shuilan turned and burst out laughing, with a delighted:

"Kiki's a goldfish!"

Mao turned to look at Shuilan curiously - it was a rather odd thing to say - before noticing Kiki. "Oh good, you're up. Morning." She greeted, then went back to talking to - and this was the person who's presence surprised Kiki - her older brother. Rai.

"You!" Kiki exclaimed after a moment, pointing an accusing finger. Rai smirked, that only-looks-good-on-me-so-don't-even-try arrogant smirk.

"Yeah, me." There was a moment in which both Shuilan and Mao were frightened, but it passed when Kiki shrugged and sat down at the table next to Shuilan. Rai raised an eyebrow. "That was a wonderful response."

Kiki nodded and gave a quiet thanks to Mao as she set a plate of pancakes in front of him. "You see, I'm only half awake, because I've only just woken up. It'll be shocking later, once I've woken up, but it's possible that such events won't even happen, due to the fact that it's sinking in already - via, my subconscious mind." There was silence as Kiki nodded wisely, before Rai broke the silence.

The silence of course, broke down crying due to that fact that it had been broken, but since no one really cared about the poor, lonely silence, he simply ran away, still crying.

As said, no one cared, including Rai who - as also said - broke it.

"Wow, big words."

Repeat after me, readers: Yay for sarcasm!

Kiki merely shrugged, then gave Shuilan a glance. Then a good morning. Then a "Do your parents feed you at your house?" And then a wry look.

Confused look: "Yes. Today I had three omelets for breakfast, so, it's a kind of duh-thing."

". . . Three omelets, and now you're eating pancakes."

"Wonderful observation. I'm young, I must eat lots and become big and all-mighty." Shuilan jumped off her chair, being done with her pancakes anyway, and struck a pose, much like the ones seen in badly stereo-typed and badly-made, not-so-original anime series.

"You're only a year younger than me." Kiki pointed out, receiving only a shrug and a 'That's nice. . ." before Shuilan picked her plate off the table and handed it to Mao.

"Thanks for breakfast."

"You're-"

"It's not breakfast if you already had one meal!"

"-Welcome."

Shuilan blew raspberries at Kiki before skipping out the door, the ribbons in her side-strands trailing behind her. Of course, Kiki had barely noticed them until now, but, at this point it was rather obvious that they were, in fact, existent.

Moving on. . .

"So, how long are you staying for?" Kiki asked, beginning to eat his pancakes. Rai shrugged and Mao chuckled.

"Since big brother is a moron, probably forever. But he doesn't want to admit it." She poked his cheek, then quickly went back to looking at the sink, whistling as she started cleaning the dishes, half because whistling makes anything seem more enjoyable, and half because whistling is a I-did-it-but-I'm-acting-like-I-didn't noise.

After some light chatter and a few small arguments - though they seemed heated when all three of the neko-jin got involved, they were all ready to leave. First order of business: Inform Rei that Rai was back.

As Kiki took a step towards the door, he thought he heard heavy and fast footsteps, but ignored it and continued walking. He jumped back as the door slammed open, revealing Rei, who was panting heavily and looking about, eyes wide. Shuilan was standing behind him, almost like she was afraid, even though she wasn't.

Rei's eyes finally settled on Rai, and in a second he had pounced. Mao jumped away from Rai as said Rai was tackled to the ground.

"Funny," Mao said, putting a hand over her mouth, "We were just about to go get you." But she made no move to her original spot that was near the currently being-nuzzled Rai.

Shuilan seemed to be hiding from the inside of the house, and poked her head through the door for a moment, just to say "I went and got him."

"So I gathered." Mao said, then coughed politely. "Rei, if you would mind detaching yourself from my brother."

Rei sighed dejectedly before standing. He followed her instructions and glanced up at the clock. "We should show Rai around." He decided, puffing out his chest as he made his decision.

". . . I've only been gone four a year." Rai pointed out.

"A lot has changed." Shuilan said, still avoiding entering the house for no real reason.

Kiki gave her a look. "Nothing has changed."

"Quiet, you," She scowled. "I'm trying to trick him into buying me a present from one of the new shops." A moment of silence. "Darn, this is my outside voice, isn't it?"

In the end they did go shopping, and yes, Rai did buy Shuilan a present. Then they went home, Rei to his house, Shuilan to her's, Mao, Rai, and Kiki to theirs, and they went to their rooms, and they slept. Woot. T'is so amazing, no?

But things were much more eventful the next day. Kiki half-wished that he had woken up that time as well.

__________________

[1] Y'know, it didn't occur to me until reading this over before publishing teh chapter that up until this part, it sounds like he had a wet dream about Rei. XD *ecchi minded*


Please review!