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Gekidoku no Hitokiri: No, the little boy in the painting is not Hiei; you'll find out soon if you keep reading. Probably not in this story, but I plan to make a sequel if everything in this story isn't really answered.

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Well anyway, on with the story!

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Everyone was downstairs in a matter of minutes. Yusuke led Kurama and Genkai to the paintings he saw.

They looked at them carefully and became a little confused.

"I think I know this child, but I know I've never met him or seen him." Kurama said.

Genkai looked at the paintings; something didn't seem right to her.

"Silvia says that this boy wonders around outside, right?" She asked.

Yusuke nodded.

"Excuse me? I think you three better come get some food before it all disappears." Silvia said as she walked up to them.

They all walked to the dinning room and sat down to eat.

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Somewhere else in a little house in that new world, sat a little boy. He had long black hair, crystal blue-green eyes, and a rose in his hands with a frown on his face.

"Why am I here?" He whispered. "Why am I even alive?"

This little boy knew nothing about his past, he didn't know why he was there, and the only thing he knew of the outside was that snowy world. Everyday he would leave his little house and explore the grounds outside. Since he didn't know anything of his past, he decided to give himself a name to begin a new beginning to his life.

His new name is Eli.

All he could do is wonder if he ever had parents; sometimes he would think he had dreams of them. He often woke up in the middle of the night screaming because of bad dreams; he dreamed of someone with ice powers taking over their body; a coffin incasing over the other's body and everything around him changing.

He knew the dreams were trying to tell him something; but what? All he could do was think of them and try to guess what, but he knew that the dreams held a sort of key to his memories.

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After dinner, Kurama went up to the room he was sharing with Yusuke and brought the dominos game into the living room of the little house. Right now, he, Yusuke, and Genkai were playing the game and talking about the paintings.

"I don't know what to think." Yusuke said. "I know I've never met of seen the boy in my whole life, but I feel that I know him."

"Same for me..." Kurama said. "Sort of frightening, isn't it?"

Yusuke nodded.

"I win..." Genkai murmured.

"How...?" Kurama said. The game began only five minutes ago and Genkai won, again.

"I think you're cheating..." Yusuke said.

"You can think all you want, but I play fare and square." Genkai said.

Kurama picked up the pieces and shuffled them up for another game.

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Kuwabura stayed in a room by himself, he sat down on his bed and thought of his friends and their lovers. Yusuke had Kurama and Hiei; Touya had Jin; Boton had Yukina; but he had no one.

Just then, there was a tapping at the window of his room. He looked at the window, and saw a blue bird; he walked over and opened the window. The bird flew in and landed on his bed. Kuwabura just looked at the bird.

"What the..." He murmured.

Just then, Silvia opened his room door.

"I'm sorry for interrupting, but I have to get my brother out of here." She said.

"Brother?" Kuwabura asked.

Just then, the bird changed into a boy. The boy had long white hair and was at the same height at Silvia; his eyes were the same color as Silvia's and he wore a boy's kimono with the same designs as Silvia's.

"Meet my brother, Snow." Silvia said.

Snow walked over to Kuwabura.

"Nice to meet you, uh..." Snow said.

"Kuwabura..." Kuwabura said.

They shook hands, but Silvia dragged her brother out of the room.

"Sorry for his interruption." She said as she closed the door.

"But he wasn't interrupting..." Kuwabura whispered as he sat on his bed.

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"He's cute..." Snow said as his sister dragged him to his room.

"What were you thinking?!" Silvia hissed. "He's a guest, you could have terrified him."

"But he wasn't scared now was he?" Snow said as he sat down on his bed.

"No, but what if you did?" Silvia asked.

"I would have calmed him down." Snow said. "But, he's not the kind to scare easy, you can see that."

"Yes, and he isn't your type." Silvia said.

Snow frowned.

"Well, I can dream can't I?" Snow said.

"Sadly that's the only thing we can do." Silvia said. "Which one of us is going to help them?"

"I'll do it." Snow said. "I know these grounds better than you."

"Alright..." Silvia said. "I had a premonition about them leaving in maybe a day or two."

"Okay." Snow said.

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"I'll go live with her." Eli said as he stood up.

He went up the stairs of his little house and gathered all of his important belongings in a little backpack.

He made the decision to go live with Silvia. Sometimes he'd walk past her house and she'd try to give him shelter, but he refused to accept, until now.

Eli walked to the door of his house and looked around before he opened it. He glanced inside and closed the door, praying to never be lonely again.

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Silvia was about to go upstairs, when she heard the door open and close. She went to go see who it was and was very surprised.

"Hello, may I help you?" She asked.

Eli looked up at her with hopeful eyes.

"May I please stay here?" Eli asked. "I'll work to live here, just please let me stay."

"Of course you can stay." Silvia said. "You don't have to work, just enjoy yourself. What's your name?"

"My name is Eli." Eli said.

"Come with me Eli and I'll show you to a room." Silvia said.

Eli walked up to her and they both headed upstairs.

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Kurama was about to enter his room until a sight of a little boy caught his eye.

"Kurama, this is Eli." Silvia said. "Eli, this is Kurama."

"It's nice to meet you." Kurama said as he stuck his hand out.

"Nice to meet you too." Eli said as he shook Kurama's hand.

As they shook hands, a little feeling went through the both of them.

Eli walked off with Silvia and Kurama quickly went into his room.

"Yusuke!" He whispered.

"What's wrong?" Yusuke asked.

"I-I just met the little boy." Kurama said.

"What little boy?" Yusuke asked.

"The little boy in the paintings." Kurama said.

Yusuke's eyes widened.

"Are you serious?!" Yusuke asked.

"Yes Yusuke, I am." Kurama said. "We shook hands and this feeling I can't explain went through me."

"We'll ask Genkai about it." Yusuke said.

"Alright, but lets do that later." Kurama said as he looked out the window.

At that time it might have been midnight.

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Morning came and everyone was in the living room of Silvia's house. Snow and Eli introduced themselves to the people they didn't meet yet. Snow felt a sort of connection to Kuwabura; Eli felt safe being close to Yusuke and Kurama, he just couldn't explain it.

"We have to leave tomorrow." Genkai said. "We have to find Hiei."

Yusuke and Kurama nodded in agreement.

"Who's Hiei?" Silvia, Snow and Eli asked.

"He's the reason we were out in that snow a few days ago." Jin said.

"He's a good friend of ours who went missing." Kurama said.

"I can help you find him." Snow said. "I know these grounds very well."

"Thank you." Genkai said. "We're going to need all the help we can get."

Snow smiled.

"May I come?" Eli asked.

"No, you're too young and you'll get in the way." Kuwabura said.

"No I'm not!" Eli whined. "And no I won't!"

"Do you have any powers?" Kurama asked.

"Yes, I do." Eli said.

"Then let's see them, judging from your powers, we'll see if you can come with us." Kurama said.

Eli took the rose out of his hair.

"Rose sword!" He said. The rose turned into a long straight vine.

"Whoa..." Yusuke whispered.

"Anyone care for a battle?" Eli said.

"Alright, you can battle me." Kurama said as he took out his rose.

"Rose whip!" Kurama said, his rose turned into his beloved whip.

To be continued...

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