I'm back!!! I have the next chapter ready for reading, so be happy, I was planning to hold it for next week. Well anyway, thank you to those who reviewed.

Thank you to:

Bar-Ohki: I know the set up is a little weird, but just keep reading and maybe it'll make a little more since. If you'd read in the first chapter, just before the story begins, you'll see that this story wasn't originally my idea; I just asked if I could borrow a few ideas.

Genkidoku no Hitokiri: You'll see soon, I promise.

Now on with the story!!!

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"You boys follow me; no one is going to battle in the living room." Silvia said.

Everyone got up and followed Silvia to the back of the house. They entered a room which looked like a huge karate studio. There were wooden floors, and there were mirrors all around the huge room.

"You boys can battle in here, same for everyone else." Silvia said.

"Who's going to be the referee?" Kuwabura asked.

"I will." Snow said as he ran to the middle of the studio.

Kurama and Eli walked over to the middle and stood on opposite sides of Snow.

"Alright, the rules for this battle are the same as the competition battles." Snow said. "When I let down my hand, the battle will begin."

Snow ran from the middle of the room and waved his hand down; at that second, Eli disappeared.

'Where did he go?' Kurama thought.

Everyone else was puzzled and looked around the room for the little boy.

"Ice fire!" A loud yell said.

A blue fire ball hit the ground next to Kurama; Kurama's eyes darkened, he knew where Eli was.

"Razor petals!" Kurama yelled as he raised his hand in the air, a swarm of rose petals surrounded his body, he pointed to a spot somewhere in the room and the petals were shot there. (This is an attack I made up, more might come.)

When the petals hit that spot; Eli reappeared and stumbled around a little. The clothing that he was wearing had cuts in them and he was bleeding, but for him the battle was just beginning.

"Ice fire!" He yelled; this time the blue fire ball hit Kurama and he fell to the ground.

Eli ran towards him with his Rose Sword raised, he was about to stab Kurama, but Kurama rolled out of the way just in time. He stood up and tried to whip Eli, but Eli caught the whip before it touched him.

"You're not going to beat me." Eli said.

Kurama looked into Eli's eyes as they change from the beautiful shade of blue-green, into the ice cold shade that Hiei had.

"Ice-" Eli stopped himself and dropped Kurama's whip. "No, I can't."

"What?" Kurama asked.

"I forfeit; I don't want to hurt anyone." Eli said.

"Will you care to explain you powers?" Kurama asked.

"No, not at all." Eli said; his eyes changed back into the shade of blue- green.

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Everyone listened to Eli's story. He told them about not remembering anything of his past and about his powers. He told them that sometimes he can't control his powers.

"We'll try to help you with your problems." Kurama said. "What do you say guys, we take him?"

Everyone nodded.

"Just as long as he doesn't get in the way much." Touya said.

Eli nodded in agreement and leaned onto Kurama. Eli and Kurama built some kind of bond during their little battle.

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It was in the middle of the night and Eli was having a bad dream.

Eli's Dream

Eli was standing in the middle of a cave; he was looking at someone crying on the ground. The person on the ground was a boy; he must have been an ice demon because it started to snow. Eli had this dream many times before, he walked over to the distraught boy and tried to touch him, but his hand went through the body.

Eli could only watch the other cry, he felt so useless, he wanted to know what the other was crying about, but every time he spoke, no sound came out. He looked on as the boy cried himself to sleep.

The body started to glow blue and the clothing that the other was wearing disappeared and changed into a white gown. The next thing to happen was that the headband the other was wearing disappeared; he saw that there was an eye on the other's forehead and that disappeared. The body glowed even brighter than it did before and a coffin formed around his body.

The grounds in the cave began to shake, giving Eli no choice but to run.

When he got outside, he looked at the evolution of the cave as it turned into a beautiful tall castle.

Eli looked up in amazement, but something in front of the castle was forming. A bunch of snow started to spiral around and someone who looked like the boy who was crying inside was standing as the snow fell back to the ground.

"Leave here!" The boy said.

Eli stood his ground.

"I said leave." The boy said.

"Why should I?!" Eli yelled.

The boy said nothing, he just made a sword which looked his it was made of ice appear and ran towards Eli.

Eli didn't know what to do; he just looked around quickly. Just then, the boy appeared in front of him with his sword raised, he brought it down and...

Dream Ends

Eli jolted awake out of bed; he was sweating so much he was getting the bed soaked. He looked around happy to see that he wasn't anywhere near that castle. He let his body flop back onto the bed and cried.

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Yusuke's and Kurama's eyes snapped opened at the same time.

"We have to check on Eli." Kurama said as he got out of bed.

Yusuke nodded and followed Kurama to Eli's room. Kurama slowly and quietly opened the door. When he looked inside, he saw Eli lying down, for a moment he thought Eli was asleep, but when he heard a little sniffle, he knew that the little boy was crying. He looked at Yusuke and signaled for him to follow; the both of them went in.

"Eli?" Kurama called.

Eli looked in the direction the voice called.

"What's wrong?" Yusuke asked.

"I had a bad dream." Eli said.

"Do you want to tell us about it?" Kurama asked.

Eli nodded.

Kurama and Yusuke sat on Eli's bed. Eli crawled onto Kurama's lap; he explained the dream and Kurama calmed him down. Both Yusuke and Kurama cooed Eli to sleep, which took about an hour before they returned to bed themselves.

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Silvia woke everyone up in the morning and made breakfast for them. She didn't like the fact that her new friends and brother were going out into the snow, but she couldn't stop them, she had to let them go.

Everyone ate breakfast and went to go pack up their things. Silvia gave them a few things they could use on the journey.

At about noon, they were leaving.

"Now all of you be careful." Silvia said.

"We will." Everyone said in union.

They said their goodbyes and they were off into the snow.

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It had been two hours since the group left Silvia; the weather sort of toned down a little, but the group could tell it would soon kick up again.

"A few days ago, I saw a castle on this trail." Snow said. "It's going to take us a few days to reach there."

"Why do we have to check the castle?" Yusuke asked.

"Because, the place the castle stands now, there used to be a cave there." Snow said. "Before the castle, I saw the cave two days before."

"Maybe that will be a good place to check." Eli said as he remembered his dream.

"Alright, we'll go." Kurama said. "But, where will we find shelter?"

"There are even more caves along this trial." Snow said. "We can a few along the way to stay in."

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Eli was sound asleep as Kurama made dinner for everyone, the only thing for food the group had was canned food.

"When did he fall asleep?" Yusuke asked.

"A few minutes ago." Kurama said.

"You know, this kid is sort of creepy." Yusuke said. "I never met him before until a few days ago, and I feel like I knew him before then."

"Same thing to me." Kurama said. "Where do you think he comes from?"

"He was probably born in here in Japan." Yusuke said. "Other than that, I don't know."

Eli squirmed in his sleep and his eyes snapped opened.

"Bad dream?" Kurama asked as he walked over to the frightened boy.

Eli nodded, when Kurama got close enough, he jumped into Kurama's arms.

"Where are the others?" Eli asked.

"They went to go look around the cave." Kurama said.

When the group arrived, they saw that the cave had many caverns, so they went to go check them out. Yusuke returned because he got bored.

Eli's stomach growled; Yusuke and Kurama looked at him as he blushed.

"Food will be ready shortly." Kurama said.

Eli smiled.

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Everyone else returned at the same time the food was done. They all sat around the fire as they ate.

"So, what will we do tomorrow?" Kuwabura asked.

"Search for your friend of course." Snow said. "Today we were luck, no attacks happened, but tomorrow our luck might fade out."

"I hope not." Kurama said as he looked at Eli.

To be continued...

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What will happen next?

Will there luck holdout?

Will everything be okay?

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