Disclaimer: Fine, I'll say it, ::sniff:: I don't own the Ronin Warriors! Waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ::runs into a wall::

A/N: My chapters do tend to get long if I like the story I'm writing.

The guys were finally going to go to bed after a long day of training. They all dragged themselves to their respective rooms and flopped down into bed. An unusual bout of sleepiness overcame them and they fell asleep instantly. Something was amiss however. They rarely fell asleep so fast, no matter how tired they were. Nor did they fall in to such vivid, memorable dreams that fast.
Ryo's Dream:

Ryo was walking around the rim of an active volcano. It was smoking and making threatening noises. The rim was getting thinner and thinner and for some reason Ryo kept walking. Suddenly, the rock under him crumbled. He was falling into the erupting volcano. Ryo tried desperately to get his armor on but he couldn't.

"Grab my hand." Came a soft voice. Ryo blindly grabbed for the hand. He opened his eyes again and his breath caught in his chest. He was holding Ebony's hand in the middle of a garden. She gave him a smile and ran off through the trees.

"Wait up!" He called running after her. The trees parted to reveal the Fire Room. It was one of the various special environment rooms in the training room. He found himself pulling at his collar. The room was boiling. Ryo looked around feverishly for any sign of Ebony. She was in the middle of the room waiting for him.

"Ebony! Where have you been?" Ryo yelled while running to her.

"I haven't been anywhere. I've been right here waiting for you. I'd never leave you, Ry." She said giving him a sweet-as-sugar smile. The room behind her dissolved into the Time Room; a bizarre room that shifted and changed. It was hard to tell the passing of time there and was one of the most dangerous Rooms in the entire Dojo.

"I'll be right here waiting for you. I promise." And with that she faded away.

Cye's Dream:

It was dark and wet. Cye opened his eyes. He was floating in a pool. There were a lot of kids around and there was a lot of yelling. Suddenly aware that he was sinking into the water, Cye thrashed around. Soon enough he was able to keep afloat. Someone was laughing at him. He turned around quickly to find Ebony Kiribana sitting at the edge of the pool trying to hide her obvious giggles. Cye frowned at her. Taking advantage of her guard being down, he dove under water and swam right up to her. Without much effort, he was able to pull her down in to the water. After a bit of a struggle, both worked their way up to the edge of the water.

"Cye! How dare you pull me under!" she yelled, dunking Cye into the water. Cye came up sputtering with laughter. Yup, this was definitely Ebony. No one could exact vengeance like that and get away with it.

"Just where have you been anyway?" inquired Cye, raising an eyebrow. Ebony cocked her head to one side. The background of a public pool faded away into the Ocean Room and then the Time Room from the Dojo.

"Cye, don't be silly. I've been here the whole time. Didn't you ever bother to try and find me?" she responded with tears glistening in her eyes. Cye took a sharp intake of breath and hugged the girl who was so close to sobbing. He winced as she pushed him away viciously.

"Don't even pretend Cye. I don't care. Stay here. I'll leave. I'm obviously not important enough to someone whom I thought was a friend. It's okay. This isn't your fault. If you want to find me though, I'll be here. Waiting…" she sighed fading away.

"Ebb! No. I was… don't…please…just…come back to us. Kami! Come back Ebb!" he protested. It didn't matter anyway. She had already left.

Rowen's Dream:

Thunder rolled ominously overhead. The lamp Rowen was using flickered and died.

"Dammit!" he growled He was about to get up to find a flashlight when someone pushed him down.

"Stay." Came the whispered response. It was impossible to tell who it was. The crackle of flame and a burst of light told him that they were lighting candles. He turned in his chair to see who it could possibly be. The only information he could gather was that it was a girl. Mia? No. This girl was smaller and had a slimmer figure. Kayura?! NO! It couldn't be. Kayura was slightly taller and slimmer than Mia and there were no swords to be seen. Who then, could this be?

"There we go. There's enough light to read by." Said a cheerful voice. Rowen's mouth fell open.

That voice. I know that voice. It's her. But, it can't be. It can't!!!

"Snap out of it Ro. You look like you've seen a ghost!" teased Ebony, getting back to her seat. They were in Ebony's library. There were several textbooks littering the desk and many more were scattered about the floor. She picked up her pencil and started to doodle in her notebook.

"Do you want some coffee?" said Rowen, suddenly standing up.

"Ro. I don't drink coffee. You don't drink coffee. Is something wrong?" she said, suddenly concerned. The pencil she was holding clattered to the floor. Ebony rushed over to him.

"Oh. It's nothing. I just thought that a caffeine boost might help us study." He said sitting down and relaxing. Ebony frowned and sat down again.

"Not again! I don't believe you Rowen Hashiba! You're always studying and worrying over academics! You never have time for your friends and you never had time for me! Why don't you just try to lay aside your books for once and have fun! And I don't mean video games! It's not healthy to be studying this much nor is it healthy to play video games all the time! Lighten up Ro! Interact with humans!" Ebony huffed. She stood up and made for the door. Pausing, she reached inside the pocket of her jeans. Along with some other small objects came a photo. It was a picture of the day they had a picnic. The guys had threatened to burn his textbooks if he brought them with and he had had a lot of fun as a result.

"Here. Take it. Remember the fun we used to have. You know Ro, if you weren't so study oriented, we might still be going out. We could have had a lot of fun on those dates (A/N not that type of fun you perverts!). Just think about it Ro. If you weren't so dense, we might have had dates instead of study sessions or been more than homework buddies. It's just not the same when you spend the whole time studying your brains out. Goodbye Rowen Hashiba. I'll see you around." Ebony said with a mournful smile. She grabbed the doorknob and collapsed

"Ebby!" Rowen gasped. He made a move to go to her but suddenly the floor fell through like some sort of vortex. It was slowly swallowing her up, but he could see where she was going now. The vortex opened into the Time Room. Rowen was searching franticly for some way to help her. He had taken too long though. She was already most of the way through. He slumped down in defeat.

For a moment in the waking world, Rowen stirred. A tear trickled down his face. There was no denying it; he loved her and always would. Her words stung like nothing ever had. It was the same when they broke up. Rolling over, he went back to sleep. Sleep evaded him though and he could not forget the dream no matter how hard he tried.

Sage's Dream:

Sage was in the family dojo. Someone was facing opposite him and in proper stance for- A sparring match? He looked down in surprise to find himself in bogu with a shinai in hand.

"Hajime!"

His opponent took advantage of his confusion and scored two easy hits yelling "Men!" and "Kote!" Sage regained his composure and made sure to protect the do and tare. He retaliated quickly and managed to make a strike on the kote. They shuffled across the floor in kamae, but didn't make much more progress. Sage was watching for and opening, but this person was good. He finally saw his opportunity when they lowered the shinai to execute a tsuki, but just as it connected he managed to put in a tsuki.

"Tsuki!" both of them shouted. The person was by now, obviously a girl. The voice was strangely familiar.

"Yame!" announced the shinpan. Both held shinai in sageto and as custom dictated, made a short rei. The shinpan looked at them strictly and paused as he listened to the kakari. They watched him intently as he was reaching a decision. The silence was thick with tension and Sage peered at the other kendoka trying to see who it was. A creeping sense of familiarity worked its way over Sage.

"Shobu!" Sage came back to reality and came up with a hasty block. In his haste he committed a kosei-o-gaisuru-koi.

"Hansoku! Shinair hanashi! Fuho-koi-shobu-ari, Kiribana Ebony!" Sage froze. He remembered where they were and made a quick rei before he took off, shinai forgotten. He stopped a safe distance away to clear his head and process everything he just saw.

Okay, Ebony is dead. I'm just having some horrible dream. Or I've finally gone insane. Must keep calm. Maybe if I don't look at her she will cease to exist and I can go back to having a normal life.

"BOO!" Sage jumped. He growled and spun. Ebony was right there, laughing at him. She actually fell over in her attempt to stop lauging. Sage started twitching and raised a mallet over his head (A/N Where did he get that?)

"Okay, okay I'll stop, but that really was funny. You were caught off guard with the word 'boo'," She snorted.

"What are you even doing here?" he snapped.

"Why, I'm here to give you a fight of course. I promised you one or did you forget?" She said smugly. Sage adopted a thoughtful look and suddenly straightened.

"I remember. You said if I didn't fight you'd drop me of the school building in my underpants," he countered.

"Right, but you'll have to catch me first." and with that she ran off into the mists of the Time Room.

"Aw crap." he swore, trying to think if it would be so bad if he just jumped off the school building in his underpants.

Kento's Dream:

Kento looked up at the sound of a bell. Suddenly someone punched him in the face.

"you should pay nmore attention while you're boxing Kento," someone laughed.

"Ebony?!" He gasped.

"Too late, lights out Kento." and she punched him square in the face.

"What?!" he tumbled back into darkness and the last thing he saw was the room fading into the time room.

okay, that was a bit long and kento's was a bit short but i got tired of writing.