Chapter 4

Dreams and Escapes

Yuki opened his eyes and saw that he was in a forest. The place looked familiar to him and he looked around trying to remember. Then it hit him it was the same place that he had been visiting for the past three weeks. The forest was his meeting place with Tohru.

"Yuki…" A soft voice behind him whispered. Yuki instantly turned around and saw that it was Tohru. Her face, like the past dreams, was blurry.

"Tohru" Yuki said his voice filled with joy. He reached out to touch her but Tohru quickly moved away.

"Why?" She asked in a tear strained voice. "Why did you forget your promise?" Tohru asked.

"But-" Before Yuki could finish what he was saying the scenery started to change and Tohru started to disappear.

"You promised…" Tohru whispered, her cheeks stained with tears. "You promised"

"Tohru!" Yuki yelled as he lunged and tried to grab her hand. As soon as he held it there was a loud whoosh and Yuki was thrown away. "I love you!" Yuki yelled. For a moment their hands met before Yuki was fully sucked by the vortex.

"Free Kyo" Tohru whispered to him "And find me"

And Yuki Sohma woke up in his room yelling and gasping for breath.

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It was in the middle of the night. Yuki grabbed the quiver full of arrows that was lying in the corner of his room and slung it over his slender shoulders. He took his silver coloured bow and grabbed the small dagger that was lying on the table and he quickly left the room.

As he was passing down the hallways he felt a strong hand grab his shoulder.

"Where do you think your going Yuki?" A male voice asked. Yuki didn't have to turn around to know that it was Hatsuharu. Hatsuharu was looking at him with curious brown eyes. "Why are you dressed as if you're going hunting?"

Yuki let out a sigh and looked at his white haired friend. "I'm going to the dungeons" Yuki said. Hatsuharu raised his eyebrows and examined Yuki from head to toe.

"You're not planning to use the prisoners for target practice are you?" Hatsuharu asked in a serious tone. Yuki angrily looked at Hatsuharu.

"No!" Yuki heatedly replied. Hatsuharu sniggered.

"Don't get mad I was just joking. So why do you want to go there anyway?" Hatsuharu asked. Yuki sighed. He knew that Hatsuharu was a stubborn person and commanding him to go back to his room would be meaningless since he wouldn't listen to him.

"Well…I'll tell you but promise you won't laugh" Yuki said. Hatsuharu nodded and propped his shoulder against the wall. Yuki took a deep breath and he started explaining, starting from Tohru's kidnapping to his recent dream.

Ten minutes later…

Yuki quickly went down the stairs that lead to the dungeon. Hatsuharu was following him closely from behind. They passed by a sleeping guard and Hatsuharu frowned in disapprovement.

"I'll make sure that that guard gets demoted first thing tomorrow morning" Hatsuharu silently told himself. Yuki heard this and smiled.

"Come now Hatsuharu give the man a chance. You've demoted enough guards for one week already" Yuki jokingly told him. Hatsuharu flashed him a smile. Yuki approached the sleeping guard and waved his gloved hand over the guards head. "Sleep eternal slumber. Thou shall not wake unless hit by lumber"

His gloved hands started glowing white and the sleeping guard let out a loud snore. Hatsuharu let out a laugh.

"Sleep eternal slumber? Thou shall not wake until hit by lumber? What kind of spell is that?" He asked "Who do you think would be stupid enough to actually hit this idiot with lumber?" He asked tears of laughter were slowly staining his cheeks "Hehehe! Hilarious!"

"I made up that spell in ten seconds! You can't expect it to be good" Yuki retaliated. His porcelain cheeks were flushed with embarrassment "And be quiet! You'll wake the prisoners" Yuki angrily commanded. Hatsuharu stifled his laughter by biting his bottom lip.

The two of them continued to walk through millions of cells that held many of the kingdoms most dangerous assassins, thieves and many more. They both stopped when they finally reached the last cell in the hallway. The cell's prisoner was no other than Kyo.

Yuki watched Kyo mumbling in his sleep and he could only form out one word. The word was 'Tohru'. Yuki felt a pang of jealousy. So Tohru was also communicating with him. He thought. He did a couple of hand gestures to the lock and there was a slight click and the door swung open. Yuki cautiously approached Kyo as if fearing that he might attack him even in his sleep.

"Kyo" Yuki said in his usual soft voice. Seeing that Kyo still did not wake he kicked him on the stomach. Almost immediately Kyo woke up.

"Oww…What did you think you were doing?" Kyo yelled angrily. "Damn prince"

"Stupid Peasant" Yuki easily countered.

"Seeing that you're here what do you want and where did you take my partner, Momiji?" Kyo asked in a savage tone. Yuki coolly looked at Kyo in the eyes before replying.

"Tohru told me to free you" He replied. Kyo fell silent for a moment. In his dream Tohru told him that Yuki was coming. Was Tohru really communicating with them through dreams? Kyo thought. Yuki saw understanding dawn in Kyo's eyes and nodded. "Let's get going shall we"

"Wait a minute prissy prince" Kyo called out a he slowly stood up. The kick that Yuki gave him hurt. "Where's Momiji?" he asked. "Were not leaving until Momiji comes along" He finished. Yuki simply shrugged and continued walking. "Tell me!"

"Hatsuharu went to get him" Yuki replied with a sigh. "If you want to retrieve your weapons I suggest you follow me" Yuki told him mildly. Kyo followed him all the while muttering curses under his breath.

"Stupid prince" Kyo muttered. "Just because he's some-" Kyo's voice immediately faded away and he held his throat. Panic could be seen in his orange coloured eyes. He could see Yuki's shoulders shaking with laughter. I'm going to kill him! Kyo thought angrily. Why did I ever become friends with him ten years ago? Kyo thought in blind rage.

"Much better now don't you think?" Yuki asked as the two of them continued walking down the hall way. Yuki knew that Kyo was already thinking of fifty ways of killing him. They both stopped at the very end of the hallway where there were two doors. The right one led to the anti-magical cells and the left door contained all the weapons confiscated from the prisoners. Hatsuharu and Momiji were both waiting just outside the left door. Kyo breathed out a sigh of relief when he saw that Momiji was safe. Normally he was a mean guy but he cared about the well being of his partners.

"Kyo you're safe!" Momiji happily yelled and he did a happy twirl.

"Shut up Momiji" Kyo muttered and he hit him on the head. Momiji let out a loud wail.

"That hurt!" Momiji cried, all of a sudden he brightened up. "Wanna know what Kyo? They have all your weapons in that room" Momiji brightly informed him. Kyo gave him a nod and he entered the room and rummage through the many weapons that were hidden there. He finally found his weapon, a sword, slightly shorter than a Katana with a transparent blade that looked as if it was made of ice. He picked another sword that was slightly taller than the other one. The blade of this sword looked as if it was in fire. Flames seemed to be dancing on the surface of the blade.

Yuki watched Kyo handle the swords with care and wondered where he got them. The two swords were the legendary swords of fire and ice, the swords that the legends talked about. I will have to ask him that. Yuki thought. Kyo calmly placed the two swords on his back and looked around the room, admiring the weapons that adorned the walls. He walked out of the room and instantly the door slammed shut.

"We must hurry" Hatsuharu told the group. He was eyeing the swords on Kyo's back with interest. "It is almost dawn. The guards will soon find out that were missing"

The group nodded and they ran off towards the castle stables with Yuki and Hatsuharu leading the way.

"Pick a horse. Any horse" Yuki told all of them as he ran towards his pure white stallion that had a faint thunder shape mark on its forehead the colour of very light brown that it was hardly visible. Hatsuharu went to his horse, a chestnut brown stallion. Momiji ran towards a palomino coloured stallion and got on top of it with childish glee while Kyo picked a horse that was pure black in colour. As soon as all four rode off into the night an alarm was raised. Prince Yuki and his faithful body guard were missing. So were the two prisoners that attempted to kill the prince. An army of guards were sent to go and look after the prince and the chase had begun.

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Exams are finally over! Wahoo! Anyway here is chapter four of the story promise me you'll find me. I would like to thank .X.Pheonix.X., faeryespell, CallaRose4ever, Shizmoo and ScreamingMoron. Thank you all for your reviews!