Today was the day. He could feel it.

Voldemort was going to strike Hogwarts in a few days, the vile thoughts and images Voldemort was sending him was enough to make him want to gag. He saw Hermione strung up by her intestines on a tree in the Forbidden Forest, her eyes wide and glazed over in fear forever as the light left her eyes. Ron was under the same tree, half his body gone as the feral werewolves tore and fought over his meaty legs. Greyback was cackling in the distance.

Harry felt himself starting to panic, his hands shaking as they tightly gripped his hair, his eyes squeezed shut as tears threatened to fall. "No, no, no, no!" Harry whispered brokenly. He knew the images were fake, that 'Mione and Ron were perfectly safe and sound sleeping in their beds, but he couldn't shake off how real it looked; the overbearing smell of death and metallic blood almost sent him running behind a tree to vomit. "It's not real. It's not real. It's not real. It's not-"

"Harry?" Hermione whispered tiredly, staring at him with sleepy eyes. When she saw his face, she sat up immediately and slowly made her way over to him. "What's wrong, Harry? Is it Voldemort again?"

Harry nodded, loosening his hands from his hair to grip Hermione's hands instead. "He killed you! Killed Ron! Please don't go, 'Mione. I'll miss you." Harry wrapped his arms around her, hugging her tight as the tears he tried so hard to hold back flowed down his face. Hermione held him just as tight, stroking his hair.

"I'm not going anywhere, Harry. Ron and I are going to be with you until we all die of old age. We'll always be together. Nothing can tear the Golden Trio apart, remember?" Hermione whispered soothingly, softly kissing his wet cheek.

Harry didn't say anything, taking comfort in her warmth and comforting words until he fell asleep.

If he knew that night would've been his last time seeing her, he would've told her how much he loved her.

Hikari jolted awake, sitting up with a gasp as his dream ended. Harry? Who the fuck was that? And what the hell was a Voldemort? He remembered having a similar dream a few weeks ago, but it involved someone named Draycon? Drago? Some weird name that started with a 'D'. In that dream, Draycon and...Harry were doing things that weren't exactly appropriate. He didn't understand why he kept getting these dreams and why they felt so terribly real. He's never seen any of those people in his life.

"Are ye alright?"

He snapped his head to the side, staring at the old lady who just spoke. "Hello," he tilted his head at her, analyzing her strange clothes before glancing around the little... hut they seem to be in. "Um, who are you?"

"I am called Lady Kaede. Kagome and Inuyasha have brought ye here."

"Kagome? Where is she? Is she alright? And why are you dressed like that? You know it's the twenty first century, right?" Hikari shot off question after question, causing an amused glint to linger in Kaede's eye as she smiled at him.

"Kagome shall explain all. Best if ye hear it from her." Kaede said mysteriously as she went back to carefully mashing what seemed like herbs in a wooden bowl.

"Uh...okay." Hikari got up from the wooden floor and walked the short distance to sit in front of Kaede.

The pair sat in silence for awhile, questions Hikari longed to ask burned on the tip of his tongue like he just ate a burning hot pocket without waiting for it to cool down. He decided to keep himself busy by looking around to gain a sense of familiarity of his surroundings, although he was quite positive he's never seen a place quite like the little hut he was in now. He's sure he's learned about places like this in school. He stared at Kaede's outfit hard, trying to figure out why her white and red garb seemed familiar to him. He chewed meticulously on his thumb, thinking on where he could've seen her clothes before.

Perhaps in a video game? No, couldn't be possible. He's never played a game with a character that wore an outfit like her. Maybe he's seen someone else use a character that had a similar attire like her when he was in the bus or train? But he usually minds his own business when he's in transportation, he doesn't have any friends, he doesn't go out much besides to go to work and school so he could cross that off the list.

Where could he possibly have seen or heard something like this? His eyes widen in realization when he finally figured it out. He remembered a few months ago he learned about the Sengoku period of feudal Japan. He learned of their lifestyle, how they believed in demons, had mikos to protect them, and the struggles they went through. Is he five hundreds years in the past? Don't freak out. Don't freak out. Don't freak out. Don't freak out. Don't freak out.

Don't freak out.

Too late.

"What the fuck?!" Hikari shouted, making Kaede jump and grasp her chest as she stared at Hikari in fright.

Hikari stood up quickly, tugging at his hair when he paused; he ran his hands through his hair, feeling the extreme length that didn't exist an hour ago. His hair was long. His hair was just at the nape of his neck and now it's at his waist. Hikari was definitely freaking out. "What's happening? Why is my hair long? Why did that thing try to kidnap me? Why the fuck am I in the Sengoku period, which is, by the way, five hundreds years in the fucking past!"

"You're awake, I see."

At the sound of the new voice, Hikari turned to it only to see Kagome with four other people and a... cat with two tails? Whatever it was, it looked cute and ferocious.

"Kagome, explain. Now. I'm fucking shitting bricks."

After Kagome managed to calm him down to explain the situation, she introduced him to her friends.

A half-dog demon named Inuyasha. The guy wearing all red with the cute ears on top of his long silver hair. He was with Kagome when that thing tried to kidnap him. A young fox demon named Shippo, a perverted monk named Miroku who has a cursed right hand, a demon slayer named Sango who's familiar is the demon cat with two tails named Kirara. She was about to introduce him to Kaede but he interrupted her, saying they were acquainted with each other already.

Fun.

"Yeah, hi. Great to meet you strange weird people. Explain, Kagome."

Cue offended looks that he ignored and focused his sole attention on Kagome.

"Well, for starters, it began when my brother, Sota, thought our cat, Buyo, was in our family's Shinto shrine..."

Kagome explained everything as best as she could with the help of her friends chipping in every now and then. Hikari just sat there in silence taking everything in to register in his mind. After about an hour and a half when they were done speaking and staring at him with expectant looks, Hikari stood up and made his way to the entrance of the hut to leave when he was stopped by Inuyasha. "Get out of my way, Dog."

"What'd you say, Bastard?!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Guys, calm down! We can talk about this, okay?" Kagome said, trying to keep them level-headed.

She was left ignored.

"You deaf? Move!" Inuyasha was suddenly thrown across the room, cries of his name for his safety erupted from Kagome's throat. Sango and Miroku were looking at Hikari cautiously after making sure Inuyasha wasn't hurt. Hikari stared at his hands in surprise, shock filling his body and he stood frozen in fear.

FreakfreakfreakfreakFrEaKFREAK.

He had to leave, he couldn't stay. Not now, not anymore. It was happening again.

"Hikari?" Sango said cautiously, as if she was speaking to a frightened animal that would run away any second. "It's okay. Everything's fine."

She's lying. They want to hurt you. Capture you. Kill them. Kill them all.

Stop feeding the boy lies, Demon! I won't allow you to harm this child.

Insolent wench! Like you could hurt me.

Don't tempt me. Did you forget last time, fool?

You insufferable-!

Hikari screamed and grabbed his head, crouching down as if that will help alleviate some of the pain. "Shut up!Shut up!SHUTUP!"

Hikari ran out the hut, disoriented. He needs to go somewhere safe, somewhere away from here. He could feel it, it wanted to be released. He didn't want to hurt Kagome and her friends that's why he needed to leave. Now.

"As you wish, Kazuko."

The last thing he remembered were shouts of his name and a strange pulling in his stomach before everything went black.