I, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama and Hiei were in an old building. It was very dark inside, so I couldn't see clearly.
"Come on! He's got to be here somewhere!" Yusuke shouted furiously, curling his fists.
"Watcha mad about?" I asked.
"Yusuke has got a date today," Kuwabara answered my question, sneering at our leader.
"I see..." Kurama smiled.
"Hn," Hiei commented.
The building we were in was very old, I could tell by the smell. For some reason, I didn't like it. The walls were all cracked up, looking like they could've fall apart any minute now...
Outside, I could hear a bird chirping happily. I wish I could change places with it... I felt strange chills running up and down my spine and my heart was pounding in my chest. Dog intuition told me that...
Creeek
The roof started falling down, slipping and making annoying noises. My ears burned in pain; they were sensitive after all.
"Everyone, get down and out of the way!" Kurama shouted, a slight note of panic in his voice. From hearing it, I was SURE that things won't go right... We all jumped out of the way of the roof and it hit the ground, crashing into many big and sharp pieces.
When the dust came down, I carefully raised my head, still covering it with my arm, which was bleeding - I had to hit something.
"Cough... Everybody fine?" I heard Yusuke's faint voice.
"Yes..." Kurama stood up, dusting himself off. All of a sudden, I felt blood. But it wasn't mine...
"Who's bleeding?" I asked, getting nervous. Blood never was a good sign.
"Not me," - Yusuke.
"Me neither." - Kurama.
"I don't bleed that easily!" - Hiei.
"..." - Kuwabara.
"Kuwabara?" I and Kurama called out. No response.
"Hey, buddy! You alright?" Yusuke stood up as well, looking around. Still, Kuwabara did not response.
"Hn, maybe he blacked out or something?" Hiei suggested.
Then, we all noticed Kuwabara's hand. It was stuck between the heavy, sharp rocks. Blood was dripping down from his fingertips...
"KUWABARA!!!"
I opened my eyes, panting heavily. The whole team, Inuko plus the girls were looking at me with concern.
"Kikyo-san!"
"Kikyo, are you alright?"
"What happened?"
"You had a bad dream?"
"Are you feeling well?"
My head was hurting like Hell, my heart still pounding in my ears.
"Girls, maybe you all should go downstairs and make Kikyo some hot chocolate?" Kurama rescued me. He had to notice my pain. The girls looked at me for the last time and turned to walk away, but Inuko hesitated.
"Go, Inuko... Please, leave..." I managed to whisper, but my head had hurt too much to lift it. My face was covered in cold sweat, drops were rolling down and hitting the floor. What the Hell was that? - I kept asking myself.
The girls finally left my room and Kuwabara and Yusuke sat on my bed, Hiei just leaned against the wall as he always do. I refused to stand up, so I was sitting on the floor, still holding my head in my hands. I could feel Kurama kneeling down next to me and I felt his arm wrap around my shoulders in a comforting, friendly hug.
"Kikyo, you must know, that whatever it was, it's gone now," he said softly. Somewhere deep down, I felt embarrassed. REALLY embarrassed. How did I look? Like a child, who is afraid of the dark or something similar. Good thing my face was too pale to flush now...
"Probably a bad dream." Kuwabara shrugged.
"IT WASN'T A DREAM!!" I snapped suddenly. They froze. Well, 3 of them did anyway.
"Inu-onna is right," Hiei stated calmly "I tried to probe into her mind while she was asleep and I couldn't. But I heard you shout out the baka's name," he nodded towards Kuwabara.
"So, you were dreaming about me?" my orange haired teammate had hearts in his eyes.
"That explains her current state." Yusuke smirked (my thoughts exactly, by the way). They both started to argue, but I was far away from them mentally. All I could hear was my blood flowing through my veins loudly.
"K-Kurama..." I whispered, shutting them up "Uh... Don't we have training today?"
"Oh, right. Koenma canceled that, he gave us a mission," the red head said, glancing at me with concern.
"Oh no..." my voice was low. I knew it wasn't a regular dream. It was so real...
"What is it?" Urameshi questioned, blinking.
At first I wanted to tell them everything. But then... Would they believe me? I highly doubt that. Heck, even I wouldn't believe a story like that!
"No... Nothing. Let's get this over with."
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The cold, autumn wind blew loudly, making some fallen leaves fly in circles. It was past midday and me and Team Urameshi were standing infront of a building. It was a plain, old, gray one-stored building, placed in the one of the 'dangerous' alleys in the town. Dangerous, my ass. Absolutely NOTHING was here, beside few abandoned blocks. Obviously, Ningens know nothing about danger.
Ok, so our mission was to find and arrest a B-class demon, who was hiding here, in the Human World, illegally.
We entered the building and the sound of the door closing behind us gave me goosebumps and a shiver ran up and down my spine - bad, bad sign. Soon, I could feel cold drops of sweat forming on the back of my neck.
"Come on! He's got to be here somewhere!" Yusuke was furious for some reason. I gulped slightly.
"Yusuke has got a date today," Kuwabara said, sneering.
"I see..." Kurama smiled.
"Hn," Hiei commented. At the moment, my heart was beating faster and faster within the full of silence seconds. I was sure that it wasn't a dream or anything like that. The place was exactly the same as I saw. Soon, I found it hard to breathe.
"You alright, Kik-"
"Sssh!" I silenced Kurama, listening intensively, perking my dog ears up to the maximum. The rest of the Team looked at me in a funny way, but shut up, curious.
Outside, I could hear a bird chirping happily. I wish I could change places with it... Oh, NO!
Creeeek
"Kuwabara, RUN!" I shouted out of pure instinct.
"Huh?"
The roof started to fall down, just like in my... dream? Whatever.
This time, I didn't move, so I had the time to analyze what the others did. I saw Hiei and Kurama jumping back as far as they could and Yusuke got down and rolled out of the way of the pulled down by gravity roof.
Kuwabara just stood there, slowly looking up. He saw the falling rocks and widened his eyes in horror.
"Kuwabara, MOVE!" I knew it was too late, he, as a Human, was too slow to run away... To make it... What an idiot he is!
Not thinking further, I jumped forward, reached the orange haired fool and pushed him out of the way. Still holding him tightly by his stomach, I rolled to a corner, hoping to avoid as many rocks as possible. Kuwabara has his eyes closed shut and his arms covering his head. At the very second my back hit the wall, the roof crashed with a loud noise, shattering into many sharp pieces. I was paralyzed. The noise was so loud to my ears that my vision blurred slightly. 'Concentrate!'
"Cough, everybody fine?" I heard Yusuke's faint voice.
"Kikyo!!" someone shouted. It took me a while to recognize Hiei's voice.
"Kuwabara?" Kurama called out.
"Hey, GUYS!" Urameshi yelled.
"Ouch," Kuwabara whined quietly. I didn't sense any death from him, just shock. I let out the air I didn't know was holding in my mouth. So, it wasn't a dream after all... It was a vision...
"Kazuma, are you alright?" I asked softly.
"My leg hurts like hell and I think I'm hearing things," he sat up carefully, touching his right leg.
"Hearing things?" I cocked my head to the side (a dog habit). He didn't get hit THAT strong...
"Yeah... I thought that you called me by my real name,"
"I did, idiot!" I barked, but curled my lips in a tiny smile. I turned my head away from him, so he didn't see it. "Come on, I'll help you out," I grabbed his arm and threw it over my shoulder. Just then I realized that I heard a snapping sound when he hit the wall. Probably, he broke his leg.
"We're alright!" I shouted, slowly standing up. Kuwabara was really heavy...
"Hah! I thought I heard Kikyo's barking!" Yusuke smirked triumphatically when he saw me. I scowled.
"We better get out. It's not quite safe to stay here," I said sternly.
"You're right." Kurama nodded and helped me out with Kuwabara.
'Finally out,' I inhaled the air deeply, using my free hand to dust my clothes off. It was good to see the sun again.
'How did you-''Please, Hiei... Not now.'
'Hn,'"Let's go back. Kuwabara will be only a burden in his current state," I said, trying to sound like I didn't care. But I did, anyway.
"Hey!"
"Yeah, Kikyo is right. Kuwabara is useless now," Yusuke snickered.
"HEY!!"
"Shut up," I muttered, getting annoyed by his shouts. My ears still hurt from the eerie sound of the crash. I felt Kuwabara's weigh was lifted off me as Yusuke decided to help out his friend. I sighed and caught Hiei's stare. He looked like he was trying to figure out how I knew which one to rescue. It was an analyzing kind of gaze - his brows were furrowed and his eyes concentrated on me.
I couldn't hold it. Turning my head away, I followed Kurama, Kuwabara and Urameshi to the portal which appeared. I couldn't wait to get to the mansion. I wanted to talk to Kage. And, I will. At any rate, I have to tell him that...!