-1XoXoXo Kurama's Dream XoXoXo

The Past As Yoko Kurama--- Same Time as the Silver Millenium

Forest in Kurama's Home

Moments Before His Death and Rei's Death

Her slender shoulder shook violently as she turned back to look at him, her violet eyes violent with anger. He didn't know her, but now that these dreams were constantly coming at him, Shuichi Minamino accepted her as if she were a friend of his and knew every time that he saw her, it must've been a dream. Still, there was an odd reality within those visions in his sleep that always seemed so real.

She was the Mars princess, the one he was meant to hate although the boy found his heart only wanting to comfort her, protect her. Her long riveting dress caressed her curves almost naturally as she walked over to him, eyes hurt from some unknown pain to him.

He remembered in his last episode of these dreams, there was a blond man, a man he didn't trust. His name was Jedite, a general of earth's forces whom worked for the Prince of the Earth, Endymion. Everyday, he worked hard to forget the man, but his anger kept the warrior on his mind and he knew that if he were to protect this woman then this would be the person who she needed the protection from in anyway.

Long silvery strands of hair fell before his shoulders as he jumped to a tree closer to the woman, his golden eyes watching her carefully, knowing very well that she would know that he was there.

She hadn't said anything because of the fact that her guardians were there. They were named Phobos and Deimos; he remembered their names because they were the same names as the names of the planet Mars' moons. The moment they left, she turned and looked at him.

"Kurama, you can come out from hiding..." She muttered with gritted teeth. Seemingly careful, she walked closer to him, her hips sway from left to right. "Tell me, tenma, who are you really?" She asked and for once, Kurama felt her voice was uncomfortably familiar.

He looked on questioningly. "You know who I am, Princess."

"Do I?" She asked as she reached out and reached out for his hair, tenderly playing with strands of his silvery locks. Odd, she was never so affectionate nor did she ever question who he ever was until now. "How stupid do you think I really am?" Bitterness came forth from her.

"Stupid?" Kurama asked, considering it a joke, his voice monotone to her question. Still, she didn't change her expression and her hand no longer moved gently over his hair. "Where's this coming from?" By the time he ended his sentence, emotion came forth, surprising himself.

Her shoulders began to shake again. Her violet eyes had a fire he never had seen before.

"Jedite, the general of the Earth forces, told me about your plans. He told me how you considered me a blundering fool, a woman whom you could never care for..." She screamed as she lost her composure completely, an arrow came forth from her aura. "If you want to go after Serenity then you will have to go through me!"

"Nani?" Kurama jumped back, feeling the fire graze his body, burning some of his flesh. "Mars, stop! He's a liar! Why would I want to hurt you?!"

"Yoko Kurama, I curse you from this day!" She screamed as the ground erupted with fire, swallowing the forest trees of his land.

Running forward, into the deeper part of the forest, Kurama did not want to attack her. "Mars, he's planning on attacking your princess's kingdom with the help of the witch Beryl!" He yelled from behind a barrier as he prepared to use his plants against her if he had to against the one cared so much. "Jedite's the traitor! Listen to me!"

"Why would he do that, huh?" She whispered deadly into the air, her tone almost begging death. "You're the thief kitsune. You are the one who promised me that one day you'll pay me back with something I'd hate."

He remembered those words. It was said a long time ago, much before they had become friends, much before he had fallen in love. Wait, he didn't mean that... love was not a part of a tenma's life. No, not him.

"I curse you, Kurama! I'm not going to be the one who will kill you; you will die by the hands of bounty hunters, you hear me?! You will be reborn twice. Twice will be my curse and each time, you will learn to love. As a half demon and secondly as a human. You will not remember yourself the first time... but the second time, you will fully remember your true form and it'll depress you. Mentally, you'll be dead because of your past sins!" She screamed into the clearing, not wanting the blood of him on her hands.

"Hmn..." He cracked a smirk as he came out to look at her as he noticed tears coming down her eyes. "Maybe your curse will be that you will never listen to me every time we meet, and you will see me again."

"I doubt it."

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Meiou High School

Shuichi's Biology Class

12:00pm - 12:55pm

Kurama couldn't believe that he had slept through the whole class especially since today they were actually doing labs. That was favorite subject, and he considered the labs to be the best thing about the class.

It was a good thing that Maya had been his partner in that class. Katajima Maya was always a good friend even after he erased her memories to protect her; even then, he couldn't stop her from becoming the good friend she was and that said to him that she would've always been true. Hmm... interesting how he felt as if he used her even now even if he was using her memory to let go of memories that he knew didn't exist.

The morning didn't start that good and that and the dream kept replaying in his memory. All those dream, Kuwabara's death, and Rei seemed to always be on his brain lately.

When did life get so complicated?

Oh well, he didn't have enough time to meditate on how strange life had become.

"Minamino-san," Maya said, her soft elegant tone, caressing his ears. "Is there something wrong?"

Kurama opened his mouth to speak but looked outside to see Rei standing outside his door of the classroom, her arms crossed, a locket in her hand that seemed to emit energy that he had never felt before, not in this world. Heavenly energy?!

"Hold on, Maya... can I hold your thought for a moment?" He quickly walked away and towards Rei whom looked and quickly walked away, wary of his appearance, seeing how he acted earlier that morning when he came to pick her up.

{Flashback}

"Rei... why?" He asked as he kept backing up, nearly backing up to the glass window leading to the backyard but the door was opened by a worried Inuyasha whom seemed to be looking at Rei with the worried eyes.

"What? What do you mean why me?" Rei asked with forced curiousness. "I'm confused."

{End Flashback}

"Rei-chan..." he whispered into the air, looking into her eyes. Her eyes were the only thing he needed to look at for this moment. Her eyes always told him the truth. Yes, he needed the truth and only the truth for a moment.

"Shuichi… what are you doing?"

There was a slight pause. "Searching… that is all." He smiled lightly as if his answer was completely normal, "Your eyes aren't the same anymore, my rose. You've lost your shine." He said in a monotone as Maya walked by and he followed her into their next classroom.

Rei stood in shock of his words as she took her hands and traced it along her own face, searching for an answer then walked away into the bathroom and looked into the mirror also searching.

She looked in the mirror and searched for what he looked for in her. She saw nothing because her eyes were dulled and her soul was numb. Nothing, that's what he saw too.

The bell rang and she stayed in the mirror staring at it with the princess's locket in her hands and placed it in front of her eyes.

She was wrong; she didn't see nothing. No, nothing couldn't have been seen because she did see something. Furthermore, what she saw---she didn't like, and it wasn't something she could fix. It was a vision of the past, future, and present.