Dreams and cycles

Night passed away quickly, Shirou found out as his alarm clock rung 5:00 in the morning. 'Well, At least I didn't oversleep, and unlike Rin I definitely won't come to the kitchen looking for milk while walking like a zombie.' He did the usual, ate his breakfast and all. 'I better get ready for team placements. Although if what I've seen in my visions are correct. I'll be on team 7 with Sasuke and Sakura, although I didn't get to see the face of the jounin that leads them.' He thought.

While Shirou was simply sleeping during the night, something strange happened to Sasuke and Sakura in their dreams.

Sakura

Sakura had a strange dream. She was standing at what seemed to some sort of training ground surrounded by buildings. Then she saw three people, a white haired man wearing a red coat and wielding two short swords, a girl, a beautiful one she might add, wearing some sort of brown uniform, and a blue haired man wearing a blue full-body armor and wielding a red barbed spear. The two men clashed with each other in battle, causing massive shocks of power. Had Naruto not trained her to properly steady herself in a fight, she would have fainted then and there. Then suddenly the blue haired man yelled. "Who's there?"

'Shit, did they sense me?' Sakura panicked. Then she saw a red-haired guy run away from the grounds. The spear-wielder gave chase. Then she heard the girl curse. "Damn it! I didn't know there was someone else around!" She also went after the two. Having no choice Sakura followed.

As she rounded a corner she found the man and the red-head. "Yo! Sorry kid, don't take it personally, you just got unlucky. " The man said. "Die!" He then stabbed the spear into the boy's heart. Sakura froze. She saw her first share of death. Even if it was in some sort of twisted dream. She screamed.

The girl arrived. "Damn, I got too late!" She then pulled a pendant out of her pocket hung it over the body of the boy and whispered some strange words in a language Sakura could not understand. Then the floor around the boy and the girl glowed. After a bright flash she saw to her shock that the boy was alive. 'What the- that- that- he should be dead! I saw that spear pierce his heart!' The girl fled the scene long before the boy woke up. The boy then woke up. He examined the wound from earlier, it was gone! As he stood up and ran away, he stepped on something. "It was the pendant the girl used earlier…" Sakura murmured. The boy pocketed it and went his way. Then all Sakura could see was darkness…

Sasuke

"Wha - where the hell am I?" He was on the courtyard of a house- a pretty big one to be exact. Suddenly he heard the scuffles of whatever commotion was taking place. He ran towards the sound, upon arriving he saw a red-haired guy get kicked rather powerfully by a man in blue carrying a red lance. He was about to charge in to stop the man from doing additional damage to the red-head when he froze at the man's killing intent. He stopped.' Wait if this is some kind of dream why am I feeling killing intent?' He was distracted from his thoughts when a light appeared in the barn where the red-head landed.

Sasuke saw a woman in blue. She was carrying herself in such a noble state that Sasuke had the urge to kneel in respect. She was very beautiful to say the least. She wore armor that seemed to shine in the moonlight.

The woman then suddenly attacked the man in blue. Sasuke was in awe by the grace in which she swung her weapon, in which he couldn't see anything. 'Is that the Futon: Kaze no yaiba? No, I can't sense any chakra; it's actually an invisible sword!'

The man then retreated after trading a few blows. The woman then faced the red-haired boy and spoke. "I ask of you. Are you my master?" The boy did not answer, as though mesmerized by her beauty and sudden arrival from, what seemed to be a seal array of sorts. "I, Servant Saber, have come forth in response to your summons. From this time forth my sword shall be with you and your fate shall be with me. Now, our contract is complete." 'Summons? Like a summoning jutsu or something?' Sasuke thought.

"RIIIIINGGGGGG!"

Both Sakura and Sasuke woke up, sweating buckets. They looked around and shut their alarm clocks off. 'What the hell was that?' they thought.

The day almost became boring when team placements were made. The students just listened to Iruka's speech. Others were bored out of their minds. Shirou looked as though he was paying attention, but he was actually analyzing the composition of materials of the room. '1000 floorboards, 13 are barely fixed, one has a loose nail. Desks are in good condition. Teachers desk contains 15 pieces of chalk and an eraser.' Shirou thought as Iruka droned on. Sakura was busy reading a book on dreams and nightmares. Sasuke looked as though he was brooding, but if you listen closely you'll hear him snoring. He didn't get much sleep last night due to his 'dream'.

"Now, I'll announce team placements!" Iruka bellowed over the ruckus of the students. "Team 7: Uzumaki Naruto!" Naruto raised his head at that. "Uchiha Sasuke!" Said Uchiha snapped awake. "Haruno Sakura!" Sakura put away the book for later use. "You are to be led by Hatake Kakashi!"

'Hatake Kakashi huh? Interesting, Sasuke and Sakura should benefit greatly from this.' Shirou thought.

'Kakashi? THE Hatake Kakashi, the man said to have copied over a thousand jutsu? And a sharingan user to boot! He could help me on how to use mine better as well!' Thought Sasuke gleefully. 'Although the story on how he got it would be needed as well.'

'Kakashi? From what I've heard of him he's always late, and I hate late people, second to perverts!' Sakura thought.

As the teams were called by their senseis, only team 7 was left on the classroom. And three hours had passed since then. "Naruto, mind if you bring that practice sword of yours?" asked Sasuke. "I'll bring it during training, why?" answered Shirou. "We'd like to use it to beat our sensei black and blue." Replied Sakura.

Then the door opened and their eyes followed to see a Silver-haired man in a jonin vest. His hair was so spiky you'd think he got electrocuted when he was a kid. "Hey, is team 7-"was all he was able to say when he stepped on the very board with the loose nail. It flipped and hit him straight on the face.

The three were dumbfounded for a few seconds, and then they all laughed. "HAHAAHA! Man, never thought that you, a jonin of all people would get smacked like that!" Shirou said. "The hell man! Even academy students know not step on the first board when entering! Just priceless!" Sasuke chuckled. Sakura laughed for a bit then said, "Serves you right for being late!"

Kakashi just massaged his sore nose and said "My first impression of you guys… I hate you. Follow me to the roof." He then disappeared in a puff of smoke. "What's his problem?" Sasuke asked. The others just shrugged.

They followed him and a few minutes later they sat on a bench on the rooftop. "Alright then, why don't we tell us a bit more about yourselves." "Like what, sensei?" Sakura asked. "Your likes, dislikes, that sort of thing, you first Blondie." He pointed at Shirou. "Alright, my name's Uzumaki Naruto, I like swords, especially Sabers and broadswords, and sheathes as well." He says nostalgically. "I dislike grails, 'a certain gold armored king comes to mind.' arrogant kings and 'a certain priest comes up' fake priests." "My hobbies are training, meditating and cooking and tracing." "Tracing?" Kakashi asks. "Yeah, I like to draw." "My dream, to be able to someday meet my beloved, on a field of gold."

Sakura thought it was sweet when he told them his dream. She always loved it when he told them stories, about a boy who had to fight a war between seven people. He had a partner, a blonde girl, who wielded a sword. They fought many enemies, and unknowingly fell in love with each other. The boy had confessed his feelings to her in battle. Then, as the war ended, and the girl had to leave, before she disappears into the sunset, her last words to him were, 'I love you'. Sakura cried at the end of the story. It seems as though it was something that really happened. Little did she know.

"Okay… that was… interesting? You're next pinky." Kakashi pointed to Sakura. 'He says that one more time and he's dead.' Thought Sakura twitching. "My name's Haruno Sakura, my likes are my friends," She looks at Shirou and Sasuke. "And Jewels." Upon hearing the word jewels, Shirou flinched, is he witnessing the ninja version of Rin? God help all in the way of the tsundere. "I dislike perverts, tardiness, and Naruto's practice sword." Shirou chuckled at the last one, and she shot him a glare. "My hobbies are training with Naruto and Sasuke, Collecting jewels of different kinds, cooking lessons with Naruto, and listen to his stories." "My dream, to be a skilled kunoichi and be of great help to the village, oh, and beat Naruto in a spar for once."

"Hmm, not too bad, okay, next up, brooder… san?" Sasuke was fast asleep. Sakura knocked him upside the head. "Wake up sleepy-head!" "Ow! What was that for… oh, Oh! Sorry sensei. Ahem! I'm Uchiha Sasuke, I like my family." Shirou and Sakura smiled. "Fire jutsu, tomatoes and for some weird reason, swords." "My dislike, Naruto's practice sword." "My hobbies are training, and eating tomatoes." "My dream…" Shirou and Sakura tensed at that, 'here comes his dark side'. "To beat my brother to a pulp and tell me the real reason for killing my clan, and if the answer is unsatisfying, end his miserable existence." Sasuke said in a monotone voice.

'Interesting, he is still after Itachi, but with a sound reason other than revenge.' Kakashi mused. "Ok, you three are unique, I'll give you that much. Meet me at training ground 7 at 9 am tomorrow for the genin test. Oh, and don't eat breakfast, you'll puke."

The three grinned at him, "Bring it on Sensei, we'll cut through everything you'll throw at us!" "And if we can't beat you, we'll just think of something that can!"

Kakashi eye-smiled at them. "Good! See you then!" He then vanishes in a puff of smoke.

As Shirou was about to leave Sakura stops him. "Wait, Naruto!" "What is it Sakura?" "I had a weird dream last night." Shirou looked confused. "Dream?" "Yeah, I was in an academy of sorts, there was a man with a spear and a white haired man with two swords." Shirou froze, he had those types of dreams before, when he was Saber's master.

'The dream cycle.' He thought.

I won't be updating for a while, but don't worry i'll be writing them chaps while ya wait. I've got two reasons for the hiatus: College life and Fate/Zero. Saber looks so cool in a suit!