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Ch. 2: The Strange/Romantic Dream
After a small chocolate cake fight, I figured that it was time to go to bed. I went to my counted bathroom with my PJ's in hand.
The shirt had short sleeves, baby blue coloring, with an adorable red chibi fox holding a rose in its mouth in the upper center part of the shirt. The pants were long, baby blue as well, and little chibi foxes on it. Oh, and it's really comfortable!
Walking back out I see a lump under my black silver-trimmed quilt. I raised an eyebrow at this… DARN MEMORY BALCKOUT!! I really got to start remembering things better. Shaking my head I uncover the small silver fur ball. It suddenly jumps into my arms and begins to purr. "Well, your welcome." I say, figuring that he was saying 'Thank-you'. Putting him on the crimson floor, I go beneath all the blankets and the quilt I close my chocolate color eyes to fall asleep.
I barley feel the bed sink suddenly. Cracking open one eye, see the Arctic 4-tailed fox laying in front of my face our noses barely touching. I smile gently at this, sighing I hold up the quilt letting him know that he can go underneath. The fox goes underneath the nicely woven black/silver quilt, and snuggles up to me. Well aren't you a cuddle bunny… er… fox.
With a giant yawn, I close the open eye and finally able to enter my crazy/weird dream land.
+Dream Mode+
I can feel myself falling through the darkness of my dreamland. "OW!!" Sadly when I land, I landed on butt. With a groan of pain I get up while rubbing my sore bottom. "This is odd." I say looking around the blanket of darkness that surrounds me. "This isn't how my dreams start. Normally its something… really… weird?" Looking ahead of myself I see a white dot, getting larger and larger as it approaches me.
Taking one step back I'm slightly afraid. I've read books that if you see a white light approaching you it means that you're dead. I turn around and run as fast as my two legs can carry me. "Don't run." A rather masculine voice rung through the black nothingness, stopping almost abruptly, I look around. I'M STANDING IN A FIELD OF WILD ROSES!! "How on earth did this happen?" I ask no one unparticular. But looking up I see many countless stars, and what I think to be planets! "Wow, now this is a new scale of weird." I put my right hand above my eyes, like I normally do when I look out at a something bright.
The land I am currently standing in is absolute stunning! The thorns less roses (as I found out) were a very bright white and some have light- very light- silver tint around the edges of each petal; and there are magnificent mountains the, last thing I see is that there is a lake up ahead. The smell is equally amazing, nothing in all of my 15 years on this earth have I smelled something so sweet. "Almost angelic." I whisper to myself with a smile on my face.
"I assure you, mademoiselle, that it's something completely different." With a surprised gasp I turn around sharply, only to meet a (I must say) well-defined chest –well part of it. Looking up, from my wide brown eyes, I see calm gold eyes. "Hello." This man says, with a smirk.
"Hi." Is all can muster up to say at the moment. This man is very strange looking. He has two vibrant golden eyes that someone could get lost in, he wears a white toga like outfit, long silver flowing hair, on top of the silvery locks stood two very proud… fox ears? My chocolate colored eyes stare at them. I really want to rub them, but I resist.
A chuckle broke my thought on how fluffy they might be. "If you want, you can touch them." This 'fox man' bends his upper half, so that it would be easier for me to reach them although I'm still hesitant. "Go on. I don't bite... much." He smirks (showing his well pointed fangs) seeing my shocked face.
Putting on a brave face, I put my hands up and rub his furry fox ears. "They're so soft." I let out in a hushed whisper. Soon after I started to rub his ears, I hear purring? Looking up at the unknown fox man, I see that his eyes are closed and that he has a smile on his face. Its because that I'm rubbing his ears. I smile as I continue to rub Fox Man's ears; I don't know why but I'd rather spend this dream rubbing these fox ears them walk around this field of roses.
Out of the corner of my eye I see something. While I continue to rub his ears I look to where I saw the unknown thing. There it is again! It looked like a white tip of some kind.
When I feel something on my chest I look down, only to this Fox Man head snuggling into 'them'. "HEY!?" Pulling away I give him a harsh slap the right side of his face, the look on his face is absolute shock. I guess no one really did that to him, before now. I smirk with the reaction that I received.
"A girl with spunk." He took a short pause, while rubbing his right cheek. "I like that." he says with smirk. Truly, I didn't know weather to take that as a good compliment or a pervy comment. So I put my arms over my chest, Fox Man chuckled at my action.
A soft piano/violin melody runs through this rose scented air. I look around trying to find the source of the sound. But, a deep amused chuckle stops my search. "You won't find it, mademoiselle. That is for sure." Looking back up, I see that he's about 7 feet tall (maybe taller) and his golden eyes have a glint in them. I blink a few times while my head is leaning to the right with a clueless look on my face, for Fox man has his hand out. "May I have this dance?" he gives me a charming smirk.
"Uhhh…" I look down at his hand; I said the first excuse that came to my mind. "But I'm not dressed for it." I say looking up at him. He just chuckles at my pathetic attempt to get out of this.
"Look at what you're dressed in now." I do say he says. What I'm wearing is breath taking. I am wearing a white gown that has quarter length sleeves but the bottom half of it is loose sheer, semi-deep V-neck that has silver lace surrounding the outline, there seems to be a silver a belt that's connected to the flowing dress, lifting up the dress an inch or so I see the same type of silver lace outlining the bottom inch, I am wearing silver high-heeled shoes (which were surprisingly comfortable), and matching jewelry. I grab my dark brown hair seeing that it looks like it just got out of some fancy French salon, it's curly but doesn't feel there's a ton of hair spray in it, is pulled back by a silver beret (my guess), and feeling the top of my hair I feel something like a crown.
"What, are we dealing with royalty now?" Seeing that Fox man had a King's crown now -it's silver with white fur surronding the bottom and has citrine stones around it. His only response is another deep chuckle.
"So now that you're dressed for it, will you give me this dance?" his fangs twinkle in the full moons glow. Sighing I cave in and take his clawed hand. "Fine, but don't blame me if I step on your feet."
I am completely surprised with myself! I am dancing in a formal way, and NOT breaking someone's foot! Well I guess I have to thank, uhhh… Darn it what's his name?!
"What's your name?" I say looking up at the smirking Fox man.
"Its only polite to introduce yourself first." His smirk grew wider at my irritated face.
But I put on a smile and introduce myself to him. "My name is Gloria, Gloria Arishima. Your turn."
"The name's Youko, Youko Kurama." After chuckle and a dip, he makes our noses touch and are breaths mix together. "Pleasure to meet you."
I could feel my face burning up and I stutter. "D-d-ditto."
He brings me back up and continues to lead this Medieval like dance. Making many circles, several dips, swirls, being brought into his strong arms, and swaying from side to side. Undoing the backwards embrace we continue this dance.
Good thing this is a dream or else I might've up-chucked my dinner by now. I let out a small laugh at the thought. I didn't notice it, but Youko moved his head to the left slightly with a raised eyebrow while his ears twitch twice.
We continue this lovely dance, when Youko leads us to a slow stop by a clear crystal lake. My hands slowly fall off of his shoulder and hand, and his hands fall from my hand and waist. I look up at his gold eyes mine showed that I didn't want this to end, but this is just a dream and dreams must come to an end.
Youko Kurama embraces me suddenly; my nose can smell that he smells of fresh roses causing me to form a smile. "Thank-you, for saving me, Gloria." he whispers in my ear.
When did I save this guy? Bringing head face out of his chest I rest my chin on it. "Youko, when did I save you?" Curiosity shone in my brown eyes.
He just smirks at me and rubs our noses together. "In due time, little one, in time."
This miracle dreamland begins to shake, violently making me cling to the silver fox. "This can't be an earthquake, can it?" I look around, not really seeing anything.
"Come on, Gloria, time to wake-up." That sounds like Rebecca! "COME ON!! WE'RE GOING TO BE LATE IF YOU DON'T GET UP AND READY!!" The dream world slowly fades away; Youko Kurama already gone, and the roses, lake, sky, and mountains are gone; and my dress is replaced with my fox pajamas.
+End of Dream Mode+
I wake-up the violent shaking of my best friend and sister, Neko aka Rebecca. With a giant yawn I sit up in my bed and stretch my arms above my head. "What time is it?" asking through a yawn.
"Gloria, its 6:30! Why aren't you dressed?" Rebecca yells. My only respond is another yawn thinking that's its Saturday. "And no it's not Saturday! So…" Becky rips off the covers making me fall off of my own bed and falling on my butt.
"HEY?!" I glare at the school dressed girl, who is currently at my 'doorway'.
"Sorry, Kitsune. But you know how it is when Grandma wakes you up, so better me then her; right?"
"Yeah, I guess your right, Neko." I hear her laugh slightly and close my door. I sigh heavily. "I suffer from 1-day-ahead syndrome." I get off the fuzzy floor and sluggishly walk towards my oak closet. Gathering out my school uniform I walk inside the counted bathroom to finish the morning rituals. This is going to be a loooong day. With that I shut the door behind me.
