X/1999 Fan Fiction ❯ Everyone's Dreams ❯ Dream Seeker ( Chapter 1 )

Dark Cherub:

Well, this is not my first fic, but it is my second of X. I haven't even posted my 1st X fic, but this is a 1st in this style. ^^v I'm only even posting this though, because there are not enough X Fuma/Kamui fics out there. *Cry* So, RR&E, ne. *-*v I'll be awaiting the reviews. By the by, no actual yaoi in this chapter, but I see lemons in the near feature…*smile* like maybe in chapter 2 or 3…hint-hint, elbow-elbow. v^^v

Disclaimer:

I do not own X, or it's characters. That's all CLAMP's good stuff!

Notice:

Though I know writing a fic is sacrilege, and against all CLAMP fandom rules, I still admit I bow before X's greatness…and except criticism because what I'm doing…all I can do is give my apology's, *bow* Gomen nasi…Y_Y;

Everyone's Dreams

By: Dark Cherub

Chapter 1(Dream Seeker)

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7:30 PM

I know the way the world works, for I have seen it. I have been taught like the father before me. Learned like the families before me that has continued since the beginning of time. Though that may be true, I have just now learned it and am still yet to find the meaning of life, for that isn't to be learned until I am on my deathbed, and the Elder who knows all is the one that shall teach that to me. But that is to far off to worry about now; I have only just reached the First of the knowledge yesterday.

My sixteenth birthday was yesterday actually; and during the sixteenth ceremony I was granted the first of the information. But now finally, all my schooling, and physical abuse will finally pay off. After all my painful training, and labors will really count.

Oh, wait, Konnichiwa. I'm Kamui. Shirou Kamui. A simple A class Dream Seeker. And tonight, I am to head out on my first mission, with as such a title. Though I am extremely nervous to go out alone on something like this, my mentor, Sumeragi Subaru, has told me that I shouldn't worry so much. And I suppose he's right.

Nerves are what causes mistakes, and he is six years my senior, not only that but he was named the youngest Onmyouji to be named ever, or something like that, and he has always helped me when I needed it most without being wrong. And when he was an A class, he beat most of the records, but now he doesn't go on runs anymore because of his more important businesses.

Oh wait, I'm probably confusing you now. Let me explain some things to you that you might not understand. I am part of a clan, a clan called the Dream Seekers, Dream Seekers wander the nights looking for people that are depressed and that live in the worst conditions, who have the most sadistic thought processes, and crazy people, people who are living the worst of lives. Though there are only a few families of us, we manage to position ourselves all around the world, making it so that we can do a lot in a scattered way so no one gets suspicious.

We keep to our selves, and marry into the other families of our kind. We are solely devoted to helping the world become a better place. But we like to be secretive as well. We have managed to keep it so there are not even ledges of us so we can stay secret. When we are born, we are named and given a roll to fill for when we get older. For the first fifteen years of our life, we are taught to fill that roll, and made so that we know all the possible ways to mess up, and how to fix them. Though we are not told our jobs or what we will do until we are sixteen. If we are caught talking to others about what we do, we are punished and most don't know what happens after that. An `A' ranking Dream seeker, is the ones that wander the nights looking for potential people who omit an aura that contains despair…. There is also the B and C classes, B ranks get to go to the people that the A classes gather and C, are the elite, they go to the people that the A ranks have trouble reading, or grant the wishes that the B's can't fulfill. C ranks are for our fastest and strongest.

There is quite a number A, and B class people, but because C is so elite; there are very few. At the moment, I think there are only ten in the entire world, and they are all in their early forties. Then there are also the teachers, the Onmyouji, the Birth Managers, whom assign names, and occupations, the elder of all knowledge, and his surreptitious people but no one really knows what they do. And that's all of the one's that I am aware of, though there are way more; those are just the public ones.

I am slim, and frail framed so that I can move faster, most of us are very thin, but we have a strict diet so as we don't run into problems. I have never eaten meat of any kind, but because we are not to speak of what we learn, eating is in that category, so some that I know may eat meat. Anyways, I have midnight black hair, pale toned skin, amethyst eyes, and I suppose you could describe them as, retractable angel wings. They automatically retract if I am not using my powers during the day, or if something happens to me, but I prefer to keep them out because it hurts when it breaks through the skin. Like I said, my pettiness is for speed but my wings are so that I can travel faster, and more successfully in the night. So I look normal some of the time, but that's only when I hide my wings…unfortunately even that is limited, I can only keep my wings away for a couple of hours, which is more than enough time to fix screw ups…at most I can keep them hidden for twelve hours before I have to take them out, and then they cant go back under the skin for around eight to nine hours.

Hum. What else do you need to know? Oh, and why they have a group of people to name the children, all the names have specific meanings, and they are reused according to the likely-hood of what your capable of. The different names can mean different things about your feature. I know that I am the first person with the name Kamui, so my name has to mean something important. Though I have yet to find out, I know I eventually will. Maybe it is something important, maybe not.

But I have been led to believe that there is something important about me, that's because no one will tell me of my parents or what happened to them. Though that may just mean that they don't know, there are other things that concern me. I have always had a close eye kept on me, and been treated differently than the other kids, though that could also just mean they worry because I have no parents to watch over me, or feel sorry for me. Then there is the elder, he has a lot of things to do because of his position, yet he makes it a point to see how I am doing for no necessary reason except to check up on me.

Though I am happy when he talks to me because everyone has such high respect towards him, it also makes others wonder how come I can be so buddy, buddy with him. I smile at the thought of what the others probably say about me. But even though it's nice to have him be all nice to me…there are still times what I would prefer it being some one else that he notices me. But that's only when he starts asking the disturbing questions.

What happens is this, when ever he comes to talk to me he starts off fine, like just any old conversation would, but then latter, when the time begins to pass, his happy outlook changes to a more serous one, and he starts asking personal questions as though he is surveying me. Like I was just some subject human, and not training to become a member of his elite forces. And I would know, because he asks me questions that I would have to find out if on a mission. And after a while it gets quite annoying to have to-

"Yo Kamui," a voice that I can easily recognize calls from behind me.

"Konnichiwa Subaru-sama." I turn to see the green eyed man that I envy more than anyone else. "Is there something you need?"

He smiles thoughtfully at me, "the elder sent me to wish you the best of luck on your first actual mission." I smile as he continues, "that and I wanted to see you before you leave. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to you, and not have at least gotten to say good bye before you die." I chuckle softly knowing fully of the joke, he knew how worried I was about this; he was just trying to cheer me up. "Oh, and just a reminder before I leave, there is maybe thirty minuets before you've got to go. The sun will set somewhere around that time, and that's when your going to have to go out." He smiled, "do you need anything?"

I gave a meek smile in reply and shake my head, feeling quite nervous. Being reminded that I had thirty minuets until I'd have to go about my business, alone, was not the most reassuring thought to have pop back into your head.

Seeing right through my false smile, and into my real train of thoughts he laughs in an amused sort of way.

"Kamui-chan, no worrying, you'll do fine. You've been trained by the best, and I've seen the comments left by your teachers, you did better than I did with my lessons, you know what you need to, and you can do this with your arms tied behind your back." His determined gaze focused on me and I can't help but smile.

"Yes, your right…I suppose that I am disturbing myself with doubtful thoughts carelessly…"

"Great. Well, do you need anything else? I have a bit of time before I have to go about my own things. I can keep you company until you have to go if you want me to," he suggests to me but I have to shake my head.

"No that's fine, I don't need you to stay with me. You have more important things than baby-sit." I laugh and he shakes his head.

"If you say so I'll let you do what you want…" he walks over to me and puts his hand on my head leaning over me. "But remember, a half-an-hour is all you have, and bear in mind you'll need to be careful…this is the real thing. Knowing the stuff will help, but you have to actually be able to do it. If you mess up, it's for real and you are the only one who will be there to fix it. The people you are looking for have had it rough, and you never know what they might do. I don't want you, on your first day to have a bad run-in. You got that?" Subaru says very seriously.

I sigh and nod. He's right again. I had pushed out of mind that I had to be careful and not screw up. Taking his hand off my head, smiling, he begins to walk to the door out of my room. Then without turning, he lifts his right hand into the air, and gives a half-wave, "I wish you the best of luck Kamui-chan…" and then he's gone, leaving me alone to pre-pare for the long night ahead of me.

I sigh while walking over, and sitting down on my bed looking at the last rays of sun dieing down over the end of the world, diminishing into nothingness for the approaching night.

`I am going to do this right. I won't fail. I really will do this right.' As I get up to pace the last few moments of not being busy, a fluttery feeling enters my stomach, nerves probably…. So I push away the feeling, having better things to ponder at the time being, and I stretch my wings, getting ready for the long night ahead of me. But then, that fluttering feeling slips into something more, something that I can't ignore…I freeze with my arms raised and my wings extended completely out. `What feeling is this? It's a feeling…a feeling of…of dread. Dread? That couldn't be right, I have been looking forward to this since I was born. This is what I have been waiting for…' I stop, and think of something the elder once told me.

"Never ignore your gut. That's the problem with people these days. They never listen to their gut. If they did, there wouldn't be nearly as many tragedies.... If you ever have a feeling that you shouldn't have, something bad will happen in the near feature. You should listen to this old bag of bones, and tell me immediately! I don't want you going off and getting yourself hurt. Kamui…if you don't want to tell me…at the least…you need to watch yourself. A single mistake can get a person killed. You can't take that kind of risk. A person only has one life."

I think for a second and concentrate my powers on that feeling, like it were a letter that I could simply open and read, I mean if I can read and understand other peoples thoughts and feeling, I should at least be able to read my own. But before I had even started to understand it, my efforts had come to no avail, the feeling began to slip, and try as I might; the feeling was like water, running through my fingers: you just couldn't hold on to it forever. Eventually, the water slips through your fingers leaving them dry, and without a trace of the element that was once there.

Shaking my head I finally move again, though rather stiffly. Putting my arms and wings where they should be I walk over to the window and rest my palms on the frame looking out into the dark sky, I should get going soon…

---Kamui. ---

I blink at my name being called by an undeterminable voice and turn to the door expecting to see someone; only no one was there. I blink feeling unsure and think to myself, `Kamui, you must be either really crazy…or your really nervous…hearing voices, if that's not I bad sign I don't know what is.'

---Kamui…---

The voice says again, and I note that it's a woman's voice. A woman? Now that's strange…

"Yes?" I say rather awkwardly aloud to whoever, or whatever the voice was, but the voice seemed to be coming from my head…

---Kamui…you must be careful. ---

I blink yet again, careful? What do I need to be careful about? "Who are you?" I say this time more sure of myself that there is something there.

---Kamui, that doesn't matter, not right now anyways… But Kamui! You must be careful! Something is going to happen tonight, you must be ready, make sure to survey the people you go to before looking for their desires…---

My body goes ridged. What?! "Who are you?" I repeat in a low tone, more of a demand than a question, but she doesn't seem to notice that I'm talking.

---Kamui, for your own safety. Be careful…---her voice faded, and with it my sureness of the night.

Suddenly…I didn't want to go out…suddenly…I knew that something was going to go wrong tonight…and there was nothing I could do.

~*~End of Chapter 1~*~

Dark Cherub:

Welp, that went worse than I would have hoped…but like I said, this was my first try like this…anyways it was meant to only get you interested…the next one should be longer. Review, and then I'll get my next chapter up. I've already started, and 3 reviews is all that I ask for! ^^v Ja ne.