Six years later

Kasai

I'm walking with Niichan down a dim street at night. The pulsating light from the street lights guiding our way. The shadows casted seem eery, reaching out long gnarly fingers to grab me.

We're walking to Ice's compound. I can tell because I can see Chihoko practically glowing down the street. Victor had taken it down from the local temple, and put it right outside the compound. For what reason one may ask?... well, we don't talk about that day. But let's just say it's a dominance symbol.

As Niichan and I draw closer, I sense movement. A small black figure dashes across the flickering light cast by the street lights.

"It's... It's just a squirrel... " I tell myself, forcing myself to relax because I tensed up when I first saw the flickering.

As we pass an ally way, a pale hand suddenly shoots out and grabs Niichan. Before he can cry, a cloth is placed over his mouth, and he collapses on the ground.

Immediately, I try to activate my fire. The thing I am named after. The thing that made Niichan proud of me...The thing that made Niichan give me an identity... made me into a person. But I can't. I try again, straining in the effort, but it doesn't work.

Before I can cry out, I am enveloped in a dark flame. Now usually, I don't burn thanks to my abilities, but this time I can feel my skin flushing. I can smell flesh burning, my mouth quickly drying up. I find myself unable to scream, my throat is too dry.

I bolt upright, panting, and I slowly look around my room.

I take heaving breaths as I hug myself shivering, remembering that dream... No. No way in hell was that a dream. It's a nightmare.

I am tempted, oh so tempted to run to Niichan's room, but I look at the clock.

6 am

I am technically 15 now. It's past 12am so I am officially 15 years old... so I can deal with this nightmare situation myself. I slide out of bed, and drag my blanket around me, draping it over my head and wrap the rest around me. I head over to the kitchen, hoping to find some water, or something cool to drink to parch my dry throat.

As I round the corner into the kitchen I hear panting and moaning... I hesitate before I entering the kitchen... I normally hear these sounds when the do not disturb sign is on Niichan's door. And nobody dares to go into Niichan's room when that sign is up... expect maybe Phichit.

"Take it out take it out!" I hear Niichan moan.

"I can't! It's too hot!" I hear Victor say back to him.

"No it's too big! Can you see how inflated it is!"

"Well, I'm sorry, but size matters."

I slip into the kitchen, and find it in disarray. There are bowls everywhere, flour strewn across the floor, chocolate on the ceiling, and dough that looks like it has a lot of unknown substances in it lying on the counter. There is also a slight fog that hovers in the air of the kitchen. I look around the mess for Niichan and Victor, and there they are standing next to the oven, where what looks like a ginormous cake is baking... a ginormous cake that is rising still...Immediately I run over to the oven, pull open the door, and bring the cake out of the oven.

"Kasai! Be careful!"

"Don't worry Niichan, I can't get hurt because of the heat anyways." I say, holding up my unscathed hand as I set the now deflating cake onto the counter, "See."

He pulls me in a tight hug. "Still! What would I do if I lost you!"

"Panic like crazy." Victor says, joining onto the hug.

"Piss off." Niichan says, "You know, if you didn't sneak into my room when the oven was still on we would not have been in this mess. A matter of fact, if you just made the cake at your place, you wouldn't have needed to wake me up to help you. And what did I say about leaving the kitchen when the oven is on! You can't leave the oven unattended, especially if you are the one using it."

"Awww, come on, you know that I meant it to be a surprise for Kasai's birthday today. I wanted to make her something special, something from my heart. Don't be mad at me." Victor says whining a little bit.

Niichan sighs, "Fine, but only because you were baking for Kasai."

Victor winks at me and mouths, "You're my saving grace."

Niichan continues, "But Kasai, I would like to tell you, that you should never eat whatever Victor makes, no matter how delicious he tells you it tastes like."

"Oh come on have a little more faith in this Oniichan!" Victor says.

Niichan rolls his eyes. "We aren't married yet Nikiforov, so she won't be calling you that. And if you keep on messing with her, and putting her in danger, she won't be calling you brother-in-law, anytime soon."

It's true, Ice has tried to put me onto some easy local missions, but Niichan has always been super overprotective of me, so all their ideas have been shot down... some of them literally ending up with a shoot off. My opinion on the matter? I would like to get involved... but I respect my Niichan's opinion the most... and, with that dream I just had, I think that I will stick going to the school, and hanging out at the amusement park with my friends... But sometimes I just want to tell Niichan that I'm not that baby he first met all those years ago... and talking about the marriage...well, the victuri wedding is planned for the end of this month.

Suddenly, someone in a bright yellow haz. mat. suit walks in. Through the glass window in the helmet, I can tell its Yurio.

"Take off the suit idiot." Victor calls laughing.

"No. I got the alert from my phone that you were cooking, and I have come to clean up and deal with the mess you made."

"Hey does it look like I made that bad of a mess this time?"

"Yes! Yuri, I am sorry that Victor used your beautiful kitchen to cook."

"It's fine," Niichan says, "I guess, I just won't make breakfast."

"Wait! You aren't going to make breakfast!" All of us exclaim.

"Well, I can't really do anything if the oven, fridge, microwave, and toaster isn't working. Not to mention the state the kitchen is in right now." Niichan replies calmly. 'Well, I guess, I'll just go back to sleep or something. We can go out for brunch later and-"

Niichan cuts himself off as Yurio pulls out his gun, and points it at Victor.

"Oi what did I say about weapons with Kasai ar-"but Niichan gets cut off.

"I came all the way over here to have to clean up your mess, and I won't even get Yuri's cooking out of it! Why the hell did I come over for you then! You know that Beka is visiting right now!" Yurio cries.

"Kasai, come over here now." Niichan orders, and immediately, I am by his side. "Now," he says in a low voice, "you are going to get out of here so you won't get hurt, and you will run to the phone, and call Otabek. Then you will go straight to your room, and stay there till I tell you that it is safe to come out... no doubt the members will be mad too that they don't get breakfast...oh no this is going to be messy...Kasai, make sure you stay in your room. Understand?" he asks. I nod, and immediately slip away. As I run down the corridor, I hear a gun shot. I hope nobody got hurt. I hear a few more as I reach for the landline phone at the end of the hallway, and hurriedly punch in Otabek-kun's phone number.

After a few rings he picks up. "Hello?..." he asks groggily... probably because he just woke up.

"Ummm. Hi Otabek." There are a few more gun shots.

"Kasai, are those guns I hear in the background?"

"Ummm... yes? Well anyways you-"

"Kasai, where are you!" Otabek says alertly, the cobwebs of sleep swept away.

"At home. Why?"

"Because it sounds like you're in danger. Hold on I'm coming over right now. Did something happen to Yuri? I thought he would be there to protect you. Man if you get hurt Yuri will blow it."

"Otabek-kun, I'm fine, it's Yurio that-"

"YURIO!" Otabek-kun says so loudly that I need to hold the phone away from my ear, "I'll be there right away."

"Ya sure thing. I'll see you in a few min-" but he has already hung up.

I sigh, and head back to my room... well this was a great way to start my 15th birthday.

I hear a few shouts, then more gun shots... then even more voices...people that seemingly are chanting "Food, Food, FOOD!" over and over again, and is that Phichit's voice leading them all?...

Getting bored, I want to go and see what is going on, but Niichan said to stay in my room. I sit on my bed, and yawn. I try to keep my eyes open, but the excitement of the morning is starting to make me sleepy...

I'm back in the ally way, and this time I am alone... well not alone. I can feel the hot breath of someone behind me. Tickling the back of my neck. I slowly turn, and it is a figure dressed in a dark flowing robe. I jump back. I can't see their face... only a white pearly smile that peaks out from out of a long hood.

"Jumpy, aren't we." the figure says. I look at him cautiously, unsure of how to react.

"Who are you?" I ask defiantly backing away.

The figure chuckles, "You'll find out soon enough."

I laugh at that. "How can I. This is just a dream. I'm old enough to know that this is just a dream. Anyways why should I even bother to find out? You're just a figmant of my imagination."

The figure laughs at me, throwing his head back, and I can see a little bit of silver peaking out from under the hood. The same silver as Victor's hair... the same silver that lies beneath my dyed hair... I narrow my eyes. "You are so foolish..." the figure says. "Don't you know that sometimes dreams will reflect the reality... that dreams... well more specifically our dreams can hint at the future."

"Our dreams?... What do you mean our?! I'm not-"

The figure raises his hand as if to silence me, and indeed, I find my voice unable to produce sound. "You clearly haven't learned to control your dreams yet have you Number 3?"

I want to reply, but I physically can't. It's as if my voice is stolen by some thief...

The figure checks his watch.

"Well, it looks like I need to go. I just wanted to have a look at you myself... see if the rumor were true... and it looks like they were. Guess this is goodbye, Number 3,... at least for now. I hope to grace your presence soon... not in your dreams, but in the waking world." he says as the black flames from my previous dream surround him then swallow him up, and just like that he is gone.

I wake up with a start, and find that there is total silence. Trying to shake of the dream, I tell myself that it isn't true, that the hooded figure is simply a figure of my imagination. I slip out my room, and walk to the quad to see what happened. There are a few members that are lying "asleep" on the ground... probably hit by paralyzing bullets or by sleep bullets... and a few walls that need repairing, but overall, not the worst damage that was and could have been done. I spot Niichan, and run to him, and hug him.

"Kasai... I thought I told you to stay in your room." Niichan says surprised to see me out here.

"Well, I heard silence, so I assumed that the fighting was over."

Niichan runs his hand through his hair. "What if you got hurt, or you got dragged into a fight or something."

I laugh, Niichan, don't worry, "First off, nobody would dare to touch a hair on my head because of you, and secondly, I can defend myself pretty well, after all Yuiro-kun taught me well. You really should stop babying me."

Yurio-kun has been teaching me lessons, although Niichan opposed to it in the beginning, he eventually agreed saying that it was better for me to know how to defend myself than to find myself helpless in a situation.

Niichan sighs, "I guess you're right."

I nod smiling.

"Oh, by the way Kasai, happy birthday. I can't believe it's been six year since that day in the hospital."

My smile grows, "Thank you Niichan!"

"I'm sorry, I know that it hasn't been a great 15th birthday, but we'll try to make it up to you. How about we all go to brunch at our usual place at the amusement park. Sound good?... well at least the ones who are awake, and not on shift."

"Sounds perfect!" I say happily. I need to put the two weird dreams aside, and enjoy my sixth year since Niichan named me.

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A/n

Hello lovely human beans~

Well, that was the epilogue... I'm using it to help set up the sequel to this novel...So as I'm sure you have read, the sequel happens 6 years after the Last Chapter... Kasai will be the main focus (kinda like how Yuri was the main focus in this one), and Victor, and Yuri will sort of star as her over protective fathers/brothers. Of course I intened to expand on the ships I have constructed i this novel (Otayuri, Phichit and Seung Gil Lee, as well as Victuri (I mean they do have a wedding in a month)).

I hope this gave you guys a little taste into what the sequel will be like...

If you guys have any questions or anything to say, feel free to comment... I love comments.

Well it's going to be a weird sign off cause this book is technically "complete..."

Anybyeeesss, see you guys (hopefully) in around a month as I try to get my grades up and my life together.

Peace Out. 

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