New Lovers
Sakura sat up from her bed without thinking about what had happened, and that was probably the reason she forgot about her dizziness and fell right back down into her bed once again. "Argh!" She managed to say after her attempt and looked into her ceiling, trying to figure out what could cause her such a headache. As she laid there for a couple of minutes, she remembered what had happened and why she should stay down for at least awhile. She obeyed herself and stayed down until the headache was somewhat gone. "Kero?" She called out gently and found the beast by her side within moments. "Hey! You alright?" The beast asked, worried look on it's teddy bear like face. "I'm fine. Thank you for asking, but how did I get here?" Kero sat down on her chest, in front of her and started his tale.
"Well, you came home, kind of wiped out in Yue's arms. You know, he looked just like before when we went to the park, you know, with the shorter hair and everything. He looked human! Well, anyway, your brother was home as well, after the festival thing. He was still tired you know. So, anyway, he took one look at you and then Yue, and invited him in. Without another word, Yue took you to your room and changed to Yukito, so your brother and he can talk. You really got to split the two in half, girl. They are suffering, both of them. And your brother said that you're staying home today." Sakura looked at him, her eyes puzzled. "Ok…Do you think it's possible?" Kero thought for a moment. "You are powerful enough to. If you can use your pure magic and the pure magic only for the task, you probably can. But, you would have to train harder to accomplish that." Sakura nodded and waved for him to get off her, ready to get up once again and see if she could stay up that time. She moved slowly, almost like a turtle.
When she found that she could get up, she looked around herself for other things. "Where are the two cards?" She asked, looking around. "They are with the other cards. As soon as you were in your bed, all of the cards went back into the book. Anything else you wish to know?" Sakura shook her head and changed her clothes into a light pink shirt with flare jeans. She walked down the stairs with the hungry guardian floating down with her and walked into the kitchen. "Hey Touya." She said as she saw her brother cooking breakfast. "Do we have to feed that thing?" He asked, looking at the guardian beast of the Seal with mock detest. "Unfortunately, yes. Besides, he's Yue's brother. I have to be nice to him." With a smile, she sat down on the table, her head in her hands. "You alright, kido?" He asked her, worry hidden behind his teasing look. She didn't look up, but nodded a little. "Did you talk to Yukito?" Touya didn't say anything, causing Sakura to look at him.
"He wasn't too happy to find out. But I guess he needed to hear the truth. He's depressed." Sakura looked at him, sadness clear in her eyes. "I'm going to talk to him today. So, are you sure that you don't have anything with um…" Sakura shook her head, knowing who her brother was talking about. "Yue and I have nothing to do today. Don’t worry about it. I think he wouldn't mind if I left the day for you and Yukito to work things out. I really didn't explain things enough to him. I really didn't have the time and I think he's still really shocked." Her brother nodded in understanding. "Thanks." She smiled. "I'm going to be studying my brains out for the day. I hope you don't mind, dear brother." Touya looked at her with strange eyes. "Study for what? I mean, it's not as if you have exams or anything." Sakura smiled in her secretive way. "I didn’t mean that kind of studying, Touya. I meant the type to help me with my magic. That way, I could separate Yue and Yukito and make sure that neither of them are in pain. It might be hard, but I'm going to do it if it kills me."
Hearing the determination in her voice, Touya was somewhat startled. Sakura, though she achieved anything she set out to do, was never really that determined and he just knew, that the task she had set herself was a hard one. He could see it in her way she looked and the way she had made her announcement. He offered her one of his rare, without teasing smiles and turned back to his food. She also smiled and raced up to her room, her lean body moving up the stairs in a rapid speed. He sighed as he watched her and turned to the golden bear that followed behind her, slowly, looking back at the food and then at his mistress. Sighing, Kero looked for the last time at the kitchen and flew to catch up with his mistress. Touya chuckled as he watched the scene.
Now, all he had to do was worry about the talk he was going to have with his best friend and also the false form of his sister's soulmate. He sighed and forgot about the house work and sat down in one of the chairs around the dining table. Laying his face on his hand, he looked towards the photo of his mother, whom he had given up seeing, so that Yue could protect his sister and so that Yukito could be around. He sighed again. He was confused. Sakura had been correct when she had stated that he was in love with Yukito. But, what did the silver haired boy feel? He didn't know. And he needed to know. Yue, the other part of Yukito loved Sakura, was bonded with her as a soulmate. Supposedly, according to Sakura, Yukito's body contained two souls, two souls that conflicted each other enough to make them both fade away as the power faded, but could they both love different people? And would Yukito love him? As he thought about it, another quick flash of thought entered his mind. Sakura. She could feel what others were feeling right? Could he ask her about what Yukito felt?
Without needing to think further about the subject, Touya got up from his seat and started up the stairs. He would have to ask Sakura. He just had to. As he walked up the stairs though, he started to feel insecure. What if she told him what Yukito didn't feel the same way? What if…then he shook his head. He couldn't sway now. He had to ask the sorceress if his best friend loved him as a lover and he had to know, even if it would cause him pain. His pace fastens up as he reaches her door. And again, he froze. He breathed in deeply a few times before he had enough courage to open the door. When he did, he found his sister glowing a silvery pink colour and took a step back. And watched.
Glowing, slightly pulsing with the powers that ran in her blood, Sakura gently called at the cards. Cards she had already changed. With the powers that didn't go to Yue anymore, she had enough in herself to try things out and to see what she could do with her magic. It wasn't to say that it was a lot of magic in reserve, but enough, just enough for her cause. "Windy." She called gently and felt the card open and stand beside her, with a proud smile of a gentle mother. Then secondly, she called again. "Watery." The Watery opened as well with her command and came towards her, standing next to Windy with the sheer power of the card's magic pulsing in the room. Next, she called for Firery, expecting it to be harder than any of the others. And it was, only slightly harder with the two other strong elements in the room. She started to sweat. It was almost too much, with only a little bit of her magic left in her, she tried her impossible, having all of the element cards open at once. Even Clow Reeds had found it hard to do it, when in full power and she was far from it.
Touya looked at his sister, awed at the worry that Cards showed, the gentleness in which even the most powerful of the cards seemed to show towards their Mistress and the distressed look Sakura had on her face. The power in her hands, Touya saw, not for the first time, was a great one. It was probably more than enough to destroy the world, should it come to that. And also, he saw, that it was probably enough to restore the whole world, if it also came to that. She started to sweat and barely managed to say the word on her lips. "Earthy." She called and the form started to take place, slowly, little by little as the shape of a beautiful lady stood there, looking the most worried for the Mistress of Sakura cards than the others. "She's exhausted." The card said, surprising Touya. He had thought that the cards were incapable of talking, that what had happened before with the other cards was just his sister's doing, but…
"She is. But there is little we could do for her. She's also growing." Answered the Windy card, always the gentle motherly one. Sakura opened her eyes and smiled at them. "Thank you. Earthy, how do you feel with the new power source?" Earthy gave her a smile. "With the ability to speak, and the fact that the power I get now is from you, I'm loving it, my dear Mistress." Sakura smiled. "Ladies, and gentleman, would you like to go back? I guess you could stay, but I fear that I won't have enough power left to hold you here for long." The four…beings shook their heads. "It's fine, Mistress. Call on us when you need help. Till than, we are satisfied in our card forms." Replied the Firery as he quickly went back to his card form, the others slowly following. Windy was the last, and changed only after she had planted a gentle kiss on Sakura's forehead. As they all disappeared, the aura around Sakura disappeared as well.
Calmly, Sakura turned to Touya and told him something that caused his heart to jump. "He loves you." Touya looked at her, surprise clear in his eyes. "Yukito loves you. That's the reason I've been working so hard with my magic. I know that he loves you and Yue loves me. For all of us to be happy, the two have to be separate. For now though, Touya, go and talk to him. Yukito is in a lot of pain and uncertainty. He would have already talked with Yue, so the magical technicalities would have been worked out, but he feels insecure about his existence. He feels that he is useless and that he means nothing. That he is nothing. I don't want him to feel that. Neither does Yue and neither do you." She told him, her hand wearily going over her eyes, in which the fluffy ball came over to look at her with worried eyes. "Mistress?" Sakura gave him a smile and looked outside for a moment. "Go out for awhile, Kero. Change and have fun. I kept you here without stretching for too long." He looked surprised at her suggestion and shook his head. "I rather stay here. Besides, you're running low." Sakura shook her head with a smile. "I'm not trying to get rid of you, Kero. I just feel guilty about keeping you here when you rather be outside with the sun and fly. I know you enjoy that. Also, you know that the sun power would be enough for you to change. And perhaps you could transfer some of that power to me."
Kero smiled and nodded. "Sure. I won't be too long, Mistress." Sakura offered him a large smile and watched as he changed, not using her power at all and flew out of the window. She knew that he would use his own power from the sun to make sure that he wasn't seen by anyone without the power of magic. Keroberus wasn't stupid. No, the golden bear was far from stupid. She smiled again as she felt her powers raising. "Aren't you gone yet?" She looked up at her brother and at his awe filled face and asked. "Well, I was kind of wondering on how I'm supposed to break the news to Yuki." Sakura looked thoughtful. "Well, I suggest that you take him somewhere to eat first and then slowly talk to him about it. Ask if he had talked to Yue and then go from there. I want you to make sure that he knows about what you feel. I don't want him just hanging there worrying. Even Yue is getting rather annoyed at his love sickness. I really think you should tell him about how he feels. Though, I think that should be done in a private place. Actually, why don't you bring him home? I was planning to cook up something and maybe if he's here, I could try to get Yue to eat something."
Touya looked at her with puzzled eyes at her statement. "Yue doesn't eat?" Sakura nodded, looking thoughtful. "He finds no need to. Yukito eats for the both of them and Yue doesn’t like food, not that he's ever tried it for that matter. But anyway, are you going to do that?" Touya looked thoughtful for a moment and nodded. "Sure. I think that would be the best idea. I can't believe I'm saying this, but thanks for the advice, Sakura." She offered him a beautiful smile and nodded. "Anytime. After all, you used to give me advices and help and protection ever since I was little." It was then. It was then that Touya really saw how much his sister had grown up, how much she had changed with the powers in her hands and just how powerful and wise she actually was. She was no longer dense either, in fact, she was the first one to know about any emotion that tan in anyone's mind. She was no longer the little monster. She was a grown lady with powers that was beyond his imagination.
Touya nodded to her as he walked out of the room and towards Yukito, and hoped that his heart would stay in one piece through the ordeal. He hoped.
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Sakura looked at the two uncomfortable men in the room. She first thought boys and then decided after a moment that they were more than boys. They were older and they were going through love that would last forever. And she knew it. With a secretive smile on her face, she offered them tea and cakes. Yukito looked at her for a moment before he looked at the cakes and then at his hand. The simple look he had on his face broke Sakura's heart. She wanted to cry, but she fought it. "Yukito, may I talk to you, alone?" She asked he looked at her, surprise clear in her eyes. "Would you like to go on a walk with me?" She asked, with her trademark smile. Unable to fight the smile on his own face, Yukito nodded and took her hand, walking out of the house and towards the park where so many events have occurred.
Until they reached the park, they had walked in silence, neither talking, but feeling comfortable in the silence. Sakura knew why. Yukito didn't want her to talk, in fear of her revealing even more things about him that he didn't want to know, but she also knew that he wanted to know everything, the curiosity got to him. As they neared the bench, she gestured for him to sit down with her, which he did, looking more or less towards the kids playing at the play equipment. "Talk to me Yukito-san. Tell me what you feel." He looked at her in surprise, at the control she was taking in her actions. She was confident now, the way she did things was different and she definitely wasn't the blushing girl he saw when she had been younger. "I don't know what to talk to you about, Sakura-san." She smiled and looked at him. "About your feelings. Tell me what you feel right now. Tell of the confused emotions within you and tell me, what you feel when you look at me, or when you look at my brother. Tell me."
Yukito closed his eyes for a moment and for some reason, he felt compelled to talk. And so he did. "I feel confused and upset. I don't feel like I belong here. I don't mean a thing to anyone. I'm just a part of a grander being than myself. I don't even know the full extent of where he begins and I stop. I don't understand what is going on. All I know is that everything I have ever remembered about my past is wrong, that it's all fake. Yue told me about the magical things about what I am, but it only told me that I'm just a body for him to hide from. I'm not even a body. I'm just a part of him in the smallest way and…" Sakura stopped him with a hug. "I'm so sorry." She told him as she cried into his shoulder. "It's all my fault. I shouldn't have told you things like that. I should have explained it better, I should have made sure that it didn't hurt you. I'm so sorry." Yukito held her and found himself smiling. Perhaps he did mean something, at least to Sakura…maybe.
"Yukito-san, you don't understand how much you mean to me. You're like the second brother for me. You've always been there for me when I needed help and before I knew Yue, I knew you. You were my first crush and I love you even now, as a brother, as a friend and as someone I could always count on. So, please, don't leave me. Don't leave Touya." He looked at her again in surprise, well the best he could, as her face was still buried in his shoulder. Without giving him a chance to say anything, she started to talk again. "He loves you. Just as you love him. If you left, he would be sad and he would be lost. I don't want that to happen. I don't want to lose you. And for what Clow did to you, I'm so sorry. It shouldn't have happened. I'm so sorry." With her last apology, she fell into a sob and cried into his shoulder, the guilt and fear that she might lose him triggering all her tears.
"Sakura-chan, please, don't cry. He doesn't want you to cry and your brother will kill me if he thought that I made your cry." Yukito said, gently in his usual self, a smile on his face. He was important to some, he really was. And for that, he was glad. He perhaps knew deep in his mind that he was loved, and needed, but when you find out such a big thing about you, your past, you tend to forget about such things. It always seems to happen that way. Sakura smiled as she looked up, into his eyes and hugged him again. Then when she looked up, her eyes puffy and happier than before, she looked past Yukito and into Yue. Yukito felt it and looked at her, puzzled. Seeing his look, she explained. "Yue's been listening into our conversation…he's being naughty. And his Mistress isn't to happy about that." She directed most of that part at Yue, but caused Yukito to laugh at the expression on her face.
Sakura's look softened, but soon went back to serious. Though she was looking at Yukito, she was talking to both beings at the same time and Yue knew. "Yue, I want you to open the barrier between his mind and yours. That way, he could see what's happening when you're out. Or you can go to sleep whenever he's out and he can sleep whenever you're out. But I want this to be fair. So, what do you both choose?" She gave them a moment to think about their answer and looked at them again. Yukito whispered, "open" but Sakura could see her soulmate behind it as well. "Then open your mind, Yue." Sakura whispered quietly, not as a command, but just as the magical sentence to make the working a little easier. When it was done, Yukito looked at her, with surprise clear in his eyes. "I never thought I could feel him so closely. But why is he so cold?" Yukito asked her, so suddenly that it caused Sakura to look startled. "Because he's been heartbroken and is in the process of mending that heart. I think he's just cold at the moment because he doesn't know what you'll think of him. The thing is, though your minds are now open to each other, he won't pry. He won't try to go and see what you feel and so he's somewhat nervous, I guess."
Yukito smiled. "He and me both." The young Card Mistress laughed as she stood up and looked at her watch. "We should get going. Touya's going to be very nervous at the moment and we don't want to keep him that way for long, do we?" Yukito laughed again and stood up as well, offering her his arm and the two walked together, slowly as possible towards the house, still talking. "Yukito-san, Yue-san, I was wondering if I could split you two into half and as far as I know, that should be possible. But at the moment, my powers are yet growing and I don't have enough, supporting the cards to split you, but soon I should, so what do you think of it? Would you like to be split?" Sakura asked, wanting their opinion before she went and did something. "Would it cause either of us harm? Or what about Touya? I mean, Yue has his magic now, doesn't he?" Sakura nodded to the last question. "Yue does have Touya's magic, but I don't think it would effect Touya at all. Besides, as soon as I have enough power, I think Yue should come back to relying on my magic, or I could get him to eat…" Yukito, or rather Yue, shook his head furiously.
"I don't think Yue-san likes to eat, Sakura." Giving them both a suffering sigh, Sakura nodded. "I know. It was worth a try though." Yukito smiled. Sakura thought along the subject of splitting the two when she remembered something. "Oh, Yukito-san, if I split you two, you'll end up with a bit of magic as well. It can't be helped. Clow Reeds created you to be able to support Yue, and so, you would have a bit of magic on your on, about as much as Touya, I guess. You would also, more or less rely on the Moon for your powers as well." Yukito looked at her, surprised. "Really? I guess that wouldn't be too bad…" Sakura simply smiled as they neared the house. "You ready?" She asked him as he breathed in deeply and they walked into the house together. As soon as they did, Touya was there, glaring at Sakura, who was trying her best to look innocent.
Sakura looked at the two men in the room and smiling, decided to take her leave. "I have to go and study now. I think Syaoran would have more books on what I need, so, I'll go out for a moment." Before her brother could complain about her choice of place being the Chinese Brat's house, she was gone and the two left in awkward silence. Without needing to talk, they sat down at the lounge, where a new pot of tea was and where the cakes were.
The Sweet, Innocent, Loving, Gentle, Card Mistress fought to control her laughter as she was out of earshot of the house. She leaned against the wall for a moment as she laughed and straightened when she noticed that people passing her was looking at her strangely. She smiled at them and started to head towards Syaoran's flat, not forgetting to ring Tomoyo and him before. Syaoran told her that she was welcome and Tomoyo as well, if they had something good to tell him. Sakura promised him the best.
Touya looked at Yukito, the snow bunny he had come to know and love. Yukito's eyes were somewhat sad and though he smiled, there wasn't really his usual happy look there. As he watched every move Yukito made, he gathered his courage up and decided against it. He would work his way there. "So, what did the Monster say?" Yukito grinned at Touya's name for his sister and went serious. "She told me that she cared for me and didn't want me to disappear. She said that I meant something to people and that I meant a little more to others. She also opened Yue's mind up with mine, so, he's kind of listening into the conversation even now…" He trailed off as he indeed found that Yue was listening in. When he asked why, Yue simply told him that it was a request from his Mistress. With a suffering sign, Yukito continued what he was saying before. "She told me that there was a chance she could split us into two different beings, so it wouldn't cause sadness for the two of us or…you."
Touya looked up sharply from the cake he was playing with. "She also told me…" Touya took the chance. "That I love you." While Yukito was looking at him with shocked eyes, Touya moved to seat next to him and carefully, leaned down the kiss his slightly open lips. Yukito's eyes widened at the fact that his best friend, the person he always had a crush on was kissing him and when he got over his shock, he opened his mouth to invite Touya in and he kissed him back. The two kissed away the fear of losing each other and the fear of rejection that had, without them knowing, built up in them. When they finally came up for air, Yukito blushed and looked at him with eyes clear of the sadness, but with just the smiles. "I love you too, To-ya." Yukito told him, pulling him for another kiss.
Yue watched the scene before him and smiled. Strange. He had never smiled for anyone else by Clow and then Sakura. Strange how he was starting to smile more often, to even show emotion now and then. Before, all he had felt was anger and then hate and if nothing else, annoyance. But it was different now. He felt all the emotions in the world and found that he could express them, to tell others about what he feel. And the coldness in his heart, the ice he knew existed once upon a time, was now gone. He could no longer feel the coldness in him or the anger, but love and gentleness that puzzled him. But he knew the answer to all the strangeness. Sakura. One name answered all the questions he had. Sakura. He smiled and quietly sent a message out to his soulmate, telling her that Yukito and Touya had finally gotten together.
*****
Sakura looked at her friends, a book in her hands while the other two helped her with the research as well. "I think…" Tomoyo started, but looked up and stopped when she saw the absolute blank eyes on Sakura's face. Puzzled, she decided that she would wait, seeing Syaoran studying Sakura. "Yes!" Sakura yelled all of sudden, jumping up with joy. The book dropped from her lap, but never to the ground. To Tomoyo and Syaoran's amazement, the book was suspended in the air as the Card Mistress looked and listened something that wasn't there. When she finally calmed down, she looked at her friends and offered them the biggest smiles on the planet. "Touya and Yukito finally got together! But Yue reckons that I shouldn't go home for another two or three hours." Syaoran didn't reply in any other way than to open his mouth and close it again, repeating it a couple of times, pointing at the floating book.
Confused, the emerald eyed teen looked at what Syaoran was pointing at and calming, picked the book out of midair and sat down, starting to look at it again, when she noticed the stares. "What?" She asked, looking puzzled and innocent. Syaoran shook his head at the answer. He could guess why though. Sakura had gotten used to her quickly developing, different powers and didn't really take it serious when strange things happened around her, mostly due to her magic. "The book was floating in midair." Tomoyo pointed out to her best friend, shock clear in her voice and on her face. "Without using a card." She explained a little more, seeing the more or less lost look on Sakura's face. "Oh that! It's nothing wrong. I mean, it happens all the time. Well, it started to happen about a week ago, but since then, it's always been happening. Whenever I don't want something to drop or fall, it kind of freezes in it's place. Once, when Kero was flying around too much and got annoying, I froze him in midair as well. That was rather strange. But anyway, the two finally got together!" She exclaimed again, as if it was the most fascinating thing in the world.
Tomoyo, finally having calmed down after the surprise of her best friend suddenly showing off her new power, asked, "who got together? I mean with the shock of what just happened with the book, I kind of missed out on what you were saying, Sakura-chan." Sakura smiled in understanding and explained. "Well, I knew for some time that Yukito-san and my brother was feeling something for each other. And when I told Yukito-san about everything, about Yue and all that, he was very upset, well, he kind of felt that he was useless and just really depressed. So, I got my dear brother to talk to him. Touya bought him home and I decided that I would talk to Yukito-san a little before their talk. So, I told Yukito-san that Touya was in love with him and I got Yue to open his mind to Yukito's, allowing him to see through even when Yue was around. I thought that might make things a little better for him. Anyway, I felt for them to talk, privately, but asked Yue to tell me if anything important happened. And it did! They finally told each other about what they felt and Yue reckons that I shouldn't come home for about two or three hours."
The violet haired girl smiled slyly and gave Sakura a look while Syaoran blushed bright red as he finally caught on to the reason Sakura shouldn't go home. Tomoyo, calm as her usual self, over her shock and now very interested in the new set of lovers, turned to Sakura with a sly smile on her face. "Your father won't be coming home for awhile either, now, well he?" Sakura copied her smile and nodded. "He's away on a business trip for the rest of the week." Syaoran, with a strangled sound, turned to his book and buried his face in it and refused to look at the two very cheeky girls for the longest time. Giggling, Sakura and Tomoyo also turned back to their books, looking for how they could help out the two souls that sought to be with their respective lovers, but found that they had to share their time. They wanted to help them out the best they can and the only way they found was to research to aid the Card Mistress in her magical working.
*****
Eriol looked up from the fire lit in the lounge room and smiled. At last. Things hadn't gone the way he had planned, no. But things worked out pretty well. Better than he had wished or ever hoped for. It was going very, very well. Smiling and leaning back, he looked towards his two guardians, chasing each other around the room. Perhaps they were a little more trouble than help, but they were his friends and his only companions. And the only ones he could really rely on at the moment with everything that was going on. Perhaps soon, he could have the help of his school friends, but there was only so much he could wish for.
Spinel Sun looked at his Master and flew over to him, his small form fitting perfectly into his Master's hands. He sat on his Master's white hands and looked up into the blue-black eyes. "What bothers you, Master?" Eriol looked down towards his Sun guardian and thought to shake his head, to say that there was nothing wrong, but found that he couldn't. Spinel Sun would know that he wasn't telling the truth, he always could. His Sun Guardian was much smarter than that. He knew Eriol well. Perhaps even better than Eriol himself. "Just thinking about Sakura and our plans, Spinel Sun." When the Guardian heard the tinge of sadness in his voice, he knew what bothered his Master. "You think that Sakura wouldn't forgive you. You are worried that you might be hated by her and thought of as an enemy." Eriol nodded his head slightly, for the millionth time wondering if he was doing the right thing. After all, he knew that Sakura now knew that she had to changed the cards. Couldn't that be enough? But he knew. He knew very well that it would be hard for her to change some of the cards and without the circumstance when she had to change the cards, she might find it impossible. For example, Light and Dark would take immense power to change and he knew that it wouldn't happen without his pushing. So, he pushed.
"Eriol, you know better than to think that your daughter would hate you. Sakura might be puzzled, slightly angry at the fact that you hadn't told her and explained, but she would see the reason for it. She's not dumb. She's very intelligent and she would see that it was necessary for you to push her like that. She would see it." Eriol took comfort in the small creatures words and leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes. "I'm tired, Spinel Sun." Eriol almost whispered. The guardian of the Sun looked up, worriedly at his Master. The last trick had caused his Master a great drain of power. To fight Sakura's growing powers had cost Eriol a lot more than expected. "Rest, my dear Master. Rest." Eriol nodded and slipped into the world of dreams, glad that he had already organised and finished setting up the next mishap for his daughter.
Ruby Moon watched the exchange between her Master and her fellow Guardian. She knew how much Sakura meant to Eriol. She knew better than knew. She was her Master's creation and felt what he felt. And he felt love for the girl like nothing else he had ever felt before. He felt love and care for her like a father and then like a friend and then as someone that had grown fond of her after he had watched her for thousands of years. Seeing him so worried for her and then for what she would think of him as, broke Ruby Moon's heart. Though she could seem too hyper active and uncaring towards her Master, she loved him dearly and she was sure that he knew about it. She didn't need to show it to him, but she felt like it. Quietly, she walked towards him and growing her wings again, bent down and carefully picked up her sleeping Master. Strange, isn't it? He was her Master, yet he was also a child. With the knowledge of extreme age and amount, he was easily picked up by her and carried like a child. Sure, he was sixteen years old, but he was light and compared to her, small. Carrying him with care and gentleness she rarely showed, she carried him to his bed and allowed him to rest, watching over him with her fellow guardian.
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Touya opened his eyes, a smile coming to his face as he remembered the night before. He and Yukito had spent the whole night talking and making out, and even found themselves making love to each other in the gentlest ways. They lost their virginity to each other in the act that was both beautiful and gentle. So filled with love that threatened to nearly burst Touya's heart and mind. Sakura had come home late, and probably through her window, as he didn't hear her coming, but just felt the barest of her aura. Even without his powers, he could still feel her presence. It was as if Yue had made it that way. Smiling again, Touya looked down at the boy in his arms. The grey hair fell over his sleeping face and the eyes that fluttered with the morning light greeted Touya. Gently, he brushed those bangs away and kissed the beautiful lips he had tasted over and over again.
Yukito's eyes fluttered open as he kissed Touya back, looking at him with a smile in his eyes. "Good morning, Yuki." Touya whispered, using the nickname he didn't dare use before. "'Morning To-ya." Yukito whispered back, kissing him softly when they heard a cry of pain downstairs. Yukito frowned, looking at Touya and quickly getting out of bed. "What is it, Yuki?" Touya asked as they both got dressed quickly. "Yue says that Sakura had a vision or something. She's going to need comforting." With that, Yukito was out of the room, running towards the Mistress of his other form and towards someone he thought of as his baby sister. Touya followed, catching up with his lover, both of them with their pants up, but their shirts unbuttoned.
When they got to the kitchen, they found Sakura on the floor, the white dress she was wearing falling around her in waves of cotton. "Sakura!" Touya cried out as he moved towards his sister while Yukito changed. For the first time, he was able to feel the change he was going through. He felt himself being slightly pushed as Yue's mind took center stage and he felt the gentleness in which Yue handled him, even in the situation when his Mistress was in distress. And then he felt nothing else. The only difference was that he couldn't move and the fact that it seemed like he was looking through someone else's eyes, which he was. Quickly, he noticed snow white wings at the corner of Yue's eyes and the silvery white strands of hair that fell nearly to the ground as the Guardian knelt down next to his Mistress and gently lifted her into his arms. Gently picking her up, he carried her to the lounge room, but didn't lay her down. Instead, he sat down on the sofa and held her in his arms, glowing slightly, his hair flying up, with his wings disappearing, he started to probe his Mistress's mind, carefully seeing what was wrong.
And that's when she awoke. Opening her bright green eyes, she found herself staring into bright silver eyes, tinted with violet. "Yue?" She whispered, questioningly, wondering if she was seeing things. "Yes Mistress. What happened? Are you alright?" Sakura sat up a little from his embrace and laid her head against his shoulder, feeling him relaxing slightly, to make himself into a better pillow. Sakura smiled at the thought, but her mind quickly took her to the vision she had. "Did you have a vision?" He asked her, gently as possible, watching her face for any signs of alarm and carefully watched her mind with his senses as well. "It was dark." She started out of nowhere, but Yue was used to it. Clow used to do it as well. Even Clow, the greatest magician at one point, would come out of visions in shock and tell him and Cereberus about it. As she paused, the yellow ball of fluffy, fully transformed, flew into the lounge room, worry clear in his beastly eyes.
Touya was startled, only slightly at the entrance of his sister's Sun Guardian, but relaxed when he saw the worry in his eyes. Sakura continued her strange talk. "Everywhere there was darkness. Just like the time when we went after the Dark card. I can barely see through the darkness, because of the staff and the magical lights." Her face was filled with fear and shock as she continued to talk, tears starting to gather in her eyes. "And everyone. They're all in some sort of comma. That's what he tells me." She paused, the tears falling as Yue, the Moon Guardian looks at her with a broken heart clear on his face and gently wiped them away from her beautiful face. Cereberus, however knew his duties and questioned the Card Mistress. "Who's he, Sakura?" Without even looking towards her Sun Guardian, she answered his question. "The strange magician. There's the grid of Clow under him and he has two guardians as well. One of the Sun and the other of the Moon. They are the opposite of you. The magician, he draws his powers from the darkness. Like I used to when I was a Card captor. And he's my age." Sakura frowned, tears forgotten as she fought to remember some details about her vision.
"He's wearing the robe Clow Reeds wore when he talked to me after the Final Judgment. And the staff is of the Sun, I think. It's gold and I think it's something to do with light or the sun, but I can't be sure. He tells me that if I don’t do something, then all the people in the city's going to die in their comma. But I can't do anything. My magic's running low. I have only one card I can use and it's Light. But I know that if I change Light, I have to change Dark as well. And I don't have the power!" And finally, after telling of her vision, she broke down and cried into Yue's shoulder. Cereberus, seeing that Sakura couldn't tell them anything more about the vision, turned to Touya and motioned for the over protective brother to follow him. Yue simply held his Mistress and allowed her to cry.
"I thought I might explain a few things to you." Cereberus said as Touya finished off what Sakura had made for breakfast. Luckily, he knew that Sakura still had a bit of time before she had to rush off to school, so, he slowly went about making the breakfast and listening to the lion like beast. "Sorcerers or Magicians or whatever you would like to call it, can have visions, if they are powerful enough. Some have prophetic dreams, like Sakura used to, when her powers were still dormant and if they are powerful enough, they have visions of the future. Sakura is definitely powerful enough and she's starting to have those visions now. And it's most likely killing her. Even Clow, when his powers were fully developed, came out of his visions shocked or even crying. Yue and I had to comfort him. Well, it was sorta different then. Yue was the one questioning and I was the one doing the comforting. Anyway, so, if you see Sakura just staring off into space, with her eyes probably moving, than I suggest you leave her alone. She's probably seeing something you aren't. Like how you used to see ghosts. She wouldn't be seeing ghosts though, probably something that's happening else where or something Yue's seeing or something like that."
Touya nodded as he finished breakfast and looked at Cereberus. "Wanna change? I don't think I cooked enough to feed you in that form." Looking down at himself, Cereberus agreed and changed to his smaller form, giving what energy he can to his Mistress. After looking rather longingly at his breakfast, Kero sighed and slowly floated over to where Yue and Sakura was. When he poked his head in through the door way, he found Sakura just sitting there, her head against Yue's shoulder and her face rid of all signs of crying. Yue was gently stroking her hair and holding her tightly against him, as if he was afraid he was going to lose her. Kero looked at them, a gentle smile coming to his face. He wanted to do anything but interrupt them, but Sakura had to go to school and Yukito had to go to Uni…so, the yellow ball of fluff popped into the room and yelled. "BREAKFAST!!!!" Sakura was startled out of her position and Yue, the calm Yue, almost dropped his Mistress. "Kero!" Sakura complained as she calmed down her beating heart and glared at her beast of the seal.
Kero just smiled at her and high tailed out of the lounge room and into the kitchen. Not really wanting to, but knowing that she had to, Sakura walked into the kitchen with Yue by her side. "Eat. You're going to be late if you don't." Touya said as he sat down and started to eat, himself. Sakura pushed Yue to sit down next to her, where a plate of food was and started to eat. When she noticed that Yue was just more or less looking at her, she turned to face him and pointed to the food. "Eat." Yue shook his head. "I don't eat, Mistress." He replied to her gesture and found himself looking into a very cute, convincing, puppy dog eyes and knew that he had made the biggest mistake he had ever made in two hundred or so years. "Yue, Please?" She asked, her eyes coming into the plea.
Across from them, Touya and Kero was observing what was happening with smiles on their faces. Tough Touya was trying very hard to stay in his emotionless face, or at least a frown, but found it impossible at the expression on the Moon Guardian's face. "Mistress, I…" Sakura stopped him with a kiss, carefully slipping the strawberry she had in her mouth into Yue's. Without knowing, Yue tasted something sweet and a little sour in his mouth as Sakura continued to kiss him, the strawberry being eaten by her as well. When they both heard the cough from the two sitting across from them, Yue had eaten the strawberry and was wanting more. Sakura looked at the two with the biggest smile they had ever seen on her face. With the same smile, she turned to Yue and asked, "did you like it?" To her surprise, Yue nodded. "Yay!" Sakura exclaimed as she fed Yue another strawberry. Kero stared at her and at Yue with his mouth dropping to the floor. Smiling gently at Sakura's happiness at just getting him to eat a strawberry, Yue ate the offered fruit, forgetting about all else.
"Yue, you're eating." Kero stated, shocked expression still on his face. "Surprisingly enough, I think I like strawberries." Yue commented, his face holding no emotions, other than curiosity. "Yue, you're eating." Kero repeated while the Moon Guardian nodded. "I know." Kero blew up into a rant. "But you never eat! You haven't in the fifty years I and Clow have tried! Even when you were a child you didn’t eat! I mean, when you were born, you didn't even look towards food! And even when Clow begged, and Clow never begged for you to eat, you shook your head, apologised and flew off!" Yue frowned slightly. "Clow didn't beg. I probably would have if he commanded me to." Kero shook his head, as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing and hearing. "Either way, I'm shocked." With that, he promptly fainted. Sakura looked at him and fell into a fit of giggles. "So, I've succeeded in something Clow-sama couldn't do? Wow!" Yue gave her a small smile as he ate another strawberry.
"Oh, by the way Touya, we have to go out and by a present for dad. Remember? I still haven't got him anything for Christmas just yet." Touya nodded. "I know. Do you want me to pick you up after school?" Sakura nodded. "That would be for the best." Touya nodded and looked at Yue for a moment. "Um…can you kind of change back? Yuki likes to eat his breakfast…" Yue smiled a little and nodded. "Of course. If you don’t mind of course, Mistress." He turned to Sakura, surprised when she kissed him deeply and smiled. "You taste of strawberries." She whispered to him and smiled when he blushed slightly. Soon, he was replaced by Yukito who looked at Touya and at Sakura. "Good morning!" He said brightly as he looked at his food. "Well, I guess there's no strawberries for me." He pouted, but smiled when Touya handed him the strawberries from his own breakfast. "Thank To-ya!" Yukito said as he started to eat in the inhuman speed that shocked many.
"I should get ready for school." Sakura said quickly and grabbing the unconscious form of her Sun Guardian, almost ran out of the room, seeing the time. Rushing, she managed to get everything ready just in time and rushed out of the house, leaving the two lovers be. Touya looked at Yukito and offered him one of his many dashing smiles and they ate their breakfast, together, just glad that they had each other.
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Sakura waited by the gate in front of her school and awaited the arrival of her brother. As she waited though, she felt something. Something that was starting to get a little more than familiar with time. It was magic. And to be exact, Clow's magic. Quickly, she looked around and without summoning the wand, she called Mirror and soon was looking at the double of her, dressed in the winter uniform. The dark blue skirt, white shirt and the over coat with the scarf around her neck. "Your brother already knows about you, Mistress…" She didn’t continue. Sakura however smiled and nodded in understanding. "I know. But I wanted to make him feel that I wasn't trying to miss out. Besides, if I'm just gone, he might worry." Mirror nodded and watched as Sakura quickly grew her beautiful silvery pink wings and flew away into the bright blue sky, quickly darkening.
Touya arrived at the gate of his sister's school to see that she was waiting for her, but Yukito stopped short and his eyes turning slightly violet, looked at Mirror with questioning gaze. Touya knew that it was Yue that was in control now, not his slender lover. "Yue-sama!" Mirror exclaimed, her head bowing down and her form almost bowing to the Moon Guardian. "Mirror, Where's the Mistress?" Mirror looked at Touya and back towards Yukito. "I cannot say. Mistress asked me to go with her brother, to make sure that he did not worry for her." Yukito's body sighed as Touya nodded. "Alright then. Yue-san, go and find my sister. Help her if she's in trouble. Come one, Sakura, let's go shopping." Mirror smiled and walked towards Touya, while Yukito started to walk another way all together.
~Where are we going?~ Yukito asked the other being in his mind as they walked. It was his body, but Yue was controlling it, with his permission, of course. ~Where my Mistress is. I can feel her presence. She's in a battle.~ Yukito nodded. ~Aren't you going to change?~ He asked as the got closer to the area of the park that looked over the small harbor. ~Soon. Anyway, we're here.~ Yukito, with Yue's eyes looking around, was puzzled. ~How do you know?~ Yue nearly smiled at the curiosity in Yukito's mind. ~It's devoid of any people. Usually, from what I saw in your mind before, it's full of people. So, it could only mean that Sakura-sama is here.~ Yukito nodded as he once again felt the familiar change and watched in amazement as Sakura was once again glowing in the beautiful silvery pink colour. Her eyes were closed as she concentrated. But all of sudden, from where her back was, the iron beams that was the railing, tore itself apart and lounged at the Card Mistress. Sakura, with her magical instincts, froze it in it's tracks with her newly gained magic. Yue stared. When another beam came to life.
"Sakura!" He yelled, alerting her of the second beam and allowing her to dodge it the best she could. Sakura did, but found a bit of her coat was ripped by it. Sighing, she ignored it and went on to dodge the other ones that attacked her. Yue, seeing that there was more beams than what Sakura could handle, went into the battle as well, his form moving quickly as lightening to block and the dodge the beams. "Mistress, try using the Wood Card. That could deflect them enough for you to think of a plan." Sakura nodded and quickly called on her wand, without the chanting and quickly called on the Earth Card and quickly changed it and opened it, all without chanting. And she found it to be much faster than normal because of that. Glad, Sakura and Yue moved back as Wood's vines fought the beams the protected the two from them. "What could I use? What could I use?" Sakura asked herself over and over until she got an idea. "Mist!" She exclaimed.
Yue looked at her, pride shining in his eyes as his Mistress quickly took out the card and changed it to pink with the mere touch of her hand, it seemed and opened it. "Rust the beams, Mist. Please!" She called as Mist wondered, confused. Getting the idea of what she has to do, Mist rushed out again and quickly disintegrated the beams and went back to her card form. "Yay!" Sakura exclaimed, hugging Yue and feeling warm as she felt his wings come to surround her. She was in Heaven…