Disclaimer: MKR and its amazing characters belong to CLAMP.

Notes: This is a small fic about Umi and Clef. I will split it in 4 parts: two from Clef's POV and two from Umi's in an alternating way.

Now here you are the first part, it's from Clef's POV. Enjoy!


You. Among all the people in Cephiro. It's incredible. You're so venomous, so sharp, so unpleasant, so terribly snobby.

And yet, you're so beautiful! Your long silky hair, your wide, wild, expressive, blue eyes, your slender, perfect frame, your cold, cured, tapered hands…oh, I could go on 'till forever.

What are you? You look splendid, like an angel, but you've got on me the same effect of a demon.

I'd do everything for you. I swear. But you, oh you look at me like I am the most unpleasant thing in the whole Cephiro.

Oh, you'll drive me mad, Magic Knight! You are always ready to give orders, expecting for the others to obey, you're the one who takes all the decisions and the others do always follow you. How can you do that? How can you enchant everything and everyone around you? I can't understand.

You say you won't go home, but yet you won't stay here forever. Are you playing with us?

Are you playing With me?

Well, if you are, I can assure you that you're winning your damn game.

I cannot understand you. You give me loving stares, while you thrown at me poisonous words.

Why?

I'm getting lost.

Have I a chance to understand you?

What am I to you? The short, annoying Clef? The boring and strict Guru of Cephiro? The man you love to tease in this terrible way? What am I supposed to mean to you?

I see the way you act towards the others: always so sweet, so caring, so worrying, so joyful, so smiling…

But when it turns to me you get silent, sharp. You never smiled to me. Well, maybe a pair of times to thank me when I give you my sleeping potions, late at night.

Oh Umi, why? Why are you doing this to me?

I admit it, sometimes I still treat you as a child, but can't you see right through me? I'm dying for you.

My world enlighten when you cross the door of my study.

I admit it, in my 745 years, I've never been in love, but then you came, you rushed inside my heart and you changed everything.

Oh, you awake in me feelings that cannot be described with mere words, feeling that I never experimented in my long life.

Where should I start from? Maybe from my speeded breath, or by the skipping beats of my heart, or maybe from the fact that I can't take my eyes off of you, that the world fades away replaced by your deep eyes.

And what about the efforts I make for not holding you tight close to me? To not kiss your lips?

Oh, your lips…I imagine them soft and warm while pressed against mine and playing with them, I imagine how sweet is your taste, how right it could feel having you in my arms and tell you what I feel.

I'm the Master Mage, Umi, how am I supposed to feel all this for you? I should be devoted only to Cephiro, this wonderful place I love so much. But every inch of it reminds me of you: when I stroll near the seaside I see your eyes in the ocean, when I turn to look at the waterfall I see your hair, even the soft, gentle breeze reminds me your voice. Oh Umi, what a fool you made of me! You've got me in your palm, my heart in your hands.

That's not normal for me, I am the Master Mage, I'm not allowed to love. But when I see you standing in front of me, I become numb. I don't even care of being the Master Mage. I just want to be yours.

But what about you, Umi? Oh, I feel your eyes lingering on me while I'm around, but when I turn to meet your gaze, I can't decipher it.

What's that shadow in your eyes?

Is it love? Is it mere affection? Or maybe just curiosity?

Is it disappointment? Is it bother? Or maybe it's hate?

Hate. Oh please, Umi, everything but this. I don't think I could handle it, I'd do everything to make you change your mind. I could never stand the idea that you could hate me while I'm such a fool over you. I couldn't handle being away from you, Umi.

Umi, damn it, see me!

Open your mesmerizing eyes, those deep pool of blue I got enchanted by, and see right through me!

Can't you see it?

I love you. Totally, unconditionally.

Ask me whatever you want me to do and I'll do it. I'll do it for you.

For us.

Us. Yes, Umi, us. You and me. Just the two of us. It would be perfect.

I dream of it night and day. Your eyes haunt my dreams, your angelic face torture me.

I want you. Only you.

And you're making me fool. Miserable. Frustrated.

I love you, Umi. Please, see me. I'm begging you!

I'd give all that I have to get your attentions. Even just a smile, it would be enough to make my stomach flutter. At least I'd know you feel something for me, that I mean something to you.

I love you, Umi. I love you with my whole heart. I shouldn't even think it, but I don't care.

I could even yell it in front of all the people of Cephiro if it will make you mine.

But I don't know what you feel for me. And it scares me.

And now look at me, I'm forced to watch you fencing with Lantis in front of my blinded-by-your-beauty eyes. I see all the passion you fight with, I'd love to be in Lantis's place, to challenge you.

But I would never be able to beat you. Not that I can't fence, on the contrary I'm quite good at it, in the end I was Lantis's teacher, but I wouldn't be able to attack you, I'd be afraid to hurt you. And you'd win, and you'd tease me for my weakness.

Oh Umi, I wonder what you'd think if I tell you that my only weakness is you.

Would you still tease me for it? Would you still look at me with despising amusement in your eyes?

I know you'd look at me in that way if you'd beat me. And I can't let it happen, I love you too much for giving you such a ridiculous impression.

Oh Umi, can't you see it? Me, the Master Mage, is begging for your attentions. Is begging for you.

How humbling! Yeah, it's true when they say that love turn people crazy.

Oh Umi, I'd do everything just to take your hand in mine.

I want you. And I'll get you, some day. You can be sure of it. You mean too much to me for letting you slip out of my fingers as sand does.

I love you.