AN~ This is the new revised version and it turned out better than ever! It is rated just to be safe wit the subject I am implying on. Also it seems to flow better and since this will replace the original version any new readers will just have to imagine a choppier version and whatnot. And to those who have read it, it will be a new read tho there is a scene or two you'll recognize. The other two stories of this arc have also been revised and I've compiled all of them into a oneshot collections that have to do with this particular storyline as I plan to delete Can't Back Down until it is finished. As always, I do not own anything but the storyline. Anyway, I do think that is all for the housekeeping and I hope ya'll still enjoy and if you don't...well that's just not my problem so roast a few marshmallows. ~k~

Pairings: YxS, past SxS, MxL

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Don't Know Why

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I don't know why this had to happen to me. How could Sa--Li do such a thing? Even if he had never claimed to love me... Watery emerald eyes flashed as Sakura brought her head up from it's place on her knees. "No. He loved me. I know it."

A tear slid down her cheek and she sniffed as she tried to make sense of it all. Her mind once more replayed what had happened a few days ago when she had met him at the park and how he-- Sakura turned her head with a soft groan as humiliation once more washed over her. If only she could see past the pain that was inflicted because she was almost certain that there was something she had missed. The Sayoran she knew--or thought she knew--would have never done such a thing. Never before that day had he asked for what he knew she had not been ready to give. Not once did he even try...

Sakura shivered at the coldness that seemed to be trying to overtake her heart. She just wanted...no, needed to understand why. Why? She had loved him... The light brown head shook as she whispered brokenly. "No. I love him still, demo it has changed somehow. Just as I have been changed."

"Sakura, are you alright?" Asked the small, hesitant of her sun guardian as he hedged closer to her with trepidation apparent in his eyes. He did not like the changes that he has seen in his friend recently or how easily she loses her temper now. If he didn't know better, Kero would have said that she had been invaded by the body snatchers or something. He just knew something had happened when she went to see that kid. You can't hide from me, Sakura, I will find out the truth.

"Iie." She admitted then sighed softly when she realized that Kero hadn't really bought the story she had gave him when she first came home. That and, from the look in his eyes, he wouldn't give up until he knew the truth...a truth she wasn't ready to give to her guardians or anyone. At least not yet. I'm sorry for not trusting, Kero, but it hurts so much.

"Sayoran and I broke up. He's going to marry Meiling, Kero."

"Nani?! Why I outta...I'm gonna find that brat and make him pay!" Kero yelled and then began to glow as if to transform, but Sakura reached out and grabbed him with worry in her eyes.

"Iie, Kero! You can't! He went back to China and-- Onegai!"

Kero did not like the current look in her eyes or the myriad of emotions that ran through them. If only he could figure out what they were and what they meant, but they passed through emerald too fast to distinguish them. He sighed and thought it was best to give in...at least for now. "Alright, Sakura."

"Arigato."

He remembered how emerald eyes had sparkled in laughter. They were so sad these days and her soft laughs never reached as far as her eyes. For the life of him, Yue couldn't figure out what it was or why or even why it bothered him so much. No, that wasn't right for he cared about her. See, I admit it.

/It's about time./

The moon guardian scowled at the voice in his head that had only recently began to annoy him regarding his feelings for his mistress. And it certainly didn't help that he could not get her out of his mind no matter how he tried. It's just that everything she does is beautiful. She is beautiful.

/And?/

Yue practically groaned as he shook his head. Great, the voice was beginning to sound like Kero. Talk about spending too much time with someone. Silvery violet eyes blinked in surprise when the chimes of the clock tower struck the hour. That can't be right, I just came here shortly after-- The moon guardian frowned as he tried to remember exactly when he had come to the clock tower in an attempt to clear his mind.

/Yeah, that worked so well./

"Shut up." He told that annoying voice in his head when he felt a chill run through him. White wings lifted in anticipation as he jumped off the tower into the night air. His mistress needed him.

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Sakura shivered when she felt the presence she had been trying to avoid, which was hard when they live in your brother's old bedroom. It wasn't even that she wanted to avoid Yue; it was just that he seemed to be able to see right through her and it had been unnerving her recently even before-- She shivered again, but this time it was from the memory of the dream that had woken her up with a strange need to see her guardian. And then he was there through the window she had subconsciously left open.

"Sakura, what is wrong?"

The concern in her moon guardian's eyes warmed her seemingly icy heart, but it was the something else that had been in them more recently that stole her breath. It was strange how she felt that she could no longer hide the truth from him, but she settled for the most obvious. "I had a bad dream."

Yue sat down beside his mistress on her bed and drew her into his arms. He sighed at the distress that he felt from her as he brushed away a stray strand of brown hair that had stuck to her damp cheeks. She blushed under his intense gaze, but hid her face against his chest so he couldn't see. 'She is so cute when she blushes.'

/Yeah why don't you tell her that, you sap?/

'Shut up.'

Sakura looked up into her guardian's beautiful eyes when she heard his soft hiss. "Doubshite, Yue?"

"Is that not my line?"

Sakura's inner chibi version squealed happily when she actually saw a light blush touch Yue's face. 'How cute!' She shook her head in an effort to derail her current thought as she tried to remember what--oh yeah. "Un. I just wondered...never mind. Demo I am alright now that you're here, Yue."

Now he did flush and instantly lost anything else that he could have said further. He shook his head when he caught his mistress in mid-yawn. "You need to sleep, Sakura."

"Only if you stay with me, Yue." Sakura insisted then blushed when her guardian lifted an eyebrow. "W-what I meant is that I'm still a little scared to go back to sleep so if you could--"

He nodded then moved to a more comfortable position with his mistress firmly in his arms. "You know I'll always be here for you when you need me...right?"

Happiness shimmered in her eyes as she impulsively brought her head up to kiss him tenderly on the cheek. "That's what I love the most about you, Yue. Arigato."

Once more Yue felt his face warm along with that special place in his heart, but was grateful that she didn't see it since she had settled once more down in the comforting warmth of his embrace. "Anytime. Goodnight, Sakura." She is so beautiful.

"Night, Yue."

The last thing that was heard in the moon lit room, if only just barely, was a soft sigh from the tiny golden guardian that had witness such a cute scene between his mistress and his brother. Now if only Yue would just confess and-- Kero sighed once more then snuggled back down into his little bed in Sakura's drawer. "It's just not fair."