A/N: I was actually listening to Lady Gaga's song Telephone and so... this fic of connected drabbles arrived :D (Though it's completely unrelated to the lyrics ^-^;) Hope you enjoy xD ~SEi
Disclaimer: I do not own xxxHOLiC. CLAMP does.
- - - - - - - - - - - Ch1. The Noise
Watanuki was laying on his stomach on the store's porch mindlessly flipping the pages of a travel magazine. Mokona was next to him, telling Watanuki frequently to turn back a page because he wanted to keep looking at it. The reason why Watanuki didn't care a bit for the travel magazine was because it was a travel magazine. He was only looking at it because Doumeki had given it to him the other day and insisted that he choose a place. But there was no point in looking at the magazine: after all, Watanuki was going to be forever bound within the store until his death. He couldn't go outside the store's fences or through the secret portals of the store. He was just trapped. True, the pictures and descriptions of each travel place was intriguing but with what he was fated to, there was no way he was going to be able to go there.
Watanuki sighed and rolled over. Mokona took over the magazine and continued flipping through it. "That idiot. Is he making fun of me?" asked Watanuki aloud to the clear summer sky above. He pouted and then sat up. He looked over at Mokona and said, "Is there a place you want to go? You can go, you know? In my place."
Mokona stared at Watanuki with squinted eyes. And then looked back at the magazine in his hands. What a difficult decision. I do have a place I want to go but I don't want to leave Watanuki all alone here... Mokona hung his head. "No.. I don't hav-"
"Doumeki said to name a specific place that we want to go, but since I don't really care anyway, you can choose," he smiled. "You can go, Mokona. It's alright."
"But I-!"
Ring! Ring! Ring!
The seer turned his head this way and that. "What is that?"
Ring! Ring! Ring!
"It sounds like it's coming from the treasure room," Mokona said, placing the magazine on the floor and hopping towards the door.
Watanuki stood up and followed the creature. They walked through the hallway, past tons of doors until they finally reached the door they wanted to see. The seer put his ear to the door.
Ring! Ring! Ring!
"That thing sure is loud, if we could hear it from the back of the store." He rubbed his ear to get the ringing still echoing in his head to exit out the other ear.
He slid the door open and they walked in. The ringing was coming from somewhere near the cases that held glass boxes of small things as trinkets and more little boxes that held more boxes within them. The ringing got more quieter as they neared the object. It was as if the object knew of the two presences that were drawing close to it.
Watanuki turned the corner and saw something amazing. It was like a whole new room in the treasure room itself. It was furnished with things of a living room. There was a sofa, a sofa chair, paintings on the wall, a bookcase full of books, lamps atop end-tables, a large patterned rug below a dark coffee table that had a small teapot with teacups on its surface, and an antique-like telephone on a end-table near the sofa. That was what was ringing - the telephone.
It's been at least three years since I've last seen and used a telephone, he laughed to himself. Then, he went over to it and picked it up.
Hope you enjoyed ^-^ Review, thankshu.
