Title: Lenore
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst
Pairings: None/implied
Warning: None
Beta: LibraryCat
Summary: Kinomoto Touya was a good brother.
And the only word there spoken was the
whispered word "Lenore!"
The day Kinomoto Touya got massively drunk was the same day his little kaijuu got married.
It wasn't her choice of groom. She could do worse than the Li brat after all, and the devotion in brown, slanted eyes said that any fear Touya had of his monster not being taken care of well would be baseless.
It wasn't even the fact that Sakura would be moving all the way to Hong Kong – the better for her new in-laws to gush and fuss over the latest addition to their collection of cuteness. The distance would be hard, the adjustment painful. But there were the perks of having a magical being for a boyfriend. The day Yue refused to fly him across the oceans in a swirl of white feathers would be the day the moon guardian learned the meaning of the word 'couch.' And he'd even stand firm and ignore the guilt at subjecting Yukito to it by proxy.
Oh no, it wasn't all those things and more.
It was the fact that on the day of the wedding, when the sun streamed through colored glass and painted his sister a gag-him-with-a-spoon rosy glow, he saw Nadeshiko's ghost for the last time. The look on her beautiful face said it all: My time is done. My children are taken care of.
He should be grateful that he could see her at all. And he had Eriol to thank for that, after giving up his magic for Yue/Yukito's continued existence. But it was one thing to resign yourself to a sacrifice, to accept the consequences with a smile.
It was quite another thing to receive again the same precious gift you thought lost forever and to have it snatched away for a second time.
If Kinomoto Touya wasn't such a good, loving brother, he would have hated Sakura for taking Nadeshiko away from him again.
As it was, he'll have another shot of JD from the very nice bartender. There was no longer any impressionable little sister at home to be careful of after all.
-End-
A/N: A little foray into CCS-angstyness. Touya is underappreciated. Lisa thinks this makes a good prequel to a CCS epic. But we both stayed strong and denied temptation.