Chapter 1: Going to School: The Mysterious Stranger!
Yukito was happy.
He stood at the edge of the sidewalk, holding up his bike, patiently waiting for Touya to come around the corner so they could ride to the university together after making sure Sakura made it safely to school.
Yukito smiled. Touya was such a good brother and he worried about Sakura although he did his best not to let anyone know it, gruffly pointing out that her school was on the way to their university campus. It wasn't really, but the detour wasn't so large that Yukito would miss his chance to ride with Touya and his adorable little sister. They were the only family he really had if you didn't count the stuffed animal that had freaked out so cutely after the incident at the festival when it had unwittingly let Yukito see it move. Technically Yukito supposed it was his brother, but when he had picked it up to give back to Sakura, it had played dead.
Yukito was broken from his reverie by a sudden awareness of eyes on him. A man stood on the sidewalk at a distance from him, dressed in a black business suit, dark hair tied back in a ponytail. His black eyes were fixated on the light-haired boy. Yukito shifted uncomfortably, looking back at him questioningly. Silence fell and even the birds stopped their chirping.
"Hello?" Yukito broke the silence, unnerved to be the center of the strange man's silent attention and suddenly wondering what was taking Sakura and Touya so long.
The man said nothing and Yukito tried again.
"Can I help you?"
The man smiled and began walking toward him. Yukito watched him nervously and felt Yue begin to tense inside of him. He felt something or Yue felt something, lately they were beginning to feel the same things more and more. His eyes widened. He sensed power!
His bike fell to the ground and he closed his eyes as he felt the wings spring from his back. He felt his feet begin to leave the ground and prepared himself for the change.
But suddenly the change stopped and he felt the wings disappear. His eyes opened and widened in shock.
The man had taken hold of his arm and was smiling at him.
"Let's not do that shall we?" he said pleasantly. "I'd much rather meet this you right now."
Yukito tried to pull his arm away, every instinct within him screaming at him to get away to run and gasped as the man, with a grip of steel, effortlessly pulled him closer, their faces almost touching, the man's eyes looking deep into his, as if trying to find something.
"Of course he would me this you just as lovely as the other," he said, stroking his silver hair. "Clow always loved beautiful creatures."
Clow. Yukito knew that name, the name of the one who had created the other and himself. He felt the other's (his) tension at the sound of that name.
"Let go of me." (us)
The man smiled.
"I knew he was you. Poor Yue. Clow always loved to complicate things for you, didn't he?"
"I'm not Yue," Yukito protested.
"Yes you are."
Yukito struggled in the man's iron grip anew.
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"Onii-chan! Onii-chan! Wait for me!"
Sakura flew down the lane, calling to her big brother as he peddled leisurely sidewalk. Yukito would have observed that he was not going his fastest, not making it impossible for Sakura to catch up.
Sakura caught up to her brother, breathing heavily, and glared up at him as she shifted to a more manageable pace on her rollerblades.
"Onii-chan! Why won't you wait for me?"
Touya looked bored.
"I'm meeting Yuki. And you overslept again. Monster."
Sakura's face turned an angry red.
"Onii-chan!"
Unbeknownst to Sakura or her brother, a ravenous creature was in her backpack.
Kero, seeing Sakura put some candy in her bag, had dived in for a sweet feast and had fallen asleep. Now, he was stuck and uncomfortable, unwilling to come out for fresh air with her creepy big brother so near.
"You sure caught up quickly. You must have eaten your breakfast in one swallow."
"Onii-cha—!"
Sakura, whose face had been getting redder and redder throughout this tender sibling exchange, suddenly froze.
"Sakura!"
Touya promptly lost his bored look and looked at her with concern.
"Power…" she whispered, looking straight around the bend where Yuki would be waiting for them.
Kero sensed it as well. This power was not like Clow, but it was familiar nonetheless.
Sakura burst into action.
"Yuki!" she cried, heading down the sidewalk with a burst of speed, mindless of her brother's cry of surprise behind her and Kero's cries of indignation as he fought to get out of the bag he bounced about in.
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"What do you want?"
Yukito felt Yue's strength inside him. It filled him and he defiantly stared into the eyes so close to his.
"Ah, there you are. So very different and yet exactly the same"
The man reached to stroke Yukito's cheek and Yuki (Yue) flinched away, hating being unable to get out of his grip.
"What do you want?" Yukito repeated.
"I want—"
The man suddenly froze and smiled.
"I sense power."
Yukito was release abruptly and he stumbled backward, falling into the grass surprised.
"Yuki!"
"Yuki!"
Sakura and Touya's cries were becoming audible. They rounded the corner, Sakura first with bright pink staff in hand, Kero and Touya right on her tail.
They both stopped and took in the scene in front of them. Yukito was sprawled in the grass looking dumbly up at the strange man in black.
Kero took one look at this and transformed. Touya ran to Yukito's side and Sakura took out her cards and held her wand ready.
"What do you want?" growled Kero, looking imposing in his guardian form.
The man gave them a pleasant smile.
"I'm not looking for a confrontation now, not yet."
He turned to Yukito and bowed to him.
"Be seeing you soon."
"No you won't, you-"
Kero lunged at the strange man, breathing fire, but he moved to quickly for them to see.
"Freeze," Sakura cried, quickly making her contract with a Sakura Card, but the man effortlessly dodged that as well.
He smiled at them as if with approval, then in a flash of light, he was gone.
TBC