READ FIRST: HI! So, before you start reading, there are a few things you should know: (1) this was totally intended to be solely a Wallflower fanfic. It kinda morphed into a Card Captor Crossover...I have no idea where the plot is headed. (2) MOST IMPORTANT: This story is also kind of a crossover of another Fanfic: Wish-Chan's "The New Trials ofCard Captor Sakura", which can be found right here on , or on her website: .. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND reading this fanfiction, it's freaking awesome! (3) Please read and review! This is my first fanfiction, and I'd really like to know what the community thinks of it! Suppose I sould do some kinda disclaimer...
DISCLAIMER: I don't own The Wallflower. I don't own Card Captors. I don't own Subaru, he's Wish-chan's, as are "The Dark Forces" (you'll find out).
Chapter 1: A Fateful Meeting
"Hey, Mister!"
Kyouhei Takano turned around, seeking the source of the voice. His eyes fell upon a little boy, no more than 5 years old, with messy brown locks and huge green eyes. He was dressed in beige capri shorts and a plaid button-up shirt, both items very big and very worn.
"What d'you want, kid?" Kyouhei responded, raising his eyebrows. Usually, he never stayed outside for long, for fear that his fangirls would track him down, but for some reason, this particular child stirred something inside him, something he'd never felt before; a feeling so strange and new that Kyouhei wasn't sure what to make of it.
"Wanna see a magic trick?" the child asked, grinning excitedly.
"Sure, let's see it." Kyouhei said kindly, sure that he was the first person the kid was trying the trick on.
He watched as the little boy pulled out a deck of cards and said, "Pick a card, any card." Kyouhei obediently pulled a card from the deck and, when instructed by the little boy, placed it back in the deck. The little boy then shuffled the deck clumsliy, and Kyohei couldn't help but notice him keep the chosen card slightly drawn away from the rest. He grinned at the boy's innocent incompetence.
"Ok, is this your card?" the kid asked, dramatically pulling the right card from the deck.
"That's the one, nice job kid!" Kyouhei said, grinning as widely as the boy, as he knelt down and ruffled his hair.
"Subaru-kun!" a panicked voice cried out, running towards the pair, interupting the heart-warming scene.
"Uh-oh...can't get caught...escape!" the child, who's name was Subaru apparently, said, attempting to run away, before Kyouhei caught him by back of his collar and dragged him towards the woman, who had come to a stop, breathing heavily.
"Subaru-kun, I've been so worried! Where've you been?" scolded the beautiful young woman, who looked to be about 30.
Before Subaru could give a reply, Kyouhei asked, "Is this kid yours?"
"Well, not biologically, or even legally. See, I work at the local orphanage, and Subaru here is one of my charges." replied the woman, with a warm, motherly smile.
Kyouhei was immediately taken aback. No woman, young or old, had ever smiled at him like that, as if they had no intention of seducing him, as if they were completely unaffected by his striking good looks.
"Oh...uh...well...here then," he said, handing the still-struggling Subaru over to the woman, who silenced the child with one stern look.
As Subaru moped silently, the woman looked back to Kyohei, "Thank you so much for finding him, I thought we'd lost him for good this time."
"Yeah, no problem." replied Kyouhei, still slightly startled by the woman's blase reaction to him.
With that, the woman walked away, towards a distant group of children who had been waiting patiently down the road. Only Subaru looked back, and Kyouhei couldn't help but notice the forlorn look in his eyes.
Coming through the front door of the spacious mansion in which he lived, Kyouhei immediately put the incident behind him as he smelled the wonderful aroma of food wafting from the kitchen. No doubt Sunako, his roommate, would almost be finished with her dinner preparations by now.
"Yay! Food!" Kyouhei squealed, racing into the kitchen, completely oblivious to the panicked looks his other 3 roommates gave him as he ran by them.
"Oh no..." trembled Yuki-, the most feminine of the three.
"You'd think he'd have learned after all this time..." sighed Ranmaru, the womanizing pervert.
"Wait for it..." cautioned Takenaga, the intellect, "and 3...2...1..."
"GET THE HELL OUT OF MY KITCHEN YOU STUPID CREATURE OF LIGHT" screamed Sunako, chasing a smirking Kyouhei, with one golden fried shrimp in his mouth, out into the living room where the others waited, brandishing a butcher knife dangerously close to Kyouhei's throat.
"Alright, alright woman! I'm going!" he replied, still smirking, gobbling down the last of the fried shrimp he held in his mouth.
And so Sunako stalked angrily back into the kitchen, and the evening continued as it usually would in the Nakahara household.
That night, however, Kyouhei found himself thinking more and more about the little boy from the orphanage. He had seemed so forlorn, heading back to the orphanage, and Kyouhei could not erase the child's desperate look from his memory. Unable to sleep, he left his room, and walked aimlessly down to the first floor, unsure where exactly it was he was heading. Of course, he ended up outside Sunako's room, his feet having unconciously taken him there.
"Why do I always seem to end up here?" he wondered, "Must be all the awesome DVDs, cuz it sure can't be because of Sunako" he chuckled, heading into Sunako's room. Before he had even taken two steps into the room, however, he heard a swish of metal, and a dull thud just above his left ear. Freezing, he turned his head slowly to the left, realized that it was an incredibly sharp dagger, and that it's thrower was now glaring at him from across the room.
"OI! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" he shouted, before realizing that the others were probably asleep, and he didn't want them to wake up and find out where he'd gone.
"Why're you in my room in the middle of the night?" Sunako hissed, positively writhing with fury.
"Well, I couldn't sleep, so I thought I'd just watch some movies here," Kyouhei replied defensively.
"No. Get out."
"Like hell I'd listen to you, bitch" he said, walking into the room, and heading for the huge tv and the pile of DVDs scattered next to it.
Suddenly, from out of nowhere, Kyouhei felt a swift kick to his head, followed by a punch right in the gut. He wasn't about to go down with out a fight, though. No, this bitch was messing with the wrong guy right now. He fought right back, punching and kicking, and not too quietly, either, so that Takenaga, Ranmaru, and Yuki, all woke up and came rushing to Sunako's room, worried about what the crashing and banging noises could be caused by.
"Sunako-chan!" Takenaga shouted, bursting into the room, followed by Ranmaru and Yuki, who tried very hard not to look at anything creepy, and failing miserably because it was extremely hard to avoid creepy things in Sunako's room.
"Huh?" Kyouhei said, surprised by the sudden entrance of his friends, and by being caught in Sunako's room in the middle of the night. Sunako, howevere, was unfazed, and took advantage of her opponents lack of attention to throw him, as well as the other three, right out her room. They hadn't even gotten up before they heard a click on the other side of the door, locking them all out.
"Kyouhei..." growled Takenaga suspiciously, turning his attention to his housemate, who was trying unsuccessfully to escape unnoticed.
Kyouhei froze, his back turned to the other three, trying desperately to think of how he would answer the questions that were no doubt forming in their heads.
"Ok-I-know-what-you're-all-thinking,-that-I-must-like-Sunako-or-something-and-that's-why-I-came-down-here,-BUT-you're-absolutely-wrong,-cuz-I-actually-don't-know-why-I came-own-here,-I-just-kinda-came-here-without-thinking,-and-I'm-gonna-go-back-now.-Night." Kyouhei said quickly and all in one breath, before scampering back up to his room and shutting the door.
"He came here unconsciously..." began Ranmaru
"That idiot is so in love with Sunako that he even comes to her room without thinking about it anymore, " sighed Takenaga.
"We really to think of a new plan to get them together, we haven't done anything in a while, " mused Yuki, looking at the other two hopefully.
"We could always just let fate take its course and let them figure it out themselves..." Ranmaru said.
After a few moments of silence, the three boys burst out laughing at the ridiculousness of allowing Kyouhei and Sunako to figure anything out by themselves. Their two friends were so hopeless, there was no way they could just be left alone! The very idea was preposterous!
Morning came, and Kyouhei found that he still could not forget about Subaru, the little boy from the orphanage that he had met just a day before. As he sat down to breakfast, he kept replaying the moment when Subaru had looked back at him with those sad eyes as he walked back to the other children.
The other three boys, of course, noticed this and immediately began to tease him.
"What ever are you thinking about, Kyouhei? It can't be Sunako, can it? Hmmm?" asked Ranmaru, obviously trying to get a response from his surly housemate.
When Kyouhei didn't respond, however, Takenaga frowned, and inquired, "What's wrong Kyouhei? Did you actually realize your feelings for Sunako?"
Yet still, Kyouhei stared at his plate, lost in thought. After a few moments of silence, he got up, and headed down the hall to his bedroom, leaving his confused friends in his wake.
Going up the stairs, he couldn't help but notice Sunako walk by, and seeing the pensieve expression on Kyouhei's face, Sunako asked, "Oi. Creature of the Light. What's up?"
Gazing at Sunako for a long moment, Kyouhei responded with a question, "Where's the nearest orphanage?"
Although questions flooded Sunako's mind, she felt that now was not the time, and Kyouhei was not in the mood, for these questions. Instead she gave him the directions to the nearest orphanage, and waited patiently.
Placing a hand on her shoulder, Kyouhei looked up at Sunako. "Thanks," he said, and was off, running back down the stairs and out the door, as Sunako was left trying to stem the nosebleed that had just started with the sleeve of her shirt.
Now, Sunako was not usually a curious person. She never stuck her nose in other peoples' business. Especially if one of these people was a creature of the light. However, she could not for the life of her, figure out why Kyouhei would want to go to an orphanage. He wasn't a philanthropist with a heart of gld, nor was he an orphan himself.
"Damn, why does it matter where he goes? It's none of my business, anyways. I shouldn't even care about where he goes." thought Sunako, trying to convince herself that the knots in her stomach were not any type of concern for this creature of the light, as she, too, left the house to do the grocery shopping.
So? What'd you think? REVIEW! AND please keep reading, I know it starts off kinda slow, but it gets better, I PROMISE!