Master of the Moon 2: Reed's Rival

By realixweatherfairy

Disclaimer: I don't own Card Captors or Winx Club! I own Tsukiko, and her family, oh don't forget Klimen, I own him too; that's it!!!

Chapter 1: A Broken Heart

It's been three months since the disaster of Tsukiko's princess ball and everything has gone back to normal; well, as normal as it can be when one is a fairy, princess, as well the Master of the Clow Cards. Once they had returned to Alfea, Tsukiko noticed that both Kero and Julian were keeping their distance from her, especially Julian. Kero she could easily figure out why he was avoiding her, but not Julian. Every time she went to talk to him, he would answer her question and move away from her; leading her to believe that that she had done something to upset him, making her determined to corner him and ask what she had done to upset him so that she could apologize.

That's what she was doing now; running around Alfea looking for Julian, wearing her customary purple halter top, blue jeans, and black high heeled boots. The other girls hadn't seen him, so she was heading up to her aunt's office to see if her Aunt Andy had seen him. She was about to knock on the door when she noticed that it was partly open and she could hear Julian's voice from inside talking to her aunt.

"Ms. Faragonda, is the anyway that you could have me transferred to Red Fountain?" Julian asked casually. Tsukiko's breath caught in her throat; what had she done that made him so mad at her that he'd want to leave?

"Are you sure, Julian? What about Tsukiko?" her aunt said. Tsukiko's heart began pounding in her ears and tears ran down her cheeks as he replied, "I don't think that we're going to work out." Tsukiko's heart then shattered into a million pieces. Choking out a sob, she ran down the hall and back to her room as the door to her aunt's office opened and Julian stepped out, his eyes impassive as he watched her run away.

Throwing herself on her bed, Tsukiko balled her eyes out as she thought, "How could I have been so stupid? He never loved me. Oh, god, how could I be so blind?" Tsukiko curled up into a ball and continued to cry her eyes out. A few minutes later, she sensed Julian's aura coming towards her room and got up and locked the door before he could get to it and laid down on her bed and cried so more. Once she couldn't sense his aura anymore, Tsukiko got up and packed every article of clothing that she owned, created a portal that led to Earth, and left.

Once Julian realized that he wasn't going to be able to talk to Tsukiko, he headed back to his room with Yue bothering him the whole time. Though it may not look like it, Yue was very protective of Tsukiko, more protective than he had been to Clow Reed and Sakura.

"Did you really have to say that? You knew she was right behind the door!" Yue growled.

"It's not my fault if she's an eavesdropper," Julian replied, packing his clothes.

"I hope that when she comes out of her room that she lets you have it!" Yue growled in response. Yue knew what Tsukiko and the others did not. Julian wasn't the sweet and kind person everyone thought he was. On the outside, he was, but on the inside Julian was a cunning and deceptive person, who liked making Yue's life miserable. He hated the fact that he was Yue's disguised form, and the only reason he was in existence; and therefore liked to make trouble for Yue.

In fact, Julian's true personality was the reason Yue always acted the way he did; making it look like he didn't care, when in reality he did, just so that Julian wouldn't have the satisfaction of having hurt someone that Yue truly cared for, like Sakura. Yue himself had always had soft spot for the girl, but Julian was only ever really nice to her because she was his supposed best friend's little sister. So Yue didn't really get involved with Sakura except to protect her to keep her unaware of Julian's true persona.

Julian knew that Yue hated it when someone he cared about was hurting and used that fact against him. Now, Yue's charge, Tsukiko, was hurting because Julian had used her feelings for him to his advantage. Yue had hated the fact that Tsukiko had truly fallen in love with Julian without knowing his true nature, and it pained him that because she was ignorant of this that she hurting more than words could tell.

A knock on the door interrupted Julian's thoughts; opening it to reveal Bloom and the rest of the Winx girls looking extremely worried and upset. Wondering what could make them so upset, Julian asked, "Bloom? What's the matter? What's wrong?"

"It's Tsuki! She's gone!" Bloom replied, the stress and worry in her voice apparent. That gained Yue's attention.

"What?! But she was just in her room a little while ago!" Julian said, his eyes widening.

"Well, she's not there anymore," Stella replied in a curt voice. Julian may have fooled Tsukiko, but he hadn't fooled her. She could tell that after Tsukiko had confessed her true feelings for Julian that he was keeping his distance from her on purpose; only talking to her when needed. She had guessed that he was playing with Tsukiko's emotions from some reason. "Do you have any idea why Tsuki would run away?" she continued, raising an eyebrow.

Stella and the other girls already knew why Tsukiko had run away. The moment they realized that Tsukiko was gone, they had gone to Ms. Faragonda and she had told them about Julian's request and what he had said about him and Tsukiko, and that she was sure that Tsukiko had heard the whole thing and it made them sick. When he didn't answer, Bloom said, "Do you want us to tell you why she ran away?" Once again he didn't answer, so Musa continued, "Because you just had to be a jerk and go behind her back and say that you two weren't going to work out. Maybe if you would have told her to her face, she wouldn't have taken it this hard, but no, you had to play with emotions as you would a violin. She left because of YOU," and they all walked away; their phones to their ears calling their boyfriends to tell them that Tsukiko was missing.

Walking up the path to her grandfather's mansion, Tsukiko sighed. She felt awful about leaving without telling the rest of the girls, but every time that she thought about what Julian had done, her heart ached. Her Grandpapa Li had told her that he needed to speak with her for the last two months, so she figured that this would be the best time to get away.

As she walked up to the door, Tsukiko sighed as she thought, "Maybe love is just not for me." The door then opened and a surprised maid gasped as she bowed to Tsukiko and said, "Tsukiko-sama! Welcome home! Your grandfather will be so happy to see you!" Nodding at the maid and taking off her shoes, Tsukiko walked into the greeting hall to look at a painting that was hanging there.

The painting was of her Grandpapa Li, her Grandmama Sakura, and herself when she was at least four years old. She had asked for a painting of her grandparents and herself for her fourth birthday and instead of having it hang in her room, she had told them that she wanted it to hang in the greeting hall, so that everyone who came to visit would see how happy they all were. Tsukiko's eyes dimmed as she looked at the happy smile of her younger self's face and thought, "Enjoy it while it lasts, kid. Life isn't as good as you think it is."

Shaking her head, Tsukiko went on through the mansion until she came to the family room and opened the door to reveal her grandfather sitting by the paper door that led to a large courtyard filled with flowers and cherry blossom trees, looking into the courtyard with a wistful look on his face. Hearing the door open, his head turned to see Tsukiko standing there.

"Grandpapa," Tsukiko greeted as she bowed respectfully.

"Tsukiko-chan, welcome home, dear one," he replied as Tsukiko moved to sit across from him as he continued, "Another summer has gone, soon the air will be chilled and the snow will come again. Time passes so quickly."

"Yes, Grandpapa," Tsukiko replied, her eyes trained on his face.

"I heard from your Aunt Andromeda that you have met Klimen of the Reed," Li Showron continued.

"Yes, the younger twin brother of the great Clow Reed, our ancestor," Tsukiko replied.

"And what did you think of him?" her grandfather asked.

"He's a very difficult person to describe," Tsukiko answered, "His hatred for Clow Reed is great, but it seems like any normal sibling rivalry; like he would do anything to prove that he is just as great as his brother was."

"I see, it seems as though you understand him a little more than you do yourself sometimes, little one," her grandfather commented.

"I guess, but what I don't understand is if he hates his brother so much, why would he be after me?" Tsukiko asked, "I'd never met the man before and he has no reason to hate me."

"Not even I know the answer to that question, little one," Li replied, "But there is one who does."

"Clow Reed," Tsukiko breathed.

"You know what you must do," Li said.

Meanwhile back at Alfea, the rest of the Winx girls, the Red Fountain boys, Yue, and Kero met up in the courtyard, after making an extensive search throughout the school and Magix. They had met up about an hour earlier and separated into several different groups, even the pixies helped. Luna was beside herself with worry over her bonded fairy; it took the effort of all the other pixies in order to calm her down. Bloom had even called their grandmother on Realix to see if she had seen her which ended in a negative.

"Did you find her?" Flora asked worriedly. Tsukiko had always been a sweetie to Flora and often helped Flora with her experiments; something that made the bond of sisterhood between the two deeper, meaning that Flora thought of Tsukiko as her sister, and her disappearance worried Flora.

"No, nor any sign as to where she might have gone," Timmy replied, trying to catch his breath; he too was worried about Tsukiko. He also saw her as a sister.

"Where in the realms could she be?" Sky asked, worry plain in his face and voice. He had known Tsukiko longer than anyone. They had met as children before the death of her parents and Tsukiko's own disappearance. For many years, though they were really young at the time, both Sky and Brandon had searched for her. Both boys saw her as a younger sister and were very protective of her, and the feelings were mutual on her part, though many in the Realixian and Eraklyon Royal Courts had hoped that Sky and Tsukiko would fall in love with each other when they were older, but that would never happen, not because Sky didn't love Tsukiko, he did, just not in that way.

"I don't know," Bloom replied, worry also plain in her face and voice. Tsukiko, along with the other girls, had been one of the first to befriend Bloom when she had first come to Alfea, and always made her feel welcome, and encouraged her to not give up when Bloom was failing her classes because she hadn't grown her wings yet. The bond of sisterhood was as deep between the Winx girls as the bond of brotherhood between the Red Fountain boys was.

"Where could she be?" Luna cried, as the other pixies tried to comfort her again.

"I can't even think of another place to look," Kero said worry and sadness in his voice. He knew that he was being just as much of jerk to Tsukiko as Julian had; avoiding her like she was the plague. He had heard from Luna that Tsukiko had cried herself to sleep some nights because she didn't understand why some of these things were happening and it made him feel awful. Suddenly he felt the presence of a Clow Card being used and knew where Tsukiko had gone; looking at Yue, he immediately noticed that Yue had sensed it as well.

Noticing the two stiffening, Musa worriedly asked, "What is it? Is Tsuki in trouble?" Not bothering answering Musa's question, Yue asked, "How soon can we get back to Earth?"

"In about five seconds, why?" Bloom asked, confused.

"Because Yue and I just sensed the use of a Clow Card on Earth and the only one who can control a Clow Card is …" Kero started.

"Tsuki!" Stella gasped as Bloom created a portal to Earth and everyone except the pixies jumped in.

Tsukiko got up from where she was sitting, pulled out her Heart Key, and chanted:

"I call upon the Heart of the Cards,

Power of Magic,

Power of Night,

Surrender the Wand,

The Force of Light,

RELEASE!" and her staff appeared in her hand as she walked up to one the cherry blossom trees while pulling out the Return Card. Throwing the card in the air, she activated it and it absorbed itself into the cherry blossom tree. Placing her hand on the tree's trunk, she thought, "Return Card, Return me to the time before Clow Reed passed away," and she was absorbed into the tree, just as the rest of the Winx girls, the Red Fountain boys, Yue and Kero appeared in the courtyard behind the tree.

"Tsukiko! Wait!" Yue yelled, but it was too late; she was gone.

"Where did she go?" Layla asked, her eyes wide.

"Tsukiko-chan went back in time," Tsukiko's grandfather replied, making them all turn to look at him.

"Li Showron, descendant of Clow Reed, tell me," Yue demanded, "Why did Tsukiko use the Return Card?"

"To see the one person who can truly help her understand," he replied, "You know of whom I speak," making Yue and Kero's eyes go wide. Bloom looked from Yue to Kero and then to Tsukiko's grandfather and back, looking confused.

"Who did she go see?" she asked, worry in her voice and eyes.

"Clow Reed," Kero breathed.