Chapter 2: Eli's what?

Eli looked out the window with unseeing eyes.

"Master, you should be sleeping," Suppi said, flying into the room.

Eli sighed. Turning to look at Suppi, he gave him a slight smile. "I'll go to bed soon. I don't feel very tired. I decided to sit out here and for a bit and think."

Suppi nodded, before landing softly on the arm of the couch Eli was sitting in. "Anything inspiring?"

Eli gave him a blank stare. "Excuse me?"

Suppi snorted. "What exactly were you thinking about, master?"

Eli blinked a few times before looking away with a quick, "nothing".

Suppi thought he saw a light twinge of pink on Eli's cheeks before he turned away. "Nothing, huh? I've know you to long to know that you are lying, so you might as well tell me now 'cause I'll end up finding out anyhow." Flying off the arm of the chair he landed on the window seal, looking at Eli.

Eli blushed. With a sigh he closed his eyes for a moment before looking at Suppi. "You know me to well my friend, you know me TO well."

"So?" Suppi asked impatiently.

Eli took a deep breath. "I've been thinking lately…"

"Obviously," Suppi muttered under his breath. Eli sent him a deadly glare. Suppi shrugged his shoulders. "Well it's true. You've been staying to yourself as of late and have been starting to worry both me and Ruby, but we thought it would be best to wait a little while longer."

Eli snorted in amusement. "Ruby was worried about me?"

Suppi only gave him a blank stare. "As you were saying…"

Eli blushed lightly and cleared his throat. "Yes… well… I've been thinking… about someone… someone I know that I shouldn't be thinking about… well I mean in the way I've been thinking… and I shouldn't, but I do…and …" Eli stopped looking down at the carpet, his blush deepening.

Suppi blinked a few times. He's never heard Eli start before, and he's know him since birth. "O-kay… who is this mysterious person that you shouldn't be thinking about?"

Eli muttered something that Suppi could barely hear. "Could you say that louder? I didn't hear you, master."

Eli huffed in displeasure. "… it's Li."

Suppi went still in shock 'It couldn't be! His master was in love with someone who wanted him to fall at his own hands! How could this be?' "Why?" he asked, not truly wanting the answer but asking anyway.

Eli hesitated before responding. "I don't really know. I just… I just… do."

Suppi sighed. "What are you going to do about it?" It wasn't like he could do anything about stopping his master's feeling for :shudder: Li, but he could help him get Li, somehow.

Eli looked up, startled. "Do about what?"

"Li Syaoran."

"Nothing," Eli said sadly, looking down at his folded hands in on the arm of the chair.

"What!?" Suppi yelled. "Are you telling me that the reincarnation of the greatest wizard of man kind is going to sit on his ass and do nothing!"

Eli gave him a stern look. "Must you be so crude?"

"But it's true, is it not?"

Eli looked away with a sigh. "Well yes, but…"

"But? Come now Master Eli, I'm beginning to think you truly are an idiot." Eli glared at him. "Well I am. Do you or do you not know how to use magic? I mean all you'd have to do is—"

"No," Eli said, cutting off the rest of what he was going to say.

"EXCUSE me?"

"I said no. I want to get him without spells or potions or anything magic inclined. I want… I want his feeling for me to be true and from the heart. Do you understand now why I'm not going to do anything?"

Suppi crossed his arm (…er, legs… er, paws?) "Hn. That the most stupidest thing I've ever heard."

"Ah, then you understand. Good." Eli stood up, stretching his back. "I'm going to bed. I'll see you in the morning. Oyasumi, Suppi." Walking out the door, he gave Suppi a slight wave.

"Goodnight, master." Suppi said turning to look out the window.

A few minutes passed before, "Aren't you going to try and help, Benny?"

"No I'm not Ruby, but then again how is it possible to help? And by the way, my name is not Benny."

"Benny-baby it's really quite simple what we have to do…"

"Would you care to tell what exactly it is that 'we have to' do? And by the way, how did it become 'we'?"

"We just have to make them fall in love."

Suppi snorted. "You make it sound so simple."

"It is. I found this wonderful potion—"

"Didn't you hear what the master had said?" Ruby gave him a blank stare. "He doesn't want to use magic."

"Oh I heard him," Ruby answered with a wink. "But he never said that we couldn't."

Suppi sighed. "I will not go along with this Ruby."

"Hn. Fine I'll do it on my own," Ruby said then disappeared with a flick of her hair.

Suppi groaned. "I just KNOW something bad is going to happen."

TBC