I Want To Be You
Author's Notes: Ok I just had to have everyone know! But I love writing this story so much that I'm actually making this into an original story! The characters will be different [of course and some concepts of it, but it's generally the same idea and storyline. Just wanted to let everyone know. Anyways I'm honestly trying to write longer chapters except for the fact that after thinking about the chapter so long and just staring at it and working on it, I like to get things out when I get sick of it because I know I won't work on it anymore. So thank you for the reviews!
By the way does ANYONE think this chapter made the story seem rushed?
Disclaimer: Don't own the anime or the characters, simply the story.
Summary: Sakura was a demon of the underworld who everyone believed should've been born an angel. She was sweet and bubbly, constantly rejecting the dark arts of her supposed birth nature. Syaoran was an angel from above with a tainted soul who tainted the fellow angels around him. Everyone believed he should've been born a demon. So when Sakura and Syaoran meet in the middle ground, Earth, they decide to switch. The only way possible for Sakura to be an angel and Syaoran to be a demon was a union that would bind them forever. Marriage. Love. Sex. Power.
.:Beginning:.
It's another night at the radio tower. The moon was gone, disappeared in the black velvet.
"Have you ever thought about how you would be like if you were human?" Sakura asked. She looked at the man leaning against the railing with his eyes closed and arms crossed behind his head. He looked relax and almost as if he was trapped in his own thoughts.
"Yeah. Once in a dream." He answered, keeping his eyes closed.
She listened to the loud chatter of the city. She absorbed the life of these people all lost to their own worlds of technology and making it to dinner or not with their dates.
"What was it like?" She asked. "I didn't have wings. It seemed all so pointless. I felt as if I was intimating what I had seen when I'm in the Middle Ground. I'm just walking down the street…and I keep walking. I don't even know where I'm going. I don't pay attention to the people walking around me or the things being advertised or even how the weather looks. I keep walking ahead, staring in one direction. And I just keep…walking towards it and never reach my destination." He explained.
She was a demon, she was not allowed to dream. "I've never had a dream before." She told him. But she smiled. "I always imagined somehow that if I had been a human, I would be happier."
Syaoran opened his eyes then, curious. His amber eyes watched the girl illuminated by the streetlights. "Why is that?"
"I have a soul. Demons don't have that and angels don't have that. If I was human, I'd be in a place where I belong."
"Would you rather be an angel, demon, or human then?" Syaoran asked.
Sakura laughed. "I'm not sure. I would miss flying a lot if I was a human though."
Syaoran laughed with her. Suddenly he was sitting next to her. The laughter was short. The silence that surrounded them afterwards was awkward. He looked down at the mass of people walking below them, unaware of them as usual. Sakura followed his example.
"Humans can turn into demons and angels. But angels and demons can never turn into humans." Syaoran whispered.
"It's how this unusually cruel world is." Sakura replied. "Humans long to be one of us. And sometimes, we long to be one of them. But they can get it, we can't. We are naturally born like this, trapped but empowered at the same time."
Syaoran nodded.
They sat in silence, absorbing each other's emotions and thoughts.
.:Several Days Later:.
One week down. One week left. The first week had been to get to know each other, size up the enemy/ally. Make requests and find out how to appeal to them to get what you want in the second week. Draw up the Contract and sign in blood. Then Sakura and Syaoran would go their separate ways.
It had started to snow. A light fall of fluffy balls of snow. Syaoran had noted that she seemed very happy being in the Middle Ground. When they had flown around the city, taking in the snow, he had often caught her looking at the ice skating rink that had recently opened. He wondered if she yearned to be with the humans skating.
Humans had it so simple, they had the weight of their own world on their shoulders. Whilst the higher beings of angels and demons have the weight of the entire world on their shoulders. Their separate worlds: angels and demons, and the Middle Ground.
It was night again and they were back at the radio tower. They came here every night. They watched the sunrise there together. They watched humans go about their business, playing a game of guessing which human was going to do what.
In the second week, Sakura and Syaoran had finally decided that it was time to draw up the Contract and terms. They stood together side by side in the sky.
When it came to creating this Contract, they entered a different dimension. A place of complete gray, a neutral color of both dark and light. A long stretched table with only two chairs at each end. The dimension was a void of gray, nothing concrete save for the table and chairs were there. Nothing ever changed in this gray dimension, no light and no darkness entered it.
Syaoran gestured for Sakura to sit down first. She walked slowly towards her end of the chair. She waited until Syaoran was behind his own chair at his own end before they both pulled it out and sat down.
'This is it.' Syaoran thought. 'This determines our fates…. My world, her world, the humans world.' He swallowed. He had thought about this constantly since their discussion the first time they went to the radio tower, when they had raced.
Sakura crossed her ankles and folded her hands in front of her, eyeing Syaoran evenly. She knew he had been thinking about something for the contract, something she could not figure out while staring at his demeanor.
"I wish for the Contract to remain the same. We take the same amount of human souls as you do to your world." Sakura began. Suddenly as she mentioned the Contract outloud, a long piece of paper appeared in the center, unwrapping itself by magic and unrolling to both ends like a table runner.
The Contract in many ways was a history record. It displayed terms from the oldest time, a time that was too distant in the past, and the current time. It was bound by the strongest magic. Written in blood are both angel and demon, many of the names Sakura could recognize.
The general terms of the Contract had remained the same. Equal amounts of souls to both worlds. There had been times when certain demons or angels were wished to be destroyed and the terms were granted, depending. The tradition it took to sign the Contract was a small curved diamond blade in which both the angel and demon cut their palm and drip blood into a small plate. The beings each take a feather from their own left wing, left wing because it was the side of the human heart, and dipped it into their blood and signed. When finishing the last curve of the name, the Contract rolled itself back up, everything disappeared and they were shoved back to the Middle Ground for the angel and demon to go back to their own worlds.
"How many demons do you want?" Sakura asked.
Syaoran looked at her calmly. "Just one."
That was strange, Sakura thought. Normally angels wanted more demons, the strongest ones. In return the demons asked for the strongest angels. One was strange.
Sakura tilted her head as if in that angle, she could look at him and figure him out. "Who?"
"You." Syaoran stated, the faintest hint of a smile appearing on his lips.
"You know that I am the Demon Princess. Direct heirs to the throne can not be sacrificed unless…." Her eyes widened.
"A Union was to happen between both direct heirs." Syaoran finished for her.
Sakura abruptly stood up for her seat, which fell behind her in her sudden movement. Her mind was racing.
"But in forming a Union between the direct heirs of both the Above and Underworld means that there is a high chance of…switching!" She shouted.
Syaoran looked too calm. She wanted to jump up and fly over, hit him in the face and force a reaction out of him. He was proposing something extremely dangerous.
"I have been thinking about it a lot since the time you told me that you had a soul." Syaoran began. "Since the Above thinks I should be a demon and the Underworld wishes you were an angel, if we can tap that small chance in a Union to cause a switch of our powers, we both can enter the world we belong in."
Sakura was speechless. Her mind was spinning, she felt dizzy, her knees weak. But still, Syaoran continued.
"Our Union for us to have the chance to make this happen is the strongest bond possible. We will be connected in mind, body, spirit, and power. All aspects of our entire being. We both will enter the world where we should've been born into, Sakura."
She shook her head. "This can't work. The last time they tried this and actually succeeded, the power was too great and tore them apart."
"But you and I are different. They were at different levels. We are both Direct Heirs. Equal power like the Demon King and God."
"Syaoran do you know how dangerous this is?! If we switch but both of us fail at handling that power, we'll both die! We'll upset the Head! There will be war!"
Sakura was shaking. But inside, she wanted it. Logic screamed these reasons at her. Deep inside, she wanted it. She watched as Syaoran stood up calmly and walked over to her.
His fingers grasped her hand, pulled her towards him. His arms wrapped around her waist and his head settled at the crown of her head. His wings lightly brushed against her own.
"It'll work, Sakura." He whispered.
Sakura trembled. She had this aching feeling in her chest of hope that somehow it would work.
The story was that this transformation can only be formed by the strongest bond of all. It's the complete surrender of power to the other. It's complete trust. It's one of the strongest forces of magic that interconnect the mind and soul, one that once established could not be reversed. If broken, those who are in the bond are crushed. The body transformation was the final stage of Transforming. It must be equal amount of power, because what is taken is given back.
The most important thing to a successful strong not overbearing bond was the Unknown Key. If together Sakura and Syaoran could solve the puzzle of figuring out the Unknown Key, they could enter the Body Bond and the final stage would be complete. And from then on, they were halves of a whole.
Syaoran pushed back slightly. His hand held Sakura's delicate face. His thumb brushed against her cheekbones. Her eyes sparkled. He closed his eyes and leaned down. He pressed a chaste kiss at the corners of her lips.
"Marry me, Sakura."
Her fingers gripped his forearms tightly. Something was building inside of her, rocking her core, breaking through her shell. She looked at Syaoran suddenly with a fierce determination.
"Be with me forever, then?" She asked.
He smiled again and nodded silently. He pressed another soft kiss to the corner of her lips.
"For as long as forever can stretch." He whispered against her skin.
They closed their eyes and rested their foreheads against each other. They took in each other's warmth. Their skin barely touching but their scents mingling. Their wings touched the tips of the others. Their mind was calm. This was the moment they were going to treasure for a long time. It was the only moment they knew where their life was as simple as it could possibly be.
Together they took the Diamond Blade and cut a shallow line in their palms. They forced blood onto their plates. They plucked a feather from their left wing. One the purest white, the other a broken black. They dipped the end in their blood. Side by side, they signed their name on The Contract.
These names would be forever remembered in history, more important than those who began the Contract and those who requested the most demons and angels. These names would echo throughout history in their worlds.
This is the beginning of a story of breaking the rules. This is the beginning of a long hard journey, unknown and never traveled until now. This is the start of one of the strongest bonds any being can form.
And what is this bond?
That's the Unknown Key.
That's the treasure at the end of the journey.
It can be anything…it can be nothing. It can be the thing that makes…
Or destroy them.
It can be the thing that creates a new world…
Or the thing that is the key to the world's destruction.
What's this Unknown Bond?
Only time can reveal this secret.
Author's Notes: I put such heavy symbolism in it and such meaning into this story. I love this story. I hope you all enjoyed reading this. And as always REVIEW!
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