Title: Reminiscent (11)

Title:  Reminiscent (11)

Author:  Yih

Written:  May 2001

Dedication: To the following Reviewers- Kaera-chan, *Sara*, DragnBlak251, Twisted Rose, angelwings2001, Maire, GoddessSakura, PhiloSoftBLu, Rhea, the Lioness, OneWeirdMoNkEy!, Myst, naria, aurora manda, Akira, Empress Sarah-sama, Silverlight, Heart Wind, obiwankatie, Lullaby, Gia, ~*Manda-chan*~, and Sakura 1301. 

Disclaimer:  All rights are Clamp except ACC- Siwan, Dangyun, Tooya, Shaolin, and Faa. 

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OMAKE 2 BELOW! (the tale of two drunks)

Part 11

"I'm worried about, Sakura," declared Shaolin. 

He knew he wasn't the only one.  The present version of himself had been pacing across the living like a caged beast--precisely like a wolf.  He narrowed his eyes when Syaoran abruptly swung around to look at him with a menacing stare.  He personally wondered when he had turned into such a grump.  He couldn't remember a time when he had ever acted that way.  But then again he had never before see a past reincarnation of himself, either. 

"They're taking too long to get here," Syaoran growled.  "They should have been here a half hour ago!  What's taking them so long?" 

Tomoyo blinked from her position on the coach.   "Eriol should be back here as well.  They've both taken entirely too long to get back here.  Didn't Eriol say he was just going to scout around the area?" 

Kero nodded affirmatively.  "But it could take a while to get even a whiff of Dangyun." 

"I've never had a problem finding a magical presense, stuffed animal," Syaoran remarked. 

Kero glared at Syaoran and was about to launch himself at the brat when Tomoyo grabbed his tail.  "Kero and I are going into the kitchen to get some snacks ready.  I'll also call Sakura to find out what's taking them so long." 

Kero brightened up immensely at the word 'snack,' but that still didn't totally divert his attention from the annoying nickname that the brat continued to call him.  He threw another fierce look at Syaoran before following Tomoyo into the kitchen where the delights of food were.  His tail twitched in anticipation of the lovely desserts, and he wondered if he could possibly convince Tomoyo to whip up something special since they had left before they could order dessert at the restaurant. 

"Kero's right," Shaolin commented. 

"About trying to find Dangyun?" inquired Syaoran. 

"Yes." 

Yukito's eyes flipped from one to the other and sensed an incredible tensions between Syaoran and Shaolin.  He decided to make his exit and hoped that they wouldn't figure out that he didn't want to be there when the argument started.  He calmly interrupted them when his stomach obliged him by growling in hunger.  "I think I'd better go get something to eat.  I still haven't had my dessert yet." 

"He really eats a lot," Shaolin said, "to think that he's still hungry after that gigantic meal." 

"I think that Eriol was overreacting during dinner," Syaoran told Shaolin.  "I didn't even feel the slightest hint of a dark aura around." 

"I'm not surprised you didn't feel Dangyun's aura.  Even Clow Reed had to try to sense it." 

"I don't think auras are so hard to feel," he said firmly.  "Even if Dangyun is shielding his aura, dark magic is easy to make out because it's tainted." 

"Therein lies the problem," Shaolin murmured, "because Dangyun's aura isn't dark." 

"Isn't dark?  If killing the one he loves isn't evil, I don't know what is!" Syaoran exclaimed.  "To top that off, he has written some of the most comprehensive books on dark magic!  How can his aura not be dark?" 

"You know about the books?" Shaolin queried with his eyebrow raised in surprise. 

Syaoran had the guilt to look sheepish.  "I stole into the hidden part of the library one night and finger through it.  But it was only because it was forbidden, and I was just a child back then.  I didn't know any better," he responded defensively. 

"Dangyun isn't evil; he isn't totally evil.  He doesn't have a dark aura, which means that even though that he 'practices' black magic, he is still within control enough to pull out of the strong pull of those forces.  The dark power isn't controlling him; he's controlling them.  It's part of the reason you can't feel him.  He's not dark, and you've been instinctively searching for an evil source.  You've been searching for the wrong kind of magic.  If anything, his aura should be grey or a pale silver," Shaolin explained to him. 

"It's impossible!  You're suggesting he has mastery over two completely different magics," said Syaoran in disbelief. 

"He does.  He's the only magician I know of that has high expertise in both black and white magic.  That makes him more than formidable for even Clow Reed, who is the Master of White Magic.  It's nearly unfeasible to find him because of that.  He knows not only the 'right' way to hide an aura, but the 'wrong' way to disguise it.  You have to search for an aura unlike any in the universe.  He's not easy to find; he's impossible to find if he doesn't want to be found.  Only my onii-chan knew how to find him." 

"Then we're never going to find him, is that what you are saying?" asked Syaoran with an edge of anger. 

"I know where to find him," murmured Shaolin. 

"Where then?" Syaoran demanded. 

"Where the flower is, the bee will surely follow." 

"Then we have to find Sakura!" 

"Now, you understand why I'm worried if Eriol has even caught a whiff of Dangyun's aura," said Shaolin, all of a sudden weary.  "I hope that she gets back here as safe as possible, and that she hasn't run into Dangyun just yet." 

Syaoran nodded stiffly. 

"YUMMY!" Kero yelled as he burst into the living room with chocolate all over his face. 

"KERO! I told you to wait until Sakura and Eriol got back!" Tomoyo reprimanded the guardian. 

"Oh, but I didn't touch it first!  The snow bunny did it first!" Kero accused Yukito of the heinous crime. 

"What?" Yukito queried after he had licked the remaining sugary sweet cream from his hands.  When he finally understood what was happening, he shook his head in denial.  "I saw Kero hovering over it… I couldn't help it.  Gomen, Tomoyo." 

She threw her hands up in the air with resignation.  "Just don't eat what's left, okay?" 

The eyes on both Yukito and Kero popped open.  They turned to Tomoyo with pleading puppy eyes, begging her to let them finish the rest of the chocolate cake.  Tomoyo tried to stare them down but failed at the earnest expressions on their faces.  She sighed and set the cake down on the coffee table.  It wasn't long before Kero and Yukito were diving into the cake. 

"Are they always like this?" Shaolin asked no one in particular. 

Tomoyo laughed at the look on his face and replied, "they're usually worse than this."

"We should be working on a plan not eating ourselves sick," Syaoran said reproachfully.  "If Dangyun's here as Eriol thinks we won't have much to come up with anything to help Sakura. 

"Did you call her?" Shaolin inquired, suddenly remembering that Tomoyo had said that she was going to call Sakura. 

"I did." 

"Well?" exclaimed Shaolin and Syaoran simultaneously. 

"They're heading back here.  They should be here soon," Tomoyo replied. 

"What took them so long?" Yukito asked. 

"I don't really know.  But Eriol's with her.  I didn't have a long time to talk to her because her battery was low," Tomoyo said thoughtfully.  "That reminds me that I should have gotten the newest Nokia phones last week!  With the Li-ION battery, it's has even more energy and more light-weight!  I wonder if she wants matching ones or this time I should I get more individualized cells?" 

"What is she talking about?" Shaolin whispered to Kero. 

"Nothing much," Kero answered.  "Tomoyo likes to buy cells for Sakura because she talks to her the most.  She likes for Sakura to have the best that money can buy.  She likes to be able to keep in touch with Sakura constantly.  It's useful for knowing where she is in time like these." 

"She's so much like Ji-li," remarked Shaolin. 

"Whose Ji-li?" inquired Tomoyo with interest sparkling in her eyes. 

"Faa's best friend.  It seems that everyone from then has been reincarnated again.  I see her in you.  You both cared a great deal about Sakura.  You two were inseparable as I've been told by Faa.  I only saw you once, but I never forgot what a good friend you were to Faa.  I know it must have caused you great sadness whenever she left in the summer.  I know you weren't the only one feeling that way.  Faa would get homesick near the end of her stay, and then she would return home.  If anything you two are even closer in this lifetime," Shaolin said reverently. 

"She's my best friend," Tomoyo told him.  "I'd go anywhere to be with her."

"I'm sure you would." 

"Tell me more about Ji-li," Tomoyo requested.    

Shaolin scratched the top of his head.  "I really never got to know you very well, but I do know you don't look the same.  That was why I never connected you to 'Ji-li' before this moment.  But your personalities are extremely similar.  I do remember one memory that stood out when I saw you.  Your servant girl was piled behind you carrying bolts of bright silks.  If I'm not mistaken, even then you had the gift of the needle.  Both of you disappeared for the rest of the afternoon, huddled inside Faa's chambers.  You had come to prepare her wedding dress.  We were to be married before the onslaught of winter.

"You left before Faa was taken by Dangyun.  You had your own wedding to see to.  I remember Faa saying, 'I'll be there.  I won't miss it.'  But she missed it," his voice was breaking up now in sorrow.  "We sent news to you, but knowing how it travels back then, it's hard to say if it even arrived.  And then, I came here to protect Faa, so I don't know what has happened since then." 

"What does Ji-li mean?" whispered Tomoyo in question. 

"Lucky and beautiful," Syaoran responded before Shaolin. 

"It means exactly what you are," Shaolin added. 

"It's too bad I wasn't a reincarnation back then," Yukito said without thinking. 

"You were Yue back then!" cried out Kero. 

"I forgot about him," Yukito said after he thought about it.  "Well, if you think about it Yue and I are totally different people." 

"You can say that again," Kero mumbled to no one in particular. 

"What?" asked Yukito with puzzlement. 

"I just confirmed what you said," Kero explained. 

"Why didn't you say so then?" Yukito is still slightly confused. 

Kero just shook his head and whispered to Shaolin, "I think all that food he consumes goes to his head." 

"And it doesn't go to your head?" Tomoyo shot back at him, having overheard his remark. 

Kero made an extravagant show of trying to look innocent but failing miserably.  Syaoran laughed and exclaimed, "the stuffed animal never knows when to stop while he's ahead.  It's a wonder he's even the guardian of the Clow book." 

"He makes a good guardian," Shaolin replied defensively. 

"Why does he like you?" Syaoran asked Kero, ignoring Shaolin. 

Kero smiled.  "You two aren't quite the same exact person, although you do look astonishing similar.  Hai, you do have the same soul, but your magical abilities are distinctively different.  Shaolin doesn't have any, as you all know.  And if you didn't know or weren't paying attention," shooting a look at Yukito who was finishing off the last of the chocolate cake, "now you know." 

"It still doesn't explain why you two are close," Syaoran retorted. 

"It should.  Your magical abilities are closer to Yue's than mine are.  Yours is much more 'Eastern' and 'moonish' than mine are.  If anything your best element is water,  and it shows in the way you are able to control lightening well because water conducts it," Kero explained sensibly. 

"So you and me clash?"

"Not exactly, I just don't like you that much," Kero stated bluntly. 

"You're just more attracted to Shaolin, aren't you?" Syaoran asked with a teasing glint. 

Kero glared at Syaoran, and he was about to launch himself at Syaoran when the door flew open unexpectedly.  Everyone in the room turned to stare at the three in the doorway:  Touya, Eriol, and Sakura.  Sakura blinked and exclaimed, "hoe!  Why are you guys so surprised?  Didn't Tomoyo-chan tell you I was going to be here soon?" 

"I told them you were coming, but Kero and Syaoran just had to get into an argument," Tomoyo responded, filling Sakura in on what had just happened. 

"Hoe!" 

Author's Note:  Best review goes to Maire (again?!)!!!  Thanks for the insight, I'm glad it's playing out how I thought it would!  Never know, since my mind is sort of caught up in fantasy!  I'm off next week for finals and etc.  Please review and I'll try to release a huge chunk!  (a short omake may be done for this part…) ^^;;

The Omake 2 (the tale of two drunks)

WARNING: This DOES make SEXUAL INNUENDOS, so if you can't handle it don't read it.  The author takes no responsibility for the "damage" reading this may do to a young, innocent mind.  This is just for the FUN and a new insight of what happens when the characters are allowed to be FREE from the Author's guidance…

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Thank you for reading this mad prop! 

© May 2001 Youth imagination hope of Yih. 

All rights are reserved by Yih. 

[CURTAIN RISES.]

"HERE! Have another shot… of Vodka!" exclaimed Faa with a hiccup. 

Dangyun stared at her with amazement before sneering, "you horrid, horrid little witch!"  He then burst out laughing at her flushed, chagrin face before easing the brute force of the words he had just spoken, "I LOVE IT!"

"Hai or lie?" she inquired, holding the bottle of vodka up closer to him. 

"You've never seen my drunk have you?" he asked softly, his eyes incredibly intense as it moved over her lush body. 

"Lie," she admitted truthfully. 

"You should… ask Siwan some time," he murmured huskily. 

"So… what happens?"

He seemed momentarily taken back, as if he had said something he shouldn't have.  The expression on his face was of the utmost soberness, usually seen in serious meditation.  Suddenly, a force overtook that expression, twisting it into a terribly WACKY expression.  He shouted, "I get hard!"

"Hard?" she asked questioningly.  "What?!  You hentai!"

"Hime?" he asked in a silky voice like the caress of velvety rose petals.  "Do you really think so?" his voice STRANGELY heartbroken. 

"Hai, hentai!" she replied cheerfully. 

"I'm such a dick," he respondedly morosely. 

"You're my dicky!" she cried out, licking the fire drops from her lips. 

His beautifully arched eyebrows rose up, and he moved closer to her.  Bending down over her, his tongue smoothly licked the soft, exquisiteness of:

The neck of the bottle!

Faa made a choking noise in her throat as she watched his elegant lips grip the bottle and lift it from her grasp.  He guzzled down what was left of the amber liquid. 

"Disappointed?"

"NANI!  That was all I had left!" she exclaimed in an anguish.  

"Too bad," he said sympathetically.  "It wasn't enough to get me (^) up."

[CURTAIN FALLS.]

Siwan appears out of the blue and exclaims in confidence to the audience, "pardon his crudeness, readers, he gets that way when… he's been deprived of his love one!"

The Omake 2 End

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