Watching the Sky

Chapter 11

Wind

Disclaimer – I do not own, I don't own, I don't own this.

Summary - With time, Watanuki became use to his new job. But soon, a spell of monotony falls over his life; the only thing changing is the time around him. That is, in the spring of his life, there is a new occurrence to look into.

Pairing – Yuuwaku (Yuuko/Watanuki)

Author's Ramblings – I lied about updating, sorry people. And to those who just read my fic during the "boom" period, how on earth did u just "happen" upon my fic? This whole mob of people came and read my fic. I am surprised. And I'm sorry if this chapter is crappy. It's not the best one I've written.

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"Why are we always stuck with this job." Watanuki whined.

When Yuuko had thrown the bomb at the ceiling, it only created a small hole, compared to what had been remaining in the ceiling. This allowed miscellaneous things to fall out. But compared to the room they were standing in, the research room, was a much smaller room. So what they thought to be a small hole in the big room, was a rather large hole in the small room. With the crumbling floor, everyone and everything in the room fell down.

In the end, it created a huge mess. Large masses of rubble, metal, and other building parts littered the floor. Burnt, machinery lay in charred piles, filling the air with the smell of burning rubber. Not only that, there was the overturned amounts of dirt, cement, and dust (who knows how there was so much of it) in the air.

The aftermath? Hell, but without the fire or ice.

Especially since they had to look through the mess.

Watanuki used a broom he found, to sweep some of the already looked through pile, to the side. Pushing on, he placed the broom someplace else, and started on a new heap.

Not too long later, he reached something large and solid.

"Found something!" Picking up the broom, he whacked the side of the object, successfully shaking off the excess dirt, and cement on what seemed to be a file cabinet. Grunting, he tugged at the handles. With some screeches of protest from the cabinet, it was finally open. By this time, he had attracted Yuuko and Domeki's attention.

"Good job, Watanuki." Yuuko said, while taking some of the files out. "We can definitely get something out of this."

"Great…." Watanuki sighed in dismay, remembering that all the effort was to help further Yuuko's wealth.

Walking away, he began to shuffle through another pile of machinery. Carefully overturning some spare parts, Watanuki found something else out of place. Reaching deep into the pile, he ran his hand over the smooth material at the bottom.

Am I the one always to find such strange things….? Watanuki shook his head, as the thought flitted through his head.

Instead of continuing on that thought, he concentrated on the strange feel of this new item. Metal is smooth, but not like this…. Watanuki rubbed his head. The material was obvious, but he had temporarily forgotten that not all smooth materials were metal. I'm becoming more stupid by the moment.

Wanting to distract himself, he pulled out the papers from the rubble. What he felt wasn't metal but the fibers from the paper. They had probably fallen out of one of the file cabinets, he had found earlier.

Glancing at the others, he saw Yuuko still preoccupied with the other papers, and Domeki was looking through another pile of rubble. Putting his back toward the others, he took a look at the papers he found. One glance couldn't hurt right? Yuuko-san didn't even say anything about not looking at the information ourselves. But despite Watanuki's mental encouragement, it felt wrong to look at these papers for some reason. Like he had no right too.

Ignoring the unpleasant, tingling sensation in the back of his mind, he blew the dust off of the papers. The words started to form across the paper.

Ichihara Yuuko

Despite the time the words were allowed to sink in, Watanuki was startled. He rubbed his eyes, maybe it was the dust?

Ichihara Yuuko

No, it wasn't his imagination. But why would it be? Yuuko was quite the famous person in her circle. It wasn't thatsurprising. But he had to admit, what were the chances that the first page that he would look upon was that of someone he knew? Better yet, why her?Coincidence? He curiously thought. Then Yuuko's image lit up in the back of his head, repeating her catchphrase. It told his mind otherwise. Well, if the heavens deem it so….. And with his back to the others, he began to read the papers.

Report N. 007 - Ichihara Yuuko – AKA The Time Witch

Gender: Female

Age: Unknown

Place of Birth: Unknown

Ethnicity: Japanese

Current Location: Japan

Occupation: For Hire/NA

Martial Status: Single

Next to the information was a picture of the ever-so sly Yuuko. A mug shot, that was flattering. How long ago this was taken, he didn't know. But most of all the information he already knew.

Useless.

Her name I obviously know…. The age, I don't want to know… Place of birth? Is that important? Although now that he thought about it, her place of birth and age might explain a lot about her behavior. The Japan/ese part is obvious…. All in all, Watanuki knew most everything.

Nothing special here. Watanuki said in his head, ignoring the time when his heart leapt at the thought that Yuuko was single.
Coughing lightly at the thought, he put the papers down lightly to shift through the pile of metal once more. Looking over his shoulder, he saw that Yuuko and Domeki were still occupied with their own doings. He started to look over the paper again.
Scowling, Watanuki flipped to the next page for anymore information.

There was nothing.

Glaring at the paper, as if it would sprout more words on the Time Witch, his focus was brought elsewhere. The back of the paper, of course. The report continued on from there. Watanuki sighed at his own stupidity.

Past History:

Mostly unknown. We only have reports that she has been in her business for a long time (most of her life?). The building she resides in is very old, but not many people can see it. From observations made there is a 1 to 30,000 ratio for those who can spot it. Most ignore the building, despite the fact that they can see it. We do not know what is the cause of this phenomenon (barely any people that go in are in healthy condition: physically, mentally).
Older than her physical age, no eyewitnesses can determine what her past is. (For possible theories go to Section 3Cb).

Past Relationships:

Unknown if any official ones exist. Theories located in Section 4Bg.

Watanuki couldn't help but fidget as he flipped the many papers to find the section. They have information on this? Watanuki couldn't help but think. Another obvious, and stupid thought. Of course they would. And he found the page.

Theory1A – One of the only relationships that are shown several times in the history/world is the appearance of Clow Reed and the Time Witch. At times, they are normally intertwined within many stories, and have been "enemies". But looking closer, there have not been many hostilities, mostly sightings of them together. (See report N.001 Clow Reed for more information).

He couldn't read any farther. How could he? It made logical sense that it was possible they were once together. Clow Reed and Yuuko-san! Together! At least one part of Watanuki's mind thought so. The other was still in shock, processing the information. He felt light-headed from the discovery.

He wanted to read on, but wondered if his mind could take it. Although well practiced in the art, it was not healthy for him to keep his emotions and thoughts bottled inside of him. At some point, when he became to relaxed, Watanuki would find himself saying something he didn't want to be known, other than himself. And even then, he would still be in denial.

Watanuki haven't had to be worried.

"Are you done yet?" The familiar, silken voice called out to him. He slowly turned his head in a daze, before coming to be himself again.

"Almost! Be patient!" Watanuki's head whipped back to his papers, grabbing the rest from the debris, making sure that Yuuko's report was covered. Hurriedly, he walked over to Yuuko and Domeki.

Unfortunately, to the two watching him, his actions were all too obvious.

He was hiding something.

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Yuuko lay across the couch, her hair splayed out, only the crimson red of the fabric, poking out. A pile of papers, a bottle of sake, and her checkbook her only companions next to her. It had been a week since the fated "mission". If Yuuko was surprised by the lack of action, and trouble, she didn't show it. Watanuki however was still rather twitchy whenever someone mentioned "mission", "underground" and "walls". Domeki, no matter how indifferent he was to the situation most of the time, would tense at the sound of objects crashing. Trauma perhaps?

But for Yuuko, it was a very good day.

"Mmm, this is the best." She purred, slightly intoxicated, but mostly from joy if anything. Yuuko let her eyes slowly travel from one side of her checkbook, to the other. She let a wide grin spread across her face at the many-figured number on the paper.

Yuuko put the checkbook aside, although still in grabbing distance. Instead her hands gently brushed the pile of papers on the ground before selecting a couple on the top. Ooo, personal information. She almost giggled while reading the data acquired the week before.

The group, upon learning that most of the most important research facility was easily bypassed and destroyed, most of the mafia members disbanded. In the beginning they were a group of misfits anyway. But the group never existed in the government's eyes, so were they really getting the attention they so craved in the first place?

That wasn't answered, so for now, their mafia group has seemingly disappeared as suddenly as they had started.

To Watanuki however, he complained that the amount of malevolent spirits, and souls had increased. The living had either committed suicide, or faded away. Some of the already dead were the ones that became the spirits annoying Watanuki.
The largest reason that they disbanded, was the disappearance of their leader. Their leader was dead, and in that right "immortal" until he passed on. So, in turn their were no heirs or successors picked for the next in line. And when the man who had created, fostered, and ruled this group disappeared, the group dissolved into chaos, then nothingness.

And Watanuki wondered why only needed to destroy the research facility.

"What do you need?"

Yuuko couldn't tell if the voice was her own, or someone else's. All she could tell was that someone was here and that she or the other person had reacted. She focused on the soul in front of her.

"Are you the Time Witch?" The soul was a man in his 40's.The clothes he wore was non-existent, but that didn't mean he didn't have any. It was more like the fact that his clothes and body had melded together, and you couldn't tell the difference form the two. To get this much degeneration in the physical appearance, he must have been in this state for a long time. Yuuko thought silently.

"Yes," Yuuko smiled, "I suppose I am. I you know that name, I think you are no ordinary lost soul." Even though he had the sadness of one shining on his face.

"I am no lost soul." She supposed the man would have been insulted if it was in his past, but now, he seemed indifferent.

She smirked, Yuuko already knew that she was being rude, but it more of a habit if anything else. Be rude, make the other person angry and they will tell you more than they would have liked to say. It was a simple, but effective. "Then care to explain who you are?"

"I am simply misguided," the man sighed.

"What do you need from me?" He wants to pass on. Yuuko thought, that much was obvious, but what it was that would let him pass on, was not.

"I want my final wish to be fulfilled no matter what the cost." His fists visibly curled up, and he was shaking ever so slightly. It was one of the first emotions he had shown since his arrival.

"I hope you are ready to sacrifice yourself for it." Yuuko said, but again, that statement wasn't needed. She already knew that he would.

So he said everything, the fact that he was the leader of a mafia group, his recent pompous actions, his real age, and his regret. Yuuko had to admit, that his sudden sadness was suspicious. But there was always a reason why it wasn't revealed. Destiny chose it to be revealed later, and Yuuko let it be so.

The pay was good, and the information seemed useful. Yuuko agreed, it would be easy with Domeki and Watanuki. They always did most of the work. For now, Yuuko would just go with the fact that this was hitsuzen.

Well, she had fed Watanuki and Domeki the wrong information as usual. It wasn't lying, she was just worried how they would take the truth. She wanted to keep them safe from the reality. Really.

Yuuko could tell that Watanuki didn't believe her, or thought something was missing in the whole explanation. It didn't matter yet.

Yuuko shuffled through some more papers, and came across one she decided looked amusing enough to read.

Report N.342 – Kunogi Himawari

Gender: Female

Place of Birth: Japan

Ethnicity: Japanese

Current Location: Japan

Occupation: Student

Martial Relationship: Single

Notable Traits – The "curse" running through her family. Brings misfortune to herself and others around her. Lasts through the family, passed down to her. (Needs more speculation. For more details and possible conclusion go to Section 78H.)

"Hmm…" There wasn't anything new that Yuuko didn't know about. Is this what Watanuki was reading? She thought, staring at the smiling girl on the picture. It was that cute smile, Himawari was known for.

The information was rather vague. It was obvious that although the mafia group could have became important, they didn't get enough information yet to be of any use. Yuuko didn't think that any information on this report would make Watanuki emotional at all.

Just what was he reading? She wondered, staring at the picture of the girls' eyes.

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At the same time, was another thinking quietly to himself.

Domeki was thinking.

He was thinking rather hard.

It was a rather serious matter, but on the outside he looked to be his usual calm self. He was one who could multi-task rather well. Though the fact that others did not expect him to keep a conversation going, helped.

And so Domeki kept on thinking without interruption.

The fact that he was thoroughly working his brain, was of no surprise, just of the subject he was thinking of.

He was thinking of Watanuki.

More specifically, what he had found out about Watanuki a week ago. Domeki remembered shuffling through around his pile of metal, while Yuuko looked through the file cabinet they had found. After some digging, he had found a stack of papers in the debris. He put the papers aside, continuing his work.

While he worked he would multi-task, reading the papers, one profile in particular.

Report No.128 – Watanuki Kimihiro

Notable Relationships:

Kunogi Himawari (Report N.342) – Goes to the same school as Watanuki. Has the status as the love interest, although is currently just a friend. Kunogi does not appear to have acknowledged Watanuki's feeling, or is ignoring them. (Is this possibly because of the curse? Needs more speculation, notes are in Section K.)

Domeki Shizuka (Report N.139) – Goes to the same school as Watanuki. Does not appear to be friends, although they spend a lot of time with each other. Watanuki is very hostile toward Domeki, while Domeki is indifferent. (Acquaintance? Classmate? More speculation in Section K2.)

Ichihara Yuuko AKA Time Witch (Report N.007) – Employer of Watanuki. Has command over Watanuki. Despite open hostile feelings shown Watanuki does not quit. (Reason? Unknown. Speculation in Section G2.) Subject's life has changed with their meeting.

Recent Changes in Behavior – Affection toward Kunogi has declined in the last few weeks. (Reason? Unknown. Speculation in Section K.)

Section K:

Theory 4 – One-sided hostilities remain with Time Witch and Watanuki. However, they have declined as well. There is a possibility that Watanuki has started to have feelings for the Time Witch. (Inconclusive.)

Watanuki's in love with Yuuko.

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