Syaoran: The authress was too tired to do the intro...(or so she says) *annoyance* So we are going to do it. *pulls his 'twin' Loup into room*
Loup: *annoyance* Well, so far we haven't seen any reviews...oh well. Sakura-san will continue...anways.
Syaoran: *nod* Sakura-san doesn't own CardCaptor Sakura (it has been said by her already, but she left me with instructions...)
Loup: She does own me, and everyone else with French names...(just 'cause she takes it in school...) She doesn't own my looks though. Just my name and personality.
Syaoran: ... I guess on to the story.
~Chapter 4: Cold ~
Loup was distressed. His lighter half had been upset about something for a few days, and wouldn't tell him about it. "Probably thinks I'm an idiot," he muttered, as he hoovered a few feet off the ground in front of the TV.
It was late at night. Loup had school with Syaoran tomarrow, but Loup rarely slept. His other half was awake. "What is he doing staying up this late??? He isn't like me, he needs sleep. The idiot. And he calls me stupid."
Loup teleported himself outside of Syaoran's room.
Syaoran was sitting up in his bed, staring at nothing. He was unusualy cold. So cold... Syaoran began to shiver.
Why am I so cold? It isn't a cold night...it's still summer. Syaoran shook violently. His teeth began to chatter.
Loup still watched from outside the room. Syaoran wasn't aware of it. He didn't even sense it.
Syaoran felt strange. It was different from the cold, but that was a major part of it. Heat, he needed heat. "Heat..."
Fire abrubtly erupted around the bed. Syaoran's magic.
Loup was worried. He tried to search his other's mind, but felt walls slam down, and pain on his right cheek as fire shot out at it.
Syaoran glared into the fire, and to the other side where Loup was standing outside of the doorway. "Don't do that," he hissed. A burn had appeared in the same place as Loup's.
Loup was taken aback. Something was seriously wrong. He walked into the room. "Syaoran, put that fire out before the whole building sets on fire!" Loup shouted over the sounds of the flames.
Syaoran glared at nothing. He continued to shiver with extreme cold. "Why...I am so cold..."
Loup, couldn't take much more of this. He lashed out with his own power, and the flames dissapeared abruptly.
"W-why did you put the fires out? I-I a-am s-s-so c-c-cold," Syaoran stammered through his chatting teeth.
"Syaoran, if those burnt much longer, your bed would have been in flames. The apartment would have burnt worse than it did also. Why are you so cold?!"
Syaoran's eyes were so dull. "I d-d-don't k-k-know. S-s-something is w-wrong w-w-w-w-with m-me." He doubled over the side of his bed, and vomited.
Loup was almost to the point of panic. He felt vaugly nausious. It was through his connection with Syaoran. But why am I not feeling the cold that he feels?
Syaoran stayed doubled over for a moment. He then sat up. Shivering worse than before.
Loup vanished from the room.
"Don't g-go...y-you w-were s-so w-warm," Syaoran moaned too late.
Sakura was in her room, reading when she sensed a dark presence. Not evil, but just dark. Dark magic. She looked up, and Loup was standing in front of her bed. She knew it was Loup because of the clothes (all black) and the fact that Syaoran couldn't teleport. At least not since she last saw him he couldn't. Sakura noticed the burn on Loup's cheek.
"What is the matter?" Sakura asked with concern. Loup was pale from worry. He looked sick too.
"It is Syaoran. Something is wrong with him. I don't know what! You have to come now!" Loup shouted with worry.
"Keep it down Loup! Oni-chan is here visiting! If he hears you, we'll be in big trouble!" Sakura whispered frantically.
There was a knock on the door of her room, and it opened soon afterwards.
"Speak of the devil," Sakura murmured.
Touya looked into her room. "Sakura, was there someone else in here?" He asked in a flat voice.
Sakura shook her head fast. "No...not at all! Hehehehehehehe," she laughed nervously.
Touya raised an eyebrow at the empty room. Something doesn't feel right... he thought.
Loup couldn't wait much longer in invisibility. He could feel Syaoran, getting worse. What is wrong with my aibou?! Loup started at the thought 'aibou'. It had been a long time since he had thought of someone like that. Fleur had been the last person he had ever thought of like that.
Touya wouldn't leave. He kept looking around the room with narrowed eyes.
"What's wrong oni-chan?"Sakura asked nervously.
/Loup! Cold...drowing me...help! Please stop the cold!/
Loup started at this frantic thought from Syaoran. He couldn't wait anymore. He had to get Sakura to Syaoran. He became visible suddenly.
Touya was surprised for a moment, but then sent him a glare. "What are you doing here gaki? But you feel different from him...anyways. What are you doing here?! And how the hell did you do that," he shouted.
Loup ignored him completly. "Sakura-san, we have to get to Syaoran! Now!" Loup grabbed her arm.
Touya definatly wasn't happy about that. He ran into the room and snapped Loups's hand off of Sakura's arm. "What the hell do you think you're doing gaki?!"
Loup sent him a glare that was almost worse than Syaoran's glares. (Even though these two look exactly the same...^^) "I have neither time nor patientce for this."
Touya sent a withering look right back at Loup. "Well, I won't have gaki's messing with my sister like that!"
"Both of you stop it!" Sakura shouted.
She was ignored. That made her angry.
Loup smiled suddenly. I need to maim something...he thought. His smile was not a good one.
Sakura noticed the look that Touya was reciving from Loup, and felt the welling of his powers, about to strike out. She had definatly had enough.
"LOUP!!! STOP IT NOW!!" She screamed. White light surrounded her.
Touya took a few steps away from his sister. He let go of Loup's arm.
The Star Wand appeared in her hands. "Now, oni-chan, I am going to go help Syaoran. I don't know when I will be back."
Loup grabbed her arm once more, and they dissapeared.
Touya was mezmorized. But only for a moment. It wasn't too surprising. He had always sensed something different about Sakrua anyways.
Syaoran still tried to get warm. He had no idea what was wrong with him. And he had definatly noticed that Loup wasn't feeling the cold. Only the nautiousniss.
"And now I am alone..." he whispered. The shivering had stopped. They say when you freeze to death, you get warm all of a sudden.
Syaoran was feeling some warmth. The warmth of oncoming death. He knew that was it. "Alone...my other half...gone...Sakura..."
But why?! his mind screamed. Why is this happening and how?! He could feel himself getting angry. Angry that he didn't know what was happening to him and why it was so sudden.
Loup returned with Sakura. Sakura stilled glowed white.
Loup hung back as Sakura walked to Syaoran. He was so pale. His lips were turning blue. "Syaoran, what is happening?"
"I-I-I- a-am f-f-freez-zing...t-to d-death."
Sakura shook her head. "I won't let you die." The Star Wand dissapeared. She held her glowing hands out to Syaoran, and grasped his shaking body. "I will keep you warm Syaoran. I will protect you from whatever his harming you now. I promise."
Syaoran felt warmth spread throughout his body, as Sakura held him in that embrace. He felt the strange nautiousness go away.
Loup, knew that whatever had beeen killing the boy was gone from his body, courtesy of Sakura. Now that he was calm, he could feel the aura in the room. A breif trace of it, the person already gone.
"Ombre," he mumbled so low that Sakura and Syaoran couldn't hear it.
"Thankyou Sakura. And Loup for getting her. I was going insane because of the cold," Syaoran stated.
Sakura looked at him warmly as she pulled away. Her aura stopped glowing.
"But why were you freezing to death in the middle of September?" Sakura wondered outloud.
Syaoran shook his head. "I don't know, but it is gone for the moment. I feel a faint aura, but I don't know it...even though it feels familar."
Loup watched in silence. So he sensed it too, and recognizes it from long ago...huh, guess the kid is stronger than I thought...but why him? Why did Ombre go after him? I recognize that aura of her...Shadow...
"L'ombre se cache dans le nuit," Loup began in French. (translation: The shadow lurks in the night.)
"Attente pour la victime prochain," Syaoran concluded. (translation: Wating for the next victum)
Sakura was weireded out. "Syaoran, I didn't know you knew French," Sakura murmured in shock.
Syaoran looked a little disturbed. But he hid it quickly. "I don't."
Loup narrowed his eyes. So my reincarnation is picking up things from my memory...it is too strange. But how? Mabye through the connection?
"Where did you hear that?" Syaoran asked. He had no real idea what he had said.
Loup looked him in the eyes. Brown eyes meeting identical brown eyes. "In France. Part of a song I belive..."
"When did you go to France? I never heard about any part of my family coming from France," Syaoran asked/stated.
Loup sighed. "I was there on business...umm...and anyways. I picked up the language. It is from a song. I can't remember anymore than what I said and you said. The strange thing is, the Light I loved had a French name also, but wasn't French...her name was...Fleur Cerise. French for cherry blossom."
Sakura opened her eyes wide. "That name..." she mumbled too low for Syaoran or Loup to hear.
"Well does it have anything to do with that coldness that tried to freeze me to death?" Syaoran asked with impatetince.
Loup felt annoyance, and anger running through the connection. Also a desire to teach whomever it had been a lesson. The want for revenge. Loup shuddered. Those extreme emotions shouldn't be felt by such a young person. Just cause Loup was technically a few thousand years old...(and mabye a couple thousand years dead...*big sweatdrop*)
//Syaoran, rest. Think about it tomarrow. You need to keep warm for now.//
/Alright/
Loup felt the emotions calm down. That poor child is becoming more and more like I used to be. At least he is already in love with his light. Sakura. The reincarnation of Fleur. Strange. French names in the past, Japanese names now...strange. Even to me...but my aibou...Syaoran. He is a target for my old enemies...now.
Syaoran settled under the covers. He and Sakura shared a kiss, and Loup took Sakura back to her home.
Syaoran lay staring into the darkness. Loup, had felt disstressed whilist Syaoran had been feeling rage, anger and the thirst for revenge to the one who tried to kill him. Syaoran was almost scared of himself. He knew what he was capable of. Moreso than Loup did. Syaoran knew that he could end up becoming totaly dark, no matter his lighter powers. He was still just shades of grey to black, Syaoran was afraid again. Only of himself, and what he knew he could do if he lost his temper, what that would turn Loup into also, since they were linked the way they were.
But...he was feeling the same emotions for awhile, but he lost them when he felt them rise in me. Why? So many whys...dammit, I hate not knowing what is happening. Syaoran thought. Tomarrow, there was always tomarrow. Things would be better. This night forgotten.
When Loup arrived back home, Syaoran was asleep. "My aibou...sleep well. And be warm."
In the middle of the night, a cab pulled up infront of Syaoran's apartments. A girl stepped out of it and payed the driver.
She had long black hair, done up in 'odangos' (that is the only way I can describe it...) They weren't too long though. Her eyes were orange (or was it amber? I can't even describe her eyes right....TT) She smiled as shje confimred the address.
"Syaoran. After two years of searching for you...I finally found where you went to," she whispered to herself.
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Loup: Okay that's it, I am waking her up. *hits Sakura-san with a stick*
Sakura-san: ALRIGHT ALL READY I'M UP! Anyways, *said while hitting Loup with a mallet* I am truly sorry about the French. I don't know much Japanese, so I gave a French twist to it.
Loup: Yeah. You even have Syaoran speaking some of it...
Syaoran: It is your fault..*glares at Loup*
Sakura-san: It is my fault, for I am the one writing the story. Anyhow, can anyone guess who the girl is yet? Well you should know...I do..it is *whispers name to Syaoran*goes pale* Her!! Oh no...
Sakura-san: Stay tuned for more. ... Mabye I should put up a notice on the first story to this, that this is separate from that title....~Sakura-san~
~ "Aozora to roorabureedo owaranai sutoori. Nishi kaze no kaerimichi. Watashi wa kyou mo genki desu!" - Sakura from "Nishi Kaze no Kaericmichi" (The West Wind's Way Home) {it's a song..} (translation: blue sky and rollerblades at the end of the story. The west wind's way home. I am full of energy today)~