Well, hello! Welcome to my Little world of weirdness!
I state for the record that this is my first fanfic . . . for ccs, and that I don't own any of the characters that will grace this story! It's all CLAMP's, always have been, always will be!
I don't pretend to be capable of speaking Japanese or knowing where to put it.
"Speaking"
*Stress/emphasis*
//thinking//
And then Yue said, "Bring it on."
Part Seven: There's no Escape, Yue!
"Master Clow?!"
"Yes Keroberos?"
Kero floated in front of the reincarnation.
"Seriously?"
"Yes Keroberos."
Kero eyed him sceptically, and the grin on Eriol's face grew, usually this was a very frightening sight, but for some reason it was very comforting. That's was confirmed it.
"It is you, Master!"
"Well, of course, it is, Keroberos!"
"Uhhhh. . . aren't you meant to be---"
"Dead? Yes Keroberos,"
"Then---"
"What am I doing here Keroberos? Well your idea is so deviously funny I just have to be a part of it!"
"I see." interrupted Tomoyo, "well, then maybe you can tell us."
"Hmm? Tell you what."
"How can we make Yue smile? It's Sakura's birthday tomorrow and we just want him to be . . . to be . . . what's the word I'm looking for?"
"Less intimidating?" offered Li.
"Less miserable?" offered Keroberos.
"Less mean?" offered the Sleep.
"Friendly?" offered The Mirror.
"That's the one!" Tomoyo clapped, "So we defiantly know that Yue did smile during your lifetime but Eriol can't remember why. . . "
The room darken, and then sparked with the light of thousands of tiny stars. When this amazing display had disappeared, Clow Reed was standing there beside Eriol, you could see straight thru him, but he was standing there nonetheless.
He stood in the pose they all recognised, the respectable but friendly magician one, for a few moments before his eyes widened, his face screwed up and he doubled over much like Eriol had a few moments earlier.
"Bwha ha ha ha ha ha . . . Oh! that's a good one, make Yue . . . Yue smile. . . Oh ho ho, oh ho ho ho. . . it's good, it's very good!" He breathlessly spoke. Then he looked up to see Li, and fell to the floor and lay there. He was laughing so hard, he was rolling and clutching his stomach. "And they. . .they. . . hee hee. . . still re--. . . re-re-re-hee. . . oh the turkeys, the *turkeys*! Okay, okay oh-okay. . . I'm okay, hm. Hmm. I'm okay!"
The powerful magician wiped the tears from his eyes, "Oh ho ho hohoho, okay I've nearly. . . oh smiling Yue Ha! Ha ha ha, oh ho ho hoho. Ah ah ah ha. Woo! That was a good'un. oh ho, hee hee wheee."
His shoulders still shook, and he sniggered for a bit, before he resumed his former composure. "Okay I'm done now, where was I? Ah yes, Yue and smiling. There was always two sure-fire ways that made him smile. No wait, make that one, the other made him screa—" Clow looked at his varied audience, he coughed, "Ahem, one, *one* sure-fire way of making Yue smile but that can be our last ditch attempt."
"We've tried everything else!" protested Touya, "This *is* our last ditch attempt!"
Clow Reed smiled charmingly at Touya and Yukito, before he replied.
"Not everything…"
//Ahhhh. Safe at . . . // He looked around him quickly, just to check, // Oh yeah, safe at last.//
Yue leaned back on his hands, he knew he was sleeping, so deeply that he and Yuki could have been called separate identities, he was blissfully unaware of Yuki, and although under other circumstances he would worry about it, not this time. There was no way even Yuki could bother him here.
Here was the roof of his former master's home, and Yue's birthplace. It was mid-autumn and the trees proudly showed their colourful palate of reds and yellows. He sighed, the afternoon was a tad warmer than should be for this late in the season, //Demo, . . .what the hell, this is *my* dream.//
He closed his eyes, and relaxed completely.
"It's very nice up here." A familiar voice commented, Yue answered more out of habit than anything else.
"Yes it is isn't it?"
A silence before Yue realised who owned the voice.
"Tsukishiro Yukito?!" Yue's catlike eyes flew open.
"Hello Yue." Yukito smiled back.
"How did you—?"
"It isn't important." Yukito interrupted.
"Yes it is!" Yue protested.
"No it's –"
"Trust me! It is!" Yue interrupted the snow bunny.
"Why?" Yuki inquired.
"Because—" Yue stopped, and gasped, his eyes flicked from Yuki to something behind him, his jaw slackened. Yue took a small step back.
"What's wrong?" Yuki looked at the moon being in concern.
"Oh dear Clow-sama! NO!" Yue cried in a frightful voice.
"What?!" Yuki demanded, peering at the moon guardian with wide amber eyes.
"Look behind you!" Yue pointed just over Yukito's shoulder.
"Why?" Yuki, gullible as ever, turn to look behind him. There was nothing there. . . which meant. . .
Yue spun and ran along the roof as soon as Yukito had taken his eyes of him. //Sucker!!// Thought Yue triumphantly as he came to the edge of the rooftop. //Now to fly, fly away and be free!//
As he leapt into the air to facilitate his escape, it was too late for him to realise that his wings had simply vanished.
"Oh shi—" the sudden blast of moving air in his face cut off the rest of that comment.
Luckily, he landed in one of the garden's many ponds. . . if you could call that lucky.
Crawling out of the murky water and extracting a frog from his once beautiful, but now muddy hair, he threw his head back and yelled up at Yukito.
"YOU COMPLETE *INGRATE*!!" Few things could cause Yue to lose his usual calm demeanour, insults about and damage to his hair was one of them. Had he had his wings, -another thing that got to him, but thankfully they hadn't suffered the same indignity as his hair- he would have flown right back up to Yukito and beaten the living sh—
"Whoa there! Take it easy!" A pair of strong, warm arms wrapped around his soggy torso. //Who the hell--// Yue's mind howled in anger. Yue spun to find it was Kinotomo Touya restraining him from ripping Yukito apart.
"What the *Hell* are *You* doing in *My* subconscious?!" Yue bellowed in incredibility. Yue was cold. He was wet. He was minus his wings. *And * his hair was soaked.
//Someone. Must. Pay.// He continued to glare at Touya when the young man grabbed his arms again. The world went dark as something was thrown over his head, and he felt rope slip around him, Yue the Judgement Maker, was tussled, and thrown over someone's, most likely Touya's shoulder, and carried into the house. He then encountered the painful experience of being carried up the stairs, being dropped half way up, then rolling down the stairs, then being carried up the ruddy things again.
"Which one's his room?" Yuki's voice whispered.
"I dunno. This is your other form's subconscious' dream!" Touya's whispered back urgently
"Well, this is your father's past life's home too, y'know." Yuki whispered back indignantly
"What does that have to do with anything?!"
"I don't know, it just does!"
"THIRD RUDDY ROOM ON THE FLIPPING RIGHT!!" Yue yelled thru the towel they had thrown over his head. Touya and Yuki were very grateful that Clow had restricted Yue's magic powers in this dream state.
"Uh. Arigato." Yuki said quietly.
Yue experienced flight. It wasn't the liberating, adrenalin filled kind afforded to him by his wings, no, no, this was the 'let's throw the Judgement maker on the bed and see how high he bounces' kind. He landed with a small 'thud' and, thanks to years of non-usage, he bounced three times.
"Wai. . . To-ya hasn't he got a bouncy bed. . ."
"Not now Yuki!" Yue didn't have to magic to hear, "Maybe later."
Yue rolled his eyes. "Excuse me! But I am wet, I am cold, and also I am in the mood to kill. So will you kindly untie me so I can do something about all three?"
The mattress dipped, as To-ya and Yuki moved on to the bed either side of him. The towel that had been obscuring his sight was removed and revealed to him a sight he saw every single morning, reflected in the mirror. Tsukishiro Yukito's sunshiny 'isn't-it-a-lovely-day!' smile.
"Hello Yue!" Yue glared at Yuki as he continued. "So here the deal, we'll help you with the first two, *if* you don't even consider doing the third!"
"I don't have to consider doing it." Yue spoke with calmness belying his rage. "What's to consider?!"
"Ah, ah!" Touya said, "Deal or we leave your hair to dry and it'll stay dirty and smelly."
Yue's eye's glowed dimly. A book flew off the bookcase and whacked the side of Touya's head.
"Ow!" Touya cried, "I thought his magic was being restricted."
Yuki shrugged while Yue muttered darkly, "Must be. I was aiming to drop the bookcase on you."
"Ah." Touya nodded in comprehension.
What seemed like three hours past, as Yue calmed from 'I'm going to kill you all' to 'I may not kill you but I'm gonna sulk about it for a really long time'. Touya wondered if Clow was right about the difference between dreamtime and real time. What seemed like hours to them, must only be minutes to the others. He hoped. //The Creep. The Gaki. The god-almighty Annoying One. In my room.// he shuddered and looked over at Yuki, he was looking around the room, which was filled with books and various things Yue must have collected.
Yue still lay on the bed, bound by rope. He pursed his lips together, stubbornly before expelling a loud breath. "Alright! I won't kill you! Just please do something about my hair!!"
Soon, Yue was restored to his favourite condition. Pristine. Immaculate. Spotless. Pure. Perfect. He sat before the mirror and twiddled with his earring. Once it was set to his liking, he swivelled and glared at the two humans that had invaded his subconscious. "Now, what are you doing here?"
The two perpetrators exchange a nod, before they rushed at him. Touya held him firmly and Yuki held up his long ponytail in one hand.
Yue gasped as Yuki revealed what was in his other hand.
"Transform out of here quietly or your hair gets it."
Tsukishiro Yukito was holding a glinting pair of large scissors dangerously close to his hair!
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And now it's time for LEAVE IT TO DR MEGALOMANIA!!
DrM: Konnichiwa!! Welcome to the end . . . of the *7* chapter!! Well in today's chapter all was revealed.
Eriol: not quite everything! What about the turkey incident?
Clow: The . . .bwha ha ha! Turkey incident! [snigger] oh, I love turkeys. And with the loop card, they just kept going and--- [Li sets Mei Lin on clow and eriol, she tackle/hugs them]
Li: well I'm sorry to say that's all we have time for today!
Kero: what about Kero-chan check?
Li: very very quickly!
Kero: and now it's time for another action packed KERO-CHAN CHECK!! I'm being told we only have time for one word today and that is:
Arigato – thank you!
Kero: and that's it! come back soon!
Touya: and don't forget to R&R, kaijuu!
Sakura: I'm not a Kaijuu!
DrM: Sakura, back to your chapter, or I'll do what I should have done with eriol! I'll call Nelvana!
Sakura: No, not sakoorah, Hoooeeeee!!!
