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.
Also, I probably should have attached this to a couple of the previous parts but, this contains hint's to Touya/Yukito, Clow/Yue, Eriol/Tomoyo and maybe a trace of nuts . . .
"Speaking"
*Stress/emphasis*
//thinking//
And then Yue said, "Bring it on."
Part Eight: And then Yue said, "Bring. It. On."
Meanwhile, in Touya's bedroom. . .
"Bet you they can't convince him to come back."
"Bet you they can."
"Can't!"
"Can!"
"Can't!"
"Can!"
"Can't, I bet you a mega-nikuman!"
Kero's head snapped towards Suppi.
"Well?" Suppi challenged.
"It's a serious bet. You sure you want to lose it?"
"I'm not worried because I won't!"
"Will!"
"Won't!"
"Will!"
"You know, for a half-onnichan, You're so immature!"
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not!"
"Am not!"
"Are Too!" Kero cried, ". . . . Matte!"
"Ha!"
Kero got up and stalked along the shelf over to Ruby Moon who was repeatedly plaiting and un-plaiting her plait.
"Psst!" he hissed at the floating girl . . . boy. . . butterfly type thingy.
"What is it?" she hissed back, "Can't you see I'm busy?"
"I want to annoy Spinel Sun." he said seriously.
"Ooh! I'm all ears." She squealed excitedly.
While Kero and Ruby plotted to get Spinel Sun drunk again . . .
". . . And I . . . hehe. . . I told him . . ." Clow sniggered.
". . . that if he . . .ha ha ha. . . valued his family honour. . ." Eriol giggled.
". . . he'd stop and go away, but. . ." Clow chortled.
". . . he just kept on and . . . ah ah ha ha. . ." Eriol wiped a tear from his lavender-grey eye.
Clow made loose circles with his hand, ". . .And on . . . and on, you know your typical Li. . ."
". . . wonderfully stubborn family. . ." Eriol draped a arm around the beetroot red Li Syaoran, and rubbed his knuckles affectionately against the boy's skull.
". . . so anyway. . . what I did was. . ." Hooted Clow.
". . . after spotting this whole bunch of turkeys nearby. . ." Explained Eriol.
". . . I got out the loop card. . . " Sniggered Clow, "And---"
"OH NO!! NOT AGAIN!!" Spinel Sun's yell drowned out the conversation, which both Clow Reed and his reincarnation carried out animatedly with Tomoyo; who tried to look as sympathetic as possible for Syaoran's sake but was failing miserably.
"BUT SUPPI-CHAN!! YOU'RE SO MUCH NICER---" Ruby flew after Spinel Sun with a bag of sugar she hid for such an occasion.
"--NOT TO MENTION FUNNIER!!---" Hollered Kero.
"WHEN YOU'VE HAD A BIT OF SUGAR!!" The pair cried in unison.
"WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER!!" Exclaimed the midnight blue guardian.
"THAT'S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE!!" Shouted Kero, "JUST LET ME GO GET THE FREEZE CARD!!"
"HEY!! SOME CARDS NEED THEIR BEAUTY SLEEP, YOU KNOW!!" The sleep card yelled over the ruckus.
The Mirror card prodded at her facial cream, "Is this stuff completely covering my face?" She asked Silent and Shadow. Silent was face down on the mistress' onnichan's desk, drooling in her sleep. The Shadow, who'd managed to get itself dry and now was in it's scarlet evening jacket, tied with a gold sash, looked up from the leather-bound book, and pulled it's pipe from it's hood. It looked at Mirror's face pack, and started gesturing with it's pipe as if it had launched in to a lengthy speech, before Mirror realised. "I forgot . . . you can't talk."
Shadow nodded exaggeratedly, with the air of sarcasm, then reached down to the floor and picked up it's martini. Placing the pipe back in it's 'mouth', Shadow turned the page, and swirled the olive in the glass a few times before removing it's pipe again and sipping from the glass.
Mirror looked at the only other card that was here she could talk to but sleep was too busy trying to help catch The Master's reincarnation's Sun guardian. The Mirror sighed, "What I really need is a mirror . . ."
Spinel Sun meanwhile flew about the room attempting to escape his would-be assassins. When they suddenly stopped, he thought they had given up. So intent on sending them various victory cries, that he didn't realise he was wrong, they hadn't given up, they'd just stopped.
He was wrong.
Very wrong.
So *very* wrong. . . As the wall he flew into proved.
*BLATT!*
Spinel Sun slid down the wall in a daze, as Keroberos, the Sleep and Ruby Moon exchanged sly and evil glances and advanced on the unconscious being. Ruby's hand tightened on the bag of sugar she held behind her back.
". . . And I did warn him . . . I told that Li that not he nor any other member of his family would ever be able to look at a turkey without ever being reminded of me . . ." concluded Clow, triumphantly. He clasped his hands in his lap happily, "You really had to be there . . ."
". . .I had always wondered why I had created the loop card. . ." Eriol's voice took on a hushed reverent tone, and both he and Clow looked saintly.
"At that moment," Clow nodded, almost whispering in awe. "I knew why . . ."
They both cracked up, "So I could watch my most brilliant pranks over and over and over again!! *HAI*!!" The two magicians high-fived each other before collapsing into another bout of giggles.
Li Syaoron glared at the two laughing wizards. He sighed sharply, that wasn't how he had been told, in the Li family version, //the Li wasn't as whiny . . .// a titter caught his attention.
"TOMOYO-CHAN!"
She slapped a hand in front of her mouth, "It's not funny, not at all, no really—" It wasn't working, as she started to laugh again.
"Shizumatte kudasei."
She began to laugh harder
"Shizuka ni!"
She couldn't help it she started to guffaw.
"Urusei!"
As Li tried to get Tomoyo to stop laughing she laughed harder. Eriol's mirth began to die away as her tinkling giggle played like music on his ears. Clow noticed this and sat up, leaning over to his younger reincarnation he whispered.
"Her?"
"Hai."
"Honestly?" Clow asked gently.
"Hai." Eriol's eye took on a slightly misty look.
"Hmmm . . . she reminds me of Yue."
Eriol eyed his past life's ghostly apparition. "How'd you figure that?"
"Beautiful eyes, long hair, pale complexion . . . annnnnnd . . ." He clicked his fingers, "She's an angel."
"You're grasping at straws."
Clow Reed laughed quietly, "I know . . . I also know that if we don't stop the terrible threesome over there; we're going to have a very sick panther on our hands . . ."
Keroberos was just raising the first paw of sugar in the air, ready to jam it down the captured Spinel Sun's throat, when he was picked up by the scruff of the neck. He sighed as he was brought up to his creator's face, "Oh, now, that's just mean."
Clow Reed smiled back fondly, "Perhaps another time, Keroberos, but for now we need everyone this side of sanity."
Eriol plucked the bag of sugar from Ruby's clutches; he patted her on the head, "Chotto mattekudasai"
"Hai," came the sulky reply.
Eriol and his past life chuckled in a similar fashion. As Spinel Sun regained consciousness, the room was bathed in a familiar blue glow. They all fell quiet. Except for Kero, "Ha! Mega-nikuman here I come!"
As the glow faded, Touya and Yue stood together facing a ghostly version of Yuki. What wasn't ghostly was the pair of scissors Yuki had poised over Yue's ponytail.
"Tadaima!" Cried Yuki.
Eriol and Clow smiled faintly as they both raised their hands to cast the prevention spell, which would stop Yue from doubling back and transform away.
"Oh, you go." Clow stepped back politely.
"No, no, you." Eriol motioned the elder forward.
"Oh, you're too kind!" Clow smiled.
"I inherited from the master." Eriol commented smoothly.
"Ah ha!" Clow laughed modestly.
"Will one of you cast the spell Onegai; he's already transforming back." Touya interrupted the very British banter.
Clow cast the spell, which enveloped Yue briefly in a purple glow, which in effect slammed Yue's way out shut.
Yue felt as if a door had just been slammed in his face, he fell back onto Touya, "Ow!" He rubbed the tip of his nose, dejectedly. They'd finally got him here. With the help of his former master.
"Now, Yue . . ." began Tomoyo, "You have made this a long and arduous journey."
Yue raised his head to glare at everyone in the room. This whole sorry saga had started so innocently, with quietly dropped hints from Yukito, then a quick conversation with Tomoyo one day as Sakura had run off to fetch tea. It then turned into bigger things like Keroberos calling him in the middle of the night, and that Li clan head dropping out of trees, and his half-siblings chasing him, and being trapped by his creator's reincarnation in his other form's room. Finally it had come to Yukito and Touya kidnapping him from his own dream, with the aid of his former master, all at great risk to his hair, culminating in this.
He noticed some of the Sakura cards in the back, The Mirror, The Sleep, The Shadow, and The Silent, all cards usually under his protection. He opened his mouth to yell at them, but Silent waved her hand and he lost his voice, Shadow wrapped itself about his torso, making a more effective confinement than Touya's strong hold. Sleep and Mirror stood in front of him.
"Yue-sama, we just want to help you." Mirror said in her quiet voice.
Yue's eyes glowed and a book flew off the shelf. The dictionary levitated in front of the pair, and flicked thru it's own pages, a pen flew across and pointed to a word on the page. Silent ran forward and covered the younger cards' eyes. "Such language, Yue" Clow raised his hand, and the book returned to it's place, the pen flicked itself back to it case.
Yue's eyes narrowed at the sight of his creator. Clow carried on, "Just listen to what they have to say."
Yue mouthed, 'fine!'
Mirror smiled sweetly, and began to change. She now resembled Yue.
Sleep talked through their idea. "We figure you don't know how handsome you would be if you would smile a bit more . . ."
Yue mouthed, 'How much is a bit more?'
Ruby grinned at him; "Maybe you should try smiling like I do!!"
Yue grimaced. Sleep talked on, "so Mirror here's going to show you."
The Mirror-Yue's face split into a similar manic grin to Ruby's. Tomoyo observed, "Maybe a little more subtle…?"
The Mirror-Yue thought for a few moments before the expression changed to something a lot more repressed.
Yuki's ghostly voice said, "No, I don't think To-ya's smile suits him either."
"How 'bout mine?" Cried Keroberos. The Mirror-Yue pulled it's lips back until it's full jaw of teeth were showing in a parallel smile as Kero's. "Perfect!" he swooned.
Yue's head shook rapidly. He pressed his thin lips together tightly, and looked even more defiant.
Clow Reed sighed, "I was afraid it would have to come to this. Shadow remain, you others return to the guises you were meant to be in!"
He held out his hand as the three Sakura cards changed back. He took out a small key, which glowed, in his hands; he muttered a quiet, "Release!". And then louder, "You may want to stand back . . ."
Clow swirled his staff in his hand once, before tapping Keroberos on the head, "Keroberos. Return to thy true form!"
The guardian's eyes slid shut, and his wings grew out and cocooned his tiny body. They rest of the group moved back as his wings spread to reveal the glorious golden-eyed seal beast.
"Why do you need me, Master?" Then a look of anguished understanding passed over his face, "Oh no, not again!"
Clow shrugged, "It's the only way, Keroberos."
"Demo. . ." the lion sighed. "They're so delicate, and soft. And they're my pride and joy."
"Douka shita no, Kero-chan?" Tomoyo asked in concern.
Clow turned to her to explain. "I created all my guardians with little failings, never make anything perfect, as I always said, so with Ruby it was fashion, with Spinel it was an allergy to sweets, with Kero it was an addiction to pudding, and with Yue . . ."
Yue started to struggle as he realised what was going to happen. Clow smile affectionately at the moon being. "My dear moon angel, I made extremely susceptible to being tickled."
Yue stopped struggling and just shook his head.
"But only," Clow added, "By Keroberos' feathers . . . couldn't have the Judgement Maker taken down by anyone with good fingers now, could I?"
Yue and Keroberos exchanged a quick glance; Yue dreading what was to coming, Keroberos preparing himself for the onslaught. Everyone was looking at his wings hungrily. "Try to pluck the bad ones." he threw over his shoulder as he turned to give them easy access to his wings.
Soon, everyone held on to a feather, and several floated in the air as Spinel Sun and Ruby Moon had gotten a little carried away with their plucking.
Yue started to mouth something at them, "What's he saying?" asked Syaoran.
Clow swirled his staff again and said, "Cards! Cease thy magic charms! Release!!"
The Shadow card released Yue and Silent gave the moon being back his voice. Shadow returned to Touya's desk and returned to it's book, replacing it's pipe, it looked completely disconnected from the events surrounding it. It's head jerked back as it lifted it's martini to it's hood, and it plucked a golden feather out of it's glass in disgust.
Yue backed away from the group of people drawing nearer to him. "Why do you want me to smile so badly?!" he asked.
"Because" Tomoyo glared at him, "It's Sakura-chan's Tanjoobi tomorrow and for the first time since you met you're going to give her a nice big cheesy grin, so she'll stop thinking you hate her!"
"But it will break my face!" He protested weakly.
"It will most certainly will not!" Said Clow indignantly.
"Yeh," growled Keroberos, "I used to see you sail out of the Master's bedroom every morning with a huge grin plastered on your face."
"Keroberos! That was different!"
"And I have felt you smile at Sakura when you're within me." Yuki drifted closer.
"That's because you were created to smile. I wasn't." Yue snapped back.
"Are you saying you were created to be a grouchy old man then?" mocked Li.
"Another one like that, Li and there will be a repeat of the Incident!" retorted Yue.
"Come on, don't make us do this, it just a small smile for the kaijuu." Touya tried to reason.
"Then you smile at her." Hissed Yue.
Yue's back hit the wall, he was backed up into a corner. Surrounded, outnumbered with the enemy wielding his brother's treacherous feathers.
Tomoyo stepped closer, "Well, then, what have you got to say for yourself now? . . . you could stop this, all for just one smile."
Yue was trapped. His former master, his brother, his technical half- brother and –sister, their master, his new mistress' onnichan, her best friend, and her former rival. All wielding the only damned things that he couldn't resist. //Lose my reputation or give in. Lose my reputation or give in. Reputation or surrender. Reputation. Surrender. Reputation. Surrender.// He considered the consequences of both and made his choice. He steeled himself, his catlike, amethyst eyes narrowing.
And then Yue said, "*Bring*. *It*. *On*."
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And now it's time for LEAVE IT TO DR MEGALOMANIA!!
DrM: Konnichiwa!! I'm sorry to say this is the *second* to last chapter of this fanfic BUT not to worry!! I am working on another fic! And it'll be out soon as it's ready!
Tomoyo: And you finally got to the scene that inspired the whole thing.
DrM: I know! Ain't it great?!
Kero: Ahem!
Drm: Nani?
Kero: Mega-nikuman.
DrM: Ah, yes, Suppi, hand over.
Suppi: Stupid bet.
Clow: Because my dear little Kero has his mouth full. . . it's now time for CLOW REED-SAMA CHECK!!
Onegai - please
Tadaima – I'm back, said when entering house,
Chotto mattekudasai – please, wait a little.
Shizuka ni – be quiet.
Shizumatte kudasei – please be quiet.
Matte – wait.
Tanjoobi – birthday.
Clow: That's all from CLOW REED-SAMA CHECK. Come back soon for the….
[DRUM ROLL]
DrM, Kero, Syaoran, Tomoyo, Ruby, Spinel, Clow, Eriol, Mirror, Silent, Shadow, Sleep, Touya and Yukito: . . . FINAL CHAPTER!! HON-NA-NA!!
