Well, hello! And Welcome to My Little World of Weirdness!
I state for the record that, despite the fact I really, really wish I did, I don't own any of the characters that will grace this story; it's all CLAMP's! Always has been, always will be!
Also I don't pretend to have any Mastery over the language of Japanese or any clue as to correct grammatical structure. I put it in and hope it gets across the point I'm trying to make!
Also, I've only ever seen the American dub, the first 3 and the 5th DVDs of the sub. Everything else about the whole Sakura-Eriol-Yue arch I've gleaned from the Internet. Sorry if they are all OOC or I slip up and start calling Syaoran, simply Li. Someone? Do tell me if I do that! And before I get any complaints, consider them all to be in their mid-teens, the time when everybody starts making dirty little jokes!!
"Speaking"
*Stress/emphasis*
//Thinking//
The Magical, Mythical, Mischievous Master Clow.
By Dr Megalomania.
For a small city called Tomoeda, of the lovely isle of Japan, the week began like any other. For four magical guardians, the week began hellishly with the activation of an ancient curse, bestowed upon them a long, long time ago . . .
Part seven: Thursday - Mokuyoobi
Kinotomo Sakura awoke the next morning to a dreadful smell.
"Eeugh!" She said, she sat up in her bed and looked around her room for the source of the smell.
Then she remembered the events from last night . . .
//Flash back//
"THEY'RE ON THE BLOODY ROOF!"
As soon as Kero and Spinel had shouted their realisation; they recalled their wings and flew out the window into the violent storm.
Sakura and the rest of the gathered group exchanged curious looks before the sound of yelling could be made out above the storm's howling wind.
"Do either of you have any idea how worried we were about you two?!" Hollered Keroberos.
"Can you even comprehend how much trouble you are both in?!" Screamed Spinel.
The sound of laugher answered both those questions, neither of the errant guardians cared.
A very soaked Spinel Sun dragged a very, *very* muddy and wet Ruby Moon through the window, followed by a fuming, wet, Keroberos, hauling an even more, //if that was possible// observed Sakura, filthy Yue, by the tail. By the looks on their faces, you could have almost have forgotten the fact that the four had swapped bodies. Spinel Sun, in Ruby's now drenched form, dispensed with her butterfly wings and stood, towering over a grinning Ruby Moon, which, in Spinel's form, was caked head to paw in mud.
"Where have you been?!" He screamed at her.
She flashed a wide grin at her partner in grime, Yue grinned back encouragingly.
"Oh, just here, there and everywhere!!" She sang.
Spinel trembled with fury; she was deliberately provoking him.
Eriol stood and looked at the others apologetically, suggesting that now would be an excellent moment to leave. He approached his two wet guardians cautiously as the rest of the group filed out quietly.
As soon as Tomoyo had left in her bodyguard's car, Kero and Yue stepped out of hiding.
Yue flash him an infuriating grin but Kero didn't even look at Yue. Instead he grabbed Touya and took off, flying toward their home.
"It's no fun if he doesn't react at all!" Yue groused.
Sakura choose not to answer, and called forth the fly card.
The flight home was heavily silent.
//end flashback//
. . . the smell was emanating from the sleeping lion who lay on an old blanket, in the middle of her floor.
She got up and went to the window. She sighed deeply as the cool night air swept in. Sakura turned away and got back into bed; she glanced at her alarm clock. Only to realise it was still in pieces.
She padded over to her desk quickly to get the watch Yukito had given her.
//Yukito?//
She wondered where he was; Yue didn't seem overtly concerned about him, so she had assumed that he must be fast asleep somewhere in Yue's psyche. She shivered unintentionally; it was three in the morning.
A blanket slipped about her shoulders and she gasped.
She turned and saw an image of her brother's best friend kneel down in front of her. It was Keroberos.
"Mistress, you should be in bed." He said gently.
"I guess I should." She shivered again. He picked her up easily and placed her gently in the bed.
As she yawned and fell quickly back to sleep, he smoothed a hand over her brow. He turned and saw a flash of gold. Kero bent down and sat beside his brother, who inhabited his body, just as Kero inhabited Yue's.
"I know you are awake," he said softly. Yue ceased his pretence, looked at him. Kero changed into Yue's true form.
They sat in silence, just blinking slowly at each other.
"Where did you go?" Kero broke the quiet first.
Yue looked out the window briefly before answering, "Home."
"This is our home."
"No I mean-"
"--I know what you meant." Kero snapped. Yue glanced over Kero's shoulder quickly, to check if he had woken the Mistress.
"Keep your voice down! Mou! When did you become such a stickler for modus operandi?!"
Kero shook a long pale finger at him, "I don't know what that means but do you have any idea how worried you made the Mistress?"
"Ha! As if she'd worry about me!"
What is that supposed to mean?!
"You know exactly what I mean!"
"No! I don't!"
Yue rested his chin on his fuzzy paws.
"Are you going to tell me?"
Kero looked down on his brother, and wondered what he should do; Yue was upset at him.
"Is this because I threatened to do the drop-kick thing to you yesterday morning? Or because we went to the park without you?"
Yue sighed, and sat up to face Kero.
"Kero . . . I . . ."
Kero tilted his head, "What?" He probed gently.
"I frolicked today." Yue confessed.
Kero snorted and sniggered. "Where?"
"You remember that meadow that clow used to take you to?"
Kero's eyes lit up, "Of course I do! Matte . . . you flew all the way to England to *frolic* in a cornflower meadow?"
Yue nodded.
"That's why you're so mucky; I assume you *frolicked* in the stream."
Yue smiled at this, and nodded enthusiastically.
"Why?" Kero smiled, he had happy memories of that stream, he'd get soooooo messy that it took Yue *hours* to clean him . . . Kero had an epiphany. It took Yue hours to clean him so Yue was going to make him take . . .
Kero's mouth fell open. Then his eyes narrowed. Now Yue was in Keroberos' form, and he was in Yue's; Kero was the one with the hands. He leant forward and pressed his nose against Yue's.
"And to think, all this time I thought I had only *dreamt* that you were once the most sneaky, the most underhanded, the most devious, the most spiteful, the most pitiless one of us guardians."
Yue grinned slyly.
"Guess what?" Yue nudged Kero with his nose.
"What?" Kero grinned, he'd missed this side of Yue, the evil side, the dark side, the *fun* side.
"I'm baaaaaaaack!" Yue crowed.
That morning had gone relatively well, both guardians had remained asleep right thru breakfast. Touya managed to convince their father that since he didn't have to go to school or any of his part time jobs that he'd take care for the 'ever poorly' Yukito. Sakura had a much harder time convincing their father that the smell coming from her room was from some science project that had gone wrong. She promised that the smell would be gone by tonight.
Touya waved from the porch as his father walked away to the bus.
"Onnichan!" Sakura called to him as she pulled on her skates. "Please make sure Kero bathes Yue. And try to keep them from killing themselves."
"Sure! Take care!" He called to his sister.
He turned and walked back into the house. He bent to put his slippers on and, then he would go wake those-
"Onnichan! We're hunger!" Now caked in dry mud, the lion form of Keroberos and grinning Yukito stood before him.
"Hai, hai!" He was getting used to it now. "But first, you need a bath-" he pointed at Yue, "and by the smell of it your hair needs a wash-" he pointed at Kero. "*And* because I-" he poked his thumb into his chest. "Have house chores to do, you-" he pointed at Kero, "are going to wash him-" he moved his finger to point at Yue. "And then you are going to talk him-" he pointed once more at Kero. "Through how to wash your bloody hair! Is that *simple* enough for the two of you?"
The two exchanged a quick glance.
"Sure, sure," answered Yue, "now about our breakfast?"
"Yue, we're going to wash you first, then the hair, and once that's drying, then we'll have breakfast."
Yue's stomach growled in disagreement. "But I'm hungry now!"
"There are some things more important than your stomach." Kero sighed.
Touya did a double take. Then did another one just to be sure. Kero was beginning to sound like Yue, and Yue was beginning to sound like Kero.
He stared after them as Kero pulled Yue up the stairs. He squinted thoughtfully, and his mouth hung open until:
"Ooohhh! I get it." Touya nodded, finally understanding Clow's spell. "Sneaky."
He was just about to get started on his chores when the doorbell rang.
Making sure the guardians were out of sight, (he assumed they were still in the bathroom) he answered the door.
An envelope was thrust into his face as soon as the door creaked open.
Touya took the letter and looked at the people, //correction, // guardians standing on his doorstep.
"Open it then," said Spinel.
Touya did as he was told and unfolded the hastily written letter:
"Gomen Kinotomo,
Demo, I don't trust them on their own.
Please take care of them and make sure Spinel, (I mean Ruby, as in, Ruby *in* Spinel's body!!) make sure the she doesn't get a hold on any products containing sugar.
Arigato and I will be over to pick them up when I can.
Eriol"
"Eriol? Who's Eriol?"
"Our Master." They reminded him.
"Oh! The creep!"
"Our Master isn't a creep." Ruby protested.
"Sure, what ever you say." he sighed. "I guess you better come in."
Touya sped about the house; he didn't have that much to do, largely thanks to Yue's boredom earlier in the week. He hurried because he wanted to get the job done, and done soon so he could put his feet up and relax.
He was just about to dust his father's library shelves when he heard a quiet, 'ah-choo!'
Touya's eyes fell on a large pot his father kept in his study. It was a gift from an archaeologist friend. It was also extremely delicate and expensive and irreplaceable.
As he walked up to he noticed a couple of soggy paw prints on the carpet. Touya's eyes narrowed. He gently lifted the lid to peer into the dark bowels of the vessel.
"It's a nice pot, Roman era, if I'm not mistaken." A quiet voice murmured from behind him.
Touya jumped and almost dropped the lid.
"Careful!" Yue exclaimed.
"Baka!" Touya put the lid down and snatched up his feather duster. He swotted the soaked guardian. "Why aren't you with Keroberos?"
"I got bored of having a bath, and he fell asleep so I came down looking for some food." Yue looked over his shoulder and nodded to the front room. "What are those two doing here?"
"Eriol left them on the doorstep." Touya explained; he looked hard at the plush toy form of Keroberos. The fur wasn't its usual Sunshine yellow, more of a gunky, ancient paper brown. "You *still* aren't clean!" He grabbed Yue out mid air and stormed out of his father's study.
"What are you two doing here?" Kero asked when he spotted Spinel and Ruby sitting in the front room.
He'd come down in search of Yue, who had done a runner from the bath.
"The Master decided he didn't trust us not to get in trouble while he was at school . . ." started Spinel, as he sipped his tea.
"So he dropped us off here, because your Mistress told him it was okay because Touya would be here." Ruby popped a grape into her mouth. As she chewed absently, she turned to gaze at him. "What are you hiding under there?"
Kero tighten the towel around his waist. "What, in Clow-sama's name, are you talking about?"
Ruby used her . . . Spinel's, free hand, . . . paw, to wave at her head.
"I mean the turban."
"Yue has a lot of hair. Remember?" Kero uttered, he'd spent ages wrapping the body-sized towel about his head, now he knew why Yue took so long and why he was so careful about getting dirty. His long hair might be a thing of beauty but, as Kero was now only just finding out, it took hours of preparation, care and patience.
Ruby snorted and turned back to the television. It was now Kero noticed something weird. Spinel and Ruby were tied together, by the wrists.
Kero blinked. "Why are you two tied together?"
Spinel glared briefly at Ruby as he launched into his explanation. "So she doesn't get any bright ideas again."
Ruby turned to Kero, "It was Yue's idea!" She glared at Spinel, "And you don't see Keroberos tying him to his wrist, with the Master's old shoelaces!"
"Actually, that's not such a bad idea," said Kero, as he remembered why he had interrupted his bath. "Have either of you seen-"
"Here he is!" Said Touya as he sailed into the room.
"TRAITOR!" Cried Yue as he dangled, by Kero's tail, from Touya's hand.
Annoyed Kero snatched Yue from Touya, "Do you realise I was enjoying that bath?"
Yue rolled his eyes "But I was bored and hungry surely, there's a quicker way to get clean."
An evil thought flashed over Kero's mind, "Sure there is, come with me."
Touya watched as Kero and Yue padded out of the room, then turned his attention on Ruby and Spinel.
"Okay you two." He thrust a set of dusters at them. "Get started."
Kero picked up a basket of laundry. There wasn't much of it this week, he noted. Casting a sidelong glance at Yue, he wondered how many times he had cleaned the clothes.
Yue looked back at him, "Until I felt guilty about getting the clothes so dizzy," he answered Kero's speculative gaze.
Kero snickered.
He hopped down the tiny steps that lead to the washing room. //Good// he thought evilly,// Touya didn't already have load on.//
"So what this mega fast way of washing then?" Yue said conversationally, as he fingered a pile of washing powder on the shelf.
Kero put a few of the large white sheets in and tried to keep his face straight. //Wait . . . Waaaaait. . . Until he least suspects it.// He watched Yue out of the corner of his eye, he knew Yue, if he didn't get an answer he would inevitably come closer to repeat his question, or to find out for himself.
Yue looked up at Kero, who had his back to him and was slowly folding the large sheets into the machine.
"Kero?" He fluttered off the ledge; "Kero did you-HEY!!"
Kero turned quickly and snatched Yue out of the air and stuffed him quickly into the machine.
Before Yue could fly back out again, Kero slammed the lid and hopped up on to the top. He felt Yue ramming the lid, which wouldn't open because Kero was sitting on it.
"Heh, heh, heh," Kero chuckled evilly. "This is for getting me so scared last night!" And he pounded his fist on the start button.
Touya walked out of the front room, Spinel and Ruby were getting on each other's and his nerves. Spinel was so worried that Ruby would run away again that he refused to untie them, and Ruby, still trapped in Spinel's form, didn't have the fingers to untie the difficult knot.
He sighed and bent to pick up the load of laundry he'd placed . . . in . . . the . . . //what the--?// the basket had disappeared. He ambled down the corridor to see if he'd taken it to the washroom already.
He could hear the machine whirring away, and as he peered into the room, saw Kero in Yue's lanky form, sitting quite contentedly on the violently vibrating machine.
"He-he-llo-oo-oo, Tou-yy-ahh!" Kero said as he jerked in rhythm to the appliance. He grinned. "I-I-I- th-th-thoug-gh-gh I-I-I-'d-d-d le-le-len-d-d- d a-a-a-a ha-ha-ha-nnnn-d." [a/n: he said 'I thought I'd lend a hand']
Touya's eyes narrowed; there was something not quite right about this.
"I thought I told you to give Yue a bath!"
Kero grinned wider, "Tr-tr-trus-us-ust m-m-m-me, h-he-ee-ee's ha-ha-ha-ving a-a-a-a g-go-go-good s-s-s-soak!" [a/n: he said, trust me he's having a good soak!]
A crash in the other room got Touya's attention before he could tell Kero that he didn't trust him as far as he could throw his full form.
Kero laughed mischievously as Touya ran out of the washroom. The device came to a stop and Kero hopped off the lid and peered into the appliance, wondering what Yue's reaction would be.
Touya slid to a stop outside the sitting room and paused, he wasn't sure he wanted to know what havoc they had caused. Taking a deep breath, Touya strode manfully into the room. Spinel was restacking books onto the bookshelf.
"What happened?" Demanded Touya.
Spinel answered quietly, "Ruby got free of the string and flew into the bookshelf." He nodded over to the sofa, "She's out cold."
Touya blinked happily, Ruby Moon, the unbelievably annoying one was unconscious. Touya almost felt giddy with the newfound peace. Of course, he didn't express any of this.
***RIIIIIIIIIIING!!***
Touya picked up the receiver, "Moshi-moshi, Kinomoto residence?"
It was his father, Touya quickly motioned Spinel to keep quiet. Spinel nodded and sat quietly with his sister.
"Hai, father, it's all right, I understand,"
"KEROBEROS!!!" Yue hollered as he flew past the room, Kero quickly followed him.
"YOU BIT ME!!" Kero cried after him, "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU BIT ME!!"
"What's that Touya?" Fujitaka asked with concern.
"Umm . . ." Touya glared out the door, "It's the . . . television. Yuki!" He pretended to call out to his friend; "Can you turn it down a bit?" He motioned frantically at Spinel to close the door, the yells became slightly muffled.
"Oh, all right." Said Fujitaka, "I'll be back, Friday night or early Saturday morning, okay?"
"Kitto. I'll tell the kaijuu."
His father chuckled. "Have fun and take care."
As soon as his father had hung up, Touya raced up the stairs. He stopped outside the bathroom to hear:
"YOU WOULDN'T *DARE*!!"
"I'VE WAITED SIX LONG CENTURIES TO GET YOU IN A POSITION LIKE THIS, YUE!!"
Touya burst into the room, as Kero was passionately shoving a soap bar down Yue's throat and laughing manically.
"One thousand, two hundred and sixty . . ." A quiet voice drawled blissfully.
"Hic!"
"One thousand, two hundred and sixty one . . . come on Yue, five thousand and . . ." Kero looked over at Spinel, "How many more?"
"Five thousand and eighty more." Spinel looked up from the calculator.
"Hic!"
"One thousand, two hundred and sixty two . . ."
"Hic! I- hic! Hate- Hic! The- Hic! Both- Hic! Of- Hic! You!" Yue hiccupped passionately.
Kero shared a satisfied laugh with Spinel before replying. "Pay back's a bitch and five thousand, seventy-one to go!"
Touya was resting on his bed, eyes closed, ice pack firmly set on forehead, when the phone rang insistently. Two, three, four rings and still Touya didn't move a muscle. The fifth ring was cut off halfway, which meant either the caller had rung off or. . .
"Toy-YA-kun?" Kero did a very bad impression of Yuki, Touya had decided, he made his friend some entirely too feminine.
"Who is it?"
"It's Yu-key-toe." Kero squeaked.
Touya sighed and slapped the ice pack. "No, I mean who is it on the phone?"
"Oh, umm . . ." Kero was quiet for a few moments as he asked you the caller was, louder he said thru the door, "Its the Mistress!"
Touya leapt up and threw open the door, he snatch the phone out of Kero's hands.
"KAIJUU!!! YOU HAD BETTER HAVE A BRILLIANT REASON WHY YOU'RE NOT HOME *AND* WHERE THE HELL IS THAT DAMNED CREEP!!"
"HOEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" Sakura jerked the phone from her ear as Touya yelled at her.
"I see it runs in the family." commented Eriol as he shuffled the cards.
Syaoran watched Eriol's hands very carefully, Eriol was winning more times that luck would allow, "What do you mean?"
"Answering the phone with a tirade." Eriol noticed his hands were getting cramped. He pulled them away from the cards and flexed them.
"Hey! I knew it! I knew you were cheating!!" Syaoran leapt to his feet and pointed at the magically shuffling cards. Eriol noticed what he was pointing at and quickly replaced his hands.
"I don't know what you mean."
Tomoyo closed her eyes and shook her head. It was going to be one of those sleepovers again. She remembered the last time Eriol had filled Syaoran's sleeping bag with custard and, because Syaoran was such a heavy sleeper, no- body noticed until Sakura tried to sneak into the bag as well, and screamed.
Tomoyo turned her attention on Sakura; she was nervously trying to explain why she wasn't home yet. The truth was Eriol and Sakura wanted a break from the guardians, the official reason was going to be . . .
"Well, we've just got so much homework to do, and it has to be in soon so we were going to get it done now . . ." Sakura winced, she wasn't the best at lying. "Ummmm. . . no. . . I haven't seen Eriol."
Eriol and Syaoran turned to look at her. "But he did tell me why . . . he said . . ." Sakura stared pointed at Eriol, for some inspiration. "He's . . ."
"He's dead! Li Syaoran killed him! And now we're burning his remains to make sure the Creep is really *dead*!!" Syaoran hissed.
Eriol turned to look at his little descendant, disapprovingly.
Syaoran glared back, "Give it time." He said, "It'll happen!"
Sakura was still struggling for an answer, "He's . . . leaving the country!" She blurted.
Everyone turned to look at her as she shrugged and nervously listen to her ranting brother, "I mean he's *left* the country . . . to return to . . . England . . . because, because he has . . . unpaid . . . BILLS!! Unpaid bills and he has to . . ."
Eriol mentally swore to teach Sakura how to be a better liar.
"Has to . . . go back to England to pay his bills or he'll lose his . . . thumbs, because he . . . has to pay some . . . loan sharks off."
Syaoran slapped his forehead; even he was a better liar than this.
"Of course, that's the real reason!" Sakura cried indignantly, "It's not like he's right here is it? . . . Well, because you'd be able to here Syaoran strangling him, wouldn't you?! . . . *if* Syaoran was here, of course, which he's not because he's. . ."
"He's alive and well, and travelling to England with Eriol! Because he professed his undying love and we're eloping!!" Hissed Eriol, he smirked at a beetroot red Syaoran. "Give it time, it'll happen!"
"Shut your face, that's *not* why! Sakura! Do not listen to him!!"
"SAKURA-CHAN!!" Tomoyo called out loudly, "THIS PROJECT'S NOT GOING TO DO IT ITSELF YOU KNOW!!"
"Well, you hear that Onnichan? I got to go, kiss my guardians good night for me! Bye!" She hung up, sat back in her seat and sighed, "Arigato, Tomoyo-chan, I don't know how much longer I could have kept that up." She turned on Syaoran and Eriol, "You two are useless. Why didn't you come up with easy plausible reasons?"
"I did!" Syaoran cried indignantly.
"So did I!" Eriol grinned causing Syaoran to turn on him.
"I don't love you! I have no 'undying love' to confess to you!"
"Oh Syaoran love, you wound me!"
"Urusei Baka!"
"You swore that you'd seen the light and we were going to spend the rest of eternity together, you told me you loved me!" Eriol held his hand to his chest as if he was some maiden in distress.
"I do not love you! Never have, never will, NEVER! The only person I love is SAKURA!" At this he shut up and blushed. Eriol started to laugh.
"Fine, but I warn you I've found someone infinitely better," He slipped an arm about Tomoyo and pulled her down into his lap, "Haven't I?"
"You are insane." She smiled at him gently.
"Well, yes but that's why you love me."
Touya lay in his bed. He had decreed that since Sakura wasn't here, the four guardians would have to share her room, and he was going to have a night's peace. He should have known that idea was just as likely Yuki going on a diet.
"I don't love you!" Spinel cried indignantly
"Well, you should!" screamed Ruby.
"Kero! Hic! Stop -hic! - Bloody -hic! Counting! -Hic! I'm trying to -hic! SLEEP!!" Yue bellowed
"Stop?! But we're having *sooooooo* much fun!! And that's Five thousand, seven hundred and ninety nine!!"
"But I'm your only sister in the universe!"
"Only?! One too freaking many!!"
"How could you say that?! I thought you loved me!!"
"Hic! Give it -Hic! A Clow-damn rest!!" Yue roared.
"Oh shut up, Yue! As if you could talk! You're just as bad as her!!" Spinel yelled.
"Hey! Leave him out of this! I want my revenge!! Keep on going Yue!" encouraged Kero.
"You're all so horrible!" wailed Ruby.
"URUSEI!!!" Touya roared out of his door.
The house descended into complete silence before:
"Oh now, look what you did Keroberos!" the three turned on the one.
"Me?! It's your stupid sister's wailing!"
"I do recall she's your sister too!" Spinel corrected.
"I'm all of yours sister. You bakas!" Ruby started to wail.
"Hic! Please -hic! Don't remind -hic! Us!" Yue grumbled.
Touya threw himself on to the bed and pulled a pillow, followed by the blanket over his head. He hoped that would at least silence Kero's delighted chants about the latest hiccup.
Touya stumbled down the stairs to the smell of pancakes.
"Good morning Onnichan!" Called Sakura, as he trod into the living room. His eyes narrowed at the sight of Hiirawagizawa Eriol. The Creep gulped nervously as Touya wordlessly strode closer. Touya glared harder and, without conscious thought, wrapped his hands about the Creep's neck.
Eriol had just started to go an interesting shade of blue, when Yukito came bouncing down the stairs.
"To-ya?"
Without loosening his grip Touya turned slightly, "Yuki?"
"Hai!"
"But?"
"The spell wore off a day early!"
Touya smiled happily. "That's brilliant, Yuki!"
Yuki grinned his sexy little smile, amber eyes glowing warmly. "When you're done with killing Eriol, why don't you join me upstairs and we'll celebrate *privately*"
Touya's eyes widened, Yuki was never so frank about the nature of their relationship, he grinned back idiotically as he tighten his grip slightly. Not that he wanted to kill the Creep straight off, he did want him to suffer a little, but then again, Yuki was leaning against the door frame, arms folded, and a private little smile was tugging at his adorable lips.
He returned his attention to the now purple-faced Eriol, who was gasping for air. "Muwha ha ha ha!" Touya laughed evilly. He was enjoying this.
A flash of white in the corner of his eye caused him to look back at Yuki. Leaning on the other side of the doorframe was Yue, who was mirroring Yuki's stance. They cast a look at each other before Yue turned his cool eyes on Touya. "When you've exterminated that creep, why not join the *two* of us upstairs and we'll make it an extra *special* celebration?"
Touya frowned a little, //has the spell caused them to split?// he wondered.
Yue smirked, "Then again, you do realise this is all just a dream . . ."
Touya jerked upright in bed, and looked around in the dark.
"CRAP!!" He yelled.
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And now it's time for LEAVE IT TO DOCTOR MEGALOMANIA!!
DrM: Konnichiwa!!
Spinel: how out of canon is this?
DrM: [bows head] Very. But it's just a small story, and I really do need you to have been together when Clow created . . .
Spinel: that's no excuse!
DrM: I'm really sorry. Wait! Why am I apologising to you?! I'm very thankful to the people that pointed out that this isn't following canon, it means my future fics, will be a little more closer to the truth!!
Spinel: there's no excuse for the humiliation you put me thru there!!
DrM: [rubs hands together and murmurs] just wait until Friday . . . Muwha ha ha ha ha!!
Spinel: what did you just say?
DrM: I said. . . please R&R minna-chan! Or even feel free to drop me an email!! Corrections to Canon Story lines are *very* welcome!! Thanks for your time!! Ja Ne!
I state for the record that, despite the fact I really, really wish I did, I don't own any of the characters that will grace this story; it's all CLAMP's! Always has been, always will be!
Also I don't pretend to have any Mastery over the language of Japanese or any clue as to correct grammatical structure. I put it in and hope it gets across the point I'm trying to make!
Also, I've only ever seen the American dub, the first 3 and the 5th DVDs of the sub. Everything else about the whole Sakura-Eriol-Yue arch I've gleaned from the Internet. Sorry if they are all OOC or I slip up and start calling Syaoran, simply Li. Someone? Do tell me if I do that! And before I get any complaints, consider them all to be in their mid-teens, the time when everybody starts making dirty little jokes!!
"Speaking"
*Stress/emphasis*
//Thinking//
The Magical, Mythical, Mischievous Master Clow.
By Dr Megalomania.
For a small city called Tomoeda, of the lovely isle of Japan, the week began like any other. For four magical guardians, the week began hellishly with the activation of an ancient curse, bestowed upon them a long, long time ago . . .
Part seven: Thursday - Mokuyoobi
Kinotomo Sakura awoke the next morning to a dreadful smell.
"Eeugh!" She said, she sat up in her bed and looked around her room for the source of the smell.
Then she remembered the events from last night . . .
//Flash back//
"THEY'RE ON THE BLOODY ROOF!"
As soon as Kero and Spinel had shouted their realisation; they recalled their wings and flew out the window into the violent storm.
Sakura and the rest of the gathered group exchanged curious looks before the sound of yelling could be made out above the storm's howling wind.
"Do either of you have any idea how worried we were about you two?!" Hollered Keroberos.
"Can you even comprehend how much trouble you are both in?!" Screamed Spinel.
The sound of laugher answered both those questions, neither of the errant guardians cared.
A very soaked Spinel Sun dragged a very, *very* muddy and wet Ruby Moon through the window, followed by a fuming, wet, Keroberos, hauling an even more, //if that was possible// observed Sakura, filthy Yue, by the tail. By the looks on their faces, you could have almost have forgotten the fact that the four had swapped bodies. Spinel Sun, in Ruby's now drenched form, dispensed with her butterfly wings and stood, towering over a grinning Ruby Moon, which, in Spinel's form, was caked head to paw in mud.
"Where have you been?!" He screamed at her.
She flashed a wide grin at her partner in grime, Yue grinned back encouragingly.
"Oh, just here, there and everywhere!!" She sang.
Spinel trembled with fury; she was deliberately provoking him.
Eriol stood and looked at the others apologetically, suggesting that now would be an excellent moment to leave. He approached his two wet guardians cautiously as the rest of the group filed out quietly.
As soon as Tomoyo had left in her bodyguard's car, Kero and Yue stepped out of hiding.
Yue flash him an infuriating grin but Kero didn't even look at Yue. Instead he grabbed Touya and took off, flying toward their home.
"It's no fun if he doesn't react at all!" Yue groused.
Sakura choose not to answer, and called forth the fly card.
The flight home was heavily silent.
//end flashback//
. . . the smell was emanating from the sleeping lion who lay on an old blanket, in the middle of her floor.
She got up and went to the window. She sighed deeply as the cool night air swept in. Sakura turned away and got back into bed; she glanced at her alarm clock. Only to realise it was still in pieces.
She padded over to her desk quickly to get the watch Yukito had given her.
//Yukito?//
She wondered where he was; Yue didn't seem overtly concerned about him, so she had assumed that he must be fast asleep somewhere in Yue's psyche. She shivered unintentionally; it was three in the morning.
A blanket slipped about her shoulders and she gasped.
She turned and saw an image of her brother's best friend kneel down in front of her. It was Keroberos.
"Mistress, you should be in bed." He said gently.
"I guess I should." She shivered again. He picked her up easily and placed her gently in the bed.
As she yawned and fell quickly back to sleep, he smoothed a hand over her brow. He turned and saw a flash of gold. Kero bent down and sat beside his brother, who inhabited his body, just as Kero inhabited Yue's.
"I know you are awake," he said softly. Yue ceased his pretence, looked at him. Kero changed into Yue's true form.
They sat in silence, just blinking slowly at each other.
"Where did you go?" Kero broke the quiet first.
Yue looked out the window briefly before answering, "Home."
"This is our home."
"No I mean-"
"--I know what you meant." Kero snapped. Yue glanced over Kero's shoulder quickly, to check if he had woken the Mistress.
"Keep your voice down! Mou! When did you become such a stickler for modus operandi?!"
Kero shook a long pale finger at him, "I don't know what that means but do you have any idea how worried you made the Mistress?"
"Ha! As if she'd worry about me!"
What is that supposed to mean?!
"You know exactly what I mean!"
"No! I don't!"
Yue rested his chin on his fuzzy paws.
"Are you going to tell me?"
Kero looked down on his brother, and wondered what he should do; Yue was upset at him.
"Is this because I threatened to do the drop-kick thing to you yesterday morning? Or because we went to the park without you?"
Yue sighed, and sat up to face Kero.
"Kero . . . I . . ."
Kero tilted his head, "What?" He probed gently.
"I frolicked today." Yue confessed.
Kero snorted and sniggered. "Where?"
"You remember that meadow that clow used to take you to?"
Kero's eyes lit up, "Of course I do! Matte . . . you flew all the way to England to *frolic* in a cornflower meadow?"
Yue nodded.
"That's why you're so mucky; I assume you *frolicked* in the stream."
Yue smiled at this, and nodded enthusiastically.
"Why?" Kero smiled, he had happy memories of that stream, he'd get soooooo messy that it took Yue *hours* to clean him . . . Kero had an epiphany. It took Yue hours to clean him so Yue was going to make him take . . .
Kero's mouth fell open. Then his eyes narrowed. Now Yue was in Keroberos' form, and he was in Yue's; Kero was the one with the hands. He leant forward and pressed his nose against Yue's.
"And to think, all this time I thought I had only *dreamt* that you were once the most sneaky, the most underhanded, the most devious, the most spiteful, the most pitiless one of us guardians."
Yue grinned slyly.
"Guess what?" Yue nudged Kero with his nose.
"What?" Kero grinned, he'd missed this side of Yue, the evil side, the dark side, the *fun* side.
"I'm baaaaaaaack!" Yue crowed.
That morning had gone relatively well, both guardians had remained asleep right thru breakfast. Touya managed to convince their father that since he didn't have to go to school or any of his part time jobs that he'd take care for the 'ever poorly' Yukito. Sakura had a much harder time convincing their father that the smell coming from her room was from some science project that had gone wrong. She promised that the smell would be gone by tonight.
Touya waved from the porch as his father walked away to the bus.
"Onnichan!" Sakura called to him as she pulled on her skates. "Please make sure Kero bathes Yue. And try to keep them from killing themselves."
"Sure! Take care!" He called to his sister.
He turned and walked back into the house. He bent to put his slippers on and, then he would go wake those-
"Onnichan! We're hunger!" Now caked in dry mud, the lion form of Keroberos and grinning Yukito stood before him.
"Hai, hai!" He was getting used to it now. "But first, you need a bath-" he pointed at Yue, "and by the smell of it your hair needs a wash-" he pointed at Kero. "*And* because I-" he poked his thumb into his chest. "Have house chores to do, you-" he pointed at Kero, "are going to wash him-" he moved his finger to point at Yue. "And then you are going to talk him-" he pointed once more at Kero. "Through how to wash your bloody hair! Is that *simple* enough for the two of you?"
The two exchanged a quick glance.
"Sure, sure," answered Yue, "now about our breakfast?"
"Yue, we're going to wash you first, then the hair, and once that's drying, then we'll have breakfast."
Yue's stomach growled in disagreement. "But I'm hungry now!"
"There are some things more important than your stomach." Kero sighed.
Touya did a double take. Then did another one just to be sure. Kero was beginning to sound like Yue, and Yue was beginning to sound like Kero.
He stared after them as Kero pulled Yue up the stairs. He squinted thoughtfully, and his mouth hung open until:
"Ooohhh! I get it." Touya nodded, finally understanding Clow's spell. "Sneaky."
He was just about to get started on his chores when the doorbell rang.
Making sure the guardians were out of sight, (he assumed they were still in the bathroom) he answered the door.
An envelope was thrust into his face as soon as the door creaked open.
Touya took the letter and looked at the people, //correction, // guardians standing on his doorstep.
"Open it then," said Spinel.
Touya did as he was told and unfolded the hastily written letter:
"Gomen Kinotomo,
Demo, I don't trust them on their own.
Please take care of them and make sure Spinel, (I mean Ruby, as in, Ruby *in* Spinel's body!!) make sure the she doesn't get a hold on any products containing sugar.
Arigato and I will be over to pick them up when I can.
Eriol"
"Eriol? Who's Eriol?"
"Our Master." They reminded him.
"Oh! The creep!"
"Our Master isn't a creep." Ruby protested.
"Sure, what ever you say." he sighed. "I guess you better come in."
Touya sped about the house; he didn't have that much to do, largely thanks to Yue's boredom earlier in the week. He hurried because he wanted to get the job done, and done soon so he could put his feet up and relax.
He was just about to dust his father's library shelves when he heard a quiet, 'ah-choo!'
Touya's eyes fell on a large pot his father kept in his study. It was a gift from an archaeologist friend. It was also extremely delicate and expensive and irreplaceable.
As he walked up to he noticed a couple of soggy paw prints on the carpet. Touya's eyes narrowed. He gently lifted the lid to peer into the dark bowels of the vessel.
"It's a nice pot, Roman era, if I'm not mistaken." A quiet voice murmured from behind him.
Touya jumped and almost dropped the lid.
"Careful!" Yue exclaimed.
"Baka!" Touya put the lid down and snatched up his feather duster. He swotted the soaked guardian. "Why aren't you with Keroberos?"
"I got bored of having a bath, and he fell asleep so I came down looking for some food." Yue looked over his shoulder and nodded to the front room. "What are those two doing here?"
"Eriol left them on the doorstep." Touya explained; he looked hard at the plush toy form of Keroberos. The fur wasn't its usual Sunshine yellow, more of a gunky, ancient paper brown. "You *still* aren't clean!" He grabbed Yue out mid air and stormed out of his father's study.
"What are you two doing here?" Kero asked when he spotted Spinel and Ruby sitting in the front room.
He'd come down in search of Yue, who had done a runner from the bath.
"The Master decided he didn't trust us not to get in trouble while he was at school . . ." started Spinel, as he sipped his tea.
"So he dropped us off here, because your Mistress told him it was okay because Touya would be here." Ruby popped a grape into her mouth. As she chewed absently, she turned to gaze at him. "What are you hiding under there?"
Kero tighten the towel around his waist. "What, in Clow-sama's name, are you talking about?"
Ruby used her . . . Spinel's, free hand, . . . paw, to wave at her head.
"I mean the turban."
"Yue has a lot of hair. Remember?" Kero uttered, he'd spent ages wrapping the body-sized towel about his head, now he knew why Yue took so long and why he was so careful about getting dirty. His long hair might be a thing of beauty but, as Kero was now only just finding out, it took hours of preparation, care and patience.
Ruby snorted and turned back to the television. It was now Kero noticed something weird. Spinel and Ruby were tied together, by the wrists.
Kero blinked. "Why are you two tied together?"
Spinel glared briefly at Ruby as he launched into his explanation. "So she doesn't get any bright ideas again."
Ruby turned to Kero, "It was Yue's idea!" She glared at Spinel, "And you don't see Keroberos tying him to his wrist, with the Master's old shoelaces!"
"Actually, that's not such a bad idea," said Kero, as he remembered why he had interrupted his bath. "Have either of you seen-"
"Here he is!" Said Touya as he sailed into the room.
"TRAITOR!" Cried Yue as he dangled, by Kero's tail, from Touya's hand.
Annoyed Kero snatched Yue from Touya, "Do you realise I was enjoying that bath?"
Yue rolled his eyes "But I was bored and hungry surely, there's a quicker way to get clean."
An evil thought flashed over Kero's mind, "Sure there is, come with me."
Touya watched as Kero and Yue padded out of the room, then turned his attention on Ruby and Spinel.
"Okay you two." He thrust a set of dusters at them. "Get started."
Kero picked up a basket of laundry. There wasn't much of it this week, he noted. Casting a sidelong glance at Yue, he wondered how many times he had cleaned the clothes.
Yue looked back at him, "Until I felt guilty about getting the clothes so dizzy," he answered Kero's speculative gaze.
Kero snickered.
He hopped down the tiny steps that lead to the washing room. //Good// he thought evilly,// Touya didn't already have load on.//
"So what this mega fast way of washing then?" Yue said conversationally, as he fingered a pile of washing powder on the shelf.
Kero put a few of the large white sheets in and tried to keep his face straight. //Wait . . . Waaaaait. . . Until he least suspects it.// He watched Yue out of the corner of his eye, he knew Yue, if he didn't get an answer he would inevitably come closer to repeat his question, or to find out for himself.
Yue looked up at Kero, who had his back to him and was slowly folding the large sheets into the machine.
"Kero?" He fluttered off the ledge; "Kero did you-HEY!!"
Kero turned quickly and snatched Yue out of the air and stuffed him quickly into the machine.
Before Yue could fly back out again, Kero slammed the lid and hopped up on to the top. He felt Yue ramming the lid, which wouldn't open because Kero was sitting on it.
"Heh, heh, heh," Kero chuckled evilly. "This is for getting me so scared last night!" And he pounded his fist on the start button.
Touya walked out of the front room, Spinel and Ruby were getting on each other's and his nerves. Spinel was so worried that Ruby would run away again that he refused to untie them, and Ruby, still trapped in Spinel's form, didn't have the fingers to untie the difficult knot.
He sighed and bent to pick up the load of laundry he'd placed . . . in . . . the . . . //what the--?// the basket had disappeared. He ambled down the corridor to see if he'd taken it to the washroom already.
He could hear the machine whirring away, and as he peered into the room, saw Kero in Yue's lanky form, sitting quite contentedly on the violently vibrating machine.
"He-he-llo-oo-oo, Tou-yy-ahh!" Kero said as he jerked in rhythm to the appliance. He grinned. "I-I-I- th-th-thoug-gh-gh I-I-I-'d-d-d le-le-len-d-d- d a-a-a-a ha-ha-ha-nnnn-d." [a/n: he said 'I thought I'd lend a hand']
Touya's eyes narrowed; there was something not quite right about this.
"I thought I told you to give Yue a bath!"
Kero grinned wider, "Tr-tr-trus-us-ust m-m-m-me, h-he-ee-ee's ha-ha-ha-ving a-a-a-a g-go-go-good s-s-s-soak!" [a/n: he said, trust me he's having a good soak!]
A crash in the other room got Touya's attention before he could tell Kero that he didn't trust him as far as he could throw his full form.
Kero laughed mischievously as Touya ran out of the washroom. The device came to a stop and Kero hopped off the lid and peered into the appliance, wondering what Yue's reaction would be.
Touya slid to a stop outside the sitting room and paused, he wasn't sure he wanted to know what havoc they had caused. Taking a deep breath, Touya strode manfully into the room. Spinel was restacking books onto the bookshelf.
"What happened?" Demanded Touya.
Spinel answered quietly, "Ruby got free of the string and flew into the bookshelf." He nodded over to the sofa, "She's out cold."
Touya blinked happily, Ruby Moon, the unbelievably annoying one was unconscious. Touya almost felt giddy with the newfound peace. Of course, he didn't express any of this.
***RIIIIIIIIIIING!!***
Touya picked up the receiver, "Moshi-moshi, Kinomoto residence?"
It was his father, Touya quickly motioned Spinel to keep quiet. Spinel nodded and sat quietly with his sister.
"Hai, father, it's all right, I understand,"
"KEROBEROS!!!" Yue hollered as he flew past the room, Kero quickly followed him.
"YOU BIT ME!!" Kero cried after him, "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU BIT ME!!"
"What's that Touya?" Fujitaka asked with concern.
"Umm . . ." Touya glared out the door, "It's the . . . television. Yuki!" He pretended to call out to his friend; "Can you turn it down a bit?" He motioned frantically at Spinel to close the door, the yells became slightly muffled.
"Oh, all right." Said Fujitaka, "I'll be back, Friday night or early Saturday morning, okay?"
"Kitto. I'll tell the kaijuu."
His father chuckled. "Have fun and take care."
As soon as his father had hung up, Touya raced up the stairs. He stopped outside the bathroom to hear:
"YOU WOULDN'T *DARE*!!"
"I'VE WAITED SIX LONG CENTURIES TO GET YOU IN A POSITION LIKE THIS, YUE!!"
Touya burst into the room, as Kero was passionately shoving a soap bar down Yue's throat and laughing manically.
"One thousand, two hundred and sixty . . ." A quiet voice drawled blissfully.
"Hic!"
"One thousand, two hundred and sixty one . . . come on Yue, five thousand and . . ." Kero looked over at Spinel, "How many more?"
"Five thousand and eighty more." Spinel looked up from the calculator.
"Hic!"
"One thousand, two hundred and sixty two . . ."
"Hic! I- hic! Hate- Hic! The- Hic! Both- Hic! Of- Hic! You!" Yue hiccupped passionately.
Kero shared a satisfied laugh with Spinel before replying. "Pay back's a bitch and five thousand, seventy-one to go!"
Touya was resting on his bed, eyes closed, ice pack firmly set on forehead, when the phone rang insistently. Two, three, four rings and still Touya didn't move a muscle. The fifth ring was cut off halfway, which meant either the caller had rung off or. . .
"Toy-YA-kun?" Kero did a very bad impression of Yuki, Touya had decided, he made his friend some entirely too feminine.
"Who is it?"
"It's Yu-key-toe." Kero squeaked.
Touya sighed and slapped the ice pack. "No, I mean who is it on the phone?"
"Oh, umm . . ." Kero was quiet for a few moments as he asked you the caller was, louder he said thru the door, "Its the Mistress!"
Touya leapt up and threw open the door, he snatch the phone out of Kero's hands.
"KAIJUU!!! YOU HAD BETTER HAVE A BRILLIANT REASON WHY YOU'RE NOT HOME *AND* WHERE THE HELL IS THAT DAMNED CREEP!!"
"HOEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" Sakura jerked the phone from her ear as Touya yelled at her.
"I see it runs in the family." commented Eriol as he shuffled the cards.
Syaoran watched Eriol's hands very carefully, Eriol was winning more times that luck would allow, "What do you mean?"
"Answering the phone with a tirade." Eriol noticed his hands were getting cramped. He pulled them away from the cards and flexed them.
"Hey! I knew it! I knew you were cheating!!" Syaoran leapt to his feet and pointed at the magically shuffling cards. Eriol noticed what he was pointing at and quickly replaced his hands.
"I don't know what you mean."
Tomoyo closed her eyes and shook her head. It was going to be one of those sleepovers again. She remembered the last time Eriol had filled Syaoran's sleeping bag with custard and, because Syaoran was such a heavy sleeper, no- body noticed until Sakura tried to sneak into the bag as well, and screamed.
Tomoyo turned her attention on Sakura; she was nervously trying to explain why she wasn't home yet. The truth was Eriol and Sakura wanted a break from the guardians, the official reason was going to be . . .
"Well, we've just got so much homework to do, and it has to be in soon so we were going to get it done now . . ." Sakura winced, she wasn't the best at lying. "Ummmm. . . no. . . I haven't seen Eriol."
Eriol and Syaoran turned to look at her. "But he did tell me why . . . he said . . ." Sakura stared pointed at Eriol, for some inspiration. "He's . . ."
"He's dead! Li Syaoran killed him! And now we're burning his remains to make sure the Creep is really *dead*!!" Syaoran hissed.
Eriol turned to look at his little descendant, disapprovingly.
Syaoran glared back, "Give it time." He said, "It'll happen!"
Sakura was still struggling for an answer, "He's . . . leaving the country!" She blurted.
Everyone turned to look at her as she shrugged and nervously listen to her ranting brother, "I mean he's *left* the country . . . to return to . . . England . . . because, because he has . . . unpaid . . . BILLS!! Unpaid bills and he has to . . ."
Eriol mentally swore to teach Sakura how to be a better liar.
"Has to . . . go back to England to pay his bills or he'll lose his . . . thumbs, because he . . . has to pay some . . . loan sharks off."
Syaoran slapped his forehead; even he was a better liar than this.
"Of course, that's the real reason!" Sakura cried indignantly, "It's not like he's right here is it? . . . Well, because you'd be able to here Syaoran strangling him, wouldn't you?! . . . *if* Syaoran was here, of course, which he's not because he's. . ."
"He's alive and well, and travelling to England with Eriol! Because he professed his undying love and we're eloping!!" Hissed Eriol, he smirked at a beetroot red Syaoran. "Give it time, it'll happen!"
"Shut your face, that's *not* why! Sakura! Do not listen to him!!"
"SAKURA-CHAN!!" Tomoyo called out loudly, "THIS PROJECT'S NOT GOING TO DO IT ITSELF YOU KNOW!!"
"Well, you hear that Onnichan? I got to go, kiss my guardians good night for me! Bye!" She hung up, sat back in her seat and sighed, "Arigato, Tomoyo-chan, I don't know how much longer I could have kept that up." She turned on Syaoran and Eriol, "You two are useless. Why didn't you come up with easy plausible reasons?"
"I did!" Syaoran cried indignantly.
"So did I!" Eriol grinned causing Syaoran to turn on him.
"I don't love you! I have no 'undying love' to confess to you!"
"Oh Syaoran love, you wound me!"
"Urusei Baka!"
"You swore that you'd seen the light and we were going to spend the rest of eternity together, you told me you loved me!" Eriol held his hand to his chest as if he was some maiden in distress.
"I do not love you! Never have, never will, NEVER! The only person I love is SAKURA!" At this he shut up and blushed. Eriol started to laugh.
"Fine, but I warn you I've found someone infinitely better," He slipped an arm about Tomoyo and pulled her down into his lap, "Haven't I?"
"You are insane." She smiled at him gently.
"Well, yes but that's why you love me."
Touya lay in his bed. He had decreed that since Sakura wasn't here, the four guardians would have to share her room, and he was going to have a night's peace. He should have known that idea was just as likely Yuki going on a diet.
"I don't love you!" Spinel cried indignantly
"Well, you should!" screamed Ruby.
"Kero! Hic! Stop -hic! - Bloody -hic! Counting! -Hic! I'm trying to -hic! SLEEP!!" Yue bellowed
"Stop?! But we're having *sooooooo* much fun!! And that's Five thousand, seven hundred and ninety nine!!"
"But I'm your only sister in the universe!"
"Only?! One too freaking many!!"
"How could you say that?! I thought you loved me!!"
"Hic! Give it -Hic! A Clow-damn rest!!" Yue roared.
"Oh shut up, Yue! As if you could talk! You're just as bad as her!!" Spinel yelled.
"Hey! Leave him out of this! I want my revenge!! Keep on going Yue!" encouraged Kero.
"You're all so horrible!" wailed Ruby.
"URUSEI!!!" Touya roared out of his door.
The house descended into complete silence before:
"Oh now, look what you did Keroberos!" the three turned on the one.
"Me?! It's your stupid sister's wailing!"
"I do recall she's your sister too!" Spinel corrected.
"I'm all of yours sister. You bakas!" Ruby started to wail.
"Hic! Please -hic! Don't remind -hic! Us!" Yue grumbled.
Touya threw himself on to the bed and pulled a pillow, followed by the blanket over his head. He hoped that would at least silence Kero's delighted chants about the latest hiccup.
Touya stumbled down the stairs to the smell of pancakes.
"Good morning Onnichan!" Called Sakura, as he trod into the living room. His eyes narrowed at the sight of Hiirawagizawa Eriol. The Creep gulped nervously as Touya wordlessly strode closer. Touya glared harder and, without conscious thought, wrapped his hands about the Creep's neck.
Eriol had just started to go an interesting shade of blue, when Yukito came bouncing down the stairs.
"To-ya?"
Without loosening his grip Touya turned slightly, "Yuki?"
"Hai!"
"But?"
"The spell wore off a day early!"
Touya smiled happily. "That's brilliant, Yuki!"
Yuki grinned his sexy little smile, amber eyes glowing warmly. "When you're done with killing Eriol, why don't you join me upstairs and we'll celebrate *privately*"
Touya's eyes widened, Yuki was never so frank about the nature of their relationship, he grinned back idiotically as he tighten his grip slightly. Not that he wanted to kill the Creep straight off, he did want him to suffer a little, but then again, Yuki was leaning against the door frame, arms folded, and a private little smile was tugging at his adorable lips.
He returned his attention to the now purple-faced Eriol, who was gasping for air. "Muwha ha ha ha!" Touya laughed evilly. He was enjoying this.
A flash of white in the corner of his eye caused him to look back at Yuki. Leaning on the other side of the doorframe was Yue, who was mirroring Yuki's stance. They cast a look at each other before Yue turned his cool eyes on Touya. "When you've exterminated that creep, why not join the *two* of us upstairs and we'll make it an extra *special* celebration?"
Touya frowned a little, //has the spell caused them to split?// he wondered.
Yue smirked, "Then again, you do realise this is all just a dream . . ."
Touya jerked upright in bed, and looked around in the dark.
"CRAP!!" He yelled.
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And now it's time for LEAVE IT TO DOCTOR MEGALOMANIA!!
DrM: Konnichiwa!!
Spinel: how out of canon is this?
DrM: [bows head] Very. But it's just a small story, and I really do need you to have been together when Clow created . . .
Spinel: that's no excuse!
DrM: I'm really sorry. Wait! Why am I apologising to you?! I'm very thankful to the people that pointed out that this isn't following canon, it means my future fics, will be a little more closer to the truth!!
Spinel: there's no excuse for the humiliation you put me thru there!!
DrM: [rubs hands together and murmurs] just wait until Friday . . . Muwha ha ha ha ha!!
Spinel: what did you just say?
DrM: I said. . . please R&R minna-chan! Or even feel free to drop me an email!! Corrections to Canon Story lines are *very* welcome!! Thanks for your time!! Ja Ne!
