A huge yellow and red orb rose into the sky, welcoming the new day. Ray stood by the window taking it all in. The beginning of a new day was special for her and she, every morning , prayed when the sun rise. Something stirring from behind her and she looked at it. Eriol had woken up. He slowly got up and walked over to where Ray stood.

"Good Morning," he said yawning.

"Mornin," she said still staring out the window.

"I have a question. Did you mean for Sakura to know about you?"

"What do you think?" she said half flirting.

Eriol looked at her, trying to make up his mind. Ray always knew when someone is coming because of her enhanced senses so she must have known that Sakura was watching her. HE grinned at her and Ray shuddered. He had something up his sleeve.

"Ray, I have a question. Do you like anyone?" he said, trying to gather up his courage to ask her out. It might have been the full moon last night or something like that but he felt a desire to know if she loved him or not.

"Why do you ask?" Ray asked, avoiding the question.

"Because."

"Because why?" she said, eyebrows raised.

Eriol groaned. She wasn't making this easy for him. He was slowly loosing his entire cool. He couldn't tell her. He would be making a fool out of himself. Well, actions speak louder then words so…he thought to himself and he pulled Ray to him, following his inner voice. Ray looked at him, her gray eyes wide in shock and he whispered," because I…" Just then someone moved and they broke apart, embarrassed. Sakura stood up, raising her hands into the air, stretching.

"Morning," she said, unaware what she had just broken up.

Ray sat down on the windowsill in confusement. What was Eriol going to say to her? What did this all mean? She burrowed her head into her knees. She was so used to being in control of things, but now…she had no control over anything.

Brad stood in an abandoned mine shoveling through the coal, Kaho, a few feet from him, doing the same thing. They had gotten the news that the person they had sent to kill the tiger and Sakura had been killed. They wanted to get even but this time they were going to do it this time by themselves. They couldn't trust anyone else to do it. They were digging through the mines looking for a legendary crystal that was supposed to be here. They had been digging for three hours straight and were exhausted, but they still pushed on. The crystal was said to make you the world most powerful sorcerer. It was created by an evil sorcerer to help out the future baddies with their conquest of taking over the world. The crystal was divided into 2 parts from the evil sorcerer's rival so that no one could ever find it and harness its power. They had found the first half in the Li clan magical item chest and were avidly trying to get the second. The tiger was too powerful to take on without it. Kaho was shoveling the dirt when she came to something hard. She quickly dropped her shovel and dug with her hands. She pulled a chest out of the ground and using her powers opened it and there lay a harmless looking yellow diamond. She pulled it out and hollered in joy. They had found the second half. Brad rushed over to him and he picked her up and spun her around. He planted a soft kiss on her forehead and they both grinned evilly. All was going to plan.

Ray leapt into the sky, her golden tipped wings fluttering behind her. It was nightfall and the full moon shined over the sky, making it easy for her to see. She flew down to a house near the Kinomoto residence and willed her wings to disappear. She knocked on the door and the door was flung open and Yukito stood inside. He escorted her in and Ray took off her coat and sat down on the blue couch.

"Why did you ask me to come here?" Ray asked.

"Yue wanted to talk to you."

"O, ok."

Yukito closed his eyes and a pair of wings surrounded him reveling a tall guy with waist length white hair and silver cat like eyes.

Yue walked over to her and walked around the couch, taking in the small girl in.

"I'd like to say thank you for saving Sakura so many times."

Ray smiled up at the tall moon guardian. "Hey thanks," she replied.

"I have an question, Yue. Do you like Sakura?"

Yue sighed and was going to lie when he looked in her eyes of the girl and saw unspoken intelligence." Yeah," he admitted.

"Thought so," she said happy bout him finally realizing admitting to his feelings. " Why don't you tell her?"

"Because I can't."

"Why not?" she said defiantly

"You wouldn't understand."

"Try me."

"She loves Syaoran. I can see it in her eyes."

"How do you know?" she said, eyebrows raised in boredom form him trying to find every excuse in the book for not admitting his feelings.

"Just do."

"How do you know, if you never ask?" she pointed out.

"I want Sakura to be happy," he said avoiding answering that question.

"Look you have two choices, Yue. You can either go to Syaoran and beg him to go out with Sakura or you can just go over to Sakura's and admit your feelings for her. If you think so much about Skaura being happy then go do one of those things."

Yue stared at her. She was right. He stood up and calmly walked over to the door. He swung it open and stepped out and jumped into the air and flew away. Ray watched him go smiling and slammed the door behind her.



A/N Sorry this is so short. I had to leave you people with a cliffhanger (grins evily). Only a few chapters left. Yipppppppeeeee