THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO SATURNKJ
Author: *~SerenityMoon~*
Title: Tsuki-Koi
Chapter: 2
Disclaimer:
~ Roses are red~
~ Violets are blue~
~ I don't own Yue,~
~ So please don't sue.~
(O~kay so I don't own ANYTHING. Although I have my Yue plushie doll. He's such a wonderful muse!)
AGES
Serenity: looks 17, however is nearly 1,000
Yue: Who knows. Over 1,000. Looks 18-19
Yukito: 18
Kero: I haven't the faintest idea (Who knows how old a stuffed toy is?)
Touya:18
Sakura: 13
Syaoran: 14
Tomoyo 13
Meiling: 13
Eriol: LOOKS 14
Nakuru: 18
Ruby Moon: much younger than Yue. Otherwise I don't have a clue. Looks 15-16
Spinel Sun (Supi-chan!): much younger than Kero, Real age:?????????
(Any of Sakura's school friends= 13)
Fujitaka: 45
The kids are in seventh grade, including Eriol. Yukito, Touya, and Ruby are in 12th grade
Many Thanx to Usa-chan!!!!
Here Goes!!!!!!!!
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LAST TIME
*Onegai, don't let this be some cruel joke, I can't take anymore.*, Yue whispered to himself. He sat down, and wrapped his wings around himself for comfort. "SERENITY!!!", he yelled out as his mind was plagued with images of her.*Why does it hurt so much? Why?*, he wondered, staring out at the darkness of his and Yukito's shared mind.
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MS. KAHOH MCKENZIE'S CLASS
'What's going on? Who is she? Why won't they tell me?', Sakura wondered helplessly. She was worried, she had never seen Yue so ........ so vulnerable. So sad, so pained. Her brow furrowed his emotions were so strong, they were affecting Yukito. She could nearly feel them in his aura. She sighed, and placed her forehead in her hand.
That power was getting closer, and the negative energy was getting stronger. She still couldn't pinpoint it, but when she did, she would exterminate it. She doubted she could do it alone though. Syaoran-kun would help, of course. She would have to keep Meiling and Tomoyo away. They would get hurt and she wouldn't be able to bear it. They would have to leave without Touya too. Touya had magic, but he couldn't use it to protect himself. Maybe she should try and get a hold of Eriol-kun, he knew more about magic than she did, and the huge power definitely had a lot of magic. 'Was this huge power Serenity? Could it be?', she mused absentmindedly twirling a lock of hair on her finger. The power kind of felt like Yue's, but it was different. Could there be another moon guardian besides Ruby Moon? 'Iie', she thought decidedly,' the power is to strong, to different.'.
"Kinomoto-san, what's the answer to number fifteen?", Ms. Mackenzie asked suddenly. "Um.... Ah.....--", she started as an embarrassed blush came across her features. "Twenty-four.", a voice whispered discretely behind her. "Twenty-four!", she repeated silently thanking the gods Syaoran sat behind her. "That is correct.", the teacher replied. Sakura turned around and gave Syaoran a bright smile. She then turned back to her thoughts. Finding them disturbing she started paying attention to her lesson, as it was her last class for three weeks, for it was Christmas break.
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IN YUKITO'S CLASS
Touya watched as Yukito fidgeted in his seat, doodling mindlessly on a piece of paper, during their last class, Study Hall. "Hey Yuki, what are you drawing?", he found himself asking. He hated to see his love so quiet and morbid. "Oh, I ..... I really don't know.", he replied passing the paper to Touya. Touya took the paper and gasped. There was a small girl, no a woman. You almost couldn't tell because of her short stature, and small frame. The beautiful girl was sitting on a rock, dipping her feet in the water, a sad expression on her face. There was another doodle which had two cats. One cat was black, and the other was white, they were labeled Luna and Artemis. Then there were the signs of the planets on the edges of the paper. In another smaller doodle was a large gazebo like castle. It had fountains, and looked to be huge. Above the castle was the Earth. Another even smaller picture was of a rose necklace, another was of a beautiful jewelry box, inscribed with the Clow insignia, and the word 'Serenity' on the front.
"Wow, Yuki, this is ... great! Who's the girl?", Touya asked handing the paper back to him. "I....I don't know. I think it's Serenity-chan.", Yukito stated absentmindedly. "Chan?", echoed Touya wide eyed. "Hai, chan. She is very important to Yue. How important I'm not sure. She's overrunning his thoughts, and therefore mine too.", Yukito replied sighing, his light brown eyes suddenly looking very old, and tired. "Yuki, are you all right?", Touya asked worried once more. "All will be well, as long as that big power is Serenity. If not I don't know. It hurts. It hurts so much To-ya. He's hurting and I can't help.", Yukito stated placing a hand on his heart.
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LATER THAT NIGHT 7:45pm
"Come on Tomoyo-chan we're late!", Sakura whispered into Tomoyo's window. "Hold on I'm coming!", was the only reply she got. A few seconds later she felt weight on the back of her wand, so she took off cautiously. She was edgy, the negative energy was extremely powerful now. It was huge, It nearly over rode her senses. It was nearly blocking out the huge moon power that was in Earth's gravitational pull."Sakura-chan, are you all right?", Tomoyo asked due to her friends silence. "Tomoyo, if I tell you to run, do it.", Sakura stated seriously. "Why?", asked Tomoyo slightly frightened. "Call it a premonition, but promise me.", Sakura replied steering towards the King Penguin park, as the full Moon rode across the sky. "I can't promise Sakura, but if it gets to bad I will.", Tomoyo replied, using her no questions voice. Sakura sighed and dived towards Yukito, Touya, Syaoran, and Meiling.
Seconds later Sakura heard,"What took you so long, Kaiju?". Sakura merely ignored his statement and called the fly card back. "Do you guys feel that negative power?", she questioned, it felt like it was every where all at once. "Yeah.", replied Kero. Yukito softly glowed under the Moon, and transformed in a flash of feathers, into Yue. "Cereberos, doesn't that energy feel familiar?", Yue questioned, staring at the Moon. "Now that ya mention it ........... it feels like ...... Negaverse!", he proclaimed, diving back into Tomoyo's book bag. Yue nodded in affirmation, and then eyed Touya. "Touya-san, Tomoyo-san, and Meiling-san, should leave, now. Get ready Mistress.", Yue proclaimed softly his eyes still on the moon. "Why? I can fight! I'm just as good as you!", Meiling started ranting her fists raised. Yue turned towards her, his eyes crackled with electricity, as a heavy wind blew. "Do as I say, this is not a game.", he told her in a deadly cold voice. "Onegai, at least back up far away, this will not be easy.", he continued the electricity in his eyes dying down, and the wind faded. "Come on girls, they'll be all right.", Touya told them reluctantly herding them over behind the Penguin Slide. Kero transformed into his larger self, growling all the way.
Suddenly, they heard a high pitched howl. Sakura jerked around and saw a creature. Not a Clow card, but a gruesome youma. It was tall. Almost seven and a half feet. It had the head of a wolf, but the torso of a very muscled man, and its legs were bent like backwards dog legs, although thick and sturdy. It was covered in fur, equipped with foot long claws, and disgusting yellowed rotting teeth. It had insanely long black hair, and blood red eyes. Tomoyo screamed and the youma turned its attention of them.
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JUST INSIDE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
Serenity's eyes snapped open, as she felt the negative energy. She slowed her decent, and sent the two still sleeping felines to her apartment. It was strong, very strong. She felt several strong powers near it. One was, a descendant of Clow, another was Pink. That's all she could describe it as was pink. It was star power. Another was orange .......... Kero-chan! The last was silver ........ moon power ........ YUE!! He was there! Her heart jumped into her throat. He could be hurt, that youma was too strong, she bit her lip.
She frowned there were two people with no power, and one with a small amount of magic, not enough to use in battle. The youma was heading towards the defenseless, when the orange stopped it. Serenity scowled, and in a flash of Silver she stood as Sailor Cosmos, Staff of Diana included. She spread her wings and took of towards the battle scene, praying for her friends safety.
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BACK AT THE PARK
"Kero!!!", screamed Sakura as she saw the Guardian take on the youma. Kero shot a fire ball at it, and it staggered back. The beast turned tail and headed back towards them, Sakura in it's sights. "I need ENERGY!!", the youma rasped. Sakura yelled,"Shield card. RELEASE!". A pink shield surrounded Syaoran and herself. The youma seeing the obstacle did a flip backwards, and charged up a massive red colored ki blast. "SAKURA! Run Ki goes through your shields.", Kero yelled firing another fire ball at the youma. The youma turned and shot a small portion of the blast at Kero who slammed into a tree. Yue, threw an ice wall in the way, hoping it would stop it. "Sakura, Li , MOVE!". he yelled diving towards them.
Suddenly, the monster let the massive ki bomb loose. There was no time to move, and for a second all stood still save the ki blast. Then suddenly a large silver streak got in the way, of the blast. The blast created a huge cloud of smoke. Yue knew that energy, that power. "Serenity!", he cried out, earning a stare from the people below him. The smoke cleared away revealing a goddess in a shimmering white, and silver fuku, on one knee, holding an erect silver staff, which was glowing. Her long silver hair was brought up in two heart shaped buns, while long streamers flowed from each of them, trailing over her wings. An eight point star shown on her forehead, while her face was expressionless, with eyes closed. "Cosmos-sama!", the powerful youma roared. "Damn straight, now time to send you were you belong. Uncle Hades says your overdue.", came her calm reply, as she stood up, wings disappearing. "Weak chibi-cosmos! You couldn't even protect this Earth 900 years ago, We're going to take this star.", the youma accused, eyes glowing red. "We'll see about that.", the one called Cosmos replied. She rose her staff in the air and a massive collection of silver energy collected in the crystal, in the middle of the staff.
"Cosmic Destruction.", she whispered. There was a huge crack of thunder, and a flash of lighting. The energy swirled around her, and out of nowhere she threw it at the youma. The blast came out in a column of energy, and tore up the earth, and surrounding area. The youma let out an inhuman scream, and slowly began to disintegrate. The power flow stopped from the staff, and Cosmos lowered her staff on the ground. She watched with a hard glare and soon the youma was nothing, but dust. The excess energy dissipated into the sky, and Serenity fought to stay upright.
"Serenity?", Yue questioned, coming foreword. The rest of the group was silent, watching, in wonder, awe, and brotherly affection. "Hai, Yue, I promised didn't I.", she replied breathing hard. With a soft sigh she felt herself collapsing. Yue rushed forward and caught her. He lifted her in his arms, and her fuku faded into a white silky dress, that Yue remembered seeing so much. Her star was replaced by a glowing crescent moon, shining softly on her forehead.
"Sere-chan are you all right?", Yue asked holding the girl under the knees and around the back. "Daijoubu.", came her soft reply. "Is everyone, is any one .......?", she trailed off worried about every one else. "Are you all right? Is Kero-chan O~kay?",she continued. "Daijoubu. Serenity, we are all, fine.", Yue replied seeing Kero turn back into his tiny stuffed self, out of the corner of his eye. Yue was just content to hold her, to know she was alive. "Yue-kun, you can put me down, I just had an energy loss reaction.", Serenity spoke up. The minute she was on her feet she threw her arms around his neck, embracing him tightly. Yue smiled slightly, and wrapped his arms around her, stretching his wings, he then enclosed her tiny frame with those too. He felt the tiny spark that had always been in his heart swell slightly, and warm him from the inside out. Tears streamed down her face as she hugged him tighter. "I missed you so, Yue.", Serenity whispered into his ear. "As I missed you, Serenity.", Yue replied burying his face in her hair. Yue was surprised when he felt his throat constricting as it hadn't done in years. He felt a small burning in his eyes, and when he closed them, two crystalline tear drops flowed fourth. And for once when he cried his chest didn't hurt.
"Awww Sakura-chan they're so Kawaii.", Tomoyo whispered all the while filming the pair. "Do you think they're, well, you know.", Sakura started. "Iie, this is Yue we're talking about.", Meiling replied. "Cut him some slack, Meiling, He's not incapable of emotions, he just chooses to repress them.", Syaoran cut in, eyes glued to the pair. "They're not together, however in my opinion they should be.", Kero huffed from Sakura's shoulder. "You know who she is?", questioned a male voice from behind them. The four children jumped, as Touya questioned Kero. "Of course I know her. Do you want the long name or the short one.", Kero questioned smugly. "Whatever.", muttered Touya frustrated beyond belief. " Her name is Princess Serenity Usagi Tsuki, More widely known as Queen Serenity Usagi Cosmos. In other words Princess of the Moon Kingdom, Empress of the Universe.", Kero stated proudly. Touya's jaw dropped as he glanced from the small girl, back to Kero, to the Moon to the small girl, then back to Kero again. "Now I'm gonna go see if she's got any chocolate!", Kero muttered clapping his paws. He then buzzed off Sakura's shoulder to bug Serenity.
Serenity pulled away slightly, so that her face was inches from his. He rested his forehead on hers, as more tears fell from their eyes. "Ah, this would be tears of Happiness?", Yue questioned raising a hand to brush her tears away. "Hai, Hai my silly chibi Tenshi, tears of joy.", Serenity replied giggling slightly."I'm not an angel, nor am I little.", Yue stated with righteous indignation. "Hai, you are, maybe not chibi, but definitely an Tenshi.", she replied reveling in the feeling of his silky hair on her fingertips. "I see you cry tears of happiness too.", Serenity continued noting the dampness in his eyes. "I do?", he questioned blinking. "Hai you do, see.", Serenity replied brushing a tear off his face. "So I do.", he replied transfixed on her silvery blue cornflower eyes.
"Hey Usa-chan what am I? Chopped liver?", Kero interrupted, arms open for a 'hug'. "Of course not Kero-chan, Come here.", Serenity replied opening an arm. Kero flew into the one armed embrace, and clung to her. She then tightened her hold on Yue, and laid her head on his chest, Kero in the crook of her arm. "Um excuse me?", Sakura asked hesitantly, wanting to get out of the open.
"Ohayo, Chibi Star.", Serenity greeted her head still on Yue's chest. "How do you know that?", gasped Syaoran who found the silver hared goddess ........ beautiful. "I know much, for I am Cosmos. I can sense her star power, though it is still small, thus producing the name Chibi Star.", she replied in a serious voice. "And Chibi Star, I agree with you. We'll go to my apartment.", she continued disentangling herself from Yue's embrace. "Lunar Teleport.", she whispered. A silver flash exploded from her, and when the silver flash was sucked back into her, they found themselves in the living room of a massive apartment.
"Serenity, where have you been ...........", a British accent trailed off. "Yue, Cereberos!", Luna cried out, jumping into Yue's arms. "Did that neko just talk?", asked Meiling confused. "It's good to see you too Luna.", Yue replied stroking the neko's fur."Yup, it talked.", Tomoyo confirmed. "Artemis?", Serenity asked scanning the room. "He's uh ....... stuck.", Luna said with a large Anime sweat drop. "Stuck? Again?", Serenity questioned walking in the direction of a restroom. Seconds later there was some urgent hissing, accompanied by howling, and then Serenity walked out of the room, a temperamental neko in her arms. "Cereberos?", questioned Artemis slack jawed. "Yue?", he continued eyes wide. "Hai, it's them now quit gawking, it's rude.", Serenity mock scolded. "Ah, Kero-chan I have a present for you, if you will follow me.", Serenity put Artemis on the ground and walked into the kitchen, followed by Kero. Seconds later they heard,"YEAH! I haven't had this stuff in AGES! Woo-Hoo!". This was followed by a silvery laughter that caused Syaoran to go googily eyed. There was a golden blur, as Kero flew back into the room, clutching a ............ Candy Bar? "Kero-chan, you just had a candy bar before we left.", Sakura pointed out. "Iie,Iie Sakura, this isn't just chocolate, this is Mercurian Chocolate. Try it.", he replied breaking off a piece for Sakura. Sakura did as told, and pooped the candy into her mouth. "Wow, that IS really good remind me to get the recipe.", Sakura replied. Luna sighed,"That chocolate is good, but if you eat to much of it ,it makes you......... tired."
"Now, I suppose you're wondering exactly what I'm doing here, and exactly WHO I am.", Serenity started earning nods from everyone save the two content guardians."May I possibly know your names, chibi-ones?", Serenity asked her voice soft and kind. "I'm Sakura, she's Tomoyo, that's Syaoran, she's Meiling, and that's my Onii-san Touya.", Sakura offered with a smile. Yue willed his wings away, and sat down on the couch. Serenity followed his example, and in a flash of silver she was wearing black and silver silk nightclothes. The top was spaghetti strap, and all black with silver embroidery of eight point stars. The pants were the same black silk with the same embroidery on the hem. Her hair was out of the buns, and flowed freely dragging around six inches on the floor. She took all her hair in her hands, and with the skill of an expert French braided her hair VERY quickly. The braid ended just inches off the floor. Serenity crashed on the black leather couch next to Yue, and Kero went and sat next to her on a pillow happily munching on the candy bar. "Serenity, Luna, and I are going to go look for traces of Saturn.", Artemis stated pushing Luna out the door. "Sure you are.", smirked Kero, and Serenity doubled over in laughter, and let them out of the apartment.
"Now my current name is Serenity Cosmos, and this is my apartment.", she started. "How does Yue-san and the stuffed animal know you?", questioned Toya sitting in a lazy boy chair, suddenly tired. "Just to let you all know I've got guest bedrooms and you all are spending the night, so call your parents, it's 10:30.", Serenity stated, magicking a silver phone out of no where and throwing it to Tomoyo. Tomoyo nodded and called her kassan, who wasn't home, and left a message that she was staying with Sakura. It wasn't a complete lie. She never said she was staying AT Sakura's, just WITH Sakura. The rest of them denied the phone, because Sakura's father was on a dig, and Syaoran and Meiling shared an apartment together alone.
"I know Yue and Kero because Onii-san and Aphrodite, wait a minute where is Onii-san?", Serenity questioned confused. "Clow is dead Sere-chan. He died of old age, that's why Sakura-san is our new mistress.",Yue replied feeling her body shake. "Onii-san is .......... Dead?", Serenity questioned looking up at Yue childlike innocence shining in her features. Yue nodded and Serenity gripped his robs tightly willing tears away. "Clow-san was your brother?", asked Tomoyo eyes wide. "Iie, I just thought of him as a brother, and he an imouto of me.", Serenity replied pasting a bright smile on her face. Yue frowned, but said nothing. "Any way Onii-san and Aphrodite-chan thought that Yue and Cereberos needed to lighten up, so when I was 12 Yue-kun and Kero-chan were sent to the Moon Kingdom to have fun.", she started. "Well if you think Yue-kun here is cold now, you should have met him before. Kero-chan was just as bad if not worse.", Serenity explained earning indigent cries of "hey?", from Kero. "Kero, didn't have fun, tease, play around?", Sakura asked eyes wide. "Iie, they were both the 'perfect' guardians, not an emotion showed through them. However, they're both much better now.", she continued. "We all became friends over the six years we were together, then something came and attacked the Moon, destroying everything. Everyone in the Silver Millennium died save Yue, Kero, Clow, Sailor Pluto, and the people of Earth.", she explained softly, slipping her hand into Yue's for comfort.
"Then my kassan sent all the pure hearted people 1,000 years in the future to be reborn. She would have sent Yue, Kero, and Onii-san, but Puu-chan said it would disrupt the timeline.", she continued averting her eyes to the floor. She didn't want to explain the rest, but she needed too. "1,000 years later I was known as Usagi Tsukino. When I was 14 I received a broach from Luna, that allowed me to transform into Sailor Moon. All my memories of my Moon life were erased, and I had no idea that I was the Moon-hime.", she continued absent mindedly petting Kero, on his neck which he liked. "We learned that Beryl had broken free of her prison, and was preparing to overtake the Earth. Well, as the senshi of the moon I couldn't allow that, so after many trials and errors I discovered I was the moon-hime, and one by one I found my senshi and the princesses of the Inner planets, plus Endymion the Ooji of Earth.", Serenity went on clutching Yue's hand in her own.
"We defeated Beryl, and numerous other enemies until I found my Outer senshi, and the princesses of the outer planets. After that we faced more adversaries, and thought we had all achieved peace. We all lived in peace once more until I was sixteen. Then our final enemy attacked. Attacked without warning, without sending any youma. The Sailor Starlight's showed up to protect me as well. I seriously disagreed with that, all I ever was, was protected, I wasn't allowed to fight because I was their hime. Kami knows I hated it.", she whispered feeling tears welling up in her eyes. "Then the final attack took place. The Inner senshi were killed first, never to be reborn. They were followed by Endymion, who was followed by the Outer senshi. Only Sailor Saturn will be reborn, of them all. When I don't know. Finally the starlight's were killed, leaving me alone on the planet, as the rest of the people on Earth had been destroyed. I was alone, alone and angry. Angry at Chaos, angry at kassan, and most of all myself, because they died. I guess my anger consumed me because I became Cosmos. After that Chaos was quickly defeated. I was able to resurrect all of the people on Earth, except my friends.", she ended silent tears streaming down her porcelain face.
"I am nearly 1,000 years old, and yet I still cry like a child, how ironic.", she stated bitterly standing up slowly her hand leaving the warmth of Yue. "Usa-chan, you do not cry like a child, you cry like a human.", Kero interrupted dropping his candy to half-hug the girl around the neck. Serenity merely patted the guardian on the back, and headed off towards a bedroom. There were five bedrooms in the spacious apartment, and in a silver flash the bedrooms were all ready, night clothes laid on the beds.
"Meiling-san, Sakura-san, and Tomoyo-san you shall sleep in here.", Serenity stated in a quiet voice, carrying Kero in her arms. "Kero-chan are you coming?", Sakura asked just before shutting the door to the room with three beds. "Naw, Sakura-chan, I'm going to hang with Yue tonight.", Kero replied slightly worried about his brother. "Touya-san, this is your room.", Serenity continued flicking on a light switch. The room was decorated in navy blue, and shades of gray. "Arigitou, Cosmos-san.", Touya replied with a brief smile. "None of that san stuff, my name is Serenity, so use it.", she said with a wink in his direction. Touya lightly blushed, murmured a good night and shut the door. "And this Syaoran-san is your room.", Serenity told him revealing a forest green, and brown room. "See you tomorrow.", was Syaoran's only reply as he fought down an upcoming blush.
Serenity walked down the hall towards the living room, and the other two bedrooms. She looked down and noticed Kero was asleep, so she walked into her room, and set him on a silver pillow, with a tiny silver blanket. Smiling slightly, she shut off the lamp, and headed back out towards the living room where Yue waited. "Sleepy yet, Yue-kun?", asked Serenity playing with his hair as his back was turned away from her. "A little.", he replied to her. Serenity gently let loose the restraints of his hair, and fingered the black ties. "You still have these.", she stated softly, remembering the black strips of material she had used so long ago to fix his hair. She pulled a silver brush out of her space pocket, and started to gently tug the tangles out of his hair. Yue closed his eyes in remembrance, as her soft fingers occasionally brushed the back of his neck. The already burning flame in his chest grew slightly, and Yue unconsciously lowered his head slightly. Sooner than Yue liked she finished, and brought out new black, and silver ties. As soon as she was done he turned around to face her, his usual long straight bangs, in his eyes. Serenity chuckled, and brushed them out of his eyes, her fingertips brushing his forehead.
Yue sighed, and suddenly gathered her up in his arms once more, princess style. He carried her to the bedroom, pulled the covers down on the bed, and placed himself on it, Serenity wrapped tightly in his arms. "I won't let them hurt you again. I would sooner die, my friend.", he vowed softly in her ear. "Oh, Yue ......", She started a tear escaping her left eye. She gave up and threw her arms around his neck, and hugged him tightly. She held him like that till he drifted to sleep, and she soon followed him to dream land, her head rested in the crook of his neck. The flame grew brighter still filling the sleeping Tenshi, with dreams of past bliss.
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DURING THE DURATION OF TWO MORE DAYS( the gang all stayed at Serenity's save Tomoyo, who had to go home Saturday. Touya also had to go to work. Tomoyo came back Sunday. Luna and Artemis were still searching for Hotaru .............. somewhere.)
For a few hours Saturday morning Yue and Touya had disappeared, but Serenity thought nothing of it. After all Touya had work, and Yue had a life of his own.
On Saturday afternoon, Serenity and her newfound friends shared adventures, and explained their twisted lives. They went out to the park to enjoy the day, and Serenity, after checking to see if people were around, walked on the water. Sailor Mercury, and Neptune's habits and transformations were growing on her still.........
FLASHBACK TO THE LAKE
"Serenity-chan, don't do that you'll fall in!", Sakura yelled as Serenity was about to put her foot on the water. "Iie, I won't.", Serenity replied, turning to face Sakura. "Hai you will!", yelled Kero, from above her. He swooped out of the sky, and knocked her in the deep freezing waters. Instead of sinking in the water she landed on one knee, gracefully standing on it. "Wha-?", Kero sputtered his fun ruined. "Cereberos, think before you act. Now she has three up on you.", Yue told him referring to the game they played in the past. "Wow, Tomoyo-chan come see this." , Sakura yelled to her friend wide eyed as Serenity stood calmly on the lake. Tomoyo came to Sakura, along with Syaoran and Meiling. "Syaoran-kun, is that possible?", demanded Meiling in awe. "Magically hai, technically iie.", Syaoran replied his eyes glued to her.
Serenity threw her arms in the air, and the water followed her command, forming a column of water around her. Inside the column they could make out her figure spinning very quickly in place. The column shifted, and turned into thin streamers of water swirling around her. Then the water compacted, then exploded outward in a fine spray. In place of Serenity was a girl with teal, blue, and silver hair. The silver faded to teal, then the teal to blue. She was wearing a long blue dress with a teal bow, and with a hem that flowed about her feet like the water beneath her. In her hand was a teal colored triton that glowed with inner power.
"Iie Way!", Kero yelled eyes wide with disbelief. Yue merely smirked, and nodded to Serenity. Serenity nodded back, and Yue moved very far away from Kero. "Kero, Kero, when will you learn. When you fight with the megami of Mercury and Neptune, and use WATER as your weapon, you'll most surely loose.", Serenity told him a wicked gleam in her eye. "Serenity, I ...... uh...... Why are you looking at me like that? I'm busted aren't I? Oh, yeah I'm screwed.", Kero rambled frozen in place by his impending demise.
Serenity stuffed the staff in her space pocket, and yelled," DEEP SUBMERGE!!!". A huge ball of water collected in Serenity's hands, which she held high above her head. Tendrils of water shot from all directions making the ball bigger ......... and bigger. Kero saw the attack coming, and tried to get out of the way, when several tendrils of water, grabbed his feet, and wings, holding him just feet above the water. Serenity let the water ball fly at him, Her hair flying in all directions. The water soaked him from head to paw, leaving him looking like a drowned neko. Syaoran doubled over in a rich sounding laughter. "Now you're a drowned, stuffed animal.", he crowed pointing at Kero. Then he was pulled in too.
"It's not nice to laugh at the feeble minded Syaoran-san.", Serenity stated a twinkle in her eye. "Hey, why you!", Kero growled intent on getting her back. He let loose a massive fire ball, aimed at Serenity. Serenity gasped, and screamed. She couldn't block it, she didn't have time to power up. That blast could hurt or worse..... She threw up a water shield, and the attack blasted through it.The attack was almost upon her when there was a flash of silver, and a flurry of feathers. Suddenly Serenity was in the air, strong arms wrapped securely around her waist. She looked down to see an ice ball falling in the water, instead of a fireball. She looked up to see a scowling Yue, holding her tightly. "O genki desu ka?", he asked her once they touched the ground. "Daijoubu.", Serenity breathed letting the transformation fade away. Yue squeezed her tightly, then broke away, turned on his heal, and took long strides towards Kero. With a death glare placed on his face, Meiling jumped out of his way, and clung to Syaoran. "Cereberos, what in Selenity's name were you thinking?", Yue demanded. Kero cowered, under the guardians stare. "It was only a fireball, it wouldn't have hurt her much..........", Kero trailed off nervously. "Hurt her much? It was only a fireball infused with KI.", Yue pointed out. "You forget, what does the sun do to water? It dries it up. What was Serenity ten seconds ago? A water goddess. What are you? Sun guardian. Think about that, and while you're at it apologize to her before you get sent to the sun in pieces!", Yue growled pointing to Serenity. The four children stood in shock at Yue's choice of expression. Normally the guardian was impassive, now he was ........ to put in mildly ......... pissed.
Kero sidled up to Serenity and nuzzled her arm. "Gomen nasai, Usa-chan. I wasn't thinking again. I thought it would just catch your hair on fire or something ........", he trailed off embarrassed. "No harm done K-chan, just Onegai, don't send me to the next dimension so soon.", Serenity replied in a playful voice. Kero purred affectionately, and Serenity reached down to hug him.
END
On Sunday, they all slept in late, except Syaoran, and Yue. Yue just stared at the silver hared goddess in his arms till she woke on her own accord. They showed Serenity around the town, Yue in regular clothes of course. Everything that day went smoothly till that night, as Yue stood alone staring at the moon.
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LATER SUNDAY NIGHT
"Yue-kun?", Serenity asked startling him out of his thoughts. "Hai, Sere-chan?", he asked referring to her old nickname that so freely rolled off his tongue. "What are you thinking about?", she questioned, brushing a stray bang out of her face. Yue looked at her for a second till he replied," You." "Why me?", Serenity continued her brow furrowed. "I ....... I just ....... I missed you, my friend.", he stuttered out smoothly. He felt the feeling of slim arms encircling his neck, and he immediately put his arms in the proper place on her waist. He felt the fire flare up to an all time high, causing him to crush her against himself. "I thought you would never come back.", he whispered. "I promised didn't I?", she replied. "Hai, but now I'm afraid, Serenity. Afraid that if I let you out of my sight, something will happen.", he confessed softly. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm immortal, just as you are, I'm never leaving. And you tell me your not a silly chibi Tenshi.", she told him mirth dancing in her eyes. Yue smiled softly, and Serenity yawned. "Tired?", he questioned, softly. "Iie, Iie I want to hear what all happened to you.", she replied leaning an his chest eyes closed.
"When you left, I.......... I ........ turned 'cold', I guess you would say. I shut myself inside a room at Clow's mansion, and barely left it. I know you said not to be sad, but I couldn't help it. So, therefore I created Yukito.", Yue started off hesitantly. "What's a Yukito?", Serenity questioned him innocently, her blue orbs positively glowing under the moon. "Yukito ........ is a part of me. A part of my personality you could say, however the thing is, I become Yukito. We are like two totally different people. The purpose of Yukito was to hide myself from the world. When I lost you, life became........ unbearable, I never realized I had become so accustomed to your presence. When in Yukito I sleep. Sleep a dreamless sleep until I decide to wake, or am needed.", Yue continued his eyes on hers. "I'm afraid I don't understand.", she whimpered, burying her face in the blue and silver robes. "Let me show you.", he replied his strong voice wavering. A second later a silver flash took place, and a young man with short gray hair, and warm brown eyes with glasses took his place.
"Excuse me Miss, do I know you?", the man asked her concerned. Serenity's eyes widened, and she started to shake. Her face grew pale........... he didn't know her. And worse yet, her best friend was a stranger to her. "Miss ......... Are you all right?", the one called Yukito asked, tentatively taking a step towards her. "Yue.........", she whispered taking a step backward towards the rail. "How do you know that name?", Yukito asked her eyes wide. She shook her head in denial, and backed up hastily, forgetting they were on a balcony. "Miss, onegai, I won't hurt you---.", he started then cocked his head to the side. His eyes grew cloudy for a moment, and then he asked,"Serenity?" She nodded, aware her back was pressed to the rail. "It's nice to finally meet you, but tell me, why do you look so scared?", he asked her worried. "You....Yue....... are literally two different........ people. You don't know me, not like Yue. You didn't even know who I was until he told you.", she replied flatly, tears glimmering in her eyes. "What's so wrong with that?", Yukito questioned, truly confused.Serenity jumped on the balcony rail, and closed her eyes and thought. She needed to get away ........... she needed to think. Her Yue was two people. Yukito who already had a pre-established life. And Yue. He was going to be on a full time job helping with the youma, that was no life for Yukito, always to be in the dark about things. Her Yue, wouldn't be Yue all the time, he wouldn't be the same, he'd be Yukito. "Yuki?", came a voice from the door way.
Sakura, Touya, and Syaoran had felt the energy disturbance, and had woken up Tomoyo and Meiling, in search of Yue. Then they heard it from the balcony. "What's so wrong with that?", the soft voice spoke. The voice of Yukito. The five people walked out onto the spacious balcony, and saw an almost crying Serenity, almost nearly being cornered by Yukito. "Yuki?", Touya asked confused. "Hai, To-ya?", Yukito replied calmly, a hint of affection in his voice. Serenity's eyes snapped open, and her breathing became labored, and uneven. "Serenity-san are you all right?", Sakura asked the silver hared Hime-sama, as the look of abject horror on her face pained her own heart. "Hey, what's going on?", demanded a voice of the newly awakened Kero.
Serenity recognized the tenderness in their voices, as Touya and Yukito regarded each other. Suddenly it made sense as to where Yue and Touya had been the previous morning. Yue/ Yukito loved Touya-san. Her eyes watered even more as she caught sight of Yukito transforming into Yue. Her Yue. No, not her Yue, Touya's Yue. "Oh, he didn't........... He did. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.", Kero muttered eyes wide, as Yue reached for Serenity's arm to pull her off the rail. Yue had just placed a hand on her arm, and she let out a strangled cry, and wrenched herself away from him. She did a flip over his head, landed behind him, and proceeded to push her way through the people. Once she accomplished that she raced towards her room, and slammed the door shut behind her.
"Yue ,man, you have just screwed up royally.", Kero muttered turning to go comfort the girl. Sakura followed him obviously worried about the girl that had shown so much affection towards her guardian one minute, then run off crying the next. "Serenity?", she heard Kero ask, before seeing him knock lightly on the door. He received no answer, therefore he knocked again. Receiving no answer again he started to push it open slowly, but then Sakura decided to help. "Thanx, Sakura.", he told her buzzing into the room. There crumpled in the middle of the floor was Serenity. A broken Tenshi. She sobbed into her hands, hair spilling all around her, piles of molten silver. The moonlight from the window spilled around her illuminated figure, giving her a surreal glow.
"Yue/Yukito ............ Touya.", she whispered, in a hoarse voice. "Serenity-san?", started Sakura, not sure what to say. "Does Yukito love Touya?", she asked jerking her head up towards her. "Hai, and Touya loves him in return.", Sakura replied confused. Serenity nodded her head, and more tears escaped her closed eyes. "I should be happy he has love. I should be happy. But I'm not. Yue...........", she trailed off doubling over as if in pain. " Serenity, Yue doesn't love Touya, Yukito does.", Sakura pointed out. "Ah, Innocent Chibi-Star, what you do not know is that they are one and the same. You think of it as two different people sharing a body. That's not it. Yue is Yukito, Yukito is Yue. Yue CREATED Yukito from a part of himself.", she told Sakura slightly bitter.
"Kero, why does it hurt, why does it hurt so much. My heart bleeds it's sadness, Why?", she asked the sun guardian, holding him to her, hugging him tightly. "I don't know Serenity, I really don't know.", Kero admitted hugging the older girl back as well as he was able.
"Serenity, I think I know why it hurts.", Sakura started, remembering when she had, had feelings for Yukito. Serenity looked at her expectantly waiting for an answer. "I think you're in love with Yue.", Sakura told her seriously. "Iie, I can't be, I Iie, Iie................ I need to go out. I need to think.", Serenity stated eyes wide, standing up trying to wipe away her tears. "I thank you for your help chibi-Star, now I must do it on my own.", she continued. In a dull silver flash, she was dressed in a black flares, with black sneakers, with a black t-shirt, along with a black trench coat. Her silver hair was tied up in heart buns, however the thing that stood out from her was her lifeless cold eyes. Kero gasped, and reeled at the look in her dull blue orbs. "When will you be back?", asked Sakura fretfully, wanting her safety. "Before you wake.", she replied with slight emotion in her voice. "Let's get you to bed.", Serenity continued ushering the girl to her room. They slipped past the living room unnoticed, and opened the door to the girls room.
"Sakura-chan what happened, is she O~kay?", asked Tomoyo as soon as she saw the door creak open. "I'd say I'm fine.", came a more melodic voice, from behind the door. The door swung all the way open, and Serenity and Sakura stepped in. "Gomen for prying, but I was worried.", blushed Tomoyo as Meiling laughed on her bed. "Well, Sakura can fill you in tomorrow morning, girls. It's time for bed.", she continued waiting a few seconds for the girls to scramble into bed. "Night.", she called clicking off the light. As soon as Serenity shut the door, and the soft foot steps walked away, Tomoyo and Meiling pounced on Sakura. "What happened?", hissed Meiling, sitting on the foot of Sakura's bed. "Yeah, Sakura, tell a gram, tell a phone, tell a friend!", Tomoyo whispered excitedly. Sakura groaned, and pulled the blankets over her head.
Out in the hall, Serenity heard the girls talking, and mentally giggled. She then sighed, and walked towards the living room, intent on sneaking past the boys. As she looked out in the living room, she saw that any way she went someone would see her. She cursed, and decided to do it the old fashioned way, straight through. She walked into the room with a fuck-with-me-and-die posture, eyes hard as chipped ice. "Where are you going?", asked Touya, thinking along the lines of the fact that a pretty girl shouldn't be out alone at night, completely disregarding the fact that she had more power in her pinkie, than he did in his entire body. "No where of your concern Kinomoto-san.", she told him coldly stopping her pace, but not turning around. For some odd reason she blamed this on him. She started walking again, when someone held her wrist, preventing her from going any further.
"Onegai, Serenity, Onegai tell me what I did wrong?", the voice belonging to Yue begged her softly. She felt the thumb of her captor caress her pulse softly, making her look at him. "You did nothing, Yue-san, It was I who was the fool.", she replied darkly, looking him in the eye. Yue recoiled at the emptiness in her eyes, at how hollow they looked. "Why do you turn me away suddenly, why are you a fool?", Yue questioned her almost dreading the answer. "I am a fool, Yue, I am a fool because I dared to be human, and am completely blind.", she said self loathing seeping into every word she spoke. "Onegai, don't go. You promised you wouldn't leave.", he told her feeling a sudden wave of guilt wash over him, even though he didn't know why. That wave was soon replaced by fear. Fear that she would leave him again. "I promised that when my soul was intact. I promised that before I realized what a fool I was. I promise that because I am still a fool, with no heart, and half a soul. I am merely going to torture myself out of the presence of children. ", she said with a sense of finality in her voice. "Serenity, Onegai tell me what's wrong. I don't want to see you cry.", Yue continued shocked at her words. "There's nothing wrong, I'm not crying. I have no more tears left.", she replied jerking her hand away from him. Her wrist burned where it had been caressed by her beloved Yue, and her heart beat frantically. "Good Night.", she stated curtly turning on her heal doing her best to keep herself from hugging him to herself never to let go. She walked straight through the door, leaving silver dust in her wake.
"What have I done?", Yue asked himself mournfully. The flame that had been burning brightly was now dwindling, as if drowning it self. Needless to say he felt cold, and it......... hurt. He could feel the pain in her aura, it was seeping from her very being. Her eyes so lifeless and dull. What had he done? He didn't know, but he knew someone would. He started to tremble, as he thought of her pain stricken face. Her beautiful blue eyes so dull, and lifeless. "CEREBEROS!!!!!!", Yue roared, eyes flashing wildly.
Sakura, Meiling, and Tomoyo shot on their feet, after hearing Yue's roar of rage. "Uh-Oh.", muttered Kero from the pillow on Sakura's bed. "What DID you do?", demanded Meiling sounding impressed. "I've never heard Yue yell, ever!", Sakura pointed out, picking up Kero and heading towards the door. "I don't even want to know.", Tomoyo groaned, but followed them anyway.
Syaoran stood in shock, as he heard the forceful tone in Yue's voice. Yue never yelled, ever. He always kept his emotions in check, never revealing much. Touya's eyes were wide as saucers as he watched emotions flash across the man's face, all of which scared him silly. Suddenly Sakura poked her head into the room, nervously. "Ohayo, Yue-san.", she started walking into the room, two girls coming slowly behind her. "Mistress, onegai go back to bed, I need to speak with Cereberos.", Yue told her more of an order than a request. Kero popped up from behind Sakura. "Ohayo Yue, what a beautiful night it is, isn't it. Full Moon, lot's of Stars ..........", Kero rambled off.
"Cereberos, what is wrong with her? She has NEVER, acted this way towards me before. NEVER. ", he growled out . "I ..... uh ...... really don't know.", Kero rushed feebly. "Don't lie to me. When she was upset she used to come to me. Now for some reason she is upset with me, so I know she went to you.", Yue pointed out eyes flashing a dangerous silver. "She ...... uh ....... she has some problems she needs to work out.", Kero replied in a rush. "Problems? Is that what you call it? Then tell me why does she look like she's half dead!?!?", Yue demanded, determined to get an answer out of Kero. "Because, she's just realized something, and thinks you love onii-san!", Sakura yelled out for Kero.
"Why would it bother her that much weather I loved Touya-san or not?", Yue asked completely confused. "Do you love Touya?", Sakura asked determined to get the bottom of the problem. "Iie, Yukito loves Touya-san.", Yue stated out firmly. "Now what you are going to do is what you do best.", Kero interrupted glad to be out of the dog house. "What?", Yue asked knowing that there was something more that they weren't telling him."Trust us Yue, just go to her, and comfort her.", Kero continued. Yue sighed, and flicked his wrist making a card appear. "What's that?", Touya asked eyeing the object. "It's a Tsuki card.", Yue replied showing them the beautiful picture of his Serenity. "That looks like Serenity.", Syaoran pointed out. "That's because it is Serenity, you genki.", Kero admonished."You're telling me there's another set of cards?", Syaoran asked Yue. "Hai, there is. They are similar to Sakura's cards, however there are slight differences.", Yue replied staring hard at the card. "It's so pretty, what's it do?", Sakura asked staring at the card in awe. " It will take me to Serenity, it has many other uses.", Yue told her, pressing the crescent on Serenity's forehead. "Take me to her.", Yue told it solemnly. In a flash of silver Yue was gone.
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HALF AN HOUR EARLIER, FROM WHERE SERENITY IS
"Why now, Why him, Why me?", Serenity mumbled walking briskly, past a school. Tears streamed down her pale cheeks unchecked. She had given up on wiping them away, she didn't care if the world saw her torment, it hurt so much, she wanted to die. She just wanted to give up and kill herself to end the pain. "But I can't do that.", she muttered. She couldn't, wouldn't turn her back on the worlds that needed her. She continued walking until she saw a park. She hadn't planned on going to the park, but she could see just a glimpse of roses under the full moon. They caught her attention, and she immediately walked towards them. She was surprised that the roses she saw from the street, lead to a grove of the most beautiful blood red roses she had ever seen in along time. Music from a nearby apartment drifted into her ears.
~Remember when~
~We never needed each other~
~The best of friends~
~Like sister and brother~
~We understood~
~We'd never be~
~Alone~
Serenity sighed as she thought back to they're days on the moon. She'd never thought they'd be separated, but destiny works strange ways.She had never needed him in that way before. If someone had suggested that she would.... with him ........ she would have thought it ludicrous. She couldn't believe what she'd done, how could she have let it happen?
~Those days are gone~
~Now I want you so much~
~The night is long~
~And I need your touch~
~Don't know what to say~
~Never meant to feel this way~
~Don't wanna be alone tonight~
She groaned, those days of innocent bliss were long gone. She couldn't admit it aloud. But she knew now, she knew what had happened. She needed him to hold her, to tell her he felt the same way. But she knew it was impossible, for he loved chibi-star's brother. She shivered as she felt the winds blow under her coat.
~What can I do to make you mine~
~Falling so hard, so fast this time~
~What did I say, what did you do~
~How did I fall in love with you~
She knew she couldn't live without him. Gods ......... how was she going to face him any longer. She briefly wondered what had caused her to fall so hard. Then she realized it was just him.
~I hear your voice~
~And I start to tremble~
~Brings back the child~
~That I resemble~
~I cannot pretend~
~That we can still be friends~
~Don't wanna be alone tonight~
She heard him in the corner of her mind. The tone of voice he had used just before she left the apartment. She started to shake, as she thought of the same voice telling Touya that he loved him. She knew then she couldn't go back to the old days, she couldn't just pretend it never happened. Her heart ached more at the thought of what his face must look like. Confused that she shunned him, and hurt that she left without reason.
~What can I do to make you mine~
~Falling so hard, so fast this time~
~What did I say, what did you do~
~How did I fall in love with you~
There could never be a Serenity and Yue, she realized with a slight sob. How could this happen? She cursed herself over and over, as she dropped to her knees. She then realized it had started to rain, slushy thick pelting rain. It stung as it slapped against her freezing skin.
~I wanna say this right~
~And it has to be tonight~
~Just need you to know~
~I don't wanna live this lie~
~I don't wanna say goodbye~
~With you I wanna spend the rest of my life~
She knew she couldn't lie to him, and she didn't want to leave. She wanted to stay with him, forever. For the rest of her long, long life. Lighting flashed overhead, making her look heaven ward. The moon slid behind the clouds, and Serenity buried her face in her hands and wept silent tears.
~What can I do to make you mine~
~Falling so hard, so fast this time~
~What did I say, what did you do~
~How did I fall in love with you~
She couldn't make him love her, she knew this. She didn't know how she had fallen so fast. She now cherished those few precious moments she had experienced in his arms.
~What can I do to make you mine~
~Falling so hard, so fast this time~
~Everything's changed, we never knew~
~How did I fall in love with you~
Life was so cruel. He already loved another, so how could she have fallen. Everything was different now she realized, she would have never known, if Chibi-Star wouldn't have told her. "How did I fall in love with you?", she whispered into the cold night air. She heaved a huge breath outward, and saw her breath come out in fog. She shivered, but made no move to leave. She enjoyed the numb feeling that was spreading through her. It made her forget about the numbness in her heart.
Suddenly she felt the slushy icy rain stop pelting her skin. She jerked her head up and found herself staring at large white wings. White wings that were larger than her own. "Yue.", she whispered to herself, wondering when her voice had gotten so hoarse. Before she knew what was happening she was hauled on her feet, peering into two concerned eyes. He touched her hand, then drew it away quickly at it's coldness. Serenity noted the painful burning sensation where their bare skin touched. "Gods, you're frozen.", he whispered gathering her close to him. Serenity made no move to protest, or to encourage it, she was tired, and it ached so much. She felt the pain recede slightly as she felt warmth in the embrace. Involuntarily she felt her tears start again, as she unconsciously wrapped her arms around his neck. She didn't care about her vow to stay uninvolved, she just needed to be near him, to keep her sanity.
Yue smiled that rare smile that once in a blue moon happened, and created a magically enhanced bubble to protect them from the sleet. "Are you still angry with me Renity?", Yue questioned afraid she would walk away again. "Iie, I was never angry with you. I was angry at myself, Yue-kun. It wasn't your fault. Yue, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have lashed out on you.", she whispered shivering.The fire that was nearly burning out suddenly sparked back to life, letting Yue hold her tightly, to himself. He was starting to get slightly worried she might get sick, so he started to lift into the air. She clutched him tightly and shook her head fiercely. "What?", he asked lowering back onto the ground, and wrapping his wings around her once more. She said nothing, but buried her head in the crook of his neck. He sighed, and eyed the stone bench next to a rose bush. He gently picked her up princess style, and sat upon the bench. Serenity was across his lap, and he cradled her against himself, rocking slowly side to side.
'Oh, my beautiful Tenshi. What are your demons? Why are you so broken? Onegai, be all right.', he thought to himself, listening to her even breathing.
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AT THE APARTMENT
"Sakura-chan, where are they? It's pouring out there!", Tomoyo exclaimed pouring herself more tea. "They're pretty far away, although they're together.", Sakura replied opening her eyes. "They should get back here soon, for some reason Serenity's energy is slowly depleting.", Syaoran added, from his spot next to Sakura. "Well duh, you genki. Don't you know anything?", huffed Kero staring out the window worriedly. "What, I bet you didn't even know till I told you.", Syaoran sneered. "Hai, I did. When a Lunarin falls in love, and thinks that love is not returned, Her energy slowly depletes till she falls into a deep sleep. If that love is not returned in 48 Earth hours there will be fierce consequences.", Kero replied slumping down next to Sakura. "What does love have to do with anything?", Syaoran asked extremely confused. "Everything.", murmured Kero worried.
"Wait a minute, Sakura, you never did tell us what was wrong with her in the first place.", Meiling pointed out slyly. "Oh, well.... um ........ look at the time, I think it's time for some good old fashioned sleep.", Sakura trailed off, yawning for a greater effect. She stood up, and was about to leave when she felt strong arms push her back down. "Syaoran-kun?", she blinked. She silently groaned, she knew if Syaoran wanted to know, she'd be forced to tell. "Eh, Kero-chan, a little help here.", Sakura sputtered nervously. "You're on your own Sakura.", Kero replied staring out the window once more, smirking slightly.
Touya sat silent in a chair, staring hard at the door. He never took the time to question if Yue also loved him. He knew Yuki did, and thus believed Yue did too. Well, that was wrong. For all he knew with the way Yue acted around Serenity, he probably loved her. Two people in one body, with two different lives. How he had not seen it before was beyond him. He sighed, and ran his fingers through his hair, wondering why life was so complicated. He also wondered what was so wrong with Serenity. She had looked as if her entire world had been shattered to pieces. Why had she freaked out when Yuki turned back into Yue? 'Maybe Sakura would know', he mused standing up.
"Hey, Kaiju what's wrong with Serenity?", he questioned plopping down next to Tomoyo. "Not you too!", Sakura groaned, tempted to use one of the cards to get out of there. "Come on Kaiju, I have a right to know.", Touya persisted. "It's not my place to tell you Touya. It's Serenity's , and Serenity's alone. Just know that if they are together, all is well.", Sakura responded, her face gathering a far away look. Her eyes clouded over, and Syaoran waved a hand infront of her face, receiving do response.
"What's going on?", asked Tomoyo worry lining her features. "Sakura?", Touya asked Tentivly, worried about his sister. Syaoran poked her shoulder, starting to get worried. "Sakura........ Sakura?", he asked shaking her shoulders, her head lolled about gaze resting nowhere. "SAKURA!", he yelled about an inch from her face. "HOE!!", Sakura yelled out, jumping around the back of the couch. "Don't DO that Syaoran!", she yelled brushing stray hair out of her face. Kero bust out laughing, falling off the window sill. "Ow.", he muttered darkly, climbing onto the couch. Taking a glance at Sakura's and Syaoran's red faces he broke out in laughter once more. "Be quiet stuffed animal.", Syaoran hissed at Kero, his blush back full force. Kero only responded by falling off the couch, rolling in merriment.
"Don't start you two. It's not worth it.", Tomoyo scolded glancing at Sakura, who was chewing her bottom lip, deep in thought."Sakura what were you thinking about?", Touya asked seriously. "It was nothing I was just linking directly to their whereabouts.", Sakura replied. Touya seemed to accept the answer, but Syaoran didn't look very convinced.
"Can't you tell us anything Kaiju?", Touya prodded again. "She loves him.", Sakura stated softly. "What?", asked Meiling, she and the group hadn't heard. "Nothing, nothing at all.", Sakura said louder. "I'm sure it was something.", Touya demanded feeling a bit angry. "Touya it's NONE of your business!", Sakura replied quickly sensing the agitation in her brothers voice. "How do you figure? It has to do with MY Yuki, thus I should know.", Touya bit out forgetting that he was about to holler at his thirteen year old imuto. Sakura stood up an unusual fire burning in her emerald eyes, now shining with tears. "It has nothing to do with Yukito, It is the moon and the moon alone! Don't ask again!", she hollered tears threatening to fall. She spun on her heal, and walked towards her designated room. Touya stood up and was about to follow, when Syaoran and Kero stood in his way. "Iie one hurts my Mistress.", Kero muttered glaring at Touya, transforming into his true self. "I agree with him, You should leave her alone.", Syaoran stated narrowing his eyes. Touya glared and stalked to his own room, and slammed the door shut. "I think we just missed something.", Tomoyo whispered to Meiling, grabbing Kero out of thin air, and racing to Sakura's room.
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IN THE PARK
'I think she's asleep.', Yue mused standing up to see if she stirred. When she did not he sighed, and sat back down. He didn't want to leave yet, he didn't want to have to wake her, to see her pain filled eyes. He didn't want to let her go, she felt so.... so light? Fragile? Soft? Warm? Wonderful? It was all of those those things he thought decidedly. His eyes widened as he realized where his thoughts were heading, but suddenly those thoughts didn't seem so wrong. He traced her jaw in wonder, wondering why all those thoughts were surfacing now. He saw her tense slightly under his touch, then relax once more. 'Why do I feel this way? What is this emotion?', he asked himself, his eyes straying towards her closed eyelids. He wanted to see her happy, not broken, shattered like fine china. Shaking his head he tried to banish the thoughts from his mind. He couldn't think that way about her, she was ....... to special.
Slowly, he stood up. He called out the Tsuki card and wished it to take him back to the apartment. When he got there he saw everyone had went to sleep, even Cereberos wasn't in sight. He cautiously walked towards Serenity's room not bumping into anything. He saw Cereberos asleep leaning against the window. Smiling slightly, with one hand he pulled down the sheets, the other still supporting Serenity. He tried to put her down in the bed, but she started to whimper, and shake. Thinking she was awake he looked to see if her eyes were open. To his surprise they were clenched tightly shut. He pulled her back to himself and her shaking ceased, whimpers stopping. He sighed, and climbed into the bed with her. Willing his wings away, he pulled the blankets upon both of them, and watched her sleep. Sleep peacefully with iie disturbances. He watched her till the sleet turned to snow, and the sun peeked over the horizon. Finally he fell asleep Serenity wrapped tightly in his strong arms.
Serenity awoke to something warm breathing next to her. She blinked a few times before she realized the figure was Yue. His eyes were closed, and his breathing was slow and even. He was still asleep. What she would give to have those eyes open, and shine at her with love. However that thought was overruled, by the stabbing pain in her heart as she remembered Yukito and Touya. She rest her head on his chest, and allowed herself to enjoy the feel of him. She heard his heart beat steadily, and felt tears gather in her eyes. The heartbeat she heard did not beat for her, it beat for the man in another room.
Deciding to make breakfast early she tried to slip out of his arms without waking him, however that plan was thwarted. Yue held her tighter to himself, and shifted so that he was on his side, his forehead leaning against her temple. 'This is not good.', Serenity thought, daring herself to turn her head. She saw what she thought was the most adorable picture she had ever seen in her existence. Yue's face held the innocence of a child, like it never did, as his lips were parted slightly. She found herself staring at his lips. Next she found herself wondering what it might be like to kiss the ray of moonlight that held her so close. 'I've got to get out of here, before I do something I'll regret.', she scolded herself. With a bright idea she dissolved into silver sparkles, reappearing at the end of the bed, still dressed in the clothes from the night before. She grimaced, and felt an emptiness return to her. With a bright idea she disappeared in silver sparkles and reappeared in the living room. Taking a glance at a clock she realized it was ten in the morning. Shivering slightly she looked out the window, to see snow. 'What month was it anyway?', she wondered. In a silver flash she was wearing a silver turtleneck with black flares.
{Luna?}, questioned Serenity to her feline companion. {Hai, Serenity?}, came the reply. {Did you two have any luck?}, she asked hopefully. {Iie, not yet, but I'm sure we'll find her.}, Luna replied softly. { Arigatou Luna, but are you sure you and Artemis will be all right out there?}, Serenity asked worried about her little neko's. {We'll be fine you worry wart. Have fun!}, Luna exclaimed before closing the link. "That neko is going to get it.", she murmured to herself, taking out the ingredients for breakfast.
AN HOUR LATER
"Sakura-chan, Meiling-san, Tomoyo-san wake up!", Serenity yelled at the groaning girls. She snapped her fingers and the blankets flew off of them. "Serenity-chan, please can we sleep just a bit longer?", Sakura pleaded opening her eyes slightly, pulling the blanket back up. "Nope, Get up!", Serenity called exasperated. Syaoran stood in the doorway smirking at Serenity's futile attempts to wake them up. Serenity turned around to see Syaoran smirking at her. That just didn't go over well. "Hey Sakura?", Serenity asked sweetly an evil smile on her face."What", came her muffled reply. "If you don't get up right now Syaoran-kun is going to kiss you. ". Serenity continued. "WHAT?!?!", shrieked three voices at once. Meiling sat up fuming in her bed, while Tomoyo had her video camera out, and Sakura sat blushing, looking very shocked. Then they realized Syaoran was actually standing in the door way blushing. Tomoyo, Meiling, and Sakura exchanged glances at each other. Serenity moved out of firing range as the impending doom was coming. "ECCHI!!!", yelled all three girls chucking their pillows at him. Syaoran to embarrassed to duck was bombarded with the three projectiles. Syaoran fell to the ground with swirls in his eyes, and Serenity smirked. Stepping gracefully over Syaoran's body she called ," Hurry up breakfast will get cold."
Serenity walked down the hall to Touya's room. "Hey Touya-san it's time for breakfast!", she called out knocking on the door. "I'll be there in a minute!", came the reply. "Whoa! Look at all the grub!", came a voice from the dining room. "Hands off K-chan.", Serenity scolded lightly, suddenly feeling slightly tired. "What did you and Yue do last night, he's STILL asleep.", Kero continued suggestively. " I really don't know, I fell asleep in the park, and Yue took me home.", she supplied tapping her chin. "Yeah, sure.", Kero trailed off winking at her. "K-chan what month is it?", Serenity asked purposely disregarding his last comment. "December, why?", he asked slightly miffed. "What day?", she asked eyes getting wide. "The seventeenth-- iie the eighteenth.", Kero replied thoughtfully. "Why didn't someone TELL ME!!!!!!!!!", Serenity yelled eyes wide as saucers. "You didn't ask.", came Meiling's voice from the hall way. "Don't start with me.", Serenity stated a glare coming to her eyes. "Chibi-Star , hurry up were going shopping!", Serenity called trying to figure out which car to use. "I'm coming.", yawned Sakura from her room. Sakura came out of the room wearing white flares with a light pink long sleeved shirt with a white star on it.
Touya came out clean shaven, in a a plain black sweatshirt, and blue jeans. " Kaiju I'm really sorry for last night, forgive me?", Touya asked Sakura pulling out a chair. "Of course I do Touya, just expect coal in your Christmas stocking.", Sakura replied smiling sweetly. Touya nodded, and chuckled. At Serenity's questioning glance Sakura mouthed, 'Tell ya later'. A few minutes later Syaoran came out looking slightly dazed. All three girls all sent him threatening death glares, which Touya raised an eyebrow at. "Don't ask.", Serenity told him shaking her head. Everyone sat down to eat their food peacefully. Serenity was surprised that Syaoran had the guts to sit next to Sakura, and even more so when he managed to keep his head on his shoulders. "What's everybody doing for Christmas?", Serenity questioned suddenly. "Well, Onii-san and I were going to spend it with Yukito because Tousan is on a dig. Then because Tomoyo-chan's Kassan is away on business, we'll be spending it with her too.", Sakura replied wolfing down some pancakes. "Meiling and I really didn't make any plans yet.", Syaoran replied thoughtfully, drinking his juice. "Well, how would you like to spend Christmas here?", Serenity asked eyes dancing."REALLY?!?", demanded Sakura eyes wide. "Hai, If you wouldn't mind.", Serenity confirmed. "We'd love to!", Meiling exclaimed pumping her fists in the air. "Can we Onii-chan, Oneagi?", Sakura begged using her best puppy dog face. "Of course Sakura-chan, must your really ask?", Touya replied chuckling. "YAHOO!", Kero cheered along with Sakura. "Well, I'd love to stay!", Tomoyo chirped. "It's all set then.", Serenity replied smiling.
"Where's Yue-san?", Touya asked suddenly looking at Serenity. "He's still sleeping in the bedroom.", she replied her smile fading. "Still?", Touya asked looking at his watch. Serenity nodded silently. "I'm gonna go check on him.", Touya stated standing up, and walking towards the hall. "Other room.", Serenity stated deftly not bothering to look up. " But I thought that was your room.", Touya started from down the hall, sounding confused. "It is.", she replied a smirk forming across her face. "I don't want to know.", they head Touya mumble.
"Well, Sakura-chan, you ready to book it?", Serenity asked standing up. "Yeah, Let's GO!", Sakura exclaimed definitely more awake. Sakura grabbed her heavy forest green coat with a white trim of faux fur on the hood, and Serenity magicked on a long leather black trench coat. "Tomoyo-san do you want us to drop you off at home?", Serenity asked seeing Tomoyo about to call her limo. "Sure!", Tomoyo exclaimed grabbing her bag. "I'll see you two later?", Serenity questioned, giving Syaoran and Meiling each a sisterly hug. "Hai!", they both replied, though Syaoran was blushing from the close contact. "Ja mata!", they all called and headed out the door.
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IN THE SILVER EXPRESS 4-DOOR KAWAII CAR
"I love your car.", Sakura commented sliding into the passenger seat after Tomoyo got in the back. "It's only one out of about fifty different cars.", Serenity replied sliding into the drivers side. "Where am I going?", Serenity asked Tomoyo turning the ignition key. "Um, 1481 Chestnut Drive.", Tomoyo replied slipping into the comfort of the seats. Serenity nodded, and turned on the heaters full blast. Driving in silence Serenity used her slight internal knowledge of where the street was. A few minutes later they were parked infront of Tomoyo's house, a female guard waiting to greet her. "Ja ne, Tomoyo-chan!", Sakura called, waving. Serenity waved then pulled out into the street. "What are we shopping for, Serenity-chan?", Sakura asked her curiosity getting the best of her. "Christmas presents, Sakura-chan, I have to go buy all of you one, and I need your help picking them out.", Serenity explained pulling into the place she thought to be the mall. "Let's get started!", Sakura replied joyfully hopping out of the car, and racing Serenity into the mall.
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WITH YUE AND TOUYA
"Yue-san, wake up.", Touya started poking the sleeping guardian. "Serenity.......", Yue murmured blinking, his eyes still adjusting to the bright light. "Iie, it's me.", Touya told him somewhat downcast. Yue hearing that immediately sat up, and started looking around the room for his silver hared princess. "Don't worry, she's at the mall with Sakura going shopping.", Touya stated chuckling slightly. Touya was quite sure of it now, he was sure Yue loved Serenity. Why did it pain him so, that his lovers counterpart loved another.
Knowing that Serenity was not in any danger made the guardian relax, and he sagged onto the pillow. He inhaled her scent as he took an intake of breath through his nostrils. He frowned when he realized his arms were aching, throbbing a dull thud. It was almost as if they missed something, something warm. Almost as if they missed Serenity. Yue continued to think about her, forgetting about Touya's presence. "Hey, Yue? Welcome back to Earth!", Touya continued, laughing as Yue's face took on the barest of pink hues.
"I suppose you'd like some time with Yukito, correct?", Yue asked with an eyebrow raised trying to change the subject. "Now that you mention it, it would be kinda nice.", Touya replied with a mock seriousness tone. In a flash of silver feathers Yue was Yukito. "Ohayo, Yuki.", Touya greeted warmly, moving closer to the yawning man. "To-ya, I feel like I've been sleeping forever.", Yukito yawned leaning over to half embrace his koibito. "That's because Yue has been in control for the past twenty hours ......... I've missed you.", Touya explained, smiling at his little snow bunny. Yukito looked up, and pecked Touya on the lips teasing him. "That's it Yuki......You're gonna get it.", Touya growled, and in a flurry of bed sheets, Touya and Yukito entranced themselves with mornings pleasures.
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MEILING AND SYAORAN
"Meiling, we should probably go and come back later.", Syaoran started scribbling a note down on a piece of paper, for when Serenity-san, and Sakura-chan came home."Don't ask me why, but I'm coming with you two genki's.", Kero interrupted. "Fine, you stuffed toy.", Meiling snorted. "Don't start.", Syaoran put in taping the note to the fridge. "Fine, Let's go build snowmen in the park!", Meiling enthusiastically agreed grabbing their coats. "I don't know about you, but I'm going to train.", Syaoran admonished dressing in his traditional Chinese robes, with sweat clothes underneath. "You're impossible Syaoran-kun.", Meiling growled grabbing his hand, and stalking out the door. "Lead the way genki's!", Kero crowed flying above them.
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AT THE MALL
Serenity winced as she felt Yue transform into Yukito. Her heart broke as she felt Kero, Syaoran and Meiling leave the apartment in a hurry, when Touya's and Yukito's ki's rose slightly, then kept climbing. "So, what do you think about this?", Sakura asked Serenity coming out of the dressing room. Sakura was wearing a light blue sweater with her white jeans. "Looks Kawaii Sakura-chan, it's a keeper!", Serenity called to her happily, trying to banish her previous thoughts. "What should I get Tomoyo-chan?", Serenity questioned looking through some hue's of purple material. "I like that velvet, I think Tomoyo would love it for her costumes!", Sakura exclaimed finishing paying for her sweater. "I think so too.", Serenity agreed purchasing 4 yards of the material.
Around 5:30 they went to the food court, and ordered lunch/dinner from a cafe. They ended up sticking their purchases in Serenity's endless space pocket, because they ended up getting heavy. They bought presents for everyone, wrapping paper, lights, bulbs, ornaments, a star, and a tree. Like stated before the space pocket was endless, thank goodness, or else all the items might not have fit. The only thing they carried on them were each other's presents, so that the bags couldn't accidentally be peaked in.
"What happened with you and Touya last night?", Serenity asked looking for a clear table. " He decided to gang up on me to figure out why you were upset.", Sakura replied heading over to a clear booth. "Say no more, Sakura-chan. I think I understand.", Serenity replied sitting on the right side, placing her packages next to her. "So, Sakura when is your Tousan getting back from his trip?", Serenity asked taking a tentative sip of her coffee. "He'll be back sometime after Christmas.", Sakura replied slightly sad. Serenity frowned sensing the girls sadness. "Be happy , Sakura-chan everything will be all right.", she told her patting her shoulder. Sakura was about to reply when a large Earthquake hit. Quickly Serenity threw all their belongings into her space pocket. "That's not normal.", Serenity murmured standing up. Suddenly screaming people began running in their direction. With a grim look on both their faces they nodded, and prepared to take on any foe imaginable.
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IN SERENITY'S LIVING ROOM
"Where are they?", Touya wondered aloud pacing back and fourth. His hair was tousled, and his shirt partially unbuttoned, from earlier excursions. "They're at the mall, I don't know what rock you've been living under, but it takes forever.", Meiling replied smartly rubbing her frozen hands before the roaring fire. "Shut up, genki.", Touya hissed. "Now To-ya calm down Sakura-chan is with Sere-chan, and they can take care of themselves.", Yukito reassured, fixing his glasses. "I still say we should go look for them.", Touya grumbled plopping down next to Yukito. "For once I agree with Kinomoto.", Syaoran interrupted brandishing his sword. "There's a first.", snorted Kero, who happened to be looking out the window, looking for his mistress and princess. "Syaoran-kun, I may not be able to fight with magic, but if a powerlevel is REALLY high, I can sense it.", Meiling interjected, blowing on her hands. "And...", Touya trailed off not really caring about what the girl was talking about. "And, Serenity-san's power is so high I can sense it loud and clear. Sakura's power is high enough that I can feel it too, so they must be strong.", she continued throwing a dirty look at Touya. "We know they're strong, Meiling-san, it's just that sometimes we worry.", Yukito consoled finally grasping Meiling's point. "Give it just a bit longer.", Kero murmured quietly catching everyone's attention. The guardian had been silent after his last comment. Suddenly the door burst open. Everyone's heads turned in the direction of the door............... only to see Tomoyo.
"Turn on the T.V., HURRY!", Tomoyo yelled slamming the door shut. Meiling complied and hit the on button. "Channel four.", Tomoyo huffed bending over resting her hands on her knees. When the channel hit four they saw the sight of the Tomeda District Mall being torn to shreds by a large youma. There was a pink- silverish bubble around the youma, and to young women. "Oh, my Kami, SAKURA!", Touya exclaimed wide eyed. "We've got to get there NOW!", Kero muttered staring at the scene of the girls dodging the youma's attacks. "I think I can take us there.", Syaoran muttered. He closed his eyes in concentration, and a faint green glow surrounded him. "Take us there!", Syaoran shouted a green flash of light exploding from him.
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THE MALL
"Sakura, move!", Serenity yelled pushing her out of the way, earning herself a nick in her shoulder from the blast. She was glad their shield was still holding up, with Sakura's magic and her own ki infused with it, protecting the outside people. "Sleep card, RELEASE!", Sakura yelled, and soon people dropped to the floor, and with a sharp glare from Serenity the camera exploded. "Let's pull out the big guns, Sakura-chan.", Serenity called to her friend smirking. "Let's do it.", Sakura nodded whipping out her wand. In a flash of silver and shooting stars Serenity turned into Sailor Cosmos fully battle equipped. "Jump card, RELEASE!", Sakura called jumping behind the youma, thinking of sandwiching the Kaiju. The monster was standing on two feet, with dragon scales for skin. It had a metal face plate covering it's eyes, with a chest plate, blackish skin tight pants, along with metal knee guards. All this was fine and dandy of course save the fact that the metal was grown in it's skin.
"WORLD SHAKING!", Cosmos yelled. The ground beneath her split, and she threw a golden ball of energy at it. The youma unprepared ended up getting hit dead on. It looked at the wound on it's stomach, and laughed. Cosmos reeled back, and stared hard at the creature. In a pulse of black waves the wound was healed, and no longer fatal. "Ice card ,RELEASE!", Sakura called, and the ice card flew, and froze everything within the shield. "Finish it!", Sakura yelled pulling out her fly card. Cosmos nodded, and started her attack," COSMIC ELI----", but her sentence was cut off as she felt the others energy and snapped her head around. Suddenly there was cold metal protruding from her stomach. "SERENITY!!!!", Sakura yelled out petrified. The youma had turned into a kind of liquid steel, and was just now returning to it's previous state. Serenity stared in shock as red stained her fuku. Crimson flowed around the pure white, as a wave of dizziness swept over her. She remembered murmuring something before she fell. Something important. "Yue.", she choked out, as a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of her mouth, then she knew no more.
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JUST BEFORE SERENITY PASSED OUT
The silver sheen in the pink bubble fell away, and the others were able to step in and finally see what was going on. Before going in the bubble Yukito closed his eyes and transformed into Yue. Looking at the monster he couldn't feel Serenity. No ki, no ki, no life...... wait! It was there faintly, but there. "Gods know my plight, Release the LIGHT!", Syaoran chanted, and a thunder bolt flew from nowhere and struck the youma, making it fizzle and fall over. There stood Serenity staring at the growing red stain on her fuku. "Kami iie.", Yue whispered as temporary shock took over his body, and time itself seemed to slow. Gathering his senses he dove to catch her before she fell to the unforgiving ground. "Yue.", he heard her state just before her Cosmos uniform faded away, and she passed out from loss of blood.
"You're going DOWN!", Yue heard his mistress suddenly scream with such anger it startled him. He looked up to see the once electrocuted monster in perfect health, charging after Syaoran. 'I have to beat this thing.', Sakura thought to herself wondering how to destroy the foul beast. Suddenly her anger got the best of her and she lashed out. "FIERY CARD, RELEASE!!!!!!", she yelled striking the card, adding much more magic necessary to activate the card. A bright ki bomb of fire exploded from her very being, as she continued to add her power to it. Before anyone had any time to react the fire blast formed a fiery cage around the youma, slowly closing in on it, making it screech out in pain. Then unexpectedly the fire exploded, taking the youma with it. As the youma tried to reform itself now liquid steel, the fire incinerated all the tiny shards of the monster effectively killing it.
Sakura called the ice, jump, fly, shield and fiery cards back, however she left the sleep card in place, keeping people out of their business. "Wow.", Syaoran muttered staring openly at the drained Sakura."Go Sakura-chan!", Tomoyo whooped running towards her friend. "I told ya she could take care of herself.", Meiling stated wide eyed. "Sakura, are you all right?", Touya demanded standing infront of his imouto. "I'm fine, nothing some sleep and a few band-aids won't cure.", Sakura replied hugging her Onii-chan, who returned her hug tightly. Suddenly Sakura pulled away a frown marring her features. "Is Serenity all right, that sword .......... it went straight threw her.", Sakura asked having not seen the hime since she released the Fiery. "I'm not sure........", Touya trailed off turning around to look for the telltale silver tresses. "Oh my Kami!", he heard Sakura exclaim her voice laced with worry. Sakura dashed infront of Touya, and headed towards Yue who was cradling the fallen princess.
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OVER WHERE YUE IS
He checked her pulse, again and again feeling a slight jerky beat. She was growing cold in his arms. He felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned around to see his mistress, tears glistening in her eyes. "Angel of the night.", he whispered to Serenity the hoarse rasp filled with torture. Sakura winced at the sheer pain in the guardians strained voice. "Yue, I know, we all know.", the voice of his brother tried to soothe him, yet doing him no good. " Iie, you don't know. This is the second time she will died in my arms, because I failed to protect her .............. ", Yue trailed off his voice sounding far away.
FLASHBACK
'Pressing one's lips to a loved one's, can transfer energy to the loved one. It can heal wounds and restore the dead to the living.', Clow told Yue explaining how to transfer the energy.
END
'Can it work?', Yue questioned himself. He saw no harm in trying as his heart ached from lack of the hime's presence near him. It was tearing apart his very soul as he looked at her still form.
Sakura gasped as swirls of wind flew around Yue in an beautiful pattern. The group backed away because of Yue's sudden burst of power, which was now higher than Sakura's, and still growing.
Slowly he descended down to her slightly warm lips, pleading with whatever higher gods there were. As his lips brushed hers he felt the tingle of electricity, in the beginning of energy transfer. He couldn't help but gasp at their sweetness. As he pressed his lips to hers more firmly a glow of blue and silver surrounded him, spreading to Serenity. Small rocks, and pebbles rose off the ground and a column of white light surrounded the two. Suddenly the force doubled, and there left an indent in the ground. Yue forced his moon energy into Serenity's still body, moving his lips slowly over hers. A symbol on Serenity's forehead glowed and flashed wildly, causing Yue to pull away, hesitantly for he didn't want to leave the bliss he was receiving. Suddenly the wound on Serenity's stomach, and shoulder sealed, and her clothes faded into a stainless white dress, with gold trimmings. Then the white column of light faded, and the pebbles dropped to the ground. The wind died down and then, suddenly, the silvery blue orbs snapped open. There were gasps of shock, and stares of awe as Serenity slowly sat up still supported by the guardian. "What happened?", Serenity murmured sounding confused and disoriented. "You were dying.", came the clipped answer from the man holding her. "How am I ...... Here?", Serenity asked looking up at Yue. "Clow once gave me a spell that allows me to heal without draining too much energy. I performed the spell, and you are alive.", Yue explained in an passive tone. "Arigatou, Yue-kun I owe you my life.", Serenity replied leaning into Yue.
In a flash of forest green the people were back in the apartment, and Sakura took the sleep card off.
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AT THE MALL
"Ugh, my head.", muttered the camera man standing up. "Ahhhhh my CAMERA!", yelled the man looking at what seemed to be the remains of a camera. "What do you mean your camera?", questioned his boss who was tapping a tiny microphone on her arm, shaking her head. "It's blown up!", the man yelled pointing to the broken tape. "What do you mean, this is the best story since Dave's two years ago, and the camera EXPLODED!", raged the angry woman, face turning red.
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AT THE APARTMENT
"How did you guys get there so quickly?", Sakura asked resting in fatigue on the couch. "I transported us, just like Serenity, by manipulating energy.", Syaoran replied sitting next to Sakura, keeping his eyes on her. "Why didn't you send for me Serenity?", demanded Yue, eyes flashing. "How would she do that in the middle of battle?", asked Tomoyo defensively. "With this.", Serenity stated sullenly pulling a card out of nowhere. She then tossed the card to Sakura who immediately started scanning it. The card had a crescent moon on it's back with a graph depicting 'TSUKI'. She flipped it over, and saw a picture of Yue. "It's a picture of Yue.", Sakura stated softly awed in it's beauty. "Iie, it's a card. A Tsuki card.", Serenity corrected willing herself out of her princess form.
"Why didn't you call?", demanded Yue once more, not allowing her to leave his arms. "I didn't want to interrupt. I thought we could take care of it.", Serenity muttered attempting to pull herself away. "Interrupt what?", he asked confused. Serenity ignored the question, and quit struggling. "Anything that might have been going on was less important that yours and Sakura's lives.", Yue bit out caring less about whatever was going to be interrupted. "Was I right the other night, when I said I couldn't let you out of my sight? Was I? Can I trust you enough to call me if a youma shows up?", he demanded in her ear holding him closely to himself. "Yue, Let go.", Serenity whimpered afraid her mind would go into overload from the close contact. "Iie, You broke your promise. You said you wouldn't leave me.", he murmured quietly for her ears alone. Serenity stiffened as she felt his breath on her neck, sending shivers up her spine. "I didn't want to leave, but when you guys showed up, it startled me and I lost concentration.", Serenity murmured back to him her head lowered.
There they stood in the middle of the living room. Both extremely emerged in the feelings that emerged when they held each other. Serenity was slightly bent over in Yue's arms, which were wrapped tightly about her waist. Her head was tilted to the side leaning against his shoulder, as waves of silver piled on the floor, with unfocused bleary blue eyes concentrating on nothing. Yue was bent so that his chin rested upon her temple. His navy blue eyes were unfocused, with an impassive look to them.
YUE'S POV
Yue was trapped in his mind, reveling at the feeling of her soft skin brushing his fingers every once in awhile. His lips burned angrily in the memory of her lips touching his own. Part of him ached for something, something more than just that stolen kiss. He wanted.......... He wanted ........ her. He wanted to hold her forever, kiss her, be there with her every waking moment, but why? Why did he want this? What were the emotions caused, by this little slip of a girl doing to him? He felt almost drugged, his body felt sluggish and weak, but firmly protested letting go of his hime. He fought back a feral growl that threatened to come from deep inside his chest. While forcing it down a nearly silent groan caught him by surprise. That only heightened his want for her, iie, he didn't just want her, he needed her. He cherished her every move, and most nearly worshipped the ground she walked upon. Yet the same question repeated itself, the one word question........ Why? He didn't know, he really didn't. Emotions really never had been his department. All the same however, he thought as the flame in his chest nearly exploded, he knew what was true. 1: He never wanted to release her, 2: He needed to figure out why,and 3: Which was against his better judgment he needed to kiss her again. Tightening his hold on her he let out a small whoosh of air, that he hadn't realized he'd been holding.
SERENITY'S POV
'Doesn't he know what he's doing to me?', Serenity wondered quickly losing touch with reality as Yue's aura surrounded her, in a protective embrace. The only thing she could focus on was the way his body curved with her own, molding them together as one. Serenity desperately tried to focus on something else, anything else, However is was useless as he held her tighter. She fought down the urge to spin around and kiss the living daylights out of him. She knew if she did that all chances of maintaining a friendship, were shot down the tubes. With that thought she squelched her growing passion, and curled tighter against him.
MY POV
The others stood staring at the two who at the moment looked like statues. "Are they all right, Kero-chan?", Sakura asked the sun guardian who was at the time smirking. "If I didn't know any better I'd say those two were linked.", Syaoran observed, tearing his eyes away from a nasty cut on Sakura's arm.
"Gomen, Yue, I didn't mean to worry you.", Serenity whispered blinking, and leaning willingly into his strong frame. "I didn't mean to yell, I was just afraid. Onegai, forgive me?", Yue whispered back his fingers on her sides doing wicked things to Serenity's mentality level. "Only if the forgiveness is mutual.", she replied shivering slightly. She felt him smile into her hair and knew all was well.
Reluctantly Yue loosened his grip ever so slightly on Serenity, as they walked towards the couch. "I meant to ask you Sakura ----", Serenity trailed off looking Sakura over for injuries. Serenity gasped and wrenched herself away from Yue, and nearly flew to Sakura's side. "What?", asked Sakura confused. "Your arm, and cheek.", Serenity murmured, placing two fingers on Sakura's forehead. In a warm silvery-blue glow Sakura's wounds sealed up, and the blood was removed off her clothes. " I didn't know there was more than one way to heal people.", Meiling stated eyeing Serenity who's skin was now luminescent. "What's the other way?", Serenity asked confused. "Well, when Yue kissed you in the mall.", Tomoyo supplied grinning. 'Yue kissed me in the mall ', Serenity thought frowning. 'Everything good always happens when I'm nearly dead'., she continued standing up. "Serenity, you are aware you're glowing right?", Touya asked Serenity. "Hai, The energy I'm currently living off of is Yue's. Because he has pure moon energy, while mine is tainted by the Cosmos, it makes me glow. Like a radioactive corn field, might I add.", Serenity confirmed earning giggles from the children.
"Well, Sakura-chan how bout we set up everything we bought.", Serenity asked winking. "But things aren't wrapped!", Sakura pointed out horrified. "When your a Megami, you don't wrap gifts, gift elves do it the minute they enter the space pocket.", Serenity corrected smiling. "Let's do it!", Sakura admonished pumping her fist in the air. "All right, remember the spell?", Serenity asked. "Yup!", Sakura replied closing her eyes.
"When the snow falls down like the rain;
When it falls like angels tears of pain;
When the silver bells ring;
And Christmas carolers sing;
This is the place where stars do shine;
Hai, It's Christmas time!", the two girls called out.
In flashes of silvery-blue, and pink the room was decorated with Christmas items. Mistletoe hung in the archways, and various other places. Along with stockings on the fireplace, and red bows in the four corners of the rooms, and a huge tree with multicolored lights, next to a window with many presents under it. The ornaments were off the tree, but were more than ready to be but on. There was a toy train running under the tree with fake cotton snow all around it. There was a Santa Clause in the middle of the coffee table shaking his hips, and singing a silly little song. Outside on the balcony were icicle lights, giving the impression of ice. All the while a song called 'The First Noel', played in the background.
"Wow.", gasped Meiling standing before the tree gawking at it's beauty. "Don't just stand there, lets decorate the tree!", exclaimed Kero getting into the spirit. Serenity giggled, and asked,"Does anyone want hot chocolate, or tea?". "Tea, if it's not to much trouble.", Syaoran answered admiring the decorations. "I want chocolate!", Kero yelled placing a small silver bulb on the tree. "Me two.", Tomoyo replied eyeing an icy glass rose on the mantle place. "Me three!", Sakura chirped bouncing up to put a blue bulb on the tree. "Me four!", Meiling shouted looking at the dancing Santa. "Tea, please.", Touya asked Serenity smiling at the happy children. Serenity stood up, and walked into he kitchen to make the drinks the old fashioned way. She grabbed six mugs, and set them on the counter, when a wave of dizziness swept over her. "Whoa.", she muttered gripping the table. 'I shouldn't be this tired, I have more than enough energy to stay awake for days on end.', she thought to herself. When the room stopped spinning, she realized she hadn't even asked Yue if he wanted anything. She turned around to ask him, but was confronted by white robes. "Holy Stars, don't do that to people!", Serenity scolded lightly catching her breath. She saw Yue smirk in the darkness of the kitchen. "Did you want anything?", she questioned gesturing towards the tea kettle. "Iie.", he replied moving slightly closer to her. "If you came in here there must have been something you wanted.", Serenity continued leaning against the counter. "I can't have what I want.", he murmured leaning in towards her, grasping her waist. "Why, what is it?", she asked her thoughts becoming clouded. "You.", Yue stated softly his lips inches from hers, their breath tickling each others lips. Serenity tilted her head slightly and closed her eyes when
SCREEEEEEEECCCCCHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
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All Right people, tell me that wasn't the best cliffhanger I've done so far. I was pretty darn proud of it. Gomen it's so late, but I just started going to a prestigious high school and it's very tiring. Not to mention stressful. So, onegai if you would be so kind, REVIEW!
Much Love, SerenityMoon
Author: *~SerenityMoon~*
Title: Tsuki-Koi
Chapter: 2
Disclaimer:
~ Roses are red~
~ Violets are blue~
~ I don't own Yue,~
~ So please don't sue.~
(O~kay so I don't own ANYTHING. Although I have my Yue plushie doll. He's such a wonderful muse!)
AGES
Serenity: looks 17, however is nearly 1,000
Yue: Who knows. Over 1,000. Looks 18-19
Yukito: 18
Kero: I haven't the faintest idea (Who knows how old a stuffed toy is?)
Touya:18
Sakura: 13
Syaoran: 14
Tomoyo 13
Meiling: 13
Eriol: LOOKS 14
Nakuru: 18
Ruby Moon: much younger than Yue. Otherwise I don't have a clue. Looks 15-16
Spinel Sun (Supi-chan!): much younger than Kero, Real age:?????????
(Any of Sakura's school friends= 13)
Fujitaka: 45
The kids are in seventh grade, including Eriol. Yukito, Touya, and Ruby are in 12th grade
Many Thanx to Usa-chan!!!!
Here Goes!!!!!!!!
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LAST TIME
*Onegai, don't let this be some cruel joke, I can't take anymore.*, Yue whispered to himself. He sat down, and wrapped his wings around himself for comfort. "SERENITY!!!", he yelled out as his mind was plagued with images of her.*Why does it hurt so much? Why?*, he wondered, staring out at the darkness of his and Yukito's shared mind.
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MS. KAHOH MCKENZIE'S CLASS
'What's going on? Who is she? Why won't they tell me?', Sakura wondered helplessly. She was worried, she had never seen Yue so ........ so vulnerable. So sad, so pained. Her brow furrowed his emotions were so strong, they were affecting Yukito. She could nearly feel them in his aura. She sighed, and placed her forehead in her hand.
That power was getting closer, and the negative energy was getting stronger. She still couldn't pinpoint it, but when she did, she would exterminate it. She doubted she could do it alone though. Syaoran-kun would help, of course. She would have to keep Meiling and Tomoyo away. They would get hurt and she wouldn't be able to bear it. They would have to leave without Touya too. Touya had magic, but he couldn't use it to protect himself. Maybe she should try and get a hold of Eriol-kun, he knew more about magic than she did, and the huge power definitely had a lot of magic. 'Was this huge power Serenity? Could it be?', she mused absentmindedly twirling a lock of hair on her finger. The power kind of felt like Yue's, but it was different. Could there be another moon guardian besides Ruby Moon? 'Iie', she thought decidedly,' the power is to strong, to different.'.
"Kinomoto-san, what's the answer to number fifteen?", Ms. Mackenzie asked suddenly. "Um.... Ah.....--", she started as an embarrassed blush came across her features. "Twenty-four.", a voice whispered discretely behind her. "Twenty-four!", she repeated silently thanking the gods Syaoran sat behind her. "That is correct.", the teacher replied. Sakura turned around and gave Syaoran a bright smile. She then turned back to her thoughts. Finding them disturbing she started paying attention to her lesson, as it was her last class for three weeks, for it was Christmas break.
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IN YUKITO'S CLASS
Touya watched as Yukito fidgeted in his seat, doodling mindlessly on a piece of paper, during their last class, Study Hall. "Hey Yuki, what are you drawing?", he found himself asking. He hated to see his love so quiet and morbid. "Oh, I ..... I really don't know.", he replied passing the paper to Touya. Touya took the paper and gasped. There was a small girl, no a woman. You almost couldn't tell because of her short stature, and small frame. The beautiful girl was sitting on a rock, dipping her feet in the water, a sad expression on her face. There was another doodle which had two cats. One cat was black, and the other was white, they were labeled Luna and Artemis. Then there were the signs of the planets on the edges of the paper. In another smaller doodle was a large gazebo like castle. It had fountains, and looked to be huge. Above the castle was the Earth. Another even smaller picture was of a rose necklace, another was of a beautiful jewelry box, inscribed with the Clow insignia, and the word 'Serenity' on the front.
"Wow, Yuki, this is ... great! Who's the girl?", Touya asked handing the paper back to him. "I....I don't know. I think it's Serenity-chan.", Yukito stated absentmindedly. "Chan?", echoed Touya wide eyed. "Hai, chan. She is very important to Yue. How important I'm not sure. She's overrunning his thoughts, and therefore mine too.", Yukito replied sighing, his light brown eyes suddenly looking very old, and tired. "Yuki, are you all right?", Touya asked worried once more. "All will be well, as long as that big power is Serenity. If not I don't know. It hurts. It hurts so much To-ya. He's hurting and I can't help.", Yukito stated placing a hand on his heart.
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LATER THAT NIGHT 7:45pm
"Come on Tomoyo-chan we're late!", Sakura whispered into Tomoyo's window. "Hold on I'm coming!", was the only reply she got. A few seconds later she felt weight on the back of her wand, so she took off cautiously. She was edgy, the negative energy was extremely powerful now. It was huge, It nearly over rode her senses. It was nearly blocking out the huge moon power that was in Earth's gravitational pull."Sakura-chan, are you all right?", Tomoyo asked due to her friends silence. "Tomoyo, if I tell you to run, do it.", Sakura stated seriously. "Why?", asked Tomoyo slightly frightened. "Call it a premonition, but promise me.", Sakura replied steering towards the King Penguin park, as the full Moon rode across the sky. "I can't promise Sakura, but if it gets to bad I will.", Tomoyo replied, using her no questions voice. Sakura sighed and dived towards Yukito, Touya, Syaoran, and Meiling.
Seconds later Sakura heard,"What took you so long, Kaiju?". Sakura merely ignored his statement and called the fly card back. "Do you guys feel that negative power?", she questioned, it felt like it was every where all at once. "Yeah.", replied Kero. Yukito softly glowed under the Moon, and transformed in a flash of feathers, into Yue. "Cereberos, doesn't that energy feel familiar?", Yue questioned, staring at the Moon. "Now that ya mention it ........... it feels like ...... Negaverse!", he proclaimed, diving back into Tomoyo's book bag. Yue nodded in affirmation, and then eyed Touya. "Touya-san, Tomoyo-san, and Meiling-san, should leave, now. Get ready Mistress.", Yue proclaimed softly his eyes still on the moon. "Why? I can fight! I'm just as good as you!", Meiling started ranting her fists raised. Yue turned towards her, his eyes crackled with electricity, as a heavy wind blew. "Do as I say, this is not a game.", he told her in a deadly cold voice. "Onegai, at least back up far away, this will not be easy.", he continued the electricity in his eyes dying down, and the wind faded. "Come on girls, they'll be all right.", Touya told them reluctantly herding them over behind the Penguin Slide. Kero transformed into his larger self, growling all the way.
Suddenly, they heard a high pitched howl. Sakura jerked around and saw a creature. Not a Clow card, but a gruesome youma. It was tall. Almost seven and a half feet. It had the head of a wolf, but the torso of a very muscled man, and its legs were bent like backwards dog legs, although thick and sturdy. It was covered in fur, equipped with foot long claws, and disgusting yellowed rotting teeth. It had insanely long black hair, and blood red eyes. Tomoyo screamed and the youma turned its attention of them.
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JUST INSIDE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
Serenity's eyes snapped open, as she felt the negative energy. She slowed her decent, and sent the two still sleeping felines to her apartment. It was strong, very strong. She felt several strong powers near it. One was, a descendant of Clow, another was Pink. That's all she could describe it as was pink. It was star power. Another was orange .......... Kero-chan! The last was silver ........ moon power ........ YUE!! He was there! Her heart jumped into her throat. He could be hurt, that youma was too strong, she bit her lip.
She frowned there were two people with no power, and one with a small amount of magic, not enough to use in battle. The youma was heading towards the defenseless, when the orange stopped it. Serenity scowled, and in a flash of Silver she stood as Sailor Cosmos, Staff of Diana included. She spread her wings and took of towards the battle scene, praying for her friends safety.
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BACK AT THE PARK
"Kero!!!", screamed Sakura as she saw the Guardian take on the youma. Kero shot a fire ball at it, and it staggered back. The beast turned tail and headed back towards them, Sakura in it's sights. "I need ENERGY!!", the youma rasped. Sakura yelled,"Shield card. RELEASE!". A pink shield surrounded Syaoran and herself. The youma seeing the obstacle did a flip backwards, and charged up a massive red colored ki blast. "SAKURA! Run Ki goes through your shields.", Kero yelled firing another fire ball at the youma. The youma turned and shot a small portion of the blast at Kero who slammed into a tree. Yue, threw an ice wall in the way, hoping it would stop it. "Sakura, Li , MOVE!". he yelled diving towards them.
Suddenly, the monster let the massive ki bomb loose. There was no time to move, and for a second all stood still save the ki blast. Then suddenly a large silver streak got in the way, of the blast. The blast created a huge cloud of smoke. Yue knew that energy, that power. "Serenity!", he cried out, earning a stare from the people below him. The smoke cleared away revealing a goddess in a shimmering white, and silver fuku, on one knee, holding an erect silver staff, which was glowing. Her long silver hair was brought up in two heart shaped buns, while long streamers flowed from each of them, trailing over her wings. An eight point star shown on her forehead, while her face was expressionless, with eyes closed. "Cosmos-sama!", the powerful youma roared. "Damn straight, now time to send you were you belong. Uncle Hades says your overdue.", came her calm reply, as she stood up, wings disappearing. "Weak chibi-cosmos! You couldn't even protect this Earth 900 years ago, We're going to take this star.", the youma accused, eyes glowing red. "We'll see about that.", the one called Cosmos replied. She rose her staff in the air and a massive collection of silver energy collected in the crystal, in the middle of the staff.
"Cosmic Destruction.", she whispered. There was a huge crack of thunder, and a flash of lighting. The energy swirled around her, and out of nowhere she threw it at the youma. The blast came out in a column of energy, and tore up the earth, and surrounding area. The youma let out an inhuman scream, and slowly began to disintegrate. The power flow stopped from the staff, and Cosmos lowered her staff on the ground. She watched with a hard glare and soon the youma was nothing, but dust. The excess energy dissipated into the sky, and Serenity fought to stay upright.
"Serenity?", Yue questioned, coming foreword. The rest of the group was silent, watching, in wonder, awe, and brotherly affection. "Hai, Yue, I promised didn't I.", she replied breathing hard. With a soft sigh she felt herself collapsing. Yue rushed forward and caught her. He lifted her in his arms, and her fuku faded into a white silky dress, that Yue remembered seeing so much. Her star was replaced by a glowing crescent moon, shining softly on her forehead.
"Sere-chan are you all right?", Yue asked holding the girl under the knees and around the back. "Daijoubu.", came her soft reply. "Is everyone, is any one .......?", she trailed off worried about every one else. "Are you all right? Is Kero-chan O~kay?",she continued. "Daijoubu. Serenity, we are all, fine.", Yue replied seeing Kero turn back into his tiny stuffed self, out of the corner of his eye. Yue was just content to hold her, to know she was alive. "Yue-kun, you can put me down, I just had an energy loss reaction.", Serenity spoke up. The minute she was on her feet she threw her arms around his neck, embracing him tightly. Yue smiled slightly, and wrapped his arms around her, stretching his wings, he then enclosed her tiny frame with those too. He felt the tiny spark that had always been in his heart swell slightly, and warm him from the inside out. Tears streamed down her face as she hugged him tighter. "I missed you so, Yue.", Serenity whispered into his ear. "As I missed you, Serenity.", Yue replied burying his face in her hair. Yue was surprised when he felt his throat constricting as it hadn't done in years. He felt a small burning in his eyes, and when he closed them, two crystalline tear drops flowed fourth. And for once when he cried his chest didn't hurt.
"Awww Sakura-chan they're so Kawaii.", Tomoyo whispered all the while filming the pair. "Do you think they're, well, you know.", Sakura started. "Iie, this is Yue we're talking about.", Meiling replied. "Cut him some slack, Meiling, He's not incapable of emotions, he just chooses to repress them.", Syaoran cut in, eyes glued to the pair. "They're not together, however in my opinion they should be.", Kero huffed from Sakura's shoulder. "You know who she is?", questioned a male voice from behind them. The four children jumped, as Touya questioned Kero. "Of course I know her. Do you want the long name or the short one.", Kero questioned smugly. "Whatever.", muttered Touya frustrated beyond belief. " Her name is Princess Serenity Usagi Tsuki, More widely known as Queen Serenity Usagi Cosmos. In other words Princess of the Moon Kingdom, Empress of the Universe.", Kero stated proudly. Touya's jaw dropped as he glanced from the small girl, back to Kero, to the Moon to the small girl, then back to Kero again. "Now I'm gonna go see if she's got any chocolate!", Kero muttered clapping his paws. He then buzzed off Sakura's shoulder to bug Serenity.
Serenity pulled away slightly, so that her face was inches from his. He rested his forehead on hers, as more tears fell from their eyes. "Ah, this would be tears of Happiness?", Yue questioned raising a hand to brush her tears away. "Hai, Hai my silly chibi Tenshi, tears of joy.", Serenity replied giggling slightly."I'm not an angel, nor am I little.", Yue stated with righteous indignation. "Hai, you are, maybe not chibi, but definitely an Tenshi.", she replied reveling in the feeling of his silky hair on her fingertips. "I see you cry tears of happiness too.", Serenity continued noting the dampness in his eyes. "I do?", he questioned blinking. "Hai you do, see.", Serenity replied brushing a tear off his face. "So I do.", he replied transfixed on her silvery blue cornflower eyes.
"Hey Usa-chan what am I? Chopped liver?", Kero interrupted, arms open for a 'hug'. "Of course not Kero-chan, Come here.", Serenity replied opening an arm. Kero flew into the one armed embrace, and clung to her. She then tightened her hold on Yue, and laid her head on his chest, Kero in the crook of her arm. "Um excuse me?", Sakura asked hesitantly, wanting to get out of the open.
"Ohayo, Chibi Star.", Serenity greeted her head still on Yue's chest. "How do you know that?", gasped Syaoran who found the silver hared goddess ........ beautiful. "I know much, for I am Cosmos. I can sense her star power, though it is still small, thus producing the name Chibi Star.", she replied in a serious voice. "And Chibi Star, I agree with you. We'll go to my apartment.", she continued disentangling herself from Yue's embrace. "Lunar Teleport.", she whispered. A silver flash exploded from her, and when the silver flash was sucked back into her, they found themselves in the living room of a massive apartment.
"Serenity, where have you been ...........", a British accent trailed off. "Yue, Cereberos!", Luna cried out, jumping into Yue's arms. "Did that neko just talk?", asked Meiling confused. "It's good to see you too Luna.", Yue replied stroking the neko's fur."Yup, it talked.", Tomoyo confirmed. "Artemis?", Serenity asked scanning the room. "He's uh ....... stuck.", Luna said with a large Anime sweat drop. "Stuck? Again?", Serenity questioned walking in the direction of a restroom. Seconds later there was some urgent hissing, accompanied by howling, and then Serenity walked out of the room, a temperamental neko in her arms. "Cereberos?", questioned Artemis slack jawed. "Yue?", he continued eyes wide. "Hai, it's them now quit gawking, it's rude.", Serenity mock scolded. "Ah, Kero-chan I have a present for you, if you will follow me.", Serenity put Artemis on the ground and walked into the kitchen, followed by Kero. Seconds later they heard,"YEAH! I haven't had this stuff in AGES! Woo-Hoo!". This was followed by a silvery laughter that caused Syaoran to go googily eyed. There was a golden blur, as Kero flew back into the room, clutching a ............ Candy Bar? "Kero-chan, you just had a candy bar before we left.", Sakura pointed out. "Iie,Iie Sakura, this isn't just chocolate, this is Mercurian Chocolate. Try it.", he replied breaking off a piece for Sakura. Sakura did as told, and pooped the candy into her mouth. "Wow, that IS really good remind me to get the recipe.", Sakura replied. Luna sighed,"That chocolate is good, but if you eat to much of it ,it makes you......... tired."
"Now, I suppose you're wondering exactly what I'm doing here, and exactly WHO I am.", Serenity started earning nods from everyone save the two content guardians."May I possibly know your names, chibi-ones?", Serenity asked her voice soft and kind. "I'm Sakura, she's Tomoyo, that's Syaoran, she's Meiling, and that's my Onii-san Touya.", Sakura offered with a smile. Yue willed his wings away, and sat down on the couch. Serenity followed his example, and in a flash of silver she was wearing black and silver silk nightclothes. The top was spaghetti strap, and all black with silver embroidery of eight point stars. The pants were the same black silk with the same embroidery on the hem. Her hair was out of the buns, and flowed freely dragging around six inches on the floor. She took all her hair in her hands, and with the skill of an expert French braided her hair VERY quickly. The braid ended just inches off the floor. Serenity crashed on the black leather couch next to Yue, and Kero went and sat next to her on a pillow happily munching on the candy bar. "Serenity, Luna, and I are going to go look for traces of Saturn.", Artemis stated pushing Luna out the door. "Sure you are.", smirked Kero, and Serenity doubled over in laughter, and let them out of the apartment.
"Now my current name is Serenity Cosmos, and this is my apartment.", she started. "How does Yue-san and the stuffed animal know you?", questioned Toya sitting in a lazy boy chair, suddenly tired. "Just to let you all know I've got guest bedrooms and you all are spending the night, so call your parents, it's 10:30.", Serenity stated, magicking a silver phone out of no where and throwing it to Tomoyo. Tomoyo nodded and called her kassan, who wasn't home, and left a message that she was staying with Sakura. It wasn't a complete lie. She never said she was staying AT Sakura's, just WITH Sakura. The rest of them denied the phone, because Sakura's father was on a dig, and Syaoran and Meiling shared an apartment together alone.
"I know Yue and Kero because Onii-san and Aphrodite, wait a minute where is Onii-san?", Serenity questioned confused. "Clow is dead Sere-chan. He died of old age, that's why Sakura-san is our new mistress.",Yue replied feeling her body shake. "Onii-san is .......... Dead?", Serenity questioned looking up at Yue childlike innocence shining in her features. Yue nodded and Serenity gripped his robs tightly willing tears away. "Clow-san was your brother?", asked Tomoyo eyes wide. "Iie, I just thought of him as a brother, and he an imouto of me.", Serenity replied pasting a bright smile on her face. Yue frowned, but said nothing. "Any way Onii-san and Aphrodite-chan thought that Yue and Cereberos needed to lighten up, so when I was 12 Yue-kun and Kero-chan were sent to the Moon Kingdom to have fun.", she started. "Well if you think Yue-kun here is cold now, you should have met him before. Kero-chan was just as bad if not worse.", Serenity explained earning indigent cries of "hey?", from Kero. "Kero, didn't have fun, tease, play around?", Sakura asked eyes wide. "Iie, they were both the 'perfect' guardians, not an emotion showed through them. However, they're both much better now.", she continued. "We all became friends over the six years we were together, then something came and attacked the Moon, destroying everything. Everyone in the Silver Millennium died save Yue, Kero, Clow, Sailor Pluto, and the people of Earth.", she explained softly, slipping her hand into Yue's for comfort.
"Then my kassan sent all the pure hearted people 1,000 years in the future to be reborn. She would have sent Yue, Kero, and Onii-san, but Puu-chan said it would disrupt the timeline.", she continued averting her eyes to the floor. She didn't want to explain the rest, but she needed too. "1,000 years later I was known as Usagi Tsukino. When I was 14 I received a broach from Luna, that allowed me to transform into Sailor Moon. All my memories of my Moon life were erased, and I had no idea that I was the Moon-hime.", she continued absent mindedly petting Kero, on his neck which he liked. "We learned that Beryl had broken free of her prison, and was preparing to overtake the Earth. Well, as the senshi of the moon I couldn't allow that, so after many trials and errors I discovered I was the moon-hime, and one by one I found my senshi and the princesses of the Inner planets, plus Endymion the Ooji of Earth.", Serenity went on clutching Yue's hand in her own.
"We defeated Beryl, and numerous other enemies until I found my Outer senshi, and the princesses of the outer planets. After that we faced more adversaries, and thought we had all achieved peace. We all lived in peace once more until I was sixteen. Then our final enemy attacked. Attacked without warning, without sending any youma. The Sailor Starlight's showed up to protect me as well. I seriously disagreed with that, all I ever was, was protected, I wasn't allowed to fight because I was their hime. Kami knows I hated it.", she whispered feeling tears welling up in her eyes. "Then the final attack took place. The Inner senshi were killed first, never to be reborn. They were followed by Endymion, who was followed by the Outer senshi. Only Sailor Saturn will be reborn, of them all. When I don't know. Finally the starlight's were killed, leaving me alone on the planet, as the rest of the people on Earth had been destroyed. I was alone, alone and angry. Angry at Chaos, angry at kassan, and most of all myself, because they died. I guess my anger consumed me because I became Cosmos. After that Chaos was quickly defeated. I was able to resurrect all of the people on Earth, except my friends.", she ended silent tears streaming down her porcelain face.
"I am nearly 1,000 years old, and yet I still cry like a child, how ironic.", she stated bitterly standing up slowly her hand leaving the warmth of Yue. "Usa-chan, you do not cry like a child, you cry like a human.", Kero interrupted dropping his candy to half-hug the girl around the neck. Serenity merely patted the guardian on the back, and headed off towards a bedroom. There were five bedrooms in the spacious apartment, and in a silver flash the bedrooms were all ready, night clothes laid on the beds.
"Meiling-san, Sakura-san, and Tomoyo-san you shall sleep in here.", Serenity stated in a quiet voice, carrying Kero in her arms. "Kero-chan are you coming?", Sakura asked just before shutting the door to the room with three beds. "Naw, Sakura-chan, I'm going to hang with Yue tonight.", Kero replied slightly worried about his brother. "Touya-san, this is your room.", Serenity continued flicking on a light switch. The room was decorated in navy blue, and shades of gray. "Arigitou, Cosmos-san.", Touya replied with a brief smile. "None of that san stuff, my name is Serenity, so use it.", she said with a wink in his direction. Touya lightly blushed, murmured a good night and shut the door. "And this Syaoran-san is your room.", Serenity told him revealing a forest green, and brown room. "See you tomorrow.", was Syaoran's only reply as he fought down an upcoming blush.
Serenity walked down the hall towards the living room, and the other two bedrooms. She looked down and noticed Kero was asleep, so she walked into her room, and set him on a silver pillow, with a tiny silver blanket. Smiling slightly, she shut off the lamp, and headed back out towards the living room where Yue waited. "Sleepy yet, Yue-kun?", asked Serenity playing with his hair as his back was turned away from her. "A little.", he replied to her. Serenity gently let loose the restraints of his hair, and fingered the black ties. "You still have these.", she stated softly, remembering the black strips of material she had used so long ago to fix his hair. She pulled a silver brush out of her space pocket, and started to gently tug the tangles out of his hair. Yue closed his eyes in remembrance, as her soft fingers occasionally brushed the back of his neck. The already burning flame in his chest grew slightly, and Yue unconsciously lowered his head slightly. Sooner than Yue liked she finished, and brought out new black, and silver ties. As soon as she was done he turned around to face her, his usual long straight bangs, in his eyes. Serenity chuckled, and brushed them out of his eyes, her fingertips brushing his forehead.
Yue sighed, and suddenly gathered her up in his arms once more, princess style. He carried her to the bedroom, pulled the covers down on the bed, and placed himself on it, Serenity wrapped tightly in his arms. "I won't let them hurt you again. I would sooner die, my friend.", he vowed softly in her ear. "Oh, Yue ......", She started a tear escaping her left eye. She gave up and threw her arms around his neck, and hugged him tightly. She held him like that till he drifted to sleep, and she soon followed him to dream land, her head rested in the crook of his neck. The flame grew brighter still filling the sleeping Tenshi, with dreams of past bliss.
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DURING THE DURATION OF TWO MORE DAYS( the gang all stayed at Serenity's save Tomoyo, who had to go home Saturday. Touya also had to go to work. Tomoyo came back Sunday. Luna and Artemis were still searching for Hotaru .............. somewhere.)
For a few hours Saturday morning Yue and Touya had disappeared, but Serenity thought nothing of it. After all Touya had work, and Yue had a life of his own.
On Saturday afternoon, Serenity and her newfound friends shared adventures, and explained their twisted lives. They went out to the park to enjoy the day, and Serenity, after checking to see if people were around, walked on the water. Sailor Mercury, and Neptune's habits and transformations were growing on her still.........
FLASHBACK TO THE LAKE
"Serenity-chan, don't do that you'll fall in!", Sakura yelled as Serenity was about to put her foot on the water. "Iie, I won't.", Serenity replied, turning to face Sakura. "Hai you will!", yelled Kero, from above her. He swooped out of the sky, and knocked her in the deep freezing waters. Instead of sinking in the water she landed on one knee, gracefully standing on it. "Wha-?", Kero sputtered his fun ruined. "Cereberos, think before you act. Now she has three up on you.", Yue told him referring to the game they played in the past. "Wow, Tomoyo-chan come see this." , Sakura yelled to her friend wide eyed as Serenity stood calmly on the lake. Tomoyo came to Sakura, along with Syaoran and Meiling. "Syaoran-kun, is that possible?", demanded Meiling in awe. "Magically hai, technically iie.", Syaoran replied his eyes glued to her.
Serenity threw her arms in the air, and the water followed her command, forming a column of water around her. Inside the column they could make out her figure spinning very quickly in place. The column shifted, and turned into thin streamers of water swirling around her. Then the water compacted, then exploded outward in a fine spray. In place of Serenity was a girl with teal, blue, and silver hair. The silver faded to teal, then the teal to blue. She was wearing a long blue dress with a teal bow, and with a hem that flowed about her feet like the water beneath her. In her hand was a teal colored triton that glowed with inner power.
"Iie Way!", Kero yelled eyes wide with disbelief. Yue merely smirked, and nodded to Serenity. Serenity nodded back, and Yue moved very far away from Kero. "Kero, Kero, when will you learn. When you fight with the megami of Mercury and Neptune, and use WATER as your weapon, you'll most surely loose.", Serenity told him a wicked gleam in her eye. "Serenity, I ...... uh...... Why are you looking at me like that? I'm busted aren't I? Oh, yeah I'm screwed.", Kero rambled frozen in place by his impending demise.
Serenity stuffed the staff in her space pocket, and yelled," DEEP SUBMERGE!!!". A huge ball of water collected in Serenity's hands, which she held high above her head. Tendrils of water shot from all directions making the ball bigger ......... and bigger. Kero saw the attack coming, and tried to get out of the way, when several tendrils of water, grabbed his feet, and wings, holding him just feet above the water. Serenity let the water ball fly at him, Her hair flying in all directions. The water soaked him from head to paw, leaving him looking like a drowned neko. Syaoran doubled over in a rich sounding laughter. "Now you're a drowned, stuffed animal.", he crowed pointing at Kero. Then he was pulled in too.
"It's not nice to laugh at the feeble minded Syaoran-san.", Serenity stated a twinkle in her eye. "Hey, why you!", Kero growled intent on getting her back. He let loose a massive fire ball, aimed at Serenity. Serenity gasped, and screamed. She couldn't block it, she didn't have time to power up. That blast could hurt or worse..... She threw up a water shield, and the attack blasted through it.The attack was almost upon her when there was a flash of silver, and a flurry of feathers. Suddenly Serenity was in the air, strong arms wrapped securely around her waist. She looked down to see an ice ball falling in the water, instead of a fireball. She looked up to see a scowling Yue, holding her tightly. "O genki desu ka?", he asked her once they touched the ground. "Daijoubu.", Serenity breathed letting the transformation fade away. Yue squeezed her tightly, then broke away, turned on his heal, and took long strides towards Kero. With a death glare placed on his face, Meiling jumped out of his way, and clung to Syaoran. "Cereberos, what in Selenity's name were you thinking?", Yue demanded. Kero cowered, under the guardians stare. "It was only a fireball, it wouldn't have hurt her much..........", Kero trailed off nervously. "Hurt her much? It was only a fireball infused with KI.", Yue pointed out. "You forget, what does the sun do to water? It dries it up. What was Serenity ten seconds ago? A water goddess. What are you? Sun guardian. Think about that, and while you're at it apologize to her before you get sent to the sun in pieces!", Yue growled pointing to Serenity. The four children stood in shock at Yue's choice of expression. Normally the guardian was impassive, now he was ........ to put in mildly ......... pissed.
Kero sidled up to Serenity and nuzzled her arm. "Gomen nasai, Usa-chan. I wasn't thinking again. I thought it would just catch your hair on fire or something ........", he trailed off embarrassed. "No harm done K-chan, just Onegai, don't send me to the next dimension so soon.", Serenity replied in a playful voice. Kero purred affectionately, and Serenity reached down to hug him.
END
On Sunday, they all slept in late, except Syaoran, and Yue. Yue just stared at the silver hared goddess in his arms till she woke on her own accord. They showed Serenity around the town, Yue in regular clothes of course. Everything that day went smoothly till that night, as Yue stood alone staring at the moon.
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LATER SUNDAY NIGHT
"Yue-kun?", Serenity asked startling him out of his thoughts. "Hai, Sere-chan?", he asked referring to her old nickname that so freely rolled off his tongue. "What are you thinking about?", she questioned, brushing a stray bang out of her face. Yue looked at her for a second till he replied," You." "Why me?", Serenity continued her brow furrowed. "I ....... I just ....... I missed you, my friend.", he stuttered out smoothly. He felt the feeling of slim arms encircling his neck, and he immediately put his arms in the proper place on her waist. He felt the fire flare up to an all time high, causing him to crush her against himself. "I thought you would never come back.", he whispered. "I promised didn't I?", she replied. "Hai, but now I'm afraid, Serenity. Afraid that if I let you out of my sight, something will happen.", he confessed softly. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm immortal, just as you are, I'm never leaving. And you tell me your not a silly chibi Tenshi.", she told him mirth dancing in her eyes. Yue smiled softly, and Serenity yawned. "Tired?", he questioned, softly. "Iie, Iie I want to hear what all happened to you.", she replied leaning an his chest eyes closed.
"When you left, I.......... I ........ turned 'cold', I guess you would say. I shut myself inside a room at Clow's mansion, and barely left it. I know you said not to be sad, but I couldn't help it. So, therefore I created Yukito.", Yue started off hesitantly. "What's a Yukito?", Serenity questioned him innocently, her blue orbs positively glowing under the moon. "Yukito ........ is a part of me. A part of my personality you could say, however the thing is, I become Yukito. We are like two totally different people. The purpose of Yukito was to hide myself from the world. When I lost you, life became........ unbearable, I never realized I had become so accustomed to your presence. When in Yukito I sleep. Sleep a dreamless sleep until I decide to wake, or am needed.", Yue continued his eyes on hers. "I'm afraid I don't understand.", she whimpered, burying her face in the blue and silver robes. "Let me show you.", he replied his strong voice wavering. A second later a silver flash took place, and a young man with short gray hair, and warm brown eyes with glasses took his place.
"Excuse me Miss, do I know you?", the man asked her concerned. Serenity's eyes widened, and she started to shake. Her face grew pale........... he didn't know her. And worse yet, her best friend was a stranger to her. "Miss ......... Are you all right?", the one called Yukito asked, tentatively taking a step towards her. "Yue.........", she whispered taking a step backward towards the rail. "How do you know that name?", Yukito asked her eyes wide. She shook her head in denial, and backed up hastily, forgetting they were on a balcony. "Miss, onegai, I won't hurt you---.", he started then cocked his head to the side. His eyes grew cloudy for a moment, and then he asked,"Serenity?" She nodded, aware her back was pressed to the rail. "It's nice to finally meet you, but tell me, why do you look so scared?", he asked her worried. "You....Yue....... are literally two different........ people. You don't know me, not like Yue. You didn't even know who I was until he told you.", she replied flatly, tears glimmering in her eyes. "What's so wrong with that?", Yukito questioned, truly confused.Serenity jumped on the balcony rail, and closed her eyes and thought. She needed to get away ........... she needed to think. Her Yue was two people. Yukito who already had a pre-established life. And Yue. He was going to be on a full time job helping with the youma, that was no life for Yukito, always to be in the dark about things. Her Yue, wouldn't be Yue all the time, he wouldn't be the same, he'd be Yukito. "Yuki?", came a voice from the door way.
Sakura, Touya, and Syaoran had felt the energy disturbance, and had woken up Tomoyo and Meiling, in search of Yue. Then they heard it from the balcony. "What's so wrong with that?", the soft voice spoke. The voice of Yukito. The five people walked out onto the spacious balcony, and saw an almost crying Serenity, almost nearly being cornered by Yukito. "Yuki?", Touya asked confused. "Hai, To-ya?", Yukito replied calmly, a hint of affection in his voice. Serenity's eyes snapped open, and her breathing became labored, and uneven. "Serenity-san are you all right?", Sakura asked the silver hared Hime-sama, as the look of abject horror on her face pained her own heart. "Hey, what's going on?", demanded a voice of the newly awakened Kero.
Serenity recognized the tenderness in their voices, as Touya and Yukito regarded each other. Suddenly it made sense as to where Yue and Touya had been the previous morning. Yue/ Yukito loved Touya-san. Her eyes watered even more as she caught sight of Yukito transforming into Yue. Her Yue. No, not her Yue, Touya's Yue. "Oh, he didn't........... He did. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.", Kero muttered eyes wide, as Yue reached for Serenity's arm to pull her off the rail. Yue had just placed a hand on her arm, and she let out a strangled cry, and wrenched herself away from him. She did a flip over his head, landed behind him, and proceeded to push her way through the people. Once she accomplished that she raced towards her room, and slammed the door shut behind her.
"Yue ,man, you have just screwed up royally.", Kero muttered turning to go comfort the girl. Sakura followed him obviously worried about the girl that had shown so much affection towards her guardian one minute, then run off crying the next. "Serenity?", she heard Kero ask, before seeing him knock lightly on the door. He received no answer, therefore he knocked again. Receiving no answer again he started to push it open slowly, but then Sakura decided to help. "Thanx, Sakura.", he told her buzzing into the room. There crumpled in the middle of the floor was Serenity. A broken Tenshi. She sobbed into her hands, hair spilling all around her, piles of molten silver. The moonlight from the window spilled around her illuminated figure, giving her a surreal glow.
"Yue/Yukito ............ Touya.", she whispered, in a hoarse voice. "Serenity-san?", started Sakura, not sure what to say. "Does Yukito love Touya?", she asked jerking her head up towards her. "Hai, and Touya loves him in return.", Sakura replied confused. Serenity nodded her head, and more tears escaped her closed eyes. "I should be happy he has love. I should be happy. But I'm not. Yue...........", she trailed off doubling over as if in pain. " Serenity, Yue doesn't love Touya, Yukito does.", Sakura pointed out. "Ah, Innocent Chibi-Star, what you do not know is that they are one and the same. You think of it as two different people sharing a body. That's not it. Yue is Yukito, Yukito is Yue. Yue CREATED Yukito from a part of himself.", she told Sakura slightly bitter.
"Kero, why does it hurt, why does it hurt so much. My heart bleeds it's sadness, Why?", she asked the sun guardian, holding him to her, hugging him tightly. "I don't know Serenity, I really don't know.", Kero admitted hugging the older girl back as well as he was able.
"Serenity, I think I know why it hurts.", Sakura started, remembering when she had, had feelings for Yukito. Serenity looked at her expectantly waiting for an answer. "I think you're in love with Yue.", Sakura told her seriously. "Iie, I can't be, I Iie, Iie................ I need to go out. I need to think.", Serenity stated eyes wide, standing up trying to wipe away her tears. "I thank you for your help chibi-Star, now I must do it on my own.", she continued. In a dull silver flash, she was dressed in a black flares, with black sneakers, with a black t-shirt, along with a black trench coat. Her silver hair was tied up in heart buns, however the thing that stood out from her was her lifeless cold eyes. Kero gasped, and reeled at the look in her dull blue orbs. "When will you be back?", asked Sakura fretfully, wanting her safety. "Before you wake.", she replied with slight emotion in her voice. "Let's get you to bed.", Serenity continued ushering the girl to her room. They slipped past the living room unnoticed, and opened the door to the girls room.
"Sakura-chan what happened, is she O~kay?", asked Tomoyo as soon as she saw the door creak open. "I'd say I'm fine.", came a more melodic voice, from behind the door. The door swung all the way open, and Serenity and Sakura stepped in. "Gomen for prying, but I was worried.", blushed Tomoyo as Meiling laughed on her bed. "Well, Sakura can fill you in tomorrow morning, girls. It's time for bed.", she continued waiting a few seconds for the girls to scramble into bed. "Night.", she called clicking off the light. As soon as Serenity shut the door, and the soft foot steps walked away, Tomoyo and Meiling pounced on Sakura. "What happened?", hissed Meiling, sitting on the foot of Sakura's bed. "Yeah, Sakura, tell a gram, tell a phone, tell a friend!", Tomoyo whispered excitedly. Sakura groaned, and pulled the blankets over her head.
Out in the hall, Serenity heard the girls talking, and mentally giggled. She then sighed, and walked towards the living room, intent on sneaking past the boys. As she looked out in the living room, she saw that any way she went someone would see her. She cursed, and decided to do it the old fashioned way, straight through. She walked into the room with a fuck-with-me-and-die posture, eyes hard as chipped ice. "Where are you going?", asked Touya, thinking along the lines of the fact that a pretty girl shouldn't be out alone at night, completely disregarding the fact that she had more power in her pinkie, than he did in his entire body. "No where of your concern Kinomoto-san.", she told him coldly stopping her pace, but not turning around. For some odd reason she blamed this on him. She started walking again, when someone held her wrist, preventing her from going any further.
"Onegai, Serenity, Onegai tell me what I did wrong?", the voice belonging to Yue begged her softly. She felt the thumb of her captor caress her pulse softly, making her look at him. "You did nothing, Yue-san, It was I who was the fool.", she replied darkly, looking him in the eye. Yue recoiled at the emptiness in her eyes, at how hollow they looked. "Why do you turn me away suddenly, why are you a fool?", Yue questioned her almost dreading the answer. "I am a fool, Yue, I am a fool because I dared to be human, and am completely blind.", she said self loathing seeping into every word she spoke. "Onegai, don't go. You promised you wouldn't leave.", he told her feeling a sudden wave of guilt wash over him, even though he didn't know why. That wave was soon replaced by fear. Fear that she would leave him again. "I promised that when my soul was intact. I promised that before I realized what a fool I was. I promise that because I am still a fool, with no heart, and half a soul. I am merely going to torture myself out of the presence of children. ", she said with a sense of finality in her voice. "Serenity, Onegai tell me what's wrong. I don't want to see you cry.", Yue continued shocked at her words. "There's nothing wrong, I'm not crying. I have no more tears left.", she replied jerking her hand away from him. Her wrist burned where it had been caressed by her beloved Yue, and her heart beat frantically. "Good Night.", she stated curtly turning on her heal doing her best to keep herself from hugging him to herself never to let go. She walked straight through the door, leaving silver dust in her wake.
"What have I done?", Yue asked himself mournfully. The flame that had been burning brightly was now dwindling, as if drowning it self. Needless to say he felt cold, and it......... hurt. He could feel the pain in her aura, it was seeping from her very being. Her eyes so lifeless and dull. What had he done? He didn't know, but he knew someone would. He started to tremble, as he thought of her pain stricken face. Her beautiful blue eyes so dull, and lifeless. "CEREBEROS!!!!!!", Yue roared, eyes flashing wildly.
Sakura, Meiling, and Tomoyo shot on their feet, after hearing Yue's roar of rage. "Uh-Oh.", muttered Kero from the pillow on Sakura's bed. "What DID you do?", demanded Meiling sounding impressed. "I've never heard Yue yell, ever!", Sakura pointed out, picking up Kero and heading towards the door. "I don't even want to know.", Tomoyo groaned, but followed them anyway.
Syaoran stood in shock, as he heard the forceful tone in Yue's voice. Yue never yelled, ever. He always kept his emotions in check, never revealing much. Touya's eyes were wide as saucers as he watched emotions flash across the man's face, all of which scared him silly. Suddenly Sakura poked her head into the room, nervously. "Ohayo, Yue-san.", she started walking into the room, two girls coming slowly behind her. "Mistress, onegai go back to bed, I need to speak with Cereberos.", Yue told her more of an order than a request. Kero popped up from behind Sakura. "Ohayo Yue, what a beautiful night it is, isn't it. Full Moon, lot's of Stars ..........", Kero rambled off.
"Cereberos, what is wrong with her? She has NEVER, acted this way towards me before. NEVER. ", he growled out . "I ..... uh ...... really don't know.", Kero rushed feebly. "Don't lie to me. When she was upset she used to come to me. Now for some reason she is upset with me, so I know she went to you.", Yue pointed out eyes flashing a dangerous silver. "She ...... uh ....... she has some problems she needs to work out.", Kero replied in a rush. "Problems? Is that what you call it? Then tell me why does she look like she's half dead!?!?", Yue demanded, determined to get an answer out of Kero. "Because, she's just realized something, and thinks you love onii-san!", Sakura yelled out for Kero.
"Why would it bother her that much weather I loved Touya-san or not?", Yue asked completely confused. "Do you love Touya?", Sakura asked determined to get the bottom of the problem. "Iie, Yukito loves Touya-san.", Yue stated out firmly. "Now what you are going to do is what you do best.", Kero interrupted glad to be out of the dog house. "What?", Yue asked knowing that there was something more that they weren't telling him."Trust us Yue, just go to her, and comfort her.", Kero continued. Yue sighed, and flicked his wrist making a card appear. "What's that?", Touya asked eyeing the object. "It's a Tsuki card.", Yue replied showing them the beautiful picture of his Serenity. "That looks like Serenity.", Syaoran pointed out. "That's because it is Serenity, you genki.", Kero admonished."You're telling me there's another set of cards?", Syaoran asked Yue. "Hai, there is. They are similar to Sakura's cards, however there are slight differences.", Yue replied staring hard at the card. "It's so pretty, what's it do?", Sakura asked staring at the card in awe. " It will take me to Serenity, it has many other uses.", Yue told her, pressing the crescent on Serenity's forehead. "Take me to her.", Yue told it solemnly. In a flash of silver Yue was gone.
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HALF AN HOUR EARLIER, FROM WHERE SERENITY IS
"Why now, Why him, Why me?", Serenity mumbled walking briskly, past a school. Tears streamed down her pale cheeks unchecked. She had given up on wiping them away, she didn't care if the world saw her torment, it hurt so much, she wanted to die. She just wanted to give up and kill herself to end the pain. "But I can't do that.", she muttered. She couldn't, wouldn't turn her back on the worlds that needed her. She continued walking until she saw a park. She hadn't planned on going to the park, but she could see just a glimpse of roses under the full moon. They caught her attention, and she immediately walked towards them. She was surprised that the roses she saw from the street, lead to a grove of the most beautiful blood red roses she had ever seen in along time. Music from a nearby apartment drifted into her ears.
~Remember when~
~We never needed each other~
~The best of friends~
~Like sister and brother~
~We understood~
~We'd never be~
~Alone~
Serenity sighed as she thought back to they're days on the moon. She'd never thought they'd be separated, but destiny works strange ways.She had never needed him in that way before. If someone had suggested that she would.... with him ........ she would have thought it ludicrous. She couldn't believe what she'd done, how could she have let it happen?
~Those days are gone~
~Now I want you so much~
~The night is long~
~And I need your touch~
~Don't know what to say~
~Never meant to feel this way~
~Don't wanna be alone tonight~
She groaned, those days of innocent bliss were long gone. She couldn't admit it aloud. But she knew now, she knew what had happened. She needed him to hold her, to tell her he felt the same way. But she knew it was impossible, for he loved chibi-star's brother. She shivered as she felt the winds blow under her coat.
~What can I do to make you mine~
~Falling so hard, so fast this time~
~What did I say, what did you do~
~How did I fall in love with you~
She knew she couldn't live without him. Gods ......... how was she going to face him any longer. She briefly wondered what had caused her to fall so hard. Then she realized it was just him.
~I hear your voice~
~And I start to tremble~
~Brings back the child~
~That I resemble~
~I cannot pretend~
~That we can still be friends~
~Don't wanna be alone tonight~
She heard him in the corner of her mind. The tone of voice he had used just before she left the apartment. She started to shake, as she thought of the same voice telling Touya that he loved him. She knew then she couldn't go back to the old days, she couldn't just pretend it never happened. Her heart ached more at the thought of what his face must look like. Confused that she shunned him, and hurt that she left without reason.
~What can I do to make you mine~
~Falling so hard, so fast this time~
~What did I say, what did you do~
~How did I fall in love with you~
There could never be a Serenity and Yue, she realized with a slight sob. How could this happen? She cursed herself over and over, as she dropped to her knees. She then realized it had started to rain, slushy thick pelting rain. It stung as it slapped against her freezing skin.
~I wanna say this right~
~And it has to be tonight~
~Just need you to know~
~I don't wanna live this lie~
~I don't wanna say goodbye~
~With you I wanna spend the rest of my life~
She knew she couldn't lie to him, and she didn't want to leave. She wanted to stay with him, forever. For the rest of her long, long life. Lighting flashed overhead, making her look heaven ward. The moon slid behind the clouds, and Serenity buried her face in her hands and wept silent tears.
~What can I do to make you mine~
~Falling so hard, so fast this time~
~What did I say, what did you do~
~How did I fall in love with you~
She couldn't make him love her, she knew this. She didn't know how she had fallen so fast. She now cherished those few precious moments she had experienced in his arms.
~What can I do to make you mine~
~Falling so hard, so fast this time~
~Everything's changed, we never knew~
~How did I fall in love with you~
Life was so cruel. He already loved another, so how could she have fallen. Everything was different now she realized, she would have never known, if Chibi-Star wouldn't have told her. "How did I fall in love with you?", she whispered into the cold night air. She heaved a huge breath outward, and saw her breath come out in fog. She shivered, but made no move to leave. She enjoyed the numb feeling that was spreading through her. It made her forget about the numbness in her heart.
Suddenly she felt the slushy icy rain stop pelting her skin. She jerked her head up and found herself staring at large white wings. White wings that were larger than her own. "Yue.", she whispered to herself, wondering when her voice had gotten so hoarse. Before she knew what was happening she was hauled on her feet, peering into two concerned eyes. He touched her hand, then drew it away quickly at it's coldness. Serenity noted the painful burning sensation where their bare skin touched. "Gods, you're frozen.", he whispered gathering her close to him. Serenity made no move to protest, or to encourage it, she was tired, and it ached so much. She felt the pain recede slightly as she felt warmth in the embrace. Involuntarily she felt her tears start again, as she unconsciously wrapped her arms around his neck. She didn't care about her vow to stay uninvolved, she just needed to be near him, to keep her sanity.
Yue smiled that rare smile that once in a blue moon happened, and created a magically enhanced bubble to protect them from the sleet. "Are you still angry with me Renity?", Yue questioned afraid she would walk away again. "Iie, I was never angry with you. I was angry at myself, Yue-kun. It wasn't your fault. Yue, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have lashed out on you.", she whispered shivering.The fire that was nearly burning out suddenly sparked back to life, letting Yue hold her tightly, to himself. He was starting to get slightly worried she might get sick, so he started to lift into the air. She clutched him tightly and shook her head fiercely. "What?", he asked lowering back onto the ground, and wrapping his wings around her once more. She said nothing, but buried her head in the crook of his neck. He sighed, and eyed the stone bench next to a rose bush. He gently picked her up princess style, and sat upon the bench. Serenity was across his lap, and he cradled her against himself, rocking slowly side to side.
'Oh, my beautiful Tenshi. What are your demons? Why are you so broken? Onegai, be all right.', he thought to himself, listening to her even breathing.
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AT THE APARTMENT
"Sakura-chan, where are they? It's pouring out there!", Tomoyo exclaimed pouring herself more tea. "They're pretty far away, although they're together.", Sakura replied opening her eyes. "They should get back here soon, for some reason Serenity's energy is slowly depleting.", Syaoran added, from his spot next to Sakura. "Well duh, you genki. Don't you know anything?", huffed Kero staring out the window worriedly. "What, I bet you didn't even know till I told you.", Syaoran sneered. "Hai, I did. When a Lunarin falls in love, and thinks that love is not returned, Her energy slowly depletes till she falls into a deep sleep. If that love is not returned in 48 Earth hours there will be fierce consequences.", Kero replied slumping down next to Sakura. "What does love have to do with anything?", Syaoran asked extremely confused. "Everything.", murmured Kero worried.
"Wait a minute, Sakura, you never did tell us what was wrong with her in the first place.", Meiling pointed out slyly. "Oh, well.... um ........ look at the time, I think it's time for some good old fashioned sleep.", Sakura trailed off, yawning for a greater effect. She stood up, and was about to leave when she felt strong arms push her back down. "Syaoran-kun?", she blinked. She silently groaned, she knew if Syaoran wanted to know, she'd be forced to tell. "Eh, Kero-chan, a little help here.", Sakura sputtered nervously. "You're on your own Sakura.", Kero replied staring out the window once more, smirking slightly.
Touya sat silent in a chair, staring hard at the door. He never took the time to question if Yue also loved him. He knew Yuki did, and thus believed Yue did too. Well, that was wrong. For all he knew with the way Yue acted around Serenity, he probably loved her. Two people in one body, with two different lives. How he had not seen it before was beyond him. He sighed, and ran his fingers through his hair, wondering why life was so complicated. He also wondered what was so wrong with Serenity. She had looked as if her entire world had been shattered to pieces. Why had she freaked out when Yuki turned back into Yue? 'Maybe Sakura would know', he mused standing up.
"Hey, Kaiju what's wrong with Serenity?", he questioned plopping down next to Tomoyo. "Not you too!", Sakura groaned, tempted to use one of the cards to get out of there. "Come on Kaiju, I have a right to know.", Touya persisted. "It's not my place to tell you Touya. It's Serenity's , and Serenity's alone. Just know that if they are together, all is well.", Sakura responded, her face gathering a far away look. Her eyes clouded over, and Syaoran waved a hand infront of her face, receiving do response.
"What's going on?", asked Tomoyo worry lining her features. "Sakura?", Touya asked Tentivly, worried about his sister. Syaoran poked her shoulder, starting to get worried. "Sakura........ Sakura?", he asked shaking her shoulders, her head lolled about gaze resting nowhere. "SAKURA!", he yelled about an inch from her face. "HOE!!", Sakura yelled out, jumping around the back of the couch. "Don't DO that Syaoran!", she yelled brushing stray hair out of her face. Kero bust out laughing, falling off the window sill. "Ow.", he muttered darkly, climbing onto the couch. Taking a glance at Sakura's and Syaoran's red faces he broke out in laughter once more. "Be quiet stuffed animal.", Syaoran hissed at Kero, his blush back full force. Kero only responded by falling off the couch, rolling in merriment.
"Don't start you two. It's not worth it.", Tomoyo scolded glancing at Sakura, who was chewing her bottom lip, deep in thought."Sakura what were you thinking about?", Touya asked seriously. "It was nothing I was just linking directly to their whereabouts.", Sakura replied. Touya seemed to accept the answer, but Syaoran didn't look very convinced.
"Can't you tell us anything Kaiju?", Touya prodded again. "She loves him.", Sakura stated softly. "What?", asked Meiling, she and the group hadn't heard. "Nothing, nothing at all.", Sakura said louder. "I'm sure it was something.", Touya demanded feeling a bit angry. "Touya it's NONE of your business!", Sakura replied quickly sensing the agitation in her brothers voice. "How do you figure? It has to do with MY Yuki, thus I should know.", Touya bit out forgetting that he was about to holler at his thirteen year old imuto. Sakura stood up an unusual fire burning in her emerald eyes, now shining with tears. "It has nothing to do with Yukito, It is the moon and the moon alone! Don't ask again!", she hollered tears threatening to fall. She spun on her heal, and walked towards her designated room. Touya stood up and was about to follow, when Syaoran and Kero stood in his way. "Iie one hurts my Mistress.", Kero muttered glaring at Touya, transforming into his true self. "I agree with him, You should leave her alone.", Syaoran stated narrowing his eyes. Touya glared and stalked to his own room, and slammed the door shut. "I think we just missed something.", Tomoyo whispered to Meiling, grabbing Kero out of thin air, and racing to Sakura's room.
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IN THE PARK
'I think she's asleep.', Yue mused standing up to see if she stirred. When she did not he sighed, and sat back down. He didn't want to leave yet, he didn't want to have to wake her, to see her pain filled eyes. He didn't want to let her go, she felt so.... so light? Fragile? Soft? Warm? Wonderful? It was all of those those things he thought decidedly. His eyes widened as he realized where his thoughts were heading, but suddenly those thoughts didn't seem so wrong. He traced her jaw in wonder, wondering why all those thoughts were surfacing now. He saw her tense slightly under his touch, then relax once more. 'Why do I feel this way? What is this emotion?', he asked himself, his eyes straying towards her closed eyelids. He wanted to see her happy, not broken, shattered like fine china. Shaking his head he tried to banish the thoughts from his mind. He couldn't think that way about her, she was ....... to special.
Slowly, he stood up. He called out the Tsuki card and wished it to take him back to the apartment. When he got there he saw everyone had went to sleep, even Cereberos wasn't in sight. He cautiously walked towards Serenity's room not bumping into anything. He saw Cereberos asleep leaning against the window. Smiling slightly, with one hand he pulled down the sheets, the other still supporting Serenity. He tried to put her down in the bed, but she started to whimper, and shake. Thinking she was awake he looked to see if her eyes were open. To his surprise they were clenched tightly shut. He pulled her back to himself and her shaking ceased, whimpers stopping. He sighed, and climbed into the bed with her. Willing his wings away, he pulled the blankets upon both of them, and watched her sleep. Sleep peacefully with iie disturbances. He watched her till the sleet turned to snow, and the sun peeked over the horizon. Finally he fell asleep Serenity wrapped tightly in his strong arms.
Serenity awoke to something warm breathing next to her. She blinked a few times before she realized the figure was Yue. His eyes were closed, and his breathing was slow and even. He was still asleep. What she would give to have those eyes open, and shine at her with love. However that thought was overruled, by the stabbing pain in her heart as she remembered Yukito and Touya. She rest her head on his chest, and allowed herself to enjoy the feel of him. She heard his heart beat steadily, and felt tears gather in her eyes. The heartbeat she heard did not beat for her, it beat for the man in another room.
Deciding to make breakfast early she tried to slip out of his arms without waking him, however that plan was thwarted. Yue held her tighter to himself, and shifted so that he was on his side, his forehead leaning against her temple. 'This is not good.', Serenity thought, daring herself to turn her head. She saw what she thought was the most adorable picture she had ever seen in her existence. Yue's face held the innocence of a child, like it never did, as his lips were parted slightly. She found herself staring at his lips. Next she found herself wondering what it might be like to kiss the ray of moonlight that held her so close. 'I've got to get out of here, before I do something I'll regret.', she scolded herself. With a bright idea she dissolved into silver sparkles, reappearing at the end of the bed, still dressed in the clothes from the night before. She grimaced, and felt an emptiness return to her. With a bright idea she disappeared in silver sparkles and reappeared in the living room. Taking a glance at a clock she realized it was ten in the morning. Shivering slightly she looked out the window, to see snow. 'What month was it anyway?', she wondered. In a silver flash she was wearing a silver turtleneck with black flares.
{Luna?}, questioned Serenity to her feline companion. {Hai, Serenity?}, came the reply. {Did you two have any luck?}, she asked hopefully. {Iie, not yet, but I'm sure we'll find her.}, Luna replied softly. { Arigatou Luna, but are you sure you and Artemis will be all right out there?}, Serenity asked worried about her little neko's. {We'll be fine you worry wart. Have fun!}, Luna exclaimed before closing the link. "That neko is going to get it.", she murmured to herself, taking out the ingredients for breakfast.
AN HOUR LATER
"Sakura-chan, Meiling-san, Tomoyo-san wake up!", Serenity yelled at the groaning girls. She snapped her fingers and the blankets flew off of them. "Serenity-chan, please can we sleep just a bit longer?", Sakura pleaded opening her eyes slightly, pulling the blanket back up. "Nope, Get up!", Serenity called exasperated. Syaoran stood in the doorway smirking at Serenity's futile attempts to wake them up. Serenity turned around to see Syaoran smirking at her. That just didn't go over well. "Hey Sakura?", Serenity asked sweetly an evil smile on her face."What", came her muffled reply. "If you don't get up right now Syaoran-kun is going to kiss you. ". Serenity continued. "WHAT?!?!", shrieked three voices at once. Meiling sat up fuming in her bed, while Tomoyo had her video camera out, and Sakura sat blushing, looking very shocked. Then they realized Syaoran was actually standing in the door way blushing. Tomoyo, Meiling, and Sakura exchanged glances at each other. Serenity moved out of firing range as the impending doom was coming. "ECCHI!!!", yelled all three girls chucking their pillows at him. Syaoran to embarrassed to duck was bombarded with the three projectiles. Syaoran fell to the ground with swirls in his eyes, and Serenity smirked. Stepping gracefully over Syaoran's body she called ," Hurry up breakfast will get cold."
Serenity walked down the hall to Touya's room. "Hey Touya-san it's time for breakfast!", she called out knocking on the door. "I'll be there in a minute!", came the reply. "Whoa! Look at all the grub!", came a voice from the dining room. "Hands off K-chan.", Serenity scolded lightly, suddenly feeling slightly tired. "What did you and Yue do last night, he's STILL asleep.", Kero continued suggestively. " I really don't know, I fell asleep in the park, and Yue took me home.", she supplied tapping her chin. "Yeah, sure.", Kero trailed off winking at her. "K-chan what month is it?", Serenity asked purposely disregarding his last comment. "December, why?", he asked slightly miffed. "What day?", she asked eyes getting wide. "The seventeenth-- iie the eighteenth.", Kero replied thoughtfully. "Why didn't someone TELL ME!!!!!!!!!", Serenity yelled eyes wide as saucers. "You didn't ask.", came Meiling's voice from the hall way. "Don't start with me.", Serenity stated a glare coming to her eyes. "Chibi-Star , hurry up were going shopping!", Serenity called trying to figure out which car to use. "I'm coming.", yawned Sakura from her room. Sakura came out of the room wearing white flares with a light pink long sleeved shirt with a white star on it.
Touya came out clean shaven, in a a plain black sweatshirt, and blue jeans. " Kaiju I'm really sorry for last night, forgive me?", Touya asked Sakura pulling out a chair. "Of course I do Touya, just expect coal in your Christmas stocking.", Sakura replied smiling sweetly. Touya nodded, and chuckled. At Serenity's questioning glance Sakura mouthed, 'Tell ya later'. A few minutes later Syaoran came out looking slightly dazed. All three girls all sent him threatening death glares, which Touya raised an eyebrow at. "Don't ask.", Serenity told him shaking her head. Everyone sat down to eat their food peacefully. Serenity was surprised that Syaoran had the guts to sit next to Sakura, and even more so when he managed to keep his head on his shoulders. "What's everybody doing for Christmas?", Serenity questioned suddenly. "Well, Onii-san and I were going to spend it with Yukito because Tousan is on a dig. Then because Tomoyo-chan's Kassan is away on business, we'll be spending it with her too.", Sakura replied wolfing down some pancakes. "Meiling and I really didn't make any plans yet.", Syaoran replied thoughtfully, drinking his juice. "Well, how would you like to spend Christmas here?", Serenity asked eyes dancing."REALLY?!?", demanded Sakura eyes wide. "Hai, If you wouldn't mind.", Serenity confirmed. "We'd love to!", Meiling exclaimed pumping her fists in the air. "Can we Onii-chan, Oneagi?", Sakura begged using her best puppy dog face. "Of course Sakura-chan, must your really ask?", Touya replied chuckling. "YAHOO!", Kero cheered along with Sakura. "Well, I'd love to stay!", Tomoyo chirped. "It's all set then.", Serenity replied smiling.
"Where's Yue-san?", Touya asked suddenly looking at Serenity. "He's still sleeping in the bedroom.", she replied her smile fading. "Still?", Touya asked looking at his watch. Serenity nodded silently. "I'm gonna go check on him.", Touya stated standing up, and walking towards the hall. "Other room.", Serenity stated deftly not bothering to look up. " But I thought that was your room.", Touya started from down the hall, sounding confused. "It is.", she replied a smirk forming across her face. "I don't want to know.", they head Touya mumble.
"Well, Sakura-chan, you ready to book it?", Serenity asked standing up. "Yeah, Let's GO!", Sakura exclaimed definitely more awake. Sakura grabbed her heavy forest green coat with a white trim of faux fur on the hood, and Serenity magicked on a long leather black trench coat. "Tomoyo-san do you want us to drop you off at home?", Serenity asked seeing Tomoyo about to call her limo. "Sure!", Tomoyo exclaimed grabbing her bag. "I'll see you two later?", Serenity questioned, giving Syaoran and Meiling each a sisterly hug. "Hai!", they both replied, though Syaoran was blushing from the close contact. "Ja mata!", they all called and headed out the door.
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IN THE SILVER EXPRESS 4-DOOR KAWAII CAR
"I love your car.", Sakura commented sliding into the passenger seat after Tomoyo got in the back. "It's only one out of about fifty different cars.", Serenity replied sliding into the drivers side. "Where am I going?", Serenity asked Tomoyo turning the ignition key. "Um, 1481 Chestnut Drive.", Tomoyo replied slipping into the comfort of the seats. Serenity nodded, and turned on the heaters full blast. Driving in silence Serenity used her slight internal knowledge of where the street was. A few minutes later they were parked infront of Tomoyo's house, a female guard waiting to greet her. "Ja ne, Tomoyo-chan!", Sakura called, waving. Serenity waved then pulled out into the street. "What are we shopping for, Serenity-chan?", Sakura asked her curiosity getting the best of her. "Christmas presents, Sakura-chan, I have to go buy all of you one, and I need your help picking them out.", Serenity explained pulling into the place she thought to be the mall. "Let's get started!", Sakura replied joyfully hopping out of the car, and racing Serenity into the mall.
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WITH YUE AND TOUYA
"Yue-san, wake up.", Touya started poking the sleeping guardian. "Serenity.......", Yue murmured blinking, his eyes still adjusting to the bright light. "Iie, it's me.", Touya told him somewhat downcast. Yue hearing that immediately sat up, and started looking around the room for his silver hared princess. "Don't worry, she's at the mall with Sakura going shopping.", Touya stated chuckling slightly. Touya was quite sure of it now, he was sure Yue loved Serenity. Why did it pain him so, that his lovers counterpart loved another.
Knowing that Serenity was not in any danger made the guardian relax, and he sagged onto the pillow. He inhaled her scent as he took an intake of breath through his nostrils. He frowned when he realized his arms were aching, throbbing a dull thud. It was almost as if they missed something, something warm. Almost as if they missed Serenity. Yue continued to think about her, forgetting about Touya's presence. "Hey, Yue? Welcome back to Earth!", Touya continued, laughing as Yue's face took on the barest of pink hues.
"I suppose you'd like some time with Yukito, correct?", Yue asked with an eyebrow raised trying to change the subject. "Now that you mention it, it would be kinda nice.", Touya replied with a mock seriousness tone. In a flash of silver feathers Yue was Yukito. "Ohayo, Yuki.", Touya greeted warmly, moving closer to the yawning man. "To-ya, I feel like I've been sleeping forever.", Yukito yawned leaning over to half embrace his koibito. "That's because Yue has been in control for the past twenty hours ......... I've missed you.", Touya explained, smiling at his little snow bunny. Yukito looked up, and pecked Touya on the lips teasing him. "That's it Yuki......You're gonna get it.", Touya growled, and in a flurry of bed sheets, Touya and Yukito entranced themselves with mornings pleasures.
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MEILING AND SYAORAN
"Meiling, we should probably go and come back later.", Syaoran started scribbling a note down on a piece of paper, for when Serenity-san, and Sakura-chan came home."Don't ask me why, but I'm coming with you two genki's.", Kero interrupted. "Fine, you stuffed toy.", Meiling snorted. "Don't start.", Syaoran put in taping the note to the fridge. "Fine, Let's go build snowmen in the park!", Meiling enthusiastically agreed grabbing their coats. "I don't know about you, but I'm going to train.", Syaoran admonished dressing in his traditional Chinese robes, with sweat clothes underneath. "You're impossible Syaoran-kun.", Meiling growled grabbing his hand, and stalking out the door. "Lead the way genki's!", Kero crowed flying above them.
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AT THE MALL
Serenity winced as she felt Yue transform into Yukito. Her heart broke as she felt Kero, Syaoran and Meiling leave the apartment in a hurry, when Touya's and Yukito's ki's rose slightly, then kept climbing. "So, what do you think about this?", Sakura asked Serenity coming out of the dressing room. Sakura was wearing a light blue sweater with her white jeans. "Looks Kawaii Sakura-chan, it's a keeper!", Serenity called to her happily, trying to banish her previous thoughts. "What should I get Tomoyo-chan?", Serenity questioned looking through some hue's of purple material. "I like that velvet, I think Tomoyo would love it for her costumes!", Sakura exclaimed finishing paying for her sweater. "I think so too.", Serenity agreed purchasing 4 yards of the material.
Around 5:30 they went to the food court, and ordered lunch/dinner from a cafe. They ended up sticking their purchases in Serenity's endless space pocket, because they ended up getting heavy. They bought presents for everyone, wrapping paper, lights, bulbs, ornaments, a star, and a tree. Like stated before the space pocket was endless, thank goodness, or else all the items might not have fit. The only thing they carried on them were each other's presents, so that the bags couldn't accidentally be peaked in.
"What happened with you and Touya last night?", Serenity asked looking for a clear table. " He decided to gang up on me to figure out why you were upset.", Sakura replied heading over to a clear booth. "Say no more, Sakura-chan. I think I understand.", Serenity replied sitting on the right side, placing her packages next to her. "So, Sakura when is your Tousan getting back from his trip?", Serenity asked taking a tentative sip of her coffee. "He'll be back sometime after Christmas.", Sakura replied slightly sad. Serenity frowned sensing the girls sadness. "Be happy , Sakura-chan everything will be all right.", she told her patting her shoulder. Sakura was about to reply when a large Earthquake hit. Quickly Serenity threw all their belongings into her space pocket. "That's not normal.", Serenity murmured standing up. Suddenly screaming people began running in their direction. With a grim look on both their faces they nodded, and prepared to take on any foe imaginable.
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IN SERENITY'S LIVING ROOM
"Where are they?", Touya wondered aloud pacing back and fourth. His hair was tousled, and his shirt partially unbuttoned, from earlier excursions. "They're at the mall, I don't know what rock you've been living under, but it takes forever.", Meiling replied smartly rubbing her frozen hands before the roaring fire. "Shut up, genki.", Touya hissed. "Now To-ya calm down Sakura-chan is with Sere-chan, and they can take care of themselves.", Yukito reassured, fixing his glasses. "I still say we should go look for them.", Touya grumbled plopping down next to Yukito. "For once I agree with Kinomoto.", Syaoran interrupted brandishing his sword. "There's a first.", snorted Kero, who happened to be looking out the window, looking for his mistress and princess. "Syaoran-kun, I may not be able to fight with magic, but if a powerlevel is REALLY high, I can sense it.", Meiling interjected, blowing on her hands. "And...", Touya trailed off not really caring about what the girl was talking about. "And, Serenity-san's power is so high I can sense it loud and clear. Sakura's power is high enough that I can feel it too, so they must be strong.", she continued throwing a dirty look at Touya. "We know they're strong, Meiling-san, it's just that sometimes we worry.", Yukito consoled finally grasping Meiling's point. "Give it just a bit longer.", Kero murmured quietly catching everyone's attention. The guardian had been silent after his last comment. Suddenly the door burst open. Everyone's heads turned in the direction of the door............... only to see Tomoyo.
"Turn on the T.V., HURRY!", Tomoyo yelled slamming the door shut. Meiling complied and hit the on button. "Channel four.", Tomoyo huffed bending over resting her hands on her knees. When the channel hit four they saw the sight of the Tomeda District Mall being torn to shreds by a large youma. There was a pink- silverish bubble around the youma, and to young women. "Oh, my Kami, SAKURA!", Touya exclaimed wide eyed. "We've got to get there NOW!", Kero muttered staring at the scene of the girls dodging the youma's attacks. "I think I can take us there.", Syaoran muttered. He closed his eyes in concentration, and a faint green glow surrounded him. "Take us there!", Syaoran shouted a green flash of light exploding from him.
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THE MALL
"Sakura, move!", Serenity yelled pushing her out of the way, earning herself a nick in her shoulder from the blast. She was glad their shield was still holding up, with Sakura's magic and her own ki infused with it, protecting the outside people. "Sleep card, RELEASE!", Sakura yelled, and soon people dropped to the floor, and with a sharp glare from Serenity the camera exploded. "Let's pull out the big guns, Sakura-chan.", Serenity called to her friend smirking. "Let's do it.", Sakura nodded whipping out her wand. In a flash of silver and shooting stars Serenity turned into Sailor Cosmos fully battle equipped. "Jump card, RELEASE!", Sakura called jumping behind the youma, thinking of sandwiching the Kaiju. The monster was standing on two feet, with dragon scales for skin. It had a metal face plate covering it's eyes, with a chest plate, blackish skin tight pants, along with metal knee guards. All this was fine and dandy of course save the fact that the metal was grown in it's skin.
"WORLD SHAKING!", Cosmos yelled. The ground beneath her split, and she threw a golden ball of energy at it. The youma unprepared ended up getting hit dead on. It looked at the wound on it's stomach, and laughed. Cosmos reeled back, and stared hard at the creature. In a pulse of black waves the wound was healed, and no longer fatal. "Ice card ,RELEASE!", Sakura called, and the ice card flew, and froze everything within the shield. "Finish it!", Sakura yelled pulling out her fly card. Cosmos nodded, and started her attack," COSMIC ELI----", but her sentence was cut off as she felt the others energy and snapped her head around. Suddenly there was cold metal protruding from her stomach. "SERENITY!!!!", Sakura yelled out petrified. The youma had turned into a kind of liquid steel, and was just now returning to it's previous state. Serenity stared in shock as red stained her fuku. Crimson flowed around the pure white, as a wave of dizziness swept over her. She remembered murmuring something before she fell. Something important. "Yue.", she choked out, as a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of her mouth, then she knew no more.
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JUST BEFORE SERENITY PASSED OUT
The silver sheen in the pink bubble fell away, and the others were able to step in and finally see what was going on. Before going in the bubble Yukito closed his eyes and transformed into Yue. Looking at the monster he couldn't feel Serenity. No ki, no ki, no life...... wait! It was there faintly, but there. "Gods know my plight, Release the LIGHT!", Syaoran chanted, and a thunder bolt flew from nowhere and struck the youma, making it fizzle and fall over. There stood Serenity staring at the growing red stain on her fuku. "Kami iie.", Yue whispered as temporary shock took over his body, and time itself seemed to slow. Gathering his senses he dove to catch her before she fell to the unforgiving ground. "Yue.", he heard her state just before her Cosmos uniform faded away, and she passed out from loss of blood.
"You're going DOWN!", Yue heard his mistress suddenly scream with such anger it startled him. He looked up to see the once electrocuted monster in perfect health, charging after Syaoran. 'I have to beat this thing.', Sakura thought to herself wondering how to destroy the foul beast. Suddenly her anger got the best of her and she lashed out. "FIERY CARD, RELEASE!!!!!!", she yelled striking the card, adding much more magic necessary to activate the card. A bright ki bomb of fire exploded from her very being, as she continued to add her power to it. Before anyone had any time to react the fire blast formed a fiery cage around the youma, slowly closing in on it, making it screech out in pain. Then unexpectedly the fire exploded, taking the youma with it. As the youma tried to reform itself now liquid steel, the fire incinerated all the tiny shards of the monster effectively killing it.
Sakura called the ice, jump, fly, shield and fiery cards back, however she left the sleep card in place, keeping people out of their business. "Wow.", Syaoran muttered staring openly at the drained Sakura."Go Sakura-chan!", Tomoyo whooped running towards her friend. "I told ya she could take care of herself.", Meiling stated wide eyed. "Sakura, are you all right?", Touya demanded standing infront of his imouto. "I'm fine, nothing some sleep and a few band-aids won't cure.", Sakura replied hugging her Onii-chan, who returned her hug tightly. Suddenly Sakura pulled away a frown marring her features. "Is Serenity all right, that sword .......... it went straight threw her.", Sakura asked having not seen the hime since she released the Fiery. "I'm not sure........", Touya trailed off turning around to look for the telltale silver tresses. "Oh my Kami!", he heard Sakura exclaim her voice laced with worry. Sakura dashed infront of Touya, and headed towards Yue who was cradling the fallen princess.
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OVER WHERE YUE IS
He checked her pulse, again and again feeling a slight jerky beat. She was growing cold in his arms. He felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned around to see his mistress, tears glistening in her eyes. "Angel of the night.", he whispered to Serenity the hoarse rasp filled with torture. Sakura winced at the sheer pain in the guardians strained voice. "Yue, I know, we all know.", the voice of his brother tried to soothe him, yet doing him no good. " Iie, you don't know. This is the second time she will died in my arms, because I failed to protect her .............. ", Yue trailed off his voice sounding far away.
FLASHBACK
'Pressing one's lips to a loved one's, can transfer energy to the loved one. It can heal wounds and restore the dead to the living.', Clow told Yue explaining how to transfer the energy.
END
'Can it work?', Yue questioned himself. He saw no harm in trying as his heart ached from lack of the hime's presence near him. It was tearing apart his very soul as he looked at her still form.
Sakura gasped as swirls of wind flew around Yue in an beautiful pattern. The group backed away because of Yue's sudden burst of power, which was now higher than Sakura's, and still growing.
Slowly he descended down to her slightly warm lips, pleading with whatever higher gods there were. As his lips brushed hers he felt the tingle of electricity, in the beginning of energy transfer. He couldn't help but gasp at their sweetness. As he pressed his lips to hers more firmly a glow of blue and silver surrounded him, spreading to Serenity. Small rocks, and pebbles rose off the ground and a column of white light surrounded the two. Suddenly the force doubled, and there left an indent in the ground. Yue forced his moon energy into Serenity's still body, moving his lips slowly over hers. A symbol on Serenity's forehead glowed and flashed wildly, causing Yue to pull away, hesitantly for he didn't want to leave the bliss he was receiving. Suddenly the wound on Serenity's stomach, and shoulder sealed, and her clothes faded into a stainless white dress, with gold trimmings. Then the white column of light faded, and the pebbles dropped to the ground. The wind died down and then, suddenly, the silvery blue orbs snapped open. There were gasps of shock, and stares of awe as Serenity slowly sat up still supported by the guardian. "What happened?", Serenity murmured sounding confused and disoriented. "You were dying.", came the clipped answer from the man holding her. "How am I ...... Here?", Serenity asked looking up at Yue. "Clow once gave me a spell that allows me to heal without draining too much energy. I performed the spell, and you are alive.", Yue explained in an passive tone. "Arigatou, Yue-kun I owe you my life.", Serenity replied leaning into Yue.
In a flash of forest green the people were back in the apartment, and Sakura took the sleep card off.
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AT THE MALL
"Ugh, my head.", muttered the camera man standing up. "Ahhhhh my CAMERA!", yelled the man looking at what seemed to be the remains of a camera. "What do you mean your camera?", questioned his boss who was tapping a tiny microphone on her arm, shaking her head. "It's blown up!", the man yelled pointing to the broken tape. "What do you mean, this is the best story since Dave's two years ago, and the camera EXPLODED!", raged the angry woman, face turning red.
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AT THE APARTMENT
"How did you guys get there so quickly?", Sakura asked resting in fatigue on the couch. "I transported us, just like Serenity, by manipulating energy.", Syaoran replied sitting next to Sakura, keeping his eyes on her. "Why didn't you send for me Serenity?", demanded Yue, eyes flashing. "How would she do that in the middle of battle?", asked Tomoyo defensively. "With this.", Serenity stated sullenly pulling a card out of nowhere. She then tossed the card to Sakura who immediately started scanning it. The card had a crescent moon on it's back with a graph depicting 'TSUKI'. She flipped it over, and saw a picture of Yue. "It's a picture of Yue.", Sakura stated softly awed in it's beauty. "Iie, it's a card. A Tsuki card.", Serenity corrected willing herself out of her princess form.
"Why didn't you call?", demanded Yue once more, not allowing her to leave his arms. "I didn't want to interrupt. I thought we could take care of it.", Serenity muttered attempting to pull herself away. "Interrupt what?", he asked confused. Serenity ignored the question, and quit struggling. "Anything that might have been going on was less important that yours and Sakura's lives.", Yue bit out caring less about whatever was going to be interrupted. "Was I right the other night, when I said I couldn't let you out of my sight? Was I? Can I trust you enough to call me if a youma shows up?", he demanded in her ear holding him closely to himself. "Yue, Let go.", Serenity whimpered afraid her mind would go into overload from the close contact. "Iie, You broke your promise. You said you wouldn't leave me.", he murmured quietly for her ears alone. Serenity stiffened as she felt his breath on her neck, sending shivers up her spine. "I didn't want to leave, but when you guys showed up, it startled me and I lost concentration.", Serenity murmured back to him her head lowered.
There they stood in the middle of the living room. Both extremely emerged in the feelings that emerged when they held each other. Serenity was slightly bent over in Yue's arms, which were wrapped tightly about her waist. Her head was tilted to the side leaning against his shoulder, as waves of silver piled on the floor, with unfocused bleary blue eyes concentrating on nothing. Yue was bent so that his chin rested upon her temple. His navy blue eyes were unfocused, with an impassive look to them.
YUE'S POV
Yue was trapped in his mind, reveling at the feeling of her soft skin brushing his fingers every once in awhile. His lips burned angrily in the memory of her lips touching his own. Part of him ached for something, something more than just that stolen kiss. He wanted.......... He wanted ........ her. He wanted to hold her forever, kiss her, be there with her every waking moment, but why? Why did he want this? What were the emotions caused, by this little slip of a girl doing to him? He felt almost drugged, his body felt sluggish and weak, but firmly protested letting go of his hime. He fought back a feral growl that threatened to come from deep inside his chest. While forcing it down a nearly silent groan caught him by surprise. That only heightened his want for her, iie, he didn't just want her, he needed her. He cherished her every move, and most nearly worshipped the ground she walked upon. Yet the same question repeated itself, the one word question........ Why? He didn't know, he really didn't. Emotions really never had been his department. All the same however, he thought as the flame in his chest nearly exploded, he knew what was true. 1: He never wanted to release her, 2: He needed to figure out why,and 3: Which was against his better judgment he needed to kiss her again. Tightening his hold on her he let out a small whoosh of air, that he hadn't realized he'd been holding.
SERENITY'S POV
'Doesn't he know what he's doing to me?', Serenity wondered quickly losing touch with reality as Yue's aura surrounded her, in a protective embrace. The only thing she could focus on was the way his body curved with her own, molding them together as one. Serenity desperately tried to focus on something else, anything else, However is was useless as he held her tighter. She fought down the urge to spin around and kiss the living daylights out of him. She knew if she did that all chances of maintaining a friendship, were shot down the tubes. With that thought she squelched her growing passion, and curled tighter against him.
MY POV
The others stood staring at the two who at the moment looked like statues. "Are they all right, Kero-chan?", Sakura asked the sun guardian who was at the time smirking. "If I didn't know any better I'd say those two were linked.", Syaoran observed, tearing his eyes away from a nasty cut on Sakura's arm.
"Gomen, Yue, I didn't mean to worry you.", Serenity whispered blinking, and leaning willingly into his strong frame. "I didn't mean to yell, I was just afraid. Onegai, forgive me?", Yue whispered back his fingers on her sides doing wicked things to Serenity's mentality level. "Only if the forgiveness is mutual.", she replied shivering slightly. She felt him smile into her hair and knew all was well.
Reluctantly Yue loosened his grip ever so slightly on Serenity, as they walked towards the couch. "I meant to ask you Sakura ----", Serenity trailed off looking Sakura over for injuries. Serenity gasped and wrenched herself away from Yue, and nearly flew to Sakura's side. "What?", asked Sakura confused. "Your arm, and cheek.", Serenity murmured, placing two fingers on Sakura's forehead. In a warm silvery-blue glow Sakura's wounds sealed up, and the blood was removed off her clothes. " I didn't know there was more than one way to heal people.", Meiling stated eyeing Serenity who's skin was now luminescent. "What's the other way?", Serenity asked confused. "Well, when Yue kissed you in the mall.", Tomoyo supplied grinning. 'Yue kissed me in the mall ', Serenity thought frowning. 'Everything good always happens when I'm nearly dead'., she continued standing up. "Serenity, you are aware you're glowing right?", Touya asked Serenity. "Hai, The energy I'm currently living off of is Yue's. Because he has pure moon energy, while mine is tainted by the Cosmos, it makes me glow. Like a radioactive corn field, might I add.", Serenity confirmed earning giggles from the children.
"Well, Sakura-chan how bout we set up everything we bought.", Serenity asked winking. "But things aren't wrapped!", Sakura pointed out horrified. "When your a Megami, you don't wrap gifts, gift elves do it the minute they enter the space pocket.", Serenity corrected smiling. "Let's do it!", Sakura admonished pumping her fist in the air. "All right, remember the spell?", Serenity asked. "Yup!", Sakura replied closing her eyes.
"When the snow falls down like the rain;
When it falls like angels tears of pain;
When the silver bells ring;
And Christmas carolers sing;
This is the place where stars do shine;
Hai, It's Christmas time!", the two girls called out.
In flashes of silvery-blue, and pink the room was decorated with Christmas items. Mistletoe hung in the archways, and various other places. Along with stockings on the fireplace, and red bows in the four corners of the rooms, and a huge tree with multicolored lights, next to a window with many presents under it. The ornaments were off the tree, but were more than ready to be but on. There was a toy train running under the tree with fake cotton snow all around it. There was a Santa Clause in the middle of the coffee table shaking his hips, and singing a silly little song. Outside on the balcony were icicle lights, giving the impression of ice. All the while a song called 'The First Noel', played in the background.
"Wow.", gasped Meiling standing before the tree gawking at it's beauty. "Don't just stand there, lets decorate the tree!", exclaimed Kero getting into the spirit. Serenity giggled, and asked,"Does anyone want hot chocolate, or tea?". "Tea, if it's not to much trouble.", Syaoran answered admiring the decorations. "I want chocolate!", Kero yelled placing a small silver bulb on the tree. "Me two.", Tomoyo replied eyeing an icy glass rose on the mantle place. "Me three!", Sakura chirped bouncing up to put a blue bulb on the tree. "Me four!", Meiling shouted looking at the dancing Santa. "Tea, please.", Touya asked Serenity smiling at the happy children. Serenity stood up, and walked into he kitchen to make the drinks the old fashioned way. She grabbed six mugs, and set them on the counter, when a wave of dizziness swept over her. "Whoa.", she muttered gripping the table. 'I shouldn't be this tired, I have more than enough energy to stay awake for days on end.', she thought to herself. When the room stopped spinning, she realized she hadn't even asked Yue if he wanted anything. She turned around to ask him, but was confronted by white robes. "Holy Stars, don't do that to people!", Serenity scolded lightly catching her breath. She saw Yue smirk in the darkness of the kitchen. "Did you want anything?", she questioned gesturing towards the tea kettle. "Iie.", he replied moving slightly closer to her. "If you came in here there must have been something you wanted.", Serenity continued leaning against the counter. "I can't have what I want.", he murmured leaning in towards her, grasping her waist. "Why, what is it?", she asked her thoughts becoming clouded. "You.", Yue stated softly his lips inches from hers, their breath tickling each others lips. Serenity tilted her head slightly and closed her eyes when
SCREEEEEEEECCCCCHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
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All Right people, tell me that wasn't the best cliffhanger I've done so far. I was pretty darn proud of it. Gomen it's so late, but I just started going to a prestigious high school and it's very tiring. Not to mention stressful. So, onegai if you would be so kind, REVIEW!
Much Love, SerenityMoon