The Desease that Killed Love

Prologue-Touya

Of course, it's widely known we don't get along well together. He's got quite an attitude which was very very annoying. It started as ' you hurt my imotou!' and then, it turned to ' you challenge my personality'. It probably is hard to judge who's better at glaring. I have my father's eyes, but I use them to glare at girls a lot. And little boys too, since Sakura is not ugly, I daresay, though I always call her a kaijuu. It really had nothing to do with her appearance. But in any case, I am good at glaring. Syaoran, on the other hand, has a natural talent. He's a genius at glaring. His eyes are built for glaring. And he uses them well. So though it may be hard to judge who's better at glaring, in reality, he defeated me a long time go. After some time of this, it no longer became a contest of ' who's the better glarer'. It became ' who can hypnotize the other first'. I never knew that his eyes were that strong until this started. Maybe this was why Sakura could never get us to break apart. I never really forgave him for that. Which was why I had decided to take psychiatry when I graduate from college. Perhaps I can tell what his past life is, and then when he wakes, I'll tease him to no end.

So we don't get well along together. Sure. It's hard to actually tell why we just don't tolerate each other. Definetely not because of jealousy, and the thing with Syaoran hurting Sakura was long past. No, I forgave him for that. But it wasn't jealousy. I had no reason to be jealous of someone seven years younger than me, and he had no reason to be jealous of someone seven years older than he. No, it's not because of jealousy. More of because...

Oh yes, competition. I would have really had had no life if I had competed with a ten year old, but the truth is I don't. So there!



I don't exactly remember when this whole thing with Yue, Sakura and Syaoran started...somewhere around June, I think. Wait-was it May or June? June, because that's the time when summer starts...yes, June. I remember it was quite a hot day, we were all sweating while standing there like idiots. The trees didn't provide much protection against the heat. They only protect against skin cancer, and that was one day when I particular did not appreciate global warming. Yukito was leaning against the tree while I was sitting on one of the branches. I think it was after school, though I can't be sure. I was spraying water all over my head. The sun could have roasted a horse within minutes. And what do you know. Here comes the kaijuu, with the gaki, and Daidouji-san who was carrying an umbrella shielding both of them along with the Hiriingaziwa guy.
Gee, I remember thinking. Why didn't I think of that.
" Konnichiwa!" Yukito called to them. Sakura blushed, as usual. Syaoran just glared at me for a second before suddenly yelping. His yelp nearly made me fall off the tree, though I didn't, but my water bottle did. It hit Yuki on the head, and since it was open, the water sprayed all over Hiriingaziwa, Tomoyo, and Yukito. Tomoyo tossed her umbrella in surprise...

And there goes the umbrella.

It was funny how things can happen like this.

So, needless to say, I was really annoyed with the gaki, having started all this. It happened to be, as I later found out, his way of dealing with unexpected pain. However, I didn't know that, so we parted with hard feelings.



So as I said, it was hot. If I didn't spray everyone with water, everyone would have been soaked anyway. It was a wonderful day to go to the beach, but even that would be painful. I daresay we miss the ozone layer at that time. Not that we don't miss it at other times, just that time we miss it most of all. It's a great way to get a nice tan in five minutes. Sakura and I went home looking like carved up tomatoes. And it was quite weird, because the more red she was, the more green her eyes looked, and the more green her eyes looked, the more red she seemed. She must have driven otou-san quite dizzy before she said ' Tadaima', I daresay. The next day was the last day of school, and then I'm off to college. I remember thinking better tease her as much as you can this summer. You won't get another chance. But that's another story altogether.

I had thought that day was hot. The next was even hotter. We were graduating, Sakura was still going to school, and there was nothing I want more than an air conditioner. What's worse, the auditorium in my school didn't have a fan, since the fan was broken and they had to fix it, so quite a ceremony it was, with the audience fanning themselves and body odor floating around. Quite comely. It lasted for quite some time. Night is not especially cool those days. So I went home, still sweating, wishing for some rain. Yukito seemed to be melting as well, but I guess since he's not particularly sunny and more of moonshine he fared worse than I did. What's worse, it was cloudy that night, and stuffy. Yukito and I went to my house and the first thing we thought of was ' TURN ON THE AIR CONDITIONER'

Well, the gaki was there, and I certainly did not forget the hard feelings.

I don't know how long we glared. Five minutes? Maybe six? But in any case it was quite a long time, and I was getting hypnotized. Yukito stared at us, very much confused. The kaijuu sweatdropped, and then,

There came a very nice tune of Nokia, and Syaoran facefaulted, taking it out, he answered.
" Wei? Mama-oh..."

I guess that's how the ticket thing started.