The moon was but a small sliver in the blackness of the sky. Tomorrow night, it would be a new moon. Yue looked up at the stars and allowed his thoughts to wander. The sun would be up in a mere three hours and he had yet to sleep. He just couldn't keep his mind from the past.
Yue thought about the new girl, Celeste, and the conversation they had when he dropped her off at home. Holding her in his arms had almost felt like holding Rakesh. She was very pretty, that long red hair and those beautiful green eyes, she had the same features that Rakesh had all that time ago. She wasn't Rakesh though she was Celeste. He almost had to keep reminding himself that.
All those years ago, at Rakesh's funeral, Yue had promised himself that he would never fall in love again. He didn't understand what he had done to deserve losing the love of his life and he never would. No one knows why bad things happen to good people but we eventually move on with life. Yue didn't want to move on with life and he couldn't, he had made a promise and he had never broken a promise.
Celeste seemed to cause something in his heart to stir. It was a small something, but it was still something. Yue just pushed it away as it being something relating to the fact that she was Rakesh reincarnated.
Deciding he had spent enough time thinking, he was actually brooding but he would never admit it, he decided to try to get some sleep. Moments after his head hit the pillow, he fell asleep and dreamt.
I've had this dream before. Rakesh is standing at the top of a flight of stairs looking down. I move up behind him and ask, "Do you need some help?" His leg is still hurt from when those men beat him up so he can't make it down the stairs by himself. At least that's what I tell myself.
"If you don't mind," he says, "I'm not quite sure if I could make it down yet."
I smile and walk up to him. I put my arm around him and sweep his feet out from under him, putting my other arm under his knees. On the short flight down, he gives me a small peck on the cheek. I try not to let him see the slight blush that appears for only a moment, but I know he does by the smile on his face.
I reach the bottom of the stairs and land, setting him down carefully. I keep my arm around his shoulder and move the other up but he seems to be a little shorter than normal. I look down and find, not the face of Rakesh, but the face of the girl, Celeste. What is going on?
I can't help myself as I lean down, further than I would have with Rakesh, and attempt to kiss her softly on the lips. To taste that sweetness that I am sure she has. Just as our lips are about to meet . . .
Yue awoke abruptly with sweat glistening on his face. The sun was just rising over the horizon. He had only gotten a mere two hours of sleep but he knew that he could never get back to sleep with dreams like that haunting him. He felt wide-awake.
He rose and dressed and attempted to read until he heard Fujitaka open his door and head to the bathroom. He exited his room and made his way downstairs to begin breakfast and hopefully get his mind off of his dreams.
Fujitaka came downstairs and found Yue making pancakes. He stood in the doorway watching the moon guardian stare off into space until he almost burned breakfast. "Pancakes are better browned, not blackened," Fujitaka said as he chuckled slightly.
Jolted out of his daze, Yue looked over at Fujitaka and then down at the pan he held. Inwardly cursing himself, he quickly flipped the pancake onto a plate and was grateful when it looked like it could be salvaged. "Keroberus will eat it if we put enough syrup on it." Yue said, and stepped back when Fujitaka took over the cooking.
"He will at that," Fujitaka smiled and Yue began to set the table for him, Sakura, and Kero. Fujitaka was almost done with his breakfast when, from upstairs, a loud squeal drifted down and they heard loud footsteps coming down the stairs. "I'm going to be late! Good morning father." Sakura said, as she wolfed down her breakfast in less than a minute. Kero soon flitted down after her, landing on the table before a large plate of pancakes, and began to eat, not noticing the slightly burnt one in the middle.
Sakura soon raced into the hall and quickly put on her roller blades. She then rolled swiftly out of the house and hurriedly made her way to school.
About one minute before the late bell, Sakura, Eriol, and Celeste arrived in the classroom. They all looked tired, like they hadn't gotten much sleep the night before. Just as they were about to explain to Shaoran and Tomoyo, who gave them all worried looks, the bell rang and the teacher walked in causing them to take their seats. They would explain everything at lunch.
Soren sat in a large chair, situated before a large fireplace. The small fire cast an eerie glow across his face showing the anger and fury in his eyes.
He positioned his long, black staff before him and looked at the black star situated at the top within a circle that had a pair of bat's wings on either side. As he watched, the star began to spin. It spun so fast that it appeared to be a globe and then a picture appeared in the center. Celeste's face, laughing and happy, appeared and caused Soren to scowl even more.
"I will kill him once and for all. His soul may have escaped me the first time, but I will make sure she suffers for what he did." He vowed. The picture in the staff suddenly changed and showed the moon guardian, Yue, sitting in a chair with a book on his lap. "He will be the perfect bait for my next trap." He then started to laugh maniacally, black magic swirling around him as he began to put his next plan into action.