Well, Hello and welcome to my little world of Weirdness . . . and in this fic, indescribable cute, fluffy-ness!!

Who Loves Short-Shorts? We Love Short Sort! Who Owns CCS? CLAMP owns CCS!!

Ahem. . . I also have to admit, I'm drawing from some of my own life experiences . . . and yes, I really did step on a rose thorn one time and scream at my mother, "Mummy! If you loved me you wouldn't do this to me!! Leave the thorn in!!" [Folds arms] Hey, gimme credit, my mother pulled 'em out with needles. . . and I was only five!!

And amazingly, this is semi-ExS. . . that's as in Sakura there. . . yup, this is my first tentative steps into the great unknown. . .

~TimeShift~

Dream

//thinking//

"speaking"

*stress/emphasis*

The Something Under The Bed.

By Dr Megalomania . . . You can't prove anything by that!!

~Once upon an Autumn . . .~

"Oh . . . I . . . I . . . I can't take it any more . . ." Clow wailed loudly, "I'm going to do it! I will! I'm going to jump!!"

"No! No!" Spinel leapt up with alarm, Keroberos and Yue glanced at each other and watched Clow and Spinel with interest, Spinel was getting quite upset. "Don't do it!! Noooooo!"

Clow sobbed, "goodbye!! I go to a much better place!!" Dry sobs racked his chest deeply, "Oh, goodbye cruel world, goodbye!!"

"NOOOOOOO!!!" Spinel wailed as he watched the fall. Yue and Keroberos leant out the window as Spinel leapt out of the window. Yue looked at Keroberos out of the edge of his gaze, as the lion struggled to keep a straight face, he caught Yue's gaze and blushed under his gold fur as he muttered quickly. "I didn't fall for it last time."

Clow was practically wetting himself on his floor, as Yue cracked. Keroberos got on his hind legs and yelled after Spinel, "Spinel!! For Clow's sake, it's only a leaf!!"

Once Spinel had returned . . .

"Eh?"

"Clow . . . he's a bit of a voice thrower . . . that and he's done it to all three of us now . . ."

Spinel blinked again, and glanced at Clow, then at the leaf he had so sun-guardian-ly rescued, "eh?!"

"Thank you. . ." Clow squeaked in the 'leaf' voice, "you saved me. . ." Clow sniggered and glanced at Yue, "unlike Yue. . . who was just plain mean. . ."

"What did Yue do?" Keroberos looked up at his older brother.

"Yue. . ." Clow folded his arms and stared at the angel, who had the good grace to at least look away, "Yue threw a rock at the leaf in order to help it off it's mortal coil. . ."

Yue growled, "but you made it sound really like it was in pain. . ."

"You threw a rock at it!!" Clow laughed, and knelt by Spinel as he glanced from the leaf to Clow, "okay. . . I was just playing a trick on you, okay?"

Spinel nodded, "what did Keroberos do?"

Yue wrinkled his nose, and laughed a rare guffaw, Keroberos growled, and padded over to his drawer of stuff. As the lion tried to looked really busy, Clow explained how Keroberos, so traumatised by the leaf's apparent suicide, that he insisted that the whole family go into full mourning, and that Yue had to wear black and Clow had to wear his full family robes, and that the leaf had to have a full funeral . . .

"He even gave a ten-minute eulogy!!" Clow sniggered; Keroberos picked up his bag of jellybeans and sauntered to the window.

"I'm going to eat these all by myself . . ." he leapt up, and threw his nose in the air, "and I won't save any for you, Clow Reed!"

Clow tried to look really upset, but waved Keroberos and Spinel off as they flew off. He glanced at Yue, who was laughing quietly to himself. The angel climbed onto the edge of Clow's bed and smiled sweetly, "you really are very mean. . . you know that, right?"

Clow nodded, and climbed up beside him, "but it's funny!!"

"You're still mean!" Yue sniffed as he threw himself back onto the bed, allowing his white hair to spill everywhere. Clow smiled and lowered himself lightly onto the sensitive hair. It was soft and warm, and silken against his skin, the smell of lavender and general Yue-ness clung to it.

"Clow?"

"Hmm. . ." he closed his eyes, and dozed slightly.

"It's your birthday soon. . ."

"I know. . ."

He grumbled quietly as he felt Yue get up, and opened his eyes as he felt the angel lean over him. Yue blinked, "what do you want for your birthday?"

"Dunno . . ." Clow yawned, "nothing big . . ."

~Later that night. . .~

The girl swung back and forth slowly, she had been waiting for him for a little while. Clow ran up to her excitedly, "I . . ." he blurted, "I wasn't expecting to see you twice in one year!" She blinked and looked up, she was so much older now. He frowned, "what's wrong?"

She didn't answer, just swung a little faster.

"Please. . ." Clow climbed onto the swing next to her, "you can tell me. . ."

"I . . ." she murmured, "I just lost two very dear friends of mine. . ."

"Really?" Clow murmured sadly, "I'm sorry. . ."

"For what? It's not like you could do anything about it. . ." she smiled slightly, "but I'm not here to tell you about that. . ." she tried to put on a brave face, "would you like to play the game again?"

"No. . ." Clow stopped swinging, "I want to help you. . . please, if it would help. . . let me. . ."

"Iie. . ." she smiled slightly, "It's very kind of you to offer but I . . ." Her voice cracked slightly, and her hand slipped absently to her stomach as she got off the swing, "I'd rather play the game."

Clow slid of the swing, and despite her height over his small twelve-year-old frame; he wrapped his arms around her, "Only if it cheers you up?"

She sniffed, and actually laughed, "Okay . . ." She paused and looked up, Clow turned and the blue haired boy was back.

"Hello Clow . . ." The blue haired boy smiled slightly, he shrugged and glanced at the dream girl, "I came to lend a hand . . ."

The girl smiled and nodded, "Hai . . ." She climbed onto the swing, "Okay Clow . . . are you ready?"

Clow climbed on to his swing and glanced at the blue haired boy, he stood behind the girl and pushed her gently. He blinked; he was providing some support for her. The girl closed her eyes, and sighed, she cradled her stomach once again. Clow smiled slightly, knowing that, at least the girl would be well cared for. He frowned slightly as he realised he probably would forget most of this as soon as he awoke. Sighing, Clow nodded to the girl, "Yes . . . I am . . ."

The next day. . .

"Greedy pig!" Yue complained as they returned to Clow's room to play. "Pig, I say, PIG!"

Keroberos shrugged, "I'm faster than the speed of lightning . . ." He grinned, "Lightning cannot wait for Yue to swallow his drink before starting the last pancake."

"I even told you I was going to eat it . . ." The angel swiped at him, "And even then you ate it!!"

"Lightning must act fast." Keroberos got lost in his little daydream, "Yue must be faster than the lightning . . . With training, Yue might even become one with the lightning . . ."

Yue rolled his eyes, and pushed Spinel forward, "You deal with him!"

Spinel chuckled as Keroberos began to act like an old Kung Foo master. "Keroberos, you are crazy . . ."

Clow smiled and grabbed Yue's hand, "Cheer up . . . there will be other pancakes."

"But I wanted that one!" Yue scowled stubbornly, "And that greedy pig still ate it."

Clow shook his head and pushed his bedroom door open. He stopped in the doorway and stared. Yue blinked and followed his gaze, his light purple eyes widening. Spinel shook his head slowly, at Keroberos' continuing tale about the Lightning, and stared into the room wondering why everyone had stop. Keroberos trailed off as he followed Spinel's gaze.

The four blinked.

The girl blinked back, and her chewing slowed to a stop. "Helloooo . . ." She said around a mouthful of jellybeans, "My name's Ruby Moon." 

The four in the doorway blinked, and glanced at each other. Then the two cats and the white haired angel stared at the human boy.

She raised an eyebrow, and slid off Clow's bed, taking the bag of Keroberos' jellybeans with her. Ruby walk up to the door, and stared at the human boy, she felt . . . drawn to him. The jellybeans spilt out of the bag as she dropped them, and jumped up suddenly. Clow yelped in surprise as the ruby girl wrapped her arms around his neck. "What are you doing?!"

"I love you!!" She crowed, "You made me!!"

"Ooooh!!" Clow smiled and hugged her back, "That's great! Now you can be Spinel's yin!!"

Spinel's eyes widened, and he stepped back as the girl turned to look at him, she grinned and started to chew again, "What is your name again?"

". . . Spinel . . ." The cat answered quietly, "Hello Ruby-san . . ."

"Spidel?" The pink haired girl lisped slightly as she spoke around the huge lump of jellybean, she frowned and wrinkled her nose, "That's a really hard name, you should be called . . . something cute, like . . . Suppi!" Ruby grinned, and looked around quickly, she spotted Keroberos' bag of jellybeans and picked them quickly, "Wanna eat some of these? They are really nice!"

"Um . . . no, thank you," Spinel backed up a little, "I don't really---"

"But they're really nice!!" Ruby frowned, and then grinned as she quickly grabbed a handful out of the bag, "Here! Quickly, eat these!! Quickly!!"

Spinel jumped as ruby suddenly rushed him, and jammed the sweets into his mouth. Clow looked up to the ceiling, "oh no. . ."

Yue stared worriedly at ruby, as if he was questioning her sanity, Keroberos stared at the bag of jellybeans worriedly before it suddenly occurred to him . . .

"Wait! Waitwaitwaitwait. . . waaaaaaait. . ." Keroberos murmured as he walked closer to the bag of jellybeans she was clutching, "those are MY jellybeans!"

"So?"

"So . . . you should have asked me before you ate them!" Clow chuckled slightly as Keroberos became indignant. The lion could hardly talk, clow thought about the many, many times when keroberos just happened to mistake Clow's bag for his own . . .

Ruby blinked sweetly as she looked up at him, "No, I shouldn't . . ."

Keroberos' mouth fell open, "Why not?"

Ruby grinned, "you might have said no!" Keroberos growled, as she turned her luminescent attention on the next person. "You got long hair."

"I know . . ." Yue shuffled back, nodded, and turned to walk into the bedroom. He'd managed to get three paces in until the slack on his hair pulled in. Yue stopped, and his eyes widened as he turned.

Ruby moon was holding the end of his ponytail.

Clow was wincing, Keroberos' mouth had fallen open again, and Spinel was hiccupping quietly. Ruby grinned up at him adorably, "You got reaaaaaaaaalllllly long hair!"

Yue's bottom lip began to tremble as ruby laced her sticky fingers in his hair; she grinned at him again, still chewing a handful of jellybeans before the unthinkable happened.

Ruby sneezed.

. . . Yue's eyes filled with tears.

Not only had she snotted all over his hair . . . the huge lump of chewed jellybean was now stuck to his hair.

Ruby sniffed, and giggled, "Whoopsies . . . I sneezed!"

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And Now It's Time to Leave It To Doctor Megalomania!!

DrM: [shudders] Well, now Ruby has=---ACK!!

[Static-static-stactic . . . picture clears, Yue calmly sits behind desk, and shuffles papers]

Yue: [really calm] The Doctor is out in the moment, and probably will be for a few hours . . . please leave a review . . . [glares at floor off-screen, sound of painful groaning can be heard] I'm sure she'll get it when her bones knit.