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(A/N: Wow! We up to double figure chapters now, but I never thought I would get this far. Ah well. Here's Chapter 10. This chapter does include flash backs, so people be warned…)
Why me?
By The Redundant Goddess…
The Morning After…. Again…The sun shone through the pink hello kitty curtains and on to the sleepy Moon Guardian, who looked a bit worst for wears, tucked up in bed snoozing peacefully. The usually neat and tidy slivery long locks of hair looked all out of place and wild, his usually hard face looked calm and soft, with a slight hint of a smile forming upon his lips. Every thing seemed serene after the night before. Well, that was until Yue woke up.
Yue's sleepy eyes opened up slowly, hurting slightly due to the sunlight blinding him. He gave a groggy yawn and rolled over in the bed to find something beside him. Carefully he raised an eyebrow and poked the object. Nothing happened, so the pale-faced angel removed the cover to find a bright red traffic cone lying beside him.
" What the…?" Yue yelped. His slightly blood shot eyes widened and Yue shot up to a sitting position, only to find a massive headache hit him. The pained rippled through his head like Keroberous's teeth where ripping his brain apart. Urgh… Ow… So Yue decided to slowly droop back on to the bed and lay down, which did seem to help his headache. Dear Clow and all things holy, what the hell hit me? My Poor head. Owwy owwy owwwwwwww…
He shot a glare at the red triangular object. Where the hell did that come from? I knew Yuki had some odd bedroom furniture, but this is a little scary. I don't remember it being here. So, Yue pushed it out of the bed, which produced a loud thud, which made the Moon Guardian's head explode with pain again. OWWWWWWWWWWWWW. Okay, now I get it. Noise and sudden movements are bad for head. What in the name of Clow is wrong with me? If Eriol's been up to no good again I'll kill him!
As he lay there for a while, Yue felt the headache subside into a low thud, though it still caused annoying pain. Things seemed to be going well after another few minutes of lying down starring at the ceiling. Yuki wasn't even there in his mind. Thank Clow for that! If he were there he'd be singing that damn Barney the dinosaur song over and over again! A Shudder passed through Yue's spine. Then a, somewhat, evil idea popped, quietly, into Yue's foggy mind. Why should I put up with this headache? Yuki is more used to this than I can! All I have to do is find the little kawaii freak and transform back and I'll be all right!
So Yue looked deep within his mind to find his false form huddled in a corner. When the Angel asked the Snow bunny whether he would like to transform back, he got an answer he wasn't expecting. Woah! Who would have thought he knew how to use those words? Well, that's that annoying Touya for you, teaching my innocent false form naughty words…So, Yuki basically said no, which left Yue with a bigger headache. So, now I have a huge headache, have woken up to a Traffic cone beside me, and my idiot false form won't come out… DAMN! What else can go wrong?
"Yue?" A soft sweet voice called beyond the other side of the bedroom door.
The Moon Guardian groaned. Great, I just had to think it! Suddenly the door began to open and the silver haired angel felt a pang of panic flow through him. He quickly covered himself up and closed his eyes tight. Please don't see me! Please don't see me… But as soon as the door was fully open, Yue opened one eye and he saw the small form and bright green eyes of his Mistress.
"Mistress?" He croaked.
She smiled warmly at him and walked over to him.
"So, you are awake then. I thought you would have slept longer to be honest."
Yue blinked as he sat up, slowly and leaned against the headboard. She's still in the same dress as last night. That's odd. Nice, but odd. He was ripped out of his thoughts as Sakura sat down on the bed, quite close to him and held a glass of water in front of his pale face.
"Here," She said softly. " Drink this."
Yue shock his head, even though it started to thump again, at his Mistress.
"I have no need to…"
"Drink?" She cut him off sounding slightly annoyed and a small frown appeared across her face. "Well, you did pretty well at drinking last night."
He gulped. Shit! She knows. Oh, Clow…Then it hit the not so angelic angel. All the memories from last night flooded his brain, which caused his cheeks to fill with blood. So, Yue just gave his Mistress a weak smile and accepted the cool glass.
"You have a point there Mistress."
Having said that only caused Sakura to frown more.
"Yue!" she groaned, loudly.
Yue winced as he took a long gulp of water. His free hand shot to his forehead and held it gingerly. His eyes looked at his Mistress's pleadingly only to find a playful smirk on her face and a dangerous glint in her eyes.
"Serves you right." Her smirk looking more evil by the minute, though it was quickly wiped off and replaced by one of her more caring smiles. "Now, come on. Drink all of the water. It'll make you feel better."
After Yue drunk all of the clear, cool liquid, Sakura grasped the glass and went into the en suite bathroom to fill it up again. The angel groaned and held his head with both hands, his amethyst eyes wincing. Things just weren't going his way. So now I can add having Sakura look after me. Joy! Though he didn't really mind that much, it was just embarrassing, especially after being completely wasted. A soft laugh drifted from the bathroom.
"You know I have looked after Touya so many times after he has had a night on the town and even Yuki, but I never thought I would be looking after my own Moon Guardian."
Again Yue felt his headache grow. DAMN! Why is she making fun of me? That's not fair!
"But at least your not telling me to… F off." She blushed as she walked over to Yue again and sat down, only this time sitting the glass of water on the pink beside table. "You're a very nice patient."
The Angel felt a blush coming on so he turned away, pretending to rub his head in pain and replied
"Thank you."
They sat in silence for a, seemingly never ending, minute. Just as Yue took a sip of water, Sakura broke the silence.
" So do you remember how you got home last night?"
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As Yue looked up all he could see was a blurred image of a human shadow and a pair of green eyes.
"Yue?" A Soft and familiar sweet voice called.
"Huh?" The slightly hammered suit wearing Guardian groaned. His eyes still unable to focus properly, which made him, feel a little woozy.
"Yue?" The voice asked again. "Yue, is that you?"
He tired to stand up, but could only manage to sit, with the help of the shadowy person holding him.
"I don't know, but you look slightly familiar." He paused; his eyes narrowed funnily and tried to look at the person properly. " Well, actually I don't seem to be able to see at the moment, but you sure do sound like someone I know."
A hiccup escaped his lips as the person began to drag him up off the cold concrete floor. A soft laugh could be heard from the person, who was now beginning to look like a girl.
"Yue, what in the… why were you on the floor?"
Yue laughed slightly. Nearly tripping both of them up.
"I was walking and then I was laying down." His words now began to slur. "Any way, who are you and why are you holding me? I CAN WALK!"
The girl dragging him along, who was wearing a black dress that Yue thought looked really nice, was struggling to hold the tall creature up.
" Yes, Yue. I know you can walk, but you'll fall on the concrete if I don't hold you up." She huffed and puffed. But then stopped and lent him against a phone box. "Don't you know recognise me?" her voice sounded slightly sad.
Yue shrugged and grabbed a traffic cone beside him for support.
"Like I said, my eyes don't seem to want to work. All I can see is your eyes, which are really really beautiful by the way. They're like emeralds…"hiccup " or something like that."
The green-eyed girl felt her cheeks heat up and thanked god that her Moon Guardian couldn't see it.
"Yue, it's me Sakura."
"Sakura?"
"Yes!"
"Oh, that's why your eyes are pretty…"
Sakura continued to blush, but laughed it off.
"Yes, it's me Yue. Now you stand still and I'll get us a cab."
And with that Sakura stood on the pavement, with an extremely drunk Yue and waved for a taxi home…
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"So, you found me and we got a taxi back." The guardian said in a very flat and non-emotional way. Although his mind was completely the opposite. OH DEAR CLOW! WHY ME???
But, the kind hearted, auburn haired Mistress of the Sakura cards just nodded.
"Yep, that's pretty much most of it." She sighed as her bright green eyes looked out of the window. She looked a bit sad, which worried Yue slightly.
"Sakura-sama? Are you okay?"
She looked back with her ever-cheery face and nodded quickly.
"Yes, Yue. I'm fine thanks. Just a bit tired."
The hung over Moon Guardian gave his Mistress a small smile, before asking a question that had been on his mind since he had remembered Sakura finding him outside the bar.
"Sakura-sama, How did you find me?"
She looked thoughtful for a minute before answering. Her eyes again looking a bit sad.
"Well, after I went to say good bye to Eriol, who didn't actually leave Tomoyo's in the end, I went to find you." She sighed. " But I couldn't. So I asked Kero if he had seen you." Uh oh "But he seemed to be really upset, so I went outside and I found Ruby Moon." Oh Sweet Clow NO! " And she said that you flew off home because Yuki was asking to go home and you weren't happy or something."
Yue just sat there and blinked. He remembered what he and Ruby had been discussing and what had been said. He was amazed at what Sakura had just said. What? Ruby didn't spill the beans? Amazing, though I am not so sure if it's a good thing though… But before Yue could think another further on the matter, Sakura continued her story.
"So, after that, Tomoyo and Eriol seemed to be getting along fine with each other, if you know what I mean…" She blushed "He had been after her all evening and was using me to get Tomoyo jealous or something like that. But any way they where together and I thought it best to leave, since Kero was too busy stuffing down cake and Ruby fixing her make up."
Dear Clow, that must have taken Ruby the whole night. Pfft Trust Eriol to play dirty to get a girl to like him. Well at least that explains all the touching…
"Any way, I didn't want to take a cab home, because it was such a nice night. So I walked. It was really nice actually. I could see all the stars and all the twinkling lights of the town. Reminded of old times, you know. But when I walked through the centre of town I saw this figure lying on the ground, which…"
"Turned out to be me?" Yue butted in. Surprising both he and his Mistress. She let out a giggle.
"Yeah, it was you. I was a bit worried and it took me awhile to figure out why you were there on the floor, but then I remembered Touya and his night time fun and got us a taxi home and you know the rest."
The usually happy cherry blossom seemed to be upset. Not overly crying or hysterical upset, but not happy. This made Yue feel guilty. He felt guilty because he just remembered what Ruby had said about Yue going back to Yuki's.
"Are you angry with me?" He whispered, his head slightly hung and eyes starring at the Hello Kitty du ve cover.
"Huh? Oh, about last night?" She chirped. " Well, I was upset you didn't say goodbye and I was worried when I saw you lying on the street and then slightly annoyed that you got drunk…" A frown formed on her delicate features again, but then vanished and was replaced by the earlier evil smirk. " But since your suffering now, it's justice enough and I can forgive." She grinned cheekily.
The Moon Guardian felt flabbergasted. His jaw hung open slightly and his eyes went a widened. Wow! Go Evil Mistress! Never thought she would say that…
"You know that isn't very nice of you Mistress!" He moaned in a very dramatic an over innocent way, trying to make himself look like the victim. However Sakura just giggled and winked at her Guardian before bopping him on the head.
"I know, but that's what you get for calling me Mistress."
Yue winced again and let out a strangled " OW!" before coming up with another question.
"Where did you sleep last night?" He blushed suddenly. Gee that wasn't at all rude was it? " I mean, erm… er… I mean…"
Sakura laughed and dipped her head to hide the shade of red that covered her cheeks.
"I slept down stairs, since Yuki doesn't have any guest bedrooms. Though the sofa was really nice to sleep on. I didn't think it wise to leave you here on your own when you were… well… ill. Plus the fact it was late and all…"
"Oh… right…" The Moon Guardian replied blankly.
"So do you remember getting home Yue?"
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Sakura pushed her tall Moon Guardian, who was clutching a red traffic cone with all his strength, into the small taxi and gave the driver the address of Yuki and Yue's house. After managing, with some trouble, to get Yue's seatbelt on, she let her body drift back into the black leather seats of the cab. She let out a tired sigh and let her eyes shut before they flew open as something heavy plopped into her lap.
"Hmmmmmmmmmmm Soft." Muttered Yue as he layed his head on his Mistress's lap.
" Erm… Yue?" Stuttered a slightly shocked Sakura, who's face now looked like an over cooked lobster.
"I saw Clowman."
"What?"
"I mean Bar Reed."
"Er…"
"Damn I don't know what I mean, but you know right Mistress?"
Sakura let another sigh escape as she began to stroke her Guardians soft, if a bit messy, Silvery hair.
"Yue, just go to sleep okay? You'll feel better if you do."
She heard a soft laugh, which was a nice sound to hear from her usually cold Angel, and felt his hand pat hers.
"Okay then, I'll sleep. I can do that. Just watch me sleep. You look…" He yawned " nice by the way…" With that Yue nodded off and left a slightly stunned and heavily blushing Sakura, who just sat in the taxi with a very odd smile on her face.
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The Moon Guardian gulped.
"No, I don't remember much." He lied. Well, what was I supposed to say? "Oh yes, I remember plonking my head in your lap before spouting complete rubbish and falling asleep!"…
Sakura just smiled.
"Hehehe. I guessed you wouldn't." She looked over at her dress. It was slightly crumpled and smelled of the party, but to Yue it still looked nice. This is all I need. NOT NOW! However Sakura did a cute frown and tutted to herself.
"Damn, I wish I hadn't have slept in this last night. It's going to be really hard to get out all the creases."
Yet again Yue felt a pang of guilt.
"I am sorry," he uttered.
"Oh no it's okay Yue. It's not your fault. It was old any way. I am sure it'll be okay."
She smiled again and made the guardian feel slightly better. But this strange conversation did remind Yue of something. CRAP! My suit! I wonder if it's all ruined because I slept in it. That Bimbo Tomoyo will kill me if I destroy that shirt, not too mention Sakura will be pissed. However as he went to check to see if it was ruined, he soon found out he shouldn't have been worried. Since all he was wearing was his trousers… and nothing else. His face went bright red as he pushed off the covers to reveal his pale bare chest, which he quickly covered again once he realised that Sakura had begun to stare at him.
"erm… did you… er… take of my…"
"Shirt?" the cherry blossom uttered quickly. " Yes I did. Erm… you see you had just started to take it off, after I had brought you up the stairs. Luckily I had brought the cards with me and used Power to carry you up here, your not very light I can tell you now. But anyway, once I plonked you on the bed you woke up and tried to get undressed. Unfortunately you tripped over that traffic cone and decided to make such a noise I had to use sleep on you."
Yue raised an eyebrow.
"Sorry for that, anyway after you went to sleep I finished taking off your shirt and tucked you into bed." She took in a deep breath and gave a weaker version of her brilliant smile.
" I See." Whispered Yue. " Thank you very much, I am sure you didn't really want to do it, but thank you any way."
"My pleasure" Giggled Sakura, before clamping her mouth shut.
Yet again the two people sat in silence and let their eyes gaze at each other for a bit before abruptly breaking eye contact and looking at other things in the room. Though Sakura's emeralds looked straight at Yue's messy hair.
"Oh my!" She gasped. " Yue! Your hair! It's a mess. Let me brush that out for you!"
However before Yue could react, let alone say no, Sakura had jumped up on the bed behind his head and with brush in hand started to de tangle the Guardians long locks.
Now Yue was in a state of conflict. His headache was made worse by Sakura's actions, yet the brush being combed through his hair felt like heaven. Not to mention all those funny feelings from last night had started to come back. What am I to do? He groaned. However he remembered something.
"Well, I suppose you could just think of all the bad things about her. You know. Ever time you see her focus and remembering all the annoying things about her that make you want to run away. That should put you off her."
It clicked. Thank you Ted or… who ever you were… And so Yue did what Yue thought best. He started to think of all the bad things about Sakura.
She's annoyingly happy in the mornings. She is mean to me when I woke up this morning. She still looks good in that black dress even though it's creased, which is a bad thing. Er… Oh Clow… But it wasn't really working as Sakura's brush strokes were making the confused and hung over Guardian feel all floppy and relaxed. Hmmmmmmmmmmm That feels. Good. ARGH! How can I think of bad things about her when she is being so nice to me? She's looking after me even though I ditched her last night. She even took off my shirt, which must have been weird. She's just perfect…DAMNIT!
"Yue?" he could hear her whisper?
"huh?"
"Yue, You okay…"
"…"
It was no good. Yue couldn't fight it. He had fallen asleep as Sakura brushed his hair. He couldn't help it. So he lay there asleep, snoozing peacefully like before, with his head on his Mistress's lap.
Sakura smiled warmly at her sleeping angel and brushed a couple of his bangs that covered his sleeping eyes with her fingers. She carefully stood up, with Sleep in hand, just in case he woke and place a small kiss on his forehead. Sakura watched as a small smile formed on Yue's pale face and then walked out of the room. Leaving Yue to dream of a certain green eyed girl brushing his hair on the moon…
(A/N: W00t! Muwahahahaaha. Phew, glad I got this chapter finished. A bit long though. This might be the last chapter I write for a while. Since I am going back to Sixth form soon and my Muse is being a bitch. I just don't know how to get from this chapter to the end chapter, which I have already planned out. I might see if I can put up the "Yue's holiday" chapters. That might work. But… I am not so sure, due to it making this fic too long. Any way. Thanks to all those people who keep reviewing this fic and giving it nice comments. They are very welcomed. If any of you have any idea's or questions or even challenges you want to put to me just leave a Review by clicking the box below or email me. My Address is on my Author page, which you can get to by clicking my name. Hehehe. Also I was wondering if they're any fan artists who read this fic, who could draw me a Yue in his suit. I would love to have a copy of that. Lol. Who know's I might try drawing one myself. Any way. Thanx a lot so until next time. PIES!)