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a/n: Japanfan - true, I've never been pregnant, but I've never been a vampire either. ^_^
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Kaiba left grumbling. The Fates had ordered him to stay away from Sakura, and the other three of us took that as a warning to us not to interfere as well.
Ever curious, Hitas cornered me in my own house, curious to know about Sakura's where abouts. For once, I kept information Hitas wanted to myself. I had promised Sakura, and I was not about to break a promise, especially one to Sakura.
"Why not?" she demanded, trying to wheedle the secret out of me. She was so convinced I knew where Sakura was.
"I don't know, for the hundredth time, Hitas, for the love of all that's good, I don't know," I lied. I suck at lying. She wasn't convinced.
"You know, I know you know. I'll get it out of you one of these days. Maybe Kaiba'll know..." she disappeared. I could have told her that Kaiba wouldn't know anything I didn't know already. There was no reason for Sakura to tell Kaiba and not me.
I tried for a few weeks not to worry about Sakura, but I couldn't help it. So to keep track of where she was, I spelled a mirror to show me where she was.
She came from an area of her planet now called Kiramati. It was a beautiful place, full of trees and forests. Sakura would love it there. Unless the environment had changed significantly in the thousands of years that she had been living with us, Sakura would feel right at home. I still didn't know how going back home would help her though. If anything, it would make her past more vivid.
She went to the palace, and integrated herself into the princess's inner circle by becoming one of her friends and tutors. Sakura traded her martial arts expertise for sanctuary in the palace. The only thing about her appearance that she had changed was the length of her hair. It was unusual to see her hair go past her shoulders, but it looked wonderful.
I was rather suspicious that no one recognized Sakura as the Godess of Love. She looked exactally the same, except for the length of her hair. I watched in amazement as Sakura and the Princess Nakuru walked past people and yet no one recognized Sakura. The Fates were on her side.
I left the spell on the mirror for several days, but after the first week, I was sure she was perfectly safe where she was and unspelled the mirror.
I tried to live my life normally, but I couldn't remember life before Sakura. How had I even survived without knowing Sakura?
Some how though, a month passed by and I still lived. Kaho and Eriol found Sakura's location though. On accident almost, but there's no such thing as an accident. Especially among the Gods.
The King of Kiramati had fallen in love with Sakura and instead of praying to the Goddess of Love (which wouldn't have done him any good anyway) he prayed to Kaho, the Goddess of Wisdom. So in the middle of the night, I was yanked out of bed by an irritated Kaho. She hadn't told Eriol why she had pulled him out too, but as soon as she did, Eriol woke up.
I didn't react. It was late at night! What was I supposed to do? I wasn't thinking. But my lack of reaction was grating on Eriol's nerves. I could tell he was about to say something harsh so I spoke up first. "Hey. Before you two start yelling at me, in my own defense I'd like to say that I was just keeping a promise, and in Sakura's defense, we really should just keep this our little secret."
Kaho nodded as if she understood which made Eriol calm down as well. She gave me a funny look. She narrowed her eyes and frowned slightly. "There's another piece of information I know you're just dying to know," she said after she had scrutinized me.
She stopped more for effect than to see if the two of us would react, but I said, "well? What is it?"
"The King there, Yue, is falling in love with Sakura."
I nearly choked on my own spit. The King was falling in love with Sakura! I felt a spasm of jealously in my gut. There was no way a mere mortal could fall in love with a Goddess. Impossible! And there was no way a Goddess could fall in love with a mortal. Blasphemy! The idea made sense more and more and less and less.
Of course, while I'd been consumed by my jealous fits, what the Fates said all came back to me. That fateful day when Sakura left, they had said that she needed to be on Kiramati. I understood now. "Of course. That's it!" I said.
"What's it?" Kaho asked.
"The Fates," I explained. "They said that 'events would happen that were necessary in Sakura's life'. I've been thinking about this ever since and it didn't make sense to me, because it didn't occurr to me that an immortal would fall in love with a mortal."
"So she'll come back to us willing to accept love?" Eriol confirmed my train of thought.
Kaho nodded. "Makes sense. One question though. What's going to happen with Kaiba?"
The three of sat in silence. That was true. What about Kaiba. Should we just let him sit there in the dark? We should keep him away from Sakura as much as possible, I decided. Except I didn't want to say that out loud. Kaho and Eriol both knew about the slight animosity there was between Kaiba and I which would tarnish the validity of any decision I suggested about him.
It was a good thing that Eriol seemed to be thinking the same thing I was though. "We are going to act as if we don't know," was his order. I was more than happy to oblige.
Naturally, the first thing I remember doing the next morning was "reasearch" Yue. My way of reasearch was spelling a mirror and watching Yue very closely. He seemed like a nice enough person. I didn't see anything that suggested he would be anything like Kaiba - a deffinate plus. Then what I really wanted to see what what he saw. I wanted to see everything he saw, especially how he saw Sakura.
So, random times through out the day, I'd watch the mirror. Yes, Yue had an unnerving tendancy to watch Sakura. In fact, he spent a seemingly unnatural amount of time looking at her. Just looking at her. Sakura on the other hand, hadn't noticed. How the Goddess of Love was able to be so dense about Yue's love I'll never know, but she didn't notice Yue's slightly covetous looks.
One day while I was watching, Kaho came up behind me. Kaho is one of those people who is able to walk so softly that you don't even notice she's behind you until she taps your shoulder. "You know Syaoran. Yue doesn't know he in love yet. He asked me to help him figure it out. He seemed to be more than a little confused."
"Are you going to help him?" I asked flatly. She shook her head. "Why not?"
Kaho shrugged. "It just doesn't feel like the right thing to do." She looked through the mirror again. "Well, even though it looks like Sakura will be on Kiramati for a while, when she comes back..." She stopped there suggestively.
I finished the sentence gloomily for mer. "When she comes back, Kaiba will be after her again and I'll be left in the dust....again."
Kaho frowned. I was being too gloomy. "Kaiba is unpredictable. We don't know what he'll do. May be he'll cool down, may be he won't, but the fact that you're willing to wait for Sakura when he isn't and that you want what will make her happy shows that you love her more and that your love for her truly is genuine....Kaiba's is....questionable."
It was so like Kaho to try and cheer me up like that. And it would have worked to except at that very moment, Kaiba burst into my house. "Where the hell is everybody?"
I shot Kaho and irritated look and she rolled her eyes. "You don't have to yell, Kaiba. We're right here," I said coming down the stairs.
"I can't believe it," he went on. Barely taking the time to register that Kaho and I had entered the room. "She's been gone for over a month and all you can do is sit around and wait?"
Sorely tempted though I was, I refrained from yelling back at him. "I just happen to have more patience than you do."
If I could capture the look on Kaiba's face at that moment, I would. He looked like he half wanted to come beat me to a pulp, but wanted to keep me around to watch his triumph over Sakura. He would never have her though, as long as I was around, Sakura would be mine. I caught myself thinking that and looked down, almost ashamed of the way I was thinking.
"What ever happened to all of us being friends?" Kaho asked painfully. Kaiba looked away. He didn't have an answer, but then again, neither did I. The stared holes through us before she finally left the two of us speechless.
Kaiba looked at me like he wanted to say something insulting. "Syaoran-"
"Shut up and get out. If you ever hurt Sakura again, I will personally see to it that you suffer for the next millenia."
He smirked. "You don't even know her."
"I know her better than you do and I know that she left out of hatred for you."
"You know nothing," Kaiba hissed and stormed out of my house.
Kaiba was such a stubborn ass.
a/n: What did you think? I hope you review. I started another story. It was bad of me, I know, but I couldn't resist. I've written about six chapters ahead in Keys of Light and Dark and I was having writers block with this one, so I started The Onii-chan files. I rather like the title. Anywho. Go check it out plz. I hope I'll have another chapter up soon, but I like I've said before again and again: I can't garuntee it. So if you aren't on my mailing list, check back regularly. If you want to be on my mailing list, tell me and I'll add you. lotsa luv, cm2
