A/N: *slightly suspicious* You know, I think some of you are
trying to make me pair off Li with one of the other boys.
Already, Yamazaki and Touya have been recommended. And here I
thought everyone would be telling me to get off my arse, save Li
from his impending marriage, and put in S+S. ^__^ Yaoi lovers,
all of ya. Perhaps it is time to bring in Yue, or at the very
least have Li and Koryu meet. *evil grin* And yes, that means
exactly what you think it does.
Note to self: must find copy of first CCS movie and watch it so I can do a half-decent job with Li's family in case I need them to show up. Anybody know where I can get it cheap?
*cries* Wish is overrrr . . . ;_; But at least now I can say exactly when this fic is set, eh? AFTER the trip to the amusement park, and before Kohaku is called back to Heaven. Ta- da: it is official. Anyway, I'm happy because I found scanslations of Tsubasa, and it is gooood. Oh, my darling Syaoran-kun . . . And Fye and Blackie must get married and have- er, adopt- a million babies! -*_*-
Now, let's have some sweet yaoi! ^__^ Er, I mean, "plot." Yeah . . . *koffkoff* Plot is our friend.
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"Unforeseen Carpooling"
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"Are you alright?" Shuichiro asked the figure lying before him calmly.
"Mm-hm," Yukito replied slightly drowsily from the hospital bed. "Is Sakura-chan okay?"
"Who?" Shuichiro gave him a puzzled look.
"Oh- right," the other man realized, raising a hand to his forehead and grimacing slightly. "Sorry, force of habit. I forgot you weren't To-ya again . . . Really, you do look so much like him . . . "
"Sorry, don't know anyone named To-ya." Shuichiro got to his feet, intending to leave.
"I know." Yukito smiled, and it was strangely melancholy. "It's just . . . when I have my fainting spells . . . I've gotten used to waking up in To-ya's bed." He sniffed slightly, and Shuichiro blinked in surprise when he realized that the younger man was crying.
He sat back down and fixed the other with a solemn look. "What happened?"
"Oh, nothing!" Yukito smiled at him sweetly despite his tears, quickly brushing them away. "Just thinking about something."
"You mean 'someONE,' don't you?" Shuichiro was far from stupid, after all.
"My, ah," Yukito blushed, "friend. That's all. I . . . haven't really seen him very much since I went to college."
"Mm." The doctor frowned slightly. So it was THAT kind of a "someone." "Anyway, I couldn't find anything really wrong with you- you just seem to have fallen asleep on your feet and keeled over. I can get you a prescription to help you if you're having trouble with insomnia or anything like that."
"Oh no, no, it's alright," Yukito reassured him. "It happens a lot. Well, it used to. Not really lately . . . But I'm not sick," he added hastily, realizing that it might not be the best idea to tell random people certain facts about his humanity (or rather, the lack thereof).
Shuichiro raised an eyebrow and picked up a notepad and pen. "How often would you say these attacks occur?" he inquired.
Yukito suddenly looked slightly nervous. "Um. Can I call somebody? Please?"
Shuichiro handed him his cell phone. "Go right ahead," he said invitingly, making no move to leave.
Yukito hesitated slightly but took it and dialed.
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"Moshi moshi. Kinomoto residence," Li said sweetly, smiling into the receiver as the others tried to absorb the not-so-great news he'd dropped on their heads like a dead duck and his strangely passive new disposition.
"Er- hello?" the voice on the other end said hesitantly. "Who . . .?"
"Ah- Yukito-san!" Li yelped, nearly dropping the phone and blushing bright red.
"Oh!" Yukito exclaimed in surprise. "Li-kun, is that you?!"
"Y-Yes," the boy squeaked, blushing even darker and barely resisting the urge to swoon. Yukito had recognized his voice!
Touya jumped up and grabbed at the phone. ""It's Yuki?! Gimme that, gaki!" he snapped.
"Hey! I haven't talked to him for ages!" Li protested as Touya snatched it away.
"I want to talk to Yukito too!" Sakura cried eagerly, practically pouncing on her brother.
"Us too! Us too!" Ruri and Hari put in, more for show than anything else, as they had no idea who Yukito even WAS.
"Are they always like this?" Kohaku whispered nervously to Tomoyo, the only sane one she'd seen so far.
"Ohohohoho!" Tomoyo cackled gleefully, ignoring the angel to record the siblings' struggle for the telephone and the passively-watching Li, who finally just plucked said phone out of the grappling pair's hands and began chattering away merrily with Yukito despite his tomato-red blush. They didn't even notice, too busy fighting for the receiver to realize that neither of them had it anyway.
Kohaku mentally retracted her previous opinion of Tomoyo. They were ALL a little mad. Even Li was, quite simply, too sane not to be crazy. The uber-polite way he dealt with everything that came along made it clear that something strange was going on beneath the surface.
She hoped it was just the marriage. She didn't want to have to worry about anything more than Shuichiro's wish and helping Touya adjust. It was a slightly selfish thought, but most of her concern was for the two older men whose lives she was screwing up.
Li giggled as Ruri and Hari rubbed against his legs, blush darkening even further, and Touya and Sakura finally stopped bickering for long enough to notice.
"I think the gaki's overdosing on happy moon-vibes," Kerberos muttered. Li threw a handy fork at the guardian's feet without even missing a beat. It stuck in the linoleum with a sharp "twang."
"Hush, Kerberos-san," he said sweetly, putting a finger to his lips. "I shall make you a nice cake if you are a good kitty while I am on the phone."
"Er . . . okay." Kerberos gave the teenager a wary look. Li's smile just sweetened even further, and more than one person in the room noted with slight unease how very much like Eriol he looked in that moment. Of course, Eriol was a perfectly nice person beneath it all, but . . .
He was also undeniably a little bit crazy. Knowing that you aren't who everyone you know thinks you are and living as a man in a child's body will do that to people.
Li had always seemed, if not the calmest of the group, then at least one of the most grounded. Seeing him looking so brittle really wasn't a good sign.
"Alright, Yukito-san," Li said with a faint smile. "We'll be right over, don't worry." He hung up the phone and turned back to the others, clapping his hands together once to get everyone's attention. "Listen up! Yukito-san's at the hospital: he had another fainting spell a few hours ago and he needs a ride home. The doctor won't let him go until he's sure someone's going to be around to watch him."
"He . . . fainted?" Sakura looked horrified, her quarrel with Touya instantly forgotten. "Oh my God!"
"What?!" Touya cried. "I thought that was over with!"
"Thought what was over with?" Ruri asked blankly.
"Apparently it's not," Li replied quietly. "I'm afraid I know what's happening, though."
"What is it?!" Kerberos demanded. "Tell us!"
" . . . I don't think I ought to just yet," Li said finally, biting his lip. "But I know how to fix it," he added quickly before the others could kill him, because both Kerberos and Touya were clearly considering it. "So please don't worry. We just need to get there as soon as possible."
"Come on," Touya said flatly, grabbing the boy by the back of his shirt and literally lifting him off his feet even as he headed for the door. "Kerberos, you can take the girls, right? I'll get the gaki, and Kohaku . . ." He hesitated slightly and looked back at her, unsure of whether or not she would want her nature revealed.
"Kero-chan can carry Kohaku-san and the kitties!" Sakura piped up, waving the Key in one hand. "Tomoyo-chan and I'll go on Fly!"
"Oh, I couldn't-" Kohaku began, but got no further.
"Good, that's settled," Li murmured, patting at his pockets. "Now where . . .? Ah, here it is." He pulled a pen out of his slacks and snatched up a memo pad off the kitchen counter, scribbling a quick note. "Alright then, now your father won't worry. We can go."
Touya grabbed him again and rushed out the door. "You know how not to fall off one of these, I assume?" he asked, jerking his head at his motorcycle and dropping the helmet into Li's arms as he slid on.
"Just who do you think I am? Believe me, if I could stay on Fly and Kerberos while trying to capture the Cards, I can stay on one of these," Li retorted dryly, donning the helmet and getting on behind him. "Everything will definitely be alright," he added with a small smile.
"As long as you don't fall off, gaki," Touya snorted, grinning slightly wickedly as he recognized Sakura's "invincible spell" and gunning the engine. He found himself taking a certain amount of sadistic pleasure in going much, much faster than necessary.
Meanwhile, Sakura was fumbling through her bag to find the Fly Card, even as Kerberos transformed back into his true form and kneeled down so that Kohaku could mount easily. The embarrassed angel did so, joined by Ruri and Hari, and Sakura finally triumphantly brandished Fly.
"Key that hides the forces of darkness! Show your true identity!" she yelled, throwing it up in the air and lashing out with her staff. "I, Sakura, command you under the covenant: release the seal! FLY!" The staff instantly sprouted wings, and in a whirl of brilliant white feathers and the black lace of Tomoyo's skirt, the teenagers were astride it and rocketing upwards- like gravity had suddenly forgotten that they existed. Kerberos flapped his wings once, lazily, and then shot off after them with a screaming Kohaku and cheering Ruri and Hari clinging to his back.
"Not this FAST!" Kohaku wailed.
"If I go any slower, we'll lose them," Kerberos snapped. "And if my brother is sick, I need to be with him!"
"Your . . . brother?" The angel blinked.
"I'll explain later," the guardian said flatly.
"Okay," she replied softly, tightening her grip on the other and burying her face in his back. "Just don't fall or anything, okay? If I'm too heavy-"
"You aren't. I won't drop you," Kerberos promised.
"That's not what I'm worried about," Kohaku said fretfully, finally straightening up slightly and tightening her grip on the other's fur. "I just meant- I could never catch you if you fell, and then I'm sure Touya would be angry. He's already mad enough with me."
The guardian narrowed his eyes and gave her a suspicious look. "Did you do something to Sakura?" he asked darkly.
Ruri and Hari both rolled their eyes at the thought. "As IF!" they chorused.
"I'd never hurt such a sweet girl!" Kohaku exclaimed, clapping a hand to her mouth. "I'd never hurt ANYone; I'm not made for that!" She shuddered at the thought, horrified by even considering it.
"Why do I think you mean that literally?" Kerberos mused aloud.
"Because I do!" she exclaimed. "We can't lie!"
" 'We'?" the guardian repeated in a questioning tone. "Who's 'we'?"
"Touya and I, and the other-" she started.
Cue the usual convenient, it's-too-soon-to-give-away-the-plot-to- other-characters distraction.
"Oh my GOD!" Sakura screamed as a huge gust of wind neatly toppled both the Card Mistress and Tomoyo. For a moment, they clung upside-down to the staff, and then both girls lost their grip. Sakura made a last, desperate grab at the staff, clinging on for another second as Kerberos caught Tomoyo by her skirt, and Kohaku automatically reached out and snatched the lighter girl around the waist.
"Please don't fall," she said worriedly. "Touya is already so angry. It's not good for him to be angry. We aren't supposed to be like that."
"Not wif da 'we' again," Kerberos said in a muffled voice through Tomoyo's multi-layered skirt.
"So cool, Kohaku!" Ruri cheered.
"For a bubblehead, anyway," Hari amended quickly on her sister's behalf, and both nodded eagerly.
"Thank you for catching us," Sakura said meekly as Tomoyo snatched Fly back by its head. "Sorry for the trouble, Kohaku- san."
"It's my fault anyway," Kohaku sighed. "You'd have been riding Kerberos-san if not for me."
"Oh, no, no, it's fine!" Sakura exclaimed. "I could've just used Float before we . . . oh no, wait, I can't summon the Cards without my staff," she remembered with a wince. "Um. Well . . . all's well that ends well?" she tried weakly.
"I think I'm gonna have a heart attack," Kohaku mumbled, her eyes tearing up slightly- and not from the force of the wind, mind.
"No, no, heart attack BAD!" Sakura squealed, desperately waving her arms in the air. "Please don't die, Kohaku-saaaan!"
"Oh, don't worry," Kohaku reassured her with a smile. "I don't think I can." Ruri and Hari looked uncertain as to whether or not they should be happy with that statement.
"We're almost there, Sakura-chan," Tomoyo spoke up, pointing ahead. "Maybe we should land now and walk in, though- we don't want anyone to see Kero-chan like this, and Fly is still out too."
"Right!" the Card Mistress agreed eagerly even as Kerberos took the girl's advice, landing in a small alley. Sakura quickly dismounted, shrinking her staff and reverting Fly, and she and Tomoyo both dashed off down the sidewalk while Kerberos returned to his smaller form.
"Should I carry you?" Kohaku asked nervously.
"Yeah, if ya don't mind," the guardian replied with a nod. "Just follow the kids."
"I can do that!" Kohaku said brightly, scooping him out of the air and hurrying after the other two. She blinked in surprise as they came out of the alley, and then gasped. "Oh! This- this is Shuichiro's hospital!"
"Kohaku-san, are you coming?" Sakura called back. "Syaoran and Touya already went in!"
"Coming!" the angel squeaked, rushing after her and making a mental note to keep her head down. It really wouldn't be fun to explain all this to Shuichiro while he was supposed to be working. That wouldn't be a good thing. It wasn't so much that it would upset him- Shuichiro rarely got properly upset- but it wouldn't exactly please him either.
And Kohaku never wanted to make Shuichiro anything but happy.
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* tbc . . . *
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. : you will fly and you will crawl- god knows even angels fall : .
Note to self: must find copy of first CCS movie and watch it so I can do a half-decent job with Li's family in case I need them to show up. Anybody know where I can get it cheap?
*cries* Wish is overrrr . . . ;_; But at least now I can say exactly when this fic is set, eh? AFTER the trip to the amusement park, and before Kohaku is called back to Heaven. Ta- da: it is official. Anyway, I'm happy because I found scanslations of Tsubasa, and it is gooood. Oh, my darling Syaoran-kun . . . And Fye and Blackie must get married and have- er, adopt- a million babies! -*_*-
Now, let's have some sweet yaoi! ^__^ Er, I mean, "plot." Yeah . . . *koffkoff* Plot is our friend.
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"Unforeseen Carpooling"
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"Are you alright?" Shuichiro asked the figure lying before him calmly.
"Mm-hm," Yukito replied slightly drowsily from the hospital bed. "Is Sakura-chan okay?"
"Who?" Shuichiro gave him a puzzled look.
"Oh- right," the other man realized, raising a hand to his forehead and grimacing slightly. "Sorry, force of habit. I forgot you weren't To-ya again . . . Really, you do look so much like him . . . "
"Sorry, don't know anyone named To-ya." Shuichiro got to his feet, intending to leave.
"I know." Yukito smiled, and it was strangely melancholy. "It's just . . . when I have my fainting spells . . . I've gotten used to waking up in To-ya's bed." He sniffed slightly, and Shuichiro blinked in surprise when he realized that the younger man was crying.
He sat back down and fixed the other with a solemn look. "What happened?"
"Oh, nothing!" Yukito smiled at him sweetly despite his tears, quickly brushing them away. "Just thinking about something."
"You mean 'someONE,' don't you?" Shuichiro was far from stupid, after all.
"My, ah," Yukito blushed, "friend. That's all. I . . . haven't really seen him very much since I went to college."
"Mm." The doctor frowned slightly. So it was THAT kind of a "someone." "Anyway, I couldn't find anything really wrong with you- you just seem to have fallen asleep on your feet and keeled over. I can get you a prescription to help you if you're having trouble with insomnia or anything like that."
"Oh no, no, it's alright," Yukito reassured him. "It happens a lot. Well, it used to. Not really lately . . . But I'm not sick," he added hastily, realizing that it might not be the best idea to tell random people certain facts about his humanity (or rather, the lack thereof).
Shuichiro raised an eyebrow and picked up a notepad and pen. "How often would you say these attacks occur?" he inquired.
Yukito suddenly looked slightly nervous. "Um. Can I call somebody? Please?"
Shuichiro handed him his cell phone. "Go right ahead," he said invitingly, making no move to leave.
Yukito hesitated slightly but took it and dialed.
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"Moshi moshi. Kinomoto residence," Li said sweetly, smiling into the receiver as the others tried to absorb the not-so-great news he'd dropped on their heads like a dead duck and his strangely passive new disposition.
"Er- hello?" the voice on the other end said hesitantly. "Who . . .?"
"Ah- Yukito-san!" Li yelped, nearly dropping the phone and blushing bright red.
"Oh!" Yukito exclaimed in surprise. "Li-kun, is that you?!"
"Y-Yes," the boy squeaked, blushing even darker and barely resisting the urge to swoon. Yukito had recognized his voice!
Touya jumped up and grabbed at the phone. ""It's Yuki?! Gimme that, gaki!" he snapped.
"Hey! I haven't talked to him for ages!" Li protested as Touya snatched it away.
"I want to talk to Yukito too!" Sakura cried eagerly, practically pouncing on her brother.
"Us too! Us too!" Ruri and Hari put in, more for show than anything else, as they had no idea who Yukito even WAS.
"Are they always like this?" Kohaku whispered nervously to Tomoyo, the only sane one she'd seen so far.
"Ohohohoho!" Tomoyo cackled gleefully, ignoring the angel to record the siblings' struggle for the telephone and the passively-watching Li, who finally just plucked said phone out of the grappling pair's hands and began chattering away merrily with Yukito despite his tomato-red blush. They didn't even notice, too busy fighting for the receiver to realize that neither of them had it anyway.
Kohaku mentally retracted her previous opinion of Tomoyo. They were ALL a little mad. Even Li was, quite simply, too sane not to be crazy. The uber-polite way he dealt with everything that came along made it clear that something strange was going on beneath the surface.
She hoped it was just the marriage. She didn't want to have to worry about anything more than Shuichiro's wish and helping Touya adjust. It was a slightly selfish thought, but most of her concern was for the two older men whose lives she was screwing up.
Li giggled as Ruri and Hari rubbed against his legs, blush darkening even further, and Touya and Sakura finally stopped bickering for long enough to notice.
"I think the gaki's overdosing on happy moon-vibes," Kerberos muttered. Li threw a handy fork at the guardian's feet without even missing a beat. It stuck in the linoleum with a sharp "twang."
"Hush, Kerberos-san," he said sweetly, putting a finger to his lips. "I shall make you a nice cake if you are a good kitty while I am on the phone."
"Er . . . okay." Kerberos gave the teenager a wary look. Li's smile just sweetened even further, and more than one person in the room noted with slight unease how very much like Eriol he looked in that moment. Of course, Eriol was a perfectly nice person beneath it all, but . . .
He was also undeniably a little bit crazy. Knowing that you aren't who everyone you know thinks you are and living as a man in a child's body will do that to people.
Li had always seemed, if not the calmest of the group, then at least one of the most grounded. Seeing him looking so brittle really wasn't a good sign.
"Alright, Yukito-san," Li said with a faint smile. "We'll be right over, don't worry." He hung up the phone and turned back to the others, clapping his hands together once to get everyone's attention. "Listen up! Yukito-san's at the hospital: he had another fainting spell a few hours ago and he needs a ride home. The doctor won't let him go until he's sure someone's going to be around to watch him."
"He . . . fainted?" Sakura looked horrified, her quarrel with Touya instantly forgotten. "Oh my God!"
"What?!" Touya cried. "I thought that was over with!"
"Thought what was over with?" Ruri asked blankly.
"Apparently it's not," Li replied quietly. "I'm afraid I know what's happening, though."
"What is it?!" Kerberos demanded. "Tell us!"
" . . . I don't think I ought to just yet," Li said finally, biting his lip. "But I know how to fix it," he added quickly before the others could kill him, because both Kerberos and Touya were clearly considering it. "So please don't worry. We just need to get there as soon as possible."
"Come on," Touya said flatly, grabbing the boy by the back of his shirt and literally lifting him off his feet even as he headed for the door. "Kerberos, you can take the girls, right? I'll get the gaki, and Kohaku . . ." He hesitated slightly and looked back at her, unsure of whether or not she would want her nature revealed.
"Kero-chan can carry Kohaku-san and the kitties!" Sakura piped up, waving the Key in one hand. "Tomoyo-chan and I'll go on Fly!"
"Oh, I couldn't-" Kohaku began, but got no further.
"Good, that's settled," Li murmured, patting at his pockets. "Now where . . .? Ah, here it is." He pulled a pen out of his slacks and snatched up a memo pad off the kitchen counter, scribbling a quick note. "Alright then, now your father won't worry. We can go."
Touya grabbed him again and rushed out the door. "You know how not to fall off one of these, I assume?" he asked, jerking his head at his motorcycle and dropping the helmet into Li's arms as he slid on.
"Just who do you think I am? Believe me, if I could stay on Fly and Kerberos while trying to capture the Cards, I can stay on one of these," Li retorted dryly, donning the helmet and getting on behind him. "Everything will definitely be alright," he added with a small smile.
"As long as you don't fall off, gaki," Touya snorted, grinning slightly wickedly as he recognized Sakura's "invincible spell" and gunning the engine. He found himself taking a certain amount of sadistic pleasure in going much, much faster than necessary.
Meanwhile, Sakura was fumbling through her bag to find the Fly Card, even as Kerberos transformed back into his true form and kneeled down so that Kohaku could mount easily. The embarrassed angel did so, joined by Ruri and Hari, and Sakura finally triumphantly brandished Fly.
"Key that hides the forces of darkness! Show your true identity!" she yelled, throwing it up in the air and lashing out with her staff. "I, Sakura, command you under the covenant: release the seal! FLY!" The staff instantly sprouted wings, and in a whirl of brilliant white feathers and the black lace of Tomoyo's skirt, the teenagers were astride it and rocketing upwards- like gravity had suddenly forgotten that they existed. Kerberos flapped his wings once, lazily, and then shot off after them with a screaming Kohaku and cheering Ruri and Hari clinging to his back.
"Not this FAST!" Kohaku wailed.
"If I go any slower, we'll lose them," Kerberos snapped. "And if my brother is sick, I need to be with him!"
"Your . . . brother?" The angel blinked.
"I'll explain later," the guardian said flatly.
"Okay," she replied softly, tightening her grip on the other and burying her face in his back. "Just don't fall or anything, okay? If I'm too heavy-"
"You aren't. I won't drop you," Kerberos promised.
"That's not what I'm worried about," Kohaku said fretfully, finally straightening up slightly and tightening her grip on the other's fur. "I just meant- I could never catch you if you fell, and then I'm sure Touya would be angry. He's already mad enough with me."
The guardian narrowed his eyes and gave her a suspicious look. "Did you do something to Sakura?" he asked darkly.
Ruri and Hari both rolled their eyes at the thought. "As IF!" they chorused.
"I'd never hurt such a sweet girl!" Kohaku exclaimed, clapping a hand to her mouth. "I'd never hurt ANYone; I'm not made for that!" She shuddered at the thought, horrified by even considering it.
"Why do I think you mean that literally?" Kerberos mused aloud.
"Because I do!" she exclaimed. "We can't lie!"
" 'We'?" the guardian repeated in a questioning tone. "Who's 'we'?"
"Touya and I, and the other-" she started.
Cue the usual convenient, it's-too-soon-to-give-away-the-plot-to- other-characters distraction.
"Oh my GOD!" Sakura screamed as a huge gust of wind neatly toppled both the Card Mistress and Tomoyo. For a moment, they clung upside-down to the staff, and then both girls lost their grip. Sakura made a last, desperate grab at the staff, clinging on for another second as Kerberos caught Tomoyo by her skirt, and Kohaku automatically reached out and snatched the lighter girl around the waist.
"Please don't fall," she said worriedly. "Touya is already so angry. It's not good for him to be angry. We aren't supposed to be like that."
"Not wif da 'we' again," Kerberos said in a muffled voice through Tomoyo's multi-layered skirt.
"So cool, Kohaku!" Ruri cheered.
"For a bubblehead, anyway," Hari amended quickly on her sister's behalf, and both nodded eagerly.
"Thank you for catching us," Sakura said meekly as Tomoyo snatched Fly back by its head. "Sorry for the trouble, Kohaku- san."
"It's my fault anyway," Kohaku sighed. "You'd have been riding Kerberos-san if not for me."
"Oh, no, no, it's fine!" Sakura exclaimed. "I could've just used Float before we . . . oh no, wait, I can't summon the Cards without my staff," she remembered with a wince. "Um. Well . . . all's well that ends well?" she tried weakly.
"I think I'm gonna have a heart attack," Kohaku mumbled, her eyes tearing up slightly- and not from the force of the wind, mind.
"No, no, heart attack BAD!" Sakura squealed, desperately waving her arms in the air. "Please don't die, Kohaku-saaaan!"
"Oh, don't worry," Kohaku reassured her with a smile. "I don't think I can." Ruri and Hari looked uncertain as to whether or not they should be happy with that statement.
"We're almost there, Sakura-chan," Tomoyo spoke up, pointing ahead. "Maybe we should land now and walk in, though- we don't want anyone to see Kero-chan like this, and Fly is still out too."
"Right!" the Card Mistress agreed eagerly even as Kerberos took the girl's advice, landing in a small alley. Sakura quickly dismounted, shrinking her staff and reverting Fly, and she and Tomoyo both dashed off down the sidewalk while Kerberos returned to his smaller form.
"Should I carry you?" Kohaku asked nervously.
"Yeah, if ya don't mind," the guardian replied with a nod. "Just follow the kids."
"I can do that!" Kohaku said brightly, scooping him out of the air and hurrying after the other two. She blinked in surprise as they came out of the alley, and then gasped. "Oh! This- this is Shuichiro's hospital!"
"Kohaku-san, are you coming?" Sakura called back. "Syaoran and Touya already went in!"
"Coming!" the angel squeaked, rushing after her and making a mental note to keep her head down. It really wouldn't be fun to explain all this to Shuichiro while he was supposed to be working. That wouldn't be a good thing. It wasn't so much that it would upset him- Shuichiro rarely got properly upset- but it wouldn't exactly please him either.
And Kohaku never wanted to make Shuichiro anything but happy.
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. : you will fly and you will crawl- god knows even angels fall : .
