Butterfly Wings
By Pseudonym Sylphmuse
Author's Note: Thank you for reviewing people! It made by day! I have to have at least three reviews for another chapter to be uploaded I hope you know. I think you already know the pairing so won't say anything anymore now. This is Yue's Point of View, I'll be switching back and forth, the odd number chapters are for Nakaru's view and the even number chapters are for Yue.
Summary: You already know that too so I won't bore you.
Chapter 2
Thoughts on A Wild Ruby Moon
I found myself glancing diagonally up towards where… Akizuki Nakuru sat. Especially when she giggled. I could not help it lately Yue has found something of interest to him about Nakuru or as he always calls her Ruby Moon. He had told me that unlike the two of us with two different minds completely withheld individually with each other Nakuru and Ruby Moon's mind were merging into one. My other side, Yue had found it strangely interesting about that, but then Yue had always been an independent seemingly aloof person and in a way he was. Yue had ever scarcely bestirred himself in my mind besides when he felt that Sakura had to be protected, which now was not much.
But I thought he had found a new inspiration in the form of an auburn-haired muse, I didn't grudge him for that though. Nakuru was an interesting person, filled with the vivacity and liveliness that quite a few humans envied (even though I do not think she has ever noticed it). She was the passion and the fire in all of us, the passion and fire that didn't seem to exist in Yue or me, Yukito. I had rarely felt any stirrings within myself too, even though I was a compassionate human by all accounts. I had never felt angry at anyone or anything, not even irritation.
Even Yue only felt it as duty as a little fondness when he was with Sakura. He had felt interested in her for a little while too but then that was probably because in a perspective way, Sakura was Clow Reed's daughter. And naturally Clow Reed had warned Yue that he would be an uncle one-day, such a sentence was strange to Yue. With an added plus, since I, Yukito was part of Yue I also would be an uncle. When I learned of this fact I was quite proud of it and when Sakura marries Syaoran (a marriage that was bound to happen sometime) and has little Sakuras and Syaorans I would be a great-uncle. I didn't know why Yue was dreading it though.
And yet this observation of Akizuki had gone for years from what I have learned. Yue had been watching her ever since she had moved to Tomoeda. I at first had thought he was suspicious of her like Touya but that only the first responses from his attraction (something I had long since concluded too). What I didn't know was that like a festering disease it would start to pass on to me. Yue had not even been as obvious as I was now as I glanced at Nakuru. From the brief glances of Nakuru's other form, Ruby Moon that Yue had spared for me (at times I wondered if possibly Yue was part dragon with the way he hoarded what he knew).
Now, from what I had heard from my other classmates she would be performing. Performing! In a Mongolian gown too, I had seen those gowns filled with color. Already I could feel Yue taking her measurements. I wasn't the only one that kept secrets, Yue did too even though he let them slip out at times but as reluctant as Yue could be I had to know about these little excursions of his. He would lock himself in my mind for months on end and for some reason when I woke up at times I felt cramps in hands. As if I had been using them, but how could I have? So with logical reasoning I found out that Yue embroidered.
And was a master at it, I had seen a few of his projects. Except now Yue didn't just embroider he could weave too. Somewhere waiting in my mind all of these years he had taught himself how to weave. His tapestries were even harder to hide and easier to find, they were huge! They would've been able to cover my whole room. Yue was starting on the seasons now and had hit a snag on autumn.
He had already done spring and now I knew why he was interested in Sakura, she was perfect as a fairy in his tapestry, her innocence and charm was captured snugly in the tapestry. He had done Syaoran too and as summer, even though I doubted this, the boy was too aloof for friendly summer but then I wasn't as observant as Yue. He must have seen something I hadn't about Syaoran. Touya had been old man winter (well Touya wasn't that old but it would be funny if he had seen the way he had been depicted in Yue's tapestry). Throughout the whole thing my close friend Touya, in the tapestry was glowering, outright glaring at everyone. He looked like a baleful spirit but his surroundings were anything but. They had the cool, crystalline beauty that would've enthralled all including me. And beneath that if you looked closely enough the frozen brooks still had running water running under the thick layer of ice.
What confused me was, was that he had never observed any of the others with interest as much as he had with Akizuki-chan. Yue had barely even paid attention to Touya and Syaoran, in fact he had disliked Syaoran in such a way that it reminded me of Touya. I knew of course that Akizuki-chan would be the figure for autumn, for didn't her last name, Akizuki mean autumn?
Akizuki Nakuru, was the spirit of autumn, the lasting brightness before the trees were stripped of their emerald leaves. She was the glory that Autumn began with as the days went by. Her hair, a dark wistful auburn was enough to remind a person of the red billowing leaves that inhabited the corridors outside. Her optimism was an echo from the surrounding trees outside that it later times they would soon become as luscious and bountiful in their raiment of green as they could ever want.
Not that I was saying Akizuki-chan would look very well in green. She would look better I think in the Mongolian gowns, with possibly red, green, and white with other various bright colors that would accent off the white in a cheerful manner. Something irritated me in my mind about this, something was missing this was a clue that about Yue's new project besides the tapestry starring Nakaru. But what was it?
Everyone was beginning to leave from class now, it was over the whole day had flown pass and I had never noticed. That was indeed strange since I was usually very attentive in most of what I did. Not to my favorable notice I had not a bit control over my body now, Yue had replaced me and he (or more I) was walking towards Akizuki-chan of whom was still drawing on a sheet of paper.
Her eyes widened as she saw me coming towards her and hurriedly she hid whatever she had been doodling on. That was relatively strange for her too since usually when Nakuru was on any project or doing anything in her term special she would always come flaunting and showing it to everyone in class.
"Ohayo, Akizuki-chan," I said, unwillingly but she didn't notice. Who could?
"Ohayo, Yukito-chan," she replied, her eyes riveting back and forth, from me to her pack where she had stuffed her drawing into.
"May I accompany you home?" Nakuru's eyes widened so did mine. Of all the things that I had thought Yue would say I would never have imagined this.
"Yes," she told me instantly blinking puzzled at my request. I was confused about it too and surprised at her answer.
Gracefully she took hold of the strap of her pack and stood up. My eyes stayed on hers; I couldn't bare if Yue began to observe her from her toes to her face. It was what he did, and if unnoticed by me he would do it for hours just observing one of his subjects for his tapestries. Yue couldn't understand why anyone would be unnerved by it, it was already queer that I had asked such a thing of Nakuru (and for her to accept too!) but I didn't want her to feel uncomfortable by this new advance from me.
What I didn't notice was the amused eyes of Kinomoto Touya and when he was amused it usually meant he was about to do something tricky, but all and all I did not notice. And that would be my downfall.
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