Chapter Nine- A Plan

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'___' = Thinking "_____" = Speech

I need to try putting more stuff in chapters.....Well, here's Chapter Nine! Enjoy! ^-^

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The door shut tight, and I quickly muttered a sound-proofing spell, then without looking at Nakuru, muttered. "This isn't working."

"Li-sama is a very prideful kid, ne?" The butterfly hovered over a teacup.

I groaned. 'Don't I know it...'

"It's because, I think, because he felt he has been wronged, being changed into what he regards as a monster and all. Despite all the strictness of Yelan as leader of the Li clan, he must miss his family very much. I think that maybe it's made him more protective of his feelings, and so he doesn't let anyone in."

"Protective nothing, he's a spoiled brat." I brooded darkly. Nakuru listened with the expressionless face of a small insect. "Some how or another, we've got to get him and Sakura-san together."

"Demo, Eriol-sama, you can't force these things you know, sometimes they take some time, and sometimes they don't happen at all."

"But nobody ever said you couldn't help it along.." I smirked.

"Dong" the bell outside in the garden chimed, I glanced at the clock face, 12 midnight! Before the bell had finished tolling its 12th chime, I had formulated a plan. "Nakuru," I said calmly. "Go unlock the cellar door."

"The shelter? Why?"

"Just do it, I believe there may be a....little problem down there, so Li-sama has to go take a look at it. Then come back up and meet me here." I opened the door for her, and Nakuru flitted through off to do her duty.

I went over to my viewing mirror, and made it show the cellar, just so I could watch, and also see through to my plan. Then I dashed over to my potted lavender plant and pulled off a stalk, holding it gently in my mouth. From my shelves stacked full of numerous bottles and vials, I took a pinch of a certain powder between my claws. I then summoned a small nadesico bloom from the garden. It floated up to me through the window. "Now all I need is Nakuru."

Through the mirror, I saw Nakuru leading Syaoran to the basement.

"What's wrong?" Syaoran asked, slightly annoyed.

"Ah...I..the pipes I believe, there's something not quite right"

Syaoran looked skeptical.

"Umum...I'llberightbackjusttakealookandDON'TLEAVETHEROOM...until you find that...thing..wrong...with..the pipes." Nakuru stuttered.

Syaoran tilted his head, as if saying, "you really expect me to believe that?", and began to make his way to the door.

"NO! erm...I mean...this is really serious and you need to stay right here and wait for me to get the.....wrench! Please stay here!!! You need the wrench!"

Syaoran plopped down on the floor and sighed in resignation. "Ok Nakuru...go get the wrench." Lucky for us, he must have thought Nakuru was just playing another crazy prank, which she was prone to do ever since the boredom of confinement to these castle walls, and decided to humor her for once.

"Real smooth Nakuru, real smooth." I muttered sarcastically. I sighed and said an incantation, then stared at a pipe along one of the cellar walls, willing it to break. Water gushed out and knocked Syaoran over. The soaked and dripping wolf glared wildly at Nakuru, who was flitting around in distress. "Erm...see? Very serious! Sporadic water bursting! We need a wrench!! I'll go get...that." She flew out of the door like lightning and soon, she was tapping lightly at my door. Suppressing, with some difficulty, my laughter, I opened the door and took the stalk of sleepy lavender along with the powder and ground it up with the nadesico. I sprinkled the result on Nakuru and told her, "Fly to Sakura's room, and lead her to the basement."

"What? What'll I tell her? To go fix the pipes?!"

"Calm down, you won't have to tell her anything, you don't need to say anything, but don't let her figure out you're Nakuru, and don't let her catch up to you." Nakuru was baffled. "Just hurry and go! The spell will start working soon, and it's only potent for five minutes!"

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I was in a field of butterflies. Chasing them, but not really wanting to catch them, for fear of breaking their delicate bodies. Then, a pale lavender one flew right up to my face, it left a trail of sparkling dust in the air. I giggled, and followed it through the field. It left the field and flew into a sunny forest, then suddenly, as it reached the first tree, a brilliant light shone, and as it faded away, it revealed a familiar figure.

"Kaa-san...." I whispered, wide eyed.

Okaa-san smiled and nodded, then dashed off into the woods. "Okaa-san! Matte, matte yo!" I reached out my arms to my mother. I ran as hard as I could, I had to catch my mother.

She came to the entrance of a dark cave, and paused a moment, looking back at me, then ran into the darkness. "Please! Wait for me! Kaa-san!!" My face wet with tears, I panted heavily as I chased after her. "Please...Okaa-san..wait for me..." But it was too late, as the air shimmered around her once more, and she was gone, the cold darkness surrounding me. I collapsed to the floor and wept, tears blurring my eyes. I had wanted to see my mother again for so long, to be held in her arms. Then, I was aware of warmth, flooding my body as two strong hands pressed firmly down on my shoulders.

"Who..?" I looked up to see two intense, but warm, brown eyes looking at me with concern, a boy about my age with messy brown hair.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"I..who are you?" I whispered, voice cracking and barely audible.

"Are you okay?" Syaoran asked. I blinked in surprise as the mists of my dream cleared. I was sitting in a cellar. Syaoran's dark eyes and his wolfy self were a bit closer to me than I was used to.

"Y-yeah.." I said shakily. He had big teeth, big carnivorous teeth, and I was very, very scared. Then I noticed his eyes, it was so dark, but the light of the moon shone through a window, and all I could see were his eyes. 'They look like his eyes' As soon as I thought that, I instantly forgot about what I had been dreaming and couldn't think of the person I had compared Syaoran's eyes to. It seemed so important, though! At that moment it was the most important thing to me, but I couldn't think of why. Syaoran stepped into the light a bit more, and I could see that he was very...damp.

"Where am I? Where are....we?"

"The cellar..." Syaoran squirmed uneasily. "...and I can't open the door. And also, the pipes are busted."

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As Nakuru flew back into my room I congratulated her. "Nice work.", but Nakuru was peeved.

"Locking them in the cellar?! That was your idea?!"

"Why not? There's plenty of food and water down there, and if they run out, I can always 'magic' some back down. Not to mention there's plenty of privacy for bonding."

"What if he hurts her?"

"I'll watch over them and make sure nothing bad happens." I said nonchalantly.

Nakuru was silent, and though I couldn't physically see it, I could tell she was giving me the evil eye.

"So you're locking them in the cellar?" She calmly asked one more time.

I twitched my tail in the air, as opposed to snapping fingers, and finished the barrier charm I had put around the cellar. No one could go in, no one could get out, at least not until Sakura decided to reveal her powers to Syaoran, which meant that there needed to be at least some trust between them. I smiled mischievously.

"Yup."

I snuggled down onto my 'Throne of Evil' as Nakuru had dubbed it, and for the first time in a long while, it felt just like old days.

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"You mean we're stuck in here?!" She gasped.

I nodded solemnly, shuddering slightly. 'Damn you Hiragizawa. Damn_you_.'. I was wet, it was dark, and I was stuck with this little girl. Then again, I could always eat her.

I raised my eyebrows at that thought and looked at her imagining some stuff.

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A weird look came over Syaoran's eyes, similar to the way a cat looks at a mouse. At our house, we had a cat, Tomoyo found him, so she got to name him. We also had a lot of mice. It was not fun thinking about what Kero did to mice while Syaoran stared at me like that. (A/N- The Kero in this story isn't our lovable Keroberos, it's just a cat, but Tomoyo named him Kero anyway, cus the real Kero-chan didn't get sucked into the fairy tale ^-^)

"Er...well..that's all right. I'm sure we'll be fine. The others will find us soon, and this is a cellar right?" I asked, looking at all the dimly illuminated barrels and crates. On a shelf there were also some jars. Hung by the window were some dried peppers. "So we'll have plenty of not me, er I mean, veggies to eat, well not that I don't think there's meat in here, just that we can eat both and um..."

An awkward silence.

Then, I noticed, once again, that Syaoran was very incredibly wet. "How'd you get so wet?" I asked with concern.

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(A/N- sorry I keep switching POV's!)

"Oh, that. One of the pipes busted on me." I shrugged, trying to be dignified. I wouldn't be ego-tripping for a while. 'Damn you Hiragizawa' I thought again.

Sakura began taking of her shawl, which she had thrown over her night gown.

"What are you doing?" She carefully placed the shawl on me. "You'll be cold. You've just got a nightgown on, and I've got this fur coat." I winced, I didn't like being reminded of my furriness.

"But it's wet." She frowned. "I'll be fine, but I hope that shawl will be enough to prevent you from catching cold."

'Catching cold? Even in a situation like this, she was worrying about me? Catching a cold?'

"Now, let's find some candles. It's much too dark down here." She smiled.

I was now slightly warmer, but mostly on my face. I scolded myself promptly in my mind, then blinked, shook off the tingly hot sensation on both cheeks, and growled in agreement.