Kitten: Hello my good people! Sorry about being so late… I started a new job (shop at Walgreen's!) and my classes are very hard (especially Honors Chemistry). To me, this is not a very eventful chapter…more of Syao-kun's quest of the past. Cliffhanger at the end! ^.^ Sowwy! REVIEW!
Clouds of Gray
Written By: Kitten at Heart
Summary: Syaoran is furious because no one will tell him answers about what happened some seven years ago…who will break out and confess? S&S
spoilers from 2nd movie
Disclaimer: Those nice people at CLAMP own CCS and I don't own any part of it…except for a CD and many magna books.
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Lying upon his back, staring at the dull ceiling with the comfort of only a mattress and bed sheets, he started to wonder. Is this all a joke? He thought it was a sick joke indeed. Trying to confuse the great Li Syaoran. Maybe they were tricking him, there was nothing to discover. That's it! …Still, Kinimoto Sakura doesn't seem like the kind of person who can hold onto a lie for years at a time…or lie for that matter. She appears to be the girl who is like that famous president in that America land. Washington I think was the name. Chopping down a cherry tree and telling right away that he was the culprit. Yet, there are rumors that he made that story up for campaigning purposes.
Massaging his temples, he said aloud, "This is all to confusing. Why can't this be easy?" He sat up from his bed to the porch, in hopes that it would clear his mind. The cool breeze lightly skimmed the messy amber hair.
"Why does everything involve…Kinimoto of all people? I can't get anything out of her, or she will end up crying. I have never met anyone who has cried that much in five hours." He then thought back to Eriol's previous speech. "Was it…my fault she is like this? No one has ever cried over me before…not even my own mother." He asked himself solemnly. He stared up to the starless and cloudy sky, as if waiting for a sign. A sign to free him from this misery. A soft sigh escaped from his lips as he headed back inside. His dark chocolate eyes skimmed the room of green, as if he had seen it for the first time. His eyes narrowed as he stared at his desk. He felt…drawn to it somehow.
Fingertips brushed against a light switch to give him light in his dull room. He saw a scarf, lying delicately in a corner, hidden from the rest of the world. It was small, and had a few mistakes here and there, but was soft. His fingers touched it and concluded that this was not factory made. It was made with concern and love. He lifted the small item up, wondering why he never parted with the tattered, old thing.
Yet, he started to feel a tingling in his forehead again, and decided to close his curious eyes before he experienced any pain. His eyes were introduced to darkness. But, it started to clear up to be still quite dark. Perhaps it was nighttime, or in a dark room. Small hands appeared holding a delicate scarf. Soon enough, part of the person's face was revealed. Only a small, girly smile showed through the shadows.
Our hero's eyes snapped open when the sound of the telephone rang through his ears. He looked at the small clock that read, 2:34. 'Who would be calling this early?' thought he. His hands picked up the green phone and responded with, "What do you want?"
"Moshi moshi my favorite descendant! How are you this fine morning? I am terribly sorry I left you to that coffee shop, but I had a feeling that my dear Tomoyo needed me!" A perky voice rang through the phone only to receive a few grunts back.
"Is that so? Yes, dear Tomoyo-chan did need me! I was happily trying on some of her latest creations, right after Sakura-chan left." Emphasizing on the Sakura-chan. Upon hearing that, our hero with amber eyes blushed so that pink glowed on his cheeks in the dim lit room. His palms rested on his cheeks to feel the heat that it was giving off. Quickly, he shook his head in any hopes to get rid off the reoccurring 'illness'.
"Really" Syaoran responded, trying to sound as dull as his voice could bear at the moment.
"Oh yes. Now I need to warn you, Tomoyo-chan has already started on costumes for the trip to the mall on Saturday, I really do not think we need to attract much attention if we are shopping for clothes…" Eriol said cheerfully. He continued to talk and Syaoran started to wonder if Naraku snuck a little too much sugar in his meal this afternoon. Syaoran only held the phone up to his ear and grunted every now and then while his mind was elsewhere. He carefully took the scarf he was thinking about earlier in his hand, and stared intently at it. While staring at it, he saw something in the corner of his eye that must have been hidden under the soft scarf. Carefully, he placed the scarf on the desk and took what caught his eye. It seemed like an old picture frame, but nothing was placed inside it but an old Sakura flower. He was puzzled with this, since his favorite flower was the Peony.
"…OH! And then Naraku spilled my coffee into my soup when I wasn't looking! I ate the soup anyway while chugging down another two…or three cups of coffee! How I do love coffee! Later, I was given pound cake! That is wonderful cake…lots of good stuff in it! Like sugar! Then Suppi was bouncing off the walls…literally! Oh it was quite a show! I saw that he was chugging down sweets! He saw me and started to throw them at me so I would run away! But I figured, HECK! Eat 'em! I am only a child for one more month!…" Eriol shouted into the earpiece.
"Hiiragizawa…" said the confused boy so deep in thought.
"AH! So the man can speak! What is it you ask of me?" Eriol asked while leaning forward on the other line.
"Shut up. You are annoying me." Nothing was heard for a few seconds.
"Think about it. If you want me to be quiet…how are you able to obtain your information?" The voice told Syaoran, suddenly changing to a low, sly tone.
"Just…don't talk about nonsense. It is annoying. Is there anything else you wanted to tell me that had significance?" Syaoran asked glumly.
"You will know soon, my boy. Very soon." After that, the dead tone of the phone rung in his ear. Syaoran sighed and placed the phone back in its cradle. Soon for Eriol could be five minutes or five decades, since he is a reincarnation after all.
Closing his eyes, he tried to think back to when he was ten. He remembered his first day in Japan. He sat in the tree he had grown to love, watching over the students below, because he was higher than them in stature, obviously. Who would dare to disagree? The young man laughed at this thought. How stupid he was when he was young. He watched a young girl laughing with her many friends. How he envied her. Even though it was his first day, he never had many friends to begin with. However, Syaoran felt drawn to this girl. Clow Cards obviously. However, how can an innocent little girl be involved in the Clow Cards? This is something he wonders still to this day.
He then thought to the days she called for help. Called…what did she call with? That's right, a sissy cell phone that Tomoyo gave to all of them. Where is it now? Syaoran started to rummage through various parts of his room in hopes of finding it. Who knows, it may contain some lost answers he has been longing for.
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"GET AWAY!" A girl screeched in the middle of an open path. Tears dropped on the pavement like cold rain, forming tiny deltas on the walk. Her ears were covered violently by her pale hands as she crouched down towards the ground. "…just…get away…" she sobbed though no one was around.
The streetlights were dim in the cold and foggy night. Never had it been so dark in the night sky. No stars that the human eye could see…yet there were not any clouds. Just a blank sky of nothingness. The air was still and the sound was soft except for the sobs that were produced out of the girl's mouth.
"Why…why can't you just go away?" The girl growled in a deep voice as her red, puffy eyes focused into the nothing ness ahead. She muttered nothing else but one simple word.
"Syaoran…"
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Sakura Paulina- Tankies!
Kella4- Yes…isn't it? Fate has brought them together! *butterflies in a meadow appear as well as harp music * Tehe!
Water-Soter- Shhh! No tell! Promise? Yet there are gonna be some twists that may upset yall at some points…that is just the way I do my stories.
Mozey-chan- Oh! I confuzzled you! O.K. Lets get this straight. Everything really happened until I said he fell. He never falls-that is my twist! Oopsies! Should of told you guys!
Silverymare- Tankies! And… *mutters* I have to admit I have never seen the Simpsons… *blush*
The Nadja- Ice cubes rule! And no tell peas?
Dashgirl- A syawhatist? Psychiatrist? ^.^
And everybody must shun the Kawaii-Sakura-Syaoran girl. Honestly, who ADVERTIZES their horrible fic on a review without even reading mine? Shun…SHUN! ^.*
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