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A/N: Eastern Magic, and thus Clow's magic is VERY big on balance. It's a huge theme in the anime/manga. Hence the two guardians, and the fact that there four in all.
Now for me to go In depth for my little off shoot universe
Spinal and Kero were created at the same time, as were Yue and Nakuru were also. They were briefly introduced to each other and then Clow put the other two away to sleep and wait for his reincarnation.
Spinal is 'Dark' and symbolizes Eastern magic while Kero is 'Light' and Western Magic, And it's just the opposite for Yue and Nakuru. The Yin Yang symbolizes Masculinity and Femininity. While the guardians ARE genderless in their natural state they lean slightly to one side of the other, like light gray versus dark gray. Which is why Yue looks girly.
Also, for instance 'Fly' is a moon card, yet both guardians have wings. With Yue, it is more of a getting rid of his wings using Fly card's magic while Kero had to be 'built' with his in place. And Shield is also a Moon card, Yue can cast it, but Kero's wings can be used as shields. Balance, one has the magic one has it built in.
The light side is the masculine side, thus Kero and Yue and slight more masculine and 'follow' this tendency. And thus take on that form, so yes, they can 'perform' if they wished.
The dark side is feminine. And while their counter parts follow there tendencies Nakuru and Suppi do not as she is a transsexual transvestite (I think) and he just decides to be male butterfly winged cat thing.
BTW: Ruby Moon, as near as I can figure out, refers to a lunar eclipse because the moon turns blood red.
A Star In a Silken Purse
Chapter Two - Soothed From The Nightmare
"How is she?"
"She's been communing with the cards, and sometimes Yue and I can...hear her, just words, "Please," "No," "Come," more feelings than anything."
"It seems an abomination that anything even hinting at goodness could come from this, doesn't it? Even if it is just accelerating her learning, what about you Touya?"
"A little better, she'll look at me now instead of hiding against her guardians."
"…Sorry."
"No...it's not your fault, I don't like you but it's not your fault that my sister is afraid of me."
Soulful black eyes looked up, tear filled and sad, "She isn't afraid of you, she's afraid for you and herself. She doesn't want you to die."
The golden beast nodded, "Toyomo is right. She knows that Yue and I have lived for hundreds of years...we might even out live her--"
"So she's not afraid to be close to you, and the Sakura cards can't hurt you, well not easily."
"Yue's with her now, brushing her hair I think and keeping the Shield up. He says he can feel them looking for her, isn't there anything we can do?"
The angry eyed one who was often so quiet burst out, "Can't you take her as your apprentice Eriol!? Wouldn't that protect her?"
Brown eyes snapped to and narrowed at the dark haired boy, suspicious and angry.
"It would, but England no longer recognizes apprenticeship formally and we do not have a ministry to make an appeal to. It would not protect her, besides, Clow made the Cards to show her how to do magic his way as well as be a tool. His is not a magic that can be taught any other way."
Irritation, and surprise; and finally hope from the cousin of angry eyes. "Then what do children in England do?"
"They go to school." A lopsided smile.
"Then we can enroll Sakura-chan in a school there and she'll be safe!"
Warm golden voice, thick with a cat's purr, "Excellent idea Toyomo-chan."
"One problem, three rather. Those schools call you, not the other way around, Sakura is too old to be called in to those places, and we have no schools from which to transfer her into. And I can't get her into one."
Depression.
Dark eyes narrowed in thought. "You can't, but Clow could, couldn't he?"
Pause.
Grudgingly, "Yes, but I am not Clow Reed."
"You're one half his reincarnation though, and you have all his knowledge, surely they know this."
Suspicion, and...fear?
"They do, I have proved it to them, but they are westerners, they do not believe it truly, and so would not heed me should I ask."
"But they would listen to Clow, wouldn't they Eriol."
Stomach clench, spoiled milk inside of him, poison.
Fear.
"Yes."
"And?"
"And I am not Clow Reed."
"But?"
Old eyes close and open, showing their true age, fear.
"I do not wish to die, Touya Kinomoto. I am not Clow Reed."
Triumph.
"But you can be him again, can't you? You can bring him out!"
"I can't be him again, I never was him, I am *not* him." A potent glare and he went on though he was loath to, "I can cede the body to him, yes, I might not be able to come back. I am not him," fear "I am not even fourteen years old. I do not wish to die, I cannot go into that good night smiling as he did."
Silent father looked at the worried ghost, "You'd have to take my power, wouldn't you? And I wouldn't be able to see her or hear her."
Touya looked at his father sadly, knowing how much he cherished his renewed time with his wife, even if she was a ghost.
Meilin patted his shoulder, "I'm sure Clow-sama would leave you enough magic to still see her, you don't need a lot, or maybe he could cast a spell."
Eriol was over his head. He was used to being railroaded, how could he not be with the most powerful seer of all time as his previous incarnation? But that was more like a geas, a job. He did what Clow wished to be done, as he foresaw it, with appropriate alterations, such as for Touya, who wasn't supposed to be born, not that it was a bad thing. But once he was done with it his life was his own, he wouldn't even have to have visions, memories or otherwise of the future, unless he truly wished it.
His life would be his own.
But they were acting like the decision was already made!
It was too much.
"No! No I don't want to die! I might not come back, I might be absorbed by him! This is my life! Clow promised it to me! The Hope card has been made, love in a void, My part is over, it's my life now! I won't do it!"
"ERIOL HIIRAGIZAWA!!! HOW DARE YOU SAY SUCH A THING?!"
Terror.
"You're Sakura's friend, she regards you almost like a father! If Sakura was being shot would you take the bullet?"
"Yes b-!"
"There is not Buts! You're willing to die for her, just like everyone else here in this room!"
"YES I AM! How could anyone not want to? But it's different, Toyomo! You don't understand!"
"How is it different!? Tell me! Tell us all"
"Because if I die then it is my death, my life, I'll give my life to her, but not to him! Never to him! He's already stolen enough of it!" He threw down the staff.
Hesitance, understanding dawning, and--
"I don't want nor need your pity," unless it will get me out of doing this, silent.
"..."
"Clow Reed is my creator, and was my Master. He was a crackpot and too manipulative by half for his own good. And he was cruel, cruel in doing things that were, in the end, for the best. He sent us to Sakura so we would have a friend as a Master, because no matter what we would never be able to see him as an equal. To do it he had to die, and that was cruel."
They all looked to him, Eriol tucked his knees under his chin, hand tight around his legs.
"But he was a good man. And I don't think he would try to steal anymore of your life if he could help it, he's not that kind of person."
...
"I'll do it."
*~*~*~*~*
She curled against him, cheek on his chest, small hand curled into a fist around a lock of his hair and a fold of his robe, Book tucked under his arm. Her hair was brushed out, a few gentle curls in her in bangs, eyes closed and brow smooth.
She looked like an angel.
He was sitting on the floor of her room, propped up against her bed with his small Mistress sitting in his lap. The floor glowed with Clow's magic circle, producing a shield to hide them under his own maintenance.
There were more than a hundred of them all around Tomoeda. They had faked sneaking her out to set the Death Eaters on the wrong trail, letting them tear down one shield after another, moving her occasionally so they would never find her.
He was cold, and still wasn't too sure if he was comfortable with her as his Mistress, but she did not deserve this.
...Didn't she say she want to be his friend?
The moon was cold, impassive, alone, and so was he.
Her brow furrowed and eyes clenched tight as she slowly curled up more, shaking.
/Fire...help. NO!/
He looked down worried, a strange gleam in his eyes and wrapped both arms and wings around her, bowing his head so his face was against her hair. He could almost see what she saw. The fire, a hell-scape, ghost begging for mercy, flesh burning, the smell, ash blowing away. Blood.
\Hush Mistress.\
/Yue?/
\Nightmare Mistress.\
/Yue./
His mouth twisted, no matter what how dimmed she became, she was still Sakura, /Sakura./
Green eyes slitted open and looked at him, fear, and then calming when she saw that he was not wreathed in flames, not dying.
"Sleep."
She nodded, a shadow of her former smile and settled down.
...
Didn't the stars and the moon dance in the sky together?
A/N: Eastern Magic, and thus Clow's magic is VERY big on balance. It's a huge theme in the anime/manga. Hence the two guardians, and the fact that there four in all.
Now for me to go In depth for my little off shoot universe
Spinal and Kero were created at the same time, as were Yue and Nakuru were also. They were briefly introduced to each other and then Clow put the other two away to sleep and wait for his reincarnation.
Spinal is 'Dark' and symbolizes Eastern magic while Kero is 'Light' and Western Magic, And it's just the opposite for Yue and Nakuru. The Yin Yang symbolizes Masculinity and Femininity. While the guardians ARE genderless in their natural state they lean slightly to one side of the other, like light gray versus dark gray. Which is why Yue looks girly.
Also, for instance 'Fly' is a moon card, yet both guardians have wings. With Yue, it is more of a getting rid of his wings using Fly card's magic while Kero had to be 'built' with his in place. And Shield is also a Moon card, Yue can cast it, but Kero's wings can be used as shields. Balance, one has the magic one has it built in.
The light side is the masculine side, thus Kero and Yue and slight more masculine and 'follow' this tendency. And thus take on that form, so yes, they can 'perform' if they wished.
The dark side is feminine. And while their counter parts follow there tendencies Nakuru and Suppi do not as she is a transsexual transvestite (I think) and he just decides to be male butterfly winged cat thing.
BTW: Ruby Moon, as near as I can figure out, refers to a lunar eclipse because the moon turns blood red.
A Star In a Silken Purse
Chapter Two - Soothed From The Nightmare
"How is she?"
"She's been communing with the cards, and sometimes Yue and I can...hear her, just words, "Please," "No," "Come," more feelings than anything."
"It seems an abomination that anything even hinting at goodness could come from this, doesn't it? Even if it is just accelerating her learning, what about you Touya?"
"A little better, she'll look at me now instead of hiding against her guardians."
"…Sorry."
"No...it's not your fault, I don't like you but it's not your fault that my sister is afraid of me."
Soulful black eyes looked up, tear filled and sad, "She isn't afraid of you, she's afraid for you and herself. She doesn't want you to die."
The golden beast nodded, "Toyomo is right. She knows that Yue and I have lived for hundreds of years...we might even out live her--"
"So she's not afraid to be close to you, and the Sakura cards can't hurt you, well not easily."
"Yue's with her now, brushing her hair I think and keeping the Shield up. He says he can feel them looking for her, isn't there anything we can do?"
The angry eyed one who was often so quiet burst out, "Can't you take her as your apprentice Eriol!? Wouldn't that protect her?"
Brown eyes snapped to and narrowed at the dark haired boy, suspicious and angry.
"It would, but England no longer recognizes apprenticeship formally and we do not have a ministry to make an appeal to. It would not protect her, besides, Clow made the Cards to show her how to do magic his way as well as be a tool. His is not a magic that can be taught any other way."
Irritation, and surprise; and finally hope from the cousin of angry eyes. "Then what do children in England do?"
"They go to school." A lopsided smile.
"Then we can enroll Sakura-chan in a school there and she'll be safe!"
Warm golden voice, thick with a cat's purr, "Excellent idea Toyomo-chan."
"One problem, three rather. Those schools call you, not the other way around, Sakura is too old to be called in to those places, and we have no schools from which to transfer her into. And I can't get her into one."
Depression.
Dark eyes narrowed in thought. "You can't, but Clow could, couldn't he?"
Pause.
Grudgingly, "Yes, but I am not Clow Reed."
"You're one half his reincarnation though, and you have all his knowledge, surely they know this."
Suspicion, and...fear?
"They do, I have proved it to them, but they are westerners, they do not believe it truly, and so would not heed me should I ask."
"But they would listen to Clow, wouldn't they Eriol."
Stomach clench, spoiled milk inside of him, poison.
Fear.
"Yes."
"And?"
"And I am not Clow Reed."
"But?"
Old eyes close and open, showing their true age, fear.
"I do not wish to die, Touya Kinomoto. I am not Clow Reed."
Triumph.
"But you can be him again, can't you? You can bring him out!"
"I can't be him again, I never was him, I am *not* him." A potent glare and he went on though he was loath to, "I can cede the body to him, yes, I might not be able to come back. I am not him," fear "I am not even fourteen years old. I do not wish to die, I cannot go into that good night smiling as he did."
Silent father looked at the worried ghost, "You'd have to take my power, wouldn't you? And I wouldn't be able to see her or hear her."
Touya looked at his father sadly, knowing how much he cherished his renewed time with his wife, even if she was a ghost.
Meilin patted his shoulder, "I'm sure Clow-sama would leave you enough magic to still see her, you don't need a lot, or maybe he could cast a spell."
Eriol was over his head. He was used to being railroaded, how could he not be with the most powerful seer of all time as his previous incarnation? But that was more like a geas, a job. He did what Clow wished to be done, as he foresaw it, with appropriate alterations, such as for Touya, who wasn't supposed to be born, not that it was a bad thing. But once he was done with it his life was his own, he wouldn't even have to have visions, memories or otherwise of the future, unless he truly wished it.
His life would be his own.
But they were acting like the decision was already made!
It was too much.
"No! No I don't want to die! I might not come back, I might be absorbed by him! This is my life! Clow promised it to me! The Hope card has been made, love in a void, My part is over, it's my life now! I won't do it!"
"ERIOL HIIRAGIZAWA!!! HOW DARE YOU SAY SUCH A THING?!"
Terror.
"You're Sakura's friend, she regards you almost like a father! If Sakura was being shot would you take the bullet?"
"Yes b-!"
"There is not Buts! You're willing to die for her, just like everyone else here in this room!"
"YES I AM! How could anyone not want to? But it's different, Toyomo! You don't understand!"
"How is it different!? Tell me! Tell us all"
"Because if I die then it is my death, my life, I'll give my life to her, but not to him! Never to him! He's already stolen enough of it!" He threw down the staff.
Hesitance, understanding dawning, and--
"I don't want nor need your pity," unless it will get me out of doing this, silent.
"..."
"Clow Reed is my creator, and was my Master. He was a crackpot and too manipulative by half for his own good. And he was cruel, cruel in doing things that were, in the end, for the best. He sent us to Sakura so we would have a friend as a Master, because no matter what we would never be able to see him as an equal. To do it he had to die, and that was cruel."
They all looked to him, Eriol tucked his knees under his chin, hand tight around his legs.
"But he was a good man. And I don't think he would try to steal anymore of your life if he could help it, he's not that kind of person."
...
"I'll do it."
*~*~*~*~*
She curled against him, cheek on his chest, small hand curled into a fist around a lock of his hair and a fold of his robe, Book tucked under his arm. Her hair was brushed out, a few gentle curls in her in bangs, eyes closed and brow smooth.
She looked like an angel.
He was sitting on the floor of her room, propped up against her bed with his small Mistress sitting in his lap. The floor glowed with Clow's magic circle, producing a shield to hide them under his own maintenance.
There were more than a hundred of them all around Tomoeda. They had faked sneaking her out to set the Death Eaters on the wrong trail, letting them tear down one shield after another, moving her occasionally so they would never find her.
He was cold, and still wasn't too sure if he was comfortable with her as his Mistress, but she did not deserve this.
...Didn't she say she want to be his friend?
The moon was cold, impassive, alone, and so was he.
Her brow furrowed and eyes clenched tight as she slowly curled up more, shaking.
/Fire...help. NO!/
He looked down worried, a strange gleam in his eyes and wrapped both arms and wings around her, bowing his head so his face was against her hair. He could almost see what she saw. The fire, a hell-scape, ghost begging for mercy, flesh burning, the smell, ash blowing away. Blood.
\Hush Mistress.\
/Yue?/
\Nightmare Mistress.\
/Yue./
His mouth twisted, no matter what how dimmed she became, she was still Sakura, /Sakura./
Green eyes slitted open and looked at him, fear, and then calming when she saw that he was not wreathed in flames, not dying.
"Sleep."
She nodded, a shadow of her former smile and settled down.
...
Didn't the stars and the moon dance in the sky together?
