A.N.: Finally! I know it's been long and I'm really sorry for this delay. I wanted to post it up sooner, but only now did I get the chance, so I do hope you read and liked "I'll Get You Back for That", my first Beyblade fic and my first oneshot . I forgot to mention that NOTHING serious happened between our favorite Card Captor Sakura couple on chapter 2 after all that fluffiness; at least, not yet...
Well, anyways, I also want you to know that this chapter will give you a little (quote "little") background of the what's going on behind all this, so it will mainly be talking. Also, both this chapter (5) and chapter 6 are small, but from the 8th on, not only does the action start...
Syaoran: Hasn't it already started? I've already gone down! -
Kai: She means the REAL action.
Yes, well, as I was saying, the action will start from chapter 8...
Kai: 7.
What?
Kai: The real action...
Syaoran: ... starts on chapter 7.
Alright, that's it! YOU give them the news!
Syaoran: Chapters 5 and 6 are small.
Kai: Chapters 8 to 11 are bigger.
Syaoran: The epilogue is also small.
Kai: And this idiot owns nothing but plot and original characters and some weird other stuff and OOC you might see.
The disclaimer is already done in the 1st chapter! No need to do it again!
Kai: Just wanted to remind you or the painful reality. --
And here I was thinking you actually cared a bit. Enough already, thanks for giving the notices for me. Here we go with chapter 5!
THE LI GUARDIANS
Chapter 5 - THE STORY
It didn't take too long to arrive at their destination. Sakura followed Yami to an unknown building that looked like it had been recently concluded. Upon landing, she called back The Fly and The Shield, then went in the place behind the raven-haired boy, who guided her to a door on the last floor. Opening it without making much noise, both entered, heavy breaths making way to their ears.
"Syaoran-kun!" She recognized, running in their direction. Passing through another door, she found the brown-haired boy with his shirt open, fine chest exposed, lying on his back on top of a bed. Sitting beside it was Suuki, her eyes on him.
Sakura dashed across the room and was immediately on her knees on the other side of the bed, Syaoran's hand in one of hers. She felt it tighten, signaling he acknowledged her presence. His eyes were closed, but he was mildly aware of her, even in sleep. The auburn-haired girl smiled at the thought, and then noticed the other girl was looking at her with a strange expression imprinted on her face. Feeling a bit uneasy, Sakura decided she wanted to know why Syaoran was in that shape.
"Ne, Moriko-san, nani ga atteru ka (What's happening, Moriko)?"
At first, Suuki only stared at the other girl, but Yami gave her a light push and she seemed to come back to her senses, as if she had been in a trance. "Sou ne. Kiite kudasai. Ano yami wa Kurotsuki deshita yo. Kare wa Syaoran-sama no inochi hoshiin desu. (Oh, yeah. Please listen. That darkness was Kurotsuki. He wants Syaoran-sama's life.)" She explained.
Sakura blinked. "Kurotsuki? Syaoran-kun no inochi? Doushite? (Kurotsuki? Syaoran-kun's life? Why?" She asked, puzzled.
Suuki sighed. Yami decided to take over, knowing his partner needed all the strength she had at the moment. "234 years ago, a man, who went by the name of Kurotsuki, was considered the most powerful and the most evil. Some even considered him a demon out of control. He went about Hong Kong and provoked havoc, from small accidents to big catastrophes! It was total chaos! Then, one day, the Li clan decided to stop him, even if they weren't as strong as him; but they had to do it. So the leader of the clan sought help from his subordinates and set out to confront Kurotsuki. The only thing they were able to do, though, was to trap him in a small sphere that could be held on a human hand and sealed it. I know it sounds simple, but it wasn't. Most of the ones involved in that action died less than a week later, including the Li clan leader. This has been kept secret throughout generations and only a selected few know of it. The sphere was carefully locked away with magic, somewhere inside the Li mansion, for better protection. It's part of the many secrets of the clan."
He stopped and took a long breath. Closing his eyes in along sigh, Yami continued. "That's where we come in: unfortunately, we did not know about it. We were trained to obey and be useful to the Li clan, particularly to Syaoran-sama. We were taught how to fight and how to use our special abilities, but we were not told of this story until after the accident. When Suuki and I were roaming about the mansion, we accidentally found a trap door. Curious, we opened it and entered the room it was sealing. A bit further to the corner, we found a small cubicle lavender object on a pillow, 5 candles lit around it on an altar. We knew we shouldn't get too close, but I tripped and Suuki fell with me on top of everything and the stuff scattered all over the floor. That way we ended up breaking the only thing that kept humanity safe from that the of Kurotsuki: the seal was broken when we touched it together, and he escaped from within the sphere. I still can't believe how clumsy we were! And because of it Syaoran-sama is in great danger!" Yami cried out, hands curled up in fists so tight, they were already deadly white, which didn't go unnoticed by Sakura.
"Kage-san, yamete kudasai (please stop)! Your hand will go numb!" She warned, genuinely concerned.
"Can't help it. Suuki, are you finished yet?" He asked, looking at the girl in question.
"Almost." She answered, without moving anything but her lips. "Keep telling her, she'll need to know as much as possible."
Sakura wanted to ask what was Suuki doing, since the black-haired girl was only staring at the unconscious boy, but Yami turned back to face her and continued. "Alright. Where was I? Oh, yes, he escaped. However, 234 years have gone by and his body no longer exists, he is pure magic energy now, but existing none the less. Of course, he wants to continue what he started, but for that, he needs a body, and for a body, he needs life energy."
Sakura gasped at this. "You can't mean... you're not saying..." She stammered, looking at her boyfriend, but the raven-haired boy's green eyes had already answered her worst fear, and she gulped when he verbalized and answer.
"Yes, that's right. Of course, he wants revenge on the Li clan, so what would be better than killing one of them in same process as his revival? What would be better than killing the young heir at the same time as he comes back to life?" The boy asked, his voice deadly calm, hands bleeding from the pressure he was putting. "He had a fever this morning, did he not? Well, that was Kurotsuki's doing: he attacked Syaoran-sama during the night, planning to finish the heir there and then. We were able to throw him off, although we did not have success in waking Syaoran-sama up, Kurotsuki's spell was too strong. That's when you came in as we hid in the shadows. You were able to pull him out of the nightmare he was having, and by doing so, you earned the right to be near him. However, Kurotsuki did get a good amount of life energy... and because of that, Syaoran-sama's body got weak; that's why he had a fever. At recess time, he sensed something and went out to investigate, with us secretly following him. Outside the school, we saw that darkness, but since it was foggy, we saw it only to late and Syaoran-sama was attacked. That's when we discovered that Kurotsuki had acquired mass. With the life energy he absorbed at night, he was able to become solid, but not get a shape. Syaoran-sama, however, did not have enough time to recover, as you can see..."
Sakura was speechless. How was she going to help Syaoran? How could she fight against someone whose magic energy was able to survive 234 years, and without a body?
And for no apparent reason, a sudden question popped in her head, and next ting she knew, her voice had already made her thoughts public: "Why do you know so much about the Li clan, better yet, why are you so intent on protecting Syaoran-kun?"
Yami eyed her seriously, but Suuki stood up and prevented him from doing anything. "I'm done." She pronounced, exhausted.
Sakura blinked in confusion, but then, Syaoran gave little movement and she turned back to him. "Syaoran-kun!"
He stirred and opened his eye, trying to register his surroundings. All he knew was that Sakura was there, and that his head hurt a lot. "Nanda (What)..." He started, but Suuki interrupted him.
"Syaoran-sama, that's as much energy as I could give you, I have not enough strength to give anymore, but I think both of us will heal before the desperate times. Kurotsuki has escaped and stole yours so he could get a new body." She bowed.
"Inochi no ki ka (life energy)? Douyatte omae ga dekiru no ka (how can you be able to)? You don't have my energy life force; it would be impossible to complete such a task successfully without it!" he wondered aloud, things suddenly clicking in his mind as Sakura helped him sit up on the bed.
"I do. We do. Syaoran-sama, you gave us birth, remember?" She asked, but Syaoran's confused expression, and Sakura's dumbstruck one, was enough to answer. "Guess not." Suuki replied as she sighed, lining up next to her partner. "Syaoran-sama, we are your guardians, Li Guardians, to be exact. You granted us life when you yourself were just presented with it. Being only a baby, you were not able to contain all your magic power, so even if you didn't know what you were doing, you created to bodies to hold the excess, putting some of your life energy into them, thus we were born. Such a thing is actually quite common in the Li clan, not normal, but common just the same. And so, unknown to you, we were trained to aid should you need it; to return your life energy or magic power, should you need it; to die to protect you, should you need it. Our lives... are yours." The female Li Guardian finished, pausing between the last words for effect.
Syaoran could only gape at the two before him, speechless, as he tried to absorb all the information they were granting him with. The Li clan heir had been told long ago about Kurotsuki, but he had never expected the magician to be so strong, and the surprising thing was that it probably wasn't even half of his real strength, since he only had mass and energy at the moment, but not enough life energy and certainly not a body... yet.
Sakura looked at her boyfriend, who was deep in thought, and then at the other two. She had known it the moment Syaoran had been attacked by the dark mass, and had refused to accept it, but now the pounding truth was evident and undeniable: their peaceful life was over, they were going to have to battle once again, except this time, the reward to their victory or loss would cost Syaoran's existence.
END of CHAPTER 5 - THE STORY
A.N.: Phew! Finally done!
So the villain showed up, sort of, and his name is Kurotsuki! Yami's and Suuki's identities were revealed and so was the reason why this fic is named the way it is.
I know this chapter only had dialogues, and I'm sincerely sorry if any of you find it boring, but that's the way the story goes. And I'm also sorry to say that the next chapter will be quite similar, but it's shorter and a bit more kawaii :p
Chapter 6: The Health holds a few more SS moments, and their final break before everything is twisted over again! But I never said that Kurotsuki wouldn't interfere with their "break time". (That also means that the action will be in 5 big chapters! Talk about a lot for them to do!)
I do hope you realize that life energy can "multiply" itself until no more is needed, thus, even though they were created with very little life energy, it "multiplied" and they acquired an actual life. The reason why they were so hasty to replace Syaoran's, however, was because he was already to short of it, and it would take some time for recovery, something both Suuki and Yami know they don't have much of to waste.
To those who actually wanted to see a copy of the sketches of my original characters, I'm so sorry I'm taking forever, but if you leave your e-mail and a "request" I'll just take them somewhere else and send it to you, if I get the chance.
In case anyone wonders, the reason why Suuki, Yami and Syaoran have different surnames, though they're from the same family, is because Suuki and Yami are meant to act like normal people, protecting their master without letting their identities be known to the public in general.
Syaoran: Make her happy by reviewing so she won't kill me so soon.
Kai: I'm not sure that's a good idea, she'll just make more fics and we'll die in them sooner or later!
Well, Kai got one thing right. But please do leave a review, and if I made any grammar mistakes, please let me know so I can correct them.
Commercial :p
Read "Staring into Scarlet Eyes - Arch", from Shinigami's Voice, if you like some good Kai-torture and light yaoi (guess who is the couple... rolls eyes). She's done a magnificent job in describing sceneries, in worshipping Kai, in making him a hero and in writing an excellent Beyblade story with all we Kai-lovers like best.
And I'm giving you 3 specials soon: a CCS oneshot, a multi-chaptered BB fic (continuing my previously mentioned oneshot) and a surprise yaoi (not telling anything more about it).
And when this fic is finished, there will be a sweet songfic or a song parody (maybe both) in honor of Kage Yami and Moriko Suuki.
See ya soon!
Kai: Yeah, right, roles eyes real soon...
Syaoran-Lover signing out
Well, anyways, I also want you to know that this chapter will give you a little (quote "little") background of the what's going on behind all this, so it will mainly be talking. Also, both this chapter (5) and chapter 6 are small, but from the 8th on, not only does the action start...
Syaoran: Hasn't it already started? I've already gone down! -
Kai: She means the REAL action.
Yes, well, as I was saying, the action will start from chapter 8...
Kai: 7.
What?
Kai: The real action...
Syaoran: ... starts on chapter 7.
Alright, that's it! YOU give them the news!
Syaoran: Chapters 5 and 6 are small.
Kai: Chapters 8 to 11 are bigger.
Syaoran: The epilogue is also small.
Kai: And this idiot owns nothing but plot and original characters and some weird other stuff and OOC you might see.
The disclaimer is already done in the 1st chapter! No need to do it again!
Kai: Just wanted to remind you or the painful reality. --
And here I was thinking you actually cared a bit. Enough already, thanks for giving the notices for me. Here we go with chapter 5!
THE LI GUARDIANS
Chapter 5 - THE STORY
It didn't take too long to arrive at their destination. Sakura followed Yami to an unknown building that looked like it had been recently concluded. Upon landing, she called back The Fly and The Shield, then went in the place behind the raven-haired boy, who guided her to a door on the last floor. Opening it without making much noise, both entered, heavy breaths making way to their ears.
"Syaoran-kun!" She recognized, running in their direction. Passing through another door, she found the brown-haired boy with his shirt open, fine chest exposed, lying on his back on top of a bed. Sitting beside it was Suuki, her eyes on him.
Sakura dashed across the room and was immediately on her knees on the other side of the bed, Syaoran's hand in one of hers. She felt it tighten, signaling he acknowledged her presence. His eyes were closed, but he was mildly aware of her, even in sleep. The auburn-haired girl smiled at the thought, and then noticed the other girl was looking at her with a strange expression imprinted on her face. Feeling a bit uneasy, Sakura decided she wanted to know why Syaoran was in that shape.
"Ne, Moriko-san, nani ga atteru ka (What's happening, Moriko)?"
At first, Suuki only stared at the other girl, but Yami gave her a light push and she seemed to come back to her senses, as if she had been in a trance. "Sou ne. Kiite kudasai. Ano yami wa Kurotsuki deshita yo. Kare wa Syaoran-sama no inochi hoshiin desu. (Oh, yeah. Please listen. That darkness was Kurotsuki. He wants Syaoran-sama's life.)" She explained.
Sakura blinked. "Kurotsuki? Syaoran-kun no inochi? Doushite? (Kurotsuki? Syaoran-kun's life? Why?" She asked, puzzled.
Suuki sighed. Yami decided to take over, knowing his partner needed all the strength she had at the moment. "234 years ago, a man, who went by the name of Kurotsuki, was considered the most powerful and the most evil. Some even considered him a demon out of control. He went about Hong Kong and provoked havoc, from small accidents to big catastrophes! It was total chaos! Then, one day, the Li clan decided to stop him, even if they weren't as strong as him; but they had to do it. So the leader of the clan sought help from his subordinates and set out to confront Kurotsuki. The only thing they were able to do, though, was to trap him in a small sphere that could be held on a human hand and sealed it. I know it sounds simple, but it wasn't. Most of the ones involved in that action died less than a week later, including the Li clan leader. This has been kept secret throughout generations and only a selected few know of it. The sphere was carefully locked away with magic, somewhere inside the Li mansion, for better protection. It's part of the many secrets of the clan."
He stopped and took a long breath. Closing his eyes in along sigh, Yami continued. "That's where we come in: unfortunately, we did not know about it. We were trained to obey and be useful to the Li clan, particularly to Syaoran-sama. We were taught how to fight and how to use our special abilities, but we were not told of this story until after the accident. When Suuki and I were roaming about the mansion, we accidentally found a trap door. Curious, we opened it and entered the room it was sealing. A bit further to the corner, we found a small cubicle lavender object on a pillow, 5 candles lit around it on an altar. We knew we shouldn't get too close, but I tripped and Suuki fell with me on top of everything and the stuff scattered all over the floor. That way we ended up breaking the only thing that kept humanity safe from that the of Kurotsuki: the seal was broken when we touched it together, and he escaped from within the sphere. I still can't believe how clumsy we were! And because of it Syaoran-sama is in great danger!" Yami cried out, hands curled up in fists so tight, they were already deadly white, which didn't go unnoticed by Sakura.
"Kage-san, yamete kudasai (please stop)! Your hand will go numb!" She warned, genuinely concerned.
"Can't help it. Suuki, are you finished yet?" He asked, looking at the girl in question.
"Almost." She answered, without moving anything but her lips. "Keep telling her, she'll need to know as much as possible."
Sakura wanted to ask what was Suuki doing, since the black-haired girl was only staring at the unconscious boy, but Yami turned back to face her and continued. "Alright. Where was I? Oh, yes, he escaped. However, 234 years have gone by and his body no longer exists, he is pure magic energy now, but existing none the less. Of course, he wants to continue what he started, but for that, he needs a body, and for a body, he needs life energy."
Sakura gasped at this. "You can't mean... you're not saying..." She stammered, looking at her boyfriend, but the raven-haired boy's green eyes had already answered her worst fear, and she gulped when he verbalized and answer.
"Yes, that's right. Of course, he wants revenge on the Li clan, so what would be better than killing one of them in same process as his revival? What would be better than killing the young heir at the same time as he comes back to life?" The boy asked, his voice deadly calm, hands bleeding from the pressure he was putting. "He had a fever this morning, did he not? Well, that was Kurotsuki's doing: he attacked Syaoran-sama during the night, planning to finish the heir there and then. We were able to throw him off, although we did not have success in waking Syaoran-sama up, Kurotsuki's spell was too strong. That's when you came in as we hid in the shadows. You were able to pull him out of the nightmare he was having, and by doing so, you earned the right to be near him. However, Kurotsuki did get a good amount of life energy... and because of that, Syaoran-sama's body got weak; that's why he had a fever. At recess time, he sensed something and went out to investigate, with us secretly following him. Outside the school, we saw that darkness, but since it was foggy, we saw it only to late and Syaoran-sama was attacked. That's when we discovered that Kurotsuki had acquired mass. With the life energy he absorbed at night, he was able to become solid, but not get a shape. Syaoran-sama, however, did not have enough time to recover, as you can see..."
Sakura was speechless. How was she going to help Syaoran? How could she fight against someone whose magic energy was able to survive 234 years, and without a body?
And for no apparent reason, a sudden question popped in her head, and next ting she knew, her voice had already made her thoughts public: "Why do you know so much about the Li clan, better yet, why are you so intent on protecting Syaoran-kun?"
Yami eyed her seriously, but Suuki stood up and prevented him from doing anything. "I'm done." She pronounced, exhausted.
Sakura blinked in confusion, but then, Syaoran gave little movement and she turned back to him. "Syaoran-kun!"
He stirred and opened his eye, trying to register his surroundings. All he knew was that Sakura was there, and that his head hurt a lot. "Nanda (What)..." He started, but Suuki interrupted him.
"Syaoran-sama, that's as much energy as I could give you, I have not enough strength to give anymore, but I think both of us will heal before the desperate times. Kurotsuki has escaped and stole yours so he could get a new body." She bowed.
"Inochi no ki ka (life energy)? Douyatte omae ga dekiru no ka (how can you be able to)? You don't have my energy life force; it would be impossible to complete such a task successfully without it!" he wondered aloud, things suddenly clicking in his mind as Sakura helped him sit up on the bed.
"I do. We do. Syaoran-sama, you gave us birth, remember?" She asked, but Syaoran's confused expression, and Sakura's dumbstruck one, was enough to answer. "Guess not." Suuki replied as she sighed, lining up next to her partner. "Syaoran-sama, we are your guardians, Li Guardians, to be exact. You granted us life when you yourself were just presented with it. Being only a baby, you were not able to contain all your magic power, so even if you didn't know what you were doing, you created to bodies to hold the excess, putting some of your life energy into them, thus we were born. Such a thing is actually quite common in the Li clan, not normal, but common just the same. And so, unknown to you, we were trained to aid should you need it; to return your life energy or magic power, should you need it; to die to protect you, should you need it. Our lives... are yours." The female Li Guardian finished, pausing between the last words for effect.
Syaoran could only gape at the two before him, speechless, as he tried to absorb all the information they were granting him with. The Li clan heir had been told long ago about Kurotsuki, but he had never expected the magician to be so strong, and the surprising thing was that it probably wasn't even half of his real strength, since he only had mass and energy at the moment, but not enough life energy and certainly not a body... yet.
Sakura looked at her boyfriend, who was deep in thought, and then at the other two. She had known it the moment Syaoran had been attacked by the dark mass, and had refused to accept it, but now the pounding truth was evident and undeniable: their peaceful life was over, they were going to have to battle once again, except this time, the reward to their victory or loss would cost Syaoran's existence.
END of CHAPTER 5 - THE STORY
A.N.: Phew! Finally done!
So the villain showed up, sort of, and his name is Kurotsuki! Yami's and Suuki's identities were revealed and so was the reason why this fic is named the way it is.
I know this chapter only had dialogues, and I'm sincerely sorry if any of you find it boring, but that's the way the story goes. And I'm also sorry to say that the next chapter will be quite similar, but it's shorter and a bit more kawaii :p
Chapter 6: The Health holds a few more SS moments, and their final break before everything is twisted over again! But I never said that Kurotsuki wouldn't interfere with their "break time". (That also means that the action will be in 5 big chapters! Talk about a lot for them to do!)
I do hope you realize that life energy can "multiply" itself until no more is needed, thus, even though they were created with very little life energy, it "multiplied" and they acquired an actual life. The reason why they were so hasty to replace Syaoran's, however, was because he was already to short of it, and it would take some time for recovery, something both Suuki and Yami know they don't have much of to waste.
To those who actually wanted to see a copy of the sketches of my original characters, I'm so sorry I'm taking forever, but if you leave your e-mail and a "request" I'll just take them somewhere else and send it to you, if I get the chance.
In case anyone wonders, the reason why Suuki, Yami and Syaoran have different surnames, though they're from the same family, is because Suuki and Yami are meant to act like normal people, protecting their master without letting their identities be known to the public in general.
Syaoran: Make her happy by reviewing so she won't kill me so soon.
Kai: I'm not sure that's a good idea, she'll just make more fics and we'll die in them sooner or later!
Well, Kai got one thing right. But please do leave a review, and if I made any grammar mistakes, please let me know so I can correct them.
Commercial :p
Read "Staring into Scarlet Eyes - Arch", from Shinigami's Voice, if you like some good Kai-torture and light yaoi (guess who is the couple... rolls eyes). She's done a magnificent job in describing sceneries, in worshipping Kai, in making him a hero and in writing an excellent Beyblade story with all we Kai-lovers like best.
And I'm giving you 3 specials soon: a CCS oneshot, a multi-chaptered BB fic (continuing my previously mentioned oneshot) and a surprise yaoi (not telling anything more about it).
And when this fic is finished, there will be a sweet songfic or a song parody (maybe both) in honor of Kage Yami and Moriko Suuki.
See ya soon!
Kai: Yeah, right, roles eyes real soon...
Syaoran-Lover signing out