THE LI GUARDIANS
PART 01 of Chapter 9 – THE TRUTH
The girls, still sobbing, looked in the direction which the glimmering light was coming from and suddenly, just as quick as it started, it ceased to glow... and where the light was, only a human shape the stood, eyes closed.
He had long lavender hair which was tied in a loose ponytail that almost reached his feet, framing an innocent face that held air of indifference. As tall as Touya, he wore brown pants, a long-sleeved light gray shirt and an onyx pendant with the kanjis for his name engraved in silver on it.
"Absorbing Syaoran-sama's life energy, he not only gained a body, but his face is also similar to Syaoran-sama's!!!" Suuki observed, anger filling her up... that was too much for her. "Iie (No)..." She cried silently, more tears escaping down her cheeks as her creator's hug replayed in her mind. [A.N.: Near the end of Chapter 7 – The Danger.]
The "reborn" magician, oblivious to everything around him, began examining his new body, touching his face and, after slowly opening his eyes; which turned out to be and deep amber eyes that were surely Syaoran's, no doubt product of the energy stolen from the Li heir; he remained some moments observing his hands... as if mesmerized by them... and then at himself. A quick smile appeared on his face, but it was too fast to be seen.
Looking up, only then did he realize he was not alone; remembering what had happened the last weeks, a mocking smile displayed itself on his lips.
As he walked up to the girls, he noticed their scared faces, but also noticed that they weren't running... in fact, although both were shaking, they were covering something with their own bodies, as if to hide it from him, but the magician already knew what it was.
"Ladies, please step aside from there and I won't harm you." He said gallantly.
"And then... what would you do to him if we do that?" Sakura asked, barely able to contain her anger; she suspected the answer... and she was right.
"I will give an end to the Li clan as my revenge... and I will start with the heir." He answered emotionlessly.
The girls only came closer to the unmoving body, Sakura hugging his head closer to her chest, never taking their eyes off the nearing magician.
Kurotsuki came to a stop two feet away from them, remaining mute... all he did was stretch his hand over them. "I did ask you politely, but you had to make things this way." He said sarcastically before his hands started glowing a bright neon green...
In a flash, Sakura and Suuki were thrown separate ways. The impact was so quick and big, the auburn-haired girl dropped the precious cargo she had been protecting with all her strength. Kurotsuki just laughed cynically. "You are no match for me, girl! And you never will be!"
The girls, trying to get up, felt despair close in on their hearts as Kurotsuki kneeled besides Syaoran's body, feeling theirs were no longer capable of doing anything much. They watched fearfully as the magician reached out his hand... and gently began caressing the sides of the boy's face.
Sakura and Suuki were utterly surprised at that, and it was clearly stamped on their faces... they never expected he'd make a caring gesture towards the one he had just announced he'd kill. The magician, however, took no notice of their reaction.
"Syaoran ka? Chiisana ookami, ne. Kawaii namae desu (Syaoran, huh? Little Wolf, right? It's a cute name)." Kurotsuki commented, mostly to himself, but the two girls heard him anyway. A few seconds after he pronounced those words, a scornful expression appeared out of nowhere on his face. "You do kind of resemble HIM, Syaoran-kun... even though you're generations away, you look - not identical, true – but you look a bit like HIM. The creamy clear skin, soft chocolate-colored hair... the amber eyes I know you have and that will never again be admired by anyone else... the kind and cold expressions only HE could make so easily, shifting from sweet to uncaring in less than a second's time. Yes... you are alike." The longhaired man said, his voice full of sorrow, his eyes even worse as he looked at Sakura. "Too much alike."
At this point, the chestnut-haired girl had gotten a little curious: she had been thinking of the ancient magician as someone cruel, cold and vengeful; but to her, at that moment of his rebirth, the only thing she sensed was sadness - a lot of it - and maybe... hurt? Could it be? Someone as strong and powerful as him... hurt? What really happened 234 years ago? And why was everything so strange? Why was he so different than what people thought him to be?
And... who was HE?
Her thoughts were interrupted when she was suddenly startled by Suuki, who, even though meters apart, slammed her fist on the concrete floor loud enough to be heard by the other girl, small amounts of blood dripping from her knuckles as she raised it again, tears flowing from her tightly shut eyes like the red drops were from her hand. "No..." She cried. "This can't be happening! DOUSHITE (WHY)?! Why did Syaoran-sama have to pay for our mistake with his life?! DOUSHITE?!" She screamed between sobs. "Syaoran-sama..." The Li Guardian whispered, lowering her head just enough for her bangs to cover her eyes, but not the translucent liquid that refused to stop falling.
Sakura didn't know what to do: run to Suuki's side, stay where she already was, return to her beloved's body's side... but, to her surprise, Kurotsuki, picking up Syaoran's body and draping it over his left shoulder, was the one who headed to the other girl's direction.
He knelt over one knee, the other in front of him, before her, a hand on her hair as he gently caressed it. "Don't worry, I would never do anything to his boy." He said softly.
It was confusing, to say the least. Why would he say that to them if they had just witnessed how he managed to kill Syaoran? Looking up to him, her feelings of hatred and sorrow clearly showing, she voiced in one word the only explanation she came up with, "Liar."
Kurotsuki, a bit taken back, stood up and headed to Sakura, but he stopped midway voices were heard and footsteps indicated people coming up. [A.N.: Remember they're at the top of one of the school's buildings.]
"But sensei (teacher), why do you think they are up here?" Tomoyo's voice echoed.
"I don't know, but we've searched everywhere, and some students reported they saw a strong green light from here a few minutes ago, so we have to check." Came a teacher's voice, which Sakura recognized as her homeroom teacher's.
Sighing, Kurotsuki closed his eyes and as he whispered the incantation "Oh Gods of Winds, hear my prayer and take us to a safer somewhere!" All 'four' were taken in a flash to another rooftop, close to the previous one none- the-less, and Sakura, still surprised at the teleportation ability the magician had, saw Tomoyo coming out of the door to the other, followed by some teachers, a relieved look on the long-haired girl's face. Apparently the teachers were searching for Sakura, Syaoran, Yami and Suuki, dragging the dark-haired girl with them. Knowing her best girl friend, Sakura deduced the voices from the stairs were the teachers replying to something the girl had said... her way of warning them to clear off.
Sakura made a mental note to thank her friend.
As she turned back to look at Kurotsuki, the girl was really surprised to discover that his face was only inches from hers, making her totally freeze. He gave a small smile and backed away, watching as Sakura released the air she hadn't even known she was holding.
"Kawai sou desu. Anata to Syaoran-kun wa kawai sou desu (Pitiful. You and Syaoran-kun are pitiful)." He said with an air of sadness.
Putting more distance between them, he violently dropped the boy's body on the floor, an action that much contrasted with his previous ones and that lit up once more the fighting spirit within both girls, who stood up and got ready to face him again, anger clear in their faces.
"Syaoran-kun o kaeshite (Give us back Syaoran-kun)!" Sakura shouted, getting ready to use her cards.
However, before she even had a chance to name the one she wanted, Kurotsuki chanted once more, his fingers coming together in different positions every three or four words.
"Gods of Protection, hear my call and magically imprison them all!"
His eyes, closed during the incantation, opened brusquely and his hands formed a triangle in the girls' direction. They screamed in surprise as suddenly a transparent dome appeared over their heads, looking a little like her Shield card.
"The Shield!" She thought, but as she tried calling the card, the emerald- eyed girl noticed her staff had turned back to its pendant form... and no matter how much she concentrated or chanted, it stayed that way.
"Oh, no! I can't use my magic! How come?!" She asked no one in particular, looking at her hands and at the pendant.
Hearing a loud laughter, Sakura looked up to Kurotsuki's direction, a confused look stamped on her features. When he managed to stop laughing, the magician looked at her in a cynical way and replied.
"Besides the fact that you are already warn out, and that WOULD happen eventually once your magic energy died down, I have just put you in a 'cage', so to speak, in which your magic will not work unless I remove the boundaries... and that's not going to happen." He said matter-of-factly, turning back to the body at his feet, kneeling closer and closer to it.
"Stay away form him!" The two girls shouted simultaneously, banging violently on the 'walls' that held them prisoners, despair and anguish planting themselves in their hearts.
Kurotsuki looked back at them, a cold and hateful look stamped on his face. "Stay away from him?! STAY AWAY from him?! Did HE stay away from me?! Did HE think about my feelings?! No HE did NOT! I'm not going to do any different either!" The magician screamed, suddenly raising Syaoran's face and captured the boy's still warm lips with his, giving them a long and 'tasteful' [A.N.: Hey, it's Syaoran-sama! So even if he is dead already, it'll still be tasteful!!! GOD, I LOVE THE KID!], yet rough kiss, shocking both girls.
"Stay away form him!" Sakura screamed again, vainly trying to break the dome or use magic... it was useless. And all she received back was an empty stare from Kurotsuki, who still hadn't pulled away from the unresponsive body.
When he DID, although still keeping his back to them, he finally replied. "Out of the respect I have for you, who fought me even though you knew you couldn't win, and because I practically have what I wanted; which would be my life back and the kawaii (cute) Li heir, both in body and soul; I will let you live a little longer while I tell you what really happened 234 years ago, since none of you seem to know."
At that, the surprised Sakura and Suuki looked at one another, their eyes exchanging the same message: could there possibly be another version of History? Was it possible that all they knew were lies, or was Kurotsuki the liar?
No. Somehow, even though he had killed Syaoran, the pain and hatred in his eyes were for real, Sakura knew it... no, she felt it. She felt that whatever their opponent was going to tell them next was true. She waited quietly for him to continue, trying to hold back her anger as the magician proceeded caressing the one she loved most in a mysterious and... sensual way.
Kurotsuki seemed to enjoy himself just by touching the boy, let alone kissing him. When he felt a bit more satisfied, he turned to face them... a sardonic smile was his expression, but he still held Syaoran's peaceful face close to his as he nuzzled it to his chest.
Sighing, he continued. "I'm going to do better than TELL you what happened, I'm going to SHOW you one of the many truths behind the Li family. In a way, I pity him for having been the heir to such people; the responsibilities are great... and therefore... so is the training to become one, not to mention all the information he'd have to keep in mind 24 hours a day; all the truths behind the family that can easily shatter such an innocent soul."
That said, Kurotsuki raised his free hand and, with an open palm, drew in the air a circle and then a straight line right through it. With the symbol 'drawn', he closed his eyes and concentrated...
Suuki and Sakura watched as the symbol slowly began to shine and then a flash of light blinded them for a moment, but it disappeared as quickly as it had begun.
END of PART 01 of CHAPTER NINE – THE TRUTH
Tsuzuku iteiru (will continue)
A.N.: I know Kurotsuki is Chinese and he is speaking Japanese, but since I don't know the first, I made him use the latter. Let's just say he 'caught' it from Syaoran...
And I just noticed Syaoran's being kissed by everyone! Oops! Remind me not to do that on my next fic... ¬¬ His lips and Syaoran HIMSELF is MINE ONLY!!! Hahahahaha!
Syaoran --': Thank goodness that's not true!
Kai: Isn't she doing something similar to me in 'Different Lives'?
Loki: Yeah, now that you mention, which is actually a coincidence that these chapters were posted in close days when they were written with at least 3 months of a difference!
Kouichi: How would you know? You weren't part of her anime knowledge yet!
He looked up my fanfictions information file... ¬¬'
And I kind of like to do that... '
Well, that was about 2/5 of the chapter, so I'll either divide into part 2 and part 3 (which can be done faster) or I'll have to wait for the courage (and opportunity) to type all of the rest if chapter 9... ¬¬
You can tell me which is better on a review!
Syaoran: Check out the lame hint... ¬¬'
Kouichi: Wouldn't it have been better if she just asked to review?
Loki: Yes, it would...
Kai: Review. Period.
Ugh! Stabbed right through the heart by my favorite characters! That's it, I'm signing out!
KLKL aka Syaoran-Lover
PART 01 of Chapter 9 – THE TRUTH
The girls, still sobbing, looked in the direction which the glimmering light was coming from and suddenly, just as quick as it started, it ceased to glow... and where the light was, only a human shape the stood, eyes closed.
He had long lavender hair which was tied in a loose ponytail that almost reached his feet, framing an innocent face that held air of indifference. As tall as Touya, he wore brown pants, a long-sleeved light gray shirt and an onyx pendant with the kanjis for his name engraved in silver on it.
"Absorbing Syaoran-sama's life energy, he not only gained a body, but his face is also similar to Syaoran-sama's!!!" Suuki observed, anger filling her up... that was too much for her. "Iie (No)..." She cried silently, more tears escaping down her cheeks as her creator's hug replayed in her mind. [A.N.: Near the end of Chapter 7 – The Danger.]
The "reborn" magician, oblivious to everything around him, began examining his new body, touching his face and, after slowly opening his eyes; which turned out to be and deep amber eyes that were surely Syaoran's, no doubt product of the energy stolen from the Li heir; he remained some moments observing his hands... as if mesmerized by them... and then at himself. A quick smile appeared on his face, but it was too fast to be seen.
Looking up, only then did he realize he was not alone; remembering what had happened the last weeks, a mocking smile displayed itself on his lips.
As he walked up to the girls, he noticed their scared faces, but also noticed that they weren't running... in fact, although both were shaking, they were covering something with their own bodies, as if to hide it from him, but the magician already knew what it was.
"Ladies, please step aside from there and I won't harm you." He said gallantly.
"And then... what would you do to him if we do that?" Sakura asked, barely able to contain her anger; she suspected the answer... and she was right.
"I will give an end to the Li clan as my revenge... and I will start with the heir." He answered emotionlessly.
The girls only came closer to the unmoving body, Sakura hugging his head closer to her chest, never taking their eyes off the nearing magician.
Kurotsuki came to a stop two feet away from them, remaining mute... all he did was stretch his hand over them. "I did ask you politely, but you had to make things this way." He said sarcastically before his hands started glowing a bright neon green...
In a flash, Sakura and Suuki were thrown separate ways. The impact was so quick and big, the auburn-haired girl dropped the precious cargo she had been protecting with all her strength. Kurotsuki just laughed cynically. "You are no match for me, girl! And you never will be!"
The girls, trying to get up, felt despair close in on their hearts as Kurotsuki kneeled besides Syaoran's body, feeling theirs were no longer capable of doing anything much. They watched fearfully as the magician reached out his hand... and gently began caressing the sides of the boy's face.
Sakura and Suuki were utterly surprised at that, and it was clearly stamped on their faces... they never expected he'd make a caring gesture towards the one he had just announced he'd kill. The magician, however, took no notice of their reaction.
"Syaoran ka? Chiisana ookami, ne. Kawaii namae desu (Syaoran, huh? Little Wolf, right? It's a cute name)." Kurotsuki commented, mostly to himself, but the two girls heard him anyway. A few seconds after he pronounced those words, a scornful expression appeared out of nowhere on his face. "You do kind of resemble HIM, Syaoran-kun... even though you're generations away, you look - not identical, true – but you look a bit like HIM. The creamy clear skin, soft chocolate-colored hair... the amber eyes I know you have and that will never again be admired by anyone else... the kind and cold expressions only HE could make so easily, shifting from sweet to uncaring in less than a second's time. Yes... you are alike." The longhaired man said, his voice full of sorrow, his eyes even worse as he looked at Sakura. "Too much alike."
At this point, the chestnut-haired girl had gotten a little curious: she had been thinking of the ancient magician as someone cruel, cold and vengeful; but to her, at that moment of his rebirth, the only thing she sensed was sadness - a lot of it - and maybe... hurt? Could it be? Someone as strong and powerful as him... hurt? What really happened 234 years ago? And why was everything so strange? Why was he so different than what people thought him to be?
And... who was HE?
Her thoughts were interrupted when she was suddenly startled by Suuki, who, even though meters apart, slammed her fist on the concrete floor loud enough to be heard by the other girl, small amounts of blood dripping from her knuckles as she raised it again, tears flowing from her tightly shut eyes like the red drops were from her hand. "No..." She cried. "This can't be happening! DOUSHITE (WHY)?! Why did Syaoran-sama have to pay for our mistake with his life?! DOUSHITE?!" She screamed between sobs. "Syaoran-sama..." The Li Guardian whispered, lowering her head just enough for her bangs to cover her eyes, but not the translucent liquid that refused to stop falling.
Sakura didn't know what to do: run to Suuki's side, stay where she already was, return to her beloved's body's side... but, to her surprise, Kurotsuki, picking up Syaoran's body and draping it over his left shoulder, was the one who headed to the other girl's direction.
He knelt over one knee, the other in front of him, before her, a hand on her hair as he gently caressed it. "Don't worry, I would never do anything to his boy." He said softly.
It was confusing, to say the least. Why would he say that to them if they had just witnessed how he managed to kill Syaoran? Looking up to him, her feelings of hatred and sorrow clearly showing, she voiced in one word the only explanation she came up with, "Liar."
Kurotsuki, a bit taken back, stood up and headed to Sakura, but he stopped midway voices were heard and footsteps indicated people coming up. [A.N.: Remember they're at the top of one of the school's buildings.]
"But sensei (teacher), why do you think they are up here?" Tomoyo's voice echoed.
"I don't know, but we've searched everywhere, and some students reported they saw a strong green light from here a few minutes ago, so we have to check." Came a teacher's voice, which Sakura recognized as her homeroom teacher's.
Sighing, Kurotsuki closed his eyes and as he whispered the incantation "Oh Gods of Winds, hear my prayer and take us to a safer somewhere!" All 'four' were taken in a flash to another rooftop, close to the previous one none- the-less, and Sakura, still surprised at the teleportation ability the magician had, saw Tomoyo coming out of the door to the other, followed by some teachers, a relieved look on the long-haired girl's face. Apparently the teachers were searching for Sakura, Syaoran, Yami and Suuki, dragging the dark-haired girl with them. Knowing her best girl friend, Sakura deduced the voices from the stairs were the teachers replying to something the girl had said... her way of warning them to clear off.
Sakura made a mental note to thank her friend.
As she turned back to look at Kurotsuki, the girl was really surprised to discover that his face was only inches from hers, making her totally freeze. He gave a small smile and backed away, watching as Sakura released the air she hadn't even known she was holding.
"Kawai sou desu. Anata to Syaoran-kun wa kawai sou desu (Pitiful. You and Syaoran-kun are pitiful)." He said with an air of sadness.
Putting more distance between them, he violently dropped the boy's body on the floor, an action that much contrasted with his previous ones and that lit up once more the fighting spirit within both girls, who stood up and got ready to face him again, anger clear in their faces.
"Syaoran-kun o kaeshite (Give us back Syaoran-kun)!" Sakura shouted, getting ready to use her cards.
However, before she even had a chance to name the one she wanted, Kurotsuki chanted once more, his fingers coming together in different positions every three or four words.
"Gods of Protection, hear my call and magically imprison them all!"
His eyes, closed during the incantation, opened brusquely and his hands formed a triangle in the girls' direction. They screamed in surprise as suddenly a transparent dome appeared over their heads, looking a little like her Shield card.
"The Shield!" She thought, but as she tried calling the card, the emerald- eyed girl noticed her staff had turned back to its pendant form... and no matter how much she concentrated or chanted, it stayed that way.
"Oh, no! I can't use my magic! How come?!" She asked no one in particular, looking at her hands and at the pendant.
Hearing a loud laughter, Sakura looked up to Kurotsuki's direction, a confused look stamped on her features. When he managed to stop laughing, the magician looked at her in a cynical way and replied.
"Besides the fact that you are already warn out, and that WOULD happen eventually once your magic energy died down, I have just put you in a 'cage', so to speak, in which your magic will not work unless I remove the boundaries... and that's not going to happen." He said matter-of-factly, turning back to the body at his feet, kneeling closer and closer to it.
"Stay away form him!" The two girls shouted simultaneously, banging violently on the 'walls' that held them prisoners, despair and anguish planting themselves in their hearts.
Kurotsuki looked back at them, a cold and hateful look stamped on his face. "Stay away from him?! STAY AWAY from him?! Did HE stay away from me?! Did HE think about my feelings?! No HE did NOT! I'm not going to do any different either!" The magician screamed, suddenly raising Syaoran's face and captured the boy's still warm lips with his, giving them a long and 'tasteful' [A.N.: Hey, it's Syaoran-sama! So even if he is dead already, it'll still be tasteful!!! GOD, I LOVE THE KID!], yet rough kiss, shocking both girls.
"Stay away form him!" Sakura screamed again, vainly trying to break the dome or use magic... it was useless. And all she received back was an empty stare from Kurotsuki, who still hadn't pulled away from the unresponsive body.
When he DID, although still keeping his back to them, he finally replied. "Out of the respect I have for you, who fought me even though you knew you couldn't win, and because I practically have what I wanted; which would be my life back and the kawaii (cute) Li heir, both in body and soul; I will let you live a little longer while I tell you what really happened 234 years ago, since none of you seem to know."
At that, the surprised Sakura and Suuki looked at one another, their eyes exchanging the same message: could there possibly be another version of History? Was it possible that all they knew were lies, or was Kurotsuki the liar?
No. Somehow, even though he had killed Syaoran, the pain and hatred in his eyes were for real, Sakura knew it... no, she felt it. She felt that whatever their opponent was going to tell them next was true. She waited quietly for him to continue, trying to hold back her anger as the magician proceeded caressing the one she loved most in a mysterious and... sensual way.
Kurotsuki seemed to enjoy himself just by touching the boy, let alone kissing him. When he felt a bit more satisfied, he turned to face them... a sardonic smile was his expression, but he still held Syaoran's peaceful face close to his as he nuzzled it to his chest.
Sighing, he continued. "I'm going to do better than TELL you what happened, I'm going to SHOW you one of the many truths behind the Li family. In a way, I pity him for having been the heir to such people; the responsibilities are great... and therefore... so is the training to become one, not to mention all the information he'd have to keep in mind 24 hours a day; all the truths behind the family that can easily shatter such an innocent soul."
That said, Kurotsuki raised his free hand and, with an open palm, drew in the air a circle and then a straight line right through it. With the symbol 'drawn', he closed his eyes and concentrated...
Suuki and Sakura watched as the symbol slowly began to shine and then a flash of light blinded them for a moment, but it disappeared as quickly as it had begun.
END of PART 01 of CHAPTER NINE – THE TRUTH
Tsuzuku iteiru (will continue)
A.N.: I know Kurotsuki is Chinese and he is speaking Japanese, but since I don't know the first, I made him use the latter. Let's just say he 'caught' it from Syaoran...
And I just noticed Syaoran's being kissed by everyone! Oops! Remind me not to do that on my next fic... ¬¬ His lips and Syaoran HIMSELF is MINE ONLY!!! Hahahahaha!
Syaoran --': Thank goodness that's not true!
Kai: Isn't she doing something similar to me in 'Different Lives'?
Loki: Yeah, now that you mention, which is actually a coincidence that these chapters were posted in close days when they were written with at least 3 months of a difference!
Kouichi: How would you know? You weren't part of her anime knowledge yet!
He looked up my fanfictions information file... ¬¬'
And I kind of like to do that... '
Well, that was about 2/5 of the chapter, so I'll either divide into part 2 and part 3 (which can be done faster) or I'll have to wait for the courage (and opportunity) to type all of the rest if chapter 9... ¬¬
You can tell me which is better on a review!
Syaoran: Check out the lame hint... ¬¬'
Kouichi: Wouldn't it have been better if she just asked to review?
Loki: Yes, it would...
Kai: Review. Period.
Ugh! Stabbed right through the heart by my favorite characters! That's it, I'm signing out!
KLKL aka Syaoran-Lover