Yang-chan: Hey y'all! . I got some good reviews and it's about time I started to explain some things in this story. Hehehe! Arigato Minna-sama!
Summary: If you haven't been reading before go to the first chapter to read the summary cuz I got lazy! (sweatdrop)
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Did I forget to bring out my friend and my master? Very well. Clank Clank. Something dragged along the ground, something heavy and metal. Behind the humanoid a new figure stepped out. There were chains around their ankles, wrist, and neck, connecting them to the creature in front of them. His face was tired and worn, as if all the worries in the world rested on his shoulders.
" YAMAZAKI-SAN!"
All for a smile
A Yang Production
" Hello Shaoran-kun, Meilin-chan." The voice that came out of his mouth was not his own. He moved awkwardly against the chains that held him, straining almost. " What brings you here?"
"Yamazaki-san! Get away from that thing!" yelled Shaoran as he gripped his sword tightly.
" I'm sorry Shaoran-kun…I can not." An evil grin was placed on his lips, this was not Shaoran's friend that he had come to trust and confide in. " I finally understand what I have been holding inside me for all this time."
Master, let everything out…let your emotions go!
" I trusted you as a friend. I wanted both of us to go to collage together, I wanted us to live next door and get together and play a round of cards while our kids played in the back yard…" Yamazaki hissed. " I was happy that Chiharu loved me…that is at least what I thought. SHE LOVED YOU SHAORAN LI! You stole the only girl that I ever loved. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!"
The humanoid beside him started to double in size. Let everything out master! Give me all those negative thoughts and feelings!
" I worked and worked to get so far in my life, but did anyone appreciate that! No! It was always Shaoran this and Shaoran that! Never Yamazaki!" The binds on his wrist and feet tighten. " Everyone complained… Why can't you be like Shaoran-kun! Shaoran-kun doesn't lie! He's always on time. He is kind…He is cool…He is what I wish you could be!" The begin chuckled with delight as it continued to grew even more. Yamazaki placed a hand over his face as tears started to pour out. " My parents always pointed all the good you did and compared me to you. I couldn't make my parents happy. You should have heard them at night, ' Yamazaki tries his best, but that Li-kun is so much better. Why can't our dear Yamazaki be like him? That boy is hopeless.' It broke my heart to hear it. Your own parents. I…can't.-I just can't anymore! I HATE YOU!" A strange aura flared around him and traveled the length of the chain to the creature.
I do my master's bidding!
A giant clawed hand reached down trapping Shaoran. He braced himself as the ground was ripped up with him.
" I call upon my strength, power of light and darkness." The black figure called out. From their back burst angelic wings, glowing eerily in the moon light, with a tint of blue. In their hand was a thin sword, it's hilt encrusted with bright jewels. " Let the young man go! Your fight is with me only!"
I am what Master makes me and now my fight is with both of you!
With it's free hand the creature swung out, ruffling the feathers of our hero. They brought the sword up and across cutting off the hand. " You creatures can not continue your nature while I am here!" Raising the sword above their head, they swung down, the hand now relaxing as Shaoran felt himself go weightless. Above him he could hear the battle, but that mattered little as the ground was slowly approaching. Something soft and silky creased his cheek. He opened his eyes that he never realized he closed, two bright eye flashed in the moonlight and then he felt himself slowing down. His feet hovered inches above the ground, something was hooked under his arms.
" You can't defeat those creatures. They are not the same things you battled years ago against HIM." A voice whispered in his ear. " I must do this alone!" Feathers fluttered around him, a single one hovering in front of him, within reach. His hands acted on their own, stretching out and grasping the fading feather. A pair of hands pulled him and guided him to some bushes.
" Shaoran-kun!" cried his cousin. She wrung her hands as he sat down in a daze. That voice reminded him of someone from long ago…Sakura.
" Yamazaki-san! Snap out of it!" Yelled the flying figure. " Don't sink further into your own despair! You can still get out. Let me help you get rid of these feelings."
"NO! LEAVE ME ALONE! I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP!" He screamed. A huge pillar of fire sped out of the giant creature. The wings caught fire as they brought up their hands to block the fire. Wind whipped at their face, the cloth that once was their mask now ashes, their wings gone.
" Wind!" Shaoran was snapped out of it and called on the elements to help the fallen angel.
"OOF! My head…" Deep hair stood out against the black clothes. " Crap! It's stronger than I thought!" Both cousins hid as the person turned around. Blue eyes burned with ambition.
Suki… echoed in their mind.
Suki reached into her clothes and pulled out a small pink gumball size ball and ate it. Grabbing her sword once more, she stared down at the creature and Yamazaki.
" Please, I beg of you, stand down."
" Never."
Suki let out a ragged sigh, she brought her sword to her face. Let your soul settle once more Yamazaki-san, never again must you tread this darken path again…Her feet moved forward, her arms swinging the sword, her eyes harden with sympathy. The chain that connected the two beings was severed, Yamazaki screamed in pain and fell to the floor gasping for breath. The once strong boy whimpered from the reality that he was so abruptly thrown into.
My source of power may have been cut, but you can not continue to do this much longer! FALL, MEET YOUR DESTINY OF DEATH! We shall consume this world and let everything that once was restrained free, and that which is open shall close!
" Won't you ever shut up!" Suki shouted as she put away her sword into it's hilt. " I am getting rid of things like you almost daily, smaller, but at least they went quietly!" She stuck out her hand palm open, the same jewel that she used before. " Now come!" A light shot forth and wrapped around the creature, binding it's body. Wind whipped up around both of them, the light slowly retreating into the jewel. The creature let out an anguished howl as it's body was pulled deeper into the crystal clear jewel.
WE SHALL CONSUME YOU!
" OH SHUT THE HELL UP!" A bright light blinded everyone, sweeping throughout the city. Suddenly everything went dark, the moon cast overhead, crickets chirping their night song, the wind whispering soft melodies in the air.
" holy…crap…" whispered Meilin. She walked out to were the THING was. Yamazaki lay peacefully in the dirt, his once harden face now soften. Shaoran stared at his friend, he had never known what Yamazaki had felt before. Hiding behind his lies, smiling in the face of jealousy.
" He'll be fine…" Suki was bent over Yamazaki, checking his pulse. Her arms trembled as they stretched forth. Something was flowing down her right arm…something crimson, something warm…something like blood.
" HEY! Are you okay!" Meilin ran over to her as Suki collapsed into a sitting position. Blood was streaming down her arm.
Damn, that one was stronger than I thought. I should have been prepared…the thought flashed through Suki's head as she tightened her bandages that she was applying to herself. " Don't touch…" She hissed in pain. " You can't do anything for me…"
" What do you mean I can't do anything! I took a first aid course… now raise your arms up.." Meilin was cut off as Suki glared at her.
" I told you, you can't help me with this! What the hell are you two still doing here? Get out of here and take Yamazaki-san outta here also!"
" No." Shaoran said firmly, his arms crossed over his chest. " We need to know who you really are and what you are doing here." His eyes narrowed with coldness.
" Now, why the hell would I do that?" smirked Shino. " You two do not need to know what is above your head. Do you really believe that you can ask and I will tell?"
" Yes…" was all he responded.
Suki let out a laugh. " I have to admit…you got something about you that leads me to trust you...but you two do not need to concern yourself with something that you are not needed in….unlike what happened all those years ago. If you couldn't control yourself then, there is little chance that I will call upon your service."
" What do you mean THEN?" Meilin still hovered above Suki's wound.
" Get the hell away!" Suki snapped. " I told you that you can not heal this wound! Those things are not human!"
" What are they then?"
"…Chaos…Despair…Jealousy…Anger…Greed…all those feelings that you keep locked away. Inside of you, they build up and feed off of you. It's your true self… They are Veprae." Suki looked down at the sleeping figure of Yamazaki. Using her index finger, she drew an outline of a blanket around him and when she took her hand away, a rich purple blanket appeared. " As for who I am…I really can't let you know much. But do know this…I am the only one who can battle the Veprae. Do not get in my way…" Suki looked away from the two. " …You two harbor a great secret involving her…a girl you chased away from this town… I can feel your guilt even from here."
" WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!" both of them yelled as Suki
started to walk away.
" Didn't I already tell you? I am the only one who can stop these Veprae." Suki stared up at the sky, the stars twinkling playfully. Tears poured over as she gazed at them. As the first one hit the ground one star went out, then another one, a stream of tears fell from her face at a steady rate as the stars extinguished for the day as each tear fell to the ground where the earth swallowed them. " Day light is coming."
" What?"
" May we meet again in a better situation…tell Tomoyo-san that her once good friend is still around." Her voice faded along with her figure. Shaoran ran after her, only to find his path clear and deserted.
" DAMN IT!" He hissed through clenched teeth. " What the hell is going on! Veprae! HER! How does she know about…about Sakura!" He fell to his knees and started to punch the ground in frustration. " Someone just tell me!" In response a piece of paper swooped down in front of him.
You must first figure out what really went on in HER life, then can you seek me. With out that memory, your quest to find out the truth and to ease your guilt shall never come. The shadows of MEMORY and GUILT hang over you.
Lift them...
then find me.
" What the hell…happened?" sighed Shaoran as he stood shakily to his feet. His cousin looked up at him, a worried look on her face.
" Shaoran, what are we going to do? We can't travel back in time…we don't have the Sakura Cards. We don't know any spells that can help us…and I'm sure that you don't want to see Eriol after all these years."
" No, I don't want too. Especially now…after all THAT. I'm sure the moment that I call him up, he'll try to kill me over the phone." Shaoran pocketed the note and walked over to where Yamazaki still slept. Between the two, they carried him back to his apartment. The morning sun touched their faces lightly as it crawled up the sky. Both of them never saw how warm one was before.
Arigaot Minna-sama. Review please.
