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The Guardian's Desire
Chapter 1
The Beginning Retold
Yue wandered the castle, pacing from one side of the room to another his mind speeding with so many questions.
Yue, what in the world is with all these jumbled thoughts of yours? I cannot even begin to understand how you piece them together!
Oh quiet yourself, I've just got a lot on my mind
We share a mind, its not that hard to tell
I don't need your insubordination Yukito!
This is about Princess Sakura, isn't it?
Yue stopped walking. There was no response from Yue. Right now, Yue was in control of the body, and he shut down his thoughts completely so his mortal self could not read his mind. It was true, he was worried about her.King Touya had announced it was time for the princess to be wed, and the suitors would be coming within a few months. Sakura was furious, enraged, and utterly repulsed. Sayoran had long since died in a war, dying to protect his princess, that was when Sakura was fifteen. Now, Sakura had just come of age at eighteen.
Sakura could not even speak to Touya after he had told her, which was unlike her, a girl who was usually full of life and had plenty to say. She simply stormed out of the room, robes blowing with her fast quickened sprint out of the room.
Maybe you should consult with Kero-chan. He's her guardian too, they've known each other a little longer than you have. I mean, I've known her my whole life, but you, you didn't unfortunately.
Hmf, you've known her for so long, and yet you don't know how to comfort her?
Well, you're the one in control right now. Its hard to come out when you lock me away because of your thoughts.
Forgive me Yukito.. He sighed In good time, just give me a little longer in control.
He laughed softly Of course Yue, do as you please, I can still see everything you do. Its almost the same.
Yue walked out of the royal hall and threw the corridors. It was rather quiet, but his ears began to pick up the most peculiar sound. He stopped and closed his eyes. It was the most beautiful sound in the world. It was soft and light, almost like a spring time breeze. What divine creature could have such a beautiful voice? He let out a sigh of relief. It seemed as if all his tensions and worries had been lifted from him in such an instant. The voice was like velvet, so soothing and yet alluring.
His feet started to move, and he found himself being drawn to this voice. He ambled through corridor after corridor, past the kitchens and the dining halls, and even past the throne room. He came to the sleeping quarters and he realized where it was coming from. It was coming from Princess Sakura's room. Her door was open ajar, and he stood in the doorway. Sakura was looking out her grand window, the voice and the song cards standing beside her all the time applauding and smiling. The voice card looked up and saw Yue, and flew over to him smiling.
"Hello," Yue pat the top of the young girl's head. The voice smiled too.
"Oh, hello Yue-chan!" Sakura turned around with a beautiful smile. She always had such a loving smile, and loving eyes to match. She had grown so much, and now was a tall, slender, but beautiful woman. Her light brown hair fell past her ears, the traditional hair cut she had since she was young, and her emerald eyes always glowed with the warm affection of love.
"I can see your friends love your voice, as do I princess," Yue smiled gently with a small head bow.
"Oh Yue, you know you don't have to call me princess. I've told both you and Yukito so many times! Even without my royal title, I'm still Sakura," She protested with a small pout
"I'm sorry Sakura, you're still a princess in my eyes, and I am here to serve you." He told her quietly. She frowned, but he stroked the side of her face with a small laugh "You're still the same my little princess. Still loving and stubborn as ever. But I must say, you have such a lovely voice"
Sakura smiled and blushed a little "Thank you Yue but you should thank my friends. They are the one's who have been helping me all this time. I want to be able to sing for Touya's royal party in a few weeks. I want him to be proud of me,"
"I'm sure he already is dear," Yue smiled and stroked her cheek again.
"Sakura! Sakura your brother is waiting for you in the royal hall!" Kero-chan appeared in the doorway, mighty and majestic as always. Sakura sighed, and her cards returned to her and she bowed to Yue and Kero and walked down the hallway
"Is everything all right?" Yue asked concerned
"Its about her marriage, I'm sure some harsh things will be said. Yue?"
"Yes Kero?"
"Bring out Yukito, I need to speak with him." Kero told him
"As you wish, I will return later," Yue bowed to Kero and took a step back. His wings wrapped around him, and in one white light, he was returned to Yukito's body. Even though Yukito was a mortal, he was still dressed in royal robes, being the right hand advisor to the king
"You wished to speak with me Kero?" Yukito asked quietly
"Yes, its about what is coming," Kero told him quietly sitting down, his tail swishing from side to side. "Yukito already knows of it, but Sakura's new judgement is coming"
"New judgement?" Yukito asked curiously
"Yes, many years ago, when we still were the guardians to Clow Reed, he went through changes just as Sakura transformed the cards to Sakura cards. But now that she is eighteen, there will be a new evil here to take the cards back from her. Yue has not told you of it, maybe because he does not want you to be concerned with the matter, since you have much to attend to as King Touya's advisor."
"I see..." Yukito looked at the ground "So...why have you called me then?"
"I want you to be aware of what's going on. I need of us to protect the Princess. Without her, this world can plunge into chaos...and a new millennia of darkness"
"BUT THAT'S NOT FAIR TOUYA!" Sakura screamed at him with tears in her eyes "It's not fair..."
"It may not seem fair to you, but these are the laws to our kingdom! Ones that even our father used them and you would be kind to honor your father's ways!" Touya told her sternly from his throne
"But times have changed! Don't you think dad would have wanted me to be happy than honorable!" She protested again, her fists shaking.
Touya frowned and looked away "I...I don't know Sakura...you have to realize...I was only sixteen when I came into power. Dad died, only shortly after you transformed the Sakura cards. I will never know again what he wanted for you. I'm doing my best. These men, they are wealthy, and strong, they will be able to protect you"
"Touya...I'm the keeper of the cards...I can protect myself!" She told him quietly
"But there are things in this world magic can't protect you from and you know that! Think of Sayoran! Could the cards save him! No! I don't want to see my baby sister go through that heartache ever again!" He told her bluntly, but there was pain in his eyes "Do you know, how much it took, to get you to smile again, and do you know, how happy I was?" He got up from his throne and rested his hands on her shoulders "Sakura...I want you to be happy...but I want you to be safe. I'm sure that one of these suitors will be everything you imagined. You can reject them, you just have to marry a royal. There are many kind royals."
"Touya..." Sakura sniffed a little. She didn't realize how much he really did care about her.
"Oh monster, you're growing you, but you're still going to be my little sister. I'd easily give up this crown, if it meant you'd be safe. That's why you have Yue and Kero, and all these cards. But I'm not going to be around forever, I just want you to be happy for however long I'm still around"
Sakura nodded and jumped into his arms. Even if they were king and princess of royalty over the strongest nation, they were still brother and sister. He hugged and embraced her tight and kissed the top of her head.
"Alright Touya...alright..." Sakura finally told him burring her face in his shoulder.
"Thanks Sakura..."
Soon after, Sakura fled from the royal hall and fell onto her bed and started crying. She sobbed quietly against her pillow for a while, letting the time drift without her caring. After a while, she ripped off all her royal clothing, the gowns, kimonos, and threw on just a white night dress and her other panties. As tumbled back into her bed and cried. From the book of the clow appeared the sleep and the dream each throwing their powdering spells over her to sleep. In a soft white light, like something shining down from the heavens, a ghostly figured appeared.
He looked at the dream card, who was stroking Sakura's head as she slumbered. "Can I visit her, just this one last time?" He asked her quietly. The Dream nodded, and the sleep giggled like the fairy that she appeared to be. He wandered over to her, and slipped into the bed with her, wrapping his arms around her waist
"Sakura...Sakura can you hear me?"
Dream world
"Sayoran, is that you?" Sakura turned over in the bed within the dream world and looked at him. "Oh...Sayoran," she was so happy to see him.
"Hello Sakura. Wow, you've sure grown." Li still possessed his fifteen year old body. It looked as though it were a brother and sister together, instead of a destroyed pair of lovers
"I'm so glad you've come," Sakura smiled hugging him
"I'm happy to see you again. But I came with a purpose."
"A purpose Sayoran?" Sakura looked at him curiously
"Unfortunately yes. Sakura, there is a great darkness coming. Its coming to take back the clow cards for its own selfish reasons. You have to stop them. They have the power to absorb the cards within their bodies."
"Into their bodies?" Sakura was shocked
"Yes, and you have the power to do the same. Windy, the first card you got, as usual, will be the first to be part of you. You will have to learn to control each one, one by one. When you awake from this, they'll be someone coming to see you soon"
"That I cannot say, but he is very important"
"Sakura, I believe in you, and sadly, this will be the last time I can see you."
"No..." Sakura shook her head with forlorn
"Once you absorb the dream and sleep, they are part of you, and no longer have the free will to grant me access to your dreams," He smiled softly "But I will always be with you Sakura. I am the hope, and I am in your heart." He leaned over and kissed her lips softly holding her tight this one last time "Your destined one will come for you soon, he just has to find it within him first"
"My destined one? What are you talking about?" Sakura sat up in the bed watching Sayoran disappear "Sayoran wait!"
"Goodbye love, be brave Sakura." And with that...he was gone
Sakura bolted upright in her bed, tears pouring down the sides of her face. The dream and the sleep returned to the book and she wiped her eyes. "Sayoran..." she wiped her eyes again and cried.
Yue?
Yes Yukito?
Can you hear that?
Hear what? I hear many things...
Can you hear her? She's crying...
Yes...it seems as though...its begun
Yue rose from his bed, once again cutting off his mind link to Yukito. He wandered down the halls, staring out at the full moon. He found Sakura right there in her room as always, and he slid open the door. "Princess Sakura?"
"Oh...Yue...he's...gone..." She cried sitting in her bed. Yue swiftly ran up to her and embraced her tight sitting down on the bed, his back adjacent to the wall. She lay outstretched on him.
Her arms wrapped around his neck, her face buried against his bare chest, and her legs outstretched across him. Even still at eighteen, she was so young and frail. But there was a feeling, a feeling that taunted at him. The feeling of her breasts forced against his chest, and the feel of her knee rubbing at his inner calf, they enticed him. There was a desire within, to be with her. This feeling as she cried and ran her limp hand over his chest. He didn't understand it
"It's alright Princess...it's alright Princess..." He cooed her softly stroking her hair
"Yue...it hurts...it hurts so much..." She cried to him struggling to stay strong against him
"I'm sorry Princess...I'm sorry I cannot make the feeling leave you,"
Yue looked up, seeing the windy standing in front of them. He repositioned Sakura so she could see the card and she frowned in angst wiping the tears from her eyes "So you're here, just as Sayoran said you'd be"
Windy nodded, her hands folded in front of her. She moved her lips in speech, but there were no words audible to the ears. But Sakura understood. She rose from the bed and stood before Windy.
"I'm ready..." She whispered quietly. Windy spread open her arms and the room was filled with wind. Yue's hair blew around, long and white with the breeze. She slowly wrapped the wind around Sakura's arms, and slowly around the rest of her body. Slowly she seeped into her and with that, Sakura collapsed to the ground.
"Sakura!" Yue ran over to her and picked her up in his arms. "Are you alright Princess?"
"I'm fine...I'm fine...just tired" Sakura told him with a smile. Yue put her back down on the bed, and tucked her in
"Rest princess, I'll see you in the morning"
The next morning Yue found Kero at the first sign of light "Kero!"
"I know...it's begun...she received her message...and absorbed Windy"
"She collapsed, by did that happen?" Yue asked worriedly
"The absorption of her cards takes a lot of energy. Its understandable, it will be easier for her over time. Did you tell Yukito what happen?"
Yue looked at the floor his gaze was away from Kero "No..."
"Why not! You are two halves of the same soul he needs to know! What happens if she gets attacked while he's in control. You shouldn't separate yourselves like that!"
"What would you know about it?" Yue shot back, glaring, and turned storming off.
Kero sat down in the sun watching him leave. "So strange that guy"
Yue, why are you so hostile today?
That is nothing of your concern
WE'RE in the SAME body, I deserve to know
She's changing...
Of course she is, she's growing up, and with all the stress of her marriage of course she's changing!
No, there is a new evil here. Sakura has to absorb her cards, into her body. Sayoran, even as a ghost, can no longer visit her now that she's started to absorb the cards.
Oh...so she's very upset now isn't she?
Indeed, I fear for her happiness. I'm afraid she'll hurt herself in her own pain.
No, Sakura won't do that, not after Sayoran's death and those hard times. She's learned to value her life so much
Yukito...what is this feeling? This feeling inside of us? What is it?
Well, how should I know, you keep locking me away! Is it become I'm a mortal and you're the guardian?
No...I'm sorry for that Yukito. I'm not used to having to share a body, I used to be just myself and never share.
But its been like these for years, we've been together like this for almost 6 years! Just recently you started to shut me out again!
...I don't know...
This feeling...what is it like?
I'm not sure how to describe it...its for foreign in me
Well...this emotion...who is it associated with?
...Sakura.
