Title: Angelic Moon
Author: Syf
Summary: Yue's a rogue guardian, Akuma's a strange sorceress, Tenshi is a
lost card that appears in dreams. When these three beings enter Sakura's
life, things get very complicated.
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Disclaimer: CCS belongs to Clamp. Akuma, Tenshi, and Tsuki belong to me,
'nuff said.
~Chapter Eleven~
"Something's wrong," Touya muttered staring blankly out of the school gate. A small frowned marred his face.
"I know what you mean," Kaho agreed coming up to stand beside her lover. She too was frowning. She was worried and she didn't care who knew it. Something was wrong, very wrong. As a priestess Kaho could sometimes foretell the future. And at this moment the future was looking very bad.
"What's going on?" Tomoyo asked looking between the two of them. it was a few minutes before school and Touya had come to visit his lover and a few of Sakura's classmates.
"I can't see the ghosts anymore," Touya explained looking at them distractedly. Tomoyo and Meiling looked blankly at each other.
"I can always see ghosts. Even after I gave my powers to Tsuki I could somehow sense them. But now they aren't here anymore."
"But that's a good thing right?" Tomoyo asked tentatively. She knew next to nothing about magic and while she was happy that way, at times it was a big inconvenience, like now for instance.
Touya shook his head fervently. "Ghosts can sense change in magic quicker than humans can, even magicians. Something to do with being dead. When they disappear that means something very bad, very magical, and very big is going to happen very soon." Here Kaho took over to explain to the girls.
"As a moon priestess I can sense the future. And all of my training is telling me that I do not want to be here for whatever's coming."
"Does this have something to do with Akuma?" Meiling asked.
"Tenshi, Akuma, Yue, and Sakura, it's got something to do with all four of them," Kaho corrected.
"It's going to be tough for the next few weeks," Eriol remarked handing the lunch he bought to Meiling. "Magically, physically, and emotionally," he continued looking unconcerned even though his mouth was sprouting very bad omens.
"Are you always so optimistic?" Syaoron asked sitting beside Tomoyo who greeted him with a smile.
"You know as well as I do that worrying about things won't it go away," Eriol chided. Syaoron nodded reluctantly. He knew. The group fell into a contemplative silence, each thinking their own thoughts.
"Hey! There's Sakura. SAKURA!!" Tomoyo suddenly shouted waving her hands. The brunette looked up with a startled look. Then that look turned into a smile when she realised who it was. She raced over to them with a wave of her own.
"Where's Yue?" Syaoron asked with a disapproving frown. He'd thought that the Star guardian would be shadowing Sakura's every step. Sakura's face fell and she looked away.
"What happened?" Touya demanded ready to defend his little sister against whatever the Star guardian had done. Sakura however just shook her head unwilling to talk about it. Touya was ready to shake some sense into her but Kaho stopped him with a hand on his shoulder. She and Eriol shared a look before turning to the Card Mistress.
"Are you all right Sakura?" Eriol asked worriedly. The emerald eyed girl smiled brightly fooling everyone but Tomoyo, who had known her far too long.
"I'm just fine. Come on we need to get to class or we'll be late," she prompted with a laugh. Kaho looked down at her watch and noticed with some surprise that it was indeed nearly time for class. Touya stood up and kissed Kaho goodbye. With a wave for his sister and her friends he walked out of the school. The group began to walk towards the school building talking about nothing and everything.
Tomoyo suddenly noticed that Sakura was lagging behind. Normally she'd be up at the front talking with her friends but today she just seemed paler and quieter. Making sure no one noticed she dropped back to talk to her friend.
"What's wrong Sakura?" she asked quietly. The brunette looked up with a distracted smile.
"Nothing Tomoyo, I'm fine," she protested not fooling her best friend. Tomoyo continued to stare at her. Unnoticed they had stopped in the middle of the hallway. A few looked at them curiously but turned back to their own businesses when they realized it was only Tomoyo and Sakura speaking.
Sakura sighed. "Yue and I just had argument," she answered suddenly finding the floor very interesting.
"About?" Tomoyo asked patiently. Sakura could brush off anyone but Tomoyo and Touya. The former was her best friend and the latter was her brother.
"Nothing important, just a discussion about why he's so protective of me," Sakura muttered still not looking up.
"Isn't that a good thing?" Tomoyo asked with a slightly frown. Sakura looked up at her incredulously.
"I'm old enough to look after myself!!" Sakura said rather loudly. Loud enough that other students looked over. Seeing the two best friends arguing most turned back to their previous occupation not wishing to get involved. A few however watched with avid glee as the drama unfolded.
"I know you are but you should still be careful!" Tomoyo protested worried about her friend.
"I am being careful. I'm not the naïve little girl I used to be," Sakura insisted. By now Tomoyo was getting angry as well. She was just worried about her friend.
"We all know that but we can't help worrying any way!!" Tomoyo snapped finally losing her temper.
"Is there a problem girls?" Kaho asked coming onto the scene. Both girls turned to look at her. The older woman was faintly surprised when she saw the fury in both Sakura and Tomoyo's face.
"Well?" she prompted coolly. The two girls looked anywhere but at each other and at Kaho.
"Just a small misunderstanding," Tomoyo finally said when it was apparent that Sakura wasn't going to say anything.
"I see. Perhaps this small misunderstanding could wait until lunch time?" Kaho suggested. Both girls had the grace to look embarrassed and nodded. With murmured apologies Tomoyo and Sakura raced off to their classroom. Kaho followed at a more sedate pace, somewhat worried about the girls.
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Yue stared at the door not looking forward to what he was about to do. He was a brave Star Warrior. He could take on the spirits of the cards, an evil magician, an angry ghost, but this just about took the cake. He wanted to run away and hide, nevertheless this had to be done. He had to be brave and courageous. However there was a small part of him that really didn't want to do this.
As he stood there his sense of duty battled with his common sense. Sense of duty won out. Not waiting for his common sense to rally Yue lifted his hand and knocked on the door. He stepped back hiding his anxiety behind an icy façade.
He tired not to flinch when the door creaked open. A golden head poked out. It was Kero in his human form, smiling in welcome. The smile on his face disappeared and a frown appeared as Kero saw the person waiting for him. Without a word Kero closed the door in Yue's face.
The Star guardian sighed and knocked again. This time it was Tsuki who opened the door. Like Kero she too was frowning.
"Sakura's at school where you're supposed to be, so go away," She said moving to close the door. Fortunately Yue was quick enough to stop her by shoving back the door. Surprised Tsuki watched as Yue pushed his way inside the house.
"Why'd you let him in?!?" Kero protested when he saw Yue.
"I didn't exactly let him in, he pushed past me!! What was I supposed to do attack him? In broad daylight?" Tsuki defended herself.
"Women!!" Kero muttered sulkily. Tsuki took offense and the two began a verbal fight that was quickly going downhill.
"We don't have time for this!" Yue yelled stopping the two in the midst of their fight. Both stopped and looked at Yue in surprise. They'd almost forgotten that he was there. Now that they remembered their anger came back full force.
"What're you here for anyway? Aren't you supposed to be at school along with Keori and Sakura?" Kero demanded folding his arms across his chest.
"I'm here because I need to talk to you two," Yue said ignoring Kero's second question.
"Too bad, we don't want to talk to you," Kero replied shortly. Yue took a deep breath to calm himself. It wouldn't do any good if he decided to throw Kero out the window. Not only would it attract unwanted attention, he also doubted Sakura would be happy with him.
"I know you don't like me, and you have a lot of good reasons for that. But this isn't about you or me, it's about Sakura," Yue said frustrated beyond belief. He'd never thought he'd be this aggravated when he was contemplating talking to his siblings.
"Oh, well, that's a different matter completely then," Kero said reluctantly conceding to listen to Yue. He walked into the living room and sprawled onto one of the seats. With his arms folded and a frown on his face he looked like a sulky child. Yue contained his laughter and sat opposite Kero. Tsuki sat between them, once again being the mediator.
"So? Talk!" Kero demanded impatiently. Yue suppressed the urge to roll his eyes. He'd never realize how childish his little brother was.
"Have you noticed that Sakura's been a lot more.unbalanced lately?" Yue asked tentatively.
"She's not crazy!!" Tsuki spoke up.
"I didn't say she was. I'm talking about her magical abilities, not her emotional or mental state," Yue argued. Kero frowned thoughtfully. Now that he thought about it, Yue was right. His mistress' magic had been a little unreliable lately. This morning he had woken up more tired than usual. And Tsuki had complained of a headache.
Kero knew they weren't sick, magical creatures don't get sick. It didn't have anything to do with the lack of energy source either. The sun was shining brightly and it had been a full moon last night. No one was attacking them magically. The only people capable of attacking them were Akuma and Eriol. The sorceress had been laying low for a while so it couldn't have been her. And Eriol was their friend, now that the tests were all over there was no need for him to attack them any more. The only explanation left was Sakura. As far as Kero knew she was physically, mentally, and emotionally fine. Therefore it could be inferred that something was wrong with her magic.
In spite of the fact that they gained their power from the sun and the moon, Kero and Tsuki were still connected to Sakura. Part of their power came from Sakura since the sun and the moon were available only half of the time. So anything that affected Sakura's magical ability affected them to some degree.
"Yue's right," Kero finally said grudgingly. Tsuki looked up very surprised to hear those words coming from Kero's mouth.
"Thank you," Yue said uncertainty colouring his words. He didn't know whether to take that as a compliment or not, considering the tone it was said in.
"Don't expect me to ever say it again," Kero warned even though his tone wasn't as hostile as it used to be.
"So do we have an explanation for why Sakura's so unbalanced, as Yue put it?" Tsuki asked the two guardians. Yue and Kero shared a look.
"We have no idea," they replied in unison. Tsuki sighed.
"Great, so what do we do?" she said looking from one to the other.
"We keep watching, and making sure that the situation doesn't get worse. Make sure that Akuma stays far away from Sakura," Kero answered with an offhand shrug. He turned to Yue.
"Oh, and one more thing, if you ever betray us again like you did the night Akuma attacked us, not even Sakura's going to stop me from killing you," he warned. Yue nodded understanding that this was the guardian speaking.
"So we'll just have to make sure that we're here if and when Sakura needs us," Tsuki concluded. Kero and Yue nodded to show that they agreed.
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Yue reflected on his siblings as he walked home since there really wasn't any point to going to school, seeing as he had missed half the day already.
When he had first met his siblings he had been very uncomfortable to say the least. He was, after all, surrounded by people who had plenty of reasons to hate him. To his surprise however, he found that as he continued to interact with them he was beginning to feel more and more comfortable with his 'family'. Kero was still unfriendly, as was Tsuki, not to mention Eriol, Nakuru, and Spinel Sun. But despite all these he liked bring around them.
Sakura was the only thing in common that they had but it was more than enough. Perhaps given more time he would be welcomed back into the 'family' with open arms. He could hope.
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It's done. Yahoo!! I know I promised you another story, 'Moonlit Reflection', but currently my attention is spread between this, my original stories, other fanfictions yet to be seen on the net, as well as 'Moonlit Reflection'. So instead of the huge chapter I wanted to put up I'm only going to put up the prologue, and the first chapter of 'Moonlit Reflection'.
And I totally forgot about the exam that Yue was talking about in the previous chapter, and I can't be bothered to change the ending so let's just all pretend that the exam is tomorrow.
As always, please R&R. I do appreciate any constructive criticism put forward by anyone. Thanks!!
~Chapter Eleven~
"Something's wrong," Touya muttered staring blankly out of the school gate. A small frowned marred his face.
"I know what you mean," Kaho agreed coming up to stand beside her lover. She too was frowning. She was worried and she didn't care who knew it. Something was wrong, very wrong. As a priestess Kaho could sometimes foretell the future. And at this moment the future was looking very bad.
"What's going on?" Tomoyo asked looking between the two of them. it was a few minutes before school and Touya had come to visit his lover and a few of Sakura's classmates.
"I can't see the ghosts anymore," Touya explained looking at them distractedly. Tomoyo and Meiling looked blankly at each other.
"I can always see ghosts. Even after I gave my powers to Tsuki I could somehow sense them. But now they aren't here anymore."
"But that's a good thing right?" Tomoyo asked tentatively. She knew next to nothing about magic and while she was happy that way, at times it was a big inconvenience, like now for instance.
Touya shook his head fervently. "Ghosts can sense change in magic quicker than humans can, even magicians. Something to do with being dead. When they disappear that means something very bad, very magical, and very big is going to happen very soon." Here Kaho took over to explain to the girls.
"As a moon priestess I can sense the future. And all of my training is telling me that I do not want to be here for whatever's coming."
"Does this have something to do with Akuma?" Meiling asked.
"Tenshi, Akuma, Yue, and Sakura, it's got something to do with all four of them," Kaho corrected.
"It's going to be tough for the next few weeks," Eriol remarked handing the lunch he bought to Meiling. "Magically, physically, and emotionally," he continued looking unconcerned even though his mouth was sprouting very bad omens.
"Are you always so optimistic?" Syaoron asked sitting beside Tomoyo who greeted him with a smile.
"You know as well as I do that worrying about things won't it go away," Eriol chided. Syaoron nodded reluctantly. He knew. The group fell into a contemplative silence, each thinking their own thoughts.
"Hey! There's Sakura. SAKURA!!" Tomoyo suddenly shouted waving her hands. The brunette looked up with a startled look. Then that look turned into a smile when she realised who it was. She raced over to them with a wave of her own.
"Where's Yue?" Syaoron asked with a disapproving frown. He'd thought that the Star guardian would be shadowing Sakura's every step. Sakura's face fell and she looked away.
"What happened?" Touya demanded ready to defend his little sister against whatever the Star guardian had done. Sakura however just shook her head unwilling to talk about it. Touya was ready to shake some sense into her but Kaho stopped him with a hand on his shoulder. She and Eriol shared a look before turning to the Card Mistress.
"Are you all right Sakura?" Eriol asked worriedly. The emerald eyed girl smiled brightly fooling everyone but Tomoyo, who had known her far too long.
"I'm just fine. Come on we need to get to class or we'll be late," she prompted with a laugh. Kaho looked down at her watch and noticed with some surprise that it was indeed nearly time for class. Touya stood up and kissed Kaho goodbye. With a wave for his sister and her friends he walked out of the school. The group began to walk towards the school building talking about nothing and everything.
Tomoyo suddenly noticed that Sakura was lagging behind. Normally she'd be up at the front talking with her friends but today she just seemed paler and quieter. Making sure no one noticed she dropped back to talk to her friend.
"What's wrong Sakura?" she asked quietly. The brunette looked up with a distracted smile.
"Nothing Tomoyo, I'm fine," she protested not fooling her best friend. Tomoyo continued to stare at her. Unnoticed they had stopped in the middle of the hallway. A few looked at them curiously but turned back to their own businesses when they realized it was only Tomoyo and Sakura speaking.
Sakura sighed. "Yue and I just had argument," she answered suddenly finding the floor very interesting.
"About?" Tomoyo asked patiently. Sakura could brush off anyone but Tomoyo and Touya. The former was her best friend and the latter was her brother.
"Nothing important, just a discussion about why he's so protective of me," Sakura muttered still not looking up.
"Isn't that a good thing?" Tomoyo asked with a slightly frown. Sakura looked up at her incredulously.
"I'm old enough to look after myself!!" Sakura said rather loudly. Loud enough that other students looked over. Seeing the two best friends arguing most turned back to their previous occupation not wishing to get involved. A few however watched with avid glee as the drama unfolded.
"I know you are but you should still be careful!" Tomoyo protested worried about her friend.
"I am being careful. I'm not the naïve little girl I used to be," Sakura insisted. By now Tomoyo was getting angry as well. She was just worried about her friend.
"We all know that but we can't help worrying any way!!" Tomoyo snapped finally losing her temper.
"Is there a problem girls?" Kaho asked coming onto the scene. Both girls turned to look at her. The older woman was faintly surprised when she saw the fury in both Sakura and Tomoyo's face.
"Well?" she prompted coolly. The two girls looked anywhere but at each other and at Kaho.
"Just a small misunderstanding," Tomoyo finally said when it was apparent that Sakura wasn't going to say anything.
"I see. Perhaps this small misunderstanding could wait until lunch time?" Kaho suggested. Both girls had the grace to look embarrassed and nodded. With murmured apologies Tomoyo and Sakura raced off to their classroom. Kaho followed at a more sedate pace, somewhat worried about the girls.
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Yue stared at the door not looking forward to what he was about to do. He was a brave Star Warrior. He could take on the spirits of the cards, an evil magician, an angry ghost, but this just about took the cake. He wanted to run away and hide, nevertheless this had to be done. He had to be brave and courageous. However there was a small part of him that really didn't want to do this.
As he stood there his sense of duty battled with his common sense. Sense of duty won out. Not waiting for his common sense to rally Yue lifted his hand and knocked on the door. He stepped back hiding his anxiety behind an icy façade.
He tired not to flinch when the door creaked open. A golden head poked out. It was Kero in his human form, smiling in welcome. The smile on his face disappeared and a frown appeared as Kero saw the person waiting for him. Without a word Kero closed the door in Yue's face.
The Star guardian sighed and knocked again. This time it was Tsuki who opened the door. Like Kero she too was frowning.
"Sakura's at school where you're supposed to be, so go away," She said moving to close the door. Fortunately Yue was quick enough to stop her by shoving back the door. Surprised Tsuki watched as Yue pushed his way inside the house.
"Why'd you let him in?!?" Kero protested when he saw Yue.
"I didn't exactly let him in, he pushed past me!! What was I supposed to do attack him? In broad daylight?" Tsuki defended herself.
"Women!!" Kero muttered sulkily. Tsuki took offense and the two began a verbal fight that was quickly going downhill.
"We don't have time for this!" Yue yelled stopping the two in the midst of their fight. Both stopped and looked at Yue in surprise. They'd almost forgotten that he was there. Now that they remembered their anger came back full force.
"What're you here for anyway? Aren't you supposed to be at school along with Keori and Sakura?" Kero demanded folding his arms across his chest.
"I'm here because I need to talk to you two," Yue said ignoring Kero's second question.
"Too bad, we don't want to talk to you," Kero replied shortly. Yue took a deep breath to calm himself. It wouldn't do any good if he decided to throw Kero out the window. Not only would it attract unwanted attention, he also doubted Sakura would be happy with him.
"I know you don't like me, and you have a lot of good reasons for that. But this isn't about you or me, it's about Sakura," Yue said frustrated beyond belief. He'd never thought he'd be this aggravated when he was contemplating talking to his siblings.
"Oh, well, that's a different matter completely then," Kero said reluctantly conceding to listen to Yue. He walked into the living room and sprawled onto one of the seats. With his arms folded and a frown on his face he looked like a sulky child. Yue contained his laughter and sat opposite Kero. Tsuki sat between them, once again being the mediator.
"So? Talk!" Kero demanded impatiently. Yue suppressed the urge to roll his eyes. He'd never realize how childish his little brother was.
"Have you noticed that Sakura's been a lot more.unbalanced lately?" Yue asked tentatively.
"She's not crazy!!" Tsuki spoke up.
"I didn't say she was. I'm talking about her magical abilities, not her emotional or mental state," Yue argued. Kero frowned thoughtfully. Now that he thought about it, Yue was right. His mistress' magic had been a little unreliable lately. This morning he had woken up more tired than usual. And Tsuki had complained of a headache.
Kero knew they weren't sick, magical creatures don't get sick. It didn't have anything to do with the lack of energy source either. The sun was shining brightly and it had been a full moon last night. No one was attacking them magically. The only people capable of attacking them were Akuma and Eriol. The sorceress had been laying low for a while so it couldn't have been her. And Eriol was their friend, now that the tests were all over there was no need for him to attack them any more. The only explanation left was Sakura. As far as Kero knew she was physically, mentally, and emotionally fine. Therefore it could be inferred that something was wrong with her magic.
In spite of the fact that they gained their power from the sun and the moon, Kero and Tsuki were still connected to Sakura. Part of their power came from Sakura since the sun and the moon were available only half of the time. So anything that affected Sakura's magical ability affected them to some degree.
"Yue's right," Kero finally said grudgingly. Tsuki looked up very surprised to hear those words coming from Kero's mouth.
"Thank you," Yue said uncertainty colouring his words. He didn't know whether to take that as a compliment or not, considering the tone it was said in.
"Don't expect me to ever say it again," Kero warned even though his tone wasn't as hostile as it used to be.
"So do we have an explanation for why Sakura's so unbalanced, as Yue put it?" Tsuki asked the two guardians. Yue and Kero shared a look.
"We have no idea," they replied in unison. Tsuki sighed.
"Great, so what do we do?" she said looking from one to the other.
"We keep watching, and making sure that the situation doesn't get worse. Make sure that Akuma stays far away from Sakura," Kero answered with an offhand shrug. He turned to Yue.
"Oh, and one more thing, if you ever betray us again like you did the night Akuma attacked us, not even Sakura's going to stop me from killing you," he warned. Yue nodded understanding that this was the guardian speaking.
"So we'll just have to make sure that we're here if and when Sakura needs us," Tsuki concluded. Kero and Yue nodded to show that they agreed.
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Yue reflected on his siblings as he walked home since there really wasn't any point to going to school, seeing as he had missed half the day already.
When he had first met his siblings he had been very uncomfortable to say the least. He was, after all, surrounded by people who had plenty of reasons to hate him. To his surprise however, he found that as he continued to interact with them he was beginning to feel more and more comfortable with his 'family'. Kero was still unfriendly, as was Tsuki, not to mention Eriol, Nakuru, and Spinel Sun. But despite all these he liked bring around them.
Sakura was the only thing in common that they had but it was more than enough. Perhaps given more time he would be welcomed back into the 'family' with open arms. He could hope.
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It's done. Yahoo!! I know I promised you another story, 'Moonlit Reflection', but currently my attention is spread between this, my original stories, other fanfictions yet to be seen on the net, as well as 'Moonlit Reflection'. So instead of the huge chapter I wanted to put up I'm only going to put up the prologue, and the first chapter of 'Moonlit Reflection'.
And I totally forgot about the exam that Yue was talking about in the previous chapter, and I can't be bothered to change the ending so let's just all pretend that the exam is tomorrow.
As always, please R&R. I do appreciate any constructive criticism put forward by anyone. Thanks!!