Dark Wild Nights

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. I am only using them in a short work of fiction. I am doing this for fun not for profit, so don't sue me. As I have nothing but a small kennel that I use as my house. It's not much but I like it and you can't have it.

Chapter 4

Sakura froze. After a minute she slowly turned to face her moon guardian. Yue didn't look like he was joking. If anything Yue looked like he had some how let her down.

"I am sorry, Mistress, if I have over stepped my boundaries." Yue said as he looked at Sakura's shocked face.

"You have over stepped you bounds, Yue," Sakura began, "and you don't have to be sorry about it."

"What do you mean?" Yue asked. It was his turn to look shocked.

"I mean," Sakura started, turning back to making supper, "that I am not angry. To tell the truth I am a bit relieved."

Sakura paused for a minute. Yue didn't say anything, some how knowing that she needed time to collect her thoughts. She would go on when she was ready.

"Touya has suspected that something…unusual…no important was going on in my life. I think he had the suspicions from the very beginning. And he was always trying to catch Kero doing something, like move. It'll be nice not to have to hide it from him anymore."

"I am glad that you are not mad at me." Yue said.

"How did he take the news?" Sakura asked.

"Very well actually." Yue said easily, glad that the tension was gone from the room. "As you had guessed, he all ready knew many things that he had drawn his own conclusions on. In many ways, I was just confirming what he already knew."

"That's good." Sakura said, then sighed as she continued working on their meal. "So how long will you guys be staying here?"

"That depends on how long your father will put up with us." Yue said as he watched her move around the kitchen. "I'm going to change back now."

"Thanks for the warning." Sakura said as she set the pot with the spaghetti sauce on the stove. "I don't see why my dad would have any problem with you guys crashing here, but what about your apartment and jobs?"

"The rent on the apartment is paid for the month and we have both taken a couple weeks off of work." Yukiot explained.

"Any your guys' bosses are okay with the fact that the two of you just decided to take off for a couple of weeks?" Sakura asked as she looked at him skeptically.

"They are considering the fact that we have a funeral to go to." Yukiot told her as his face saddened.

"What is if?" Sakura asked as she walked over to where her brother's lover stood.

"My grandparents were killed yesterday." Yukiot said in a monotone voice that Sakura didn't recognize.

"Oh, Yuki, I'm so sorry." Sakura told his as she gave his a hug. "Are you OK?"

"I don't think that it has fully set in." Yukiot admitted. "I'm just glad that…"

"So are you done in here?" Touya asked as he walked into the kitchen, interrupting Yukiot and found his sister in his lovers' arms. "Is there something else going on that I should know about."

"No there isn't, onni-chan. I just gave Yuki a hug cause he looked like he needed it." Sakura told her brother as she pulled out Yukiot's embrace.

"You just told her, didn't you?" Touya asked as his face softened and he went and hugged hi lover who just nodded.

"Onni-chan, why don't you take Yukiot into the den and make him comfortable. Then I'll call you when supper is ready." Sakura suggested.

"Good idea, monster." Touya said as he moved himself and Yukiot out of the room.

Sakura didn't make any reply to Touya's jib. He was only trying to get a rise out of her and she didn't want to give him that satisfaction. She simply turned back to making supper as she thought about everything that she had been told.

A strong dark force that she had to defeat. She was a little worried about that but it wasn't like she had never come up against anything strong before. This is the first time that you have come up against a true dark force, a small voice reminded her. That's true enough, Sakura agreed. Sure the Clow Cards had been hard to capture and it had been dangerous at times, but there was nothing dark about them. And Eriol was just trying to get her to change the Clow Cards to Star Cards.

It doesn't matter what this thing is, Sakura thought as she put a pot of water on to boil her new resolve was set, I'll get through it. I just wish that Syaoran were here. He's been here through everything else it just doesn't seem right to go into this without him by my side.

You had better shake off this mood, Kinmoto, the voice in her head said in a stern tone, or else you're not going to be able to meet this new threat head on.

Sakura shook her head to clear it of any stray thoughts. She knew that the voice was right. If she kept wishing that Syaoran was with her, she wouldn't be able to concentrate on the task at hand. Like now, she screamed at herself as she realized that the spaghetti was boiling all over the stove.

Sakura made herself stop thinking about Syaoran and finished supper. When she was finished with the meal, she set the table for four. Once she had all that done, Sakura took off her apron and made her way into the living room where she saw her onni-chan and Yukiot sitting on the couch with their arms around each other.

"Dinner is ready so you two can start if you want. I'm just going to go and get Kero." Sakura informed them, then she turned and walked out of the room making her way to her own room.

"Kero are you going to come down to dinner?" Sakura asked when she opened the door to her room.

"Do you think that that is such a good idea?" Kero asked nervously.

"Yeah, it'll be okay. Yue explained everything to Touya." Sakura told him.

"Why the hell did he do that?" the shocked Kero asked.

"He did that so that Touya would know what was going on." Sakura explained. "Touya knew about Yue and he has had his suspicions about everything else. Yue just confirmed all of them."

"He didn't have the right to do that with out consulting you or me." Kero said angrily.

"Kero, look, I don't have any problem with Yue having told Touya. I have been wanting to tell him and my dad for a while now. With Touya already all ready knowing I only have to figure out how to tell my dad."

"I guess but he still should have asked." Kero relented a bit.

"Now that that is settled, how about coming down stairs for dinner?" Sakura wanted to know as she headed towards the door.

"Yeah, I'm right behind you." Kero said as he floated behind her.

"Sorry that we took so long," Sakura announced as the two of them entered the dinning room. "Some one was being stubborn about everything."

"I was not being stubborn," insisted Kero.

"What ever." Sakura waved off his denial as she sat down. "I don't think that the two of you have been properly introduced. Kero, this is my brother Touya. Touya, this is my guardian beast Keroberous aka Kero."

"Charmed." Kero said as he began to fill his plate.

"How can a stuffed animal be a guardian beast?" Touya wondered out loud as a vein popped out on Kero's head. "What are you supposed to do? Cuddle attackers to… ahhhh!!!!!!"

Touya started to wildly shake his hand, trying desperately to dislodge the guardian beast that had bit his finger. Touya wasn't having much luck though. It seemed like Kero was there to stay.

"Kero!" Sakura shouted at her guardian, who then let go of Touya's finger and looked at her sheepishly. "If you are that hungry then eat the pasta and not my brother's finger. Onni-chan, if you don't want to repeat the experience you just had then I suggest that you not call him a stuffed animal in his hearing."

"Sorry. It's just that when Yue said that there was another guardian, I pictured something more impressive."

"This is just my borrowed form." Kero said haughtily. "My true form is much more impressive."

"Kero, you can show off later," Sakura said quickly as his wings began to grow. "You should really finish your dinner. Besides there is pudding for desert if you behave yourself."

Needless to say that Kero was on his best behavior, what with the threat of not getting any pudding. Agter dinner, Kero proved to Touya that he did indeed have what was needed to protect Sakura. When Sakura's father got home, Kero had to make a mad dash of sorts out of the living room and up to the safety of Sakura's room.

Fujitaka had no problem with the two boys, no young men, staying in the house for a while. When he found out about Yukiot's grandparents, he insisted that they stay and allow him to help with some of the funeral arrangements.

After putting up a bit of a fight, Yukiot finally agreed to let Fujitaka help make all the preparations. Yukiot wouldn't say it but he was really happy that someone would be helping him especially with the way that Yue had been worrying about Sakura lately.

Sakura had excused herself after Yukiot had finally given in to her father's insistences (pleas just don't work here), claming that she had homework, which was true enough. When she got to her room Sakura saw that Kero was playing video games as usual.

Sakura worked diligently at her homework and was done by nine-thirty. Sakura stretched as she stood up from her desk. Kero had stopped plying games and went to bed about half an hour ago. She could still hear her father, brother and Yukiot talking downstairs. She was about to make her way downstairs to join them when a sudden wave of sleepiness came over her. So she opted to go to be instead of going downstairs.

As she got ready for bed a lot of thoughts raced through her mind. Thoughts about this Friday, about what was going on between Eriol and Tomoyo, what this new obstacle would be. And most important to her, what was Syaoran doing. Sakura Turned off her light and climbed into bed.

"Good night, Syaoran," she whispered, "where ever you are." Then she closed her eyes and went to sleep.

Elsewhere dark figures moved stealthily around the darkened alley. After a moments time the dark figures had all drifted away, save one. He stood there watching the star appear in the sky and listening to the sounds of city nightlife.

"Soon, my cherry blossom," a thin voice rasped, "soon I will see you again and you will be mine."

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To Be Continued. . . . . .

AN that was that. What did you think?