yingyanggirl—you are the very first one to comment on my story. Thanks.
saiwarrior—my second commenter. I'm happy. I do really love Clow and Yue. It seems they're not very popular though. What a shame. I'm so hooked up on Inuyasha and Sesshomaru that I didn't have time for this one.
Perfect Creation
Chapter Five
Days pass and winter is here. There is puffy snow on the ground and the sky seems cloudless and clear most of the time. Yue seems to like the winter. At night, he could see the moon better because there are no clouds in the way. The chilly weather does not faze him. His clothes usually are enough to keep him warm.
However, the only thing that was bad about the winter is that sometimes it could get boring. Oh no, Yue is not bored. He has his books and preferably his master. On the other hand, Keroberos is way over the definition of bored. He is down right restless. He has nothing to do. He already went outside to play with the snow more than enough times and is getting irritated with the cold.
Keroberos now walks down a hallway aimlessly. He searches for something to do, something to play with. He hears water dripping fluidly. He immediately knows that it is from the bathroom. It's just how the water in the shower flows.
The mischievous lion creeps towards the bathroom. He wonders who's inside. Wait, how could he be so stupid! Keroberos looks around. This is Yue's bathroom, which is a little ways from Yue's room.
A smile creeps up onto Keroberos's lips. Time for a little laugh. As quietly and slowly as he could, Keroberos begins to open the unlocked door. Yue is definitely in the shower. (Hey, even guardians need to shower. I doubt Clow would use Bubbles on Yue.)
Cautiously, Keroberos looks to see if Yue suspects a thing. He doesn't. The rustling of water and the mist formed by it must be Keroberos's luck. The lion searches. He spots Yue's clothing. With a sinister grin, Keroberos tiptoes or pawtoes, aiming for the pile of white clothes. He looks over at the shower twice to see if Yue notices anything. Apparently, the moon angel does not. He is just cleansing himself, suspecting nothing of the intrusion. And happily daydreaming if I may add. Of who? Well, shouldn't that be obvious?
Keroberos reaches for the clothing carefully and slowly. He grabs all of it and makes to sneak out. The lion plans to make a quick and silent escape without Yue noticing, but apparently the door closed a little louder than he expected. With Yue's keen hearing, he quickly becomes aware and peeks through the glass and at the door.
"Keroberos!" Yue exclaims.
The sun guardian makes a run for it with Yue's clothes around his neck, his heart pounding with the excitement of danger, for Yue is very dangerous indeed.
"Keroberos!" Yue yells warningly. He has wrapped a towel around his lower body and is now chasing his counterpart in flight.
The lion looks back for a second and sees that Yue is ganging on him. He speeds up, his heart full of the adrenaline and evidently he is happy about it. The lion begins to laugh as he tries to outrace the moon guardian.
"Hand me my clothes back! You overgrown lion!" Yue gets angry and aggravated, and flying around in nothing but a cloth around his waist isn't helping. It's winter and Yue is wet, he is cold.
"Catch me, catch me!" the playfully lion exclaims to the one pursuing him.
"Keroberos!" Yue yells in an even more deadly tone. "Get back here!" he says gravely.
"You're too slow!" Keroberos taunts and it doesn't help Yue's emotions at all.
Keroberos turns at a corner. "Why you...!" Yue makes to follow the lion and turns.
Bump! Ouf! Shriek! Bam! Ouch!
Yue finds himself on the ground on top of another person, his half-naked body pressed heavily on the other. He looks down and blinks, surprised, stunned, baffled, embarrassed, and unable to move.
"Why, Yue, how nice to bump into you," the form under him looks at the silver-haired man and says teasingly and with the usually taunting but pleasant smile. Yue is still unable to say a thing. "And oh my," Clow looks at the form on top of him and sees dripping water from Yue's long, silver hair and everywhere else. Clow has to admit that a wet Yue is just as gorgeous as a dry one. "You're wet," Clow states curiously.
Yue feels wet, not just from the shower. And he feels hotter too, his skin, his chest, his back, and the air around him seems strangely too warm. His usual pale face now has a tint of pink to it. The moon guardian nods and says, "I was in the shower."
Puzzled, Clow asks, "Why did you come out like this?" Somehow Clow never seems to look serious.
"Keroberos took my clothes," Yue states, his mind secretly shooting the lion with his arrows.
Clow laughs, knowing quite well of the mischievous lion and his little schemes. And it always seems that Yue is the one the lion picks on. It's quite amusing, to Clow anyway. His guardians are like children, fighting and playing jokes on each other, or rather one playing a joke on the other.
Yue looks at his master not quite pleased. "It isn't funny," Yue says calmly or as calmly as he can.
"You're right, it's not," Clow says, trying to hold back his laughter, "it's hilarious." The magician bursts into laughter again.
"Clow!" Yue exclaims with a little warning in his beautiful voice.
"Yes, yes," Clow tries to return calm, "I'm sorry."
Yue looks at his master a bit displeased still. He swears that Clow is never serious. "Hopeless," Yue mutters quietly, but he knows that Clow can hear him.
"No, really, Yue," Clow touches the moon guardian's left shoulder, "I'm sorry."
It's not fair, Yue's mind screams. Clow can always get the best out of him. That's not fair at all. Where's the justice in this? Why can't he stay mad at the raven-haired man? And that hand, it makes Yue feel even more uncomfortable. Yue wants it removed.
After Yue makes an approving 'hn' sound, Clow notices that they are still on the ground. Yue isn't very heavy and it doesn't feel that bad, but still it's not a very comfortable position. "Hm, Yue? I would love to stay like this with you, you know, but...," Clow starts to say teasingly.
Yue immediately gets up, embarrassed to the max but knowing Clow, the magician is not taking it the wrong way.
Before Clow, stands a dripping wet Yue who is holding on to the white towel that is the only thing covering the almost effeminate body. His hair drips of water, which leads down to Yue's back and chest. The moon angel's silver-gray eyes are still so bright, and his face patient, waiting for an instruction. Clow smiles. "You must be cold. Go dry off, I'll bring your clothes to you," he says, his voice caring. "If you shall catch a cold, I shall have to take care you," Clow states, his voice is always so teasing!
Yue can feel himself getting more uneasy. Clow is such a damned man! Whenever he speaks that way, which he does oh so often, Yue just wants to strangle the man. He teases too much, which makes him more like a flirt. And yet, he is not. Clow is way confusing, so mysterious. Damn!
The moon angel watches as his master walks off to pursue the sun guardian. He notices that his master's garments are just a bit wet due to him. However, that just makes Yue smile.
Feeling the air become colder, Yue turns and flies back to his bathroom. He proceeds to dry himself like Clow suggested. Then with one towel around his slender waist, he dries his hair with another. Sometimes he wonders why he has such long hair. It's not as easy to manage as people think. Washing takes time and combing definitely does. But he has been complimented of his hair by both Tana and Clow. Is it because Clow likes it that Yue keeps his hair this way?
Suddenly, there's a knock on the door. "Yue?" Definitely Clow's voice.
"Yes," Yue says as he opens the door. Clow looks at his moon angel and holds a simple calm and pleasant face. Yue wonders how Clow does that. No matter what, the man is never fazed or acts any other way but proper, elegant, calm, pleasant, happy, mysterious, and Yue can't help but say beautiful too.
"Your clothes, Yue," Clow hands his guardian the garments.
"Thank you," Yue says, gratefully taking his clothing. He could see his master's smile as he closes the door.
"Keroberos says that it's your fault for not locking the door," Yue can hear Clow say through the door and could almost see his master's smile.
"I'll be sure to from now on," Yue decides. He hates the lion too much now.
"What a shame," Yue can hear Clow's teasing voice, "then I won't be able to bump into you like that." Yue can swear that Clow must have his usual smile on that always means he is kidding around, while Clow walks away. But nevertheless, his words are so incredible sometimes. It leaves the moon angel thinking again. But he knows that Clow doesn't mean a word when that voice is used to say it. Somehow Yue is depressed by this. Can't Clow say something serious to him?
