As usual, I do not own Tsubasa.

Chapitre 12: Ride On Shooting Star

The next morning, Yume was pacing in the kitchen as Fai walked in. He stood there a few minutes, watching her.

"What are you doing?" He asked.

"I'm worried about Kyoki. She still hasn't woken up. She didn't even stir at all last night. Usually she tosses and turns as she sleeps. She didn't do anything. Not one inch of movement." Yume said quickly.

"Maybe she 's so tired her body doesn't feel like moving." Fai suggested.

Yume just snorted and continued her pacing.

"Syaoran-kun said that he might be close to uncovering something important in that book. He's reading it as fast as he can; I hope he doesn't overlook anything. But Syaoran is careful, so I'm not too worried." Fai said, trying to get Yume's mind off of her cousin, though it didn't seem to be helping since the young woman continued pacing.

The next day there had been no improvements of Kyoki's condition. Yume had been forcing Kyoki's sleeping body to drink water and chocolate milk, but that was all she could force down.

"It's already four p.m.." Yume said as all of them besides Mokona who was watching over the sleeping Kyoki. "She's been asleep for almost forty-eight hours now. I think we should take her to a doctor now or ask Yûko for help."

As they talked, Syaoran was reading the book, though he was listening at the same time. "I agree. She should have been up by now."

Sakura began to say something, but was cut off by Kyoki screaming.

The five of them jumped to their feet and ran to the room where they found Kyoki sitting up and staring at something in the corner of the room.

Yume rushed over to her cousin and hugged her. "Kyoki-chan, what's wrong? What happened?"

"I was sleeping, and then I started to wake up and I opened my eyes and Mokona was over me. And its eyes were opened like it is when it sees feathers and it scared me so I punched it." Kyoki said. There were dark rings around her eyes, her hair was slightly tangled.

Sakura went to the creature and picked it up.

"Mokona sensed the feather when Mokona was leaning over to check on Kyoki-chan." Mokona said.

"I'm sorry, Mokona-chan for hitting you. You really scared me." Kyoki said, smiling.

"Kyoki! I'm so glad you are all right!" Yume hugged onto her cousin even tighter and began to cry.

"H-hey! Don't cry." Kyoki was confused by her cousins' actions.

"I'm glad you are all right." Fai said, patting her on her head.

"Me too." Sakura and Syaoran said.

"What... is going on? Why is everyone so glad that I woke up? I don't understand what is so exciting about that. I do that everyday..." Kyoki said, looking at all of them.

"You were out for forty hours." Kurogane told her.

Yume slowly let go of her.

"What?!" Kyoki gasped. "Forty hours? You're kidding. Well, that explains why I have to go to the bathroom so badly then. If you all excuse me then." She scooted to the edge of the bed and stood up. Pain shot up through her left leg. She lifted her leg, lost her balance and started to fall.

Syaoran jumped forward and caught her arm, helping her to stabilize.

"Owww." Kyoki said, closing her eyes as the pain started to subside.

"You have to be careful, Kyoki-chan. You hurt your ankle the other night, remember?"

As she held onto his arm, she began to remember what happened that night. "Yes, now I do." She opened her eyes and let go of Syaoran as she lowered her leg back to the ground.

"We should fill you in on what is going on." Fai said, smiling as usual.

"Bathroom." Kyoki said as she began to walk toward the hallway.

"Kyoki! No, don't walk yet." Yume said, rushing to the older woman's side.

"I'm fine. I know how to walk. It's exactly like last time I twisted it." Kyoki said, smiling weakly at her cousin. And before anyone could stop her, she ran the rest of the way to the bathroom. It hurt like hell to do that, but she didn't want the others to know how injured she was.

When she was done, she came out of the hall and looked ahead to see that everyone had gathered in the living room. She prepared herself to walk down the hall to the others. She was so concentrated on getting to the location that she did not notice that Kurogane had been standing near the bathroom door, waiting for her.

"Don't walk." He told her.

"Heh? But I'm fine. I can walk." Kyoki said, smiling and patting him on the arm. "Don't worry."

"Hmph." Kurogane replied.

"So I shall walk-" Kurogane who stepped forward, bending slightly as he threw her over his shoulder, cut off Kyoki. He stood and walked down the hall with her screaming at him to put her down.

"I can walk fine on my own, damnit. Put me down, Kurogane."

When they were out in the living room, Kurogane placed her on the couch. Kyoki looked around and saw that Yume was sitting next to her, next to her was Sakura. Mokona was on Sakura's lap. Syaoran was sitting in the armchair while Fai had a kitchen table chair draw into the room and was sitting on that in front of the couch. Kurogane went to go lean against the wall but stopped when Fai spoke.

"Nooo! Kuro-run is suppose to sit by his girlfriend. You're so mean as to not sit next to her after she was asleep for forty hours, Kuro-ri."

He whirled around, and sat on the couch next to Kyoki with great force. The three girls were sent sailing a few inches in the air from the impact of the couch which was caused by his anger at Fai.

Kyoki looked down at her thigh and realized it was touching his. She looked away, but couldn't stop thinking about it. "Oh my god. I know I've held his hand, hugged his head to my chest, laid and sat on him, but... his leg is touching mine! Why am I so excited about this? Kurogane's leg is just so warm. I should be more worried about how I was asleep for freaking forty hours or what has been going on while I was out, but I can't stop thinking about his leg. Why the hell does that make me so happy? I have to get back to business now. Be serious, Kyoki!' She shook her head and tried to get herself under control.

"So, what happened?" Kyoki managed to finally say.

"No, that won't do. It won't do at all." Fai said, getting up.

"Huh?" Syaoran, Kyoki and Yume all questioned. Sakura looked at him curiously.

"What won't do, Fai?" Mokona asked.

"These two." Fai jumped from his seat and grabbed Kurogane's left hand and Kyoki's right hand. He then placed her hand in his. "There. You two should be holding hands. Don't let go, Kuro-ki, or there will be hell to pay."

Kurogane simply growled, but did not move, obviously not in the mood to deal with the blond vampire.

Fai nodded and sat back down.

"Um... so... what happened when I was asleep...?"

"Oh, right. Um, the Shadows have been looking like mad for hosts. They still can't enter buildings or come out during the day. However, the Shadows that do have hosts can come out during the day and enter buildings." Yume told her.

"The dragon has said to come down into the city and eating the Shadow infested humans." Fai informed her.

"What?! The dragon has come down! I wanna see a dragon!" Kyoki let go of Kurogane's hand, crawled around on the couch so she was facing the small window that was behind the couch. She began to scan the skies, hoping to be able to see the dragon. "Why didn't any one wake me up when the dragon was around?"

"Tch. We did try, you idiot. You just wouldn't wake up." Yume told her, poking her cousin in the thigh.

"Oh." Kyoki whirled back around and sat normally. "That sucks."

"We pinpointed where the feather whereabouts is, thanks to the book you got." Syaoran told her.

"Oh, that is good. So, when are we going to get it?"

"That is where we have a small problem. The feather is located deep in a cave that's a protective barrier that was put up by the Demon Lord, so only he can remove it.

"So, what is the problem with that? Can't we just ask him to move it for us?" Kyoki wondered.

"He won't. The book says that he won't remove the barrier for no one for any reason. He believes that the feather is what is keeping the Shadows from coming out in the day as well. But maybe when we talk to him he will." Syaoran said.

"Does that mean he is good if he is doing that? I mean, if he thinks the Shadows will stay away if the feather is in the barrier, then he must be trying to protect the townspeople, right?"

"Who knows? You should ask him that when we see him on Saturday." Fai told her.

"Saturday? Why talk to him then? Why not today?"

"Because our appointment is on Saturday." Yume said, rolling her eyes.

"Appointment? What the hell? He's a Demon Lord, not a businessman. Why do we need a appointment?"

"Don't know." Kurogane said, visibly ticked off.

"He only sees people if they have a appointment, but we don't know why it's like that." Fai said.

"So... what is today? How many more days do we have to wait?" Kyoki pondered.

"Today is Thursday." Yume replied.

"How did it come about getting a appointment? Did you just call, and that was it?"

"Yea, pretty much. They had a number in the book for his secretary, so we called it and made a appointment." said Syaoran.

"Weird." Kyoki said as she yawned. "So what do we do now?"

"Wait." Kurogane told her.

Everyone sighed, no one wanted to wait, but there really wasn't much else they could do right then.

I was going to have Kyoki sleep longer than forty hours, but then I figured that the others would get really worried and take her to a doctor or something like that and that would mess up some of the stuff that I have planned for later, so yea... That would be weird to sleep for like, forty hours straight. But I bet you would have a bunch of interesting dreams. LOL. Anywho, I hope this chapter was good. Not much happened, but don't worry, many things will start to happen in the next few chapters! Yesu!

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