Home for the Holidays

Black Diamond

(A/N: Okay I know, that I always write about none human subjects, but humans are just no fun. I mean I get into a creative spur when I'm talking about the supernatural... Humans are just so boring...Well not all of them, I'll try to write about human characters later... I sure hope you enjoy this story...I'm sure it'll be a twist.)

Summary: Heart-broken, confused, lost, and grieving Sakura Avalon signs up for a home exchange program online in which she'll switch homes with a stranger in the same program. Yukito Tsukishiro- confused about his sexual identity, heart broken, and lost signs up for the same program and ends up trading houses with a girl named Sakura Avalon.

Chapter 2: Vacation

"Okay Yue, get going, if you're late your plane is going to leave. I know you don't like leaving your art supplies so I'll pass by and put them away for you or i'll ask him to do it, he lives the house next to yours" Eriol said trying to get his concerned cousin to leave the art supplies and get going.

" No. You know Syao will not come over, you do it please Eri." Yue pleaded as he walked out of the house and locked the door behind him. And went to the taxi waiting outside for him.

"Fine I'll drop by. And you can always buy some paint over there, or better yet go to the movies and put those brushes down for a while, you seriously need to get a breather, for a guy who has eternity you sure don't know how to have fun." He said listening as Yuki sighed.

"Whatever you say. I guess I'll try doing what you do, spend eternity in bed with someone." He heard Eriol chuckle then sigh.

"Don't know how much I wish that were true, but Tomo's mine even after eternity so there's no reason not to enjoy her now is there." Yuki laughed shaking his head.

"Yeah well you do that. look I'll call you again when I get off the plane okay?" He was in the taxi watching as the snowy grounds passed him bye. He wasn't a big fan of this cold weather. He passed by a wide empty land that would be covered in greenery in the spring, and beyond the barren white land, he saw a mansion which he knew very well was too far for human eyes. The host of the mansion was someone he really didn't like affiliating with, his cousin who feared and somewhat hated him deep down he knew. It hurt him to know that his own family member hated him, but he couldn't really blame him. Yue deserved it after all the things he'd done. he sighed and opened his eyes in time to glimpse his cousin's cold catlike brown eyes staring from the top of his mansion and vanish. Yue sighed. Family could sure be trouble sometimes. It was so much to deal with.

P S""" I know I said it's going to be rated M, but that's for the sex, right now, it's just bad language, so if you know you shouldn't be reading this, please don't read it... XD

Sakura:

She was in the plane, her headphones on and her reading glasses slightly bellow her eyes hanging over her nose as she went over case files for the resent murder case she's working on. Sakura sighed and took her glasses off running a hand through her already messy brown locks.

"You know the view from a plane is very lovely." A voice next to her said in a low seductive voice. Sakura turned around and saw a man with bleach blond hair and aqua eyes looking at her. She smiled a sweet gentle smile then turned her full gaze on him, her eyes had turned. The man's grin faded, but returned even wider.

"Well looks like I brought the moves on a witch this time...I knew you smelled too sweet to be normal." Sakura looked into his eyes and had to hold back a shudder. There was no life in them, his eyes were like a bottomless pit, and there was a darkness in there that made her heart skip a beat.

"'smell too sweet to be human.' What are you a rapist or something?" Sakura asked. The man chuckled his eyes softening,

"Or something. I'm sorry for prying, it's just that I couldn't help but notice the stressed look on your face, I couldn't help myself." She sighed and closed the files and placed them in her bag.

"Well this was kinda unexpected. Names Sakura Kinomoto and you are?" She extended a hand and the man next to her too it with a smile.

"Roland Ushina." He took her hand and shook it.

"So Roland, is it a habit of yours to talk to anyone with a gloomy face because I can see a few other's back there with a gloomy face." Sakura pointed back without looking back, the man turned around and stole a peek, there were many women in the plane looking back at them with angry stares all aimed at Sakura.

"I think those are angry looks meant for you my dear. Besides I have little interest in women like that." Roland said turning back around to give Sakura his full attention.

"Like what?" Sakura asked.

"Weak women. Besides all they see is a handsome young man. You on the other hand saw a dangerous creature. You have good instincts and like I said you smell wonderful." Sakura although somewhat uncomfortable, couldn't help but giggle, she wasn't big on giggling because it made her sound childish, but she was in the mood to care about what she sounded like, she was here to forget that serious side of her.

"Well good to see that you can smile, laughter is the music of the soul, you can almost hear someone's soul through their laughter do you know that?" Sakura grinned.

"A poetic molester, that's kinda new for me." Sakura said, the man brought his hands up and brushed it against her hair, Sakura pulled back, he smelled weird, his odor wasn't nasty, in-fact he smelled like mint and fresh air, but there was something else there, something very unnatural, it wasn't a scent she wasn't sure, before she could do anything her head started beating like a drum, she raised her hands to her forehead bending over.

"Something wrong?" Roland asked looking at her with a concerned smile.

"No I'll be fine, just as soon as I get some meds... Excuse me ma'am can I have some mole-trine and some water please." Sakura said to the flight attendant in front of her. The woman was dragging a cart, and she just kept on going.

"Bitch..." Sakura swore, her anger rising so hight thanks to the headache, she dug her nails in her palm. She wanted to trow something at the stupid bitch for walking away like she didn't hear her, but Sakura couldn't get her hands on anything. The same flight attendant passed by once again and Sakura asked her for the medications and again she passed by. Sakura was about to get up and stop her the third time she came by when Roland took a hold of her hands, forcing her to sit down. Sakura turned around to glare at him but his attention was cast towards the attendant who was about to walk away.

"Ma'am do you think my friend here can get some mole-trine and possibly some water to go with that." The woman stopped and turned around to look at Roland, she smiled a kind warm hearted smile and turned towards him.

"Right away Mr. Would you like anything else to go with that." Sakura saw the woman's face turn towards her when she finished talking. Sakura's grip on Rolland's hand tighten until her fingers dug into his hands and he started bleeding, be tightened his grip and sent Sakura down on her butt. She growled low and watched as the woman walked away shaking her hips back and forth for Roland.

"Relax, it's how women usual react towards me... I'm sorry you had to suffer that, I'm really sorry. How's your head by the way." Sakura relaxed and looked at Roland.

"Sorry...Let me take a look at that...I kinda tend to loose my temper, I'm sorry. Here." Sakura took his hand and dug into her bag for her first aid kit, she took out some anti-bacterial wipes and wiped his cut and then took a band-aid and wrapped it around his hand.

"It's alright. Besides it was worth this wonderful conversation of ours." Sakura said looking at her with a smile that she immediately return with a smile of her own.

"Here you are sir." The attendant returned and handed Sakura the items, she took the medication and handed the cup to the attendant. She rested her head against the head post and closed her eyes.

"God, it feels like there's a party going on up there." Sakura said looking at Rolland who just grinned at her.

"Rest then. It would serve you well. And besides we're about to land very soon, who knows when you wake up we would have landed." Sakura smiled and looked at him with drowsy eyes, for some reason, she was extremely tired, and his advice to take a nap sounded so good at the moment. With that notion, Sakura closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Yue:

"Attention passengers the flight is about to land, please buckle up and wait for the descend." Attendants were rushing away to their seats. Yue buckled in, he was sitting next to two foreigners who were obviously obsessing over him. They'd been whispering and staring at him since the plane got in. They were speaking French, and he could understand them very well. They're conversation for the past half hour had been about who would get his info. He almost couldn't hold back the laugh when he thought about how their faces would look when they find out that he's actually gay.

" Hello there... Are you a from around here." One of the women apparently had gather up enough courage to ask him. He smiled and looked at her and grinned watching her face turned completely red.

"No, not completely I'm part Asian yes, and you ladies are from Paris I presume." Yue said in french, the girl nodded turning even redder.

"Yes we're from Paris, we on vacation for just the holiday, This country is just so wonderful, but we don't know the language and we wondering if...what is it? Oh Oui give us a tour. Of the country." He smiled and nodded his head.

"Well if you don't mind taking a quick tour, I could show you to a good hotel to stay at while you're here and you can probably find someone to give you a tour later on." Yue said. The girls' eyes lid up and they smiled even wider.

"Attention passenger the plane has landed, please exit the plane." Yue sighed and unbuckled, he got off his seat and headed for the door like many of the other passengers and unfortunately the two young women. He headed out and into the airport, the two young women were waiting there with him. He really needed to get the hell away from these tramps before he loses it and hurts them.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, I hope your flight was good." A voice came from behind him, Yukito turned around and saw a very hot looking man in a black business suite looking at him with a smile that would melt a heart. He was frozen in place, his face turning red. The man took his hand and led him away from the gaping women who were like Yuki himself fascinated by the man dragging him away.

"Um...Thanks...But who are you." Yuki said when he finally regained his voice. The man stopped walking and let Yuki's hand fall.

"No problem, it's just that you looked like you were being harassed by those women. I couldn't help it you looked so vulnerable right there, plus personal experience made me think that you were getting ready to kill them...I know I would have been...Well it was nice meeting you, please try to enjoy your stay in Tokyo." With that and a wave, the man walked out of the airport and into a taxi even before Yukito could get his name.

"Damn and he was hot too!" Yukito said as he entered his own taxi only moments later. 'Than maybe you should have asked for his name instead of standing there and drooling over his ass.' He heard Yue in his mind, he knew that Yue had found the man very hot as well, which is something that rarely happens since they usually have totally opposite tastes. Yue was into the quite, served bad boys, and Yukito was into the nice guy who brings breakfast to bed for you with a muscular body, but not buff, and someone who would appreciate his "weirdness" (so claims his previous partners)

'And it was a fine piece of ass too." Yukito said, and Yue burst into laughter agreeing with him. Yukito chuckled and the taxi driver gave him a look that made him hold back the remainder of his laughter inside.

Over the course of his lifetime, Yukito had found it extremely hard to deal with all of this split personality, when he is speaking to Yue a lot of the times he ends up drawing attention to himself by acting upon their conversation like the way he chuckled for no reason out of the blue in the taxi right now.

Sakura:

The plane landed an hour later and Sakura was half mad, the females flight attendants were extremely rude to her and her headache made her a moving, breathing, bitch machine. She lashed out at anyone who attempted to get on her radar, everyone but Rolland who was keeping her calm.

Rolland was a very nice gentle man who was on his way to visit his relatives who live in England. Apparently he owned a series of private banks in tokyo and in England thus the second reason for his visit, a routine check up on his banks. When the plane landed he offered to escort Sakura to her destination, but she refused his offer with a polite shake of her still aching head.

Sakura took a taxi to the country side completely engulfed by white death. She took her camera out and started shooting pictures as the taxi drove by slowly because of the snow. Then the taxi suddenly came to a halt. Sakura looked around and there was no house in sight, she leaned forward and looked at the driver who was taken aback by her sudden unsuspecting action.

"Is something wrong? Why the sudden stop." The cab driver pointed ahead and Sakura turned around to look, there was no one just a one way street.

"The house you are looking for ma'am is just at the end of the road, just follow this road and you'll come upon it. I can't go any further because if I do then I can't get out, the snow is too hight and it's a one way street." Sakura looked at the cabbie and then straight ahead. She sighed and nodded getting out of the cab, the driver took her luggage out of the back and she paid him.

"Thanks" Sakura said, the cab driver nodded and got in his car, he reversed and drove away leaving Sakura in the empty road with three bags.

"Well to hell with this I'm gonna die here if I wait for another ride," Sakura said and started her long trudge up the street.

Sakura walked for what seemed like hours and still there was no one in sight. The homes along the way were all empty, she passed by a few to see if she could stay for a while because the snow was too hight and she was too tired, but there was no one so she kept on going. She wanted to stop, but something inside her kept her moving, it was as if the more she went, the colder she got and the more tired she seemed the more adrenaline pumped in her body. She kept on going without stopping until she came across a house with lights on inside. She dragged her bags to the house and rang the bell. A handsome looking man with chocolate brown eyes and sand brown hair falling over his face in a messy yet sexy heap, he was wearing a Puma long sleeve T-shirt that held his features very nicely, and faded blue jeans. Sakura looked at him and smiled, she'd forgotten about her headache which had miraculously stopped as soon as the cabbie had driven away from the airport and had just return from nowhere as soon as her eyes met this guys. And this time it was full scale head-cracker.

"Hey there. I'm staying over at a friends house for the holiday and I was wondering if you'd mind if I could rest here a bit, I get the feeling that it's about to get nasty out there and I sure as hell don't wanna get caught up in any storm." Sakura smiled and watched as the man's cold unfeeling eyes stayed locked on her eyes. Her headache was pounding so hard she had a hard time keeping her words together.

"Well are you gonna let me in or what?" She snapped, the head-ache and the cold was getting to her and there was no way in hell she could keep herself together much longer.

The man averted his eyes and immediately moved to close the door at her face. Sakura stuck her foot in the way and pushed the door open further.

"Look buddy I really need shelter from this rain, Look here this is my ID, okay I'm a cop, I'll be out of your hair as soon as possible so do me a favor and don't let a fellow human die out here in the cold will ya." Something in the man's eyes flashed and sakura thought it was sympathy because he opened the door wider and stepped aside for her to enter. Sakura sighed and walked in, and let the man close the door behind her. She dumped her bags on the floor and sank down next to them letting the fatigue and the head-ache take over her.

"Unless you intend to sleep there and wet my floor in the process I suggest you take those clothes off and move to the kitchen." The man's voice caught her off guard completely, his voice was sweet and masculine yet musical, it was too mesmerizing to be human. She looked up slowly and met annoyed light brown eyes looking down at her. Sakura sighed and forced herself to stand up.

"So who're you." The man walked away without a word, swore pulled her jacked off and threw her shoes aside and ran after him, her scarf and hat still on. The man walked into a kitchen that was a hell of a lot bigger than hers, it looked like one of those kitchens you see in the kitchen upgrade magazines meant for Bell Air billionaires. And the place was to damn neat it was like the kitchen was just placed there. Sakura sank into one of the comfy eros chairs. Placing her elbows on the black cobblestone table and her head following, she was too tired to care about manners, and it wasn't like she had good ones to begin with anyways.

"Do you intend to stay here all day or do you have relatives who can come pick you up." His gaze was cold and made her head split in half. She moaned and waved her hand at him signaling him away, the man walked away and Sakura sighed letting herself fall asleep, then a loud bang made her jump up, she saw the man had thrown a plate against the wall making it shatter into many pieces.

"I let you in because I felt sorry for you, don't make me change my mind and kick you out. Again, make your call." Sakura growled and like a little child about to do her chores she snatched the kitchen phone he'd picked up out of his hands and dialed Tomoyo's number. The phone rang twice, Sakura had head head on the table one hand in her hair and the other holding the phone to her ears, she glared up at the man whose hands were folded glaring down at her.

"Hey! What did he do this time?" Tomoyo's voice rang out from the phone.

"Hey Tomoyo it's me, I kinda need a ride to the house and I was wondering if you could take me there. If you're not busy shaking up Eriol over there that is. I wouldn't want to disturb your perfect little holiday and have to kick his ass when he comes here with his back ass Eri attitude. So are you free?" Sakura heard the guy chuckle and looked up but his face was stone cold. She shrugged it off, most have imagine it.

"Sorry dear, but you're on your own. We're in Paris right now and We can't leave until tomorrow, our flight is delayed and stupid over here forgot to call his private jet so we're stuck." Sakura had to try hard to keep back the smile about to spread across her face. She sighed and sat up bringing her knees up to hug them as she sat in the chair with a sly smile on her face.

"Right...And I bet that sexy ass of his would handle all of your anger with a quick orgasm right. God you two make me sick, how can you be all so lovey dovery when I'm so miserable. I can't talk to you now, bye." Sakura hung hearing Tomoyo laugh and Eriol's silent laughter. She giggled and hung up putting the phone back on the charger.

"Well looks like I'm here for another hour. From the look of the weather its not going to be that bad, I should be up and at it in an hour." Sakura said smiling.

"Good." Sakura swore and the man turned around having heard her call him an ass. His smile was predatorily and all of her instincts yelled at her at one moment making her headache so bad she couldn't help but gasp. She looked at him with anger filled eyes and the surprised look on his face told her that her eyes had changed colors again.

"Can't you at least offer me some warm drink if not food and maybe something for this damned head-ache." Sakura said, the man went to one of the wooden cabinets and took out a mud and then went to another to get the hot-chocolate, and then the fridge where he brought out some milk and finally to the microwave and Sakura followed his sly walk like a predator watching it's prey... well it was more like a prey watching it's predator, but sakura had never liked being classified as a prey.

"Here!" Sakura took the mug from him and blew on it and then she took the two pills he handed her. In the back of her mind, she knew that it was never a good idea to take medications from strangers, even if you are the stranger in a strangers house...uhhh okay weird analogy there anyways... but she was beyond care at the moment and something deep down told her this man wouldn't need pills to harm her, which shouldn't make her feel relieved or comfortable, but it did.

Taking the pills and a sip of hot chocolate Sakura jolted up.

"What?" The man on the verge of putting the milk back in the fridge asked. Sakura frowned up at him.

"There's no sugar in here. Come on where's the sugar." With a raised brow, the brown haired god moved to another location in the kitchen with a walk that resembled floating and brought back the jar of sugar and watched as Sakura nearly turned her hot chocolate into syrup.

With a few large gulps Sakura consumed her hot chocolate and closed her eyes on the counter top with the man over at the sink cleaning up her dishes.

"Neat freak" Sakura said under her breath so silently it came out as a puff of air to ever her. But the man stopped cleaning and slightly turned to her, before resuming to cleaning the mug and spoon. Sakura fell asleep there with the sound of water in her mind, and the silent clinking of dished.

Yukito:

The taxi dropped him off in front of a beautiful Edo era Japanese home. He made a mental note to definitely paint it before he returned. The house was Japanese style and it was surrounded by Sakura trees and maple trees. A beautiful wooden gate that surrounded the big property. He opened the gates and walked in, the place was beautiful inside as well, it had a little pond and a beautiful basin surrounded by clear marble stones. Yukito made his way to the house and looked for the key at the location the lady had claimed it would be...There was nothing in there, he sighed and moved towards the door. The weather was nice, but he was tired and in need of some serious rest and a hot meal perhaps.

With the help of his magic, Yukito opened the door and walked into the house. Unlike the outside, the inside was western style. He could see a beautiful glass chandelier above the entrance to the house and there were stairs going around upstairs. He took of his coat and his boots and headed upstairs. He checked all of the rooms looking for the one big enough to hold his tools, and still not be overcrowded. On his search he came across what he assumed to be his home exchange partners room. The place was a complete mess, things were thrown off their shelves and onto one another. He went through the room cleaning up. He packed the books and fixed the bed, neatly putting things away. And on his cleaning rampage he stumbled upon the bathroom, it was in a far worst condition that the bedroom.

"Okay Yue, I'm gonna need your help here come on out." With a quick chant Yukito was facing Yue. Unlike yukito Yue's hair was way longer and his eyes were sharper and somewhat crueler. And except for those differences looking at Yue was like looking at Yukito. They looked exactly alike. Yue sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Why not just use magic and get this all cleaned up. Saves us a lot more time." Yue already knew the answer, although they were in two separate bodies, their minds were still one, just as their souls were.

"Because magic takes the value out of things. Besides I like doing this, it makes me feel human." Yukito said moving to the bathtub tub to pick up broken vases.

"But we can use magic to make the trash disappear then you can mop this place up if you want." Yue said stretching his hands in front of him and casting a spell to make the broken vases vanish and the salvaged ones return to their original spots. Yukito shook his head and conjured a rag. He cleaned up the bathroom without magic and watched as Yue walked into the bedroom and sink onto the chair to wait for him to finish. It took him about an hour to finish all of his cleaning, and he was aching when he was done, but he didn't mind, he healed quickly, he could already feel the aches going away. He sighed and returned to the bedroom to find Yue dozing off on the floor. Yukito mentally sent him a loud wake up call and Yue jumped up standing to face his other self with a dark frown after reading the thoughts in Yue's mind.

"I'm tired too. If you don't want to help me clean up, at least go and unpack our things. Can you do that?" Yue grumbled walking out of the room and into a guest room. Yukito went downstairs and was about to get himself something to eat in the kitchen when something went into his foot. He looked down and saw his own blood on the floor, lifting his foot he saw a piece of glass implanted in the soles of his feet, he pulled it out watching as the cut suddenly closed up. He looked around and saw that the floor was decorated with glass shards. He used his magic to float into the kitchen looking for the equipments closet.

He found the broom and worked his way around the kitchen cleaning up the glass. He was cleaning the floor when he heard something go bang, startled he landed down to the floor and right on top of another huge glass shard that went all the way in his foot. He didn't have the time to handle his foot because he sensed a presence approaching the kitchen, he quickly dragged Yue's other form into his body just in time to see the figure he had sensed.

Yukito froze on his spot, the wounded foot and the near discovery of Yue a distant thought in his mind as he watched the man in front of him.

"Holly Shit...That's a nasty cut...God Sakura so violent...Anyways wait there before you chop your own foot off, I'll get you out." Yukito's mind was empty as he watched the hot piece of meat walk towards him with a suite on. He came up to him and picked him up bridal style, Yukito's face just turned tomato red, his hands folded towards his heart. He felt his entire system come crashing down at that instant when their skin touched. His heart was pounding as he was being carried out by the stranger he'd seen from the airport.

"So you most be the one who got into that home exchange with my Sakura. As you can see, she isn't the neatest house guest. Anyways it's a pleasure to meet..." He looked down at the red faced Yukito and smiled a sexy yet childlike smile. Yukito gasped and then quickly covered his mouth looking up with glossy tear filled eyes.

He had fallen and really hard for this stranger. He was in for it now, there was no way in hell he was going to be able to handle this, he's going gag-ah just because of a smile.

"Well I'm Toya. Toya Avalon...Let's get that foot cleaned up and then maybe you might want to introduce yourself." Toya said as he carried Yukito upstairs and into the room that Yue had chosen for them. Toya stopped for a while and looked around.

"I don't remember my room looking like this before. Did Sakura decide to throw me out because I didn't return her calls. I wonder what I did to her." Toya said as he placed Yukito on the familiar bed. He brought a chair over and placed his injured foot on the chair and then walked into his bathroom.

"I'm sorry its just that I needed a open room for my art supplies and a room that gets a lot of sun, I figured that the room three doors down across from mine is the master room and not one of the guest rooms. " Yukito said when Toya was in the bathroom. Toya stuck his head out to look at Yukito with a smile on his face . Yukito turned red again. Toya came back out with a bowl of hot water and a towel, he sat down on the chair and picked up Yukito's leg and placed it on his lap. Yukito felt very shy and very shaken up, he felt his system start to buzz, on the verge of yet another breakdown.

"That looks deep, you might need stitches." Toya said running his hand tenderly over Yukito's ankle. Yukito smiled and just nodded his head absently. He was lost for words and starting to drool again when Yue snapped him out of his drooling.

'Yukito wake the hell up. You don't need stitches, now wake up before your horny dream god decides to stick iron in your skin only to find the cut is completely healed. Besides you need to introduce yourself and call the others to let them know you are okay.

"Umh, I'm fine I just need to know that you don't need me to jump out and give him a quick sleep spell to calm things down. Turn him into a toad, or made him a nerd or maybe something less desirable.' Yue shouted in his mind. Yukito snapped out of his wild daydream and looked at Yue with a shy grin looking down at his foot curling up.

"Uh...Uh...I'm Yukito, Tsukishiro S. Yukito. And don't worry my foot is going to be okay it's not that deep a cut I'll heal fine. I'm a fast healer, but thanks anyways for caring." Yukito said trying to pull his foot away to no avail. He was weak at the knees and a spell was way beyond him at the moment.

"Well then Yuki...Um sorry for that but I've got a habit of giving people nicknames." Toya said with a childish grin on his face. Yukito thought he was going to melt.

"No problem, most people do call me Yuki sometimes, that or Yue. But Yuki is just fine because it a combination of Yukito and Yue, it's like the name in between the two names...And I'm rambling again aren't I." Yukito said bending his head down to hide the redder shade of his face as he started to frown at the fact that he nearly spilled his secrete about Yue and him.