Hey all. Sorry it took so long to update my next story…my dad sorta grounded me from writing stories on the net, and I sort of am going against his will by writing the next chapter…so here you go, and I hope your all happy….
Words from the Star Wolf (A.K.A.-TheWolfofStars):
Let the pain come,
Let it tear my heart,
But in the darkness,
But in the silence,
I will always come
You are my sister,
Whom I love and protect,
And we will go forth together,
And we will come back.
Disclaimer: CCS and all main characters belong to CLAMP…the group I adore with all my heart…
## - on the phone or mumbling
'' – thoughts
Last Chapter:
"We except the challenge. Now are we forgiven for not being good brothers and protecting you until you meet your fiancés?"
All the skater boys did the puppy dogface, and though it wasn't as mastered and powerful as the girls, they sure knew how to copy. Both giggled and nodded
"Most definitely!" –(Sakura)
And both gathered the boys into their infamous hugs of death, and when they were all squeezed out, the two brothers had left. Both the brothers were confused.
'Fiancés? Who'd guess? Wonder who the guys are? …Oh well, what's for lunch?'
(In this fic, the two are rather…dense…)
Live the Life on the Rails
After that day, life was a little easier for the skater girls, though the preps still played minuscule pranks on them, mainly just the Li crowd. Sakura and Tomoyo made more friends with other groups, and all of them mingled together, in their own harmony while the preps were still in their own little world aswell.
The two never had trouble from the pervs from time to time, and when some tried again, Sakura and Tomoyo kicked their sick asses to the ground.
Sakura and Tomoyo still sported Tomoyo made clothes, and the boys never left their side. Yukito had still not returned. Kero and Sun grew bigger, as German shepherds are expected, but they were young enough to still play wrestle.
(A.N.: Yeah, you can tell I'm speeding up the process again…. which I might add I needed to do….)
Two day before Christmas vacation, Sakura and Tomoyo stood in front of Sakura's house like usual, but with no skate boards that day. Kenji had gotten a SUV for a birthday present, and he had decided to give his pals a ride to and from school since the side walks to school were full of ice patches.
They waited two minutes before he showed up, and were glad to get out of the cold, even though they both wore warm baggy blue pants with their skater names on them and big white hoodies with separate designs on them, and sunglasses/earmuffs.
"Boy Kenji, any longer and we would have been frozen to the ground!"
They all grinned, heading toward school. They went to the locker hall to warm up a little. After 5 minutes after they came in, the girls gave the boys each 1 present from the both of them.
Kenji, a hula skirt girl for the car, that dances (all cracked up as he tried to copy it); Kioshi, a skate board fixing kit (he broke a wheel off while doing a 360 dark side); Toshiro, a pair of sunglasses ("Now I get to look like you two!"); Akemi, a wintergreen scented 1' stuffed bear ("I already smell like that, does mean I'm a huggable bear too?"); Teiji, a cd from Limp Bizkit, unedited ("Yes!!"); Miroku, a manga book called Chobits (blushing immensely by opening it up to a picture and closed it quickly lol).
The boys loved the gifts (especially the hula dancing Kenji (I'm sorry, but that is funny…)), and they gave the girls a long hug.
Then they sheepishly gave the girls their own presents to them. Tomoyo opened hers first, surprised to see a new skateboard, the top had her name Madison surrounded by stars on a black background. On the bottom, it had almost an exact anime picture of Tomoyo in baggy clothes that changed color and design as you moved it from side to side. Below the picture it said her name Tomoyo in sparkled stars. She hugged the guys, and then Sakura went.
Sakura saw that she aswell got a new skateboard, on the top it had her name Empress Ying Fa in black outlining (inside white), surrounded by cherry blossoms in pink and white. The bottom was like Tomoyo's, except it was an anime of Sakura, and had the name Sakura in white cherry blossoms spelling her name. Her smile was so wide and her hug was aswell bear like. It meant so much to her…she never really had friends…
She and Tomoyo were crazy enough to try out their new boards, because there were no ice patches on the school grounds.
The day went by and the girls decided to go to the mall for to shop for their families and their future family. Of course, upon a certain agreement, the boys aswell went shopping, which they actually didn't regret (accept for the part of them caring the bags). The girls came by an antique shop with all kinds of things in it.
Sakura and Tomoyo found a pair of kimonos that they each liked, which were both considered 'whole life' (I made it up…I don't think girls were the same kimono before a marriage after a marriage…get what I mean?). Sakura's fav. was the one that was white with thin black outline amber-to cream cherry blossom flowers coming from the bottom hem flowing up to the chest where it faded, but the sleeves had more of the flowers. The obi that went with it was dark amber with white cherry blossoms and peonies. Tomoyo's fav. was a dark red kimono with dark purple violets and corn silk cherry blossoms (corn silk is a type of white)(the designs for each obi was the same). The obi was the dark purple with corn silk iris' and butterflies.
They both sighed as they walked out of the shop, taking one last wistful look back at the kimonos. The boys followed, but it took them a while to catch up. The girls would never buy something that they thought was to beautiful for them. The boys knew what the two were thinking,, even how they would think they would never wear them more than 3 times possibly. So what's the point? Yet the guys knew that Sakura and Tomoyo had fallen in love with the two soft silk kimonos at first sight.
They had been shopping for about 3 ½ hours, and since that night Yelan was coming for a visit, they didn't want to be late. Kenji drove slowly; the night sky had already came. On the way home, a radio broad cast told them "that there was a car wreck, explaining that the car had been driving carefully, but a drunk driver came into their lane coming the wrong way. As the car had no time to react, the drunks hit them, and sent them onto a patch of black ice, do a spiral, and get hit by an oncoming semi. They were still looking for any survivors of the family car. Officials have arrested the drunk driver, and they say that those close to the family members are suing. More later." And the music went back on, Sakura and the others all said in unison.
"I hope the people do survive. They didn't do anything wrong."
If only those words had been heard….
By the time Sakura and Tomoyo got out of the car in front of Sakura's gate, it was raining hard.
"You be careful, alright?! Night you guys! Thanks for the ride!"
"Night!"
The boys drove off and the girls ran to the front door with their Christmas shopping in hand as well as their skateboards. They opened the door and closed it as they took off their shoes in the dark hall, dropping the bags by the door. Sakura crept forward, Tomoyo behind her and they practically tiptoed to the living room where a light emitted softly from a candle. Sakura asked bravely,
"Anyone home? Hello? Mom? Dad? Touya? Auntie? Yelan? You guys here?"
Lightning and thunder cracked and showed through the living room window that a person sat on a chair, the candle seemingly not capturing it in its light, and the lightning making it appear skeleton like. Both girls
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
(rubs ears as I was saying) screamed, and in the middle of the flinging arm movement, one of them hit the light switch. They instantly stopped and breathed deeply, calming down. It was only Yelan, not a haunted skeleton spirit of someone who died in that house on a stormy night. Sakura asked,
"Yelan, where are our parents? I thought they said they would be home at 4? And where's Kero-chan and Sun-chan?"
Yelan's face seemed deeply saddened and pained; eyes were red and puffy, tears ready to spill from an already blotchy face. But she composed herself for a little while to explain to her daughters-in-laws-to-be.
"I have some…very bad news...that you need to know…Both of your families……they all….died in a car wreck today….Tomoyo's mother had decided to pick up your parents and brother, Sakura….But them your mother let Fujitaka drive so that she and Nadeshiko could do their usual talking, Tomoyo….They were heading home like they promised…..a drunk driver-"
"Hit them coming on, sending them onto-" (T)
"A patch of ice, hit by a semi….killing all in the car…" (S)
Yelan nodded, looking to their faces. They both had the same look: dawning of understanding, great loss, sorrow, pain, death. Yelan didn't know what to do, but she continued, her voice failing to conceal her own loss and pain.
"As your future mother-in-law, and as your legal guardian, I am taking you to my home ahead of the planned date, because the damn press will be have found out it was your families that died, and they will be coming in the morning to your house, expecting to get information. All of your belongings will be moved to your designed rooms at my home, but you will not meet my sons tonight, and possibly not tomorrow. I want you two to cry it out before anything else. To lose everything like this….is….horrible….We will talk in the morning, but I want you both to sleep. Come, before we are seen by prying eyes."
Yelan stood gracefully, composing herself as much as possible, and the girls followed like they were in a trance, leaving the bags at the door as the put on their shoes. The trudged out into the rain, hurried to the gate, and climbed into the black limo that was set on the curb. Yelan sat in the front with the driver with the separating black window up so the girls would have some privacy.
As the limo left, both turned to look back at the house, to the door, and still saw the bags they had left behind in the dark, dismal home. They saw them, even as they drove away fast, and they couldn't see the house….But now….they were gone for good.
(A.N.: Sorry to intrude, but I really hope you people get what it means. The bags were gifts for their family, and after the news, the bags therefore stood as their family, which had given them so many gifts in their life, and not being able to see their gifts…was meaning not seeing your family…..seriously, I hope you understand it…and this is the disc. of their designed rooms at the Li home: 4 rooms each (in one 'compartment') and they live in the North wing…This is a sad chapter…for me)
Sakura and Tomoyo held onto one another, looking to see that at least the other was still there, making sure they were still alive and not leaving them aswell. They searched for comfort in the other, finding a new comfort, a sisterly comfort. For 20 minutes, they sat in the dark, warm cabin, still drenched wet, holding onto the never known comfort, their eyes numb, barely holding their sparkle anymore. And before either could help it, their courage failed them for the first time, and the their eyes shined, the tears falling. It felt like hours that they hugged and cried onto the others shoulder.
Yelan, with her powerful hearing, heard the cry, and she silently held her own back. As she is their guardian, she could not give out. She had promised her best friends she would always take care of their daughters when they were alive, and now they were…dead…that promise stood stronger. She would not let them down.
When they arrived at the mansion, the girls wiped off the tears for now. Of what they could see in the dark, the gate was very large, the drive up to the house took about a minute or so, and the house…was like a palace. But when they climbed out of the limo, their hair still wet from earlier, they now had an umbrella over there heads, as did Yelan as she stepped out from the front seat. The girls followed solemnly, and when they reached the front door, they both quietly thanked their umbrella holder. They took off their shoes at the door in the hall, and two maids came forward with towels, drying the girls off and Yelan then turned to them, slowly and painfully saying,
"You two need to rest, and you'll have a maid outside your door when your ready to talk. Good night girls…"
Yelan quietly walked up the stairs to the south wing of the house. The maids took a few more minutes drying the girls out, then they took them to their main rooms, which were next door to each other in the hall of the north wing, and inside the rooms, their was only a long wall and a door in the middle of it that separated them. The maids left them to themselves, and the girls each went to their bed room and found their puppies in the dim light. Each changed, and Tomoyo and Sun-chan knocked on the door that separated them, which Sakura quickly opened. Both of their puppies knew something was wrong, so they stayed quiet as the walked to Sakura's bed room, both fell onto the king sized white bed. They dug under the covers, then hugged each other for comfort. The puppies jumped onto the bed and settled beside the owners feet.
Tomoyo was the first tocrak under the pain, then Sakura quickly followed.
'It hurts…..why do we always get hurt? Why did it have to be them?! Why did they have to die!? Why….."
The tears fell harder than before, their eyes shown brighter. Every drop was released, taking the pain, but bringing in numbness. But the numb feeling faded for a little while as they still cried on. They wept silently, but in their hearts, all was chaos, as they tears carried all the pain that was being held in them for so long.
They cried for nearly 2 hours, and finally, the real sisterly comfort came. Their grip loosened, the numbing feeling came back, but they still hung to the other, and they drifted into a black sleep.
All became silent, all became black, all became numb.
Let the pain come,
Let it tear my heart,
But in the darkness,
But in the silence,
I will always come
You are my sister,
Whom I love and protect,
And we will go forth together,
And we will come back.
Author Commentary:
Hey, sorry it took so long to get this one to you. I blame it on my father half way, for not letting me go to the site to put it up, and blame it on myself for not typing fast enough. Hope you guys like it, it's the first chapter full of crying that I have….So Merry Christmas! And Happy New Year!!!
Resolutions:
1. Draw better.
2. Right more.
3. Get ready for college.
4. Beat a boy named Shawn up, because he is a #!## and cheated on me…
later!
Wolf