Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ Silver-eyed Monster of Jealousy ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

Warnings for this chapter: A bit of OOC on Nakuru's part. Unfortunately I have only seen the American version of the episodes when they show up y_y and in one episode, I saw her running after Touya. So, I just took it from there. Hope you'll like it ^_^

Chapter 8.

Touya was sitting rigid in his seat. Large droplets of sweat were forming on his face. His eyes had a scary, haunted look to them and were staring straight ahead to the front of the class. The reason for his behavior was sitting two rows away from him. Nakuru Akizuki.

Nakuru had not only managed to get herself enrolled in Touya's college, she had also signed up for the same classes as him. How and where she got that information was unknown.

She was now sitting there trying to get his attention. She was constantly throwing little wads of paper at him and asking Yukito, who happened to be sitting right next to him, to switch seats with her. Poor Yukito was caught in the middle of the crossfire. He would have happily obliged if not for the fact that Touya had grabbed a hold of his jacket, under the table, in a death-grip. Yukito couldn't help but smile at the childish behavior that Nakuru was displaying.

"I guess love makes you do crazy things, huh?"

He asked Yue who had been quiet all through the morning. Yukito was answered with a low growl.

`Hmm, interesting.' Yukito thought to himself. An internal evil smile spread over his face.

"Hey Yue." He asked again. "Don't you think that these two would make a very handsome couple?"

This time, Yue did answer.

"I have no concern with human emotions." He spoke with a huff. "And I certainly don't care who that man gets close with. He would be lucky if he ever did though, he is completely infuriating and a complete nuisance."

`Whoa, you jumped to the defense a little too fast there, buddy.' Yukito thought to himself again.

Another wad of paper came flying out in their direction and hit Yukito squarely at the side of his face. Luckily, their professor was currently writing notes on the board, and didn't notice the exchange. Yukito turned his head and looked at her. Nakuru was staring at him with huge eyes and a puppy-dog expression.

"Come on Yukito, switch with me." She whispered loudly. "I'll give you my lunch."

She said mischievously, holding up a large bag. Yukito's eyes glazed over as he started drooling profusely at the mouth. He made to get up, but a hard tug at his side prevented him from doing so. He turned his head and was met with a very angry Touya. His eyes had gone cat-like and had slits in the middle. A lot of dark, evil spirits were floating around his head as he conveyed his message without saying a word. `Get up from this seat and die.'

"All right, all right, I'm not going anywhere."

A wide-eyed Yukito soothed his psychotic friend over. He turned back towards Nakuru and apologetically shook his head. Immediately, the lost puppy-dog expression disappeared from her face and was replaced with a deep scowl. She blew a raspberry in his direction. Yukito shook his head at her antics and started jotting down the notes.

"I happen to think that they are perfect for each other."

Yukito said, continuing the mental conversation.

"How so?"

Yukito was surprised at the question. He also happen to note a hint of curiosity in Yue's tone.

"Well," he began. "Just look at the obvious. They're both very good looking. They're compatible, and they're both a little bit crazy."

Yukio stopped and analyzed Yue's feelings. He didn't detect any emotions from him. Whatever Yue was feeling, he was doing a good job of hiding it well.

"And also," he continued. "a very important fact is that Nakuru is head over heels for him. It's only a matter of time before Touya gives in to her, and falls for her himself. After all, how strong is a man's resolve, anyway?"

At this point, Yukito was hit with a full blast of emotion. He detected anger, jealousy and a tiny bit of hurt hidden behind the negative emotions.

`So, the icy moon guardian does feel something strong for him.' Yukito thought gleefully.

"Well," Yue spoke in his mind. "You do know what we have to do now, right?"

He asked. And when Yukito didn't answer, he continued.

"We have to keep Nakuru away from him. We cannot have him fall in love with her."

"And why not?" Yukito asked mischievously.

"I should think that was obvious. If she gets together with Touya, then they will be together all the time. She will be in the close proximity as the mistress, and I cannot allow that."

`Uh huh, sure. The mistress.' Yukito mocked in his head.

"But I thought that the whole issue was resolved. They are good friends with each other, not aren't they?" Yukito asked, while seemingly paying attention to the boring lecture.

"That maybe so, but I still don't trust her. She used to be very cunning back in the days, and I doubt that she have let go of her ways. We have to make sure that that girl stays away from Touya. I will fully assist you to this task."

Yue said with determination.

"I cannot allow her to get near Tou …. um …. Mistress."

Yukito, being the smart and intelligent guy that he was, caught the little slip up.

"Sure Yue, whatever you say."

Yukito looked over at Touya as he said those words. His eyes softened at the edges as he looked at him, and a few butterflies hopped around in his stomach. And Yukito had nothing to do with that.

*~*~*

"How was England, Eriol?"

Sakura asked taking a small sip from her tea cup.

"It was nice." Eriol replied with a smile. "Very different from Japan but great nonetheless."

"When are you going back?"

"Syaoran!"

Sakura reprimanded her boyfriend as Eriol gave a loud laugh.

Both Sakura and Syaoran were sitting in Eriol's living room having tea and snacks. Sakura had decided to pay him a visit and talk about making the `split' card. She had dragged a furiously protesting Syaoran with her.

"He's the reincarnation of your ancestors. The least you can do is go and say `hi' to him."

"He's the reincarnation of devil, is what he is."

Syaoran had muttered under his breath but complied anyway. But it didn't mean that he had to nice to him or anything.

"So Sakura," Eriol began. "Am I to understand that you wish to create a new card?"

Sakura put her cup down and nodded her head.

"Yeah. I want to make one that would enable me to separate Yue from Yukito."

Eriol looked at her for a few seconds.

"You have made a card before, have you not? Why do you ask for help now, when you hadn't needed it back then?"

Sakura blushed slightly as Syaoran gave a loud humph.

"Let's go Sakura. We don't need this jerk to help you out."

He stood up and made for the door. He stopped shortly when he noticed that Sakura had remained seated and was staring at her hands. After a few more seconds, she spoke in a soft voice.

"Last time, I hadn't needed any help because I wasn't giving much thought to what I was doing. I just knew that there is something I must do to keep the one I love close to me. Even if it was nothing solid, even if it was a tiny bit of hope."

Sakura lifted her head and looked at Eriol. He was staring at her with a close scrutiny.

"So," he steepled his fingers together. "In other words, you weren't thinking logically. You were being directed by your emotions."

Sakura looked up and gazed lovingly at Syaoran.

"I was being directed by my heart."

A wide smile broke out over Eriol's face.

"That's it, Sakura. That's what I wanted to hear." He said in a reassuring tone. "You were able to accomplish the task because your heart was in it."

Sakura smiled at Syaoran who was blushing furiously by now.

"That's what you need to do in order to create the `split' card." Eriol continued. "You have to think deeply about both Yue and Yukito. They about the way they differ from each other, and how they are similar. Concentrate deeply on just the two of them. Make a mental picture of what you want your card to look like. If you need, ask help of the other Sakura cards. I'm sure they would be more then willing to help." He paused at the end of his explanation and smiled affectionately. "And remember, think with your heart."

Sakura, who was listening to every word carefully smiled widely in return. She nodded her head at him. Then, like a flash, the affectionate smile disappeared from Eriol's face and was replaced with an evil smirk.

"So, my cute descendant." He turned towards Syaoran, who had sat down on the sofa furthest away from him. His eyebrow gave a twitch at the title.

"I still haven't heard the whole story of how you got together with Sakura. Come on boy, details, details."

Sakura rolled her eyes at them. She got up as Syaoran opened his mouth to either yell or scold Eriol.

`Boys.' She thought with a sigh. She knew that now they were going to exchange smart-ass remarks and insults, and she really didn't want to be in the middle of that. She made her way to the kitchen and thought over all the things Eriol had said. `Think with your heart.' `Concentrate deeply on just the two of them.' Sakura was very confident that she will be able to do it without a hitch. She loved them both with all her heart and wanted them each to have their own personality, instead of living in each other's shadow. Yes, she would start on that at the first opportune moment (1).

She walked into the kitchen and was met with a quite a sight. Suppi and Kero were perched on top of the table, glaring at each other. They were both in the process of finishing off a chocolate bar. By the amount of wrappers next to them, it was easy to say that they had gone through quite a few already.

Kero wiped his mouth as he quickly finished the one in his hands. He was panting slightly.

"G… give it up …… already, Suppi. You know you can't beat me." He said catching his breath. "I am the champion of candy. No sweet confections can escape from me. Ha ha ha ha ha."

Suppi finished off the chocolate bar he had in his tiny claws in a calm, serene manner.

"What number were you up to?" he asked the laughing maniac.

Kero looked at he wrapper on his side.

"6. Yeah, beat that!"

He posed a dramatic pose, lifting his tiny body up in the air and holding up a fist.

"Well," Suppi said in the same quiet manner. "I just finished my ninth one."

The puffed up Kero deflated immediately, and sat back down, resuming his glaring.

"Oh, and by the way, don't call me Suppi."

"Suppi, Suppi, SUPPI!!"

Suppi's eyebrows gave a twitch as his eyes narrowed to slits.

"You're just jealous because I'm better then you at everything." Suppi yelled out loud.

"Oh you would like to think that, wouldn't you? You may be able to beat me at this, but you have no chance against me when it comes to games. In there, I'm the master."

Suppi harrumphed.

"Yes. Keep on believing that. I master had a game system set up here, I would've been more than happy to burst your bubble."

"Yeah well, he doesn't. So there." Kero pulled down his right eyelid and blew a raspberry.

Sakura, who had been standing in the background observing, decided to interfere. With a barely concealed smirk she stepped forward.

"Boys, boys. Please, calm down."

Laughter was evident in her tone. There was one thing to watch two grown boys go at each other, watching these two little guys was another thing entirely. She had to put a stop to it, before stuffing started flying around. Both Kero and Suppi halted at Sakura's voice.

"Come on guys. How long has it been since you've seen each other? Is fighting the first thing that you wanted to do?"

Kero humphed softly and folded his arms. Suppi rolled his eyes at him.

"My apologies Mistress. I know it's very rude to quarrel with guests. But there are `some people' who just get on your very last nerves and you can't help yourself."

Sakura giggled softly as Nakuru walked into the kitchen.

"You know, the kind of feeling your brother gets whenever Nakuru is around him."

Nakuru fell flat on her face. She got up immediately afterwards with narrow cat-like eyes, with her hair standing on end. She went up really close to Suppi's face with a fisted hand.

"What the hell do you mean by that, you stupid, good-for-nothing excuse of a guardian?"

Suppi yawned loudly and patted his mouth, not in the least scared by her tone. Nakuru clenched her teeth and growled at him. She then straightened up and smiled at Sakura, who was watching the exchange with an amused expression.

"Sakura. How's it going?"

"Great." Sakura answered with a friendly smile. "How does it feel to be back here again?"

"Being in the same place as my Touya, I couldn't be happier if I tried."

Nakuru sighed dreamily as Kero and Suppi made gagging noises in the background.

"Have you gotten through to him yet?"

"Not yet. But I will. Mark my words."

Nakuru posed a heroic stance, not unlike Kero's a few minutes ago.

"Which reminds me, I have to go call him now." Nakuru said looking at her watch. "Just wait and see Sakura. I'm going to wear him down."

She winked at her and took off down the hallway like a tornado, her long red hair flying wildly behind her.

Sakura shook her head at the girl's antics and turned towards the stuffed animals.

"Hey Suppi." She called out to him. "How would you like to come and stay over at my house tonight? I would love to hear all about England from you. And plus, you'll have a chance to beat Kero at the video games he was boasting about."

"Traitor!" Kero yelled indignantly.

"Mistress. I would be honored to come to your house. Just let me as Master's permission." Suppi said with a wide smile and flew towards the door.

"Oh and Suppi," Sakura called out and Suppi stopped and turned towards her. "My name is not Mistress, its Sakura, got it?"

Suppi gave a large grin.

"Of course. Sakura." He flew off to see Eriol.

"Sakura!" Sakura went startled and clutched at her chest as Kero screamed right next to her ear.

"What?!" She replied in the same manner.

"Why did you invite that thing over?"

"Because Kero, even if you will never admit it, you missed him. I'm sure deep down inside you guys are the best of friends and both of you are just too macho to admit it."

Kero scowled darkly at her.

"So, I just thought that you guys could have some time to yourselves and you know reminisce." Sakura smiled cheerily at Kero.

"Hn. Whatever." He shrugged his shoulders.

Eriol easily gave Suppi his consent to stay at Sakura's place. On their way back home, looking at the way those two were constantly bickering in Syaoran's car, Sakura wondered whether she had made the right decision or not.

*~*~*

Touya yawned loudly and stretched his arms over his head. He popped his shoulders and moved his head side to side.

"Oh God." He groaned out loud. "I hate college math."

Yukito chuckled slightly.

"It's not so bad." He replied double-checking his answer in the back of the textbook.

They were both sitting in Touya's living room finishing up their homeworks. Touya growled at Yukito.

"Oh yeah, easy for you to say, Mr. genius-no-problem-is-too-hard-for-me."

Yukito just shook his head.

"Well, I'm ready for a break." Touya lounged back on the sofa. He then called over his shoulder. "Hey Sakura. Could you grab me a drink?"

"Sakura's not here." Yukito said without lifting his head from the book. "She went out with Syaoran."

"Oh yeah. I forgot." Touya enunciated each word through clenched teeth.

"I still don't know what she sees in him. That stupid, good-for-nothing, perverted-ass …"

"Oh here we go again." Yukito groaned and stood up.

"…. and if it was up to me, he'd be half way across the world by now …."

"I'm gonna get us some drinks."

Yukito walked away to the kitchen leaving Touya gritting his teeth and making a layout for his next book, "101 ways to kill a brat".

Touya was in the middle of planning a particularly gruesome death, involving red-hot tongs and a evilly chuckling Touya with devil's horns, when it was interrupted by the shrill sound of the telephone. He stood up to answer. The moment he picked up the cradle, he wished he'd let the answering machine handle it. Nakuru Akizuki's overly cheerful voice greeted him on the receiver.

"Hi Touya."

Since Touya knew that he had already picked up the phone, he may as well talk to her. Plus, who knew if he hung up on her and she did something drastic, like came over. That thought sent shivers down his spine.

"Hi Nakuru. How's it going?"

"AHHHH!!!" Touya held the receiver away from his ears, at the sound of the loud scream. "He said my name. My love called me by my name." There were heart-bubbles coming out of the phone and popping all around Touya.

"What do you want?" he asked irritably.

"Why, to ask you when you were going to take me out, of course." She replied from the other end. "I'm free Saturday night."

"And why the hell would I want to do that?" Touya asked rubbing his temples.

"Because you love me, you silly boy." Was her confident answer.

"Listen Nakuru…."

Touya was about to reject her again when his eyes fell on the figure standing in the middle of the living room. Yukito was standing there looking at him with a very curious expression on his face. As Touya continued to gaze at him, he noticed a small change in Yukito. Invisible to the naked eye, Touya felt Yukito giving off electric waves all around him. It felt as though the lights had dimmed and were centered on the solitary figure. In Touya's mind's eyes, the glasses melted away from Yukito's face, his grey hair turned silver and dropped all the way down to his hips, and his rounded face and cute looks turned into sharper more aristocratic features. Touya was now looking at Yukito, but seeing Yue.

For a few minutes, he forgot to breathe. He was hit with such strong emotions that he was too afraid to give them a name. One part of Touya wanted to drop everything and rush to that creature's side. He wanted to pull him in and crush him to his body in a tight embrace, and feel his lips caressing that heavenly mouth. The other part of Touya wanted to run away from him as fast as possible.

Unfortunately, it was the second part of Touya who was in charge right now.

"…. are you still there? Hello? Touya?"

Touya blinked his eyes and he was once again seeing Yukito again. He couldn't believe what had just happened. He needed an escape route. Fast.

"Yeah Nakuru. I'm here." He looked down at the receiver and an idea flashed in his mind. "Listen, there is a Spring Festival in two weeks. Would you like to go there with me? As friends?"

When Touya finished, he was met with an eerie silence followed by a soft thud.

"Hello. Nakuru. Hello."

Touya yelled into the telephone. A few seconds later, the phone was picked up from the other end and Touya heard a deep voice.

"Hello. Does this perchance happen to be Touya-san?"

Eriol asked in a polite voice.

"Uh yeah. It's me."

Touya was confused. He heard chuckled from the other end.

"Should've known."

"Why? Where's Nakuru?" Touya asked in a frantic voice. He was afraid that Nakuru was on her way over to say `yes' in person.

"Touya-san," Eriol was saying. "May I ask what it is that you said to Nakuru?"

"Well, I asked her to go with me to the Spring Festival. But just as friends."

Touya answered and this time he heard loud guffaws coming from the other end.

"Well. It would that this was too much for poor Nakuru. She's fainted dead on the floor."

Touya heaved a huge sigh of relief. As long as she was not coming here, life was good.

"Oh well. When she wakes up, let her know once again, that we're going as just friends."

"Sure thing Touya-san."

He could hear the evil smirk in Eriol's answer. Touya shuddered minutely and hung up. Well, maybe that will keep that girl off his back for a while. He thought silently as he made his way back to the sofa.

Yukito was still standing in the middle of the living room, with a strange expression on his face.

"You'll never believe this Yuki. I just asked Nakuru Akizuki for a date. Well, not exactly a date. But still, me and Nakuru, oh my God."

Touya was shaking his head as he walked past the stone-still Yukito. Touya bopped him slightly with his shoulder and was startled when his wrist was grabbed in a steely grip.

"Yuki?"

Touya said in a surprising tone and turned his head. He was met with cold yet furious eyes of Yue, who was staring at him just a few inches away.

*~*~*

TBC.

1. Can you tell I've been watching too much Pirates of the Caribbean ^_~.

Author's notes: BWAHAHAHAAAA!!! Cliff Hanger!! Am I evil or what ^_~ O.K just a preview of the next chapter, which is already in the process of being written. It will start with the confrontation between Touya and Yue, right where this chapter left off. Sakura is going to try and go ahead with making the card. Brad, the bastard, is going to try and ask Meiling out again. Will she say yes? Will Sakura be able to make the card? Will Touya and Yue get into a nice little lip-lock? Heheheheeee, review and you shall receive. Umm…..please. Your reviews feed my brain to come up with ideas and write faster. Please please please leave a few words about this chapter. You guys are the best ^_^ Until next time. Bye bye.