Rainbow Stripes

An AU archive

"There are millions of worlds, you know. The big differences get made at the big events in history, where a battle is either won or lost. Both things can't happen in one world, so a new one splits off and goes different after that. But there are all sorts of smaller things that can go two ways as well, which don't make a world split off. You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like your usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our own world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another..."
-Witch Week, Diana Wynne Jones

In the end of the real story, there will be two worlds, separate and distinct. In one, the world belongs to humanity forever, to do with as they will. To destroy, or to preserve. In the other...it does not. Either may happen, but both cannot, and so there must be two worlds to hold them. Those are the great worlds.

But the future could have been many more ways than those. Not very different, not enough for a new world, just enough to become one stripe in one of those two rainbows.

This is the story of those futures.

General Disclaimer:

I am not CLAMP. These characters are (for the most part) not mine. However, I doubt they mind my borrowing them to play with. Seriously.

Assorted Warnings:

Yes, these stories are all AU. This means they are not going to happen in canon. I know this. Thank you for knowing this too.
These stories do not, by any means, take place in the same universe as each other. These are all one-shots until further notice.
Stories will contain shounen-ai, het and shoujo-ai, probably not all in the same story. If any of this bothers you, CLAMP is not the fandom for you.
Please do not review this prologue, as it will be being replaced to update it for every chapter I add. Thank you.

The rainbow stripe worlds are waiting for you. Would you like to...enter?

Red: Shizue. There could have been a child...She would have been a hero.

Orange: Deep Sleep Dreaming. Sometimes peace is most important, even when the world is at stake.