Chapter One... Dreamy Awakening's

Sakura awoke, sweat dripping off her from head to toe. Her breathing hard and rugged, as reality woke her from the bleak nightmare. "I had that dream again... of him," she said aloud to herself. Kiro awoke beside her. "What are you babbling about now Sakura?" he asked, looking as if he could fall over and sleep some more. Sakura stood from her bed and walked to her balcony door, and looked out at the early morning street. There was not a person in sight, except one, Yue. Her eyes met his and lingered there for a second, as he stretched out his massive wings and came up to meet her on the balcony. All her worries over the nightmare that she had just had were forgotten. "Yue..." Kiro whispered, and fell back to sleep before he could finish the sentence. She met him with a smile, and a very affectionate hug. "Yue! Oh how I've missed you!" She whispered almost too loud, giggling after the fact. He looked down at her, not with happiness or joy, but with no emotion at all. Sakura looked up at him, searching his eyes. 'Come on, I know your in there Julian, somewhere at least. Teach Yue what it's like to feel something.... at least for Me.' she said to herself, looking for the Julian she knows in the icy eyes of her handsome moon guardian.

Yue averted his gaze towards something else...looking off into the distance it seemed. She took his hand in hers, and nestled her soft cheeks into his warm palm. He quickly looked back, shaken by this new sensation. "How long have you been protecting me Yue? How long?" Sakura asked him, already knowing that answer. Yue looked at her a mere second and answered. "Eight years, Mistress Sakura." he replied flatly, his tones colder than his expressions. She smiled. "Eight wonderful years being with you, Yue." she said, pulling her face away from his palm. Sakura looked up at him, the morning light illuminating her face, as she smiled. "Why would they be wonderful? Such hardships you have had to endure." Yue stated the obvious, not getting what she really meant. Sakura smiled again, his gaze averted there. Always her smile that caught his attention, the bright sun that always shown there. She giggled at his words and his sudden change in expression, how little it may have been. "What I meant was. It was wonderful cause you were always there to protect me, always there to help me out when I was almost defeated. Just the sound of your voice in my battles, helped me to defeat them." she said, a slight sigh at the end. Yue was slightly shocked to hear this from his mistress's mouth. He looked down at her with the smallest hint of confusion, the most emotion he's ever shown her all these years.

"Yue, what I guess I'm trying to say is that... well...." she couldn't finish, the words stuck in her throat. She looked up at him, her eyes dazzling with tiny tears. His expression changed from confused to total concern. "Oh, mistress! What is wrong? Please tell me… " Yue said to her, putting his arms around her small form, bringing her up against him for comfort. He wrapped his enormously beautiful wings around them both, thinking of her protection. Sakura cried for a few minutes, her tears dampening his white surcoat. He released his hold on her and held her out a few inches from him. She looked stricken with grief. "Please tell me! What is wrong?" he asked again, this time catching her attention. She looked up at him, her eyes twinkling, as the tears continued to slowly flow. "Yue...I...I..." her words broke up again, sliding into nothingness. He held her chin in his fingers. "What is it? You can trust me." She looked into his icy eyes, and told him. "I... I love you, Yue." she said finally, touching his hand with her delicate fingers. He was very shocked, stepping backwards. He didn't know what to think of this. He'd never experienced this emotion, and in this he didn't know what it was she was expecting from him. "I do not know this love you speak of, I'm not sure what I am supposed to do or...or to say." he said, his hands holding one of hers.

Sakura looked at him silently, and then spoke. "I want to be the one who teaches you love, but I want to know something first." she asked. Yue looked down at her, confusion clouding his handsome face. "What is it?" She took his hands and rubbed her cheek on them. "When I touch you, like this, does it make your skin tingle? Does it make your heart beat faster than normal? Or does it do nothing to you at all?" she asked him, continuing to rub her cheek on his slender hand. His pulse had begun to quicken, confused by all these new emotions flowing through his mind and body. Yue watched her as she continued to do it. "All these years I've been with you, I was so afraid to tell you how I felt. I even loved you as Julian, but it is rare that I ever see him anymore, but I prefer you more over him." Sakura said, as she stopped rubbing her cheeks on his hands. Still so shocked by all her warming words, he looked at her, his eyes shaking, and his hands beginning to tremble. Sakura noticed his trembling immediately and slowly wrapped her arms around his slim figure, embracing him. Yue didn't exactly know how to react to this either. He stood there in a muck of emotions, trembling in her arms. He somehow managed to wrap his arms around her and arched his beautiful, angelic wings out behind him, reveling in these new feelings. Not entirely sure how he's to control them, what he should do with them.

Sakura backed up from their short embrace and looked at him, and giggled. He looked down at her, his skin crawling with some new sensation. 'What is this... this feeling?' he asked himself, looking over her beautiful face. He'd never really looked upon her like this before, with such interest. 'Could this be the love she speaks of? The love I have for her.' he said in his mind, as he noticed her looking into his eyes. He shifted them from her to the dawn of the sun. This was his time to sleep, to regain his energy for the next battle they must endure. "Sakura?" he said, touching her chin. The new feelings he was having still touched the surface of his skin just slightly. She looked up at him, intensity in her eyes. "Yes, Yue?" she replied, as she reached up to place her hand on the one touching her chin. Yue focused his eyes on her bright pupils, and watched them quiver slightly. He sighed. A part of him somewhere deep down wanted this moment to last forever, as another part of him wanted it to end knowing it had gone to far.

"Mistress, it is time for me to go. I must rest now, as should you." was all he could say to her, as the first rays of light began to touch the darkened sky. Sakura looked at him, stunned for a second. She hadn't exactly hoped for that answer, but for another more touching one. She looked out towards the dawning horizon and sighed. "Yes Yue. I guess it is time for us to depart out ways. Until the next time we meet." she said, hoping for a positive reaction. What she got was more than she had hoped for. Yue, in some small way smiled at her. Her eyes brightened like the coming morning and she dashed to hug him, kissing him on the lips. Yue's eyes widened, as he held her up against him. 'She... she kissed me!' his mind said over and over again, till she stepped back from him. "Goodnight" was her last words, as she tiptoed back into the bedroom and crawled into bed. Yue stood there, unmoving. "Goodnight, my mistress..." he whispered, delirious to her absence. He floated into her room and sat down on the end of her bed, when he regained his composure. Yue sighed as he watched her sleeping.

The sun rose higher into the sky, shinning little rays of light onto the floor. "It is time for me to depart my mistress. Goodnight." Yue said, getting up from the bed. "Good night, Yue." Kiro said, his eyes looking directly up at the other guardian. Yue flinched from the words coming from Kiroberos. "So how long have you been listening?" Yue asked the sun guardian. The little stuffed-animal looking creature stifled a laugh. "Long enough, I guess." Kiro flew up from the bed and stood on Yue's shoulder. "I've got a big problem Kiroberos." Yue whispered to the other guardian, sitting on the edge of the bed. "What's that exactly?" he asked, looking at Yue. The moon guardian sighed. "Sakura. She likes me Kiro." Yue replied, resting his chin in his hands. Kiroberos flew from his shoulder and landed on the bed. "What's so wrong with that? He said, turning to face Sakura. The moon guardian stretched his wings out slightly, almost taking up her whole room with them. "You don't seem to understand Kiro. I don't think I can return her feelings." he sighed. Kiro made a scuffing sound. "Oh Yue, you big idiot. Watch her and listen to what she said, 'I want to be the one who teaches you love'. Can you just sit there and ignore something like that?" Kiro said to him, perhaps a little too loud. "Shhh!" Yue said, poking him with a finger. "Sorry." the sun guardian apologized, a slight grin on his face. "I have to go now. Take good care of her Kiroberos." Yue said, as he disappeared out the window. "I will." Kiro said aloud and as he lay back down next to Sakura

He watched the window carefully, seeing the white wings of his friend outlined by the moon. "I don't think you know it yet Yue, but you already feel something for her. Ahhh, isn't love grand!" Kiro proclaimed as he closed his eyes to continue with what sleep he had left.

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This is only the first chapter, I'll either have the other chapters all up at the same time, but if they are not here when you're finished reading this, then most likely I have to put them up later. :) It also puts you all in suspense, and makes you keep coming back to read a little bit more. This is going to be quite a bit longer than most of my other stories. Usually two or three chapters long, this one is excedingly longer.

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