Hi Hi! I'm back with a new story! As always it is a Fuu-Ferio's fanfic, but this
time is different: beyond the characters of MKR, there are also those of an
other Clamp’s manga. Directly from the urban-psycho-apocalyptic world of "X/
1999" here to you the Dragons of Sky and the Dragons of Earth!
Antefatto: they are past twenty-three years since when the three Magic Knights
have gone back from Sephiro. Fuu works in the Clamp Campus as researcher where
she lives with her son Hiroyuki -lets you imagine whom his father is-, who
teaches math in the same institute, and she has engaged a new helper. Meanwhile
Kamui and the other Seals have been received in the institute and, between a
battle and the other, they bring an ordinary scholastic life: in fact Yuzuriha
meet Midori, her classmate and niece of Miss Houojii.
I know that there are some temporal inconsistencies, but they were necessary!

For the two boys that make me worry more.

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A little wish

Satsuki Yatoji puffed: she that day began her new job and she didn't like work
with the human beings, but this sacrifice was necessary, Kanoe had practically
forced her to present at that interview. They were missing funds. Fuuma didn't
do anything else other than damages, Seishiro must pay the medical bills for his
eye and Kakyou was obliged to undergo an intensive rehabilitating program and
the salaries of Yuto and Kanoe -who rounded the wages with /other/ activities-
was not more sufficient. Yuto had accompanied her up to the Clamp Campus and the
young woman had until too appreciated that gallant gesture.
" Yuto..."
She murmured dreamy: in that place immersed in the nature Beast would not have
been able to ever approach and she was happy to be able to think in peace at the
only human being that was not unpleasant.
The man that accompanied her, carried her up to a small cottage in a small
wood: Satsuki was amazed by the way the wind played with the leaves of the trees
and how all the house and the garden communicates a sense of peace and calm, but
also of deep sorrow and sadness.
" It will be better that I go, the lessons are about to begin: Miss Houojii is a
dear woman, very kind, you will be well with her. Good-bye Miss Yatoji."
The teacher said going back.
Satsuki swallowed and opened the gate of painted wood: a voice told her that
that day her life would have taken a new way. She shook her head to chase away
again that feeling in her mind's unknown corner: she was a Dragon of Earth and
her destiny had been foreordained, some things didn't make sense.
She breathed deeply as she rang the bell, the door opened and she saw the most
handsome boy that has never met in her life: he was little taller than the
average; with dark green hair, almost black, perfectly combed; his gilded amber
eyes were able to melt the hardest of the hearts, especially if accompanied by
his smile a little bit malicious; his tanned skin seemed smooth as a newborn's
one, made virile by a two days' bear.
" Bienvenue, you must be the new helper! Maman, the new young girl has come!"
The boy's Japanese had made more charming by a light French accent, last
evidence of years lived in Paris.
" Go-good morning, I am Yatoji Satsuki. And you are..."
" Houojii Hiroyuki, enchantè mademoiselle Yatoji."
Said these words, Hiroyuki took her hand and gallantly kissed it. Satsuki felt a
flame wrap her: the young man had a behavior so elegant and chivalrous that made
him to resemble to a fairy tale's Prince Charming. If at that moment Hiroyuki
has asked her something -anything-, she would not have hesitated to do it. Two
feminine arms encircled the boy's chest.
" Mon petit prince, I have said you many times to not enchant my new helpers.
Up, you now go to school."
The woman gave him a kiss on the forehead and ruffled his hair. The boy puffed
and exchanged the kiss.
" Au revoir maman. Mademoiselle Yatoji, it has been a pleasure to meet you."
Hiroyuki took his briefcase and ran toward the main building. Satsuki studied
the woman: she was in her early forties but she seemed more older; her hair were
blonds with some silvered lock and gently picked up in a chignon and some curl
framed her face; her eyes were leaf-green but superabundant of melancholy, eyes
that tried to hide an ancient pain; her smile was of a disarming sweetness and
of a constant motherly tenderness; she wore a shirt with minute clovers' leafs
and a long dark green skirt; a refined woman who didn't have anything with the
perpetually sensual and tempting Kanoe. The woman's voice was slight as a breeze
and a blow of wind played with her curls makes them shine of gold and of silver
in the sunlight.
" Welcome in my equipe Miss Yatoji: your help will be fundamental for the
perfect success of my project. Until to now nobody beyond me has been able to
use Computo with success, but it has been reported that you are the only to be
able to use the Beast system. I am Houojii Fuu and hope that today be the
beginning not only of a job's relationship, but also of a sincere friendship!"
Satsuki froze: how could Houojii know about Beast?!
" But you how..."
" Both Beast and Computo are government's projects, at the epoch I dealt with
the software: but the two projects have different ends. If I must tell the
truth, only I know project Computo's true. Well, follow me Miss Yatoji: we'll
test immediately your capacity."

The 2nd E was in ferment: that day a new student would have come. The students
were been picked in small groups and chatted about the new arrival: they
wondered many things about him or her; there was who supported that he\she be a
boy and who a girl, who hoped that he\she is nice and he\she can help them in
the tests. The first lesson's teacher came and the students went back at their
desks; after the silence had returned in the classroom, the teacher called the
new arrival.
" Guys, a new student has arrived that from she today will be a part of ours
small community, I want you to make her feel member of a big family: I introduce
you Nekoi Yuzuriha."
" Hello!"
Yuzuriha exclaimed writing her name on the blackboard. Her new classmates
greeted her with a festive cheering and a warm welcome.
" Nekoi, your desk is near Arisugawa: she is the class prefect and will help you
to settle in."
' Arisugawa? ' The Dragon of Heaven thought ' but this isn't Sorata's last name?
Perhaps it is a coincidence.'
The girl welcomed her smiling and bending toward her, she told:
" I am Arisugawa Midori, but you could call me simply Midori and I would want we
to become friends. You are new in the school, aren't you? If you wish, during
the lunch I show you the school!"
Yuzuriha felt her eyes fill of tears of joy: for the first time a person that
was not involved in the end of the world, offered her hers friendship. The Seal
gave a rapid caress to her inugami and smiled.
" My name's Nekoi Yuzuriha, but my friends call me Yuzu-chan: I will be very
happy to become your friend!"

After the lessons, Midori showed the school to Yuzuriha and invited her at hers
small picnic.
" Since when do you live in Tokyo? Do you have moved with your family?"
Midori asked curious while she unbent her plaid.
" Not a long time ago, I have come to Tokyo for some...ahem... business and now
I live herein the campus with my friends."
" Really? Also I live here in the campus, with my aunt and my cousin: before we
lived in Paris and we have moved six years ago."
" Why do you live with your aunt? Are your parents traveling for job?"
" No: my mother and my father has died when I was eight years old and since then
aunt Fuu is concerned with me. My father was a famous photographer and the mama
and I followed him everywhere, we have saw half world together! If... if they
that day have not left me to the aunt, I would also have died. I have always
hated the colds, but if I have not had high fever that day... You know, the aunt
has told me that I had an older brother, he has disappeared two years before I
bear: I think that's why we traveled so much, to find him. Now I think that he
has also died and that I won't have the occasion to know him. Oh, but I see that
you have food for an army! Are you waiting somebody? One of your friends or...
your boy toy?"
Midori asked malicious elbowing Yuzuriha in the ribs. The Seal blushed an
instant thinking about Kusanagi: they had not met from when she was in the
Campus; then she shook her head and said:
" I and my friends have agreed: I and Arashi cook the lunch, Kamui and Sorata
they will wash the bento when we will go back in the apartment! Also you have
food for two..."
Midori laughed and bite into a sandwich:
" I and Hiroyuki always have lunch together! My cousin says that I will become a
ball of fat because I eat much, but I have inherited mother's fast metabolism; I
am convinced that he will be to fatten up considering that he eats for ten!"
The two girls laughed and chatted happily: Midori explained the various
nicknames of their classmates and of the teachers; she told any amusing
anecdotes happened at school. Yuzuriha thanked the Destiny to have her made meet
a friend who wasn't a Seal or an Angel; Inuki, sat close to her, whined excited
seeing his mistress so happy.

After five minutes, Kamui Arashi and Sorata joined the two girls: as always
Sorata flirted with Arashi, and as always the Hidden Maid didn't pay him
attention. Kamui was surprised to see his young friend with a new friend.
Yuzuriha got up and did the introductions:
" Midori, these are some of my friends: Kamui, Arashi and Sorata. Do you know a
thing? You and Sorata have the same last name!"
" Really? Thist is funny! I am Arisugawa Midori and the friends of Yuzuriha are
also the my!"
Sorata stared the girl, he didn't remember where they had met, but she was
familiar: her toffee coloured hair and her leaf green eyes were familiar; also
her smile was impressed in his memory, but it was vague like a dream. Then he
asked curious:
" Midori, have you never been at the temple of the Mount Koya?"
" Never, I have lived in Paris until five years ago. Why it do you ask?"
" Nothing, your face seems me familiar and has wondered I don't have seen you at
the temple. All here!"
" Perhaps you have seen a my aunt photo: she's a very famous researcher and they
tells that I resemble her much."
The five students sat on the plaid in circle. Arashi perceived a bond between
Sorata and Midori -for the first time his attentions had gathered together on a
girl that wasn't her- a bond of which they didn't know: the Dragon of Heaven was
amazed by a certain... jealousy -Arashi didn't know if this was the right
word-toward that girl, surely nice but not as beautiful as her! Suddenly they
heard a voice from above their heads:
" Yo-ho! Bonjour Boule de graisse: I notice that you have opened our frugal
table to the fresh ones!"
" Hiroyuki Houojii! How many times must I tell you to don't call me in that
way?! Couldn't you call me Midori as everybody do?!"
With an athletic gesture, the boy jumped from the tree in a rain of cherry's
petals. Hiroyuki threw the his cousin's cheeks and laughed:
" Awe... your face widen when I throw your cheeks! But you are a bad cousin: you
know that must introduce me/ all/ yours new friends!"
Hiroyuki scolded winking happily. Midori rubbed her cheeks and, with the same
tone of her cousin, she told beating the eyelids:
" Excuse-moi, Mon petit prince! She's Yuzuriha, my new classmate, and these are
her friends: Arashi, Kamui and Sorata. We were waiting you to begin the picnic."
Hiroyuki nodded with a light smile and kissed Arashi's hand. Arashi felt pierced
by the math teacher's intense glance and the skin that had been grazed from his
lips was like in flames, exactly as her cheeks: the young woman sensed something
of strange in the boy, as if he belongs to an other world. Sorata sensed a grasp
in the stomach when he saw /his/ Arashi's face, a grasp of jealousy. Kamui
appraised the young teacher: Hiroyuki had an aura almost imperceptible- perhaps
even he unaware of it - and he didn't understand from where it originates. Also
Hiroyuki studied Kamui for a long time, he unconsciously set his hands on
Midori's shoulders in a protective way. Yuzuriha and Midori chatted not caring
of what was happening around them.
A gust of wind. The cherry's petals whirled around Hiroyuki.
" They have begun. "
The teacher told to himself.

Satsuki took place on the chair; hundreds electric threads covered the room's
floor to branch out in each direction. Ten people formed the equipe: she, Miss
Houojii, five technicians, a nurse, a reviver and a neurologist.
' Why in the team there are also two doctors? ' The Angel wondered. ' I don't
understands for which reason there's a neurologist and a reviver.'
" Yatoji, when you are ready give us the ok!"
One of the technicians communicated; Satsuki nodded. She systematized the
bonnets, while two technical positioned the electrodes. Fuu took the microphone
and said:
" The first times give some problems: if at end day you will have headache,
nausea and some hallucinations, know that it is ordinary until you won't
accustom you. Don't worry, I'll monitor the situation and if any anomaly will be
verified I'll interfere. Yatoji, do you have a wish that you want to realize at
all costs?"
Satsuki froze: nobody had asked her this question, and however her bigger desire
was win the final battle. She nodded. Fuu smiled and started again:
" Then free your mind from each other thought, concentrated only on your desire.
This test helps only to quantify your ability: once established your f level
we'll know if you will contribute or less to my search."
" Could I know why there are also a neurologist and a reviver? The doctors
bother me!"
" Their presence is necessary: the others has needed their intervention and
that's why the administration's counsel wants that they are part of the team. If
want to throw you back."
" No, I am ready: you could begin."
" How you wish. Remember these words: you think only to your wish, you
concentrate all your energies on what you want, must want it with all your
strengths. Do you understand? All right! You set out on the f processor, you
check the postsynaptic connections and the frequencies a and q: gentlemen, we
start!"
Satsuki did what Fuu had ordered her. She concentrated on the battle; she wished
that the foreordained day came as soon as possible. The image of her friends
crossed her mind: Fuuma, who hummed 'It's the end of the world' by R.E.M.;
Kanoe, who intruded in her sister's dreams; Nataku and Kakyou, who played
hide-and-seek, Seishiro, who chain-smoked; Kusanagi, who wrote a letter on
recycled paper and Yuto, who smiled her slyly.
Fuu examined the state of Satsuki's electroencephalogram in q frequency on the
monitor: it was little higher than the norm but it had some abrupt negative
variations, surely not a good sign. Then she noticed a sudden feathered that
drew near to levels that only she, Hikaru and Umi had reached.
" Satsuki, don't distract you: concentrated on what you are thinking right now!"
But she right then was thinking about her beloved Yuto! What would have happened
if Beast have discovered that /its/ Satsuki fall in love with that employee? The
doubt caused her a lacerating pain, as if somebody has slipped her a red-hot
blade in the brain.
" Don't have doubts! Computo doesn't accept doubts, only certainties!"
The pain diffused in her whole body and Satsuki wasn't able to think other: what
would have happened if Beast has known about her and Yuto?
Fuu immediately connected to the machine and left that her latent magic succors
her new helper: she remembered the first years lived in France with Hiroyuki,
the day in which her small prince had born and the first time that she
breast-fed him, the emotion that had filled her heart when she had known to be
pregnant, the night in which she had conceived him. Then the memories of
Sephiro, of her greatest friends, of Ferio. Satsuki sensed a strange feeling in
her heart, a feeling that was moving away the pain: glimpses of Fuu's memories
crossed her mind, but more than images they were feelings. Then the total dark.

The Dragon of Earth waked up stretched on a bed: she was in an unknown room
enveloped in a soft light. Her sight was blurred and she felt something of damp
on her forehead.
"Finally you have waked up."
The first thing that she saw was a very sweet smile and a delicate hand that
damped her forehead. Fuu smiled again while she dipped the napkin in a bowl,
there was in the room a constant beep. Satsuki sat and placed a hand on the
forehead: she was fine, excluding a terrible headache, and she felt a prickle in
her left arm. The neurologist checked the electroencephalogram's course and
wrote down something. The nurse checked the woman's temperature.
" Her conditions are normal, but it is better that she rest for a couple day."
The doctor said leaving.
" What is happened? I feel like if somebody have whirled my brain."
" You have not concentrated enough. I must do you my compliments: your q level
is equal to 2,375 units, almost two times and half of an ordinary person! If you
think about be able to bear the inconveniences of the sessions, could begin as
soon as the headache and the hallucinations will have disappeared."
The Angel was stricken by the woman's kindness: nobody -maybe except Beast- had
worried for her health. Miss Houojii was not a common woman. Satsuki sensed a
similar strength to the one of a Dragon of Heaven, a certain Aoki, but in her it
was different and she was not able to understand the difference: it was a very
powerful strength, as Fuuma or Kamui's one, perhaps even more. Beyond this Miss
Houojii seemed an ordinary devoted woman to her family and her work, but she
also was very sad: her smile was very sweet and her voice was like a breath of
wind; but there was something in her eyes which communicated an inexpressible
melancholy, a her past's traumatic event that continued to influence her life.
" I could even begin now: I need this job and I could not leave it before
begin."
Fuu sigh and shake the head.
" For today it's better that you go back home and rested; it is better not
overload the nervous system: because the peculiarity of the projects, the
majority of the subjects have reported some damages more or less serious. Do you
have read the documentation that we have sent you, didn't you?"
She asked when Satsuki looked at her puzzled.
" No, this job was been suggested by a friend of mine whom works for the
government. But it doesn't care, more serious things exist in this world."
' A world that is about to end ' Satsuki completed smiling.
Fuu went in an other room and little after she returned with an envelope.
" However I want you to know the risks to which you could run in: you are a
valid subject, Yatoji, I know which was your role in the Beast project and I
know that whoever wants to have you as member of his staff. Are you able to go
back home alone? If want you, I could take you."
Satsuki shook her head: returned in the palace of the government's vault she
would have made a joke to Kanoe -she would have altered the budgets of her
/second job/ for some day.
While she got out of the Clamp Campus, Satsuki saw the seven Dragons of Heaven
sat to a table of the cafeteria.

Fuu went in garden to feed the birds that lived in wood nearby her cottage: they
had told her that a girl had been buried there the preceding week, one day or
the other would she have gone to carry her some flowers. Suddenly she sensed
something. The wind carried her a familiar presence, as if an electric discharge
has gone through her the body, but she didn't remember where and when she has
felt it the first time. It lasted only one instant.
The wind announced her an arrival: already she could hear Hiroyuki and Midori
teasing each other. Fuu smiled at herself: Hiroyuki was his father's replica and
each time that she laid the eyes on him, she felt something in her heart that
overwhelmed her. She looked at the Tokyo Tower in distance; she kissed her
fingertips and told a small prayer.
' Wind, I ask you a small favor: give him this kiss and tell him that I still
love him.'
She dried her tears -she had promised to don't cry- and before greet her guys
with a dazzling smile, she sighed:
" Ferio..."

Satsuki had a reason in more to accept the job in the Clamp Campus: check their
enemies. Moreover she liked that job: Fuu was the second human being that was
not boring and her son was very attached at his mother. One day she had asked
her about the father of Hiroyuki, Fuu had shaken her head and had replied:
" It's a long story, if I tell you, you would not believe me. My family sustains
that was him to leave me, but I went away from there: he not even knows about
Hiroyuki's existence, then I didn't know it too."
From that day she hadn't asked her other about this.
The job was hard, harder than the one with Beast: Computo wasn't an everyday
electronic system; it seemed to ignore her and pay attention only at Miss
Houojii's orders. Besides she didn't understand its function. The time went by
and it seemed as if there has not resulted.
One day, during a session, something happened. As always, Satsuki was at her
place and didn't relieve any newness, the technicians checked the Con-Stream and
the q frequencies' generator, the doctors were ready to intervene and Fuu
monitored drinking a cup of tea. Suddenly all the detectors went haywire.
" Yatoji! What's happening?! Is there some problem?"
" No, here it is all regular! I don't understand this sudden behavior of a and q
frequencies, besides f level is increasing in an exponential way!"
A noise like of crocks in splinters. Fuu was still sat on her chair, but
something was strange: she had the eyes fixed in the void and she seemed
petrified. The doctors reached her and began to check her conditions.
" The pulse is weak and frequent, the pupils are dilated and don't respond at
the stimuli. I don't understand: even the reflexes have disappeared!"
" It isn't possible: suck a thing had not ever happened and Miss Houojii has
always reacted well at the sessions! She was the only who haven't brought brain
damages!"
" The q level's counter has gone haywire, I fear that it will break!"
"Houojii!"
Satsuki screamed panicking and instinctively tried to unconnected she and reach
her.
< Stop, don't do it now! >
An unknown voice spoke in the Angel's mind. The Dragon of the Earth ground her
teeth of anger.
' Who you are?! Why you don't want me to reach her?!'
< If you do it now, you will frustrate all /her/ attempts. Calm down and keep on
your job. >
' Who the fuck are you?!'
< Tsk! Do you have used me for weeks and only now you have noticed that I have
my own conscience? I am Computo, a system able to realize or almost the people's
wishes using their will power. Or better: I have been created to realize /her/
wish. Surprised, missy? >
' But... how? Don't I understand?!'
< Ah! Fuu's wish is one of smallest that could be had: keep a promise. Your wish
is big, but it is a black wish, a wish that I can't fulfill: but I could use
your strength to realize /her/ wish, even if /her/ will power is bigger than
yours. >
' Eh? What? Do you want tell me that Fuu has only exploited me?! I would not
have imagined that a woman so kind could do a thing so horrible!'
< She doesn't know it. As I have told you already, I am an entity a conscience,
able to make choices: all those who has preceded you had materials wishes,
whoever wanted the wealth, who the success and who the power, while you want the
end of the world and at the same time the man that loves. >
' But you how...'
< I have decided to grant your second wish because it is similar at /hers/, but
only after I will have granted /hers/ wish. /She/ has suffered much and she has
created me, that's why /her/ will has the priority on all. Don't worry about
your Yuto: that animal of Beast could not gain access to my data. >

** Magic Knight...**
Fuu opened the eyes: a wind cold whirled around her and everything was dark.
** Magic Knight from a distant world... **
Fuu saw a green shine in distance and when her eyes got used at the obscurity,
she understood to be in a cavern.
" Where am I?"
The echo of her voice slipped echoing thousands and thousands times on the
walls.
** Magic Knight from a distant world, the time is near...**
" Windam!"
Fuu began to run toward the shine. She found herself in Sephiro's Temple of
Sky’s main hall and the Mashin of Wind, in his form of bird, towered in front of
her.
" Windam! Why am I here? How is he?!"
** Magic Knight from a distant world, the time is near: soon your world will
come destroyed. **
" What?!"
** You and your friends must not fear: there is who will fight to save it. But
know that in those days Sephiro will appear in the Earth's sky: its people will
reach your world and your people will reach ours. Then, and only then, your wish
will come true. **
" Windam, I beg you, I want to see him before I leave! Don't send me away!"
** Even if I take to the castle, the king could not see you: only your soul has
come here, your body is still in the world named Earth. **
" I want to see him equally. There is... there is a thing that he must know."
** You want tell him about the young prince, won't you? Know that he won't hear
your voice. **
Fuu froze: she could see him and could speak him, but he would not ever have
answered. After have thought about along, Fuu told firm:
" I want to tell it to him equally."
Fuu found herself in the palace. Windam had carried her in a study: the desk was
covered with papers and a man observed the landscape from the window. Fuu didn't
have doubts: it was Ferio.
' Ferio! '
" Fuu..."
Fuu smiled: Ferio had heard her and perhaps he could see her too! She drew near
him and laid a hand on his shoulder.
' Ferio, I am behind you!'
" Fuu... why don't you come back? How much I will wait before being able to you
see again? You had promised me that you would have returned to me, but perhaps
after all these years you have forgotten me."
' What are you blathering? I am here, near you!'
Fuu moved before him; Ferio continued to look at the window, his red eyes of
weeping. Fuu froze when she understood that her Mashin had told her the truth.
She forced herself and leaned a hand on his cheek and kissed him gently.
' Ferio, I have not stopped to love you and I am doing the possible to keep the
promise that I have done you. But the more important thing is that you are my
son's father, and I would wish that you two meet at least once in your life.'
Said these words, she faded away.
Ferio started: an unexpected shiver on his cheek, the same of Fuu's caresses; a
feeling on his lips, as the one of Fuu's cold and damps lips; a sound in his
ears, as his Fuu's sweet voice. What did that voice say? That she love him
still? Also he loved her! Did it say that she was doing the possible to go back
to him? Fuu was a Magic Knight and the Magic Knights keep their word. And what
else it has said? He had not understood well but it concerned him meet somebody.
He turned and searched her with the glance, but in his study there was nobody
beyond him; he opened the door of dart and he scrutinized the hallway.
" What is happening Your Highness?"
A maid asked seeing her upset king. Ferio grabbed her by her shoulders and
yelled shaking her:
" Where is she? Where is she?!"
" W-who?"
The woman asks frightened: was the king going mad?
" Fuu Houojii! The Magic Knight of Wind! Tell me where she is!"
The maid wide-opened her eyes and didn't know what to do; besides there was not
anybody that could help her. She collected the little courage that she had and
said:
" My Lord, they are past four legh and three yumh since the last time the Magic
Knights have come to Sephiro. (1 legh= 5 yumh, 1 yumh= 1 terrestrial year, that
are twenty-three years. Ndr.)"
Ferio let the woman and went back in his study: it had been a joke of his
imagination? Perhaps the Prime Minister was right saying that the king was going
mad, and besides there was not direct heirs to the throne. Ferio shook his head
to chase that thought: since /that/ night, he had not touched a woman and didn't
have intention to begin then only for Sephiro's problems, he wanted to share
those emotions only with that girl from a distant world that with a smile had
stolen his heart.

Fuu blinked twice: everybody was around her, Hiroyuki and Midori looked at her
worried.
" Maman, you how feel? Are you better?"
" Fuu Aunt, what is happened? You were so pale to seem a ghost."
" Miss Houojii, do you feel strange? Or one of the discomforts caused by
Computo's use?"
Fuu fixed her son: for inasmuch she tries, she was not able to melt the upcoming
tears inside her. She had seen Ferio, but it had been horrible. The woman
abandoned herself into Hiroyuki's embrace and busted into tears as she repeated
with a thin voice, so thin:
" I have seen him! I have seen him and he was suffering because of me!"
Fuu cried for a long time in the arms of the fruit of a love that perhaps had
destined to be impossible; Hiroyuki did the possible to calm down her and in
late night, she fell asleep.
The equipe's doctors and Satsuki were the last to leave.
" We don't know what have provoked this crisis, Hiroyuki, you should hear a
psychologist: does she never have spoken you about any event that could have
traumatized her?"
" Apart when \that man\ have left her? No, I think that that has been the
plainer experience she has lived."
Satsuki was amazed by that phrase.
" What? But your mother always says that she has been to leave him..."
" Maman is a stupid!" Hiroyuki howled giving a punch to the wall. " If she tells
so, it's because after all these years she still loves him! How could a man be
loved that let you alone at sixteen years with a child to rise?! I would prefer
that he had died and not around who knows where, even to enjoy with a whore! I
swear that if I meet him, I'll punch him as hard as possible! He owes only risk
to approach maman, that bastard!"
Satsuki didn't know what to do, and then with her big surprise, she hugged the
young man.
" You love vary much your mother: I have ever not met a person that loves so
much somebody."
Hiroyuki embraced the girl searching comfort.
" She don't have other than me, do you understand it? I don't want to see her
suffer each holy day in this way: even if she smiles and she is happy, I know
that inside of her she unwinds a colossal battle to not burst in tears as today.
Often in night I wake up and hears her crying in the sleep. I feel so powerless:
I would do anything to take away from her head \that man\."
Satsuki ruffled boy's hair as often Fuu did and smiled:
" Be close her and don't tell these things in front of her: it would only worsen
her situation."
After have given the good night, the Angel went back in her apartment. She
smiled in the night when a known noise came to her ears.
" You must not be jealous of them, Beast: even if they are human beings, they
aren't boring as I thought. And no, Hiroyuki for me is like a kind of... a
little brother? Mmmh... sort of."

" Does your aunt feeling better?"
Arashi asked seeing Midori a little bit worried. The girl supported the
chopsticks on her bento and sighed.
" More or less: but if she doesn't speak with a psychologist I think that she
hardly will overcome this crisis. She says only that she has seen him and that
the time is near and has a look..."
Midori burst in tears thinking in which conditions her aunt was. Sorata drew
near and embraced her trying to comfort her. Yuzuriha thought about along, and
after have changed a glance with Kamui, she suggested:
" If you want, we'll come to visit her: you have told us that she wants to meet
us and perhaps Sorata's farces will make her feel better! Even if Kamui's grim
face is not the best for visit a patient."
" I'm not grim!"
" I Am don't do farces!"
Kamui and Sorata told to the unison. Arashi looked at Mount Koya's priest and
said:
" Really don't you do farces? Then Subaru tried to steal /my/ underwear the
other day. And surely Mr. Aoki sent the installation of the Clamp Campus in
short circuit to have a chance to slip in \my\ bathroom while I was showering."
Sorata appealed to apologize without any result. Midori dried her tears with the
sleeve of her uniform and said:
" Thank you, you are dear friends!"

After the lessons, the four Seals and the girl went to the cottage where Miss
Houojii lived with her family -fortunately that day Satsuki had not gone to job.
Hiroyuki greeted them cordially, but without his usual naughty smile.
" Maman is in garden, there are too aunt Hikaru and aunt Umi with her: it seems
as if having people around her helps."
The three ex Magic Knights were again together after... how much time? Umi had
moved two years ago in the United States for job; Hikaru was busy twenty-four
hours per day with her daughter Nadeshiko, a lively ten month old girl: the two
friends tried to throw on of moral Fuu.
"... so in this period he is coaching the fencing Olympic team!"
" Kakeru instead is a very bad teacher of kendo. Nadeshiko let that stone, it is
not good to eat! You think that he make a complete fool of himself with the new
arrivals: Tetsuya instead competes in earnestness with Satoru."
" I still wonder how you could have married a man that you doesn't love,
Hikaru."
Hikaru sighed:
" For don't leave my family in trouble? Even if I don't love him as I have loved
and I love Lantis, I am affectionate to Tetsuya. You, instead, don't think
anything else other than job: I am afraid that you could get sick!"
Fuu smiled weakly: Hikaru had not changed. She was about to tell their what
Windam had announced her, when Hiroyuki came in garden with with some lemonade.
" Maman, Boule de graisse's friends have come to visit us. You come, nobody will
eat you."
" And you don't call me Boule de graisse! Hiroyuki no baka!!"
They laughed at the half quarrel. The Dragons of Sky greeted the three ex Magic
Knights, each sensing a strength in the other not common. Midori drew near her
aunt, and with a big smile on the lips; she began to do the introductions:
" Aunt Fuu, these are my new friends: Yuzu..."
" Holy Gods! Sorata, is it really you?"
Fuu exclaimed running toward the young priest, who looked her puzzled. The woman
set a hand on his face and scrutinized in his eyes with a piercing look. The
silence had interrupted by the noise of the wind, which shook the trees'
branches.
" There is no doubt, you are the little Sorata: I recognize your strength; even
if it has been refined, it is always the same. It is unbelievable the fact that
we have found just now that..."
" Miss Houojii, you are wrong: you are confusing me with an other person. I have
not met you ever before today: I have seen your photo on some newspaper but
before today I didn't have sight you."
Sorata said concerning Fuu's leaf green eyes. Fuu laughed slightly and, getting
closer his ear, she whispered:
" You have a butterfly-shaped birthmark on the right buttock: I and my sister
wondered why it has that shape each time that we changed you the diapers!"
Sorata became red like if he has eaten a hot pepper's ton: it was a thing that
nobody knew, neither Arashi! Midori observed the scene and listened what her
aunt had say: the brother that she had not ever known and that she think was
dead, was it Sorata?! In fact they had the same last name, his brother must have
the same age of Yuzuriha's friend and since when they were been known, she and
Sorata had been fond of. Perhaps...
Also Hikaru and Umi observed the Seal: they had known Fuu's lost nephew, and
Kuu's son had a strength that remembered Lantis' one, the same strength that
that boy possessed. Nadeshiko took some advantage to evade her mother's control
to chase a butterfly. Umi combed her curled up hair and told:
" The only thing that I'm sorry of, it is that there aren't Kuu and Fujitaka.
However one of these days your sister could take you to their grave. I can't
believe it: you were an adorable brat and now... now you are a beautiful young
guy that makes beat cute girls' heart!"
" I remember his second birthday: that day it rained, but Sora-chan and
Hiro-chan went however to play in the garden! Kuu flew into a rage when you
dirtied her new carpet! Nadeshiko! Don't pull Hikari's tail. And above all no
eat it!"
"Ahem... aunts, couldn't you leave out the embarrassing moments of my infancy?"
then turned to Sorata " I have sensed a link between you and Boule de graisse
since the beginning: but I wouldn't ever have imagined that you have a bond of
blood with us. Welcome back home Sora-chan."
Hiroyuki embraced his cousin; soon Midori reached them for a group embrace.
Yuzuriha jumped of joy; Kamui smiled, a bit envious for what had happened to his
friend, after Kotori's death and Fuuma's amnesia, he was alone; Arashi dried a
tear without become to notice.
That evening they dined all together; then they watched the family's photos and
old tapes made during parties and holidays and it was missing few to make
special the evening: Fuu had undergone communicated the news to her mother, who
had thrown herself to celebrate the occasion; Midori didn't stand out from her
brother and Sorata was happy to have found again his family few time before the
battle: he now had a reason in more to fight and win. After much time the
Houojiis were happy, only Fuu was not it completely.
' If only Ferio is here...'

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So the first part of "A little wish" ends, story in which finds set my 'clampic'
favorites couples: Fuu & Ferio and Sorata & Arashi.
If you have noticed, Arisugawa is the last name of the photographer for which
Kuu works in " My daughter etc...", That's because I'm inclined to use the same
characters in different stories: in fact, for the joy of all Betsy's fans
-admitting that they exist, soon she willl even appear even if in this part there
is only a small hint.
Meditating on the temporal discordances, I have realized that Fuu and Sorata
-and I care to create a bond of blood beetween them- could be cousins: in the
1999 she should be in her twenties, while if I don't err Sorata has 18/ 19
years.
I exhort you: whether you read the Italian version or the English translation,
write me: I accept each criticism except the threats of death! My address is:
patchan83@hotmail.com!

Pat-chan.