[Red Set] [xxxHolic] love knows no reason
Title: love knows no reason
Author: Dark Hooded Eriol the Magician
Fandom: xxxHolic
Claim: Clow Reed/Yuuko Ichihara
Prompt Set: Red
Prompt: 1. Fool For Love
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine! CLAMP owns everyone. Written unofficially for 7rainbowprompts
It was his wish that shattered the world.
Clow Reed was the strongest and wisest magician in the entire world. He was the most powerful, most amazing and most inventive of all the practitioners. A gifted sorcerer like him came only once in a few centuries. Aside from being naturally gifted, he was also blessed with honed skills and thirst for knowledge. He was a rarity, even in the magical world.
Everyone watched the child of the East and the West growing in strength and power. Great things were expected from him. At the time of the creation of the Clow Cards, it seemed that his mission was accomplised. He had combined Eastern and Western magic into creating magical creatures that would live even after he had passed on. His lasting legacy was complete.
His wish was not to live forever through his creations. What he wanted most in the entire world was to cure his beloved from her terminal illness. In spite of having all the magic in the world, he was helpless in the face of such a ruthless and degenerative disease. Medicine wasn’t that far advanced yet. So he could not do anything but watch.
The world believed that Clow created his Clow Cards to demonstrate his abilities.
But Yuuko Ichihara knew better.
How could she forget his excited expression when he visited her home on that winter afternoon? She had been his co-conspirator and collaborator. The world can believe what it wanted to believe. She could let him have all of the glory.
He had designed those Cards to amuse her while she stayed in bed all day. He brought them to life to keep her company. She had drawn their faces and imagined their abilities. That was why some of them were useful and some of them were just silly. When they made the cards, they infused them with life energy. It wasn’t surprising that they contained facets of them.
“They’ll be ours,” he said wistfully. “Yours and mine.”
She kept her head bowed and didn’t meet his eyes. His hands reached for hers and squeezed it.
They were bethroed to each other since they were born. It was expected for them to get married as soon as they reached their majority. They’ve been in love with no one but each other. So it pained them that her illness cut her life short and prevented her from bearing his children.
Yuuko knew that they were both fools for playing that game but they didn’t regret it. She was glad to make him happy with their charade, even for just a short while. If he chose to believe that she will get better then she would allow him. They were both deceiving themselves. After all, he also wanted to hope and to believe that she will be well again by the time their little project was finished. Hoping against hope, he involved her. And she let him because it was inevitable.
Wise men cannot help if it they also fell in love. And they weren’t very wise when they did. She understood his irrationality and his unreasonable belief that she will get better. Clow Reed loved no one but her. His love was as vast as the universe and it knew no bounds. Such a strong and immeasurable love was noble but not necessary. After all, where was wisdom in the passionate throes of love?
Yuuko proved it right.
At the precise moment that she died, he wished.
“I want her to open her eyes one more time.”
It was his wish that shattered the universe and tore time.
Yuuko Ichihara who was dead for a moment was brought back to life. Her brown eyes had become a deep scarlet red and her body paled. She was freed from the frailty of her body but she was also lifeless. Clow, in his grief and horror, recoiled. She had stared at him without moving because her spirit hadn’t come back. To free her from the limbo of heaven and hell, Fei Wong Reed sought to grant Clow’s wish at a very exorbitant price.
Her existence was an anomaly. She was neither dead nor alive. To justify her existence and to repair the damage that was done to the future, she had to run the shop that grants wishes. She had to survive the countless centuries alone, surrounded by death and misery. She had to endure everything until the day that she could truly die and be reunited with the one she loved.
Clow Reed, hailed as the wisest sorcerer to ever live, was also the biggest fool.
Author: Dark Hooded Eriol the Magician
Fandom: xxxHolic
Claim: Clow Reed/Yuuko Ichihara
Prompt Set: Red
Prompt: 1. Fool For Love
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine! CLAMP owns everyone. Written unofficially for 7rainbowprompts
It was his wish that shattered the world.
Clow Reed was the strongest and wisest magician in the entire world. He was the most powerful, most amazing and most inventive of all the practitioners. A gifted sorcerer like him came only once in a few centuries. Aside from being naturally gifted, he was also blessed with honed skills and thirst for knowledge. He was a rarity, even in the magical world.
Everyone watched the child of the East and the West growing in strength and power. Great things were expected from him. At the time of the creation of the Clow Cards, it seemed that his mission was accomplised. He had combined Eastern and Western magic into creating magical creatures that would live even after he had passed on. His lasting legacy was complete.
His wish was not to live forever through his creations. What he wanted most in the entire world was to cure his beloved from her terminal illness. In spite of having all the magic in the world, he was helpless in the face of such a ruthless and degenerative disease. Medicine wasn’t that far advanced yet. So he could not do anything but watch.
The world believed that Clow created his Clow Cards to demonstrate his abilities.
But Yuuko Ichihara knew better.
How could she forget his excited expression when he visited her home on that winter afternoon? She had been his co-conspirator and collaborator. The world can believe what it wanted to believe. She could let him have all of the glory.
He had designed those Cards to amuse her while she stayed in bed all day. He brought them to life to keep her company. She had drawn their faces and imagined their abilities. That was why some of them were useful and some of them were just silly. When they made the cards, they infused them with life energy. It wasn’t surprising that they contained facets of them.
“They’ll be ours,” he said wistfully. “Yours and mine.”
She kept her head bowed and didn’t meet his eyes. His hands reached for hers and squeezed it.
They were bethroed to each other since they were born. It was expected for them to get married as soon as they reached their majority. They’ve been in love with no one but each other. So it pained them that her illness cut her life short and prevented her from bearing his children.
Yuuko knew that they were both fools for playing that game but they didn’t regret it. She was glad to make him happy with their charade, even for just a short while. If he chose to believe that she will get better then she would allow him. They were both deceiving themselves. After all, he also wanted to hope and to believe that she will be well again by the time their little project was finished. Hoping against hope, he involved her. And she let him because it was inevitable.
Wise men cannot help if it they also fell in love. And they weren’t very wise when they did. She understood his irrationality and his unreasonable belief that she will get better. Clow Reed loved no one but her. His love was as vast as the universe and it knew no bounds. Such a strong and immeasurable love was noble but not necessary. After all, where was wisdom in the passionate throes of love?
Yuuko proved it right.
At the precise moment that she died, he wished.
“I want her to open her eyes one more time.”
It was his wish that shattered the universe and tore time.
Yuuko Ichihara who was dead for a moment was brought back to life. Her brown eyes had become a deep scarlet red and her body paled. She was freed from the frailty of her body but she was also lifeless. Clow, in his grief and horror, recoiled. She had stared at him without moving because her spirit hadn’t come back. To free her from the limbo of heaven and hell, Fei Wong Reed sought to grant Clow’s wish at a very exorbitant price.
Her existence was an anomaly. She was neither dead nor alive. To justify her existence and to repair the damage that was done to the future, she had to run the shop that grants wishes. She had to survive the countless centuries alone, surrounded by death and misery. She had to endure everything until the day that she could truly die and be reunited with the one she loved.
Clow Reed, hailed as the wisest sorcerer to ever live, was also the biggest fool.