http://clampfix.fanworks.net/ccd-fix/doodle.txt </head><body><pre>I did not know the mailing lists rules about crossovers not related to CLAMP, but as I wrote this it became much more about the detectives than about Watari, so I am hoping it is acceptable. Please write with comments and criticism. h_miai@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Doodle Pad by miai ---------------------------------------------------------------- All the characters in this fan fiction belong to CLAMP and Matsushita Youko. I do not recieve any payment for this writing, and did not ask their permission to use the characters. ----------------------------------------------------------------- It was late in the evening. Homework was completed, practice was long since over, and loafing had not yet begun. The three leaders of the elementary division student council sat at their desks in their main office. Akira Ijyuin, though he had a computer upon his desk, looked a the papers in his hands and spread over his desk and keyboard with what on another's face would have been discomfort, but the kindly boy's countenance revealed what his friends knew to be intense concentration on a problem that would have made grown men cry. He loosed a gust of air through pursed lips that sent a paper flying towards the floor. He put his abacus down to get the paper only to see it handed to him by elegant tan fingers. "Thank you." He picked up his abacus and realized with a start that the paper had never touched the floor. "Takamura- senpai has excellent reflexes." Suoh returned to his desk with a stoicism that would have been satisfactory to Seneca and resumed scanning the electronic archives. At a knock on the door it was Nokoru Imonoyama who answered, his voice made loud by the rooms silence, "Please come in." The door opened slowly as a very tall man bent to reach the knob. "Ah, I was looking for the CLAMP Campus Detectives." Nokoru looked confused for a moment, but soon regained himself, "We are the detectives." "Oh, good!" The man's voice rose an octave on "good." Suoh stood to flank his kaichou as the older boy came around his desk to speak with their visitor. Akira began to tidy his desk. "I was looking to commission the great detectives. You see I lost something on campus, and I heard you were the ones to call for help." Most of the man's waist length blond hair escaped his hair ribbon and was falling over his shoulders. "I hope that we can help you," Nokoru said steadily. "Kaichou," Suoh's golden eyes were worried. "Oh, is it alright?" He looked at the blue haired boy doubtfully. Suoh coughed slightly and stepped forward, bowing, "I am not accustomed to taking requests for detective work from men. I did not mean any affront." The man considered this. His eyes moved over to Akira's wide gray eyes as the boy took his place to Nokoru's right. The doe brown eyes looked at the specially made low desks and squat couch. As they moved back to the boys, they were filled with tears. "I did not mean to intrude. I will return when I am a woman." Nokoru moved forward quickly, "No, please do sit down." He reached up and took the man's hand, leading him to the yellow sofa. He held out a handkerchief from his breast pocket and gestured to Akira for a glass of water. "We would be glad to take your case." The tall man removed his glasses, and wiped his almond eyes. "Oh, thank you. I thought that since I wasn't a woman, yet, that...Thank you!" He smiled in spite of his tears. All three boys stopped. Suoh stared openly at the long legged visitor. Akira looked confused but handed the man his water. "Kaichou," Suoh moved leaned near his friend's blond mop, "We don't know what the case is yet." Nokoru appeared not to have heard. He sat next to his slim guest and patted the hand that laid on the couch. "We will find it for you, I promise." The caller collected himself and put his small round glasses squarely on his nose. "My name is Watari Yutaka." He sniffled. "I lost 003 in a notepad while I was visiting the chemistry labs." Suoh had a notepad and pen in hand, "When did you last see it?" "Yesterday, at lunch. I was sitting under a tree drawing your school mascot. The one on the little island in the middle of a lake?" He spoke with inflection that made the statement a question. Three heads of unruly hair nodded. "I thought there was something odd about it, I just had to keep a picture of it." His accent was a course southern that had it's own appeal. Nokoru looked at him intently, but nodded for him to go on. "003 is always with me, but I stretched and looked at the clock tower because I thought lunch was ending, and when I turned, it was gone. "I had assumed it would be along a bit later...but now it's been so long." The delicate chin quivered. "I never realized how much I need him." "Him?" The dark haired boy asked. "Yes. I think it's a him..." Watari looked confused for a moment, "I never really checked." Nokoru spoke quickly as he saw the eyes shimmering like polished wood in the light. "We will find him." He was resolute. "Oh, thank you." "What does he look like?" Suoh's navy blue head moved up as he spoke. "He fits in the palm of my hand...oh, 003 is an owl." The three boys sweat dropped. "I think there are a lot of owls on campus" the raven-haired boy spoke slowly, so he would not upset their guest again. "Maybe he is visiting one of the others." Blond eyebrows moved down and the stranger's eyes were intense, "He wouldn't do that. He loves me." "Of course," Nokoru soothed. "We will start working on your case right away." He stood up, indicating the others should do likewise. When Watari was on his feet the tallest of the boys did not reach his belt. "Thank you, so very much." His smile grew wistful, "I thought for a moment that I wouldn't be able to ask for your help until I was a woman." The young people smiled strangely at him, but Watari did not notice, he was accustomed to having no one really understand. "Please leave Suoh your contact information so we can tell you when we discover something." "Oh no, I am on vacation from work, he smiled radiantly, "I have been given permission to work with the chemistry and bio-chem departments at CLAMP University on my personal project." Nokoru looked very interested suddenly, "Oh, I didn't realize you were a scientist." Watari struck a dramatic pose, his feet wide apart and index finger raised, "I will discover the sex-change potion!" Suoh raised his eyebrows but did not speak. Akira's eyes were wide and his mouth dropped, and Nokoru wished the eccentric man luck as he ushered him out of the room. The blond head turned to his friends after the door closed. His arms were crossed over his chest and his fan was out. "Suoh, didn't the chemistry department start reporting explosions yesterday?" "It could be a coincidence." Nokoru nodded and moved to his computer. There he pulled up a map of the campus. He zeroed in on a the lake with a statue of the school mascot on an island. "To see the clock tower from a standing position, behind him, I assume," he moved the mouse, "he would have had to have been..." he double clicked. "Here." "There are a number of trees in that area." Suoh looked at the map over Nokoru's shoulder. "And we don't know if the owl will still be around," Akira looked doubtfully out the window. "Well, it won't hurt to take a look now, anyway" Nokoru walked to the coat closet, Suoh and Akira close behind him. ************* The detectives wandered through the trees, using their flash lights to search the tree. Suoh stepped near his leader, "Kaichou, I don't mean to press the issue, but it is unusual for a man to request our help." "Yes," Nokoru moved the beam from a beautiful specimen of aspen to the ground as he spoke to his friend, "but it does not mean that we shouldn't help him." "And besides, he's going to be a woman," Akira supplied helpfully. "Yes, Kaichou, about that," Suoh started. Nokoru laughed and turned off the his beam. "I didn't realize who he was until he said that. Watari Yutaka is famous for his eccentricity, but he is brilliant." "Ah," Suoh did not sound convinced that the blubbering man in the office had been brilliant in any field. "He's the chemist who is also a doctor from off campus! I heard the college ladies in class talking about him!" Akira gray eyes showed dark in the moonlight. "They said he was scrumptious! I wonder if I should ask him for some recipes?" Suoh and Nokoru were suddenly standing very close together. "My it is a nice night." Nokoru started. "It certainly is." Suoh looked directly at his older friend, liquid amber eyes avoiding his surroundings. "We should probably start searching again in the morning!" Nokoru seemed not to be trying to get out of work so much as to get away. "Yes, let's!" For once Suoh agreed entirely. The two older boys said goodnight and Suoh walked with Akira towards the school subway system. "Takamura-senpai." "Yes, Ijyuin," Suoh loved his friend dearly, but their were times he felt it would be better not to speak to the boy. "Is it possible that the owl went back to the lab," he asked, his alabaster skin shone in the moonlight, occasionally picking up a warm orange tint from a streetlight as they passed. "Some birds are trained to go to certain places." "I was thinking that it was like a dog," He stopped walking and turned back to Suoh who's head had lowered. "Dogs look for their people where they smell they had last been. Perhaps his owl went looking for him." "Perhaps." Suoh agreed, "We'll try the lab tomorrow morning." "Good night, Takamura-senpai," Akira walked down the subway steps. Suoh waved and continued walking up the path they had been on. Something that Watari had said was bothering him, but he didn't know what yet. ************* The CLAMP University chemistry lab was a bastion of efficiency under most circumstances. Today however, a newcomer to the school had drawn quite a crowd. Ladies, and a few gentlemen, in smart casual clothes and a few in high necked school uniforms stood in a circle around a blond man wearing a black shirt laced up the front, or would if he had tied it. His hair was tied with a large white bow, and his shirt laced up the front, or would if he had tied it. His round spectacles did not mar or hide his face in any way, but enhanced it by adding a reserved look to his expressive face. "Please stand back; this is a matter of trial and error," He said as he let liquid fall drop by drop into a large beaker he held. When the beaker exploded. His un-buttoned lab coat flew out behind him and his hair rose. The blond gentleman coughed, but did not look discouraged. He did, though look angry. He turned around and poked his finger a college ruled notebook on the table behind him. "Yutaka-san," at Nokoru's opening words the female population of the room turned around. There were a number of squeals and a few women put their hands to their cheeks. "We needed a bit more information to continue our search." Suoh pulled his notepad from his inner breast pocket and opened it walked towards the smoke-covered scientist. Several girls backed out of his way, but not out of range. He ignored them and spoke to Watari, "If you don't mind, could you please come back to the site where you misplaced your pet?" "Ah, yes. It is a good point to stop, isn't it?" Watari closed his notebook and gathered his sketchpad. He looked in the air around his head as though expecting to find something, then sighed and looked down. His gaze fell on bits of broken glass. "I'll come back to this..." *************** "Please show us where you last saw 003, Yutaka-san" Nokoru used his hand to indicate the area he had deduced Watari must have been sitting. "Please, call me Watari, or Watari-chan," Watari's lips moved into a smile. Nokoru smiled in return and was not disappointed to see the tall bishounen move to a spot quite near the tree he had supposed was the correct location. "I sat here, and drew the blow-fish...And then I stretched and turned to the clock," Watari demonstrated, his long arms moving into the air, then gracefully pushing out behind him as he turned towards the central tower of CLAMP Campus. "And when you turned again, where was the owl?" Suoh had his pencil poised over the pad. "Hmm, I don't know. I leaned down for my papers," He moved his impossibly long fingers towards the pads he had put on the ground. "Is there anything else you remember about the day? Birds flying in the area, or children playing?" Akira asked helpfully. "No, the only birds were in the blow-fish's mouth," Watari pointed to the nest across the water. "Thank you." Nokoru smiled brightly. Watari sighed and put his hand behind his head. "Do you believe in magic, Imonoyama-kun?" "Magic?" "Magic and the walking dead?" Akira looked particularly uncomfortable. "Ghosts are just stories to scare us." "Hmmm..." Watari waved, "Then, I think I will clean the chem lab before moving onto bio-chem this afternoon." "What an odd man," Suoh watched the bright hair change hues as the thin man walked under the trees. Nokoru didn't answer, but walked towards the place Watari had been standing. "I don't know about ghosts or magic, but I think that Watari may not have lost 003 after all." ********** "Takamura-senpai" Akira pulled on his friend's sleeve, a catch in his voice. "Yes." Akira didn't say anything, but Suoh saw that the younger boy was going to cry. Akira inclined his head towards the sofa where he had just served tea. Nokoru sat on the golden couch in the detectives office, sipping milk tea. He looked down at the white napkin on his crossed legs and compared the color to the cream on the table. "Kaichou," Suoh looked troubled. "There is something odd about Watari-san." "Yes." Nokoru did not move. He seemed to contemplate the pattern of milk and tea swirling in his cup. He did not stir it, but suddenly looked up. "Suoh," his voice was passionate. "there are some things in this world that science cannot explain." Suoh did not answer, but looked at the oceans of blue that were Nokoru's eyes. They were uncommonly narrowed in concentration. "I want to know why Watari-san thinks he can make a potion for a biological change." Nokoru's eyes sought Akira. "I know that such things are not possible, but this man's reputation is great. His name has been well known in the scientific community as long as I can remember." Suoh frowned, "He is a young man." "And I can think of no explanation for his youth. But Rijichou has allowed him to use our campus." ********** An elegant lady with black hair demurely hid her lower face behind a fan as she looked a the boy before her. His smiling azure eyes gave no hint of the mischief she knew could lie within. "Our school detectives are most serious, lately." "Yes, Rijichou." "Work goes well, I trust." She slid her letters onto the board before her. The boy added her points. "There is some concern about outsiders on campus." "Ah," She pulled six pieces of wood from the cloth bag that sat between them. "It is the scientist, Watari Yutaka-san, Rijichou." "A charming gentleman," She hid her smile and watched his face intently. "He speaks of magic and a lost owl." "Nokoru-san." His eyes looked into hers with expectation. "There is much more on this campus than science can determine." Her traditional robes were vermilion, and her hair stylized but her words were modern. "Yes, Rijichou." She waited. He was too clever to lead blatantly, but he had never before inquired into such things. He put down four square letter blocks, attaching them to her newest word. "Guard. An excellent word." "Thank you," his fair head bowed at the compliment, but his face remained neutral. "This campus is a protector." She stopped speaking for a moment as she arranged her letters. "Have you not noticed its shape." "It is a pentagram." "Very observant," she was pleased. "But have you noticed it's position here on the main island." Nokoru was silent, mentally looking through his maps of Tokyo. "CLAMP Campus is isolated, across the river from most of the larger structured in Tokyo." "Yes. This school is very special and cannot afford to be invaded." To Nokoru this was obvious. He had realized earlier this year that CLAMP Campus was his heart and life, where his friends were his pleasure and sanity. Rijichou folded her and placed it in her lap. "And at the center of the school..." "The smiling blowfish on the lake." The long neck bowed as she kept a smile from her lips. "Yutaka-san realized this, I think." She looked at her letters and set down "play" off Nokoru's last word. "He is very unique." Nokoru nodded to this. He had realized that immediately, though he could not tell why. "Have you looked at his sketches?" Rijichou asked interestedly. "No. His attention was distracted while he was looking for his owl." This was the second time in two days that the statue at the school's axis had been mentioned with such importance. "They are interesting." She brought her fan up as Nokoru placed the last of his letter on the board, "yacht." "I think our games become more exciting each time..." ************* Watari was wandering through the park, eyes on the ground when three petit boys approached him. "Ah, I thought I would help you." His Kyoto accent strong as he looked back up at the trees. "Thank you." Nokoru paused as he considered how to broach the subject. He turned to look at the golden mascot. It had a fun- loving aspect that did not portray the seriousness that Rijichou had given it. "Watari-san, may I see your drawing of the statue?" Watari's face brightened. "Oh, yes!" He loved showing his pictures. Long legs bent as he picked up his sketchpad. "It's in here somewhere..." As the pad fell open stick figures and suns a six year old would draw were revealed to the detectives. Suoh sweat dropped, suddenly remembering what had bothered him the other night. "Watari-san," his soothing voice caused the golden haired man to pause and look amber eyes into golden. "You said that you lost your owl "in" one of your drawings." "Yes," he went back to looking through his pad. "Tyadaaa!!" He smiled widely. When the student council leaders looked at the pictured presented their faces were confused. "It...is nice," Akira spoke first. "Thank you," the man seemed genuinely pleased at the praise. The picture was of a mostly round object with large multi-pointed ears on a square. The circle had uneven eyes and a round mouth. Around it were the words "Important Statue" and a smiling sun with rays drawn and a cartoon bubble, reading "Good afternoon!" in poorly made kanji. Nokoru recovered quickly, "Should we be looking, then, for one of your drawings?" "Yes, I think 003 is in it." Golden locks escaped his already loose braid on his shoulder as he looked down at the ground absorbedly. Suoh shrugged and headed towards the bushes, in the same direction the breeze had been blowing the last few days, as Akira approached the water with trepidation. The image would be lost if it had been wet too long. Nokoru walked next to Watari, consoling him as they searched. "Kaichou," Suoh came running with a dirty piece of paper. "Ah!! You found it!" Watari's slight fingers took the paper from Suoh's stronger hand. "Oh..." The man was distractedly attempting to rub dirt off the image. As the three boys gathered around, Watari turned the sheet to let them see his masterpiece. On it a round form with a beak and skinny three toed stick legs. Behind that form was what they could only assume was another depiction of the school mascot. With a flourish Watari produced a pen and made large, lopsided hearts around the bird picture. "There!" He put the pen into a pocket of his black jeans and put his fingers to the paper. The three boys watched with amazement as the slender fingers pushed through the paper without coming out the back. Nokoru stepped closer for a look and Suoh moved in front of him. Akira raised his hand to his mouth. When Watari's hand came back it was holding a dazed little owl. "003! OH, thank goodness!" Watari hugged the poor creature as it looked pleadingly at the detectives. "Suoh, how did you know?" Nokoru asked quietly. "I didn't. I thought he had lost his favorite drawing." "Well, thank goodness the owl is back!" Akira moved a hand behind his head as he tried to figure the situation out. Nokoru produced a fan and opened it across under his eyes. "It is our pleasure to help those in need." "Thank you again, so much!! I'll return to my experiments immediately," Watari waved enthusiastically as he gathered his belongings, 003 on his shoulder. The tan boy looked at his chief, "I did not realize that we were in the business of helping men as well." "I think that we will need to expand our detective work to include all people." His eyes glinted as he looked at the sculpture across the water. "Besides, I am certain somewhere in our original charter women-to-be are on the list of people we aid," Akira added. Suoh sweat dropped and turned to Nokoru, who's eyes had gone wide and mouth was open. "I suppose we should be used to it." "Yes..." Nokoru looked at the clock tower to the north. Suoh turned to follow his friend's gaze, "So much time has passed and we have work to do." Nokoru literally marched in the direction opposite the elementary school until he heard Suoh catching up behind him. Then he ran. Akira smiled happily as he remembered what Suoh had told him about the talented Imonoyama's sports shortcomings, "Kaichou is athletic in some circumstances that don't have to do with saving women!" ______________________________________________________________ That's it! Please tell me what you think! miai h_miai@hotmail.com</pre><p><a href="./">Back</a></p><p><a href=http://www.dreamhost.com/donate.cgi?id=216><img border=0 alt="Donate towards our web hosting bill!" src=https://secure.newdream.net/donate1.gif></a></p></body></html>