http://clampfix.fanworks.net/others/clover4.txt </head><body><pre> Take this as babble piece. I really do not know what's happening when I wrote this. It was stuck in my head for as long as a month and I absolutely refused to write it out. I kept saying, "Go away, Clover fanfic!" but it didn't budge. Sigh. The horrors of being a fanfiction author 0_o;; Four-Leaf Clover .................................................... [If you find a four leaf Clover it will bring happiness; but don't tell anyone where its white flowers blossom or how many leaflets from its stem extend The four leaf Clover.] .................................................... 1st Leaflet: [Kazuhiko] She only said "Take me."..... but she never said anything about the return trip. I trace the leaf imprint on my palm. It is still there. Kou told me that it would disappear after I sent Suu to the Fairy Park. So why is it still here? "Kazuhiko." Gingetsu's voice sounds from behind the door. "Can I come in?" "Go ahead." Gingetsu walks into my room, with Lan following. The sorrow in Lan's eyes is apparent, and he then moves to a shadowed part of the room, silent. Gingetsu's eyes are unreadable behind the pair of sunglasses which he always wears. "You did not stop her." I say without looking up. "There was no instruction on stopping her. My mission was to protect the both of you until you reached the 'Fairy Park' and yours was to escort her there. No instructions were given on what to do after we had reached there." Gingetsu sounds the same, emotionless. "Kazuhiko. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that she was a 'Four-Leaf Clover'. I'm sorry that she was unable to come to the 'Outside'. I'm sorry that I was unable to save her... to free her." Lan steps out from the shadows, but his eyes refuse to meet mine. "It's not your fault, Lan." I say softly to Lan. "Take this." Lan pushes something into my hand. "It's a gift, from her." I grip the object he gave me hard. Suu, your last gift? To me? The two of them leave the room, closing the door behind them softly. Leaving me alone, and letting the silence resume. I glance at the object Lan just gave me. A small, round pedestal lies in the center of my palm. I touch the button on the underside of the pedestal and it begins to produce an image. A hologram of Clover. The fairy begins to sing. The sad, haunting song that Suu and Oruha had produced together. Their first and last song. Their only song. [I want happiness I seek happiness to cause your happiness to be your happiness] The first time I met her, she asked me, "Are you... the one that will take me?" [so take me someplace faraway] She wanted to leave that place. Her first wish. Last wish. Only wish. To seek happiness. [to a true Elsewhere please take me there] I brought her there. The Fairy Park. I granted her only wish. #"I found happiness. Thank you, Kazuhiko."# Her last words to me. I didn't hear them. I had passed out by the time Gingetsu came. He told me that when I gained consciousness later. I love you, Suu. Not because you are a Magician, a 'Four-Leaf Clover'. But just because you are Suu. ----------------------------------------------------- 2nd Leaflet: [Lan] A 'Four-Leaf Clover'. The one destined to be alone forever. I was told that a 'Four-Leaf Clover' didn't exist. Suu was not supposed to exist. I am a 'Three-Leaf Clover'. One that can come to the 'Outside'. One that can live and love others. But she cannot. Suu was shut away from the world, confined in solitary. Nobody knew of her existence. And there isn't a need now. The 'Four-Leaf Clover' doesn't exist anymore. If the "Four-Leaf Clover" grew to think of someone as special, it is equivalent to the world being in that person's hands. Suu must never love anyone. Not even Oruha. I'm sorry. Why do I keep saying sorry? I don't know. Two years ago, Gingetsu took me home. He gave me a home. He gave me love, care and warmth. I was lost before, but not anymore. Because I have found Gingetsu. He knows about me. That I'm a 'Three Leaf Clover'. A magician. The best manipulator of computer-sorcery in this world. But never the best. Never to be lonely. Gingetsu. Lieutenant Colonel of the Secret Colours Battalion. Gramps Kou gave me to him. He took me without asking why. He's a man of few words. Very different from Kazuhiko. Kazuhiko is always chatty, lots of words. He's the ex-vice-captain of the Secret Colours Battalion. The person who brought Suu to our house. I knew that she was a 'Clover' the moment I saw her. Because I am also a 'Clover'. I know all the children involved in the 'Clover Leaf Project'. We are the same, holding the same kind of sorcery. But I did not know her. Because she was not a 'Three-Leaf Clover'. She had one more 'Leaf' than us. The 'Four-Leaf Clover'. Suu said "Thank you" to me before she died. She knows. I'm happy that she was happy. She had found happiness in the end, with Kazuhiko. Suu, I'm sorry. The moment I saw you, I saw your sorrow and your hope. Your hope in finding happiness. I tried to delay the time for the two of you to reach the 'Fairy Park'. I knew that once you reached the 'Fairy Park' you would die. Then you would never find happiness. Only if you spent more time with Kazuhiko, you would find happiness. Just like the way I had found happiness with Gingetsu. I was very sure then. But now that you have found happiness, Kazuhiko is sad. Because you died. You left him alone in this world. He will feel lonely as long as you are not here. Even if he has Gingetsu and me, he will still feel lonely. You stole his heart and flew away with it when you died. Suu,where are you now? Are you really dead? Are you willing to let Kazuhiko be like this forever? Are you sure you had found your happiness....? I'm sorry I probed. Goodbye, Suu. Have a good day. [Save Voice Message: 1.0] Username: Lan ----------------------------------------------------- 3rd Leaflet: [Gingetsu] He is stubborn. He never listens to me or even the elders of the Supreme Parliament. Although now he's no longer in the military, he's the same. A trouble maker. Suu. A 'Four-Leaf Clover' Lan told me that she was destined to be alone. No matter what happens, even if she did find happiness in the end. She must stay alone. Never to love and never to receive 'love'. Lan once asked me, "What's 'love'?" I told him I didn't know. I never had that kind of love before. There's love for my high efficiency in completing missions. Love for my bravery in protecting the government's secret. But never that kind of 'love'. Because I had never found anyone who'd give me that kind of 'love'. Except for Lan. ......... She was just a kid. When he brought her here, I was honestly surprised. She held so much power, but she was so young. When I took Lan from General Kou, he was older than her, by much more. I think Lan is affected by Kazuhiko. By his 'sort of' mourning. Or maybe it's just because he is also a 'Clover'. I know that he felt guilty about Suu's death. I knew what he had done. He lied to me when he was first transporting them. Nobody interrupted the transportation. He crashed the system himself. I understand now why he had done so. He hoped for the two of them to be happy. To find the happiness he had found with me. To find the happiness we had found. <beepbeepbeepbeep> "Lan. I'll be coming over today." "Okay, Gingetsu." ----------------------------------------------------- 4th Leaflet: [Suu] Kazuhiko. The person who came and set me free. I've always wanted to meet him. Oruha always talked about him. She always sounded so happy when she talked about him. Back then, I already hoped to know him. So that I can be happy like Oruha. I know he can make me happy the same way he had made Oruha happy. [I want happiness I seek happiness to cause your happiness to be your happiness] So I asked Gramps Kou. To grant my first little wish. My only wish. To go to the 'Fairy Park' with Kazuhiko. [so take me someplace faraway to a true Elsewhere please take me there] I made this song with Oruha. We called it 'Clover'. Why did you say that the people who like this song were not happy, Kazuhiko? Oruha was happy when she's with you. But I'm not as happy then. Because I didn't know you. [magic that lasts never-ending kiss revery* without break unperishable bliss] My little wish is to achieve happiness. The happiness which I can share with Oruha and Kazuhiko. But Oruha never came with us. Maybe she wanted you to be happy too. [take me I want happiness] I want happiness. Maybe it's too big a demand. Maybe I'm just making everyone's life difficult. Maybe I shouldn't exist in the first place. [birds sing song of unknown tongue though winged, they still failed to reach the sky] Thank you Kazuhiko. I found happiness. Because of you. [a place not to be treaded alone] Have you found happiness? [so take me to a true Elsewhere] Oruha said you were not happy with her. Was it because you knew that she was going to die then? [wet feathers locked fingers melting flesh fusing minds] I hope that you had found happiness. [take me I want happiness] *my first thought and my last wish a promised land where fairies wait with room just enough for two. so deliver me, help me to forget the tribulations of day, and to stay in this dream of night, where I can be thinking of you forever.* [Not your past but your present is what I seek, carefully winding back its fragile thread] *take me to my bliss.* [please take me there] Goodbye, Kazuhiko. I love you. .................................................... [I only want your happiness, knowing that I can never be yours to share it.] .................................................... End: Four-Leaf Clover Note: This fanfic is not connected to book 3. I have yet to read book 3 so I'm not sure what happened in there. This will just be a little fic that is not connected the original manga. Except for the opening scene, which happens after Suu died (or did she really?). The last leaflet might be very messy due to the fact that her speech and the song are clumped together. So the parts between the ** will belong to the song she's singing and the parts between the [] will belong to the song 'Clover'. Fine, I chopped parts of the song out for nothing... just trying out a new style of writing ^_^;;; I just got this idea, put '...' throughout the whole part for Gingetsu and I'll be done. He's so silent that I would be surprised if he speaks so much as a sentence. But then, my itchy fingers and funny ideas prevent me to do so... * This [revery] mistake is made by Nanase-sensei, so I'm did not to change it since I wanted the fanfic to stay original. {fuu's afternote: "revery" is supposedly an OK spelling in modern times. it's that I actually prefer it to "reverie", the traditional spelling that CLAMP's translator used. man I should go re-note that in my vol.1 script...} Disclaimers: All characters and the song 'Clover' belong to their original creator, CLAMP. Acknowledgements: I'll have to thank Fuu-chan _a lot_ for the translation she did on Clover. That was so detailed! A great help for my fanfic! Thanks a lot, Fuu-chan!! And many other people who helped in proof-reading (e,g, Cleo-chan, Miza-san...) and even bothered to read the fanfic in the first place... Ja! 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