storypaint | Arrangement (Nakuru/Yuuko)

Title: Arrangement
Author: rhap_chan
Series: Cardcaptor Sakura/xxxHOLiC
Words: 440
Genre: romance/humor
Pairing: Nakuru/Yuuko (blame jinarocks ^^)
Disclaimer: Cardcaptor Sakura and xxxHOLiC belong to CLAMP. All fanfiction archived here is a derivative of canon material that is not my property. I do not profit from these writings. The opinions and actions expressed in these stories are not necessarily the views and beliefs of the original author or me.

~~~~~~~written for jinarocks, Nakuru/Yuuko

Excerpt: "Can you even get drunk?" Yuuko wondered whoozily, placing an unsteady hand on Nakuru's cheek and then picking up her glass.

"I'll do it," Yuuko said. Nakuru looked up with surprised joy. Considering what Eriol had told her about this woman, she was expecting some sort of sick task first--

"But," Yuuko said, leaning forward and inadverdently giving Nakuru a good look at her cleavage, "but... you must win a drinking contest with me."

Yuuko licked her lips and was pleased to see Nakuru's answering grin. The guardian was always up for a challenge, after all...

Four hours later, they were singing soppy drinking songs, arms around each other's shoulders, and Watanuki was really beginning to wonder about this weird girl. Usually the people who challenged Yuuko to something like this went down in the first two hours or so.

"Can you even get drunk?" Yuuko wondered whoozily, placing an unsteady hand on Nakuru's cheek and then picking up her glass. The more they drank, the more friendlier they became, and Nakuru was practically in her lap.

"Dunno..." Nakuru answered, hiccuping. "That is, I AM drunk... but I feeelll fiiiine...." She ran a hand through Yuuko's feather-soft hair and downed another shot.

"Maybe we should try something else," Yuuko said thoughtfully... "Oh, I know!"

She pointed at Watanuki and Watanuki resisted the urge to cower.

"You should date Watanuki. He doesn't know ANYTHING about girls..."

"WHAT?!" Watanuki protested, but Nakuru shook her head and hiccuped again.

"'M not really a girl, youknow. Eriol didn't give me gender. Had to pick one myself, youknow. Can you believe it?!" Nakuru answered.

"Hmm, you have a point," Yuuko agreed, and Watanuki slunk away before he could be volunteered for something else.

There was drink still glistening on Nakuru's lip and Yuuko leaned forward to capture it. After that the night blurred.

Yuuko woke in the morning with a terrible hangover to the sound of someone's cell phone ringing. Her bedpartner groaned, throwing a hand over her eyes, and muttered, "Eriol..."

"He's going to kill me," they both said suddenly. That was enough to make them both sober for long enough to sit up in bed and look at each other. Yuuko had a black lace bra on and it distracted Nakuru for a moment from Yuuko's face.

Nakuru looked a little worried for a moment, and then her grin matched Yuuko's somewhat sadistic amusement.

"Am I going to tell him, or you?" Nakuru asked.

"We'll do it together... darling," Yuuko said, crowing.

Eriol had nightmares for weeks. As for Nakuru and Yuuko, they got an apartment near the shop and employed Watanuki as their platonic man-slave.*

"Perfect arrangement," Yuuko said with satisfaction, and Nakuru agreed.

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*"Platonic man-slave" phrase first proposed by ayasugi_san.