Below are atomic spoilers for the 2nd season ending, and all afterward (that includes the 3rd season, the 3rd season ending, etc). You have been warned.

As Kereberus is a guardian of the Clow Cards who rules under the Sun sign, Yue is his counterpart, in that he rules under the moon. His name means 'moon' in Chinese, most appropriately. Yue is the person who lives close to the person who is capturing the Clow Cards (in other words, Sakura) on purpose, because he is also the conductor of the Last Judgment, which is held to see if the person who catches all the Clow Cards is worthy enough to be their new master.

Before Yue is required to perform the Last Judgment, he has a false form; just like Kero-chan also has a false form in the shape of a small stuffed animal. The false form of Yue is someone who is close to the candidate for the Clow Cards, but it is kept secret. When Sakura captures the last card, the Earthy, and signs her name at the bottom, sealing it, we find out who Yue's false form is. It is actually, none other than Yukito, Sakura's long time crush. After Sakura signs her name on the last card, giant wings sprout from Yukito's back and surround him, so that his form is unable to be seen. When the wings open up, there is another figure standing in his place; it is not the short pale haired Yukito that we all know, but rather, it is someone else who resembles him somewhat, but has much longer, flowing white hair.

This person is none other than Yue, Yukito's true form. Yue is exactly the opposite of Yukito when it comes down to personality. While Yukito is very amiable, friendly, warm, cheerful, and hardly ever gets angry or upset, Yue is his complete opposite. Yue is very cold; he doesn't smile very much, and doesn't speak unless he absolutely has to. He is also bad tempered and grouchy a lot of the time, and overall much more intimidating. Not to mention, while Yukito is always stuffing his face and eats enough food to feed a small country, Yue never eats anything. He doesn't really need any food to survive on his own, and neither does Kero-chan, but Kero-chan enjoys sweet things a lot, and that's why he is always begging Sakura for food. Yue, on the other hand, neither drinks nor eats.

To Yue, nothing can replace Clow Reed, the master of the Clow Cards and his creator. He loved Clow Reed dearly, and was extremely devoted to him. To pass the Final Judgment, Sakura had to defeat Yue with all the cards that she had in her possession. During the Last Judgment, Yue said, "Nobody but Clow Reed can defeat me." And that meant he was not willing to accept anyone else other than Clow as his master. The first time Sakura attacks Yue, she uses the Wood card, thinking that she could capture him without hurting him, since Yue is, in essence, the same person as Yukito. Unfortunately for Sakura, the Wood is a card under the Moon, so Yue had control over it, and her own attack backfired on her. Sakura was surrounded by Wood's binds, and soon the disaster started to befall on the world. What's the disaster you ask? It is to forget. All of the Clow Cards and everyone else who was associated with the cards forgets the person that they love most, and the cards are once again be free to roam and wreak havoc. If the person who sealed the cards and signed on them is not worthy, because the person who seals the Clow Cards is the most important person to them, the Clow Cards forget in order not to grieve.

Things were looking bleak for Sakura as she went through a sort of dream/reality where everyone's memories of their most loved ones were erased. However, with Kaho's help, she got a second chance, and managed to defeat Yue the second time around. She caught him with the Windy, and her new power of the Stars. Even though Windy was a card under the Moon, Sakura was still able to defeat Yue because her power of the Stars and her determination helped her, much to Yue's shock. Very stubbornly, Yue ordered Sakura to close her eyes, and then proclaimed her to be the new mistress of the Cards. She had passed the Final Judgment.

Kero-chan and Yue then decided to continue living life in their false forms along with Sakura, and only transformed to their true forms when it was absolutely necessary, so that they could be up to their full potential and protect Sakura. Yue kept on living as Yukito, and lived life normally. Though Yukito had absolutely no knowledge of Yue living inside of him, Yue knew everything. He saw and heard everything through Yukito's eyes and ears, and kept Yukito's memories. Sakura was at first never able to be able to see Yukito and Yue as the same person, because their personalities were so different. The Yukito that she was always so "Hanyaan!" over was the complete opposite of Yue, his true form. Sakura also was intimidated by Yue, but still treated him kindly as a friend. In fact, the first thing that Sakura said to Yue at the Last Judgment after she defeated him was, "Rather than being your master, I would like to be your friend."

Eventually, it was clear that Yue developed a liking for the determined little girl that was trying her hardest to convert all the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards. Though he never truly admit it to anyone (and himself, most likely), he really did care for Sakura and felt that she deserved the title of the Mistress of the Clow Cards, soon to be turned into Sakura Cards. However, all through the third season, Yue still kept onto his memories of Clow, and never truly forgot him. Every single time Kero-chan and Shaolan said that Sakura was getting stronger, almost stronger than Clow Reed, Yue would be the first to deny it. He would say, "No, she's not nearly as strong as Clow Reed yet." Kero-chan would tell him that he was being depressing again, to which he would reply, "I'm not being depressing, just telling the truth."

The way that Yue compared Sakura's power to Clow Reed's made Sakura very self conscious and unsure of herself. She also started to compare herself to Clow Reed, and then felt very insignificant, felt as if she could never fill Clow's shoes. She felt that she was not worthy enough to be the mistress of the Sakura Cards, because they all loved Clow. Though Kero-chan told her that it was not true, she still lost her confidence towards the end of the third season, and only fully regained it after she went back into the past and talked with Clow Reed using the Return card.

There came a time in the middle of the third season where Sakura was converting so many of the Clow Cards to Sakura Cards that her magic was no longer enough to sustain Yue and Yukito. Kero-chan was not dependent on Sakura's power, because he was under the Sun sign and had an independent source of power. However, Yue, being under the Moon sign, was dependent on the power of his master. Because Sakura was converting all the cards to Sakura Cards, they all were dependent on her power also. Being only a little kid, and not having her power fully developed yet, Yukito started to disappear, literally. At first he started falling asleep all the time, and no longer was able to stay awake. Later on, as things got worse, Yukito would collapse in the middle of doing things. Once, he fell off of a balcony because he all of a sudden lost his strength and fell asleep. Around that time, he was no longer able to really do anything except sleep for hours without end. When things got to their worst, Yukito started to become transparent. His hands would no longer be solid, and eventually he would have huge transparent holes in various parts of his body. He was slowly fading out of existence.

Touya, being very keen on these things, noticed. In fact, by this time, he was aware that Yukito was not human, and he was aware that there was someone else living inside of him. Even Yukito was not aware of this, though he knew that something strange was happening. Whenever Yue turned to his true form, and Yukito fell "asleep" so to say, Yukito wouldn't remember anything that happened. So when Yue turned back to his false form, Yukito would have all these gaps in his memory, which disturbed him. He didn't understand what was causing the memory lapses, nor the fatigue attacks. Every single time that Touya would try to tell Yukito what he knew, they would be interrupted by Nakuru (we learn later that she interrupted them on purpose), and Touya wouldn't be able to finish. Finally, after the incident where Yukito fell off the balcony (but was saved by Sakura's magic), Touya gets to tell Yukito. He tells him that he knows there is someone else inside him, and that's when Yue willingly transforms into his true form in front of Touya.

Touya says to Yue, "Finally, I get to meet you." and then offers to give Yue all of his magical power (remember he has a 6th sense) so that Yue will be able to stay alive. It is evident at this point that even though Yue is the complete opposite of Yukito, he still loves Touya, just as Yukito does. And Touya is not bothered at all by this, and loves both the forms of Yukito. I think that their relationship is awesome like that, because Yukito and Yue are so different, and Yue hardly ever shows his care to anyone, but he does show his care to Touya. Touya gives up his powers to Yue, and Yukito no longer falls asleep everywhere. In fact, he's completely back to normal. Touya has to get used to not being able to sense things, such as when Sakura snuck up on him, and he wasn't able to tell that she was there. However, he doesn't regret giving away his power as long as it helps sustain Yukito and Yue.

At the end of the CCS series, when Sakura turned every single card into a Sakura Card (and her magic was even stronger than Clow Reed's magic), it seems Yue accepted her. He still remembered Clow Reed, but he gained a great devotion to Sakura, and a great respect for her also. He still didn't admit that he cared for Sakura that much, and Eriol was the person who knew that he really did care for her and loved her as the new mistress of the Sakura Cards. Yue learned to finally let go of past and to begin the future with Sakura.

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