Right from where we left off...

**WARNING** YOU MUST HAVE READ THE OTHER TWO SERIES BEFORE READING THIS ONE!! IM SERIOUS!!!

[Li]yeah, right.
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CardCaptors: The Final Card

The Great Depression
By AnimeGamer

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"Father..." Sakura mouthed and she ran upstairs and Li barely managed to slip into her room as she slammed the door.

"Sakura..." Li can only say and he hugged her, her arms were folded into her chest, but she didnt need her arms right now. She only need Li, and his warmth. He felt coldness on his shoulder, the tears of Sakura seeping though his shirt.

'Who could've known?" Li thought. Li then looked around the room, and his eyes stopped on to Kero.

'Kero...you knew...how could you have kept that a secret for so long...' Li thought, staring at Kero, who can only look at Sakura, and then face away in shame.

"Syaoran..."

"Yes Sakura?"

"..." Sakura broke the hug and then dived on to her bed and hid herself under the bed's covers.

"Sakura..." Li said, now shedding tears as he goes over under the blankets and holds Sakura tightly.

"It'll be okay. It'll be okay."

"How?!?! How can I just be a product of my parents lust!!" Sakura cried out and the tears just kept falling fro her eyes and onto Li's shirt.

From outside the door. "Hey Sakura? Are you okay? What happened?" Touya yelled out.

"GO AWAY!!!!!!" Sakura screamed.

Touya was very surprised of this. Then very surprised that his father just put his hand on his shoulder and just directed him away.

"Let her cry. I...do you remember?" Aiden asked.

"Remember what?"

"Just 9 months before Sakura was born." Aiden said.

"I...barely remember. It involved some weird demon of some kind."

"It's back. It will be out to get Sakura and Syaoran now."

"What!?!? I wont let that--"

"They must face this on their own."

"But Dad! Did you even tell her how to beat it?"

"Touya, I have to confess what I have just said to Sakura a while before. Sakura...was born by your mother's and mine own lust. It was because of that demon, called the Lust card, that causeed your mother's death." Aiden said.

"I dont believe that! You said you sealed it and it was kept hidden!"

"Until your sister stumbled upon where it was sealed 6 years ago. That doll you kept sensing is Kero."

"Kero? The big dragon with gold eyes, is now a stuffed animal?"

"Yes. Sakura and Syaoran have to find a way to beat the card, on their own. I always believed Love or Lust. This is not an brutal attack, moreover, a test."

"A test?"

"A test of their love, for each other. I never hoped to see this day."

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The next day...

"You guys are really depressed? What happened? You guys were so happy nothing can bring you down." Madison asked.

"My father..." Sakura started, and just ran off in tears.

"What happened to Sakura's father?" Madison asked.

"It's personal, I hope you understand..." Li said as he ran off to chase Sakura.

"Li-Kun!!! Sakura-Chan!!!" Madison yelled out.

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"Sakura!" Li yelled out and brought her into her arms. He secretly cried, not for what just happened to Sakura, but something else.

"Oh Syaoran. How can I live with myself now..." Sakura asked.

"You will get over this. I promise you. I'll do whatever it takes to keep you happy, and safe." Syaoran said.

"Syaoran...why are you crying along with me? You shouldn't feel sorry for me." Sakura said.

"Of course I feel sorry for you. And maybe myself, but mainly for you." Syaoran said as he held Sakura even tighter.

"Yourself? Do you mean--?"

"I still havent gotten over her."

"I see, Syaoran?"

"Whatever you want Sakura, you got it."

"Can I stay at your apartment?" Sakura asked.

"Of course you can Sakura. Of course..." Syaoran said, as he faced Sakura toward his face, kinda wrinked from his tears, as was Sakura's. He then flashed a smile and wiped some of the tears away from Sakura's face. It started to rain then as they kissed. It started to rain much harder, as if it were crying for the two cardcaptors.

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Right when the two got in Syaoran's apartment, they sat down on the couch. They sensed the last clow card, but it didnt matter to them, not anymore, they were too depressed to even to have the will to fight the card. Though really the lust card had already gotten to them. The card just went though the glass door of the patio. It was a hot pink, slender and skimpy looking 17 year old. Her looks were enough to send a guy to heaven. She simply looked at the two. She then casted her lust spell on the two, and if she had a voice, she would be laughing.

Just before the two slipped away from reality, a message came over the answering machine.

"Sakura! Are you there? This is your father, all I want to say is...im sorry, and I dont regret what I did, because you became the most important thing in my life after your mother died. I just...wanted to let you know that, I may have failed as your father, but I still love you, for as long as I live in this world and in spirit."

"Fa--Father...I...I..." Sakura couldn't withstand the trance she was about to enter. She and Syaoran were now under the spell of the Lust card.

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[Kero]Hey, this is Kero, filling in for Sakura. Sakura and Syaoran are so depressed they dont even have a will to fight. Yet, now within the clutches of the lust card, and now facing the fact Sakura can very well die in battling this card, can they overcome the final card and complete Clow Reed's book? Sakura! Get a grip on yourself!

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This will mainly be filling gaps in the entire story and about a few months before the story. If you hate flashbacks, just wait til the last part. This is also a little short (cuz' im a little worried on my word limit using Compuserve 2000 to write fanfics, and not MS Word.) There will be ALOT of S+S mush in this series, and a possible up in rating to R, and even NC-17, though I highly doubt NC-17 since im only 16 (o^.~o) Besides, from what reviews I have read from the sole-recently-put-up NC-17 story, it seems as if the taboo doesnt really apply to S+S to you guys. So I'll try not to go to far that way. Anyway, just read + reply/review and all the usual. Also, if I keep at this pace, by posting this part today, the next part tomarrow, and the next one after that, the last part will be on Sunday. Since I'll be gone away from my computer for the entire saturday. Anyway, I'll try to make the next one...interesting. I also look at reviews, if I find it if isnt my average (about 4), I'll hold off putting tomarrows part til friday!

-AnimeGamer
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