If I can't have her.. no one will.
Chapter one - Aah! Sakura!
by Wubber
A/N: I probably made lots and lots of mistakes in this. Correct me when ya find the mistakes. -_- Sorry in advance! Corny chapter title alert :P
~~~~~~ = scene change, time jump.
"Speaking"
'Thinking'
(Character's side notes and other things ^.^)
Sakura looked all around her. Everything was white. She couldn't move.. her body was extremely painful and was completely ache-ridden. "Where am I? What happened to me?" She wondered out loud. She could faintly hear someone whispering to her, but couldn't make out what this person was saying..
The intense bright white light suddenly started to fade, materialising into a darker shade of white, much closer to gray. This gray-ish-white was solid, however it had strange carvings on it.. a blurry pattern? 'Whoa, it just got dark, now it's light again,' The girl's capability to blink returned to her obliviously. Her eyes focused and she suddenly realised what she had been looking cluelessy up at. A ceiling. Whose? The pain -which had temporarily subsided- returned all over her body, stronger on her forehead.
"Wh-what are you doing to my f-forehead?" She stuttered, feeling like this was the first time she had moved her mouth to talk in a _long_ time.
"Shh Sakura," came a soft reply from her left, as the touch on her forehead disappeared. She painfully tried to turn her head to the left to see the owner of the soothing voice, but a sharp spark in her neck commanded her not to. "Wh-who are you?" She forced out. Her mouth was starting to ache..
"It's me, Syaoran."
"Oh.. I-" She forced out through clenched teeth (the pain was growing unbearable). She closed her eyes, everything turned white again.
A girl with long, dark black hair tied into two pig tails at each side of her head and deep, beautiful red eyes leant her head on the shoulder of Sakura's watcher. "She got hurt bad this time eh?" She let out a worried sigh.
Syaoran nodded his head slowly, his brown bangs falling into his hazel eyes, which did not stray away from the resting girl on his bed. "It's my fault," He said gloomily.
Meiling raised her head from his shoulder and gasped, "Don't blame yourself Syaoran-kun! It's not your fault she pushes herself beyond her limits!"
"Well that's part of it," He replied, frowning, "But it's that she did it to save me."
"Syaoran-kun.." She said quietly. Oh how badly she wanted to condemn Sakura, say that she was foolish and naive, not knowing the extent of using her very own magic! And Syaoran, blaming himself for Sakura's mistakes! But.. saying that would only make her Syaoran-kun worse. He wouldn't be his usual self (which was a little more happier) until Sakura was better. "I don't think you could have stopped her.. she's strong willed, and I think you should stop regretting and focus all of your energy on helping Sakura-chan get better!" 'I can NOT believe I just said "chan"..'
He nodded. Meiling was right. He pressed his hand to Sakura's forehead and continued the very slow-working, gradual healing spell.
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Sakura's eyes opened quickly and she bolted up into a sitting position. Her body felt only slightly tingly and numb, the whole burning sensation and the pain had disappeared. She swung her head left to right, not immediately recognising her surroundings. Then slowly the realisation sank in.. 'I'm in Li-kun's room!' She cried mentally. How long she had been here she didn't know. What she did know however, was that her brother and father would be worried about her.
Suddenly a figure caught the corner of her eye, she turned her head fully towards a little down the doorway, where this shadow was standing- arms crossed facing the other way. Another figure was behind her/him, waving its arms around in the air.
"HEY!" She cried and leapt up, her target -the door- in sight. She began to run out towards it. THUD! ..only to fall face-flat on the floor with a mouthful of a plush rug which was under her. Her legs felt like jelly!
"Sakura!!" Two voices yelled in unison and footsteps banged towards her. She raised her head and looked up sheepishly at the two intimidating figures standing above her. "I'm-I'm okay!" She strained out.
"No you're not!" Meiling and Syaoran yelled back and each gently grabbed one of her arms and lifted her back to the bed, while she protested. "No, no! Really! It's okay! I'm fine! I can walk! You guys!!"
"Please rest," Syaoran whispered and pushed her softly onto the bed. He began stroking her hair against her forehead. It was covered in sweat and was kinda sticky, it stuck to her pale skin. The corners of his mouth twitched a little, and the faintest hint of a smile tugged at them. Her eyes closed slowly.
"I wanna puke," Meiling said disgustedly and stomped out of the room, arms folded across her chest. I wonder if I got hurt would he care for me like that?
Sakura's eyes popped open and stared up at Syaoran. "Why am I here?"
"Um, you don't remember what happened?"
She closed her eyes tight and tried to remember what happened, it only brought a sharp pain across her forehead. She flinched. "N-no."
"Well, Kero-chan said he'd sensed something like a new Clow card. We didn't understand how that could be possible, since you'd turned 'em all into Sakura Cards. So.. three nights ago-"
"What?!" She interrupted, "Three nights! Is that how long I've been here?!"
Syaoran looked slightly annoyed at being interrupted, but nodded. "Yeah. Well let me continue." She nodded this time. "Three nights ago, I sensed something strange from the park area. You did too. So we went to investigate it. And what was also weird is that Tomoyo said she sensed something odd too-"
"Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura cried, butting in again, "Is she alright? Where is she?!"
"Sakura let me finish!" He yelled, instantly regretting it as she sunk back into his pillow. "Sorry.. uh, we got there, and this other guy with black hair was there- I didn't get a good look at him. He shot this bright beam thing at you, you dodged and then he shot another one at me.. and-and you jumped in front.. and.. took the hit.." He gulped and gathered himself, "Then he laughed and just disappeared. Tomoyo helped me bring you back here, then Meiling turned up," His face grew a little red, "She wasn't too um, happy seeing you in my house, in my bed, in my clothes- Tomoyo changed you don't worry!" He had said that once he saw the look of dread and the blush spreading over Sakura's face. "Oh and Kero-chan is asleep in the kitchen."
"I'm glad everyone's okay.." She smiled warmly. (Causing Syaoran's ears to turn a little red. Thank god his hair had grown more to cover them!) "But who was that guy? Do any of you have a clue?"
Syaoran shook his head and shrugged. "Nope." He sighed. "The feeling we sensed before he appeared has totally gone. It's kinda like we're sitting ducks- waiting for the next attack so we can find out more information."
"Yeah.."
Her eyes suddenly grew wide. "ONII-SAN! OTOU-SAN! They must be really worried! What will I tell them?!" The truth about where she'd been the past three days? No! Although seeing Touya's face screw up as she explained that she'd been in the "gaki's" house would be just a teeny bit amusing..
"Tomoyo took care of that. They think you're staying at her house."
She sighed a sigh of relief. "Whew!"
"Yeah, now all you have to worry about is getting better!"
"Thank you, Li-kun." She beamed.
'Weird, she doesn't call me Syaoran-kun anymore.'
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It was a fairly peaceful morning in the quiet and pleasant town of Tomoeda, Japan. Birds sang sweet songs as children made their way to school, skipping and giggling gleefully.
"HOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Came from the Kinomoto residence. A man passing the house fell over from the pitch and tone of the VERY loud yell.
Sakura panicked as she looked at her alarm clock. "I'M LATE! I'M LATE!"
Kero raised an eyebrow from his sleeping position on Sakura's pillow. "Wha..?" He said dazily as he watched Sakura bounce around the room gathering her things.
"Bye!" She cried and zoomed out slamming the door behind her. Kero closed his eyes and muttered something about being woke up so rudely.
It was two weeks since the incident with the nameless black haired boy who had shot the mysterious beam at Sakura. And today was her first day of her third year in Seijou high.
She groaned out loud as she skated through the gates at a speed faster than Kero-chan when eating cake.
She somehow managed to get up the stairs with her skates on, and bladed all the way to her new home room. She rolled in, just as the teacher called her name. "HERE!" She cried, then looked relieved. She wiped her head, temporarily blocking her vision, her foot got caught on a table leg and she fell up against a wall.
"Oof!" Everyone giggled. (Apart from Syaoran and Tomoyo who looked worried.)
"Hoe-e.. this hasn't been a good day so far.." She grumbled while making her way to what she assumed to be her seat, as Tomoyo had put her own schoolbag on it to save it for Sakura. She lifted the bag and handed it to Tomoyo, then sat down. "Arigato, Tomoyo-chan."
Tomoyo just smiled.
Terada-sensei stood at the front of the class with a large sweatdrop on his head. For some reason he had decided to continue on with this class even through Seijou high.. "Settle please! Kinomoto-san, please try not to be late again!" He scolded, even though he knew it was hopeless.
Sakura nodded, her cheeks red.
"Ok class, once again we have a new exchange student to our class from Germany. Please welcome him kindly." He smiled at everyone. Rika's face turned a little red, Naoko noticed.
'Great,' thought Sakura noting to herself that every other exchange student had always had something to do with her.
A tall, but rather chubby boy walked in the door and observed the class with his bright green eyes and a large grin over his face. He ran a hand through his dusty blond hair, which fell just over his eyebrows, although a few untamed strands fell into his eyes. He was quite cute, Sakura noticed then turned her gaze away. 'Don't wanna give him a reason to stare at me.'
His footsteps were quite heavy as he stomped his way next to Terada-sensei in front of the whiteboard.
"This is Daniel Schmerz. Hmm! Where should I put you?" Asked the teacher to himself thoughtfully.
Syaoran perked up and took a quick glance around the room. He had picked a seat close to Yamazaki-kun and the only free seat he could spot was.. the one behind Sakura. 'I should of picked that seat!' He thought angrily.
Sakura tried to cover her face with a book, she peeped up as Terada-sensei said, "Ah! I see a place." He paused, as if wanting to make Sakura nervous with the anticipation. "Behind Sakura Kinomoto." He pointed at her and Sakura waved her hand reluctantly to show him where to go.
Daniel thumped over to his seat and threw himself down in the chair behind Sakura. 'Yes!' She thought, 'He isn't even bothered about me!'
The teacher started talking about the events coming up in the year as the students jotted them down.
"Psst!"
Sakura turned around. "Yes?"
"Hi."
She raised an eyebrow, then dropped it and smiled. "Hey. Germany, huh? Quite far away. Do you miss home?"
Daniel grinned at her. "Uh huh! It's ok though, I like it here in Japan."
She smiled even more, closing her eyes slightly. "That's great. I hope you have lots of fun here."
"Yeah me too. Hope we can become good friends as well."
"Un!" Sakura nodded. Feeling that the conversation was over, she turned back to her notepad and tried to catch up with what Terada-sensei was saying.
"Psssst!" She felt something poking her back.
Sakura turned around again, "Yes?"
"Hi." He put his hand back on the table.
Sakura giggled a little despite being a little annoyed, she didn't want to fall too far behind the class. "Hi." She blinked and realised something, "Hey, your Japanese is very good, even your accent!"
"I've been learning Japanese for many years now! Arigato!"
"You're welcome," Sakura smiled widely.
Daniel leant forward and huskily whispered (although it was audible to the rest of the class), "You have a nice smile!"
SNAP!
Everyone turned to Syaoran, even the teacher.
"I uhhh- snapped my pencil," He held up the two halves to prove it. His face was a tomato red, and it was obvious as he had just been exercising the death glare, as his eyebrows were still furrowed.
'That was odd,' Sakura looked back to her desk to find a little pink piece of pink paper had appeared on it. She noticed how neatly it had been folded as she opened and read it.
Sakura-chan,
There's something strange about the new guy!
Tomoyo
x
Sakura blinked a few times, then looked at Tomoyo with a blank look.
"A school performance will be held soon!" Cried Terada-sensei. Everyone cheered.
Takashi turned to Syaoran and grinned, "Performances originated back in the day when Amazonian women..."
Syaoran listened with wide eyes.
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Sakura, Tomoyo, Rika, Naoko and Chiharu all sat under a large oak tree as they sat and ate their lunch. While Takashi, Syaoran and some other boys sat under another a few metres away. Amongst them was Daniel, he sat quietly fiddling with his lunch box.
"So Sakura-chan," Chiharu smiled after taking a sip of her apple juice. "Who are ya gonna ask to the dance?"
"Hoe? What dance?"
"Sakura-chan was 'busy' with the new guy when Terada-sensei told us about it.." Chiharu grinned playfully. The girls giggled, apart from Sakura who turned red and cried, "Chiharu-chan!"
"Oh ho ho." Tomoyo put her hand on Sakura's shoulder, "There's going to be a dance in a few weeks, the girls have to ask the boys to come with them."
"Oh.. um I don't know.. I may not ask anyone," She said shrugging her shoulders. She caught a glimpse of Syaoran out of the corner of her eye. He had his arms crossed and was glaring the "death-glare" at Yamazaki-kun for some reason. She noticed how handsome he'd become.. even with that look on his face. His shoulders were broader, and earlier she had been astounded when he had stood next to her. He had got so tall over that summer! She narrowed her eyes, gazing dreamily.
"Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan..?" Rika waved her hand in front of her face smiling gently. Sakura snapped back to reality.
"That's too bad Sakura-chan," Chiharu sighed, "I'm sure there's a guy out there who'd love to go with you."
Sakura's cheeks went a little red.
"Terada-sensei said it would be a theme dance! I wonder what the theme's gonna be?" Naoko asked excitedly.
Tomoyo smiled, resting her head on her hands. "Fairy tales," Her eyes grew large and sparkly.
Sakura raised an eyebrow, "How'd you know?"
"I begged sensei to tell me so I could start making you a beautiful outfit Sakura-chan!!!"
Sakura sweatdropped. "Tomoyo-chaaaaan.."
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Daniel poked at his lunch then sighed.
"What's up with you Schmerz-kun?" Takashi asked.
Daniel sighed again, "I have a girl on my mind."
Syaoran looked up from his lunch and decided to join himself into this conversation. "Who?" He asked simply. 'He was flirting with Sakura earlier.. wait why do I care?'
He ignored Syaoran. "She's so beautiful and kind.." He sighed yet again and flopped down onto the grass. Takashi shrugged and started to eat his sandwich. Syaoran glared, 'I don't like this guy already!' He glared at the only part visible of Daniel's head: his hair. 'Why?' his brain asked him. He thought for a minute. 'I just don't,' Was his reply.
He slowly looked over at the girls, or more specifically: the girl. Sakura's hair was a little bit longer now. It framed her face as she sat blushing while Tomoyo whispered in her ear. She caught his gaze and smiled. Syaoran blushed for a few seconds and narrowed his eyes to glare, then turned away and went back to eating his lunch.
"Wow he sure has been glaring a lot lately," Tomoyo whispered into Sakura's ear, as she had followed Sakura's gaze.
"Un.."
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"Hey Onii-san! Hey Otou-san!" Sakura cried as she ran past the two who were in conversation. "Welcome home!" Both yelled back. She ran up the stairs and into her room. She slung her bag down on her bed, then slung herself down next to it. Catching her breath after skating, she lay still for a few seconds.
"Hey! Sakura!" Kero yelled flying over to her. She sat up and smiled, "Kero-chan! How was your day?"
"Ah, it was okay. But I haven't ate all day! I'm hungry!" He flopped onto the bed.
She giggled, "Hmm, well I'll get you something to eat in a minute."
"OH! I JUST REMEMBERED!" He screamed into her face.
"HOE?!"
"I can sense that weird Clow card-ish feeling again Sakura! Dunno where from though." He looked thoughtful and placed a little paw against his chin.
"Now that you mention it.. me too," She mimicked Kero's thoughtful expression. "Ooh! Should I call Li-kun and see if he can sense it too?!"
"Ugh, the brat! No!" Kero cried, then quickly added "Sure ok ok, go on then," as Sakura glared at him.
She lifted the phone, dialled the number to Syaoran's apartment and waited.
"Hello, Meiling Li speaking!"
"Meiling-chan!" Sakura smiled into the phone, "Hi! How are you doing?"
Meiling snorted, "Okay, I guess, what do you want?"
"Something wrong? And could I please speak to Li-kun?"
"Nah, nothing's wrong. I'll just get him. SYAAAAOOORAAAAN-KUNNNNN!"
Sakura brought her head back ground the phone and used her other hand to rub her ear. "Ow.."
"Hey."
"Li-kun! Well! I just wondered, have you sensed anything lately?"
"Yes." Came a flat reply.
"Oh.. do you know where?"
"Well it's definitely somewhere in Tomoeda.. Wanna check the park out later? That seems to be the usual place for weird stuff to happen."
He was certainly right about that. "Meet you there at about 8?" That should be late enough and it should be fairly dark by then, since now the winter was coming. Sakura smiled, "I'll call Tomoyo-chan!"
"8's fine."
She hung up and giggled a little, she was sure she had heard Meiling shout "I'M COMING TOO!" in the background.
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Tomoyo's battle costume design had become more elegant and more suited for Sakura's age now, but they still included the childish charm, which suited Sakura more than perfectly. The one Tomoyo had equipped her with tonigh looked a little like the kitty costume she had made a few years back, only the skirt was less puffy and quite tight at Sakura's hips. Tomoyo had given Sakura knee-high, black boots to go with the costume(she had black tights on too). It also exposed more leg, Sakura noted as she looked down at herself. The neck was lower cut too! The cat ears on her head held back her longer auburn hair.
Tomoyo put a hand to her cheek while beaming, "It looks beautiful Sakura-chan! You look great!" Tomoyo yanked out her V8 and aimed it at Sakura. "Ohohoho! I'm so excited, this is like when you captured the cards!"
"Tomoyo-chan," Sakura cried, rubbing the back of her head with her hand sheepishly. Kero flew over and hovered beside Sakura. Tomoyo had insisted that he wore cat ears too. She had made them especially to cover his own ears. "I feel like Suppi.." He commented.
"Hey Li-kun, Meiling-chan!" Sakura called as she saw them approaching herself, Tomoyo and Kero.
"Hi!" Meiling ran over in her usual battle robes. Syaoran walked slowly towards them in his green ones too. Sakura noted the troubled look on his face. "What's wrong?" She asked concerned.
"I feel something," He replied quietly. No sooner had he spoke the words from his mouth, had the entire area surrounding the 5 turned a bright white and a dominating black shadow appeared by the penguin slide.
"Whoa, whoever that is, is really powerful. I sense some powerful stuff here!" Kero whispered as he gawked. Sakura and Syaoran nodded. Tomoyo nodded slightly too.
"Hey, thanks!" Shouted the figure. Everybody sans the figure sweatdropped. The light died down and returned to the normal dark of 8 on an autumn evening. "That was just my big entrance," The figure explained. He raised his hand, a ball of fire fell to the ground and lay there, illuminating everyone's face.
Sakura didn't know what to be more awed at. The fact he had just produced a ball of fire from his hand, or the appearance of this boy. Dark, sleeked back hair lined his head, while piercing green eyes studied each of their faces. His features were very sharp. A pointy nose, and a chiselled chin. He was dressed completely in black. He smiled after taking in each of their faces.
"Nice to meet you all." He turned to Sakura. "Sorry." He raised his hand, closed his eyes briefly, then something shot out of it towards her. She gasped, frozen to the spot. Lucky for her Syaoran had quick reflexes as he threw himself at Sakura, consequently dragging her down to the ground. The bright orb that the boy had expelled burned out and the sparks fell to the floor.
Syaoran immediately pulled Sakura up, looked her up and down to check she was ok. (She just looked a little shocked) He then turned to the boy, glaring.
"Shield! Protect the others!" Sakura suddenly yelled. A shield, only visible to magical eyes, appeared over Syaoran and co.
"Who are you?!" She yelled, holding up her wand threateningly.
"Call me 'Pain'," He smirked and shot another orb at Sakura, this time it was more orangey. It was also much bigger. "Jump!" She shouted and as the wings sprouted from her shoes, she leapt up into the air then landed when it was safe again.
"By the way.." said "Pain" slyly as he pointed at the others inside the shield. The shield just disappeared before their eyes. Huh?! He grinned.
Sakura facefaulted. "Umm.. Watery!" She cried. A tide of water swept down on "Pain". Any usual person would have been crushed below the furious water. But as the water cleared, he yawned. "That all ya got Kinomoto?"
"No!!" She looked helplessly over at Syaoran and Kero who both looked too shocked to say anything. Tomoyo still had her V8, and Meiling was holding onto Syaoran's arm.
He flung his arm up towards her, a bolt of lightning shot out from his hand and threatened to hit the place where she stood. "Fly!" She cried then swung herself onto her wand as the wings grew out large from it, she flew out of the way. 'That was way too close, this is _real_ bad Sakura,' She said to herself and looked down to make sure the others were ok. A sudden, intense burning sensation struck all over her body, and she felt herself falling. He had hit her with another attack once he saw her distracted. Her eyes closed and everything went black..
"SAKURA-CHAN!!" Meiling and Tomoyo cried.
"SAKURA!!" Syaoran yelled and ran to the spot under where she would land. She was an inch away from his arms, when she floated upwards again, then over towards the black haired boy. As she reached his arms he plucked her out of the air effortlessly and cradled her. "Yoink," He grinned evilly.
"Sakura!!!" Syaoran yelled and ran towards him. "I WONT LET YOU TAKE HER!"
"Uh uh, mine." He tutted and motioned his finger towards Syaoran. Syaoran fell backwards, up against a tree trunk; knocking his head and falling unconscious. Meiling ran over to him.
The boy flashed Tomoyo -who was standing, just staring at Sakura with tears in her eyes- a large smile then ran off into the darkness.
Kero flew to her and nuzzled against her shoulder.
"We-we could have done more Kero.."
"Sa-Sakura-chan.."
Next chapter out soon! ^_^ Comments and criticisms appreciated (altho it'd be kewl if they're contructive 0.o) Take care ppl!