Tomorrow's Melody

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"Sakura…"

"Kero-chan, it's all right. There's no reason to be upset…"

"Sakura. You're dying and you're tellin' me there's no reason to be upset?" he whimpered, resting his head on the edge of her bed.

She smiled softly, reaching out a hand to stroke his golden head, "I'm sorry I'm worrying you Kero-chan; You too Yue. But, I wanted to go like this. Like a normal person who just closes their eyes and goes peacefully." She blinked back tears, closing her eyes for a moment. When the moment passed she turned to look at the two guardians, "Kero, please, choose a good candidate, one with a strong heart." The woman smiled when he lifted his head just enough so he could nod and answered with a soft 'I will.' "And Yue," she watched him look up from his thoughts, "Once again you will be the judge of this candidate. I trust that Kero-chan will bring you a good candidate and you will judge them fairly."

Yue nodded, and returned to his thoughts, he grieved inside, wishing there could be some way to keep his Master alive.

Sakura smiled and laid her head back down on the soft pillow. Finally I can join you Li, Tomoyo, and everyone. And we can be together again, just like before when we were young. We'll all be together, forever… Her smile widened, and with the last of her magic she raised her staff; which had been kept next to her this whole time. She raised it as high as her weak arm would allow her. The two guardians transformed into the small charms on the cover of the old Clow Book. Even if she had changed all nineteen Clow Cards into Sakura Cards, she hadn't bothered to change the name of the Book.

As the two guardians took their temporary forms she lowered her staff. Slowly it began to dissipate, until it vanished. The Clow Mistress had become thin and frail with time; her once light brown hair had become a snowy white. The small twinkle in her emerald eyes had remained, never failing to sparkle and bring a smile to someone's face. But now, it was time for her to leave this world.

She did it with a happy heart, with no regrets. She'd had a happy marriage, a beautiful child of her own, and many friends. That was all she had wanted out of life. But she got more than that; she had the joy of capturing the cards, side by side with Li. Now, it was time to sleep, sleep forever.

She looked down at her body, "I-I'm ten years old again!"

"Hey Sakura!" a familiar voice called.

"T-To-Tomoyo!" she squealed, running to embrace her best friend. "Why am I-?"

"Ten years old again-? I'm not sure. But you look as adorable as ever!" she squealed, "C'mon! let's go meet up with the others!"

"Sakura!" "Hey Sakura!" "Sakura you're here!" Familiar voices cried to her, waving to her from a distance.

"We're not that far now!" Tomoyo said to her friend.

"From Heaven-?"

"Yep!"

And finally, the Card Mistress left this world with a smile on her face. For this was the end of one story and the beginning of another

Author's note: Yes it is terribly short, but it's only the prologue. Anyways, most of the stories I see are pretty much 'Li and Sakura hate each other but they get stuck together in (some random thing)…' so I wanted to try something different. Not that I have anything against those kinds of stories, there are some that I did enjoy. One more thing. In the anime there were like a million cards. But I never really watched the anime. I'm going by the manga, so 19 clow cards! Yeah. I did name this story after the song from the second movie, whee!