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On a Wing and a Prayer
Written by: Kinomoto Touya
Summary: If you only have three days to live and you are entitled to wish for three wishes, what will you do and what will you wish? Sakura and Syaoran fic again ^_^!
Author's Notes: Hehehe...this is my third Sakura and Syaoran multi-chapters. I hope you will read and review ^_^!
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Angels can soar up
In the sky that is
because they carry
no burden

On a Wing and a Prayer
Chapter I: An Arc in the Sky

Her body lies weakly upon her bed. Her lips quivers and not a sign on her face that she is going to be alright. Death now show signs that she is going to come take her very, very soon. Though, I myself is almost a hundred percent sure that Death, herself feels depression deep inside her heart, for once again, she will take another bud of rose amidst the garden of earth's human. "This is way too early," she whispered to herself. "But this is her fate."

Fate wasn't happy was well. But he, himself knew perfectly well that there is really no such thing as a happy ending on earth.

"Why shall we take such a young life, Fate?" Death asked her brother. "Can't you---can't you, prolong her life, even for a little while?"

"I know what you feel, my sister," Fate sympathized. "But you know perfectly, that we are just doing our job."

"Okay, I understand," she shook her head sadly. "But brother, I know that I am suppose to take her tomorrow. However, she...Kinomoto Sakura, haven't got any really good thing in life. I mean, you took her mother early, their family business broke down and now she's dying..."

"So now I am the bad guy again..." he rolled his eyes. "Do what you want, Death. Take her life after three days. Surely, you have time for your 'wishes' for that little girl. Now, go...I have to cut a lot of thread and make new ones. Ever, I am so busy...and you know that!"

"Duh-uh..." Death said sarcastically. "Three days??? What on earth can I do on three days?"

Fate throw in a very nasty look, freezing his sister's face, "Hmm...what can I do on the next three days? I'll give you examples. Probably a World War Three? A bigger, more inhumane holocaust, destructive forces of nature..."

"Okay, okay, I get what you mean..." she anxiously muttered. "But thanks anyway, brother."

He smirked, disappearing amidst the darkness of that room.

Death sat beside Sakura who is now catching her breath even though she is sleeping. "She is very pretty," Death said. She kissed her cheek. "Be well..." Death then disappeared right then and there.

Sakura then woke up, her lips were pinkish, her cheeks already have color. She can already breathe well. Really, there is no sign that she is suffering from leukemia. She is perfectly in a perfect condition.

Sakura sat up straight in her bed and stared at her palms and arms. Dark spots on it were already gone. She wondered how everything had happen.

"Was it a dream?"

"It wasn't, but you'll just be like that for three whole days."

Sakura looked up, and saw a boy and a girl she do not know, both wearing a red cheongsam, about as old as she. The little boy was wearing glasses, dark hair played flirty upon his deep eyes but the appearance of maturity was painted upon his supposed-to-be innocent face. While the girl seemed to be very reserved, yet her prettiness cannot be denied. Her long, dark hair were waves of ocean and was pulled back with a very nifty red hair band. In her right hand, Sakura noticed that she is also carrying a stuff-toy sort of thing. It was yellow-orange and winged, and oddly the stuff-toy itself was also alive.

"Who are you?"

"I am Eriol," the boy introduced himself. "And this is..."

"I am Tomoyo," the girl curtsied, politely.

"And I am Keroberos, but you can call me Kero!" the 'stuffed-toy' flew from Tomoyo's hand.

Sakura crawled to the edge of her bed. Surprisingly, she is not afraid of these strangers not even to the odd Kero, "I know who you are, but what do you want from me?"

"We are assistants of Death," Eriol explained. "Some person call us the Grim Reapers or Angels of Death, but who cares anyway?"

"You are supposed to die today," Tomoyo narrated happily. "But Death asked her brother, Fate to prolong your life. Fate agreed, but he only prolonged it for three days."

"Three days?" Sakura choked.

"Yeah, too short, we know," Kero scratched his head. "But, we will let you live the thee last days of yours to the fullest!"

"Live...to the fullest?" Sakura wondered. "How will that be possible."

"Each day, a wish will be granted by each of us," Kero continued, flying to Eriol's shoulder. "So today, Eriol would give you your wish..."

"Eh?" Eriol was suddenly dumbfounded. "But I thought that today is Tomoyo's turn!"

"What?!" Tomoyo demanded. "It isn't my turn today either...and if I remember it correctly," Tomoyo stared at Kero, "It is Kero-chan's turn today!"

"Nuh-uh..." Kero shook his tiny head. "Not I..."

"Then how---what shall we do about this?" Tomoyo desperately asked. "All I know is, it isn't my turn today..."

"Then let us play rock, paper and scissors," Eriol suggested, winking to Tomoyo. They know that there is no questions asked whenever they ask Kero about playing rock, paper and scissors. Also, they knew that whenever they play that sort of game, Kero always hands in 'paper'.

"Good thinking, my good friend," Tomoyo winked back. "Why not? Kero-chan, you do not mind playing, right?"

"What are we waiting for?" Kero rubbed his 'hands' (he does not have any that is why all he can do is 'paper'.) together.

"Jack and poi!" they chorused. Kero of course, throws in 'paper'. And Eriol and Tomoyo both throws in 'scissors'.

"Seems like you've lost again, my friend..." Eriol grinned while Tomoyo giggled beside him.

"B-But...but..."

"No buts," Tomoyo bent closer to him and smiled in a too-cute-to-be-annoying-but-still-annoying kind of way. "Because you know completely that a deal..."

"Will always be a deal..." Eriol concluded.

Kero helplessly sat down and sighed, "Well, it seems, that this is my day today..." he glared at Tomoyo and Eriol, "Just you wait for the next days, you two. You'll pay for this!"

Eriol and Tomoyo just laughed wholeheartedly.

"Hmph..." Kero stood up and flew to Sakura. "Come on then Sakura, we do not have all day...what do you me do this day?"

"I-" Sakura wondered while Kero desperately prayed that her wish won't be very bad as she think. She closed her eyes and paused for a moment, after which she said, "I want to visit my mother's tomb. I think it is supposed to be in Kyoto. I was very young when I visited her, she must be very lonely..."

Tomoyo's and Eriol's happy faces disappeared and just stared at her like she was crazy; Kero's jaw dropped open.

"What?" Sakura scratched her lovely brown locks. "Did I say something wrong? Did I offend your feelings?"

"N-no..." Tomoyo shook her head and smiled a little. "But we can do more than that. Tour you to the whole Europe or give you the most hi-tech things is just a piece of cake for us."

Eriol placed his arm over Sakura's arm. "Are you sure? Come one, this is your third to the last day, Sakura."

She grin a little and shook her head no. "Yes...that is all I ever want."

Kero then pulled back his jaw and rubbed his hands. "Well, if that is what you wanted, Lady Sakura then your wish, is my command..." Deep inside though, Kero was thinking, "Nyahaha...I got the easiest wish possible. Just you wait tomorrow, Tomo-chan and Eriol, hehehe..."

Magically, Sakura's hospital window opened, and not even Kero was flying but Tomoyo and Eriol was also floating in thin air.

"Wow...you guys are actually flying..." Sakura said in amazement.

"You can do it too," Tomoyo encouraged her. "Actually, all humans can fly."

"Everyone can fly?" Sakura sounded amazed. "How did that happen?"

Eriol grinned. "We, 'angels', carry no burden in our hearts, mind and soul. We also think of no evil to others. That is why we can fly up here in the sky..."

"Remove your sorrows, bad memories and intention," Kero advised. "Think of all good things. And also believe that you can really fly."

Sakura then closed her eyes and in her mind she erased all bad memories and thoughts, in her soul, she removed doubt and in her heart she filled it with gladness. Slowly, she didn't realized that her body is being lifted upon the earth.

She blinked back and find herself outside the hospital, flying. At first she was really happy seeing how beautiful the sun rising and how cute the morning begins after that she suddenly was pulled down with gravity or something else worse than that---fear.

She screamed too loudly and when she was about to crash on the ground, a hand caught her. It was Eriol.

Catching his concerned looks, Sakura then turned red but she wasn't sure why did she actually blushed. Is it because she felt ashamed of her clumsiness and for not believing herself or probably she, like him? Her heart beat a little strange, but she just pulled herself away from that feeling.

"Are you alright?" asked he.

"I-I guess so..." Sakura responded in an almost inaudible voice. "I just..."

"Don't doubt yourself. You can do it..."

She stared on his ocean eyes. After a while, she find herself, 'on her wings' again.

"Come on," Kero signaled. "Let us go..."

"Wait, will the people see us?"

"One person can," Tomoyo answered while gliding freely on the clouds. "The person who cares about you, secretly. That person can see us too."

"Secretly?" Sakura repeated and laughed that thought in her mind. She added to herself, "Then no one will ever notice that I am gone."

~*~

In a little room in the hospital, a little boy suffering from complications of the heart stared at the bluest morning sky with his deep, dark brown eyes. He saw something colorful and beautiful zoomed upon the sky... and it moves into an arc-like direction.

"A rainbow," he thoughtfully wondered. "I wonder where Sakura is...she loves beautiful things like this."

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Author's Notes: How was it? Hehehe...I have nothing more to say except give those reviews....onegai! And yeah, one more thing, happy birthday to my best friend, Denise also known as Reverie in FanfictionNET. Libre naman diyan :p ...