Sorry about the delay... I've been waiting for this to be betaread, but I guess something's going on with my betareader. So I didn't want anyone who's reading this story to have to wait forever - because there's nothing more I hate. So if I happen to make any horrible mistakes, please forgive me, and when this chapter gets betaread I will republish this chapter.
Also I have chapter three written, it's on my computer at work (I was bored) so I will post it up on Monday if I remember too.
All we could do was watch as the light of the cards circled the two Sakuras
All we could do was watch as the light of the cards circled the two Sakuras. It seemed somehow as if they were scanning them. But the two girls didn't look scared, instead their eyes were closed and their hands were clasped, small smiles on their face.
I was going to attempt another rush to get to Sakura-hime, but as I raised my sword and crouched, the cards gathered together and floated in a pile to the table and the two Sakuras collapsed.
"Sakura-hime!"
"Sakura-chan!"
I rushed towards the princess before she toppled onto the floor and looked at Li-kun holding Sakura-chan.
"What's going on? Why were none of you surprised to see these cards in Sakura-chan's backpack? What happened to Sakura-hime?" I asked, holding her unconscious body close to mine.
"They've never done that, I don't know," he said, sounding subdued. He looked over his shoulder at Yukito and said, "I think we need Kerberos and Yue-san."
Toya looked at his sister, then Li-kun, then back to Sakura-chan. "I'll go get Kero; you stay here and watch over Sakura."
"Should I be the other me?" Yukito asked him, but Toya shook his head.
"I think you should be okay for now," he said, smiling wryly as he headed for the door.
He swung open the door to reveal Kurogane about to pound on the door, with Fay behind him, holding Mokona.
"What the-?" both Kurogane and Toya said at the same time as Li-kun shouted, "Those are the two that were following Sakura-chan and I!"
"Kurogane-san, Fay-san!" I called out to them.
"Mokona felt a strong presence, and thought it might be a feather," Fay said, side-stepping around an arguing Toya and Kurogane and kneeling down next to the prone body of Sakura-hime. "What happened, Syaoran-kun?" he asked.
"I don't really know," I replied. "This is the first world where we've run into some form of us, and it seems like this world's Sakura might be magical as well."
Mokona hopped off of Fay's shoulder and walked over to the other Sakura, and touched her face.
"She has the same presence as Sakura-chan," it said softly. "She feels like she's missing something, too."
Kurogane, who had finished arguing with Toya, came over and sat down on my other side and Mokona promptly hopped on his shoulder.
"Yuko said there was something we had to do here," I said. "I wonder if it has something to do with this girl."
Kurogane opened his mouth to say something when Toya came back, holding a small bag.
"I thought you went to get somebody who could help," I said, looking behind him.
"I did," he said, shutting the door. Out of the bag popped a small winged thing.
"A stuffed animal? How will that help?" Kurogane growled.
The thing flew over to him and shook its fist in his face. "A stuffed animal, am I? I'll show you."
A flash of light from behind us got our attention, while Kurogane argued with the creature and Mokona egged them both on. I glanced over to where Yukito had been standing with Sakura-chan and saw a completely different person.
"Kerberos," the person who used to be Yukito said which seemed to be all that was necessary to calm the small flying orange thing down.
It flew over to Sakura-chan and landed next to her and then looked at Li-kun and then back at the other person.
"What's going on here, Yue?"
Yue, which was apparently the person who used to be Yukito, shook his head. "I'm not completely sure. But it seems to have to do with Clow Reed."
Yue filled Kerberos in on what had happened and our story. When he mentioned how Sakura-hime was Clow Reed's daughter, the orange thing looked at the princess.
"Do you think it's the same Clow? Is that how he was able to appear to Sakura-chan after the judgement?" Li-kun asked.
"Clow in different worlds? Is that what you mean, kid?" Kerberos asked. "We'd have to talk to the Dimensional Witch, although I'm not quite sure how I could get all of us there."
"Mokona will talk to Yuko!" Mokona said, jumping off of Kurogane's shoulder to land on his head. The jewel on its head started to glow and then projected Yuko's image into the mirror above the fireplace.
"Mokona? What's going on?" Yuko asked.
"Yuko-san, can you tell us what's going on? We need to ask you some questions about Clow Reed," Kerberos said, flying into view.
"Kerberos, you should know by now, I can't answer your questions. I will however tell you one thing: there is only one Clow Reed," she said, before disappearing.
"Only one Clow Reed?" Li-kun said. "So that means the same Clow was her father," he pointed at Sakura-hime, "my ancestor, and reincarnated into Eriol-kun?"
"Oh, boy," Kerberos said, heaving a sigh.
Sakura-hime started to stir, her eyes opened and she looked into mine, "Syaoran-kun," she whispered. "What happened?"
"We're not sure," I said. "But we're going to find out."
Sakura-chan woke up as well, looking up at Li-kun. "Syaoran-kun? What's going on? Why are Kero-chan and Yue-san here? What were the cards doing?"
Li-kun shrugged. "We don't know yet." He leaned over and picked up the stack of cards from the floor and handing them to her.
Sakura-chan took the cards without looking at them, and stuffed them back in her bag and sat next to Sakura-hime and smiled at her.
"I'm sorry about the cards, are you alright?"
"Yes, thank you," Sakura-hime said, covering her mouth while she yawned.
"Maybe we should get settled for the night," Fay suggested. "And figure this out in the morning?"
Everyone agreed that was a good idea, and Sakura-chan said, "But do you guys know where you can stay?"
Yue had, at some point unnoticed by us, changed back into Yukito who said, "They can stay here for now. Perhaps we can talk to Daidoji-chan and see if they can get rooms in her house tomorrow?"
Sakura-chan smiled. "Great idea! Onii-chan, let's go home. I'm hungry!"
Toya and Sakura-chan left so it was only Yukito and Li-kun left with us. Yukito excused himself to go to the kitchen to make food and Li-kun came over to me.
"Are you really called Syaoran?" he asked, looking me in the eye.
"Yes," I said, not quite sure where this was going.
"Then you should understand this. I need your help to protect my Sakura, and you need to protect yours. Tomorrow come with me. We'll find out what's going on," he said.
I nodded and he left, and I glanced at Sakura-hime who was talking to Mokona and smiling. I would do whatever was necessary to protect her.
See I promised no more cliffhangers!