A/n: Okay, sorry for the delay in updates. As a make up for that this chapter is EXTRA long. 7 pages according to my computer! HURRAH! All I can say, is thank you for reading and reviewing. And PCB, I know that everytime I answer a question, 5 more pop up. Even I'm having a hard time explaining things..*sweatdrop* I have some twisted plots, ne?? Started another fic, but it is a YGO fic. I know I said I'd do an original, but when I tried, it sucked. So now searching for more ideas...anyways, enjoy this chapter since I FINALLY go it up! ^__________^

*III*

"Hoe? Kore are you sure that we had to do that?!" Sakura shouted at the top her lungs.

A boy her age, with red hair, and brown eyes covered his ears against Sakura's yell. He nodded slowly. (a/n: TT here he is...)

"Maannnn..if I knew we had to read this book," Sakura held up a VERY thick book called The Count of Monte Cristo, "by the end of summer...I would have started before break...." (a/n: I had to read that so there we go. Just imagine that it was translated into Japanese, which I bet it was.. it is very good and VERY LONG.)

Kore laughed nervously. They were at Penguin Park, and had agreed to meet there to go over summer homework. It was the day after the little incident in the skies over Tokyo, and Sakura didn't seem to remember much. She remembered the darkness, and then blacking out. Vaugly she remembered being held in someone's arms...

"Well...you can always get the Cliff Notes off the Internet I suppose..." Kore mentioned.

Sakura smiled. "Guess so..."

"So, didn't you say that you wanted me to meet someone after we got done disscussing homework?" Kore mentioned.

Sakura nodded. "Yep! But are we..."

"Yes," Kore answered with a sigh. He had known Sakura for a year, and still wasn't entirly used to her, but he liked her. A little too much...

Sakura smiled and jumped up. "Come on then! I'll take you to where we're supposed to meet him. Well them now..."

"Them?" Kore asked as he kept up with Sakura's pace.

"Um hmm. Another arrival that I forgot to mention. Gomenasai Kore-kun!" Sakura sped on down the street, dragiing Kore with her.

Syaoran leaned against the outside wall of Twin Bells. That is where Sakura had wanted to meet up with him. Eriol was there as well...

"So...my cute little descendent, ready to talk about how you managed to fly?" Eriol asked offhandedly, while smiling.

Syaoran ignored him, not up for it.

"I guess not. Okay then, how about we talk about the person you are going to meet today," Eriol suggested.

Syaoran eyed him out of the corner of his eye, feeling annoyance growing.

"Oh? You didn't know? Did Sakura not tell you? Well actually, she didn't tell me..."

"Tojikomeru," Syaoran snapped. He was feeling quite irratable. It was understandable...he had a lot on his mind.

Eriol sighed. "Very well...oh look! Here comes Sakura with her friend.."

Syaoran looked up from the ground, which he had been staring at.

"KONNICHIWA!!!" Sakura shouted as she ran up clasping a red haired boy's hand.

Syaoran's eyes widened at this. Don't jump to conclusions...don't jump to conclusions...he is probably just a friend..not a boyfriend. Don't jump to conclusions...

"Syaoran?" Sakura asked. She had been saying his name for the minuete.

Eriol was giving him a...look.

"Hai?" Syaoran answered, feeling embarassed, but hiding it well.

"Ano, this is Mingai Kore. Kore-kun, this Li Syaoran," Sakura introduced the two boys.

Syaoran didn't reach for Kore's outstretched hand.

"You can call me Kore..if you want to Syaoran," Kore offered.

Syaoran sent him a poison glare. Who does he think he is?! "It's Li-kun."

Kore looked taken aback, but Syaoran didn't care. This boy didn't feel right.

"What about me Sakura?" Eriol asked with feigned hurt.

"Gomenasai Eriol," Sakura apologized, absentmindedly, eyeing Syaoran.

"Kore-kun, this is Eriol." (a/n: gomenasai, I know Eriol's last name but can not spell it...*sweatdrop*)

Eriol shook the boys hand, and noticed what Syaoran had noticed. Something was not right...But he still smiled. Well...another problem to worry about. But right now...my cute little descendent is of more interest.

The group began walking to Tomoyo's house, for Tomoyo had planned for them to come over after everyone was introduced. They came to an intersection.

Eriol noticed in a window their refelctions. Sakura's, that weird Kore's, his own, but....Syaoran's was missing. Eriol looked down noticed that Syaoran wasn't casting a shadow either. (a/n: Think...do dead people have reflections? No...doesn't matter what u r wallking around as...)

Hmm...this adds more to the mystery....I'm going to have to force him to talk about this...

Apparentaly the crosswalk light was broken, because it switched from stop to walk, when it shouldn't have. No one noticed. Well, Eriol did...he hadn't done that though.

Sakura and Kore walked unknownly out into the street. Eriol decided to follow, knowing that he could do something if a car came speeding out of nowhere. Which is what happened. Only his aura blinked out, so did his magic.

"Oh great..." Eriol looked to Sakura, who was frozen in place too. She noticed.

The car that came for them didn't slow down at all. Closer...and closer...

Damn it... Eriol thought

Syaoran looked at the group just in time. A car...about to hit them. Why isn't Eriol doing anything?! Then that feeling of their magic being gone. "God damn it!" Syaoran shouted, and ran out into the street. People on the sidewalks stopped to watch the idiot.

He mangaged to shove them all out of the way, but the car hit. Syaoran bounced over the top of it, and landed with a sickening thud on the ground. The car sped away.

Eriol ran over to Syaoran, just like everyone else did from the sidewalks. Sakura was shouting over and over for Syaoran to open his eyes. Just to let her know he was alive.

Eriol spotted someone calling an ambulance. Good. Then he saw Kore. He had a small smirk, that dissapeared as soon as Eriol saw it. Must have seen him looking. Eriol turned his attention back to Syaoran. He squinted, trying to find any trace of an aura.

The ambulance arrived. The doctors checked Syaoran out. Kore had taken Sakura to another part of the street to calm her down. So Eriol was the one who heard Syaoran's conditon.

"Are you family?" One of the doctors asked.

Eriol nodded. More or less, he was. After all this was his preincarnation's decendent.

"Well, I'm sorry but he died on impact from the looks of it. His neck is broken, so is his back."

Eriol nodded thoughtfully.

"I'm not dead."

Eriol even jumped at the sound of Syaoran's voice. Eriol turned and kept his face calm, but inside he was reeling. There was his cute little descendant stading up and brushing himself off.

"B...but your neck and back...."

"Are just fine," Syaoran finished glaring straight into the doctor's eyes. The doctor was still sputtering, when his comrades made him get into the ambulance and leave.

Eriol searched for Syaoran's aura. There it was. Standing still. No life at all to it. Eriol smirked. "My cute little, descendant, I need to have a word with you wether you like it or not," Eriol announced.

Syaoran nodded thoughtfully, and then he looked to where Sakura and Kore were. Eriol saw the expression on his face, and knew trouble was brewing. Even Eriol felt shocked. That Kore, was kissing Sakura's face...kissing her tears away.

Eriol turned back to Syaoran, and saw an expression on loss and desolation. "Syaoran.." Eriol began.

Syaoran shook his head. "If you want to talk, come to my apartment." Was all he said before leaping into the air and vanishing from sight immeadiatly.

Eriol watched him go. Now I'm going to have to talk to Sakura also...after all Syaoran did come back her.

Syaoran's head was spinning. He was in a state of extreme shock. How could I have been so stupid?! So long away, I couldn't expect her to still truly love me. How could I have thought that she still loved me?! HOW?!

He arrived in his apartment, going through the roof, and threw himself onto his bed, tears running down his face. The gold ring on the silver chain, glew brightly.

"Hikari, what is it?" Syaoran asked, as the woman appeared before him. "You usually don't come much.."

Hikari reached out to stroke Syaoran's cheek. "You are upset. So I came to try to comfort you."

Syaoran barked a laugh. "Well you do SUCH a good job...just confuse me."

Hikari smiled faintly. "I'm sorry for that. Eventually, I will be able to tell you. Now Syaoran..."

Syaoran looked up to Hikari, his eyes shining with the tears that he still hadn't shed. "H-hikari," Syaoran began, cursing inside at how his voice tremebled, "She...Sakura...was...with..."

Hikari nodded, and silenced Syaoran. "I know. Let's not talk of that. Talking of something else would be better for you."

"Excuse me, but I have some questions," a familiar voice stated from the corner of the room. The curtains were closed, so there were plenty of shadows.

Hikari vanished instantly.

"Damn it Eriol," Syaoran nearly shouted.

The boy to whom Syaoran talked, steped out of the corner he had been standing in.

"Don't you know how to knock, or at least use a door?" Syaoran spat, angry.

Eriol chuckled. "Heh. My cute little descendent, why should I have to use a door when you didn't? Through the roof...I think I figured out your secret. Told you I would."

Syaoran sighed. "Figures. Wasn't expecting you'd be back here when I came back."

Eriol smiled slightly. "I sensed something was going to happen, that's all. So I came back for Sakura's sake."

Syaoran jerked his head away from Eriol, so the boy couldn't see the tears that were coming back, at the mention of Sakura. Kore...that...

"And I suspect that you went through a lot to come back for her. Considering you got up, healed, after breaking your neck and back. So my theory is..."

"I'm dead. Okay?! Happy?! Now I suppose you want to know how?! Well...my clan wanted me dead, so they had my MOTHER run me through with a sword...my mother..oh god.." Syaoran began shouting, but ended in a choking sob. He hadn't thought of his death at all after leaving the Vally of the Walking Dead with Hikari. His knees were shaking, and he didn't try to stop them as he fell to them.

He heard and felt Eriol walk up behind him. When he looked into Syaoran's face, his face was serious. No part of the usual smile that normally graced his face.

"Syaoran, why did your clan want you dead?" Eriol asked quietly.

Syaoran cursed under his breath, and muttered, "Didn't get the Clow Cards.."

Eriol's eyes narrowed. "Well there had to be some other reason..."

Syaoran shook his head. "No...no other reason...none at all..."

Syaoran was shaking terribly, overcome with emotion. He seemed to have forgotten that Eriol was there, and was talking mainly to himself. "Alone..all alone in that damn Valley. For days...so long..mother killed me. Sakura...I came back for...Sakura. Hikari...gave me, that chance. But now I'm confused...so confused..."

Eriol watched his "descendent" with great concern. The boy sounded delirious. But even still, Eriol kept close attention to what Syaoran was saying.

"Two years...it took too years to get to this point. Pain..blinding pain to get to here. Body had been destroyed, so had to do something else to bring me back...had to recreate me as I was right as I died...pain worse than the first time. That sword..." Syaoran had stopped talking, his head handing down.

Eriol looked closer and saw that Syaoran's eyes were shut. While he was moving him to the bed (with the help of magic of course) he noticed two blood spots on the shirt Syaoran was wearing.

"Blood..but Syaoran's dead so how can he bleed?" Eriol asked himself.

"Some of them bleed...rare, but it does occur. Syaoran happens to be a very special case and person. Now let it be, and I'll take care of him," Hikari's voice answered.

Eriol turned to go, but stopped for a moment. " Do you have any information on who it was that attacked Sakura to get to Sy-"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Syaoran screamed suddenly. He sat bolt upright quivering. His eyes were completely empty.

"What is it?!" Eriol nearly shouted, startled and irratated at the fact that he was startled.

Syaoran didn't answer but stared at nothing. "Darkness...is coming. Hanging over everything...it wants to...to.." Syaoran fell back, panting hard, and covered in sweat. His eyes remained open and glassy.

Eriol raised an eyebrow. "Another power he didn't have before..."

"No. That isn't what it is. A message was sent to him. I cannot tell you why, only him. Just leave. He will have to tell you of his own accord. Now, Eriol, Clow Reed, which ever you prefer, LEAVE!"

Eriol nodded and did as Hikari shouted at him to do. The sun was begining to set. "I was there too long...now I have to find time to talk to Sakura later. There was so much else to think about now..so much wrapping around his cute little descendent. "Like I said before..I'll find out for Syaoran's safety and Sakura's..."

Sakura sat down on a ledge with Kore. She hadn't stopped him from kissing her tears away, and was ashamed that she didn't try. She loved Syaoran right?! She had even told him that she loved him.

"Kore-kun..."

Kore looked at her. "Hai? What is it Sakura. I'm truly sorry about Syaoran you know..." (a/n: LIAR!!!!!! We saw that smirk!!! *ahem* gomenasai! *dodges various items thrown to get me to shut up* back to the story...)

Sakura nodded. I never even got to give him his birthday present...I didn't even see him before the ambulance left...

Sakura stood up, tears forming again. "Kore, I have to go home. So good night!" She tried to run off, but Kore caught her arm.

"It's getting dark. I'll walk you." With that he began to walk with her.

Sakura felt herself blush. So much like Syaoran...Kore reminds me of him in some ways...but they're both so different...

When she got home, she said goodnight to Kore, and ran up to her room.

"Sakura?" Kero asked, as Sakura threw herself onto her bed, crying loudly.

"Kero-chan...it was so awful..Syaoran saved Kore, Eriol and I today, but he...he...I don't even know what happened to him........"

Kero hovered near her, thinking hard. "You shouldn't worry too much! That kid is too tough to die easily!"

Sakura nodded into the pillow. "I think I should let Mei Ling know..." Sakura walked to a computer that Tomoyo had given her. (a/n: MADE UP) It had actually been from Tomoyo's mother, Sonomi. Sakura logged onto the internet. Mei Ling was online. (a/n: the Internet is my haven, so let's just say Fujitaka needed it for work, and gave Sakura a screen name. k? k?!)

SakuraBlossoms14: Mei Ling...

ChinaLing: Sakura! Long time no talk...well I guess it would be understandible.

SakuraBlossoms14: I have to tell you something, about Syaoran.

ChinaLing: ... ano...Sakura

SakuraBlossoms14: Oh Mei Ling! I'm so sorry! Syaoran was...hit by a car today to save Eriol, Kore, and myself. I don't know what kind of condition he is in. Oh Mei Ling....I'm so sorry! =*(

ChinaLing: Sakura, that isn't possible.

SakuraBlossoms14: What do you mean?

ChinaLing: Sakura Syao-

The computer screen went blank, and sparks flew from it as it fizzed and poped. Sakura jumped out of the chair she had been sitting in, away from the computer.

"Sakura! Daijoubu?!" Kero shouted.

Sakura nodded slowly. She noticed next to the computer, lay the Sakura Card she had made for Syaoran. To show their love. "How true can that be now?" She asked herself. Still, she grabbed it and held it close, planning to give it to him the next day.

Syaoran stared into nothingness. The vision that had come on him that way...was so...real. Blood flying everywhere, most of it from Sakura. Then he noticed who was causing it...himself. "It...wants...me," Syaoran gasped between the labourous breathing he was going through. Once again, strange...he hadn't breathed like this for a long time.

Hikari had come out and was watching him with worry. "Syaoran, I know that darkness wants you..."

"Then...tell me...WHY!" Syaoran shouted, not caring about controlling his emotions. "I'm already DEAD! An angel...what does that damn darkness want ME for?! And I want a straight answer this time got it?!"

Hikari sighed, and sat next to Syaoran, who was glaring at her accusingly.

"Syaoran, you do know that you are a special case. People who die don't really become angels. Angels were born from the start, but you...you were different. Syaoran, you were ment to die then, to return to Heaven. Syaoran, you were always an angel..."

Syaoran raised an eyebrow. "And how is that? I know that angels are born in heaven...and that humans can't become angels. But you helped me. Is this why that-"

"Shh. I promise to tell you everything. Starting with this: Syaoran you were not truly the child of your mother."

"What...?" Syaoran gasped.

"Meaning, that Li Yelan, wasn't your mother truly."

"Then...who?" Syaoran asked, already guessing.

Hikari regarded him with her blue eyes. Eyes of the daytime... "Syaoran, you are my child in reality. Yes, Yelan's blood is in your veins, so she is your mother also, but when you came to be, you...got lost as we say, when you were a toddler. You stumbled on Earth, and died in a sense. You came to be one with Yelan. Syaoran, she is only partially your mother. Just as I am only partially your mother."

Syaoran's eyes couldn't get any wider. "You can't be...it is impossible..."

Hikari shook her head. "It is plenty possible Syaoran. But complicated to explain, unless you remember yourself. You are an angel of starlight. To protect the Starry night...Syaoran that is you. Your destiny. Considering the amount of power you poessed living, and the power you poessess dead, it is no wander the darkness wants you. If you want, I can tell you all about it."

Syaoran nodded. "I have to know..."

Kore glared at everyting as he walked down the dark street. "God damn it...she still loves that loser of an angel. Guess I'll have to do more to lure him in to the trap. The Angel that protects the Starry night. Hmpf."

He noticed that he had come back to Sakura's house. He smirked up at her room. "Can't have her finding out Syaoran's little secret about being dead now can we?"

That is the moment when Sakura's computer broke. Kore laughed to himself. "Who knows? Mabye I'll get her to love me instead of him?"

Eriol frowned at the book in front of him. Nothing was in here that he could use with Syaoran's case. Except for a poem...more like and incantation. And even that was vauge...

"This is highly annoying..." Eriol sighed. He was about to close the book and put it away, after all magic books didn't have everything one needed to know, when something in that poem/incantation caught his eye. He read over the entire thing. As he did, his eyes widened.

"It seems my cute little descendent isn't who we all thought he was. And only partially my descendent..."

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A/N: Okay, I know WEIRD. I freak myself out with things I write, and then have to think of how to explain it, and that can take forever. Oh yes, about the poem thingy Eriol read, don't ask me what it is, or what the POEM actually contains. Coming up in later chapter. Mabye much later..who knows.

Eriol: I do (^)__(^)

Sakura: *nods* that you do. Oh and I'm glad someone told me that I got Eriol's personality down pat. Thank you. (gomenasai, can't remember who it was...last time I checked my reviews was a long time ago, and I get up at 5 or 5:30am every day for school, and school is rotting my brains....) ^_^ Anyways, see ya at the next chapter! ~Sakura-san

Quote of the Day: "I am going to eat Nohbody last!"- Polyphemus from the Odyssey by Homer.

P.S. a/n: Teeheee, this was funny! ^_____^ by the way I don't own the Odyssey either, so don't sue me. I don't have money anyways, so it wouldn't be worth it! Besides this is REALLY OLD. (the Odyssey I mean)