The Answers Are Right In Front Of You
Chapter 6-Discoveries
Eriol walked through the aisles of books that was his half reincarnation's basement.
"Where do you think the entrance is?" Meilin asked.
"I bet it's easy, but we're thinking to hard. Or maybe we're thinking it's easy and it's really hard to find." Sakura said as she looked at a row of books.
"It's a trigger of some sort. You pull It or step on it or find it or something and yea. It's got to be something like that." Eriol said as he moved some books around.
"Was this house around during those times." Meilin asked.
"Yes, actually it was." Eriol replied.
Meilin started to feel around the wall to try and find something as Sakura moved around books where she had found the Clow book. Eriol checked the floor.
An hour later and still nothing, Touya came down to offer them some drinks.
"You guys thirsty?" Touya said as he put a tray of drinks on a desk.
"Thanks. I feel like we've been searching in this dusty basement for hours. I'm so ready for some refreshments." Meilin said as she ran over to the desk. She picked it up and took a sip. "Yummy." She leaned against the wall and the floor began to shake.
"I think you may have found it Meilin!" Sakura said as she tried her best to move towards Meilin. The drinks spilled over the floor as the wall slowly opened. Eriol slowly made his way over as the four looked in before falling into a deep black hole.
Tomoyo sighed as she stared out the window. "I miss you Touya. Please, come and help us." Tomoyo whispered as she buried her face in her hands as she curled up.
Syaoran looked at her and knew he couldn't do anything. He missed Sakura as much as she missed Touya. "Please be okay." He whispered staring out at the darkness behind the window.
Sakura slowly opened her eyes to see darkness around her. Two small torches stood at what looked like an entrance. Eriol, Touya and Meilin were all lying unconscious on the ground. Grimacing, she tried her best to stand up but fell again.
She then crawled over to Touya and shook him. "Touya? Touya, are you okay? Wake up."
"Yeah. I'm up. Five more minutes."
"Touya, get up." She said hitting his head before crawling over to Meilin and Eriol and shaking them awake.
"Ow, that was one hell of a fall." Meilin said rubbing her head and rubbing her eyes to get the dust out.
"Yea, that really hurt." Eriol said. "I never expected us to fall, only to have to walk down here."
The four got up and walked over to the entrance.
"Touya, you take a torch and I'll take one, that way if one goes out we still have the other."
The four began their way down the corridor.
"Hey guys, did you notice this symbol on the wall. It's all the way down." Sakura said as she traced the design carved into the wall.
Eriol brought his torch to take a closer look and noticed it was a circle with a snowflake inside and then a star in the middle.
"What do you think it means?" Touya asked.
"Who knows. We'll have to figure that out later." Eriol replied.
They continued down the passageway, continuing to see the symbol until they reached a dead end.
"Great. Al that way for a wall." Meilin grumbled.
"I don't think so." Touya said as he brought his torch over and lit up the wall placing it in that was on one side of the wall. "Look, the design is all over this wall. There may be a way to open it."
The design was in a snowflake like way and there was a small one in the centre. Sakura walked over inspecting it and then traced the snowflake in the middle and it began to glow.
She gasped, surprised and the four staggered back as the corridor began to shake and the wall moved up into an opening revealing a large room.
It was mainly empty. A large chair sat in the centre against the wall and desk off to the side.
"It's…empty." Meilin said looking around.
"Except for some cobwebs and some dust, your right." Touya mentioned. "Look, that symbol goes all across the room."
"I wonder if it's a sign of good…or evil." Sakura shuddered.
Eriol walked over to the desk. Papers were strewn across is. As he opened the desk, he found that the papers filled the drawers. "I think I may have found your answer, Sakura."
Meilin, Sakura and Touya walked over to see the symbol drawn on the piece of paper and then a big red 'X' drawn over it and 'Revenge' written in red, bold letter across the bottom.
"We should goes through these papers. See if there's any clues." Eriol said.
They divided up the papers and went through them before Meilin found a large picture.
"Hey guys, who do you think this is?" Meilin said showing the photo to the other three.
It was a picture of a man, a women and what seemed to be a little baby in the women's hands.
"I don't know. Keep it. Maybe we'll figure it out later on."
But three more hours and much more dust later, they came up with nothing.
"Let's go. The dust is getting to me and we haven't found anything." Meilin whined.
"Yeah. We've been through everything." Sakura said as she yawned.
"Yeah. We better get going. School tommorow." Eriol said standing up.
"Wait." Sakura said taking a pencil and a blank sheet of paper and running over to the symbol on the wall and tracing it. "This could come in handy."
The three agreed and taking the picture and the traced symbol they left the empty dark room.
Eriol yawned, obviously tired as he entered his home and walked into the living room and dropped onto the couch.
"Long day?" a voice said walking into the room.
"Extremely. Why are you here, Kaho?"
"To talk to you."
"Hai, about what?"
"I remember it being mentioned that there is a chosen one? Do you know who it is?"
"Iie."
"Are you trying to find who it is?"
"Iie."
"Why?"
"Because we've been stressed trying to find Tomoyo and Syaoran. We're worried about them."
"If you find the chosen one, I'm sure it can surly help you find your friends."
"I know. I just don't have any clues as to who it might be." Eriol said scratching his head and sitting up.
Kaho sighed. "What about the layer? Did you find much?"
"How did you know?" Eriol said with a questionable look on his face.
"Fujiitaka. I called to ask how Sakura was doing."
"Oh. Well, we found a picture and a weird symbol." Eriol said.
"Can I see?"
"Iie. Sakura has them."
"I see. Well, any clues on where they may be."
"Iie."
"Eriol, we really need to find those two before more go missing. And fast." Kaho said worried.
"I know." Eriol sighed flopping back on his back. "I know."
Meilin sighed as she entered her apartment. Kicking off her shoes and dropping her keys off on the table she wiggled out of her jacket, hat, scarf and mitts she walked into the kitchen and made a sandwich.
"Where's Syaoran to cook when you need him." Meilin mumbled and took the sandwich into the living room and dropping onto the couch and turned on the television set and got comfortable.
There was a loud ring suddenly and Meilin grumbled. "I just got comfy to." Placing her sandwich on the couch she walked over and grabbed the phone before jumping on the couch.
"Moshi Moshi. Li residence."
"Why hello Meilin! It's good to here your voice again. I haven't spoken to you or Syaoran in ages."
Meilin's eyes widened as she bolted up turning off the T.V. quickly.
"Auntie! How good to hear from you to."
"How is everything? How is school?"
"Good. Good. It's all good."
"How is Syaoran, may I speak with him?"
"He's good. He's a bit pre-occupied right now. Um, you know, those exams coming up. He's…um…concentrating really hard right now. He doesn't like to be bothered."
"I'm sure he can take time off for his mother." Yelen said getting suspicious.
"No, really. See, last time I walked in, he almost ripped my head off and threw a lamp at the door." Meilin said biting her lip.
"Alright. It's good to see he won't let his grades slip. But I assure you Meilin; I want to speak to my son next time I call. Have a nice evening." And with that, she hung up.
Meilin let out a sigh of relief and flopped back onto the couch.
The week rolled by slowly and soon it was Friday again. Sakura sighed as she waltzed out of the school and take a deep breath and exhaling.
"Isin't life great." Sakura said as she danced in circles.
Meilin laughed as she and Eriol followed Sakura out of the school.
"It's only Christmas break, Sakura!"
"But it's so much fun! I love Christmas break. No school and no homework and no getting up early! Best of all, there's Christmas!" she stopped dancing to check her watch. "I'm going to be late! I have to be at the orphanage in five minutes! Bye you guys!" Sakura said before taking off.
"Old habits die hard, ne?" Eriol said as the two laughed watching Sakura run off.
Sakura reached the orphanage in less than five minutes and out of breath. Thankfully it was close to the school.
Miss Tanaka smiled at Sakura as she saw her enter. "Hello Sakura! It's good to see you! Kyra misses you so much! I think she's in playing with the other kids."
"Alright." Sakura said as she quickly dropped off her things and walked into the toy room.
She looked around to see the kids playing happily but didn't see Kyra. Worried she went to the girl's room and smiled to see Kyra asleep on her bed. Walking down the rows of beds to the little girl's she smiled. She looked adorable as she sucked her thumb and clutched her teddy bear tightly. Brushing a strand of hair from her face she left the room and went back to the toy room to play with the other kids.
"My Sakura, you have managed to keep the kids so well behaved since you've been here."
"I love kids. And the kids are so great here."
"Yes, they are. I wish we could find families for them all. Oh! Remember little Kan? He was adopted three days ago."
"Kan? Aw, he was so adorable. He was so shy too. I'll miss him."
"The family also adopted Jimmy, one of the older ones. Kan loved Jimmy and the couple did want two kids. They preferred two younger ones, but since they saw how much Kan looked up to Jimmy they went and adopted him to!"
"That's great! I'm glad they've been adopted."
"We're having an open house on Monday. I know you're on your break and will have lots to do, but I was wondering if you could help out?"
"Sure! I'd love to!" Sakura said brightly.
"That's great! Anyways, dinner is almost ready. So could you get the kids washed up and ready? By the way, where is Kyra? She's usually always with you."
"Oh, she's sleeping. Funny, she's been sleeping ever since I got here."
"Hai. She's been very tired and drained lately."
"Maybe she's been up late or playing a lot."
"Yes, maybe. I know the older girls like to stay up and talk a lot. And I do know that Kyra likes to hang around with some of them. I caught her one night staying up late with them. I told them to all get to sleep before they get in trouble. Silly girls. Of course, the boys are just the same, if worse."
The two laughed and Miss Tanaka left and Sakura told the kids to clean up for dinner. Obediently, the children went to get ready for dinner. Sakura quietly slipped away to check on Kyra. She was just waking up when Sakura walked in.
Kyra yawned as she rubbed her eyes, teddy still in hand. As she opened her eyes she saw Sakura and smiled.
"Kura!" she exclaimed happily and jumped off the bed and ran over to Sakura who picked her up and swung her around gently, the two laughing.
"You sleepyhead, it's dinner time!"
"That's good 'cause Kyra's hungry!"
Sakura laughed and set her down to go wash up.
After they finished eating they were getting ready to watch a movie, a special treat the kids got every two weeks.
Many of the kids were asleep by the time the movie was over and the older kids went to bed while Sakura and Miss Tanaka carried the sleeping ones to bed.
Kyra, being the last, Miss Tanaka smiled and carried the last little two boys while Sakura picked up Kyra.
"Kyra's not tired." Kyra said half asleep.
"Yes she is and she's going to bed."
"Aw, is Sakura going bye-bye?"
"Hai, but I'll be back on Monday to see you."
"I can't wait to see Kura again." Kyra said as she kissed Sakura on the cheek and slowly climbed into her bed. Sakura smiled and tucked her in.
"Sweet Dreams, Kyra."
Sakura smiled down at the sleeping girl and noticed a small chain sticking out from under her shirt. Curious Sakura tugged it out and gasped.
It was the same symbol that they had found under the caverns of her home.