DISCLAIMER: I do not own CCS.

SUMMARY: What happens after CCS movie 2 The Sealed Card? Sakura finally confessed her love for Syaoran, but mysterious villain changes her feelings...

PAIRING: Sakura&Syaoran

A/N: Hello, hello, hello!! I know i update too fast, but I REALLY like writing this story, so here's the new chappy! I can see you are all wondering who will die and who will live...but you won't know, unless you read the story! Oh, and please don't kill me, if you don't like what i did to...well you'll read.

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Chapter 7 - Losing Control

The full moon shone bright, revealing two lovers fighting on the clear glade under the night sky.

There was a dreadful silence piercing the atmosphere.

Birds did not sing their late songs.

Wind abated as if trying not to interfere between two young children, one with a deadly glare in her cold emerald eyes, the other – with concern and worry in his amber ones.

It seemed that one moment was lasting for the whole eternity. They did not move. Sakura waited for her breath to be stable again, after trying to break through Kero's energy shield and Syaoran…he was hoping that they somehow could avoid this fight at all.

Sakura run right up to him and threw her sword forward in attack.

The reflection of a moon light blazed on Sakura's sword.

Syaoran jumped up in the air, frowning, ready for the great pain.

The sword swished in the air and Syaoran groaned as the razor-sharp blade cut its way through the skin and the flesh to show its jagged end on the other side. Syaoran let go of his weapon, not able to stand the hurt, and it fell on the ground, the beads on the handle clinking against the metal.

The dense red fluid poured on the grass.

Blood…

Sakura swiftly stood back, pulling the sword out of Syaoran. He fell down, his eyes still frowned and teeth clenched together.

-Ooww…-he groaned once more.

Kero watched the expression on Sakura's face change from blankly ignorant to full of fear and apprehension.

-Syaoran!-she cried, her eyes, lively yet again, filling with tears.-Are you…alive?

He looked up at her, trying to smile and ease the pain at the same time. His plan had worked! She wanted to kill him, so he made her think she did and Sakura came back to her normal self.

-I'm…fine,-he coughed.-It's just my leg. It hurts…

Sakura looked at his leg and shrieked. It was stabbed through and the blood was still hastily pouring out of it.

-We need to get help!-Sakura jumped up.-Fast!

Sakura didn't know what to do. She nervously ripped the hem of her Cardcaptor dress and bandaged it around Syaoran's wound to stop the bleeding as well as she could.

-What happened?-Tomoyo ran through the bushes and stopped in front of them, panting.-I heard somebody shouting! Are you all right? Did you capture that card? Ah!-she yelped when she saw the blood.

-We have to get Syaoran home! Hurry!-Sakura yelled to Kero, helping Syaoran and Tomoyo climb on his back. Cerberus crumpled his nose and whispered a bit angrily:

-You all are…too heavy…

But Sakura just ignored him.

All she could think about was Syaoran's wound. She was not sure that somebody with normal senses could bear the pain Syaoran was going through without a single cry. All the way from the forest behind the school to the Li mansion he didn't say a word, trying to conserve the energy he needed to stay conscious, only allowing himself to sigh huskily a couple of times.

Sakura sighed with a relief at thought that at least he was alive. She still remembered that vile feeling of hatred and anger as if it was stuck in her throat and left a bitter taste on her mouth.

As hard as she could she was fighting the urge to faint at a sight of fresh pouring blood. She felt so miserable and guilty that this almost made her cry. Her heart ached so much that she couldn't stand it. Still, she got herself together and wiped off the unwanted tears that touched her eyes and were practically burning her skin.

I have to stay calm,-she told herself.-For Syaoran.

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Sakura glanced at Kero-chan. He was serenely sleeping in his drawer-bed, his chest heaving as he breathed in and out.

Sakura couldn't sleep.

She remembered the scene from earlier today.

After they helped Syaoran to walk to his home and showed his sisters his bleeding wound, their mansion turned into a crazy house with people running around, bringing Syaoran glasses of water and changing his bandage every five minutes, calling the doctor and getting angry that it took him forever to come.

Syaoran was sitting on the couch and feeling guilty, that his injury caused everyone, including Meiling and the servants that his sisters brought with them from Hong Kong, to wake up and try to comfort him.

I should be the one feeling unstoppably guilty, not him,-Sakura wiped away another tear.

After Syaoran's elder sister Tai took everything under control and sent most of their servants back to sleep, the house became quiet and calm.

It took a lot of blushing, courage and tears for Sakura to explain that it was all her fault. Syaoran, of course, denied it. He was still awake, even though the doctor, who came to see how serious the wound was, told him to get some rest, preferably sleep.

Sakura squished the pillow in her hands. It still was her fault, no matter what Syaoran or Tomoyo said.

I cannot be trusted.

I trusted myself to overcome the card's power and what did it lead me to?

Syaoran is hurt.

I don't want to see any more people I love getting hurt!

But at the same time I also know that…that I am not strong enough to overcome this…not alone.

I need to think of something.

I need a plan. A plan that will work.

Sakura looked out of her window at the sky and full moon. For a second she forgot about everything in the world, startled by this huge navy dome, this magnificent bluish circle of moon and glittering fragments far away, which were so beautiful, she could not believe that in reality they were cold and lifeless astral bodies.

She sighed.

Yes, as much as she was tired, she still couldn't get herself to close her eyes. Not after all what happened in a past few days. It was as if she was on a not ending guilt trip. Things kept happening, each time it was getting worse and worse.

What should I do?

This simple question seemed to eat her alive from inside, from her heart. Her heart hurt a lot lately. She never stopped thinking, reassuring herself, that this was only the card that caused all trouble, not her.

I didn't mean those words I said to Tomoyo…did I?

Sakura felt as if all her insides were compressed with steel hoops and cry escaped her mouth each time she recalled the past events.

She lied down on her bed, the river of tears flowing from her reddened eyes instantly wetting the pillow under her head. Sakura shuddered. It didn't help.

It didn't help at all.

Close your eyes,-she commanded herself. So she did. The tiredness wrapped her up, and Sakura sighed sorrowfully. All she wanted was a simple life. No danger or heartache. No evil villains, hatred or sorrow. Only her, her family, friends and the one she loved…

Sakura's eyes closed tightly as she slowly fell into a dream.

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Sakura stood on the roof of the building across the Tokyo Tower.

Cherry blossoms whirled around her, filling the air with the scent of fresh flowers, they were covering the building's roof where she was standing and falling down on the ground like pink flakes of snow.

Sakura shuddered as she felt a pair of icy-cold eyes glaring at her.

She turned back to see her friends behind her, but it didn't make her feel safe.

It made her worry for each of them.

What if they'll get hurt…because of me?

She frowned, raised her head and wide-opened her full of determination emerald eyes, only to meet the icy-blue orbs staring at her with disgust. She saw the mouth of her opponent slip up in wicked smirk as she looked at them.

Who are you?-Sakura whispered, taken aback at this cold glare.

The wind rushed through the dense air and billowed the long cloak that covered the person's figure.

Are you…are you doing this to me? Why?

There was no answer and Sakura shuddered once more. That evil glare made her skin cover with goose bumps and she shivered as if it was cold.

Please, stop. I beg you. Don't hurt my friends. Please!

Sakura fell on her knees, feeling dizzy. Her head was spinning round and she saw nothing but blur. Everything was in a blur.

She let out a weak cry as she started falling from high building down to the ground, into a stream of cars beneath her. She felt so powerless and frail, her face pale and almost lifeless.

Suddenly she stopped falling.

She looked up, but saw only a silhouette with a soft light of a moon around it. That person had caught her hand. That person had saved her.

They pulled her up, back on the building, moon light shining upon their face and Sakura's eyes filled with tears and joy as she recognized that person.

Thank you.

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Sakura stood up and turned off the annoying alarm. She didn't bother waking up Kero, who still slept in his bed. She felt lousy and she didn't want to do anything. Her moves were absolutely automatic.

Sakura washed her face, brushed her teeth, dressed in her school uniform, then combed her auburn hair and fixed it with a hair-grip. She looked in the mirror, sad smile appearing on her face for a second, but then her lips turning back into a straight line, sighed heavily and turned around on her heels, taking her school bag and slowly walking down stairs.

Sakura came into kitchen with a quiet 'good morning' to her family.

-Good morning, monster,-Touya teased.-Why so early today? Did you hit your head yesterday or something?-then he stopped talking, remembering what she did to him last time he teased her.

-Huh…?-Sakura turned to him with a grim look on her face.

-Are you all right, Sakura?-Fujitaka asked with concern.-You don't look very good. Maybe I should stay at home with you and see if you have a fever?

-No, no!-Sakura protested, light smile appearing on her face.-I am really all right and…and you have a very important lecture today! I just don't feel like smiling today…-she added quietly to herself.

Sakura hastily finished her breakfast and went to the hall. She put on her roller-blades.

-I-I will not go with big brother and Yukito today,-she announced to surprised Fujitaka and Touya. Then she took her school bag and went through the doorway, closing the door behind her.

She needed to think.

Sakura was roller-blading in a cherry blossom alley.

She thought of that dream.

It was clearly a fore-telling dream, but she couldn't figure out what it meant.

She knew she should be worrying about her friends. Sakura could never imagine her life, the world she lived in without her friends.

They meant so much to her.

She couldn't lose them. She wouldn't let this person who stood on the Tokyo Tower to hurt them. Not more than she already did.

The wind ruffled her skirt and blew through her hair. The autumn scents penetrated into her nose and she relaxed. She felt…free and safe and her mind filled with good memories.

The time when she first met Kero-chan and became a Cardcaptor.

The time when she told Tomoyo her secret.

The time when she first met Syaoran and he was acting so rude, which made her laugh right now when they became such a good friends and she could trust him with anything.

The time they spent together on an ice-rink, in a swimming pool, in the mountains and just at Sakura's or Tomoyo's house. They had so much fun together.

The time when Syaoran told her he loved her.

The time she told him she loved him back…

A wide smile came on her face as she remembered all of that and she couldn't feel sad anymore. She felt that they could overcome anything in the world…together.

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A/N: So, how do you like it? I know, i know! Hurting Syaoran was cruel, but hey, i didn't kill him! Please REVIEW!! Or i will kill him for real!! Scared? Now go and save Syaoran!!