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'………' Thinking

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A Royal Love Chapter 11: An Old Life Found

Syaoran had seen Ying-fa try and make her escape, and meant to follow her, but unfortunately was blocked by several other guests who wished to hold a conversation with him. It was only when the burst of magical energy that knocked him to his knees. Everyone else was either slightly alarmed by the strange feeling that crossed over them, or was blown away. No one was spared.

Anyone who cold identify Ying-fa's aura was now in a panic for the woman. Why would she expel so much magic? Was she in trouble? A few did not wait to find out. Syaoran ran towards the nearest exit, not stopping for any of the cries that followed him. He also saw Yukito and Eriol run out as well as soon as the shook themselves out of their stupor. Both had the same look as him, fear and confusion. What Syaoran did not see though, was the frantic King and Prince also searching for the poor girl.

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Fujitaka did his best not to panic, especially when he felt the unmistakable explosion of his daughter's aura. Yes, he knew that was his daughter. After all, being the reincarnation of Clow Reed, even if he didn't realize this, he was able to at least slightly feel and recognise his own daughter's aura. The second the blast had subsided Toya and he ran to the exit, not caring who would think them rude.

"Otou-san! This way!" Toya knew he had powers, and he just knew that power had to be his baby sister, his little Kaijuu. Down the stairs they ran, closer and closer to the exit of the palace all together. The lingering power in the air cam from everywhere……… where was she?

Fujitaka looked around the main hallway leading to the great doors. Had they missed her? Had the power come from somewhere else? Was he mistaken all together?

"Otou-san……look. It's Yuki and that blue haired lord…"Toya pointed to the duo as they too were searching frantically. "Do you think they knew about Sakura and are hiding her from us?" Toya felt a iron grip on his throat at the possibility of his friend's betrayal.

"Iie Toya-kun. I don't believe they would hide her on purpose… but maybe…" Fujitaka trailed off as he ran after the disappearing pair.

"Otou… what are you doing?" and Toya followed his father, out into the gardens.

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"YING! YING-FA! WHERE ARE YOU!" Syaoran had been running through hallways, rooms, and now the gardens, in fear for his girl. 'If anything has happened to her, I'll never forgive myself!'. "YING!" His voice was becoming hoarse from screaming. Trying to reach out for her was pointless… her aura was everywhere… surrounding everything… drowning out even his own. Where was she… where would she go?

"The grove!" and with that he was off, faster then he'd ever run before. 'Onegai Kami… Onegai let her be alright!'

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"Where am I? This isn't the castle? Why is it so dark?" her voice echoed around the area…not ending. "Why is it so cold? Hello? Is anyone there?" Nothing. An ache in her head maybe… and nothing but darkness and ice all around. There were no answers here… what she needed was a little… illumination.

"I swear! Sometimes I'm so daft I don't know what is wrong with me…" she burrowed into the folds of her dress, she wouldn't leave her cards anywhere. Sure enough… there they were and she could feel the light card answering her desire for it. It calmly slipped into her fingers and was drawn out in the open. "Light!" she summoned forth the magic… but there was nothing. "Light! LIGHT!" not even a flicker. "What's wrong? This isn't supposed to happen…"

Tears began to slip out of her eyes. "Onegai…Syaoran… help me… anyone… onegai… help…". As she begged for someone to aid her she fell to her knees, and face flashed before her, one she didn't know but at the same time did. "Onegai… Otou-san…"

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After following the two younger men for a few minutes, Fujitaka and Toya had lost track of them. They now were standing in the gardens, no idea where to go… where would their beloved Sakura-chan be?

'Oh Sakura-chan… we are so close to finding you… but where are you my little cherry blossom?' and the answer came to him, he was lead there just this afternoon. "Toya…I know where she is" and the two Kinomoto men ran.

Toya trusted his father, he knew that the older male would lead him to his little Imouto. So he followed without complaint. When the moonlight lit up a tiny grove filled with cherry blossoms, he wasn't surprised that this was where his father led him. Even less when there she was, collapsed under a tree, looking drained and as angelic as the last moment he saw her as she fled his company. There was one presence he took note of though, as his father ran to girl's side, there was Nadeshiko's spirit, calming stroking Sakura's hair. So this was where she was when she wasn't looking over him, she was looking over his sister.

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"Sakura…" A voice echoed out from the darkness, calmly calling out that name as if no more then a whispering breeze. "Sakura…" so comforting and calm, almost like a mother's.

"Hello? Dare ga?" she called out, answering the voice.

"Sakura…"

"Hello?"

"Sakura…"

She was curious now, who was this 'Sakura'?

"Sakura… awaken Sakura…"

"Who is this Sakura? Who is she?" where had she heard this name before?

"Sakura… you must remember… you can't leave here until you do…"

"Sakura? I'm Ying-fa!"

"Sakura…you are in there somewhere…remember Sakura…"

"I'M YING-FA! I am the Lady of the Li Kingdom…I am not this Sakura!"

"Kaijuu!" a different voice now… teasing and full of mirth.

"Kaijuu?" what was going on?

"Iie! 'Kura no kaijuu!" This time a voice very much like her own, only much younger.

"What is going on!"

As if to answer her, the darkness dissipated. She saw a young boy looming over her, holding a doll above her head. No matter how her smaller hands tried to grab at it, the boy always held it higher then she could reach, laughing at her futile attempts to grab the doll.

"Toya! Give Sakura back her doll!" an older voice approached, and a turn of her head allowed her to glimpse a man with the same dark eyes as the boy, and the same sandy hair she brushed every morning.

"Hai Otou-san…" and the boy begrudgingly dropped the toy into her arms.

And the scene shifted into darkness again.

"Huh!" the girl was thrown for a loop. What was going on here? It was then she noticed a weight in her arms… the doll? It was truly a gorgeous toy. It had dark hair, soft cotton pink dress, creamy porcelain hands and face, and painted on smiling green eyes and red lips. "I know you…" the familiarity of this doll was astounding. "You're… Nadeshiko…" the girl calmly brought the doll up to her shoulder, hugging it with all her heart. "You kept the ghosts away, you listened when Toya bothered me." She paused a moment and thought 'Wait-a-minute… who's Toya?' and the doll disappeared from her grasp.

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Fujitaka ran to his daughter. He knew that face, those locks of honey brown, and the endearing way she crinkled her nose as she slept. Yes, this girl was his daughter. 'Sakura… oh my baby girl… I've found you…' tears began to seep from his eyes as he cradled the unconscious girl to him.

Toya looked on as his mother gazed upon the couple as his father embraced his sister. He alone could see the way her fingers not only lightly combed his Imouto's hair, but also touched Fujitaka's cheek. He moved closed to them, afraid the magic would break and there would be no Sakura, no spirit of his mother, and all his searching would continue. So focused, he did not hear the approaching footfalls, of someone running towards them.

Syaoran was almost out of breath as he entered the cherry tree grove. As he skidded to a stop inside the walled area, he saw the king and prince over his dear Ying-fa. 'What the heck are they doing? That dou'hou is the reason she's like this, I know it!'. "GET AWAY FROM HER!" he yelled as he drew his sword from the scabbard. Although mostly for show, if infused with the right magic, even the dress sword could be a deadly weapon.

Toya whirled and drew his own sword at the outburst. 'What was this brat doing here?' "What the heck Gaki? Why should we?" maybe it had been a plot, maybe this kid knew who Sakura was and was hiding her for the past years.

"You are the one who put her like this, now step away from Ying-fa or I will hurt you!" Syaoran would not hesitate to hurt the men if they didn't step away soon.

"Her name isn't Ying-fa, it's Sakura" Fujitaka looked up with tears still streaming down his cheeks.

"What are you talking about? She is the Lady Ying-fa, and has been for all of her life!" Syaoran was not amused. How dare they assume that his precious Ying was anybody but who she was.

"NO! She is my Imouto! She is my baby sister!" Toya was furious. This boy was keeping the girl from them.

"SHE IS YING-FA! NOT ANYONE ELSE!" Syaoran was about ready to charge when the arugment was interrupted.

"I believe Syaoran… that she is both" all three men turned to face the entrance. There standing calmly was not only Eriol and Yukito, but Queen Yelan, Kero, Spinel and Nakaru.

"What the heck do you mean? SHE IS YING-FA AND THEY PUT HER LIKE THIS!" Syaoran pointed his sword more dangerously at the Kinomoto royals.

"Syaoran… remember that she was not always Ying-fa" Yelan approached her son and laid a calming hand on his shoulder, making him lower his sword. "Your father and you found her, but she must have had another family before us. Another father, another mother, and other siblings. Syaoran, these people claim to know her, mayhap that they are her first family".

"Cute decedent… that man is the other half of the reincarnated Clow Reed. Can you not feel his potential?" Eriol spoke out this time. "It would make sense that any daughter of his had a right to the Cards, I had thought that she would have one more-so then Ying-fa, but if his daughter and Ying-fa are the same person, it al makes sense!"

"Quit talking nonsense all of you! You have been hiding my kaiju here for too long! My father and I are taking her home!" Toya didn't understand half of what these people were saying, but it didn't matter. He had is imouto, and he was taking her home.

"DAMARE! ALL OF YOU! SHE IS MY YING-FA!" Syaoran was about ready to charge the other prince when he was stopped, not by his mother, or the blue haired re-incarnate, but by a fully transformed Cereberus and Yue. "LET ME GO!"

"Iie" came the unemotional response from Yue, who at the moment held Syaoran back with his graceful arms.

"SHE'S YOUR MISTRESS! YOU SHOULD BE PROCECTING HER!" Syaoran continued to struggle greatly; he would get to his fair Ying-fa.

"Calm yourself prince-ling!" Cerberus called out. "Think for a moment! Would she let anyone who wished to harm her touch her? You know how powerful her magic is… it would repel these men without second thought if it thought she was in danger!"

Syaoran stopped struggling. Why wasn't her magic throwing the men away? Was she really safe with them? Did they really but her like this? His sword was lowered.

"My Mistress should be taken away from here" Yue allowed the prince's arms to go free. "We don't know what has caused her to be like this, and she needs to awaken to tell us. Cerberus and I will take her to her room".

With the two strange being approaching him and his daughter, Fujitaka was nervous, to say the least. The golden beast look so ferocious, and the man with wings looked so uncaring, but they had stopped the angry prince from attacking his son, and why had they called her 'mistress'? What if they took her away from him again?

Seeing that the man was still worried about their presence, Cerberus tried to put the man at ease. "Don't worry… this girl is safe with us. They will welcome you in to watch over her, and they won't we will. You have our word".

Finally believing the strange beast, Fujitaka and Toya carefully handed the still unconscious girl to the man with the wings, and he and the beast took to the air, landing on a balcony high above the garden. Together they watched the two enter the illuminated room hidden behind gossamer curtains.

"Come Cousin… there is much to tell". Yelan turned on a heel, beckoning Eriol, Syaoran, Fujitaka and Toya to follow her into the castle. They each had much to learn before the green eyed card mistress woke up.

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Hidden somewhere amongst the many confused guests in the ballroom, a man chuckled to himself. 'It has already started… she will be mine, and none of you will be able to stop me'.

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More flashes appeared to the girl. Some made sense, others seemed to hold no importance what-so-ever. Most were of that boy, Toya, and an older man, a man both she and 'Toya' called Outo-san. Was this her family? That can't be right! She had never seen these faces before.

"WHAT IS GOING ON?" She screamed out to the darkness. She had tried countless more times to use her magic, but nothing would come to her summons.

"Sakura…" it was the first voice again.

"Who are you… why won't you let me leave?" tears once again had come to her eyes. What if she never got out?

"Sakura… you must understand. Can you truly not remember?"

"Remember? Remember what? TELL ME! ONEGAI!" tears leaked out. She was terrified.

"Don't cry Sakura… don't cry my little Cherry Blossom" the voice was much stronger now, more like an actual voice then just a whisper on the breeze.

"Hoe?" she wiped her eyes, and there was the blurry image of a woman. Her white robe and hair fluttered in the non-existent wind, and her own green eyes held tears for the younger girl. "Who are you?"

"Oh my baby… my poor girl" the woman opened her arms, as if waiting for the other to run into them. "You haven't remembered in so long, and now all we can ask of you to is to remember. Can you truly not tell me that there was a time when you were not Ying-fa? When you played not with Syaoran, but with your Onii-chan? Remember when it was to your dear Outo-san you ran to with your little scrapes and sores? Those monsters they chased away from you?"

The woman's words rang true in her ears. Were those what those images were? Her past? A time before Father-Xian-ran and Syaoran? To before she was called Ying-fa? "I… I think so…"

"Oh dearest… remember the palace, all white washed and surrounded by cherry trees? Can you remember the white birds that flew over the tower each day?"

"I… remember. I REMEMBER! I AM SAKURA KINOMOTO!" her voice echoed even deeper then before. And as if that declaration cued something that was blocking it before, suddenly, the Light card sprang to life. She began to slowly dispel the darkness, but with it, the woman also began to fade. "Iie Matte! WHO ARE YOU?"

"Oh my little Sakura… the fact that you can recall your family is enough for me…" and she slowly began to fade faster.

"MATTE! OKAA-SAN!" her cry had come forth subconsciously, and yet, it was then she realised that yes, this woman was her mother. The woman who had been secretly watching over her shoulder, for whenever she saw her, she was afraid of the spirit.

"Sayonara Sakura-chan. Onegai be careful. There is one who is watching you. One who will wish you harm, and wish for your strength" and she was gone. The light was now spreading faster. Slowly reaching across the vastness, but still the girl was alone, for one last vision must be showed to her.

She was running from something, other men who wished her harm. They had bound her hands and were catching up to her. Still she ran faster, even after she heard them yelling at her. They had hurt her, and killed her escort. What would they do to her? She wanted her Outo… she wanted her Onii-chan. Suddenly she fell. Now she was struggling to keep her head above the fast flowing current of the river. Her simple peasant's dress, meant to help disguise her was pulling her down and she couldn't use her arms properly to keep her afloat. A sudden sharp pain to her head, what had struck her? As the current whipped her around she saw it, a sharp rock protruding from the waters. As her eyes slipped closed and with her last thoughts of her lost family, the darkness of the water seemed to swallow her up. It would be the grace of all 108 Kamis that would keep her head above water, and allow her to float far enough away from her assailants to keep her alive. She would not feel the warmth of the sun the next day, nor would she remember pulling herself away from the bank she had been washed up upon, nor curling under a tall tree. All she would remember is awakening to the smile of a kind King and a beautiful Queen.

Once the final memory assailed her, she was still alone in the now bright vastness. "Matte… what do I do now? Onegai… Mother-Yelan…" the image of the kind woman flashed before her eyes. "Syaoran…" another flash of the handsome prince. "OUTO-SAN!" and the light became unbearable.

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"And I sent her away, I feared all would be lost and that she would be taken from me. So I sent her and Toya away. I didn't know that she would be taken. I didn't realise it was her they wanted all along. I was so foolish, and because of my foolishness, I lost my daughter" King Fujitaka recanted his last memories of his daughter before this night. She was still asleep in the nest room, and his son and his daughter's proctors of the past thirteen years surrounded him, minus Cerberus who was watching over her. Tears sprung to his eyes again, "For so long we searched high and low. So long I had almost lost hope, but now I have it again. I don't care is she doesn't remember me, I know she is safe and loved".

"Kinomoto-dono, we had no idea" Yelan could not imagine the pain this man must have felt. Looking around the room, she could see her son's semi-expressionless face, Eriol's shock, Tomoyo and Meilin's tears not only for the two men, but for Ying-fa, no Sakura as well. Yue was back in his temporary forms, and each looked thoughtful, so this was their Mistress' true name, Sakura.

Each person was so wrapped up in the tale of the lost princess, that no one felt the afraid aura of her until they heard her voice cry out "OUTO-SAN!". No one even looked at each other as they sprinted from the room into the one that held the one they had just been discussing.

It was Fujitaka and Toya who entered first, and the sight they saw shocked them. There was their dear Sakura sitting straight up, green eyes wide, with Cerberus on the bed beside her looking shocked. Both turned to face her, and tears sprung to the girl's eyes.

"Ou…sniff…Outo-san? Sniff…Onii-chan?" her shaky voice had the two men running to her bedside, embracing the poor crying girl.

The other occupants looked on, also with tears in their eyes. There on the bed, squishing a very surprised Cerberus, the Kinomoto family was reunited. Only one was less then thrilled. Syaoran knew, that his time with Ying-fa was over. The Kinomoto's would take her away from him; once again he'd be alone.

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Canadian Chica: PHEW! Sorri on the long update… and even more sorri that it isn't that long. I was suffering form major writer's block. Anyways, I'm in grade 12 now, so while I'll try to update often, I'll be busy this year, even more so then past years. Anyways, I'll hopefully start the next chappie soon. Read and Review! Hope you liked it!

Japanese Translations:

Otou-san – father

Kaijuu – monster

Onii-chan – big brother

Imouto-chan – little sister

Okaa-san – mother

Hai – yes

Iie – no

Matte – wait

Onegai – please

Damare - shut up

Dare ga – who is it