Author's Note: This chapter turned out to be quite lengthy actually. There are even a few surprises. ;)

TimeAndRhythmDoesIndeedSleep: I really I made Touya slightly mushy during that part of the fic. If this situation were actually cannon, I surmise this is probably how he would react. He loves Sakura and didn't seem very inclined to get in the way of her quest for the cards during cannon. Touya seemed to understand that it was something she had been chosen for and in short, her personal coming of age trial. He and Yukito just go with the flow and help her out whenever she needs it. I think he'd have been regretful of taking such a thing from her and try to make it up in any way he could. Just my theory. heh Yes, I am including both movies in this story, although their incidents and obstacles will be intermingled with other events. ;) What they've already gone through may or may not be the test. You'll just have to wait and see. ;P Also, Eriol won't have to reel in Ruby Moon as her failure is not only an embarrassment to her, but her reaction to it later on might cause some problems for everyone...in a way that makes her feel just a bit guilty. XD

PuppetPrince: Return smile! I'm glad you enjoyed what you've read. Here's some more. :)

Gemini24: Bathrooms and first aid, that's how it went during my childhood. I tend to connect them. lol It's a wonder those counters don't wind up stained with blood, really, with the use they get from injured children in most households. XD In answer to your question, Sakura's power source is Sirius the Dog Star and Touya's is the Sun. ;) I realize I haven't yet explained about that, namely because the two of them have only vague inclinations about the source of their powers. Touya is aware of Sakura's elemental aptitude as well as his own inclinations and that's it. He's been a bit distracted with all of his part times jobs, though he will find out eventually. ;)

Shana LurvDango: A new reviewer! Hi there! *waves in excitement shamelessly* Thanks I'm glad you've enjoyed what you've read so far. This trip will go a long way to developing Syaoran and Sakura's friendship and attraction to one another. Not to mention the months before the trip that they spend together in class. :) Tomoyo continues to encourage them, something that slightly annoys Touya. ;P

SecondtoNon: Hong Kong will be interesting, particularly because of Su Yung. Yue and Kero start having flashes of memory and everyone becomes acquainted with Syaoran's interesting, traditional, family. Much to his slight chagrin, as it means being around his boy crazy sisters for a bit and having to present his report card straight off. ;)

Sunny: Another new reviewer! *double wave* XD Yeah, I tried to mix it up a bit and keep things interesting. Only seeing Touya catch cards and jump through the same hoops Sakura did would have been...incredibly boring, at least in my mind. I'm glad you like what you see. ;) I wanted Yukito to have a bigger part in catching the cards as well, seeing as how he and Touya do almost everything together in- and outside of school. I hope you'll continue to read and see what I have planned for this story. :)


"There was a disturbance at the shrine my family cares for this afternoon" Kaho said as she sat down to tea with Eriol and Spinel. "Do you know anything about it?"

"Unfortunately yes" Spinel answered in exasperation. "Ruby Moon is still upstairs pouting over it."

"Apparently Touya Kinomoto stopped her from taking something that wasn't hers" Eriol answered with some amusement.

"She's been trying to steal his magic all along" Spinel explained, after taking a sip of his tea. "When this proved futile, she tried for the Li clan brat. It didn't work out in her favor."

Kaho laughed slightly at this.

"Touya hasn't changed a bit" she said shaking her head. "He was like that even back then."

"Sakura has also returned" Eriol commented. "I've seen her at school with Tomoyo and several others. She seems to have made a full recovery."

"Indeed. Eriol, I also sensed a rather unusual presence in the vicinity of Touya's house earlier" Kaho told him. "It was nothing like I've ever felt before."

Eriol smiled and his blue eyes took on a dark knowing tinge.

"I felt it as well. The dimensional witch paid them a visit" Eriol said, surprising both Kaho and Spinel. "She was an old associate of Clow's. I've been to see her several times before in this form."

"So they've had dealings with her as well" Kaho added after a thoughtful pause. "Does this change anything?"

"She was not summoned by any of the Kinomoto's. Young Syaoran called upon her services this time." The wizard explained. "Though I did ask her to test them. I wanted to see if Touya could handle his duties as the Cardcaptor after that little mishap with the book. However, I have no idea if she's done so as of yet."

"Touya's a good boy. I don't think that was really necessary."

Eriol sighed deeply.

"Regardless, I was taken aback by him opening the book instead of his sister. I needed a way to ensure that they were well cared for."

"Which means you failed to get things back to the way they were" Spinel commented.

"Unfortunately yes. She claimed I could not pay the price for such a transaction" Eriol agreed. "I'm sure she was correct, as her job requires she be precise about that particular aspect. Even if she does enjoy toying with me."

"Are you saying she holds a grudge against and Clow?" Kaho asked in surprise.

Her companion shook his head "no".

"It's just her way" Eriol explained. "I doubt we have anything further to worry about."

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"Sakura, you should try it" Tomoyo said eagerly as the store clerk held out a large square shaped box. "You might win one of the prizes."

The store was having a contest that allowed customers to win different prizes.

"Oh okay" Sakura said as she put her hand in and felt a slight jolt. She grabbed the first colored ball that she could reach and pulled it out. "I guess I got one of the small prizes."

The store clerk took note of its color, before checking the chart on the wall behind her. Then she stared in surprise.

"It appears you've won our special prize" the woman said finally, handing Sakura a packet with four tickets to Hong Kong, a package, and some phone numbers to call.

Apparently they weren't going to have trouble finding accommodations for their trip, despite Syaoran's promise to the witch. Sakura was relieved that they weren't going to have to use up some of Touya's savings to fly to Hong Kong or need to convince their father of the necessity of their trip. Fujitaka was going on a business trip after New Years, so they wouldn't have to sneak around him in order to try and find Su Yung.

Touya took some time off from his part time jobs for the school break, planning to spend the latter half of it fulfilling Yuko's request. The Kinomoto family and Yukito, as well as Sonomi and Tomoyo spent New Year's with Masaki Amamiya as promised. Masaki was extremely pleased to meet Sakura and proceeded to give her several of Nadeshiko's old childhood things, including a group of dresses he'd saved in storage. Fujitaka was treated as family, rather than a mere guest and a great amount of time talking with Masaki and Sonomi during their stay. Touya, Yukito, Sakura, Tomoyo, and Kero all started a snowball fight, which slowly turned into a melee when Yue also came out to play. The others were surprised, as they'd never seen Yue's playful side before.

"So this is Sakura. I've heard so much about you from everyone" Masaki said when they walked in the door followed by the Daidouji's. "You look so much like your mother."

On the last day, they were visited by several other members of the Amamiya family, including Nadeshiko's parents, who proved incredibly standoffish. However, Tomoe, Nadeshiko's mother did finally introduce herself to Touya and Sakura, asking how school was and what universities Touya was thinking about entering. Ironically, Nadeshiko's father, Soichiro wound up talking to Yukito for half an hour before realizing who he was, which got him into conversation with his grandchildren.

"I'm here with Touya Kinomoto over there" Yukito said pointing toward the brown haired teen.

Touya was incredibly distrustful of his mother's parents, but Sakura seemed like them. Tomoe had even promised to write to Sakura from time to time. Soichiro seemed to accept that Touya and Yukito were friends of an unusual sort and made an effort to avoid any topic of conversation that might upset his grandson. Times had changed and Touya had a feeling that despite their tolerance and guarded approval of Yukito, these two were from a world that was rapidly changing all around them.

"You look so much like Nadeshiko" Tomoe commented with a cheery smile that almost seemed real to Touya as she patted Sakura on the head. "That was her favorite dress when she was younger, you know. I'm glad to see you children are in such good health. I'm sure your mother would have been pleased."

Masaki purposefully kept Fujitaka out of sight with Sonomi's help, though the archeology professor seemed to understand what was going despite their efforts. Although he was quite pleased when Sonomi agree to join him for a walk Masaki's snowy garden later that evening.

"I'm only doing this because my aunt and uncle can be a bother about Nadeshiko sometimes" Sonomi said airly. "They just can't let go of things."

"I'm glad they're talking to my children at least" Fujitaka replied. "It was nice of you to introduce them Sonomi."

"Don't bother. It didn't sink in until a couple of hours later" Sonomi commented, before frowning slightly. "I'm sorry I stayed away so long too. They're good kids."

"I'm sure the shock of losing Nadeshiko was hard to bare" Fujitaka said with a small smile. "She was such a lively person. It's different when someone is still alive, even if you don't see them. They're still out there somewhere living and breathing. I think it must be hard for any parent to go through that, regardless."

"We all stayed away too long. I always thought that I would go see her one day, maybe even after you were gone and she'd still be there" Sonomi said guiltily. "But that never happened. She died first and much too soon."

"We can appreciate our own lives while still honoring her" Fujitaka advised. "You've done quite well for yourself and Tomoyo seems happy."

Sonomi smiled slightly at the mention of her daughter.

"Tomoyo is a very understanding person" she admitted. "I doubt I could find another person like her in the entire world. She's very dear to me."

"I know what you mean" Fujitaka said as they moved further up the walkway. "I'm grateful for Sakura and Touya. They're such good kids."

"It must have been difficult raising them by yourself after Nakeshiko..."

"Sometimes it was, but they always knew I cared about them, even when I had couldn't be there for dinner, because I had to work late. Touya was always willing to help out. He half raised Sakura."

"You make a nice family" Sonomi said with a light smile, before blushing slightly and turning away. Then she began to pick up her pace and head toward the house. "I think we'd better go in now. It's getting colder."

Fujitaka nodded and chuckled a little as watched her march toward the manor. He was a patient man and even if Sonomi never felt the same way about him, he was glad to finally have her as a friend. It was good for Sakura and Touya to have family around them, Tomoyo too, there didn't seem to be there any Amamiya's her own age around for her to play with.

When the festivities were ended, everyone returned home after bidding Masaki a fond farewell. He seemed pleased with how the visit had gone and invited the Kinomoto's to join them next year as well. Tomoyo, Sakura, Yukito, and Touya headed out for their four day trip Hong Kong a couple of days later with Kero hidden securely in Touya's carry-on.

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Once they were settled Yukito insisted they stop for lunch, after which they met Syaoran Li at Bird Street, a place where merchants pedaled exotic birds to foreigners and locals alike.

"This place hasn't changed at all" Kero commented from his perch in Touya's shoulder bag. "It's all still here."

"mmm...considering that was over two hundred years ago, this place does seem a bit timeless" Touya commented. "Does Yue remember much about it?"

Yukito nodded.

"When I asked, he said that he remembered Su Yung and that Clow had trapped her in a well somewhere near the center of the city" he answered.

"Wait really?! I don't remember that happening." Kero put in. "Yue must have a better memory of our time here then. Maybe he can tell you how we can defeat her."

"He says that back in Japan he only had vague memories of this place, but that he's started to remember more after being here" Yukito explained. "He also said that Clow Reed and Su Yung used to be romantically involved."

"Oh yeah, that's true" Kero said nodding in agreement. "I remember that much. That was back when Yue and I were still young. It didn't turn out very well. I'm surprised Yue wasn't more jealous of-"

Touya covered Kero's mouth with the edge of his coat.

"You're not starting a fight with Yue here" he said mildly. "It's hard enough keeping you hidden when you insist on talking so loudly and trying to steal more food at the restaurant."

"You were being stingy again." The cat guardian insisted.

"No I wasn't, Yuki just has a huge appetite and needed his fair share" Touya asserted. "And you still didn't pay for any of it."

"Grrr..." Kero grumbled before ducking his head back into the bag. "You're no fun at all."

"Now now, we'll get you more snacks later Kero" Yukito put in. "Right now we have to follow Li to where his family is staying. He needs to fulfill his promise to Yuko."

"Then we find the well and deal with Su Yung" Touya said. "But first we need to know what we're up against. You know anything brat?"

"Be nice Nii-san" Sakura said from behind him.

Syaoran sent Touya an exasperated glare.

"I know there's an old well a couple of blocks from here" he said finally. "It's in the center of the city, so I believe that's the one Yue was talking about."

Then he looked at Yue and flushed slightly. Touya just shook his head. Yue had explained that people who were drawn to the moon itself were often drawn to his magic in different ways. Sometimes it involved an artificial attraction to him that bordered on lust. This had made Touya question his own feelings briefly, before he noticed the different way in which certain people treated Yukito, and realized that his own feelings and the way he acted were vastly different from those who were simply caught up in the guardian's magical aura. Sakura felt the same, until Touya and Yukito explained it to her. Yue for his part seemed confident that Touya's own abilities had shielded him from any such effects and that Sakura acted out of the norm, because she tended to care about everyone with her whole heart, regardless.

"Besides, the fact is your magical inclination is more toward the sun than the moon" Yue had said "and I don't see you overly infatuated with my brother. I think we're safe."

"Ugh, like that would ever happen" Touya said making a disgusted face.

Yue had chuckled at him.

"I'm sincerely glad to hear that."

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The Li Clan lived in a very old Chinese manor house that probably dated back several centuries. It was a known fact that the Li Clan were the descendants of Clow Reed's mother's family and as such had a great deal of magical power within their grasp. Touya noted that the family must also be very wealthy as they were able to support five children through school, including Syaoran's education and accommodations overseas in Japan. He found himself wondering what his great-grandfather would make of them and this house. There was quite a bit of history in held within these walls, magical and otherwise. It was little wonder that Clow Reed became as notable as he was with roots like these.

Syaoran's sisters, Fuutie, Shiefa, Fanren, and Feimei were fairly lovely and completely excitable. The older two wore yellow and red dressed respectively, while the younger two were attired in green and blue, each with a different style of hair cut for their similarly shaded brown locks. They zeroed in on Touya and Yukito insisted upon giving them a rather friendly greeting. Yukito just smiled in an easy going manner and hoped that Yue's magic wasn't having too much of an effect on them. Touya shook his head slightly and listened to Fuutie and Feimei as they chattered about a million different things and asked him several awkward questions.

"I'm involved" Touya and Yukito said in unison when asked if they had any girlfriends back home.

All four girls stepped back with wide eyes. They seemed to realize the implications of what had just been said. Then the younger of the two began squealing and commenting on how cute the two boys looked together.

Touya sent Yukito an apologetic glance and received one in return. Apparently there were few secrets in the Li household, since these girls were the epidemic of nosy and extremely curious to boot.

Syaoran introduced Tomoyo and Sakura to his cousin Meiling who had brought out an old fashioned tea set along with some readymade tea, and proceeded to set everything out on a small table by the couch. Meiling seemed a bit standoffish and shy at first, but eventually she became more comfortable around Tomoyo and Sakura. She was even more awkward around her cousin Syaoran.

Tomoyo took note of the shaky way in which Meiling served her cousin tea and felt a great deal of sympathy for her. While Sakura was currently Tomoyo's most important person, she knew that she was slowly getting over some of her romantic feelings for her best friend. Even finding out that Sakura and Touya were her second cousins had helped her in a way. She could think of them as family now too and having that connection had eased some of her feelings of foreboding. Touya had even started treating her like his little cousin and they had secretive talks about her mother and Fujitaka when no one else was around. It felt almost as if they were plotting to become siblings, albeit jokingly, and they had come to trust each other more. Yukito had also taken to thinking of Tomoyo as his cousin, because of his relationship with Touya and the permanency of it. Tomoyo herself had little doubt that the two of them would stay together through anything, weathering any rough tides that came their way. She suspected that Meiling had yet to come to terms with any of her emotions and having four boy crazy older cousins probably hadn't helped her much. Sadly, Tomoyo really didn't know Meiling well enough to interfere with her current situation, not that it would have stopped her under normal circumstances, but Syaoran was blatantly ignoring the signals his cousin was sending. So either he was purposefully ignoring them and didn't feel the same or he was ignorant of them, which, also, likely meant he wasn't romantically inclined toward his cousin.

Syaoran's mother, Yelan Li, appeared a few moments later wearing an assortment of regalia from a fine white dress with accompanying robes, to a miniature gold headdress that kept her long black hair locked in its ponytail. She introduced herself to Sakura and Tomoyo bowing and receiving the same gesture in return, before turning to Touya and Yukito. The two politely bowed in greeting before she moved to stare instinctively at Touya's shoulder bag, obviously sensing Kero's presence, or so Touya suspected. Then she gave Yukito a measuring look, seeming to grasp that there was more to him than meets the eye.

"Greeting to your other self as well" Yelan said firmly before turning to Touya. "I sense great power in you as well. You possess the Clow Cards."

"Yeah I do" Touya said coolly, standing a bit straighter.

Yelan nodded approvingly.

"You may spend the night here" she said firmly. "I understand that my son also has a debt to repay." Then she turned to her son who stood nervously by the couch. "Syaoran show me your report card."

Syaoran sighed, took it out of his pocket, and handed it to her.

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Touya was awakened that night to the sound of someone crying by the windowsill. He got up to find that it was Yue sitting there with the curtains open, looking up at the full moon. The angelic looking guardian turned to star at him and Touya thought he had never seen a more sorrowful image.

"Yue? Did you remember something else?"

Yue shook his head.

"I'm sorry I woke you" the guardian answered. "That was not my intention."

Touya sighed and approached Yue, sitting beside him on the windowsill, that was really an overly large window seat.

"Tell me what's wrong. I can't help you otherwise." The Cardmaster said.

"I remembered something about why Clow Reed sealed Su Yung away." Yue answered in a low tone that was more like a whisper. "She was a fortune teller on the streets of Hong Kong. Clow Reed questioned the veracity of her readings and the two had series of disagreements. Then the unexpected happened, the two were also greatly attracted to one another. Clow Reed was still human above all else, so he too felt the sting of love at certain times in his life."

"Kero mentioned that she and Clow Reed were involved while you and he were still young" Touya said. "Did your feelings for Clow cause you to dislike Su Yung?"

Yue shook his head.

"My feelings for Clow came later. I was still far too young to feel that way about him at the time" Yue explained. "Clow decided to teach Su Yung magic as he had deemed her worthy of it and discovered that her fortune telling involved using small water magics, which did allow her to perform accurate fortune telling. The two of them soon became engaged, however Su Yung's new found power caused her to become greedy. She wanted to use her magic to rule the world with Clow at her side."

"You're kidding?" Touya commented, greatly surprised at the revelation. "He must have been devastated."

"He was, naturally" Yue said with a nod. "Then he fought with Su Yung and sealed her away in an old well. She was a mortal woman, so she should have died by now unless the magic seal somehow kept her alive."

"Or we're looking for a two hundred year old ghost" Touya surmised. "He might not have realized that in sealing her there, he'd sealed her soul as well."

"Magic works in strange ways" Yue agreed. "That might be why she's still around even now."

"Were you friends with Su Yung then? Is that why you're up?"

"No" Yue said remorsefully. "I remembered that Clow had sealed me away as well. The dimensional witch said that he didn't die right after he sealed us, despite what he'd led us to believe. Thinking back, it felt like he'd thrown me away as well. Even if he did have good reason for keeping Su Yung imprisoned as she would have caused others great harm with her plans."

"Absolute power corrupts" Touya remarked lightly. "I wonder if she felt like magic made her invincible for the first time in her life. A woman living over two hundred years ago didn't have many rights and she might have felt that it gave her the power to strike back, finally, after years of having to live the way others demanded."

"It's possible that she felt that way, but that didn't excuse the fact that she wanted to make the lives of others, even other women, more difficult" Yue replied.

"That's true" Touya agreed. "Even so, education was limited in those days. She might not have understood how to deal with her new powers in a more practical way. Years of living like a second class citizen may also have caused her to go over the edge."

"I hadn't thought of it that way" Yue said thoughtfully. "As a child I couldn't understand why she'd suddenly changed. I thought it was simply greed and that she'd tricked Clow into thinking she was a kind and loving person. Maybe he should have explained a bit more about the balance of magical society. Although, Clow himself may have been blinded by his own perspective. Men were allowed to do anything they wished in those days if they had the money and intelligence to back it up."

"Probably. Maybe the two of them really didn't understand each other as well as they thought. Either way, we have to free her soul from that well before she tries to get some unsuspecting magician to let her out."

"I found Sakura suddenly winning that prize to be suspicious, after you'd already planned to be here" Yue commented lightly. "It's possible that she or someone else has summoned you here as well."

"Or it could be that Sakura's own powers are going a little haywire now that she's discovered them " Touya added. "Su Yung's power might not have that kind of range. It's a long way to Japan from Hong Kong and if she's only inside a pocket dimension within the well, it doesn't seem likely that she'd be able to influence anything or anyone outside of Hong Kong."

"I'm unsure of her the true limit of her magical power. She might have been able to sense magical power that was similar to Clow Reeds, meaning yours and Sakura's. If she were able to detect it from farther away, then she may have done everything within her power to call the source of it to her."

"Then I guess we're back to square one" Touya said with a sigh. "Clow didn't throw you away, Yue. I may not be one of his biggest fans right now, but I'm sure that he cared about you. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had his successor go through the trouble of tracking down the cards or setting things up so that you had the final decision on whether or not you wanted that person to be your master. Even if it ended up being me instead of Sakura, it did seem like he was looking out for you, Kero, and the others as best he could. You're nothing like Su Yung. Clow Reed planned for you to be unsealed when the time came, while he never released her from the well. Maybe something happened before he could get her out of there or maybe he thought it was too dangerous to ever release her."

"What you say is true, Touya" Yue reluctantly agreed. "I just want to understand why he sealed us and then leave this world for another. We would have gone with him. I would never have left him to deal with something dire alone."

"Maybe he knew he was going to die there" Touya said quietly. "It stands to reason that he wouldn't want to trap you in an unfamiliar world without the possibility of someone to care for you after he was gone."

"What worries me is that I'm not sure whatever happened in that other world is finished. Yuko would never say anything about it unless directly asked and given appropriate compensation."

"We'll deal with that when and if it happens" Touya said, kissing Yue lightly on the forehead. "Come to bed."

Yue looked at him with wide eyed surprise. Touya sent him a meaningful look and Yue obliged. The two of them got into bed and slowly fell asleep again, curled in each other's arms.

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Ruby Moon restlessly paced about the basement of Eriol's mansion. She kept running her own actions over in her mind and became more and more frustrated as the minutes passed. Her attempts to steal both Touya's and Syaoran's magic had failed as had her campaign to win Touya away from Yukito. Spinel seemed to be constantly laughing at her now, despite a certain brotherly affection he had for her. Finally her dark mood had reached its peak and she sent a ball of magic at the old floorboards in front of her. It wouldn't actually damage the wood, but it sent a powerful reverberation through the ground nonetheless.

Feeling vindicated Ruby Moon began to tramp upstairs when she noticed a light coming from ground underneath the floorboards. Then it ceased and the transparent form of a girl with long pasty hair and grey feathered wings appeared in its place.

"Why! Why did you take them?!" the girl shouted at her mournfully before shifting through the basement wall and out into the night.

"What the hell was that?" Ruby Moon asked coming out of her shock. Then she rushed upstairs to tell her master what she had seen. The girl hadn't resembled any Clow Card, Eriol had ever described. If this was one of Clow Reed's unfinished experiments then they were in big trouble.