Slowly Sakura's treasured memories of everyone around her were parting, including her family, Tomoyo and Yukito. It began with her number one person, Syaoran, then Meilin, Ayame, Kero, and now her family, best friend, and Yukito was recently forgotten as well. Time was running out, there were only a few more people that she would forget until her memories of everything were gone. Her memories parting wasn't the only concern now, Sakura was going to die.
The group found out the day they saw bulldozers at Tsukimine Shrine. Somehow, someone made a proposition to take down the Shrine, and build something new where the Shrine stood. A feeling inside Syaoran told him that something tragic will happen if the Shrine was destroyed. He stormed inside the Shrine, ran towards the Cherry Blossom Tree, with everyone else trailing behind him. He stood there eyeing the tree, slowly closed his eyes, and went deep in his thought, searching for a piece of memory he tried to forget, the day Sakura failed to remember him.
Flashback
Once the whole gang had met up at Tsukimine Shrine, Syaoran had asked Sakura if she would go with him somewhere. Sakura looked over at Syaoran unsure of what to say, and decided to go with him. He guided her over somewhere, but once he looked behind him she wasn't there anymore. He panicked a little and started calling out her name, but she just appeared behind the cherry blossom tree and told him that she was there. Syaoran sighed in relief and walked over to her. He asked her if she was alright, and she nodded. She told him that she's been here before, but it's just weird that the tree seems to feel different to her. Like there was something else to this tree. Syaoran looked at Sakura then to the tree, and thought that this tree represented many people's memories. This tree is a very powerful tree. Syaoran then thought that this tree might possibly have something to do with Sakura's memories.
"Sakura, do you mind me asking what you feel when you look at this tree?" He simply asked her.
Sakura looked from the tree to Syaoran, and back to the tree and told him, "I'm not really sure, but I feel warmth, different from the times when I came here. It feels warmer, and I feel as if I'm safe if I stayed here. I feel that if it were a person, I could just fall in love." She told him.
Syaoran looked at Sakura intently, very concerned about her answer. He tried to start telling her something, but Ayame had jumped on his back hugging him tightly. "Syaoran you left me. I missed you. I was so lonely. Tomoyo-san and Meilin-chan had started talking about things I couldn't understand, so I left and started looking for you." Ayame told him with an angelic smile on her face.
End Flashback
"This tree holds Sakura's memories." Syaoran plainly stated. Everyone exchanged puzzled looks, and moved their gaze back at him.
"How is that possible?" Meilin asked him, with a little shrug.
Everything was silent, the sound of the wind, the birds churping, the steady breathing of the group was the only thing that passed through their ears. Syaoran looked like he would cry where he was standing, but the only movement he made was looking down at the ground, and looking back up at the tree. He gave a little smile at the tree, then moved his gaze over to his puzzled friends. "There's probably a person inside Sakura's dream telling her to forget, but if she wanted to remember everything she was forgetting, her memories were stored in this tree," He pointed at the cherry tree. "It's getting stored in here, because I remember Kero saying this was a powerful tree holding great energy, and represent certain people's past memories. Plus I remember the time when I came back to Japan, Sakura and a few of us came here, and she had mentioned that this tree made her feel something inside."
His friends still looked a little puzzled, except Eriol. Syaoran had looked over, and saw Eriol deep in his thoughts. He was simply standing there, studying the flowers down infront of him, and looked up. "If Sakura's memories are deep inside this tree, then it is highly possible that-"
"She's going to die!" Meilin cut in, panick forming deep inside her eyes. "She's going to die if the Shrine is going to be destroyed!" Tomoyo walked over to where she was standing and held her tight. Tomoyo uttered comforting words to her, assuring her that no one was going to let Sakura die.
Now the group was erect, looking down at a sleeping Sakura. Tomoyo was videotaping, except now she was filming Eriol and Syaoran, including a sleepy Sakura. Meilin was there holding unto Syaoran's clothing, Kiyoshi standing right behind her. Eriol and Syaoran were dressed in their usual fighting atire. Syaoran was wearing his traditional Chinese clothing, while Eriol was wearing his dark purple outfit, the exact outfit he wore while Sakura fought him. The two were getting ready to go on with Meilin's plan, to go inside Sakura's dreams and witness her giving up her memories.
Syaoran held unto the Sakura Cards, asking them for help if anything bad was to happen, then flipped through the cards, looking for the one he wanted, and stopped at Dream. He had never used Dream the way he was planning on using it now, he was just hoping that nothing will happen to Sakura. They had to stop whatever was happening to her, or else she will die once the cherry tree was destroyed.
Author's Note
I'm really sorry that I haven't been on lately. You could say I have been discouraged lately. I don't really like my writing style, and when I try to write differently it takes me longer to write my chapters. I personally don't like this new procedure, that's why I stoped writing for a little bit. So please, if you can, tell me what I can do better. Thank you, and I hope you had fun reading. I'll be finishing this story in the next chapter, if I don't change my mind.
