Rewrite
By: Angel Kamiya
Chapter 12
Sakura whimpered as the Syaoran wrapped the bandage around her waist and the injury. They were in her room. They had gotten back a few minutes earlier and luckily Sakura's bother and dad hadn't been there to see them coming inside. They were also fortunate since the injury had only been minor and Syaoran knew how to take care of it. It had been easy enough at least according to his explanation. For the most part he just had to make sure there wasn't going to be any infection and she didn't lose anymore blood which was the biggest danger. Tomoyo helped get most of the supplies from downstairs.
While he was taking care of the injury, Syaoran found himself getting close to Sakura. It strange putting his hands on her, but he ignored the feeling so that he could help her. Most of Sakura's brown hair fell across her face, with the exception of those few strands that refused to do anything. She looked sweet and like a person he could never ever truly hate. Realizing his face was changing color and Tomoyo was watching them, Syaoran quickly tried to concentrate on what he was doing. He had no idea why he was thinking about her, it wasn't as though this was the first time he had ever laid his eyes on Sakura.
After he was done Syaoran got up from where he had been working besides Sakura's bed, and wiped his hands with a towel.
"That should do it," he announced, glad that it was finally over.
He started putting away all the supplies that they had used.
"I'm sorry," Sakura managed to get out, as she opened her eyes again.
"Sorry? What for..."
"Your clothes," Sakura replied, softy.
Not knowing what she was talking about he looked down at the blue kimono he was wearing. It was covered with a little of blood from Sakura's injury which he probably got from when he had caught her from falling.
"It's nothing. I can get another one," he answered, honestly not carrying.
Sakura realized that Syaoran was right there while she was buttoning up the bottom of her shirt, so she quickly turned away and finished dressing up, trying to not let him see that she was blushing furiously. Syaoran seemed to get the hint when he cleared his throat and started looking at the floor.
"I still think you should call an hospital," Tomoyo repeated, looking concerned. She had been there with them mostly to help get what Syaoran asked.
"No, I don't want my dad worried. I'm just relieved that Li-kun knew how to take care of this," Sakura explained, looking down at her shirt that she usually wore to school. It was pretty much ruined, stained and there was even a small rip to the side when she had been injured. Sakura felt a little sick just looking at it.
"Don't mention it, I learned this first aid stuff when a few years ago. I just never thought I would actually use it.," Syaoran answered, looking tired.
Syaoran had been very troubled when he found Sakura earlier. But now that she was alright again he was back to normal.
"We were really worried about you Sakura-chan," Tomoyo stated, slowly.
"You should get some sleep now. Take it easy for the next few days and you'll get better," Syaoran suggested, now putting everything away. "I'll try to find out more about this friend of ours."
Sakura nodded still not believing the fact that she nearly passed out earlier. What happened earlier when she went outside seemed like it had been a terrible nightmare. She didn't say anything else when both her friends started to leave.
When they were outside of Sakura's bedroom, Syaoran turned to face Tomoyo.
"Kinomoto is going to be okay," Syaoran explained, sighing. He wanted to speak with Tomoyo privately which was why there were outside. "But it would probably be a good idea if you stayed with her for the rest of the night, and call me if she needs help."
"What are we going to do about Sakura?"
"It'll take a few days for her injury to start healing. I think I might want to try a healing spell to help her."
"That's not what I meant," Tomoyo replied, looking like he forgot something important. "I was taking about the disagreement you two had earlier today. You know the whole trying the relationshipthing."
"What?" Syaoran replied, a little surprised.
"My mom got these two zoo tickets for me and one of my friends," Tomoyo smiled taking something out what looked like two slips of paper out of her pocket. "I think I'll be pretty busy tomorrow afternoon so maybe you should ask Sakura out. You two can talk."
"Maybe we should wait a little bit. Kinomoto has gone through a lot recently."
"I don't think it'll do Sakura any good if she had to be coped up in her room all weekend do you?"
"Yeah, you're right. I need to just speak to her again when she still doesn't mind talking to me," he announced, looking determined. Taking a deep breath he went back into Sakura's room again.
Sakura wasn't in bed like he expected, but at her desk. It looked like she was trying to draw something. A few pieces of crumpled paper were on the ground. Mirror had transformed back into card, and was sitting on top of the Clow book which had been placed on the side of the desk. Syaoran went over to where Sakura was at.
"I didn't want to fall asleep yet," she uttered. "I didn't want to risk forgetting what he looked like."
Sakura's sketch had been very good, almost looking like a picture taken from a camera. The tall person wore dark robes designed with the shape of swords and stars. Looking at the drawing suddenly made Syaoran's blood boil knowing that the individual that hurt Sakura was still out there.
"This is good. I'm sure we will find out who he is."
Sayoran wondered if the person in the drawing was just someone that knew magic or if it involved something more.
"Li-kun, can I ask you a favor?"
"Sure. Anything."
Sakura had changed into a new while shirt that looked to be the kind she usually wore to school. Syaoran noticed that a blue tie was draped over the back of the chair that she was sitting in.
"The reason why I was out earlier was that I was looking for Kero-chan. He wasn't home when I got back. Can you try to see where he is when you leave tonight?"
It suddenly hit him how uttered unconcerned Sakura was about herself. If another girl that was around Sakura's age and had just gotten in the same situation she had been in might probably would have freaked and not be able to do anything for an entire day, but not Sakura. This was one of the things Syaoran admired about her. Sakura usually thought about others before herself.
"I can do that. Don't worry, he is probably just went to see what the festival was like,"
There was a loud footsteps from outside Sakura's room as Tomoyo rushed into the room. It looked like she had just managed to beat someone else at getting inside.
"Touya is coming up here!"
"What?" Sakura exclaimed, horrified at what her brother would think about a boy being in her room at such at such a late hour. Standing up quickly she began to think of the best place for Syaoran to be at. "You have to hide!"
Syaoran felt like he had just been hit in the arm so he didn't argue. Tomoyo led him to some place where he wouldn't be discovered. A few seconds later Syaoran heard someone else walking into the room.
"What's going on?" Touya asked, suspiciously.
Walking inside he looked around expecting to see something that he wasn't supposed to know about.
"Why are you always asking these sort of things?" Sakura muttered, taking a seat on the chair by her desk, now more annoyed with him than concerned about her brother finding out Syaoran was hiding there.
"I just wanted to ask you something," he replied, walking over to where Sakura was at. "You weren't at the school when dad and I arrived were you?"
"No, there was something I had to do," Sakura muttered, throwing the crumpled drawings she had done into the wastebasket.
Sakura always felt bad whenever she had to lie to someone, especially her family. But ever since she started looking for the Clow cards that's all she had been doing whenever someone asked her a strange question. So that was why she was being as vague as possible.
"Like talking to the kid."
"The.. the what?" Sakura replied, a little upset. "Please stop calling him that. His name is Li Syaoran and he is a great friend."
"If that's what you want. But I still think you should introduce him to me one of these days," he murmured, crossing his arms.
"Maybe someday," Sakura replied.
"Goodnight."
"You don't have to look out for me you know," Sakura whispered, as he left. "I'm not a little girl anymore."
After a while, Syoaran got out from underneath the bed now that it was safe again. Being there reminded him of the last time he had to hid under a bed, only this time someone had ordered him to hide there. Sakura suddenly heard another knock coming from the window from outside. Looking at the direction where the sound had came from she saw that it was Kero!
"Where were you?" Sakura started, as she opened the window.
For a moment she considered yelling at him but stopped. She had a good reason for being mad at him since he was the reason she went out looking for him in the place. But thinking it a little more she decided blaming him wouldn't accomplish anything, and what happened earlier to her hadn't been his fault either.
"We were worried about you," Tomoyo uttered.
"I went looking for you at the school, but you weren't there," he explained, tiredly. Flying inside he landed on the desk without much trouble. Kero placed his head on his arms.
"I left early today," Sakura explained, sitting back down at her desk.
They told Kero everything that had happened with Sakura. Kero listened.
"I think I saw the person that has been causing us all this trouble lately. I drew a picture. Have you ever seen him before?" she asked the Beast of the Seal, hoping he knew.
Kero immediately flew back into the air again at the news and took a long look at her drawing. First amazed at how good it was then a little perplexed at how the person in it looked.
"I don't know who he is. But I do think there is something familiar about him."
"What do you mean familiar?" Syaoran asked, hoping he would be able to help them.
Tomoyo had gotten up again after seeing Kero fly into the room. There was something bothering her but she didn't say anything.
"Back then Clow Reed taught me many things about the magical world, but it was so long ago."
"Is this one of the things you forgot about while you were asleep guarding the Clow book?" Sakura sighed, holding onto the pillow on her bed.
One of the biggest problems that Kero had was forgetting important things while he had been sleeping while guarding the Clow book. Sakura was happy to have him there, but at times she really wished that he had a better memory. A few times Kero had even forgotten to wake her up for school when the alarm hadn't done it's job.
"That's not it! I'll probably start remembering if I think about it more."
Sakura was starting to suspect that the person she met had something to do with her not being able to get to the last Clow card for the past few weeks. It wasn't like all the other times when a Clow card was in hiding or causing trouble, this time it really had been someone deliberately keeping a card away from them. The biggest problem now was that they had to find out who the person was, since they knew next to nothing about him except that he really seemed to be up to no good.
"I don't think I ever want to met him again," Sakura continued, truthfully. "He scares me."
"Kinomoto."
"Li-kun? Oh! Sorry about what almost happened," Sakura started, turning around to look at him. "Touya usually knocks before rushing into my room. What is it?"
Syaoran got out a slip of paper that he had been holding in his pocket and held it out for her to take. Sakura, not understanding at first, thought he was doing a spell or something. Realizing that he was wanted her to have it, she took it.
"A ticket?" she muttered, trying to see where it was for.
"I thought, if you had time tomorrow, that we could go to the city zoo together."
"Together?" Sakura repeated quietly, befuddled. "I'll think about it."
Sakura looked down not wanting him to see what she might have been thinking. This was something she really wanted to say yes to but it didn't seem right for some reason. It wasn't like Syaoran to suddenly ask her something like this from out of the blue. Just a few hours earlier she had thought he didn't really want to be around her.
"Meet me at Penguin Park tomorrow at noon if you decide to go."
Sakura nodded, appreciating what he was doing.
"I better get going," he stated, already at the window. Syaoran took one foot outside on the ledge that was outside.
"Goodbye! Thanks Li-kun!"
"Yeah. Have a good night."
Sakura watched him leave. Looking outside for a little while she found herself imagining how long it would take for him to get back to his home. Turning around she dropped onto her bed again. Sakura sighed, hoping that she wouldn't have to wake up too early the next day to do too many chores, while Tomoyo began to set up her sleeping bag on the ground close by. Sakura was glad that Kero and Tomoyo as going to stay and watch over her that night.
Sakura put her head on the pillow and stared up at the ceiling. It didn't seemed like the next few days would be very easy. They had to find out who had tried to attack her and try to get the last Clow card away from him. She thought about the ticket that Syaoran had given her. At least the next day wouldn't be so bad. Sakura closed her eyes and quickly fell asleep.