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Chapter 20:

End of Conflict

"What is this enormous aura..." Macmillan wondered aloud as his knees felt all weak. Everyone inside Syaoran's Divination Circle had suddenly become frail. Chiharu, Yamazaki and Naoko with the other servants, affects by the circle too. Though the effect of it was not as bad as the others feel because they were at the outer part of the circle where the influence is less concentrated.

"The aura you're feeling right now is what we call chi," Syaoran told them. He has a mock smile in his face as he watched all of the soldiers and Palace Guards fell to their knees.

"This is..." Macmillan looked up at Syaoran. He was really pissed off but when he saw the looks on Syaoran's amber eyes, he felt the urge to ask for his mercy. 'What is going on?'

"Ron-kun, yamete...!" Chiharu tried to make him stop but Syaoran turn around and looked at her. His eyes full of authority in it yet very somber. Chiharu felt as if she had gone back to being a little girl. All frail and out powered. She fell to her knees.

"Chiharu-chan...!" Yamazaki exclaimed but he too was affected by Syaoran's chi and he could not seem to regain his strength. 'What is happening here...?'

For about two whole minutes, Syaoran held his chi at max and after that, he canceled his Divination Circle and all the Soldiers and Guards felt so worn out.

"I could easy kill all of you here, but I am not a murderer. I will attain justice for my kingdom in a manner that no one shall suffer. Tell that to the man who led the destruction of my kingdom. I will have my time and I will definitely make him pay," Syaoran told all of them. Without any more hesitations, Syaoran started to leave.

Macmillan tried to stand up. He cannot afford to let him escape. What would Eriol say if he finds out about this? What would become of him then?

"I will not let you..." but his whole body betray him. He could not move them as he wanted. He felt all numb and beaten up and he do not want to accept the truth that he had been defeated by just feeling an enormous amount of aura or chi.

Syaoran stopped just as he reached the great hall's entrance. He turns his head back to look at Macmillan. "By the way, the kind of force that I emitted or what you called chi has a side effect on people who felt it. Their bodies usually go numb and they will be a bit shaken for the next, hmm let's see…. Four to five hours," he said with a smile remembering that this was exactly the words of the man he acknowledge, his teacher, Takka-sensei. Syaoran left the great hall.

Macmillan gritted his teeth, 'Damn you Prince of Li.' He was just about to force himself again when he saw Chiharu getting up on her feet. 'Princess...'

Chiharu ignored the numb feeling in her whole body. She got up on her feet though it took all the strength left in her to do that.

'Chiharu...' Yamasaki was staring at her as she followed Syaoran. He also tried to stand up.

"Chiharu-sama...?" Naoko said also trying to stand up.

However, Chiharu ignored all of them. It was as if she was in a trance of some sort. She wanted to see Syaoran. She wanted to speak to him she... she did not want him to leave. 'Prince Syaoran...' her mind keeps on repeating his name.

Syaoran walked out the great hall and into the front hall. This is not exactly what he had in mind but he is still satisfied of the outcome. He found out that the man who led his Clan's destruction, is a man named Eriol. He wanted to know where he is now but he decided that this is not the right time to face him just yet. For one thing, he has not completely regained his strength now that his orb was missing. He cannot afford to face him knowing his disadvantages.

Syaoran was about to step out the front hall's door when he saw someone standing there. He was not sure how she got there before him but he was not surprise at her appearance either. He stared straight at Chiharu with such emotionless amber eyes.

Chiharu was breathing heavily. She had taken a quick routine from the great hall to the front hall. She was glad to see that she made it in time. "Ron-kun... or should I say Prince of Li?" she started.

Syaoran just stood there looking at her. He did not say any word and he never showed any emotion.

"So this is what you meant about being 'not your ordinary slave and palace guard' huh?" she laughed softly under her breath. "Honestly, I didn't take your words seriously," she confessed. "But for the past few weeks that I've known you and watched you, I started to think that maybe you're hiding something," Chiharu suppressed a smile. She was trying not to let her emotions take over her. She looked back at him and said, "You really are something. Prince of Li..."

Syaoran lowered his head. He did not do that to avoid Chiharu's eyes but because he saw a sword of one of the guards left on the floor. Now that we take it into accord, bodies and weapons lying all over the place surround the palace. He bent on his knees and picked up the sword. Chiharu, seeing this, hid the sudden frightened stir she felt. "Wha-what are you gonna do with that?" she asked trying her best to stay calm.

Syaoran look at her, still in his knees. He smiled at her mockingly that made Chiharu flush a little without knowing why. "Kill you," he answered very bluntly as he stood up.

Chiharu gasped at his answer. Somehow, with Syaoran saying those words, she must not take it lightly. Chiharu shook away the thought and stared back at him hiding her own emotions. "Really? Should I act scared for my life now?" she asked as if to test him. She was still feeling weak but she ignored it.

Syaoran smirked, "Let's see... How about start acting now," he pointed the sword at her direction.

By some means, Chiharu began to feel frightened with this man in front of her. Still keeping her cool, she suppressed a smile and said, "Do you actually think that I'll believe those words of yours? That I'll be scared to death now that you said you're going to kill me? You don't really expect me to believe you could do such a thing."

Syaoran looked at her with such malice, "Try me."

Chiharu was feeling hopeless now. She is not sure of what Syaoran plans but either way she cannot let him manipulate the situation. "You said it yourself back there. You are not a murderer so it only meant you can't or wouldn't try to kill me," she said. She was expecting him to snap harsh words towards her but to her astonishment she saw a feeble smile forming in Syaoran's lips. 'He... He is actually smiling?' she wonders stupefied. This would be the first time she had seen him smile.

Syaoran looked at Chiharu. She was surprised to see how gentle his amber eyes had become from the fierce and cold eyes he always shows. "Just as I thought, you are different. You're quite a bright Princess...," he said and she saw his eyes soften more.

'Is he smiling to me? No...' Chiharu realized that Syaoran's eyes looking back at her, is not really intended for her. It is as if he was seeing someone else in front of him. 'Could he be smiling because of a certain person? But why...?'

Syaoran lowered his head and closed his eyes, he chuckled under his breath remembering what he said. 'Quite a bright Princess huh?' he thought as he remembered this auburn haired little girl. He remembered how he, a younger one and this girl used to bite each other's head off. He actually admires her witty ways of answering his bickering at her. He recalled a time when he called her another name than the one he always call her. It all started like this...

"OJI-SAMA!"

"EEH!" Syaoran yelped in surprised and was almost knocked out. He looked at the auburn haired girl who was seated at his left. "What did you do that for!" he yelled at her.

"You were looking into space like an idiot," she told him.

"Well, it doesn't matter! You don't have to yell at me like that!"

"But I have to."

"And why's that?" he demanded.

"Because I wanted to know what we've got left for dinner," she answered as if she hadn't done anything wrong.

"Don't ask me, I'm not a refrigerator!" he snapped at her.

"But refrigerator doesn't always have dinner."

"What I meant is that leave me alone! You're such a pea brain."

"I'm not a pea brain!"

"Fine. Then airhead."

"Airhead? What is that?"

"Head full of air."

"But my heads not full of air. Inside my head I've got brain,"

Going back to his senses, he took a deep breath and looked at Chiharu once again. Coldness had come back in his amber eyes. "You should know about human instinct. Even if I said that, you never know what my instincts can make me do," he said.

"That is..." she was a bit disappointed seeing his cold stare back in his amber eyes.

Syaoran started to move closer to her but Chiharu did not made any move even though she had started to tremble in fear again. When he was almost a foot away from her, she was surprised when he walked passed her from her left side. He stopped when he was standing side by side her. Without turning his head, he started to speak.

"I don't care what you're reason in coming out here but, I can assure you that I'll come back. Likewise, until that day, I shall let you live. Next time we see each other, I will definitely kill you."

Chiharu's knees finally gave way underneath her. She fell onto her knees and started to cry. She knows that she cannot make him stay now that she realized that he has someone else in mind. Someone that she knows no one could replace in his heart. She was not sure why she is crying though. Maybe she had grown fond of him too. She does not want to know. She just cried her heart out, not even caring if someone sees her.

Syaoran stepped out of the front hall's door and into the palace grounds. He looked up ahead of him and saw, yet again another person that he was not surprise to see.

Yamazaki had regained his strength but just to a certain extent. He had his sword in place in his right hand as he looked at Syaoran as if to challenge him. "I will not let you pass," he declared with such deviance in his voice.

Syaoran stared at him, "What are you gonna do to stop me? Kill me?"

"I will if I have to."

Syaoran closed his eyes and started to walk towards him. Yamazaki prepared for his stance. He firmly gripped the handle of sword in his hands as he looked at Syaoran without blinking. To his astonishment, he just walked passed him without looking at him. Yamazaki is a bit aggravated at Syaoran's actions. He turned around and looked at Syaoran's back.

"You know I am serious in what I said," he told him.

Syaoran stopped in his track. He did not turn around to face Yamasaki but he answered him. "You are not the same as your father, Yamazaki. You... you actually have a kind heart. Something that I could never have," he said.

Yamazaki stared at Syaoran alarmed. He was not expecting him to say some things like that. Let's just say that from what Yamazaki had known about him, he is the type who doesn't speak of words like being kind or comparing people. "You're such an unpredictable person Prince of Li," Yamazaki said aloud.

"We will meet again," Syaoran told him and started to leave. Yamazaki did not know why his body refused to move and stop him. Even though he didn't want to, Yamazaki is a Prince of Lottuse and he can't let the Heir of Li just escape. They cannot afford the resurrection of the Li Kingdom since it had been the greatest achievement of their nation according to the King.

Yamazaki lowered his sword overpowered. Even though he try to make his body move and stop Syaoran, he is still affected by the unbelievable chi Syaoran had emitted back at the great hall. He watched as he disappeared out of sight. 'That is right... We will meet again, Prince of Li.'

Sakura woke up with a start. She looked around her and immediately got up on her feet. 'What...?' She had woken up to the other side of the bridge. She saw the bridge torn apart and the cliff that is supposedly on the other side had been destroyed. Its land had slithered down onto the river below.

'I remember now... There was this girl trying to get my cards... My Cards!' Sakura immediately rummaged inside her pocket and took out her cards. 'They were all safe...' she said with tears. 'But the other five cards... That young man,' she lowered her head and cuddle the Cards close to her. 'He took five more cards away then a girl showed up,' she tried to recall what had happened with her eyes close. 'A commotion followed and Tomoyo and I...' her eyes popped open as the thought of Tomoyo occurred to her. "Tomoyo-chan!" she immediately looked back at the other side of the cliff and tried to look for Tomoyo. 'No...' she saw the part of the cliff that had slide down to the river. She remembers herself and Tomoyo falling but that same light had saved her. 'No Tomoyo-chan...!' she looked down at the landslide, hot tears started to stream down her cheeks. Tomoyo could not have fallen there, right? No, that just cannot happen but where could she be? How about the young man and the mysterious girl, what had happened to all of them after the turmoil?

'I have to find Tomoyo-chan... She could not have... She just cannot... No...' she couldn't make herself finish her sentence. Trying to push the horrible thought, Sakura began to run to her right following the trail of the river. 'There should be another way back there other than the bridge,' she thought panic stricken. 'Please let Tomoyo-chan be alright, please...'

The tension at the Palace had seized now. Everyone is trying to put everything back into accord. While the others were busy sorting the mess up, Chiharu, Yamasaki and Naoko were all at the room where the little Chiharu was now resting. The other little ones had gone back to their rooms as Naoko instructed them.

Chiharu was watching the peaceful look in little Chiharu's face. She was still shaken from the occurrence earlier and she had been feeling unwell since she haven't stopped Syaoran from leaving. The moment she realized about Syaoran's potential back at the fortress, she had hoped that he is the answer to all her questions. She needed him for constructing peace to all the other Nations. She knew he is the type that is trustworthy and reliable but now. Chiharu sighed. She just could not make herself loosen up.

Yamazaki was watching Chiharu intently. He wanted to talk to her about what happened between her and Syaoran but he decided that he should leave her alone for the moment. He was worried and at the same time dejected with the thought that she may have develop a liking to the Prince of Li. He lowered his head trying to forget the thought.

Naoko have not spoken a single word since the revelation of Syaoran's identity. She had lost all hope in staying by his side no matter what. She wanted to be the one who will take away his miseries but then again, who's she fooling? He is the Prince and Prince do not befriend commoners like her. Those only happens in movies.

'Prince of Li... I guess you are right. I do not know anything about you,' Naoko thought gravely.

Syaoran was once again in the woods. The whole place is surrounded in darkness. It brought back memories in his childhood, when Takka-sensei had given him a rather complicated test. Syaoran took a deep breath and took out an amulet inside his suit. 'Same as before huh?' he thought grimly. He focused his mind on the amulet and slowly a fire lit just above it. It gave an eerie effect in the darkness, but who cares? It's not like someone is there to see him and be scared. Taking another deep breath, he started to move forward.

'Now where to go?' he wonders now feeling all stupid. He have not given a thought of that before. Maybe he should just go back to his kingdom. However, he knows it is ridiculous to think of that option since it might have been in ruins now.

How about looking for that girl at the station...?

A voice inside his head had said. Syaoran stopped and started to think once again. Come to think of it, he is still wondering why he saw someone that looked like Kinomoto at the station, not to mention she had called him 'Li-kun'. Or maybe he had imagined the 'Li-kun' part but then again, why would that girl tried to catch up to the train? 'If she is at the country what would be her reason?'

To find you, of course...

Syaoran shook his head. This voice in his head always gives him reason to think and he hated it. He wondered if it was his sub-consciousness talking to him or something else... Freaky.

He pushed all of his thoughts at the back of his head and started to walk once again. 'I should think of a way how to leave this place first before anything else. Surely, that Eriol person must have been informed about me already and they will be on the look out. This isn't what I had in mind,' he thought with a sigh.

Sakura came to a stop when she sense that very familiar aura once again. 'This aura...' she looked to her right at the woods. That feeling was too obvious to miss he is there somewhere.

'I have to— but... Tomoyo-chan...' Sakura was trying to decide whether to follow the aura or look for Tomoyo first. 'I came here to look for him but Tomoyo-chan is...' she closed her eyes trying to come up with a decision. 'And what if I just imagined that aura then Tomoyo will—,' she tried to block the horrible thought once again in her mind.

But she could feel the aura perfectly well. Actually, what she felt is the aura when she witnessed him use 'his' powers back when they were being chased by Lottuse Soldiers seven years ago. It is not really his aura though she had the urge inside her to go to the source of the aura.

'What should I do? I can't just let this chance get away but I can't leave Tomoyo-chan too. What must I do?' she asked herself hopelessly. She fell on her knees and clasp the Cards close to her again. Suddenly she thought of the cards, 'That's right the Cards but...' she remembered the mysterious girl and lowered her head. 'I can't. If I use the cards that girl might sense it and appear once again. What if I couldn't prevent her from taking the Cards away? No I can't do that,' Sakura was really losing hope now. She just couldn't decide but she know she has to.

'I... I have no choice put to decide...' she stood once again and looked at the direction of the river. "Tomoyo-chan..." she whispered into the wind. "I'll come back for you," she said and started to go look for the aura she senses.

Syaoran closed his eyes and tried to feel his way out the woods. Because of the darkness, it confused him and he couldn't remember where he and Rei had passed through. 'I could hear a river flowing nearby... Animals hiding among the dusk... Owls hooting away from their tree... An aura of someone—,' he halted and looked ahead of him with the amulet still in his hand. He couldn't make out the aura. He's not sure who it belongs to or what but he is positive that it isn't an aura of an animal.

He felt the aura drawing nearer. 'What is this...?' he wondered. 'Why can't I sense who it's from?'

Sakura felt the aura of magic ahead of her. She is positive of this aura now. It is the very same feeling of aura when Li used his magic against the Lottuse Soldiers. But what she doesn't understand is that why couldn't she feel him? This is just too weird.

Syaoran heard a twig breaking, as if someone had stepped on it, ahead. Preparing his self from whoever might show up, he took out another amulet in his suit.

Sakura could feel her heart pounding in her chest as she drew closer to the source of the aura. She is overwhelming with undefined excitement and fear. She just could not understand why. 'Li-kun...? Am I going to see you now?' she saw a faint glow of light ahead of her. Her heart racing wildly inside her.

Syaoran had felt the 'thing' or 'someone' drawing near him. Without anymore hesitation he step up and shouted, "Who's there!"

Sakura had arrived close enough to the source of the aura, to hear him shout. Tears of joy came falling from her eyes as she step up to the light. "Li-kun..." she said loud enough for Syaoran to hear.

Syaoran stared at the figure in front of him. His amber eyes met up with emerald eyes. He was frozen in his spot.

Sakura couldn't stop her tears from falling as she held her left hand in her mouth. She couldn't believe it. She is standing there now facing the man who had been hunting her thoughts for a long time. She's actually looking up at those stunning amber eyes of his. Without realizing what she was doing, she began to advance onto him. "It is you. It really is you..." she said through her tears as she held up her right hand to touch his cheeks. "Finally... I found you," she said. Her knees finally gave way underneath her as she let herself wrap her arms around him.

'K-Kinomoto...' Syaoran flushed as Sakura wrap her arms around him. His heart is racing inside him. He was standing there with Sakura and this isn't a dream nor an imagination. He could feel her in his arms. It is too warm to be an imagination. Too real.

Sakura buried her face in his chest as she cried. She was feeling many different emotions. She is upset about the cards. She was scared about the man she met earlier and the girl. She was worried about Tomoyo and now... She is overwhelmed in many different ways too. Seeing Li again, brought her undefined happiness. It also brought back all the emotions she had felt for him before.

"I... I'm..." she couldn't seem to find the right words to say.

Syaoran calmed himself and closed his eyes. This is it. The moment he had been waiting for. Seeing Kinomoto once again. He didn't want to think anymore. For the first time he let his heart decide. He held her close to him, feeling that this is all right.

Sakura felt him return her embrace. To be in his arms like this, it was all so right. "Li-kun..." she whispered as her body shook under his.

Syaoran felt her shiver. He opened his eyes to looked at the girl he held in his arms. "Come on, stop crying..." he whispered to her gently.

Sakura closed her eyes as she leaned on his chest. She remembered the first time he said those words to her. It was when she was crying about her mother. 'Li-kun...' she felt her heart throb inside her. It was a new profound feeling that she was about to find out soon. Little does she know, she just found her long lost love...

(A/N wah why do they have to be so sweeeeeeeeeeeet!)

Eriol slowly opened his eyes, as he smell something very sweet. 'That smell... Such a sweet scent—,' he halted as he remembered what happened earlier. He sat up straight just in time to see a girl with long wavy black hair add more woods on a bonfire at the middle of... a cave?

Tomoyo looked up at him and smiled, "You're awake."

Eriol looked back at her with bewilderment. He remembered now that she was the girl he control using the Move Card but why is she smiling at him like that? His vision suddenly became all blurry and his head ache. "Aahh..." he winced as he placed a hand on his forehead. He felt that his head was wrapped with bandages.

"You're sick and hurt. You should rest for a while," Tomoyo told him as she rush at his side and laid him back to the ground which was covered with leaves to serve as a bed.

Eriol refused to lie back down. He stared at her in confusion, "Why? Why did you help me? I just tried to hurt you and the Card Mistress." He saw her magnificent dark eyes filled with sadness but she just kept on her smile. "I just can't leave a sick person alone now don't I?" she said.

Eriol just stared at her. He knows that even so, she could have escape after mending his wounds but she did not. 'What is with her...?'

Tomoyo smiled at him once again. Eriol couldn't help go slight red on the face.

"Nothings with me, I just can't leave someone injured behind."

"You read my..."

Tomoyo just smiled, "Besides if I leave and left you here, wild animals may attack you in your sleep. You might die."

Eriol sweat dropped at her as she said the 'die' part very casually.

"Anyway, I am not a bad guy and I am not a murderer," Tomoyo said and gave him a real warm smile.

Eriol couldn't understand it. Her smile somehow got him very well. He had not felt this warm inside his heart before. This girl, for the first time he felt what it is like to be scared.

(A/N well? What do you think? There I finally got to the part of Eriol and Tomoyo phew... XD

Hope you enjoyed this one as much as I enjoyed writing it. Sorry again for the late update :P

RR pls! thank you minna! XD