Rewrite
By: Angel Kamiya
Chapter 50

For some reason there had been an eclipse shortly after Sakura and Tomoyo left. Syaoran was pacing back and forth in the alley when everything had gone dark. After that happened Kero began looking even more concern then the young magician was while Meiling stood there silently preparing for anything that could have gone wrong. The rain had finally stopped which meant that Syaoran didn't have to worry about Sakura getting back even more late then she already was because of the wild weather. Now he was really starting to regret letting Sakura go with Tomoyo with him. It had seemed like such a good choice at the time because Sakura had asked.

Syaoran finally stopped and headed towards the street. There was no way he was going to be able to handle another minute of waiting!

"Whoa! Syaoran! Where do you think you are going?" Meiling asked, running after him.

"What does it look like? I'm going to find out what's taking them so long!"

Not believing how reckless Syaoran was acting, Meiling only stared at him like he had forgotten what they were all doing there in the first place. When everyone in town had all found out about Sakura's activities involving the Clow cards it seemed the world had begun crumbling around them. Meiling knew that Syaoran had left school that day and he couldn't even stay at his own apartment anymore. There was no way for them to know for sure if the media had found out that Syaoran could do magic or if they had simply been there because he was seeing Sakura. Meiling didn't like it one bit.

If they stayed together they at least had a chance to try to fix everything before things could really get out of hand, but it seemed Syaoran was thinking otherwise.

"We just can't start splitting up now! I'm sure that Kinomoto is-"

"I don't care what you think Meiling!"

Meiling was a little hurt at his statement but she refused to show him that it had affected her.

"I should have known that something like this would happen." Meiling muttered. "Now you are turning against us just because of her!"

Syaoran couldn't take it anymore. It was bad enough that his family had seemly acted behind his back because they had not wanted him to start seeing Sakura for some reason, but now Meiling had turned against him? There were no words for how he was feeling anymore. The entire town had found out about Sakura's secret but Meiling only seemed to care about herself.

"Who is this us that you are talking about Meiling?" Syaoran replied, ready to say what was really on his mind. "Are you talking about the same Elders that sent Lucien to Tomoeda just to take the Clow cards?"

"I don't know what the Elders had planned Syaoran. I was sent by your mother to watch over you."

"You mean spy."

"No. I was sent to watch." Meiling responded, narrowing her eyes. "I understand that you want someone to blame for what they did but I'm not letting you get into trouble just because you are mad!"

Syaoran paused when he recognized that Meiling was trying to stop him from doing something irrational. Not believing how he was acting he turned away from her and looked at he wall to think about what to say next. This was one thing that he needed to do. Syaoran needed to find out what was taking Sakura so long to get back. They had been gone for almost half an hour now!

Without thinking, Syaoran turned back to look at Meiling.

"I'm not mad at you for what they did Meiling. I know that it's not your fault." Syaoran muttered, now regretting losing his temper for few moments. "But... but I have to make sure that Sakura is okay."

"If you don't get back in thirty minutes I'll be forced to go after you. Don't do anything stupid."

"I'm sure nothing is wrong, I'll be back before you know it."

Syaoran took out the board from his backpack. After saying an incantation a light appeared on the board pointing towards the direction where the nearest Clow card, or a person like Sakura who held Clow cards, was supposed to be at. Putting it away in his backpack he quickly left.

After getting out of the alley and he began searching for his two friends. They couldn't have gotten very far since they had only been searching for payphones. Along the way he thought he saw Sakura a couple of times but it was never her. With each passing minute he felt himself getting more and more worried. Syaoran wished that he had the fly card since that would have made looking for them much easier.

Not too far away Tomoyo was running up the stairs of a deserted building.

Tomoyo finally opened the door and ran onto the roof. There was a battle taking place there and it was completely one side. Since Sakura didn't have her Sealing wand she could not stand up for herself. Shadow stood menacing over Sakura like a predator would over it's prey.

"Don't hurt Sakura!" Tomoyo yelled, running towards where Sakura was at.

Shadow turned it's attention to Tomoyo.

"Tomoyo-chan get out of here! Shadow is dangerous!"

The Sealing Rod in her hand somehow suddenly turned back to the Clow key by itself. Tomoyo threw the Clow key at where Sakura was standing. Shadow lurched forward and tried to catch it but it flew through the cloaked figure as though it wasn't there. Moments later Sakura caught the key in her hand and it quickly transformed back to the Sealing Rod. Sakura took out a Clow card.

"FLY!"

With a gust of wind Sakura flew into the air hoping that she could lure Shadow away. If Shadow followed her then Tomoyo would be safe. Sakura had captured Shadow before and it wouldn't take much time to do it again. Before Sakura knew what was happening the Clow card had left her. Instead of chasing after Sakura, it had flown over to Tomoyo!

Tomoyo fearfully took several steps away from the Clow card but stopped when she realized that she had reached the ledge. Any more steps back and she would fall. There was a moment of silence as Tomoyo stood there frozen while looking at the cloaked figure of Shadow. It's eyes seemed to be glowing red. The wind lightly blew against Tomoyo making her shiver because of the cold. Everything that happened next seem to happen in slow motion. Shadow raised it's arm and hit Tomoyo sending her falling off the building.

"Tomoyo-chan!"

Sakura tried to fly forward to catch her friend, but Shadow flew into the air to block her path. Flying back to the ground Sakura took out another Clow card.

"THUNDER!"

Several lightning bolts fell from the sky hitting the cloaked figure. Shadow suddenly flew upward and before Sakura knew what was happening had covered most of the sky. It seemed like a giant now. Shadow swung it's long arms trying to smash the Card Captor.

Sakura barely managed to get out of it's way. While dodging everything that the cloaked figure was throwing at her, she tried to come up with another plan. There had to be a quick way to stop Shadow but she just didn't know how she was going to do it. The Shadow was strongest in complete darkness, in the absence of light. It quickly occurred to Sakura how she was supposed to defeat the Shadow.

Sakura carefully picked out another card.

"LIGHT!"

The sky was filled with a blindingly white light.

Now weaken Shadow shrank back and hit the ground. Sakura ran forward to stop the card from escaping. Sakura held out the Sealing Rod so she could reseal it again.

"Return to the form you were meant to be! Clow card!"

Shadow soared at her and moments later there was a card floating there. Sakura quickly grabbed the Shadow card and ran to the side of the building where Tomoyo had fell from. Not being able to think straight, Sakura hoped that there was something that she could do. Sakura was still too shocked to think clearly. Tomoyo had fallen off a building and was seriously injured!

Sakura was horrified at what she had let happen. There was no reason why she should have let Tomoyo fall like that. In fact she should have stopped Shadow much sooner. While she reached Tomoyo she felt herself trembling in grief. Sakura didn't know what to do. Sakura felt like something she had known her entire life had been taken from her. While she leaned over she noticed that Tomoyo wasn't awake.

Sakura reached forward and tried to shake Tomoyo's shoulders to get her attention.

"Tomoyo. Tomoyo. Tomoyo. TOMOYO!" Sakura yelled, in tears.

Tomoyo didn't respond.

Not knowing what to do for what seemed like an eternity Sakura finally ran to the payphone that they had just used minutes before to call for help. Sakura was shaking so badly that she didn't think she could dial the numbers at first. It took a few moments until someone finally answered.

"Fire Department... Fire or ambulance?" the operator asked.

"I... I need an ambulance!"

"What happened?"

"Tomoyo's hurt! Tomoyo-chan fell... I... couldn't help her!"

The operator seemed to have stopped for a moment to write down what Sakura had just told her. Sakura didn't know what to do but stay there on the phone. There had to be something she could do but at that moment she was drawing a blank. Sakura waited for the operator to say something... anything.

"Where are you?"

"I'm calling from the phone by Tomoeda Library by the mall! Please... please hurry!"

"I need you to stay with your friend until the ambulance I sent arrives."

The one thing that Sakura knew was that there was no way she was going to leave Tomoyo's side. If Tomoyo hadn't been there then Sakura didn't know what would have happened. Shadow had appeared from out of no where just when the sky had darken. Everything that was happening seem to be some kind of terrible nightmare. Sakura was too petrified to think clearly.

"Okay..."

"What's your name?"

"Sakura. My... my name is Sakura."

"Sakura, is there anyone there with you?"

For a moment Sakura wanted to hang up the phone and go running back to where Syaoran and Kero had been waiting for her. It would have probably taken her a few short minutes if she used the Fly card to get back. They needed to know what had happened. There had to be something that they could do. Sakura really wished that Syaoran had gone with them. Would Tomoyo had gotten hurt if Syaoran had been there?

"No... everyone's gone... Tomoyo-chan's hurt." Sakura repeated, finding it very hard to hold the phone now. "I think I should go get Syaoran-kun... he might-"

There was a long silence from the other end of the phone.

"No, you can't leave. You have to stay by her side. Do you understand?"

"I... I... I understand." Sakura replied, looking at Tomoyo who was laying on the ground not too far away.

"Someone will be there in a few minutes."

"Arigato"

Sakura hung up the phone. Quietly walking back to Tomoyo's side she sat down on the ground. Sakura took off her jacket and put it over Tomoyo to keep her warm. While she sat there she realized how deathly quiet everything was. Everyone that had been there had run away when Shadow had appeared out of nowhere during the eclipse. There was no one there now except the two of them. It was so quiet. The only sounds came from the light wind and a few animals that were close by.

Sakura took Tomoyo's hand and held it.

Why were all these terrible things happening? Sakura didn't understand anymore. It seemed like she waited there for hours with Tomoyo for the ambulance

"It's sad isn't it? If people didn't find out that you had the Clow cards none of this would have happened." the girl muttered.

Very startled, Sakura saw that it was the girl that they had met the other day, the one for a while that only Syaoran could see. The girl seemed to have changed her clothes and was now wearing a purple kimono instead of the dress that they had first seen her in. While she stood there she didn't seemed bothered at what had just happened at all.

"Please help Tomoyo! Please!" Sakura cried, remembering what she had done for Kero.

"Doesn't it hurt when a friend is taken away from you?"

"What are you talking about? Why are you saying these things?"

"I unsealed Firey and Shadow." the girl muttered. "I wanted everyone to find out that you had the Clow cards and I wanted you to understand what it was like to lose a friend."

"You... you are the reason everything's been going wrong."

"I want to make a deal with you Sakura-chan. Release my friend from the Dark card and I'll help Syaoran turn back time so no one in Tomoeda remembers you have the Clow cards, and Tomoyo will be fine."

"Lucien's your friend?"

"Syaoran-kun won't be able to help Tomoyo by himself. Think about what I said Sakura-chan."

The girl suddenly disappeared in a wink of light leaving Sakura there alone.

Sakura sat there astounded for a few moments. When she realized what she had just heard she began hearing the ambulance. Sakura quickly got up while they finally arrived onto the scene. Two people got out of the ambulance to get Tomoyo. They looked at her and it seemed like Tomoyo was in terrible shape. After telling Sakura which hospital they are going to take Tomoyo to, they left. Sakura watched as the ambulance was completely gone before running back to find her friends.

Sakura continued running through the street. Along the way Sakura wasn't able to think of anything but Tomoyo and also finding out where her friends were at. Sakura had to find Syaoran.

To her surprise, Sakura found Syaoran on the street after a few minutes. It seemed that he had decided to look for her.

When Syaoran saw Sakura he was taken completely off guard by her appearance. Sakura seemed like she could collapse at any moment. Instead of wearing the coat that she had on when she had left it was missing and now she was soaking wet. It seemed that Sakura had also been crying too. Syaoran immediately rushed up to find out what had gone wrong. Sakura almost didn't seem to even notice him at first.

"Sakura! Are you okay? What happened... where's Tomoyo?" Syaoran asked, lightly taking a hold her shoulders.

"There was an accident... Tomoyo-chan fell." Sakura muttered, finding everyone word tortuous to get out. "You have to go with me to the hospital... please."

"Tell me where." Syaoran replied, hoping that they could get there fast enough to do something.

Sakura told him the name of the hospital and they were off. Along the way Sakura filled him in on what had gone on. Syaoran couldn't believe what had happened after Tomoyo and Sakura had left together. For some reason Syaoran got impression that there was something that Sakura wasn't telling him. Whenever Syaoran tried to look at Sakura it would only follow with her looking away from. Syaoran took off his jacket to give to Sakura to wear so she would not be so cold.

When they finally reached the hospital, Sakura felt everything that had happened began to fully sink in. Tomoyo was really hurt and Sakura had been partially responsible. Sakura didn't know what she was going to do anymore. There was a part of her that wanted to stop being the Card Captor since that had been the reason her best friend was in the hospital in the first place. While sitting there Sakura wished that she had been quicker at helping Tomoyo. Sakura really hated hospitals.

Syaoran quickly began asking for a doctor. Eventually someone told him that Tomoyo still hadn't arrived yet and they would have to wait. Walking back he saw that Sakura was now staring outside the glass window almost as if in a trance. Syaoran quietly sat down on the chair that was by Sakura and held her hand to show her that he was there.

Syaoran noticed that Sakura seemed so distant all of a sudden. Perhaps without thinking he gently brushed Sakura's untidy hair to the side so it wouldn't be in the way. Seeing Sakura like this was absolutely killing him. Tomoyo was his friend too so Syaoran was very concerned but he knew that Sakura was likely feeling a hundred times worse. The silence between them didn't bother Syaoran at all but he knew that he needed to get her to talk.

For a moment Sakura wanted to get away from there. Whenever she was around Syaoran what always happened was that she could think of nothing but him. This was not the time for this, she had to be there for Tomoyo.

Without warning, Syaoran moved forward and seized Sakura in his arms. At first Sakura was too taken back by his actions to even respond. Sakura rested her head on his shoulder finally getting herself to stop shaking with fright. They were like that for what seemed like hours even though it was probably a minute or two. When Syaoran let go Sakura wanted to tell him that she wanted him to hold her longer but she couldn't work up the courage to say anything. Sakura blushed at her own thoughts.

"What happened Sakura?"

"I... I was trying to recapture Shadow when Shadow just pushed Tomoyo..."

"I don't believe it."

There was another thing that Sakura knew that she had to tell Syaoraon. After Tomoyo had fallen the girl dressed in purple had appeared again to reveal some startling information. It seemed she had been the reason for all their Clow card troubles. For some reason the girl wanted her to let Lucien go free! It didn't make any sense. What did she have to do with Lucien besides the fact that the two of them could do magic?

"That little girl appeared after Tomoyo got hurt."

"The one that we helped?"

"Yeah, that one." Sakura muttered. "I... I think she wanted me to free Lucien from the place that I sent him."

Sakura started remembering everything that had recently happened. It didn't take long for her to start thinking more about what the little girl had told her when she appeared after Tomoyo had been hurt. That girl had caused two of the Clow cards to get out of control. Did this also mean she had the Mirror card with her? What kind of terrible mistake had they made in helping her get free?

While thinking about the girl, it suddenly occurred to Sakura that they might already have something that could tell them exactly who she was. The girl had given them Clow Reed's journal which meant that there was something she wanted them to find out about her. Tomoyo would be arriving at the hospital soon, and Syaoran needed to use his magic to help her even if everyone saw them. It didn't matter if anyone knew they could use magic anymore.

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A/N: Please Review! Tell me what you think of my story. Thanks to everyone that has reviewed so far!

Next chapter will be up this Tuesday. It'll mostly be about what Sakura will do next.

AirStriker - It was supposed to her being nice and a little creepy
kenshinlover2002 - The next two or three chapters will be a little about him
Armageddon Angel - I'm pretty sure it will be great for Sakura to finally find out what he thinks
Leenix - I always try to update when I can
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Adina The Angel - Thanks, I already know how the next couple chapters will go and how it will end
Dragon and Sword Master - Sakura was too surprised to think clearly, Sakura probably can't afford an answering machine though
themightylupe - Nakuru is too busy thinking Sakura is cute and always hugging her to be scared :D
Hasaki Keissi - I didn't realize how much girl talk the pervious chapter would have, but I'm happy how it turned out. So far I try to keep this story mostly serious but I always remember to put in funny scenes. Thanks for the very in depth review.