Sakura-san: Okies, Chapter 4 up with chapter 3! that is good for me! I hoe you people enjoy it...
Ryoko: Yes enjoy it! The works from the dark side of me!!!!!!
Sakura-san: You know we make a whole....
Ryoko: Let them read the fic okay??!!
~Chapter 4: While Hiking~
Sakura woke up with the first sound of a trumpet. She had gotten used to it by now. It had been a week at camp. She lay on her pallet for awhile and stared at the ceiling of the white tent. She vaugly noticed the fact that Syaoran wasn't there. She let out a big yawn, and stood up. She got dressed in blue jeans, a pink t-shirt, white socks, and brown hiking-type boots.
"Might as well see what is for breakfast," she told herself as she walked out of the tent, in a crouch.
She walked over to a building that had the word: Mess Hall, written above the wooden door. A bunch of people were already there, including more of the councilers. Sakura spotted Mizuki Kaho, Touya's girlfriend. She walked over and greeted her.
"Ohayo, Mizuki-sensei!"
"Ohayo, Sakura-chan. How are you this morning?" Kaho replied.
Sakura grinned at her. "I am great, and am ready for the day! How about you Mizuki-sensei?"
Kaho smiled sweetly, "I am feeling about the same as you. Oh and as a little secret-" she bent down to whisper into Sakura's ear- " we are going on a hike today."
"Hurrah!" Sakura yelled happily.
"Now you should eat, so you have energy for it. Everything will be explained about it after breakfast," Kaho told Sakura, and walked off to greet other campers.
Sakura spotted Syaoran at a table all by himself. She walked over and sat down next to him.
"Ohayo, Li-kun," she greeted with happiness.
"Ohayo," he responed while not looking up from his plate of eggs. He wasn't eating, just stirring at the eggs with a fork absentmindedly.
Sakura looked at him with concern. He looked like he didn't sleep at all in the past week.
Chiharu, Yamazaki,Rika, and Naoko saw Sakura and walked over. They sat down.
"Ohayo Sakura-chan!" They all said.
"Ohayo minna-san!"
Syaoran remained silent.
Yamazaki looked at him. "Li-kun, what's the matter?" he asked.
Syaoran looked up at him. "Nothing," he answered and got up. He walked over to the trash and dumped the eggs out.
Sakura watched him walk out with worry. He didn't even eat...
After breakfast.....
"Today we are going on a hike!" Yukito announced throught the megaphone to the campers that were lined up.
They all cheered, except Syaoran, who smiled faintly.
"But there is a twist to this hike! It is coupled as a scavenger hunt. You have to find the items on your list, and then take them to the meeting spot. The group that make it first, will recive a mystery prize. I know it sounds like it is for young children, but this will be a challenge, for you'll have to use your brains to figure out where the items even are. Good Luck to you all!" Yukito explained.
Everyone gathered their lists and a map. Then they all set off for the forest.
Sakura and Syaoran climb the hill in silence, until Syaoran asked what the first item was.
Sakura looked at the list. "An oak leaf." She looked around. There were no other trees than pines that she could see. "How are we supposed to find an oak leaf, when there aren't any oak trees around here?!" she exclaimed.
Syaoran sighed. He glanced at the surroundings. "We are high up, so an oak wouldn't be found here. We have to go south," he stated.
Sakura looked at him with thanks. "Thank you Li-kun!"
They went back down, and sure enough, they found an oak tree near where they had started.
Mabye we should have looked at the list earlier. Sakura thought.
They began to go back up, in search of a granite rock.
Syaoran went back to his own thoughts. Something inside of him stirred suddenly. His head snapped up. "Not now..." he moaned.
Sakura stopped walking as he grounded to a halt. She noticed that Syaoran's body, was tense. He was rigid. "Syaoran, what's wrong?" she asked.
Syaoran felt the darkness stir even more. Hatred for everything around him filled his mind. White hot, hatred and anger at the world. His mind was being wiped away, by the darkness.
"Li-kun?! What's the matter with you?!" Sakura shouted with worry. She had grabbed his shoulders. She felt that his muscles were so tense...they wouldn't relax.
Sakura looked up into his eyes, and saw strain in them.
"Li-kun?! Is something wrong with your mind????"
"L-listen to m-me...g-et away! Run as fast as you can from me!" Syaoran commanded in a strained voice.
Sakura's eyes filled with fear, as Syaoran's brown eyes filled with something different than before. They had hatred in them.
Sakura released Syaoran's shuolders and backed away from him. She didn't leave completely though.
Syaoran tried to resist, but couldn't. The darkness inside of him was too powerful at this moment...it hadn't used it's powers in a long time... A nasty wind began to blow. It was powerfull and ripped trees up and threw them down. Dark clouds covered the sky, and lightning struck at the ground, killing plants and insects.
Sakura stared at Syaoran in complete fear.
"Hate....my hate will be felt...for this damn, light-filled world...the one that took her from me. This damned lighted world!" Syaoran shouted in a strange voice.l
Sakura heard footsteps, and whiped around. Her big brother and Kaho had heard the sounds of the thunder caused by the lightning, and had come to look for her and Syaoran.
"Oni-chan! Mizuki-sensei!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Everyone else had returned, but you two, we had gotten worried, and had gone looking for you," Touya explained.
At the sound of his voice, Syaoran whipped his head around to glare at the three people.
He pointed, in their direction, and a long stream of black fire flew out at them.
Touya grabbed Sakura and Kaho, and jumped out of the way.
"What the hell was that?!" He shouted to be heard over the sound of the unnatural storm.
"Black fire," Sakura mumbled. Why did this all seem familiar to her?
The forest around them was being virtually destroyed.
Syaoran let out an evil laugh. "So long...it is about time I let out my rage on the world for stealing my love...it is about time I darkened this light!"
Sakura couldn't take it anymore. She ran towards Syaoran.
"Syaoran! This isn't like you! This isn't you at all!" She shouted.
All of this was ignored, even though she had used his first name.
"STOP IT SYAORAN!!!" Sakura screamed. A glowing nimbus surrounded her.
This caught his attention. "Light..."
Sakura closed her eyes, and held her hands out infront of her. The light gathered into her hands. Her hair stired in the wind. The light shot out of her hands, and hit Syaoran dead on. He fell to the ground. The wind stoped blowing, the storm clouds dissapeared, and everything settled into a strange silence.
Touya gaped at his sister. Kaho just smiled.
"I am sorry oni-chan, Mizuki-sensei, but I don't want you to have to remember this," Sakura murmured. A different light from her hands washed over them, and they both slumped to the ground.
Sakura had no idea how she did any of this.
Syaoran opened his eyes, to the site of the ceiling of the tent. "I lost control in a major way that time...I...I..." Silent tears rolled down his face.
"Syaoran, you're awake! I am so happy, I had almost thought that I had ended up killing you!" Sakura exclaimed.
Her happy face came into view. So beautiful.
"Oni-chan and Mizuki-sensei don't remember what happened, so it is okay," she informed him.
Syaoran stared up into her face. "Sakura..."
Sakura started and then smiled at hearing him say her name for the first time.
"You saved me from myself...It wasn't me though....I...."
Sakura's eyes became sad for him. "Syaoran...it is okay, everyone thinks that a freak storm hit and destroyed the forest, so no one will know what happened but us!"
Syaoran sat up and shook his head feircly. "I will never forget it or be able to forgive myself for what has happened. I destroyed everything...this darkness within my soul...."
"You know Syaoran, I forgive you...even though I feel that there is nothing to forgive you for. It wasn't your fault 'cause it wasn't your own heart," Sakura comforted him.
He started at this. "Have you ever felt that you have known me before this life?"
Sakura nodded.
"You're the light, and I am the darkness....it creates balance....." he murmured, to where Sakura couldn't here it.
"Syaoran, why don't you get some more sleep, or if not that, something to eat. you must be tired and hungry," Sakura suggested.
Syaoran shook his head. "I don't sleep anymore. I can't. The darkness keeps me awake. And I can't eat. When I try, I feel like I will just throw it up anyway."
Sakura gave him a worried look. "Syaoran, you'll get sick if you keep that up."
"I already feel as if I am. I am a danger to anyone who gets close to me, so all of these years, I have driven off people after I nearly killed my cousin. That is when I ran from home...but Sakura, you are different."
"How am I different?" Sakura asked.
"You're presence comforts me, and keeps me sane. Without you here the past few weeks, I think I might be lost completely to the darkness. And your power...saved me and the darkness remembers it from somewhere..." Syaoran trailed off.
"Syaoran, I won't let you be dragged into the darkness. My light remembers you too, and I think I will protect you from the evil!" Sakura stated.
Syaoran blushed. I may have just fallen in love with the light...but I can't stay near her, or I'll end up killing her or hurting her like Mei Ling, and I won't let that happen! That is why I can't...but I love her...I love her so much...
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Sakura-san: There how was it?
Ryoko: Getting weird isn't it?
Sakura-san:: *glares at Ryoko* What was that?!
Ryoko: I SAID IT WAS GETTING WEIRD! And kinda dark...
Sakura-san: *huge angry mark* Anyways, it is too late to write more, so be on the lookout for chapter 5 later.
Ryoko: Yes come read more from Miss Dark...
Sakura-san: Ignore that idiot *stuffs pillow into Ryoko's mouth* Please R/R! I want to know what is thought about this one. Thankx for reading.