Um...this is the 5th chapter of Finding the Light of the Moon. It's a Sakura Yue fic and I hope you all enjoy it. And just for the sake of my bank account, I don't own CCS...I wish I did though, just lie all the other fanfic writers out there in the world...I think I said enough now...please REVIEW!!!!
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Sakura woke up in a strange room. It was a light pink room with darker pink cherry blossoms on the wallpaper. Sakura sighed, content for the moment. Then thinking again, she wondered where on Earth she was. The bed was soft and warm, but she felt all sore and tired. Opening her eyes again, she started to wake up a little more. She wasn't in her room! Thinking back to the night before, all she could remember was the Teddy Bear, Yukito's house and Yue saving her. "Yue-san!" She yelled as she sat up straight from the bed, her eyes wide open. "It's ok Sakura. Everything is fine. Yue-san recovered, the house is a little damaged but we managed to pull a excuse on Yukito-san and you are at my house." Sakura looked up to greet her best friend as she entered the room. "Hi! What time is it?" Sakura asked, her voice and features showing her fatigue. "It's 6 in the morning Sakura-chan and goodmoring to you too. Um, I told your brother that you'll go home to get your school staff and go to school from there." At the mention of her brother, Sakura shot out of the bed. "Oh my God! What did you tell him?" Tomoyo struggled to keep herself from laughing as Sakura's face went white and panicky. "Calm down Sakura. I told him that you were tired after your cheerleading practice and that you fell asleep while doing your homework. I mentioned that you went to Yukito-san's house to drop something off as well...I think."
Sakura declined the offer of breakfast and was driven to her house with her best friend. When she got there, she was welcomed by her father who told her that her brother had soccer and was already gone to school. With her friend's help, Sakura managed to pack her bag and get changed, eat some breakfast and have a shower in half an hour, giving her just enough time to get to school just in time. Her dad had told her to slow down and take things easier, worried that she was doing too much work at once, causing her to fall asleep like she did. Taking her lunch from him and putting her rollerblades on, she and Tomoyo headed for their high school.
They were 15 minutes early and was greeted by their friends when they got there. Sakura waved to Syaoran to catch his attention. When Syaoran had reached them, the first question was simple, "what on Earth did you do the night before?" Sakura sighed. "There is only a few things I can remember. I went to Yukito-san's house to give him and Yue the Teddy Bear that I made and when I did, the Teddy Bear glowed and it grew. It was about twice the size of the house! And when it tried to um...kill me, Yue stepped in to save me and when he did, he tried to attack it, but it didn't work and Yue fell...Cereberus caught the both of us and I attacked the bear, or at least tried to. I used Jump to run from the bear and Yue and Cereberus told me that I had to find the source of the magic and attack that place. I tried to jump and cut the left ear, the source and couldn't. So I had to use Fly. I asked Fly to use me and I had wings...it was weird...anyway, I cut the ear and I don't remember anything after that." Syaoran listened, interested. He had been getting summaries, explainations like the one he was recieving, often from his Card Capting Partner. At times when he wasn't there, or couldn't get there, she would explain what had happened and he would try to make sense of it.
"Oh, and the last thing I remember, is catching this from the air." Sakura handed the dark paper to Syaoran to study. He frowned, thinking. "What happened after that?" It was time for Tomoyo to intervain. "Well, Sakura just fell. Her wings vanished, her staff became normal and she fell. You should have seen how much Yue-san and Cereberus had panicked. Then Sakura's Windy card just worked, when Sakura didn't even use it and it saved Sakura." Sakura and Syaoran was both now puzzled at what might have happened that night. Sakura had no way of knowing since she was unconcious and Syaoran couldn't figure out how a card would work without being called upon. "That should have been impossible. A card cannot and should not work unless the Master or Mistress of the Cards called them. Only Clow Reeds himself would have been able to use Sakura's cards, even I couldn't have." Sakura gave him a puzzled look, not really understanding the how it had worked. Just as she was about to voice her question, the class silenced, the class was about to begin.
After school, Sakura and Tomoyo headed home, Sakura rollerblading away and Tomoyo walked besides her. When they had reached the curve, they split to go their own way. When Sakura got home, she noticed that she didn't feel very well. Perhaps she was just tired from the use of the cards. With this thought, she did her homework and went straight to bed, just barely eating her dinner.
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When Kero woke up, he imediately was alarmed at the fact that Sakura was flushed and her breathing was irregular. She was breathing hard. Kero headed to his Mistress and tried to wake her. "Sakura, wake up! It's 7am!" Sakura responded with a slight sigh and she started to get out of bed and head for her closet. "Sakura. I think you should stay home today." As soon as he was finished with his sentence, Sakura started to fall to the ground and he held her back with his teeth on her PJs. When she had gotten changed and out of the door, Kero sighed. There was no way she should be going to school that day, but he also knew that she was stubborn and would not listen to him. She had a assignment to hand in that day, Kero noticed as he looked at her small pink calender.
Sakura struggled down the stairs to sit down and rest her head. "Hey Monster!" Touya's voice rang to her, but she ignored it. She had no energy nor the will to complain. "What? No response?" Touya saw the colour of her face and worried. "Hey, Sakura, are you alright?" She nodded, but Touya knew better. Walking over to her, he pressed a hand to her forehead. "You have a very high temperature there, monster." Sakura gave him a look of annoyance before saying, "don't tell dad about it. He's going to that meeting he's been preparing for about a week now. If you tell him that I'm sick, he's not going to be able to concentrate or might not even go." Touya nodded and went back to preparing lunch for his sister and himself. Without saying anything, Sakura quickly ate her lunch, hoping to avoid seein her father. After she had finished, she grabed her finished lunch and was off. Touya couldn't help but smile at the actions Sakura took.
Rollberblading to school was a hard job for Sakura. Her health being on the verge of collapse and her energy weakening, she felt so tired. When she got to the school, she went straight to her locker then to her desk, half collapsing on it. "Are you alright Sakura?" Tomoyo asked, worried about her best friend. Sakura just moaned. "Are you alright?" Syaoran asked after he sat down in his own chair. Tomoyo headed to her best friend and touched her forehead. "You have a temperature, Sakura. You should have stayed home." Sakura shook her head and murmured, "I have to hand in a science assignment today and you know that it has to be handed in." Tomoyo sighed, she did know. The teacher had been stressing that point for the last couple of weeks. Tomoyo heard Sakura sigh as she unpacked her bag and laid her head on the desk again. "If you want, I can give the assignment to the teacher, you know." Sakura gave her a weak smile.
As the day wore on, Sakura only got worse. However, she handed in her assignment and went through the day without any big incidents. However, when the teacher asked her if something was wrong, she wasn't able to answer, she didn't know. She had a temperature, she felt weak and her powers were waning. Syaoran explained to her, at lunch time, that she was probably even more weak because it had been cloudy for the last couple of days and she had spent so much magic, changing the cards. Clouds meant that Sakura couldn't see the stars. No stars meant no power. Now, since Sakura didn't rely on the magic in the Clow Cards and the Clow Wand to help with her magic, she had to rely on her magic only and the stars. Sakura had nodded, barely recieving all the information. When it was time for her to go home, as the last bell went, she got up, energy nearly spent, got her bag and with a walk to the locker and she was ready to head home for rest. When she reached the gate, she found her brother standing there with his car. In relief, she almost collapsed in his arms as he took her bag and led her into the car.
When she got home, Sakura did her homework, after being warm and after warm tea, she had felt a little better. With her homework done, she slept, peaceful sleep, troubled by visions of Clow Reeds and by her temperature.
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Sakura woke up. The sun was up and she smiled as she opened her eyes. It was 7am in the morning. Getting out of bed, she got changed. Though she felt worse than the day before, she knew that she had to go to school, once again because she had a asessment. Kero woke up as he heard sounds in the room. "Sakura! What are you thinking? You are not well! You should be in bed." Kero tried to tell her, but she ignored him, not having the strength to object to him. "I'll be fine, Kero." With that, she was out of her room and went downstairs. Touya was up and Sakura tried her best to appear better. Seeing his sister's efforts, Touya didn't tell her that he knew that she wasn't well. "I'll see you this afternoon." Sakura said as she went out of the house, once again avoiding her father. Touya sighed.
As Sakura rollerbladed to the school, she met up with Yukito, who was also on his way to College, a little earlier than Touya. "Goodmorning Sakura!" Yukito greeted her as she struggled to appear bright. "Goodmorning Yukito-san. How are you this morning?" Yukito saw through the disguise as did Yue. "I'm fine, but how are YOU?" Yukito asked, seeing her pale face and thin sheet of sweat on her face. "I'm fine Yukito-san." Sakura replied, giving him a happy smile. Yue knew better. He could sense the weakened aura around Sakura. Her powers were fading, just as his was. The stars...the stars haven't been out for awhile. Yue was worried about the petite girl in front of him. Her brown hair and green eyes, her beautiful face...he tried to memorize it all. She was struggling to deal with her new found power. What if she couldn't control it? What if...for the first time in Yue's life, he was worried. He felt and was willing to show his emotions. The Cold Guardian of the Moon felt attraction towards the girl...he was in love? No, he couldn't be in love. There was no way that Yue, the Guardian would and should fall in love. As he tried to ignore his feelings, they reached Sakura's school and she went in, with saying bye to Yuktio.
Sakura was tired as she sat again in her desk and tried her best to stay awake in her classes. She was getting even more tired and her friends started to see that Sakura was struggling. She had managed to stay awake in class, barely, but was able to do the asessment in the second period, the teacher noticing her situation and telling her that it'll be taken into consideration of marking. Sakura had just nodded and wrote. Eriol had not missed Sakura's situation. However, the next lesson or rather incident was already planned and done. Though he could see that it would be hard for Sakura, he could not stop it. She would have to go through it. Eriol sighed hard as he saw Sakura moan. She was pale, sweat on her face and her eyes dull. It was not the usual Sakura they normally see. At 4th period, their teacher suggested that Sakura should go home. Since the asessment was finished, Sakura took the advice. "Do you want me to walk you home, Sakura?" Tomoyo asked, worried. "No, it's ok, I'll be fine. With that, she started to walk home. Half way there, she leaned against the wall to support herself. When she finally got home, she barely had the energy to change and walk and go to sleep.
Touya arrived at the Kinomoto residence, his home. He felt his sister's pinky aura and knew that she was home. Walking upto her room, he knocked, only to get no response what so ever. He was worried and opened the door to see her in bed, sweating and breathing uneasily. "Sakura? Come on, Sakura, wake up," she moaned and opened her eyes, trying to focus enough to see her brother. "Hi." She whispered. "Here, let's check your temp." He said, handing her the thernometre. She accepted it and gave him a smile, her hands disapprearing under the warm covers. After a few minutes, it beeped 3 times, announcing that it was ready. "Let me see." Sakura handed her brother the thernometer and sighed. She was just so tired. Touya stayed silent, the temperature was 39.6 degrees celcius. That was no good. it was way too high. "I think you should stay in bed for a few days, Sakura. I'll bring you something warm to eat with some medicine." She didn't hear him.
When Sakura woke up again, it was because she had felt the aura of Clow. It was very strong. It was coming from her own room. Opening her eyes, she saw Firery card out of the book, floating near the window, changing form slowly and escaping through the window. "Firery! No!" Sakura struggled to get up and chase her card. "Sakura! What are you thinking? You are in no condition to move!" Kero protested as she pulled out her heavy robe to put it over her simple light pink pjs. With that done, Kero tried another tactic. "You brother," before he got to finish, Sakura had her wand out, "Cards created by Clow, change and be reborn, under the name of your new Mistress, Sakura. Mirror!" As she chanted, the cards changed to a Sakura card slowly, because she was so tired. Lucky for her, the skies were clear, first of many nights. For the first time, Sakura was able to feel the warmth and the power fill her as she rode atop Cereberus's back.
Touya walked into his sister's room. Only to find the Mirror Card, looking like Sakura and lying in bed in place of her. "Not again! You are not Sakura, are you?" The Mirror card had been in the same situation couple of times. The very first time when she had hurt him and the second time, when Sakura had the flu, but had to catch the Cloud card. "No, I'm not Mistress Sakura." Mirror card lowered her head. "She's out, trying to..." Touya stoped her. "I don't want to know. Hopefully, she'll explain it all to me one day, when she is ready. Want something to eat?" He asked her, smiling gently at the frighted card. "Thank you." She had whispered, blushing. He had offered her food the last time as well. Things tend to repeat themselves...
As she flew over the city in search for the Firery Card, Syaoran spotted her and Cereberus, in his own search to find the aura of Clow. "Sakura! What are you doing outside in your condition?" Syaoran asked, worried for his friend. "Firery escaped! It was really weird. She gave me a longing look, almost like she was forced to do what she did." Sakura commented as Syaoran got on Cereberus as well. "Gees, the Chinese Brat is heavy!" Cereberus joked as he flew. "She's over there." Sakura pointed, searching for the magic in her own way. Cereberus headed the way his Mistress had pointed out to see a small fire in the middle of the park. "Firery! Stop!" Sakura pleaded as the card looke at her, sadness in her face.
Eriol sat in the chair that was named 'The Throne of Evil' and with his magic, watched the scene between Sakura and Firery. He had spent hours before, explaining to Firery what her former Master needed from her. One last service. She had to escape from Sakura and make her recapture her. She had asked why, in her own way. Eriol had explained. Sakura HAD to change all the Clow Cards to Sakura Cards. It had to be done. Firery had understood and obeyed, with sadness and remorse, but she had obeyed her former Master, Clow Reeds. Now, Eriol watched the scene before him, worried.
Sakura pleaded once more. She was too tired, even with the Stars out, it was no help with all the smoke Firery was creating. "Firery! Why are you doing this! Please stop!" Sakura pleaded and Firery wanted so much to just go back to her card form, but Clow Reeds had asked her to be recaptured, not to make the task easy for the Card Captor. Without having a choice, Sakura pulled out her two other elemental cards. "No Sakura! You can't! If you use them both, you'll collapse!" Cereberus yelled at her as Syaoran fought the fire around him and Sakura. "Cards created by Clow, change and be reborn, under the name of your new Mistress, Sakura. Windy! Watery!" Sakura yelled and fell to the ground. Windy and Watery went to do their work. Firery gave up easily. Her task had been done. The three cards has been changed to Sakura Cards. "Go back to your true form. Clow Card!" Three Sakura cards found their way to thier Mistress's hands, acknowledging Sakura as their Mistress and controller. Upon recieving the cards, Sakura collapsed.
Li Syaoran really didn't want to face Sakura brother, nor did he want to be questioned on what on Earth he was doing with Sakura in the middle of the night, collapsed in his arms. He had laid her gently on Cereberus's back and trusted the Guardian to take care of her. Sakura woke up, feeling the cold wind against her burning skin. She felt Cereberus land gently on her roof and looked into the window to see herself in bed. She knocked gently on the window, catching the Mirror Card's attention. When she saw her Mistress, she saw her pale face, sweating despite the cold weather. Opening the window, she helped her Mistress in through. "Are you alright, Mistress?" The Card asked, worried. "I'm..." Without finishing her sentence, Sakura fainted in Mirror's arms. "Oh my!" Struggling, the Mirror card placed her Mistress in bed and went back to her card form. Cereberus knew that he could most likely get caught if he stayed and went over to Syaoran's house, again.
"Sakura?" Touya asked as he entered his sister's room. Yup, it was the real Sakura, laying there, her small face pale and a thin veil of sweat covering it. Getting a wet cloth from her bathroom, he washed her face. Her temperature had gone up. She was even in more danger than she was before. She shouldn't have gone out, but then, did he have the power to stop her? When he had finished dabbing her face with the cold cloth, he went out of the room to get his coat and leave a note for his father, who was coming home late. He would take Sakura to the hospital. Taking her petite body into his arms, he easily put a robe on her. It was a simple Dark Pink Robe with Silver Stars on them. Where she got such a robe was a question for Touya as he just put her arms in the holes, wraped it around her and carried her down the stairs and into his car. His mother, would not be able to help her this time, that much Touya knew. He was studying in medicine, afterall.
Driving to the hospital, Touya looked at his sister often, to see if she was going ok. From what he saw, she was not going ok. She was sweating even more and her face had started to look very very pale. It worried him. When people have temperature, they are normally very red in the face, but something was different. Without thinking any further, Touya stoped his car and carried his sister into the emergency rooms. The nurses were imedietly by his side as they asked him quesioned about Sakura and what had happened. He could not explain. What was he supposed to tell them? That his sister was a Soceress and that she weilded magic and that her magic might have something to do with her sickness? He smirked a little at the thought as he started to ring up his father's mobile phone. Sakura had to stay at the hospital.
Kinomoto Fujitaka drove as fast as he can to the Tokyo hospital. His little Sakura was sick. She had been for 2 days, but him, her father had not noticed. When he had arrived at the Emergency Room, he found Touya, sitting there with his face in his face. He looked tired. "What's wrong with Sakura? Where is she?" Fujitaka asked his son gently, knowing that he would be just as worried. "They don't know what's wrong with her. But they are trying to bring her temperature down to start off with. Fujitaka could not help up panic. The doctors in one of the worlds best hospital didn't know what was wrong with Sakura? "Where is she?" Was the next question. "She's been put in a room for her to rest in. There are doctors in there with her, they are trying to bring her temperature down. It was up to 42 degree celcius, the last time they told me."
Fujitaka sat down next to his son. "Can we see her?" He asked, his voice worried. "Yes. They said that we should be able to, but I was waiting for you to come." Fujitaka nodded and followed his son to Sakura's room. There was a doctor in there with her when they had arrived. "Is she going to be ok?" Fujitaka asked, quietly, as if not to disturb Sakura's rest. "For now, if we manage to keep her temperature down, it's safe. But if her temperature goes up, I don't know what we could do." Touya looked at his littls sister and went up to her, ignoring the doctor. Fujitaka, though, remained with the doctor and asked him a few more things, before joining his son. "She'll be ok, Touya. She's strong." Touya nodded, willing to believe and having the need to belive what his father was saying. "The doctor told me that he'll be doing everything he can to help her and I trust him. However, she'll have to be in hospital for couple of days at least." Touya nodded.
Tomoyo and Syaoran wondered if Sakura was staying home. They certainly hoped that she would. Normally, Sakura would have stayed home, if not for the asessment and the assignment that was a part of every teenager's lives. Syaoran had explained what had happened the night before to Tomoyo, handing her the inanmate Kero. The teacher walked into the room and looked around, sad. "Kinomoto Sakura, from our class is in the Tokyo Hospital as we speak. She is very ill and I just want to ask for all of your love and support for your fellow student." Tomoyo gasped. As the classes went on, Tomoyo recieved many get well cards for her best friend. Everyone seemed to have noticed that Tomoyo would be going to the hospital.
When the school had finished, Tomoyo rang up her bodyguards to request a ride to the hospital. To her surprise, Syaoran had asked her to join her, as well as Eriol. When they arrived at the hospital, with a constant glaring contest between Eriol and Syaoran, they saw Yukito and Touya talking in low voices, at the entrance of the hospital. "Yukito, I know that you," before he could finish, Tomoyo came up to him, "Hello. Um, where is Sakura?" Smiling a little and frowning at the sight of Syaoran and Eriol, he said, "Yukito and I was about to go up to see her anyway, you can come with us." With another dirty look at the two boys, Touya led the group up the stars to Sakura's room, filled with flowers.
Fujitaka stood up when he saw the group. "Thank you all for coming to see Sakura." He said for Sakura, who had not yet awaken. Yue saw his Mistress, lying against the white hospital sheets, her face just as white as them. her brown hair formed a halo around her face as she laid there, without moving. To everyone's surprise, Eriol moved forward to place a hand on her hand and whisper in her ear. "I'm sorry Sakura." Holding her hands tight, Eriol tried to heal her through the cotact and found it impossible. Her powers, stronger now, refused his powers entering her body. Sighing, he let her hand go and moved to let Tomoyo have her time with her best friend. "Sakura, I got all these cards from our class. The teacher told us about you and everyone gave me all these cards for you to have and I got your favourite flowers for you. Mother helped me find them. It was very hard search, you know. Finding Cherry Blossoms, this time of the year is hard work. I hope you like them, and get well soon." Tomoyo laid the flowers next to Sakura on the bedside and gently hugged her and kissed her on her forehead. Syaoran moved towards Sakura, feeling her aura reconize him and dropping it's defeses. He almost smiled.
"Here Sakura." he said, laying her Guardian of the Sun next to her face. Touya didn't even have the chance to say anything before Syaoran was out of the door. Eriol soon followed. Tomoyo hesitated and with one last hug to her friend, was out of the room as well. Yukito approached the sleeping teenager. She looked so small in the white room. Yue saw his Mistress, she looked so small, so helpless, vunerable. Her aura was soft and warm for him to near. So much power was growing in her, yet it was kept in check by her. Her defenses were up, her powers making a barrier around her, to protect her if anything happened while she was unconcious. Yukito sat in the chair next to her and took her hands into his own. When he spoke, it wasn't him, but Yue. He had broken through the bindings that binded him in Yukito's mind when he wasn't in his true form, but something in Sakura had broken that. "Sakura." He had called her by her name, knowing that it would sound so very strange if Yukito had called Sakura, 'Mistress'.
To everyone's surprise, Sakura opened her eyes and smiled at Yukito, her magic allowing her to see Yue in Yukito, calling her name. "Yue." She whispered, so soft that only Yue heard, "you called me by my name. Thank you." She whispered again before closing her eyes and falling into more peaceful slumber. "Sweet Dreams, Sakura." Yue whispered one more time before he went back into the depth of Yukito's mind. Sakura smiled and slept. Touya had watched the exchange and knew that it was not his friend Yukito speaking to his sister but the other being in Yukito, Yue, the Final Judge that was speaking. Touya was surprised but he his it. Living with Sakura around, surprises happened so very often. When Yukito was out of the room, Touya called the doctor and he told them that she could go home in 2 days. Sakura would be fine.
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Sakura felt her sunshine on her and was happy. She had not fully recovered, but she felt better then ever. She could feel her powers running through her blood and also her health was looking a little better as well. The doctors told her that they did not know what had happened to her and it would take many tastes to see what had happened to her. "Are you ok?" Touya asked gently. "I'm fine Touya, thank you for asking though." She gave him a smile. He had been so very nice to her ever since she had woken up. Smiling again, Sakura went up the few steps and into her house. She was glad to see her home again, after 4 days in the hospital, the house was a welcome. She hated hospitals.
"I wonder if something like the last time will happen again, Kero." Sakura voiced, looking at the stuffed animal sitting on her pink book. "I'm sure it won't Sakura. The Firery had apolozied to you several times, didn't she?" The Firery Card had apolozied to her, in her mind. It was the first time a card had talked to her, besides the Mirror card anyway. Sakura had told her that everything was fine and that she was glad the Firery was back with the rest. However, she did not get any clues on why she had felt the presence of Clow in her room. Ignoring her feelings, Sakura layed on her bed, trying to ring Tomoyo. "Tomoyo?" and the conversation went on...
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