City Under Siege:
Chapter Seven
A time will come
When love will bind
In body and soul
In heart and mind
Sakura shook her head in disbelief. He…was gone. She shook his lifeless body, hoping he would wake up, but nothing happened. She hung her head down in shame. It was her fault. She had caused this, knowing full well he was the target all along.
The Light Card had tried to warn her. The prophecy had told her it was a possibility. Even Natsuo said she was after Syaoran. But Sakura didn't listen, didn't want to listen. She didn't want to have to think of a life without Syaoran.
She wanted time to be able to tell him her feelings. What she really thought of him. He wasn't just her partner for capturing the cards, or another one of her classmates…he was someone very special. Someone who had stolen her heart.
And now it was too late. She had been too dense to see it and now he was gone. Gone forever. Without a shred of life in him to give her the slightest of hope.
Through tear filled eyes, Sakura glared at Natsuo. "Now I know how you feel!! Are you happy!!!? The person I loved is dead!! Only one difference…" She paused, noticing the shock on Natsuo's face. She looked down at Syaoran and gently moved a piece of his dark brown hair out of his eyes. "The one difference is I never had the chance to tell him." Sakura whispered and began to sob uncontrollably.
Natsuo gasped, but stayed silent. Too many conflicting emotions were running through her, too many unknown factors of her actions had just taken place. She was without direction; she didn't know what to do.
Sakura closed her eyes and continued to cry, when she heard Clow Reed's voice in her head. He told her…A time will come when love will bind…
Sakura gasped. That's it! That's the solution. Death cannot stop true love, for love itself cannot be stopped. Not the body or the soul. Its path runs along a deeper course…one straight and true.
Sakura lifted Syaoran's head to her and whispered in his ear. "Aishiteru."
Suddenly, Syaoran began to glow, the wound on his chest, healing in an instant. He opened his eyes and smiled up at Sakura. "I know."
She opened her mouth in shock, so Syaoran come up and kissed her on the lips.
Sakura also started glowing and with Syaoran's help, both stood up. They faced Natsuo with renewed confidence. They knew what they had to do, even though it meant sacrifices.
Syaoran took Sakura's hand in his. "In body and soul." He recited.
"In heart and mind." Sakura finished.
With the last of the prophecy fulfilled, Sakura and Syaoran's chest glowed a different color than the green and pink of their auras. Their chest glowed a golden radiant color.
Out of each of their chest, came forth golden hearts.
Natsuo was shocked. Those with the purest of hearts.
Sakura and Syaoran had only a moment to gaze at wonder at what they had created, for then they saw the two hearts converge into one.
Natsuo growled and shot a blast, trying to stop the transformation, but it was already underway. Sakura and Syaoran turned into two balls of pure light and merged into one. It flew in front of Natsuo.
Natsuo stepped back, as it seemed to look at her carefully, judging her. Its glow intensified as Sakura and Syaoran chanted the sealing words for this special card. (Very corny here…)
Once were you human
Your love to Clow-san did bind
You are a card now
Return to your power confined!!!
Natsuo wanted to fight it, but now that the words were said, she could not. Her body began to disintegrate into the flow of wind encircling everything. Her staff disappeared, and then her hands, soon all of her body formed a card; one with her name on it, Natsuo.
The light "moved" the card up into the air and chanted. "Release and dispel!!!" The card opened once more, but this time Natsuo was greeted by a happier face.
She gasped. "Clow-kun?" Indeed standing in front of her was Clow Reed himself. He smiled and held out his hand. "Welcome back, my love."
She cried tears of joy and ran into his arms. He hugged her back and glanced back at the ball of light. "Thank you, Clow Mistress, and my descendant. You are freed." He waved his hands, and the ball of light separated into the familiar forms of Sakura and Syaoran once again. They fell to the ground and collapsed. Clow Reed took one last look at the two and then vanished with Natsuo by his side.