"What The Cards Were For"

A Card Captor Fanfiction

By: Bekah-chan

Rated: PG ( for blood

and puss ^_~)



Disclaimer: I don't now, have never, and will never own Card Captors. *sigh*



Authors Notes: Okay, before we go any further we need to clear something up. I have never seen an episode with Yue, and I'm not exactly sure what happened with him and Touya. So this is how it is according to *my* story. When Yukito/Yue was disappearing from lack of energy, Touya gave up his ability to see ghosts to give Yue the power he needed to survive (found that on varies web sites). So, Touya knows about Yue, but not about Sakura. Sakura knows that Touya knows, but Touya doesn't know that Sakura knows that he knows, with me so far? ^_^ Okay, good! Finally Kero knows all, but Kent and Yukito know nothing. I think that's all. Wait, one more thing! Eriol is not in this story, don't know enough about that character to write it. Now I'm sure that's all. Onward!



Chapter 5:

"Who's Yue?", asked Yukito curiously.

Now Touya was even more confused. Yue, for some strange reason, didn't want his human self to know about him. And how did Kero know about him/them? Did Sakura know as well? Touya yanked his mind back to Yukito's question.

"Um, well, you see, Yue is....." Touya suddenly broke off as he felt the familiar tug on his energy that meant Yue was making an appearance.

"....is right here" Yue finished, flexing his wings. He blinked purple eyes at Kero, "What is wrong with our Mistress?"

"Hold on, I'm trying to find out", Kero replied to his fellow guardian. He listened to Sakura's voice on the phone for a few more minutes then said; "Okay, Sakura. Try and land in the back yard. Yue and I will meet you." He pushed the disconnect button and turned his attention back to the rest of the people in the room. ~Well, mostly people.~, he thought looking at Yue.

"The Li kid is injured, I think Sakura might be as well. She's using the Float Card to get them here, they should arrive any minute. C'mon Yue, she's gonna need us." he said briefly, then floated toward the backdoor. Yue moved to follow, but Touya stopped him with a hand on his arm.

"Hold on Yue, what did he mean by 'Mistress'? And what does Li Syaoran have to do with anything?" Touya demanded. Behind him Kent nodded with the question.

Yue thought for a moment but didn't see anything wrong with answering them. It looked like Kero had already been explaining things when he got there.

"Sakura is the Mistress of the Clow Cards, Kerberos and I are her guardians, she is our Master. Li Syaoran was her partner in capturing the Clow Cards, he is a skilled sorcerer and fighter. He has saved Sakura's life many times, as she has saved his. I believe they are very devoted to one another." With that Yue moved to the door, opening it for him and Kero to go through. He didn't look back to see what reaction his words had caused in the two men left standing by the table.

"This just keeps getting weirder and weirder," Kent said. Touya completely agreed with him.



Somewhere over the city:

Sakura turned off her cell phone and sighed. She had a feeling that something was not the same at home, Kero had sounded a little guilty. She wondered what he had done to her room now. The last time he had sounded like this was when he had 'accidentally' demolished her English essay in a fit of rage over a lost video game, the day before it was due. Second sigh, oh well she would probably find out what he felt guilty about sooner or later, right now she had other things to worry about.

She looked down at Syaoran, who hadn't moved or shown any response in the last 20 minutes. His wound looked worse too, the puss was just *not* a pretty color. Sakura was torn between fainting again and breaking into tears. For a moment the tears almost won, she just didn't know what she would do if she lost Syaoran. She hadn't even told him how she felt about him. ~I'm almost home, I just have to hold on until then,~ she told herself. Kero and Yue would be able to help them, they had never let her down before.

The bubble the Float had created started to descend, Sakura looked out through a pink haze to see her neighborhood, then her house.

"We need to land in the backyard," she said aloud, and felt the cards assent. As they got closer Sakura saw Yue standing on the back porch waiting for her to land. To her shock she also saw that standing beside him was Touya *and* her father. Eeep! So *that* was why Kero had sounded guilty, he had blabbed the secrets of her magic to all and sundry. She'd have to have a little talk with him about that later.

She looked on the bright-side, at least now she wouldn't have to explain her and Syaoran's injures to her dad..... Kero could do it!

The Float set them down gently on the grass, and swirled into pink smoke again. For some reason, despite all the things that had happened to her tonight, she fully expected the Float Card to revert to it's true form. But it didn't happen that way.

~I'm sorry,~ she heard the card's bubbly voice say in her mind, ~We all wish this didn't have to happen now.~ What had to happen? By 'we' did Float mean the rest of the cards? Sakura really didn't have time to think about it, for right after the Float finished it's apology the smoke that was supposed to flow back into a card shape, instead flowed into the Mistress of the Cards.

Sakura opened her mouth in a silent scream as the Float Card joined the Thunder card inside her mind. It hadn't hurt this much when she had absorbed Thunder, but she had contained more magic then, so perhaps that was why. In any case it didn't last long, and it was dark. No one on the porch seemed to have noticed what had happened. Which was good because she didn't want her guardians to worry about her right now she wanted them to focus on saving Syaoran. Because, with the few magical senses Sakura had left she could *feel* Syaoran's aura flickering.

Li Syaoran was dying.

To Be Continued ^_^