The Girl Who Stole the Moon

by Sakura Tsukino

Sakura, at the age of seventeen is going through some changes having to do with being a sorcerer, and her eighteenth birthday coming up. With it drawing nearer, her powers are slightly increasing, but with it, also her emotions. When she realizes her feel

5. Chapter Five

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I am so glad people are enjoying this story so far. ^_^ I am really not looking forward to school next week, and am trying to get in as much time in typing up this story because my parents won't let me anywhere near a computer or video game during the weekdays when school starts. . That gives me only Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays to write this fic, meaning starting next week, I will probably be posting fanfics once a week instead of twice or three times. Gomen. -_-

Disclaimers- I guess everyone knows by now what I am going to say. No, I do not own Card Captor Sakura, CLAMP, or even Magic Knight Rayearth which I mention in this chapter. Thank you. -_-

*A.N.* Be Genki! (^_^) (^_^) (^_^) Kami-sama knows I am!

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The Girl Who Stole The Moon

Written by Sakura Tsukino

On Thursday, August 16, 2001

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Kero flew of mischievously in the direction of Tomoyo's house. As he flew, he wondered who he felt more pitty for. The sorceress who could not be with her love, or the guardian who would have to faith her wrath. Kero smirked as he turned down the road that would lead him to her home.

"And if I can get Tomoyo to get this on tape…" Kero said while rubbing his paws together. "Hehehe! This is going to be great to watch Yue get in trouble!"

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"Oh, Yue! I can't believe you would do that." Sakura sighed as she walked under the cherry blossom trees. I should have listened to Kero, and now because I didn't, Cless was afraid of me, and would not go anywhere near me! Sakura thought sadly and angrily as tears started streaming down her cheeks.

"Why do things have to be this way!" She screamed out as she came to a halt. Sakura sobbed and sat down next to one tree, holding her hands to her eyes as she cried.

"Yue, I, I just want to be with you!" she said softly between tears. There was a soft sound of a footstep, and Sakura gasped and looked up. Yue was standing there watching her with a slight smile.

"Y-Yue!" she gasped as she hastily stood up. Yue walked slowly over to her hugged her. "Yue-chan, what are you doing here?" Sakura asked confused as she allowed him to hold her. When he did not respond, but only hugged her tighter, Sakura gave up on talking and just rested against him.

"Oh Yue-chan, I'm so glad you came…" Sakura said as she breathed in his scent. It smelt funny, like…like…nothing but magic. Sakura gasped in slight pain when Yue began to hug her even tighter, making Sakura have trouble breathing.

"Yue-chan! You're hurting me!" Sakura gasped. She pulled back a bit to look in his face and saw him smiling still calmly. "Yue-chan?" Sakura asked unsure.

"Sakura!" she heard a female voice call and saw Tomoyo and Kero running towards her.

"Sakura-chan! It's The Illusion Card!" Kero informed. Sakura's eyes widened as she tried to pull back, but the smile on 'Yue's' face was gone and he was looking angry. She did not notice when the real Yue flew down and landed next to Kero worriedly.

"Yue-chan!" Tomoyo acknowledged as he looked on after Sakura.

"Let me go!" Sakura yelled as she squirmed trying to get out, as Kero transformed into his true form. Finally when Sakura got lose, she jumped away and pulled out her staff.

"How dare you pretend to be Yue-chan!" she said between her teeth. "Windy!" she summoned as she pulled the card out and hit it with her staff. "Destroy this Illusion!"

Windy came out and wrapped around the fake Yue and then through it, destroying the illusion. Sakura glared angrily at the spot then put The Windy Card back in her pocket.

"Nice Sakura-chan! And I got it on tape too!" Tomoyo smiled. Kero flew to Sakura, now in his false form.

"Hey, are you okay, Sakura-chan?" he asked as he watched her hang her head.

"Kero-chan, I could sense that it was not the real Yue, felt the magic of the card, but tried to ignore it. If you had not come, I might have ignored it until it was to late." Sakura explained.

"It's because you wanted so badly for it to be real." Kero said knowingly as he patted her sadly on the shoulder. Yue stepped forward and looked down at her.

"You can not be blamed, Sakura-chan. You wanted it to be true to much to believe it was the card. That's what The Illusion Card does. It will take what's in your heart to use against you." He said assuringly.

"Just like with your mother." Tomoyo piped up and Sakura nodded.

"Yes, but…but I had already known! I knew what The Illusion Card was like already, and once knowing that, I should have been able to tell easily!" Sakura argued as she once again began to cry. She just wanted to go back home, forget what ever she had wanted to say to Yue.

"No!" Sakura's head snapped up to look into Yue's eyes as he looked down at her. He placed his two hands on either side of her face and looked directly into her eyes. "Sakura-chan, just forget about it." He said as he gently brushed a tear streaming down her face with one of his thumbs.

Tomoyo grabbed Kero's tail while stepping back a bit, and Kero growled at her indignantly.

"Hush! Don't say anything!" Tomoyo whispered as she placed the recorder back up and began recording. Kero smiled and nodded, and watched the scene from on top of Tomoyo's head.

"Yue-chan, please…" Sakura sobbed and wrapped her arms around his neck and rested against him. Yue closed his eyes and sighed, pulling her tightly against him. Kero slightly snickered and Yue glanced over at him, glaring icily, making Kero gulp nervously.

Kero could see that with Sakura's birthday coming up tomorrow, which she had obviously forgotten, she was starting to over react to things once more. Yue pulled back and lifted Sakura in his arms and turned towards Tomoyo and Kero.

"Cerberus, take Tomoyo-san back to her house. I am going to take Sakura-chan home." He said quietly, and Kero nodded.

"Sure. Come on, Tomoyo-chan." Kero replied as he took a glance behind him and went off with Tomoyo.

"Thank you, Yue-chan." She said as she looked up at him and he nodded down at her slightly. He quickly flew towards Sakura's home, as he looked down to see her burring her face into his neck.

He reached her house and flew next to her window. He opened it and got in with only a little bit of trouble. Once he got in, he placed Sakura down and stepped back.

"Are you feeling better, Sakura-chan?" Yue asked as he watched her sit down on the edge of the bed.

"Yes, I am alright now." Sakura responded. Yue smiled gently as he made his wings vanish.

"Your eighteenth year begins tomorrow." He said. Sakura gasped as her eyes widened.

"Hoe! I nearly forgot!" Sakura replied and looked up at him curiously. "Hey, there is nothing else that is going to happen to me tomorrow that I should know of, is there?" she asked suspiciously. Yue smiled.

"No, my mistress, there is nothing else to worry about." He answered. Sakura scrunched her face up in annoyance and glared at him.

"Yue-chan! Why do you still call me 'mistress'!? I am SAKURA, S A K U R A, understand? As in cherry blossom?! Call me Sakura!" Sakura said angrily while Yue continued to smile down at her.

"Yes, Sakura-chan, I am sorry. Habits are hard to break." Sakura smiled happily as he once again called her by her name and nodded her head.

"Good, now, to the reason why I was out before that illusion came." Sakura said as she grew serious. "I went out to go talk to you, Yue-chan. I want to know why you felt you had to attack Cless-san." Sakura asked calmly and curiously, not really sounding all that angry any more. Yue sighed somewhat angrily himself and looked straight at Sakura with a penetrating look.

"Why should you go off with some boy like him because we can't be together? You feel upset so you run into the first boy that comes along?!" he bit out harshly.

"What?! Yue-chan, it's not like that!" Sakura gasped.

"Really, Sakura-chan?" he asked unbelievingly. "So you just happened to find something more in him then you did me, that you could so easily leave me behind?"

"No! Yue-chan, I have to move on!" she argued.

"You can have someone else, but I can't then, huh? I will watch you grow up and wed some person while I am left behind." He muttered. Sakura stood up quickly and sadly to stand right in front of Yue.

"No!" she denied as she closed her eyes and shook her head.

"Admit it, Sakura-chan, do you really think it can be any other way? Tell me what you may have in mind." He said while smiling grimly. Sakura stuttered for a minuet then lowered her head, but he lifted her chin with his fingers.

"I won't allow it Sakura. No matter what, you will always be mine." Sakura's eyes snapped opened, which where closing slightly as she felt tears begining, and stared at him stunned. Yue smiled softly, then left flying out the window with out another word.

Sakura's face turned bright red as she sat down on the bed again and held her head in her hands.

"Wha-what did he mean?" Sakura asked her self as she stared at the floor. "How could he say such a thing?!"

"Because Yue can be a cold bastard and gets really REALLY jealous and also rather possessive, a point I forgot to mention." A familiar scruffy squeaky voice muttered and Sakura nearly fell off the bed when she saw Kero in the open door way.

"Kero-chan! How much did you hear?!" Sakura asked blushing as she scrambled back on the bed. Kero smirked and flew over to the desk.

"Oh, long enough to hear a few juicy details." He replied.

"Kero-chan! It's not right to eves drop, you know!" she said as she stood she sat up.

"I was not eves dropping! I just over heard a few things while I was coming in!" he tried to convince her.

"Yeah right." She mumbled sadly as she looked out the window Yue had gone. "There's nothing I can do Kero-chan. Nothing. He was probably right, what can I do?"

"I'm sorry Sakura, but there is nothing. Unless…" he began then shook his head. "No, I don't think so." Sakura jumped up and grabbed him.

"What?! What is it, Kero-chan! Tell me, please!" she begged as she shook him.

"H-hey! Stop that!" he yelled and Sakura stopped and put her face right in front of his.

"Please, Kero-chan?" she asked softly as she looked at him sadly and Kero sighed.

"Fine, but don't get your hopes up!" he muttered as she placed him down on the desk happily. "Clow Reed created both Yue and I. He made our forms of Yukito and this form for us as well. How ever, unlike me, Yukito and Yue are two different people, as you know." He explained and Sakura nodded as she waited for him to continue anxiously.

"So, since they are two different people, they get in the way of each other since they must share there time and body. As you see, they both look different, even though they share the same body. If some how, a sorcerer had enough magic, they could make it so they where both there at the same time together, then split them apart to make the two of them." He stated.

"So I could do that! I could split them apart into two different people with my magical abilities!" Sakura stated happily but Kero shook his head sadly.

"No, it's not that simple." He said wisely as he crossed his arms and closed his eyes. "You would have to do it quickly, right while Yue was turning into Yukito, or Yukito was turning into Yue, before either one totally took over. Then you would have to separate the two minds and bodies. To do that would take much of the users powers. Even if they where able to complete the task, it would totally drain a sorcerer of there full power, drain them enough to the point of death. Just to keep a normal sorcerer alive, it would take several to cast the spell, and they would all have to do it at the same time, you see?"

"What?!" Sakura gasped as he continued.

"It would be a tough task, that you would not be able to do, and live through it. If you tried, not only would you most likely fail, but the attempt alone would kill you. So you must understand, you mustn't try it, Sakura-chan!" he said forcefully and as he looked up at her worriedly. Sakura sighed and turned to look out the window and up at the sky. She smiled lightly as she replied to him.

"I can't really promise you that, Kero-chan. If there is something I can do about it, I need to try." She said and turned to look at his slightly angry face. "You don't know what it feels like. I tried ignoring it, but it's just so hard. Every day, the same thing… I don't care if I might die, if there is that chance it will work, I must go for it!"

"No! Sakura-chan, even if you do get it to work, even if there is some miracle that you manage to live, Yue will be connected to you again! Touya gave up his powers years ago to sustain Yue and Yukito. If you do this, they will both use you as a channel to stay alive and apart! Meaning it will take four times the amount of energy it took, and you did not have enough before!" he said in effort to dissuade her.

"So Touya would get his powers back?" Sakura asked un-phased.

"Yes, but still! Would he want you dead?!" he responded. "Forget what I said, Sakura-chan! Don't do this, don't risk your life! If Yue finds out, he will kill me, then you if you even mention doing it!"

"Nope, sorry Kero-chan, but somehow, I am going to do it!" she said as she smiled at him. "And don't worry, I won't let myself die so easily."

"Please, Sakura-chan, it's not as easy as it sounds!" he begged while she walked over to her closet and began pushing some clothes aside.

"I know I might die, but I told you, I am not going to let myself die so easily. And Touya might even get his powers back! He will be happy!" she said ecstatically as she pulled out her pajamas.

"Not if your dead, he won't!" he argued as she walked over to her bathroom.

"Come on, Kero-chan, it's nearly nine already! I am going to change and then we can get something to eat. If you want, we can continue this discussion later." She said as she closed the door of the bathroom in his face as he opened his mouth to respond.

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"So you see, don't do it. Your emotions are just so happy at the thought of making them different people. You have not even thought about the risk involved." Kero explained calmly as he took another spoon full of his ice-cream that Fujitaka had insisted they have. Kero had thought it best not to tell him what Sakura had in mind of doing, and the consequences of it.

"No Kero-chan, it just increases my emotions, does not change it." Sakura said as she licked some ice-cream from her cone.

"Oh man! Sakura-chan, please just listen to me!" Kero begged. "What happens if you die?! What about your family? Touya? Fujitaka? And then there is Tomoyo, and Yue especially. And of Eriol and Kaho in England, huh? And of course Meilin and that Li brat. And me too! How would it be to us if you just died?! And then the Sakura Cards are another matter."

"Don't worry, for all of them especially, I won't allow it! I will live." Sakura said simply as she finished of her ice-cream, and picked up the pink phone that Tomoyo gave to her when they where ten.

"What are you doing?" Kero asked as she dialed a number.

"I'm calling Tomoyo. I'm going to tell her what's happening." She explained as she placed the phone up to her ear.

"Hey, Sakura-chan?" Tomoyo asked knowingly since only them two used these phones.

"Hey! Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura smiled as she heard her best friends voice.

"Sakura-chan, what's up?" Tomoyo said on the other side.

"Oh, I was just talking to Kero-chan. There is something important I have to tell you." Sakura replied as she looked over at Kero.

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Tomoyo sat in the back seat of her limousine as her body guards drove her to Sakura's house. Tomoyo really did not mind them much, they had always been around. Her mother insisted on them to keep her safe, but she was able to get them to leave when anything happened with Sakura and the Clow Cards, or now the Sakura Cards.

"Miss, when shall we pick you up?" one of the body guards asked. They where all female, and two of them where with her now. Tomoyo smiled at the familiar woman.

"Oh, I'll call. Thanks." She answered as she saw them reach Sakura's house. Tomoyo gripped her video camera in her hand. With Sakura, it was always hard to tell when something would happened, so she had learnt to take it where ever she went.

Tomoyo was rather worried for Sakura when she had heard what Sakura had in mind, and what could happen to her friend. She had quickly told Sakura she would be over to further discuss things, and then had gotten her body guards to take her over.

When the arrived at Sakura's house, one of the women opened the door for her, and walked her up to the door. They bowed and reminded her to call, then left back to the limo. Tomoyo smiled in response to them kindly, then knocked on the door. A moment later, Fujitaka answered the door smiling.

"Tomoyo-chan. How nice to see you again. Come on in, I just got some ice-cream for Sakura and Kero, would you like some?" he asked as he opened the door for her to enter.

"No thank you, Kinomoto-san. I just wanted to talk to Sakura." She responded kindly as she stepped inside.

"Sure. Sakura should be in her room." He pointed out and Tomoyo smiled.

"Thanks. See you later, Kinomoto-san." She replied and went up the stairs to her room. Even after all these years, the Kinomoto's had not moved. Tomoyo suspected it had something to do with the fact that this had been where him and Nadeshiko(sp?) had lived together before she had died. He really had loved her, and now that he had his powers back, he was much happier with being able to see her, like Touya used to.

"Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura greeted happily as Tomoyo walked in. Sakura was sitting on the bed leaning against the back board of it in her light pink pajama's and Kero was floating by her looking slightly miffed.

"Hey Sakura-chan, Kero-chan. What is wrong?" Tomoyo asked as she looked at Kero.

"Tomoyo-chan, talk to her! Sakura-chan won't change her mind! She thinks she alone can pull this off and actually live through it!" he grumbled angrily as Tomoyo walked over and pulled a chair over next to them.

"Sakura-chan, tell me your reasoning?" she asked concerned as she watched Sakura. Sakura nodded and looked at her best friend and smiled.

"Thanks for coming Tomoyo-chan. I know the risks of what I have in mind, but I got to do it. Even if it might turn out with my own death." Sakura began sadly as she watched her friend's face for her reaction. "Imagine what will happen if it does work! Yukito can finally have his own life, and Yue especially! Yue and I will be together after all, and for that alone I would do anything. Not to mention Touya would get his powers back, and everything would be just great! Almost the same as things used to be." Sakura smiled wistfully as she imagined how things would be.

Tomoyo smiled, if a little sadly and nodded. Even if still worried for her, she understood her friend. She knew what Yue really meant to her. For Tomoyo had loved Sakura, something Sakura had been to naïve to know or understand seven years ago. A couple years back Tomoyo had explained it to her, and Sakura had embraced her and told her that Tomoyo was very important to her, and was sorry she could not return her feelings.

She had known it would be like this then, but now Tomoyo was over it, and Sakura and Tomoyo had become even better friends. Tomoyo was even going out every now and then with a boy or too, but she found no interest in them after going through everything she had with Sakura. There lives where just too…dull. She had had some interest with Eriol, but he had left back to England with Kaho. How ever, for unknown reasons, Eriol had shown up a couple of times over the years with Spinnel Sun and Ruby Moon, and Sakura had tried to get him with her happily.

Eriol did not seem to mind too much, even though he could tell what Sakura had in mind. He had gone along with it, and Tomoyo really enjoyed it. Tomoyo suspected and hoped he liked her somewhat, and whenever he did drop by, would spend as much time as she could with him.

"I understand, Sakura-chan. If there is a way, you must do it." Tomoyo nodded in agreement. Sakura smiled and hugged her friend tightly while Kero gawked at Tomoyo.

"I knew you would understand, Tomoyo-chan." She said happily as she pulled back. "You always did."

"What?!" Kero burst out as he flew directly in front of Tomoyo when Sakura had gone back on the bed. "Are you CRAZY?! Sakura-chan could die, am I the only who understands that little detail?!" he said as he pointed a furry finger at her nose.

"Kero-chan, you would have to understand. Sakura-chan really does love Yue, and so does he. But until Yukito and him are two different people they can't get together. So if this works, they will be able to. So if it was you, don't you think you would do it?" Tomoyo responded.

"Humph. How should I know? All I know is that Sakura-chan should NOT do this!" he said desperately as he flew over to Sakura. "Please Sakura-chan. I really care for you. You are not only my mistress, but you are also my friend. And a deer friend at that. Please don't, Sakura-chan." He said sincerely. Sakura looked at him lovingly and hugged him.

"Oh Kero-chan, that's got to be the first time you ever told me that." Sakura said as she pulled him back in her hand and poked his nose with her finger while he blushed. "But I'm sorry. But don't worry, how many times have I told you I won't allow myself to die?

"You know, I once read this anime manga called 'Magic Knight Rayearth'(also done by CLAMP, a VERY good anime as well, though I can't say which one I like more. MKR has a bit more action and all, not to mention a bigger plot. But there is just SOMETHING about CCS that makes them both wonderful…^_^), and in this manga, three girls by the names of Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu are transported to this world called 'Cephiro' by the prayers of the kidnapped Princess Emeruade.

"So once they get there, they find out by this sorcerer called 'Guru Clef', that they are to become the legendary magic knights, and save Princess Emeruade in order to save Cephiro, for she was the 'pillar' of Cephiro. Her prayers held it together since her will for peace was so strong. Once kidnapped, she was unable to maintain the peace.

So the three where meant to go off to awaken the legendary spirits to help save Cephiro, and they found out something very important about Cephiro by Clef. He told them that the reason the Princess's will was able to save them, that she was necessary to save Cephiro, was that in that world, a person's will and determination commanded everything. It told them what magic they could use, what weapons they used best. If a person's will for something to happen was so great, they could achieve it.

"It's just like now," Sakura pointed out. "Maybe in our world, here on Earth, things are not that way entirely, but a person's will is still a big part of everything. If a person's will is to weak, then they will never achieve their desires. But my desire is strong, and I want to live bad enough for all of you, so I will do all I can to make it through alive and help out Yue and Yukito! I will!" Tomoyo smiled encouragingly and Kero gave up with a sigh.

"If only this was Cephiro, then I would have nothing to worry about. Sakura-chan's will is stronger than anything I have ever seen or any person I have ever met." He mumbled to himself.

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"Hey squirt." Sakura smiled up at her older brother and Yukito as they entered the house the next day. Now instead of 'squirt' being a teasing name he used on her, it was more like an endearment for her.

They all walked in to the living room where there where banners and decorations in celebration of Sakura's eighteenth birthday. Kero hovered by the coffee table with a small little party hat Tomoyo had made for him especially on his head, while he looked over the arrange of boxes on the table wrapped in different colored wrapping paper.

Tomoyo sat smiling on the sofa while she told Kero not to touch any of Sakura's presents and he hoped someone had the right mind to get her another video game; he had already beaten everything single one she owned at least three times.

Both Touya and Yukito placed a package on the table and sat down with Tomoyo. Sakura rushed off as the doorbell rang again to let in Rika, Naoko, Chiharu, and Takashi(A.N. hey look! I found out there names! If you have not noticed, I use that Japanese names.). They also dropped some presents on the table and began shooting questions at Sakura.

"Is it true you and Cless are not going out anymore?!" Rika asked as she looked directly at her shocked.

"I heard that you got really mad at him for something and beat him up! That's why his clothes where so torn! Is it true, Sakura-chan?" Naoko asked curiously.

"No way! I did not touch Cless. But it's true, we aren't going out anymore." Sakura explained as they all sat down.

"Takashi told me that you got mad when Cless told you he wanted to become a circus performer like all his family was, so you pushed him off the school into a thorn bush!" Chiharu said and Sakura looked at Takashi as he smiled jokingly.

"No, I did not do that either, Chiharu." Sakura sighed, and then the bell rang again.

"Hmm?" Touya said as he heard it. "Who else was invited, Sakura-chan?" he asked as he stood up. Sakura thought a moment then shook her head as she walked over to the door.

"No one else. All my friends are-" Sakura cut off as she opened the door and gasped.

"Eriol-kun! Kaho-kun!" Sakura said as she looked at the two standing at the door way. Eriol looking as quiet and as mysterious as ever, and Kaho smiling at her.

"Hello again, Sakura-chan. It has been a while." She greeted quietly as Sakura opened to door for them to enter.

"Yes, it has, Sakura-chan." Eriol said, smiling slightly at her. Kero came flying over when he saw them, as well as Tomoyo.

"What are you two doing here?" Kero asked curiously as he looked at the two. Kaho turned towards Kero.

"We have come for Sakura-chan's eighteenth birthday, of course, Cerberus." She replied as if this was the most obvious thing in the world, and Eriol nodded in agreement.

"I'm so glad you came!" Sakura said happily as she stood in front of them. "I missed you guys so much!"

"How have things gone with her, Cerberus? Has her birthday been to hard on her?" Kaho asked.

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked confused for a minuet, then said "Oh," when she understood.

"It's been alright. But I tell ya, she chooses the worst times to fall in love." He mumbled sourly, and Sakura blushed. Eriol turned curious and turned his attention towards Sakura.

"Really? Who is this person?" he asked with a thoughtful smile on his face. Tomoyo stepped in front of Sakura as Rika over heard and came over. After the incident with Cless, Sakura had told them a bit about her magic powers and what she had done since she was ten. They had been shocked at first, then slightly annoyed she had never told the sooner, but the thought it was really cool. But they did not know that much, only that she was a sorceress and had magic cards. And also about Kero, but she had not told them of Eriol, Kaho, and Yue, so they did not know anything about that.

"Sakura-chan? In love with someone?! Who?!" she asked, and when everyone else heard this, they came over too, very curious indeed. Touya and Yukito watched from the couch feeling sorry Sakura had to go through this so Touya and Yukito joined in as well.

"Erm, he meant Cless, but you all know that that's over with." She smiled brightly trying to hide the truth from Eriol and Kaho, knowing though they would see through the lie anyways.

"Sakura-chan," Kaho said warningly, as to tell her she knew better then to lie and expect them to not see through it. "Is that so?" Eriol pinned her with his gaze nearly forcing her to spit out everything that happened. They had not noticed though, Sakura realized, that all her friends saw Kero, but where not freaking out about them knowing. She figured they must already know about that or something.

Luckily for her, Yukito spoke up.

"Sakura-chan can tell you later," he said pointedly to Eriol. "Right now let's just enjoy her birthday." Eriol turned to look at Yukito and stared at him for a moment, but this did not seem to bother Yukito. After a moment, Eriol nodded, and they all went back to the sofa.

Eriol moved to sit next to Tomoyo, something Sakura noticed right away and smiled happily when she saw Tomoyo smile at him and he did so in return. Chiharu and Rika sat down on one couch, while Naoko sat with Takashi next to Touya and Yukito.

Sakura sat down on her knees by the coffee table since all seats where taken, and Kaho smiled at her as she sat down on her knees next to Sakura. Fujitaka came in then, and smiled around the room.

"Well, it looks like while I was baking the cake the people tripled in this room!" he exclaimed as he went back into the kitchen he came from and came with a cake in his hand. He placed it down on the coffee table in front of Sakura, after he had moved a few presents over and lit the candles atop of it.

"Yes, Eriol and Kaho came from England, and Rika, Naoko, Takashi, and Chiharu from school came as well." Sakura explained. Fujitaka smiled at Eriol and then at Kaho.

"Thank you for coming, I'm sure it must have been hard to get here from England." He thanked them both.

"It was of no inconvenience. Sakura is important to the both of us, and we also have something to take care of as well." He said glancing meaningfully at Sakura who blinked at him confused. Fujitaka lit the last candle and told Sakura to make a wish and blow them out.

Sakura thought of what to wish for, and then blew out the candles.

I wish that I will survive the spell and be able to make Yue and Yukito two different people.

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Sakura got many things for her birthday that year: a new pair of roller blades, the ones Yukito had mentioned, from Touya and Yukito. A rather large stuffed rabbit from Tomoyo made of velvet with Sakura's name on it. But most interesting was the necklace Eriol and Kaho had gotten her.

Whenever Eriol gave something, it was most likely important, magical, valuable, or dangerous. Sakura doubted it was dangerous, but the others she would not doubt. The necklace was gold, and had a circular medallion with a star in it with a crescent moon entwining with the star. It was not so large as to be ugly, and not to small to not notice. It was rather pretty, about as big as her thumb and pointer finger when she put them together tip against tip when making the 'OK' signal. Sakura had thanked Eriol and Kaho many times for it, and had quickly placed it on. They had smiled and told her she was welcome sadly, as if they had done something wrong that they regretted.

Eriol and Kaho, after much persuasion from my father, ended up staying at the Kinomoto residence in two spare bedrooms we had. One was used when Yukito spent the night most of the time, or when Sakura had big sleepovers. The other was Touya's old room, which was next Sakura's room. Eriol insisted he have that one.

Yukito and Touya spent the night since when the party ended it was late, and they decided it would be okay to stay. Since everyone else was, Tomoyo decided she should stay too. Sakura was happy that she had not only Eriol and Kaho from England over, but also her brother and Yukito. The only down part was that now she always felt uncomfortable around Yukito. She felt bad cause she could tell he noticed, but Sakura could not help it.

Sakura and Tomoyo was in the bathroom in the hallway with Kero in the opened doorway as they brushed her teeth. Kero was going on about how weird things where.

"And then Eriol and Kaho just show up for your birthday without notice! Doesn't that seem odd to you? They always sent notice that they would be coming in a week or so, and where they would be staying. They seemed to have just grabbed everything they had and rushed here. Like they had not been planning on coming!" he explained while watching Sakura.

"Really Cerberus-san, I thought you had more trust in me than that!" Eriol said from behind him in the doorway, wearing the same robes he had always worn. Sakura jumped, swallowing most of the toothpaste and Kero nearly fell out of the air. Tomoyo only looked slightly surprised.

"Eriol-chan!" Sakura gasped as she spat out the rest of the toothpaste while Eriol smiled amused.

"I am sorry to startle you so, Sakura-chan." He replied as he handed her a small wash towel, and she thanked him.

"Eriol-san, why are you sneaking up on us like that!" Kero asked as he looked at him angrily.

"I wished to speak with Sakura-chan." He explained as Sakura placed down the cloth and walked out into the hallway with Eriol, followed by Kero and Tomoyo.

"Sure, what did you want to talk about?" she asked as she led him downstairs to sit on the couch, which she was surprised to see Kaho waiting.

"Oh! Hello again, Kaho-chan." Sakura greeted and she smiled and nodded to her in reply. Eriol moved over and sat down next to Kaho, while Sakura sat on another couch by herself, with Kero on her shoulder.

"Sakura, first, I would like to know the truth about earlier." Kaho said. Sakura sighed then nodded.

"Erm, it's, ah," Sakura began. How could she tell Eriol she loved Yue?

"Ok, before those are the only words she ever says, she loves Yue, okay?" Kero interrupted making Sakura grab him and stuff him between her hands while he clawed at her hands.

Kaho looked slightly surprised, and Eriol looked at Sakura sadly, already figuring things out.

"Yue?" Kaho asked slightly confused. Eriol nodded.

"Yes, Kaho-chan, she loves Yue. Do you fee the same?" he asked turning to look in the hall, and Sakura looked to see Yue standing there. He walked over and sat down protectively next to Sakura and Eriol seemed to already know, but he answered anyways.

"Yes." He simply said.

"Then this explains the vision I had." He said to himself, only Kaho seeming to not be confused by this.

"What vision?!" Kero asked worriedly. Eriol ignored him though and looked at the now confused Sakura, as did Kero, and stopped what words Eriol was going to say by a loud gasp.

"Sakura-chan where did you get that!?!?" He nearly yelled as he pointed to her neck and Sakura looked down to see the necklace Eriol and Kaho had given her, as did Yue who nearly did the same thing as Kero.

"Eriol!" he bit out angrily as he turned to him. "You gave this to her, didn't you!" Eriol looked somewhat sad as did Kaho, but he nodded.

"Yes, it is for her safety." He said quietly as he closed his eyes and bent his head down.

"What? This necklace? What's wrong with it?" she asked curiously as she picked up the medallion and looked at it carefully.

"For her safety?! That could kill her!" Kero yelled and Yue seemed to force himself not to get up and do something to Eriol.

"Please, understand. Eriol had a vision about Sakura-chan." Kaho said as she looked up at Sakura sadly. "I'm sorry we had to do it, Sakura-chan."

"What? What did they do, Kero-chan?" Sakura asked.

"They placed a magic restrainer on you, Sakura-chan!" he explained angrily.

"What?!"

"As long as you where that necklace, Sakura-chan, you won't be able to use magic." Eriol explained.

"What the Hell have you done?!" Touya yelled coming out from the hall. "How will she protect herself and stop the cards when they go wild again?! I know you know about them!"

"That's why Kaho and I came, so we can help her." Eriol explained.

"Hey don't worry, if I need to use my magic I will just take it off." Sakura explained and grabbed the chain and began to lift it, until she fealt something burn her hands and the necklace would not lift over her ears.

"Ahh!" she screamed as she looked at her red hands and Touya ran over to hold her hands while Yue and Kero looked angrily at the two on the other couch.

"It will not come off." Yue muttered. "Only the person who cast the spell can take it off, and that would be Eriol."

Sakura looked down in her lap. She felt as though her best friend had just betrayed her, and that is almost exactly what happened. They tricked me, she thought, they gave me this as a present when it was really just to stop me from using magic, but why? She thought sadly as she felt tears at her eyes.

Eriol noticed and fell silent and looked at her sadly while Kaho tried to talk Touya into understanding.

"No! She is helpless like this!" he yelled at Kaho.

"If we did not do it, she might have died." Kaho replied calmly.

"How would she have died!?" Kero yelled in response. "If something is threatening her life, would it not be better if she had her powers to help save her?!"

Sakura ignored them and just silently cried to herself. Could she never trust Eriol and Kaho? Would they always be doing something like this? Perhaps it was a mistake to have ever trusted them.

Yue looked so angry and upset all at once. He wanted to kill Eriol for trapping his mistress like this, and wanted to hug Sakura and tell her it would be okay, but it wouldn't. No one but Eriol could take it off, and until he did, she would be helpless to anything of the magical world.

Yue settled on hugging her, and did so. He wrapped his arms around her and held her to him while she cried. Eriol just watched the main reason of this problem hugged the young sorceress.

"Eriol-san, tell us, what was this vision you had that made you betray Sakura-chan in this way!" he yelled as Sakura looked up, wanting to know too. Everyone was quiet as they waited for the answer.

Eriol looked directly at Sakura and Yue and began to explain the vision he had.

"It was of Sakura-chan, of course. And of Yue and Yukito." He said quietly to all in the room. "Sakura-chan was beginning the spell that would separate the two of them as Yue turned into Yukito. How ever, alone Sakura-chan did not have enough magic to do so."

"What?!" Yue said turning towards Sakura and Kero. "Cerberus! Did you tell her?!" he asked angrily. Kero nodded hesitantly.

"Of course, with out having enough magic to do so, Sakura-chan died." Eriol finished before Yue could respond to Kero.

Touya's eyes widened as he looked over at Sakura then back at Eriol.

"Sakura-chan died?" he said quietly as he stared in shock at Eriol who nodded gravely.

"Sakura-chan, you where going to try, weren't you?" Kaho asked. Sakura sighed and nodded.

"What?! Don't you know the price of casting the spell?!" Yue asked angrily, and once more Sakura nodded.

"Yue-san, please. You know why she would try, even if the cost was that dire." Eriol said. "Would you not do the same?"

"Of course." Yue replied quietly. "But I could not stand it if she died."

"So you know now. This way Sakura-chan will not be able to use her magic to cast the spell, and we can help her." Kaho piped up once more.

"I-I can't believe this though!" Sakura yelled as she stood up. "Is it not my choice if I do this or not?! You should not be doing this to me!" Eriol stood up with Kaho.

"Sakura-chan, we are not going to let you die when it won't work if you tried. When I have seen you will fail and die." Eriol explained.

"If you saw it happen, then there is no way to avoid it! It has already been foretold in the future that I will die trying to do it!" Sakura yelled back at him.

"No! There has to be someway to change it!" Tomoyo said, almost begging. "Sakura-chan can not die!" Kero nodded.

"She's right! No matter what Sakura-chan will live! We will make sure of it!" Kero promised.

"I gave up my powers once to help her, and I'll do whatever else I can." Touya agreed.

"Sakura-chan has many friends more then willing to save her at whatever cost, Eriol-san. Take the necklace off of her, we will never let her down." Yue said.

Sakura looked around at her friends and brother in shock. They all cared for her that much… She was so lucky to have them. What would I ever do with out them? She thought to herself.

"Of course. As would I, no matter what the cost. For Sakura-chan is special and important in all of our lives." Eriol smiled warmly at her. "Someone so special and kind she would die to make someone happy, and that's what she has in mind." Eriol sighed and looked straight at Sakura.

"Now go to sleep, Sakura-chan." He said while looking at her and she fell backwards on the couch asleep. Yue quickly picked her up and held her to his chest.

"What?! What did you do to my sister!" Touya yelled as he looked her over to see how she was, and this time it was Kero's turn to sigh.

"With the necklace confining her powers, she is basically another person. She can't do anything, not even be protected from simple spells as the one Eriol-san just used on her. If she was not wearing the necklace, she would have been able to resist it." Kero explained.

"So she is week to any type of spell then? Eriol-san, I have no idea what you have in mind, but I know you and Kaho-san care for my sister as much as we do. Yet you better make sure she is alright." Touya warned.

"Of course, Touya-san. Like you all said, I believe everyone in this room would protect her." Eriol agreed then watched as Yue carried Sakura to her room followed by Tomoyo and Kero.

"Eriol-kun, I really am worried for her. She has a point, a vision is a foretelling of the future, and can't really be avoided." Kaho pointed out sadly and Eriol nodded grimly in agreement.

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Hmm, so will Sakura still be able to cast the spell? Will she die if so? Nah, I'm not that cruel! I'll work it out somehow, you watch! The part there about Tomoyo up in there was hard, for I really pitty Tomoyo not being able to be with Sakura, and I really like her a lot. So I had to make her happy in my fic. ^_^ I think Tomoyo and Sakura fics are really cool, because then Tomoyo isn't so sad. But I just prefer Sakura/Yue. Nothing personal, but I don't care much about Syaoran, he just seems to bratty to me. O.o

P.S. Kindly Read and Review!!!