The Voo-doo Doll

The Voo-doo Doll

"speaking"

'thoughts'

flashbacks

(Author comments! Which means, thoughts by yours truly!)

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Chapter 1

"Ohayo!" A very genki girl walked, or rather skipped into her classroom. She got to her desk and sat down backwards, facing one of her best friends, Syaoran, who sat behind her.

"Ohayo, Sakura!" He exclaimed surprised. "You're early!"

Sakura's old habit still followed, even in high school. She was always late for school.

"Aa...demo, it's monday. I was excited to see you." She smiled sweetly.

The guy beside Syaoran fell off his chair. Sakura looked at him and giggled. The guy, Kei Akira, turned red.

"Here." She offered him her hand and helped him back into his chair. "A...arigatou, Sakura-chan." He blushed hard. "You're welcome." She smiled at him.

Syaoran behind her was steaming. Smoke was coming out of his ears. He was jealous. Sakura, 'his' Sakura was smiling at someone else. The guys in the class noticed this and whispered, "uh oh..."

Everyone knew that Syaoran and Sakura liked each other a lot. But that didn't stop the fact that many guys found Sakura adorable, hot, sexy (etc, etc, etc...). She was the most popular and beautiful girl in school.

Syaoran was popular too. Many girls, were and still are jealous of Sakura for snagging the hottest guy. They thought his silent but strong glare was heartmelting. But they stayed away, knowing that Syaoran wouldn't even looked at them, let alone want to be with them.

Before Syaoran could throw a punch at the unsuspecting Kei, the sensei walked in. "Ohayo, minna!" He said as everyone scrambled to their seats. "Ohayo, sensei!" They chanted back obeidiently.

"Today, we have a new student." Everyone looked at the door. It opened and slammed against the wall. Everyone winced at the loud noise.

A girl with two reddish brown pigtails down her back walked in. She had smouldering dark eyes and a sharp chin. She walked in with her head high and nose in the air. Syaoran sensed some kind of aura around her, but when he looked more closely, the trace of the aura disappeared. 'She's hiding something....'He thought to himself.

"This is Kimi Hirakawa. Please welcome her." Then the sensei looked around. "You may sit beside Kei Akira."

As Kimi walked to her new seat, she passed Sakura and gave her a glare. "Hoe?" Sakura remarked to herself.

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Lunch came and Sakura met her friends at the Sakura tree that she loved sitting under.

"There's something wrong. I feel....weird." Sakura remarked.

"Honto?" Tomoyo, Eriol and Syaoran asked.

"It's not Clow Cards....it's a new power." Sakura said whispering, her emerald eyes looking faraway. "An evil power..."

"I don't feel anything." Syaoran said. He had forgotten about the trace of aura he sense from Kimi earlier.

Sakura snapped out of her trance and looked at Syaoran. "Maybe it's just me..." She said, not quite believing it though. She was sure that she sensed something. It was powerful. It was black. "It can't be...can it?" She asked herself. "Can it be a new power??" 'I should tell Kero about this....She seems very powerful...'

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Lunch finished and students were getting to their lockers.

Syaoran, Sakura, Tomoyo and Eriol had their's next to each other. They were getting the books they needed for their next class, when Kimi walked up to Syaoran and started flirting. She leaned closed to him. Syaoran just ignored her, while Sakura, being the oblivious one in the group, asked, "Hirakawa-chan, how do you like it here?"

The glare that she got back chilled even everyone around her. "Hoe?" She asked herself. 'Why do all the exchange students always have something against me?'

"I'll have Syaoran, just you wait and see. Then I'll take care of you, forever, so you won't bother us." She hissed out loud for everyone to hear.

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After school, Kimi Hirakawa walked home and went straight to her laboratory. The room was large and there was only a small light in the corner. On top of many tables stood tiny jars and potions of different coloured chemicals. There were also a shelf full of magical books.

"I will have Syaoran. And you won't get in the way to stop me, Sakura Kinomoto!"

She took a black and gold book off the shelf and dusted the cover. She smiled.

She then took out a small doll from her drawer. Whispering a little spell, a light shone over the doll and it turned into a replica of Sakura.

It had her golden brown hair and her emerald-green eyes.

"Perfect!" Kimi purred. She chanted another spell then walked towards a crystal ball.

"Don't worry," she said to the girl inside the glass. "I'll give you back your body....as soon as Sakura DIES!"

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"H-hoe?" Sakura screamed as she bolted out of bed.

At the same time, in Syaoran's apartment, Syaoran woke up as well.

Both had horrible dream, about Sakura getting hurt.

Sakura started to cry, meanwhile at Syaoran's, he jumped from his bed and paced the room. Something's going to happen to Sakura....can't let her die.....if she dies....Oh god! Don't even think about it, Syaoran Li!' He yelled in his head. Then he thought back to lunch.....

flashback starts

"There's something wrong. I feel....weird." Sakura remarked.

"Honto?" Tomoyo and Syaoran asked.

"It's not Clow Cards....it's a new power." Sakura said whispering, her emerald eyes looking faraway. "An evil power..."

"I don't feel anything." Syaoran said.

Sakura snapped out of her trance and looked at Syaoran. "Maybe it's just me..." She said, not quite believing it though.

flashback ends

'Maybe she's right. She is the Clow Mistress. It would make sense if she sensed it before I did....' He paused. "Oh, Sakura..."

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"Sakura, what's wrong?" Her guardian, Keroberos (AKA Kero) asked, concerned. He had a good reason too. She was never this early in waking up for school. 'She must have had a dream.' He thought.

"I had a dream....a prophetic dream..." Sakura told Kero about the horrible vision she had. She rubbed her eyes with the back of her sleeve. 'She looks horrible,' Kero noted.

"Let's go to the park." Kero susgested, yawning.

"Hai..." Sakura changed and went to the bathroom to wash up. On the way, she looked at the clock. It was only 3:30 in the morning. 'Kero must be hungry.' She thought as she walked into the kitchen after washing. 'I'll make a picnic breakfast.'

She got a basket and filled it with food. She grabbed her school bag, telling herself that she probably won't have the time to come back home. On the way out, she scribbled a short note telling her father and her brother that she was meeting someone at the park.

She and Kero walked (or rather flew) to the park in silence. They sat under the sakura tree while Sakura took some of the food out.

"So...(munch)... how did the girl (munch) look like?" Kero asked., while chewing on a strawberry.

"I...I don't know... She was in the dark too much....but I think I caught a glimpse...I think....she looked like that new girl in my class....Kimi Hirakawa." She said. "She likes flirting with Syaoran-kun..." She added a bit jealous.

"HAHAHA...so the gaki kid is a ladies' man, huh?? Kero laughed while stuffing his face.

"Kero! He's not a gaki!" She protested. 'He's an angel...so dreamy and hansome...' She snapped out of her daydream when she saw Syaoran heading towards her, holding her sword.

He'd obviously been practising, from the sweat on his body. 'His beautiful, great....Sakura Kinomoto! Stop thinking like that! He probably likes Kimi-chan too....' She blushed bright red and shook her head trying to get rid of the blush, while sighing at the same time. 'That means he'll never like me...'

"Sakura! You're up early today!" He said. 'Not that I mind..'

"Hai..." Sakura said without smiling. She looked at the ground intensely. 'If Kimi hurts him...'

'She looks worried? Maybe she had that dream too...' Syaoran thought. "Sakura? Daijobou desu ka?" He asked, ignoring Kero's protests as he sat beside her and held her hand.

"Daijobou, Syaoran-kun..." She said, blushing because Syaoran was so close and holding her hand as well.

"Sakura, you can tell me if something's bothering you." He said gently, titling her head so that she looked directly into his eyes. He was surprised to see that they were filled with tears. "Sakura..."

She broke away and burried her head in his chest, sobbing. Then she told him about her dream.

When she finished, Syaoran held her tight and tried to comfort her. "Shh.....it's ok. I had that dream too." He told her.

"Honto?" He heard her murmer. "Hai." He replied.

"Mmhmmm...." She drifted off from the lack of sleep she had last night.

"Sakura?" Syaoran was about to wake her when Kero stopped him. "She's in a trance. Must be about that dream again. Leave her for now."

Syaoran remembered the last time she had a trance. She ended up getting hurt. "Demo..." But he did as Kero told, (surprisingly enough...its my story...) and hugged Sakura close to him, waiting for her to wake up.

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"Syoaran-kun? Kero-chan? Where is everyone?" Sakura asked as she woke up in a very dreary and damp place. All around her were dead trees and stumps. There were eyes peering out of every dead tree. A thick, black fog seem to thicken around her everything she took a step. Sakura noticed that there was no sound. Not even a peep from a mouse. Everything was silent. Too silent.

She walked further. She wasn't as afraid anymore. Capturing cards does that to a person. It cured her of her ghost-paranoria.

She came to a big hill. A creepy-looking gate stood in front of Sakura. She reached out and it slammed open.

"Hoe..." Sakura remarked to herself. She walked up many steps until she came to a giant house. 'It looks haunted...' Sakura thought. The black fog seemed to come from inside the house.

"Syaoran? Kero?" Sakura called out, hoping that they were near. But they weren't.

"Maybe they're in there." She said to noone.

'Where have I seen this house before?' Sakura thought as she walked up the stairs and held a hand out to the door knob.

The door swung open.

"H-hoe?" Sakura stutterred, getting scared. 'Sakura Kinomoto! Stop it! You're getting paranoid. It's probably just the wind.' She scolded herself and walked in.

She called out the light card and had it produce a tiny light. A ball formed in front of her and glowed in the darkness.

She followed an empty hallway, hoping that it would lead to someone she knew. It wasn't exactly empty though. There were spiders and skeltons and cobwebs everywhere. Sakura felt like she was being watched.

Biting her lip so that she wouldn't scream, she walked further into the house.

Seeing a light, she called the card back and cautiously walked towards it. At the very back of the room she saw...........

To be continued.....

zennie: (thanks for reading the beginning of my story....I hope you will read the rest as well. I know it isn't that great, but I'm really trying ~hehe~...I just couldn't resist a cliffhanger.....

Japanese translations:

Hoe: Sakura's favourite word. Usually used when she is confused

Honto: Really

Hai: Yes/Okay

sakura: cherry blossoms

Gaki: Brat

Daijobou desu ka: Are you alright/Are you okay

Daijobou: I'm fine

Demo: But

Ohayo: Good morning

Aa: Um

Demo: But

Arigatou: Thanks

Minna: Everyone