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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
Mind speaking
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Near Or Far
Chapter Eight
Sakura ran through the snow, nearly to the forest. Something tugged at the back of her mind, but she just couldn't figure out what she might be forgetting.
Suddenly, her senses flared back to life.
'Oh, my gosh,' she thought. 'The card wasn't running away at all!'
You might have some weird experiences, like your powers getting a little stronger, or something happening that has something to do with your power. Being, even just CLOSE to this strong of a card will effect your powers
'Oh, no…" Sakura slapped her head. 'GOD that was stupid! Now I'll have to fight it without a plan, and without anyone to help-' Then she remembered what she had forgotten. She slapped her head again.
'Well, I'm already out here…' She thought. And truged ahead. Though now she wasn't running.
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'Oh, god, Sakura, please be alright…'
Li and company were running as fast as they could through the snow.
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"A…Greenhouse?"
"Sakura!"
Sakura spun around. Li was running up, Tomoyo and Zachary far behind. He ran up and hugged her tightly.
"Don't you ever, EVER do that to me again." He gasped.
And then he kissed her, desperately and passionately. He didn't even try to cover it up, he just kissed her as hard as he could. Sakura, caught be surprise, melted in his arms shortly after, kissing him back just a feverishly.
When Tomoyo got there, giggling and 'Hohoho'ing, they still kissed. When Zachary caught up, cracking some joke about 'I can't believe HE got her', they didn't stop. Only when they're lungs were nearly exploding for air did they pull away, gasping. Li looked at her lovingly, slowly brushing a strand of hair from her face.
"God, I love you, Sakura." He whispered, before once again returning to kissing her.
And then, Sakura fainted.
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"Do you think she's ok?"
"Man, Li, that's some kiss you got there."
"Shut up."
"Oh, I think she's waking up!"
Sakura slowly opened her eyes. Drawing her hand to her head quickly, trying to remember what had happened.
She was in Li's lap, propped up in his arms, him looking down worriedly at her, Tomoyo and Zachary positioned around the two.
"Are you ok?" Li whispered, stroking her hair.
Then she remembered what had happened.
'HE LOVES ME????'
She sat straight up in his lap, but not for long. Li quickly pushed her back down. She barely heard him say something about how she shouldn't over work herself.
"You-You l-love me?" Sakura gasped, her racing heart making it hard to speak. Li smiled down at her, and slowly lowered his head, kissing her softly.
"Yes, Sakura. I always have, and I always will." He whispered.
Sakura breath started coming in short gasps, making Li chuckle. He leaned back down and kissed her more firmly, adding a little tounge after a minute. (I mean literally a minute.) Sakura sighed into his mouth, pulling herself up, closer to him.
"KAWAIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sakura and Li quickly broke the kiss, and turned they're heads, getting an eye-full of camera lens. Tomoyo pulled it away in a minute.
"Oh, don't mind me, just carry on as you were."
"Tomoyo!" They both said.
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"What are we going to do about the card?"
They had got through the whole 'Keep kissing', 'Get rid of that camera' faze, and trying to figure out what to do with the whole 'Capture the impossible to catch card' thing.
"Why would the card even be in there?"
Everyone looked a Zachary. "What?" They all asked.
"Well, if the card can't see through glass, why would it be in there? I mean, it wouldn't be able to see us coming, or anything." Zachary tried to explain.
…
"Well…Maybe it thinks we'll think that, and not even try." Sakura suggested.
"Let's just go in there!" Tomoyo said, and started walking toward the door.
"Tomoyo, wait!" Both Sakura and Li said, but she was already there.
"Tomoyo! Come back are you crazy?"
"No, it's warm in here."
Sakura sighed, and looked to Li for help, who just shrugged, and started walking in. Sakura groaned, and followed.
It was still reasonable light out, so you could see fairly well. Sakura paused, looking around. She walked further in. It was exceptionally warm. And there were a LOT of flowers. She gaped at the sight. It was beautiful. She walked over to a cherry blossom tree, that was surrounded by wild flowers. It was obvious that no one had come to care for them in quite awhile, they were so wild and out of control. She stepped forward, but stepped on something hard.
"Ow!" Sakura said, and Li shushed her. "Sorry." She said.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"I stepped on something…" Sakura said, leaning down. She tugged on the thing. She couldn't get it up.
"Must be buried." She muttered. She pulled harder. It suddenly popped up, but not in her hand. She let go. It looked like a pole, only plastic. Water started to shoot out of it, all over the flowers and the tree. All around more poles were popping up and doing the same thing.
"Water…" Sakura whispered. Li followed all she was looking at.
She knelt down and picked up a handful of soil.
"Earth." She picked a flower.
"Flower." She looked outside. It was snowing.
"Snow." She looked up. The roof was glass, too, of course.
"Light and Dark." Li and Sakura both said
"And it just wouldn't be complete without me."
Sakura and Li spun around, to face the Seek. It smiled evilly.
"Tomoyo! Zachary!" Sakura called. The Seek tisked at her.
"They won't answer." She said. She held up her crystal orb, and it glowed. Inside you could see Tomoyo and Zachary, both laying, unconscious.
"You know you won't capture me?"
"Sorry, sweetheart, I'm just not that smart." Sakura answered sarcasticly. Li smirked.
"I am not like the other cards. You will notice that I speak fluently, while the other cards do not speak at all."
"Uh, yeah. No duh." Li said.
The card gave him a confused look.
"I stand corrected."
"What does 'Duh' mean?"
"It short for 'You'"
"Ah. Um, ok."
Sakura reached for her key, and called it out.
"You think that weak little stick will beat me?" The Seek threw a blast of energy from it's orb, nearly hitting Sakura, who had just called jump, and jumped into the tree.
"Sword card! Grant your power to this wand! Release a dispel!" Sakura's wand changed to a sword, and she swung at the seek, who easily dodged. Sakura ran a little away.
"Sakura, stop!" Li called. For some reason (A force field the seek had made (So he could hit her with lightning)) was holding him back. He called out his sword, and started throwing attacks at it, slowly weakening it.
The seek came after her, and threw another blast of energy at her, catching her arm, which started to bleed semi-heavily.
"You cannot beat me!" The Seek shouted.
"Can't, never could, never would, never wanted to." She jumped out of the way of another attack. She stood in front of the cherry blossom tree. The Seek narrowed it's eyes. It lifted it's orb, and aimed for Sakura's heart. She started to charge it up, and was about to hit her when.....
"No!" Li jumped in front Of Sakura, pushing her out of the way, and got a deep gash on his chest.
"Aaah." He doubled over, holding his wound.
"Oh, no!" Sakura lent over him. She called the jump card and quickly jumped up the tree, to the very top.
"Li? Are you ok?" She looked really worried (duh).
"I'm fine." He got out.
"No, your not! We need to get you to a hospital!"
"Sakura, No." He said.
"Why not? You're going to die, please," Sakura looked like she was going to cry.
"Don't worry about me, I think I have an idea."
"Aren't you going to fight me?" The Seek teased.
"Anything is good right now." She said, looking down at the card.
"I love you." Li said, looking at her face. Sakura caught her breath. She looked back at Li, who was trying not to wince at his wound.
"Li, you know I love you too, but how does it help beat the card?"
"I think we're soul mates."
Sakura gasped. "Li, this really is very sweet, but how is it a battle strategy? Not that I don't love you back, I do, I really do, but If I'm dead it won't be much help."
"Don't you get it? It's the answer to the riddle!" Li said.
"If your not going to try to battle me, I guess I'll just leave." It said.
"Oh, no. Li it makes sense, but how, I mean..."
"Just trust me. We're a lot closer than you think." Li jumped down, his knees buckled under him, but Sakura got down fast enough and caught him.
"Thanks. Now, lets kick some Clow card butt."
The card was fading, transporting itself to a different place.
"What do I do?" Sakura shouted as Li ran the other direction.
"Just sit down, and say whatever you think of! This is going to work!" Li ran to the other side of the fading card, and sat down.
'Repeat anything you think you should say, were linked, we will do okay' Sakura heard in her head.
'Okay. I hope this works.'
'Just let go of your self, let your body do the work for you.'
'Okay.'
Sakura relaxed as much as she could. Her arm was throbbing, she put it out of her mind. She let her mouth speak for her. She heard herself chanting.
Sight
Scent
Taste
Hear
Feel
Sight
Scent
Taste
Hear
Feel
Sight
Scent
Taste
Hear
Feel
'They think they can beat me like that?' the Seek thought to it's self. Sakura could still hear herself chanting.
We have a link that cannot be broken,
We have a bond that cannot be bought,
We have a happiness that exceeds all others,
We have a mating that is long after sought,
We will beat this card that we're after,
We shall both move as one,
The joining of our two souls,
Assures this battle as won.
The Seek was confused. It wasn't getting to it's destination. It looked down at itself, and saw itself materializing.
We call upon the power of Friendship
We call upon the power of Love
We call upon the power of Unity
We call upon the power Above.
The card was panicking. It put all it's power into the command, but it only slowed the materialization.
Give to us the power of Sight
Give to us the power of Taste and Hear
Give to us the power of Scent
Give to us the power of Feel.
The card gave up on the command, and tried to make a run for it, but it slammed against an invisible wall.
We call to these powers
To form a Shield
To trap this card, 'The Seek'
Within our field
It got up, and tried again. This time it got shocked. The card wasn't the only thing having things happen to it, either. Li and Sakura's clothes were slowly morphing. And through the white of the shirt that was forming on Sakura and Li both, you could see their wounds healing. The Seek did, too, and panicked. Especailly when she saw what was forming on each of they're left, ring fingers. (Giggle).
Now this card is captured
Through the power between
The bond that we both have
A bond that cannot be seen
The Seek fell to the ground in the middle of it's cage-like force field, and exploded in a magic wind (type thing), spiraling to form a card. Sakura's eyes flew open, but she hadn't forgotten one thing.
"Li, what about Tomoyo and Zachary?" Sakura asked. And then, like she had called them, they both popped out of the card, both still unconcouse. Sakura breathed a sigh of relief. She lifted her head, smiling at Li. Then she stood up, then started walking toward Li, who had just stood up. Then she started to run. She knocked him over, and started kissing him passionately.
"God, I love you…" She gasped. Li grinned.
"I love you more." He whispered.
"I love you better."
"Not possible."
Sakura giggled, and started kissing him again, but was interrupted by the card trying to float between them.
"You worked together to capture it, so it belong to you both.' Said The Voice. 'You will both receive the teachings of the Clow.'
Sakura started giggling like there was no tomorrow. Li just rolled his eyes, and sat up, holding her in his arms. Only then did he realize they're change of clothes.
"Hey, Sakura, lookie."
Sakura looked down at they're new outfits. She smiled softly.
"I think this'll turn out to be my favorite shirt." She whispered. Then her eyes widened, as she remembered Li's wound.
"Oh, Li, your wound, is it ok?" Sakura asked, noticing that there was no huge red stain on the front of his white shirt. Li's eyebrows furrowed, seemingly not knowing, so Sakura decided to figure out for herself. She quickly lifted his shirt, and searched for his wound, but only found a long scar, stretching from the left of his stomach to his right shoulder.
"S-Sakura!"
"Oops…" Sakura said, blushing a little, but not letting go of his shirt. Finally, he pulled it down.
"You need a little more modesty, you know that?"
"No."
Li shook his head, and rolled his eyes. He glanced over at they're sleeping friends.
"I guess we oughta get those to trouble-makers back to the car, huh?"
Sakura raised, and eyebrow, and glanced outside, through the (At least) mile long field, covered in snow.
"How exactly do you expect to do that?" She asked, amused.
I guess our first lesson will be how to transport, hmm?
Sakura face-faulted.
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"OH MY GOD, I CAN'T BELIEVE I COULDN'T TAPE THAT!!!!!!!!"
Sakura pulled her hands back away from her ears, and rolled her eyes.
They were in a near-by cabin, having figured out that the car they were driving was almost out of gas, and Clow hadn't invented a Gas spell.
"So, what happened to you two?"
"Well, I was walking along, looking for that witch lady, when suddenly, I was in the Sahara desert! Then, a few clowns came by-"
"I'll call Chiharu."
"Shutting-up."
"Ok, we were looking for you, and met up, and when we were about to start calling, the Seek popped out of nowhere, and sucked us into that ugly orb thingie." Tomoyo explained.
Sakura raised an eyebrow.
"OK, so I can't tell stories too well, at least they're real." Tomoyo said, glaring at Zachary, who quickly looked away. Sakura just shrugged, and cuddled up to Li. Li smiled, circling her in his arms, nuzzling her neck. Tomoyo silently cursed them having hidden her camera. But a few minutes later, she was smiling evilly.
"So, anything else you two did after we were sucked up?" Tomoyo asked.
Sakura and Li both gave her a confuse look, and shook they're heads.
"Why? What did you think we did?" Sakura asked.
"Hmmm…" Tomoyo said, pretending to think. "Maaayyybbbbeeeee…..Get married?" She said, pointing to the rings on they're fingers. Three sets of eyes opened wide a saucers, while the fourth was searching for a camera.
The End!!!!
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Annie: MUUUSHIE!!!
Kyralea: We might make an epilogue, but it would mainly consist of Tori beating Syaoran into oblivion.
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Kyralea: You can stop being weird now.
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