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Shattered Blossoms





Sakura blinked a couple times. "Did I say something wrong?"

"No, it's not that..." Tomoyo eyed her friend sadly, and looked over at Syaoran and Meiling.

Tomoyo led Syaoran and Meiling out of her room and told Sakura to wait a couple minutes.

"Ok, no matter what, we have to get Sakura's memory back. But," Tomoyo eyed them hard. "We shouldn't let Sakura know about her dad and brother and all that pain and sorrow again. We don't want to see the sad Sakura again! Never ever again!"

Syaoran nodded, "Hai (right/yes)."

Meiling nodded along. "What happened to Touya?"

"Oh, I forgot you didn't know Meiling-chan. He's dead..." Tomoyo frowned sadly. "He died in a huge car crash with another big truck."

"I hate trucks!" Meiling cried.

They entered Tomoyo's room again and Tomoyo switched the subject.

"Hey guys! Why don't you all stay at my house for dinner? I'm sure mother won't mind since she won't be home until really late cause of a meeting at her toy store!" Tomoyo suggested.

Meiling gave Tomoyo a smile. "Sure! Why not XiaoLang?"

"Ok then..."

"Sakura? You staying?"

Sakura nodded, "Sure... I don't know where else to go."

Everyone looked at her sadly again and they all went downstairs to the dining room.

"That dinner was great Tomoyo!" Sakura smiled.

Tomoyo smiled back at her friend. *I miss that smile so much!!* "I'm glad you're smiling Sakura-chan! Please, smile more!!"

Sakura sweatdropped, "..Heh...Why shouldn't I be smiling?"

Syaoran started coughing. "Ah, Sakura can you pass the pitcher of water beside you? ~cough cough~"

"Oh, ok!" Sakura smiled and placed the water in front of him, and he smiled back at her.

"Xie xie (thank you)."

They were sitting around the dining table and talking about Sakura's memories. Sakura nodded and nodded after everything they said, but it seemed like a giant puzzle with thousands of missing pieces to her.

Tomoyo shook her head sadly. "I don't think she's getting this..."

"Hmm..how about we act this out?!" Meiling suggested, jumping out of her seat at her wonderful idea.

"Yeah! Ok, let's begin..." Tomoyo looked at Syaoran. "When Syaoran first came to Japan and wanted the clow cards!"

Syaoran nodded slowly and they all got up as Syaoran took out his Lasin Board. He walked closer to Sakura, and noticed that she looked confused.

"What are you starring at?" Syaoran asked harshly, trying to act like how he did when he first met Sakura. *Now that I think of it...I was awfully mean...*

Sakura stepped back in shock at the sudden change in tone. "I..I don't know...what's that?"

"What do you think it is?! Chinese checkers?! It's a Lasin Board Kinomoto!"

Sakura froze.......

What do you think it is?! Chinese checkers?!
What do you think it is?! Chinese checkers?!
What do you think it is?! Chinese checkers?!

The line kept spinning around her head. *Chinese checkers...lasin board...chinese checkers...*

Sakura closed her eyes in fustration when an image came to her.

A bright blue light shot out of the lasin board, right at Sakura. She blocked the light with her arms.
"What was that?!"
A mean looking Syaoran glared back at her. They seemed younger... way younger. "What do you think it is?! Chinese checkers?! I know you have them Kinomoto! So hand them over!"
"H..Hand what over?"
"The Clow Cards!"

Sakura's eyes snapped open. And saw Syaoran open his mouth to contiue.

"I know you have them Kinomoto, so hand them over!" Syaoran yelled.

"H...Hand what over?" Sakura tried her best to answer like her image that she had just saw. *This...this is all so familiar...*

"The Clow cards!" Syaoran had a hint of hope in his voice.

"No! Never!" Sakura gasped, those words seemed to slip out easily.

Tomoyo clapped her hands. "Yay! I think she remembers something!"

"...What are clow cards?"

"Well...I guess she doens't remember that part..." Meiling frowned. "Clow Cards are cards that have magical powers in them. Very strong magic Sakura."

Sakura nodded, "...So...?"

"And you are the card mistress Sakura. You own most of the cards, and Li-kun also has a few of them," Tomoyo added. "I use to always make battle costumes for you, and tape your captures! Do you remember?"

"...." Sakura looked blankly at her friend. *Clow cards? Card mistress? I don't get it!!*

Then something snapped into her mind.

"Kawaii Sakura-chan! It looks great on you!"
Sakura turned around and looked at herself. "Uh Tomoyo...are you sure about this?!"
"Absolutely! It's perfect for this capture!"
"Yeah Sakura! It's made out of rubber so it'll protect you from the thunder." A yellow thing said.

"Ahh!!! Yellow talking bear!" Sakura yelped out loud.

"She remembers Kero!!!" Tomoyo danced around in glee. "He's not a yellow talking bear Sakura. Well, I mean basically he is. But he's the great guardian Keroberos."

"...Wha?" Sakura frowned. "I'm so confused...and tired..."

"You can stay at my house Sakura," Tomoyo told her friend.

"Why can't I go home? Wouldn't my parents worry about me?" Sakura asked and she recieved the sad looks from her friends again.

"Um, Sakura, don't you remember? Your parents are out of town today and they wanted you come to Tomoyo's house to stay," Syaoran lied and recieved a glance of relief from Meiling and Tomoyo.

Sakura nodded slowly, "I guess if you say so..."

"Oh! And Kero! I better phone him and tell him to get over here!" Tomoyo ran over to the phone.

"So Sakura, don't freak out when you see a flying stuffed bear ok?" Meiling assured her friend.

"Um...ok..."

You killed us Sakurrrraaaaa
Yes you did Sakuuuraaaa....
You must come and join us!!
And pay for what you have done!!!

Sakura awoke with a start in one of Tomoyo's many guestrooms. She wiped away some tears from her eyes. *Who were they...? I killed people?! No...that was just a dream...*

She glanced at the clock and it read 3:45 a.m. She starred at the clock hard, and another image flew by her mind.

Sakura looked at the big clock tower that loomed over the city. She was flying on her wand with Kero sitting on her shoulder.
"Kero! We have 15 minutes left before it's midnight!"
"So you better hurry Sakura, or you'll be doing your music test again!"
"Right!"
Sakura flew nearer to the tower when all of a sudden it seemed like time froze.

Sakura shot her eyes open at her memory. *I was flying...?!* Sakura felt a light pressure on her neck and saw a necklace, with a key shaped charm dangling from it. She took the necklace off, and examined the charm. *What's this? I...I feel something from it...*

Key of Clow... Power of magic, power of light... surrender the wand, the force ignite! Release...

Sakura heard her mind say to her. "...Key of Clow?"

She walked over to the window to see the charm a bit better by the moonlight.

"Key of clow...power of magic, power of light...? Surrender the wand, the...um...force ignite... realease?" Sakura mumbled, feeling utterly stupid.

Then all of a sudden her charm thing glowed brightly and it started growing and stretching into a wand.

*It's the same wand from my dream!* She noticed to herself.

She turned the thing over, and up, and down. *What does this thing do? What is it?!*

Sakura slumped onto her bed, her head hurt from trying to remember so many things. She grasped onto her wand tightly, thinking.

*I saw myself flying on it...hmm...* Sakura got up, and looked at the wand.

"...Er...fly?" She uttered, and she felt the wand glow a little and stop. "...Hoe?"

"Fly!" She said a bit louder.

The wand shook slightly.

"Fly? Fly! Fly..." Now she felt really stupid.

Then out of the sides of her wand, wings came sprouting out. She gasped. *Wow! Did I do that?!*

She smiled to herself. *At least I kinda of remember something...*

Tomoyo redialed Syaoran and Meiling's apartment number. *Argh! I can't remember it! Maybe I have it in my phonebook...* She reached into her drawer and pulled out a mini sized address book.

*There we go! 978-3425!* She pressed the numbers and waited for someone to pick up. No one did. *Hmm..I guess maybe they're out then...*

Tomoyo got up and decided to walk to their apartment, leaving the phone book open on her desk.

"Tomoyo?" Sakura called around the house until she decided to open Tomoyo's room's door. "Are you in here?"

No reply.

Sakura stepped into the room and looked around. No sign of Tomoyo anywhere. Then she saw something open on her desk, and walked over to it out of curiousity.

*A address book...* Suddenly an idea came to her. She flipped through the pages until she came to the 'S' pages and found her name right at the top.

"Sakura Kinomoto...974-6812...my phone number! And my adress...yes!* Sakura quickly took one of the pens lying nearby and scribbled the address onto her hand. *If none of my friends want to tell me where I live, I'll go myself!*


AN: Ta da! Another chapter done! I kinda of think I left it off at a cliff hanger this time ;) Even though this chapter was a bit shorter than the rest, but oh well! Anyways up next:

~What will happen when Sakura reaches her house?
~Sakura remembers something...but it's one of her memories that is best to be forgotten.

Check out the next chapter and maybe your questions will be solved =)

Yours truly ~XiaoLing~