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The Final Task
--*Rules of Destiny*--













Syaoran glanced at his wrist watch. It read 12:06, just past midnight, and Sakura had been in the emergency room for a long long time now. Meiling was still fast asleep due to the Sleep Card's power, and Tomoyo was twirling her hair in her fingers with red puffy eyes from crying.

Touya seemed to be in a trance as he stared at the big white doors of the emergency room. Fujitaka was doing the same as his son, and they both sat transfixed on the door.

Suddenly, at 12:10, the door opened.

Syaoran jumped off the couch, his stomach was doing flips. "Is she alright?!"

The doctor shook his head sadly. "We've tried our best..."

"DON'T GIVE ME THAT LINE!" Syaoran yelled and wanted to throw a punch at the doctor but Tomoyo restrained him.

"They...they tried their best..." Tomoyo choked out as tears spilled over her face.

Touya was pale and Fujitaka was shaking.

Syaoran ran into the emergency room to see the nurses cover the blankets over Sakura's face. He shoved them aside and uncovered her pale face. She seemed at peace, with a small little smile on her lips.

"Sakura...wake up..." Syaoran shook her gently. "You have to wake up...." Syaoran's voice broke as he shook harder. "WAKE UP DAMN IT!"

"Stop shaking my sister!" Touya glared at him, tears were forming in his eyes, but it seemed like he didn't care if Syaoran was shaking Sakura or not.

Syaoran looked up when he saw the clow cards flying into the room through the walls. They circled around her, the Love and Hope card shining brightly than before.

"What's happening?" Tomoyo asked, her voice shaky.

The cards all gathered together and a bright blinding pink light bursted from them. Everyone in the room sheilded their eyes from the blinding pink light, and soon it faded.

All the cards were gone, except one big card. Syaoran reached for it and stared at it. It was made of clear pink crystal, and a picture of a cherry blossom was on it. And at the bottom, it said...

"The Sakura Card?" Syaoran read softly.

"...W...What's that?" Tomoyo asked in a kind of whisper.

Syaoran looked at Tomoyo. "Do you think it's like another clow card?"

"But I thought you and Sakura captured them all..." Tomoyo's voice broke again when she said Sakura.

"Well...let's find out..." Syaoran reached for his sword that was sitting on the table. His hands shook when he grapsed the sword, the sword that killed his beloved Sakura. "Sakura Card! Come forth..."

There was a swirl of pink light from the card, twisting and turning out of the crystal card. It flowed out and formed the shape of..

"Sakura!!!!!" Tomoyo gasped. and ran to her friend. She reached out to hug her, but her hands went right through her.

Sakura smiled gently at her friend as Tomoyo cried out. "Don't cry Tomoyo...."

"What's happening Sakura?!" Tomoyo shook her head in sadness. "I'm so confused..."

"I'm not completely dead...being a cardcaptor...I can't die that easily..." Sakura said in a soft drifting voice. "I didn't want to leave completely, so with the help of the clow cards, my spirit is now in a card...."

"What?!" Syaoran gasped and walked towards Sakura, who was glowing with a pink aura.

"I'm not alive as a human being anymore....but I'm still here....in a odd way..." Sakura explained

"I'm so sorry Sakura...." Syaoran wanted to hug her, but his arms went right through hers. She gave him a little frown.

"It wasn't your fault...it's just the task Syaoran...."

"But it's not worth it! Not worth it at all if I loose the one I love!" Syaoran choked through his sobs.

Sakura started to fade slightly.

"Isn't there a way you can come back Sakura?!" Syaoran cried out, reaching for Sakura's transparent hand.

Sakura frowned, "Even if there was, it would be dangerous."

"Tell me Sakura! I don't care how dangerous it is!"

"...Ashiteru (I love you) Syaoran..." And she disappeared back to her card form.

The card floated around, and finally landed in Syaoran's hands. Syaoran gripped it tightly.

*I'll figure out a way to get you back Sakura. No matter what!*

It had been a week since Sakura had left them. It was April 1st, and the first cherry blossoms were starting to bloom, but Syaoran Li wasn't blooming at all.

Syaoran scrunched his eyebrows together as he layed out all the clow cards. Somehow, they had appeared again beside the Sakura Card after the day Sakura died...

"What card can bring Sakura back?!" Syaoran mumbled. "Not Light, or Dark...not Hope...not Void...not Watery...not Earthy...ARGH!" He had tried to summon Sakura out of her card, but she never came out. His eyes glanced over the cards again when something caught his eye. "The Time Card!"

He reached for the card quickly. "That's right! I can go back in time I reverse everything that has happened!"

"No Syaoran...that's changing destiny..."

Syaoran turned around and saw Sakura.

"Sakura! You've finally come to see me...." Syaoran smiled and ran to her, but went right through her. "I hate this. I want to feel you again Sakura! To be with you...so I will go back in time and change it."

"But changing destiny isn't a very good thing...you don't know what might happen..." Sakura frowned. "Right now, you have completed the task and if you go back to Hong Kong, you will be the leader of the Li Clan."

"But I will not be happy." Syaoran muttered.

Sakura reached out to touch Syaoran's cheek, but Syaoran couldn't feel it. "But if you go back in time and I do not die...your task will be uncompleted."

"I don't care." Syaoran had determination in his voice. "I don't care about the task, or the punishment, or the rules of destiny."

Sakura frowned and her face fell. "...Being stubborn?"

Syaoran chuckled softly. "But soon, we'll be together again...." Syaoran summoned his sword and the time card. "Time card! Take me back to the time before Sakura's death!"

"I am sorry, but that is to long ago for my powers..." The Time Card said just as Sakura faded away.

"Please, try your best....for your future mistress..." Syaoran begged.

The Time Card nodded werily and flipped his hour glass over. Syaoran felt the floor disappear, and he was falling into an endless whole, but finally, he landed on something soft and green. Grass.

"Syaoran?! What are you doing here?!"

Syaoran got up and saw Sakura crying. He looked above him and saw a tree branch. "How'd I get here?"

"....You dropped from up on that branch..." Sakura mumbled, her eye lids were red a puffy.

"Sakura..why are you crying?" Syaoran brushed one of Sakura's tears away.

"Have you gotten amnesia or what?! You baka! You idiot! I hate you!" Sakura pounded her fists on Syaoran.

*So...I must have already told her about me not loving her....damn it!* Syaoran reached to hug Sakura, but she pushed away.

"What are you doing now?! You just said you hated me, and that it was all a stupid game!" Sakura screamed at him, her pink aura flaring.

"No Sakura...I didn't mean it...."

Sakura turned around on her heels and dashed away. "LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Syaoran watched as her figure disappeared down the empty street. *At least...at least she's alive....*




AN: This was a shorter chapter, gomen >.;;; Well, stay tooned for the next chapter and please R+R! Will Sakura forgive Syaoran and they live happily after?! Or will it totally go wrong again for Syaoran? Your questions will be answered in the next chapter! Ja ne for now!