I'm sooo sorry for not posting up this chapter sooner! I was really busy with exams and all! Um.. I tried to make this chapter a bit longer! If you can, can u please check out my other fic too? Hehehe, you don't have to but I would really appreatiate it if you read and review my other story!! LoL, do that same for this chapter too!

By: Ying-Fa
A Second Chance

Chapter 9-Getting Reaquiented...



Sakura woke with dry tears of pain on her checks. She sighed as she looked to her left. There, on the floor was Kero. She smiled sadly at him. Kero was always there through think and thin.

Though he was just a stuffed animal, she could care less. He couldn't do much, but she knew that Kero cared for her.. as much as Syaoran.

Sakura closed her eyes at the painful memory that swept her yesterday. She didn't want to think about it.

She slowly picked up Kero and placed him on top of her drawer. He stirred a bit, but he didn't wake up.

As she slowly opened her drawer to take some cloths out, she noticed the Sakura Book was neatly placed next to her cloths. She pulled out the book and opened it. A smile crept her face as she pulled out the first card of the deck. The Windy.

She couldn't believe she had actually transformed the cards. She came so far. She closed the book and placed it back to the original place and took her cloths out of the drawer.


Sakura stepped out of her bathroom as steam fled from behind her. She looked to see if Kero was still asleep. As she looked, Kero was no longer there.

"Kero?" She asked as she placed her dress in her laundry basket.

"Yeah?" Kero asked as he stuffed a cookie in his mouth.

Sakura walked around a bit to find the yellow stuffed animal. As soon as she found him, she placed her hands on her hips.

"Kero? Where did you get that?"

Kero slowly looked up, "I uh, stored it?"

Sakura rolled her eyes and sat on her bed as she began to comb her hair, "Yeah, but just be sure to clean up the crumbs. All right?"

Kero nodded as he stuffed another cookie in his mouth. Sakura walked up to her window as she looked around. Something caught her eye.

"The stables." She whispered softly as she turned to leave. "Hey uh Kero? I'm going out."

"Ok." Kero stated as he stuffed his last cookie in his mouth. Sakura left him by himself as she closed the door behind her.


Her feet touched the soft grass as she walked up to the stables. The stables were located in the backyard. As she entered the stables, she hesitated a bit knowing something was going to happen, but she shook that feeling off as soon as she was greeted by a neigh from one of the horses. Sakura smiled a bit as she walked up the horse with white fur and hair. She began to pet it on the nozzle.

Shivers began to form as she turned around to face her worse nightmares. "Miss me?" Shirou asked as a sword came past Sakura.

Sakura quickly dodged the sword as she know came up against a wooden pole. Shirou smiled evilly. Sakura's eyes went wide as she tried to move once again.. but she was too slow. Shirou had used his magic to control the sword. The sword flew so fast that it had nailed Sakura on her shoulder.

She gritted her teeth as she took in the pain. She was just about to take the sword out of her shoulder when Shirou suddenly appeared in front of her and gripped the sword. "

Give me the Cards." He growled as he pushed the sword in further. Sakura's eyes were shut closed.

"No." She said weakly as the sword was pushed in more.

"I won't ask again." He said sternly.

Sakura opened her eyes, "No."

Shirou growled as he pushed the sword in to it's farthest. Strait through her shoulder and into the wooden pole. Sakura clutched her teeth more, she was just about to scream her guts out. Shirou eyed her suspiciously.

"Funny, you didn't scream." He then began to turn the sword around in her wound. "You're suppose to scream." He paused for a moment and stopped turning the sword in her wound. "Hm.. very interesting. You're not so weak as I thought you were..."

Shirou neared her face, "I could use someone like you on my side.." He then paused and suddenly realized something. He frowned. "You don't have your cards!" he said in an outrage. He growled a bit, "You don't have the cards, do you?"

Sakura now faced him matching his glare.

Shirou slowly backed away from her, "I will be back, you can expect that at your next dance. He then disappeared. Sakura's eyes widened.

'My dream.' She thought worriedly as a surge of pain stuck her body. She gasped at the pain.

'If I scream, someone other than Syaoran might come in and wonder why I have a sword pierced into my shoulder.' She pulled out the sword as another gasp escaped her lips. She dropped the sword in the hay surrounding her and fell to her knees.

'If I only had my cards...' She thought worriedly as she tried to keep her view from blurring.

She placed her hand on her shoulder as she tried to stop the blood, it was no use. Another jolt of pain shot through her body as she gritted her teeth.

"I need to get help." She stated as a dribble of blood came out on the side of her mouth. Soon, her vision began to blur, "Someone help me." She whispered as pain rushed up her.

"Anyone, Kero, Syaoran.. help." With that, the world around her began to go black.


Syaoran twitched a bit. "Something not right." He whispered to himself as he rose from his desk. He could now feel it. Sakura's aurora was now weak, and was getting weaker. Or so that's what he felt like.

"Sakura." He whispered as he ran outside.


As he reached the backyard, he paused momentarily to feel Sakura's aura. He could barely feel it, but he felt it. He looked up at the stables.

"Sakura?" He yelled as he was now in the stables. He received no response and began to look around worriedly for Sakura. As he looked around, something caught his eye. Something silver blinded his eye for a moment. He then moved out of the blinding way and looked to see a sword smeared with blood. As he gulped, he looked near it to spot Sakura laying in the hay.

"Sakura." He whispered as he ran up to her limp body. His eyes widened at the blood she lost. The blood was smeared in the hay and across her hand. He checked her pulse for a moment. There was a pulse, but it was faint.. very faint.

He slowly picked her up in his arms and looked around to see if anyone but the horses were there. No one. He ran out of the stables.


Sakura woke to the aroma of alcohol. She immediately got up and winced at the pain that stuck her.

Not caring who it was she answered, "I thought your were suppose to clean this." She said as she noticed she wasn't in the stables, rather in a room.

"Shh." A voiced whispered as he sat next to Sakura.

Sakura turned to the voice. It was Syaoran. She looked off to the other side as she avoided his eyes.

Syaoran sighed, "Look, about last night..."

He was interrupted by Sakura, "Look, I don't want to talk about what happened last night. Not now, just clean the wound. If you're not going to clean the wound then I'll clean it myself."

Syaoran looked a bit hurt by the tone of her voice. He then sighed as he got up and searched for a towel and a couple of bandages. Syaoran couldn't really blame Sakura for her mood. Meiling had kissed him... so Sakura would hate him. Her plan had worked, maybe a bit too well.

"You'll need to take off your shirt." He stated as he tossed her a towel to cover up her chest.

He was still in search of the bandages as his back was turned to her. She slowly took off her shirt. Her shoulder did pain her from the simple task, but it didn't kill her to do it. Although Sakura had her bra on, she had to slip the strap of her right shoulder off because of the wound.

Though, the wound didn't come intact with the strap, it was close to the strap. Sakura then placed the towel on her chest as she held it there. Syaoran now sat next to Sakura.

He didn't want to do this.. but he had to. The only reason he didn't want to do this was because of how much Sakura had possibly hate him. Syaoran didn't seem to like the silence of Sakura...

Sakura winced a bit as the alcohol touched her wound. Syaoran decided to clean up her back wouldn't first as he applied alcohol to it. Sakura sighed a bit. She was lost in her thoughts as a sharp pain made her yelp.

"Are you all right?" Syaoran asked concerned. Sakura turned to face Syaoran ready to spat something out when there eyes seemed to lock.

'His eyes...'

Sakura pulled away from the stare and looked down a bit. She gulped a bit, but she spoke softly,

"You, you didn't kiss her did you?" There was a long pause from Sakura, "It was the girl that kissed you.. right?" She asked as she looked up at Syaoran's eyes.

His eyes told the truth. They showed pain and suffering. Syaoran was just about speak as his mouth opened, but to his surprise Sakura silenced him with her index finger.

"It's true." She stated as she slowly removed her finger from his lips. Syaoran nodded as a sad smile crept Sakura's lips. She opened her mouth to say something, then turned away from him. It hurt Syaoran when she did that. He thought she would tell him.

'I guess, I'm wrong.. she doesn't love me.' Syaoran thought sadly as he brought his attention to the wound.

Soon enough, Syaoran was done wrapping a bandage around her wound and Sakura was ready to get out of Syaoran's room. Syaoran began to put some of the utensils used in the trash or in some drawers of his. Sakura now had her shirt on as she got up from his bed and looked herself in the mirror.

Her shirt still had the blood stains on it and not to mention the hole of the sword that had slit into her skin. She sighed as she brought herself to the door.

"Here." he stated as he handed Sakura a shirt.

"Huh?" She questioned as she looked up at Syaoran.

"Put it on.. it'll cover the blood on your shirt and no one will ask what happened."

Sakura nodded as she pulled Syaoran's shirt over her original shirt.

Sakura had her hand on the door knob as she turned to Syaoran, "I-I I'm going now." She stated as she left this room.

Sakura closed her eyes in annoyance. It was another perfect chance and she couldn't say it... I guess the kiss from Meiling still shocked her. But, she knew he wasn't the one who put on the move.. but for some reason or another, she couldn't seem to forget about it.


Sakura slowly closed her door as she saw Kero trying to find another cookie in his bag of cookies. Sakura smiled at the little stuffed animal and began to take off Syaoran's shirt. Sakura placed his shirt on her bed as she head a gasp from Kero.

"Sakura?? W-what happened?" Kero asked a bit shocked as he pointed to Sakura's shirt. Sakura frowned as she looked slowly at her right shoulder.

She then saw her torn shirt and dry blood, "Oh, this."

"Yes this, what happened?" Kero asked as he sat on Sakura's left shoulder. Sakura sighed as she sat on her bed with the yellow guardian beast on her shoulder.

"Well, I meet up with Shirou once again.. and well," Sakura looked at her shoulder then back at Kero, "we got reacquainted.. again."

Kero sighed, "Sakura, why didn't you use your magic?"

Sakura sighed and brought herself up, "If I called my cards to me, he would've stole them. Plus, even though he can't touch them without my permission I know he'll eventually find out a way..."

She mumbled the last part, but Kero had heard his mistress well.

Kero frowned, "What do you mean he'll eventually find out a way?" Sakura looked up her ceiling and began to tell a tale of her dream.

"Well, you see when I had passed out I had some sort of vision.. Syaoran was in it and so was Shirou."

"So?" Kero asked eagerly.

Sakura paused for a moment before continuing on, "And he well killed everyone.. including me. He destroyed this world his with my Sakura Cards. But, I knew I could beat him if I had only told Syaoran... because he died without knowing how much I..."

Kero finished for her, "How much you loved him." Sakura turned to Kero. She didn't seem to be surprised. Instead she fell to her knees and a sigh escaped her lips as Kero now landed on the floor facing Sakura.

"You have to tell him." Kero stated seriously. Sakura glanced at him and then back at the ceiling.

"I know, but I can't seem too..."



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