Disclaimer: CCS and the characters
do not belong to me, they belong to CLAMP and Kodansha.
" Speech
* Thoughts
~ Sounds
Glossary:
Wei: Hello
By ~Xiaoling~
Chapter 4: Origami
Syaoran froze and dropped the photograph which landed on the floor without a sound. The boy in the photograph happened to look exactly like him...and the boy's name was also his.
*Is it me?*
"You look pale boy," The man remarked. "It sounds weird for me to keep calling you boy. What is your name?"
Syaoran paused. He didn't want to freak out this man by saying that his name was also Syaoran Li. "..Er..my name is Yakumi!!" He lied, feeling utterly stupid.
"I see Yakumi..I am Fujitaka Kinomoto...I use to be an archeologist, but I am to old to do that now," Fujitaka chuckled slightly. "I don't believe that my daughter is dead..."
"...If she did die...how did she?" Syaoran asked, feeling very intruged by the story.
Fujitaka frowned, "That is why I do not believe she is dead. We never found her body, and she was basically reported as a missing person. But my son, Touya, believes she is dead because she hasn't returned for twenty years..."
Syaoran felt a headache coming to his head and he quickly got up. "I have to go home now...thank you for inviting me in.." And he dashed away in a hurry, his headache growing.
Midway there, he collasped onto the sidewalk, his hand clutching his head painfully as he blacked out...
Where am I? Is anyone there?
Syaoran slowly stood up, and found himself in a unfamiliar place. Trees. Trees were everywhere, and they were beginning to turn red, it was autumn.
"Hello?" He called, no one replied.
He started walking, trying to get out of this dense forest when he heard a scream. A girl's scream for help.
Syaoran's walking turned into running, as he followed the direction of where the scream had come from. He kept on running, and soon he reached a clearing, and there stood a girl. Sakura.
She held a wand of some sort in one hand, and she was bleeding badly. One hand was clutched onto her leg, which was bleeding the most. A creature stood infront of her, baring it's teeth and it's claws ready to strike.
"Firey! Release and dispel!" Sakura flung out a card, and struck it with her wand. The fire went at the creature, but it just faded away.
Syaoran watched in amazement. So Sakura knew magic...and those cards...they looked so much like the Clow Cards except that they were pink. Syaoran had learned about the Clow Cards when he was little. They belonged to his family, but they had been missing for...for twenty years.
The creature dug it's claws into Sakura, and Syaoran wanted to run and help her when he noticed that a boy, was running from the other end. Syaoran stopped, and noticed that the boy was his twin.
"Shaoran...!" He heard Sakura's faint cry for help as she was dropped onto the ground, dead no doubt.
Syaoran's twin had just came running out of the forest to the clearing, when he noticed Sakura's body.
"NOOO!!!" Came Syaoran's twin's voice.
Syaoran felt that pounding headache
again, and he collasped.
"XIAOLANG! SPEAK TO ME!"
Syaoran's eyes slowly opened, and he let out a small groan. "Nani? What happened?" He asked grogily, and noticed that concerned ruby eyes were staring right down at him.
"After you left the shopping mall, I decided to run after you. But I was so slow since I had to carry all these bags!! And then I found you here! On the sidewalk!" Meiling said distressfully. "And you looked...DEAD!!!" She wailed and clung onto him.
"I'm ok now Meiling! Just get off me and I can stand up..."
Meiling nodded sheepishly as Syaoran stood up and cleaned himself off.
*What was that vision...?* Syaoran was lost in his thoughts as they walked home. *What was that creature...? My twin...saving Sakura? Sakura...died because of that creature? Why do I feel so sad...?*
They entered the mansion, Wei quickly taking all the shopping bags and bringing them to Meiling's room. Meiling flopped onto the couch and soon fell into a nap.
Syaoran returned to his room again, and he once again sat down in his desk chair. He was thinking aimlessly again, his hands fumbling around on his desk as he grasped a piece of origami paper.
*Who is she? Who's my twin? I'm so confused...* Syaoran sighed, as his hands kept on folding the piece of origami paper until it ended up as a shape of a cherry blossom. *...Sakura...*
He felt another headache coming to
him, and he quickly jumped into his bed in pain...and once again, everything
went black...
"Shaoran! Shaoran!"
Syaoran turned around, and saw Sakura running up to him with a bright smile. She had something in her hand, but he couldn't make out what it was.
"Hey Sakura," He automatically greeted. *I can't control myself! It's like something is controlling me!*
Sakura smiled and reached for his hand and opened up his palm. She dropped something in his hand, and Syaoran at once noticed it was a little wolf made out of green origami paper.
"For you my little wolf!" Sakura said softly.
Syaoran's lips curved into a smile, as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a cherry blossom made out of pinkish red origami paper.
"For my cherry blossom."
The two smiled at each other.
Syaoran's eyes snapped opened. *Was that just a dream?! It felt so real...but I couldn't contol what I was doing...and saying...* He slowly sat up from his green sheeted bed.
"...What is happening?"
The phone started ringing, and Syaoran ignored it since Meiling or someone in the house would answer it. It kept on ringing and no one answered so finally Syaoran got up and picked up the phone.
"Wei?" He greeted.
Tomoyo's voice came over from the other line. "Li-kun! Eriol is coming over to my house today to try and catch that ghost girl again! So you better come along, and bring Meiling if you want."
"OF COURSE BRING ME!" Came Meiling's voice.
Syaoran sighed. Meiling must have picked up another phone in the house and was listening in on their conversation.
"Yeah, whatever. I don't think I have a choice Daidouji-chan," He answered.
Tomoyo laughed softly. "Well, see you soon I guess."
"Ok, sayonara," They all hung up.
*I wonder...if that ghost is Sakura...is
she a ghost? Or is she human..?*
I'm searching for you
Just wait and I'll come
Through my eyes you are my lover
And everything else
Don't forget me
Don't forget me
Because I'm waiting
For you to come...
"It's her again!" Eriol exclaimed.
"Shush!" Tomoyo hissed softly as the four advanced towards the balcony.
Tomoyo opened the screen door that lead to the balcony, and the four stepped onto it.
I'm your blossom
But my petals are wilting
I'm your blossom
In your palm
"The voice seems to be right here...but where is she?!" Meiling exclaimed as everyone was gazing across the empty balcony in confusion, but only Syaoran stayed sill.
Syaoran was staring at the girl, dressed in a long pink dress, and this time in her hands, she carried that wand he had seen in his dream.
She turned around again, peeking over her shoulder. She raised her left hand, and waved at him with a small smile placed on her light pink lips.
"Hello Shaoran..." Her soft voice was lifted into the wind and carried over to Syaoran.
Syaoran was a bit startled that she was talking to him. "...Sakura?"
Meiling, Tomoyo, and Eriol all turned to look at him with an odd eye. "Oh no! He's at it again..." Meiling grumbled.
"What do you mean?" Tomoyo asked softly.
"He keeps on saying that he sees this girl named Sakura.." Meiling replied. "I hate to believe this...but I think Xiaolang has gone nuts.."
Syaoran felt that this girl was so familiar. As if they already knew each other, not just as friends, but closer than that.
"Do I know you?" Syaoran asked slowly.
Sakura smiled, as she simply nodded and walked closer and closer to him. And now, she was standing only a feet away from him.
Her right hand reached out, and her hand opened. Syaoran's eyes widened as he noticed what was in her palms...it was the cherry blossom origami that he had given to her in his dreams...
"Was it a dream?" Syaoran just asked out of nowhere.
Sakura shook her head. "No." Was her soft reply.
"...Syaoran? Are you alright?" Eriol came walking right next to Sakura, not even noticing her. "Who are you talking too?"
Syaoran felt awkward again. "How come no one can see you? But I can?" Syaoran asked Sakura.
Sakura didn't react, but raised one hand to her chest and placed it there. "Love." And she vanished.
"She's gone..." Syaoran mumbled.
"Who is?"
Syaoran stared at the spot where Sakura had just been standing. "So she's the ghost..."
"Who is?!" The three asked again.
"Sakura...she's the ghost in your house Tomoyo..." Syaoran replied.
Tomoyo frowned, "How come we all didn't see it?! Even Eriol didn't see it!"
"...I don't know...I asked her that, and she said love..." Syaoran said.
Meiling had her hands crossed. "Then why didn't you catch her when she was standing right there?!"
"...I don't know..." Syaoran replied
and turned around to walked back inside. "Let's go home..it's getting late..."
That question kept on spinning around in his head. Around and around in circles and he wasn't getting to the conclusion.
Then why didn't you catch her when she was standing right there?!
*Why didn't I catch her when she was standing right there?!* Syaoran thought furiously. *I..I couldn't?! Why could I not though...* He hated having mental fights inside his head, but it seemed like it was a hobby for him.
He frowned and closed his eyes.
Meet me there. At our tree. Our cherry blossom tree.
Syaoran's eyes shot open again. "Who's there?!" He questioned to no one. He had heard that voice again, Sakura's voice telling him to meet her at their tree.
"What...what do you mean our tree?" Syaoran felt confused, he felt like he could go insane any second.
Follow.
"Follow what? I don't have a map or anything..." He felt crazy, talking to thin air and no one to particular.
The map is in your heart Shaoran.
"...What?"
But this time no one replied.
Syaoran flopped back down on his
bed again. *The map is in my heart...great...*
AN: Er, well, I don't know what to say! Thanks for reading this fic so far, and please review and stay tooned! Arigatou! Ohh! Now I know what to say!
If you don't know what origami
paper is, I will explain right now. Origami paper is..you know
those special type of papers that are made espeically for you to fold into
different shapes? Like when someone is sick you would use origami paper
and fold 1000 cranes? Kinda get what I mean? To put it simply, origami
paper is brightly colored paper that is sometimes decorated with patterns!
LoL!
