AN: Ack! Chapter 6 took so long to put up since my internet broke down for two whole days which is torture for me! Well, at least I got this chapter up ;) I am also secretly writing another story but I haven't posted any chapters for it yet because then I'll be writing three fics at the same time, and that's hard for me >. Anwaysy, read on~!
Disclaimer: Evil disclaimers! I do
not own CCS and it's characters, they legally belong to CLAMP!
" Speech
* Thoughts
~ Sound affects
() Translation
By ~Xiaoling~
Chapter 6: Where are you?
Sakura was sombre for the rest of the week as she had not spoke to Syaoran since that inncedent. Everytime she picked up the phone, she would place it down again.
"Up, and down, and up again, and down again," Kero would say.
She really wanted to phone him, but somehow she didn't have the guts to when this weird thing was happening between them. Sakura had noticed that he had been absent for the whole week, and of course, Kahzuni wasn't going to school anymore and Sakura hadn't see his dreaded face since last week much to her happiness.
"I wonder if he's sick Kero..." Sakura said worridly, waving her legs in the air while leaning on her hands on the bed.
Kero took a scoop of strawberry cake. "You have nothing to worry about that gaki Sakura-chan! Isn't he always saying how brave he is? And how strong? Nothing will happen to him that easily." Kero said in between bites.
Sakura sighed, "I hope you're right..."
"If you're that worried..." Kero flew over to Sakura and where the phone layed. "Press the button!!!" He pressed the button that dialed to Syaoran's house, since Sakura had kept his number on memory.
Sakura jumped off the bed. "Ahh! Kero!!" She quickly grabbed the phone and heard the ringing sound. She decided to wait for him to pick up.
Two mintues later, Sakura gave up and hang up. "He's not picking up...now I'm really worried..." Sakura cried.
"Maybe he's back in Hong Kong.." Kero guessed and saw his mistress frown deeply.
"He would have told me!!" Sakura exclaimed.
Kero shrugged, "Last time he didn't."
"But I don't believe that he's in Hong Kong!" Sakura shot back.
"Then..PRESS THE BUTTON!!" Kero pressed another button on the phone which dialed to the Li's mansion in Hong Kong.
Sakura grabbed the phone and shot Kero an annoyed look.
"Wei (hello)?" Came a familiar voice.
"Meiling?!" Sakura asked excitedly.
There was a pause then..
"Sakura? Is that you?" Said a happy Meiling.
"Yeah! Hey Meiling!"
"Hi!"
Sakura sat down on her bed. "I was wondering...is Syaoran in Hong Kong?"
"Him? Xiaolang? In Hong Kong? No way!" Meiling said in a shocked tone. "Why?"
"I don't know...he hasn't been to school and he doesn't pick up the phone..."
Meiling let out a little grunt. "There's one easy thing to do."
"What?"
"Go to his apartment dummy!" Meiling teased.
Sakura sweatdropped, "I don't know..."
"What? You forgot his address or something?"
"No, it's not that...oh whatever. Thanks anyways Meiling! I'll call you some other time..."
"Alright. And call me if you don't find Xiaolang!"
"Alright..bye," Sakura hung up and glanced at Kero.
Kero went back over to his cake. "So...what did the little girl say?"
"She said to go to Syaoran's apartment."
"Yeah, that's a great idea. Everyone would have never thought of that," Kero said sarcastically. "Why didn't you do that in the first place anyways?"
"I'm nervous! I don't want to go near him...remember! I told you about that crazy thing where I would touch him and he would be in pain.." Sakura frowned. "I'm scared I'll hurt him even more!"
Kero's eyes narrowed, "All I know is that we're dealing with some powerful evil magic here. So be on guard Sakura."
"Ok...well, I'm going to Syaoran's
weather he likes it or not!" Sakura went downstairs and buckled on her
skates and sped out the door to Syaoran's apartment.
"What are you doing here?!" Syaoran stumbled back, hitting his back against the wall of his room.
Kahzuni snickered and summoned a staff that had a black orb at the top. In the orb was a swirling mist that never seemed to clear or stop. "I am here to get rid of you Li Syaoran."
Syaoran reached for his pendant and transformed it into its sword form. "You won't be able to do that because you'll be the one that's gone." He muttered and swung his sword down at Kahzuni but he didn't hit anything but thin air.
He spun around the room, Kahzuni was no where in sight until he felt someone slamming him on the back and he hit the floor in pain.
"Peek a boo." He heard Kahzuni's voice in a mocking tone.
Syaoran quickly leapt onto his feet. "Lightning, come forth!" He sent a bolt of lightning at Kahzuni and it hit him, but then the lightning went into the orb on stop of Kahzuni's staff.
Kahzuni smirked, "Magical attacks are usueless against me." He said simply and tapped his staff twice on the floor of Syaoran's room.
He drew a circle shape on the floor. "Past, Present, Future, the voids of time throught acient doors." He chanted. "Open the gateway, into the future."
Syaoran found that he couldn't move, and a glowing black circle now surrounded him. It had different symbols on the circle, and lots of doors were shaped into it.
Kahzuni smirked at him. "You will be trapped in time forever Syaoran Li. You will never find your way back to the present."
"No!!"
Syaoran was able to hear Sakura's voice just as he disappeared.
Kahzuni jumped out the open window in a flash, leaving a distressed Sakura in the room alone.
"Shaoran!!!!" She screamed and ran to where he had been standing just a second ago. "Where are you...?" She knew she wouldn't recieve an answer, but all she heard from Kahzuni was that Syaoran was now trapped in time. "How am I going to save you?!"
She fell onto her knees in tears,
but limply got up. "No, I shouldn't be here crying! I need to find help...I
need to save Syaoran..."
It was all dark, as dark as midnight, or maybe even darker. There was no sound, no howling of the wind, not even the rustle of any leaves. There was no ground, no sky...just darkness. There was nothing.
Syaoran stood there, confused and shocked.
"Where am I?" He asked out loud, but of course no one replied.
Where are you?
Syaoran looked up, at least to what he thought was up. "That voice...is sounds like Sakura..." He exclaimed. "Sakura?!"
No one replied.
"Where am I thought..." Syaoran started running, to find some way out of this dark emptiness. But he came to nothing, and when he stopped running, he seemed to be in the exact same spot in where he had started.
This place seemed endless, there was no end.
You will be trapped in time forever Syaoran Li. You will never find your way back to the present. That was what Kahzuni had said to him. Syaoran sat down, his head in his hands.
"Am I suppose to find my way through time? To get back to the present?! That's nearly impossible..." He grumbled. "Time just goes on and on...how am I suppose to do this?"
I need to find help...I need to save Syaoran...
Syaoran lifted his head. Was that his Sakura he just heard? How come he could hear her at sometimes.
*Maybe she's calling to me....* Syaoran thought hopefully and he stood up. "We're in this together Sakura. I won't give up in trying to get back. And you better not give up in defeating Kahzuni."
"We won't give up." Syaoran said,
determination in his voice and his amber eyes flaring with strength.
"We won't give up!" Sakura said firmly while standing up from her bed.
Kero eyed her with confused eyes. "What?"
"I won't give up in trying to defeat that Kahzuni. And I won't give up in finding Syaoran!" Sakura clutched her key tightly. "If you can here me Syaoran, we won't give up."
"So you see the chinese gaki is stuck in time? Exactly which period of time?" Kero asked.
Sakura sat back down again. "I think I heard Retosha-kun say the future..."
"Hmmm...the future eh?" Kero floated in the air cross legged with his paw under his chin. "How are we going to get to the future?"
"That was what I was going to ask you!" Sakura snapped.
Kero sweatdropped then became serious again. "Kahzuni Retosha...why does that name ring a bell to me?"
"It does?" Sakura blinked. "I have to say that Retosha-kun is the weirdest person I've ever met. He said something about Clow Reed defeating him, causing him pain and all sorts of things..."
Kero frowned, "Then I guess he's back."
"What?"
Kero planted himself on Sakura's pillow. "Kahzuni Retosha was Clow Reed's greatest rival."
"What?!" Sakura's eyes widened.
"Don't interupt me! Questions and comments at the end!" Kero said.
Sakura sweatdropped but remained silent.
"Kahzuni was a distant cousin of Clow Reed, very distant. He possessed magical powers, but not as much as Clow Reed, and so he naturally envied him for his powers." Kero explained. "I, being the wonderful guardian beast, knew all about this."
"Er..get back to the point please Kero," Sakura sweatdropped.
"NO INTERUPPTIONS!!!" Kero crossed his arms and settled himself on the pillow again. "Clow Reed fell in love with Makilia at the same time Kahzuni did. Kahzuni felt that Clow had everything he didn't have, so he was angry and his anger turned into bitter and hate. He summoned all the people he could find that wanted Clow dead, and they went and decided to kill Clow. But of course, they didn't suceed because of a certain guardian beast on the guard and of course Yue was there to help."
Sakura nodded, and Kero continued. "Clow Reed struck back, killing Kahzuni's family except that Kahzuni escpaed from being killed. He was never seen again, well, except for now, and he vowed to kill anyone related to Clow Reed, or make them suffer."
"Sounds like him alright," Sakura sighed. "This doesn't sound very good."
"Of course it doesn't. And, can you get me a glass of water? My throat is dry from talking so much," Kero pointed out and Sakuar sweatdropped but got him a glass of water.
Sakura flopped onto her bed. "So that's Retosha-kun's past. You know, that's kind of sad..."
"Oh no Sakura! Don't you pity him, he started it first," Kero said.
"I know...well, how do we get Shaoran back?!" Sakura said, getting back to the point.
Kero opened the drawer and took out the Sakura Book. "I don't know if I can help you with this one, but your cards can. Look through them, maybe it'll come to you." Kero said and flew into his drawer and closed it.
"Hoe?" Sakura blinked at where Kero had just flew to. "He's sure acting strange..."
*Poor Sakura...she doesn't know that there's only one way to get that gaki back...* Kero thought sadly in his drawer. *And that one way is certainly not good.*
Sakura opened the Sakura Book and
glanced at all the cards. "Hmm...now which card can help me?"
AN: Yay! Chapter 6 done done and
done =D Stay tooned for Chapter 7!!! Will Sakura be able to get Syaoran
back? How will she do this? You'll have to stay tooned to find out! And
please R+R ;)
