zeni: Hello! We're back. Or I'm back. This is the third chapter of my story Lovestruck. I hope you enjoy it!! Cuz I sure love writing it.
Disclaimer: Ok...CCS belongs to Clamp. Not me. I am only a measly little person who is trying to right as good stories as Clamp does. Only Sakura's bodyguards, Wang, Chung, Ayuna, Chi Yuen, Auri, Kyle, Fay, Rei, Yu-lo-si and the bad guy(s) are from my lil imagination.
"........" people talking, whispering, etc....something coming from their mouth...you know.
'.........' Someone thinking
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(.........) Author comments....from the one and only moi!!
italics what happened before
flashback A flashback
Lovestruck
What happened before:
Sakura made some new friends, and they discovered her powers, and instead of erasing their minds, she let them remember that she was the Card Mistress. Then one day, Sakura and her friends were having a picnic and they got a very unexpected guest...who is this guest?
She stood up quickly. She had to check it out. "I'll be right-" She didn't even get to finish her sentence when a sharp pain ran through her, making her fall on her knees. 'What's wrong with me?' She asked herself.
"Sakura, what's wrong?" Fay asked. All her friends moved to her side. "Are you okay?"
Sakura ignored them and tried to will the pain away. "Ya...." She gasped. "I'm.....fine..." She tried to stand up but couldn't as the pain came back. She almost fell, if Syaoran hadn't caught onto her arm. 'Heal...Kero....what's wrong?' She tried to ask in her mind, but she felt no connection. Nothing. Usually when she connected to her cards she would feel the connection. But today, she couldn't. 'Help me...please....' It was the last thing she thought as she fell unconscious.
Syaoran looked down at Sakura's face as he lifted her in his arms. 'She seems so fragile...' He thought to himself. He smiled as he brushed the hair off Sakura's face. She wasn't very heavy and he had no trouble carrying her into the school.
Unknown to even the 'cameraman', a figure dressed in black was standing on a branch of a tree, watching Sakura and Syaoran. "Excellent. It won't be long now, Card Mistress!" Then the figure disappeared into thin air.
And now onto the story:
Sakura woke up in a very white and very clean room. "Where am I?" She asked, drozily.
"You're in the nurse's office."
Sakura turned towards the door, where the voice came from. "Syao...Li?" Then she looked down. She was lying on a bed. "What am I doing here? What happened?"
Syaoran saddened when she avoided calling him by his real name. He moved from his position at the door and sat beside Sakura's bed. "You fell unconscious." He told her gently.
Sakura nodded. "The pain....." She mumbled. She looked down at her side. There was nothing wrong. 'Why?'
"What pain?" Syaoran asked.
Sakura changed the subject aruptly. "What time is it?" She asked.
Syaoran wanted to know what had happened. "It's 3:30. What happened? What pain?" He asked again.
"Well...I..." Then Sakura felt like someone was pounding hard on her head. She grasped the sides of her head and doubled over in pain.
"Sakura! What's wrong?" Syaoran yelled out in panic. 'Why is it happening again?' He thought.
Sakura mumbled something totally incoherent, but all he caught was "Clow....Crads....Kero...." Then he thought he saw her body flicker. One look and he could tell that she was using magic. He grabbed onto her arm. "Sa-!"
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They landed on a very soft surface, with Sakura directly under Syaoran.
"Ow!" A voice cried from underneath them.
"Kero? Issat you?" Sakura asked.
A muffle "yes" came out.
"Oh sorry." Sakura apologized as she and Syaoran got off of Kero, blushing wildly. Kero was sitting on Sakura's bed playing video games when they crashed in. "Ok...Maybe I have a few flaws to work out..." Sakura mumbled.
Kero flew out and Syaoran found himself looking at a flying stuffed lion. "That's Keroberos?" he asked. "A puny little stuffed-" Syaoran didn't have time to finish as Kero bit his finger then turned in Keroberos, his true form and sat on top of him in split second.
"Kero!" Sakura scolded.
"Sorry Sakura..." Kero got off of Syaoran sheepishly. "Who is he? Your boyfriend?" he asked, pointing at the all-red Syaoran who got up off the floor silently.
"Ahh..." Sakura turned red as well. "No."
'Although I wish we were...' They both thought at the same time.
The Love card who was passing by Sakura's room, heard the commotion and peeked in. She spotted Sakura and Syaoran who were looking at each other. "Teehee..." She laughed then spoke in Kero's ear softly. "They love each other..."
Kero burst out into laughter. "They....they..."
Love placed one hand on Kero's mouth. "Sh..." She said. "Let them find out on their own." Kero nodded in agreement. 'This will be fun to watch.' He thought.
Love turned to Sakura who was looking at her and Kero strangely. "Hello Mistress." Love bowed.
Sakura smiled a tiny smile. "Hello Love." Love nodded and floated out of the room, laughing softly.
Syaoran had a sweatdrop down the back of his head. 'What were they talking about?' He asked himself. 'Clow Cards....I'll never understand them....'
"Hahaha..." kero laughed then tried to control himself. He was successful and turned to ask Sakura. "Why did you use Teleport? And why did you bring him?"
"Teleport?" Syaoran asked. 'Clow Reed didn't make a Teleport card...' He remembered all the classes of history that he took. None of them mentioned a Teleport card.
"Ya...That's one of my own." Sakura said. She lifted up her hand and a card appeared. Syaoran took it and saw a youg guy. His eyes were closed and he seemed to be holding a diamond. He was dressed up very formally. "This is Teleport." Sakura told him. "After I changed the cards into my own, I found out a way to make Cards. Search, Heal, Teleport, Love. They were just a few of them."
Syaoran nodded, taking in all the information. 'No wonder she is the most powerful sorcerous in the world. Being able to to create her own cards...bring linked telepathically to them....' He would go home and inform his mother about the new cards. 'The Li Clan Elders should know all this.' He thought. 'It would be good for future referance....'
"Why did you use Teleport?" Kero asked again.
"I felt something..." Sakura said. "That dream..."
"I said that you should carry them with you." Kero accused.
"Well, sorry! I'm already linked to them. I can just call them and then I can use their powers." She exclaimed angrily.
"Hai hai, gomen Sakura-chan." Kero said, mumbling.
Sakura sighed. "It's ok...." Then as if she all of a sudden remembered Syaoran, she blushed, "Ah...Li-kun? Um...do you want to stay?" She asked.
Syaoran looked at her surprised. "Um....sure..." he stammered.
Sakura smiled happily. "That's good! First let me tell my father." She pulled him out of her room, leaving Kero, who had started to play the video games again.
They passed many rooms until they reached the stairs. Servents who passed bowed happily to Sakura. Sakura bowed back, smiling genkily. The servents loved serving under the Kinomoto family because of their kindness to them. If they were sick, Sakura and her father would send presents and doctors to heal them. Usually they would go themselves to visit and use their magic. Many of the servents have been under their protection since Sakura was young and they were counted as family as well.
They finally got to the kitchen, where Sakura's father, Fujitaka was cooking a dumplings. "Konnichiwa, 'tousan!"
"Sakura! I thought you were staying at school for a while. Sit down." He said to his daughter smiling. Syaoran now knew where Sakura had gotten her smile. Her father had one exactly like it. Their smiles brightened any room up.
Then Fujitaka turned to Syaoran. "Ah! Who's this?" He asked.
Syaoran bowed, still a bit red in the face. "I...I'm Syaoran Li." he said, ratherly shyly. It was the first time that he had been in front of a girl's father. And since he like this girl he wondered what her father would say about him.
Fujitaka just laughed. "You don't have to bow before me." He took a glance at his daughter and saw the same look that was on Syaoran's face. Then he took a look at the auras. Where they met, the auras mixed together, creating tiny firework-like bangs. 'They like each other.... So this is the Syaoran who will save my Sakura...' He smiled. 'The boy is nice.....'
"I used teleport, father." Sakura told him about the day's events.
He arched an eyebrow at Syaoran, teasingly.
Sakura shrugged, turning pink. "He just came....He knows..." She sighed.
"Li, huh? You don't happen to be from the Great Li Clan, do you?"
Syaoran looked at Fujitaka. He wasn't sarcastic about it. And he wasn't talking bad about the Li Clan. "Yeah...."
Fujitaka managed a nice laugh. "You need a bit more training, descendent." and with that, he went to his meeting.
"Descendent?" Syaoran asked himself. His dumpling stopped halfway to his mouth. He let it drop on the plate in front of him.
Sakura smiled. She knew exactly what her dad was talking about. When her family was told about the cards, Fujitaka was also told that he was the reincarnation of Clow Reed. He and Touya were able to do some magic, not only Sakura, herself.
"Sakura, what does your father mean?" Syaoran asked, breaking into her thoughts.
Sakura stared at Syaoran for a minute, then laughed. "He's right....you do need training." she said, spotting the blue and silver auras around the kitchen. The silver one was her's and the blue one her father's.
"Why did he call me descendent? I'm not part of your family." Syoaran asked again. 'Well not that I know of...'
Sakura laughed. "Look around." was all she said.
Syaoran looked around. Nothing seemed out of order to him. "Man, does everyone in your family talk in riddles?"
Sakura laughed again. He was so clueless. And that made him very cute and irresistible. "I mean look around." She let her aura flash a brilliant silver before shielding it again.
Raising an eyebrow, Syaoran felt a strong power then it disappeared. He looked around the room and sensed much power coming from everything. One of them he knew was Sakura's from all the intense concentration he did to detect her aura. The other one...was very familiar.....He knew it....Clow Reed....
"Clow Reed?" Syaoran asked, looking back at Sakura who was on the ground laughing her head off. She managed a tiny nod. "Took...you...long...enough!" She gasped out between her giggles.
"Your father is Clow Reed?" Syaoran asked, shocked. 'No wonder Sakura has so much power. She is directly related to Clow Reed...'
Sakura nodded. "What about Eriol?" Syaoran asked. He didn't like Eriol one bit. He was always called "cute descendent" and teased by him. Once Eriol even gave him a makeover. It took Syaoran 2 days to wash up all the gunk.
Sakura bonked him on the head. "Silly! Father and Eriol are only half of Clow Reed each. They both have the magic and the knowledge." she explained.
"What about your mother?" he asked. Sakura had always talked about her brother and her father, but never about her mother. He, Meilin and everyone else had always assumed that she was in Japan and Sakura was missing her too much so they never brought up the topic.
And he should never had also. He realized that when he saw the pained look on her face. It was the same look that his family had when they first found out that he lost his father. During the years he had succeeded in hiding the pain, but it still hang deep in his heart.
'I bet she lost her mother as well....' Syaoran thought as he watched Sakura's face turn pale and her eyes water. "I..." he started to say but Sakura interrupted him.
"I...I'll be right back..." Sakura said, running towards the door. She bowed her head so that Syaoran wouldn't see her tears. 'Why did you have to die?' Sakura asked her mother in her mind. She knew that she was not going to be answered though. It made her even more sad. The fact that she hadn't been able to tell her mother that she loved her before she died. 'Mom....I'm so sorry....'
She thought she heard Syaoran call her name, but she ignored it. She turned to the right and ran up the stairs to her room. Swerving quickly, she cartwheeled in the room and jumped down the verandah before Kero could turn around. He went back to his video game, thinking nothing wrong.
Syaoran followed Sakura as she ran up the stairs and into her room. 'Where is she going?' He asked silently. "Sakura..." he called softly, but she didn't hear him. Either that or she was ignoring him. 'Sakura...I'm so sorry....' He thought as he followed her out the verandah.
Kero blinked as another speeding thing ran into the room and jumped out the window. "That's odd..." He mumbled to himself, turning around. As he did that the video game played a little song then the words "Game Over" came onto the screen. "GAME OVER??!!!!" Kero thundered. "Waii!!! NOOOO!!!" He flung himself at the controls once more. "I'm going to beat you!!! I will, I will, I WILL!!!!" He yelled furiously.
Sakura ran to one particular tree and sunk down, hugging herself to keep her warm. "I'm really sorry.....that I was the cause of this..." She never got to see her mother. Nadeshiko, her mother had died right after she had Sakura. The pain was too much for her to bare, because she was having a very high fever at the time. But she had pleaded that the doctors make sure Sakura was alive and named it Sakura, knowing that she was the one to capture the Clow cards. Destiny had to be fulfilled.
Once Sakura was old enough to talk, she constantly asked about her mother, until when she got to the age of 5 her brother was so fed up that he told her what happened and blamed it on her. He had apologized after Sakura had a crying fit, but it still did not ease the pain. The pain of knowing that she was the cause of her mother's death was high upon her soul.
zeni: That is where we find out how Sakura's mother died. I'm not really sure, so this is just made up. Plus it worked with the story, so....ya. Like the third chapter? I hope you do. It might take me some time to finish it. How long do you want it to be? Please email me k? At zeni24@hotmail.com. And also give me some suggestions how to end it k? Should Sakura die? Or should Sakura and Syaoran finally admit their love? I don't know. Please give me suggestions! I'd really appreciate it! Later!
Japanese Translations:
Hai: Yes/Okay
Gomen: Sorry
Konnichiwa: Hello
'tousan: Father
Genkily: Very preppy (preppily, if thats even a word...)