zeni: hihi minna-san!!! (that means everybody for all you people out there who don't know) It's mah 5th chapter!!!! I'm so proud!!!! Well, how'sit turning out so far? Good I hope.....mail me if ya got any questions or anything! Just please no flames...
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, Yoko-lo-si and the bad guy are from my lil imagination.
"........" people talking, whispering, etc....something coming from their mouth...you know.
'.........' Someone thinking
* * * * * * * * * * Usually a pause, or it changes to someone else's view...
(.........) Author comments....from the one and only moi!!
italics what happened before
flashback A flashback
Lovestruck
What happened before:
A creature appears before Sakura and Syaoran and hurts Sakura, claiming that Sakura had killed her mother. Kero has an idea of who is it, but is not willing to tell Sakura yet. Syaoran's sisters find out about Sakura.
"Who's Sakura?" Fanran asked. They all quieted down, ignoring the forlorn tv in the corner.
"Sakura...hm...sounds Japanese." Fuutie mused, thoughtfully.
"Cherry blossom, if I'm not mistaken." Yelan said. She smiled at where this was going to.
"A girl?" They all looked at each other.
The sisters clapped their hands together gleefully. Their little brother like someone! They all saw the look on his face when Meilin mentioned Sakura's name.
"Our little bro has a crush!" Feimei crowed out. "I thought that I would never see the day!"
"Maybe it's deeper then that!" Xiefa exclaimed. Everyone nodded. The sisters smiled. They would watch further and see.
They huddled up in the middle of the room, including their mother in their discussions.
Even Yelan had to smile. Ever since this Sakura girl came to Hong Kong, her son had always had a trace of a smile on his face. It did him good. He used to be such a cold and silent person that his family was afraid that he would never fall in love. But Yelan had the right to be the most afraid. She was afraid that he would turn up like.....Yakusoro....
And now onto the chapter.....
It's been a month since Sakura and Syaoran had their arguement. They still didn't talk to each other, which worried their friends greatly. They never knew what had happened and Sakura and Syaoran certainly did not want to talk about it.
After Syaoran had left, Sakura was told about 'the thing' that was after her. She, her father and Kero read her mother's diaries which included all the info that she needed.
Basically the story was that when Nadeshiko was younger, there was a guy who fell in love with her, but hshe only like him as a friend. He persisted and Nadeshiko got fed up and moved to Tomoeda. There she met up with Fujitaka, Sakura's father and they fell in love. They got married, but one year later, the guy, who was named Yakusoro Li, followed her to Tomoeda and tried to get Nadeshiko away from Fujitaka. He didn't succeed however but was sent to hell as a punishment.
....Somehow he must have excaped. Sakura, this is to you. Beware him, my daughter. He will come after you just as he came after me. He will claim that he loves you, but he only wants more power. I believe that he did love me, but you must beware. After I die (this was written before Nadeshiko died,) he might blame you for my death. Do not follow him. He is very powerful, having probably signed a contract with the devil.
Be careful, Sakura, my daughter. And remember that, no matter what, I will always love you and that I was happy that you came into the world. Do not blame yourself for my death. It was destiny. Good luck, amnd I hope you find your love very soon. I will be watching over you.
Love,
Mom
Sakura read and reread this passage many times during the days. She missed her mother very much, having not know her. 'Thanks mom....' She thought.
During the weeks, Fujitaka and Kero prepared her for her second meeting with Yakusoro. She was lucky the first time, but fate won't be with her the next time. For her training, she missed many classes and was always disappearing and reappearing before them.
'Where is she?' Syaoran asked himself in his head. 'She's missed this class 3 times already.' He thought. He had just finished lunch and was sitting in math class with Auri and Meilin. All his other friends had gym. Syaoran had counted all the times Sakura missed this class because it was the only class where he had a good view of her. He sighed. 'She's probably avoiding me.' He thought sadly, without realizing that he himself was avoiding her as well.
'Why is she- Stop thinking about her!' He yelled in his head. It was his fault that she wasn't talking to him anyways. He banged his head on the desk. 'Get out of my head!' He berated himself, but it was no use. He would always think of Sakura, no matter what happened.
Meilin just had to laugh at her cousin's antics. She and Auri could both tell that he was thinking about the Card Mistress and they knew that something had come between them, but it was extremely funny to see him banging his head against the desk.
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Sakura turned up for her next class which was art. It was one of her favourite classes, because she got to see Syaoran, because he took it too. She still liked him a lot, even after that BIG arguement they had. But ever since that day they never communicated. Once in a while they would look lovingly and longingly at each other then turn away sadly.
'I wonder what he's thinking about...' Sakura thought to herself. 'Why does he always look so sad? Is it because of that- no...can't be....' Sakura looked up from the ground and stared at her sketch. It was a wonderful sketch of a lone wolf howling at a full moon while standing at the edge of a cliff.
She gasped softly. 'What does this mean? Do I? No I don't....Do I? I don't love him...He's not the one...' But as much as she tried to convince her self otherwise, she didn't believe it.
She looked closely at the picture. It was pretty well drawn and Sakura didn't want to dump it out. 'I'll keep it in my room where no one will see.' She thought. She blushed a light silver when she realized what it meant. 'Syaoran....means little wolf....'
She quickly but carefully ripped the page out of the sketchbook and rolled it up. 'I'll keep it...I like it a lot...Just like I like hi-...no....do I? Argh!' She thought muttering in Japanese.
Syaoran glaced over at Sakura. She seemed to be frustrated with herself and was shaking her head, muttering to herself in Japanese softly under her breath. All he caught was "baka...baka....Iie, I don't....do I? No...."
Then he watched as she carefully tore a page of the sketchbook and rolled it up. 'What's that?' He asked, trying to get a look, but failing.
Then he saw Sakura stiffen as if she felt someone watching her. She looked up and her eyes widened. Then Syaoran watched as she turned away sadly and started muttering more Japanese words.
'Sakura...' Syaoran thought to himself. 'How could you have captured my heart along with the cards? And without knowing it...' He asked silently. It hurt when she looked away from him. It hurt a lot. But he wouldn't stop trying. He remembered the conversion he had with Kyle.
Flashback
"Hey man. It's me Kyle."
"Hey...Kyle....Why are you calling me?" He asked suspiciously. Usually Kyle called to ask if he wanted to be set up with someone. And this time he definately did not want to, even so more then before.
"Oh no reason.....Can't a guy call his best friend for fun?" Kyle asked, faking hurt in his voice.
"No." Syaoran cold voice answered him. "Spit it out." He demanded.
He heard Kyle sigh in the phone. "Fine..."
He was prepared for the usual, but this time Kyle's question threw him off guard. He had expected some inside dirt on people or begging for Syaoran to do his homework, but nothing like this.
"You like Sakura don't you?"
Syaoran gaped into the phone. He was suddenly silent. He dropped down on his bed and sighed, looking at the ceiling as if searching for an answer there.
"How do you know?" He asked quietly. You never know when his sisters were behind the door. They could be listening.
He could feel the joy in Kyle's face as he grinned.
"Is it that obvious?" He asked again.
"Yup!" Kyle said happily. He was glad that his cold friend had finally fallen in love with someone. 'Now to get them together...'
Syaoran sighed again. "Oh..."
"So what happened?" Kyle asked innocently.
Syaoran sighed a third time and told him everything that happened. About the evil magic, how he yelled at Sakura for being weak, how he was transported back and how he thought that Sakura hated him now.
"Hmm..." Kyle paused. "You shouldn't have yelled. She must have been very close to her mother to have blamed herself for her death." Kyle stated a fact.
Syaoran just nodded. "Uh huh..." 'Sakura, please forgive me...' He thought.
"Then apologize to her."
Syaoran fell back onto his bed. "I can't...she hates me..."
Kyle sighed in despair. His best friend was useless. "Of course she doesn't! Why would she be all sad then?!"
Syaoran was silent at this.
"Listen to me, man." Kyle said through the phone. "I know you're suffering, but you're not the only one. Stop being so selfish and think of others for a change." Then he hung up, leaving Syaoran deep in his thoughts.
Flashback ends
'What does he mean? Am I really that selfish?' Syaoran asked himself. Then in the corner of his eye he saw Sakura pack up her belongings and walk to the teacher's desk, holding her books.
He watched as she showed the teacher a slip of paper. The teacher nodded and Sakura hurriedly left the room,leaving her wondering friends and classmates.
Syaoran walked up to the teacher. "Yoko-lo-si, I'm not feeling that well. May I go home?" He asked lying through his teeth.
Yoko-lo-si looked at Syaoran. There was something wrong with the boy. His eyes looked as if he hadn't had a good night's sleep for ages and his cheeks were a bit red.
"Very well." He said, giving his consent.
Syaoran quickly grabbed his stuff and jammed them into his bag. He threw it over his head and ran out, making the class wonder again what he and Sakura were doing.
Syaoran stayed a few paces back, following Sakura. Syaoran tried concealing his aura so that Sakura wouldn't notice him there, but she already knew that he was behind her. She just didn't have the time to make him leave her alone. 'Why is he folowing me?' She wondered in her mind. 'Why won't he leave me alone?'
She ran out the main doors of the school and down a street, then turned on another street.
They stopped at a park. It had a tiny playground and on one side of it was the woods. On the other side was a few big houses. Syaoran didn't register any of this as he ran pass, so he missed seeing that Sakura was leading him very close to his house, although not intentionally.
'Where is it?' She asked scanning the place. Part of her training was to fight other beings. Kero and her father would create these creatures so that she could fight them. They were not real so that Sakura wouldn't feel bad for killing something real.
The creatures were sent out to test her speed, strength, and most of all, her strategies.
She looked around. 'No......nope...no....There!' She looked back and saw Syaoran frantically try to hide himself from her. "It's too late, Li-kun. I saw you already." She said, without turning around.
She heard Syaoran sigh as he stepped out of the bushes.
"You can watch....' She said. "Just don't bother me..." Then she rushed off in the direction of the woods, with Syaoran hot on her trail.
They stopped in a big clearing. Sakura scanned the perimeter for any sight of something unusual. She looked around while Syaoran stood there, not knowing what to do. Then he spotted something blue at his left. "What's that?" He asked pointing to a blue circle.
It was very intricately designed, with marks of blue and white, showing the powers of both Kero and Fujitaka.
Sakura turned to look at what Syaoran was pointing to. "Oh...That's it.." She said. walking towards it. Syaoran followed, although a bit suspicious of the cirlce in front of him.
Sakura stopped and looked up at the sky. She concentrated on hiding part of her energy away. It made her seem weaker to the opponent. Although doing that took a lot of energy, the energy will gather within the time she hid it, giving her more then she had before.
Syaoran felt a drastic change in Sakura's aura. It was weakening, and fast. 'How is it possible?' He asked himself. The next thing he saw was Sakura kneeling on the ground, gasping for air.
'Breath in, breath out, breath in, breath out....' Sakura told herself. She had mistakingly put away too much of her energy. 'Great, how do I fight like this?' She thought to herself.
Pulling herself up from the ground shakily, she planted on foot after another, in front of her, walking slowly to the circle. 'Ok...I can do this....'
Syaoran watched as Sakura got up. She seemed to have trouble walking. 'What's wrong with her?' He thought but didn't say anything. It hurt him to see Sakura hurt, but he knew that if he tried something now, she probably wouldn't let him go along with her. He wanted to know what she was doing for the pass few weeks.
When Sakura got to the circle, she looked back at him. Syaoran was standing there like an idiot, not knowing what to do. "Are you coming or not?" She asked quietly.
"Yeah...." He nodded and they both stepped into the circle together.
Sakura having done this before many times, closed her eyes and waited, while Syaoran stood there, wondering what was going to happen. He got his answer when suddenly everything turned white then black and faded away. He closed his eyes at the bright flashes.
They landed on something soft.
Syaoran opened his eyes and was amazed. He and Sakura were sitting on purple grass! The sky was a light silver, making it seem like a sunset.
He looked around. They were surrounded by a woods, but the tress were multicoloured. There were green, blue, orange, white, etc. Anything you can name. Any colour. The sky was filled with flying creatures, but none of them seemed to see the Mistress and the descendent of Clow Reed.
"Where are we?" Syaoran turned to Sakura and asked.
Salkura was wearing a light silver suit that showed all her curves, making Syaoran blush wildly. The front of the shirt was low but not low enough for Syaoran to see anything. The sleeves flared out at the wrists. She also had a black skort. (a skirt-shorts) and silver and black sneakers. It seemed to have some kind of mechanical feel to it. Sakura's hair was sweaped up in a high ponytail, leaving some wispes opf hair framing her face.
She looked absolutely angelic to Syaoran, who tried very hard not to stare.
Sakura was also trying very hard as well, but she was doing a better job then Syaoran, who looked like he would wrap his arms around Sakura any minute now.
Syaoran looked down at himself, seeing that Sakura had turned away from him with her cheeks flushed. He was dressed in green and black. A green tank top that showed his buff shoulders and muscular arms. He was wearing big baggy pants that seemed to fit him very comfortably. He had the same kind of sneakers as Sakura, which made him feel lighter then possible.
"This is my father and Kero's world." Sakura said. Debating on how much she should tell him. Sighing, she figured that she had no choice but to tell him everything except the deep sinking feeling in her stomach that something was wrong. She couldn't place the feeling though, so she kept quiet about it.
"These are just practice fights for me to train with." Sakura told him briefly.
Syaoran nodded. It made sense. All the skipping of classes was for training. His Clan was like that too. Training was a very big thing in China. If you had training in eiher magic or martial arts, it meant that you would most likely become very powerful in either, or in some cases both.
Just then, something appeared before them, making both Sakura and Syaoran pop out of their thoughts.
Sakura jumped back and landed in front of Syaoran. She spread her arms out protectively in front of him, making her blush at the same time. She ignored it though and turned her sights onto the creature. "Show yourself!"
It was almost identical to the creature which stood before her about a month ago.
It had the same maniacally grin on it's face and the deep piercing blood red eyes. At the side of the mouth were long pointy teeth, which would hurt a lot if someone was bitten with them. At it's sides were two long claws, (kinda like from devimon in digitsal monsters). It wore a black robe and had a hood covering the head.
"Wow...big imagination.." Syaoran muttered under his breath. 'Something's wrong...is there suppose to be an evil aura? Maybe the stuffed animal and her fahter made it like that.... Maybe....' He stopped thinking and looked back at the creature. It glared at him.
'This is weird....Something's wrong....' Sakura thought as she watched the creature and Syaoran have a staring contest. It radiated of dark energy, which it has never done before. 'I need to keep Syaoran safe...' Was the first thing that came to her mind.
Syaoran turned as he felt a powerful aura flaring. He saw Sakura's aura quickly forming a shield like object around him. It was like a bubble, trapping him inside. The good thing was that he could breath.
"What's this?" He asked. He tried punching the bubble, but it was solid and made his hand hurt.
"It's a shield." Sakura told him. "Stay out of my fights." Then she crouched down, waiting for the creature to take it's first move.
'Does that means she cares?' Syaoran asked himself. 'But what about her? This creature just doesn't feel as if someone good had created it...Even if it was created by Clow Reed himself. Something bad's going to happen...I just know it...' But he could do nothing about it, but tell Sakura to be careful. "Be careful." He whispered.
Sakura had a slight smile on her face as she answered him. "I will...."
Then the creature attacked.
zeni: Soo...how's it so far? Sorry I had to put some cliffhangers here......I just can't help it! ~heehee~ anyways, how are enjoying it so far? I hope it's good! I think I'm kinda getting over my writer's block. Hopefully, I'll be done this story....even if I love it a lot...I'm currently also working on two other stories, which I'll post up soon. Talk to ya later!!!!
Japanese translations:
baka: idiot
Iie: no
sakura: cherry blossom
Chinese translations:
lo-si: teacher/mentor