AN: Ah! I haven't been able to write in a long time..because...uhhhh..I've been lazy? Eep! Sorri minna-san! But now, here's the next chapter! The...LAST chapter I mean..dum dum dum ~.~
Kero: *hic*
Ice: @.@ Did you forget about the diet?
Kero: Huh? What diet?
Ice: Diet! D-i-e-t!
Kero: Oh! That thing....uh...*hic hic* ^^U
Ice: Eessssh!
Kero: T_T I can't help it!!! Not eating yummy food is to cruel!
Ice: Nice excuse..anyways, onto Ch.20!
Cool! 20!
Disclaimer: No, I don't own CCS and
it's character, so pooey. CLAMP owns it -.-
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Chapter Twenty: Spring Moon
Written by Enchanted Ice Star
The cherry blossoms blew across the sky, the sky seemed dark, and the moon seemed an odd maroon and pink. Sakura and Syaoran stood in shock on the grassy feild, both were staring at Chun who stood in front of them, her emerald eyes glossy with her own tears.
Yet why she was so sad, they didn't know why.
"You must be wondering, why I am crying, why this is all happening," Chun started in a soft voice. "But it's because, life isn't fair at all. Syaoran, we've been together, for a couple years, but I can tell, that Sakura is the one you really see through your eyes."
Syaoran was silent, he didn't know what to say.
"I was born on one rainy spring day, the moon was up, and my parents found out I was different." Chun said in a bitter voice. "I lied to you Syaoran, my parents aren't somewhere living in America, I don't have any parents, because they abandoned me. I had to survive all on my own, just when I was a little baby. I know, that's not possible for a normal human being, but I'm not a normal human being."
"...What?" Sakura uttered out.
"Life is so unfair, to have cursed me with this. At times, I am a normal being, with my own mind and thoughts, but sometimes, the other me takes over, and I am helpless. I don't know what I am doing, I don't know if I am killing, or doing something bad. This other me, wants your power Sakura."
Sakura's hands went instinctively up to the star key that hung gently around her neck. She gripped it tightly, not knowing what to do.
"I am telling you all this, before the other side of me awakens again. I don't want you two to misunderstand all that is happening. I want you to know, that you truely were a great friend Sakura, and that I don't want to cause you any harm." Chun choked out, a single tear slipping down her cheek. "And Syaoran..I wanted to tell you.."
But then, a sudden wind blew past them, and Sakura and Syaoran saw that Chun had closed her eyes and that when they opened once again, they were an eerie red.
"That isn't Chun anymore..." Syaoran whispered.
"...Then..who is it?" Sakura murmered shakily.
The girl standing before them had a small smile on her soft pink lips. She raised one hand, and a cherry blossom petal flew onto it and starting to spin and change into a long staff with a half moon at the top and a cherry blossom in the middle of the half moon.
"It's finally time card mistress, I want your cards, and all your power."
"What happened to Chun?!" Sakura cried.
"Nothing, I am right here," She replied. "I am Chun, Chun is me. I am Chun Yue, and what else can I say? I am not the nice side of Chun." She said with a glint in her eyes.
Syaoran had summoned his sword, and in his other hand he had some of his yellow cards. "Sakura, be careful."
Sakura nodded, and summoned her star staff. She didn't know if she really wanted to battle, it was Chun standing in front of her..but at the same time...it wasn't her.
Syaoran was thinking the same thing as Sakura, he wasn't really sure how to make a move when the girl he was fighting was his former girlfriend.
"We don't need to fight," Chun began. "You can just give me the cards, and there will be no blood."
Sakura gripped her deck of cards tightly. She wouldn't give up her cards that easily, she had remember how hard it was so so so long ago for her to obtain them.
"...No! I can't just give them to me..they belong to me!"
They could tell that Chun was tightening her grip on her staff, for her knuckles seemed ghostly white. She seemed to be floating several feet above the ground, a dark pink aura around her...not a warm friendly pink aura Sakura had...but a dark one.
"Fine, I gave you a chance, but you didn't want it." She raised her hand again, and one of the many petals that were floating by her landed in her hand.
She blew the petal off her hand, and a butterfly came flying out of it.
"Xiao Hu." Chun greeted with a slight nod.
The butterfly perched itself on her shoulder. "Mistress."
"Xiao Hu?" Sakura and Syaoran both questioned.
"I am Chun Yue's guardian. I protect her, and I help her," The butterfly answered.
Chun smiled, a thin sly one as she raised her staff and it started to glow. Vines shot out of it, and headed towards Sakura and Syaoran.
"Watch it!" Syaoran pushed Sakura aside and the two landed with a thud on the grass just as the vines went above them and turned back again towards them.
Sakura threw a card out and slammed her staff upon it. "Sheild card! Protect Syaoran and I! Shield!"
A transparent pink bubble surrounded them and the vines bounced off, but seemed to charge again at them. Sakura held onto her wand tightly, hoping that the sheild would stay up.
Syaoran gritted his teeth, he had one slip of yellow paper in his left hand, and his sword in the other. He glanced at the girl before her, it was Chun..but she seemed so different. So cold. He didn't want to attack..but if he didn't, his life and Sakura's life could be in danger, plus the cards.
Chun narrowed her eyes, the vines slashing furiously at the sheild that was beginning to weaken. "Syaoran, are you scared to attack?" She said menacingly. "Come on, send a lightning bolt at me."
Syaoran's grip tightened around his sword, this was getting on his nerves. Sakura glanced at him nervously, she too, didn't know what to do. "Shaoran.."
"Sakura, we have to fight her, or else the cards will go into the wrong hands and everyone could be in danger, not just us," Syaoran said firmly.
Sakura glanced from Syaoran to Chun who seemed bored. She frowned, "But..it's Chun.."
"No it isn't. It's not her," Syaoran answered back.
Chun's lips curved into another smile that sent shivers up Sakura's spine. Chun's eyes flashed from red to emerald. "Syaoran!!"
Syaoran's eyes widened, somehow, he knew deep down in his heart, that it was Chun who had just called out to him. "Chun?"
Her eyes went blank again and returned to the eerie glinting red jewls. Chun raised her staff again and sent the vines furiously hard against the now weak sheild around Syaoran and Sakura.
A shattering sound could be heard, and the sheild broke.
"Shaoran!" Sakura screamed and pushed him down with her just as the vines made contact with Sakura.
"Sakura!!"
She was hurtled to the side as she winced in pain. "I'm ok." She replied stiffly as she tried to stand.
Syaoran narrowed his eyes and turned his head to Chun. "Fine, you want to fight, then I'll fight." He threw a yellow card up and slammed his sword onto it, causing a streak of lightning to go towards Chun.
She merily stood there, as if waiting for it to come. And then all of a sudden, Xiao Hu's wings enlarged and surrounded Chun, and the lightning bolt simply bounced off and disappeared.
Syaoran's eyes widened with a frown, but he also noticed that Chun's attention wasn't on him.
Chun glared at Sakura, staring straight into her emerald eyes. Chun lifted her staff high into the air, her long strands of raven hair blowing out in front of her as her aura brightened.
The half moon shape at the top of her wand glowed, and a redish colored beam shot out straight towards Sakura.
Syaoran's eyes widened as he leapt up towards her.
Time seemed to slow down for all of them...
Syaoran could feel Sakura's aura getting closer to him...
He could feel that he was now in the beam's path....
He thought....maybe this was the end?
Seconds went by...minutes...it never came..
Syaoran and Sakura looked up, and saw that Chun was no longer floating, but was standing on the grass, breathing hard. Sakura noticed that Chun's eyes were her normal emerald, and she looked really tired.
The staff was still in her hand, and Xiao Hu was still perched on her shoulder.
"Mistress?" Xiao Hu asked hesitantly.
Chun looked up, and a smile spread across her lips. One that didn't send shivers up your spine, just a sweet serene smile, but her eyes showed sadness.
"I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry, for causing all that. I'm sorry, for everything. I'm sorry for lieing to you, for not telling you that I wasn't human Syaoran. And I really want to thank you, Sakura, for answering that quesiton I asked you just days ago. I thank all of you..."
Chun held her staff infront of her, and stared at Syaoran. "Li Syaoran, I really really did love you. I wasn't suppose to, it was all suppose to be part of the plan. My other side knew that the card mistress would appear someday and be around a boy named Li Syaoran, so I was to become your girlfriend. But I wasn't suppose to really love you...but I guess, I did." She laughed softly. "My other side said, that if I could get the cards, then she would leave me alone, and maybe I could really be part of the human world. But I think that's not possible, but I just want you to remember Syaoran."
"I really do love you. And thanks for Sakura, I finally saw that I would never want to hurt the one I truly loved. And if I hurted Sakura, it would be like hurting you, Syaoran."
And she stabbed her staff into her chest, a bright light illuminated the area, blinding everyone in the area. And the next moment when Sakura and Syaoran could open their eyes once again, they found themselves back in the hospital room.
"What happened?!"
Syaoran stared out the window, it was night, and the moon was up. "I don't know...did that all really happen? Or was it a dream?"
"...I think, it really happened," Sakura answered while she joined Syaoran at the window.
Syaoran stared up at the round full moon, and somehow, he could see Chun's face smiling down at him.
"I really do love you."
"Take care of yourself, and Sakura."
"Did you just hear that?" Syaoran asked out loud.
"Hmm? Hear what?" Sakura blinked.
Syaoran paused, and then shook his head.
Sakura tilted her head, "What happened though? To Chun? ...She..just disappeared."
"No...she's gone..no actually, she's somewhere maybe where she thinks that she belongs," Syaoran answered as he put an arm around Sakura. "But..finally Sakura, we're together. Nothing can tear us apart again, nothing."
Sakura leaned her head onto Syaoran's shoulder, and nodded. "Yes, nothing."
They turned to face each other, a smile crossed Sakura's lips. Syaoran also smiled back at her, and the two leaned closer.
And kissed.
A long passionate kiss, and to them, the world seemed perfect now. Nothing was out of place...everything was right...well...except for...
"Ouch! You're stepping on my foot!"
"Stop shoving me! I have to catch this kawaii moment on tape! Sakura's first kiss!"
"Tomoyo!" A bunch of voices cried.
But to the two standing blissfully
in the room, they were unaware of the people watching from the slightly
opened door. It didn't matter to them, nothing really mattered, except
that they had each other.
AN: *SNIFF* THE END! AH! THE END!
Kero: *blows nose* THE END!!
Ice: THE END!!!
Kero: END END END!!!
Ice: AHHHH!! Ok, I'll stop now. Well, yup, To Guard our Love is done! Finally! 20 chapters and I'm finally done this fic! Thank you to everyone who gave me support, and all of your reviews were great! I luv yeah all~~! Yeah..I read through each and everyone one of them, and they each were so special ^^ Please stay tooned for other fics by me, which I hopefully will be writing...and just one last thing...THANK YOU!!
Kero Ok ok, shud up now Ice. It's
my turn. Ok everyone, thank you to ALLLLLLLLLLLLL the GGGRRRREEEAAAAATTTTT
FATTTTENING FOODS! They were SOOO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to thank you
all 1000000 times! My belly is gonna explode! MWUAHAHAHA...and...
my final thank you list T_T
KERO'S FINAL THANK YOU LIST TO
ALL U HOLY PEOPLE ^o^
Kawaii*Miki for the non fat
pudding and other pudding stuff!
Baby-chan for the metal bat
thingy for Ice to wack away flamers! Lol! Hahaha, that'll be handy :D
ChibiChibi for the choco
slim fat bars...LOL! I wonder how chocolate can be..un fattening..yes..anyways..neato!
p-sama for the gaki
shaped pinyata full of never ending pudding cups!! HOW CREATIVE! KAWAII!
Sapphire Midnight for the
video games!! YEAHHHH!!!
Kiyuri for the big stuffed
teddy bear!! LOL! It looks like me, which means, it looks great ;)
Leii for the Sweets/Candies/Chocolates
Internet Access Dial Up..lol! I can't type very well, so I don't use internet
much, all these thank you lists Ice typed up for me ^^;;
chibiookamigirl for the box
that you can wish for anything!! I luv these wish thingies..
Kawaii Blossem for the endless
pudding!!! YES! PUDDING PUDDING PUDDING!!
Pink Sakura Blossom for the
wand and sweets! Sweets...YUM....sweets....YUM YUM
ChibiSakuraSyaoran for the
video game of me? Kero dolls, KEWL, and a pudding transformer!! AWW! To
bad I can't transform Ice into pudding..NENENENENE
Ambreen for the slim fast
thing...hahaha..I think I'll never really have a sucessful diet ._.;
KaWaii+[gaKi]+bRat for the
'cambridge diet pack' lol! So much diet stuff...AHH!
azngurL for the exercise
video! HAHAHAHA!!!
hikari for the egg pudding...squishy..creamy...cool....
LadyGatomon for the cookies,
candy, chocolate cakes, soda, a Ice cream factory, a empire stste full
of sweets, a goody plate and a pudding shop...WHOA!!! YAY!!!
Rachie-chan for the 25 tons
of pudding!!! YAY! 25!! TONS! MWUAHHAAHA
Final Fantasy Princess for
the 4 cartons of pudding! YES! YATTA~!
kitty kat for yummy chocolate
covered strawberries, sugared grapefruit, BANANA SPLIT SUndAY...looks..so
good!! *drool*
Fanny chan for ...LOL! SUPPI!
YES! MWUAHAHAHAHAHA! LEMME STUFF SOME SWEETS INTO YA SUPPI! I am so evil
~.~
rini124 for 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
infinity cakes,pudding and ice cream..I think I missed a couple 9's but
o well! THAT'S ALOT!
phantas-magoria for the giant
choco cookie, hahaha I stole it from Ice :P
CrystalSakura for the ol
looking box that has endless thingies...KEWL! I like these boxes...so neat...
Wallcrawler86 for the any
kind of pudding cupon! YAY!
Rebekkah-sama for the deck
of cards n pudding! :D:D:D LUV YA
SakuraCelestialFabienne for
the 1 million puddings and fifty billion strawberry snapsticks ..KEWL!!!!
Anime for the three tons
of pudding! I LUV PUUDDDINNNGGG~!
Tessa-Chan for the 1 billion
cakes,2 billion candies,and 14 billion boxes of pudding!! I'm gonna blow
up soon..:P
Silvermoon maru for the alkaseltzer,
it realliii helped :D
Saiera for the 'dead or alive'
video game...sounds neat~~!
PHEW! THAT WAS ONE LONG LIST!
Ice: @.@ Made me dizzy
Ice and Kero n everyone: WELL, THANK YOU FOR READING!!
~~Arigatou!!~~