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I don't own Cardcaptor Sakura. (sigh) Oh well! I can dream! hahahahahaa! (sigh) -.-;a
I've Found You-Chap. 3
By: DreaDreamer
Sakura walked into her room feeling happy and light headed.
'What a wonderful breakfast!', she thought happily.
She sat down in front of her remaining bags and boxes, and started to go through them. She found the books the school had sent her and threw them in a pile next to her bed. Sakura did not want to start the day by looking at books.
After an hour of cleaning, Sakura finally reached the bottom of the final box. On the bottom were picture albums. Picking them up and bringing them to her bed, she sat down and started to look through them. She started to laugh at all the funny moments Tomoyo had caught on film. She remembered each card she had caught as she looked at herself in all the costumes Tomoyo had made her wear.
She started to reach the end of the book, when she saw a picture of herself and Syaoran standing together.
They seemed about ten from the way their uniforms looked. It looked like one of their first pictures together.
Sakura stopped smiling as she stared at the picture. She slammed the book closed and threw it into the box with the rest of the albums. Looking down into the box, she saw a book heavily wrapped in newspaper. A corner of the paper was ripped, and Sakura saw the gold edges of the Clow book shining. She picked up the box and placed it roughly in a far corner of her closet.
Kero then flew in through the open window and said happily, "Guess what I fou-"
He stared at Sakura. She was staring at her closet, breathing heavily.
"Sakura, is something wrong?", asked Kero flying closer.
"What?", asked Sakura sharply, turning around to face Kero. Her eyes were narrowed, but when she saw him, her expression lightened.
"Oh, Kero. No, I'm fine. What were you saying?"
Kero stared at her worried for a second before brightly telling her of what he had found.
"I found a Video Game Arcade! Right here in town!!", said Kero happily. "I fell asleep in there after I had breakfast(at this Sakura glared at him)-er- I mean after the very small and measly breakfast I had-anyway! I got stuck in one of those big silver things on the roof, and it sucked me into a vent, and then I went into this big cool room full of giant video games!"
At the finish of this, Kero looked at Sakura smiling wide, waiting for her to jump for joy for him.
Sakura just stared at him. Finally she said, "Cool." before going to her closet.
""Cool'? That's all you have to say about this wonderful finding?", asked Kero no longer smiling happily. Instead he looked down-right flabbergasted(ah hah hah! cool word! flabber, gasted, flabber-oh! sorry)
Sakura looked at him over her shoulder.
"Mmmm...yup. That's all I have to say." She turned back to her closet pushing aside her clothes.
"Arrr!!! Fine! Don't talk to me! I'm going to take a nap." Kero then flew over to the bed and curled up on her pillow, his back facing her sulkily.
"It's nine o'clock in the morning! Why do you need a nap?", asked Sakura in disbelief, hanging shirts in her closet.
"I'm going back to that 'cool' arcade tonight. I'm gonna stay there all night after they've closed. They have so many beautiful video games...ah...", said Kero dreamily, seeming to forget he was mad.
"Your leaving again tonight? Can you find dinner and everything okay?", asked Sakura closing her window.
Kero sat up on the pillow and looked at what she was doing.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. What are you doing?", he asked as she grabbed a bag from under her bed.
"I'm gonna go look at the sights. And I still need to buy some more school supplies.", she said, not looking up as she put a wallet and sweatshirt in the bag. Sakura zipped up the bag and swung it over her shoulder.
"Your not going to take me?", asked Kero hurt.
"No. Don't leave this room for anything!", she warned, walking out of her room and closing the door.
"'Don't leave this room for anything'", mocked Kero in a high-pitched voice wagging his finger in the air.
The door opened and Sakura threw a water bottle at Kero knocking him off the pillow onto the ground.
"And don't make fun of me." Sakura walked down the hall leaving a dazed Kero trying to get up from the floor.
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Syaoran was sitting on the couch in the living room reading one of his school books.
Sakura stared at him from the hallway. She kept seeing the picture in the album when she looked at him. There was almost nothing different about him, except maybe that his face didn't have all the boyish roundness about it, and he was much taller. Sakura once again wished she hadn't forgotten her pills.
Sakura strode carefully over to the door, hoping he was too much in his book to notice her.
Her hand just turned the door knob when Syaoran said, "Do-"
"What?" Sakura asked angrily, rounding on Syaoran, who was looking surprised at her.
"You wanna know where I'm going again?"
Syaoran just stared silently at her, eyes wide.
She glared back, squinching up her face. 'Your not the real Syaoran! Stop pretending to be!', she screamed inside her mind.
"I'm going out! That's all you need to know! Geez, I thought I left my dad in Japan!"
Syaoran stared surprised at her for a moment longer, before glaring at her.
"I was just going to say", said Syaoran irritably, "I'm going out today, do you want a key?"
Sakura yelled, "I don't care! I'm not gonna tell you!" Then she turned around and walked out, slamming the door.
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Syaoran was glaring at the door, not believing what had just happened . A few seconds later, someone knocked.
A grin crept up at the corners of Syaoran's mouth. He got up slowly, stretching and yawning loudly.
He knew exactly who it was.
Apparently, the person outside the door heard him taking his time and banged on the door with so much force, that it shook slightly.
He made his way to the door and looked out the little peep hole. Sure enough, Sakura was standing there with her arms crossed, looking very sheepish, and very red.
He kept the evil grin there as he opened the door.
"Yes?", he asked Sakura glaring vehemently at him, as if daring him to make more of a fool out of her.
"CanIhaveakey?", she mumbled, looking away.
"What?", asked Syaoran cupping his ear, still grinning. "I'm sorry, I can't understand a word your saying."
With his head turned, Syaoran didn't see that Sakura was now grinning. She had just gotten an
idea.
"CAN I HAVE A KEY?!", Sakura screamed in his ear.
"Ahhhhh!!!", yelled Syaoran covering his ear and jumping back. He looked up at Sakura to see her smiling just as evilly as he had been doing a second before.
"Do you want me to say it again?", she asked calmly.
"No! Hold on.", turning away from the door, angrily, he went to the kitchen picking up an envelope with a key in it.
"Here!", he said, thrusting the envelope towards her. "Did you know your a-"
"A what?", asked Sakura glaring again at him.
They stared glaring at each other for a moment, before Syaoran mumbled, "Never mind..."
"That's what I thought", said Sakura grabbing the envelope roughly out of his hands, smiling. "Thanks."
As she walked down the hall, Syaoran watched her, memorizing every detail of her walk. The way her legs moved, the sound her jeans made, the way her braid bounced on her back. As she rounded the corner, Syaoran turned inside and closed the door.
"Did you know your a incredible person...", murmured Syaoran, leaning against the door.
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Syaoran was in the apartment, busily preparing for a soccer practice in the park. Practice had begun two weeks before, and since school was starting the next day, today was the last practice. The coaches were going to evaluate the teams today in a practice game. Syaoran wasn't worried, considering he was the best player on the team and had been for the past eight years. The coaches always beamed when they saw him, knowing that he was going to win countless championships for Mizoku College.
'Tch. That's all I am to them. A trophy winner', thought Syaoran angrily. He didn't like the way coaches treated him like he was better than everyone else, but he played because he loved the game.
Sighing, he opened the refrigerator, looking for a water bottle. As he closed the refrigerator, with a water bottle in hand, something caught his eye on the door. It was the paper of information on Sakura Kinomoto.
Pulling the paper off the door, Syaoran took a closer look at it. He had only read the name when he had first looked at it, and had forgot about it after that. He took the paper over to the counter and started to read.
Name: Sakura Kinomoto
Former schools: Tomoeda Elementary...
*ZING*
Syaoran felt a flash of familiarity at the name. But why? Perhaps he'd rivaled against the school in a game...
He kept reading, but the high school didn't sound quite as familiar as the elementary had. Syaoran read through the names of the extra-curricular programs Sakura had been in. Dance, of course, cheerleading('Hmmm...', thought Syaoran), other little activities.
He made his way down the list till he came to the end where it said 'Medications'.
"Whoa...", said Syaoran out loud as he looked at the names of the pills. Some of the names on the list were of very heavy anti-depression pills.
Syaoran read to himself:
"Pills to be taken only in severe cases of depression.
Side effects include: heavy drowsiness or lack of sleep may occur; lethargic body functions, and irritability may also occur..."
Syaoran read a slightly long list of side effects. He took the paper into his room and placed it inside his desk. Syaoran stood in his room frowning, before going outside into the hallway. He stopped dead in his tracks as he passed in front of Sakura's room.
Someone was snoring.
'Didn't she already leave?', he asked himself putting his ear against the door. Sure enough someone ('or something', thought Syaoran curiously) *was* snoring. Turning the door knob slowly, he peeked into the room. There was nobody there, and the snoring had stopped.
SNORK!
"AAhhh!", screamed Syaoran as a snort disrupted the silence of the room. He slammed the door, and rushed down the hallway and out of the apartment.
Kero looked up from the pillow he had been sleeping on. "What was that?", he asked the air around him, blinking sleepily. "Eh. Oh well.", and he drifted back to sleep, snoring peacefully.
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Sakura had walked around for five hours and was completely exhausted when she stopped under the shade of a tree in the park. She had tons of overloaded bags around her, and she was starving.
'I'm too tired to move', she thought as she sat with her back against the tree. 'I'll just rest here for a few minutes.' Sakura looked around at the small park that was across the street from her apartment. 'I wonder if Syaoran, er, that guy left yet.', she thought to herself. She looked over towards a big field in the middle of the park, to see a soccer game going on. She decided to get a closer look, and moved to a tree closer to the game.
All the players looked to be around eighteen to twenty, and all looked very good at soccer. But one guy looked especially skilled. Swerving in and out of players, he sped, almost flew down the field kicking goal after goal passed the goalie. Sakura felt sorry for the goalie. He just couldn't guard good enough against the guy.
The guy was tall and lean, with messy brown hair that was wet at the neck with sweat. He looked familiar. She felt funny around him, as if she could sense something about him. Like he was giving off a weird feeling that gave Sakura a weird sensation that tingled through her body.
Sakura stared at the guy, trying to see his face, but she couldn't because he blurred down the field so fast. Sakura watched for another fifteen minutes when there was a break, and the guy went to get a drink of water. Sakura gasped when she saw who it was.
'Oh my god! That can't be him! Not again!', Sakura thought stunned.
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Syaoran suddenly felt very odd. He could sense something close by. Or was it someone? He felt a strange aura coming somewhere within the park. He turned around and around and finally saw where it was coming from. A girl under a tree close to the field. She was staring wide-eyed straight at him, unmoving, and she was pale. He squinted his eyes against the hot autumn sun as he saw who it was.
"Sakura?...", he whispered to himself. He strode over the field, ignoring the coaches and his teammates who were asking where he was going.
"I need a quick break!", he yelled, not taking his eyes off Sakura as she scrambled to retrieve the bags that were scattered around her.
She wasn't fast enough.
"What are you doing here?", asked Syaoran stepping under the shade of the tree, in front of her.
"I, uh, I was-um", Sakura said, stumbling over her words. She looked up at his glaring eyes, and saw a glint of curiosity. She narrowed her eyes at him and said, "Why do I have to ask you if I want to be here?"
"I just wanted to know", he said. He was looking at her strangely, trying to decide whether or not he should tell her that he had sensed her. He decided not to. He sat down next to her, looking out at the field. She was on her knees, rigid, while he sat with his back hunched and his arms around his legs.
"So, do you think we're any good?", he asked her. Sakura stared at him with her eyes narrowed, not sure if she wanted to be nice to him.
"Yeah, I guess. That goalie can't block any of your goals", she said. Syaoran looked at her and smiled. Sakura looked away, smiling herself. "He must not be any good."
"Oh! That was uncalled for!", said Syaoran laughing. Sakura looked at him and started laughing too. They stared at each other for a second, before they looked away blushing.
Across the field, Syaoran's teammates were watching him sitting next to the girl under the tree.
"She's pretty cute. I've never seen her before", said one of the guys.
"I've never seen Syaoran laugh before. And is he blushing? Wow, she must have the special touch!", laughed another.
"I wonder where he's been hiding her. He better hope Caskai doesn't find out. She'd have that girl socially humiliated in a day."
Sadly, after five minutes, the coach called Syaoran back.
"Your master's calling you", said Sakura looking over at the coach.
"Yeah. Well I better go." He stood up and started to walk away before he stopped and turned around. "A-are you gonna stay?", he asked timidly, not looking at Sakura.
Sakura smiled up at him. "Oh, I'm so sorry, but I'm gonna have to turn down the offer to watch a bunch of sweaty guys chasing after a ball. Maybe another time. I have to go and see if Kero's eat-" Sakura stopped, with her eyes wide. "Uh, er, I mean that I need to go call my friend."
"Yeah, of course, okay", said Syaoran. They stared at each other for a few seconds. Sakura gazing up into Syaoran's brown eyes, and Syaoran staring down into Sakura's green emerald eyes.
"Their shining again...", murmured Syaoran, thinking out loud.
"What?", said Sakura, looking startled.
"Oh, uh, I mean, heh-", stammered Syaoran, slightly blushing again. "I, er, I-"
"Li! Hurry up! We need to get going!", yelled the coach.
"Oh! I gotta go, see ya later." And with that, he jogged down the field to the cat calls of his team mates:
"Oh, we hate to break it up Li!"
"Yeah! Who's the girl Li? Been keeping her hidden, huh?"
"I can see why...", said one of the guys gawking at Sakura as she walked across the street, hauling her bags with her.
"Shut up", mumbled Syaoran glaring at his friends. But inside he was smiling brightly. For the rest of the game, Syaoran played with much more fire and intensity.
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Sakura heaved her bags onto her bed crushing Kero.
"Hey! Watch it!", said Kero climbing through the piles of bags. "Sakura! Sakura?" Kero looked out of the bags but couldn't see Sakura anywhere.
"Unh...", someone groaned from the ground. Kero peeked over the side of the bed and saw Sakura laying on the floor with her eyes closed.
"Busy day?", Kero laughed.
Sakura glared up at him. "More than what I can say for you! You've just been sleeping all day!"
"I need my beauty sleep."
"Yeah your right."
"What!?"
Sakura laughed, sitting up, "Want some dinner?"
"Yeah! Race ya to the kitchen!"
And they raced down the hall, laughing.
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At 8:00, Kero had left, and Sakura was left alone, cleaning up after her and Kero's dishes. She felt strange being all alone in the apartment. She felt slightly scared.
She walked down the hall, and went into her room, closing the door. She sat down on her bed and wondered why Syaoran wasn't home yet. She frowned and thought, 'Who cares? It's better that he's not here.' She sighed, wishing she could mean what she thought.
She walked over and looked out of the window, and saw people walking around outside. She sat down on the cushion, and realized how tired she felt. 'And I'm starting school tomorrow. I better try to get to sleep.'
She walked to her dresser and got out her pajamas. It was the same long shirt she had worn the night before. She thought of that morning, and smiled and blushed at the same time. She changed and settled down into her bed. The minute her head hit the pillow, her tiredness washed over her and settled on her like she was under the spell of the Sleep card. She smiled at the thought. Her last thought as she slipped off into sleep, was of the smiling face of the boy she wished was real...
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Again, I woke up not knowing where I was. I was lying in the same grassy area in the same park in the same town that I had grown up in.
I immediately looked around for the strange man that had come so close to hurting me before. But he wasn't anywhere around me. Or he wasn't anywhere where I could see him.
I looked over to the spot where the body had been laying the night before. Whoever it was, they were still lying in a crumpled pile, motionless.
I tried again to stand, and let out a shout as the pain from my legs seemed to be clearer than it had before. As I looked around, I realized everything was much clearer, and I could feel some details of the world I was in. I could feel the grass, cold and crisp under my fingers, and I could see the dark colors of the night with more clarity.
I dragged myself across the ground towards the body. I gritted my teeth as the pain from my legs being dragged pierced me like a thousand little knives. "Come on, come on! Almost there...", I muttered. I reached the body on the ground and fell in a heap next to them, breathing heavily, exhausted from the excruciating crawl over there. My face was sweating and I extended my trembling hand to pull the body over, when someone grabbed the neck of my costume and pulled me roughly away.
I fell in a pile on the ground and screamed in pain as I fell on my small legs with the cuts oozing blood and piercing me with a throbbing pain.
"Hurts does it? I know pain very well. Pain that would make you go insane with just a touch of it. I have to live with this pain. You have no idea how long I've had to live with this pain."
I looked up and the strange man was staring at me, hate blazing in his eyes.
"You think your going through pain now? Would you like to feel real pain? What your feeling now is just a taste of what you will feel. What I will make you feel."
He strode over to me quickly. His cold, gray eyes blazed with a bitter, frosty hate that made my bones shiver.
"I don't know who you are! Stay away from me! I haven't done anything to you! Get away!", I screamed frantically. "Stay away or I'll-I'll"
"You'll what Cardcaptor?", the man said with a cold laugh. "You humor me. You seem fierce, but you are just a weak little girl. A small, weak little girl..."
He was standing over me now, looking down at me with pitiless eyes. "I'm almost sorry I have to do this." He cocked his head at me. "No, wait. I'm not." He laughed again and slapped me so hard, it felt as if my skin had begun to burn off. I fell on my back, with a hand up to my burning cheek.
My vision and thoughts were distorted as he stepped cruelly on my aching legs.
I screamed and screamed as I swung at his legs with my arms, trying to get him to get off my legs that were blazing with pain. The grass around them started to turn red from the blood that was seeping out. He held firm laughing maliciously, pushing harder and harder on my legs. I threw myself back on the ground, trying not to scream.
And suddenly the pain was gone. I opened my eyes and found I was in my bed. My bed in Hong Kong, with my light blue room. I was looking up at the ceiling, the sky light showed the bright moon outside.
I sighed in relief and felt my legs. They were the same legs I had had when I went to sleep. No cuts, no bruises. I laid staring at the ceiling, when I felt a cold breeze come from the window.
I looked up and saw a small boy standing inside the window. He was staring at me with his eyes narrowed. His green robes billowed behind him as another breeze came through the window and circled around the room.
"Syaoran...", I whispered sitting up. My body felt heavy, and my mind felt thick like syrup. My mind was moving so slow. Syaoran-in-window. Syaoran-in-window. It wouldn't process the information I was seeing. "Syaoran...what are you doing here? Your...your...." I stopped talking for a moment. Tears welled up in my eyes as I said, "Syaoran, I'm...I'm so...so...sorry..."
"Don't be, Sakura. I don't have much time here. I'm not the one you need to worry about. You need to-", Syaoran was suddenly looking at me with urgent eyes. He glanced outside the window and his eyes widened. He looked toward the door of my room and seemed to be listening. "Good. Your safe for now. Sakura please u-Aaahhhh!" The little Syaoran roared with pain and closed his eyes. He put his hands around his head and opened one eye. He looked at me and said, "Sakura! I have to go! Please don-" But he screamed again and jumped out of the window giving me one last glance.
"No! Wait! Please don't go! Let me help you!" I jumped up and ran to the window and looked out. I saw a figure in a white shirt and black pants standing in front of the park. He stared up at me with blazing gray eyes, staring with a livid, hateful expression on his face.
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When Syaoran got home, it was very late. He and his friends had gone for dim sum, as it would probably be their last time together on a team till the next year. But the whole time, Syaoran was thinking of going home, but every time he tried, his friends pushed him back into a chair. When he almost fell out of his chair with a head ache, his friends finally let him go home. By the time he got away, and into the apartment, it was eleven.
Going into the kitchen, he grabbed a soda and some Tylenol, and made his way down the hall. For some reason, he felt worried for Sakura. All day he had thought of what the paper had said. "Severe cases of depression..." He stood outside of Sakura's room, listening. The light was off, and he didn't hear anything. Deciding to just check on her, he opened the door...
"Sakura! What the hell are you doing?!", yelled Syaoran, dropping his soda and running over to her.
She was standing in the open window looking outside with half-closed eyes as the rough breeze blew across her. Her shirt flapped across her bare legs, and stray strands of her hair whipped across her face. She didn't move when Syaoran yelled, and fell limply into his arms as he pulled her gently from the window.
Syaoran laid her down on his lap on the floor, with her head on his shoulder. Tears streamed out of her half-closed eyes and dripped onto his shirt. She was mumbling something that he had to strain to hear.
"I'm so...so...sorry. I'm sorry. So very sorry. Sorry...so-"
"Shhh", murmured Syaoran stroking her hair, and pressing her head closer against his chest. She quieted until she stopped talking altogether. Her breathing was coming out in shuddered gasps, but soon it slowed and came out regularly.
"Sakura...Why are you so sad?", asked Syaoran sadly. He looked down and saw that her eyes had closed and her tears were drying on her face. He hated to see her like this. But he couldn't help that he was slightly enjoying holding her so close.
He kissed her forehead and held her tight against him, and together they sat on the floor till the early hours of dawn.
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(Drea's Notes: Wow...(sigh) That was a pretty cute ending. Thanx again to all who write to me with such nice reviews! And even if you don't review, thanks for reading my story, or just glancing at it. You all make me feel so warm and fuzzy inside! I'm sorry if this story didn't meet your expectations! I tried very hard, and I hope it came out somewhat alright. Well, I hope I can find something interesting to put in the next chapter. I'm sorry if the story is confusing, but it will all make sense in the end. Forgive my little errors as this is my first story, and I'm in a hurry to get this posted for you all! Well, till next chapter, I love you all!***)
I don't own Cardcaptor Sakura. (sigh) Oh well! I can dream! hahahahahaa! (sigh) -.-;a
I've Found You-Chap. 3
By: DreaDreamer
Sakura walked into her room feeling happy and light headed.
'What a wonderful breakfast!', she thought happily.
She sat down in front of her remaining bags and boxes, and started to go through them. She found the books the school had sent her and threw them in a pile next to her bed. Sakura did not want to start the day by looking at books.
After an hour of cleaning, Sakura finally reached the bottom of the final box. On the bottom were picture albums. Picking them up and bringing them to her bed, she sat down and started to look through them. She started to laugh at all the funny moments Tomoyo had caught on film. She remembered each card she had caught as she looked at herself in all the costumes Tomoyo had made her wear.
She started to reach the end of the book, when she saw a picture of herself and Syaoran standing together.
They seemed about ten from the way their uniforms looked. It looked like one of their first pictures together.
Sakura stopped smiling as she stared at the picture. She slammed the book closed and threw it into the box with the rest of the albums. Looking down into the box, she saw a book heavily wrapped in newspaper. A corner of the paper was ripped, and Sakura saw the gold edges of the Clow book shining. She picked up the box and placed it roughly in a far corner of her closet.
Kero then flew in through the open window and said happily, "Guess what I fou-"
He stared at Sakura. She was staring at her closet, breathing heavily.
"Sakura, is something wrong?", asked Kero flying closer.
"What?", asked Sakura sharply, turning around to face Kero. Her eyes were narrowed, but when she saw him, her expression lightened.
"Oh, Kero. No, I'm fine. What were you saying?"
Kero stared at her worried for a second before brightly telling her of what he had found.
"I found a Video Game Arcade! Right here in town!!", said Kero happily. "I fell asleep in there after I had breakfast(at this Sakura glared at him)-er- I mean after the very small and measly breakfast I had-anyway! I got stuck in one of those big silver things on the roof, and it sucked me into a vent, and then I went into this big cool room full of giant video games!"
At the finish of this, Kero looked at Sakura smiling wide, waiting for her to jump for joy for him.
Sakura just stared at him. Finally she said, "Cool." before going to her closet.
""Cool'? That's all you have to say about this wonderful finding?", asked Kero no longer smiling happily. Instead he looked down-right flabbergasted(ah hah hah! cool word! flabber, gasted, flabber-oh! sorry)
Sakura looked at him over her shoulder.
"Mmmm...yup. That's all I have to say." She turned back to her closet pushing aside her clothes.
"Arrr!!! Fine! Don't talk to me! I'm going to take a nap." Kero then flew over to the bed and curled up on her pillow, his back facing her sulkily.
"It's nine o'clock in the morning! Why do you need a nap?", asked Sakura in disbelief, hanging shirts in her closet.
"I'm going back to that 'cool' arcade tonight. I'm gonna stay there all night after they've closed. They have so many beautiful video games...ah...", said Kero dreamily, seeming to forget he was mad.
"Your leaving again tonight? Can you find dinner and everything okay?", asked Sakura closing her window.
Kero sat up on the pillow and looked at what she was doing.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. What are you doing?", he asked as she grabbed a bag from under her bed.
"I'm gonna go look at the sights. And I still need to buy some more school supplies.", she said, not looking up as she put a wallet and sweatshirt in the bag. Sakura zipped up the bag and swung it over her shoulder.
"Your not going to take me?", asked Kero hurt.
"No. Don't leave this room for anything!", she warned, walking out of her room and closing the door.
"'Don't leave this room for anything'", mocked Kero in a high-pitched voice wagging his finger in the air.
The door opened and Sakura threw a water bottle at Kero knocking him off the pillow onto the ground.
"And don't make fun of me." Sakura walked down the hall leaving a dazed Kero trying to get up from the floor.
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Syaoran was sitting on the couch in the living room reading one of his school books.
Sakura stared at him from the hallway. She kept seeing the picture in the album when she looked at him. There was almost nothing different about him, except maybe that his face didn't have all the boyish roundness about it, and he was much taller. Sakura once again wished she hadn't forgotten her pills.
Sakura strode carefully over to the door, hoping he was too much in his book to notice her.
Her hand just turned the door knob when Syaoran said, "Do-"
"What?" Sakura asked angrily, rounding on Syaoran, who was looking surprised at her.
"You wanna know where I'm going again?"
Syaoran just stared silently at her, eyes wide.
She glared back, squinching up her face. 'Your not the real Syaoran! Stop pretending to be!', she screamed inside her mind.
"I'm going out! That's all you need to know! Geez, I thought I left my dad in Japan!"
Syaoran stared surprised at her for a moment longer, before glaring at her.
"I was just going to say", said Syaoran irritably, "I'm going out today, do you want a key?"
Sakura yelled, "I don't care! I'm not gonna tell you!" Then she turned around and walked out, slamming the door.
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Syaoran was glaring at the door, not believing what had just happened . A few seconds later, someone knocked.
A grin crept up at the corners of Syaoran's mouth. He got up slowly, stretching and yawning loudly.
He knew exactly who it was.
Apparently, the person outside the door heard him taking his time and banged on the door with so much force, that it shook slightly.
He made his way to the door and looked out the little peep hole. Sure enough, Sakura was standing there with her arms crossed, looking very sheepish, and very red.
He kept the evil grin there as he opened the door.
"Yes?", he asked Sakura glaring vehemently at him, as if daring him to make more of a fool out of her.
"CanIhaveakey?", she mumbled, looking away.
"What?", asked Syaoran cupping his ear, still grinning. "I'm sorry, I can't understand a word your saying."
With his head turned, Syaoran didn't see that Sakura was now grinning. She had just gotten an
idea.
"CAN I HAVE A KEY?!", Sakura screamed in his ear.
"Ahhhhh!!!", yelled Syaoran covering his ear and jumping back. He looked up at Sakura to see her smiling just as evilly as he had been doing a second before.
"Do you want me to say it again?", she asked calmly.
"No! Hold on.", turning away from the door, angrily, he went to the kitchen picking up an envelope with a key in it.
"Here!", he said, thrusting the envelope towards her. "Did you know your a-"
"A what?", asked Sakura glaring again at him.
They stared glaring at each other for a moment, before Syaoran mumbled, "Never mind..."
"That's what I thought", said Sakura grabbing the envelope roughly out of his hands, smiling. "Thanks."
As she walked down the hall, Syaoran watched her, memorizing every detail of her walk. The way her legs moved, the sound her jeans made, the way her braid bounced on her back. As she rounded the corner, Syaoran turned inside and closed the door.
"Did you know your a incredible person...", murmured Syaoran, leaning against the door.
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Syaoran was in the apartment, busily preparing for a soccer practice in the park. Practice had begun two weeks before, and since school was starting the next day, today was the last practice. The coaches were going to evaluate the teams today in a practice game. Syaoran wasn't worried, considering he was the best player on the team and had been for the past eight years. The coaches always beamed when they saw him, knowing that he was going to win countless championships for Mizoku College.
'Tch. That's all I am to them. A trophy winner', thought Syaoran angrily. He didn't like the way coaches treated him like he was better than everyone else, but he played because he loved the game.
Sighing, he opened the refrigerator, looking for a water bottle. As he closed the refrigerator, with a water bottle in hand, something caught his eye on the door. It was the paper of information on Sakura Kinomoto.
Pulling the paper off the door, Syaoran took a closer look at it. He had only read the name when he had first looked at it, and had forgot about it after that. He took the paper over to the counter and started to read.
Name: Sakura Kinomoto
Former schools: Tomoeda Elementary...
*ZING*
Syaoran felt a flash of familiarity at the name. But why? Perhaps he'd rivaled against the school in a game...
He kept reading, but the high school didn't sound quite as familiar as the elementary had. Syaoran read through the names of the extra-curricular programs Sakura had been in. Dance, of course, cheerleading('Hmmm...', thought Syaoran), other little activities.
He made his way down the list till he came to the end where it said 'Medications'.
"Whoa...", said Syaoran out loud as he looked at the names of the pills. Some of the names on the list were of very heavy anti-depression pills.
Syaoran read to himself:
"Pills to be taken only in severe cases of depression.
Side effects include: heavy drowsiness or lack of sleep may occur; lethargic body functions, and irritability may also occur..."
Syaoran read a slightly long list of side effects. He took the paper into his room and placed it inside his desk. Syaoran stood in his room frowning, before going outside into the hallway. He stopped dead in his tracks as he passed in front of Sakura's room.
Someone was snoring.
'Didn't she already leave?', he asked himself putting his ear against the door. Sure enough someone ('or something', thought Syaoran curiously) *was* snoring. Turning the door knob slowly, he peeked into the room. There was nobody there, and the snoring had stopped.
SNORK!
"AAhhh!", screamed Syaoran as a snort disrupted the silence of the room. He slammed the door, and rushed down the hallway and out of the apartment.
Kero looked up from the pillow he had been sleeping on. "What was that?", he asked the air around him, blinking sleepily. "Eh. Oh well.", and he drifted back to sleep, snoring peacefully.
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Sakura had walked around for five hours and was completely exhausted when she stopped under the shade of a tree in the park. She had tons of overloaded bags around her, and she was starving.
'I'm too tired to move', she thought as she sat with her back against the tree. 'I'll just rest here for a few minutes.' Sakura looked around at the small park that was across the street from her apartment. 'I wonder if Syaoran, er, that guy left yet.', she thought to herself. She looked over towards a big field in the middle of the park, to see a soccer game going on. She decided to get a closer look, and moved to a tree closer to the game.
All the players looked to be around eighteen to twenty, and all looked very good at soccer. But one guy looked especially skilled. Swerving in and out of players, he sped, almost flew down the field kicking goal after goal passed the goalie. Sakura felt sorry for the goalie. He just couldn't guard good enough against the guy.
The guy was tall and lean, with messy brown hair that was wet at the neck with sweat. He looked familiar. She felt funny around him, as if she could sense something about him. Like he was giving off a weird feeling that gave Sakura a weird sensation that tingled through her body.
Sakura stared at the guy, trying to see his face, but she couldn't because he blurred down the field so fast. Sakura watched for another fifteen minutes when there was a break, and the guy went to get a drink of water. Sakura gasped when she saw who it was.
'Oh my god! That can't be him! Not again!', Sakura thought stunned.
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Syaoran suddenly felt very odd. He could sense something close by. Or was it someone? He felt a strange aura coming somewhere within the park. He turned around and around and finally saw where it was coming from. A girl under a tree close to the field. She was staring wide-eyed straight at him, unmoving, and she was pale. He squinted his eyes against the hot autumn sun as he saw who it was.
"Sakura?...", he whispered to himself. He strode over the field, ignoring the coaches and his teammates who were asking where he was going.
"I need a quick break!", he yelled, not taking his eyes off Sakura as she scrambled to retrieve the bags that were scattered around her.
She wasn't fast enough.
"What are you doing here?", asked Syaoran stepping under the shade of the tree, in front of her.
"I, uh, I was-um", Sakura said, stumbling over her words. She looked up at his glaring eyes, and saw a glint of curiosity. She narrowed her eyes at him and said, "Why do I have to ask you if I want to be here?"
"I just wanted to know", he said. He was looking at her strangely, trying to decide whether or not he should tell her that he had sensed her. He decided not to. He sat down next to her, looking out at the field. She was on her knees, rigid, while he sat with his back hunched and his arms around his legs.
"So, do you think we're any good?", he asked her. Sakura stared at him with her eyes narrowed, not sure if she wanted to be nice to him.
"Yeah, I guess. That goalie can't block any of your goals", she said. Syaoran looked at her and smiled. Sakura looked away, smiling herself. "He must not be any good."
"Oh! That was uncalled for!", said Syaoran laughing. Sakura looked at him and started laughing too. They stared at each other for a second, before they looked away blushing.
Across the field, Syaoran's teammates were watching him sitting next to the girl under the tree.
"She's pretty cute. I've never seen her before", said one of the guys.
"I've never seen Syaoran laugh before. And is he blushing? Wow, she must have the special touch!", laughed another.
"I wonder where he's been hiding her. He better hope Caskai doesn't find out. She'd have that girl socially humiliated in a day."
Sadly, after five minutes, the coach called Syaoran back.
"Your master's calling you", said Sakura looking over at the coach.
"Yeah. Well I better go." He stood up and started to walk away before he stopped and turned around. "A-are you gonna stay?", he asked timidly, not looking at Sakura.
Sakura smiled up at him. "Oh, I'm so sorry, but I'm gonna have to turn down the offer to watch a bunch of sweaty guys chasing after a ball. Maybe another time. I have to go and see if Kero's eat-" Sakura stopped, with her eyes wide. "Uh, er, I mean that I need to go call my friend."
"Yeah, of course, okay", said Syaoran. They stared at each other for a few seconds. Sakura gazing up into Syaoran's brown eyes, and Syaoran staring down into Sakura's green emerald eyes.
"Their shining again...", murmured Syaoran, thinking out loud.
"What?", said Sakura, looking startled.
"Oh, uh, I mean, heh-", stammered Syaoran, slightly blushing again. "I, er, I-"
"Li! Hurry up! We need to get going!", yelled the coach.
"Oh! I gotta go, see ya later." And with that, he jogged down the field to the cat calls of his team mates:
"Oh, we hate to break it up Li!"
"Yeah! Who's the girl Li? Been keeping her hidden, huh?"
"I can see why...", said one of the guys gawking at Sakura as she walked across the street, hauling her bags with her.
"Shut up", mumbled Syaoran glaring at his friends. But inside he was smiling brightly. For the rest of the game, Syaoran played with much more fire and intensity.
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Sakura heaved her bags onto her bed crushing Kero.
"Hey! Watch it!", said Kero climbing through the piles of bags. "Sakura! Sakura?" Kero looked out of the bags but couldn't see Sakura anywhere.
"Unh...", someone groaned from the ground. Kero peeked over the side of the bed and saw Sakura laying on the floor with her eyes closed.
"Busy day?", Kero laughed.
Sakura glared up at him. "More than what I can say for you! You've just been sleeping all day!"
"I need my beauty sleep."
"Yeah your right."
"What!?"
Sakura laughed, sitting up, "Want some dinner?"
"Yeah! Race ya to the kitchen!"
And they raced down the hall, laughing.
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At 8:00, Kero had left, and Sakura was left alone, cleaning up after her and Kero's dishes. She felt strange being all alone in the apartment. She felt slightly scared.
She walked down the hall, and went into her room, closing the door. She sat down on her bed and wondered why Syaoran wasn't home yet. She frowned and thought, 'Who cares? It's better that he's not here.' She sighed, wishing she could mean what she thought.
She walked over and looked out of the window, and saw people walking around outside. She sat down on the cushion, and realized how tired she felt. 'And I'm starting school tomorrow. I better try to get to sleep.'
She walked to her dresser and got out her pajamas. It was the same long shirt she had worn the night before. She thought of that morning, and smiled and blushed at the same time. She changed and settled down into her bed. The minute her head hit the pillow, her tiredness washed over her and settled on her like she was under the spell of the Sleep card. She smiled at the thought. Her last thought as she slipped off into sleep, was of the smiling face of the boy she wished was real...
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Again, I woke up not knowing where I was. I was lying in the same grassy area in the same park in the same town that I had grown up in.
I immediately looked around for the strange man that had come so close to hurting me before. But he wasn't anywhere around me. Or he wasn't anywhere where I could see him.
I looked over to the spot where the body had been laying the night before. Whoever it was, they were still lying in a crumpled pile, motionless.
I tried again to stand, and let out a shout as the pain from my legs seemed to be clearer than it had before. As I looked around, I realized everything was much clearer, and I could feel some details of the world I was in. I could feel the grass, cold and crisp under my fingers, and I could see the dark colors of the night with more clarity.
I dragged myself across the ground towards the body. I gritted my teeth as the pain from my legs being dragged pierced me like a thousand little knives. "Come on, come on! Almost there...", I muttered. I reached the body on the ground and fell in a heap next to them, breathing heavily, exhausted from the excruciating crawl over there. My face was sweating and I extended my trembling hand to pull the body over, when someone grabbed the neck of my costume and pulled me roughly away.
I fell in a pile on the ground and screamed in pain as I fell on my small legs with the cuts oozing blood and piercing me with a throbbing pain.
"Hurts does it? I know pain very well. Pain that would make you go insane with just a touch of it. I have to live with this pain. You have no idea how long I've had to live with this pain."
I looked up and the strange man was staring at me, hate blazing in his eyes.
"You think your going through pain now? Would you like to feel real pain? What your feeling now is just a taste of what you will feel. What I will make you feel."
He strode over to me quickly. His cold, gray eyes blazed with a bitter, frosty hate that made my bones shiver.
"I don't know who you are! Stay away from me! I haven't done anything to you! Get away!", I screamed frantically. "Stay away or I'll-I'll"
"You'll what Cardcaptor?", the man said with a cold laugh. "You humor me. You seem fierce, but you are just a weak little girl. A small, weak little girl..."
He was standing over me now, looking down at me with pitiless eyes. "I'm almost sorry I have to do this." He cocked his head at me. "No, wait. I'm not." He laughed again and slapped me so hard, it felt as if my skin had begun to burn off. I fell on my back, with a hand up to my burning cheek.
My vision and thoughts were distorted as he stepped cruelly on my aching legs.
I screamed and screamed as I swung at his legs with my arms, trying to get him to get off my legs that were blazing with pain. The grass around them started to turn red from the blood that was seeping out. He held firm laughing maliciously, pushing harder and harder on my legs. I threw myself back on the ground, trying not to scream.
And suddenly the pain was gone. I opened my eyes and found I was in my bed. My bed in Hong Kong, with my light blue room. I was looking up at the ceiling, the sky light showed the bright moon outside.
I sighed in relief and felt my legs. They were the same legs I had had when I went to sleep. No cuts, no bruises. I laid staring at the ceiling, when I felt a cold breeze come from the window.
I looked up and saw a small boy standing inside the window. He was staring at me with his eyes narrowed. His green robes billowed behind him as another breeze came through the window and circled around the room.
"Syaoran...", I whispered sitting up. My body felt heavy, and my mind felt thick like syrup. My mind was moving so slow. Syaoran-in-window. Syaoran-in-window. It wouldn't process the information I was seeing. "Syaoran...what are you doing here? Your...your...." I stopped talking for a moment. Tears welled up in my eyes as I said, "Syaoran, I'm...I'm so...so...sorry..."
"Don't be, Sakura. I don't have much time here. I'm not the one you need to worry about. You need to-", Syaoran was suddenly looking at me with urgent eyes. He glanced outside the window and his eyes widened. He looked toward the door of my room and seemed to be listening. "Good. Your safe for now. Sakura please u-Aaahhhh!" The little Syaoran roared with pain and closed his eyes. He put his hands around his head and opened one eye. He looked at me and said, "Sakura! I have to go! Please don-" But he screamed again and jumped out of the window giving me one last glance.
"No! Wait! Please don't go! Let me help you!" I jumped up and ran to the window and looked out. I saw a figure in a white shirt and black pants standing in front of the park. He stared up at me with blazing gray eyes, staring with a livid, hateful expression on his face.
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When Syaoran got home, it was very late. He and his friends had gone for dim sum, as it would probably be their last time together on a team till the next year. But the whole time, Syaoran was thinking of going home, but every time he tried, his friends pushed him back into a chair. When he almost fell out of his chair with a head ache, his friends finally let him go home. By the time he got away, and into the apartment, it was eleven.
Going into the kitchen, he grabbed a soda and some Tylenol, and made his way down the hall. For some reason, he felt worried for Sakura. All day he had thought of what the paper had said. "Severe cases of depression..." He stood outside of Sakura's room, listening. The light was off, and he didn't hear anything. Deciding to just check on her, he opened the door...
"Sakura! What the hell are you doing?!", yelled Syaoran, dropping his soda and running over to her.
She was standing in the open window looking outside with half-closed eyes as the rough breeze blew across her. Her shirt flapped across her bare legs, and stray strands of her hair whipped across her face. She didn't move when Syaoran yelled, and fell limply into his arms as he pulled her gently from the window.
Syaoran laid her down on his lap on the floor, with her head on his shoulder. Tears streamed out of her half-closed eyes and dripped onto his shirt. She was mumbling something that he had to strain to hear.
"I'm so...so...sorry. I'm sorry. So very sorry. Sorry...so-"
"Shhh", murmured Syaoran stroking her hair, and pressing her head closer against his chest. She quieted until she stopped talking altogether. Her breathing was coming out in shuddered gasps, but soon it slowed and came out regularly.
"Sakura...Why are you so sad?", asked Syaoran sadly. He looked down and saw that her eyes had closed and her tears were drying on her face. He hated to see her like this. But he couldn't help that he was slightly enjoying holding her so close.
He kissed her forehead and held her tight against him, and together they sat on the floor till the early hours of dawn.
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(Drea's Notes: Wow...(sigh) That was a pretty cute ending. Thanx again to all who write to me with such nice reviews! And even if you don't review, thanks for reading my story, or just glancing at it. You all make me feel so warm and fuzzy inside! I'm sorry if this story didn't meet your expectations! I tried very hard, and I hope it came out somewhat alright. Well, I hope I can find something interesting to put in the next chapter. I'm sorry if the story is confusing, but it will all make sense in the end. Forgive my little errors as this is my first story, and I'm in a hurry to get this posted for you all! Well, till next chapter, I love you all!***)