DISCLAIMER: I do not own Card Captor Sakura, CLAMP does.
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Fanny chan: I had to skip quite a few of unwanted chapters due to writer's block. GOMEN!
Tomoyo: This story is coming to a close but don't worry…
Chibi Fanny: …another's just around the corner =^_^= Once again Fanny would like to thank you 4 the reviews.
Fanny chan: And mi favourite character is Tomoyo! Thanks to those who voted. If you still want to vote, just do it in reviews. Is ur favourite character Tomoyo, Eriol, Sakura or Syaoran?
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Summary of this story: Well, basically it is about vampires and perhaps a few other creatures of the night. S+S & E+T!
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The Lure of the Moon
By Fanny chan
Time is definitely not on their side
9 days had amazingly passed and went without a trace, leaving the unfortunate victims of the moon with only one more day left...
Day 1-9
Syaoran stared at the figures situated in front of her. There was a little small make-believe lane with a small figure of himself, Sakura and a wide cover.
Placing himself inside the cover, he tried all means possible to demostrate how Sakura can enter. Finally, he sighed and placed the dolls down.
As he stared at the dolls, the corners of his lips gradually twitched into a smile as he fingered the doll representing Sakura. Then placing a finger to his lips, Sakura's face immediately appeared in his mind. The image of the beautiful and pure Sakura Kinomoto danced in his mind and his problem was unknowingly solved.
Flashback
Sakura woke up painfully, her recent confession still embeded deep in her brain. Suddenly, she felt someone cover her lips with his own. After a while, they slowly separated and Syaoran whispered huskily in her ear.
"I love you too Sakura Kinomoto."
Sakura eyes widened and flung herself tearfully over Syaoran's shoulder.
"Thank you so much… Thank you…" she embraced him, breathing in his heavenly cologue.
Syaoran smiled playfully then frowned and started to dictate the story Nadeshiko and Fujitaka had told him.
Sakura nodded. "I'll thank my parents at the graveyard first then come back to helping you okay?"
Syaoran waved goodbye.
End of Flashback
It had been a full day since Sakura had said that and still she had not come. Getting up, Syaoran made his way to the door only to stumble back in surprise. Trying once again, the same thing happen. A force field had somehow surrounded the door.
Prancing on the phone, he picked it up only to find it engaged.
Extremely confused, he slowly sat on the bed. "So that's why Sakura have not come nor did Takashi… they were locked out but why?"
At that thought, a scrumptious plate of edibles appeared in front of him out of thin air. There was a note accompanying it as well.
"Syaoran,
Here's the food provided for you for your nine days training. To answer your small problem, no one can enter nor leave, including yourself, once you start your training. I beg your forgiveness for not telling you this earlier. Anyway, in other words, you have to be alone for your personal training to be complete. You have to figure out this dilemma you have on your own. You would be released a day before the moon is whole and round, on the tenth day.
Nadeshiko"
Syaoran stared at the note for a minute or two before grabbing his plate and plopping down on the hard wooden floor. "Well, time to figure this out then…"
And that was how he had spent nine lonely days…
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Eriol stared at the sharp piece of wood in his hands. "Drive a wooden stake through her heart. Is it as easy as that book says?"
He stared at the plushie in front of him, then, using the sharp piece of wood, he stabbed the poor plushie, causing white cotton to fly everwhere.
"I may be able do it with this stuff toy but definitely not with Tomoyo." Out of rage, he flung the stake, watching it bounce off the wall and clattered to the ground. There was dead silence as Eriol walked to the window and looked on in abhorrence at the innocent students laughing gleefully with one another as if without a care for the world.
Slowly, he pulled his gaze from the people outside, sparing those students from his azure eyes filled with hatred, anger, agony and anguish.
Staring at the untouched bed of Tomoyo Daidouji, Eriol sighed. "How I wish I can see your face before my last night which is ten days away…"
Anger and misery burned the inside of him, leaving only a small amount of unknown affection towards the girl with beautiful amethyst pupils to quench the raging flame. It was definitely not enough thus he will never know of the love he had to Tomoyo.
That was unless he could quieten the hellfire of fury and torment of his mind and allow his heart to speak of the love he has for Tomoyo.
That was how he spent his nine days without Tomoyo, hating anything happy, cheerful and such…
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Tomoyo ambled into the forest which she has been going for nearly every day now just to avoid Eriol. She calls it her 'mother' and this forest certainly lives up to its name.
There was hardly anyone around in these woods thus giving her peace and tranquility, giving her a taste of freedom, allowing her to feel what it was like to be in her mother's arms once more. Its thick foliage gave her warmth, hiding her from the cruel world beyond this sacred woods.
It also blinded her from the harsh truth that she will be a vampire, a creature of the night for as long as she lived, which was in fact a very long time, a few hundred years to say the least.
She never wanted to leave this beautiful and wonderful forest ever again and that's what she did. She had found a quiet and peaceful spot nearby with only low hanging branches and the calm lake to keep her company. That was how she spent her nine fateful days, skipping her classes and meals.
It may have been torture to us, mortals, but to her, a vampire, the night was her breakfast, lunch and dinner while the forest was her own special place to learn new things.
There was no surprise about the fact that no one in campus was worried for her, with exceptions for a few. She was not such a popular figure nor was she a teacher's pet. To nearly the whole campus, she was merely 'the quiet little girl which sits at the corner'.
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Sakura sat on her bed. It was nightfall and Chiharu had gone out with Takashi. She glanced out of the window at the moon. Her mother had told her why she could not help Syaoran and she understood, she understood completely. But, she still could not help but feel sad.
That little sadness slowly intesified until tears streaked down Sakura's flawless cheek. Sobbing into her palms, she reprimanded herself over and over again.
"Why can't I help the only one I love? Why am I so helpless to everything? Why?"
A soothing voice floated into her head. It was the voice of her brother.
"Sakura? Mum told me what happened. If I guess correctly, you are crying your hearts out at this very moment right?"
Sakura tearfully gave an affirmative telepathically.
"I'm so weak brother… I feel so helpless… can you help me?" Sakura asked.
"No Sakura. This is something you have to figure out on your own, with the help that special organ in your body you call the heart. Look and see not with your eyes but with your heart. However, if you'd like some company, Yuki and I could pop over until you're feeling better."
"Thank will be great," Sakura felt comforted. "Thank you brother…"
"Anytime squirt!" She felt the mind link being cut off and her eyes blazed red.
"How many times muust I tell him I'm not a squirt?!"
Touya and Yukito came over the next day. Sakura had a wonderful time for the next nine days. But what will the tenth day bring her when Syaoran is released from his room?
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Finally finished, the chapter that is… ARIGATOU 4 REVIEWS AND VOTE FOR YER FAV. CHARACTER. Tomoyo, Syaoran, Sakura or Eriol? =^_^=
~Completed on 1st June 2002~
