AN: Hehe thanks for the reviews so far everyone :) I wonder how I can concentrate on writing fics when I have music playing so loudly when I'm writing...guess that's why sometimes when I re-read my stuff I find a bunch of weird typos :P Once I wrote the title wrong..."Tears as Streams of Water"...haha, I was listening to some song and I guess it said 'water'. Well I'll continue onto the chapter now ^_^
Disclaimer: Not much to say in a disclaimer, just that I don't own CCS and its characters since good ol' CLAMP does.
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Chapter Three: Wishing
2nd CCS fic by Fizzalicious Cherri
The girl grabbed the towel off the ground and forcefully shoved Syaoran out the door. "What is with you and Sakura?!"
"Aren't you Sakura?!" Syaoran cried desperately as he regained his balance.
The girl looked at him as if he was insane. "Geez, no! My name is not Sakura, and I'm not going to even tell you my name! You might be some stalker....waste of good looks..." She muttered in the end and closed the door quickly.
Syaoran stood there for a few moments before he knocked again. Once, twice...until finally the girl opened the door again, a frustrated look on her face.
"What do you want?!"
"I just want to know, where did the people go that use to live here?" Syaoran asked quickly.
The girl tilted her head and shrugged, "I don't know." She was about to close the door again when Syaoran blocked it from closing with his foot.
"Wait," Syaoran said urgently. "I really really really need to know what happened to them..."
The girl examined him for a while, and then searched his eyes. "....Ugh, ok ok." The girl reopened the door and stepped aside. "Come in and I'll tell you a bit."
Syaoran thanked her gratefully as he stepped into the cozy house.
The girl went over to the TV and turned it off as she sat down on one of the plush couches. "Well, you are talking about the Kinomoto family I think."
Syaoran's eyes lit up at the familiar name. "Yes! That's the people I'm looking for."
The girl shrugged and sighed, "I can't really help you with anything. I just moved here because I'm getting my education here. My dad sent a load of money over for me to rebuild the old house. It was yellow and it wasn't my color." She added. "My dad said the Kinomoto's were selling it for cheap so yeah, we bought it. What else is there to say?"
"Like...about the family!" Syaoran said quickly.
The girl raised an eyebrow and seemed to think deeply for a while as she stared down at the maroon carpet. "Hmm...I heard that their daughter kind of looked like me, but not really."
"That's true, but not really..."
"You know her?"
Syaoran glanced away to a painting hanging over the TV of an ocean. "Uh...I guess..."
The girl smiled slightly, "I see. Well, one thing I know is that the time the family moved, the daughter wasn't with them."
"What?" Syaoran uttered.
The girl shrugged, "Don't look at me like that, I don't know much. Then the rest of the family just kind of moved somewhere I guess."
Syaoran frowned, "Do you know where they moved too?"
"Nope, sorry," The girl said with a sympathetic look on her face.
He got up from the couch and went to the door in a hurry. "Thanks for the info." And he left in a hurry.
The girl tilted her head again, her wet auburn hair sloshing to one side. "What a strange guy."
"Ooooh I don't feel so good...." A girl said with a slur as she walked in a swaying motion.
Alot of teenage girls and boys were around the area, it seemed like a big backyard with a pool in the middle. Some people were diving into the water, all clothes and shoes on, some nearly falling in.
Loud music was being played, it was almost defeaning, and it was really late at night.
The girl who had complained a while ago was being helped into the house by a boy who supported her up the stairs and into his room.
She felt her body hit a soft bed as she groaned in pain, her headache wasn't helping in this sitaution and she was starting to see blurry...why did the room seem so dark?
But...it seemed so bright...and dark...she groaned in annoyance as she at once saw black. And only black.
Sae walked home slowly with her bag hanging over one shoulder as she grimly went up the sidewalk. I hate uphill walks...She groaned inwardly.
She glanced up with her emerald eyes and saw a young girl with dark hair braided into two pigtails. She was running after another young girl. It seemed like they were chasing each other, and the girl with braided pigtails held a camera in one hand.
"Stop running Mika!!" The girl pouted.
Mika, a cute little girl with short caramel hair giggled. "Catch me if you can!!"
"I'm trying to catch you on film!" The girl complained as Mika hid behind a tree and popped her head out.
"That was a kawaii moment!!" The girl commented.
Sae stared at the two little girls in interest as she felt oddly....close with these girls. Like she knew them, but not really, or like she had been like them before...
When I was a kid...did I have times like them? Sae thought sadly. I so badly want to remember...
She continued on her way home as she sighed. Some how she didn't really feel like going home just yet. And so she decided to sit under the shade of a big tree as she leaned her back on the big trunk with her eyes closed.
I always feel...sad...I usually feel sad. I guess I haven't been really happy for a while...maybe in my past I had good times...but if I did, how did I end up like this?
I know I must've had a past right? No person doesn't have a past, but why can't I remember a thing? I would die to know anything, even my real name! Sae...it just doesn't ring a bell. Life is so unfair...a simple desire to know your own childhood...
Why do I have such a complicated life? What did I do to deserve this?
The very first time I opened my eyes....I was wounded....I remember blood around me, coming from me. My blood. I can't remember clearly, but I had limped and crawled my way into this town, Tsuki. The first place I ended up was at Ms. Egima's...I think I must've fainted because the next thing I knew I was staring at a white ceiling in my now so-called bedroom.
But...I so badly want to know my life. Not a girl named Sae's life. But my life. Who am I? Isn't it pathetic to not even know my real name, parents, friends...basically...I don't know me .
Sometimes I think...maybe I was a princess from the past, all of a sudden I've been trasported to this time and place. And that through the transportation my memories had been erased. And then after...I think that would be highly impossible and a childish way to think. But hey? It's possible.
Then I imagine myself as an angel...being banished from heaven and hell down onto pityful earth. Where I'm a mess with a blank memory and a wonderful scar thing on my face. But that's a bit absurb.
The more human thought is that...I'm just a girl in this world who has no idea who the heck they are.
Great.
Syaoran stuck his key into the door and turned the knob to reveal the familiar apartment he had lived in when he was still a little boy. He chuckled slightly as he remembered how stubborn he had been in getting the Clow Cards from that innocent little girl.
He flicked on the lights and glanced at the room, noticing the nothing had really changed, except the fact that it didn't hold the warmth and happiness it use too.
Then he suddenly remembered something as he dropped his luggage. The Clow Cards!! Shouldn't I be able to trace Sakura's aura...or even the cards...and the stuffed animal!! Syaoran exclaimed in realization as he smiled at his new discovery.
He went onto his balcony and closed his eyes in concentration, using all his senses to trace down those familiar auras. I should be able to feel them...they're very strong...
After a few minutes he was faltering. He felt nothing. Emptiness. No magic in the air.
It felt awfully ancient too. As if Tomoeda had been rid of any trace of magic, and all of a sudden he had entered and magic filled the air once again after a long time.
What happened? They can't just disappear like that! Syaoran thought desperately as his eyes went from left to right at the small town below him. Where were the Kinomotos? Did they move that far away?
...Sakura...what...on earth happened to you?
"Sae dear, how was school?" Ms. Egima asked while she was sweeping the floor of the living room.
Sae slipped off her shoes and sighed softly. "Well..it was ok, the usual day."
"I see..." Ms. Egima replied as she placed the broom against the wall. "I have a surprise for you Sae!"
"Hoe? What surprise?" Sae questioned, curiousity and a bit of excitement was in her voice.
Ms. Egima smiled, "We're going to go for a one week trip to one of the towns near us. I've decided you should go see some different places then just Tsuki."
"Oh! When are we leaving?"
"Two days from now, we're going to a town called Tomoeda," Ms. Egima explained.
Sae blinked. Tomoeda....that name just rang a bell somewhere.
"Are you ok?" Ms. Egima asked the slightly dazed Sae.
"Oh yeah, I was just thinking of what to pack!" Sae smiled as she limped up the stairs to sit on her desk chair.
I'm going to Tomoeda...but that name is really familiar... She closed her eyes and leaned back on her chair as she spun herself in circles. An image of a hand throwing a baton came into her mind...it went up into the air...and then hurtled down....and then she heard a cry of surprise as the baton most likely hit the thrower's head.
Now where did that come from....She quickly opened her eyes and glanced out the window. Tomoeda...
AN: Sae is going to Tomoeda!!!!! What will happen when she goes there? Will a certain someone and someone meet? Stay tooned to find out :)