I Just Wanted a Normal Life
By: Pnaixr0se8
Hi people! Thanks so much for the reviews! I appreciate it! Here's the next chapter!
I would like to thank:
ARCHANGEMON: Now that I think about it, the penguin slide does look kinda freaky…anyway thanks for reviewing! I'm glad you like my story.
Jared: Sorry if I didn't start any action before, but here it is! And you'll see who the boy is…
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Lil' Fairy: yeah I thought Syaoran and Salura holding hands was cute too. lol…the boy is not Harry Potter, but that was funny (I know you were joking)…you'll found out who the boy is…
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Chapter 13: Katana's Surprise Attack
From then on, things between Sakura and Syaoran grew. They began going on dates more, but they always had time to hang out with Eriol, Tomoyo and Meiling. Kero didn't really approve of Syaoran, but that's bound to change…maybe. Meiling even found a guy named Kaji Wong, who also came from Hong Kong. They were both in the same gym class and they became friends…or maybe more. Kaji was from another clan in Hong Kong, the Wong Clan, where his uncle was the leader. So he kind of knows about Clow Reed and stuff like that, but his clan doesn't use magic. Instead, they learned martial arts, and Kaji was really good at it. He has dark black hair, and although his hair is neat in the back, his bangs were messy and had blond streaks. His eyes are black, but you can see gentleness in them. Meiling was attracted to him instantly not only because of his good looks, but also because they were both interested in the same things and they were very good at martial arts. Kaji finally asked her out and now they were a cute couple.
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As for Eriol and Tomoyo, they were going out now as well. After the 'incident' in Tomoyo's house, a few weeks later, they told each other their feelings. They also were now a cute, quiet couple, but also a mischievous team.
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The three couples sometimes got together and hung out. Because Kaji had a great time teasing Syaoran as did Eriol, Kaji and Eriol were great friends. As for Syaoran and Kaji, well, let's just say that it's the same with Eriol and Syaoran, but they're friends too. Tomoyo and Sakura liked Kaji, too, I guess you can say that he had a knack for charming ladies.
It seemed like a perfect life to Sakura. It seemed like a dream come true. She had not only four best friends now, she had five! She had forgotten all about Katana, she had pushed it to the very back of her head. She thought the happiness would last forever, but as they always say, everything must come to an end…
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It was Saturday and Sakura, Tomoyo and Meiling had just gotten out of school. Kaji had karate lessons, Eriol had to practice the piano, and Syaoran was…somewhere.
Sakura, Tomoyo and Meiling were just talking while walking around.
"Tomoyo, don't you have to practice for that recital you're doing? Don't you have to sing while Eriol plays the piano?" Sakura asked.
"He said I can take a break today. We'll practice tomorrow."
"Oh."
"I'm all free today. Let's hang out or something, for once we won't be surrounded by boys," Meiling joked.
"That's true, we haven't been able to talk a lot since we started going out with them," Sakura said thoughtfully.
"So let's have a slumber party tonight!" Tomoyo suggested.
"That's a good idea."
"Yeah!"
"You guys can sleepover at my house," Sakura said.
"Alright, we'll get our stuff and come by your house around 6:00," Tomoyo said.
They stopped walking.
"Well, I have to go this way," Meiling said taking a step off the curb, "I'll see you guys later!"
Sakura and Tomoyo continued until Tomoyo had to go, too. Sakura started walking to her house.
'It's going to be sooo much fun tonight! I'll call Syaoran later...I wonder where he went.'
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Syaoran looked across the smooth lake. He was at the very spot where Sakura and he had had their first date. The cherry blossom trees swayed, the water rippled, the breeze blew through his messy brown hair, he could hear children laughing and playing. It seemed like a perfect day. Except one thing…
'Katana, I know you're out of that dimension. I feel your magic getting stronger. Why hasn't Sakura felt it yet? Eriol felt it. Kero and Yue felt it. I guess she's trying not to. Sakura…I won't let you get hurt…'
His decision was now clear to him, he would do ANYTHING to stop Katana from hurting Sakura…even if it meant…………………his own death………
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Sakura hastily got her cell phone out. It was 5:30pm. She quickly dialed some numbers and put the phone to her ear.
First, there was a bunch of ringing. Sakura grew impatient. She started to count the rings.
Five, six, seven, eight…'Where are you Syaoran?' eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, 'Meiling already left the apartment to come here, she said that when she left you still aren't home. Where are you?' nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-…
"Moshi moshi?" Syaoran said on the telephone.
'Finally…' Sakura thought.
"Where have you been?"
"No where," Syaoran replied.
"Where's nowhere?"
"No where is nowhere."
"Huh?"
Sakura heard him chuckle.
"I've just been somewhere that's it," Syaoran said.
"Did you just come home?"
"Yeah. I heard the phone ringing."
"Oh. Well Meiling and Tomoyo are going to sleep over tonight ok? They're coming here soon." Sakura glanced at the clock. It read 5:46. Wow that long just to get in touch with Syaoran.
"All right. I guess you guys are catching up on your 'girl talk.'"
"Yup."
"So I won't call you or anything tonight so you girls can catch up on things."
"Thanks. It's just for tonight though."
Syaoran always understood.
"Of course it's only for tonight! If it were for more than one night, I wouldn't survive. I wouldn't even care if your brother picked the phone up," Syaoran said.
Sakura giggled.
"I'm serious."
Sakura smiled. "Okay. Thanks a lot, Syaoran!"
Syaoran smiled at the other end of the phone. Then he heard a doorbell through the phone.
"Oh they're here! I'll talk to you tomorrow ok?" Sakura said excitedly.
"Of course. I'll see you tomorrow."
Syaoran then heard the click of the phone. He put the phone down on its receiver on the kitchen counter and walked to the living room.
'At least Sakura will be near that stuffed animal. She'd at least have some protection against Katana.'
Then he felt it. The aura. The dark feeling. Katana.
He jerked his head up and looked around the room. It was empty. It seemed that his whole apartment was empty. But Katana seemed so close. His aura was unbelievably strong and truly evil.
"Where are you?!" Syaoran shouted at the empty apartment.
There was no response.
Still, he couldn't ignore the chills he got and the evil aura. He could call Sakura, but then she'll be upset again. Besides she was having fun at her sleepover. And he couldn't bear to see her sad again. It wouldn't help calling Kaji because he wouldn't really know what to do even though he knew about the whole thing. He could also call Eriol. Eriol knew that Katana was already out of the dimension. But Syaoran decided to wait a bit before calling anyone. If he called now, everybody would come rushing in to protect him. Besides, Eriol was probably still in his piano practice. He sat down on his couch and looked around the room. He spotted the two picture frames with pictures inside that Sakura had given him to make his room seem brighter. It did.
He picked one up and smiled. This one was with him, Sakura, Tomoyo, Eriol, Meiling and Kaji sitting side by side. Syaoran and Eriol were angry right before the picture was taken but Sakura and Tomoyo made them sit still and smile at the camera. It was at the school. They were having lunch and they were in their uniforms still. Tomoyo had wanted to take a picture with all of us and found a boy walking by and asked him to take the picture. He had gratefully accepted because Sakura was there and was going to be in the picture. Syaoran glared at him but the boy just kept on staring at her. After the picture was taken, Syaoran scared the poor boy away.
He put that picture down and picked up another one. He loved this picture. It was with him and Sakura sitting at a park bench. Tomoyo, Eriol, Meiling and Kaji also came but they wanted to get only them. Syaoran and Sakura were both smiling serenely. Syaoran put that picture down and sat on the couch again.
'What the heck am I supposed to do now?'
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"Meiling! Tomoyo!" Sakura said happily as she opened the front door.
"Hi Sakura." They said. They both held their sleeping bags and their bags of clothes.
Sakura led them to her room and they laid down the sleeping bags. They then started talking.
Later on, Fujitaka called out, "Girls, time to eat!"
Meiling's stomach grumbled and she grinned sheepishly. "I guess I'm hungry."
Tomoyo nodded. So they all went down to the kitchen.
Fujitaka greeted them and they sat down and started munching. Kero, of course, also came down and ate. They laughed and talked over dinner, barely touching their food. Finally they finished the last bits, thanked Sakura's father for the food and climbed up the stairs. They lay down on their sleeping bags and talked while Kero desperately tried to beat the video game. But other things were on his mind.
'Katana's out of the dimension. Why hasn't Sakura felt it yet? I can't tell her, she'll be upset again. What should I do?'
Just then his opponent in the game blocked Kero's punch (it was a fighting game) and hit him back, making Kero lose the game.
While Kero was shouting his head off, Sakura, Tomoyo and Meiling were talking about the old times. When Sakura had become a card captor, when Syaoran came and acted really mean to her, when Meiling came and acted equally as mean as Syaoran, how Tomoyo would be video taping the whole thing and still was, when Meiling had to return home, when Sakura became the Card Mistress, how she transformed the cards, how Syaoran's love for her kept growing (when they talked about this, Sakura turned beet red), how they met Eriol and beat him, how Eriol and them became great friends, and so on and so on. It was a happy and jolly, good ol' time. When they glanced at the clock it was already 10:00pm! Kero was still playing and they couldn't sleep with him playing so they talked some more, and some more, and some more. Finally, when they saw that it was already 11:30pm, they all, including Kero, fell fast asleep.
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Syaoran woke up with a start. He had somehow fallen asleep on the couch. He looked at his watch and saw that it was already 12:45. The black night outside was scary looking, especially when he thought about Katana running around at night. But the nightmare he had was what scared him. It went like this:
Syaoran was looking at both of the pictures on his table, the one with all his friends and the one with only him and Sakura. There was this familiar aura and then suddenly everything around him turned black. But the scariest thing was that in the pictures he was holding, Sakura slowly vanished. And instead of a serene smile on Syaoran, it turned into a sad frown. Suddenly the glass on the picture frames cracked. There was this evil laughter that filled the air and Syaoran tried to cover his ears to stop it, letting go of the picture frames. As the frames fell to the ground, they completely broke, leaving pieces of glass on the floor. No matter how hard he tried, Syaoran couldn't get the mocking laughter to stop. Then he only thought of one thing, Sakura.
Syaoran shivered as he replayed the dream in his head. He then noticed the aura getting stronger than before. Syaoran quickly got up, ignoring that the apartment lights were completely off and that made the apartment seem spooky, and blindly ran to the phone in the kitchen. He dialed Eriol's number and waited impatiently for him to pick up.
Brriiing…brriiing…'Damn it Eriol, pick up!' brriing…
"Moshi moshi?" Syaoran heard Eriol's sleepy voice answer.
"Wake up!"
"What the heck is wrong with you? And do you know what time it is? It's 1:00 and I'm sleepy,"
"Wait Eriol, do you notice the aura?"
There was silence for a moment and Syaoran knew that Eriol was concentrating on the aura.
"It doesn't seem any different to me than before I went to sleep," Eriol said.
"What?! How come I feel the aura even stronger here then?"
"It's probably your imagination."
"It's not my imagination!!!"
Suddenly Syaoran felt a chill up his spine and a cold breeze.
"You're right, it's not you're imagination…" said a raspy voice behind him.
Syaoran spun around. There was Katana in the flesh. His long, wild, back hair partially covered his red, bloodthirsty eyes. He was wearing all black and a red velvet cape smeared with some blood. He had a grin on his face and his eyes showed hatred for all.
"What the hell are you doing here Katana?" Syaoran said ignoring Eriol's voice asking him what was happening on the phone.
Katana grinned slyly. "Making sure you won't interfere." He held up the picture frame of Sakura and Syaoran and crushed it with his hand. He dropped the pieces on the ground.
"What do you mean?" Syaoran asked.
Katana grunted in reply. "You know exactly what I mean."
Syaoran widened his eyes. 'If he kills me now, nobody will be able to save Sakura.' he thought.
"That's right, Li leader. Nobody will be able to save Sakura."
Then in one swift motion Katana grabbed a sharp knife from a drawer where Syaoran kept the utensils. Then he plunged towards Syaoran and stabbed him in the right shoulder. Syaoran dropped the phone, letting it hang loose on the cord. He cried in pain as he held his wound. He squinted his eyes towards Katana. Katana had another sly grin on his face as he stared down at Syaoran who was kneeling on the ground clutching his wound.
"Actually, I can use you. I won't kill you yet. You can be the key to getting my cards much easier. I won't even have to fight that puny cardmistress."
Katana grabbed Syaoran by his collar and picked up the dangling phone and put it to his ear.
"Clow Reed. Well, half of Clow Reed anyway. I've got your little friend here. Why don't you say hi?" Katana said to Eriol and then he jammed the phone to Syaoran's ear.
"Eriol…don't worry about me…" Syaoran said weakly.
Katana put the phone back to his own ear.
"That's right. You heard him. Don't worry about him. But, in two days, that'll be the end of him. And believe me, I ALWAYS keep my word. So if you want you're little friend back, just tell the despicable cardmistress to go to the Tuskimine Shrine in two days at midnight. I'm giving you only TWO days. TWO DAYS. If you don't tell her by then, you can say goodbye to your little friend here."
Katana slammed the phone back into the receiver.
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Eriol gritted his teeth and stared at the phone. 'I should've listened to Syaoran. I should've believed him when he said that something was wrong over there. I should've told him to be careful. Katana had always loved sneak attacks. Argh…Syaoran got hurt over there. Why hadn't I thought about Katana killing Syaoran before he got Sakura so that he would have Syaoran out of his way? What should I do? He said only two days. I have to tell Sakura.'
Eriol woke up Yelan, Syaoran's four sisters, Nakuru and Spinel Sun.
He grimly told them to just dress up as fast as they can and that they would be going to Sakura's house right now. And surprisingly, they did as they were told, sensing that something was wrong.
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Sakura woke up with a start. Cold beads of sweat covered her face. The nightmare she just had was unbearable.
She had seen glimpses of a person hanging from a metal chain tied to his hands. He was bloody and had bruises everywhere. The glimpses got scarier and closer to the person. His brown messy hair seemed familiar, somehow, but she couldn't see his face because he was bowing his head and his hair covered it. Then another person waved out his hand to the kid hanging from the chain. Lightning suddenly surged through the person hanging and he lifted his head and shouted out in pain. She then knew who it was. The painful cries were unbearable and she felt her heart weaken. "Syaoran!" she heard herself cry out.
He slowly tried to lift his head again and he opened his sad brown eyes. "S-Sakura…w.-.why are you…here?" he replied weakly. "You shouldn't…b-be here…"
"Katana, let him go!" Sakura shouted to the other figure that was now laughing hysterically.
"I told you I would take care of him first," he replied with a smirk.
"No Syaoran!!"
Sakura shivered. Now more than ever, she wanted to be close to him, to feel his warm embrace. To make sure he was fine. She pushed the dream away. How could I forget what was happening to him? Don't worry Sakura. It was only a dream. It won't happen…it can't happen.
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Just then the doorbell rang, waking everybody up. Fujitaka and Touya went to get the door, to see who it was. They were surprised to see Syaoran's family and Eriol and his guardians. Fujitaka and Touya didn't know what was happening. It looked like nobody else knew what was happening either, except Eriol.
"What's wrong?" Fujitaka asked.
Eriol looked grim and also a bit frightened. "Syaoran………"
They heard a gasp from the stairs. Sakura stood there wide-eyed, not wanting to hear what she thought what was happening. Kero, Meiling and Tomoyo were on the stairs, too, looking as confused as ever.
"Eriol, what's wrong? What happened?" Tomoyo asked.
Eriol hid his face by hanging his head down, not wanting to be the one who would have to be the one telling the bad news.
"…Katana…"
By that single word, everybody knew what had happened. By that evil name, everybody stood there, speechless. But lastly, by that horrible statement, Sakura felt her heart slowly falling to pieces.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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I hope you like this chapter. I spent a lot of time on it…for some reason I just can't get my chapters to seem longer…oh well.
Anyway please review!!!!!!