Aww man, I'm so terribly sorry to leave this for so long. Gomen nasai… I think that's how it's spelt for those who know some Japanese… Well, this is so far the final chapter but yeah, sorry it took so long for me to put up… I've been having a few problems and well… I haven't really been up to anything much other than vegging and stuff… But it's done now and I have a new idea for a story thanks to my rather eventful Christmas. I hope you guys all had a great one and a fantastic new year. Hope you like it and stuff : ) Read and review.

P.S., thanks to everyone who reveiwed the last chappie and the rest of the story too : ) you guys rock in stereo.

Sakura burst into the ward with a get well card in her hands from the class. She walked over to where Li's bed was, smiling and gasped in fright when she realised that he wasn't in it.

'He's awake! He's better now,' Sakura thought joyfully, 'The sleep card spell is starting to wear off.'

Looking around, she saw a figure in a chair on the balcony, with tousled chocolate brown hair and a sling for his left shoulder. Sakura looked on the bedside table and saw that the star card was gone. That meant Li had found it. Dumping her back pack on a chair, Sakura padded out onto the balcony where Li sat playing with the star card, slowly twisting it in his hands while he tried to stay focused, nodding his head every couple of minutes as the still present fever tried to put him back to bed where he belonged, along with the drugs in the IV (AN: evil nurses, they really do that sometimes, I know, my mum is one of them… just throw a little bit off this in with that… besides, the pain killers in hospitals usually have the whole 'Warning: May cause Drowsiness' on them… just letting you guys know cos you seemed a little confused from the last bit… sorry about that and thanks for letting me know).

"Hey Li, how are you feeling today?" Sakura asked cheerfully.

Li looked up and smiled weakly, his eyelids drooping before he shook his head and rubbed them with his right hand. Sakura moved onto his right side, careful of the IV stand to his left.

"Nurse let me out for a bit. Fresh air will do me good," he croaked, his voice hoarse both from the narrowly avoided pneumonia, which had become a nasty form of bronchitis, and from the days of unuse. Sakura stood and pulled the blinds in the ward shut and shut the balcony door.

She called her staff out and threw up a star card that was rarely used.

"Lock card, keep people from coming out onto the balcony, release and dispel!"

The green lock flew out and into the door as shield streamed out and formed a card in Sakuras waiting hand, having fulfilled it's purpose of guarding the star card until she returned.

Li looked up at Sakura as she held out her hand for the new Star Card. His amber brown eyes met her emerald green ones. Both pairs of eyes were filled with worry for the other as Li reluctantly gave up the card to its mistress, scowling because she thought that he needed help.

Sakura threw it up, twirling her staff like a baton.

"Heal card, I bid you to take my friends fever away so that he can begin to get better, release and dispel!"

The pale pink woman flew out like Windy and floated before Li, who gazed in wonder at her beauty (AN: If you know Pokemon, think of Nurse Joy here hee hee). She put her hand out and touched Li's fore head, a light wind blowing his sweat damp hair this way and that. His face relaxed and his jaw hung down as far as the restraining bandages would allow it. His head drooped forward as his eyes drifted shut, half-closing, falling asleep again as the new card spirit bid him silently (AN: poor Li huh, he's definitely not a well boy).

Sakura watched as he slowly began to lose the dark red cheeks and his face turned from the sickly white to a slightly more normal colour. She smiled as the card spirit withdrew her hand, shaking it as if it were wet. Heal turned to Sakura and smiled, bowing before returning to her card form and floating to Sakura's waiting hand.

Sakura pocketed the card, called back the lock and returned her staff to the key before kneeling before Li, who had passed out in the chair. She smiled and gently kissed his forehead before waking him up. He was confused for a second before the hazy happenings came flooding back to him. He put his right arm out, his left arm confined by a sling, and pulled Sakura in to the strongest hug he could muster.

"Thank you Sakura, for everything," was all Li could say. She helped him to stand up and he took the advice of his family's guardians, the advice that they had given him over a week ago, to let others help him rather than push them away, and leant on Sakuras' shoulder, as she pulled the IV trolley for him and held him up.

"The fever may be gone for the most part Li, but you still need to take it easy and rest. It's the best thing for you now. You have your phone and my number. If you get worried or lonely, call at any time and I'll see if I can come in or at least cheer you up. The doctors will probably release you in a couple of days too, now that the fevers gone," Sakura said happily before Li suddenly swooned a little and sat down hard on the edge of his bed. Sakura pulled the sheets up for him, as he lay down again tired after the walk, his muscles weak from the many days in bed.

"Thanks again Sakura," Li said as she smiled at him. "But I'm not sleepy right now," he lied. He thought that there were people trying to pull his eyelids shut as he tried desperately to keep them open to see Sakura and assure her that he was all right.

Sakura giggled at this, seeing the bags under Li's eyes, watching as he tried to keep his eyes open and knew he was about ready for another nap. 'Poor Li, he's still trying to be proud even now,' Sakura thought. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a card, knowing that the one she wanted would always rise to the top of the pile somehow.

"Don't make me call Sleep and use him on you again Li, I don't want you to have a relapse. When you get out, maybe I can use Heal to fix some of the other wounds, but not until you get out or the doctors would be suspicious. So you need to go back to sleep to get better sooner," she reasoned.

Li nodded, yawning and cursing his body for betraying him again. He was still tired but at least he wasn't as tired as he'd been recently, the fever was no longer taking all his energy away. He'd be going home soon, and Sakura had said that she would take care of him. He was glad, she was so gentle and kind.

"Oh Li, I almost forgot, I found this near the swings yesterday, I thought that you might want it back," Sakura said, handing him the small tassel that became his sword when he said the incantation. He almost jumped for joy but he kept his cool as best he was able, a grin breaking onto his face before he yawned again. He took it gratefully and hugged it close to his chest.

"Thanks again Sakura," he said softly. She smiled at him and he lay back down.

He drifted off to sleep and felt her brush her fingers across his cheek, murmuring a good night to him before he began to dream of her and finally began to heal.

AN: Yeah, I finished… I think... unless you guys want a sequel where Sakura is looking after Li in Li's apartment… hey, then I can throw Kero into the mixture hee hee and maybe Meilin… big maybe for her… although a probably not. Sorry if the ending is bad or corny or what ever you want to call it if it's not good in your opinion. Let me know if you guys don't like it and I'll change it for you … maybe…

See ya

Amalthea

P.S. I know, sounds stupid… but I'm working on a new one so keep your eyes open… Li acctually is in perfect health for this one… so far muwa hahaha