Sakura's Past Returns

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Chapter 12: The Second Day

*~*~*~* Diov's POV:

Ever since we had reached the Castle and found the King, Queen and Prince missing, Sage had been pushing me away and giving me the cold shoulder. I believed that it was because of my connection with Ispep, the one who had kidnapped her family.

The first night we were out, I tried to get her to go to sleep and that if she wanted to, she could sleep on my shoulder. She refused.

The next day, while we were riding, I saw Sakura talking to her. 'I hope that she's trying to convince her to be nice again. But I doubt that…' I wished I could hear what they were saying.

When they finished talking, Sakura had a grin across her face, matching the intensity of Sage's frown. While Sakura's eyes sparkled as if she held the knowledge that she was about to pull a great prank, Sage's eyes glared as if she knew that she was the target of that great prank.

As I started to drop back to ask Sage something, I heard Kero complaining about being hungry and Sakura yelling at him that he had to wait, 'That tiny thing sure does eat a lot!'

"Sage?" I was even with her.

"Leave me alone." Her voice was as cold as ever.

"But…" I began.

"I said leave…me…alone." She repeated and looked at me with her bright blue eyes cold and hard. I left her there, in fear of my safety. Knowing that she knew how to use her magic, though not to it's full potential, I didn't want to test her temper.

*~*~*~* Tomoyo's POV:

Our second night out, we found a clearing almost identical to the first one, where we stayed the night. This time, there was just a clearing with no logs and a fire pit in the middle.

After eating, we sat in the same positions as the night before. A few minutes of sitting there, I looked over at Sakura and saw her looking between Sage and Diov with an expression half of mischief and half of exasperation and sadness.

"I have to talk to Sakura about something." I told Eriol and then walked over to my long-time friend. "Sakura."

"Yes, Tomoyo?" She looked up at me from the safety of Syaoran's arm.

"I need to talk to you about something." I helped her up and pulled her away from the clearing a short distance, "Why were you looking at Sage and Diov so strangely? Come on, you know you can't leave me in the dark."

She smiled and replied, "Sage doesn't trust Diov anymore – long story. Anyway, I told her that if he proves himself true, she has to make up to him for being so cold…Hehehe." She snickered.

"What do you mean?" I was puzzled by her excitement.

"Hehehe…If he proves himself true, she has no choice but to marry him! Hehehe…" Sakura's eyes were full of mischief.

I liked her plan, "Will she follow through?" Sakura just assured me that Sage didn't have a choice on weather she followed through if he proved true.

When we got back to the clearing we found Syaoran sleeping lightly, Eriol with the look he gets when he's about ready to do something to Syaoran that will get him mad. Yue and Ruby were no where to be seen, like normal. Kero and Spinel had said they were going to go ahead a little, see if they could discover anything that would help. Diov was staring into space, a blank expression across his face and Sage was about to…put her hand in the fire!?

"SAGE!!!" Sakura screamed in shock. Syaoran was awake immediately and all three guys snapped their eyes to the girl with her hand almost in the fire. Yue, Ruby, Kero and Spinel appeared out of no where and gasped when they saw what was happening. Sage snapped her piercing eyes upon Sakura and me with a look of annoyance and pure calmness.

"Yes?" I noticed her eyes were blank.

"What in the world are you doing?!?" Sakura ran to her sister's side, while I stood there motionless. Diov ran to her side but was warned away with a look from Sage, and Syaoran and Eriol stood ready to extinguish the fire if Sage stuck her hand in.

"Testing something." She was totally serious, "I need to know the extent of my powers in case I need them. Fire is something that destroys things, my powers have to do with destroying things." Her hand plummeted into the flames.

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