Chapter 5 - First Date

Zhao threw the ball of fire as hard as he could, the speed was incredible. To Syaoran everything turned white, and he stood up back in the hotel's bed sweating and gasping heavily. "It was a dream....just a dream" he comforted himself, "not real....can't be real.." he kept telling lies to himself. He looked out the window, a nearly full moon, the night was calm and cool. He tried to go back to sleep again and had a dreamless sleep.

The next moring Syaoran woke up very early, he got a shower and changed. Then he left for town as to avoid his brother and cousin. He spent about two hours on his own until people started to move around in the village. He went to get some breakfast, he got some Dim sun which he found delicious. Later he just walked around and let time pass, he decided that if anything is his dream would present itself, he would turn away.

Not much time later Ai appeared in front of him, they looked at each other for a moment as if speaking with a look. Ai turned to the right and saw Sakura coming for her. She approached them slowly, Sakura smiled when she saw Syaoran, then Ai unexpectedly took his hand along with Sakura's and said she wanted ice cream. Both were very stunned but still went along to the ice cream parlor. Syaoran kept thinking and confusing himself, Ai would often look to see him. Sakura ordered for the three of them, since Syaoran was new in town, Ai had a triple chocolate fudge ice cream, Sakura had strawberry and Syaoran chocolate. Ai sat in the middle of the two, then little Ai took a piece of paper from her bag and handed it to Syaoran quietly. They both became confused and Syaoran looked the paper curiously, there wasn't anything on it, but he still decided to save it. They ate slowly, it was Sakura who did most of the talking. Ai sat there quietly, Syaoran said a few words once in a while. Then Tomoyo approached them, "hey" she said excitedly, "I guess I just found my last couple" she said to herself but loud so they could hear. "Hoeee" Sakura said confused, "so, who's your date Sakura??" Tomoyo said in Sakura's ear but Syaoran heard and was almost blushing.

"Tomo...." Sakura started saying but Tomoyo had already introduced herself and handed him an invitation, as well as told him in his ear not to let little Ai know what the invitation was for. "It's gonna be so nice..." Tomoyo said to herself, "he's cute" Tomoyo told Sakura in her ear before she left. "She seems exited" Syaoran said and looked at the invitation, then opened it far enough that Ai couldn't even notice if it had words or not. He read through it, it was Ai's birthday party, there would be a night ball dance and only couples were allowed. "Did she mean, that we.....go...here...together..us??" Syaoran said stuttering for the first time in his life. "I guess so" Sakura said embarrassed barely noticing his stuttering. When they noticed the time, it had passed more than 3 hours and little Ai was sleep leaning on Syaoran. "Her party?" Syaoran asked Sakura taking Ai in his strong arms. "I guess children must like you" Sakura said and smiled, "wanna walk around??" Syaoran asked Sakura not even noticing that those words came from his mouth. "Sure" Sakura said, "should I carry her?" Sakura offered to take Ai. "No, it's ok" Syaoran said and looked at her pretty little face, "she looks peaceful" Syaoran said, "now she is" Sakura said.

They both walked around the village, Syaoran never felt his brother's or Meirin's auras near by. "Umm, Sakura" Syaoran said a little scared, not of her but to the possible answer she might give him to the question he was about to ask her. "Yes" she said calmly, the day was rushing by, and the sky had already started to get dark. "Umm..so you...practice magic??" he asked her, she looked surprised that he asked her that, "umm...yes" she said slowly and calmly. Syaoran's nightmare had just come true, her aura was strong and very unbalanced at the moment probably from the different emotions she was experiencing at the moment. "Why?" she asked nervous and curiously, "umm no reason, your aura is strong, it's pink, and feels nice" Syaoran said before he could stop himself. He could feel his face boiling from embarrassment, "do you?" she asked him, "ummm yeah..." he said, "wow, really, there aren't many magicians here, besides Ai's family and mine, ohh and of course Eriol" Sakura said exited, she was smiling sweetly with her eyes closed.

Sometime later they went to the park, Syaoran and Sakura were at the swings while Ai played on the other games. "Why do you babysit Ai all day??" Syaoran asked Sakura, "well, I guess I like it, and because Ai trusts me" Sakura said while she rocked back and forth. "She seems to trust everyone" Syaoran said, "oh no, I don't know why she accepted you so quickly but she doesn't really trust, not after her mother died" Sakura said, remembering Ms. Li Yelan, "she was so beautiful, Ai has her face and eyes" Sakura said happily, "was..her name Yelan??" Syaoran asked Sakura to finally know if what he saw in his dream was true. "Yes, how did you know??" Sakura said a little confused, she looked up and saw the stars. "She was the Queen here" was all Syaoran managed to say, but deep inside he was sad now that he knew his mother was dead and now he understood why Ai liked him so much, she had recognized him as her brother.

"The stars are so pretty" Sakura said while looking up, Syaoran looked up too and tried to calm himself in the inside, he felt so much pain. Ai approached them and stared sweetly at both then she placed her hand on top of Syaoran's legs, "huh" he uttered confused, "she wants you to pick her up" Sakura said and smiled. Syaoran took her by her tiny waist and sat her on his lap, then she hugged him and closed her eyes. "She really likes you" Sakura said looking at them sweetly. "That strange, I could almost swear I've seen you before somewhere" Sakura told him and herself.

"And I would say that she thinks he's her brother" came the voice of a man from the back, Sakura recognized the voice as her own brother. "It's late Sakura, time to go" Touya said looking seriously at Syaoran. "Ok" Sakura said almost unhappy, "today was nice" Sakura said and took Ai from Syaoran's arms, Ai was surprised and had a flash back. Ai remembered that man that killed his mom, then Ai got so scared that she did magic without knowing it. She made a huge blast of harmless white light, the same trick her mom had done, a blinding spell, but she had used no words. When they were able to see again, Ai was on the floor about 5 feet away from Sakura embracing herself while crying. "How??" Touya asked himself surprised, Syaoran was also stunned and the light had attracted people's attention. There was already a crowd of people around the park, no one very near and at the front of the entrance was Zhao and Meirin looking proudly. "Ai, are you ok??, I'm sorry" Sakura said, she felt so ashamed that she felt like crying. Syaoran paid attention to his relatives and decided to help Sakura take Ai home. "Ai, everything will be fine, go with Sakura" Syaoran said and it worked a little, then Sakura hugged her and Sakura said thank you and bye to Syaoran and walked to her brother Touya. Syaoran looked at her back and Ai waving good bye, then he directed his view a little to the right to see both his relatives standing there gloriously.

"Wow Syaoran, you sure did our job easier, there is no need for an ambush now" Zhao said looking thoughtfully. "Yeah, and what's up with that little pest, I mean is it her's??, how pathetic.." Meirin said, Syaoran didn't respond because anything he might say may cause problems. "Let's go back now, we don't want too much attention" Zhao said, Meirin took Syaoran's arm and pulled him with her. Syaoran just kept thinking on what to do, he was so confused, just finding out his mother was dead and he has a little sister who knew he was her brother before he even knew. And what about Sakura, what would happen to her. But most of all he kept thinking when Ai did magic, her power increased dramatically for a second then was back to normal the next instant.

Sakura held Ai in her arms all the way to the castle. Touya kept comparing the magic her mother had used last time and the magic Ai had done, it was a great amount of energy for such a little girl. "Toya do you think I hurt her, because I think I did, and..." Sakura was saying with fear but Toya interrupted her, "no Sakura, she is just going back again" Touya said, "going back??" Sakura wondered, "yes, she's remembering her mother's death" Touya said trying not to look at neither of them. Then they got to the front door to the castle, Touya helped Sakura get out of the coach with Ai on hands and she even took little Ai to her room. Touya went to speak with Ai's grandfather. "Yes Toya?, is my little darling ok?" he asked him before Touya had even said anything or even closed the door to the library and office. "She's fine, just another flashback, but she used a great amount of magic on her blindness spell" Touya said, "so?" the old man asked, "well, she used no words" Touya said a little confused, "no words....." the old man repeated stunned and scared. "Is there something wrong??" Touya asked afraid that he might have a heart attack or something. "That means...that...her powers are evolving, but it's too quickly, it might be harmful" the old man said while sitting down and staring at a picture of his daughter and granddaughter. "Sir, is there something your not telling us?" Touya asked, "I'm sure you have felt the aura shield just outside our territory, am I right?" the man asked Touya. "Yes of course, I've felt it, ever since..." Touya said but trailed off, "ever since Ai was born" the old man finished the sentence. "Yes" Touya said quietly, "well, I'm not totally sure if she created it, but it doesn't just make auras outside of it disappear, it also makes energy from outside to accumulate, and unfortunately, Ai seems to be in a way feeding on this energy, but her memories are causing her a great unbalance and to tap in the shield's energy too much" the man explained. Touya was of course very stunned, "please, I beg you not to tell anyone" he told Touya, "of course sir" Touya said. "Oh, and...umm..sir.." Touya said a little shy or maybe scared to say. "What is it, spit it out" the man said, "well, I saw one of your grandson's at the park, he was with Sakura and holding Ai" Touya said taking a step back. "WHAT??" the man screamed and there was the voice from Eriol coming asking if there was something wrong. "Which one??" the man screamed angry yet eager. "Syaoran most definitely" Touya said, then the man slammed his desk and told Eriol and Touya to get out so he could think clearly.

"Mom, is she alright?" Sakura asked, "yes dear, calm down" said Ms. Kinomoto trying to calm her daughter down. "She's having those flashbacks again" Sakura said worried, "she'll be fine if you are with her dear, now calm down, sit" she said, then Sakura sat down a little calmer, Ms. Nadeshiko had never failed to make her daughter feel better. "So, who is the boy Tomoyo told me about?" she asked, "umm, Syaoran" Sakura said, "Syaoran....it sounds familiar..." Ms. Nadeshiko told herself. "He's really nice, and Ai likes him too" Sakura said happily "too...hehe" Ms. Nadeshiko repeated smiling making Sakura blush, "Tomoyo said he was handsome and strong looking" she continued, "yeah.."Sakura agreed and went into daydreaming. "How did your date go?" she asked afterwards, "date???" Sakura asked a little confused, "hehe...yes, it sounded like you two and little Ai went on a date together" she said and looked at her daughter's red blushing face.

"Now we know that she is the one we are looking for, what do we do???" Meirin asked when they were back in the hotel. "I'll have to tell father" Zhao said and went to his room to not be disturbed. Syaoran left too to the hot springs, "leave me alone" he said to Meirin before getting out of the room. "Well, well, the two are more alike than I thought" Meirin said to herself unsatisfied and angry. Zhao tried to make a magical connection with his father which was a lot harder to do then he had imagined, a lot of his energy was being drained. Syaoran on the other hand tried to relax in the hot springs tried to adsorb everything in his mind. Not long after, he fell asleep in the water and he saw everything dark. "Why are you back Syaoran??" came the a familiar voice calling to him. "Who are you??" Syaoran screamed, "you forgot me already" the voice said and a light appeared in front of him then materialized into an old man who when the face was visible Syaoran took a step or two back. "Why did you come back??" he asked again, "for several reasons..." Syaoran said avoiding the man's face, "you were always the honest one" the man said and Syaoran couldn't help it but look. "Ai, accepted you, that means she likes you, you are good" the man continued, "Ai...she's my sister?" Syaoran said kind of like a question. "Yes she is, you never saw her, you were twelve, do you remember Sakura before that?" he asked, "huh" Syaoran said confused, "yes, you two met once when you were 5 years old, her mother and my daughter your mother were very good friends" he said. "Oh Syaoran, I don't blame you, but why did you, your brother and father leave???, you broke my daughters heart, she had waited long to see all of you, for you to leave her, why did you do that??" he said, Syaoran felt guilt and confused, "I..I don't know" Syaoran said wanting to help. "It's ok, Syao, just be careful, take care of Sakura, she has almost the same power as you, but most of all, take care of your sister, be careful with her...." the man's voice said while everything was fading back to normal. When Syaoran woke up, he had more questions then what he had started with.

To Be Continued....

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