Chapter 6 - Party Time

"Yes, that's fine, Hikaru, what are you doing??" Tomoyo said while arranging the castle for the party. "I'm putting flowers" Hikaru answered, "oh, put some cherries and peonies too please.." Tomoyo told her softly. "Sure" Hikaru said and ran outside again. "Hello Sakura" Tomoyo said as Sakura was coming down the stairs yawning. "Hi, Tomoyo" Sakura said between yawns, "so, is that cute guy, Syaoran coming tonight???" Tomoyo asked her, "umm, I don't know" Sakura said and blushed. "Ok, remember it's a costume party, so I made you and Ai your costumes already...." Tomoyo looked like she was daydreaming, "..Ai a little angel, and you a fairy" Tomoyo said mostly talking to herself. "What are you gonna be?" Sakura asked, "me, oh, I'll be a goddess" she said and went back to making the arrangements look nice. "Toya, where's Ai?" Sakura asked her brother a few minutes later. "She's around back, with the old man" he answered, Sakura giggled and walked to the back.

"Can he come?" Ai asked her grandpa, "of course" he answered. "I like him" Ai said while smelling a peony flower. "He's a good boy" he said, probably to please her, "Hello, good morning" Sakura said to both as she walked close to them. "Good morning Sakura, did you have a good sleep?" the man asked, "yes" Sakura said and smiled, "what time is it??" Sakura asked as she looked the sky was already getting dark. "It's late in the afternoon, I guess you must have slept late last night" he said and waved to them good bye to go. "Sakura, was it my fault??" Ai asked calmly to Sakura, "what?" Sakura asked confused, "that my dad left and that mommy died?" Ai said still very calm, "oh no Ai, it wasn't your fault, they must have had reasons to leave, and your mom, she......" Sakura said but didn't know how to finish it. "She died for me, because she loves me" Ai finished and went off to play around. "Oh gosh, what should I do??.." Sakura told herself and went in the same direction as Ai.

"The dance is tonight, a costume party" Syaoran told himself. "Should I???" Syaoran asked himself, "I wanna see her" he thought. "I wonder if...." his thoughts were interrupted by Zhao. "Guess what??" Zhao said looking exited, "what now??" Syaoran said annoyed, "father is here" Zhao said and opened the door that reveled their father behind talking to Meirin. They all came in the room and Meirin closed the door. Syaoran's father sat in the nearest chair near the bed where Syaoran was sitting, Zhao was standing up leaning on the wall and Meirin sat next to Syaoran nearly hugging him. "Now son, your brother tells me, that you personally met this magician, right?" he said staring at Syaoran. "Yes" Syaoran said calmly, "her name is Sakura, she's dumb and clumsy, if you ask me, she acts way too innocent" Meirin said while caressing Syaoran's hair. "Is that so" Mr. Li said looking at Syaoran. "Where does she live?" he asked afterward, "she's staying in the castle, honored guest or something, or so I've heard" Zhao said with his eyes closed, he seemed to be getting weak. "They are having a party tonight, princess birthday or something, can we go??, please uncle.." Meilin said with devilish eyes. "Who's up for crashing a party?" Zhao said excitedly. "That's not a bad idea" Mr. Li said, "what about the old man?" Syaoran asked without thinking, "what old man??" Zhao asked, "the king is still alive" Mr. Li just said knowing perfectly well who he was. "I'll handle him" Mr. Li said and they all left to their rooms to talk things over by themselves. Syaoran took out the invitation once more, thoughtfully thinking on what to do, as well as trying to figure out what was this strange feeling he was having towards Sakura.

Syaoran decided to go after all, he was dressed as a devil, when he was about to leave he saw his father at the door, "where are you going dressed like that?" he asked Syaoran. "To the costume party, check things out" Syaoran said and smiled and as usual his father fell for it. "We'll meet you there" he said calmly and went back inside, Syaoran started to walk to the castle. But first he went out back to get his horse, the costume he wore was black and dark green which matched with the horse and he's adornments. He rode quickly to the castle and at the entrance was asked for an invitation. Syaoran handed it to them and gave his horse to one of the guards to put in the stable. He walked the path slowly to the front door, admiring how pretty the castle was, unlike his father's this one was white, few other colors as well, at the bottom were lovely red roses probably all around the castle. He got to the front door and the guards opened the doors for him. Strangely enough everyone who saw him smiled then turned away to continue what they were doing. He walked past a group of girls who looked at him and giggled, "what's the deal?" Syaoran asked, he felt strange that so many girls were looking at him. Then he felt something tugging at his right leg, he looked down and a little angel was there, she looked up and smiled, "Ai" Syaoran said and smiled as well. Then he took her in his arms until he found Sakura, he blushed when he looked at her, she was wearing some fairy type of costume, made her look very pretty. And he noticed that like many girls were looking at him, many guys were looking at her, which made him somewhat jealous.

"Hi Syaoran, nice costume" Sakura said, Syaoran smiled and wasn't sure of what to say, then he finally settled in "Hi, you look beautiful" and when he thought about what he had just said he got embarrassed but tried his hardest not to show it, but she blushed. Ai told Syaoran to put her down and he did just that, then they both saw her disappear in the crowd. Sakura and Syaoran stood there a few seconds in awkward silence, then they started talking for a while and even got to dance.

Ai went outside, she was looking at the setting sun, it was very red and the dark was already covering almost everything. She felt strange and alone, "you are four now, take all the power, end the misery that you have" she heard someone say in her ear, she didn't even bother to look back as she knew who that was. "It's all their fault, you were too young to do anything to save her" he kept talking in her ears, "they weren't there to help her, it's not your fault" he said, Ai started to think about what he was saying, "but she died saving me" Ai said softly, "yes, that's because she loved you, but..." he started saying but was interrupted by someone who came outside. "Hello Ai, happy birthday" the guy said, Ai looked next to her, the guy with blue hair and blue eyes covered with thin glasses was smiling at her. "Hi Eriol" Ai said and smiled back, "what are you doing out here all alone, aren't you cold?" Eriol said with concern, Ai just smiled and walked to the door, "come on" she said and pointed inside. When Eriol went to the door Ai was already gone. "I hate it when she does that" he muttered softly with his eyes closed and a sigh. Then Tomoyo grabbed his hand to join her in the dance, which he gladly accepted.

Some time later, three unknown people arrived, the guys were drooling over the girl who was dressed as a warrior of some kind with very tight clothing. Some girls looked at the older guy dressed as a prince which he is actually. And the man hidden under a hood, he looked scary and mysterious, they all went their separate ways. Meirin was flirting with every guy making every girl jealous. Zhao liked the attention but was more interested in finding Sakura or getting to dance with Meirin. Mr. Li found Syaoran a bit later dancing with a girl, he was smiling and looked happy, but he noticed the smile was somewhat different than his usual grin. Then he noticed a little girl tugging his arm, she looked up but she didn't look too happy to see him. Mr. Li just looked at the young child, her eyes were so familiar, "I hate you" she said and left after kicking him once. He was confused but he dismissed the subject and was looking for Zhao or Meirin to tell Syaoran to come. He found Meirin first and she went and took Syaoran's left arm and pulled him away, Sakura was confused and when she looked at Meirin's eyes she got a little scared as Meirin was giving her a death look. "What's the big idea??" Syaoran nearly screamed at Meirin, Syaoran's face changed from happy to annoyed and about to kill someone. "Ohh come on Syaoran, your father told me to bring you" she said cuddling him, Syaoran just pushed her away and turned to see where his father was, then he walked to him avoiding Meirin.

"So who is that girl?" Mr. Li asked Syaoran when he was close enough to hear, "Sakura" Meirin said hanging on Syaoran's arm, Syaoran tried to shove her off but she was hanging thigtly. Sakura talked to Tomoyo who was talking to Eriol while Syaoran talked to whoever that was. She looked twice at how that girl was hanging in his arms and he was trying to get her off but couldn't. She sighed and got a drink before sitting next to Tomoyo. "Hey Sakura" both of them said in unison. "Hi" Sakura said and smiled sweetly, "where's Syaoran, I thought you were dancing with him" Tomoyo said and looked at Sakura strangely, "umm, we were, but this girl just pulled him away, look he is there, talking to that man" Sakura said and pointed at the discussing Syaoran. "Umm" Eriol said as he was having a bad feeling about those people. "Where's Ai??" Sakura asked, "I don't know, we were talking to her for a while, but she kept disappearing" Tomoyo said and sighed. "I have a bad feeling about this" Eriol said out loud and kept staring at the man Syaoran was talking to.

"Take the power Ai, avenge your mother's death" the voice told Ai in her ear once again. "But.." Ai tried arguing but she was agreeing with everything he was saying, "it's their fault, they could have helped but didn't" the voice said. "They have the power to see danger coming, but did they do anything, no, they didn't, they deserve to be punished" the voice said and stopped talking as Zhao was passing by, he looked at the sad little angel but didn't do anything, when she looked at him, her expression changed to almost hate, they kept their eyes locked on each other. Ai left after a while and Zhao was shaking a little, he gritted his teeth. Then he looked at the side of his right arm, he had started to bleed so he went outside. "Who is she?, such power!!" Zhao said to himself, he was angry that such a young child could have hurt him telepathically, "she must be strong" he told himself and went back in to search for his father.

To Be Continued....

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