Author's Note: I do not own Cardcaptors blah blah blah, but you already
know that. The only characters I own in this story are Zach, Alice,
Jonathon Hoay and Taryn Hoay. Nadeshiko is still alive and Eriol and
Syaoran have lived in Tomoeda all of their lives.
Like A Shooting Star
Chapter 6
Touya was still in shock when the ambulance and firefighters arrived to help all of the people involved in the accident. The little sister that everyone had told him was dead was lying unconscious in his arms. He had given up hope of finding her on the very day that she had moved back into his neighborhood. He had even seen the locket then and had not thought that she was his sister. And now he had found that the girl who had been so much like his sister that he hadn't been able to get to know her was his sister and she might die because of the accident.
"Here, let me examine her. You did a great job to have kept her alive. If you could go over there and talk to the police about what you saw here and what you did, it would be very helpful," an ambulance officer gently pushed Touya in the direction of the police and he shook his head and tried to listen to the police officer's questions.
"Hi what's your name?" the officer asked Touya quickly.
"I'm Touya Kinomoto," he answered as quickly as he could, watching as they put Sakura into an ambulance.
"Do you know any of the people that are in these cars?"
"Well the driver of the car that's half in the water is Mrs. Taryn Hoay and the man in the passenger seat is her husband, Mr. Jonathon Hoay. The girl who was just been put into the back of the ambulance I have known as Alice Hoay, but I just found out that she is actually my sister who supposedly died in a car accident at this very spot. I have no idea who the other people are," Touya surprised the young officer with the remark about finding his sister.
"What is your sister's name?" the officer asked, trying to sound as if he wasn't confused.
"Sakura Kinomoto," Touya answered as the ambulance carrying Sakura pulled out onto the road and drove away, sirens squealing. Touya still had more questions to answer and he answered them to the best of his ability before he was driven home by the police.
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Sakura was in a garden. Wherever she looked she saw flowers, mainly purples one that she didn't recognize. The air was all misty, as if the place didn't actually exist. In the middle of the garden was a beautiful fountain made of rocks. The water made a bubbling sound as it trickled down through the stones to the bottom. Birds called to each other, but their calls and the sound of the water bubbling were the only sounds in the whole garden. To her right, Sakura saw a swing. She felt something calling to her to go there, so she went over to it. On the seat to the her left, there sat a little girl. She looked to be about three years old and she had Sakura's honey coloured hair and eyes that were a darker green colour than Sakura's own. If someone came along and just met them, they'd think that they were sisters.
"Hello! Are you waiting for someone? Maybe your mother?" Sakura greeted the child warmly, concerned that there was no one with the little girl.
"My mummy might be coming soon, but I'm waiting for you Sakura. My name is Alice Hoay," the little girl climbed down off the swing and stood in front of her. Sakura was confused.
"But wait, my name isn't Sakura! My name is Alice Hoay and I suppose that you must be Touya's younger sister Sakura. You're getting us mixed up!" but even as she said this, Sakura had a feeling that she was Sakura, not Alice and that the little girl was telling the truth.
"No, I'm Alice and you know it. When I was little, on the same day that you had your car crash, I was pushed into the river by a dog and I hit my head on a rock. My father tried to save me, but I drowned. A few hours later my parents were walking down the bank of the river and they found you laying on your back in the river. You were caught on a rock so you weren't going anywhere, luckily for you. My parents saved you and as you looked almost identical to me, they called you Alice and kept you as their daughter. You had hit your head pretty hard when the car had crashed, so you had amnesia. You accepted the identity of Alice, but you acted the same as you always had done," Alice took a breath and let Sakura analyze what she had said.
"So you're saying that I'm Sakura Kinomoto, the girl from Tomoeda that everybody thought dead. Touya's little sister and the little girl who used to be friends with everyone?" Sakura was in shock, she had grown up with a family which was not her own and now, when she was 16, she was eventually being told the truth by a dead 3 year old.
"Yes, you are. Here, I'll give you your memories back. You already have been getting flashbacks and certain memories back, but you need all of your memories back now. You can go and live with your real family. It might be a bit hard at first, but you'll get used to it. I'm sorry that my family has caused all this trouble in your life Sakura. I didn't want them to do that and they wouldn't have if I hadn't died that day. They were in shock when it happened," Alice looked so sad and ashamed that Sakura bent down and hugged her.
"It's not your fault Alice! You didn't ask to die as I didn't ask to be in a car crash. I'm sure that everything will end up being okay and it's not your fault, remember that," Sakura smiled warmly at the small child and Alice hugged her again.
"Thank you Sakura for letting my parents be happy. I don't know what they would have done if you hadn't come along. They were really devastated after I died. Please forgive them!" Alice almost begged the last part and she looked like she was going to cry.
"I've already forgotten what they have done to make me have to forgive them. They've done nothing wrong as far as I can see," Sakura replied and she gave Alice another hug.
"Thank you so much Sakura! Now you had better go otherwise you'll be spending the rest of eternity here, and that's not good. I'll never forget what you have done for me Sakura and I hope that I'll be able to do something for you in return. Goodbye Sakura and maybe I'll see you again when it is your time to come here," Alice waved sadly as Sakura felt herself disappearing out of the garden.
"Goodbye Alice," she managed to say before she left the garden completely and went straight into a dream.
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When Touya arrived back at his house he thanked the police officer who had driven him home before he rushed inside, looking for his parents.
"Mum? Dad? Are you home?" he called as he closed the front door behind him.
"Touya? What's wrong? Why were you driven home by the police?" his mother asked, wiping her hands as she came out of the kitchen.
"I've found her mum! Sakura's alive! I opened her locket and it was the one that I had given to Sakura on her birthday. Nobody else could wear it as I fixed it so that it could never come off and it opened in the special way that I devised to make it open. It had a picture of us and it had my inscription in it! Sakura's alive!" Touya answered, talking quickly. Nadeshiko just looked at her son strangely.
"Slow down and start from the beginning, or I won't know what's going on," she requested and Touya told her the whole story from when he had heard the cars collide to when he had been driven home by the police. By the time he had finished Nadeshiko was thoroughly shocked. She couldn't believe her ears. Her daughter, her little Sakura, was actually alive! Well, she might not be as she was in a car accident, but still, she had seemed to be okay when Touya had last seen her.
"Well, I'll go leave a message to your father to meet us at the hospital and we'll go and see her," she quickly wrote out a note and they were on their way to the hospital.
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After having a few hours of normal sleep, Sakura awoke in the hospital room slightly confused. She knew now that she wasn't Alice Hoay, but she was Sakura Kinomoto. Only now could she remember everything. She remembered playing with a little Tomoyo and Eriol and younger versions of all of her friends. The person she could remember the most though, was a small boy with messy chestnut hair and amber eyes. Syaoran. Now he hated her, but when they were younger they had been the best of friends. When she opened her eyes she saw that there were three people other than her in the room. One she recognized as Touya, her real brother. The other two she had only seen in her memories. They were Fujitaka and Nadeshiko, her real parents. For a while they just sat there in silence, none of them saying anything. Then Touya finally broke the silence.
"Sakura? Are you really Sakura? My sister?" Touya asked, still feeling that she might just be a dream and that she really was Alice Hoay.
"Well, I think so. I didn't really know that I was before today. Then Alice told me and I realized that it was true. I guess that I am your little sister," Sakura replied, still a little confused at the fast pace that everything was happening.
"Sakura? My little Cherry Blossom?" Nadeshiko stepped forward and gave Sakura a great big hug, "My little girl! We've missed you so much! I know it's been 13 years, but maybe we can get to know each other again. You've been living here for 6 years and we didn't even notice it was you, and you only lived a few houses down from us. I just can't believe that it's you!"
"That's okay mother, I don't really believe I'm me either. The Hoay's really did have a daughter called Alice, she died on the day of the car accident in the river that I floated down. I only just got my memory back just now, otherwise I would have told people sooner," Sakura was close to tears as she was re-united with her father. Fujitaka didn't say anything, he just came up and hugged her like he was never going to let go. It told Sakura more than words ever could how much he had missed her.
"I'm sorry that we gave up hope on finding you Sakura. Touya held the most hope, but even his hope failed after 7 years. Of course he never admitted that you were dead, but he too believed that he would never found you. We should have kept looking, after all, you were in the town that is just down the river from here," Fujitaka finally talked after he let go of his daughter.
"It wouldn't have mattered. The Hoay's real daughter Alice basically looked exactly like me. It was almost as if we could have been sisters. Nobody would have known that I wasn't their daughter except for Taryn and Jon. Even I believed that I was Alice back then," Sakura told them, picturing Alice again in her mind, "there was no way that people would have believed that I was your daughter."
"I suppose so, but it doesn't matter now. We have you back and that's all that matters," Nadeshiko replied with a warm smile, "now let's catch up on all the time that we should have spent together." The family talked and talked until the nurses threw everyone except Sakura out of the room and Sakura fell into a happy sleep.
End Of Chapter 6
This is not the end of the story by the way. I'll make the plot thicker and make more exciting stuff happen. I would have written this sooner but I was on holiday in Canberra and I only came back on Monday, then my brothers were using the computer. Thank you to all the people who have reviewed:
Hjj, jetsog, netalie, dstrbd child, Kea Seastar, Danielle Ngo, Wezl, hana no tenshi, keizinathebrat, chibisakura, sakinusaragi, Cherry Blossomz Gurl, silverg3r, sylversuicune-88 and ________. Thank you all for reviewing and I hope that you will review again. Please review and remember that this is not the end of the story!!!!!!!!!!!!! And please e-mail me if you get confused at bob_in_a_box@hotmail.com. Thank you!!!!!
Like A Shooting Star
Chapter 6
Touya was still in shock when the ambulance and firefighters arrived to help all of the people involved in the accident. The little sister that everyone had told him was dead was lying unconscious in his arms. He had given up hope of finding her on the very day that she had moved back into his neighborhood. He had even seen the locket then and had not thought that she was his sister. And now he had found that the girl who had been so much like his sister that he hadn't been able to get to know her was his sister and she might die because of the accident.
"Here, let me examine her. You did a great job to have kept her alive. If you could go over there and talk to the police about what you saw here and what you did, it would be very helpful," an ambulance officer gently pushed Touya in the direction of the police and he shook his head and tried to listen to the police officer's questions.
"Hi what's your name?" the officer asked Touya quickly.
"I'm Touya Kinomoto," he answered as quickly as he could, watching as they put Sakura into an ambulance.
"Do you know any of the people that are in these cars?"
"Well the driver of the car that's half in the water is Mrs. Taryn Hoay and the man in the passenger seat is her husband, Mr. Jonathon Hoay. The girl who was just been put into the back of the ambulance I have known as Alice Hoay, but I just found out that she is actually my sister who supposedly died in a car accident at this very spot. I have no idea who the other people are," Touya surprised the young officer with the remark about finding his sister.
"What is your sister's name?" the officer asked, trying to sound as if he wasn't confused.
"Sakura Kinomoto," Touya answered as the ambulance carrying Sakura pulled out onto the road and drove away, sirens squealing. Touya still had more questions to answer and he answered them to the best of his ability before he was driven home by the police.
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Sakura was in a garden. Wherever she looked she saw flowers, mainly purples one that she didn't recognize. The air was all misty, as if the place didn't actually exist. In the middle of the garden was a beautiful fountain made of rocks. The water made a bubbling sound as it trickled down through the stones to the bottom. Birds called to each other, but their calls and the sound of the water bubbling were the only sounds in the whole garden. To her right, Sakura saw a swing. She felt something calling to her to go there, so she went over to it. On the seat to the her left, there sat a little girl. She looked to be about three years old and she had Sakura's honey coloured hair and eyes that were a darker green colour than Sakura's own. If someone came along and just met them, they'd think that they were sisters.
"Hello! Are you waiting for someone? Maybe your mother?" Sakura greeted the child warmly, concerned that there was no one with the little girl.
"My mummy might be coming soon, but I'm waiting for you Sakura. My name is Alice Hoay," the little girl climbed down off the swing and stood in front of her. Sakura was confused.
"But wait, my name isn't Sakura! My name is Alice Hoay and I suppose that you must be Touya's younger sister Sakura. You're getting us mixed up!" but even as she said this, Sakura had a feeling that she was Sakura, not Alice and that the little girl was telling the truth.
"No, I'm Alice and you know it. When I was little, on the same day that you had your car crash, I was pushed into the river by a dog and I hit my head on a rock. My father tried to save me, but I drowned. A few hours later my parents were walking down the bank of the river and they found you laying on your back in the river. You were caught on a rock so you weren't going anywhere, luckily for you. My parents saved you and as you looked almost identical to me, they called you Alice and kept you as their daughter. You had hit your head pretty hard when the car had crashed, so you had amnesia. You accepted the identity of Alice, but you acted the same as you always had done," Alice took a breath and let Sakura analyze what she had said.
"So you're saying that I'm Sakura Kinomoto, the girl from Tomoeda that everybody thought dead. Touya's little sister and the little girl who used to be friends with everyone?" Sakura was in shock, she had grown up with a family which was not her own and now, when she was 16, she was eventually being told the truth by a dead 3 year old.
"Yes, you are. Here, I'll give you your memories back. You already have been getting flashbacks and certain memories back, but you need all of your memories back now. You can go and live with your real family. It might be a bit hard at first, but you'll get used to it. I'm sorry that my family has caused all this trouble in your life Sakura. I didn't want them to do that and they wouldn't have if I hadn't died that day. They were in shock when it happened," Alice looked so sad and ashamed that Sakura bent down and hugged her.
"It's not your fault Alice! You didn't ask to die as I didn't ask to be in a car crash. I'm sure that everything will end up being okay and it's not your fault, remember that," Sakura smiled warmly at the small child and Alice hugged her again.
"Thank you Sakura for letting my parents be happy. I don't know what they would have done if you hadn't come along. They were really devastated after I died. Please forgive them!" Alice almost begged the last part and she looked like she was going to cry.
"I've already forgotten what they have done to make me have to forgive them. They've done nothing wrong as far as I can see," Sakura replied and she gave Alice another hug.
"Thank you so much Sakura! Now you had better go otherwise you'll be spending the rest of eternity here, and that's not good. I'll never forget what you have done for me Sakura and I hope that I'll be able to do something for you in return. Goodbye Sakura and maybe I'll see you again when it is your time to come here," Alice waved sadly as Sakura felt herself disappearing out of the garden.
"Goodbye Alice," she managed to say before she left the garden completely and went straight into a dream.
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When Touya arrived back at his house he thanked the police officer who had driven him home before he rushed inside, looking for his parents.
"Mum? Dad? Are you home?" he called as he closed the front door behind him.
"Touya? What's wrong? Why were you driven home by the police?" his mother asked, wiping her hands as she came out of the kitchen.
"I've found her mum! Sakura's alive! I opened her locket and it was the one that I had given to Sakura on her birthday. Nobody else could wear it as I fixed it so that it could never come off and it opened in the special way that I devised to make it open. It had a picture of us and it had my inscription in it! Sakura's alive!" Touya answered, talking quickly. Nadeshiko just looked at her son strangely.
"Slow down and start from the beginning, or I won't know what's going on," she requested and Touya told her the whole story from when he had heard the cars collide to when he had been driven home by the police. By the time he had finished Nadeshiko was thoroughly shocked. She couldn't believe her ears. Her daughter, her little Sakura, was actually alive! Well, she might not be as she was in a car accident, but still, she had seemed to be okay when Touya had last seen her.
"Well, I'll go leave a message to your father to meet us at the hospital and we'll go and see her," she quickly wrote out a note and they were on their way to the hospital.
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After having a few hours of normal sleep, Sakura awoke in the hospital room slightly confused. She knew now that she wasn't Alice Hoay, but she was Sakura Kinomoto. Only now could she remember everything. She remembered playing with a little Tomoyo and Eriol and younger versions of all of her friends. The person she could remember the most though, was a small boy with messy chestnut hair and amber eyes. Syaoran. Now he hated her, but when they were younger they had been the best of friends. When she opened her eyes she saw that there were three people other than her in the room. One she recognized as Touya, her real brother. The other two she had only seen in her memories. They were Fujitaka and Nadeshiko, her real parents. For a while they just sat there in silence, none of them saying anything. Then Touya finally broke the silence.
"Sakura? Are you really Sakura? My sister?" Touya asked, still feeling that she might just be a dream and that she really was Alice Hoay.
"Well, I think so. I didn't really know that I was before today. Then Alice told me and I realized that it was true. I guess that I am your little sister," Sakura replied, still a little confused at the fast pace that everything was happening.
"Sakura? My little Cherry Blossom?" Nadeshiko stepped forward and gave Sakura a great big hug, "My little girl! We've missed you so much! I know it's been 13 years, but maybe we can get to know each other again. You've been living here for 6 years and we didn't even notice it was you, and you only lived a few houses down from us. I just can't believe that it's you!"
"That's okay mother, I don't really believe I'm me either. The Hoay's really did have a daughter called Alice, she died on the day of the car accident in the river that I floated down. I only just got my memory back just now, otherwise I would have told people sooner," Sakura was close to tears as she was re-united with her father. Fujitaka didn't say anything, he just came up and hugged her like he was never going to let go. It told Sakura more than words ever could how much he had missed her.
"I'm sorry that we gave up hope on finding you Sakura. Touya held the most hope, but even his hope failed after 7 years. Of course he never admitted that you were dead, but he too believed that he would never found you. We should have kept looking, after all, you were in the town that is just down the river from here," Fujitaka finally talked after he let go of his daughter.
"It wouldn't have mattered. The Hoay's real daughter Alice basically looked exactly like me. It was almost as if we could have been sisters. Nobody would have known that I wasn't their daughter except for Taryn and Jon. Even I believed that I was Alice back then," Sakura told them, picturing Alice again in her mind, "there was no way that people would have believed that I was your daughter."
"I suppose so, but it doesn't matter now. We have you back and that's all that matters," Nadeshiko replied with a warm smile, "now let's catch up on all the time that we should have spent together." The family talked and talked until the nurses threw everyone except Sakura out of the room and Sakura fell into a happy sleep.
End Of Chapter 6
This is not the end of the story by the way. I'll make the plot thicker and make more exciting stuff happen. I would have written this sooner but I was on holiday in Canberra and I only came back on Monday, then my brothers were using the computer. Thank you to all the people who have reviewed:
Hjj, jetsog, netalie, dstrbd child, Kea Seastar, Danielle Ngo, Wezl, hana no tenshi, keizinathebrat, chibisakura, sakinusaragi, Cherry Blossomz Gurl, silverg3r, sylversuicune-88 and ________. Thank you all for reviewing and I hope that you will review again. Please review and remember that this is not the end of the story!!!!!!!!!!!!! And please e-mail me if you get confused at bob_in_a_box@hotmail.com. Thank you!!!!!