Here is the prologue for this new story of mine. For those of you who want to know what the title means, it translates to "Woman of the Moonlight". This is my first try at a S+Y fic, so please go easy on me...

Summary: With the waning moon, the woman's hopes fade. Her angel hasn't appeared in ten years. It looks as if he isn't going to return. [S+Y, Sakura/Yue] PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!!!

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"He kura kainga e hokia, he kura tangata ekore e hokia."

~~Maori proverb

"You may return home to a treasured home, but not to a treasured person."

~~Translation

"They may be gone before you get a chance to see them again."

~~Meaning

Wahine O Te Atarau

Prologue:

Written by: Sentori

You're going to return... aren't you? I've seen sitting here for ages, just watching the waning moon and you've never returned. You promised me, you promised. It isn't right, it isn't going to happen. You are going to return, and if you don't, life won't be the same without you. I can still remember the first day we met. It was the Judgement and you were judging me for the right of the Mistress. I knew from the first time I saw you that it would be something different. I only wanted to be your friend, not your enemy and for those aching minutes, that's what I became... your enemy. I ran, I couldn't bear to hurt you. If something had happened and I had ended up severely hurting you, I couldn't have lived with it; I would never have forgiven myself. That night, I showed you that we could be friends, even though I ended up becoming your mistress, and even then, I asked to be your friend.

That look of bewilderment on your face was priceless. I had never seen anything like it before. It was as if you didn't know what having a friend was all about. You helped me see the truth. I could never have transformed Light and Dark without the help of you, Kero-chan and Syaoran. You all helped. There's nothing that I can do to repay you for that. All I can do is hope that I can do the same for you someday, actually help you. I haven't been doing that much lately because I have no idea where you are. If I only knew, then I would help, but right now, that seems pretty much near impossible. I wish I could help, I really do.

It was a bright night. The stars were twinkling overhead, looking like a scattering of small pinpricks of light in the big black blanket of the night sky. A woman of twenty-three sat on the roof of a house, staring at the glowing crescent moon. Her face is a picture of sadness and longing, as each night, she wished that her angel will return to her, but so far, that has not happened and she keeps watching every night.

Her knees are pulled up to her chest, her arms wrapped around her legs and her head rested on her knees.

I sit here every night, awaiting your return and every night, that same departure runs through my head and I ponder what went wrong.

"Where are you going?!" the woman cried.

I wish you hadn't went, and then those words that you said run through my head over and over and I wonder what you meant by them.

"I'm going where I am needed. Here, I am not needed. When I am needed truly, I shall return."

"I need you here!" she cried.

"No, you don't," and he looked down on her with a small smile.

What did you mean by that? I still think about it every night. It's been ten years, what's it going to be? The wilderness... or me?

A tear trailed down the woman's cheek and she let it flow down. Dripping from the edge of her chin onto the roof, it flowed down the rafters and into the ground. With that tear, went the woman's hope.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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And that's the end of the prologue. Next chapter's going to be out soon.

Please REVIEW!!!!!!

~~Sentori