The Ressurection of Love
By; Dark Hooded Eriol the Magician
Legal Disclaimer: I don't own CCS because they are rightfully owned by CLAMP but i will quickly grab the chance of owning it if they will offer it to me.
Irasshai! I'm back with issue #3 of the Ressurection of Love!!! I'm so so sorry that it took me like, so long to put up! I got a very severe case of writer's block, I'm really sorry. Even if I did have only one review. (^_^) THANK YOU SO MUCH moon!!!! I love ya!!! I promise this part will have Sakura thinking about all those times she had with Tomoyo and.... Li!
Please read this chapter coz its a turning point in the series. Read it, please and drop me a line on your way out. Thankz a lot!!! ^_______^
Chapter III Lost in Your Eyes
Sakura Kinomoto went inside the house, looking rather worried about what she will cook tonight because it was her turn. Touya had left the house for work, that was evident considering the time, she had taken her time in walking home.
She slid off her shoes and pulled on her fluffy pink slippers then proceeded to the hall, thinking that she'd better change her clothes first before starting and pick at Kero awhile by asking his opinion.
Miso soup, sushi, teriyaki? What's the best thing to cook tonight? Sakura wondered as she started up the stairs, eyes on the steps. She didn't notice a man coming down the stairs, carrying a heavy box filled with papers. In an instant, they collided and Sakura instinctively clung to the rails and recovered from the fall. She looked up and realized that her father, Fujitaka Kinomoto, was also holding onto the box and was in danger of falling.
"Ottousan!"Sakura said and she hurried up and help him place the box on one of the steps. He looked at her through his glasses and his worried face broke into a huge smile.
"Arigato Sakura." Fujitaka said breathlessly. He sat down some steps below the box, looking at Sakura's worried face and into her emerald green eyes. He was reminded very much of Nadeshiko for a moment there. "Sorry. Did I..?"
Sakura shook her head and then helped her father up. "Daijobu desu ka, Ottousan?"
"Yes, I think so. I didn't see you there so I'm sorry,"Fujitaka said as he patted her head gingerly. She giggled and then she looked at the box and noticed the name of her mother written on top of the paper.
"Okaasan?"Sakura murmured as she picked it up and stared at it.
"Yes Sakura. These are the papers your mother wrote in her high school days. She wanted to compile it and make a diary of her childhood, that was before..." he said then trailed off uncomfortably. He didn't mind talking about it but he considered Sakura, she never really knew her mother because she had been three-years-old when Nadeshiko passed away. "I was planning to sort it out and stow it away in the basement..."
He didn't really expect a reaction far from the one he was used to.
"Ottousan? Can I read these?Onegaishimasu!" Sakura asked, looking straight at Fujitaka's eyes, determined.
Fujitaka gazed at those emerald green eyes and smiled. She had inherited Nadeshiko's sense of determination and curiousity. Sakura will love the darling experiences that Nadeshiko had like the time of her first modelling job, her ecstasy when she realized that she had ended up in the cover of her favorite magazine... Sakura will know her better in Nadeshiko's own words, and her own stories.
"Yes you can Sakura, these are Nadeshiko's treasures, you can read them. But after you finish with your homework." Fujitaka replied.
"Yatta! Arigato Ottousan!" Sakura said happily jumping and hugging Fujitaka. He smiled and helped her carry it back up to her room and then proceeded back to his study.
Sakura greeted Kero-chan hurriedly before going to her closet and changing out of her school uniform into a slighty oversized aqua shirt and jean shorts with her white socks keeping her feet warm. She retied her hair into two ponytails with little white ribbons.
Kero-chan was busy playing his favorite video games and did not mind if Sakura did not fill him in about school.
She was excited that her father had agreed to let her read her mother's life in a form of a diary. She heard various stories of her mother from her father and Touya but Sakura knew little about her mother because it was so vague and she remembered only the light laughter that sounded like silver bells tinkling and cooing.
Before Sakura knew it, she had breezed through her math, Japanese, and music homework. She eagerly packed up her things and went downstairs to start dinner.
"Oi! Kaijuu!" Touya called in his usual mocking tone as he walked in, dripping wet.
"Oniichan, doshita ano?"Sakura asked concernedly as she opened the closet and pulled out a fluffy blue towel. She hurried to him and then frowned a bit when she heard his reply.
"What does it look like Kaijuu? I caught rain on the way home. The shop closed a few hours early than usual so I went to Yukito's for a while. And here I am." Touya said gruffly as he dried himself with the towel, secretly looking at Sakura. She didn't seem the least bothered that he called her monster and explained everything away quickly.
"How come it rained? When I arrived home, it was sunny." Sakura said thoughtfully.
"Who cares? Weather change." Touya remarked as he took off his shoes and had the towel slung around his shoulders with his hair slightly glistening.
"I think it affected your temper too. Don't worry, I'll cook a warm soup for you." Sakura said as she went back to the kitchen, smiling eagerly leaving her big brother who was staring at her, bewildered.
Half an hour later, the Kinomoto family was seated around the table, eating and drinking contentedly while the rain fell softly. Fujitaka was asking them how was school, Touya was teasing Sakura now and then, and of course the littlest member of the family was glomping down numerous slices of cake that Touya had baked earlier (it contains some of the chocolates that had liquor in it that were regularly delivered to Fujitaka).
It was warm inside the kitchen with its bright light and the delicious smell of the soup floating around. Sakura felt that there was nothing more wonderful than to have her family around and there was a new feeling. It feels warm and wonderful to have inside her heart, kind of like the one she feels when she opened the Sakura Book the moment she woke up fom the capturing of the Nothing Card six days ago.
"Sakura, how's your first day of school? Any new friends?" Fujitaka asked.
Sakura shook her head. "None today but maybe tomorrow. The girls on the cheerleading club were nice but I don't know who will be like the others back in old school."
"Don't worry, I'm sure all of them will like you."Touya said quietly.
"Arigato Oniichan for your support."Sakura said smiling to him, her emerald green eyes sparkling.
"If anyone hurts you! I'll make sure...!"Keroberos said, he looked a little red and was wobbling.
Sakura smiled and cupped his mouth with an odd little laugh.
"You've had too much cake..."Sakura hissed.
"Liquor you mean."Touya muttered.
They both looked guiltily at their father who was looking rather confusedly.
Sakura laid Kero-chan down his bed at the drawer and covered him with the blanket. She pushed it out of view and switched her bedside lamp on then took up a couple of papers that looked like it was from a diary.
She had had her hot bath and felt warm and comfortable. She was wearing her pajamas, with little crescent moons at the soft blue fabric. She untied her hair and grabbed a brush from her headboard and began brushing her chin-length light brown hair.
She plumped up her pillows and laid down, holding on to the papers carefully. And so she began reading.
I felt my heart fluttering when I looked into his eyes. They were a warm shade of light brown and his smile... oh it was sweet. I sat across him, looking into his eyes. I have never felt anything like this before. It's wild and dizzying, like pipes were winding around my neck every time I see him in school. It's a new feeling I have never ever encountered.
Sonomi-chan's not very pleased that I'm in love with our new school teacher, Kinomoto-sensei. She says that he's much too old for me. I know I love my cousin but i don't care. I love Kinomoto-sensei like I love myself.
One day I will marry him, and we will have children, symbols of our love. If I have a daughter, I'll call her Sakura, just like I've always wanted, a dear darling daughter but if I have a son, Touya will do. I love to look at cherry blossoms and peach blossoms, and Kinomoto-sensei agrees with me that it was beautiful. Oh what am i thinking, it's much too early!
It's possible, someday. I will continue to love him even if my parents and Sonomi-chan disagrees. I know I'm just sixteen and still too young demo... Watashi... watashi wa daisuki ga Kinomoto-sensei desu...
Sakura stopped reading. She could almost see her mother's pale cheeks suffused with red. She could almost see her mother before her eyes, with her dark hair billowing around her and sparkling green eyes, smiling and giggling like a lovesick teenager.
Is that what love is? Sakura thought as her brows furrowed thoughtfully. She could vaguely remember the feeling like it was from a distant half-forgotten dream but Sakura could still feel other emotions, happiness, sadness, and anger but not love.
The Nothing Card succeeded in taking it from her, making her forget about the one she loved and see him as a friend. The feelings of long ago... forever forgotten.
But at least Sakura could still feel happiness. She still showers everyone with her happiness but never again will her love shine upon them.
She shook her head and continued to read what she had left, her concentration focused.
My family disagreed about my marriage to Kinomoto-sensei. They say I have to finish school but I'm already earning money from my modelling career and Kinomoto-sensei's earning is more than enough for the two of us. We're living in his house and we're very content.
I watch over the house while he's at work and cook for him though I cannot remember where is the university. He always comes to my rescue because he knows I'm lost.
I have written before that I do not know what I have felt for him the moment we looked into each other's souls. But now... I know what I felt when I first saw him... it's like destiny... like we were bound to see each other and were made for each other. When I first looked into his eyes... I knew this was it. My knees went weak when we stood up and he had to catch me, it's so romatic... like a dream.
I believe in destiny. The thread that binds people together, meaning their lives are somehow connected at the other. I believe in dreams. The passionate urging that brings people together and makes them go after what they want in life. I believe in life. The beauitful, hurtful fabric of fate that shows how people will live, with its ups and downs and its laughter and tears, with all its love and heartbreak. Lastly, I believe in love. The feeling that melts hearts and links people together meaning that they will stand strongly against obstacles because they believe in each other.
There is something that attracted Kinomoto-sensei to me. His eyes. It was warm and bright, like it was looking at me softly. Like he would never hurt me. I know Kinomoto-sensei will never hide his feelings from me, and he will not hurt me. I remember something when Sonomi-chan and I was very young, she told me one of the best characteristics of a man was his eyes then she made me promise to tell her what I want but she told me first that she wanted her future husband to have the most captivating eyes with a deep, magnetic stare that can melt her right then and there. Sonomi-chan wanted to finish college and revive the Amamiya company, she'll be president someday with her determination and perseverance and maybe she'll find true love, I'll always hope the best for her. And you know what I said to her? I said to her that I wanted my husband-to-be to have bright, clear eyes that will look at me lovingly.
Sonomi-chan also said that one of the most beautiful characteristics of a woman was to have wonderful eyes, like the first one. I didn't know why she wanted to talk about eyes all of a sudden but I remember one thing she said to me, "Nadeshiko-chan... you know what? You'll be a very beautiful woman. You have the prettiest eyes I have ever seen." And I'm very happy she said that, its rare times like that she says those things to me.
One of the things too that portray love was to say and do it.
'I love you' are the sweetest words that Kinomoto-sensei says it to me before we go to sleep at night. It means so much to me to hear him say those sweet three words. Sonomi-chan also said it to me when we were young, in fourth grade i think...
Sakura stopped reading and hid the papers under her pillow. It was ten o'clock already and she'd better go to sleep. She yawned and stretched her arms to relax and blinked. She wasn't that sleepy and was very awake to tell the truth.
She remembered something that Tomoyo had also said to her when they were in fifth grade.
"I like you Sakura-chan."
Was there a double meaning for Tomoyo's words? Sakura thought as she kneeled down on the rug and extracted a couple of video tapes from underneath the TV drawer. It had titles like "Tomoyo and Sakura, Best Friends" and "The Cherry Blossom Festival". These videos were given by Tomoyo for her last birthday, she had said that she wished that someday when Sakura is lonely she could watch these and remember the times they spent as best friends. It was the sweetest thing anyone could give her.
She popped the first video into the VCR and sat back as she watched the images flit to the screen. She had watched it in her birthday party with the others, mainly Yue, Keroberos, Syaoran, Touya, Eriol, Nakuru Akizuki, Spinel Sun, and of course, Tomoyo.
The scene the screen showed were nostalgic. It was the time when Tomoyo and Sakura were baking a cake with Keroberos, Tomoyo had even included background music (A/N its the 3rd ending song, Fruits Candy!). Sakura was pretty sure that Tomoyo's beautiful blue eyes always looked at hers when she wasn't looking, up until now she didn't even notice that.
She remembered well the time when Kero swiped at the icing and licked it afterwards and Tomoyo giving her the first slice. It was a marvelous feeling, like the one she had just felt today.
Sakura paused the VCR and took out the remote control. She went back to her bed and lay under the covers looking at the screen until finally she fell asleep.
The picture in the screen that Sakura had chosen to view before falling asleep was when Sakura had slept over. Sakura was kneeling behind Tomoyo and holding a thick lock of dark gray hair and a brush and looking straight into Tomoyo's eyes which was staring back. There were little sparkling twinkles in Sakura's eyes, and a light. A bright, shining light.
Syaoran was sitting at his windowsill, staring into the dark, starry night. The rain had gone and the bright silver moon rose in the sky with its entrouge of twinkling stars, shining over the rooftops and over Syaoran. He was surrounded by silence and darkness, the only source of light was the wiondow where he sat dressed only in his favorite green pajamas.
His brown eyes gazed at one particular star beside the moon. It was shining and sparkling as if saying 'Cheer up. I love you still'. The glittering jewel he could compare to Sakura who was like the star, a rare treasure.
Suddenly the room darkened and Syaoran quickly summoned his sword as he stood up and faced the darkest corner.
A shape started to materialize through the amorphous abyss. It twisted and writhed, rising inches from where it was. Syaoran approached it cautiously, curious and at the same time suspicious of the shadow.
"What are you? I command you to show yourself!" Syaoran said, holding his sword firmly directed at the shadows. His eyes widened considerably as he watched the blob finally collect itself into a surprisingly beautiful woman.
"Hey! You're the Nothing Card!"
"You are right, Li-sama."
Syaoran stared at the Card's true form. It was a woman, with long dark silk-like hair and glittering black eyes. She was beauitful but her powers were very dark, darker than night and worst was she used it for evil.
"I thought Sakura had captured you! Why are you still walking freely?" Syaoran demanded. The Nothing card walked coolly to where he stood and placed a slender hand to his forehead then the same mind-tearing pain seared through his body, stabbing and hurting. He knelt and held on to the sword for support as it ebbed away and he regained full consciousness.
The Nothing Card looked mildly amused. "Sharp as a sword, always. I'll answer your question, Li-sama. My mistress," she made a derisive noise "made a mistake. She did contain me in my Card form and wrote her name on it. But she forgot one important thing... she must seal me elsewhere and not back into the Sakura Book so hence I can get out whenever I felt like it."
"I have multiple powers, not only creating voids, I can control people too." Nothing said flippantly.
"You dirty cheating scum! Sakura has given her heart and love for you! She made that sacrifice for the world and you're saying that she has not achieved victory?" Syaoran yelled angrily.
"Oooh. I can sense hostility towards me. You're angry because Sakura can't love you back. You're so angry that you would kill me and that will make the other Cards rebel at their mistress." Nothing taunted, walking around Syaoran's rigid form and whispered in his ear "You wouldn't want to lose her next, won't you? Come on... tell me..."
"You still cheated her. Return her love." Syaoran said softly but firmly. He couldn't see the odd expression in the Nothing's eyes but he could feel her fingers brushing at his shoulder's length, her touch light and fleeting.
"Well enough Li-sama. Proud and brave warrior that you are." Nothing said and she returned in front of him. "I love deals. Let's see, you bend to my will and I'll return love back to the Cardmistress."
Syaoran looked at her then asked suspiciously, "Do it first."
"Clow Reed's stubborness has clearly rubbed off on you. But I shall do it in exchange of you." Nothing said and pulled his arm and walked right through the wall though they just passed through it and they were standing in Sakura's room. She was fast asleep in her bed, wrapped under the covers. Syaoran looked at her and thought it was worth it, anything for his love.
"Are you sure, Li-sama? You're about to sacrifice like she did."
Syaoran looked at her and then said, "I'm sure. Do it. Now."
The Nothing shrugged and walked over to where Sakura was sleeping. She pulled out of her sleeve a small, pink heart-shaped diamond sized crystal out of her left sleeve and glanced at him. She gestured for him to come near and then before his eyes, she untucked the covers and let sakura sleep on. She placed the crystal above her chest and slowly slid it back inside Sakura's soul. She placed the covers back and withdrew with Syaoran at tow.
"I did what I said I will. Now, come and I will do what iw ant with you." Nothing said simply and took his arm again, walking through the wall and back to his room in the apartment.
"Are you sure what you did was true because once I find out it was a hoax I promise I'm gonna tear you Card into confetti!"Syaoran threatened.
The Nothing smiled. "I never break promises. Now stand here and I will cast my spell unto you."
Syaoran did not complain and then the Nothing was casting its own magic upon him, her fingers sliding delicately around his smooth face.
"Love a dark haired lady, provoke the love within her life's flow. To cure the sickening malady, ressurect your true love's glow." ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Oh no!!! Syaoran gave his own life away! But Sakura's love is back! But will she really be okay? And what about the riddle? Tune in til next time and please R+R!!!
By; Dark Hooded Eriol the Magician
Legal Disclaimer: I don't own CCS because they are rightfully owned by CLAMP but i will quickly grab the chance of owning it if they will offer it to me.
Irasshai! I'm back with issue #3 of the Ressurection of Love!!! I'm so so sorry that it took me like, so long to put up! I got a very severe case of writer's block, I'm really sorry. Even if I did have only one review. (^_^) THANK YOU SO MUCH moon!!!! I love ya!!! I promise this part will have Sakura thinking about all those times she had with Tomoyo and.... Li!
Please read this chapter coz its a turning point in the series. Read it, please and drop me a line on your way out. Thankz a lot!!! ^_______^
Chapter III Lost in Your Eyes
Sakura Kinomoto went inside the house, looking rather worried about what she will cook tonight because it was her turn. Touya had left the house for work, that was evident considering the time, she had taken her time in walking home.
She slid off her shoes and pulled on her fluffy pink slippers then proceeded to the hall, thinking that she'd better change her clothes first before starting and pick at Kero awhile by asking his opinion.
Miso soup, sushi, teriyaki? What's the best thing to cook tonight? Sakura wondered as she started up the stairs, eyes on the steps. She didn't notice a man coming down the stairs, carrying a heavy box filled with papers. In an instant, they collided and Sakura instinctively clung to the rails and recovered from the fall. She looked up and realized that her father, Fujitaka Kinomoto, was also holding onto the box and was in danger of falling.
"Ottousan!"Sakura said and she hurried up and help him place the box on one of the steps. He looked at her through his glasses and his worried face broke into a huge smile.
"Arigato Sakura." Fujitaka said breathlessly. He sat down some steps below the box, looking at Sakura's worried face and into her emerald green eyes. He was reminded very much of Nadeshiko for a moment there. "Sorry. Did I..?"
Sakura shook her head and then helped her father up. "Daijobu desu ka, Ottousan?"
"Yes, I think so. I didn't see you there so I'm sorry,"Fujitaka said as he patted her head gingerly. She giggled and then she looked at the box and noticed the name of her mother written on top of the paper.
"Okaasan?"Sakura murmured as she picked it up and stared at it.
"Yes Sakura. These are the papers your mother wrote in her high school days. She wanted to compile it and make a diary of her childhood, that was before..." he said then trailed off uncomfortably. He didn't mind talking about it but he considered Sakura, she never really knew her mother because she had been three-years-old when Nadeshiko passed away. "I was planning to sort it out and stow it away in the basement..."
He didn't really expect a reaction far from the one he was used to.
"Ottousan? Can I read these?Onegaishimasu!" Sakura asked, looking straight at Fujitaka's eyes, determined.
Fujitaka gazed at those emerald green eyes and smiled. She had inherited Nadeshiko's sense of determination and curiousity. Sakura will love the darling experiences that Nadeshiko had like the time of her first modelling job, her ecstasy when she realized that she had ended up in the cover of her favorite magazine... Sakura will know her better in Nadeshiko's own words, and her own stories.
"Yes you can Sakura, these are Nadeshiko's treasures, you can read them. But after you finish with your homework." Fujitaka replied.
"Yatta! Arigato Ottousan!" Sakura said happily jumping and hugging Fujitaka. He smiled and helped her carry it back up to her room and then proceeded back to his study.
Sakura greeted Kero-chan hurriedly before going to her closet and changing out of her school uniform into a slighty oversized aqua shirt and jean shorts with her white socks keeping her feet warm. She retied her hair into two ponytails with little white ribbons.
Kero-chan was busy playing his favorite video games and did not mind if Sakura did not fill him in about school.
She was excited that her father had agreed to let her read her mother's life in a form of a diary. She heard various stories of her mother from her father and Touya but Sakura knew little about her mother because it was so vague and she remembered only the light laughter that sounded like silver bells tinkling and cooing.
Before Sakura knew it, she had breezed through her math, Japanese, and music homework. She eagerly packed up her things and went downstairs to start dinner.
"Oi! Kaijuu!" Touya called in his usual mocking tone as he walked in, dripping wet.
"Oniichan, doshita ano?"Sakura asked concernedly as she opened the closet and pulled out a fluffy blue towel. She hurried to him and then frowned a bit when she heard his reply.
"What does it look like Kaijuu? I caught rain on the way home. The shop closed a few hours early than usual so I went to Yukito's for a while. And here I am." Touya said gruffly as he dried himself with the towel, secretly looking at Sakura. She didn't seem the least bothered that he called her monster and explained everything away quickly.
"How come it rained? When I arrived home, it was sunny." Sakura said thoughtfully.
"Who cares? Weather change." Touya remarked as he took off his shoes and had the towel slung around his shoulders with his hair slightly glistening.
"I think it affected your temper too. Don't worry, I'll cook a warm soup for you." Sakura said as she went back to the kitchen, smiling eagerly leaving her big brother who was staring at her, bewildered.
Half an hour later, the Kinomoto family was seated around the table, eating and drinking contentedly while the rain fell softly. Fujitaka was asking them how was school, Touya was teasing Sakura now and then, and of course the littlest member of the family was glomping down numerous slices of cake that Touya had baked earlier (it contains some of the chocolates that had liquor in it that were regularly delivered to Fujitaka).
It was warm inside the kitchen with its bright light and the delicious smell of the soup floating around. Sakura felt that there was nothing more wonderful than to have her family around and there was a new feeling. It feels warm and wonderful to have inside her heart, kind of like the one she feels when she opened the Sakura Book the moment she woke up fom the capturing of the Nothing Card six days ago.
"Sakura, how's your first day of school? Any new friends?" Fujitaka asked.
Sakura shook her head. "None today but maybe tomorrow. The girls on the cheerleading club were nice but I don't know who will be like the others back in old school."
"Don't worry, I'm sure all of them will like you."Touya said quietly.
"Arigato Oniichan for your support."Sakura said smiling to him, her emerald green eyes sparkling.
"If anyone hurts you! I'll make sure...!"Keroberos said, he looked a little red and was wobbling.
Sakura smiled and cupped his mouth with an odd little laugh.
"You've had too much cake..."Sakura hissed.
"Liquor you mean."Touya muttered.
They both looked guiltily at their father who was looking rather confusedly.
Sakura laid Kero-chan down his bed at the drawer and covered him with the blanket. She pushed it out of view and switched her bedside lamp on then took up a couple of papers that looked like it was from a diary.
She had had her hot bath and felt warm and comfortable. She was wearing her pajamas, with little crescent moons at the soft blue fabric. She untied her hair and grabbed a brush from her headboard and began brushing her chin-length light brown hair.
She plumped up her pillows and laid down, holding on to the papers carefully. And so she began reading.
I felt my heart fluttering when I looked into his eyes. They were a warm shade of light brown and his smile... oh it was sweet. I sat across him, looking into his eyes. I have never felt anything like this before. It's wild and dizzying, like pipes were winding around my neck every time I see him in school. It's a new feeling I have never ever encountered.
Sonomi-chan's not very pleased that I'm in love with our new school teacher, Kinomoto-sensei. She says that he's much too old for me. I know I love my cousin but i don't care. I love Kinomoto-sensei like I love myself.
One day I will marry him, and we will have children, symbols of our love. If I have a daughter, I'll call her Sakura, just like I've always wanted, a dear darling daughter but if I have a son, Touya will do. I love to look at cherry blossoms and peach blossoms, and Kinomoto-sensei agrees with me that it was beautiful. Oh what am i thinking, it's much too early!
It's possible, someday. I will continue to love him even if my parents and Sonomi-chan disagrees. I know I'm just sixteen and still too young demo... Watashi... watashi wa daisuki ga Kinomoto-sensei desu...
Sakura stopped reading. She could almost see her mother's pale cheeks suffused with red. She could almost see her mother before her eyes, with her dark hair billowing around her and sparkling green eyes, smiling and giggling like a lovesick teenager.
Is that what love is? Sakura thought as her brows furrowed thoughtfully. She could vaguely remember the feeling like it was from a distant half-forgotten dream but Sakura could still feel other emotions, happiness, sadness, and anger but not love.
The Nothing Card succeeded in taking it from her, making her forget about the one she loved and see him as a friend. The feelings of long ago... forever forgotten.
But at least Sakura could still feel happiness. She still showers everyone with her happiness but never again will her love shine upon them.
She shook her head and continued to read what she had left, her concentration focused.
My family disagreed about my marriage to Kinomoto-sensei. They say I have to finish school but I'm already earning money from my modelling career and Kinomoto-sensei's earning is more than enough for the two of us. We're living in his house and we're very content.
I watch over the house while he's at work and cook for him though I cannot remember where is the university. He always comes to my rescue because he knows I'm lost.
I have written before that I do not know what I have felt for him the moment we looked into each other's souls. But now... I know what I felt when I first saw him... it's like destiny... like we were bound to see each other and were made for each other. When I first looked into his eyes... I knew this was it. My knees went weak when we stood up and he had to catch me, it's so romatic... like a dream.
I believe in destiny. The thread that binds people together, meaning their lives are somehow connected at the other. I believe in dreams. The passionate urging that brings people together and makes them go after what they want in life. I believe in life. The beauitful, hurtful fabric of fate that shows how people will live, with its ups and downs and its laughter and tears, with all its love and heartbreak. Lastly, I believe in love. The feeling that melts hearts and links people together meaning that they will stand strongly against obstacles because they believe in each other.
There is something that attracted Kinomoto-sensei to me. His eyes. It was warm and bright, like it was looking at me softly. Like he would never hurt me. I know Kinomoto-sensei will never hide his feelings from me, and he will not hurt me. I remember something when Sonomi-chan and I was very young, she told me one of the best characteristics of a man was his eyes then she made me promise to tell her what I want but she told me first that she wanted her future husband to have the most captivating eyes with a deep, magnetic stare that can melt her right then and there. Sonomi-chan wanted to finish college and revive the Amamiya company, she'll be president someday with her determination and perseverance and maybe she'll find true love, I'll always hope the best for her. And you know what I said to her? I said to her that I wanted my husband-to-be to have bright, clear eyes that will look at me lovingly.
Sonomi-chan also said that one of the most beautiful characteristics of a woman was to have wonderful eyes, like the first one. I didn't know why she wanted to talk about eyes all of a sudden but I remember one thing she said to me, "Nadeshiko-chan... you know what? You'll be a very beautiful woman. You have the prettiest eyes I have ever seen." And I'm very happy she said that, its rare times like that she says those things to me.
One of the things too that portray love was to say and do it.
'I love you' are the sweetest words that Kinomoto-sensei says it to me before we go to sleep at night. It means so much to me to hear him say those sweet three words. Sonomi-chan also said it to me when we were young, in fourth grade i think...
Sakura stopped reading and hid the papers under her pillow. It was ten o'clock already and she'd better go to sleep. She yawned and stretched her arms to relax and blinked. She wasn't that sleepy and was very awake to tell the truth.
She remembered something that Tomoyo had also said to her when they were in fifth grade.
"I like you Sakura-chan."
Was there a double meaning for Tomoyo's words? Sakura thought as she kneeled down on the rug and extracted a couple of video tapes from underneath the TV drawer. It had titles like "Tomoyo and Sakura, Best Friends" and "The Cherry Blossom Festival". These videos were given by Tomoyo for her last birthday, she had said that she wished that someday when Sakura is lonely she could watch these and remember the times they spent as best friends. It was the sweetest thing anyone could give her.
She popped the first video into the VCR and sat back as she watched the images flit to the screen. She had watched it in her birthday party with the others, mainly Yue, Keroberos, Syaoran, Touya, Eriol, Nakuru Akizuki, Spinel Sun, and of course, Tomoyo.
The scene the screen showed were nostalgic. It was the time when Tomoyo and Sakura were baking a cake with Keroberos, Tomoyo had even included background music (A/N its the 3rd ending song, Fruits Candy!). Sakura was pretty sure that Tomoyo's beautiful blue eyes always looked at hers when she wasn't looking, up until now she didn't even notice that.
She remembered well the time when Kero swiped at the icing and licked it afterwards and Tomoyo giving her the first slice. It was a marvelous feeling, like the one she had just felt today.
Sakura paused the VCR and took out the remote control. She went back to her bed and lay under the covers looking at the screen until finally she fell asleep.
The picture in the screen that Sakura had chosen to view before falling asleep was when Sakura had slept over. Sakura was kneeling behind Tomoyo and holding a thick lock of dark gray hair and a brush and looking straight into Tomoyo's eyes which was staring back. There were little sparkling twinkles in Sakura's eyes, and a light. A bright, shining light.
Syaoran was sitting at his windowsill, staring into the dark, starry night. The rain had gone and the bright silver moon rose in the sky with its entrouge of twinkling stars, shining over the rooftops and over Syaoran. He was surrounded by silence and darkness, the only source of light was the wiondow where he sat dressed only in his favorite green pajamas.
His brown eyes gazed at one particular star beside the moon. It was shining and sparkling as if saying 'Cheer up. I love you still'. The glittering jewel he could compare to Sakura who was like the star, a rare treasure.
Suddenly the room darkened and Syaoran quickly summoned his sword as he stood up and faced the darkest corner.
A shape started to materialize through the amorphous abyss. It twisted and writhed, rising inches from where it was. Syaoran approached it cautiously, curious and at the same time suspicious of the shadow.
"What are you? I command you to show yourself!" Syaoran said, holding his sword firmly directed at the shadows. His eyes widened considerably as he watched the blob finally collect itself into a surprisingly beautiful woman.
"Hey! You're the Nothing Card!"
"You are right, Li-sama."
Syaoran stared at the Card's true form. It was a woman, with long dark silk-like hair and glittering black eyes. She was beauitful but her powers were very dark, darker than night and worst was she used it for evil.
"I thought Sakura had captured you! Why are you still walking freely?" Syaoran demanded. The Nothing card walked coolly to where he stood and placed a slender hand to his forehead then the same mind-tearing pain seared through his body, stabbing and hurting. He knelt and held on to the sword for support as it ebbed away and he regained full consciousness.
The Nothing Card looked mildly amused. "Sharp as a sword, always. I'll answer your question, Li-sama. My mistress," she made a derisive noise "made a mistake. She did contain me in my Card form and wrote her name on it. But she forgot one important thing... she must seal me elsewhere and not back into the Sakura Book so hence I can get out whenever I felt like it."
"I have multiple powers, not only creating voids, I can control people too." Nothing said flippantly.
"You dirty cheating scum! Sakura has given her heart and love for you! She made that sacrifice for the world and you're saying that she has not achieved victory?" Syaoran yelled angrily.
"Oooh. I can sense hostility towards me. You're angry because Sakura can't love you back. You're so angry that you would kill me and that will make the other Cards rebel at their mistress." Nothing taunted, walking around Syaoran's rigid form and whispered in his ear "You wouldn't want to lose her next, won't you? Come on... tell me..."
"You still cheated her. Return her love." Syaoran said softly but firmly. He couldn't see the odd expression in the Nothing's eyes but he could feel her fingers brushing at his shoulder's length, her touch light and fleeting.
"Well enough Li-sama. Proud and brave warrior that you are." Nothing said and she returned in front of him. "I love deals. Let's see, you bend to my will and I'll return love back to the Cardmistress."
Syaoran looked at her then asked suspiciously, "Do it first."
"Clow Reed's stubborness has clearly rubbed off on you. But I shall do it in exchange of you." Nothing said and pulled his arm and walked right through the wall though they just passed through it and they were standing in Sakura's room. She was fast asleep in her bed, wrapped under the covers. Syaoran looked at her and thought it was worth it, anything for his love.
"Are you sure, Li-sama? You're about to sacrifice like she did."
Syaoran looked at her and then said, "I'm sure. Do it. Now."
The Nothing shrugged and walked over to where Sakura was sleeping. She pulled out of her sleeve a small, pink heart-shaped diamond sized crystal out of her left sleeve and glanced at him. She gestured for him to come near and then before his eyes, she untucked the covers and let sakura sleep on. She placed the crystal above her chest and slowly slid it back inside Sakura's soul. She placed the covers back and withdrew with Syaoran at tow.
"I did what I said I will. Now, come and I will do what iw ant with you." Nothing said simply and took his arm again, walking through the wall and back to his room in the apartment.
"Are you sure what you did was true because once I find out it was a hoax I promise I'm gonna tear you Card into confetti!"Syaoran threatened.
The Nothing smiled. "I never break promises. Now stand here and I will cast my spell unto you."
Syaoran did not complain and then the Nothing was casting its own magic upon him, her fingers sliding delicately around his smooth face.
"Love a dark haired lady, provoke the love within her life's flow. To cure the sickening malady, ressurect your true love's glow." ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Oh no!!! Syaoran gave his own life away! But Sakura's love is back! But will she really be okay? And what about the riddle? Tune in til next time and please R+R!!!
