Wish
Hey hey!! I'm here again! (Everybody lets out an annoyed sigh) Thanks for liking the 2nd chappie so much!! *cries* Pink Cherry Blossom: Yes, the bells are from Sabriel; THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN!!! I LOVE IT MORE THAN HARRY POTTER!!! (Sorry, folks, I got tired of waiting for the 5th book)
This chappie is dedicated to the most awesome person ever, DreamerDust!! She STILL insists that my story is better than hers. (But we all know that hers is a LOT better.) According to me, she's absolutley nuts for thinking that. (Am I right, folks?)
Chapter 3: Protector
Things were suprisingly a lot easier between Sakura and Syaoran after he threw her off the pier. They actually talked to each other at mealtimes, and it wasn't about magic, either. They didn't sleep at the edges of their small tent anymore, and Syaoran was starting to consider Sakura as a friend. Hey, girls aren't that bad, right?
For about 2 days they trained the minor magics under fire; light and warmth.
There were about to start another day of training, when Syaoran told Sakura what magic they were going to train today,
"Today we're going to train wind." Sakura started eagerly flipping the pages of her diary, "It's another higher element card, beside fire, so-"
"Okay! Let's do this! *Has-*" interrupted a very cheerful Sakura, but Syaoran impatiently coughed and interupted the interupter,
"As I was saying," he paused to throw Sakura a glare, "Wind is a very clever card and likes to play games before it obeys to its master. I guess that is it's way of testing you-" Syaoran was yet again interrupted by Sakura,
"Okay!! Can we start!!" she whined, while jumping from foot to foot like she was on hot coals. Syaoran had enough of this, she totally went over the edge on his extremely short patience, making his ears and nose start steaming like a teapot.
"SHUT UP!! LET ME TALK, DAMMIT!!" Sakura slowly nodded while she cowered against a tree, Syaoran dusted off his hands, and spoke again, "Now be extra careful and think before you act." Syaoran paused for a moment and looked down to the ground to hide his slight blush, "You can get hurt if you're not careful." Sakura looked up at Syaoran, eyes shining,
"Okay. Thank you for warning me, Li-kun." Syaoran starting scratching the back his head, anime style, and formed a deep blush and a sweatdrop.
"Uh.. um.. it's my duty, ya know, as your trainer." There was an uncomfortable silence until Syaoran broke it, "Well, you can say the spell now!" Sakura smiled uneasily and said,
"Okay." Sakura closed her eyes and sung, "*Hash ni hora ku ne.*" Sakura felt wind wrap around her; inspecting her? Then she felt wind leave her and head out in front of her, where she could see a face forming out of thin air. It wasn't like a skin and flesh face, but a transpartent, ghost-like face. Sakura decided to test it.
"Blow up some dust," ordered Sakura. Wind did blow up some dust, a lot of dust; in her face. It also starting blowing so hard that they had to yell to even hear themselves speak.
"Kinomoto-san, you're going to have to weaken it. If it accepts you, it will go back inside of you," yelled Syaoran, fighting the terror on his face.
"But I only have fire, light, and warmth!!" yelled back Sakura, not bothering to hide her terror of the fierce wind magic. Unfortuatley, wind didn't like Syaoran's words of advise, and blew him up in the air and hard against the tree, knocking him unconsious. Sakura ran to Syaoran's side and lifted his bleeding head on to her lap.
'I've got to use fire, it's my only card that can attack!" Sakura looked worriedly at the bleeding head on her lap. 'I've got to get Syaoran back to camp!' Fire didn't need to be called this time; it had felt her words of distress.
Soon, fire and wind were having a duel. Fire had also formed it's face and a little body; along with wind. The duel didn't last that long, only for a few minutes, because fire had wrapped itself around wind, until it's 'body' was limp. Wind was laid out neatly on the dirt ground by fire before fire disappeared. Sakura looked at wind's little body out on the ground.
Soon, wind opened its eyes and winked at Sakura; which caused Sakura to flinch in suprise. Threads came out of wind and into Sakura's chest before it was gone.
*** Syaoran woke up with a splitting headache and a pleasant warmth of Sakura's magic within him. 'Ouch. What happened?' Then he remembered being blown against a tree. 'Dammit, wind, did you really have to give me such a fucking headache?' He suddenly remembered Sakura. 'Is she alright? Dear God, I hope she is.'
Syaoran quickly and painstakingly got up to find himself in the tent. He unzipped the zipper that was the borderline between him and the outside world. All the tense in his shoulders realised as he saw Sakura sitting next to a campfire peacefully gazing at the stars.
"Did you just go swimming, Kinomoto-san?" Sakura quickly turned around, wide-mouthed. Then when she saw Syaoran, her mouth grew in to a smile.
"Oh! Li-kun, I'm glad you're awake. Does your head still hurt?" Syaoran touched his head, and felt the bandage that wrapped around his head.
"No." lied Syaoran. His head actually hurt like hell, but he didn't want to worry Sakura. Sakura looked down at the ground, then at Syaoran.
"Well, I got you some food, it's warming up next to the fire." Sakura nodded her head toward the food. Syaoran scootched over to his food across from Sakura. There was an orange, warm chicken dumplings, steamed vegetables, a biscuit, and tea that Sakura must've made herself, laid out on the tray.
Syaoran immediatly starting wolfing down his food, silencing the rumbles in his stomach. After awhile, he took a breath and a glance at Sakura. Her head hung, and she was looking at the ground. Syaoran's heart dropped to his stomach at the sight of her.
"Are you okay, Kinomoto-san?" said Syaoran, concerned. Sakura kept looking at the dirt before her.
"I feel bad."
"Are you sick?"
"No, not that kind of bad."
"Then why do you feel bad?"
"Because I made you get hurt." The color drained out of Syaoran's face. She was worried about him?
"No, you didn't. It wasn't anyone's fault." said Syaoran, reasuringly. Sakura shook her head.
"No, if it wasn't for me, you would've been here, safe. You should just go home before you get hurt anymore." Syaoran couldn't believe his ears. Him? Go home? Not possible. Syaoran took Sakura's hand that was laying lazily on her lap.
"Kinomoto-san, it was my fault if it was anyone's. It wasn't you who chose your gift. It wasn't anyone, in fact." Syaoran smiled as Sakura lifted her head and looked at him, "You were very brave when you faced wind. Don't ever give up." Sakura looked at him for a moment, then leaned over and gave him a hug.
"You can call me Sakura, okay?" Sakura whispered in his ear. Syaoran let go of her, then started to bow at her comically at her feet,
"Oh great Kinomoto-sama, what an honor you have given me to let me call you by 'Sakura.' My ancestors, desendants, and I will praise you forevermore." Sakura giggled, then slapped Syaoran on the arm and said,
"Then you can throw away your trash, put out the fire, do my laundry, and get me breakfast in the morning." Syaoran put his hand over his bandage,
"But I am disabled, Kinomoto-sama."
"No your not!!" Syaoran smirked,
"But you forget that I can still throw you in the lake." Sakura sighed, defeated.
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Syaoran woke up in the middle of the night to a pencil softly scratching on a piece of paper and dim candlelight. Syaoran slowly woke up; squinting his eyes to the light. When he fully opened his eyes, he saw Sakura writing in a notebook.
"Sakura, why are you up at such an hour?" Sakura flinched and turned to Syaoran,
"Oh, Syaoran. I'm writing a diary for all my grandchildren." Syaoran looked at her with intrest.
"How strange. So, you plan on having grandchildren?" Syaoran bit his lip. He didn't really know what possessed him to ask that question. Sakura looked at him stragely and replied,
"Yes. What girl doesn't. It has been my dream ever since I was young." Syaoran looked down at the ground and spoke again,
"I have to get married no matter what. My mother said that if I didn't get a bride by 18, I'll have to get married to my cousin Mei Ling." Sakura looked at him quizzically,
"Really? That totally bites. Why?"
"They have to get a heir to the Li Clan. I'm not going to be here forever." Sakura also looked down at the ground,
"Oh." There was a moment of uncomfortable silence before Syaoran spoke again,
"I'm going back to sleep, good night Kinomoto-san." Sakura sighed, and said,
"Yeah, me too." Sakura willed the dim light to go out and laid down on her sleeping bag.
Sakura had a dream of a faceless groom with messy brown hair.
Syaoran had a dream of a mysterious bride with emerald eyes.
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Sakura and Syaoran dealt and 'captured' with 'cool', the only underling of wind the day after they caught wind. It was now 2 days since they had the will of wind. Syaoran woke up Sakura at an extra early hour.
"Sakura, wake up," he said gently shaking Sakura. Sakura remained asleep, but murmured,
"Ughn... too early..." Syaoran persisted shaking Sakura and said,
"I know. We have a long day ahead of us." Syaoran emphasized the word 'long.' Sakura pressed her face against her pillow,
"What?"
"Today we have to get water." he said, reluctantly.
"Go to the well and get it yourself," said Sakura, tiredly. Syaoran sighed,
"No, we have to get the magic water." She groaned. She had been told from Syaoran that water was a very difficult and tempramental magic. Neither of them had been looking forward to this day.
"Nooo..."
"Yes." Sakura finally got up and rubbed her eyes. Syaoran place some hot food in front of her, "Eat fast, please. I want to get started as soon as possible." Sakura sighed and dug in. This was going to be a very... interesting day.
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They had finally come to the spot where they performed the magic. This time Syaoran pulled out more bells than usual. This time he brought out six instead of two. They stood there for a moment, silently regretting they ever came there, until Syaoran spoke,
"Go on, call it out." Sakura hesitated and sang out,
"*Hoy no karaumi jisohoru.*" Sakura waited. Nothing happened.
"So, this is it?" asked Sakura with a bewildered look. Syaoran looked at her with disapproval.
"It's coming. It'll take awhile for it to come from the lake." Sakura rested her finger on her chin. 'I should've known. It's water, of course it would have to come from the lake. I wasn't brought to a place with a mountain, a lake, a huge forest, and wide open spaces. I hope it takes it's time getting up this mountain, I'm scared!'
Soon, there was a distant 'whooshing' sound. Sakura and Syaoran stood ridgid. As it got louder and louder Syaoran pulled out his sword and tightly gripped his bells. Sakura just gripped the end of her sleeve as all the spells washed away like a rushing river.
Sakura saw a rush of water turn around as if it hit a imaginary wall and head straight toward her. Fear gripped her and held her to the ground. She felt a invisible hand shut her mouth as she tried to scream. She couldn't even pinch herself to see if it was a dream she was so scared. She wished more than ever she was here with her father to protect her, but she silenced that thought, 'I have Li to protect me.' Her eyes inched over to Li's spot to see him in a ready postition, even though he didn't know what to do either.
Water rushed on without stopping. It soon reached where Syaoran and Sakura were and rushed on even faster. As water sped up, a shape toward the front of the river began to form, like dirt being washed off with immense amounts of wind a water. The shape turned out to be a small woman. Her hair and feet seemed to blend in with the stream behind her. Her eyebrows were furled with anger, and she was biting her lip hard; struggling to keep up with the speed she was at.
The water lady stopped abruptly floating in mid-air, but the river behind her didn't. Sakura and Syaoran were soon in the river, the breath being swept out of them by the suddeness. After the river washed away, Sakura and Syaoran were 150 feet away from the water lady, catching their breaths, when she came after them so fast that she was just a streak of blue flying though the air.
Syaoran ran to Sakura and stood in front of her holding his sword with the tip pointing deathly outwards. Before they could even blink water was a centmeter in front of the sword. She grinned and threw Syaoran's sword against the tree with amazing strength. Syaoran just stood there with his mouth open. Sakura carefully shut his mouth by putting her hand under his chin and pushing it up.
"HELLO!!!" Syaoran shook his head and gripped his bells impossibly tighter. Somehow they didn't get washed away from Syaoran.
"Sakura, try tiring it out." Sakura just stood there looking at him like he was nuts. He just gave her a desperate look toward water, who was getting angry and folded her arms across her chest. Water gave her an angry glare and came at her. Sakura immediatly pounced out of the way.
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Five minutes had past and all Sakura was getting was a cramp in her side from running and pouncing. Water still didn't show any signs of tiring.
"Syaoran! *pounce* Water is not *dash* tiring *jump* out!! I can't *duck* do this *slide* anymore!" Syaoran thought quickly. He looked around him for an idea, then one popped into his mind.
"Sakura!! Head up the mountain!!" Sakura raised her eyebrow at him, but started dashing, pouncing, and jumping up the mountain.
Sakura's foot found a rock on the way, and she fell over. Water took this time to speed up, and almost came near her.
Syaoran ran over to Sakura's side and tried to help her up, but water shoved him away. Syaoran coved his eyes expecting the worse
As water rose up her arm into a fist aiming for Sakura's temple, her fist was trembling with the power that was held in it. Sakura practically screamed and sung out the words,
"*HIKARU NO HOSHI!!!*" A bright light shined in water's eyes, and she covered her eyes, not seeing Sakura and Syaoran scramble up on to their feet and run away while they had the chance. ***********************************************************************
It was starting to get cold as she went up the mountain. Water finally showed signs of slowing down. Sakura could find time to actually take short breath and her stamina rose because of it.
Sakura continued to go up the mountain at a faster rate. Once her foot found the first patch of snow, water finally bent over on her knees, gasping for air. Syaroan quickly rang two of his bells at the same time, Saraneth the Binder and Ranna the Sleepbringer. A brilliant sound came out of both of them, a sweet sound of a deep bellowing wrapping around the twinkling sound of Ranna. A transparent rope came out of the air and was coming toward water. Water seemed to take no notice of the rope tightly binding her and putting her to sleep. In fact, she WELCOMED it.
Sakura quickly sung the spell for wind and it came out in a whirl of snow and headed toward water with awesome speed, result of the anger from water putting Sakura's life in danger.
Water was quickly lost in the hurricane of snowflakes before it was revealed frozen with a somewhat peaceful look on its face. Sakura fell to the ground and breathed heavily.
"Its finally over." Syaoran also cafefully set the bells on the ground and sat beside Sakura. He nodded in agreement, even though he only had it half as bad as Sakura. They didn't know how much they were wrong. Sakura's head snapped up as she heard the sound of ice cracking to see a million pieces floating in the air. Sakura looked in horror as the ice crystals headed straight toward her and into her body. She lurched in pain everytime one came into her body. Syaoran just held her close to him and tenderly wiping sweat and silent tears from her face to try to help. Sakura leaned into him and rested her head on his chest to try and ignore the blinding pain. Syaoran held her closer everytime she lurched.
Ten minutes later the last ice crystal worked itself into Sakura's body, but not without leaving a wound in Sakura's arm. Sakura just laughed and said, "Revenge." The wound was only a tickle compared to the pain she had felt earlier. Syaoran immediatley ripped off a sleeve that was alrealy torn at the hem by brances from the race up the mountain. He tied it around her wound and the blood claimed the sleeve as well as the rest of her arm.
Sakura looked up at Syaoran and gave him a pretty smile,
"Syaoran?" Syaoran looked down at her pale, sweaty, tired face and winced. Her eyes had bags under them, they were also bloodshot and bleary from crying.
"Hai, Kinomoto-san?" Sakura smiled wider,
"Will you carry me back?" Syaoran had to laugh at her innocence.
"Sure." Syaoran said, although something in the back of his mind wanted to say, 'Gladly.' He quickly stuffed the bells in his pockets with their silencers on getting ready to pick her up. Sakura lifted her arms up in search for Syaorans neck while his strong arms reached under her back and "leg pits" and scooped her up. Only two minutes after he had scooped her up, Sakura was fast asleep and nuzzled her head against his chest. Syaoran immediatly blushed and thought,
'Sakura, you're too cute for your own good.'
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Sakura woke up all sweaty from a horrible nightmare. Water killed Syaoran and left her all alone to die by herself. Her worst fear was being alone. She shook her head violently trying to get the image of Syaoran lying in a pool of his own blood with a red stained ice crystal stuck in his chest near to his heart. Sakura didn't realize she was racking with sobs and shaking from her tears, and that Syaoran was watching her. Syaoran had been watching her sleep all night. He was trying to read his book, but he couldn't help but worry about Sakura as she cried, and squirmed in her sleep, occasionally crying 'Syaoran,' or 'no, no, no,' in her sleep. Syaoran had tried to comfort her, but it only made her distress even worse.
"You shouldn't be putting pressure on your arm Sakura." She bit her lip as the pain rushed to her arm.
"Syaoran, I'm going on a walk to clear my mind." Actually it was to clear her mind of the nightmare. Syaoran touched her unwounded arm stopping her from getting up.
"You shouldn't go. Not in your state." Sakura put out her lower lip and pouted. Syaoran chuckled.
"Okay, okay. BE CAREFUL! Do you want me to come with you?" Sakura laughed.
"No thanks, I'm a big girl now." Syaoran smiled weakly.
"Okay." he said as she walked out of the tent. When he was out of eye shot, he gave her a worried glance.
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Sakura had been walking in the forest for five minutes, taking in the fresh air and the atmosphere around her.
"What pretty stars." she said as she looked up at the midnight sky. She never really got to see a sky full of stars since she lived near the big city. "It's so quiet." In the back of her mind, Sakura was wishing that Syaoran was there with her.
She stopped to rub her arms; it was more chilly than she thought it would be. She looked ahead and saw a faint light standing out in the darkness. She stopped and thought for a moment whether or not she should check it out. Curiousity overtook her fear and she continued to walking ahead in the icy darkness.
She stopped when she got to the source of the light; a mirror. Sakura wondered to herself how the mirrow was emitting such a light. Sakura looked into the mirror.
"How pretty..." she thought aloud when she saw all the elaborate designs chisled into the mirror. She ran her hand across the glass admiring how it shined. As her fingers left the mirror, it started to glow so brightly Sakura had to cover her eyes. As the glow died down she carefully let her hand down to reveal a woman as she spoke one word,
"Sakura..." Sakura immediatly sent the mirror to the ground and ran for her life to find Syaoran.
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Syaoran tore himself away from the book he was reading because he heard a scream rise from the forest. Only one word ran through his mind,
'Sakura!' Syaoran scrambled from the tent almost tripping and ran toward the forest where he saw Sakura running toward him. He caught Sakura and gripped her wrists as she tried to regain her composture. He looked down worriedly at Sakura who was trying to speak,
"I saw, I-I saw, I-" Syaoran shook her desperately.
"Sakura, what did you see?" Sakura sniffed, wiped her tears and said,
"M-my mother."
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Chapter 3: Protector
Things were suprisingly a lot easier between Sakura and Syaoran after he threw her off the pier. They actually talked to each other at mealtimes, and it wasn't about magic, either. They didn't sleep at the edges of their small tent anymore, and Syaoran was starting to consider Sakura as a friend. Hey, girls aren't that bad, right?
For about 2 days they trained the minor magics under fire; light and warmth.
There were about to start another day of training, when Syaoran told Sakura what magic they were going to train today,
"Today we're going to train wind." Sakura started eagerly flipping the pages of her diary, "It's another higher element card, beside fire, so-"
"Okay! Let's do this! *Has-*" interrupted a very cheerful Sakura, but Syaoran impatiently coughed and interupted the interupter,
"As I was saying," he paused to throw Sakura a glare, "Wind is a very clever card and likes to play games before it obeys to its master. I guess that is it's way of testing you-" Syaoran was yet again interrupted by Sakura,
"Okay!! Can we start!!" she whined, while jumping from foot to foot like she was on hot coals. Syaoran had enough of this, she totally went over the edge on his extremely short patience, making his ears and nose start steaming like a teapot.
"SHUT UP!! LET ME TALK, DAMMIT!!" Sakura slowly nodded while she cowered against a tree, Syaoran dusted off his hands, and spoke again, "Now be extra careful and think before you act." Syaoran paused for a moment and looked down to the ground to hide his slight blush, "You can get hurt if you're not careful." Sakura looked up at Syaoran, eyes shining,
"Okay. Thank you for warning me, Li-kun." Syaoran starting scratching the back his head, anime style, and formed a deep blush and a sweatdrop.
"Uh.. um.. it's my duty, ya know, as your trainer." There was an uncomfortable silence until Syaoran broke it, "Well, you can say the spell now!" Sakura smiled uneasily and said,
"Okay." Sakura closed her eyes and sung, "*Hash ni hora ku ne.*" Sakura felt wind wrap around her; inspecting her? Then she felt wind leave her and head out in front of her, where she could see a face forming out of thin air. It wasn't like a skin and flesh face, but a transpartent, ghost-like face. Sakura decided to test it.
"Blow up some dust," ordered Sakura. Wind did blow up some dust, a lot of dust; in her face. It also starting blowing so hard that they had to yell to even hear themselves speak.
"Kinomoto-san, you're going to have to weaken it. If it accepts you, it will go back inside of you," yelled Syaoran, fighting the terror on his face.
"But I only have fire, light, and warmth!!" yelled back Sakura, not bothering to hide her terror of the fierce wind magic. Unfortuatley, wind didn't like Syaoran's words of advise, and blew him up in the air and hard against the tree, knocking him unconsious. Sakura ran to Syaoran's side and lifted his bleeding head on to her lap.
'I've got to use fire, it's my only card that can attack!" Sakura looked worriedly at the bleeding head on her lap. 'I've got to get Syaoran back to camp!' Fire didn't need to be called this time; it had felt her words of distress.
Soon, fire and wind were having a duel. Fire had also formed it's face and a little body; along with wind. The duel didn't last that long, only for a few minutes, because fire had wrapped itself around wind, until it's 'body' was limp. Wind was laid out neatly on the dirt ground by fire before fire disappeared. Sakura looked at wind's little body out on the ground.
Soon, wind opened its eyes and winked at Sakura; which caused Sakura to flinch in suprise. Threads came out of wind and into Sakura's chest before it was gone.
*** Syaoran woke up with a splitting headache and a pleasant warmth of Sakura's magic within him. 'Ouch. What happened?' Then he remembered being blown against a tree. 'Dammit, wind, did you really have to give me such a fucking headache?' He suddenly remembered Sakura. 'Is she alright? Dear God, I hope she is.'
Syaoran quickly and painstakingly got up to find himself in the tent. He unzipped the zipper that was the borderline between him and the outside world. All the tense in his shoulders realised as he saw Sakura sitting next to a campfire peacefully gazing at the stars.
"Did you just go swimming, Kinomoto-san?" Sakura quickly turned around, wide-mouthed. Then when she saw Syaoran, her mouth grew in to a smile.
"Oh! Li-kun, I'm glad you're awake. Does your head still hurt?" Syaoran touched his head, and felt the bandage that wrapped around his head.
"No." lied Syaoran. His head actually hurt like hell, but he didn't want to worry Sakura. Sakura looked down at the ground, then at Syaoran.
"Well, I got you some food, it's warming up next to the fire." Sakura nodded her head toward the food. Syaoran scootched over to his food across from Sakura. There was an orange, warm chicken dumplings, steamed vegetables, a biscuit, and tea that Sakura must've made herself, laid out on the tray.
Syaoran immediatly starting wolfing down his food, silencing the rumbles in his stomach. After awhile, he took a breath and a glance at Sakura. Her head hung, and she was looking at the ground. Syaoran's heart dropped to his stomach at the sight of her.
"Are you okay, Kinomoto-san?" said Syaoran, concerned. Sakura kept looking at the dirt before her.
"I feel bad."
"Are you sick?"
"No, not that kind of bad."
"Then why do you feel bad?"
"Because I made you get hurt." The color drained out of Syaoran's face. She was worried about him?
"No, you didn't. It wasn't anyone's fault." said Syaoran, reasuringly. Sakura shook her head.
"No, if it wasn't for me, you would've been here, safe. You should just go home before you get hurt anymore." Syaoran couldn't believe his ears. Him? Go home? Not possible. Syaoran took Sakura's hand that was laying lazily on her lap.
"Kinomoto-san, it was my fault if it was anyone's. It wasn't you who chose your gift. It wasn't anyone, in fact." Syaoran smiled as Sakura lifted her head and looked at him, "You were very brave when you faced wind. Don't ever give up." Sakura looked at him for a moment, then leaned over and gave him a hug.
"You can call me Sakura, okay?" Sakura whispered in his ear. Syaoran let go of her, then started to bow at her comically at her feet,
"Oh great Kinomoto-sama, what an honor you have given me to let me call you by 'Sakura.' My ancestors, desendants, and I will praise you forevermore." Sakura giggled, then slapped Syaoran on the arm and said,
"Then you can throw away your trash, put out the fire, do my laundry, and get me breakfast in the morning." Syaoran put his hand over his bandage,
"But I am disabled, Kinomoto-sama."
"No your not!!" Syaoran smirked,
"But you forget that I can still throw you in the lake." Sakura sighed, defeated.
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Syaoran woke up in the middle of the night to a pencil softly scratching on a piece of paper and dim candlelight. Syaoran slowly woke up; squinting his eyes to the light. When he fully opened his eyes, he saw Sakura writing in a notebook.
"Sakura, why are you up at such an hour?" Sakura flinched and turned to Syaoran,
"Oh, Syaoran. I'm writing a diary for all my grandchildren." Syaoran looked at her with intrest.
"How strange. So, you plan on having grandchildren?" Syaoran bit his lip. He didn't really know what possessed him to ask that question. Sakura looked at him stragely and replied,
"Yes. What girl doesn't. It has been my dream ever since I was young." Syaoran looked down at the ground and spoke again,
"I have to get married no matter what. My mother said that if I didn't get a bride by 18, I'll have to get married to my cousin Mei Ling." Sakura looked at him quizzically,
"Really? That totally bites. Why?"
"They have to get a heir to the Li Clan. I'm not going to be here forever." Sakura also looked down at the ground,
"Oh." There was a moment of uncomfortable silence before Syaoran spoke again,
"I'm going back to sleep, good night Kinomoto-san." Sakura sighed, and said,
"Yeah, me too." Sakura willed the dim light to go out and laid down on her sleeping bag.
Sakura had a dream of a faceless groom with messy brown hair.
Syaoran had a dream of a mysterious bride with emerald eyes.
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Sakura and Syaoran dealt and 'captured' with 'cool', the only underling of wind the day after they caught wind. It was now 2 days since they had the will of wind. Syaoran woke up Sakura at an extra early hour.
"Sakura, wake up," he said gently shaking Sakura. Sakura remained asleep, but murmured,
"Ughn... too early..." Syaoran persisted shaking Sakura and said,
"I know. We have a long day ahead of us." Syaoran emphasized the word 'long.' Sakura pressed her face against her pillow,
"What?"
"Today we have to get water." he said, reluctantly.
"Go to the well and get it yourself," said Sakura, tiredly. Syaoran sighed,
"No, we have to get the magic water." She groaned. She had been told from Syaoran that water was a very difficult and tempramental magic. Neither of them had been looking forward to this day.
"Nooo..."
"Yes." Sakura finally got up and rubbed her eyes. Syaoran place some hot food in front of her, "Eat fast, please. I want to get started as soon as possible." Sakura sighed and dug in. This was going to be a very... interesting day.
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They had finally come to the spot where they performed the magic. This time Syaoran pulled out more bells than usual. This time he brought out six instead of two. They stood there for a moment, silently regretting they ever came there, until Syaoran spoke,
"Go on, call it out." Sakura hesitated and sang out,
"*Hoy no karaumi jisohoru.*" Sakura waited. Nothing happened.
"So, this is it?" asked Sakura with a bewildered look. Syaoran looked at her with disapproval.
"It's coming. It'll take awhile for it to come from the lake." Sakura rested her finger on her chin. 'I should've known. It's water, of course it would have to come from the lake. I wasn't brought to a place with a mountain, a lake, a huge forest, and wide open spaces. I hope it takes it's time getting up this mountain, I'm scared!'
Soon, there was a distant 'whooshing' sound. Sakura and Syaoran stood ridgid. As it got louder and louder Syaoran pulled out his sword and tightly gripped his bells. Sakura just gripped the end of her sleeve as all the spells washed away like a rushing river.
Sakura saw a rush of water turn around as if it hit a imaginary wall and head straight toward her. Fear gripped her and held her to the ground. She felt a invisible hand shut her mouth as she tried to scream. She couldn't even pinch herself to see if it was a dream she was so scared. She wished more than ever she was here with her father to protect her, but she silenced that thought, 'I have Li to protect me.' Her eyes inched over to Li's spot to see him in a ready postition, even though he didn't know what to do either.
Water rushed on without stopping. It soon reached where Syaoran and Sakura were and rushed on even faster. As water sped up, a shape toward the front of the river began to form, like dirt being washed off with immense amounts of wind a water. The shape turned out to be a small woman. Her hair and feet seemed to blend in with the stream behind her. Her eyebrows were furled with anger, and she was biting her lip hard; struggling to keep up with the speed she was at.
The water lady stopped abruptly floating in mid-air, but the river behind her didn't. Sakura and Syaoran were soon in the river, the breath being swept out of them by the suddeness. After the river washed away, Sakura and Syaoran were 150 feet away from the water lady, catching their breaths, when she came after them so fast that she was just a streak of blue flying though the air.
Syaoran ran to Sakura and stood in front of her holding his sword with the tip pointing deathly outwards. Before they could even blink water was a centmeter in front of the sword. She grinned and threw Syaoran's sword against the tree with amazing strength. Syaoran just stood there with his mouth open. Sakura carefully shut his mouth by putting her hand under his chin and pushing it up.
"HELLO!!!" Syaoran shook his head and gripped his bells impossibly tighter. Somehow they didn't get washed away from Syaoran.
"Sakura, try tiring it out." Sakura just stood there looking at him like he was nuts. He just gave her a desperate look toward water, who was getting angry and folded her arms across her chest. Water gave her an angry glare and came at her. Sakura immediatly pounced out of the way.
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Five minutes had past and all Sakura was getting was a cramp in her side from running and pouncing. Water still didn't show any signs of tiring.
"Syaoran! *pounce* Water is not *dash* tiring *jump* out!! I can't *duck* do this *slide* anymore!" Syaoran thought quickly. He looked around him for an idea, then one popped into his mind.
"Sakura!! Head up the mountain!!" Sakura raised her eyebrow at him, but started dashing, pouncing, and jumping up the mountain.
Sakura's foot found a rock on the way, and she fell over. Water took this time to speed up, and almost came near her.
Syaoran ran over to Sakura's side and tried to help her up, but water shoved him away. Syaoran coved his eyes expecting the worse
As water rose up her arm into a fist aiming for Sakura's temple, her fist was trembling with the power that was held in it. Sakura practically screamed and sung out the words,
"*HIKARU NO HOSHI!!!*" A bright light shined in water's eyes, and she covered her eyes, not seeing Sakura and Syaoran scramble up on to their feet and run away while they had the chance. ***********************************************************************
It was starting to get cold as she went up the mountain. Water finally showed signs of slowing down. Sakura could find time to actually take short breath and her stamina rose because of it.
Sakura continued to go up the mountain at a faster rate. Once her foot found the first patch of snow, water finally bent over on her knees, gasping for air. Syaroan quickly rang two of his bells at the same time, Saraneth the Binder and Ranna the Sleepbringer. A brilliant sound came out of both of them, a sweet sound of a deep bellowing wrapping around the twinkling sound of Ranna. A transparent rope came out of the air and was coming toward water. Water seemed to take no notice of the rope tightly binding her and putting her to sleep. In fact, she WELCOMED it.
Sakura quickly sung the spell for wind and it came out in a whirl of snow and headed toward water with awesome speed, result of the anger from water putting Sakura's life in danger.
Water was quickly lost in the hurricane of snowflakes before it was revealed frozen with a somewhat peaceful look on its face. Sakura fell to the ground and breathed heavily.
"Its finally over." Syaoran also cafefully set the bells on the ground and sat beside Sakura. He nodded in agreement, even though he only had it half as bad as Sakura. They didn't know how much they were wrong. Sakura's head snapped up as she heard the sound of ice cracking to see a million pieces floating in the air. Sakura looked in horror as the ice crystals headed straight toward her and into her body. She lurched in pain everytime one came into her body. Syaoran just held her close to him and tenderly wiping sweat and silent tears from her face to try to help. Sakura leaned into him and rested her head on his chest to try and ignore the blinding pain. Syaoran held her closer everytime she lurched.
Ten minutes later the last ice crystal worked itself into Sakura's body, but not without leaving a wound in Sakura's arm. Sakura just laughed and said, "Revenge." The wound was only a tickle compared to the pain she had felt earlier. Syaoran immediatley ripped off a sleeve that was alrealy torn at the hem by brances from the race up the mountain. He tied it around her wound and the blood claimed the sleeve as well as the rest of her arm.
Sakura looked up at Syaoran and gave him a pretty smile,
"Syaoran?" Syaoran looked down at her pale, sweaty, tired face and winced. Her eyes had bags under them, they were also bloodshot and bleary from crying.
"Hai, Kinomoto-san?" Sakura smiled wider,
"Will you carry me back?" Syaoran had to laugh at her innocence.
"Sure." Syaoran said, although something in the back of his mind wanted to say, 'Gladly.' He quickly stuffed the bells in his pockets with their silencers on getting ready to pick her up. Sakura lifted her arms up in search for Syaorans neck while his strong arms reached under her back and "leg pits" and scooped her up. Only two minutes after he had scooped her up, Sakura was fast asleep and nuzzled her head against his chest. Syaoran immediatly blushed and thought,
'Sakura, you're too cute for your own good.'
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Sakura woke up all sweaty from a horrible nightmare. Water killed Syaoran and left her all alone to die by herself. Her worst fear was being alone. She shook her head violently trying to get the image of Syaoran lying in a pool of his own blood with a red stained ice crystal stuck in his chest near to his heart. Sakura didn't realize she was racking with sobs and shaking from her tears, and that Syaoran was watching her. Syaoran had been watching her sleep all night. He was trying to read his book, but he couldn't help but worry about Sakura as she cried, and squirmed in her sleep, occasionally crying 'Syaoran,' or 'no, no, no,' in her sleep. Syaoran had tried to comfort her, but it only made her distress even worse.
"You shouldn't be putting pressure on your arm Sakura." She bit her lip as the pain rushed to her arm.
"Syaoran, I'm going on a walk to clear my mind." Actually it was to clear her mind of the nightmare. Syaoran touched her unwounded arm stopping her from getting up.
"You shouldn't go. Not in your state." Sakura put out her lower lip and pouted. Syaoran chuckled.
"Okay, okay. BE CAREFUL! Do you want me to come with you?" Sakura laughed.
"No thanks, I'm a big girl now." Syaoran smiled weakly.
"Okay." he said as she walked out of the tent. When he was out of eye shot, he gave her a worried glance.
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Sakura had been walking in the forest for five minutes, taking in the fresh air and the atmosphere around her.
"What pretty stars." she said as she looked up at the midnight sky. She never really got to see a sky full of stars since she lived near the big city. "It's so quiet." In the back of her mind, Sakura was wishing that Syaoran was there with her.
She stopped to rub her arms; it was more chilly than she thought it would be. She looked ahead and saw a faint light standing out in the darkness. She stopped and thought for a moment whether or not she should check it out. Curiousity overtook her fear and she continued to walking ahead in the icy darkness.
She stopped when she got to the source of the light; a mirror. Sakura wondered to herself how the mirrow was emitting such a light. Sakura looked into the mirror.
"How pretty..." she thought aloud when she saw all the elaborate designs chisled into the mirror. She ran her hand across the glass admiring how it shined. As her fingers left the mirror, it started to glow so brightly Sakura had to cover her eyes. As the glow died down she carefully let her hand down to reveal a woman as she spoke one word,
"Sakura..." Sakura immediatly sent the mirror to the ground and ran for her life to find Syaoran.
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Syaoran tore himself away from the book he was reading because he heard a scream rise from the forest. Only one word ran through his mind,
'Sakura!' Syaoran scrambled from the tent almost tripping and ran toward the forest where he saw Sakura running toward him. He caught Sakura and gripped her wrists as she tried to regain her composture. He looked down worriedly at Sakura who was trying to speak,
"I saw, I-I saw, I-" Syaoran shook her desperately.
"Sakura, what did you see?" Sakura sniffed, wiped her tears and said,
"M-my mother."
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