Author's Blab: I LOVE MY REVIEWERS!!! *cries* Okay, okay. Lol. Anyway, I was considering something. I was considering making Wish into a trilogy. Kind of like Harry Potter, only that's a septogy. It would be where Sakura and Syaoran deal with her magic, like now, only in 3 different time periods of her life. I was even considering making a sequel to the trilogy. I'm making up a lot of new words today, lol. Anywayz, please consider it as you read my bootiful fic and review your opinion.

Does anyone want to hear what Syaoran and Sakura do when they are not doing magic? If you want to know, then ask in your reviews and I'll make a chapter when they take a break from magic.

The reason behind Syaoran's niceness: Well, since Sakura and Syaoran are living in a tent together for 3 months, (*Wink wink* You hentai's!! lol) they decided to be nice to each other. And besides for about... a week they've been living with each and training magic, so they talk a lot, kay? As for Sakura knowing that Syaoran meant Little Wolf, I thought that Syaoran really did mean Little Wolf in Japanese because I'm slow and thought that even though I've known both Japanese words for little and wolf for a long time. (Chibi Okami. Wouldn't that be scary if they named him that? *shudder*)

I'm really scared of Eriol know. He's the desendant of Clow, he has this freaky evil glare that literally gives me shudders down my back, and now he can pick of Sakura with ease! I just saw a part of an episode where Eriol just picks up Sakura with ease, and now I'm scared. Eriol never ceases to amaze me.

This chappie is dedicated to Pink Cherry Blossom. May she get better in that cursed hospital!! She's a truly nice person, even though I've known her for only like 2 hours. Review all of her stories, too!!

Oh yes, and The Seer and the Sword CCS Style is by Cherry Blossomz Girl, not by Pink Cherry Blossom. ^^'

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Chapter 4: Mother

"Your mother? But, I thought she was dead?" said Syaoran looking at the pitiful form before him.

"That's the problem! My mother IS dead! Well, at least I thought she was." said Sakura as she thoughtfully rubbed her foot in to the ground. It was painful to see her mother, well sort of see her mother, in so many years. It stabbed her heart everytime she thought about how she didn't get to know fully who her mother was. She wanted to bad to just speak to her, just to hear one single word. Sakura regretted not getting to know her mother better, even though she was only three when Nadeshiko died.

Syaoran saw a flash of pain trace across her face. He looked up to the sky and silently hoped she wouldn't cry. It would shred his heart to see her do so after all that she had been through that day. He looked back down at her and spoke,

"We'll check it out tomorrow. You wouldn't have enough strength to deal with something today." Sakura nodded and started on the short jouney back to the tent.

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Sakura was twisting and turning in the tent again, and Syaoran was getting mad because he couldn't get to sleep. He turned around, lifted the pillow off his head, and began to shake her. When he shook her gently, she only mumbled, and continued her nightmare. He began to shake her a little harder, she turned around and mumbled more words. Syaoran shook her violently giving up being nice. Her eyes popped open and she jumped up breathing heavily. Sweat was dripping down her face, disguising the tears that were invisible along with the drops of sweat.

"Kinomoto, are you okay?" She jerked around facing Syaoran flinging drops of sweat all over the tent.

"I am going to take a dip in the lake." He looked at her oddly,

"But it's almost 3 in the morning! It's too dark outside!"

"It's not like the boogie monster is going to get me! I'll be fine, besides, I need to think." She ran out of the tent, grabbed her swimsuit and towel, and ran over the hill into the lake. Syaoran stared at the place where she was previously; amazed that she could recover so fast from having a billion ice chunks absorbed into her chest. Syaoran took a quick glance of the ugly scar on his arm. 'And that was only one ice chunk.' He really didn't know how he could carry her back all the way down from the mountain to the tent with that ugly thing on his arm. He just shrugged it off; he already had too many things to worry about.

He flopped himself down on his pillow, closed his eyes, and tried to go back to sleep, but the image of Sakura waking up just kept in his mind. The way she was so pale that she practically glowed in the dart, the tiny glints of sweat running down her face, her eyes widened by an un-imaginable fear, her frail body shaking, the image of that just stuck in his mind and wouldn't let go. He tried his best to think of little pink ponies frolicking in green fields, but it just didn't work.

He reluctantly got out of his sleeping bag and made his way out of the tent to the lake.

'If there's a problem, go to the source.' He shivered a bit when a slight breeze brushed his body. 'She must be freezing her ass off in that lake. I don't know how you could think in icy cold water.'

When he approached the lake he could see Sakura wading in the water barely making ripples. He really didn't want to disturb her, but he knew that if either of them was going to sleep peacefully he had to know what was going on.

"Kinomoto?" called out Syaoran in the icy cold air. The figure of Sakura in the lake stopped and turned to face the source of the voice addressing her in the darkness.

"Li-kun?" He glared at the center of the ripples in the inky water.

"Duh. It's the boogie monster." he said scarastically. Sakura ignored the comment and spoke,

"Why are you here? I kind of wanted to be alone," 'So you wouldn't remind me of my nightmares.'Syaoran looked up at the moon, acting like he was actually interested in it.

"I want to talk about those 'dreams' that you are having." Sakura looked up at him with big eyes,

"Wh-what dreams?" she said surprised. She hadn't spoken to him about any dreams. Obviously she didn't know what she did when she was dreaming.

"What do you mean, 'what dreams?' You've been tossing and turning in your sleep ever since we got water. Your tossing and turning is so loud that it wakes me up! Neither of us is going be ready to fight any more magic if we don't get any sleep!" Sakura looked down at the water and started making pretty designs in the water and bit her lip. She didn't want to tell him about her dreams. It would be so embarrassing to tell him that her dreams were mostly about HIM.

"I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean to wake you up, i-it's just that they're so horrible." He looked down at her and raised an eyebrow,

"'They're so horrible?' What happens?" Sakura ducked underwater. 'Why did he have to ask! How am I going to tell him? "Oh, Li-kun, I'm having nightmares about you dying a horrible death in a pool of your own blood." Yeah, riiiiiiight.' Sakura ran out of breath and popped back up to the surface, sprinkling water all over the pier; as well as Syaoran.

"Ack!! You got some of your stinky water in my eye!!" Syaoran started whiping off his eye furiously. Unfortunately he didn't see Sakura give him a wicked grin.

"Stinky water, huh?" Sakura cupped her arms together and aimed water at Syaoran. He got drenched. To her surprise he just paused and looked at her; or through her.

"I am going to dry myself off, and then kill you. Wait here." Syaoran got up and started walking away. He didn't get that far, though. His foot hit a puddle on pier, he waved his hands in the air trying to regain balance, but he fell into the moonlit water anyway. Sakura held her hand to her face and started giggling, but immediately stopped when she saw his face when he came out of the water. She swam away with all of her might, because if he caught her, well, she didn't know what he would do to her if he did, but she knew that it would be scary. Just as she thought, Syaoran started in hot pursuit of Sakura. Since Syaoran had a lot of experience with his sword, he swam faster than her. As she swam, she barely heard him say,

"I'm not going to let you go this time!" Sakura shrugged it off, and swam faster, even though she knew that he was going to catch her. Only one thought came to mind when she was swimming away,

'At least I didn't have to tell him...'

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sakura woke up to the smell of breakfast being shoved in her face.

"You're finally awake. It's already past 9:00!" She threw him a glare. He still refused to apologize after throwing her up in the air, resulting in a excrusiating belly-flop back into the water. He said that she deserved it for waking him up in the middle of the night and making him trip off the pier. She said it hurt too much, and it was more than a payback, and that she didn't deserve it that much. All of this resulted in a bitter fight between the two.

Sakura grabbed the tray away from Syaoran and started eating, while muttering the words,

"Stubborn butt-head," under her breath. He glared at her, then started doing a mock impression of her the night before,

"Owie! My tummy hurts! Where's my mommy!" he said while clutching his stomach dramatically. Sakura stuck her tongue out at him, and he stuck his out in return before leaving the tent to get ready.

*On the trail into the forest*

"You didn't need to give me a bellyflop yesterday!" said Sakura after a few minutes of silence.

"It was all your fault!" Syaoran shot back. Sakura gave him a glare, and clenched her fists angrily and said,

"Well, you're, you're, you're an imcompetent ASS!" Syaoran mockingly threw up his hands,

"Oh dear! The likkle innocent Kinomoto swore! Lordy lord, the worlds gonna end in some big hootnanny! Save us all!" he started running around waving his hands in the air. Sakura rolled her eyes,

"You're such an idiot! At least they could've sent me someone halfway sane to teach me magic!" Syaoran stopped and glared at her,

"They could've at least sent me someone half-way sane to train!" They glared at each other, both were too stubborn to give up.

*Meanwhile...*

The goddess glared evily at her two 'victims' in front of her from the mirror that was keeping her captive. She lowed her eyes in an evil grin while she plotted the pair's demise.

"Well, if I can brainwash her, there's no way she's gonna say no to her dear mummy. Now about that annoying little brat that's with her," she paused for a moment to feel their auras, "that boy, he's very well trained, but that girl's still weak, I can definatly get her, but what to do with that boy..." she paused again, thinking, "I've got to find someway to separate them," she tapped her mouth with her finger, "Aha!" She snapped off a piece of her long silver hair and watched as it appeared as a piece of broken mirror.

The mirror spirit threw the mirror piece on to the ground, shiny side down so it wouldn't catch any attention. She silently went back inside of her mirror to watch her pray come nearer, hoping that the 'boy' would step on her trap...

*Back to Sakura and Syaoran*

"So you think that my bellyflop didn't hurt that much, ne?!?" Sakura and Syaoran were still fighting.

"If I felt it I wouldn't have been crying like a baby! I bet it didn't hurt that much!" Sakura glared at him, and then smiled evilly.

"So, do you want to feel the pain I felt from that bellyflop, do you?" Syaoran gulped. "DO YOU?!?!?!" she was breathing fire.

"Umm... maybe some other-," Syaoran's answer was cut short by a sharp pain. Sakura had kicked him hard, very hard, very very hard... in the,*ahem*, you know what I mean. Syaoran just stood there, as stiff as a board, until Sakura poked him and he fell over.

"CRACK!" Sakura looked at Syaoran. Tiny pieces of glass could be seen from under his torso. The tiny pieces of glass grew larger and immediately surrounded him in a maze of mirrors.

Sakura blinked. One second he was there, the other he wasn't. What had happened to him? She looked around and called out,

"Li-kun! You coward! Come here and face me like the girly boy you are!" The mirror spirt grinned, all was working accordingly to plan, even though the situation was a bit strange.

"Time to perform..." the mirror spirit said under her breath. She closed her eyes until she took the form of Sakura's mother, Nadeshiko.

"Sakura..." said 'Nadeshiko' in a whispy voice. Sakura immediately stopped stomping around wildly and looked at her 'mother.'

"Okaa-san?" said Sakura hopefully. (AN: From now I'm just going to call the mirror spirit 'Nadeshiko, kay?) Nadeshiko smiled at Sakura,

"Yes, it's me." Sakura ran up to Nadeshiko, trying to hug her, but she glided away gracefully, signaling Sakura to stop by waving her arms, "You'll go right through me. You see, I am trapped in the mirror," she said as she held up the mirror. Sakura looked up at her in disbelief.

"But how?" Nadeshiko hid her smile of pleasure, her plan was running smoothly.

"As my spirit was leaving my body as I was dying someone of great power cursed me and trapped me forever in this mirror." Sakura started crying at her words. b'My own mother, trapped in a mirror forever, but somehow, it doesn't seem right. Why would someone trap her in a mirror when she was already dead?'/b Sakura quickly whiped away her tears, and gave Nadeshiko a reasurring smile, and asked,

"Why?" Nadeshiko gave her a motherly smile, and replied,

"Because she was so jealous of me, I had a perfect life compared to her. So, Sakura, how have you been lately?" Sakura noted that the last part was said rather hurried, but she complied to Nadeshiko's question, and started to give her a summarized life story about her.

*Syaoran*

"Stupid, idiotic, where is she?" Syaoran was laying down in the middle of what seemed a never ending path of mirrors. He was still hurting, but ignored that as he stood up and took in his surrounding, which was a bunch of mirrors. "What the heck!!" he yelled. He wanted to get that little wench for kicking him where she did. Then a thought came to mind, he remember the crunching noise right before he got here. "Uh oh. Mirror! She'll never survive without me! She's just too dense!" He immediately began on his quest of many mirrors. It would be very fusterating indeed.

*15 minutes in the endless maze of mirrors*

"Gararrrrrrrrrrrgh!" yelled Syaoran as he ran into yet another mirror. He rubbed hurting face angrily. He ran into to many mirrors, he could've swore that some of them swung out in front of him then swung back after he recovered. He thought her heard distant laughter once he yelled. "Fine! Laugh at me! If I had a hard object here with me I'd break you all!" He thought he heard more laughter after that comment. He just stomped on wildly in search for an exit.

'I hope she's not too dense. It's going to take me a while to get out of here.' He thought more for a moment, 'It's hopeless.'

*Sakura and Nadeshiko*

Nadeshiko listened to Sakura, supposedly intently. She was actually thinking of how she was going to seduce Sakura to her will.

"So that's how I got here," ended Sakura. Nadeshiko immediately released her chin from her palm and said,

"Oh, that was very... interesting. My dear Sakura, how I've missed you so. It would mean so much to me if you could, so me just a little favor." Sakura smiled. It would be such an honor to do something for my mother.'

"Yes, okaa-san?" said Sakura, her eyes watering. Nadeshiko grinned,

"Will, you free me out of this wretched mirror, Sakura dear?" Sakura smiled at her,

"What do I do, Okaa-san?" Nadeshiko smiled and told her what to do...

*Syaoran*

He stopped in frenzy to find the exit. He felt something, like a short sting in his back.

'Oh no, Kinomoto-san.'

*Back to Sakura*

"So, basically, what you want me to do is go inside the mirror, and try to lift the curse with my magic?" asked a rather confused Sakura.

"Yep. Oh, how I love you my dearest Sakura-chan," said Nadeshiko. She could barely hold the pleasure held within her. This was too good to be true!

Actually, it was too good to be true. She was turning back into her sprit form, and fast, but she didn't realize it. She was using up too much energy that made the flow dip into her 'Nadeshiko form' and take the energy that was holding it up. The mirror spirit didn't realize this, but Sakura did. She noticed the tint of silver in her 'mother's' hair, but decided not to draw attention to it.

"So, okaa-san, how do I get into the mirror again?" said Sakura, smiling innocently. She was actually buying time. She figured if she waited until she was in her original form that her energy would drain, so she would be easy prey.

"Oh, all you have to do is concentrate really hard, and shoop, you'll be in!" said the mirror spirit, excitedly. By this time, the only thing that resembled Nadeshiko was the dress that she was wearing, which was also fading away quickly to reveal the mirror spirit's real garb.

Soon, the spirit's regualar clothes were revealed and Sakura saw this as a signal. She quickly sung the words,

"*Hoy no karaumi jisohoru.*" The mirror spirit tried to do something about it, but it was too weak. 'Oh damn. Why in the heck did everything go wrong!'

"Water, BIND!" yelled Sakura. The mirror had time to slap herself on the forehead before she was totally binded. Sakura stopped in front of the mirror spirit observing her, 'How am I going to umm... kill her?' The mirror spirit could tell what she was thinking by the look on her face,

"Ha! You'll never kill me! You'll never figure out how!" At these words, another rope-like thing shot out from Water and slapped the mirror spirit on her cheek.

"Water! Next time you slap her, slap HARDER!" said Sakura angrily. Water grinned evily at a nervous mirror spirit. "How dare you imposter my mother! You have no idea how much it hurts..." said Sakura, angry tears were in her eyes, and she was in a rage. Mirror spirit felt something tear inside of her, but she still grinned,

"It's my job, Lady Sakura. It's my duty to protect her mirror. I'm neither good nor evil. I'm only sent to do my job. I'm sorry if I've hurt you." Sakura continued to glare at her,

"You did not need to imposter her! You can not feel my pain, therefore you are not worthy of apologizing." The mirror spirit was about to say something, then hesitated, and thought the better of it. Sakura continued to think. 'I know I can not banish her with my magic, she is a magical being, and it looks like she is not hurt by the binds of water. Her magic is most likely stronger than mine, so I must defeat her with her self.' Her gaze turned to the forgotten mirror in the middle of the path. 'If she was formerly trapped by the mirror, then the mirror must have more powerful magic within it! But how do I use it against her?' Her memory turned to the ghost storied that Naoko used to tell her. Of course! If Naoko's stories are true...' Sakura shuddered at the thought of Naoko's scary stories, she was SO scared of ghosts! '...if she sees her own reflection in the mirror she'll turn to dust!' Sakura grinned evily at the mirror, and then to the mirror spirit.

The mirror spirit laughted nervously,

"Ahahahahah! You'll never capture me that way!" Water slapped her again, this time harder.

"Shut up! The last thing I need is to hear you!" said Sakura as she went over to the mirror and picked it up, and aimed the mirror part at the mirror spirit. Nothing happened. "C'mon! Work you stupid thing!" Sakura tapped the mirror against her hand, and then once again pointed the mirror toward the mirror spirit.

This time a light was emitted from it. The light seemed to take away the mirror spirit. Soon, the mirror spirit faded in to the mirror, and the light was no more. Sakura just looked at the mirror in her hands.

"Hey, you done already?" Sakura jumped, and turned to look at a very red faced Syaoran.

"How did your face get so red, Li-kun?" Syaoran glared at Sakura,

"Why would you want to know?" Sakura crossed her arms,

"Because it would give me a clue to where you have been!" Syaoran turned away from Sakura and answered,

"It's a secret!" Sakura laughed,

"Yeah, riiiiight." Sakura stuck her tongue out at Syaoran and ran away, and Syaoran ran after her.

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"Hahahaha, so they think they're out of danger, huh." The figure in the tree laughed, "They should think again, because I've come!" the figure started shaking with laughter, "Muahahahahahahaha, muahahahahahahaha, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH-" the figure shook so much, that he fell out of the tree. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dum dum dum.... Who's the figure in the tree? Who are Sakura and Syaoran going to have to fight? Read on to find out!

Okay, lol. Sorry it was such a short chappie, but like every other sentence I had a writer's block. I've also been reading a lot of Ranma 1/2 lately, so expect some pretty weird stuff to happen. ^^ Thanks to all for 25 reviews!

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