4. Kaho
Sometimes she knew about things well in advance. Sometimes she was as suprised as everyone else when something happened. But lately - after meeting and then leaving *him* - she'd grown stronger. As if by listening to his side of things she'd absorbed some of him. She had a mission now, no longer just watching as the world floated by with a brief stop to curtsey her way and then continue on without her.
She kept close and watched over the young magicians not because she thought there would be problems, but because she was now a little impatient. She wanted to get to the end and see how it all turned out. Because she really didn't know.
And this situation was a very good example, she thought, as she let her mind fly out into the darkness. She gently touched the minds of the people in the theater who were vaguely aware of something being wrong. She'd been told that the card was effective against those with and those without magic, but in different ways. That was all he'd been able to remember, and her own gifts had only let her know that there would be a few who would need calming. She wasn't shocked, therefore, to find Touya's mind searching in this darkness as well. She could feel him, almost as if he were physically beside her, and she guessed that he was looking for his beloved Sakura-chan. She sent her mind searching in a different direction, but her thoughts were still on her former boyfriend.
Touya. He wasn't at his strongest yet, but she could sense it coiled within him, growing stronger. She wondered what would finally break his full power into being, and felt a small pang of regret for what had happened between them. She'd known almost after their first meeting that they'd part ways soon after, but those months of being together were still a delicious memory...
The darkness shifted. Sakura-chan had apparently solved part of the puzzle. But the darkness did not completely disappear. There was more to do. She only hoped it was actually possible to accomplish.
She'd called home yesterday to tell him she'd dreamt the next capture would be Dark, and he managed to recall another memory - something about an extra trick to capturing the Dark card - the fact that you had to use the Light card. Neither of them knew what cards had been captured already, so they could only hope that they'd activated in the proper order.
"Although you know how perverse he was..." she'd said, holding the receiver close in the early morning light.
"I do remember that much, yes." She'd heard the smile in his voice. "And the cards are intelligent and won't necessarily want to be captured again."
She'd been about to respond when another voice chimed in from his end of the long distance call: "...If they're like /some/ intelligent creatures created with that particular magic, they /would/ be perverse enough to activate in an impossible and illogical order."
"Hey! You mean me, don't you?! Mou! Don't be mean! And what's 'perverse' mean, anyway?"
She'd hung up the phone with a chuckle as his goodbye faded into an amused chiding delivered to the two arguing behind him.
But that was yesterday and they were no closer to a way to help with the capture of the Dark card.
Suddenly there was a small flash of...of... she could only call it existance. And now she could feel Tsukishiro-kun's aura in the room as well, a soft blue-tint to his usual soft green energy. As always he was beside Touya, but when she inspected closer, she realized that there was still a small barrier of darkness between them. She wondered if perhaps Touya had somehow called his friend back into existence - had she underestimated his abilities? Or was it Tsukishiro himself who'd jumped into the world of Dark?
Either of those would explain the sudden blip announcing his presence, a blip that had almost seemed like a candle flickering in the darkness.
Or had he simply always been there and she'd never noticed it because he was always with Touya? But that didn't explain the suddenness of her noticing him. It was as if he'd just now walked into the room. but...
And then she knew. She knew where the Light card was and she knew Tsukishiro-kun's secret. And yet she still did not know how it was all going to end.
"Hurry, Sakura-chan" she whispered. "Find the Light."
Sometimes she knew about things well in advance. Sometimes she was as suprised as everyone else when something happened. But lately - after meeting and then leaving *him* - she'd grown stronger. As if by listening to his side of things she'd absorbed some of him. She had a mission now, no longer just watching as the world floated by with a brief stop to curtsey her way and then continue on without her.
She kept close and watched over the young magicians not because she thought there would be problems, but because she was now a little impatient. She wanted to get to the end and see how it all turned out. Because she really didn't know.
And this situation was a very good example, she thought, as she let her mind fly out into the darkness. She gently touched the minds of the people in the theater who were vaguely aware of something being wrong. She'd been told that the card was effective against those with and those without magic, but in different ways. That was all he'd been able to remember, and her own gifts had only let her know that there would be a few who would need calming. She wasn't shocked, therefore, to find Touya's mind searching in this darkness as well. She could feel him, almost as if he were physically beside her, and she guessed that he was looking for his beloved Sakura-chan. She sent her mind searching in a different direction, but her thoughts were still on her former boyfriend.
Touya. He wasn't at his strongest yet, but she could sense it coiled within him, growing stronger. She wondered what would finally break his full power into being, and felt a small pang of regret for what had happened between them. She'd known almost after their first meeting that they'd part ways soon after, but those months of being together were still a delicious memory...
The darkness shifted. Sakura-chan had apparently solved part of the puzzle. But the darkness did not completely disappear. There was more to do. She only hoped it was actually possible to accomplish.
She'd called home yesterday to tell him she'd dreamt the next capture would be Dark, and he managed to recall another memory - something about an extra trick to capturing the Dark card - the fact that you had to use the Light card. Neither of them knew what cards had been captured already, so they could only hope that they'd activated in the proper order.
"Although you know how perverse he was..." she'd said, holding the receiver close in the early morning light.
"I do remember that much, yes." She'd heard the smile in his voice. "And the cards are intelligent and won't necessarily want to be captured again."
She'd been about to respond when another voice chimed in from his end of the long distance call: "...If they're like /some/ intelligent creatures created with that particular magic, they /would/ be perverse enough to activate in an impossible and illogical order."
"Hey! You mean me, don't you?! Mou! Don't be mean! And what's 'perverse' mean, anyway?"
She'd hung up the phone with a chuckle as his goodbye faded into an amused chiding delivered to the two arguing behind him.
But that was yesterday and they were no closer to a way to help with the capture of the Dark card.
Suddenly there was a small flash of...of... she could only call it existance. And now she could feel Tsukishiro-kun's aura in the room as well, a soft blue-tint to his usual soft green energy. As always he was beside Touya, but when she inspected closer, she realized that there was still a small barrier of darkness between them. She wondered if perhaps Touya had somehow called his friend back into existence - had she underestimated his abilities? Or was it Tsukishiro himself who'd jumped into the world of Dark?
Either of those would explain the sudden blip announcing his presence, a blip that had almost seemed like a candle flickering in the darkness.
Or had he simply always been there and she'd never noticed it because he was always with Touya? But that didn't explain the suddenness of her noticing him. It was as if he'd just now walked into the room. but...
And then she knew. She knew where the Light card was and she knew Tsukishiro-kun's secret. And yet she still did not know how it was all going to end.
"Hurry, Sakura-chan" she whispered. "Find the Light."