Konnichiwa!! Welcome to chapter 5! Crap-olla! I'm suffering from a HUGE writers block here, ppl....y does this always happen in the CLIMAX of the story (-_-')....oh well, bear w/me PLEASE! I'll do my best to make it good, but this means that it'll take a lil' longer for chapters to come out (.....great....) BTW, sorry this chapter took as long as it did...last week I wrote and put up the Pokémon story I've been promising...I've gotten a few flames, but they're not too bad thankfully! Ok, enuff jibber-jabber...letz move on!

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*...* w/italics Thoughts

~~~~~~~~~ Scene Changes/Flashbacks/change in P.O.V

[...] Authors Notes

Disclaimer: The CCS characters DO NOT belong to me, ok! They belong to © Clamp...so please don't sue me!! ^^'

~No Strings Attached ~

Chapter 5: Spill it!

After Syaoran and Kero had finished their little 'meeting', Syaoran opened the door to Sakura's room to call her back inside because Kero and Syaoran 's conversation had commenced.

"Kero, what's going on?" she asked, very irritated that they had sent her out of her own room to have a meeting.

Kero just stared blankly at her. "What are you talking about Sakura? Nothing's going on...Nothing that you need to worry about any way...this is all the gaki's problem...don't worry about it, ok?"

Sakura eyed him suspiciously and then shot a hard glance at Syaoran .

*Hmm, there's something strange going on here that these two don't want me to find out...* thought Sakura as she continued looking at Syaoran , making him blush.

Suddenly, Sakura snapped out of her train of thought and looked back and forth from Syaoran and Kero.

"Will someone tell me what the hell is going on?!?!" she cried, her fists balled up and steam coming out of her ears (not literally). (AN: ok, yea, a lil' OCC for Sakura...but this is a story ppl, deal wit it! *lol*)

Syaoran and Kero stared at her in disbelief; in all the years that both had known her, neither one had ever seen her mad.

Kero gave Syaoran a side-glance and sighed. (-_-')

"Alright, kid, you tell her..." Kero said, motioning toward Syaoran .

Syaoran sweat-dropped (^-^') but proceeded anyway.

"Uh, Sakura...Ryu...he's after the cards." he said, plain and simply.

Sakura looked at him quizzically and raised an eyebrow.

"Syaoran ...That's not even close to being funny."

Syaoran sighed (-_-') and continued.

"It's not supposed to be funny, Sakura...he's trying to take over the word by using the cards...he's using you, Sakura...he knows you have them."

Syaoran was beginning to think that he regretted saying those last two sentences as it looked like it made Sakura even more mad, if it was possible.

"Syaoran! This is the most despicable practical joke anyone has ever played on me! How could you, of all people, do this to me?! And then keep going and pretend that you know everything and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah! Well ya know what, Syaoran? Screw You! Now GET OUT! NOW!"

Sakura was fuming and looked to Syaoran like she was on the brink of insanity.

Syaoran said nothing more and hung his head, not wanting to make her blow up at him again. Slowly he walked to the door, turned the knob and pulled it toward him.

With out turning around he said, "*Sigh* No matter what you say or do to me, Sakura, I'll always be here to help you. Good bye."

With out looking back he walked out the door and softly shut it behind him.

Sakura was still fuming when Syaoran had left, but his words hit her hard. *No matter what....* kept ringing inside her head; her rose-pink telephone beckoned her to use it, having Syaoran 's number already on speed dial.

Sakura, now calmed down, sat on her bed staring impatiently at the imploring phone before her.

*Oh gosh...what have I done?* she thought her head in her hands.

Kero, meanwhile, had seen the entire top-blowing argument and was sitting on Sakura's desk watching them feebly. When he saw Syaoran leave, he slowly rose up from the desk and floated over to where Sakura was standing; he just kinda floated there for a moment, what he wanted to say not forming into words fast enough. Soon, feeling total remorse, she placed her auburn head in her pale, trembling hands. Kero, finally forming his feelings to words, slowly receded from the air and plopped onto the bed next to Sakura.

"You know he's right Sakura...He would go to the ends of the earth for you; you know he's just trying to protect you, right?" said Kero, not able to look at her cheerless face.

Sakura raised her head, tears now streaming from her emerald pools; she looked down at her little yellow guardian and smiled slightly.

"I thought you were the one who was supposed to protect me, Kero...You are my guardian."

Kero smirked and looked up at her.

"I am that, yes...but this mission wasn't meant for the appointed guardian, Sakura."

She looked at him puzzled and bewildered.

"Then who is it for, Kero; Me, myself and I?"

Kero laughed at her remark.

"It was meant for the guardian of your heart, Sakura."

*The guardian of...my heart? What does my heart have to do with the Clow Cards?*

"Well, who's 'the guardian of my heart', Kero?"

Kero smirked and left it at that; that was a tremendously easy question to answer. Everyone but Sakura knew who that was.

"Kero? Kero? Are you gonna tell me or not?"

He looked away from her and began staring at the door before him.

"When the time comes, Sakura, you'll know...Trust me, you'll know with out a shadow of a doubt who that person is."

"SAKURA!!! PHONE FOR YOU!" called Touya's voice from the kitchen.

Sakura sighed and threw the matter of 'the guardian of her heart' away for the moment. She walked around to her nightstand and picked up her phone.

"Hello?" she said, as cheerful as possible.

"Hey Sakura," said a manly voice from the other side.

"Oh...h-hello....*gulp* Ryu...."

"Are you all right? You don't sound well."

Sakura said nothing for a moment to think up an excuse.

"Sakura? You there?"

"Oh, sorry...actually, I'm not feeling too well, maybe I should go lye down....I-I guess I'll talk to you later, Ryu....b-bye."
"Well, wait! Do you want me to come over and sit with you?"

* That's an odd question*

"Uh, no thanks I'll be fine on my own, besides I have Touya and Dad here to take care of me I need anything..."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, very...Good-bye"

"*Sigh* Bye"

CLICK

*I think I'm gonna call Syaoran and apologize....I'm beginning to feel bad that I didn't let him explain*

Sakura quickly picked up the phone again and pressed the button that said "LI" in large, black writing.

Ring

"Hello?"

"Hi, Syaoran ...It's Sakura."

*I know that...* he thought blushing a little.

"Oh, hi Sakura...what's wrong?"

She smiled at his worry.

"Nothing anymore, Syaoran ...I just called to apologize."

"Apologize? For what Sakura?"

"Don't give me that B.S. Syaoran ...We had that argument like 10 minuets ago, there's no way you could've forgotten already."

Syaoran smiled.

"Hmp...I guess you're just way too quick for me, Sakura..."

"Oh shut up Syaoran ."

"Shutting..." silence

"Syaoran ?"

"Yes?"

"Why did you stop talking?"

"You told me to shut up....so I did."

Sakura laughed a little.

"Thanks Syaoran ."

"For what, Sakura?"

"For making me laugh...I only laugh when I talk to you; you always make me feel better...so thanks"

Syaoran blushed immensely at her comment and was extremely thankful that they were on the phone.

"Oh, you're welcome Sakura...Any time..."

Sakura smiled.

"Ok...well, I suppose I'll talk to you later...good-bye Syaoran !"

"Bye Sakura...."

CLICK

Sakura sighed happily and sat down on her bed beside the pondering Kero.

"What are you so happy about?" Kero asked, suspiciously.

"Hmm? Happy? Me? Oh it's nothing Kero...." she said, pushing his questions aside.

"So, tell me more about this 'guardian'...can you give me clues to who they are?" she asked, hopefully.

Kero crossed his arms and shook his head 'no'.

"Why not?? Please Kero! How about 'yes' and 'no' questions?"

Kero again shook his head.

Sakura seethed for moment before thinking up one last idea.

"Hey Kero...What does my heart have to do with this matter anyway?"

Kero now uncrossed his arms and looked up in shock at the green-eyed mistress.

"Sakura, your heart has everything to do with this matter!"

"How so?" she replied, crossing her arms and eyeing him warily.

"Sakura, you are directly connected with the Cards...that means they're a part of you. Your heart is also a part of you; when you transformed the cards, they were eternally linked with you...and your heart. Ryu became your boyfriend to get a place with in your heart so he was able to obtain trust and therefore, obtaining easier access to the Cards."

Sakura looked at him skeptically and raised an eyebrow.

"Are you sure?" she asked, eyebrow still raised.

Kero nodded his head.

"Positive Sakura. There is no doubt in my mind that the Cards are what he's after; I'm sorry Sakura. I know this is hard and can't even begin to think of what it would feel like...but there's no way around this; the only way to secure your future and the future of the world is for you to find 'the guardian of your heart', or vise-versa, and then destroy Ryu and/or the power controlling his motives."

Sakura cringed and bit her lip; she had to destroy Ryu? Well, at least she wasn't alone in the fight. She always had Kero, Yue and Syaoran ...then there was the matter of that other guardian.

How on earth was she supposed to find someone she had supposedly never met before in her entire 17 years of existence? Where was she even supposed to start looking? Under her bed?

~~~~~End of Chapter 5~~~~~~

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Yeah! it's done! and nicely done, if I do say so myself, especially since I got a writer's block (not a fun thing to have!) j/k actually...this isn't one of my best chapters, in my opinion...please be nice with reviews!! oh, that reminds me: PLEASE R + R!!

oh, one more thing:

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Storyline © Angel: da Newsies fan

Title © JC Chazes of *NSync