Ok people!! It's my last chapter for this story. *Sniff sniff* Well, it's been fun people, and I love you all for it. At the end there will be a note to say thanks to all those who have reviewed and e-mailed me concerning this story, your words mean a lot to me. *Dries eyes, then grins*
Well, we'll have the disclaimer then it'll be on to the last chapter of 'Sister Found'
Disclaimer- Not mine. I could never own such wonderful works of art such as CCS and HP. I'm getting slightly maudlin. Anyway, CCS and HP belong to their creators respectfully.
Chapter Twenty Six-
Days past, and the cardcaptors gang had not left Hogwarts. They had tried repeatedly to translocate themselves to the battleground on which Sakura and Yuri fought, but they had had no such luck in reaching it.
It was the last night of the year, and everyone was trying to celebrate the coming of the New Year, but with very little success. Everywhere you looked, there were little reminders of something that the two cheerful girls had done, had said, had insinuated. Their very essence had seeped into the stones of Hogwarts, filling it with a presence that hadn't been felt since the time of the founders.
Dumbledore had announced earlier that that night, everyone was required to stay up and honour the sacrifice both Sakura and Yuri had made.
"Why is it that when we want to leave this place, go back home, we get this feeling that persuades us to stay?" Meiling asked, frustrated.
Syaoran shrugged, his eyes full of an indescribable pain.
"Does it really matter?" Keroberus asked.
The others shook their heads. They weren't going to leave til they had seen the battleground and said their farewells to the two girls who had affected their lives so much.
The last eve of the year past by in a blur, til Dumbledore stood and raised his glass. "On the strike of midnight, I ask you all to raise your glasses in tribute to the two girls who gave their lives to protect this world."
There was a loud chime as midnight struck.
"To Sakura and Yuri, saviours of us all." Dumbledore said, raising his glass.
"To Sakura and Yuri." Echoed throughout the hall, as all the students and staff raised their glasses in honour for the sisters.
As the twelfth chime rang throughout the school, Syaoran and Jamie looked at each other in shock, before sprinting out of the Great Hall, not noticing that their sudden movement had gained the attention of the entire school.
While the sorcerers looked at each other in shock, there was a bright light as Erin and Yukito transformed into Nerina and Yue and flew out of the hall, closely followed by Keroberus and Riara, who were closely followed by the remaining sorcerers.
The entire school looked confused, before, as one, they followed the group outside to see that Syaoran and Jamie were standing at where they trained, intense looks on concentration on their faces.
Suddenly, there was a movement from the sky, and as one, the entire group looked towards the sky to see the stars had returned and were descending towards them.
When the stars reached a certain place in the sky, they huddled in close to each other and began to glow with a brilliance. There was a sharp explosion of light as the stars shot off into the sky.
While everyone's attention was drawn to the returning stars, no one noticed that two stars had remained. Two stars that blazed with a brilliant, pure white light, but had a touch of pink in their centres.
The two stars burned so fiercely that their blaze cast twin pillars of pure white light, tinged with pink.
Syaoran and Jamie returned their gaze to the twin pillars of light, only to gasp in surprise.
Descending from the twin stars were two angelic-like forms, each with their own set of wings.
As the two beings gently landed, their wings folded around them, covering their faces.
"I guess we were wrong." Came a soft voice as the two winged beings opened their wings, revealing a pair of faces no-one believed that they were going to see again.
~*~
Sakura smiled gently at the shocked looks on everyone's faces. "I guess we were wrong." She said, echoing her sister's prior remark.
"W..wrong about what?" Came the timid voice of a first year.
Yuri grinned. "I guess Tomoyo, that we'll still be able to be your models."
Tomoyo stared at the two girls of whom she thought that she'd never see again, before launching herself at them, tears streaming down her face.
The others, taking Tomoyo's sudden move as their cue, also launched themselves at the twins, each one crying freely.
Sakura and Yuri calmly waited as they were engulfed by each of them, one after another, both knowing that they'd demand an explanation once the shock wore off.
Once the hugs had stopped, Sakura and Yuri closed their eyes for a brief moment, and in that moment, their wings glowed and disappeared, calling Eriol's attention to their auras.
"What happened to your auras? It's no longer pink. It's the same colour as the…" Eriol's eyes widened as he realised what their auras were. He made an attempt to bow, but was stopped by Yuri's voice.
"Don't you dare Eriol Hiiragizawa. That's one of the reasons why we didn't return as soon as we could, because we knew that you would figure it out first. We are still the same, albeit a little more powerful than before. You are still our Otou samma and friend and we'd prefer it if you didn't treat us any different than before."
Eriol nodded, still in shock. "What happened to the cards?" He asked.
Sakura smiled. "They are still with us. We may have the power of the Forbidden Light Magic, but we still have the cards and they are still our friends."
"What do you mean?" Touya demanded. "Where have you been?"
Sakura and Yuri sighed.
"Let's go inside. You'll all probably have to sit down." Sakura suggested.
~*~
Inside the Great Hall, everyone found themselves having a slight feeling of déjà vu. It seemed that after something major happened, they always found themselves in the Great Hall, waiting for the mysterious exchange students to explain.
Yuri sighed again. "Shall I start, or do you want to?" She asked her sister.
Sakura waved her on, indicating that she wanted Yuri to start.
"Ok. So you know that we fought the Akai twins and won, right?" At everyone's nods, she continued. "Well, to defeat the twins, we had to awaken the Light Magic which had been laying dormant inside the both of us till we needed it. When we released it, it's pure power and strength flowed within our veins, consuming our beings in its light, changing our magic and our auras. We continued our battle with the Akai twins and didn't seem to be getting anywhere when the stars leant their power to us to aid us. We defeated the Akai twins, destroying them completely so they couldn't be reincarnated." Yuri's calm and gentle eyes turned bleak at the mention of having completely destroying someone, even someone as evil as the twins. "But that took a lot of our magic and left us drained. We almost died, nearly all of our magic had seeped into the air and the earth, but somehow, our stars , from which we draw our strength from, re-energised us and we managed to live." Yuri looked to Sakura to continue.
Sakura nodded. "We were stuck at the battle grounds til we regained enough energy to make the trip back, so we had plenty of time to think. Basically put, we are now almost completely comprised of the Light Magic. The cards still belong to us, only now they're even more powerful, having being infused with the Light Magic." She looked at Syaoran and Jamie. "We may have changed magically, but we are still the same. Please don't reject us." She looked down, but her eyes widened as she felt Syaoran embrace her gently.
"I thought you had died. I thought you had left me again. Don't ever do that again." He whispered into her ear.
Sakura nodded, a teary smile on her face that soon disappeared as Syaoran kissed her gently, thoroughly.
Touya smiled, not getting angry as he usually would have, seeing the Gaki and the Twerp touching his precious imoutos. He got it now, and had finally accepted it. They were forever meant to be, and not even something as permanent as death could keep them apart in the end.
Harry raised an eyebrow at Touya's look. "I thought you'd be killing those two by now."
Touya shrugged. "I've finally learnt to share." He said with a grin, then looked at Meiling possessively. "Or at least I have with most things." Meiling blushed lightly as she smiled at Touya.
"Kawa…" The rest was muffled as Eriol kissed Tomoyo gently, causing everyone else to stop and stare.
Sakura, Yuri, Meiling and Naoko grinned at each other, counted to three before exclaiming "KAWAII!" at the top of their lungs, making Eriol pull away from Tomoyo to glare at the girls.
They each grinned innocently at him, til he shook his head in exasperation.
A clearing of a throat drew their attention to Professor Dumbledore. "What do you intend to do now?" He asked curiously.
"Recover, for one thing." Yuri said with a smirk, but the look gentled as she looked at Jamie, and gentled even more as she looked at Harry and Naoko. "I also think that we may stay here a little longer, maybe one more year. After all, who are we to separate those who are meant to be?" She grinned at Harry and Naoko, who looked ecstatic.
Sakura also smiled. "And don't think you'll be returning to those muggles Harry, though we may pay them a visit and finish something someone started on your eleventh birthday." Sakura and Yuri winked at a startled Hagrid.
Harry's eyes shone happily. "That sounds like fun."
Jamie grinned, but his grin gave way to a frown as he saw Yuri yawn. "Can we call this to an end? I think Yuri and Sakura need to get some sleep."
Yuri nodded. "Sleep would be nice." She yawned again, but gasped as she found herself being lifted by Jamie. "Jamie," She protested. "I can walk."
Jamie snorted. "You'd probably fall asleep halfway there. Besides, you're lucky that I'm going to sleep in your dorm with Meiling, Sakura, Naoko and Tomoyo, with the way I'm feeling." His rant fell on deaf ears, or rather, asleep ears, for as he looked down, he smiled a gentle smile noticing that the girl in his arms was fast asleep.
~*~
The End Of School, One Year Later
"And, I would like to announce that the highest recorded score for the NEWTs was set by Harry Potter, with Hermione Granger close behind." Dumbledore announced to the hall.
Cheers erupted throughout the hall as people congratulated the two students on their efforts.
Harry flushed as he tried to escape from the overzealous well-wishes. As someone shoved a drink into his hand, he was too rattled and embarrassed by all the attention that he was receiving that he didn't notice who handed it to him. Taking a large swallow of what he thought was Butterbeer, he sputtered, tasting a vile substance. Looking up, he glared at the snickering Weasley Twins.
"What have you done?" He asked.
One of them grinned. It was George. He could tell because their magical energies, though very similar, had slight differences that were blindingly obvious to him and his overtrained senses. It had annoyed them to no end when they found out that Harry and the others could tell the differences between them.
"We just wanted to try out one of our new products on you." George said, a maniacal glint in his eyes.
Harry shook his head as he felt slight changes to his body. As far as he could tell, it worked like a Canary Cream and a Ton-Tongue Toffee combined. At the mental image, he shuddered. That was not going to look pretty.
Suddenly, he felt the strange magical properties leave him and a faint white magic cleaned away any refuse. He grinned, recognising both Sakura and Yuri's aura.
"Now, now Fred, George. What have we told you about pranking Harry?" Yuri asked as she walked up to them, her arm linked with Sakura's.
"I'm fairly certain we've warned them against pranking Harry, after all, Naoko is very protective of him." Sakura added as she grinned at the now pale redheads. A gorgeous pink sapphire ring winked at them from her left ring finger.
On Yuri's left ring finger was a magnificent dark pink diamond ring.
They were both engagement rings, seeing as both Syaoran and Jamie had proposed to them on their seventeenth birthday. They were going to have a combined wedding on New Years Eve two years later, not to be cliché, but because that was when Sakura and Yuri returned after fighting the Akai Twins.
Touya had proposed to Meiling just days after Sakura and Yuri returned and were going to get married sometime in the following spring.
Tomoyo and Eriol's wedding was going to take place in three years time, on the 19th of January. Why they had picked this date was unknown, but it coincided with Fujitaka and Nadeshiko's wedding anniversary.
Erin and Yukito were already happily married, and Erin had announced, quite happily, that she was pregnant. This had confused both Eriol and Tomoyo seeing as she was a guardian and therefore shouldn't be able to have children, but something about Sakura and Yuri's smiles the day of the announcement made them wonder.
Yuri looked to the twins, a grin on her face. Waving her hand, the Weasley twins felt a moment of apprehension, this was not going to be fun.
Twin pairs of bright red fox ears poked out of bright red hair, noses grew into twitching red muzzles, and long luxurious white tipped tails unfurled from the twins' robes.
The twins flushed embarrassedly, hearing the laughter surround them. They soon paled though as they heard a voice they had come to fear almost as much as their mother's.
"You two had better not have played a prank on Harry." Naoko said as she made her way through the crowd.
Harry grinned at her. She was simply beautiful. His hand closed around a small box in his pocket. Taking a deep breath, he straightened and walked over to Naoko, oblivious to the three cameras that were following his every move.
"Uh, Naoko?" Harry asked nervously, drawing her attention from her scolding of the 'foxy' twins to him.
"Yes Harry?" She asked curiously. Very rarely did Harry interrupt her when she was scolding the twins.
Harry took another deep breath and looked into Naoko's eyes. "I know that we've only known each other for a year in this life, but I only needed that one year to realise, that I never want to let you go." He got down on one knee and held out the little box in front of him, open, revealing a gold engagement ring set with a amber stone, surrounded by tiny emeralds. "Naoko Yanagizawa, would you do me the esteemed honour of becoming my wife?"
Harry's proposal echoed throughout the quiet hall.
Naoko stared at Harry with shocked eyes, as did the majority of people in the hall. Only three did not, and two of those three were currently attempting to smother the third's ecstatic cries of 'Kawaii'. The third party let out a muffled grunt, which served to bring everyone's attention from the two in the middle of the hall, to the green eyed twins who were currently sitting on a gagged and bound Tomoyo.
"Answer him Naoko." Sakura cried cheerfully, seemingly comfortable with the fact that she was sitting atop one of her best friends, whom she had bound and gagged.
Naoko giggled as she turned her gaze back to Harry. "Harry Potter, I would love to marry you."
Harry let out a whoop of joy before standing, carefully placing the ring on Naoko's ring finger, then lifting her and spinning her around, before gently settling her back down on her feet and kissing her gently.
~*~
New Years Eve, Two Years Later.
"I now pronounce you husband and wife, you may kiss the bride." The minister announced and smiled serenely at the two couples as they partook in the kiss.
The two brides were absolutely stunning, each dressed in amazing white gowns designed and made by their Okaa sama, or, more commonly known as, Tomoyo. She had insisted that she would be the one to make her 'kawaii Sakura and Yuri chan's' wedding dresses.
As a bell rang, signalling midnight, the two couples waited for the twelfth echo. As it rang clearly into the night, the two couples professed their love for the other, before disappearing in a flash of white magic, each destined for their honeymoon destination.
~*~
August 24th, One Year Later.
Sakura and Yuri stood next to each other, holding the other's hand, looking down into a crib where two babes slept.
"Our little ones are growing so fast." Sakura whispered to her sister.
"Babies do that Sakura." Yuri whispered back, her unoccupied hand reaching out to brush lightly over her daughter's dark brown hair.
Sakura's opposite hand did the same, bushing over her own daughter's chestnut locks.
The two girls were three months old, and were going to be as close as their mothers. Both women had gone into labour at the same time, and had given birth to their daughters at the same time.
Sakura's little girl, Nadeshiko, had her father's messy chestnut locks, but her mother's brilliant emerald eyes.
Yuri's daughter, Tomoyo, or as she was already nicknamed, Eve, had her father's dark brown hair, that was only a little neater than Nadeshiko's, and had her mother's amazingly dark emerald eyes.
The sisters looked at each other and smiled. Their little ones, their children of the Light Magic.
"When I think back, I don't know how I survived without you by my side." Sakura whispered to her sister.
Yuri squeezed her hand reassuringly. "I was always there, just as Okaa san was. I just wasn't there physically."
Sakura smiled. "I'm still glad that you're now my sister found."
"So am I, Sakura, so am I."
~*~
That's it.
That's the end of 'Sister Found'. See, I didn't kill off Sakura and Yuri, their auras just changed. *Grins happily*
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