WOOOHOOOOOOO! Jeeze, I finally got this chappie up. Sorry for taking so long, but posting chapters three days in a row can be tiring. ^^;;; Hey, ya know what I just realized? The day I posted the first chapter to this story was the day I joined FF.net! YAY! IT WAS MY 1ST YEAR ANIVERSERY FOR BEING AN AUTHOR!!!!!!!! LOL! Wow...I've been a member for a whole year...time flies, eh?
Arg. . One thing I realized about Sakura in this story is that I'm makin' her use my dialect! I mean, look at the last chapter! "Man, I'm beat!" She wouldn't say that! "I'm really tired," maybe or "I'm really sleepy," but "Man, I'm beat!"? What's up with that? Arg. . I gotta watch out for that.
Oh, and by the way, writing thank yous for every reviewer gets tiring...and confoozling. @_@ I'm gonna take a break from that this chappie, if you don't mind. But I do wanna say thankyou to all of you who reviewed and still love me even after I put Sakura in Gryffindor after all. Maybe I'll do something with Sakura in Slytherin after this story.
Hey, ya know what? I'm thinking of making a Card Captor Sakura/Final Fantasy X crossover fic. What would ya'll think of that, eh? That'd be cool. Sakura&Syaoran being thrown into the Final Fantasy world and having to help Tidus, Yuna, Auron, Lulu, Kimahri, Rikku and Waka defeat Sin! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Oh wait...most of you probably don't know what Final Fantasy X is...um...it's a really cool PS2 game. ^^
ACK! Me and my moter mouth! Eeks, you wanna read the story, right? But first two things:
1) Anyone who has a weak stomach and can't stand even the mention of someone barfing...BEWARE! (Sorry for being so blunt. ^^;;;)
2) H&R fans will like this chappie. ^^
Fang of an Immortal
Chapter Three
This Feeling Called Love
"SAKUUUUUURAAAAAAAAAAA! COME ON!!!!!!!!!!" Tomoyo yelled up the stairs.
A door with the name "Sakura" written in silver fire on it opened.
A girl with emerald green eyes and silky light brown hair stumbled out and made her way over to the steps which she almost ended up rolling down.
"Come on!" Tomoyo grabbed Sakura by the wrist and pulled her through the portrait of the fat woman.
Sakura must've tripped at least seven times before they reached the Great Hall and almost collapsed when they reached it. Tomoyo had to help Sakura stay standing as they stumbled over to the Gryffindor table.
Sakura sat down in her chair hard, put her head on the table and was soon snoring softly.
"What wrong with her?" Ron asked and Hermione kicked him.
"Oh she's always like this in the morning." Tomoyo said casually. "Don't let it bother you. I guess without Yuki to meet she can't wake up completely."
"Yuki?" Hermione tilted her head to the side and gave Tomoyo a curious look.
"You're rubbing off on me, Sakura," She said as she shook her head and looked at the sleeping girl. "Yuki is her brother's best friend. She would scarf down her breakfeast every morning and follow her brother out every morning to see Yuki." After pausing, Tomoyo added, "Yuki's true for is Yue, one of the gardians of the Clow cards."
"PHWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Sakura yelled jolting up. "HOW DID I GET HERE?!?!?!?!"
Anyone who heard her stared.
Tomoyo shook her head.
Sakura was confused.
But everything was quickly forgotten when owls started pouring in the Hall from the windows. Letters dropped onto plates and owls begged their owners for treats.
After everyone had opened their mail, Harry noticed that he wasn't the only one who didn't get anything.
"Sakura, why don't you have any mail?" Hermione asked.
Sakura looked up from her pancakes.
"Huh? Oh, I asked my father and brother to not send me any mail the first few days. I wanted to settle in a bit first."
She continued eating in silence.
Harry fidgeted, wanting to say something, but wasn't sure if he should, or *could*, rather, say it. So he just sat in awkward silence like the rest of them.
"We have Pofessor Binns first." Hermione spoke up.
Sakura looked up, confused.
"He's a ghost."
Sakura stiffened and her eyes grew wide.
She clutched at something at her chest and the others realized that a thin strip of leather was tied around her neck and she was clutching at whatever hung there.
"What's that?" Ron asked.
"Um...I...I have to...go to the bathroom."
Sakura got up looking pale and rushed out of the room.
Tomoyo looked at Hermione, her pretty violet eyes filled with worry.
"I'm going to follow her." Tomoyo said. "Do you want to come?"
"I'm full anyway." Hermione said pushing her plate away. She didn't like Sakura's reaction to what Hermione had just said.
"Can I come too?" said a small, sweet voice.
The two girls looked over at Ginny.
"Sure," Tomoyo said. "I have a feeling that she's gonna need a couple of us."
Meanwhile Sakura was stumbling down the long corridor, groping at nothing. She pactically fell into the girl's lavatory and tripped over to the sink.
She clutched the sides of it and tried to steady herself as a wave of dizziness swept over her. Her head throbbed with anxiaty and fear clutched at her stomach, rolling and groping and thrashing until she could stand it no longer.
She bent over and vomited, vomited all of the fear up and out into the sink.
Stomach acids that had come up with the fear burned and seared at her throat and she could do nothing but stand there in pain with each lurch. The fear, the everything that she rid herself of would not let her lungs draw any air and she needed to breathe, but with each spasm she just found it more frustrating and her head began to feel light and she swayed back and forth struggling for air but convulsion after convulsion siezed her body and there was nothing she could do about it.
When the lurching and spasms had stopped she stumbled backward until her back pressed up against the wall and she gasped for air, her throat still burning and her head still dizzy. The fear was still there, but there was nothing for it to push up, so her knees simply crippled from underneath her and she fell forward sprawled on the marble floor with her black cloak crumpled around her. The girl didn't stirr and for her there was nothing but blackness.
~~~
The door to the history of magic class swung opened and in came Tomoyo and Hermione.
Proffesor Binns looked up.
"It's not wise to be late on your first day of school-" he stopped, spotting Hermione. "Miss Granger? You're late? What's going on? And where's the other transfer student?"
Harry, Ron, and Eriol looked up and Syaoran didn't dare to look for fear that the worry would show in his eyes. What had happened to Sakura?
"Sakura's sick." Hermione explained. That was all Syaoran needed to snap his head up and listen to every word.
"She's in the hospital wing." Hermione continued. Syaoran stared wide-eyed.
"Good heavens, what ever for?" Proffesor Binns asked alarmed.
"We found her...unconcious in the bathroom. She got really nervous I guess."
Binns gave them a skeptical look and glided back to the front of the class muttering something like "Nervousness my foot!"
Syaoran just sat in shock for the rest of the period.
When it was done, they moved onto potions with Snape. Sakura missed that class too.
"Lucky girl!" Harry muttered under his breath when Hermione and Tomoyo recited the same speech they gave to Binns.
After class Tomoyo, Harry, Ron, Eriol, and Hermione regrouped and decided to go visit their hospitalized friend.
Harry was just about to pull open the door of the hospital wing when the door flew open, hit him and sent him backward almost knocking down Tomoyo and Ron.
Out stormed a very aggitated looking Syaoran. He glared at Harry.
"What are you looking at?" He growled.
"Well considering you just wacked me in the face with a door..." Harry snapped back, but Eriol interupted.
"What's wrong, Syaoran?"
"Syaoran glanced at him and then looked straight ahead.
"Nothing." He said, his voice having an unusual quietness to it. "Nothing's wrong." He then stalked off to his next class.
Tomoyo rushed in and ran into the nurse.
"Where's Sakura? Tomoyo asked.
The nurse sighed.
"She decided she was better so she just left for class a few minutes ago."
So they turned and left.
When they got to the green house, Sakura turned and smiled at them. She had a seat up front and beckoned the girls over to sit with her. The boys followed as well.
"Are you okay?" Harry asked with concern.
"I'm fine now." Sakura smiled, but she still was alittle pale.
"Oh, shoot!"
They turned to see Professor Sprout looking at the plant infront of Sakura.
"The second years never got a chance to finnish transfering the mandrakes. Will somebody take care of that? I need to get the supplies for today."
"I will." Sakura said softly.
Sprout looked at her suspiciously.
"Do you know how to? Have you ever done it before?"
"I've never done it, but I think I know how."
Sprout sighed and gestured to the earmuffs she hadn't put away yet.
"Everyone put them on."
She did as well and was on her way to the door when she turned to see Sakura gripping the plant with one hand, but had no earmuffs on.
"Wait!" She said trying to stop the girl but it was too late. Every one expected her to faint on the spot.
But she didn't.
The madrake wailed and Sakura glared at it.
Then she said something.
No one could hear it, but they could read her lips.
"Oh, hush you!"
Suddenly baby mandrake shut up and sniffled.
Sprout slowly took her earmuffs off and stared in amazment. Seeing her do so, the other students took off theirs as well.
"Don't make such a fuss!" Sakura scolded. "I'm going to put you in another pot of dirt, a bigger one, so you will have more room anyway. There's no need to cry. You should be thanking me!"
She placed the mandrake in the other pot and started putting soil in it.
"See, this isn't so bad, is it?"
The plant looked up-and smiled.
When Sakura was finished she looked up at Proffesor Sprout.
"What do you want me to do with it?" She said picking up the pot.
Sprout could only gape.
~~~
"Hey guys, wanna come down to Hagrid's?" Harry asked after the day's classes were over.
Tomoyo and Eriol quickly agreed, but Hermione wanted to do her homework right away so that she could do the extra credit assignment and Ron decided to go with her, hoping to get Hermione to tell her the answers for some of the problems.
"I can't." Sakura said flatly.
They looked at her.
"Why not?" Harry asked.
"Remember when Filch-san..." she trailed off. She had started speaking her native tongue and corrected herself. "I mean, Mr. Filch-"
"Just call him Filch, no need for the 'Mr,'" Ron said carelessly.
"Well, when Mr. Fil-when Filch came in during transfiguration class, remember how he had handed me a note? Well, it was from Proffesor Dumbledore saying that the Sorting Hat has been asking to see me all morning!"
They all looked at her.
"He also said that the Hat kept on saying things like 'I have to give her something!'" So I think I'd better go..."
"Ok, seeya later!" was Tomoyo's cheerful reply. She, Sakura, and Eriol were completely clueless to the fact that *no* one ever saw the hat ecxept on the first night.
So they split up-Eriol, Tomoyo, and Harry went out to Hagrids, Hermione and Ron went to the common room, and Sakura started wandering the halls, realizing she didn't know where Dumbledore's office was.
Finally she leaned against the wall and sighed, closing her eyes.
"Maybe I should just ask a teacher."
"Ask a teacher what?" Came a kind voice.
"PHWEEEEEEEEEEE!"
She looked up to see Dumbledoor and sat down-hard.
"I'm sorry-did I startle you?" He asked the panting girl on the floor.
Sakura realized her position and got up and bowed.
"GOMEN! GOMEN DUMBLEDORE-SAN!" Once again she had slipped back into Japanese.
He laughed and waved it off as if he understood. Then he said, "Follow me," and led her down the long corridors of the castle.
He came to a halt infront of a gargole and said "French Fries."
Immediatly a stair case started spiraling upwards and he climbed on.
Sakura stared for a moment, then followed.
"Have you ever had french fries?" Dumbledore asked.
Sakura thought this was a stupid question, but she nodded anyway.
"I tried them for the first time last summer," the Proffesor said cheerfully. Sakura gaped.
"Ah, here we are!"
Sakura looked around-and saw a pheonix.
"Oh, you beautiful thing!" She gasped and went over to it, stroking it's red and gold plumage.
"Do you like phoenix's?" Dumbledore asked. Sakura spun around and smiled.
"I own one!"
"You...do?"
"Mmhmmm..."
The phoenix opened her mouth and out came a pretty song.
"Pleased to meet you Fawkes! I'm Sakura!"
Dumbledore raised his eyebrow.
"You can talk to him?"
Sakura nodded happily.
"It was a gift...that I was born with." She looked as if she were in a trance.
"Ah, Sakura! I finally get to see you again!" Sakura snapped out of it and looked up. It was the Hat.
"But I met you just yesterday!"
"One day was far to long!" The Hat replied cheerfully. "Now, pull up a chair, I must talk to you."
Just then a chair slid up to Sakura knocking her off her feet and slid up to where the hat' had been placed.
Dumbledoor sat down sat his own desk and pulled out some BK french fries out of no where.
So the hat and Sakura talked and talked until he said, "I have a gift for you, magic sister. It is of no use to me."
Suddenly a bright light flashed and a blood red aura appeared around Sakura that flashed with silver and violet lights.
When it ceased the Hat instructed, "Put me on, I want to tell you my gift without any one over hearing."
So she did as she was told, glancing with an apologetic look to Dumbledore who was playing deaf.
~~~
Hermione sat on the couch, trying to do her homework. Ron kept bothering her and she got really ticked off. Finally she put her pen down.
"It's no use trying to do homework when you're around!" she complained.
"PLEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAASE, Hermione, just one more question!"
"No!"
Seeing that Hermione was ticked off he tried to change the subject. It didn't work. Soon Hermione was off in her own world.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing a guy would be interested in..." she said dreamily.
"Try me."
"Ron, I know for a fact you despise romance, and romantic thoughts and stories, so keep your nose outta my day dreams!"
"Who said I despise that stuff? Maybe I think that way sometimes!" He blurted out.
There he went again. He always said things he didn't mean to infront of Hermione. He always did that!
"You couldn't think a romantic thought if your life depended on it!" Hermione laughed. This got Ron aggitated.
"Of course I can!" He snapped.
"Prove it! What's one romantic thought you've ever had?"
Ron gaped. How was he supposed to tell Hermione that?
"See? I told you you can't!"
Ron wanted to prove it to her.
But he couldn't.
He just couldn't!
This *wasn't* something guys do easily!
Hermione smirked and went back into a day dream.
"I can too..." he whispered. Hermione didn't hear her.
But he didn't care.
He didn't want her to lose that dreamy look.
She was so beautiful when she was like that, her eyes gazing ahead and her soft lips having a hint of a smile on them.
So close.
She was so close to him.
She was sitting so close to him that he could smell the rose scented conditioner in her hair.
So close.
He could.
But at the same time he couldn't.
His heart was torn apart between his feelings and hers.
Should he...?
He took a deep breath.
He had made up his mind.
"I can too!" he said louder this time.
Hermione looked over but never saw it coming.
Her first kiss.
Ron's lips met hers and her eyes widened, and was ready to push him off.
But something stopped her.
Maybe it was his arm wrapping around her waist.
Maybe it was his gentleness.
Or maybe...just maybe...it was the feeling that erupted in her heart.
A feeling she had put away, and locked up so she would never have to feel it again.
But that feeling had just broke its chains and burned into her heart; into her soul.
This feeling called love.
And slowly she closed her eyes and returned the kiss.
Ron pulled her closer and didn't let go. He was almost shocked when he felt her arms slide over his shoulders and hold onto him as tightly as he was holding onto her.
They finally broke apart, and just stared at each other.
Gazed at each other.
And Hermione leaned into Ron's chest, letting him embrace her.
'I did it.' Ron thought.
He buried his face in the scented brown hair and closed his eyes.
He never wanted this to end.
This feeling called love.
~~~
The first time Sakura didn't know what woke her up. Maybe it was the cramps. Her lower back ached and it felt like someone had just shot her right below the intestines.
"Ohhh nooooooo!" Sakura moaned tumbling out of bed. She ran to to the door and stopped at the threshold, turning back and rushing to her dresser. There she pulled out clean pj's and fresh underwear. Running to the bathroom she plopped down on the toilet and moaned.
A spot of blood shown through her pj's and her underwear was a mess. How could she have forgotten? And these were her brand new white pj's too!
Gingerly cleaning up and doing her best to get the blood stains out of her clothes using tap water, her thoughts drifted. Something was tugging at the back of her mind-but what?
When she was done she tossed the clothes into the hamper and took some Advil. Trudging back to her room she collapsed in bed and fell asleep quickly.
But then she woke up a second time, thinking she heard something. She lay there, straining her ears for any bit of sound, reaching with her magic. Slowly the world's sounds came to her ears.
Tomoyo softly snoring.
Ginny humming in her sleep.
Hermione's pen scratching away at parchment.
Harry's soft breathing.
Eriol swatting a fly that had landed on his nose.
Ron muttering something like "But Proffesor Magonagal, I did do my homework, I swear, but a troll broke in and stole it!" In his sleep.
Then she stretched her magic even farther.
An owl rustled her feathers while perched on a tree. A bat crunched on a moth. A rabbit scratching away at the end of its burrow, making room for the litter that his mate would give birth to in a few days.
And then she heard it. It could have been her imagination; it was at the edge of her range. But she stretched farther and farther. Past the lake, past the quidditch field, past Hagrid's hut and into the forbidden forest.
She heard it again. The farther she went the louder it became until it was a clear as day.
A cry.
A wail.
A shriek of pain that made her want to cry. One of her was in trouble.
One of her own kind was wounded.
She got up and went to the window.
She climbed up and crouched on the window sill.
It was time to put the magical gift that the Hat had given her to work.
She closed her eyes and reached deep inside her to draw out the red magic that shone in her heart. She didn't know how to do it, so she often had to restart, but eventually she figured it out. It was like a video game.
Stop.
Restart.
Back up.
Fix that mistake.
Finally she was done. She glanced up at the clock in her room. The lights were hardly needed with an owl's night vision. She gasped. It had taken her a whole three hours! The creature could be dead by now!
No.
She could still hear it.
Sakura peered down to the ground and then up at the sky.
'Here goes nothing!'
She jumped.
She spread her wings and was in the air, soaring, passing dilivery owls that were out hunting.
Oh, the sights! She had never been able to see so well with no moon out before!
She spot things from such a distance!
At one point she had forgotten that she was Sakura Kinomoto and thought that she *was* an owl, born an owl, lived a life as an owl, and destined to die as an owl, and almost dive-bomed a mouse.
But she quickly reminded her self of her task and flew over the Forbidden Forest.
Soaring low, listening with her magic she started decsending into the trees.
She had reached her destination.
She almost cried out in pain herself when she saw the wounded unicorn laying in a pool of silver blood.
Something had attacked. A vampire or something of the likes.
When she landed next to the graceful creature she slowly transformed back. It took a while, and she didn't have a watch, but it seemed like it had taken half the time of when she had shape-shifted into an owl.
By the time she was done the beautiful immortal was hanging on to life by a thread.
Sakura knelt over the wound and cried. Cried more than a human could.
Each tear hissed when it touched the wound and evaporated as the wound got smaller and smaller and the unicorn got stronger and stronger until it could lift it's head and watch the ordeal.
Finally, with one last tear the wound was sealed. Only a small streak of thin hair that served as a scar remained.
She looked up and met the mare's pale violet eyes.
You are a magic human.
Sakura laughed.
"Everyone here has magic."
But you have real magic. You have Silver magic.
Sakura nodded.
You also have Silver blood in you. You are one of me.
"Yes." Sakura said reaching into her pocket. "I am one of you." She handed the unicorn a handful of sugarcubes that she had grabbed before taking flight.
'I'm probably the only student around that keeps sugar cubes in her drawers!' She laughed.
Suddenly the bushes rustled.
She spun around and the unicorn jumped up, ready to protect the girl that had saved it's life.
A centaur appeared.
"Hoof Sister, I viewed the whole thing."
She stood up and looked the centaur straight in the eye.
"But I'm afraid you must leave. There are tauros's out here. If they were to stumble apon a girl as pretty as you..." he trailed off.
"If any were to catch my scent they would surely rape me." Sakura finnished the statement for him. "Thank you for the warning, I'll go now."
The centaur nodded and dissapeared into the woods again.
Sakura almost fell forward, asleep.
She had used so much Silver magic in so little time.
The unicorn nuzzled her.
I'll give you a ride to the edge of the Forest.
"Thankyou," Sakura said, and mounted the unicorn gently.
They talked as they trotted along and when they reached the edge of the Forbidden Forest Sakura dismounted and thanked the unicorn.
"I have to go now."
Will you ever come back to visit me?
"Of course!" She said. "What's your name?"
Moonspear.
"That's a very pretty name. My name is Sakura."
Please visit soon, I want you to meet all of my friends!
Sakura nodded and then closed her eyes, beginning the transformation.
When she looked up again, Moonspear was still there.
"Why are you still here? We've been here a long time!"
A long time, yes. But when you turned into a Night Bird, it was fun to watch!
Sakura nodded and gave an owl smile.
"I have to go now."
Goodbye, Herd Sister! The unicorn called as she took to the air.
When she got to her room she looked at the clock. She would have to hurry, it was daybreak and the others would be up soon.
When she was done, she looked up at the clock. Much better. It had taken her only forty-five minutes this time.
It was time to go to breakfast. But she collapsed in bed.
And no matter how hard people tried to wake her up, she did not wake for three days.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! LONG CHAPPIE, NO? WAHAHAHA! Hehehehe...this one was fun, and now I'm inspired to write more. YAY! But don't expect the next chappy up till next weekend. I don't have any time on weekdays. *sob* Seventh grade is so hard! And I dread high school.
But...poor Sakura...lol...I had to do that to her. I was having *major* cramps and I felt that I wasn't the only one that should have to suffer...even if the other person wasn't real. I'm so evil, aren't I? Hehehehe...are there any guys reading this? If there are...whoops. o-O;;; AAAAAAAAAA! *shoots the guys* AHAHAHAHAHA!
I left out alot of stuff in this chappie...*sob* I didn't have enough room...I'll have to put them in the next chappie... hehehe...pweeze review...
Oh, and bye the way, does anyone wanna chat with me? If you have an aoHELL (sorry, I couldn't help myself ^^;;;), an AIM or even a CompuServe s/n, I'd love to chat with some of ya'll! If you wanna leave your s/n in a review, please do, and my s/n is CLAMPfreak01. (Aren't I obsessed? ^^;;;) I really wanna talk to some of my reviewers and one has already experienced my extreme and scary hyperness. *waves to Gin* ^________^ Oh, and anyone who doesn't leave a s/n, dont worry, I won't be offended, I know some people are very protective of themselves and don't like to meet people over the internet. I understand. ^^;;; Thanks!
-$tephanie Lynn F. aka $harky
Arg. . One thing I realized about Sakura in this story is that I'm makin' her use my dialect! I mean, look at the last chapter! "Man, I'm beat!" She wouldn't say that! "I'm really tired," maybe or "I'm really sleepy," but "Man, I'm beat!"? What's up with that? Arg. . I gotta watch out for that.
Oh, and by the way, writing thank yous for every reviewer gets tiring...and confoozling. @_@ I'm gonna take a break from that this chappie, if you don't mind. But I do wanna say thankyou to all of you who reviewed and still love me even after I put Sakura in Gryffindor after all. Maybe I'll do something with Sakura in Slytherin after this story.
Hey, ya know what? I'm thinking of making a Card Captor Sakura/Final Fantasy X crossover fic. What would ya'll think of that, eh? That'd be cool. Sakura&Syaoran being thrown into the Final Fantasy world and having to help Tidus, Yuna, Auron, Lulu, Kimahri, Rikku and Waka defeat Sin! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Oh wait...most of you probably don't know what Final Fantasy X is...um...it's a really cool PS2 game. ^^
ACK! Me and my moter mouth! Eeks, you wanna read the story, right? But first two things:
1) Anyone who has a weak stomach and can't stand even the mention of someone barfing...BEWARE! (Sorry for being so blunt. ^^;;;)
2) H&R fans will like this chappie. ^^
Fang of an Immortal
Chapter Three
This Feeling Called Love
"SAKUUUUUURAAAAAAAAAAA! COME ON!!!!!!!!!!" Tomoyo yelled up the stairs.
A door with the name "Sakura" written in silver fire on it opened.
A girl with emerald green eyes and silky light brown hair stumbled out and made her way over to the steps which she almost ended up rolling down.
"Come on!" Tomoyo grabbed Sakura by the wrist and pulled her through the portrait of the fat woman.
Sakura must've tripped at least seven times before they reached the Great Hall and almost collapsed when they reached it. Tomoyo had to help Sakura stay standing as they stumbled over to the Gryffindor table.
Sakura sat down in her chair hard, put her head on the table and was soon snoring softly.
"What wrong with her?" Ron asked and Hermione kicked him.
"Oh she's always like this in the morning." Tomoyo said casually. "Don't let it bother you. I guess without Yuki to meet she can't wake up completely."
"Yuki?" Hermione tilted her head to the side and gave Tomoyo a curious look.
"You're rubbing off on me, Sakura," She said as she shook her head and looked at the sleeping girl. "Yuki is her brother's best friend. She would scarf down her breakfeast every morning and follow her brother out every morning to see Yuki." After pausing, Tomoyo added, "Yuki's true for is Yue, one of the gardians of the Clow cards."
"PHWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Sakura yelled jolting up. "HOW DID I GET HERE?!?!?!?!"
Anyone who heard her stared.
Tomoyo shook her head.
Sakura was confused.
But everything was quickly forgotten when owls started pouring in the Hall from the windows. Letters dropped onto plates and owls begged their owners for treats.
After everyone had opened their mail, Harry noticed that he wasn't the only one who didn't get anything.
"Sakura, why don't you have any mail?" Hermione asked.
Sakura looked up from her pancakes.
"Huh? Oh, I asked my father and brother to not send me any mail the first few days. I wanted to settle in a bit first."
She continued eating in silence.
Harry fidgeted, wanting to say something, but wasn't sure if he should, or *could*, rather, say it. So he just sat in awkward silence like the rest of them.
"We have Pofessor Binns first." Hermione spoke up.
Sakura looked up, confused.
"He's a ghost."
Sakura stiffened and her eyes grew wide.
She clutched at something at her chest and the others realized that a thin strip of leather was tied around her neck and she was clutching at whatever hung there.
"What's that?" Ron asked.
"Um...I...I have to...go to the bathroom."
Sakura got up looking pale and rushed out of the room.
Tomoyo looked at Hermione, her pretty violet eyes filled with worry.
"I'm going to follow her." Tomoyo said. "Do you want to come?"
"I'm full anyway." Hermione said pushing her plate away. She didn't like Sakura's reaction to what Hermione had just said.
"Can I come too?" said a small, sweet voice.
The two girls looked over at Ginny.
"Sure," Tomoyo said. "I have a feeling that she's gonna need a couple of us."
Meanwhile Sakura was stumbling down the long corridor, groping at nothing. She pactically fell into the girl's lavatory and tripped over to the sink.
She clutched the sides of it and tried to steady herself as a wave of dizziness swept over her. Her head throbbed with anxiaty and fear clutched at her stomach, rolling and groping and thrashing until she could stand it no longer.
She bent over and vomited, vomited all of the fear up and out into the sink.
Stomach acids that had come up with the fear burned and seared at her throat and she could do nothing but stand there in pain with each lurch. The fear, the everything that she rid herself of would not let her lungs draw any air and she needed to breathe, but with each spasm she just found it more frustrating and her head began to feel light and she swayed back and forth struggling for air but convulsion after convulsion siezed her body and there was nothing she could do about it.
When the lurching and spasms had stopped she stumbled backward until her back pressed up against the wall and she gasped for air, her throat still burning and her head still dizzy. The fear was still there, but there was nothing for it to push up, so her knees simply crippled from underneath her and she fell forward sprawled on the marble floor with her black cloak crumpled around her. The girl didn't stirr and for her there was nothing but blackness.
~~~
The door to the history of magic class swung opened and in came Tomoyo and Hermione.
Proffesor Binns looked up.
"It's not wise to be late on your first day of school-" he stopped, spotting Hermione. "Miss Granger? You're late? What's going on? And where's the other transfer student?"
Harry, Ron, and Eriol looked up and Syaoran didn't dare to look for fear that the worry would show in his eyes. What had happened to Sakura?
"Sakura's sick." Hermione explained. That was all Syaoran needed to snap his head up and listen to every word.
"She's in the hospital wing." Hermione continued. Syaoran stared wide-eyed.
"Good heavens, what ever for?" Proffesor Binns asked alarmed.
"We found her...unconcious in the bathroom. She got really nervous I guess."
Binns gave them a skeptical look and glided back to the front of the class muttering something like "Nervousness my foot!"
Syaoran just sat in shock for the rest of the period.
When it was done, they moved onto potions with Snape. Sakura missed that class too.
"Lucky girl!" Harry muttered under his breath when Hermione and Tomoyo recited the same speech they gave to Binns.
After class Tomoyo, Harry, Ron, Eriol, and Hermione regrouped and decided to go visit their hospitalized friend.
Harry was just about to pull open the door of the hospital wing when the door flew open, hit him and sent him backward almost knocking down Tomoyo and Ron.
Out stormed a very aggitated looking Syaoran. He glared at Harry.
"What are you looking at?" He growled.
"Well considering you just wacked me in the face with a door..." Harry snapped back, but Eriol interupted.
"What's wrong, Syaoran?"
"Syaoran glanced at him and then looked straight ahead.
"Nothing." He said, his voice having an unusual quietness to it. "Nothing's wrong." He then stalked off to his next class.
Tomoyo rushed in and ran into the nurse.
"Where's Sakura? Tomoyo asked.
The nurse sighed.
"She decided she was better so she just left for class a few minutes ago."
So they turned and left.
When they got to the green house, Sakura turned and smiled at them. She had a seat up front and beckoned the girls over to sit with her. The boys followed as well.
"Are you okay?" Harry asked with concern.
"I'm fine now." Sakura smiled, but she still was alittle pale.
"Oh, shoot!"
They turned to see Professor Sprout looking at the plant infront of Sakura.
"The second years never got a chance to finnish transfering the mandrakes. Will somebody take care of that? I need to get the supplies for today."
"I will." Sakura said softly.
Sprout looked at her suspiciously.
"Do you know how to? Have you ever done it before?"
"I've never done it, but I think I know how."
Sprout sighed and gestured to the earmuffs she hadn't put away yet.
"Everyone put them on."
She did as well and was on her way to the door when she turned to see Sakura gripping the plant with one hand, but had no earmuffs on.
"Wait!" She said trying to stop the girl but it was too late. Every one expected her to faint on the spot.
But she didn't.
The madrake wailed and Sakura glared at it.
Then she said something.
No one could hear it, but they could read her lips.
"Oh, hush you!"
Suddenly baby mandrake shut up and sniffled.
Sprout slowly took her earmuffs off and stared in amazment. Seeing her do so, the other students took off theirs as well.
"Don't make such a fuss!" Sakura scolded. "I'm going to put you in another pot of dirt, a bigger one, so you will have more room anyway. There's no need to cry. You should be thanking me!"
She placed the mandrake in the other pot and started putting soil in it.
"See, this isn't so bad, is it?"
The plant looked up-and smiled.
When Sakura was finished she looked up at Proffesor Sprout.
"What do you want me to do with it?" She said picking up the pot.
Sprout could only gape.
~~~
"Hey guys, wanna come down to Hagrid's?" Harry asked after the day's classes were over.
Tomoyo and Eriol quickly agreed, but Hermione wanted to do her homework right away so that she could do the extra credit assignment and Ron decided to go with her, hoping to get Hermione to tell her the answers for some of the problems.
"I can't." Sakura said flatly.
They looked at her.
"Why not?" Harry asked.
"Remember when Filch-san..." she trailed off. She had started speaking her native tongue and corrected herself. "I mean, Mr. Filch-"
"Just call him Filch, no need for the 'Mr,'" Ron said carelessly.
"Well, when Mr. Fil-when Filch came in during transfiguration class, remember how he had handed me a note? Well, it was from Proffesor Dumbledore saying that the Sorting Hat has been asking to see me all morning!"
They all looked at her.
"He also said that the Hat kept on saying things like 'I have to give her something!'" So I think I'd better go..."
"Ok, seeya later!" was Tomoyo's cheerful reply. She, Sakura, and Eriol were completely clueless to the fact that *no* one ever saw the hat ecxept on the first night.
So they split up-Eriol, Tomoyo, and Harry went out to Hagrids, Hermione and Ron went to the common room, and Sakura started wandering the halls, realizing she didn't know where Dumbledore's office was.
Finally she leaned against the wall and sighed, closing her eyes.
"Maybe I should just ask a teacher."
"Ask a teacher what?" Came a kind voice.
"PHWEEEEEEEEEEE!"
She looked up to see Dumbledoor and sat down-hard.
"I'm sorry-did I startle you?" He asked the panting girl on the floor.
Sakura realized her position and got up and bowed.
"GOMEN! GOMEN DUMBLEDORE-SAN!" Once again she had slipped back into Japanese.
He laughed and waved it off as if he understood. Then he said, "Follow me," and led her down the long corridors of the castle.
He came to a halt infront of a gargole and said "French Fries."
Immediatly a stair case started spiraling upwards and he climbed on.
Sakura stared for a moment, then followed.
"Have you ever had french fries?" Dumbledore asked.
Sakura thought this was a stupid question, but she nodded anyway.
"I tried them for the first time last summer," the Proffesor said cheerfully. Sakura gaped.
"Ah, here we are!"
Sakura looked around-and saw a pheonix.
"Oh, you beautiful thing!" She gasped and went over to it, stroking it's red and gold plumage.
"Do you like phoenix's?" Dumbledore asked. Sakura spun around and smiled.
"I own one!"
"You...do?"
"Mmhmmm..."
The phoenix opened her mouth and out came a pretty song.
"Pleased to meet you Fawkes! I'm Sakura!"
Dumbledore raised his eyebrow.
"You can talk to him?"
Sakura nodded happily.
"It was a gift...that I was born with." She looked as if she were in a trance.
"Ah, Sakura! I finally get to see you again!" Sakura snapped out of it and looked up. It was the Hat.
"But I met you just yesterday!"
"One day was far to long!" The Hat replied cheerfully. "Now, pull up a chair, I must talk to you."
Just then a chair slid up to Sakura knocking her off her feet and slid up to where the hat' had been placed.
Dumbledoor sat down sat his own desk and pulled out some BK french fries out of no where.
So the hat and Sakura talked and talked until he said, "I have a gift for you, magic sister. It is of no use to me."
Suddenly a bright light flashed and a blood red aura appeared around Sakura that flashed with silver and violet lights.
When it ceased the Hat instructed, "Put me on, I want to tell you my gift without any one over hearing."
So she did as she was told, glancing with an apologetic look to Dumbledore who was playing deaf.
~~~
Hermione sat on the couch, trying to do her homework. Ron kept bothering her and she got really ticked off. Finally she put her pen down.
"It's no use trying to do homework when you're around!" she complained.
"PLEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAASE, Hermione, just one more question!"
"No!"
Seeing that Hermione was ticked off he tried to change the subject. It didn't work. Soon Hermione was off in her own world.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing a guy would be interested in..." she said dreamily.
"Try me."
"Ron, I know for a fact you despise romance, and romantic thoughts and stories, so keep your nose outta my day dreams!"
"Who said I despise that stuff? Maybe I think that way sometimes!" He blurted out.
There he went again. He always said things he didn't mean to infront of Hermione. He always did that!
"You couldn't think a romantic thought if your life depended on it!" Hermione laughed. This got Ron aggitated.
"Of course I can!" He snapped.
"Prove it! What's one romantic thought you've ever had?"
Ron gaped. How was he supposed to tell Hermione that?
"See? I told you you can't!"
Ron wanted to prove it to her.
But he couldn't.
He just couldn't!
This *wasn't* something guys do easily!
Hermione smirked and went back into a day dream.
"I can too..." he whispered. Hermione didn't hear her.
But he didn't care.
He didn't want her to lose that dreamy look.
She was so beautiful when she was like that, her eyes gazing ahead and her soft lips having a hint of a smile on them.
So close.
She was so close to him.
She was sitting so close to him that he could smell the rose scented conditioner in her hair.
So close.
He could.
But at the same time he couldn't.
His heart was torn apart between his feelings and hers.
Should he...?
He took a deep breath.
He had made up his mind.
"I can too!" he said louder this time.
Hermione looked over but never saw it coming.
Her first kiss.
Ron's lips met hers and her eyes widened, and was ready to push him off.
But something stopped her.
Maybe it was his arm wrapping around her waist.
Maybe it was his gentleness.
Or maybe...just maybe...it was the feeling that erupted in her heart.
A feeling she had put away, and locked up so she would never have to feel it again.
But that feeling had just broke its chains and burned into her heart; into her soul.
This feeling called love.
And slowly she closed her eyes and returned the kiss.
Ron pulled her closer and didn't let go. He was almost shocked when he felt her arms slide over his shoulders and hold onto him as tightly as he was holding onto her.
They finally broke apart, and just stared at each other.
Gazed at each other.
And Hermione leaned into Ron's chest, letting him embrace her.
'I did it.' Ron thought.
He buried his face in the scented brown hair and closed his eyes.
He never wanted this to end.
This feeling called love.
~~~
The first time Sakura didn't know what woke her up. Maybe it was the cramps. Her lower back ached and it felt like someone had just shot her right below the intestines.
"Ohhh nooooooo!" Sakura moaned tumbling out of bed. She ran to to the door and stopped at the threshold, turning back and rushing to her dresser. There she pulled out clean pj's and fresh underwear. Running to the bathroom she plopped down on the toilet and moaned.
A spot of blood shown through her pj's and her underwear was a mess. How could she have forgotten? And these were her brand new white pj's too!
Gingerly cleaning up and doing her best to get the blood stains out of her clothes using tap water, her thoughts drifted. Something was tugging at the back of her mind-but what?
When she was done she tossed the clothes into the hamper and took some Advil. Trudging back to her room she collapsed in bed and fell asleep quickly.
But then she woke up a second time, thinking she heard something. She lay there, straining her ears for any bit of sound, reaching with her magic. Slowly the world's sounds came to her ears.
Tomoyo softly snoring.
Ginny humming in her sleep.
Hermione's pen scratching away at parchment.
Harry's soft breathing.
Eriol swatting a fly that had landed on his nose.
Ron muttering something like "But Proffesor Magonagal, I did do my homework, I swear, but a troll broke in and stole it!" In his sleep.
Then she stretched her magic even farther.
An owl rustled her feathers while perched on a tree. A bat crunched on a moth. A rabbit scratching away at the end of its burrow, making room for the litter that his mate would give birth to in a few days.
And then she heard it. It could have been her imagination; it was at the edge of her range. But she stretched farther and farther. Past the lake, past the quidditch field, past Hagrid's hut and into the forbidden forest.
She heard it again. The farther she went the louder it became until it was a clear as day.
A cry.
A wail.
A shriek of pain that made her want to cry. One of her was in trouble.
One of her own kind was wounded.
She got up and went to the window.
She climbed up and crouched on the window sill.
It was time to put the magical gift that the Hat had given her to work.
She closed her eyes and reached deep inside her to draw out the red magic that shone in her heart. She didn't know how to do it, so she often had to restart, but eventually she figured it out. It was like a video game.
Stop.
Restart.
Back up.
Fix that mistake.
Finally she was done. She glanced up at the clock in her room. The lights were hardly needed with an owl's night vision. She gasped. It had taken her a whole three hours! The creature could be dead by now!
No.
She could still hear it.
Sakura peered down to the ground and then up at the sky.
'Here goes nothing!'
She jumped.
She spread her wings and was in the air, soaring, passing dilivery owls that were out hunting.
Oh, the sights! She had never been able to see so well with no moon out before!
She spot things from such a distance!
At one point she had forgotten that she was Sakura Kinomoto and thought that she *was* an owl, born an owl, lived a life as an owl, and destined to die as an owl, and almost dive-bomed a mouse.
But she quickly reminded her self of her task and flew over the Forbidden Forest.
Soaring low, listening with her magic she started decsending into the trees.
She had reached her destination.
She almost cried out in pain herself when she saw the wounded unicorn laying in a pool of silver blood.
Something had attacked. A vampire or something of the likes.
When she landed next to the graceful creature she slowly transformed back. It took a while, and she didn't have a watch, but it seemed like it had taken half the time of when she had shape-shifted into an owl.
By the time she was done the beautiful immortal was hanging on to life by a thread.
Sakura knelt over the wound and cried. Cried more than a human could.
Each tear hissed when it touched the wound and evaporated as the wound got smaller and smaller and the unicorn got stronger and stronger until it could lift it's head and watch the ordeal.
Finally, with one last tear the wound was sealed. Only a small streak of thin hair that served as a scar remained.
She looked up and met the mare's pale violet eyes.
You are a magic human.
Sakura laughed.
"Everyone here has magic."
But you have real magic. You have Silver magic.
Sakura nodded.
You also have Silver blood in you. You are one of me.
"Yes." Sakura said reaching into her pocket. "I am one of you." She handed the unicorn a handful of sugarcubes that she had grabbed before taking flight.
'I'm probably the only student around that keeps sugar cubes in her drawers!' She laughed.
Suddenly the bushes rustled.
She spun around and the unicorn jumped up, ready to protect the girl that had saved it's life.
A centaur appeared.
"Hoof Sister, I viewed the whole thing."
She stood up and looked the centaur straight in the eye.
"But I'm afraid you must leave. There are tauros's out here. If they were to stumble apon a girl as pretty as you..." he trailed off.
"If any were to catch my scent they would surely rape me." Sakura finnished the statement for him. "Thank you for the warning, I'll go now."
The centaur nodded and dissapeared into the woods again.
Sakura almost fell forward, asleep.
She had used so much Silver magic in so little time.
The unicorn nuzzled her.
I'll give you a ride to the edge of the Forest.
"Thankyou," Sakura said, and mounted the unicorn gently.
They talked as they trotted along and when they reached the edge of the Forbidden Forest Sakura dismounted and thanked the unicorn.
"I have to go now."
Will you ever come back to visit me?
"Of course!" She said. "What's your name?"
Moonspear.
"That's a very pretty name. My name is Sakura."
Please visit soon, I want you to meet all of my friends!
Sakura nodded and then closed her eyes, beginning the transformation.
When she looked up again, Moonspear was still there.
"Why are you still here? We've been here a long time!"
A long time, yes. But when you turned into a Night Bird, it was fun to watch!
Sakura nodded and gave an owl smile.
"I have to go now."
Goodbye, Herd Sister! The unicorn called as she took to the air.
When she got to her room she looked at the clock. She would have to hurry, it was daybreak and the others would be up soon.
When she was done, she looked up at the clock. Much better. It had taken her only forty-five minutes this time.
It was time to go to breakfast. But she collapsed in bed.
And no matter how hard people tried to wake her up, she did not wake for three days.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! LONG CHAPPIE, NO? WAHAHAHA! Hehehehe...this one was fun, and now I'm inspired to write more. YAY! But don't expect the next chappy up till next weekend. I don't have any time on weekdays. *sob* Seventh grade is so hard! And I dread high school.
But...poor Sakura...lol...I had to do that to her. I was having *major* cramps and I felt that I wasn't the only one that should have to suffer...even if the other person wasn't real. I'm so evil, aren't I? Hehehehe...are there any guys reading this? If there are...whoops. o-O;;; AAAAAAAAAA! *shoots the guys* AHAHAHAHAHA!
I left out alot of stuff in this chappie...*sob* I didn't have enough room...I'll have to put them in the next chappie... hehehe...pweeze review...
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