Shinigami Clara: AHHH!!!!!!!! gomen ne! About the spelling mistakes.. My
spelling is very bad^^ actually...my mom is always here, she keeps telling
me not to stay in front of the computer too long, .....(Since I'm
practically stuck to it.) So I had to work really fast, anyways... I'm glad
people reviewed^^ happy happy happy happy..... But if you don't I'll leave
you with a cliffhanger (aren't I evil!) Mwahahahahahaha.............
Sakura: Erm... since Shinigami Clara is busy laughing her head *sweatdrop* and Syaoran is somewhere, hiding, I think we better get on with the story.
Disclaimer: Sorry to disappoint you guys, but I do NOT own CCS so there. ^^
Chapter 4
It was morning, the sun was just coming out from behind the mountains. It promised to be a beautiful day. On the roof of the Li mansion, a girl sat watching the sky go bright, shining on her honey brown hair and reflecting light from her eyes. Normally Sakura wouldn't wake up until the sun was well up, but today, she couldn't sleep, she sat there awake all night, until it was almost daybreak, when she finally gave up sleep and went to sit on the roof. She had sat there for quite a while thinking about what had happened. She remembered that last night, before she had been accused of murder and black witchery.
@~@ Flashback @~@
"Tomoyo!" Sakura whispered to her friend, "I think we are here. This is the place, where most of the evil most of the evil aura of concentrated. Kero, do you feel it?"
Tomoyo and Kero looked around them. They have been investigating the murders of the villagers for a while, the murders all seemed to be random, they have no connections at all, but for the way they were killed. Sakura felt the "evil" linger in one of the crime scenes and the decided to look further into the matter.
"But that's Lord Kumar's home!" protested Tomoyo. Kumar was the most well thought of gentlemen in town. They said that he had donated a fortune for the homeless people and to the orphans and the villagers practically worship him. But Sakura knew that it doesn't necessarily mean that he's good on that the one that is using all the evil powers is not him.
Quietly, they went into the large building, everything was silent, 'I suppose all the servants are asleep' Sakura thought silently.
"I feel it too, this aura, it's black and sickly" Kero whispered behind Sakura "I wish Yue was here, then I don't have to bother with tracing this magic down and protecting you at the same time." Yue was the other guardian of the Cards, but because Yukito, Yue's human form, had to leave the village, there was no way of contacting 'them'.
They made their way through the corridor of the house, near the end; a door was ajar, spilling light into the hall. They peaked into the door, and what they saw made them stop dead in their tracks. Kero stared; muttering curses, Sakura turned away from the room and Tomoyo stifled a scream. (A/N for people who want the graphical details you can e-mail me^^) What they saw was Kumar on the floor, with pools of blood all over the furniture. His face was distorted with fear and shock. Blood was slowly draining form his body to form a spell diagram (like the one on the back of the cards). It was something similar to the Clow's diagram with the sun and the moon, only, there was no moon, only the sun. But there was something dreadfully wrong with it. Sakura took a closer look; the sun was not radiating light, like it should be but instead it was sucking light IN! It was like a black home, the presence of this dark sun was dominating the room, and even with the candles the room seemed dark. Slowly, Sakura felt her magic drain from her, she saw her aura slowly move towards the spell. If she didn't stop it now, t would take all her energy and even her life force.
Just as Sakura was about to loose the fight, a scream filled the room, the magic drainage stopped, the impact of it stunned Sakura, and she fell onto the ground like someone was playing tug-a-war with her and suddenly let go. A maid was standing as the door, when she saw Sakura by the body of her master, she had screamed. The sounded echoed in the empty halls and slowly the house came to life (ironic isn't it? The house came to life and there is someone lying dead in the studies).
@~@ End of Flashback @~@
Sakura had made sure that Tomoyo was able to run away before she tried to make a run for herself, but it was too late, the police had already arrived, with iron chains and a few witch-hunters (ones with very little magic, the ones with strong powers were all away, Yukito and Yue was a witch-hunter, they had to leave for an important case). Though they could not stop Sakura if she wanted to run, she let them tie her up and hand her in, she didn't want any unnecessary bloodshed.
Too engrossed in her thoughts, Sakura didn't realize when Syaoran had come up to the roof. He sat down beside her; the presence of another person beside her shocked Sakura and by reflex, she jumped up and was nearly overbalanced and would've fallen off, if Syaoran had not steadied her.
Syaoran smirked and said, "What's the matter? Someone stepped on your tail?"
Sakura glared, which only seemed to make him happier, "Do you always do that to people?" she demanded, getting annoyed with him. 'Why did he come up here anyways?'
"That depends," he said, sitting down once more, "if I like you or..." Sakura watched in fascination as Syaoran tuned slightly red, and smiled when he turned away.
"You were saying?" she taunted.
This time, it was his turn to glare, and changed the subject, "Why are you here anyways, away form home?"
Sakura stopped laughing and turned and turned back to look at the sky, she sat there in silence for a long time, Syaoran thought she wasn't going to answer when she said, quietly, almost to herself "I'm running... from my fate." It wasn't really a lie, Sakura hated lying, so the tried to tell as much of the truth as possible. She hoped that the excuse worked and that her face liked somewhat sincere. She almost sighed in relief when she felt Syaoran's gaze shift back to the sky.
"I'm sorry" he said, then they sat there in silence, until the sun was almost over the horizon before the two of them began to stand up and move down again. Syaoran helped her down to the window of her room. Sakura's heart pounded madly in her chest as Syaoran lifted her down, once on the ground they stood in that position for some time, with Syaoran's arms around her waist and Sakura pressed against his chest. Both of them refused to move, Syaoran tried to open his arms but only managed in tightening his hold around her.
'What am I doing!?' he thought to himself furiously.
(A/N I know it's bad timing, but...hay! I'm evil^^) Just then, a maid knocked on the door "Miss Cherry! It's time for breakfast, would you like to join the family or would you want to eat up here?"
Syaoran and Sakura jumped apart, while Sakura shouted out the door saying "It's alright! I'll be down in a minuet" Syaoran jumped out the balcony of her room to his, which is just next to hers, (Eriol's doing^^ he arranged Sakura to have a room next to Syaoran's) which was the reason he was able to find her that morning, he heard her climbing up to the roof.
After breakfast, Eriol suggested that they go for a walk outside the mansion, to where Syaoran had found Sakura, also, so that Sakura - Cherry could get to know the place better. And so the three of them went out, Sakura carrying a basket with their lunch that the kitchen had kindly prepared for them. In the way, they stopped to admire the scenery, the place was full of beautiful landscape, Sakura loved the countryside, and the woods had always appealed to her. When the reached the meadow Sakura took out a picnic-cloth for them to sit on and took out the food. They ate in silence for a while, until they heard a crashing sound somewhere in the near them, into the woods. Quickly, Syaoran and Eriol stood up followed by Sakura who was telling Kero to go and see who or rather, what it was. As Kero flew off Sakura got her staff ready, she was scared it might be the other witch-hunters that her town had most defiantly hired. If they had enough money to hire the Li's then they will be able to get other hunters on her trial.
Kero came back with someone else, Sakura assumed it must be safe, because the Kero showed no sign that there was danger. The person had a cloak on, that covered most of her face; Sakura couldn't make out whether the person is a male or female. The person stopped at the edge o the clearing, unsure whether to go on or to stay in the safety of the woods. Then he/she took off her hood and let it fall revealing a long mane of curly raven black hair and large purple eyes.
"TOMOYO!!!!" Sakura shouted in delight.
Kero flew over to her and said quietly in her ear "I've told her about the situation already, don't worry, she won't tell them anything about why you ran away." Sakura looked at Kero in gratitude and turned to Syaoran and Eriol, "Don't worry, she's my friend. Let me introduce Tomoyo Daidoji" to Tomoyo she said, " This is Sayoran Li and Eriol Hiragizawa. What are you doing here anyways? I thought you were back home."
Tomoyo smiled and said "Do you think I'm going to let you have all the fun out here, while I try to patch things up back home? Well sorry to disappoint you, but you can think again you if you plan to leave me, Sa- Cherry!"
Sakura sighed, Tomoyo had always been stubborn when it came to Sakura, "Alright, alright, I get your point, but how did you find me?"
Tomoyo eyes gleamed with mischief when she said, "Who else do you think have enough power to track you down, and not to give you away? Your brother knew where you are, the moment I asked."
"Oh, right. I keep forgetting that Touya has that kind of power."
"We had better go back to the mansion and get Miss Daidoji settled down" said Eriol, he turned to Tomoyo "I suppose you are staying with us then Miss Daidoji?"
"Tomoyo is fine, and yes, I plan to stay here," then looking at Sakura she said "no matter what!"
Sakura sighed, and Eriol smiled 'here's someone who can help me or rather, help my little descendant.'
Then they packed up and went back to the mansion, on the way Tomoyo whispered to Sakura, "Isn't the Li's famous for being witch-hunters, Sakura? It would be dangerous to stay here, and I heard that the village has already hired the Li's and a bunch of other top witch-hunters on your trail."
"I know, I found out when Syaoran was talking to his mother about it, apparently, they didn't give my description to any of the hunters that they hired, so I'll be safe as long as I'm Cherry."
"I hope you're right."
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Shinigami Clara: So what do you think of this chapter? ^^ I tried to make it longer, next chapter will have more S&S, for all Sakura and Syaoran fans! And sorry for the delay in updating, I was busy with course work.
Sakura: I was wondering, Shinigami Clara, what's going to happen to me? I mean, I'm in a lot of mess right now, how am I going to get away from this?
Shinigami Clara: Well then, I guess you'll just have to read on to find out don't you?
Syaoran: If you are finished? I think the readers would like to get away from you, before you plan to start an argument about what's going to happen.
*All bows*
*Curtain closes* "and thank you for reading this chapter. Don't forget to REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!"
Sakura: Erm... since Shinigami Clara is busy laughing her head *sweatdrop* and Syaoran is somewhere, hiding, I think we better get on with the story.
Disclaimer: Sorry to disappoint you guys, but I do NOT own CCS so there. ^^
Chapter 4
It was morning, the sun was just coming out from behind the mountains. It promised to be a beautiful day. On the roof of the Li mansion, a girl sat watching the sky go bright, shining on her honey brown hair and reflecting light from her eyes. Normally Sakura wouldn't wake up until the sun was well up, but today, she couldn't sleep, she sat there awake all night, until it was almost daybreak, when she finally gave up sleep and went to sit on the roof. She had sat there for quite a while thinking about what had happened. She remembered that last night, before she had been accused of murder and black witchery.
@~@ Flashback @~@
"Tomoyo!" Sakura whispered to her friend, "I think we are here. This is the place, where most of the evil most of the evil aura of concentrated. Kero, do you feel it?"
Tomoyo and Kero looked around them. They have been investigating the murders of the villagers for a while, the murders all seemed to be random, they have no connections at all, but for the way they were killed. Sakura felt the "evil" linger in one of the crime scenes and the decided to look further into the matter.
"But that's Lord Kumar's home!" protested Tomoyo. Kumar was the most well thought of gentlemen in town. They said that he had donated a fortune for the homeless people and to the orphans and the villagers practically worship him. But Sakura knew that it doesn't necessarily mean that he's good on that the one that is using all the evil powers is not him.
Quietly, they went into the large building, everything was silent, 'I suppose all the servants are asleep' Sakura thought silently.
"I feel it too, this aura, it's black and sickly" Kero whispered behind Sakura "I wish Yue was here, then I don't have to bother with tracing this magic down and protecting you at the same time." Yue was the other guardian of the Cards, but because Yukito, Yue's human form, had to leave the village, there was no way of contacting 'them'.
They made their way through the corridor of the house, near the end; a door was ajar, spilling light into the hall. They peaked into the door, and what they saw made them stop dead in their tracks. Kero stared; muttering curses, Sakura turned away from the room and Tomoyo stifled a scream. (A/N for people who want the graphical details you can e-mail me^^) What they saw was Kumar on the floor, with pools of blood all over the furniture. His face was distorted with fear and shock. Blood was slowly draining form his body to form a spell diagram (like the one on the back of the cards). It was something similar to the Clow's diagram with the sun and the moon, only, there was no moon, only the sun. But there was something dreadfully wrong with it. Sakura took a closer look; the sun was not radiating light, like it should be but instead it was sucking light IN! It was like a black home, the presence of this dark sun was dominating the room, and even with the candles the room seemed dark. Slowly, Sakura felt her magic drain from her, she saw her aura slowly move towards the spell. If she didn't stop it now, t would take all her energy and even her life force.
Just as Sakura was about to loose the fight, a scream filled the room, the magic drainage stopped, the impact of it stunned Sakura, and she fell onto the ground like someone was playing tug-a-war with her and suddenly let go. A maid was standing as the door, when she saw Sakura by the body of her master, she had screamed. The sounded echoed in the empty halls and slowly the house came to life (ironic isn't it? The house came to life and there is someone lying dead in the studies).
@~@ End of Flashback @~@
Sakura had made sure that Tomoyo was able to run away before she tried to make a run for herself, but it was too late, the police had already arrived, with iron chains and a few witch-hunters (ones with very little magic, the ones with strong powers were all away, Yukito and Yue was a witch-hunter, they had to leave for an important case). Though they could not stop Sakura if she wanted to run, she let them tie her up and hand her in, she didn't want any unnecessary bloodshed.
Too engrossed in her thoughts, Sakura didn't realize when Syaoran had come up to the roof. He sat down beside her; the presence of another person beside her shocked Sakura and by reflex, she jumped up and was nearly overbalanced and would've fallen off, if Syaoran had not steadied her.
Syaoran smirked and said, "What's the matter? Someone stepped on your tail?"
Sakura glared, which only seemed to make him happier, "Do you always do that to people?" she demanded, getting annoyed with him. 'Why did he come up here anyways?'
"That depends," he said, sitting down once more, "if I like you or..." Sakura watched in fascination as Syaoran tuned slightly red, and smiled when he turned away.
"You were saying?" she taunted.
This time, it was his turn to glare, and changed the subject, "Why are you here anyways, away form home?"
Sakura stopped laughing and turned and turned back to look at the sky, she sat there in silence for a long time, Syaoran thought she wasn't going to answer when she said, quietly, almost to herself "I'm running... from my fate." It wasn't really a lie, Sakura hated lying, so the tried to tell as much of the truth as possible. She hoped that the excuse worked and that her face liked somewhat sincere. She almost sighed in relief when she felt Syaoran's gaze shift back to the sky.
"I'm sorry" he said, then they sat there in silence, until the sun was almost over the horizon before the two of them began to stand up and move down again. Syaoran helped her down to the window of her room. Sakura's heart pounded madly in her chest as Syaoran lifted her down, once on the ground they stood in that position for some time, with Syaoran's arms around her waist and Sakura pressed against his chest. Both of them refused to move, Syaoran tried to open his arms but only managed in tightening his hold around her.
'What am I doing!?' he thought to himself furiously.
(A/N I know it's bad timing, but...hay! I'm evil^^) Just then, a maid knocked on the door "Miss Cherry! It's time for breakfast, would you like to join the family or would you want to eat up here?"
Syaoran and Sakura jumped apart, while Sakura shouted out the door saying "It's alright! I'll be down in a minuet" Syaoran jumped out the balcony of her room to his, which is just next to hers, (Eriol's doing^^ he arranged Sakura to have a room next to Syaoran's) which was the reason he was able to find her that morning, he heard her climbing up to the roof.
After breakfast, Eriol suggested that they go for a walk outside the mansion, to where Syaoran had found Sakura, also, so that Sakura - Cherry could get to know the place better. And so the three of them went out, Sakura carrying a basket with their lunch that the kitchen had kindly prepared for them. In the way, they stopped to admire the scenery, the place was full of beautiful landscape, Sakura loved the countryside, and the woods had always appealed to her. When the reached the meadow Sakura took out a picnic-cloth for them to sit on and took out the food. They ate in silence for a while, until they heard a crashing sound somewhere in the near them, into the woods. Quickly, Syaoran and Eriol stood up followed by Sakura who was telling Kero to go and see who or rather, what it was. As Kero flew off Sakura got her staff ready, she was scared it might be the other witch-hunters that her town had most defiantly hired. If they had enough money to hire the Li's then they will be able to get other hunters on her trial.
Kero came back with someone else, Sakura assumed it must be safe, because the Kero showed no sign that there was danger. The person had a cloak on, that covered most of her face; Sakura couldn't make out whether the person is a male or female. The person stopped at the edge o the clearing, unsure whether to go on or to stay in the safety of the woods. Then he/she took off her hood and let it fall revealing a long mane of curly raven black hair and large purple eyes.
"TOMOYO!!!!" Sakura shouted in delight.
Kero flew over to her and said quietly in her ear "I've told her about the situation already, don't worry, she won't tell them anything about why you ran away." Sakura looked at Kero in gratitude and turned to Syaoran and Eriol, "Don't worry, she's my friend. Let me introduce Tomoyo Daidoji" to Tomoyo she said, " This is Sayoran Li and Eriol Hiragizawa. What are you doing here anyways? I thought you were back home."
Tomoyo smiled and said "Do you think I'm going to let you have all the fun out here, while I try to patch things up back home? Well sorry to disappoint you, but you can think again you if you plan to leave me, Sa- Cherry!"
Sakura sighed, Tomoyo had always been stubborn when it came to Sakura, "Alright, alright, I get your point, but how did you find me?"
Tomoyo eyes gleamed with mischief when she said, "Who else do you think have enough power to track you down, and not to give you away? Your brother knew where you are, the moment I asked."
"Oh, right. I keep forgetting that Touya has that kind of power."
"We had better go back to the mansion and get Miss Daidoji settled down" said Eriol, he turned to Tomoyo "I suppose you are staying with us then Miss Daidoji?"
"Tomoyo is fine, and yes, I plan to stay here," then looking at Sakura she said "no matter what!"
Sakura sighed, and Eriol smiled 'here's someone who can help me or rather, help my little descendant.'
Then they packed up and went back to the mansion, on the way Tomoyo whispered to Sakura, "Isn't the Li's famous for being witch-hunters, Sakura? It would be dangerous to stay here, and I heard that the village has already hired the Li's and a bunch of other top witch-hunters on your trail."
"I know, I found out when Syaoran was talking to his mother about it, apparently, they didn't give my description to any of the hunters that they hired, so I'll be safe as long as I'm Cherry."
"I hope you're right."
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Shinigami Clara: So what do you think of this chapter? ^^ I tried to make it longer, next chapter will have more S&S, for all Sakura and Syaoran fans! And sorry for the delay in updating, I was busy with course work.
Sakura: I was wondering, Shinigami Clara, what's going to happen to me? I mean, I'm in a lot of mess right now, how am I going to get away from this?
Shinigami Clara: Well then, I guess you'll just have to read on to find out don't you?
Syaoran: If you are finished? I think the readers would like to get away from you, before you plan to start an argument about what's going to happen.
*All bows*
*Curtain closes* "and thank you for reading this chapter. Don't forget to REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!"