Hey everybody. Sorry about taking so long, I hearby promise not to be such a twit about posting kay? Next chapter I'm gonna start posting replies to everyones critique...So be gentle! Oh! BTW! Sakura is 17 years old in this fanfiction and Yukito is 20.

Disclaimer: grumbles Alright alright, I do not own Card Captor Sakura, nomatter-how-much-I-wish-I-did... runs away from lawyers GAAAAAAAAH!

Chibi Queen: gets up from glomping Yue and sits at her computer desk to write her next chapter Hm...maybe...heh...Yue will be mad with this chapter...heh

Yue: HUH! goes chibi and puts his I'm-mister-grumpy stone face up as he glairs at her

Chibi Queen: Oh nothing...heh heh heh... starts typing furiously

Yue: grumble grumble

Chapter 3 Melencholy Strain

REVIEW: Sakura smiles vaugly and feels the heavy coins of sleep drag at her eyes as she willingly closed them in search of sleep. She huddled under her warm comforter as her body finally settled down; but her mind senced something strange...a great spell...of sleep? She struggled against the spell and succeeded in barring it with her aura. She feigned sleep so that she would be safe momentarily. Who is this? I just know Kero's out like a light...I might as well face my adversary. she thought quickly. She opened her emarald eyes and was greeted by those of silver that widened with surprise...

Sakura blinks wildly as she gazes up at the person who hurled her waking moments to the dream world and gave her no respite. She sits up like a shot and manages to grab the tail end of his tunic/coat. "WHO ARE YOU?" she wails,"WHY DO YOU TORMENT ME?"

The mysterious man of white wings stops suddenly. He whirls as far around as he can go while she held his coat tails in her grasp. His eyes simply bore into her own, barring her from sencing his longing. Torment you? How could I possibly torment you? he thinks as he looks into the angelic face that hovered before him. "How do I torment you?" he questions in a strange, echoing voice, that seemed to fill the room...and touch the barren recesses of Sakuras heart.

"I can't forget you..." she blurts out without thinking, but she knew it was true. She gazes up into those molten silver depths and tries not to lose her sane conciousness to those beautiful eyes.

The man watches her with his bearly abated longing and can't help but rejoice in his mind when his heart soars at her words. Why am I so affected by you? How have you achived this permanent residence within my heart and mind, without even showing me the rest of your beautiful being? he wails frustraitedly in his mind as he takes a shuddering step back from her.

"NO! Don't leave again! WHO ARE YOU?" she wails as she doubles her hold on his coat tails with her other hand. By this time she sences that she's hanging precariously over the edge of her bed to keep her hold on him. A small, desperate, whimper seaps from her throat as she lowers her head between her outstreached arms in defeat.

The angel stares in mute wonder as the beautiful card captor crumbled into sobs. His control finally snaps and he gathers her into his arms. Pulling her off of the bed and out of the comfortor he holds her against his chest and groans with the feeling. How do you drive me to such insanity? he wonders to himself as he holds her close as he'd yearned to do so all his life.

Sakura sits in his arms, fully shocked at his actions but soon finds that she didn't care. She shakes her head a bit against the soft linens that clothed his chest and thought,If this is another dream then this is a beautiful one. She decides that, if this was truly a dream, she should make the best of it before it faded away. Without any qualms she snakes her arms under his and tightens his embrace with her arms wrapped around his chest.

The angel freezes as he feels her suddenly return his embrace. What I've longed for...seeing her face within the future. Falling in love with that image. That just wasn't enough...this is the 'more' I've so wanted. his thoughts drifted as a single glowing tear fell from his eyes.

Sakura looks up when she feels a warm drop fall upon her cheek. She raises her hand from around his waist to touch the drop. A tear? He's crying? she thinks. She looks up into his beautiful eyes and found and expression of exquisite pain. Sakura speaks, slowly, as if she had thought he would dissapear,"But why? Who are you?"

The man gazes into her eyes mutely for a second and chooses to finally awnsers her pleading questions,"I saw you in my future, and I was drawn to your presence like a moth to a flame. You are so strange to me... You torment my dreams, I've ached to hold you like this, and yearned to see you in real life." He gently releases her and steps back a bit, sharply reigning in his body with his mind.

Sakura gazes up into his silver eyes and wonders why he wouldn't give her his name. She reaches out with a gentle hand and touches his face, wondering if he was real. Or if this all was just another dream. The man leans his face closer to her hand and sighs into her palm.

"If only I could tell you more. I will tell you my name... I am Yue..." he whispers as he dissolves into the shadow form and drifts away, wishing to excape from her enchanting spell.

Sakura stands in the center of the room, her mouth open with awe. But her awe did not last long, soon she forgot everything as she began to feel so so tired. She collapses back on her bed and falls asleep right there in that spot. The shadow returns and hovers over her bed. The covers pull out from under her gently and her body is straightened out on the bed into a more comfortable postition by invisible hands. The comforter tucks itself about her form and settles down as if it had never moved before. After that the shadow glowed and dissapeared with a shower of beautiful rays of light that dimmed and faded as it left.

Sakura wakes up the next morning with a huge feeling of contentment. She stands up, scratches her sides, streaches, and prepares to wake up. But mid stretch she remembers what had happened last night. She pauses in her strange contortion and thinks,What? It could not have been real... I'm only kidding myself. That dream was just as vivid as the others. But, Yue...he was so soft... Her mind wanders aimlessly and she doesn't notice Kero wake up.

"Whaaaaaaaat a beaaaautiful moooooooring!" he sings to himself as he streatches and lays in his little bed lazily.

"Kero, get up... I need to ask you something."

"Whaaa? Sakura, are you having bad dreams?" Kero asks.

"No...sigh Never mind Kero." she murmers, thinking better of her actions at that moments, wishing to keep that memory of the dream to herself.

She walks downstairs and prepares breakfast, as usual, and thinks of the memorys she had gained in that weird incident. As she was doing so she catches a strange flash in the blur and chaos of memories. A mirror surrounded by sakura petals, laying in the grass; jumbled movements and a woman in an old english dress. After a moment her thoughts shifted again and she saw the star bright shine of a beautiful locket that lay on a old fashioned arm chair; she seemed to be looking at it from a couple feet away from a tall persons point of view. The locket lay upon the dark velvet, and the crest of Clow Reed filgereed its surface as it shimmered with a strange flash of magic.

Sakura abruptly comes back to her memories and she finally sees that she had burned the eggs. "Noooooo!" she wails as she pulls the pan off of the stove with a jerk of her hand. Kero flies down the stairwell, sees the burnt eggs, and wails with Sakura as he sees his breakfast ruined.

"Nooooooooooo!" he wails as he flops onto the floor and lays there like a pathetic rag doll.

"Oh Kero! I'm sorry! I'll take you to your favorite restraunt okay?" Sakura says as she picks the prostrate little guardian up.

Kero immediately perks up and yells happily, "To the pancake house!" He does a little twirl on his toe in the palm of her hand as he smiles happily.

(Later, after the pancake house)

Sakuara, having dropped Kero off at home so that she could have some private time, walks among the cafe's that resided within the park. Her eyes roam listlessly among the small cafe tables and she sees something that catches her eyes with no effort.

Yuki? With a girl? she thinks sadly but perks up, blocking that strange sorrow. She thinks for a moment and finally comes up with an idea. She approaches the table quickly and pipes up. "Hey Yuki! How are you? Oh...Who's this?" Sakura asks a bit inanely.

Yukito looks up, a bit startled, and frowns slightly. "I'm doing great. I didn't know you would be around... This is Tsuki...my friend from school."

Sakura's face gains a calculating look as she thinks about her plan. She smiles and asks almost too brightly,"I am having a party tomorrow, would you both like to come?"

Yuki smiles and says, quite eagerly, that he would love to. Tsuki immediately agrees and smiles shyly, glancing up at Yuki with a carefully hidden expression of adoration.

Sakura claps her hands together gleefully and asks, "Bring something scrumptious to eat too okay?" She twirls around and jogs away merrily, abruptly leaving Yuki and Tsuki.

Smiling blissfully, Sakura goes home and begins to prepare.

(The next day...)

Sakura runs about the house and puts that last bit of white crepe paper up. She stands back to admire the effect and smiles.

The whole front room and kitchen was decked out in white and blue to give a misterious look of stars and galaxies. Sakura grins impishly and pulls a card from the book of clow.

"GLOW! Bring the stars to my command, help me fulfill my demand. A romantic show, beautiful lights to always peacefully know! RELEASE!" she says in a reverberating voice as she whips out her pink staff with a whirl of her hands. She taps the card with the tip of her staff and a flood of shimmering tiny stars float in the air suddenly. Sakura looks about and smiles, her work finally done.

:Hush my love, now don't you cry. Everything will be alright..:

Tsuki

Tsuki gets onto her bicycle and wheels out into the driveway. She looks both ways across the street and doesn't notice anyone coming. She pumps her legs and leaves the driveway, not noticing in her haste that she had forgotten her helmet. She turns onto the street that led to Sakura's house but doesn't observe the car coming. With a sickening thud she collides with the vehicle and flies for a couple of feet before coming to a halt.

The cars screech to a halt all around the shattered body as the man in the car who had hit her climbes out of his seat and gasped. He immediately dials nine one one on his cell phone as two other people check Tsuki's failing pulse.

Flashes of light, sirens wail as the ambulance speeds towards them moments later.

:Close your eyes and drift in dream, rest in peaceful sleep.:

Yuki

Yukito passes the flashing lights of the ambulances on his way to Sakura's house and feels a wave of pity for whoever it was who had gotten hurt. He gives silent prayer for a moment before he continues on to Sakura's house.

He walks up the steps moments later and he knocks on the door. "Saaaaaaaakura! It's me! Yuki!" he says in a jovial tone as he waits patiently for her to awnser.

:If there'e one thing I hope I've showed you...Hope I showed you. Just give love to all.:

Sakura

Sakura smiles and jumps up to answer the door. Her teenager heart hammers and makes her wonder,Why am I so excited to see him! She only shakes her head in confusion as she goes to open the door.

"Yuki! Hey how are you doing?" she says happily as she lets him inside. He takes his shoes off and trades them for an extra pair of slippers.

"I'm doing great Sakura! Where's Tsuki? She hasn't come yet?" he asks in a warm voice as he looks into her adoring eyes.

"She hasn't arrived yet... Hey! Come and see my decorations Yuki!" she says excitedly and pulls Yukito into the front room.

Yuki stands still and stares with wide eyed wonder at the brilliant lights that surrounded them in the darkened room. All of the streamers reflected the light and caused the room to looks like a part of the galaxy, a part of space. He looks down into Sakuras eyes and only gapes for a moment. He becomes slightly baffled when his heart jumped when he looked into her eyes,She's so beautiful... he thinks to himself as he glanced down into those emerald eyes.

:Oh my love in my arms tight, every day you give me life...:

Tsuki

The doctors in green scrubs that greeted the paramedics when they rushed inside the doors had very grim looks on their collective faces. Tsuki looked okay on the outside, but internal bleeding from the impact was taking her life quickly.

The doctors and nurses took over the gurney and wheeled her into an operating room where they began to try to save her life, knowing almost all too well that it was probably over already.

Hours later they emerged, tired, distraught, and pained. She had died in their attempt to stop the bleeding in her stomach. She had faded away without any pain...and yet they didn't know who she was, there was no ID on the woman. She remained a mystery to them.

:As I drift off to your world, rest in peaceful sleep...:

Sakura & Yuki

Sakura and Yuki relax on the couches, fully unaware of any of the happenings. Sakura was animatedly chatting about her trip to Kyoto the last summer vacation. Yukito was only half listening, his mind was concentrated upon the strange feelings he felt inside. :You love her Yuki...: Yue said with a flat expressionless tone in his voice. Yuki shifts uncomfortably at that comment, causing Sakura to give him that 'What?' look questioningly. He only shakes his head and tells her to go on as he listens to his heart and what Yue was saying.

That couldn't be possible, she's three years younger than me! he wails in his mind to Yue.

:She is beautiful...and she isn't a child...you've already realized that haven't you? Yue gently chides as he gazes with Yuki at Sakura's slender face that had long since grown out of adolescence.

Yuki only stares and thinks, She's 17...That's hardly old. But...

:She loves you also...: Yue says a bit grumpily.

WHAT? Yuki yells mentally, causing Yue to jump in his mind. And how do you know that?

:The way she looks at you is enough proof Yukito. She would not reject you, she would welcome you.: Yue grumbles and withdraws away from Yukito, wishing to keep himself from doing something stupid.

Yukito snaps out of his little conversation with Yue in time to notice that Sakura had long since stopped talking.

"Yuki? Are you okay?"

Yuki only stares for a moment before he finally, for the first time in his life, throws caution to the wind. He reaches forward and pulls her into his arms.

Sakura tenses up but relaxes almost instantly. Are my dreams somehow coming true? she wonders as she returns his hug gently, feeling the last vestiges of her loneliness for Sayoran leave like a feather upon the wind. She sighs with contentment and buries her face in his shirt.

"Sakura? I-I..." he stutters as he pulls back to look into her eyes. He could only gaze into them for a moment because the lights that hung magically around them seemed to make her eyes sparkle with an inner fire. He leans forward until their faces are only inches apart. "I love you..." he whispers as he finally gives in to his wish. He leans forward and covers that last couple of inches and takes her mouth in a gentle and tender kiss.

:As I drift of to your world, I will rest in peaceful sleep... I know there's one thing that you showed me, That you showed me...

Just give love to all, Lets give love to all...: ((Song Lyrics By: CreedLullaby))

To Be Continued

The graaaaaaaaand maul of all CLIFFY'S! BWAAAAAAAAAAAH HA HA HA HAAAAAAA! DOES SAKURA LOVE HIM TRULY? DOES SHE REJECT HIS KISS? WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THEY FIND OUT ABOUT TSUKI? FIND OUT NEXT TIME AT...dun dun duuuuuun...The Ghostly Paramour!