Konnichiwa! How are all of you!? I hope you enjoy this chapter! This one will have more Takari in it. Enjoy!
I do not own Digimon or Card Captor Sakura...
Japanese Words:
(Yume) = Dream
(O/ni-chan) = Older brother
(Matte) = Wait
(Chotto matte) = Wait a minute
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The dark haired girl with chocolate eyes looked around where she stood. But no matter how hard she tried, there was really nothing to see. It was so dark she couldn't even see her hand, which was two centimetres away from her face.
Suddenly she heard something. It sounded close but the voice seemed distant.
"Kero-chan! Tomoyo-chan! Where are you!"
Hikari knew this voice.
"Kero-chan! Tomoyo-chan! Li-kun!"
The voice was closer now. Then she saw it. Someone was coming. Hikari could see a light approaching. Within seconds, the person was now only a little ways away. Hikari made out the shape of her new friend Sakura. But this Sakura looked different. She was younger, by at least two or three years.
"How strange. I keep walking but I seem to get nowhere." Hikari heard Sakura say as she still approached. "Is anyone there?"
"KERO-CHAN! TOMOYO-CHAN! SOMEONE ANSWER ME!"
Suddenly Sakura tripped.
"Where is everyone?" young Sakura said as she was getting up. "Am I all alone?"
Hikari noticed that Sakura was now crying. Hikari was trying to understand. Was this a vision of something that already happened? Sakura was defiantly younger so it must be.
"Crying won't help. Tomoyo-chan and the others might be afraid in the pitch dark."
Sakura stood up and took out a small key that Hikari had recognised as the Clow Key. She had seen it in the videos of Sakura capturing cards.
"Key which hides the powers of the darkness reveal yourself to me. By our contract I, Sakura command you. RELEASE!" The Clow wand then appeared.
"I've decided to collect all the cards. I have to do my best!"
"What card would work?" Hikari watched the youthful Sakura close her eyes and concentrate. She seemed to be thinking about what card this was. Then all of a sudden… "...Dark"
The darkness around her went a foggy grey. Sakura was beaming. "That's it!" She exclaimed. But without another thought it went dark again. Sakura again went into thinking but realised something fast.
"Huh? If it was really dark I wouldn't be able to see myself. Why can I see myself?"
But before she could get further into her conclusion, her legs disappeared.
"What!? I can't see myself!"
It looked like she was going to cry again.
"I CAN'T CRY! I have to do my best! Even if I disappear!"
Sakura then smiled. "It'll be alright. It'll surely be okay."
Suddenly a bright light emerged from within the young Sakura.
"Light!"
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Hikari's eyelids fluttered open, revealing her deep chocolate colour eyes.
"Yume?"
The child of light looked around her. She seemed to be inside some sort of small closet. But that didn't make any sense. There were no closets in the digital world. And even if there were, why would she be in one? Hikari looked around a bit more and noticed a gap in the side of the room she was in. It was just big enough to fit herself through it. Did she come in here? Hikari tried to get up but found that she couldn't move. Something was holding her down. Hikari squirmed a bit so she could get a better view of her captor. She blushed deeply when she saw that the thing that held her was actually Takeru. He had his arms around her and appeared to be sleeping. Now Hikari regretted squirming around for that might have brought the boy she loved closer to awakening. She wanted to stay like this forever. For a while, Hikari just stared at her secret crush in silence. Taking in every expression as he slept. As she watched him, memories of what had happened came back to her. After the girl Hikari recognised as The Arrow card shot down Kabuterimon, Taichi ran to them and told them to run for the woods. But she couldn't remember what had happened to her 'ni-chan. Had he stayed in the clearing by the cave? She couldn't remember. All she could remember was running through the trees. Takeru and her had found a hollow tree with a gap in the side. The opening was large enough for both Takeru and her to fit through. So they were inside the tree? She couldn't remember falling asleep. Had she fainted or something? Hikari now realised that Takeru was beginning to move. She quickly closed her eyes so Takeru wouldn't think she was staring at him while he slept. That would be pretty embarrassing. Hikari could feel him shift his weight and his deep breathing had stopped. Hikari lay there for a few minutes, waiting for something to happen. Had Takeru fallen back to sleep? He must have since he wasn't making any sound. Hikari opened her eyes and was surprised to see a pair of sky blue ones staring back at her. Both her and Takeru began to blush a brilliant red. It took the two of them a few seconds but finally they realised what kind of position they were in and Takeru immediately let go of Hikari and they quickly backed away from each other. There wasn't any room inside the hollow tree and they didn't get very far apart before being stopped by the wall.
"I… I didn't think you were awake so I… I wanted… decided to let you sleep. I mean… yeah." Takeru stammered.
Hikari looked at him, still blushing. When she had opened her eyes, he was staring at her. She shrugged it off as a figure of her longing imagination.
"Where are the others?" Hikari asked
Takeru's red face began to turn back to normal as he tried to think where the others might be.
"Maybe they went back to the real world."
"But they wouldn't just leave us here without knowing what has happened. And besides, what about Kinomoto-san and the others?"
Takeru thought about that for a sec. "How about we go and look for them."
Hikari nodded and began to squeeze out of the space in the wall. She didn't remember it being this small when she entered. Then again, she was in a panic and couldn't remember lots of things. Like how far away they are from the clearing, or even which direction it was. Takeru looked to have even more trouble exiting the hollow tree. It made sense since he was a lot taller and more built. A stranger probably wouldn't even believe her if she told them she had once been taller than this boy. Now, at the age of 14, it would be a miracle if she could reach anywhere close to his height. After Takeru finally pulled himself through the opening, they began to look around.
"Do you remember where Piedmon's cave is?" Hikari asked
"I think it's this way." Takeru answered, but still not quite sure.
They walked straight for a few minutes and Hikari began to recognise some of the trees. They were going the right way! How lucky was that?! Takeru also seemed to be more certain and the two of them began walking faster. It turned out that they didn't run very far from the clearing before finding the hideout. Takeru and Hikari soon found their way back to the clearing where Piedmon's cave was. Hikari scanned the field and thanked Kami-sama for their luck. Piedmon was nowhere in sight. But then again, no one else was there either. Making sure to check everywhere, Hikari looked around again. Then something caught her eye. There, lying against the inside of the cave wall was Sakura.
"Takeru! Look!" Hikari gasped and pointed to the card mistress's motionless body.
Takeru looked over to where Hikari was pointing and also saw the girl lying there.
Both teens began running towards the sorceress, fearing the worst. Once they reached her, Takeru bent over to check her pulse.
"Is she…" Hikari hesitated.
"She's alive. She must have been knocked unconscious or something." Takeru answered softly.
"I hope she's alright…" Hikari whispered sadly.
"Let's bring her over on the grass. It would probably be more comfortable than this rock wall." Takeru suggested. Hikari agreed and Takeru easily lifted up the unconscious mistress and carried her over to the field, lying her down on the ground. As he put her down Hikari noticed something different about this grass. The grasses closer to the trees were all a healthy green. Of course in the digital world, that was the only way the grass was. But around the cave, the grass was turning brown and was dieing. Was there something wrong with certain area? Before putting much thought into the subject, Hikari heard someone yelling from the outside perimeter of the clearing. She looked up to see Sora jogging towards them. As she got closer, she noticed that Sora's eyes were red and puffy as if she was crying. Had something happened?
"Hikari-chan! Takeru-kun!" Sora yelled before finally reaching them.
"Sora-san, where are the others? What happened to Kinomoto-san?" Hikari asked.
"I… I saw it all. When we all split up, I ran to the edge and watched the whole thing."
"Watched what? What happened?"
"After you two ran into the woods, Piedmon took out one of those pink cards and made a tornado come in from out of nowhere. It was really strong and blew Kinomoto-san into the wall, knocking her unconscious. Then that Li boy came out from the cave. I think he ran in earlier to get his sword. Anyways, he got really angry after seeing Kinomoto-san hurt. He attacked Piedmon but couldn't get past his shield. Taichi-kun came over to help Li-kun. Hikari, Piedmon got them both. Piedmon got Taichi-kun!"
"He got oni-chan?" Hikari whispered, her eyes filling with tears.
Sora, who also looked like she was about to break into tears, nodded sadly.
"No! Not oni-chan!" Hikari yelled and started to cry. Without thinking, she went to the closest object in which would give her comfort. Of course, that would be Takeru who was sitting right beside her. Takeru looked flustered as Hikari swung her arms around him, burying her face into his shoulder. After a moment he regained himself and started patting Hikari on the back. Trying his best to calm her.
Now Sora was also crying. "First all our digimon, and now both Koushiro-kun and Taichi-kun! When is this going to end?!"
As Takeru was waiting for the girls to settle down, he realised something. "Sora? What about Kinomoto-san? Wouldn't Piedmon want to get rid of her?"
"He tried." Sora sniffed. "He tried many times to turn her into a key chain. Maybe that cloak stopped working or something because he just couldn't."
"That's strange…" Takeru mumbled.
"That reminds me. We have to get out of here. After trying to change Sakura, he hit her in the face and stomped into his cave. I think he might try to kill her. Maybe he went into the cave to get his swords."
"But why didn't you come out and get her. She's defenceless while she's unconscious." Takeru pointed out. Hikari was still sobbing into his shirt.
"I don't know why. I think I might have fallen asleep."
"You fell asleep? That's strange, so did we."
"Let's get Sakura out of here before Piedmon realises we are here and comes out of the cave."
"Don't you think he would have heard us by now? Maybe he went into the forest while we slept."
"Didn't you say he hit Kinomoto-san?" A muffled voice said out of Takeru's shirt. Hikari had stopped crying and was now just listening to their conversation.
"Yeah, he hit her in the face."
Hikari sat up and looked at Sakura.
"Then shouldn't she have a bruise or something?"
Sora also looked at Sakura's face. There were no marks on her face at all.
"That's strange… I remember him hitting her pretty hard."
As if on cue to the attention, Sakura's eyes fluttered open."
"Syaoran-kun?" Sakura mumbled. She looked up at the three digidestined. "Where is Syaoran-kun?"
"I… I'm sorry Kinomoto-san…" Hikari began but couldn't finish before Sakura hopped to her feet, running towards the cave.
"Matte! Piedmon is in there!"
"No he's not!"
"Chotto matte!" Hikari cried and ran after the card mistress, followed by Takeru.
"Takeru-kun!" Sora yelled.
Takeru stopped and turned around. "Yeah?"
"I'm going to start looking for the others. I'll be right over in that direction. Ok?" She said and pointed to an area towards the trees.
"That's a good idea. We'll meet you back over there as soon as we get Kinomoto-san out of that cave."
Sora nodded and Takeru continued into the cave.
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Well, how did you like it? I'm REALLY sorry I took such a long time to update. Actually, I've been writting a lot this past month. This chapter was originaly supposed to be longer but the next part I've written is sorta important and if I make a mistake it will mess up the rest of the story. I really wanted to update though so that's why it's short. Hopefull I'll get far enough into the story soon to decide about the next part.
I do not own Digimon or Card Captor Sakura...
Japanese Words:
(Yume) = Dream
(O/ni-chan) = Older brother
(Matte) = Wait
(Chotto matte) = Wait a minute
*~*~*~*~*
The dark haired girl with chocolate eyes looked around where she stood. But no matter how hard she tried, there was really nothing to see. It was so dark she couldn't even see her hand, which was two centimetres away from her face.
Suddenly she heard something. It sounded close but the voice seemed distant.
"Kero-chan! Tomoyo-chan! Where are you!"
Hikari knew this voice.
"Kero-chan! Tomoyo-chan! Li-kun!"
The voice was closer now. Then she saw it. Someone was coming. Hikari could see a light approaching. Within seconds, the person was now only a little ways away. Hikari made out the shape of her new friend Sakura. But this Sakura looked different. She was younger, by at least two or three years.
"How strange. I keep walking but I seem to get nowhere." Hikari heard Sakura say as she still approached. "Is anyone there?"
"KERO-CHAN! TOMOYO-CHAN! SOMEONE ANSWER ME!"
Suddenly Sakura tripped.
"Where is everyone?" young Sakura said as she was getting up. "Am I all alone?"
Hikari noticed that Sakura was now crying. Hikari was trying to understand. Was this a vision of something that already happened? Sakura was defiantly younger so it must be.
"Crying won't help. Tomoyo-chan and the others might be afraid in the pitch dark."
Sakura stood up and took out a small key that Hikari had recognised as the Clow Key. She had seen it in the videos of Sakura capturing cards.
"Key which hides the powers of the darkness reveal yourself to me. By our contract I, Sakura command you. RELEASE!" The Clow wand then appeared.
"I've decided to collect all the cards. I have to do my best!"
"What card would work?" Hikari watched the youthful Sakura close her eyes and concentrate. She seemed to be thinking about what card this was. Then all of a sudden… "...Dark"
The darkness around her went a foggy grey. Sakura was beaming. "That's it!" She exclaimed. But without another thought it went dark again. Sakura again went into thinking but realised something fast.
"Huh? If it was really dark I wouldn't be able to see myself. Why can I see myself?"
But before she could get further into her conclusion, her legs disappeared.
"What!? I can't see myself!"
It looked like she was going to cry again.
"I CAN'T CRY! I have to do my best! Even if I disappear!"
Sakura then smiled. "It'll be alright. It'll surely be okay."
Suddenly a bright light emerged from within the young Sakura.
"Light!"
*~*~*~*~*
Hikari's eyelids fluttered open, revealing her deep chocolate colour eyes.
"Yume?"
The child of light looked around her. She seemed to be inside some sort of small closet. But that didn't make any sense. There were no closets in the digital world. And even if there were, why would she be in one? Hikari looked around a bit more and noticed a gap in the side of the room she was in. It was just big enough to fit herself through it. Did she come in here? Hikari tried to get up but found that she couldn't move. Something was holding her down. Hikari squirmed a bit so she could get a better view of her captor. She blushed deeply when she saw that the thing that held her was actually Takeru. He had his arms around her and appeared to be sleeping. Now Hikari regretted squirming around for that might have brought the boy she loved closer to awakening. She wanted to stay like this forever. For a while, Hikari just stared at her secret crush in silence. Taking in every expression as he slept. As she watched him, memories of what had happened came back to her. After the girl Hikari recognised as The Arrow card shot down Kabuterimon, Taichi ran to them and told them to run for the woods. But she couldn't remember what had happened to her 'ni-chan. Had he stayed in the clearing by the cave? She couldn't remember. All she could remember was running through the trees. Takeru and her had found a hollow tree with a gap in the side. The opening was large enough for both Takeru and her to fit through. So they were inside the tree? She couldn't remember falling asleep. Had she fainted or something? Hikari now realised that Takeru was beginning to move. She quickly closed her eyes so Takeru wouldn't think she was staring at him while he slept. That would be pretty embarrassing. Hikari could feel him shift his weight and his deep breathing had stopped. Hikari lay there for a few minutes, waiting for something to happen. Had Takeru fallen back to sleep? He must have since he wasn't making any sound. Hikari opened her eyes and was surprised to see a pair of sky blue ones staring back at her. Both her and Takeru began to blush a brilliant red. It took the two of them a few seconds but finally they realised what kind of position they were in and Takeru immediately let go of Hikari and they quickly backed away from each other. There wasn't any room inside the hollow tree and they didn't get very far apart before being stopped by the wall.
"I… I didn't think you were awake so I… I wanted… decided to let you sleep. I mean… yeah." Takeru stammered.
Hikari looked at him, still blushing. When she had opened her eyes, he was staring at her. She shrugged it off as a figure of her longing imagination.
"Where are the others?" Hikari asked
Takeru's red face began to turn back to normal as he tried to think where the others might be.
"Maybe they went back to the real world."
"But they wouldn't just leave us here without knowing what has happened. And besides, what about Kinomoto-san and the others?"
Takeru thought about that for a sec. "How about we go and look for them."
Hikari nodded and began to squeeze out of the space in the wall. She didn't remember it being this small when she entered. Then again, she was in a panic and couldn't remember lots of things. Like how far away they are from the clearing, or even which direction it was. Takeru looked to have even more trouble exiting the hollow tree. It made sense since he was a lot taller and more built. A stranger probably wouldn't even believe her if she told them she had once been taller than this boy. Now, at the age of 14, it would be a miracle if she could reach anywhere close to his height. After Takeru finally pulled himself through the opening, they began to look around.
"Do you remember where Piedmon's cave is?" Hikari asked
"I think it's this way." Takeru answered, but still not quite sure.
They walked straight for a few minutes and Hikari began to recognise some of the trees. They were going the right way! How lucky was that?! Takeru also seemed to be more certain and the two of them began walking faster. It turned out that they didn't run very far from the clearing before finding the hideout. Takeru and Hikari soon found their way back to the clearing where Piedmon's cave was. Hikari scanned the field and thanked Kami-sama for their luck. Piedmon was nowhere in sight. But then again, no one else was there either. Making sure to check everywhere, Hikari looked around again. Then something caught her eye. There, lying against the inside of the cave wall was Sakura.
"Takeru! Look!" Hikari gasped and pointed to the card mistress's motionless body.
Takeru looked over to where Hikari was pointing and also saw the girl lying there.
Both teens began running towards the sorceress, fearing the worst. Once they reached her, Takeru bent over to check her pulse.
"Is she…" Hikari hesitated.
"She's alive. She must have been knocked unconscious or something." Takeru answered softly.
"I hope she's alright…" Hikari whispered sadly.
"Let's bring her over on the grass. It would probably be more comfortable than this rock wall." Takeru suggested. Hikari agreed and Takeru easily lifted up the unconscious mistress and carried her over to the field, lying her down on the ground. As he put her down Hikari noticed something different about this grass. The grasses closer to the trees were all a healthy green. Of course in the digital world, that was the only way the grass was. But around the cave, the grass was turning brown and was dieing. Was there something wrong with certain area? Before putting much thought into the subject, Hikari heard someone yelling from the outside perimeter of the clearing. She looked up to see Sora jogging towards them. As she got closer, she noticed that Sora's eyes were red and puffy as if she was crying. Had something happened?
"Hikari-chan! Takeru-kun!" Sora yelled before finally reaching them.
"Sora-san, where are the others? What happened to Kinomoto-san?" Hikari asked.
"I… I saw it all. When we all split up, I ran to the edge and watched the whole thing."
"Watched what? What happened?"
"After you two ran into the woods, Piedmon took out one of those pink cards and made a tornado come in from out of nowhere. It was really strong and blew Kinomoto-san into the wall, knocking her unconscious. Then that Li boy came out from the cave. I think he ran in earlier to get his sword. Anyways, he got really angry after seeing Kinomoto-san hurt. He attacked Piedmon but couldn't get past his shield. Taichi-kun came over to help Li-kun. Hikari, Piedmon got them both. Piedmon got Taichi-kun!"
"He got oni-chan?" Hikari whispered, her eyes filling with tears.
Sora, who also looked like she was about to break into tears, nodded sadly.
"No! Not oni-chan!" Hikari yelled and started to cry. Without thinking, she went to the closest object in which would give her comfort. Of course, that would be Takeru who was sitting right beside her. Takeru looked flustered as Hikari swung her arms around him, burying her face into his shoulder. After a moment he regained himself and started patting Hikari on the back. Trying his best to calm her.
Now Sora was also crying. "First all our digimon, and now both Koushiro-kun and Taichi-kun! When is this going to end?!"
As Takeru was waiting for the girls to settle down, he realised something. "Sora? What about Kinomoto-san? Wouldn't Piedmon want to get rid of her?"
"He tried." Sora sniffed. "He tried many times to turn her into a key chain. Maybe that cloak stopped working or something because he just couldn't."
"That's strange…" Takeru mumbled.
"That reminds me. We have to get out of here. After trying to change Sakura, he hit her in the face and stomped into his cave. I think he might try to kill her. Maybe he went into the cave to get his swords."
"But why didn't you come out and get her. She's defenceless while she's unconscious." Takeru pointed out. Hikari was still sobbing into his shirt.
"I don't know why. I think I might have fallen asleep."
"You fell asleep? That's strange, so did we."
"Let's get Sakura out of here before Piedmon realises we are here and comes out of the cave."
"Don't you think he would have heard us by now? Maybe he went into the forest while we slept."
"Didn't you say he hit Kinomoto-san?" A muffled voice said out of Takeru's shirt. Hikari had stopped crying and was now just listening to their conversation.
"Yeah, he hit her in the face."
Hikari sat up and looked at Sakura.
"Then shouldn't she have a bruise or something?"
Sora also looked at Sakura's face. There were no marks on her face at all.
"That's strange… I remember him hitting her pretty hard."
As if on cue to the attention, Sakura's eyes fluttered open."
"Syaoran-kun?" Sakura mumbled. She looked up at the three digidestined. "Where is Syaoran-kun?"
"I… I'm sorry Kinomoto-san…" Hikari began but couldn't finish before Sakura hopped to her feet, running towards the cave.
"Matte! Piedmon is in there!"
"No he's not!"
"Chotto matte!" Hikari cried and ran after the card mistress, followed by Takeru.
"Takeru-kun!" Sora yelled.
Takeru stopped and turned around. "Yeah?"
"I'm going to start looking for the others. I'll be right over in that direction. Ok?" She said and pointed to an area towards the trees.
"That's a good idea. We'll meet you back over there as soon as we get Kinomoto-san out of that cave."
Sora nodded and Takeru continued into the cave.
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Well, how did you like it? I'm REALLY sorry I took such a long time to update. Actually, I've been writting a lot this past month. This chapter was originaly supposed to be longer but the next part I've written is sorta important and if I make a mistake it will mess up the rest of the story. I really wanted to update though so that's why it's short. Hopefull I'll get far enough into the story soon to decide about the next part.