AN: wohoo I was able to update sooner than I had thought I would. Don't have much to say except the biol test wasn't too bad and I have that stupid trial day at work tomorrow.
I'll shut up now and let you all read on!

The Prophecy

Chapter Ten - Drowning


Sakura, Tomoyo, Syaoran and Eriol all piled into Eriol's car. Sakura hadn't even signed out - they didn't have the time, who knows what danger they might put other people in.

"Sakura are you sure this is the best idea?" asked Eriol.

Sakura just nodded.

Eriol pulled out of the hospital car park and onto the highway. The quickest way home was the best - at least that's what Sakura thought.

Sakura's head was in a jumble from everything that had happened over the last 12 hours. Syaoran had apologised to her, Yue had told her her destiny. Everything seemed to be moving to fast, she had barely had time for a breather to sort everything out.

The whole car was filled with a pensive silence, with everyone involved in his or her own thoughts, they didn't even realise the familiar buildings passing by as they zipped down the highway.

They pulled up outside Sakura and Tomoyo house. The four bundled out of the car and quickly into the house. There was no telling who was lurking in the bushes.

Sakura flopped on the sofa, glad to be home, she hadn't even had time to mourn the loss of her brother when something else was being forced upon her. 'mourn him later Sakura,' she thought to herself, 'you've got other things to do now, you'll have your time to mourn him later.'

Tomoyo and Eriol sat together on the other sofa, and Syaoran took the floor - being it was the only place left. They all sat there, still in silence. Barely a word had been muttered since they left the hospital.

"Hey guys" Sakura said in a quiet voice, but nevertheless breaking the silence, "I'm going to bed, where's everyone going to sleep?"

"Eriol can share my room" stated Tomoyo (not to do what you think you little hentai's - only because she needs comfort)

"Well I'll just sleep on the sofa" interrupted Syaoran before anyone could say anything else.

Sakura disappeared into her room, and came out in her pyjamas, a pair of grey baggy cotton pants and a black tank top. She was carrying a pile of duvets and pillows for Syaoran, and set about making up the sofa for Syaoran to sleep on.

"Hey Sa…Kinomoto - it's ok I'll do that" said Syaoran cursing himself for almost calling her Sakura.

"No Li it's ok I'll do it" replied Sakura, trying to take her mind off everything.

Syaoran watched as Sakura made up the sofa for him to sleep on. Eriol and Tomoyo had long since gone to bed, and he was just there flicking through the music channels when a song her really liked came on. Sakura was singing it softly in the background.


I'll be your dream
I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope I'll be your love
Be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly, madly, deeply do
I will be strong I will be faithful
'cause I'm counting on
A new beginning
A reason for living
A deeper meaning, yeah


Syaoran watched Sakura as she sang the song whilst making up the sofa. The light in the room made her seem almost angelic, her skin was smooth and creamy. Syaoran shook his head, he couldn't let himself be distracted.


I want to stand with you on
a mountain
I want to bath with you in the sea
I want to lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me


Sakura continued, unaware of Syaoran's watching eyes. This was one of her favourite songs, it always had been, ever since she and Kenjii had first started dating.


And when the stars are shining
brightly in the velvet sky,
I'll make a wish send it to heaven
Then make you want to cry
The tears of joy for all the
pleasure in the certainty
That we're surrounded by the
comfort and protection of
The highest powers
In lonely hours
The tears devour you


The song brought back sad memories of her and Kenjii, but she had long since moved on. The song was all that was left as a reminder of what they had once had.


I want to stand with you on
a mountain
I want to bath with you in the sea
I want to lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me


Syaoran was still watching Sakura, he saw her eyes sadden when this song came on, but yet she was still singing it softly. He remembered the first time he had heard this song. It was not long after he and Sakura had fallen out. But somehow it strengthened him and gave him hope. That which goes down has to come up - or something like that.


Oh can you see it baby?
You don't have to close your eyes
'Cause it's standing right here
before you
All that you need with surely come



I'll be your dream I'll be your wish
I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope I'll be your love
Be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly, madly, deeply do


The pair sat in silence for the rest of the song, Syaoran listening to Sakura singing it in the background, whilst dissolved in his own thoughts, Sakura singing it, trying to forget what she had been through..


I want to stand with you on
a mountain
I want to bath with you in the sea
I want to lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me.


Sakura finally finished making the sofa up, it had taken her along time, but her heart hadn't really ever been in it. She just needed something to do, sitting still let her think too much.

"Night Li" she said softly as she padded through to her bedroom.

"Night Sakura" he whispered back in a quiet voice so she could not hear him.

Sakura lay down in the darkness, she was physically and mentally exhausted, and for once she slept a peaceful dreamless sleep.

~*~

Sakura woke the next morning to the sound of pounding rain on the window. She crept out of her nice warm bed, and looked out to the darkened sky. There was a jagged fork of lightning, and then a thunder roll seconds after. Sakura jumped, ever since she had been little, thunderstorms had always scared her.

She crept through into the living room, Syaoran was still asleep on the sofa, and was 'gracefully' sprawled over it. Tomoyo and Eriol where still in bed. Sakura decided not to wake anyone. They all needed their rest.

She crept through into the kitchen and began to make a cup of tea. The kettle whistled loudly, as always, when the water had boiled. Sakura panicked, thinking she had woken everybody, but no one came into the kitchen.

Sakura carried her mug of tea back into her room. She sat there curled up in bed, trying so hard not to remember everything that had happened. She could feel the crystalline tears forming in the corner of her eyelids. But she blinked them back. There was no time to feel sorry for herself, or her losses. Greater things needed to be sorted out first.

She set about getting dressed, and ended up in a pair of black cords, a dark red long sleeved top and a thick black jumper. The change in the weather had happened so suddenly, and the chill shook her to the bones.

Sakura curled up on the edge of the other sofa, waiting for the rest of the house to wake. She didn't want to stay in her room and think, so she turned on some mind numbing television, with the volume low so as not to wake Syaoran.

The television was nothing more than a collage of colours as she flicked through the channels. Syaoran began to stir slightly, his eyes blinked open, and he rubbed them with the back of his hand.

"Hey" Sakura said softly, "I didn't wake you did I?"

"No, it's ok, I ought to get up anyways" he replied stretching.

Both sat there in mutual silence. Tomoyo and Eriol stumbled through about half an hour later. And Tomoyo was surprised to see that there was no tension between Sakura and Syaoran.

They all settled down to have some breakfast, as all of them had skipped out on meals over the last few days. Sakura and Tomoyo where clearing up the dishes and Eriol and Syaoran where chatting away in the corner.

"Sakura" asked Eriol " is there any chance we will be able to pop back to our apartment and grab some clothes and stuff."

Sakura nodded, "but I'll have to go with you and so will Tomoyo" she stated.

Eriol just nodded in reply, he knew why and wasn't going to argue with Sakura reasoning.

~*~

Syaoran opened the door to his and Eriol's apartment. His jaw nearly fell to the floor, the entire apartment had been completely ransacked, obviously the work of the people who had been after them.

Sakura gasped in shock at the state before them.

"Can we hurry up so we don't get back to find out apartment in this state?" asked Tomoyo, also shocked by the sheer brutality of the attack.

Syaoran and Eriol grabbed what they wanted and hurried out of the apartment, it no longer had a homely feeling to it, but more of an evil aura. Neither of them could wait to get out of there.

They walked along beside the river back to the girl's apartment. It was still raining quite heavily, and they where all huddled under a big umbrella. They had decided walking was a better option than driving, plus it wasn't that far from each house.

The river was fuller than normal, the effects of the rain where clearly showing. But it was so untimely for the rain to come so near to summer. The ground was dark and muddy and everybody's feet where soaked through.

Sakura slipped slightly on a patch of muddy ground, Syaoran grabbed her arm and prevented her from falling on her butt. Sakura blushed slightly as she muttered thanks to Syaoran. Tomoyo watched both of them from a short distance. They seemed to have changed so much, no longer where they sniping and arguing with each other, nor where they being particularly friendly either. But something had happened - and Tomoyo was going to grill Sakura over it later.

Sakura slipped again, but this time Syaoran was to later to catch her. She was falling backwards her arms flailing, she fell over a piece of protruding rock and plunged strait into the flowing icy river.

Sakura gasped as the icy water hit her face. It was so cold, so dark, so like a place she had been before. She felt her eyes sting from wanting to cry, and her chest heave from the lack of oxygen. She could feel her body being dragged along like an old worthless rag doll, and there was nobody there to save her this time.

She was slowly drowning, her limbs where feeling all detached and her head felt all light and dizzy.

'So this is what it's like to die' she thought.

A collage of her life passed before her eyes, she saw her dad, her dad's funeral, and her brother looking after her before she went to college. Finally moving out and living with Tomoyo in their own flat. Then her brothers death, and the darkness that surrounded her soon after. She saw Yue and her past that had happened so long ago. And just before darkness took her over she saw Syaoran, and was sorry that she had never apologised, and for all the mean bitchy things she had said over the years.

Then darkness engulfed her.

~*~ End chapter 10 ~*~


AN: dun dun dun - ok I know I left you on a cliffy! Sowwi. Will hopefully update by next Wednesday unless I can manage earlier.
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