Cry No More

-Shirubaa

~*~ Thanks to everyone who read my ficcie. ^^ very, very much appreciated ^^ anyways, since this part of my training for tomorrow's provincial I'll start it early then I usually do *cough cough* like three weeks from now XD anyways enough my annoying babbling. here's chapter nine! ~*~

Chapter Nine - Frustration in Paradise

It was early next morning, Sakura had finally dragged herself awake earlier then usual. 'I need to help Syaoran find whatever's after him.' She thought as she poured some milk into an empty glass cup. She glanced outside and smiled. It was a perfect day to spend outside, the sun was shining brightly, she could hear faint songs of the birds and the light scratch of the tree on her window.

"Ohayou." A voice grumbled behind her.

"Oh Syaoran!" Sakura smiled, watching his half asleep body as it struggled to sit onto the kitchen table chair. "I didn't notice that you were awake." A blush crept up on her face, remembering how she had entered her room, at the moment, Syaoran's, and watched his sleepy face. It had been awhile since she's seen it, ever since the time she had brought him home when he appeared out of no where. Guilt rushed through her as she remembered Eriol, she knew it was wrong, someway or another, but she couldn't help it. She had the sudden urge to see Syaoran's face, sleeping or wide awake; it was like a bee to a flower.

"It's okay; I don't think I'll be awake for awhile." Syaoran muttered, sleep still clouded his half closed eyes and his chestnut hair still ruffled out of place.

"Didn't get any sleep?" Sakura asked curiously, wanting to find out the cause of Syaoran's early morning grumpiness. She watched in amazement, as Syaoran Li, the one who was always up first, all dressed and ready for the day ahead, was just sitting there with a frown on his face. 'He's never grumpy in the morning,' she frowned inwardly, 'Maybe he was a bit untalkative, but never really. grumpy.'

"No I'm fine; it's just that some days I wake up feeling like this." Syaoran lied; he looked down at the plate that had just been placed in front of him. His amber orbs stared blankly at the pancakes with a touch of strawberry sauce; he didn't really want to tell Sakura what was really going on. It was the same reoccurring nightmare that he had been getting lately, him running in the endless tunnel, dark and cold, and when he finally spotted the light, he ran out a gray sky, lightening crashing violently as he looked at the horrific scene before him. Everyone he knew and loved was drenched with blood, then everything would just go completely black, and all he could see was a sword drenched in blood. Then after that he would just wake up, soaked with sweat.

"What's with the gaki this morning?" Touya asked, walking in scratching the back of his head and yawning.

"It's nothing Touya." Syaoran grumbled, not bothering to return Touya's deadly glare.

"Whatever." Touya muttered, and brushed him off. He picked up an already prepared plate of pancakes, and left the kitchen and flipped onto the television.

Soon after Sakura and Syaoran both finished their breakfast and Syaoran had gotten dressed, they were off in search of the unknown enemy that was after Syaoran.

~*~

Tomoyo and Eriol were comfortably sitting side by side on the couch, each sitting like a stiff statue not wanting to bother the person beside them.

Tomoyo yawned.

"Tired?" Eriol asked, smiling.

"Not really, just really tired of being stuck in this house for so long." Tomoyo answered, gazing at the ceiling.

"I know!" Eriol announced, a light bulb flicking above his head, "Let's go to my house, besides, I want to show you my backyard, it make be a perfect place for Sakura."

Tomoyo's heart fell when she saw the happiness and excitement that glowed inside Eriol's eyes. 'He really does love her.' She thought miserably, 'But I guess if the ones I love are happy, maybe, I have to sacrifice my happiness, let go of my selfishness and let them be.' It was a new revelation that occurred into her mind; she thought maybe, if she kept thinking this, maybe, just maybe she would survive through this without killing herself. "Sure." She answered, pulling out her jacket from the closet.

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"Do you feel anything Syaoran?" Sakura asked, cautiously looking in all directions. They were near the park, the exact same place where Syaoran had collapsed.

"No, do you?"

"Neither." Both Syaoran and Sakura were scanning the area, Sakura clutching into her staff, which was kept hidden in its key form, where Syaoran had transformed his sword into a smaller one, for better hiding purposes.

"Let's move on." Sakura signed, then turned to Syaoran and smiled, "I'm going to help you hunt down this 'thing' until the very end. So let's go!"

She grabbed Syaoran's hand, which reacted with a blush, and dragged him off.

~*~

"Wow." Tomoyo sighed in awe, "It's amazing." She stared in amazement as the scene before her blew her away. She was standing in Eriol's backyard, it was filled with many cherry blossom trees, everywhere you turn you would see another sakura tree standing in front of you. The sweet aroma of cherry blossoms filled her nostrils, making her feel as she was, for a brief moment; somewhere she could be blessed with eternal happiness.

"I thought maybe Sakura would like this place." Eriol said, interrupting Tomoyo's daydream.

"Uh. hai!" Tomoyo jumped, immediately answering Eriol's question. She blushed furiously, the turned in the opposite direction before he noticed her.

"Hey Tomoyo." Eriol whispered.

"Hai." she whispered back. Her heart thumping so loud, she wanted to just disappear before Eriol figured out anything.

"Syaoran." Eriol's voice became quieter, "What does he mean to Sakura?"

Tomoyo immediately stopped herself from blurting out everything to Eriol, if it wasn't enough, she loved him, she didn't want to be the one that caused her best friend pain. Even though Sakura and her weren't acting like best friends lately, she still cared for her best friend, 'All I want is for everyone to be happy, even if I'm the one in pain.' Something whispered in her mind. "Don't worry. I'm sure Sakura feels the same way about you, nothing can come in between you two." She blurted out, wanting to kick herself afterwards.

"That's good to hear." Eriol smiled, "You understand me right?"

"Of course." Tomoyo grinned back.

"So what do you think?" Eriol asked his arm extended towards the scene before them.

"I think she'll love it."

~*~

"I can't believe it." Syaoran yawned, "We searched all day, and the aura didn't even appear once."

They had spent most of the day searching in every area that could have been a possible spot for the aura to show itself, but nothing appeared. Both of them would just walk through an area in silence, their eyes searching cautiously for any signs. Now they sat on the bench in a park across town, sitting quietly, complaining of their failed mission, and relaxing in the mid afternoon sun.

"Don't worry Syaoran." Sakura tried to sound optimistic, "It will show up. Maybe not now, but if we keep on trying, we'll find it."

"Okay." Syaoran sighed, smiling as he spotted an ice cream stand, "Hey, how about I get an ice cream for you?"

"You don't need to do that." Sakura smiled back lightly, "I can handle the day without an ice cream."

"You always loved ice cream before. come on, it's the least I can do after you spent the day searching for nothing." Syaoran insisted.

"Fine. I can't resist a good ice cream anyway." Sakura laughing, giving into Syaoran's irresistible charm.

"What kind do you want?" Syaoran asked, sounding like a small little boy heading for the candy store.

"Strawberry."

"Okay, I'll be back." Syaoran ran off, noticing that the ice cream stand had changed locations to the other side of the street.

Sakura sat there, alone, and stretched out her legs in front of her. She smiled, 'Well I guess there are some parts that don't ever change."

Suddenly a strange sensation passed through her whole body, her head perked up, and she held her staff, still in its key form, tightly.

"Sakura." a voice whispered in the wind, sending chills down her back.

'The aura.' Sakura concluded her eyes widen as she noticed a huge water based blast come towards her.

It was like a missile, except it was powered and covered with blue liquid, giving off amazing strength and force. It was after her. It was shaped like a cylinder, water swirled immensely around it. It seemed like the water was turning so fast, if it had hit something, it would definitely pierce through them easily.

Sakura immediately called her star, a natural instinct in situations like this.

"Key with the power of darkness, Show your true form, By the power of my star, I, Sakura, command you to release!"

A glow emitting from her palm, her staff began to grow, growing into a lengthy stick, with a glimmering star on top.

She ran quickly to the other side of the park, but frowned when the water power blast turned around from its original course and headed straight back at Sakura, In that process, its side whipped by a tree, causing it to fall down on to the ground creating a loud crash.

"Jump!" she called, her shoes seemed to sprout light pink wings, giving her the power to jump as high as she wanted.

Right when the water missile was right at her face, she jumped from it, and jumped to the other. But exactly what had happened before, it reconfigured its route.

'What is this thing?' Sakura asked herself, frustrated, 'It seems to know my every move!' She ran past the trees, hearing the trees behind her thump to the ground as the water orb was drawing near.

'You baka.' Sakura wanted to kick herself in the head, 'Of course!'

'Since I can't summon a card before it kills me.' "Loop!" Sakura called, created a large red, glowing line before her.

The water missile seemed to be turned right around when it passed through the red boundary.

'Try getting me by that.' She thought, 'Now to finish this off.' noticing it being sent back around. Sakura whipped out a card quickly, just when it was turning around and called, "Freeze!"

A large ice-like dragon burst out of the Sakura card, and blasted icicles at the water blast. The water missile was frozen in its place, it was like a mirror you could see your reflection reflecting off of it. "Windy!" she called, her voice sounding somewhat weary. A white spirit came out of the card, holding out its hands out towards it and charging a blasting a large gust of wind, it blew the frozen water missile into pieces.

'What was that?' Sakura panted, her chest heaving slowly up on and down. She was surprised by the sudden attack; it had been awhile since anything had come after her.

"Sakura!" she heard Syaoran's voice drawing closer, "Is something wrong?" he asked, noticing that her staff had been summoned.

"Something just attacked me, it was strange." Sakura averted her attention to Syaoran, "It seemed to know my every move."

"You felt the aura didn't you." Syaoran whispered.

She nodded.

"It's here. I wasn't sure. but now I'm positive that its here." Syaoran murmured.

"Let's get back." Sakura chirped, breaking their moment of seriousness, "I'm sure everyone's waiting, since its almost dinner."

Syaoran nodded in agreement, and they both walked back to Sakura's house in silence.

'Whatever that was. I'm sure there's a lot more where that came from.' Sakura thought, everything in her mind reeling furiously.

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