Chapter 1
Hold Me Tight:
A Cardcaptors Story
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**Flashback**
Talking to self
Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptors, nor do I own the characters. Darn I wish I did, but I am just writing this to keep me calm at school. Which is now over!! Yay! Happy, happy, joy, joy! Here is the first chapter! Have fun and I hop you like it. It might get a little boring near the middle so stick with me. Please!!!! It's my first fanfic, for Cardcaptors anyway... Ok on with the fanficJ.
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Sakura: Wow! Am I going to love this fic?
Me: You might.
Syaoran: It better not suck. And I better not die! Or you will regret it.
Me: eep I don't know if you will or not. Ducking head under desk
Sakura: Syaoran behave. This is her first fanfic. Be nice.
Syaoran: blushes crimson red Uug. Fine!Sakura: whining C-mon, c-mon! Lets get on with the fic.
Me: stares at Sakura
Sakura: squealing C-MON! Syaoran tell her to start!
Me: OK! OK! I'm starting! Geez!
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"Ahhh!" Screamed a ten-year-old girl.
"Move out of the way!" yelled a voice form behind another girl with long violet hair. "Move out of the WAY!!" screeched the male voice again.
"No! Li! I will not let you hurt her!" yelled the girl with long black-violet hair. Her eyes filled with tears, guarding her best friend. "Go away! And don't touch her anymore!" she threatened.
"Ach! Fine I'll go! But I'll be back tomorrow to get those cards," he stated before he tuned his back and walked away.
The bright blue-eyed girl turned to her friend, "Sakura? Are you okay?" she asked her friend worriedly, hoping for her to turn around and look at her.
The honey brown hair girl jumped as she turned hoping that it wasn't Li. Her hands were over her ears so she couldn't hear any more shouting, and her emerald green eyes were shut. She opened one of her eyes and saw a girl with a knee length, bright blue dress on. "I'm sorry Tomoyo," the girl said crying with tears streaming down her face like there was no tomorrow. "I wouldn't let him take the cards away from me. I'm so scared of him, Tomoyo! Help keep him away from me!" Tomoyo helped her friend to her feet and they went to go to find Sakura's older brother.
The boy was standing around the corner. He heard what she had said. It hurt him, but he had to do it. Though it did not hurt him as mush as it hurt her, he turned to walk away, and then a highschooler picked him up. Though Syaoran did not recognize him, Sakura and Tomoyo were right behind the teenaged boy. "Is this the guy?" they both nodded their heads, and he turned his head to the boy. "You do NOT pick on my sister, kid!" yelled the teenaged brother, guarding his little sister and her friend.
Syaoran did the best he could to get loose, but nothing worked. He decided to settle down, and then maybe the teenaged boy would let him go. Sakura's older brother and the brown-eyed boy glared at each other for a couple of minutes. Sakura was still crying, thinking of what Li had said.
**Flashback**
"Kinomoto, I need to talk to you. Out at the park," Syaoran said keeping his cool, almost losing it.
"Oh, okay," answered Sakura. After school they walked to the Penguin Park. They walked silently to the park keeping on her eyes pealed for any warning. She didn't know if this was an attack or not. She looked at the boy she was following and saw someone running towards them from the corner of her eye, and looked over her left shoulder. The figure was faint but Sakura could make out whom it was. Syaoran looked over at Sakura and saw her looking at something from a distance; he too then looked over his right shoulder. There they both saw Tomoyo running to them, yelling Sakura's name. Syaoran grabbed Sakura's wrist and pulled her to the park quickly finding a hiding spot. He quickly covered Sakura's mouth with his hand and she yelped surprised at this, but kept quiet. After Tomoyo passed he whipped Sakura around and said he wanted the Clow Cards.
She quickly said 'No' and tried to run for it, but he kept a firm grip on her wrist. She screamed and had fear in her eyes as she stared at him. She then grabbed onto his wrist to try and pry him off and run away. By now they are both standing in a bush and as she screamed, Tomoyo hared this, and ran to get Touya. When she got there she yelled his name and quickly told him what happened, and tried to dash back to the park, but Touya grabbed her arm and asked Tomoyo if she wanted a ride on his motorcycle. She nodded her head quickly, and they were off to the park. "Wait for us to come around the corner, or wait till you see a boy with brown hair and light brown eyes with the boys schools uniform on," Tomoyo said convincing Touya to stay.
Tomoyo easily found Sakura and Syaoran. She saw her best friend in pain because of that boy, and glared at him. She shouted at the top her lungs, "STOP THAT LI!" But he didn't hear her.
"Ahhhhh!" screamed Sakura. Tomoyo instantly jumped in front of Sakura to protect her from Li.
"Move out of my way!" Yelled Syaoran. "Move out of the way!" he shouted again, but Tomoyo turned her back on him to help her friend up. Syaoran tried to move Tomoyo out of the way, but she held her ground. He then shoved her down, and she slid on the ground for three feet. As she got up, she stared at Syaoran with fear, then stared at Sakura hoping she would move, but Sakura looked paralyzed, Tomoyo then got up and ran and knocked him over with her shoulder, and quickly turned to Sakura.
When Li got up, Tomoyo turned around, held up her arms to guard her friend on the ground, and shouted at the top of her lungs, "NO, LI! I will not let you hurt her!" Tomoyo was on the verge of crying and slapped him. She never thought someone could be that cruel.
He finally saw that she was really angry; eyes glaring at him, and a mean look on her face saying that she would kill him if he does this again, then stared down at Sakura. He saw her covering her ears and her eyes were shut. She flinched. He saw the two girls were scared of him. Li Syaoran tuned around and agreed with Tomoyo, "Ack! Fine I'll go. But I will be back tomorrow for those cards," and walked away.
** End Flashback**
Sakura was on the verge of wailing harder. Tomoyo was trying to calm her down before she got too bad. Touya looked back and saw his sister crying. He turned back to Li and said, "Stay away from her, or you will see your teeth on the floor!" he whispered to Li so the girls couldn't hear him. He then dropped the kid and picked up his little sister. He carried her to where his bike was; he then set her on the bike. "Tomoyo do you want a ride home?" asked Touya worried, thinking that kid would pull the same stunt on her if she wasn't careful.
"No, that's ok I'll wait for my bodyguards to pick me up here. Thanks anyway," she answered her friends brother's question. " Go on I'll call my house right now to make sure that they are home.
Yes, come pick me up at Penguin Park. Yes, ok then. Je ne," and she hung up the phone. "You don't need to wait for me to get picked up. Get Sakura home."
"Are you sure you don't want me to wait?" he said putting on his helmet and then putting on Sakura's helmet as well.
"I'm sure I'll be ok. Don't worry they'll be here soon. You have no clue how fast they drive," she ended with a wide smile, sounding impressed.
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Sakura settled down and Touya's making dinner while questioning his little sister at the same time, "Sakura, are you sure he didn't hurt you? I'll be there next time. He won't do that again. I promise," the teenaged, black-haired boy said, trying to comfort his little sister.
"I'm sure Tomoyo and I will never leave each others side again." She told her brother so he would feel better. "All he said was that he wanted to talk to me. Touya, I promise I'll stay at Tomoyo's side all day tomorrow," her emerald green eyes welling up with tears. "I'll be just fine tomorrow," she said in a whisper, for only her self to hear.
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By the next day she did just as she said she was going to do. The honey brown hair girl stayed next to Tomoyo the entire day. "Sakura?" asked Tomoyo, whispering.
"Hmmm?"
"Can I go over to you house today? I mean I'll call my bodyguards to come and pick me up there," the violet-eyed girl asked with concern. She didn't want that to happen again. She wanted her best friend safe from that Li kid.
"I'm sure you can. Touya said that he'd be home after soccer practice. So, yeah, you can come over." She answered her friends question simply
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Frowning, Syaoran was walking home slowly with Meilin at his side. He wasn't sure why he had done what he had done at the park yesterday. At first he was sure that he was doing the right thing, the when he saw how sad and how scared she was, he suddenly wasn't sure that what he did was the right thing. He hoped Sakura would forgive him soon. He never wanted to do that in the first place, but he knew he had to do it sometime soon 'cause Meilin would've rang his neck if he didn't try to take the cards from the Mistress. "Syaoran? Are you okay? …Syaoran? Syaoran!" Meilin went from concerned to trying to get his attention. After three minutes of trying to get his to get his attention, she stopped in the middle of the road for no reason.
After ten feet, Syaoran turned and asked, "What's the matter, Meilin?"
"You are Syaoran! I used up three minutes of my breath to get your attention, and apparently I finally got it," Meilin looked at him concerned, and ran up to him and asked, "What's the matter, Syaoran? You're not yourself."
Syaoran didn't answer. He didn't want to tell Meilin that he yelled at Sakura yesterday night. He didn't want to tell Meilin why he didn't come home till late that night. 'Meilin may not be Sakura's friend, but she'll yell at me for yelling at Sakura, I know she'll scold me as soon as she finds out,' he told himself. After that he had a hard time talking to Sakura unless it was about the Clow Cards or homework.
Meilin never found out that Syaoran yelled at Sakura, OR that behind the reason for him coming home really late that night…
And so we jump to eight years later, when Sakura, Syaoran, Meilin, and Tomoyo are all friends, where they all care for one another except for certain times when they want to be left alone.
Eight Years LaterSyaoran hadn't yet told Sakura how he felt about her yet. She would ask him why he'd be all red, but he told her it was nothing. Syaoran was just walking around when the group stopped and starred at Sakura. She could sense that there was danger. Syaoran walked a bit more and then stopped himself. "Huh?!" The honey brown haired girl gasped. "Syaoran, do you sense that? …Syaoran?!" yelled the girl, with honey brown hair.
Syaoran's eyes had turned pitch black. He attempted to steal the key necklace from Sakura, but she jumped back from him confused, standing there staring at him. It looked like, to Sakura, that he was a totally different person. She couldn't sense him, she could only sense black magic, and it scared her. "Syaoran, what's wrong with your eyes?!" she asked suddenly. He ran towards her and pushed her over, "Syaoran!" She screamed starring up at him, as soon as she found her balance, confused. She was almost in tears…
Then he blinked. He was confused by what happened, he looked around and saw two girls starring at him. He then thought Sakura was with them, but he couldn't find her. He then gave Meilin and Tomoyo a look, to which he thought it would swipe their looks off of their faces, but it didn't. He then looked into their eyes and saw them look down at something. Syaoran grasped, "What happened?" he said looking at Sakura, and moving closer to her.
Sakura backed away from him, and then she looked up at him, and she could see his eyes and saw they were normal. They were these beautiful amber eyes she'd remember, not those cold dark ones. "St…ay…… away… from…… me," she stuttered. "There is something wrong, I can sense it," she stood suddenly and ran off toward the strange but familiar power.
"What did it do? All I remember was walking with Sakura at my side," the two girls gave him a look, "Honest!" he fell onto his knees and starred at his hands for a second, and then looked up at Tomoyo and Meilin looking for an answer.
They looked at each other and said in unison, "You don't remember attacking Sakura?!" They saw him looking surprised and then he sensed what Sakura sensed earlier before she ran off. He snapped his head up with fear in his eyes as he heard someone shout 'Water'. He looked toward Sakura had disappeared and he too sensed there was a really big power yet familiar, near by, and Sakura was fighting it!
"Sakura!" he shouted in a whisper, and dashed off toward Sakura was.
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Sakura had released 'The Water' again, " Water! Release and Dispel!" her wand came down hard on a card and a blue light of energy came splashing from out of the card. She then saw 'Water' turn against her and slammed her against a tree. She stood up and was shaky for a minute and shouted, "Windy! Release and Dispel!" before she could blink, that card too was turned against her. 'The Windy' came back at her and picked her up in her wind and flew her up into the sky. She thought to herself that she was maybe100ft in the air. She turned her head and saw Syaoran running to where she was suppose to be. She then felt herself fall 10ft, 10ft, 5ft, and she hit a tree unconscious.
Syaoran finally got there and he saw her in the tree near him. He could see that she looked pale. He then started to climb towards her. Being careful not make a mistake while he was climbing. He then got to her side, and he put her over his shoulder and started to climb down and out of the tree. He sat her down on the ground to look at her face. He then looked ahead and sensed that the card was gone. He looked back down at the girl in his arms. She opened up one of her emerald green eyes, " 'The Imitate'…" then she said faintly and passed out. The card was stunned and started to transform itself back to the card state.
"No! Sakura do not pass out. It's going into its physical form for you to capture it. C-mon Sakura, wake up," said Syaoran trying to wake up Sakura. Then he stopped trying to wake her up, he noticed The Imitate lowering its self to the position the card mistress was in.
'The Imitate' didn't mean to hurt the card Mistress, so it imitated what the card Mistress was doing, laying down in Syaoran's lap, with his arms around her. It then turned back into a clow card. The floating card then slid into the Mistress's hands lying in Syaoran's lap. Syaoran was confused he didn't know what to do. He then put his hand over Sakura and pulled her closer to him, making it into a hug. Though Syaoran didn't know it, he was healing her wounds. "Syao…ran?" she said weakly.
'Huh?" he jumped back a bit and looked down and he saw her looking in the eyes. "Hmmm?" he answered quickly. He picked her up into his arms and started walking towards where he left Tomoyo and Meilin. Syaoran moved her closer to him to keep her warm.
"Where …are we… going?" she asked weakly, staring at him, her eyes half shut.
"I'm taking you home, Sakura. I am taking you home," he answered. 'Now how am I going to get past her bother? I know I will think of an idea," he told himself, still thinking of how he was thinking of a way to get past her elder brother, he kept walking.
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Touya was twenty-three, and he didn't live by himself. He remembered himself saying, "I will never leave your side Sakura. Never,' now all of a sudden she acted like she was his rival, the gaki, the kid that hurt his sister eight years ago; he knew she liked him, but he knew he would never get used to the fact that his sister didn't need him any more. He suddenly looked down and saw the food he was suppose to be cooking.
"Touya? Are you going to cook or burn our dinner?" asked Mr. Kinomoto, concerned about the food on the stove and about the look on Touya's face. Then he took over the dinner. "Wow! That was some deep thought if you forgot about dinner like that." Mr. Kinomoto said surprised.
"Gomen…" said the teenaged boy surprised. "Gomen, I didn't mean to go into never land…" then was cut off by the doorbell. "SAKURA!!!!" he shouted. "Where is Sakura? Isn't she home yet?"
"No. Actually. I don't think she ever came home from school," said Mr. Kinomoto calmly.
Touya had an angry look on his face, and rushed to the front door. He whipped it open and saw Li Syaoran holding his sister. Syaoran walked into the house with Sakura, walked right past Touya, and set her on the couch. Syaoran walked past him again and said, "Sakura has been through a lot. Please don't scold her, Touya," he said, trying not to look into the Elder brother's eyes. "No. I did not do anything to her. I'll let myself out now. Je ne." With that he left, closing the door behind him. Touya looked confused, he was left speechless. He didn't know what to say. He turned to his dad looking for an answer, but he saw he wasn't going to get one because he looked just as shocked, as he looked
"What happened?" asked Touya and Sakura's dad together. Mr. Kinomoto turned to see Sakura and looked back at Touya, he was stunned to see Sakura, but confused as to why Syaoran brought her home in his arms.
"Syaoran…" said Sakura weakly in her sleep, and as she said that, a tear rolled down her cheek. Touya and his dad went over to the couch. Touya leaned over and picked up his little sister. "Mmmm," she wailed waking up. "Whoa! How'd I get here?" She questioned. "Where am I?" she asked her sight still blurry.
"Your at home," answered Touya quietly. "That gaki brought you home. Where have you been?!" he asked frantically. "We herd the doorbell ring and realized you weren't home. Then I opened the door and saw that 'gaki' holding you! What happened Sakura?" as he kept questioning her, he realized she was out cold and finished at, "You scared us Sakura," he then looked at his dad, and then carried his baby sister to her room. Touya had the worried look on his face, then looked down at his sister and saw she was asleep. He then had a grin on his face. 'Gomen ne, Sakura, I didn't mean to yell. Forgive me.'
"Hmmm, Syaoran…" Touya looked at her.
'She looks like she's having a nightmare, and she whined that gaki's name.'
"What are you doing?! Syaoran!!" She said in her sleep, and then she woke up in cold sweat. " AHHHH!!!" screamed Sakura. She had startled her brother out of his skin. She noticed that she was in her bed.
Touya ran to his sister's side, "What's the matter, Sakura?" He asked frantically, "You're hot," he said feeling her head, "I think you should stay home tomorrow …"
"NO!! I- …I can't," she cut him off, then stuttered, "I- I have …a …a project tomorrow. I have to go tomorrow no matter what." She told her brother hoping he would fall for it.
"Sakura …" there was a sudden pause, "Go to bed. You have to go to school and I have to work tomorrow. And if anything happens, I'll be right there for you. Okay?" He sounded really, really protective of her, but he knew she always had Syaoran.
"Touya," she began, "it's okay for you to worry about me, but I'll be okay. Don't worry about it," she knew she was hurting her brothers' pride, but he has to let her go sooner or later. "Gomen ne, Touya. I didn't" she saw him leaving her room, "Touya. Please don't go …"
"You love him don't you?"
"Who? Syaoran?" she answered with a blush. She saw Touya and, "I think I do. I am not quite sure how I feel yet, but…"
Before she could finish, "He does, you know. He told me to say goodbye to you as he left the house. He looked more worried than me. I mean, he's not going anywhere but to his apartment. And he told me not to yell at you," Touya said.
Sakura had blinked at her brother confused and noticed he was talking normal. "I- …I never realized it." (For real she didn't know what she was feeling.) But she knew that since her dream about him before he came to Japan. Something about him made her blush in front of him whenever they were near.
"Get to bed. You're up early tomorrow. I'll be back to my old self tomorrow morning. Night," he finished with a grin from ear to ear. This was because he was worried about her.
"Night Touya."
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"Syaoran. Syaoran," Sakura wined in her sleep.
She saw Syaoran in his green chinese costume, and also starring at her. "Syaoran, what's the matter with your eyes? Syaoran? " She saw his eyes, and looked for his warm beautiful amber eyes but didn't find them. Instead they were as cold as winter, and they looked very distant.
Syaoran jumped into the air and leapt to her side. Sakura took two, three steps back on top of some kind of roof of a building. She could see she was wearing her high school uniform, light blue jacket with a white turtleneck, and a black skirt, also with white knee socks with her black shoes. "Syaoran? I-It's me... Sakura. Please answer, Syaoran! Please," she saw herself reach for his hand, but he knocked it away from himself and he lifted his sword and started to run at her, and then...
"Huh?" she grasped. 'What was that? Was it a premonition? OR was it just a dream, an evil dream about Syaoran.' "No, Syaoran can't be evil," she whispered to herself. "Kero?" nothing happened. "What time is it?" she paused till she could focus her eyes to her alarm clock. "Only seven? Wow! I'm up early. School doesn't start till nine. I've got plenty of time." She got dressed and walked silently down the stairs, careful not to wake anyone.
Downstairs she found Touya already up and eating breakfast, "Morning Touya."
"Morning Kaiju," he said with a huge grin and looking at his little sister.
"I AM NOT A MONSTER!!!!!" she shouted waking their dad on the couch, who couldn't sleep upstairs in his room.
"What was that noise," Fujitaka asked with a yawn. He looked down at Sakura, and she looked at Touya, and he stared at both of them, then their dad broke the silence, "Touya how many times have I told you to keep your voice down? And stop calling your sister names?!"
"But, ……Dad," he started, and glared at the 'So Called Angel' at his right.
"No buts, Touya. Stop calling her names; after all you are twenty-three years old. Why can't you stop?" he asked confused. He turned and went out of the kitchen and went up to his room to get ready for the day.
"Syaoran…Syaoran," he began with a grin and acting as much as possible like a girl, "Where are you …'Syaoran'?" He said with his mouth full with his breakfast.
Sakura blushed crimson and slapped him really hard on the back, which caused him to choke and cuffed up his food, Sakura quickly screamed 'goodbye' to her dad and ran as fast as she go, with Touya chasing her. "Dad said as long as you make fun of me, I can do the same," she was laughing really hard, and skating out of the door.
"Why I otta!!" was the last thing Sakura herd out of Touya's mouth, before she closed the door.
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After putting everything she doesn't need in her locker, she went to her classroom. Practically skipping to class, she opened the door to her classroom and walked in. Sakura was wearing her light blue jacket with a white turtleneck, and her skirt is down to two inches above her knees. She was also wearing white knee socks with black dress shoes. "Mornin'!" Sakura shouted in a happy voice.
"Morning," replied Tomoyo, Nako, Rika, and Chiharu in unison.
"Wow, Sakura. You look really hyper." Tomoyo leaned over to Syaoran and, "Looks like Kero didn't have to wake her up this morning," she said with a smile, and then standing up to talk with her friend that just came in to the classroom.
"Hey where did she go? Sak- Ah," all of a sudden Syaoran was clobbered by Sakura, as she hugged him from behind, "Don't do that! Why are you so hyper?" he asked.
"I just had the most funniest morning. Touya just got yelled at because of what I did." She could see that Tomoyo and Syaoran looked confused and started with, "He called me a monster, and I yelled at him. Then dad woke up from the couch and yelled at Touya," she said laughing. Sakura still had her arms around Syaoran's neck and whispered, only for him to hear, "Arigatou, Syaoran, for taking me home last night. You should've seen his face last night when he took me to my room," she finished and stood up letting go of Syaoran.
"That's why you were all happy this morning, huh, Sakura?" asked Syaoran.
"Yup!" she said with a big grin.
"Sakura? Do you think you can come over after school tomorrow?" Tomoyo asked her friend in a low whisper.
"Yeah, why? Something the matter?" Sakura asked worriedly. "I'll have to ask my dad to see if it's all right. I bet it'll be ok Tomoyo," she whispered back. "I won't get home till late tonight because of cheerleading competition. So… I'll let you know at school tomorrow," Sakura added with her regular voice.
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"Ya' know, Syaoran, you didn't have to stay after just to walk me home," she told him as they entered the 'King Penguin Park'.
"Yeah, I know, but..." there was an odd silence, "but have you been getting these strange dreams lately? I know weird of me asking, but have you?" he asked stuttering.
"Yes actually I have," there was a pause. Sakura stopped walking and dropped her head, "Syaoran I can see you when I sleep, but you aren't you. I call your name, but you don't answer me," she dropped to the ground looking for air. 'Why am I crying?' She asked herself.
"Sakura..." he walked over to her and knelt down and hugged her. "Sakura, I'm sorry if I did anything in your dream..."
"No. You didn't do anything. You stood there for a couple minutes, then you..." she started sobbing into Syaoran's shoulder. "You..."
"What did I do, Sakura, please tell me," he said as gentle as ever.
She lifted her head up from his shoulder and, "You started running at me with your sword... and... I am so scared of going back to sleep. I've been up for who knows how long, I maybe got a couple of hours in. Every time I go back to sleep the vision or dream wakes me up again," she said frantically.
"Then the last thing I remember was falling off of a building and you just standing there, sta-starring. Syaoran please don't leave me alone." She cried and fell into his lap whispering something that sounded like, "Please don't. I'm scared," and fell limp in his arms. Syaoran turned her over, and noticed that she fell asleep.
Syaoran picked her up and started walking to his apartment. He suddenly stopped and turned around and found Tomoyo behind the gate that leaded into the park. Syaoran gave her one look that said 'tell her dad she's at your place'. Tomoyo then nodded and walked off. Syaoran turned and walked away from the park.
'Gomen ne Sakura, if I hurt you at all anytime soon. I hope I can be there when ever you need me,' he told her in his mind.
"Hmm," Sakura whined in Syaoran's arms moving closer to him to get warmer. "Syaoran..." He looked down at the angel in his arms and blushed a crimson red. Syaoran walked about five minutes more when he got to an apartment building, walked in, and went up to the tenth floor. He walked down to the end of the hall and managed to unlock his door with Sakura in his arms. He walked in, noting Meilin wasn't home, and walked into his room and set the sleeping girl down on his bed.
"Man I can tell this is going to be a long night," he said to no one in particular.
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"Stop! Syaoran no! Stay away from me!" shouted Sakura as Syaoran was approaching her. "SYAORAN!!!!" she screamed.
"AH!" She woke taking deep breaths of air, "Where am I?" she questioned herself. Sakura got up and walked to the door, opened it, and noticed the T.V. was on. She looked all over the room, but she didn't find anyone. She heard a groan from the couch, and she grasped and ran back onto Syaoran's bed. "Where am I?" she asked again. She saw that it was eight o' clock and herd a noise from the door.
"Are you awake?" asked a gentle teen's voice. He was now peeking into the room to check on her.
"Syaoran, is that you? Where am I?" she asked the teen standing at the bedroom door.
"Yes, its me, and you are at my place. I hope you don't mind you collapsed outside in my lap," he said walking over to the bed, "then I picked you up and brought you here. Tomoyo must've been walking around cause I saw her and she saw you in my arms, so she knows where you are. Tomoyo gave me the look 'Don't do anything to her and I'll tell her dad that she's at my house' look and walked off."
"Tomoyo. AH! Oh my god, I forgot!!! I'm suppose to ask if I can go over to her house after school tomorrow," Sakura said frustrated as Syaoran laughed. "Syaoran?" He heard his name and stopped laughing, and looked at her. He saw she was no longer looking at him, but at her hands, they were in fists and her eyes were starring at them, not blinking.
"Sakura…" began Syaoran.
"I... a... I had that dream again." Syaoran looked at her confused and then tried to put his hand on hers, but she pulled back. "I don't know what will happen next," she said beginning to cry.
Syaoran moved closer to her and he put his hand over her hand, she twitched a little bit and pulled it back towards her body. She tried to move backwards, but hit the wall. This made Syaoran confused and then remembered the dream that she had told him before she collapsed in his lap, "Sakura I won't hurt you. I'm sorry for that dream, but I could never hurt you. You know that," he said finally putting his hand on hers to let her know that he meant what he said.
Sakura wasn't scared of him now, and she let herself relax. She starred at him for a while and then got to her knees and hugged him. "I'm sorry for pulling back. I just don't know what is going to happen next, and so I'm confused," Syaoran hugged her back and he finally understood how she felt.
"You need to sleep. We have school tomorrow," he said in her ear, and he reluctantly let go of her, and noticed his cheeks were hot. Thankfully it was dark so she couldn't see him blush. He starred into her emerald green eyes, ready to be pulled into them, but he turned his head away, stood up and walked to the door. "G'night Sakura."
"Night Syaoran," she answered as he walked out of the room.
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Sakura was up and making breakfast for her and Syaoran. She was already re-dressed in her uniform, and already for school. Syaoran smelled something good coming from some where in his apartment. He sat up quickly from the couch and looked around the living room, and realized the smell was coming from the kitchen. He got up, walked over to his kitchen and found Sakura there and making breakfast. "What are you making?" he said with a yawn.
"Pancakes. I hope you like them," she answered. "I've had a hard week and that dream is making it worse. Thanks for being there last night. I wanted to thank you, but you had already closed the door," she said starring at the food in the cooking pan. "I hope you don't mind I made breakfast," she asked with a giggle.
"Not at all," he answered
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Tomoyo had looked worried since yesterday about Sakura, and as she walked into class she saw Sakura taking to Li. "Sakura!" she shouted, and ran over to her best friend and hugged her. "I've been worried about you. I hope you don't mind, Sakura, I took a detour doing home last night, and asked if you could come over for the night, and of curse your dad said 'yes'. Then I asked if could get some of your stuff and bring it over to my house, and he said 'yes' again, and... OH! I brought Kero if you don't mind. I told your dad that you would be really late and he shouldn't worry about it. Is that okay with you?" she told her friend really fast.
Sakura of curse didn't catch all of it and told her friend, "Yep. That's okay with me Tomoyo," she said, and then turned to Syaoran and face faltered, he just sat there smiling at her. "Ah, Tomoyo? What did you want me over for?"
"Well I knew yesterday, I'll tell you later, but I just want you to come over," she replied her friends' question, tapping her chin, and sat down in her chair next to Sakura.
In history class, Sakura started to doze off on her desk. She started nodding her head up and down, Syaoran saw her doing this and was going to poke her back till she put her head on her hands, and her head fell to her desk quietly, and slowly drifted off to sleep.
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"Where am I?" there was an echo to Sakura's voice as she spoke. "Hello?" she asked and ran to the edge of the building she was standing on. Sakura looked down and thought that she must be seventy stories high. She heard someone walking behind her, so she turned around to see who it was, "Syaoran? Is that you?" she questioned the figure. Sakura walked a bit closer to the boy before her. When she was in sight distance, she saw that it WAS Syaoran. She tried to find his eyes, but they were covered by his bangs. He looked up at her and she saw them; they looked cold and distant. "Syaoran say something. I need to find out if this is a dream." He started to walk towards her, and as she started to walk backwards and then found herself cornered at the edge of the building, and with Syaoran right in front of her. "No! Stay away! Don't come any closer!" she shouted as she stepped backward forgetting that there was no building in back of her.
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"Huh?!" she woke almost falling from her seat.
"Is there something the matter over there Li?" the teacher asked.
"Gomen ne, Ms. Lizen. It won't happen again," Sakura announced to the class, talking to her teacher. "Thanks, Syaoran. I need to talk to you after school. Kay?" she asked in a low whisper for only him to hear, and sitting back in her seat.
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Syaoran, Sakura, Meilin, and Tomoyo were walking side by side, and walking in silence. Tomoyo on Sakura's left with Syaoran on the other, and Meilin on Syaoran's right. They walked quietly till they got to the park to sit down. "Syaoran? My dreams are scaring me, and during history, I had another one, but more detailed," she said walking over to the swings, with Tomoyo and Syaoran following her. Meilin stood behind the rest of the group confused. Meilin didn't know she had been having these dreams and that the two following her always knew the dreams first. It wasn't fair, so she stayed behind. Sakura turned around and sat on one of the four swings, "I...I don't know what to do. I'm confused. I don't know if I ate something bad or..." she stuttered over every word she had said. She trailed off to, "Are you having any dreams that are like premonitions?
"No, not really," he lied. He had been having nightmares about him leaving and not being able to say goodbye. "Sakura? Don't worry about it till it happens. Okay?"
"Kay. I guess I shouldn't worry, their just dreams right..."
"Listen to your dreams," explained a female voice, speaking to Sakura.
Sakura widened her eyes and looked around, but found no one there except for Syaoran, Meilin, and Tomoyo. She stood up from her swing and looked around to get a better sense at things, "You guys hear that?"
"Hear what Sakura?" Tomoyo and Syaoran said in unison. Meilin over heard the new conversation and ran over to the group of friends.
"You didn't hear that Syaoran?"
"Hear what Sakura?" Syaoran looked very worried for Sakura. She and him have been able to hear things together since he had came to Japan to capture all the Clow Cards.
"'Listen to your dreams.' At least that is what the voice said," Sakura said still on her guard, searching for where the voice spoke.
The three of them looked at her like she was crazy. Syaoran tried to sense if anyone was near them, but there wasn't anyone there. He saw Tomoyo and Meilin look him for an answer, but all he did was shrug. The three of them starred at their friend. "Sakura, we didn't hear a voice. What did it sound like? Male or female?" asked Syaoran confused.
"Awe. Has the little Mistress of the Cards gone crazy?" Asked Meilin rudely. And looked for the rest of the group for satisfaction, but found none.
"Meilin! That was mean. Now shut-up!" shouted Tomoyo, defending her friend.
"Female. It sounded like a little kids' voice," said Sakura. She then sensed something in front of her and jumped behind Syaoran. He stood there defensive and starring at the spot that has a lot of magic. "Syaoran, you can sense that right?"
"Yeah. I can sense that, but it doesn't feel like a card. But..."
"What could it be?" she finished for him. "Where did it go? I know it is still in this park, I can sense it."
"Over here!" the voice shouted and dashed straight at Sakura. The voice sounded like a males; young boys voice.
"SAKURA!!!" shouted Syaoran and pushed her out of the way. He knew right away that something was going to happen to her if he had not pushed her out of the way. "..." He couldn't speak. His eyes turned black from the attack, and he fell to the ground. He tried to fight whatever it was inside him. Syaoran was sprawled all over the ground, he moved his hands from arm length to under his body and around his stomach. He then moved his hands to try and push himself up to his knees and found that the force that entered his body just made him fall again. He realized that it was trying to leave his body. Syaoran lied there coiffing, and then, "AHHHHH!!" he grasped trying to fight it and find air all at the same time.
"Syaoran! What's the matter?! SYAORAN!!!" screamed Sakura. She quickly got up from where he had pushed her and ran over to him. She tried to help him up but found that every time she would get close to him, his energy would push her back.
Tomoyo and Meilin were in a bush hiding, and trying to wake up Kero, but found it wasn't working. "Kero, c-mon wake-up. Sakura needs your help," she said it loud enough for Kero to wake-up, but not too loud for Sakura and Li to hear it.
"Huh? Why'd ya have ta wake me up? And what's going on? Oh, mornin' Tomoyo. Hi she brat," said a yellow plush toy, just waking up from a long sleep. This animal is as big as a beanie baby; when standing, and has a circular head with big half circle-like ears. He had a long body with oval-like arms and legs. For his face, he had two dots for his eyes and a triangle shape for a nose, with its mouth like a cats. On his back were two small wings; he also had a tail with hair that looked like cotton at the end of it. Kero immediately scanned the area and found Sakura trying to help the KID. He flew over to her and told her to summon her wand.
'Why didn't she think of that before?' he asked himself?
"Key of the Star,
With powers burning bright,
Reveal the staff,
And shine your light,
RELEASE!"
Within seconds the star staff was at her side. "HEAL!" Sakura cried with tears in her eyes, "Heal card! Heal Syaoran! Release and Dispel!"
Syaoran was looking for air and then the card hit him in the middle of the back and started to heal him. Now there was a big white cloud around him. Sakura was about five feet away, when to card had done its job. She said Arigatou to the card and it went back into a 'Sakura Card' and went to the mistress now running at Syaoran to break his fall to the ground. Sakura was in tears hoping that Syaoran was still alive. Kero, Meilin, and Tomoyo ran over to Sakura and knelt down to comfort her and told her its okay for her to cry.
"Syaoran?" she asked in a low whisper, holding him tight, and letting her tears fall into his hair. She heard a groan form him and looked at him with concern, "Syaoran?" she asked again, wondering if he is awake or not. "Tomoyo, call Touya and tell him to get over to the King Penguin Park. Please. Quickly," she said in between sobs.
Tomoyo did as told and called Touya with no complaints. "Touya? Yeah hi, ummm, could you get over to the King Penguin Park?"
"Yeah, sure. What for?" he asked. "Sakura needs my help? Oh okay. I'll be there soon. Where are you? Near the swings? Oh okay, thanks, bye," and he quickly hung up the phone and went to the garage and got out his bike, and rode off to the park.
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Me: Well did you like it?
Syaoran: Yeah, sure what ever.
Me: Are ya sure? Cause I liked the ending. Touya didn't do anythingJ.
Touya: That was the one part I didn't like! being held off stage by security crew
Sakura: But what happens. You made a cliffhanger. And Syaoran better not die!!!
Me: eep Okay.
Syaoran: Okay?! Okay, doesn't mean any thing!
Me: Sure it does!
Touya: I hope he does die!!!!! screaming somewhere off stage
Sakura: Hey! That is not funny Touya!
Me: hehehe. I have to go to bed. Talk to you guys and girls later! Bye! Night!
Editing this story took too long. I haven't done any thing all summer. I feel ashamed x_x.
Date now: 10-8-02
Finished totally at: 10:15pm