Disclamer: I don't own Cardcapters at all. They belong to Clamp… Its not fair. Sniff sniff.
Chapter 2: Hold Me Tight
A Cardcapters Story
Touya raced down the street to the park and when he got there, he saw his sister holding something close to her. He ran over to where his sister was, and noticed that she was holding 'the Chineese Gaki' was in her lap. Touya kneeled down at his sisters side, and was going to ask her something and then noticed that she was crying. "Sakura?" All he had to do was say her name.
"He- he protected me, Touya. We're going to take him home and…" she started to cry harder, she leaned her head on Syaoran's head. She then saw movement from the corner of her eyes and she saw Touya lift Syaoran into his arms. He made an uncomfortable face when he did that, but he was doing this for Sakura. Sakura gave her onii-chan a weird look. then stood up.
"Come on," he said as gently as possible so he wouldn't hur her feelings. "Lets go home." He looked at her warmly and smiled realizing that she was starring at the kid in his arms. "Sakura, ride the bike home and I'll walk--"
"No," she said flatly, "I- I'll walk the bike back so I can keep an eye on you. I- I don't want him to get hurt anymore than he is right now." She turned to Tomoyo and said, " Take Kero home with you. the last thing I need is Syaoran waking up with Kero in his face. It's bad enough that Touya is home, but I guess that it's a good thing…" she said trailing off the subject when she saw Kero pouting on her best friends' shoulder. "No Kero," she said whiping her tears away. She turned, waved je ne to Tomoyo and Kero, and ran to catch up to her onii-chan.
Touya was glad Tomoyo had called him, it made him feel wanted. It made him feel like he was doing what big brothers do: protect their little sisters. But something still bothered him. When he tuned to look at Sakura, he noticed that she was starring at him with love in her eyes. One thing is for sure, and he knew this from when he first met this kid years ago, what that no matter what he did to protecter her, this kid would get there first. It was then that he knew they loved each other he just wont agree with it. He wouldn't ever agree, but he couldn't stop his sister from falling in love with this kid, though he tried. Touya knew that he'd have to let her go sooner or later, but that wasn't because she was eighteen, or because she could take care of herself. There was no reason to let her go just yet, she'd hadn't proven to him that she could. He looked at her again and noticed that she looked tired. He decided to talk to her so she wouldn't g to sleep on him, "You should tell him how you feel about him. You can't keep denying your self that you love him. You do know that right?" he asked her.
Sakura looked suprised that her onii-chan realized this when she didn't. then she said something that made blink with surprise, "Yeah, I know. B- but I always have doubts about it, always thinking, 'What If', before I want to tell him. But then something always comes up and i'd never get the chance to tell him." Touya didn't say anything about it anymore, but it vagued him even more when she sounded like she didn't know what she was saying herself. They didn't talk the rest of the way home. He didn't want to press the subject of his little imoto-chan was in love with someone he hated.
It took them five more minutes to get home. They walked into the house and checked to see if anyone was home. "Hello?!" Touya shouted into the empty house.
"Touya bring him into my room. I'll take care of him up there." She stared at him and saw his concern for her, "I'll be fine Touya. Just bring him to my room, set him on the bed, and I'll be up in a minute."
Without question he brought Syaoran up to his sisters' room, at her command, 'I can't beleive he's still out,' he said to himself. 'It's been an hour!'
Sakura saw her otou-san come in and greeted him warmly. She was downstairs talking to her otou-san. She had just got done asking her last question, when she saw Touya at the last step, "C-ya 'tou-san, at dinner."
"Hey, squirt, he's in your room. Still sleeping, I cant beleive it," mentioned Touya to his little sister.
"Okay, good. I'll be down for dinner. And if he's awake, I'll tell him that I'll bring him food up to him. Okay?" Sakura asked her onii-chan.
"Yeah, fine by me," he answered his imoto-chan's question.
She walked up the stairs, pasted two doors and turned left into her room. Sakura stopped istantly as she opened the door to find Syaoran asleep on her bed. She felt a blush come up her neck to her face, and smiled. Sakura stopped starring at him and turned to go into her closet to get some blankets to cover him. She walked across the floor and layed a somewhat-heavy blanket over him to keep him warm. After she had covered him she kept thinking about how he had saved her in the park. The Card Mistress kept wondering about what would have happened to her if it happend again to her without Syaoran being there. Though she knew he would always be there to protect her. She snapped back to reality when she heard a yell from downstairs to tell her dinner was ready. She starred at the boy a little longer, blushing a little bit. She smiled at him, and then Sakura walked out of the room, closeing the door behind her, yelling, "Coming!" then walked down the stairs to eat.
"There you go Kero. Your bed awaits," said Tomoyo fluffing p t he pillow, for Kero to lay on it.
"Yeah!" he shouted and zoomed down to his new bed. "Sweet dreams, Tomoyo, and thank you!" shouted a very excited Kero, curling up on his feather pillow.
"Your welcome Kero." There was a pause till we hear Tomoyo say, "Good night..." she said as she trailed off.
Sakura had a wonderful dinner. She was bounceing up the stairs as her usual self. When she got near her room she noticed the door was open, 'Didn't I close the door?' she asked herself. She went to see if he was still in her room, and she did not expect him to be awake. She wasn't gone that long was she? She kept on pondering if she really was or not, she suddenly stopped in her tracks seeing his warm amber colored eyes, awake and looking at her. Her mind stopped her from saying anything stupid, as it normelly would do. He then broke the uncomfontable silence in the room.
"Am I at your house? In your room?" he asked gentlly not making it sound like a command. He knew that Sakura was starring at him and probebly did see the blush coming on. He could feel his cheeks grow hot, and his breathing was becoming unstable. There the silence happened again till Sakura had enough strangh to speak.
"Yes and yes," Sakura answered plainly. "You blacked out and then Tomoyo called Touya and he came to the parkand then the three of us went home. If you're wondering, Kero is at Tomoyo's for the night," she said sitting down next to him on the edge of the bed. "Are you alright? Your cheeks are all red..." she said with a giggle.
"Yes, I'm fine. What happened at the park? I remember pushing you down to the ground, then I'm all blank from there, sorry for about pushing you."
"I think I can answer your question," said a voice. Then Sakura's senses sky-rocketed. Syaoran looked at her, and saw she looked scared, then he knew why. "My brother made the attemptto strike you down, Sakura, but instaid he," she mentioned with her head, " got in the way. Because of you protecting Sakura," she said looking at Syaoran, "he wasn't able to proceed in what he was doing," mentioned the girl who sounded like she was twelve years of age. Then the cardcaptors saw a light pink outline of a little girl. "Sakura there is no need to be afraid of me," she said as she saw Sakura go behind Syaoran. "My name is Zella, and I am going to try to help you stay away from my brother. Sakura, what you just saw was my brothere trying to kill you, but since Syaoran protected you." Zella saw the look of confuse on their faces. So she tried to explain again. "My brother tried to take your energy because you are the strongest of all scorceror and scorceress in the univese. He needs the energy because there is some demond after him to take my brothers place as Hades right hand man. My brother needs more power to stay in power. If that makes any sense…"
"Why are you telling us this?" asked a very confused Sakura.
"I'm not telling you this so you has to know, I'm telling you this so you can keep your eyes peeled."
"Now I hav a question. How did I survive his attack? It makes sense why he would go after Sakura, well now anyways, but why didn't I die?" Syaoran asked confused.
"Um… Good question. That had happened because you're of the same sex, and because he was not strong enough to kill you. If he had been stronger you pobebly would be suffering right now. Right now you will need to keep her," she pointed to Sakura, "away from my brother. He will be coming back for her, to retry again what had happened to you, Syaoran." Zalla had explained very well for she could see the look of fear on the cardcapturing duo. She had to warn them from her brother even though she knew that he was good on the inside, the poor guy was deprete for energy and would give anything to have the card mistress' power.
Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other fearfully, then at Zella. "So his main tarfet is Sakura? And he would've killed her? And he almost killed me because that is how it fealt to be under the power…"
"But he didn't because he can't kill his own sex without the power to do so. He is a ghost with very little power of his own. He is using Hades' power that he gave him to do this hunt," she finnish for Syaoran, a smile sneaking up on her face. The stunned look acrossed their faces when she told them this.
'Great now I'm told that I'm going to die, but by whom?!' she asked herself mentally. She was starring at her hands with her face downcasting at her matress. Sakura had tears in her eyes when she felt Syaoran put his hand on her hand. She felt so scared for herself that she bent down to Syaoran's lap and started crying. "I- I am so- so scared," she choked on a hiccup in his lap.
There was silence in the room and all you could here was Sakura's whimpering muffled by Syaoran's leg. The silence was broken when Zella heard something in her head and spoke, "I am sorry, I have to go. My brother is calling me. Good-bye," she said and dissapeared.
Again there was silence in the room when she left. Sakura was only thinking about what were to happen if Syaoran was not here. Would she had died? One thing is for sure, she didn't want that to happen again. One of these days he wouldn't be there to protecet her, and what would she do? She couldn't live without him in her lift. She would find it impossible, she needed him desperetly. No one had the control in her life but him. He was the motive to keep going. Her thoughts would carry though until she heard him talk.
"Sakura?" Syaoran called to her, "I won't let that happen to you, even if it costed me my life…" he started.
"No!" she practilly screamed, too scared to even think about what would happen if he fell protecting her. She didn't want him to do that, "Don't do that. Iwant you to live just as much you want me to live," she answered quickly so he wouldn't expect anything too much. Sakura then looked into his sunset colored eyes. She saw no smile, no frown, just a straight face. His eyes gave no emotion.
"Sakura, I primised to protect you and I promised the stuffed animal nothing would come to hurt you. I also promied myself that if you got hurt I wouldn't be much of a bodygaurd," he answered in a sad tone, worried about her.
Sakura had to blink at this. 'He promised that to so many people and not one ofthem was me…' All she did was stare at him. She then got up from behind him, wasked to her dresser, took out her yellow matching pajamas, opend the door, and went to the bathroom. Still rumiging what he had said about protectiong her.
'What did I do?' Syaoran asked himself, concerened about Sakura. He layed down and stared at the celing. All of the sudden he sensed something. It felt like this energy was trying to lure someone into it. He sensed Sakura comeing towards her bedroom.
Sakura, sensing this power flung the bathroom open scaring her dad a little bit. She walked hastidly back to her room so her dad wouldn't think anything was wrong. With her yellow pajamas on she flung the door open to her bedroom, startleing Syaoran who was on the bed. "Syaoran! Do you feel that?" She saw him turn his head and nod, then turned his head back to stare at the window searching for where the power was coming from.
"Yeah, I did," he answered, but when he tured his head in her direction he noticed she wasn't there. "Sakura?" he called hopeing she was still around. He then sensed that she near the door.
'Sakura, no! Don't go the energy. its calling you! Please.'
With that in mind he jumped out of bed, and opened the window. Syaoran jumped into the tree with difficulty. He could sense that Sakura was still at the door waiting for somthing. He leaped from branch to branch, and finally to the ground. He noticed the front door opening just as he got to the ground, and he paniked, thinking what should he do to stop her. He quickly ran to stand in her way, but noticed that it wasn't Sakura. "Touya!?" Syaoran quickly clamped his mouth with his hands to make sure he didn't hear him. He then dashed in to one of the bushes so he wouldn't see him and question him.
Touya turned his head quickly but not fast enough see anyone there. "Hmm... I thought that I heard someone behind me." Touya looked confused and shook it off. He turned and said something to the figure inside the door, then walked on the walk-way into the street.
As soon as Touya was out of sight, Syaoran turned his head just in time to see the door open again, but this time it was the person he was looking for. He examend her quickly to see if she was wearing anything out of place and noticed she was wearing her blades. Syaoran didn't wast anytime, he jumped out of the bushes and infront of her shouting, "Sakura! Where are you going?" He saw her look down at her feet. She didn't want to worry him, and started to roll down the walk-way, slowly. "Don't go after it," he commanded, abruptly stopping her. Then, "That is exactly what it wants you to do," he said calmly trying not to sound harsh.
"I know, but..." there was a false silence, then, "I also know that if i go now... I won't get hurt. I- I promise," she said shakidly, "but what do I do if I don't go?" she questioned Syaoran, not realizing the tears from her cheaks and falling to the ground. She saw, from the coner of her eye, Syaoran walking closer to her. She wasn't sure how she felt, though she knew that she felt anger, hate, love, care, and most of all, she was scared. She tryed to hold back the rest of the tears, but they kept coming and falling as they pleased.
Syaoran saw her crying and realized he had hurt her by commanding her to no go after the energy. "Sakura, I'm sorry if i hurt you in any way," secoretly he wondered what was going on inside her pretty little head sometimes. He got closer to her, and he saw her pull away from him. Vagued by this action he asked, "Don't, Sakura, don't run." When he was looking at her, he saw her knees begin to buckle out from underneath her, he quickly caught her before she fell.
"Syao- ran," she choked, "I'm so scared. I- I want to get this over with," she said in between sobs. "I don't want to see my friends or you hurt in anyway."
He stared at her for a second wondering why she would care about him so much. Syaoran would think he would know her, but now only to an extent, she looked lost, and comfused. "Don't force yourself into this. You don't have to..."
"Yes, I do. To protect my friends, my family, and you." Most of all, she commented to herself. "Because this is my job-"
"What is your job?"
"My job is to keep the Earth safe from danger-"
"And therefore put youself into it, right?" he looked at her. She would not look at him at all. She kept playing with his shirt button.
"I'll be right back, Syaoran. I have to think!" she shouted calmly. Sakura quickly got up and rollerbladed away, changing her mind to go after it. She heard Syaoran shouting her name to stop her but she felt she couldn't stop, she had to run. She could hear him yelling her name, telling her to stop, but she couldn't, she needed to think.
Syaoran ran to catch up to her, but he couldn't. She had gotten a head start, but not much of one, 'Man she has a quick start off!' He knew her favorate spot to think. He could feel her energy nearing towards the Penguin Park. "Sakura!" shouted Syaoran at the top of his lungs. He dashed off to find his cherry blossom. He took off at the speed of light. 'Please be alright Sakura! Please! I'd die without you.' He was now nearing the entrence of the park, he first went to the swings where he thought she would be, but she wasn't there. He started to panic, he couldn't find her. There were no kids around seeing as it was late at night, he looked, but all he could see was trees, swings, the penguin slide, and grass. Syaoran heard a scream that sounded like Sakura's from behind him. He turned around and in between the trees he saw a flash of light. Worried he thought, 'Sakura!' He immediately took off in her auras' direction. In front of him there was an opening in the woods, to through baseballs for practice, where he saw his precious cherry blossom laying on the velvet green grass in the center of the opening.
'Syaoran... I-I'm so- sorry,' she whispered in her mind. Her eyes went back to a figure that stood ten feet in front of her. Her mind went to her past. She never really liked ghosts because of her older onii-chan, Touya, she had always been scared of them. Here is a ghost in front of her, a boy, who looked about 12. He had shoulder-langth hair; white and pulled back out of his eyes. His shirt was an azure blue like the deepest seas, with matching forest green karate pants. If he stood up straight he was about 5'6". "Sakura!" shouted a voice from the forest. The boy ran and stood protectively over her. "I won't let you touch her!" he yelled in a scarce voice.
"Yeah, well... She won't feel any pain if you move. I swear, I am stonger than last time, Syaoran..." he tried to threaten.
"Brother!" called a girl with aqua green hair. "Leave them alone..." she called, showing up with her purple aura surrounding her. "They are not ready to fight against you, me... US! Leave them alone, Austin!"
"That is why we kill the Card Mistress now while she is vernerable. Zella, you..."
"Don't start Austin. I will not let you kill him or her!" she shouted. Zella could see Syaoran listening to their conversation while he was picking the mistress up off the ground.
Austin saw his little sisters eyes glareing down at the boy. He was getting mad for being ignored. His eyes flared, like a raging inferno about to burst. Zella saw lightning surrounding him; being made from his power rising. She glared at her brother. How could he do this? Why attack them now when they are not ready to fight them? What will their master gain from their deaths? These were questions forming in her mind when she watched her brother power up to hurt them.
"Syaoran, look out!" she shouted.
Just in the knick of of time his head shot up. He leaned down and picked up Sakura, but before he jumped out of the way he saw a flash of light. Zella knew they hadn't gotten out of the way in time. 'He stalled too long,' she thought absently. She closed her eyes as her eyes began to water up, but as she began to lower her head she saw puffs of smoke and then a bright white sheild. 'When did he have time to make up a sheild?!'
Syaoran looked down and saw Sakura with her eyes barely open and her hand raised. "Sa- Sakura?" Syaoran managed to studder. She risked a look at him and smiled at him, faintly.
Sakura felt her eye lids begin to droop. She knew she couldn't hold up the sheild for much longer. Her strangth was leaving her and quick, and for a split second she could feel someone elses' strangth within her. Her hand was beginning to fall and her sheild was failing her. She looked up at Syaoran ans could see fear in his warm amber eyes. With all the strangth she had used, her eyes fell and her hand dropped. Syaoran saw her hand fall, and paniked. He looked down at where the Mistress lay in his lap.
"Sakura!?" he shouted. Just then he remembered that they were in a fight and looked up...
Only to find Zella blocking thier attackers path.
"GO!" shouted Zella, "Go, before he strikes again!" It didn't take to long to pick up Sakura and leave with her in his arms. Syaoran's right hand supporing Sakura's back and his other was under her knees; and dashed out of the opening that was there.
"Hey, stuffed animal, come over to my apartment. We need to discuss somthing," announced Syaoran over the speaker phone to Tomoyo's house. Kero and Tomoyo looked at each other compleatly confused.
"Where are you Li?" asked Tomoyo.
"Me? Oh I'm on my way over to my apartment, Wei will let you in," he replied.
Again, Kero and Tomoyo looked at each other. They both thought that they were both at Sakura's. After they picked up some clothing for Sakura and Tomoyo they were on their way.
After a while, something Li said was bothering Tomoyo. She couldn't understand why he and Sakura would be going to his apartment, god only knows her brother wouldn't let that happen. So what happened to them while they left them?
"Kero? Why would Li call on his cell and at almost ten o'clock?"
"Honestly... I don't know Tomoyo. I guess we'll find out as soon as we get there. The kid never calls unless it was important, or..." he trailed off as he thought of his mistress dead... NO! He wouln't think that. That couldn't happened to his mistress. Kero was also worried, but it didn't get any better know his mistress was with the chinese gaki.
"Or what Kero?" Tomoyo asked the flying creature.
He snapped out of his reverie, "Huh? What? What'd you say Tomoyo?"
"Or what Kero?"
"Nevermind. Let's just get there, ok, Tomoyo?"
Syaoran was near his home when he felt someone move slightly in his arms. He looked down noticing the figures' eyes flutter open. "Syao- ran?" she croked, not moving from her spot in his arms.
"Shh," he answered her question, "go back to sleep. We're almost home..."
"Where are we going?" she asked quickly, and quietly.
Syaoran stared down at her for a moment, "We are going to my place to talk about somthing. Your stuffed animal might answer my questions," he said looking back up. Sakura understood and fell into a peaceful sleep.
There was a knock of Syaoran's apartment door. A tall man wearing a black tuxcido opened the door. He had grey hair that covered the back of his head and his sides. Kero floated down and behind Tomoyo. "Hi, Wei, is Syaoran home yet?" she asked politely.
"No not yet. I have not seen Master Syaoran all day." He opened the door wider to let her into the apartment. "Do come in. He will be home shortly."
They sat in silence for what seemed like two hours. Kero was anxious to find out if his mistress was alright, and Tomoyo looked like she was going to jump on Syaoran as soon as he walked in or faint. They were getting more then impatiant. And just as Kero was going to talk they heard the front door open ans close. Tomoyo looked over to see if it was Syaoran. Her purple eyes widened with surprise. "Syaoran, What happened?" she asked noticing Sakura's sleeping body in his arms.
"There was a fight," he said whispering. He knew Sakura was scared of ghosts so he decided not to say anything just yet.
"And?!" came a high voice behind Tomoyo, "What exactlly happened?" the voice asked worried. Syaoran shrugged off the question and walked past his two friends in front of him, and into his room and set Sakura down on his bed. "Hey, Kid! D'ya hear me? What happened?"
"I'll tell you later, cotten ball," he answered. Syaoran walked over to his closed and opened the doors, pulled out extra blankets, and layed them at the foot of the bed. "Here, Tomoyo. You sleep here," and he walked back to his closet to gather more blankets and layed them on the right side of his bed.
"Syaoran," Sakura sighed in her sleep. Tears fell down her cheaks from her dream.
Syaoran heard his name being cried out from on top of the bed. He sat up on his knees and looked at Sakura. There on his bed was The Card Mistress, But he noticed she was crying. He then saw her turn her back to him. "Sakura?" he gently whispered to her.
Sakura heard someone whisper her name, and slowly opened her eyes. She looked around and realized that this wasn't her room. She turned to her back and stared at the celing. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed hair, dark brown hair. "Are you awake Syaoran?" she asked quietly. "How long have I been asleep?" she turned her head and realized he was staring at her. She now layed on her side and smiled softly at him. Noticing he looked so clam. She closed her eyes slowly, to try to sleep.
"Sakura? Do you remember what happened? I only saw you fall," he asked softly. He would let her take her time. If she didn't want to tell him then she wouldn't if she did then she would. I tried not to sound worried but apparently that didn't happen, she opened her eyes.
"Yes, but I don't want to talk about it," she stopped. "I mean, all I was doing was skating around, I noticed you followed me. I... then... I don't know what happened. The last thing I remember was at the swings and then somhow i got into the forest opening," her eyes teared up as she remembered the ghosts. "I looked up and saw," she paused, "I actully saw a ghost. That was one thin i remembered when I opened my eyes In the clearing. Then i put up a defense sheild and i don't even know how i did that," she said in a scared low whisper. Her head turned and her face was in the pillow.
Before Syaoran knew it, he had his arms around her for both of their comfort. "It's ok, Sakura," he said as he comforted her. As he did so, he unconsisly pulled her closer to him, rocking her back and forth. "Shh, Sakura, shh," trying to comfort her. "Nothing will happen fo the rest of the night. I'll make sure of it," he ended noticing her sobbs into his arm were calming. 'I would do anything for you, Ying Fa.'
Sakura noticed her arms slip from covering her face to around Syaoran's waist. She hugged him tightly, as he did the same to her, Sakura didn't want to let this moment end but she was a little tired. Syaoran felt the same. His eyes were closed as he held her. As he started to fade away he heard his name whispered.
"Syaoran?"
"Hmm."
"Did you mean it? I mean, when you said you'd protect me?"
"Sakura do I ever say anything i don't mean?"
"You always say things when nessisary, and they are always true," she answered with a smile.
"And that is how i was taught. So yes I meant it."
"Sorry i got mad and walked out on you. But i needed time to talk to myself," she said not moving from his clutch.
"Sakura? What made you mad?
"Hmm... I wasn't really mad, I was more confused then anything else. But remember when you said that you promised to protect me? Well you never told me that, and I don't and you to take your life just for me. I want you to live too. So i thought that that was out of place. I thought for a while, I would go after the strange energy was from," she then moved her head and looked at syaoran, "then I remembered... you said not to go after it. I was confused," she moved her head back to where it was; on his chest. Syaorna moved his head an dstared at her, "I thought... that... you wanted..." she couldn't finish, she felt her tears come back to her eyes.
"Of corse I do. I just don't want you to get hurt. Just call me whenerver you go anyehere or when you need help," he said moving his head back down to where it was. He yawned and pushed Sakura from his arms. He saw her eyes closed and her breathing had calmed down.
As he layied her down gently, he heard her sigh come from her lips, "'Night, Syaoran."
"G'night," he answered as he layied down himself.
"Sakura! Get away from me!" yelled a fimillar voice. Syaoran studdered in his words. Sakura looked ahead of her and saw Saoran having trouble with something. As he fell to the ground, Sakura ran to him and rolled him over onto his back, setting him in her lap.
"Syaoran!" she cried, "Syaoran! Wake up!" she screamed. She laied him down on the building. He snapped his eyes open staring at the black sky. Sakura then backed away, "Syaoran?" she asked in a scared tone.
Syaoran didn't answer, he sat up and kept his head straight. He then got to his knees, then to his feet. He turned to Sakura, he stood there glaring straight ahead. Sakura blinked. she expected to see beautiful amber eyes, but instaid found cold black eyes. She looked confused to what was happing. She looked around, noticing that her staff was at Syaoran's side. she saw him look down at her staff and look back up at her. he raised his hand, and as he raised his hand, her staff raised. The staff soon reached shoulder langth, and he grabbed it. The staff now hovered over his hand. As his fingers closed, the Mistress' staff looked like it was getting finger prints and cracks. To be honest, he was breaking it (d'ah) Sakura just stared at him. If he broke the staff compleatly, then she wouldn't have any magic to defend herself. He moved closer to her and she moved backwards. He dropped the magic wand making it break, Sakura had more tears fill her eyes. she looked back up and saw Syaoran walking towards her.
"What's the matter with your eyes?" Sakura cried. He started walking faster and faster, until he was in a run. "Syaoran! Stop!" she yelled, "Stay away from me," she screamed. She was backing up quicker, until she couldn't go backwards anymore. Syaoran jumped up and pulled his sword out. He landed next to her. He held up the sword to her neck. She tried reaching for his wrist but he pulled it back.
"Give me the CARDS!" screamed a voice from deep within Syaoran's throat. He pulled up his sword again and glared at Sakura
Sakura tried to step back, but remembered that she was on the edge of the building. Syaoran's voice sounded deep and hard when he talked. He had his other hand out waiting for her to answer, but she shook her head. So he stepped forward and the tip of the sword was now in the middle of her chest. He stepped forward afain, and she was knocked off the building.
"AHH!" she screamed, "KERO!"
Syaoran gapped his blankets as he woke up. He looked at Sakura on the bed at his side, "I hope that that doesn't happen," he whispered to himself. He got up and walked to the kitchen to make himself breakfast. He tood up still in his daze and walked to his fridge. He got out two raw eggs and took out a bowl from one side of the cabanet.
As Tomoyo woke up, she heard cooking noises coming from the kitchen. She sat up rubbing her eyes.l She had to blink a couple of times to get her vision back. Tomoyo looked left then right, realizing Meilin was in the froom and Sakura was still on the bed. She got up to the closed dooe and opened it. She walked out, hearing Syaoran sneeze.
"Bless you," said Tomoyo sleepidly. she saw him look up surprised as she said it.
"Thank you." Syaoran went back to cooking his breakfast. then there was silence as she sat in a chair.
"You know Sakura depends on you. I hope you know that," she told him. She looked down to the ground and back up to look at him.
Syaoran stopped cooking as he heard that. After a while he put his eggs on a plate and stared at them. "Yeah, I know. But for how long..."
"Don't say that. You do know she loves you. You and her won't say anything cause you're both scared-"
"I had a dream last night. I- It wasn't peaceful at all. I saw myself str- uglling about somehting. I... I fell, and she turned me over and layed me on her lap. She called my name, but i couldn't do anything," he said studdering over his words. He knew he couldn't do anything to stop her from falling.
Sakura woke with a fright, leaning over her knees. Her hearing clicked on as she heard whispers in the kitchen. "I couldn't do anything to stop her from falling," came a male voice from the kitchen. he sounded like he was going to cry.
"Li, she's stronger than that. YHou and I both know that," came a females voice comforing the males. sakura looked over the room ans realizd Syaoran and Tomoyo warn't there. She got our of bed and went to the door. She tripped, but she quickly found her balance and looked down. there she found a hand, she then looked over to see if it was attached to anything. Then found Meilin sleeping.
'Oh god!' she sighed tgo herself, her hand to her heart. Sakura opened the door quietly. She tipped Toed to the door of the kitchen and found Tomoyo and Syaoran talking. She then went quietly to the couch and layed down, and listened to what they were talking about.
"But it was me. I saw me running towards her and I..." Sakura quickly understood what they were talking about. "It's so real, it scares me."
Tomoyo was about to talk when she heard a voice at the door of the kitchen. "It's ok Syaoran. Don't worry about it," Sakura soothed. She walked over to him and hugged him gight. He too hugged, and Tomoyo squealed with joy. "I've had the same dream. I'm not worried about it," she tried again,'Yet,' she thought to herself. They both fell to the ground holing each other.
"Sakura?"
"Hmm?" she answered with tears in her eyes.
"I don't want to see you get hurt by..." he held her tighter to him thinking she would leaver him.
"Nothing will happen. I have the cards don't worry about it. I won't die, I'm too stubbern to die," she giggled holding in her sobbs. They both needed reassurence right now, nether knowing what layed for them. Sakura dropped her head into his shoulder. "I won't... die," she repeated sadly, silently crying. Syaoran heard her and held her tighter.
Tomoyo walked out of the kitchen and sat down on the couch, thinking about what Li told her. "Why would they both have the same dream?" she asked of herself. Tomoyo couldn't come up with a reason at all. She took a glance at the kitchen and saw they were couming out one at a time. "You know? You two should get together," she said standing up. Sakura and Syaoran both looked at one another and blushed.
"Hoe! Tomoyo!" Sakura yelled blushing hard.
"Well, what can I say? You two look perfect for each other," she said with a big smile. Tomoyo looked around and noticed there was another person in the room. "Well, good morning Meilin," she laughed.
"Mor- r-nin'," she answered her friend yawning.
Sakura and Syaoran sat down on the same couch, with Meilin on his other side. Sakura leand back and sighed her handsholding her face. "Are You feeling ok? worried Syaoran.
"I'll be ok. I just," she paused, "wish that these dream would go away."
"How long have you had them?"
"I guess... Umm... four or five weeks?" she guessed. Everyone looked at her stunned, "What'd I say?"
"Four or five weeks?!" they screamed in unison, Sakura just nodded. Syaoran, Meilin, and Tomoyo all stared at one another.
They were all awe struck, lost as to why she would hold off for so long when this could've been done a long time ago. Syaoran then broke the silence, "Why didn't you tell us?"
"Because within the months, we just got done with card capturing then we had to change them into the Sakura Cards. And I had to get my Magical ability's back up. Besides, I didn't think that they would drag on like this."
They knew what she said was true, but they didn't know how true. Everyday she'd come to school with a worried look, but they didn't know it was because of this dream. Syaoran then stood and walk over to the sliding winder soor. "Sakura," he began, she knew then she was going to get yelled at, again, "you need to tell us these things. You need to trust us. How can we be friends if you don't trust us?"
Sakura winced. He had to bring that into it. It wasn't that she didn't trust her friends, she just thought she was protecting them. "I told Kero-"
"Not just him! We are all you friends!" Sakura looked down hurt, she saw that coming. She should know that hiding anything from him was pointless. She looked down at her hands that were now quivering. "I didn't mean to yell." Sakura understood why he was doing that. No one was a geinus at why he just did that. Sakura needed time to cool off, so she got up from her seat and walked to the bathroom. Syaoran made the attempt to stop her but Tomoyo stopped him before he even reached her. "But-" Tomoyo just shook her head.
Syaoran paced himself in his living room waiting for Sakura to com out of the bathroom. He did this for the next three hours till Tomoyo stopped him, " You're going to wear a hole in the floor if you do that any longer. She'll be out in a few minutes. Just let her cool do-" she saw Syaoran's head snap up, "own," she finished.
Key of the star,
With powers burning bright,
Reveal the staff,
and shine your light!
RELEASE!
They heard Sakura chant and then they saw her fling the door open. They saw her fun toward the balcony door and open that up. They saw she had out a card, "Fly!" they heard her shout. "Release and Dispel!" Syaoran ran tover to her and shouted her name but he thought she didn't hear him.
"Oh boy! She is really mad at you-" she stopped when she saw a death glare at her. Tomoyo took a step back and sat on the couch.
"Tomoyo and Meilin, stay here, if you want to live!" shouted Syaoran as he ran out of the door as fast as he could. 'Sakura please be ok!'he said to himself.
Sakura was sure that she was out of sight. So she stepped onto the ground and called the fly card back into a card. She was half was there so she started running, sure that Syaoran would be there quickly. she turned around and saw Syaoran far behind her. "Sakura!" She jeard him call from a distance. "Sakura! Please Stop!" she shouted from a far. He saw her turn a corner to the Park, so he followed. As he turned the corner, he heard her scream. He saw her near the King Penguin Slide.
"Welcome Syaoran!" shouted a male voice from the edge of the woods. "So you're here to join us , huh?" He blinked and saw hi prey run towards his love. He smirked, "I wouldn't do that if i were you."
Syaoran didn't take him siriously, he ran into a barrior and was pushed back ten feet. As he struggled to his knees he saw a fimillar boy floating towards Sakura. "Austin!" He shouted, " Stay away from her!" Syaoran saw him raise his hands at Sakura. He tried to stand, but there was a pain in his side. 'NO, Sakura!' he shouted mentally. Syaorean noticed he was inside the barrior. "Get away from her!" he growled.
"Did I do anything to offend you?" Austin asked rudely. He started to chant something in unknown language.
"Syao- ran," choked Sakura. she had tears running down her face unconsisly. Her emerald eyes had no life to them. She could barelly hear Syaorn yelling her name as if blaming himself for something. She then blacked out.
"Sakura! Please can you hear me? Sakura! I'm sorry!" he said over and over again, until he to started to have tears roll down his cheeks.
"Ohhh!, thats so sweet. Syaoran has a soft spot for the Card Mistress. who'd ever think that the tough, mighty warrior, that never smiles, never shows his feelings; shows them now!" Austin laughed.
"Meilin? Why was he so snappy? I've never seen him like this." Tomoyo risked a worry glance at Meilin and saw that she was trying to hold in a giggle. "What's so funny?"
"You are. The last tim he did that, he did it to me, and i just stood sat there for a couple of hours," she and Tomoyo started to laugh. "And he said the samething to me."
"Do you think its ok to find those two?"
"Yeah, its been five minutes. I think it would be ok. Let's try the park first."
Meilin and Tomoyo nodded to confirm, then got their shoes and jackets on and walked out the door in search of their friends.
'Sakura, I'm sorry for yelling at you. I- I was worried. Please don't give up.' Syaoran was on the verge of breaking down the barrior and breaking that ghosts' soal, but know taht wasn't possable. He put his hand over his ovel neckace, and took it off his neck, summoning his sword.
"You know that won't help save this girl," he turned her around. Syaoran saw tears falling onto the ground. She looked pale and her eyes had no color to them. He then understood what he was doing; draining her life energy. Syaoran quickly summond all his strangth and shot it to her; Sakura's head jerked up violently.
"Sakura! Wake Up!" was what he shouted before he fell to the ground. With in that time Tomoyo and Meilin came walking in as he fell. They both ran over to him, and helped him to his knees, only to fall backwards again. They looked at each other and looked over to Sakura. They both saw her struggleing with something.
"But nothing is holding her up!" shouted Tomoyo. Meilin quickly got up and ran over to where Austin was and punched him in the jaw. He flew back, surprised that his gaurd was down, and into a tree he went. Sakura fell tot he ground, she instantly tried to push herself up.
Meilin quickly ran over to the helpless girl, and she grabbed her arm, putting it around her neck. Meilin helped her to where Tomoyo was helping Syaoran. "I... is Syao- ran ok?" she asked weakly.
"I beleave he is. Most of his energy was taken from him but he'll be ok," Tomoyo confirmed.
Meilin and Sakura practelly fell to their knees. Sakura looked over to were Austin hit the tree, but found it empty. 'Where'd he go?' she asked herself. 'Hmm, Nevermind.'
"I think he's coming around," Sakura was snapped back to realaity. Tomoyo helped him to a sit.
Syaoran looked around to see if Sakura was in the barrior, only to her in front of him staring. "Are you alright?! What was he doing to you?" he babbed out. He blushed as to was he said.
The three girls giggled, "Yes I'm fine. Thank you. I heard you Screaming, Blaming yourself for something. And then i guess he was taking my power cause I blacked out. Then i felt a huge amount of energy blasting me awake."
Syaoran looked at her sheepishly, "I didn't want to hurt you with my lightning so i gave you my energy."
"You shouldn't have done that, but I thank you. Are you ok?"
"Hey, can we do this at hom? It's getting cold outl. C'mon." Meilin whined. She and Tomoyo lifted their friends arams over their shoulders and gelped them walk back to Syaoran's apartment.
To Be Continued...
Authers Note:
Okay! that took a looooooooooong time to finish. i hope i don't EVER let it go again. GAH! that was almost hazardous. well i realllllllllly want you to reveiw and let me know things, like how i did on writing the chapter OTHER than telling me to get it out faster. School is done so maybe i will. Now I have to find my note book with my summaries of Drawn To Each Other... that'll be a pain in the ass.
Well I Gots Ta Go. Reveiw!!!!!!! Please! that would be one of the reasons y i never finishd this chapter early =P. sorry i'll TRY not to do that again. BYEZ!
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