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"Characters speaking"
'italics with apostrophes thinking'
Scene change
where the scene changes to
"bold with quotation telepathic speaking"
"Quotation with italic past events"
We are now back to your regular programming
Late evening at Penguin Park we see a battle weary Sakura and Syaoran
"I wish sometimes that I was a normal kid, not having to worry about saving the world, just to be normal."Sakura said to Syaoran while sitting down
"I bet there another person wishing just the opposite." Syaoran said walking toward her
"Huh?"
"Well being normal is all right, but how many people say they can use magic? Sakura right now, I think we're facing the toughest part, and I wish that at times too, but I know I will have to live with it." He said sitting next to Sakura
"But there is one thing I always been wanting to tell you." He said blushing lightly while putting his hands on Sakura shoulders
"What is it?"
We now find ourselves in Syaoran's bedroom
"Thank Kami-sama, it was a dream, it was almost like, no way, just go back to sleep now." He said pulling the cover on him
Even with all the Clow Cards captured, danger is still around. And 13 year olds Li Syaoran and Kinomoto Sakura still say they hate each other, but truly and deeply they are in love with each other. Of course, they just won't admit it. Because they are afraid that the other doesn't share their sentiment. And every time they have to say these three words, "I hate you," it's like turning a dagger in their hearts.
But little by little they are going away from being rivals and coming closer and closer to being lovers. What does fate have in store for them? Will they be able to face it? But sometime the bitterest enemies can work together. Will they ever go back to the same friendship they had as children? As always, zettai daijoubu, for where there is love there is hope.
Maybe, just maybe, there is hope for them.
Chapter 5
Dreams and Recollections
"Young Card Mistress, it seems that you have learned a lot, but yet have even more to learn." The MF said to her
"Who are you, what do you want from me?" Sakura asks the TMF
"You have many question, but they are soon to be answered."
"Please, just tell me who you are."
"I'm sorry, but I can't it is too dangerous now, but trust me, you will know soon."
"Why not now?" She said only to be interrupted by a memory of hers
"Fujitaka, could you please bring Sakura here." Nedeshiko asked
"But . . . " Fujitaka said interrupted by Nedeshiko
"Onegai, for me."
"Okay, Sakura come here."
He picks Sakura up and places her on Nedeshiko lap
"Hey, 'kaa-san." A young Sakura said
"Hello there, what you been doing lately?" She asked her
"Playing with Touya, but he keeps messing with me."
"How's that?" She asked her
"He keeps on calling me kaijuu, and Sakura no Kaijuu!" She said her puffing her cheeks out causing Nedeshiko to laugh
"You're not a kaijuu, there not one in the world that is pretty as you. But Sakura there's something important I want to tell you. 'Kaa-san might not be around for long."
"How come?"
"Well, Sakura this is hard for me to explain, but I might not be here for long. Don't worry I will always be there for you and Touya." She said holding back a tear
"But I don't want you to go, I want you to stay here."
"I don't either, but this isn't for me to decide, but remember I will always be there for you and Touya." She said to her as gently as she could
"Why did you come back with that memory?" Sakura asks the MF (a/n MF if you didn't read the 1st chapter it mean Mysterious figure)
"Sometimes, overcoming pain will help us become stronger or weaker, but maybe that one will give you inspiration, it seems that my time is up."
"But wait, don't leave yet . . . " She called out yet it was in vain
Meanwhile at Eriol house
"Why couldn't I think of it before, how can I forget it. I guess you meant what you said, I only hated that it had to end in that way, I'll tell them tomorrow, because I don't want to disturb them. I know I won't be able to go back to sleep, I might as well read something, but why did you have to come back now? I knew that you were going to get revenge, but why is you also going after Syaoran too? Do you know something that I don't yet?" He asked himself
In Syaoran's dreams
"What do you want from me?"
"To stop being an idiot, you're dense, but that isn't an excuse for anything."
"I am not dense!"
"Well, not as you used to be, but you have to learn to put some things behind, the past is just that things that used to be there." The MF said walking toward him
"What happened in the past has nothing to do with you, that's why it is called the past."
"Ah, but you and Sakura have the power to change the past though."
"Sakura is the only person who can do that what do you mean by that?" He said eyeing the MF in curiosity
"Sometimes our destiny is right in front of us, but it is in the matter of how we see it." The MF said disappearing having Syaoran to waking up
"I don't get it, what does it mean?"
"I think I found our culprit." Eriol announces walking toward the table where Sakura and Tomoyo were at with Syaoran soon to follow him
"Who is it?"
"An old friend of mine."
"Can you be more specific, please?" Syaoran asked a little annoyed
"The name is Kamui, he was my best friend, until he started to obsess over power. When he discovered than I was creating a new magic, combining both eastern and western magic, it nearly drove him mad trying to see what it was I created. Late at night, while I was out, he broke into the lab I was working in and stole the cards. It seems that the cards overpowered him, before he died he whispered 'For whoever is the next owner of the cards I will comeback for my revenge.'" The words still haunt me today.
"Eriol that was interesting, I guess we know who is attacking, why nobody asked me to come." Meiling said
"I knew I forgot somebody, sorry Meiling." Syaoran said
"I forgive you, this time." She said which didn't unnerve Syaoran one bit
"So that mean, that he's trying to kill me." She asked uneasily
"Or he's trying to lure you away from the cards."Syaoran said to Sakura
"Why is that?" Sakura asked him
"The cards are the source of your power which in turn means if he has then and if he destroys them, no telling what may happen to you, well, Sakura, you just might lose your powers if he destroys them or something else, as you can the card never been destroyed before." Eriol told them
"So she might die if he gets his hands on them?" Tomoyo asked
Sakura looking at Eriol was shocked and afraid to what can happen to her and what he may do to get the cards.
"Sometimes even the greatest things have their downfalls, what my friend learned was a little too late." Eriol said a little depressed
"Sakura, first the time I really don't know to say except I hope you have your cards with you." Syaoran said
"As always I do, but why is everyone getting so depressed, I'm the most powerful sorceress in the world." She said trying to cheer people up
"Yeah and I'm the king of England." He said walking away
"I thought you were speechless." She said glaring at him
"Iie, I said 'first the time I really don't know to say,' not that I was speechless." He said in of matter of factly way
"Just get out of my face." She said almost screaming at him
"It seems the armistice has ended." Eriol said sighing
"Oh well, I was looking for a good laugh anyway." Meiling joked
We see a young Sakura at a park running after her hat and as she caught it she trips over a rock and fall on Syaoran
"Itai!" Syaoran said
"Gomen nasai, but I was trying to catch my hat and oh no I lost it again!" She said searching for the hat
"Here it goes, but it almost fell in the spring, but next time easy on the landing!" He said dusting himself off
"My name is Kinomoto Sakura, what's yours?" She asked him
"Mine is Li Xiao Lang or Li Syaoran, but most people call me that when I'm in Japan."
"Really, where you're from?" She asked him with widening eyes
"Hong Kong."
"My otou-san took me there once, I liked it, but I couldn't understand what they were saying."
"Well, if you don't run into me again, I can teach you."
"Really, there's one thing I need to know, well two."
"What is it?"
"One: how old are you? Two: can you fight?"
"I'm six and a half and what I last know of I could. How old are you and why do I need to know how to fight?" He asked her eyeing her curiously
"I'm seven and you'll find out soon." She said grabbing Syaoran by the hand
He wakes up only to see his math teacher yelling at him
"Li-kun, can you tell me the answer!" Mr. Onizuma yelled at him
"He said as an overview on the trig part of the test he wanted to know what the tangent of 58." Eriol whispered to him quickly
"It's, um, 1.6?" He said nervously
"That is the correct answer, when it is rounded, but I meant the exact if you had woken up a little sooner . . . " He said ranting about how exact number should be used
"Syaoran, what's been going on, you and Sakura had been sleeping in class a lot lately."
"If I knew that I'll be a genius, and I don't have to listen to his mouth."
"I think the deaf can hear his mouth in the U.S." Eriol said chuckling
"Kaijuu, why you didn't let me in the house!"
"How can I if I'm asleep?"
"Easily, wake up, but you're awake now so why you didn't."
"I guess I didn't hear it."
"Oh yeah, um, Sakura, why's that stuff animal in the kitchen?" Touya said looking at Kero with the same suspicious look as always
"I must have brought it with me unconsciously." She said laughing nervously
"Well, get out, it's my turn to cook dinner tonight, and I don't need any kaijuu in the kitchen, the extra heat is unbearable." Touya said with Sakura grabbing a frying pan
"Touya, if I didn't feel like cooking, I would hit you in a minute with the pan." She said eyeing the pan and Touya head
"And murder charges, now you and that stuff animal get out of here."
Sakura grabs Kero and walks out of there but not before she grabs a wet dish towel that she wiped the table off from breakfast and throws it at Touya then walked out to the den
"Stuff Animal, he must don't know me that well, I'm the great Kerberos." Sakura puts her hand over his mouth as he kept on talking about how he was chosen by Clow himself to protect the cards
"Sh, Kero-chan, you're talking too loud, we'll get caught." She said trying to quiet him
"Okay, but the next time he calls me a stuff animal I'm going to fry him."
"Please don't, how I'm going to explain how the house burnt down." She said jokingly
"It was an accident?"
"Kero-chan, let me take a short nap, okay?" Sakura asked him lying down
"Okay."
"How you say hello in Cantonese?" She asked him after she dragged him in the house
"Ha loh."
"How you say, excuse me?"
"Dui m jue." He replied
"How you say, um, what's the matter?"
"Easy, mat ye si a?" He said proudly
"Can you say my name in Cantonese?" She asked him
"What does it mean?" He asked her
"Look outside and tell me what you see."
"Cherry blossoms, oh, Sakura means cherry blossoms, I forgot, um, Ying Fa."
"Here's a good deal, I'll help you with your Japanese if you teach me Cantonese." She said holding her hand out
"That's a good one, because I couldn't read it if my life depended on it." He said shaking her hand
Touya walked through the door
"Sakura, what is you doing holding this boy hand." He said in his overprotection mode
"Play along with this. This is my boyfriend, Syaoran, and I love him." She said hugging him
"How you doing, my name is Syaoran Li, and it seems that you have a kureii sister here."
"What you have a boyfriend! And this gaki! C'mon outo-san is this true?" Touya said desperately hoping it was a joke
"I'm afraid so, Touya, but don't worry, I don't think it's a serious relationship. But I'm afraid that the joke is on you." He said chuckling
"Sorry Touya but I thought it would be funny."
"Though it would be, that was funny." Syaoran said laughing
"Wait till I get my hands on you. I'll show what funny then." Touya said to Syaoran (A/n any this isn't the reason why Touya and Syaoran don't get along so well)
"Sakura wake up, it time for dinner, you sure have been sleeping a lot lately." Fujitaka said
"Hey, I know, but I really can't help it." Sakura said sitting up
"I hope you're not catching something, but it doesn't seem like your catching a cold or the flu."
"Don't worry about me, P.E. just been a bit rougher." She said "Forget that running ten laps a day is rough."
"Kaijuu, dinners ready." Touya yelled from the kitchen
"Sakura no kaijuu!" She said getting up to go to the kitchen
"I wonder why she has this in here, it seems that she can't part with it." He said looking at Kero
"Whew, I almost got caught there, I gotta be a little more careful." Kero said wiping the sweat drop from his head
"Syaoran, why won't you tell me, I remember when you to were kids, well we still are kids, but both of you were inseparable." She said trying to get an answer from him
"Meiling, if I said it once I said I will say it again, stuff it!" He said trying to get away from her
"You're going to tell me someday, even if I have to beat it out of you." She said cracking her knuckles
"Yeah, someday, besides I like to see you beat me. I'm going out for a walk." He said leaving out the door
"Go on, like I care." She said as Syaoran shut the door
"Sometimes Meiling, you can get the best of me, besides if I tell you, you'll kill me over something so dumb." He said to him self 'But it was dumb I guess I just have to leave with the results of it. I might can change it, but that would be too easy. Maybe one of these days maybe I can at least make peace, but always teasing you or insulting is the only way to hear your voice then I guess that is enough, even if you're steaming mad at me.'
Flashback
"Xiao Lang it is your mission to get the cards at any cost, even if it mean hurting your 'friend'" One of the Elders said to a 10-year-old Syaoran
"I feel that Sakura-chan will be a great card mistress with the right person to help her!" Syaoran pleaded to the Elders
"You know that the cards are an heirloom to the Li's and it is important for us to have them, the girl has no formal training in magic, what good will the card will be to her, none!" Another one of the Elders said
"But please, I will teach her, I can't take the cards from her."
"The decision is final. You are to bring the cards back to China."
"Okay elders, I'll try." He said bowing his head to defeat
A week later back in Japan
"Syaoran, you returned, how was it." She said running toward him
"It was just fine, now, please leave me alone." He said coldly to her
"Syaoran, what's wrong?" Sakura asked him with concern
"Nothing is wrong. I just want to be alone." He said with no emotion in his voice
"But Syaoran." She said trying to talk to him
"It's Li-kun to you."
"Li-kun, okay then, then it's Kinomoto-chan." She said to him angrily
"Kinomoto, I don't want to be friends with you anymore." He said as he turned his back on her to hide his emotion on his face
"Syaoran, what do you mean?"
"I don't want to be friends with someone like you." He said clutching his fists
"Okay, Li-kun, I don't know why I ever decided to ever get to know you." She said with tears in her eyes "That's was the biggest mistake I ever made."
'I made you cry, the last thing I ever wanted to do is to see you cry, and I'm the causing of it, I'm so sorry Sakura, but it's the best thing I can do.' He thought as he glanced back at Sakura
At Sakura's house
"Sakura what's wrong with you?" Touya asked her as come through the door
"Nothing, I had something in my eyes, and can't seem to get it out." She said trying to smile
"Yeah okay." Touya said 'Sakura, you're a terrible liar, what are you not telling me?' Touya thought to himself
"The stupid idiot, you think you know someone, how could he do that, I hate him I wish I never met him, I should've never run after that hat if it was going to cause me all this trouble!' She thought as she laid down on her bed and cried
"Li Syaoran, I hate you, and to think that we would always be friends, even if he didn't like me he didn't have to say it like that." She said as she was sobbing uncontrollably
'So that's what happening, the gaki, if you mess with my sister you mess with me.' Touya thought while he was listening outside her door
The next day after school
"Hey gaki, what you do to make my Imuto cry?" Touya said confronting Syaoran
"I didn't do anything baka, besides mind your own business, it's rude to pry into other people business." He said walking away
"It would also be rude to pry my fist in your face." He said grabbing Syaoran's collar
"Am I supposed to be afraid of you?" He said with a little smirk on his face
"You will be after this." He said getting ready to hit him
"Touya, what are you doing?!" Sakura asked him
"Sakura stay out of this. This is none of your business." Touya told her
"It's my business if you about to beat up on one of my classmate, put him down Touya, I may not like him but nobody deserves to get beat up on." Sakura said in a deadly tone
"Okay, but next time, if you hurt her, no one will keep me from hurting you." He said to him
"Yeah and how would it feel getting beat up beat by a 4th grader, really bad isn't it?" He said walking away
End Flashback
'Even after all I said to you, you still came to my aid, we could've been fighting if it wasn't for you. I guess I should go back home, Meiling I'll tell you on my own time, now I just need to get my head straight.'
Later that night at Syaoran house
Syaoran is standing on the rooftop looking at the sky and he sees a shooting star and thinks back to when he was little.
Flashback
"I remember before my okaa-san died she said that if you ever wished on a shooting star that your wish will come true." Sakura told him
"Honto ne?" Syaoran asked her
"Yeah, as long as the wish is true and from you heart."
'I wish I can know that I will always be friends with Sakura.'He thought looking at the sky
"What you wish for?" Sakura asked him
"Sore wa himitsu desu. (That's a secret) If I tell you I will never come true" He told her with a small smile
End Flashback
"I should go in now, I got to study for that eastern civilization test." He said as he walks toward the door
Tries to open the door but it is lock and now he starts to pound on the door
"Meiling, open this door now."
"Sorry, Syaoran, but I can't." She said trying to hold a laugh in
"Kami-sama, Meiling, open this door now!" He said starts to kick the door
"But really Syaoran, I can't because if you don't stop kicking the door it'll get stuck!" She said struggling to open it
"Okay, but hurry it starting to rain."
"I'm trying, how many times people have to say this, watch your strength." She said struggling to open the door and finally it opens
"I guess all that training finally paid off in something took you long enough." He said before Meiling punches him on the back of his head
"And more my dear cousin." She said walking away from Syaoran as he was holding his head in pain
"No wonder you and Sakura are best friends, both of you are evil in some way."
I finish this chapter. Like I said before my computer broke down, leaving me to write the chapters over. Sorry it took me a long time. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm out of school now, so I can update fast now, and I'm free from the that prison. Well until I update again.
Sincerely,
Amazonian Anime Queen a.k.a. Anime Queen
P.s. I got a little impatient waiting for my beta so later on you might seen a much better version of this. I did my best and that's all I can do.
P.s.s There more to the story about how they became rivals, but you just got to read the story to see how. Sorry, but I need readers.