SVDC: Hi! Sorry it took me so long to update! This chapter is a little slow and the end of it is sort of a filler. Hope you like!

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Kero: Lets begin!

Chapter 3

Kaho sighed as she leaned back on the couch, book propped up against her knee as she willed herself to stay awake. For one week she had been doing this, staying at Sakura's through the night to make sure she was all right. The girl's dreams had persisted, even becoming vivid, to the point where she could see the accident and how it had happened. It was mentally straining on Sakura and she had only started going back to school that Friday. It was Saturday night now, and Toya would be home by the middle of the next week.

She didn't mind staying over and keeping the girl company, far from it. She enjoyed the conversations she had with Kero late into the night about his life with Clow Reed before he had died. Comforting Sakura was merely the task of sitting with her and listening to her dream until she calmed down enough to go back to sleep. That was an information grabber, since she was now able to piece together what had happened to Fujitaka and how he managed to survive the accident.

It was his own quick actions that had saved him. He had been sitting in a turn lane waiting to make it his turn when a semi took its turn too fast and began to tip near his car. Fujitaka had made a mad dash out the car and had bolted for the space in between the load and the passenger compartment. Since there was no other way for him to go, unless he wanted to get nailed by a car going in the opposite direction, he dove for the joint, landing hard on his wrists and hitting his head before rolling until he made it to the space. Unfortunately he had rolled to far and the drivers compartment landed on his lower torso, bust his leg and rupturing his spleen.

Kaho shuddered as she recalled it all, "And he survived it, I'm still amazed."

A scream from upstairs woke her completely and she darted upstairs, realizing that this scream was out of pure terror more so than the simple fear and shock that came with her dreams.

She slammed open the door and was rewarded with an amazing sight. A figure dressed in white with full brilliant wings stood in the room near Sakura. Kaho edge her way over to the bed as the spirit fixed her gaze on her. She fixed her own dark gaze on it as she reached the bed and sat down on it, Sakura clinging to her before she touched the mattress.

The ghostly being smiled as she floated in front of them. Sakura was huddling against Kaho, scared to death of anything that reminded her of a ghost. Kaho was glaring at the spirit, not knowing exactly who it was at the moment.

"My, your instincts are strong to protect her," the spirit had said.

"Who are you, what do you want with Sakura?" Kaho asked. If looks could kill, the spirit would have died again.

"I just came to visit my daughter," the spirit said.

"You're Nadeshiko," Kaho said in realization, her glare disappearing.

The spirit nodded with a smile, "It appears my daughter still holds her fear of ghosts. It's too bad, I would have liked to visit more often, but it looks like I don't have to watch over her anymore. She has someone to protect her." The spirit came towards them and Sakura started screaming all over again. Kaho closed her eyes as the bright glow around the spirit became too much to look at. She felt herself get thrown up against the wall and yelped once before falling back on the bed. The next thing she knew, something made her feel sick, dizzy, and in pain all at the same time. Then Nadeshiko was gone.

Sakura shook her awake and Kaho sat up. Sakura still clung to her, shivering and sobbing. She frowned, not knowing quite what had happened. Kaho shook her head and focused her attention on Sakura. "It's all right, she's gone."

Sakura nodded and let go of her teacher, "I knew who it was, it's just that, ghost scare me."

"It's all right," Kaho said. "It's over now, think you can go back to sleep?" Sakura gave her an 'are you crazy?' look and shook her head. Kaho sighed, "I'm not exactly sure what to do right now, but I guess we should turn on some lights." With that she stood and walked over to the light switch and raised her hand to flick it on, stopping on at the sight of her hand. It was glowing a faint white color. She looked up the length of her arm, and found it to be doing the same thing. She cocked her head over in Sakura's direction and found the girl looking at her curiously.

"Are you supposed to do that?" Sakura asked.

Kaho shrugged, "Sometimes if I concentrate too much or get slightly angry I glow. I guess this situation made me do it too…" She let herself relax and she felt the glowing cease and fall away. She shuddered at the feeling before shaking her head a bit to clear it before flicking on the light and turning to look at Sakura. "Better?"

Sakura smiled, "Yes."

OOOO

Sakura grinned as she trotted into her father's room and stood by his bed. He was awake and reading a book and looked up when he head her come in. Kaho stood near the door, smiling at the two of them.

"How are you feeling today Dad?" Sakura asked.

"Better, my wrists don't hurt anymore, that's why I get to read," Fujitaka answered as he rotated his wrists in example.

"That's good," Sakura smiled.

"Is Toya coming home today?" Fujitaka asked.

"Yeah," Sakura grinned at the thought. She usually hated it when her brother teased her, but now she'd live with it for ever and a day to have him home again.

Fujitaka craned his neck to look over at the door way where he was now accustomed to seeing Kaho stand and watch. For the week and a half they had been visiting she would just stand there and watch over the with her eyes hidden and her head bowed. He knew she was watching, but didn't make a move to call on her, until now. "Ms. Mitsuki, you don't have to stand by the door all of the time. You can come in a ways, I don't bite."

Kaho looked up, surprised to hear his voice directed at her. She let a small smile grace her face a second before she let if disappear as she walked over. She stood by the bed with her arms folded behind her back

Fujitaka looked straight at her, "I want to thank you for watching over Sakura while I've been in the hospital, and though Toya's coming back, I'm still stuck here. I know I'm probably asking a lot, but would you mind looking in on them every now and again until I get out of here? It would be a great help and ease my worries if I knew someone was there to check on them."

"Of course, I don't mind, Sakura's a good kid, and Toya and I get along fine," Kaho got off the subject quickly, not wanting to dwell on it.

"Dad, how long do you think you'll be here?" Sakura asked.

"Well, they want to keep here to make sure I don't have any other back injuries and to make sure everything else is healing properly. Probably another week or so." Fujitaka answered.

Kaho fixed her magical gaze along the man's body, picking out injuries that the doctors had missed. He had bruising all across the lung that hadn't collapsed. His spinal cord was extremely compressed near his hips, almost to the point of being crushed. Walking would be amazingly painful when it was time for him to get up. Peering through the cast on his leg gave her the sight of a badly splintered break, not even a month in a cast set proper would get it to heal right.

Not if I have anything to say about it, Kaho said to herself as she fixed a little bit of her healing power on each of the impending danger spots that the doctors had missed and or given up on.

Fujitaka looked up for a minute, "My back just stopped hurting."

"Maybe the pain meds took affect?" Sakura asked.

"No, the pain meds have never worked before," Fujitaka said as he settled back against his pillow.

Sakura studied her father, her eyes widening when she saw a faint stream of silvery white light flowing into her fathers body. She followed the stream upward until she came to its source, her eyes widening even more when she looked at Kaho.

Kaho winked and put a finger to her lip to signal to the girl to not say a word. She knew Sakura could see what she was doing, but Fujitaka was so inexperience in magic and so new in knowing who he really was, he wouldn't know what was going on until someone told him.

Sakura smiled at her friend in a silent thank you, realizing that she was helping her father out more than he would ever know.

OOOO

SVDC: Yeah, sorry, like I said, kinda slow…and short. The next chapter will be better I promise! As always, please review! I'd set a goal, but with this, I'm lucky to get one review, but, I'd like five before my next update. If you guys can do that, then…YAY! Later!