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Chapter 4: Heaven
By: Lady Jessica Silverflame
Tucked snugly in her bed, suitcases packed and ready, with her true love in the next room the day before she and her best friend Daidouji Tomoyo would return home with him, Kinomoto Sakura, Mistress of the Sakura Cards was plagued with nightmares.
Perhaps it was her unease at traveling to a foreign country, perhaps she was over tried from packing…
Or perhaps a greater entity was trying to warn her of the coming battle…
Darkness consumed the space around her. The blackness was heavy, making it hard to breathe, but she couldn't ever make out her own rasping breaths in this nothingness…
Nothing, there was nothing.
A high pitched sound struck through the darkness, but there was still nothing, as thought the sound itself was beyond the dark expanse, unable to penetrate it.
Another sound immediately identifiable as a voice; a harsh cold, dangerous voice.
"You do not belong here," it said with such power Sakura was surprised she hadn't been knocked backwards.
Another voice joined the first, "you do not deserve to be here."
And another "you are a distraction."
And another "you are not the Mistress of the Cards, you are nothing!"
And then there was a choir of hundreds of voices chanting ridicules and lies. Sakura clamped her hands over her ears in an attempt to block out the voices. However they seemed to be in her head now, attacking her soul.
"Stop! Please!" Sakura screamed, tears rolling freely down her cheeks.
"You are nothing…" "You are not worthy…"
"Stop!" Sakura's hand automatically went to her throat only to find her magical key missing. She started to panic.
"Nothing…No one…. Leave…. You do not belong here…. Nothing…."
The Card Mistress jerked awake in her bed, sweat pouring down her forehead, sheets knotted around her legs, heart beating almost out of her chest.
Sakura took a few deep breaths to calm herself before glancing around the darkened room. Kerberos, the guardian beast of the Seal, slept peacefully on his makeshift bed in one of Sakura's dresser drawers. For a moment Sakura considered waking the tiny bear-like creature, but decided that there would be time tomorrow.
Swinging her feet over the side of her bed, Sakura sat for a minute unsure what to do until a light tapping came from her bedroom door.
Sakura jumped at the sudden noise, but smiled softly at the familiar aura reaching out to her from the hallway. No matter what the situation Syaoran always seemed to know when something wasn't right.
"Come in" she beckoned softly, Syaoran opened the door hesitantly.
"I felt…" he began, but she stopped him.
"A nightmare, or a vision…I'm not sure," she said, staring down at the carpet.
His forehead creased in worry as he came to sit beside her on the bed. Sakura moved to sit in his lap and he cradled her there in his arms; pressed close to his chest.
"Sakura…" he began when she wouldn't meet his eyes.
"Syaoran, am I a distraction to you?"
The question surprised him so much that he almost allowed Sakura to slip onto the floor. He caught her and clutching her close he whispered "why would you think that?"
"It's nothing, the vision…I just…"
Syaoran kissed her forehead "the clan Elders think you're a distraction, my mother thinks you're a bad influence, my sisters think you're the cutest thing since furry babies…" he trailer off.
"And you?" she prompted.
He met her eyes, holding her gaze with his own pure sincerity in the amber depths "I think you're the best think that's ever happened to me."
"Only think?"
"I know," He kissed her. "Now about this vision," he began after they had parted.
Sakura shook her head, "let's not talk about that now," she shuttered at the thought of the nothingness, "will you stay with me tonight?"
Syaoran looked down at his beloved, her face was pale and drawn, her hair damp with sweat and her emerald eyes were filled with such fear that it made his heart clench.
He wanted to kill whomever had done this to her.
But it could wait till the morning. Laying Sakura down on the bed, Syaoran stretched out beside her so that her back was flush with his chest. He placed a delicate kiss on the back of her neck. She sighed contently relaxing into his arms.
"Aishiteru," she whispered before falling asleep. With her beloved protector at her side Sakura was sure there would be no more nightmares tonight.
12:43 A.M. Tomoeda International Airport:
"Why didn't you wake me up?" Kero near shouted, his yellow head poking out of Sakura's handbag. Tomoyo and Syaoran stood close around her to shield the tiny stuff animal from view.
"Kero, hush someone will hear you," Sakura chided, "I'm sorry we didn't wake you. We were…" she paused "distracted."
Tomoyo giggled and Syaoran blushed.
"Humph" grumbled Kero "first no desert last night and now this. I'm beginning to think you don't appreciate me Sakura."
Sakura sighed "oh Kero…"
"What did you see Sakura-chan?" Tomoyo asked curiously.
Sakura shook her head "nothing, I saw nothing."
Syaoran creased his brow in confusion "what do you mean?"
Sakura shuttered "there was only blackness and there were voices…telling me…well, telling me lies." at least I hope they're lies. she thought to herself. "What could it mean?" she directed at Kero.
Kero shook his head "any number of things I'm afraid. It's like I keep telling you expect the unexpected."
Syaoran kicked at the ground in frustration "no matter what we do, it seems fate is against us."
Sakura smiled sadly "please don't say that my love, you'll jinx it."
Before he could respond, Touya appeared at Sakura's shoulder, "Do you want to miss the plane?" he asked hotly before narrowing his gaze on Kero still hanging out of Sakura's bag "and you should be hiding."
Kero grumbled, but obediently disappeared into the bag.
the three teenagers followed Touya back to where Sakura's father stood, along with Tomoyo's mother and Touya's best friend Tsukishiro Yukito. Yukito was the hidden form of Yue Sakura's other guardian. It had been a difficult task to convince Yue to remain behind in Tomoeda, but in the end he had agreed that to tag along would be too conspicuous and besides Yukito had a life in Tomoeda, something Sakura would not allow him to give up just to protect her.
Her dream had briefly made her question her decision, but she knew this would be for the best.
At the gate the three made they're good-byes or in the case of Touya they're last threats.
Pulling Syaoran aside he spoke in a stern whisper "you let anything happen to her and…"
"Nothing will happen to her," Syaoran interrupted "you forget, I love her as much as you do."
A small ways away Yukito pulled Sakura into a tight embrace "Are you sure you don't need me?" He whispered concerned.
Sakura smiled and touched his face affectionately. She remembered a time when she thought she was in love with Yukito, but she knew now that it was better to love him as only a brother. "I'll be fine," she assured him.
He nodded hesitantly and stepped back to allow her father a final hug.
"Be happy," Fujitaka whispered to her.
Sakura smiled happily "I am."
The final call boomed over the intercom and as Sakura boarded the plane at Syaoran's side she took a final look back at the people she would be leaving behind. She would see them again, of that she was sure.
Author's Notes: Wow that was long. Anyone have any idea what's going to happen next? Cause I haven't got a clue…well I have some clue, but not much of one. Anyway hope you like it please R&R if you have enough time to read it you have enough time to review it!
P.S. I edited Chapter 3 so you might want to re-read it.