Disclaimer: Ok...I do not own Cardcaptor Sakura or any other anime and/or anime characters. CCS belongs to CLAMP. However, my original characters (Yume, Yumeko, Urayamu Koto and Maho) do belong to me. Please don't use them without my permission (although I'm sure all of you reading this are far more creative than having to stoop to the levels of borrowing someone else's characters).
Author's Note: I am a very strange and twisted person...please don't flame me if bad stuff happens, I have no idea where I want this thing to go, and its my very first fanfic.
Enjoy!
OH!! PS: This takes place a few years after the second movie (The Sealed Card) ended...I'm not sure how long after, but you'll find out how old everyone is later...so you can figure it out on your own! :p
Unending BattlesChapter 1: It Always Hurts to Say "Good-Bye"
"Good bye Syaoran-kun," said the 10-year-old girl holding him in a tight embrace, "I'll miss you."
"I'll miss you too Sakura-chan," the tall dark haired boy said, returning the hug, "I promise I will come back to visit you whenever I can."
"Flight 243HK to Hong Kong, now boarding." Said a voice over the loud speaker.
"I'd better go...That's my flight."
"Alright," said Sakura, letting go of Li.
Tears welled up in her eyes. I knew this day would come, thought Sakura, I have to let Syaoran-kun go back home...there's nothing more for him to do here now that all the Clow Cards are sealed and have been turned into Sakura Cards. I knew it was coming, and I was prepared to say good bye...so why am I going to cry? She looked at the floor, not wanting Syaoran see her like this before he left.
Li, knowing what was going on, hugged Sakura again. "Remember, Sakura-chan, everything will be all right."
"Last call for flight 243HK to Hong Kong. Again, this is the last boarding call for flight 243HK to Hong Kong." Said the voice again.
"Syaoran-kun, hurry up or we'll miss our flight!" a beraggled Meling said.
Sakura looked up from the floor and smiled. "Don't worry, I'm fine. Thank you."
Li nodded and picked up his bags, and hurriedly began to walk toward the terminal door with Meling who was mumbling something about taking too long and how they were going to miss their flight.
"Syaoran-kun!" Sakura shouted right as Li was about to walk through the terminal door, "Please come back soon! I love you!" Li nodded and smiled. Then the door closed and he was out of sight.
:::BEEP::: :::BEEP::: :::BEEP:::
Sakura's head came groggily out from under her blankets, blinking a few times while her eyes adjusted to the bright morning light streaming in though her window. She grumbled, reached for her alarm clock and retreated back under her blanket.
:::BEEP::: :::BEEP::: :::BEEP:::
Why was her alarm clock still going off? Sakura poked her head out from under her blanket and realized she had grabbed the teddy bear that Li had made for and given to her before he had left Tomoeda the first time over a year ago.
"Syaoran-kun..." Sakura mumbled, as she thought of him and the dream she had just had.
:::BEEP::: :::BEEP::: :::BEEP:::
Her alarm clock was relentless. Sakura reached a hand up and turned it off, still in a sleepy daze with thoughts of Li and how much fun they had when the Clow Cards were still un-sealed.
"Eh...Sakura..." said a sleepy Kiro, "why haven't you gotten up yet? You're going to be late for school again."
That snapped Sakura out of her haze as she realized that it wasn't summer vacation anymore. With a loud "HOEEE!!" and many bangs and crashes heard below by her brother and father, Sakura desperately dashed about her room gathering her things and getting dressed.
"Why don't you get up earlier?" yawned Kiro, watching his mistress dash about, "it'd be a lot easier on all of us if you did..."
Sakura, quickly brushing her hair and tying it with her usual red hair bands, replied "I don't know Kiro...I don't have time to even think about it! Remind me when I come home..." and with that, she grabbed her bag and rushed out of her room. Unfortunately, she wasn't paying much attention to the stairs, accidentally skipping one. Losing balance, she tumbled down the remainder of the steps and landed in a heap on the floor.
"Sakura, are you all right?" asked her father as he hurried over and helped her back up.
"H-hai, otou-san..." she said shakily and walked into the dining room to have breakfast.
"It sounds like there's a monster up there, dad," said Toya, sipping his coffee. Then he noticed Sakura as she hurriedly began her breakfast. "Heh," he smirked, "Ohay-o, kaijuu" he said in that annoying tone of his, starring directly at Sakura.
Sakura's eye twitched, but she did nothing. I have to get to school on time. If I respond to Onii-chan, I'll be late for sure!
She choked down the last of her breakfast, drank her glass of water and dashed out the door.
As she skated down the familiar path, Sakura realized that she was going to be on time. I must not have been as late as I thought I was... She sighed, and slowed down a bit.
School had started a few weeks ago, and Sakura and Tomoyo were now in 8th grade at Sejui High. The two friends were overly happy when they found out that they would be in the same class, along with many of their other friends from Tomoeda Elementary. But there was one person who was not there, and Sakura would trade having a class full of her friends to have a class with just that one person: Li Syaoran.
To both of their dismay's, Li hadn't been allowed to visit for two years now because his mother had enrolled him into a boarding school back in Hong Kong, and the little time he did have off every now and then had been too short for a real visit to be made. Sakura would have visited Li in Hong Kong if she could have, but, for one thing, there was the boarding school problem, and for another, she knew perfectly well that her family didn't have the kind of money for that sort of trip, not to mention that her father would never let her go alone.
Sakura sighed, "Syaoran-kun...I wonder what he's doing right now..."
"Ohay-o gozaimasu, Sakura-chan!" said a soft, high pitched voice.
Sakura, abruptly brought out of her thoughts, looked up to see the smiling face of her best friend, Daidouji Tomoyo. "Ohay-o, Tomoyo-chan."
"You're birthday is coming up soon, what would you like?"
"Eh? Oh, you don't have to get me anything!" said a startled and embarrassed Sakura.
"Nonsense," said Tomoyo, "its your 13th birthday. I want to give Sakura-chan something very special..." then, with a sudden though, she grinned maliciously, "and I know just what that special something maybe....!"
"Hoe?" confused, Sakura cocked her head to one side and raised an eyebrow.
"Oh hohoho!" cackled Tomoyo.
Sakura sighed, as she put her roller skates in her locker. Her friend could be so sneaky sometimes...She didn't have a chance to get lost in thought again, because as they were walking to their class room, Sakura stopped dead in the middle of the hallway, almost as if she was frozen to the spot. Tomoyo stopped too and looked worriedly at her friend.
"Sakura-chan, are you alright?"
Sakura did not respond. What was this strange presence she felt kept feeling? It was completely surrounding her like a fog ...it was strong and so scary that it sent shivers up and down her spine. And then, as suddenly as it had appeared, it was gone.
"Was it that aura again?" asked Tomoyo.
Sakura nodded, but didn't say anything and started walking again. She had told Kiro and Syaoron about the presence but neither knew either. Syaoran was so far away that he probably didn't feel it...But that's what she thought.