Little Rain: Thank you! your reviews made my day! - Easter bunny emptying her whole basket of chocolate eggs on to them…

I did say i might write another chapter in the weekend - Easter special! and here it is!

Kero – Chan: You said I was going to be in the story!

Little Rain: -.-;; yeah… you'll be in it… eventually…

Kero – Chan: Meany! I'm going to tell the readers who the bad guys its!… Muahahaha! Its….hum em hem… - Easter bunny stuffed five chocolate eggs in his mouth

Little Rain: -Cough- now that will remain a mystery thank you…

Suppie – Chan: I told you to be patient…

Kero stuffed five chocolate eggs into Suppie's mouth… Uh oh…

With Suppie zooming around in the back ground… vases breaking…

Disclaimer: NO, no and no…I don't own any thing let alone you two!

Get away from my computer! And no! Leave my chocolate eggs…

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Chapter 3 – I can see stars…

There she was again … the girl that never left his mind ever since he left Japan… at the same time, the girl looked straight into his amber orbs, a flick of recognition showing through… his heart raced… 'She still remembers me!'

As much as Syaoran would like to stand there and admire the girl he truly loved since 4th grade he need to catch what ever the thing that had him spending the entire morning playing chase with. No time to think, the aura was already hard to pick up. He reached for the rear door of the car and jumped in, "Sakura I need you to follow that aura!"

Sakura was in a half dreaming state when she felt a third person was in her car 'what the…' "Sakura, I need you to follow that aura!"

"Hoe!" She nearly jumped out of her seat "……?"

"Sakura!"

Suddenly she too felt the faint aura fading away in the distance, with out a second thought she stepped on the accelerator and the car zoom down the streets again.

'Oh no, not again!' thought Tomoyo.

OOOOOOOOOO

They raced down about ten blocks, weaving about the maze like streets, pulling tight corners and all. Sakura felt the trill in her body that she hasn't felt in eight years 'just like old times' she thought. Then suddenly the aura disappeared in thin air with a blink of the eye…

Sakura slowed down her car and tried to focus, she could feel Syaoran was at the back of the car trying to do the same (How can they focus when each other is so close by not to mention in the same car!) as predicted, they couldn't sense any thing and eventually gave up.

For the first time Sakura had notice how good Syaoran looked, not that he wasn't good looking before. 'An't I a lucky girl' but then she remembered her dilemma be for… what if… now they might not notice it but both of them are blushing with crimson red checks.

Tomoyo shock her head… this is going to take a while…

"Sakura…I…" Syaoran finally tried to start the conversation.

Ringgggg… every one let out a groan; it was Syaoran's cell phone (and everything was just getting interesting o.O)

"Wei?" he answered harshly getting very annoyed…

"Master Li" one of the elder's voice came through the phone "where are you? They said you disappeared from the mansion when a fire broke out."

'No, not them again! They like to spoil the moment don't they'. "Something's not right here, the mansion was put to fire on purpose… I sensed a dark aura and I'm going to check it out…" he said was a rather harsh tone.

"No, you can go 'check it out' later, go back to the mansion now! The princess is going to be there any minute!" – oh now that really got onto his nerves – (a/n: remember? He doesn't know who the princess is yet .)

"Well, how about No! I don't give a fuck about the princess, who ever she is and stop calling me!" (a/n:excuse theswearing -.-;;)

"But the princess is…" before the elder can finish Syaoran hung up.

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In the elders meeting room

"But the princess is…" Beeeeep… the elder sighed

"Kids these days have no respect let alone patience"

"Oh well, his lost" another elder shrugged and went back to play checkers.

"If he meets Kinomoto by chance on the street do you think she would tell him?"

"Nah, she would just play along but then again, what chance is that?" he scratched his head, now he was loosing.

"He is with Kinomoto" the eldest elder pointed to a screen on the wall where everyone saw Syaoran was talking to Sakura in her car.

While everyone turned their head the elder who was currently loosing the checker game turned the board around "How did we get that?"

"Oh we have hidden cameras all over Japan, it's apart of our brilliant 'connections'"

"Really? We have connections in Japan? Does that mean I can not pay all my speeding tickets from the last time I was there?" Everyone sweat dropped and fall anime style (can you imagine the elders do that?)

"Let the young ones make their own destiny" said one of the older elders and went back to his checker game finding his opponent all of a sudden winning "…?…"

"Right… anyway who's up for some baseball betting? This thing gets cable too!" trying to work out how to use this new technology.

OOOOOOOOO

Back on the streets of Tokyo…

Syaoran hung up his phone and sighed heavily.

'He doesn't know…' thought Sakura. Tomoyo was looking at her with a questioning expressing and she shook her head 'I'll tell him later…'

"So Li – Kun, who was that?" Tomoyo suddenly asked.

"Just the elders…" he mumbled some curses to himself.

"Why are you being so harsh to them? I mean they are all pretty old, shouldn't you give them a break?"

Syaoran blinked ' give them a break? Sakura! In case you haven't noticed, they are the ones who kept us apart for eight years! They are trying to engage me to some princess I don't even know about. The first thing you say to me after eight years is "give the elders a break"!… oh no, what if she doesn't love me any more…wait did she even love me in the first place…ah my head hurts…'

"What ever" he finally manages to say and slumped back into the back seat.

"So… Syaoran… how have you been the last, gosh, eight years?" now Sakura is trying to make conversation.

"Same old… training, training, avoid to get engaged, more training…"

Sakura managed to let out a giggle to Syaoran's surprise. "Poor Syao… looks like they had you running around" then she blushed again, what came over her. 'focus Sakura focus'.

"So what was that call about?" Tomoyo asked again.

"Oh nothing…" 'Tomoyo! I'm trying to avoid the topic here!'

"Ok… so what were we chasing before?" She quickly asked catching on the look he gave her.

Syaoran frowned at this "I don't know… but I felt dark energy from it, I think it was the one sat where I was staying at on fire this morning… what ever it is, it's up to no good and judging from it's speed, it's quite powerful too." He tried to put all the events that happened since the morning.

Tomoyo looked at Sakura nervously remembering Eriol's call that day. Syaoran obviously got a little confused. The girls filled him in on the call.

"That card… I've heard of it before… but from where?" he pounded.

"More importantly who's after it." Sakura stated. Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Sakura… I know it's quite sudden but do you think we can make a trip back to Tomoeda right now?" Tomoyo suggested with worry.

Sakura went silent… 'Tomoeda… dad's things are all still down there…maybe he left some clues of his and mothers death there? Maybe he was onto something about the card? He is after all an Archeologist and he did find the Clow book…'

"Why?" Syaoran seeing Sakura suddenly went silent he was confused again (clueless isn't he…)

"Sakura still owns the house she used to live in, her fathers library is still in the basement, and maybe we could find something there…" Tomoyo replied, he could see a tint of sadness in both girls' eyes.

"Oh, ok" he looked a Tomoyo questioning while Sakura was busy focusing on the road (or at least trying). 'Tell you later' Tomoyo mouthed back.

OOOOOOOOO

Somewhere in a dark underground passageway…

A figure walked down the passageway, water splashing around his feet. 'That was too close' he thought, thinking back to the morning. Why did his boss wanted him to set that mansion on fire anyway? He had instructed him to do worse before, but now…he knows no body would've gotten hurt in that lame fire.

Well he have to trust him and his plans, after all he could've killed him that night but he spared him and admired his skills in the dark ways…

Flashback-

"I have a proposal for you" Said a hooded dark figure in front of him.

"What if I don't agree with it?" he retorted with surprising boldness.

"Then you don't want to know… trust me…"his throat felt tight like someone is squeezing the air out of it, his muscles lame and he had no way of fighting back as he was lifted into the air. "O..kk…kay, I…m ..list-ening" he could barely chock out.

"Good, I like a good listener" the dark figure replied with some satisfaction in his voice. "don't worry, you'll be content with my offer."

"Who are you?" he asked, still clutching onto his throat.

"Oh that's not important, but I can tell you that I have the same purpose in this world as you…"

"What should I call you?"

"Master Kire (pronounced Key-a) would do fine"…(a/n: lame name… I know, what? I'm bad with names!)

Flashback ends-

Anyway, back to business… and he hope this time it won't be caught by the Chinese boy.

The lock of an iron gate clicked in the near distance… 'Right on time…'

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Syaoran was driving down the now sunlit highway stealing glances at Sakura's sleeping form every so often. (a/n: Incase you guys didn't notice, they all stayed up all night, well Sakura and Syaoran did anyway… considering Syaoran had all his training he's probably better off driving the car) Her just over shoulder length auburn hair caught in the breezes along with her form she looked like the angel herself.

By the time they arrived in Tomoeda it was already early afternoon. Sakura's old house still stood as it was eight years ago although through the window you could see the furniture covered in white sheets. Sakura juggled her keys still half a sleep with Syaoran supporting her. He blushed a hundred shades of red of cause and like Tomoyo would give up her best chance to shoot the 'Kawaii' couple on her camcorder.

When they finally got in they headed straight for the basement in hope to find something on the mysterious card.

After hours of fruitless searching Sakura and Tomoyo leaned back stretching while Syaoran still frantically flipping through the pages of what looked like a jumble - sized dictionary.

"Syaoran, we'll never find anything this way -.-;;" Sakura stared at her fiancé (a/n: lol… did you guys forget?)

Syaoran finally stopped " well, what else could we do?"

Silence…

"Li – Kun, what's that?" Tomoyo pointed to a corner of some paper sticking out of the gigantic book. Syaoran flipped to that page and pulled the pieces of paper out… well it was a huge piece of paper folded up. They opened it and on it were millions of dots and lines on it. "It's an astronomy map of stars seen from the Earth" Tomoyo exclaimed. "I thought your father was an Archeologist though…" She trailed when she saw Syaoran looking at them strangely again 'Was?'.

"My father past away Syaoran, he past away a year after you left Japan." Sakura answered quietly.

"Oh, I'm sorry" he's now regretting his curiosity, and most of all, he regret not be able to be there for her.

"It's ok" Sakura returned him a small smile.

For the second time of the day they looked into each other's eyes…

"Hey guys! I think we found some thing!" Tomoyo shrieked pointing to the page the book was flipped to. The lovers broke their eye lock. (talk about breaking the moment… again)

All three friends looked to the page, there in handwriting wrote:

The cosmic card – is a mysterious card created by the ancients. It was said that years ago the world was threatened by the power of void, because neither side of dark nor light would exist in void they came together and created this card to defeat the hollowness and locked it up somewhere secrete so no one will come across or try to unleash it again. However, the mysterious card was lost to the world over time. Some says that it has the powers to move stars in the sky and who ever gains position of it can use it either for the good or evil (note: it's very powerful so it's probably not a good idea for it to fall into the hands of evil) many have seek it in the past for its power but failed.

Rumor has that it was given to a particular family to guard it. Later it was know that the family had blood connections with the royal family of Japan. The guarding family had hidden the card and only made the location know to their direct descendents and sworn them to secrecy. They also put up a series of tests for those who wish to find the card...

"Ok, that explains why people are after the card… so Eriol wants us to find it before the bad guys do?" Syaoran scratched his head, this is sort of… making sense… 'damn that royal family, why do I see them every where now'

"Eriol think that the Sakura cards might be in trouble too, the think there is the chance that they might want to obtain them first and use them to find the mystery card."

"So basically we have no choice" he concluded. The others shock their heads.

Tomoyo looked back at the star map. 'Why would an Archeologist be interested in stars?… ok I suppose it relates to his work but…' the she noticed fine prints on the top right corner of the map "Property of the Japan Royal family library" she read out laud. Heads immediately turned towards her.

"He got it from the Royal family library?" they both asked.

"It could be just an artifact." Tomoyo thought "or maybe it's a photocopy?"

"I don't think he color photocopied that gigantic thing" Syaoran pointed at the blue ink writing along the bottom of the map. They looked closely at it, it was in fact a poem of some sort:

Across the waters where sanctuary lie,

Those who seeks the darkness or light.

Golden signs burn and lead you must,

Let shadows of the stars guide your quest.

"The note said something about tests to find the card, maybe this is a clue?" Syaoran tried to put every thing he had just learned together.

"And if the map is really from the Royal family library then it all fits" Sakura pounded… 'was her father too trying to find the card? But how?…'

"Yeah, the card is up for anyone who wants to find it, so this must be a starting point, the poem said 'Those who seeks the darkness or light' so it all make sense, and a star map, how brilliant! It's the cosmic card so what better to laid the clues out than on a star map!"Tomoyo concluded.

They all nodded, at least they found something now, no, they found a lot of things. Figuring out this is the most they are going to get out of the little library they decided to head up for some refreshments then make their way home. After all, there is still school tomorrow and they really need some sleep.

Sakura shuffled the pile of documents she went through and told her friends to go out first while she filed them back. On the way out she noticed her shoe lace was undone so she bent down to tie them. Just then she noticed something was on the floor under the table they were all just sitting at. 'What's that' she thought and went to pick it up. It was a article cut out of a old newspaper that must have fallen out that giant book when the map was taken out. It was small so she figured it wasn't the front-page news. She saw the newspaper name on top of the clipping: Japan Royalties... but that's the paper only the Japan royal family and relations get. It contains news within families that does not wish to be published to the public. The article read:

September 14th 1991

…Another member of the Japan's Royal family has been assassinated yesterday, Nadashiko Kinomoto, wife of Fujitaka Kinomoto and mother of her two children was found dead at the Tomoeda clock tower the second morning by a worker there with multiple stab wounds to the chest and stomach. The officials have now sealed off the death was due to an sudden illness to the locals and further investigation is still running. Mrs. Kinomoto is the ninth royal victim in the past two months who suffered this fate, all nine deaths are surprisingly from the same linage of the family, even though we still urge other members to be cautious…

Sakura paled… 'so it was true…' What was worse, she just realized she had been witnessing her own mother's murder in her dreams for the past month…

OOOOOOOOO

"I trust you have completed the missions?" asked the dark figure standing in front of the window, moonlight poured onto his cloak making him look inhuman (um… now we don't know if he is human in the first place…)

"Setting up the fire was a breeze" he answered plainly.

"Yet you almost got caught… by a boy"

"He's not merely a boy, he has powerful magic"

"Powerful enough to surpass you?"

"I got away didn't I?"

"Hum, well it wasn't all bad you know… just be more careful next time." He answered hardly caring about that little mistake. "How about the second task?"

"That was easily done with your help, they will all see it tomorrow"

"Good…"

OOOOOOOOO

On the way home Syaoran noticed that Sakura had hardly spoken since she got out off the basement library. She kept on staring into the distance. "Is something wrong?" he asked.

"Hoe? Oh no, just thinking…"

"About what?"

"The past eight years…"

"Sakura…I'm sorry I wasn't there for you through all those difficult times…"

"It's okay Syao… I got through fine didn't I?"

"No but you didn't…"

Sakura stared at him, 'have I really changed that much like Tomoyo said?'

"You know" Syaoran continued "what I said before I left eight years ago still stands… it always will…"

flashback-

At the airport "Sakura…I love you…no matter what" tears start to form in both of their eyes…

"You don't have to answer me now Sakura, but I promise you, I'll always wait for you to decide". With that and a final smile the turned and walked through the gate.

"I love you too" Sakura whispered, she knew she should've said it earlier, now he won't know…

end of flashback-

'He still loves me!' Sakura's heart nearly stopped at his words.

"Well Syaoran, I think you always had known my answer" she managed to get out the words.

"I do?" he looked rather surprised at her.

"Of cause silly!" she slapped him playfully. "I loved you too… and I think I still do…"

'She loves me!' he recited to himself and nearly jumped up teen feet high – stay calm… 'you don't want all of us to get in a car crash' with a smile he looked down at her "You think?"

"No, I know" She smiled back up at her 'secretly know' fiancé

"Good, cause I love you too…" …

Sakura leaned on to his shoulder knowing she will be forever safe with him.

"KAWAII! OHOHOHO and I got it all on tape!" don't have to tell you who that's from. Both couples literally jumped at the realization that Tomoyo was still behind them. Syaoran struggled to keep the car in the right lane. (Maybe she just wasn't Tomoyo safe with him -.-;;)

OOOOOOOOO

Not far from the Kinomoto resident, two figures stood on top of a building watching the car parked in its parking space behind the residential building. Three passengers walked out silently into the apartment.

"So how should we go about this?" one asked.

"Just as we planed earlier…" the other answered.

A/n: chapter three is done! I hope you guys liked it… I know, it's even longer than the last chapter! But you can't complain right?…lol… it's Saturday afternoon and I have nothing better to do…

Kero – Chan: actually you still haven't touched your homework yet – points to the pile of books and papers.

Little Rain: huh… oh that…-.-;; yeah… I'll just get to that now…

Kero – Chan: and you have to clean up the mess Suppie made.

Little Rain: Oh yeah -.-;; and that too… HEY! That was your fault!

Kero – Chan: -evil smile- this is what happens when you don't include me in you fan fic… Muahahaha I'll cause havoc! Muahahaha ….

Silence…

Crickets…

Kero – Chan: ehehe… right… I'll just go cry on my sorrow in the corner…

Little Rain: Okay, now to all off you royal readers, if you'll kindly leave a review and some sweets for Kero Chan for his sorrow of not making an appearance in the story yet we would be very grateful! (Easter bunny nods too) … so start typing!

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