Feathers of Love

Chapitre Twenty-nine: The Guardians


"Come, Sakura, let me show you your room." Yelen said as she went into the palace, then turned around and continued, "Son, your room is where it used to be, unless you have forgotten where it is?"

Syaoran nodded his dragonhead and went ahead, with Fuutie following behind him. They were fast and were soon around the corner and the two royals could not see them as they disappeared to their rooms. However, they could hear the quiet slams of their doors while Yelen led the way to Sakura's room. They finally reached a place that was quite deserted- there were no people around and it was very quiet. Keroberos, who had been following them silently but were noticed by neither Sakura nor Yelen, went past them and into a room of his own, which was next to hers.

"I am not sure if you remember this place, but I hope you do, as this is your room whenever you came to visit us…" she trailed off when she saw Sakura shake her head.

"Gomen…I do not remember anything much, because Mother locked my memories away in this bracelet of mine…" Sakura said as she held up the hand that the bracelet was on. However, she put it down very quickly when she saw Yelen's face turn pale. "What is the matter? Is anything wrong?"

Yelen did not answer, but she kept looking at the bracelet. Finally, she 'woke' up and said in a very restrained voice, "Well, let's go in then." And pushed open the door.

Sakura's jaw popped open. For she could not believe that she had been living in this room since she was a young girl. It was very large, and very neat too, with all sorts of furnishings only the rich could afford.

"But…but, I don't think that I should live in this room! I won't be able to be used to it! Please, could you please let me have a servants' room? Not that I do not appreciate your efforts, but I am just not used to living in such a spacious room!" Sakura protested, her hands gesticulating wildly.

"You are a princess! You…" Yelen started speaking…

Meanwhile, Keroberos was in his room, with his head on the floor. Someone hovered in the air above him, a look of wonder on his face.

"…Mistress is back, I can sense her a few hours ago." The being said, as he looked down at the creature below him, who was staring at him, frowning.

"Yes, yes, yes, Yue. Now can you please get down and sit down here? Your flying makes my head spin." Keroberos snapped. "Master is awake and sane. It is a wonder that we cannot sense her until some of her memories was returned to her."

"Ah…the bracelet has finally returned some of her memories? Good. But what about her feather? That is one of the most important things after all…" Yue trailed off.

"Unfortunately, it was not returned to her…yet. The time is not right, or the element that was supposed to make the bracelet return her feather has not appeared. However, if you are concerned about the cards, they are back and with her. Now will you stop flying and sit on the ground?"

"I feel like flying now and when I'm tired of it, naturally, I will land." Yue frowned and looked towards the wall, where Sakura was now currently bathing in the next room. She had already given in to Yelen and would stay in the room that she said belonged to her. She, however, had protested to having someone bathe her and had almost chased the poor maid out of the room. (Kero and Yue had heard it clearly, the maid sobbing and saying that she was not good enough for Sakura and Sakura coaxing the maid before asking her to stay in the room and let her bathe for herself.)

"So…what do you think of the situation here now that Sakura and the brat is back?" Kero asked.

Yue was silent, but when he answered, Kero started. "War will be worse, with more innocent people killed. Times will be worse than ever and when the people know that they are back, Sakura and Syaoran will have to help in the war. After all, the war is in their own countries too."

They stared at the wall, before Kero abruptly tried to cover his awkwardness by saying brusquely, "Let's visit that brat."

Which they did, by flying over to his room.

Syaoran had already finished bathing and changed back into his human form, before Yue and Kero barged into his room, unannounced. Syaoran spun around and frowned, before relaxing into a smile for the first time in a few days.

"Yue, Kero, so the two of you are staying in the palace. How's life in here then?" he asked casually as he strode over to a chair and sat down.

"I assume that your sister had told you what had happened in the war then. However, you seem very smug for a brat like you." Kero said as he sat down once again, his head in his paws.

"What do you mean?" Syaoran was angry. "How can you say that I am angry? It is just that I am glad to be back home, that's all!"

"All right, all right. So what have you been doing at Yubaba's the whole few years?" Kero asked, ignorant of Syaoran scolding him.

"Serving Yubaba, if that is what you are asking. I was lucky that I was free from Yubaba. Thanks to Sakura, that is."

At that moment, someone came into the room. It was a maid, who first greeted Syaoran, Kero and Yue, before telling the three of them her news, "Sirs, if you all do not mind, the Queen has sent me to inform Your Highness and the Princess's guardians that you have to go to the throne room and meet the officers. If you all would like to go now, please follow me."

Syaoran stood up and said, "We'll go immediately. Thank you for informing us of this."

Thus, they went on their way to the throne room, where the officers would greet them and see with their eyes that the Crown Prince and the Card Mistress was back.


Disclaimer: I do not own anything at all except this storyline.

This fanfic is going to be interesting now…maybe more humor soon, who knows? Perhaps only me. :D