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I'm soooooooooooooooooo sorry!

Took me long enough, so hurry up and read! (AND review) XD just joking, take your time, cuz I took mine...!

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Chapter 16

In the back of the dungeon-like room, some kind of black void appeared. It was just a tiny spot, and for some reason, only Touya seemed to notice. He looked around at his sister and friends – and some less then friends – and realized no one saw the black thing, which was growing slightly.

Looking at it closer, he saw a grey-black smoke coming at the void, filling its surroundings. An eerie sensation came over him, and he had to suppress a shiver running down his spine. He couldn't take his eyes away from it, while it grew in quick pace.

Finally able to force his eyes to look at something else, he turned around not ever wanting to see it again.

'Touya-kun, what wrong?' Yukito asked him, worriedly, because Touya had become very pale suddenly.

'Something's here!' Sakura and Syaoran both said, standing up quickly and looking around for clues.

Touya's eyes narrowed slightly, seeing his dear sister and the brat acting quite the same – it was worse enough that they had leaned at each other during the not-so-exiting story. But he worried also. Sakura knew that something was out there, which she obviously couldn't see, and so did the brat.

He recalled a day when he had felt something strange in Tomoeda, and his mothers spirit looking worriedly and going after it, leaving her son alone for a moment, not explaining why. When she had came back, a smile was plastered on her face, and she had the look in her eyes that she always had, when looking at her youngest long-lost daughter, as he had found out later.

He connected these facts, and realized that his sister had to do something with that force back then, whatever it was. Forgetting all that for a moment, he spoke, a bit ashamed that his voice had a light trembling in it – which resulted in very worried look from Yukito.

'There is a void behind him, a black one.' He nudged his head at Ywdoranc, still not wanting to look at it. 'And it's growing very fast.'

'I don't' see anything. What's a void?' Meilin asked.

'You don't know what a void is?' Touya asked back unbelievingly.

Meilin rolled with her eyes. 'I do know! I meant what does it look like?'

'That's not what you said…'

'So?'

Wisely, Eriol came in between. 'This void probably looks like a black hole, literally. I'm not surprised if there's smoke coming out of it. It indicates the coming of a certain someone.' Looking at Ywdoranc, who tried to look calm, yet sneakily tried to see where the black hole was, Eriol gave a last warning. 'Taking you to your eternal downfall.'

While Ywdoranc stared at him, somehow a bit dazed, Eriol, wanting the man to understand him, muttered: 'That was official your last warning…!'

'Hai, hai… I understood that, but it doesn't matter, now does it?'

'It doesn't? I thought it was pretty important.' Sakura said.

'That was a rhetorical question.'

'And I was sarcastic…'

'…'

Sakura didn't respond on that, but gave her attention once more to void, which she couldn't see, but felt clearly. 'It's getting bigger…' she murmured. 'Oniisan, where is it?'

'Eh? You can't see it?' One of Touya's eyebrows raised. 'It's really big, you know…'

While Sakura had a quizzical look on her face, Syaoran quickly explained. 'The void is a part of the creature, which is probably a ghost. We can't see them now, because he lives in another world. But Touya is used to seeing ghosts, that's why he is the only one who can see the void.'

'Hoe! G-ghosts?' Sakura exclaimed.

'Since when do you know about that!' Touya demanded, but Syaoran didn't answer that.

'Concentrate, Sakura. I think you will be able to see where it is, when you stop seeing with your eyes, but let your magic take over.'

Touya glared at him, but Sakura closed her eyes and tried to concentrate, just like Syaoran had said. To her surprise, it wasn't as hard as she would have thought. As she concentrated, she could here the voices of her Clowcards. It sounded a bit familiar, though she heard it for the first time.

They were talking to her, whispering, screaming and singing.

'Don't worry, mistress.'

'Save us…'

'Where are our friends?'

'We will help you.'

'Don't cry…'

'Don't be afraid…'

'…you can make your own future…'

'…don't listen to fate, told by others.'

'We care for you.'

'Mom is watching us all.'

Thousands of thoughts were running trough her mind, calming her, reassuring her, and giving her the answer to see with magic instead of plain eyes.

This resulted in seeing a deep blackness behind Ywdoranc, who got slightly paler, while listening to his previous audience. She inhaled sharply, because she felt the darkness even more, now that she could actually see it. This made her lose concentration, and the blackness disappeared.

'Kowai...!' Concentrating once more, she examined the void, trying to be regardless of the creepy feeling. The blackness did have a shape, at second thought, but was hardly seen trough al the black mist coming out of it. Trough the hole in the air, came creepy noises, making a shiver run trough her entire body. A shadow, even more black than the void itself, if that was possible, was now seen in the hole, slowly coming forward.

Sakura jerked away from the image, turning around, seeing al of her friends behind her, all looking for the void. Except Touya, who didn't look on purpose. Syaoran was looking at the right place, so he probably could see it as well.

The strange thing was, while she was still 'looking with magic', al of them looked different. The body's where replaced by aura's, some stronger then others. Trough the aura, symbolizing their own body's, were shadows. Very detailed shadows.

The shadow of Yukito had the form of an angel with wings and long hair. Instead of looking at Touya, as Yukito himself did, the shadow was looking at the void with Ywdoranc in front of it. A very serious look lay upon his face, and he didn't blink while he stared at the shadow in the void.

Looking at her older brother, Sakura saw a shadow, in the same form as himself – luckily, for she didn't understand yet why Yukito had a different form. Though she couldn't exactly see all the expressions on his face, she all the more felt them: Worry for her and Yukito, love, pain, sorrow, uncertainty, anger, and most of all, a certain feeling that he was way overprotective of his little sister.

Sakura stored all those emotions in a special place in her mind, so that she could figure it out completely, when there was time. Seeing those two in such different forms then usual, she had the urgent feeling to look side wards, where Syaoran was still standing, looking at what she and Touya didn't want to see or feel anymore.

What would Syaoran look like? Would he have a different form like Yukito, or the stream of emotions like Touya? Or maybe something different. Slowly she looked at her side, seeing Syaoran with a green aura, turning towards her and looking in her eyes as she stared back.

Her heart skipped a beat, when she saw he didn't had a different form, nor a stream of emotions. Al she saw was a radiating feeling of love, coming right at… her? Looking in his eyes, green from the aura, she smiled at him, finally knowing the answer to her question. To her relief he smiled back, a gentle smile which was really rare from him. Silently she wondered what he saw right now, what her shadow looked like.

'Ohohoho, that's so kawaii!' Tomoyo squealed, videotaping it all. This broke Syaoran and Sakura from their trance, and loosing their concentration, the aura's disappeared once more. A flush appeared on both their cheeks.

Touya was glaring very hard at Syaoran, but didn't do anything, for Yukito held a hand his chest, preventing him from doing anything rash. Wow, Yukito sure can handle oniisan! Only with one hand!

'I hate to break the moment,' Meilin came in between. 'but lets get out of here first, before you do anything mushy mushy.' A sly grin had appeared on her face, though Syaoran could still see the tiniest bit of jealousy.

This only made Touya glare harder, and Sakura redder. At least Syaoran broke away from staring into her eyes, and regained his posture.

'It's coming.' Eriol pronounced.

All finally paid attention to the void and Ywdoranc again, who shaking from anger. For at least 15 minutes, no one had been paying attention to him, and he hated that. 'Finally, in the spots lights again. Took you long enough.'

'Oh, Ywdoranc-san. Can you please move a few inches to the left?' Tomoyo asked sweetly, as only she could do. 'I'm trying to film the void, but I can't go to the right, because of this invisible shield you put here.'

More veins appeared on his head, and a little snarl was heard. But he did step aside, although only a little bit.

'How can you film a ghost if we can only see it with magic?' Touya asked, still glaring at Syaoran, who didn't bother to look back anymore.

'Well, filming Sakura-chan and her adventures is really important, so Eriol put a spell on my camera.'

'I haven't seen him putting a spell on anything.' He declared.

Meilin answered, smiling wisely. 'I think you were glaring to hard, Touya-kun. And besides, Eriol is not for nothing the most powerful sorcerer in this world.' Eriol smiled his mischievous smile at that comment.

'It's here.' Syaoran stated.

Out of the black void, only seen by Touya, Sakura, Syaoran, Eriol and Tomoyo, the deep black shadow appeared. Hands were holding the side of it, like the void was actually something that you could touch. Then, something, supposedly the head, came out, followed by the feet and legs. Seconds later, the being stood before the void, which grew quickly smaller.

Sakura sweat dropped at the sight of the new arrival. It was a small and skinny man, in his high…ehm… To her surprise, the man looked like far over a hundred years, if it weren't any more. He had a long crystal white beard, with strokes of grew in it. It was neatly combed, just like his hair, which he wore in a thin tail on his back. He had a crooked smile plastered on his face, and sparkling, clear blue eyes.

He didn't look scary at all, actually a bit funny and friendly.

'So,' The old man said, in a happy voice. 'how are the living-ones doing?'

He didn't get any answer, seeing five people stare at him strangely, and the rest looking straight pass him.

'Ah, let me introduce myself, to the ones who can actually see me. I'm Tonhmi, most trusted relative of the Devil himself. What can I do for you?'

He smirked when all of them fell in anime style, and the last one, on his left, was looking around frantically, hearing a voice, but seeing nothing. Ah, this is interesting. Finally I meet some mortals that can see me. They're not even afraid, how hilaric…!

AN: Ehm…hope you like it, despite the long waiting period. I have been soooo busy, and then I read such an awesome fic, which is really long, and I still haven't finished reading yet, but I really had to write again, cause I've been keeping you waiting for so long…How long exactly…I don't even know, maybe it wasn't even that long… To lazy to look it up. So I hope that the ones who have been reading this fic, still continue reading en of course REVIEW! LoL! I'll keep writing, I promise for the ones who are actually liking my story! XD