There had been an intense fire streaming between the two. It pushed closer to one and then the other as they put as much effort into this as they could. Around Sakura there was a pink aura mixed with silver. Around Nimura there was one that was as black as night and with the very tips of it held a silver tinge. Up above another overpowering presence broke through the barrier. There was a girl there sending a silver stream of energy to the center ball. The beam neutralized the fireball with an explosion that sent both of the women to the ground. Knocked out.

Shaoran ran through the broken barrier just barely managing to catch Sakura.

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Moonspell- He hasn't proposed as of yet. Don't worry he will. Remember he has to propose before his next birthday. All the characters will be explained as well.

Tramie- I hope you're ready for some more twists and turns. There are still a few more to go. Thank you for editing this story for me!

I know that there have been one or two more that have read this. Thank you for the reviews and the encouragement.

Okay you have to forgive me for my extremely long absence. My cousins stayed with me through the summer, I started school in August, had to get a second job, and lost my internet connection. To top that all off I had to hunt down this chapter that I had already written. Well I hope you guys enjoy and I don't eexpect to be away for so long again. I'll talk to you later. Arigato and ja ne!

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Chapter 16

Shaoran held Sakura as if his life depended on it. The group had managed to levitate to the mansion. There had been a battle going on apparently for a while by the looks of all them. The new addition to the group went to the side of which the Li's had been fighting on. She made very little effort into sending the element of wind gusting toward the other side.

They all turned to look at the woman that had just joined them to find a girl in her older teens. She was the same age as the Sakura and Shaoran. The Li sisters were too shocked to give their 'kawaii' reaction. Fuutie was the first to get over her surprise and step forward. "Thank you." She bowed to the girl. "What's your name?"

"Kin-Li Nadeshiko Sayuki." She bowed to Fuutie.

"Well it's nice to meet you." Fuutie turned to look at Yue and Shaoran. "What happened?" She took on Sakura who was no longer wearing the white dress.

"We need to get her inside." Yue motioned to the house.

Xefia raised her hands and called the barrier back. "Let's go."

Shaoran was pacing in front of Sakura's door. He hadn't been allowed to come in and see her after Fuutie and Feimei came into the room. "What's taking so long?"

"I don't know my cute little descendant." Eriol answered. Li didn't respond to the 'my cute little descendant'. The really had Eriol worried. "What happened?"

there was a long shaky sigh. "The woman's name ws Nimura. She was an illusionist apparently. She set up a barrier so that I couldn't get through and made sure that I was tied to a tree." Eriol didn't say anything, didn't show anything, he just listened. "She showed Sakura an image of what looked like several dead bodies. After she told Sakura that she kept her feelings to close to her heart she let one of the of the figures become more recognizable. The woman said that she was reminding Sakura that anyine that was close to her would suffer the same fate as her, including her husband."

Eriol paled at the last one. "So that's what happned to her." He ran his hands through his hair. "You don't know what this means."

"What does this mean Eriol?"

"It means that someone doesn't want her to give her heart to anyone, not even her friends. It means that they have succeeded with part of the prophecy."

"What prophecy?"

"There will be one that will become more powerful that they know. Their power won't be just the items that they carry but power that is in their heart." Eriol shook his head sadly.

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying that they want her to not feel anything at all. She isn't as powerful if she has no feelings." Eriol smiled slightly though. "They haven't succeeded. She has become even more powerful than Clow Reed believed that she would. There is more coming though. More is at stake here than her heart. If this woman succeeds we lose Sakura to the dark side of this. Don't hurt her Shaoran. Hers and everyone else's lilfe depends on it."

"Whose life depends on it?" A female said behind them.

Shaoran turned around to be greeted by the young woman that had helped them earlier. "Kin-Li san, how are you?"

"I'm good."

"I trust that you have found everything to your liking?" Li said playing the perfect host.

"Yes, I feel at home here." She answered.

"I'm glad." The took this time to take a good like at her. She was about 5'6" with the long lean body of an athletic woman. She wore black pants and a silver halter top that had a very familiar design he had seen before but couldn't quite place. She had honey colored hair that was complimented by light green eyes that held a sadness that shouldn't be there.

Fuutie came out of Sakura's room finally with Kero flying just past her. He was very clearly angry. Shaoran ignored the creature for just a moment. "Is she alright?"

She smiled at her brother's concerned face. "She'll be fine. She just used a lot of energy in that battle."

"I know. You had to be there to believe it." Shaoran acknowledged.

Kero was still glaring at the two men. "Gaki! What did you do to her?!"

"Stuffed animal you have nothing to be concerned about. You didn't care enough to show up." Li hissed.

"You think that I would let my mistress near you if I thought she was going to get hurt! You think I didn't try to get to her when I could feel her using so much power. I couldn't get to her. Your sisters deemed it necessary to place a spell where you couldn't teleport out or even get out of the barrier unless they let you."

"Why?" He looked at Fuutie.

"Do you think that you would have been able to get Sakura there without it? She tried to teleport when we were trying to find her a dress." Fuutie gave him a pointed look.

"I don't blame her for trying. I can't say that I wouldn't have tried. I saw how many dresses that you were having her try on. Why didn't you just select a few of them?"

"It had to be perfect." Feimei answered in the door way.

"Women!" Shaoran through his hands into the air.

They looked in the direction that Kero was trying to flutter behind something. "Keroberos it's been a while."

He stopped and came out knowing that she had probably seen him when he shot out the door to yell at Li. Kero searched his mind trying to figure out who she was. "Who are you?"

"My name is Kin-Li Nadeshiko Sayuki."

"You realize that you are named after two flowers right?"

"Yes." She answered shortly.

"Hmmm… pink flowered lily." He crossed his little arms as well as he could across his chest.

"Kero tell me what you know about Nimura." Eriol ordered.

"Nimura?" Kero's beady little eyes went wide.

"Yes I saw what she had been through tonight."

"You saw…" Kero didn't finish.

"Yes."

"You better hope that she let's anyone near her." Kero wasn't flying in the air anymore. He had sat down on the edge of the table in shock. "I thought that she had already beat her."

"Evidently it wasn't enough." Yue entered the conversation holding back a struggling Touya who wanted to get to his sister.

"What wasn't enough?" mailings voice came from the end of the hall.

"Kinomoto fighting beating Nimura. She beat her before but it turns out that she will have to do it again."

"Kin-Li-san I hope you find everything to your liking."

"Yes." She paused. "When I saw you battling I thought that I saw a steady stream of water around you."

"Yes. My element is water but I can do ice as well." Meiling answered.

"We'll have to battle sometime."

Eriol looked at the door. "I think she needs help."

"Sakura was sleeping when we left the room."

Li paid his sisters no heed as he pushed past them. "Sakura?" He walked into the silent room.

She was tossing and turning on the bed. "It's alright. We won't let anything happen to you."

Kero flew above him. "She'll wake up soon."

Eriol heard Kero talking. "No she won't." he said something that calmed her down.

Kin li walked the halls of the Li mansion. She knew she was supposed to act awed with what was in the halls, the rooms, and the amount of servants. She couldn't though. She had seen all of this before. What worried her was what was going on. She couldn't lose anyone now. She had heard the conversation and it didn't sound good. She also knew of Sakura and her powers. She couldn't let anything happen to them.

Eriol being the reincarnation of Clow Reed worried her. He was a powerful man and even as the reincarnation he was powerful. He could figure out who she was and she couldn't afford that right now. She had a mission to complete; maybe more than one-.

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There was a field of flowers that Sakura was sitting in. The air was light but held a spark though it. The sparkle in the air seemed to give everything a brighter look to the place.

She liked the feeling of peace that filled the meadow. The leaves seemed to sway gently in the breeze. Sakura bent over to pick some flowers. The contrasting colors seemed to match each other perfectly.

The air seemed to change around her. "Who's there?" She asked just as she saw water droplets spinning around and beginning to combine together. The red dress with black trim was very familiar to her. Sakura knew who it was when she saw the white ribbon. She would never forget that sash. "Sue Young what are you doing here?"

"Returning a favor." The Sorceress said.

"What favor?" Sakura thought back to all of the battles that she fought with this woman.

"You reminded me of what it was to love." She seemed to float near Sakura.

Sakura nodded her head. She didn't know what t say.

"I have sensed a lot of turmoil in you about accepting the love that Li Shaoran has to give you." The woman before Sakura paused, "Don't run from it. You're going to need it to help you keep going."

"Isn't that considered a weakness?" Sakura asked her face looking at the cluster of flowers in her hand.

"Are your friends a weakness? Haven't you had to relearn how to open your heart to them? They're not your weakness; they are your strength child. His love will be the same to you."

Sakura felt the meaning behind the words more than the words themselves. "My caring also puts them in more danger than if I didn't show it." Sakura said.

"Your friends are capable of more than you know. Let them help you." Sue began to disappear.

"Do you think that before you disappear that you could tell me what happened between you and Clow Reed?" Sakura asked.

The sorceress began to rematerialize and sit on a swirling vortex of water. "Well when I was a young woman I had to help to support my family. My father didn't ever catch enough fish to feed all six us. I was able to bring home enough so that we could eat. It wasn't long before I had a good reputation for telling people's futures. Clow Reed showed up a little while later and began to take my business little by little.

One day while I was walking down the street I decided that I would pay him a visit. I think he knew when I came in how much I hated him. He was working on something when I came in. Whatever it was it took a lot of power. The air was filled with magical energy. There was spirit being transferred to a card." Sue Young stopped as if in thought.

"The Clow cards were being made." Sakura thought out loud.

"Yes they were. I didn't pay much attention to what he was working on so much that I wanted to fight him. We did fight but during the fight some of the cards that he had been making got loose. He called one of them windy. The wind was so strong from that it was blowing away the roofs of houses. He asked for my help to capture the cards."

Sakura noted the rustling of the leaves as she mentioned windy. They remained just as soft and gentle as they were when she first found herself here.

"It took two of us to catch her. He told me that there was a few more missing and that he needed help with them. We ended up catching fight, fly and water. There was a couple of others but they weren't as hard to get. In the end he said that he would have to seal the cards and wait for the one who would be able to control them.

Over the weeks I started to get to know him much better. We did have a battle eventually. He defeated me to say the least. I began to find ways to help my powers grow. They did grow but they grew to the extent of me becoming dangerous to everyone; including my family."

"How much did he help them grow?" Sakura asked smelling the flowers that were job her hand.

"He just showed me how to use them. He didn't do anything else." Sue young answered.

Sakura sat in silence as the world around her began to disappear. All the while she could hear the cards say, "Don't be afraid mistress."

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