Author Note: This story will be ending pretty soon, I guess it's for the better seeing as how school is coming up and stuff. I'll continue to write and post new stories as soon as I have time and ideas. Feel free to tell me in a review or E-mail any new fic ideas you would like to see.

"you know whatpisses me off? the fact that writters will only post for reviews, if people are reading it as it is, doesn't that say something?" My Sis has brought up a good point here, and from now on all chapters will be posted at her beck and call

"Under the Twilight"

The two of them stood there staring at the stone jutting out from the Earth as leaves danced with petals, brown flickers dancing with green, green leaves dancing with pink petals.

The Chinese boy kneeled there on the fresh little hill of dirt that protruded out from the carved stone. Imagining the days he shared with her, the conversations they had about little things, just little things. Like how birds could fly, how clouds soared through the scorching sun, just little things like how much he liked green.

He told himself that that is why he felt so attached to this place, the scenery was a collage of green and pink dotted with seasonal brown and he remembered why even the trees hurt him so deeply, staring at their leaves were like staring into her eyes.

Eyes that just wouldn't open, even with all the money in the world they could just still didn't have enough to open them let everyone bask in her endless pools. He knew he had drowned in her eyes for years now, giving up the struggle and letting himself sink beneath the surface of their depths, he always thought if she left, she would take him too.

But she wasn't like that. Everyone knew she wasn't the kind of person who ever asked anybody to anything for her, she never hated anyone and shared her joy with the world. So much life, tragically swept away from the world.

"I'm so sorry Li-kun" She voiced amidst her own sobbing and for a moment it seemed the wind would didn't carry her message to the one that needed it the most, until he slowly got up and a fierce determination in his eye that struck fear into her and pity at his words.

"Don't be sorry" He inhaled deeply "There's no reason to be…

…I'm going to fix it"

Tomoyo gasped, cold air entering her lungs and vaporizing from her body warmth as a trickle of breath escaped from her voice-stricken throat.

"What? Li-kun-"

"Enough" he stared at her with violent impatience "I'm not going to waste time here"

He ran off towards his apartment leaving her alone with the leaves and the mound in the dirt. The wind blew hard against the trees surrounding the site, and pin petals descended to the ground and shriveled with the ground's touch.

Running, all he could think of was running. Not paying attention to any of the vehicles at all, abandoning all caution he ran through a busy intersection panting from over-exertion but failing to recognize the danger of his foolish actions. Besides, the worst thing that could happen would only bring him and her together again.

He could see now the distant building coming into view over the horizon as the sun begun to set behind it, creating an optical illusion that made the building seem to shine with rays of salvation. He grabbed the handle of the entrance and ran his way up the fire route to his apartment door, fumbling for the keys he threw them into the mechanism and turned it.

His home, although for days now it didn't feel muck like home to him anymore. Everywhere he would go in Japan he could only think of the times and the places he's been with her, and in Hong Kong he could only think of the places she hadn't seen. Nowhere was home to him now. He paced quickly to his room ignoring the still open doorway, his loyal servant and friend nowhere to be seen, opening his door he stepped inside.

"I knew you'd do something like this" Li Syaoran stood shocked as the golden lion stood before him defiantly.

"Get out of my way" Glaring back with the same magnitude of threat in his stance.

"My mistress told me you'd be coming" He said matter-of-factly

"Is that all she is to you, a mistress?" He voiced annoyingly "How about instead of thinking of her as a mistress, you think about her as a friend"

There were no words to his challenge, and the lion slumped his shoulders in defeat yet still keeping a watchful eye on the boy.

"But what exactly do you intend on doing?"

"I'm bringing her back, I don't know what it will take nor do I care, I'm doing this…with or without you"

Keroberos stood at the ground in thought for a moment and to Syaoran's surprise he side-stepped away from his drawer and lied down on the floor, with his paws underneath his chin.

Syaoran now looked towards his bedside drawer sensing the powers revolving around it reaching down for his bottom drawer he placed his hand inside it to find the rugged surface underneath his fingers and the slight tingling sensation of warmth and joy pulsating through his nerves at it's touch.

There it lay, the Sakura book nestled neatly next to a stack of papers. Such a powerful object that lay in so close to him for days and baka he was for not caring to give it a second notice.

He picked it up and opened the dusty seal on the smooth undecorated side of the book and placed it on his old wooden workstation carefully. The sun's rays melting into the horizon sending a few last rays that hit the book giving it a surreal glow of pink assorted with the green surroundings of his room. He'd never done this before, never felt the need to and all knew that it probably wouldn't work. But still stubborn as he was he decided against common sense and began to neatly shuffle the deck and place it in a diamond formation in front of him and he begun a chant

Ancient forces hear my plea

Know that the fate of your mistress now runs through me

Spirits, save her from her untimely wrath

And grant me vision to my path

The still air in the room ignited with liveliness the wind tossing papers and objects across his space in a frenzied gathering of mystical energies. The lights flickered, showing signs of torment before surrendering and letting their light dim to darkness as the last glimpse of sun descended into the Earth making the entire room suddenly pitch black with darkness.

The magical winds slowed and the cards remained in there place despite the howling winds, and through prior knowledge of card magic he turned over the middle three cards.

Shadow, Illusion, Dark

"What?" He exclaimed in the darkness "there's got to be some meaning to this" Desperation rising in his tone.

"Sorry kid, there doesn't seem to be a clear solution to any of this"

He was about to retort when a shrill cry echoed from his living room forgetting that he had left the door open.

"Li-kun please stop this it's only going to make you hurt mo-"

Clearly aggravated by the interruption, he cursed and leapt from his seat to see that she had already made her way to his room slouching he closed his door and was lead by the lengthy haired women to his living room couch.

In the darkness of the kid's room, Keroberos leapt felinely to the cards and out of curiosity gently lifted the bottom card with his jaws and placed it carefully side up, smiling to himself as he shuffled them back inside the book.

Hope

hehe, I could've made this chapter longer but I decided to post it as two separate chapters instead of one, anybody have guesses? Please leave them in a

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