"Wait!"
Kamaki's sword stops an second to late. Li's neck begins to bleed. His skin is pierced, not his throut. "A second later, you'd be dead." Kamaki glares at him. Li winces, daring not to move an inch. "Well, I'm waiting!" Kamaki turns to Sakura. "Oh,-." She starts. "Oh she says. She must not care about you that much." Kamaki begins to twist his sword in Li's skin. Li begins to cry out in pain. "Thats enough!" Kamaki stops, turning back to her. "Well?" Sakura steps up to him. "Even if you do kill him, it changes nothing. I am in love with two people, and that won't change if one of them dies!" Kamaki grins. "However, I've never met you before!" She yells pointing at Kamaki. "Pardon?" He asks, his eyebrow cocked. "I am in love with Kamaki Hiragato. The smart alec trouble maker with a smile as pure as rain. You are just some pathatic loser admiring someone in another persons perspective. You suck! And I am not in love with you!" Sakura screams, never once losing eye contact. His eyes lower to the ground. His elbows go limp. He takes his sword away from Li's throut. Li coughs and uses his free hand to try and stop the bleeding. Kamaki steps back, allowing Li to sit up, holding his throut in pain. "Sakura..." Kamaki says. "You hurt him, bad. Be careful, this isn't over." Kamaki says turning towards the main gate. He vanishs the second he passes through them.
"An ambulence came by to patch up Li's throut. Strangly, not one person asked how it happened. Must've been one of those things where people refuse to believe what they can't explain, or however Kero said it. I still can't believe they took a half an hour after Kamaki left to show up. Kamaki. We still don't know what happened to him. I wonder what he meant when he said I hurt him? That I hurt the side I like or the other? Heh, baby blue, or cherry red? Ones evil, that the other dreads! Sigh... Either way, I wish I knew where he was."
Sakura goes over the prior events in the day. It was pretty late, eight-thirty or so. She was heading to the store for a snack she had promised Kero. It was about the time she was walking past Penguin Park that it started to rain. "Oh great, what else can go wrong today?" At that point, the drizzle quickly became a downpour. Sakura cursed her dumb luck as she rushed for the nearest cover, being the crawl-space under the slide. She got there just as lightning bolt struck a place which seemed to be quite close. She sat there for quite awhile, the rain didn't let up, it got worse and worse and worse. She was barely wet, but any attempt in getting to the store, or home, magic or not, would result in her being soaked.
"Cold?" A voice comes from above. "Is that you Kamaki?"
"Yeah, its me."
"How long you been here?"
"Long enough. How's Li?"
"... He's fine. Cuts and brusies..."
"Good, I'm glad."
"So, which are you?"
"Heh, I am both, all at once. I'm never really one or the other. Unless one of us is asleep. Which, he is."
"Asleep?"
"Yeah. When one of us is asleep, the other can take over, if their awake that is."
"So I guess thats why I never met, him."
"Well, I try my best to get him to be awake at school, you actually have met him alot. More then you'd think."
"Really?"
"Yeah, he killed the dragon."
"Oh, I didn't know that."
"Still, besides that day, you guys never really talked."
"Oh. Aren't you getting wet?"
"Yeah, but it heals me."
"Doesn't fire healed you?"
"Depends. If I'm mad it does, but I'm calm now, like the rain."
"Thunder and lightning don't seem very calm to me."
"True, but their different. I'm not being hit by lightning, and thunder is just the sound of lightning."
"So depending on your mood, you get healed by different elements?"
"Yep, fire when I'm agitated, or excited... Uh, water when I'm in a happy or sad mood, wind while I'm hyper or carefree (not often), ice-..."
"Ice? Isn't that just frozen water?"
"Don't get me started, or is water just melted ice. Lots of debate on that."
"... Go on."
"Ice when I'm cold-hearted, or cruel."
"You! Cold-hearted! Cruel!"
"..."
"Oh, your other side?"
"Sorta..."
"Are there more?"
"Yeah, electricity when I'm tired."
"Tired!"
"Somethings I don't even know." Sakura giggles.
"How is it you, absorb, all these different elements?"
"Family trait."
"Trait?"
"Thats the easiest way to explain it. Your turn."
"My turn what?"
"I explained a bit of myself, now its your turn to explain a bit of yourself. Quid pro quo."
"Oh, what do you want to know?"
"Whatever you think is intresting about yourself."
"Um, okay! Well, I created a Star card."
"So then there 53 Clow, er, Star cards?"
"Yeah."
"Whats it do?"
"I don't know, it doesn't even have a name."
"Hmmm, maybe its name and purpose are for you to decide."
"Maybe..."
"Tell me about something non-Clow related."
"Uh, okay... Um..."
"I know that your mother died, but I don't know how."
"..."
"Sorry, bad subject."
"No its okay, she was in a car acciedent."
"Oh. Mine was murdered."
"What!"
"Yeah, my mother and my father were both murdered by my older brother, Seph."
"I had no idea."
"It was a long time ago, actually, your the first person I've ever told this."
"Hmmm, the rain seems to be dieing down, its very late, you should head home."
"Yikes!" Sakura glances to her watch. "Oh I'm in big trouble!"
"Just tell them you were waiting out the rain, they'll understand."
"Okay." Sakura gets out from under the slide, its mearly drizzling now, and most of the sky is clear. She looks up to where Kamaki is sitting. He's drenched, his hair is flat, with strands coming in on his face. His cloths are stuck to his skin, making him very reveiled, his trenchcoat the only thing not gripping him. Sakura can feel her cheeks heat as she scans his body. He raises an eyebrow. "You okay? You look kinda flushed." He asks as he climbs down the slide. "Oh, uh, I'm fine!" She says as he makes his way toward her. He looks down upon her. Sakura closes her eyes. "Could this be it?" She thinks to herself. "My first kiss! If he tries, I'll, I'll... I'll let him." He leans downward, taking her hand. She braces, cheeks near a flame they were so hot. He bends a places a gentle kiss, on her hand. Sakura opens her eyes, gazing back at them are his. "I had fun tonight. Next time though, we should try to sit together. Goodnight." And with that he turns and begins to walk away. Sakura feels dispointed, yet somehow relived. Kamaki feels as if that was the last time he'd ever see her. "Sakura?"
"Yeah?"
"Tomorrow, be careful. He'll come to you. Use what I told you." And with that he disapears into the night.
Sakura arrives home. Her dad, mearly glad that she missed the storm, sends her to bed. As she enters her room, she finds Kero asleep on top of a half dozen eggrolls. "Good thing I never got to the store." She says quietly as she wipes away some eggroll grease on his torso, then him into his bed. She changes into pajamas and does the same. She thinks back to how she felt when she looked at Kamaki. "What was that feeling? I've never had it before. Was it lust? Or was I just..." She turns to her side. "I wonder what he meant by use what I told you? Will his dark side come after me? I, I... And what about Li? It was my fault he was hurt. I just wish... That..." She drifts into sleep with these thoughts, hopeing to find her answer in the morning. But her dreams betray her, she falls downward visions of Li and Kamaki rush by her. She lands on the ground. As she looks up she sees Kamaki, or what looks like Kamaki, he turns into this horrifing monster, it leaps at her.
"Sakura! Time to get up! One of your friends is here!"