Disclaimer: I do not own Card captor Sakura or any of its characters and places. It's all Clamps'. I just own the story I made up.
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It All Began With A Dream
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Chapter fourteen: Huge Confusion
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"Sakura !" he shouted before running to her.
As he approached, he could see more details of the girl, like the weird clothes she was wearing, or her surprise expression when she saw him, but it didn't stop him.
"Li-kun?" she blurted her eyes wide as he stopped before her.
Not noticing the name she had called him, he placed his hands on her shoulder to make her face him and…
He kissed her fully on the lips.
At first, she was too surprised of his action to react. She had noticed that his eyes shone with a light different from the usual coldness. They were warm and kind, like his kisses…
Wait, hold on a second…
He was kissing her!
What on earth!
She began to struggle against his grip on her shoulders, but he held her to tight.
Her free arms were moving frantically, trying to push him away from him, but he wouldn't budge, so she did the thing he would expect the least coming from Sakura.
She tightened her hand into a fist and punched him hard on the cheek.
He got thrown on the floor by the force of impact.
God was she strong…
Both breathless, they stared at each other, Syaoran sitting, his legs wide open, dumbfounded and rubbing the cheek she had swiped, Sakura her fist still in the air, a fierce look on her face.
"What do you think you were doing Li!" she shouted, flushed and angered.
The boy didn't answer, he kept staring at her, but something she said suddenly made him react.
"Why do you call me Li? My name is Syaoran." He said, before standing up and sweeping the dust from his clothes.
It was then that the emerald-girl noticed for the first time the weird king of things he was wearing.
He looked like a peasant from ancient history books.
Instead of the usual tight green muscle-shirt, there was a baggy creamy shirt, too big for him and tight up on the waist by a cord. The long black baggy pants were replaced by large brownish trousers, covering the feet and tied up around the ankles by cords as well. He wasn't wearing shoes, but his feet were wrapped up in some kind of thick material, maybe leather.
But, except for the feelings in the eyes, he was the same old guy she knew.
Syaoran too was surprised by her clothing. She wasn't wearing a dress like girls should wear, but she, instead, had a sort of pant that went up to the middle of her ankles, and was wearing a pink shirt that stopped just before her belly-button.
He took a step towards her, but seeing her taking a step backwards at the same time made him stop.
He was getting really confused about her behaviour now.
"Are you alright Sakura?" he asked, "Did the kidnapper do anything to you? Was it him who forced you to wear those strange boy clothes? Why are you here?"
The girl was taken aback by those questions, but she answered nevertheless.
"I don't know what you're talking about Li-kun. Do you have a fever? It's not safe to go out if you're sick."
Hearing her saying that, the amber-eyed boy's facial expression grew even more confused than it was already. Suddenly, as he was trying to figure out what and why she had said that, a weird suspicion took over him and he slowly picked up his sword, careful not to quit looking at the girl in front of him.
Maybe it was a trap to catch him.
Maybe this girl was not the real Sakura.
He positioned himself in battle stance, scaring the girl who took another step backwards.
"Wha…what are you doing Li-kun?" her face showed fear "You're scaring me."
"I won't fall into the trap. That bastard will have to try again" he grumbled to himself.
He placed the sword, point to the girl, so it would pierce through her if he'd attack.
"Li." The frightened girl squealed, her back now on the cold wall "What are you doing? You're getting paranoiac. LI!"
Not considering her cries, he continued to advance.
The point of the weapon was now on her throat, ready to slash it.
She covered her face with her hands and shut her eyes.
"Prove it!" he hissed a frown obscuring his face "Prove it to me that you're Sakura Kinomoto."
A sudden flash of light made him turn his head towards its source.
Someone had opened the door widely, and the bright sunlight blinded him in the darkness of the tower.
A dark boy's silhouette was cutting out on the bright background.
He had a sword, and was on the same battle stance Syaoran was just a few minutes ago.
"She won't have to prove anything to you, you lowlife!" the silhouette shouted challengingly, though not moving.
The amber-eyed boy kept looking the shadow, folding his eyes to try to recognize the guy. His hair was very messy, and the colour was brown: chocolate or chestnut. More like chestnut.
The piercing cold and fierce eyes of the guy were staring at him as well, trying to know who he was.
They were amber.
The blind moment had now passed, and the two boys could perfectly see each-others features.
The two of the gasped, and their eyes widened.
Syaoran swallowed hard, disbelieving.
Except for his clothes, the guy he was looking at was an exact replica of himself.
A heavy silence got installed in the place, only cut by Sakura's short breathing.
She still had her eyes closed, so she didn't know what was happening.
Slowly, wondering why there was no sound made, she lowered her hands and dared opening her eyes.
And they quickly got wide opened, her jaw almost reaching the floor as she looked from a boy to the other.
"Why are there two Li-kun-s?" she asked, almost shyly.
"That what I'd like to know" answered the new-come Syaoran between his teeth.
This was too much for the poor other Syaoran.
After having Sakura kidnapped, discovering she was a princess, learning he could use magic, a tough training against Eriol, having a really short night, leaving on a long journey, just having a short pause, being under stress when he went in the tower, daring to kiss Sakura, getting slapped, trying to kill her and being stopped by another him, his brain made the only thing that would give the poor guy some rest.
It shut down.
The Syaoran at the door didn't flinch when he saw the other him collapse on the floor, unconscious, but he fully understood the guy's natural reaction and even he too was feeling a bit numb.
On the other hand, Sakura reacted immediately. She shrieked and bent over the fainted boy to take his pressure. It was a bit low, but he also had a slight fever, so she called the amber-eyed by the door boy's name to help her.
"Li-kun!" she said when he kneeled beside her, "We need to put him in bed. Do you think we could bring him over to your house?"
He blushed under her gaze, but, unable to refuse anything to her, he nodded.
He picked him up, with some difficulties. Even though he was practicing martial arts and was quite strong, the guy seemed to have the same weight as him.
Panting under the mass, he made his weight towards the door, shortly followed by the emerald-eyed girl.
When he got outside, he looked around, to see if the coast was clear.
They were on top of a hill, next to an abandoned tower. Normally, the tower was closed to the public, and he didn't know what Kinomoto was doing in there.
The hill was surrounded by the pathways of the town park. In the distance, he could hear the honks of the cars stuck in traffic, and see the tall buildings that grew here and there like gigantic mushrooms.
He stopped to wait for the auburn-haired girl who had to return inside to search for something. When she got out, she had a backpack on her shoulders.
She gave him an "I'll explain later" kind of look as she saw his stare on it, and quickly went down to rejoin the dusty pass.
Readjusting the unconscious boy on his shoulder, the amber-eyed guy followed her and both hurried out of the park.
They crossed a few streets, avoiding cars and the looks of people who wondered why they were carrying a lifeless corpse, and finally arrived in front of a huge building, with balconies and flowers.
Climbing up a few stairs, they arrived in a large hobby, and fastened their pace, so the employees wouldn't gossip. They took the elevators and finally arrived in Syaoran's apartment.
The walls were mainly painted in green, in honour of the boy's favourite colour.
While Sakura was gone in the kitchen to pick some ice, Syaoran went into his own green bedroom, and placed the fainted boy in his green bed.
Waiting for the girl's return, he studied the chestnut-boy's face and body, and was almost scared of their resemblances.
It was as if he was seeing himself in mirror, except for the clothes. How weird it was to see his own reflection lying on his own bed, pale and feverish.
A small knock at the door made him turn his head, and he saw the emerald-eyed girl with a bag of ice and a towel.
She placed the items on the nightstand and rapped the ice in the towel, before placing it on the unconscious Syaoran's forehead.
For five minutes, they didn't talk and stayed there, watching him.
"Who do you think he is?" whispered Sakura, switching her gaze at the Syaoran standing in front of her.
"I have no idea." Answered the boy, sighing deeply "Maybe it's an evil clone." He then joked, to soften the atmosphere.
The girl giggled softly, almost making him melt and he blushed deeply.
"I don't think he's evil" she muttered "He seemed to have passed through a lot of things. He seemed exhausted. I wonder who he thought I was when he saw me."
"He seemed to know you, because he knew your name. I heard him say it when he threatened you. Lucky thing I arrived at the same time. He could have killed you"
"By the way, how did you know I was there?"
The boy's blush reddened even more.
"I was just passing by and I heard you scream" he lied.
In fact, he was checking on her aura, as always, when he had felt that she was in danger, and had ran to where she was to find her flattened on the wall, with a man threatening to kill her if she didn't prove that she was her.
"Thanks for saving me" She smiled brightly at him, making him blush even more if that was possible.
"What are we going to do with him?" he asked after a certain time, to change the subject.
"I don't know." answered the girl slowly after a few seconds. "I can't take him with me, that's for sure. My brother would kill him. Maybe we should ask Eriol-kun for advice? He seems to know everything. I wouldn't be surprised if he knew who that boy is and where he comes from."
"Hiiragizawa?" said the amber-eyed boy doubtfully. "You think it's a good idea to involve him?"
The truth was that he despised didn't trust the blue-haired guy, because he was very flirtatious, especially around Sakura, even if he was dating the emerald-eyed girl's best friend, Tomoyo.
"Well, he is the reincarnation of Clow Reed. He might know something important, since he was and is one of the strongest magicians on earth."
"Fine. I'll call him." And the boy left the room to make a phone call from the living room.
When he returned, he announced to the girl that the wizard would come as soon as possible, but he stopped when he saw her sitting on the floor, studying the backpack the unconscious Syaoran had.
He could feel a magic aura surrounding the object, and he sat beside the girl to study it as well.
In appearance, it was a perfectly normal bag, except that there was no buttons or any modern items, only rope and fabric.
Sakura carefully opened it and looked inside, but it was pitch dark and she could see nothing.
She plunged a hand inside, and got surprised that event if the bag was only her forearm's length, she could put her entire arm in it.
From the tip of her fingers, she felt some solid object and took it out.
There was a very ancient looking magnificent mirror, some sandwiches, a few measure instruments.
She placed them all beside the sword who had taken it's pendant form, and was identical to the one the Syaoran beside her had.
She also took out a few incantations similar to the boy's, and finally, she took out a book.
A book with a crescent moon on the back, and a sun on the front.
A book she knew all too well.
She opened it and the two young persons gasped in shock as they saw the Cards it contained.
How and why did that boy had the Clow Book!
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(A.N: Alright, this chapter must have been very, very, very confusing for you all readers, so let me explain a few things. Something happened to Syaoran when he entered the tower, but it'll be explained by Eriol in the next chapter. The Sakura in this chapter is not the Sakura that have been kidnapped, and the other Syaoran, the one that didn't faint, isn't the one that is amnesiac. If you have other questions, feel free to ask me, and I'll explain everything in the next chapter. So don't you readers worry.
Well, I hope you liked this chapter, because I enjoyed writing it…. Please send me reviews to tell me how you think it was…. Oh! Before I forget –distributes chocolate-chips cookies to every reviewers, but also to readers—here you go. Enjoy!
So, 'till next time, this has been Suohfei (a very tired Suohfei, who has tons of homeworks))