Summary: Sakura's heart and memory held in her Crystal Pendant was shattered and has flown into different dimensions. Now it's up to Syaoran to travel through different times and worlds to find the pieces of her broken life. SxS Pairing! R&R PLZ!(Sequel To Pain)
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Sakura's Memory
(A/N:) – Author's Note
Disclaimer: I don't own CCS, TRC, or any other anime I put in here...
Last Time...
"What the hell!" the silver haired person hissed, taking his big sword that looked like a fang out of it's sheath.
Sakura wiggled her head and felt a bit dizzy, but when she saw the weird guy with a huge sword, she hid behind Syaoran.
"Tell who you are and I won't hurt you." the person with the big sword smirked.
A/N: Hoowah! Do you guys even read the author's notes from the top and the bottom? Lolz...anyways...like I said before on our profile page, I'm starting to run a little late on my stories...a great apology! lolz...well...here ya go!
Chapter Three: Problem In The Village
By: Ame-chan
"Inuyasha!" Kagome ran up towards the demon with dog ears. "They don't look like demons. From the looks of that other girls clothing, she might have been from my time."
"What?" Inuyasha looked back and looked into her eyes and seemed confused. Miroku, a monk that held a staff by his side, came up and examined Sakura and the others.
"I'll have to agree with Kagome. This other girl wears the same kind of clothing as her." the monk replied, walking up to Sakura, who was confused about what the other group was talking about.
"Please, I have one urgent question to ask..." Miroku held her hand in his and looked deeply in her eyes. "Will you bear my children?" Everyone froze and watched in a second of silence.
"Hoe..." Sakura blushed as red as a nice ripe tomato. Syaoran and Kurogane gawked at him, while Fai just grinned and laughed. Mokona needed to breath as Sakura was clutching onto him so tightly.
"Miroku..." Sango, another person with this "Inuyasha" person, her eyebrow twitched and whacked him on the head with her big weapon. "Do have to ask EVERY girl you first meet? You're scaring the poor girl!" She dragged him away from Sakura, who sighed in relief. It's not something you see everyday, seeing a man walk up to a girl and asking her to bear his children.
"Mokona needs to breathe!" Mokona flew out of Sakura's arms and gasped lots of air into his lungs.
"Sorry, Mokona..." Sakura put her hands up in defense. "It's just that...it's not so normal for such a question to be asked."
Kagome was still sweatdropping. "You'll have to excuse him. Don't worry, he won't do anything, I promise." Sakura nodded and stood close to her group, just in case.
"Well, I'm still wondering how you got here. Do you have some sort of powers?" Inuyasha stepped in and put his sword away, crossing his arms.
"Well, we're here to collect something that contains Sakura's memory. It fled from our world and disappeared in other dimensions." Syaoran started, not looking directly into this demon's fierce eyes.
"Aw! You mean she lost her memory? That's harsh." Kagome replied, picking up her bike and also picking up the small fox demon into her arms.
"Yeah, I know. And it was all my fault. I had to break it, in order to destroy the bad partly bad soul within her. So we got help from Yuuko-san, the dimensional witch and she gave us Mokona to help us switch from place to place." he continued, looking down. Sakura looked at him and tilted her head. She didn't remember this. 'Of course, I lost my memory.' she thought.
"Well, it's better than not having Sakura at all. She seems quite nice." Kagome smiled at Sakura, who smiled back. "Let me introduce you guys to my friends, since we forgot to do it before." she pointed at herself. "I'm Kagome, this..." her finger turned to point at the dog demon. "Is Inuyasha. And this is Miroku, the monk." she turned to point at Miroku who had a big bump on his head. "And this is Sango. She's a demon exterminator." Sango stepped up and stood beside Kagome and smiled at everyone. "These two, are Kirara and Shippo." Lastly, Kagome pointed at two cute demons. Shipo the fox demon, and Kirara who looked like a cat with two tails.
"I'm Sakura. This is Syaoran, Kurogane-san, Fai-san, and Mokona!" Sakura said, being her usual happy self and pointing at everybody on her side.
"Sakura! I can feel a wave of magic from a piece of your pendant! We should hurry!" Mokona pointed at a big mountain surrounded by dark gray clouds.
"Funny, we're heading that way too." Kagome put Shippo in her basket on her bike and pushed it up to everyone else. "We can go there together!" Sakura smiled. "That'll be great!"
Miroku rubbed his head where it hurt quite painfully. "There should be a village up ahead. I'm sure all of us could do with some rest, don't you think?" he smiled, while Sango held up a fit in front of her and she looked at him threateningly.
"Or is it just so you can ask other women out there to help you with your 'needs'?" her eyebrow twitched again. Everybody sweatdropped again.
"It's okay Sango, I'm pretty tired anyway." Kagome stretched and sighed out in relief. "I want to sleep."
"And we don't have to go find whatever we're looking for that quickly anyways." Sakura added.
"Seems good to me." Fai replied, walking down the road and everyone followed.
"Why did I have to come and help these meddling kids?" Kurogane muttered, walking behind the others with his arms crossed.
Syaoran fell back to meet up with Kurogane's pace and turned to talk to him.
"Huh?" the tall slouchy man raised a brow.
"My apologies, Kurogane-san. You don't have to come with us if you don't want to. I'm sorry if we're in your way of things." he looked ahead and looked towards the dark mountain where Mokona felt one of Sakura's piece of magic.
"It can't be helped, I guess. If I use that stupid white manjuu to go back to my world, you and your friend there won't be able to get back." he turned his gaze towards the mountain too until a white thing flew into his face.
"Mokona isn't stupid, Kurorin!" Mokona spoke and flew away before Kurogane could catch him.
"Why you..." Kurogane held a fist up and tried to catch him. Mokona flew everywhere, behind trees and around the walking group. After a few minutes, Mokona eventually became tired and flopped back into Sakura's arms, and Kurogane stopped chasing him.
"Stupid manjuu..." he mumbled. Sakura smiled politely at him. They finally reached the village. A nice place with farms everywhere and trees. Farmers and little children were outside in the nice warm sunlight doing what they pleased.
"Who are you? Are you a demon?" one of the villagers who passed by dropped their stuff and shook in a bit of fear. Miroku stepped up again.
"He is a half demon. Don't worry, he won't hurt you unless you give us a place to sleep." he put his hand up in peace. The villager picked up his belongings and gestured them to follow him.
Sakura noticed a small boy behind a tree, but she decided it wasn't so important.
Xx In someplace to stay xX
Everyone was sitting down around the small fire with a pot hanging atop of it.
"So, Sakura-san..." Kagome started but Sakura shook her head and smiled.
"Please call me Sakura." Kagome returned the smile and started again.
"So, Sakura-chan, how long are you intending on staying?" Sakura looked as if she didn't know the answer. In fact, she didn't. Her eyes looked softly towards Syaoran and the others, looking in their eyes for an answer.
"Sakura has to find her memory, so it depends on how long it takes to take the one here. After we find it, we'll have to leave and go someplace else that Mokona senses another one of Sakura's fragment of memory." Syaoran replied softly, looking into the flickering fire that made his eyes shine from time to time.
"Oh, so you mean after we go to that mountain and get that fragment back you're leaving? And I was thinking of getting to know each other more." everyone was silent for a moment until somebody knocked on the door. Miroku got up and opened it, revealing a small little.
Sakura's eyes widened a little. 'The boy from behind the tree?'
"Are you looking for someone?" Miroku asked, looking downward at the little boy.
"May I ask a favor? Please, if you don't help me, I might loose my mother." the young boy looked down. Still, Sakura couldn't see his face.
"Well...then I guess you can come in. What's your name?" the monk asked as he stepped away for the boy to come it.
"S-Shiro." he whispered as he stepped in from the fresh air and sat down with the others. Sakura's eyes widened, flicked her head to Syaoran, who looked just as surprised, then to Shiro.
"B-but, how?" Sakura got up suddenly to see Shiro more clearly. He definitely looked the same, just a bit older and was not in modern day clothing. Fai couldn't help but grin.
"Remember what the dimensional witch said. The person may look the same, but they're different in soul." he tilted his head and smiled.
Sakura still seemed confused but sat back down and calmed herself down.
"So, what's this you were talking about something happening to your mother?" Inuyasha spoke up and got sat upward from his lying-down position.
"I'm sure that other villager didn't tell you that there's a demon out in the mountains that come every four days at night to take people, mostly women from the village." Shiro gripped his hands on his lap and tried to be calm. "We don't know what it does to them, but my mother would be next for the offering. I tried to stop the others from making the decision, but they wouldn't listen."
"So you're saying that this demon comes every four nights to take an offering and bring it back to the mountains." Inuyasha confirmed. Shiro nodded and sighed, but started to shake in fear of his mother.
"Why didn't they tell us in the first place?" Kagome thought, putting her fingers to her chin and frowning slightly.
"Because they're scared of demons. Ever since this ever started, they were more afraid of demons and monsters. But you have to help. I don't want to lose my mother." Shiro sniffed and started to feel a little bit of tears form in his eyes, but he didn't let them fall.
"Poor Shiro..." Sakura looked sympathetically towards the updet little boy sitting with them.
"Wait, isn't that in the mountains where Mokona sensed on of Sakura's magic shard?" Syaoran's eyes looked up. Kagome thought about it.
"I think so. There are demons here who use one of the Shikon jewel shards to use for gaining power." Her eyes widened. "Do you think it has Sakura-chan's fragment of magic and the jewel shard and using them both?" Sakura seemed worried.
"The demon did say that if he didn't get what he wanted, he'd bring hell into our lives. But I'm not going to let mother get to it. I won't!" Shiro punched the floor and felt a sharp pain strike through his arm.
"Shiro don't do that! We're going to help okay? Just don't hurt yourself, everything is going to be okay." Sakura took his red fist in her hands and watched it unclasp. He couldn't help it but slip onto her lap and clutch onto her in a hug. He let his tears fall. (A/N: Shiro is about 5 in this world, but he's quite...i dunno...determined? O.o) Sakura and the others couldn't blame him. Who wouldn't cry if they knew that their mother would be gone forever in the grasp of a demon. (A/N: I certainly would cry...T.T)
"Sakura has such a warm heart, it seems like anybody could express their worries to her, and she'd try to make them feel better." Kagome whispered to Syaoran, who just smiled, nodded, and looked into the eyes of the caring girl he loved. She would do anything to try and make things better.
After a few minutes, his tears subsided and he sniffed. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't ask for such a big favor. It's just that..." Sakura put a hand on his dark hair.
"Don't worry. We'll help okay? Now when is this demon going to come?" she asked and tried to smile to cheer him up. Shiro just looked down.
"T-tonight..."
Everyone looked at each other. "Then we'll have to prepare tonight." Sango sighed and got up to stretch her stiff back.
"He comes at midnight." Shiro replied, and there was another knock. Sakura got up and opened it this time. A young girl that looked about 19 was standing before the door and wearing a light blue kimono.
"Hi, I'm sorry to disturb you but, have you seen a small boy about 5 years old?" she asked, but her eyes looked behind Sakura and saw Shiro sitting by the fire with the others.
"Shiro! Where have you been?" she exclaimed as he ran into her arms. Sakura smiled. "He just wanted to talk. Don't worry, he was safe with us."
"Thank you. I thought I lost him." she replied softly. "But we have to go now and prepare dinner." Shiro looked at Sakura one last time before she closed the door with worried eyes.
"What to do?" the young teen whispered as she sat down again.
"We'll just have to think of something to make sure that Shiro's mother doesn't get hurt. She seemed so young. We shouldn't let someone so young die so fast." Miroku replied. Everyone was silent for now.
To Be Continued...
A/N: Sorry, lame and well...doesn't really make sense...but I'm STILL thinking about the plot. Can't talk too long...baiz!
Ame-chan
