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...
"Come Syaoran…" he whispered, holding his arms out to his son. To Syaoran, everybody disappeared. Kurogane, Fai…and even Sakura, who was laying in his arms. He didn't feel the warmth of her body anymore. He felt all alone…only with his father.
"Come to me, I shall make things better for you…no worries…no trouble…" the tone of his voice made Syaoran realize that his "Father" was smiling.
"Father…" he whispered.
A/N: Hey there! Ame's back! Just for one of the reviewers, Syaoran and others are not in any particular anime dimension. Just a place I made up…hope you don't mind. Anyways, here's chapter six! Please review…
Chapter Six: Illusions Part Two
By: Ame-chan
Sakura had woken up not long after Syaoran had let her roll softly on the ground, feeling that she wasn't sleeping on what used to be comfortable.
She rubbed her eyes, feeling slightly dizzy and unfamiliar with her surroundings.
When her eyes opened her eyes, she didn't see Syaoran, Fai or Kurogane, just a pink ceiling and the feeling of something lying on her stomach. Her head lifted from her lying position and saw that it was only Mokona sleeping on her stomach, whispering from time to time "Mokona wants an ice cream!"
So Sakura sat up, catching Mokona in her arms from rolling onto the ground when she did so, looking around with a frown.
'This place, this room seems awfully familiar.' She thought, standing up and walking around.
The room was mostly a pale pink. The bed was pink, the wall was pink, with little teddy bears on it, the window was open, letting the rays of the sun shine through into the room.
There was a knock. Sakura's head suddenly spun towards the door. Who could it be?
"Sweetie?" a melodic voice asked from the other side of the door. Curious, Sakura walked slowly to the door and opened it. There, standing by the door, was a beautiful young woman with glistening violet hair and soft, mellow emerald eyes much like Sakura's.
"Sakura, dear. Look how much you've grown." A sweet smile curled from her mother's lips, as she walked into the room.
Sakura, on the other hand, was shocked. 'That looks like my mother. But from what I remember, she died.' Her mind was confused. She couldn't even remember how she got here in the first place. This was too good to be true. Like a dream.
Her mother sat down on the bed, and patted the spot beside her, telling Sakura to sit with her. Sakura obeyed, walked over to her elegant mother and smiled. She didn't care whether it was a dream or not. Her mother was there and she was happy.
"Mother, I have many things to talk to you about. Syaoran, Kurogane, Fai and Mokona are helping me look for…" Suddenly, her mind snapped. 'My memory. Where is Syaoran and the others anyway?' she thought. 'Why am I here? How did this happen?' Sakura got off the bed after a moment of realizing that perhaps she needed to look for Syaoran. But a warm hand grasped her wrist.
"Where are you going sweetie? And so soon too?" Her mother's eyes showed surprise. Sakura stood still.
"Where's Syaoran, mother? Where are the others?" she asked softly, staying where she was.
"What do you mean? You've been here ever since." Her mother's eyes suddenly flickered mysteriously, hypnotizing Sakura, who sat back down, leaning against her mother, eyes blank.
"There, there, sweetheart. No need to go so soon. I'm sure you're quite tired anyway." Her mothers melodic voice lulled Sakura to sleep as she stroked her slender fingers through Sakura's soft, auburn hair.
Sakura's eyes closed slowly, until she fell into a deep sleep
Xx Fai, Kurogane xX
"Not again." Kurogane scowled in irritation. The atmosphere changed and turned into nothing. "I wish I was back at home." He mumbled. And the illusion turned into that.
The great palace suddenly appeared in front of them. Fai raised a brow and smiled. "Well, your wish kind of came true. Just remember that…" he stopped as he noticed that Kurogane started walking through the doors.
Fai sweatdropped. "Wait! Remember, this is just an illusion!" he ran after him, through the great detailed doors. (A/N: Hehe…erm…I haven't really seen Tomoyo's "Castle" before, so bear with me please…)
When they stepped into the main halls, there were stairs on each side of the room, that was curved into the middle, with a door on top of the stairs, and a door below the stairs.
'Exactly how I remember it.' Kurogane thought, as he started to walk up one of the stairs. Fai followed, still looking around with his eyebrow raised. There were windows on the ceiling, more like stained glass, which gave the room plenty of colors as the sun shone through it. There were stands along the wall without the staircase on it, on top with china vases with beautiful flowers in them. The room smelt faintly like the flowers.
"Is this what Tomoyo-hime's castle really like?" Fai asked, gliding his fingers on the railing as he walked up the red carpeted stairs.
"Yeah." Was the warrior's response, as he pushed open the great doors and revealed another room, with a small figure standing on the other side, looking out of the big window.
"Tomoyo?" Kurogane's eyes actually widened in surprise, seeing the beautiful princess, in her long, elegant robes. When she turned around, her eyes seemed to show no surprise.
"Kurogane-san, you're back." Her voice was light and soft, and her sweet smile made Kurogane feel at home again.
"But, Tomoyo, you were the one who sent me away." Kurogane replied, putting his hands on his hips with a grim expression.
Tomoyo giggled lightly, her voice was soft and light. "And the cause would be because you fought for no reason. Now that isn't a good thing, is it?" she replied.
Fai nudged Kurogane with his elbow on his side and whispered, "Wow, what a pretty princess." Kurogane glared at him. Tomoyo's amethyst eyes were soft, yet somehow, he noticed something really bland about them.
The sly magician realized that his warrior friend was starting to fall for the illusion, even though he knew at heart that it was a trap. So Fai tapped his shoulder quietly and smiled slyly once again.
"You do still know that this is an illusion, right?" Fai's expression showed little concern at first, but when his strong, tall friend didn't respond, he frowned…for once.
Kurogane had fallen for it. He didn't notice Fai anymore. Just the feeling of home.
"Come, Kurogane-san. I'm sure you must be worn out. I'm glad you're back, and I'm hoping that your lust for violence has subsided." Tomoyo pointed to a door that was on the right side of the room. "I'll send a servant over to bring some fresh clothing and perhaps some food."
Kurogane nodded and headed for the door, leaving Fai standing there with a sweatdrop on his head. 'He really doesn't remember that this is just an illusion.' He thought, following his mighty friend through the door to watch out for him.
'I hope Sakura-chan and Syaoran-kun are doing fine…'
Xx Sakura xX
Her eyes opened quickly, as she sensed the magic of her power nearby, the aura becoming stronger and stronger. 'Where am I!' she panicked and looked around. All she could remember was her mother's beautiful, kind eyes in a soft pink room. But now…it was dark and musky and it stunk very bad.
Sakura felt the aura become stronger and stronger. But as this happened she also felt something big moving toward her, but couldn't exactly tell where.
Red eyes glowed behind her, and before she could turn around, it charged.
Sakura heard the squishy thumping noise coming from behind and turned around, to see an ugly redish-brown monster with red eyes charging towards her. It was too close. She was stunned and too afraid to move. The only thing she could do was scream and clench her eyes tight, and shielding herself with her arms crossed in front of her.
A tear slipped from Sakura's clenched eyes, and a great beam of pink, sparkling magic formed a bubble around her and it seemed to explode, burning and pushing the monster away, disintegrating within every second.
Xx Syaoran xX
His father hypnotized him into sitting on his lap and leant against him. He even smelt familiar. 'It has to be him…I can feel him, and I remember his smell…' Syaoran thought, feeling drowsier by the second. It was so real…until everything started to fade. The room started to turn into different forms, as if being sucked into a void.
'No!' the 4 year old's eyes widened as his father started to disappear. "otou-san!" he reached for him, but the figure disappeared, and when Syaoran regained his focus, he realized that what he was leaning on was a rock. His father was gone. Never to be seen again. Tears formed into his eyes. It was just an illusion.
Then Syaoran remembered slowly that there was a human eating monster on the loose somewhere here. But there wasn't. Just a gloomy area. 'Where's everyone?' the thought rushed to his head and he started to panic. What if it ate everyone?
Xx Kurogane, Fai xX
The odd feeling of magic cleared from Fai's senses. The monster was gone, and he knew it. Whoever it was, Sakura or Syaoran, it was gone. His lips curled back into a smile. It was time to go back to reality. Since the illusion was started to fade, Fai thought he should wake Kurogane from his snooze. After all, he looked much to comfortable to be ready to be back at the gloomy place.
"Kuro-pan, wake up!" Fai replied, poking his sleepy friend's head. Nothing. He sighed. He pulled the covers off, and when he did, there was his sword by his side, as if ready to attack anybody if they disturbed him.
Fai sweatdopped. "I'm happy I didn't bother him all that much…I wouldn't risk my head being chopped off." By then the illusion faded completely, and it was darker than it was before, since it was brighter in the illusion. The bed turned into a rock, which Kurogane felt the uncomfortableness, so he awoke with a frown.
"How come the thing I was sleeping on is so rough?" Sleep still hung in his eyes, but was still irritated.
Fai smiled slyly. As usual. And replied. "I thought you knew. It was all just an illusion." At first, his big friend didn't exactly get it. Then his eyes showed nothing…except irritation and embarrassment.
"Y-you mean that that thing tricked me?" Fai nodded. Kurogane covered his eyes with his hands as his elbows were propped on his knees, and made an exasperated sigh.
"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone." The sly one replied, as his friend glared at him.
Xx Sakura xX
Sakura was sitting on her knees, her head buried in her hands as she cried from fright, the tears feeling warm on her shaking hands. Something touched her shoulder and she jolted, turning her head around quickly with more fear in her eyes.
"Sakura, it's okay." Syaoran withdrew his hand, as he saw that Sakura was scared out of her wits. She was pale, eyes were glassy, and tears streamed down her cheeks.
"Syaoran…I-I-I don't know what happened. There was this thing running at me…and then it ran towards me and I-I…" she was stuttering, since she was still crying.
Syaoran looked sympathetically at her, pulling her in for a hug. "Shh...It's okay. It's gone." Sakura had rested her head onto his chest, as his arms wrapped around her shaking body.
"W-where were you Syaoran? I thought you were with me." The cherry blossom whispered, closing her eyes and trying to calm herself down.
"I…I don't know myself." He scowled a little, remember the illusion of his father. His father. He looked just like in his own memories.
Voices could be heard not far from where the two were. They were coming closer, and closer. Syaoran held Sakura tightly, ready to jump away if anything jumped at them.
Fai came into view, with Kurogane behind him with a frown on his face.
"Oh. It's you two." Syaoran sighed in relief, taking note that Sakura had fallen asleep.
"Where's Mokona?" Fai asked, looking around the grimy place. Syaoran looked up. Before he was sent into the illusion, he remembered that Mokona was in Sakura's arms. But now it wasn't.
"I found him…" Kurogane replied grumpily, picking the white thing up from the ground not too far away from the group. "And it's still sleeping."
"What about Sakura's memory?" Syaoran looked around for anything that sparkled, but since there wasn't a great deal of light, it was hard to see. "Can you wake Mokona and ask him if he could sense it?" Kurogane sighed deeply and shook the white thing awake.
"Mekyo!" it suddenly exclaimed, startling Kurogane. "The aura from Sakura's jewel piece is close by!" it hopped away from Kurogane's hand and landed softly on the ground.
"I feel sleepy. Where are we?" he looked around, seeing how dark the cave was. "Oh well. Hmm, I sense Sakura's jewel somewhere nearby!" he walked forward a little, and tried to concentrate harder, then ran over to the spot where the monster tried to attack Sakura. Not that they knew about it.
"Here!" he picked up something pink, and glowing. It was definitely hers.
Syaoran sighed in relief, but then looked around. The place started to disappear, ever since Mokona picked Sakura's jewel up. Everything disappeared, and they were standing in a field, with the moon shining upon them.
"That was strange." Kurogane murmured, looking around. "This better not be one of these illusions again."
Syaoran seemed to know that it wasn't. It didn't have the same awkward, drowsy feeling to it. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath of the fresh air. He hated the smell of the mysterious cave.
"Ah, there's a town nearby. Why don't we go over there and take a rest? It seems that the monster's gone." Fai replied, putting his hands behind his head and sighing himself.
Mokona jumped onto his shoulder and yawned, still tired. Syaoran nodded and lifted Sakura up into his arms, trying to keep her cozy from the night breeze, all the while, thinking about what he saw in his illusion.
'Was that really what my father looked like?' he thought, even though his father's face was never really revealed. But shook the thought away. It was just an illusion. Nothing is real in them.
To Be Continued…
A/N: sry bout the crappy chapter….um…I thought of something really sad for the story...but I dunno how to fit it in the story…T.T…ah well…please review!
Ame-chan
