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Chapter 5: Surprise Attack

Sakura yawned; it was early in the morning and the sun was brightly shining. The sun rays reached at the mouth of the cave shining down on Sakura's face. She covered her eyes from the sunlight and slowly started getting up from her sleeping position. She stretched out her arms and stood up on her feet. She looked around; all her friends were still sleeping soundly. Sakura then brought out her fan that was leaning on the cave wall. She smirked and started heading out of the cave. She breathed in the clean crisp air and exhaled softly. She smiled; it was a beautiful day to work on her magic and ninjutsu. She started looking around for an open spot for her to train. She turned to her right and saw a cliff leading up to a tall tree. She started climbing and finally reached the end. She slowly got up and when she looked up she gasped; it was a beautiful meadow covered with luscious green grass. Ahead of her were some rows of trees. She smiled; it was a perfect place to train. Sakura took off her fan from her back and started spreading it out to its full form. The fan was three times the length of her and the height reached up to her waist, it had three purple dots on the fan and a black handle embroidering it. She sighed and raised her fan above her,

"NINPOU KAMAITACHI! (sickling wind)" She swung her fan across her and hundreds of wind blades came out of her fan. The blades, each hit a tree but left no visible mark. At first nothing happened but then, all at once, the trees fell. Each tree was cut in half by the wind blades Sakura's fan produced. When all the trees fell, a loud rumble was heard, the sound of the trees woke up the others in the cave with a start. Tomoyo got up and fast and started to gasp, but then smiled,

"Sakura must be practicing that technique again…" She looked at Eriol and Syaoran who were steadying themselves from the short earthquake.

"What the hell was that?" shouted Syaoran, he started to grab for his sword but heard Tomoyo laughed, "And what's so funny Daidouji-san?" sneered Syaoran. Tomoyo tried speaking through her giggles and came out with this,

"Sakura…….trying……..trains….fan...with!" She broke into fits of laughter and was starting to roll on the ground, holding her sides, "You...haha…should have seen your faces…..it was hilarious!" Syaoran rolled his eyes in disgust and asked once again,

"So, what was that and where is Kinomoto?" Tomoyo stopped laughing but smiled and jabbed her thumb to the outside,

"Oh don't worry; she's just doing some training…" Then the cave shook again, Syaoran looked up at the ceiling and frowned,

"Whatever this training is, it could take down the whole cave!" Eriol smirked at him and put a hand on his shoulder, Syaoran turned and saw Eriol look at him,

"It's okay Syaoran I think this cave will hold out on us…" Syaoran nodded and walked out of the cave to investigate what kind of training Sakura was doing.

Sakura was out of breath, she was kneeling on the ground panting. She was holding onto her fan for support so she wouldn't fall.

"Damn, I'm already at my limit of chakra…" She gasped for more air and now she was squeezing her chest lightly. She wheezed, she staggered up and held her fan once more. A/N: Chakra is the energy you use from your body. To produce chakra you have to mix your body energy and spiritual energy together. She raised her fan and her legs were starting to wobble a bit, but she still had enough strength to stand. While panting, she swung the fan and shouted,

"KUCHIYOSE KIRIKIRI!" A sudden gust came out and a ferret like animal came out with a scythe in one arm. It then growled and flew and cut everything in its path. Sakura watched this and then felt a sudden pain in her chest. She grabbed her chest with her free hand but then her legs gave in. She fell on the ground gasping for air. Her vision was shifting in and out of focus and now both hands were on the ground, "I think I overdid it…" thought Sakura. When she caught her breath, she still noticed her chest was still hurting. At that moment she was starting to sweat, and she was breathing hard again. "Shoot, I probably used more than I intended…"wheezed Sakura. She looked up and saw all the rows of trees cut up, she smiled; she succeeded on her techniques. The world was swirling in her eyes and Sakura started blinking. She blinked a few times and then her arms collapsed, she was falling in the darkness of her mind.

Syaoran just reached at the top of the cliff and climbed on top. When he got up and looked at his surroundings, all the trees were cut up and branches and logs were everywhere. He blinked; it looked like a big whirlwind with blades cut all the trees. He scanned the cliff and saw Sakura lying on the ground; not moving. He swiftly ran over to her and saw that Sakura was unconscious. He looked at the fan; it was also lying on the ground.

"She probably used too much chakra…" He slowly put Sakura on his back and grabbed the fan; he also put it with Sakura. He slowly went to the edge of the cliff and looked down; it was about a far distance to jump. He sighed; he couldn't jump because he had a lifeless body that could get hurt. He then took out a talisman and chanted some words, he then said,

"God of wind come forth!" A great wind shot out of the talisman and was starting to go at the bottom of the cliff; swirling in one spot. Syaoran jumped and landed on the wind it was slowing down his fall and then he slowly was on the ground. He turned and went inside the cave.

Sakura moaned and started opening her eyes; she saw three faces peering over her. She snapped her eyes open and got up quickly. But then she was stopped by Tomoyo's arm,

"Sakura-chan don't get up, you used up too much chakra and you need rest." Sakura looked up at her and smiled,

"It's okay Tomoyo, I'm fine. I think that nap did me in!" Tomoyo looked at Sakura doubtfully, and pushed her down on the ground,

"I don't care; you hardly have been overusing chakra. This is like your fifth time already. Take it from me Sakura-chan, I had more experienced than you. Now lie down and rest." Sakura looked at Eriol and Syaoran, they both nodded in agreement. Sakura sighed and gave up; she finally relaxed and went to sleep.

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Sakura slowly opened her eyelids and blinked out the blurriness. She rubbed her eyes and sat up. She turned to the outside and saw it was the middle of the afternoon. She stood up and started to do some stretches, she then clapped her hands together and smiled brightly,

"Yosh (alright)! I'm all healed!" She turned towards the opening of the cave and sprinted out. She turned to the left and ran into someone. She fell back and landed on the ground; she rubbed her side and apologized, "Ow…sorry, I wasn't seeing where I was going…" She looked up and saw amber eyes staring at her. She turned bright red in embarrassment,

"You're such a klutz…"spoke Syaoran, he gave her his hand and she took it hesitantly. He then pulled her up and let go of her hand. He walked past her and said before leaving, "We're leaving in an hour, so don't stray off far. Daidoji-san is up ahead if you want to see her." He then left and entered into the cave leaving Sakura. Sakura shrugged and followed the directions Syaoran told her. Sakura skipped and saw Tomoyo picking out some fruit from a tree. Tomoyo heard a noise and turned to see who it was. Tomoyo's face lit up as she saw Sakura smiling at her,

"Sakura-chan! How are you?" Sakura looked at Tomoyo gratefully and smiled even more,

"I'm fine Tomoyo-chan, what are you doing?" Tomoyo smiled and held out a fruit that was shape like a pear and it was light purple.

"I'm just picking out some provisions for us for emergency. Could you help me out a bit?" Sakura nodded and joined her friend on picking the fruits.

After they were done picking the fruits they returned to the cave and saw Eriol and Syaoran ready to go. Eriol was patiently waiting and Syaoran was scowling and was tapping his foot on the ground. Sakura hid herself behind Tomoyo while they were approaching them. She was terrified of Syaoran's face expression, but then she took a deep breath and stopped hiding behind Tomoyo. She had a serious look on her face and was ready for the "wrath" of Syaoran. Syaoran saw them coming and looked at both of them sternly,

"What took you so long? We were waiting for you about a half an hour! Girls…" Sakura scowled and walked right up to Syaoran's face,

"Well, excuse me all high and mighty master! I'm so sorry, that we kept our majesty waiting!" Sakura shouted sarcastically. "What should I do for you to forgive me? Oh, I know! Maybe I should bow to you then!" Syaoran glared at her and shouted back,

"Shut up Kinomoto! I'm just saying that we were supposed to leave a half an hour ago! WHY DID IT TAKE YOU SO LONG TO GET TOMOYO?"

Sakura glared at him and shouted back, "Well, for your information! I was helping Tomoyo get provisions for our journey! Do you want us to starve, Li Syaoran?" Syaoran was about to say something but he stopped, he couldn't think of anything else. Sakura smiled and turned around to Tomoyo, "Well, I think we're ready Tomoyo-chan, shall we summon the dragons and take flight?" Tomoyo nodded and laid down the basket of fruits. She bit her thumb and blood was finally coming out, she made a swirl on her palm and wrote some words on the rest of her hand. She then crouched down and slapped her hand on the ground,

"KUCHIYOSE-NO-JUTSU!" yelled Tomoyo, and a great wind was surrounding her. When the dust cleared, the white scaled dragon roared with happiness as seeing her owner once again. Sakura nodded and bit her thumb until blood was dripping out of it she made two swirls on her palms, one for each. She rose up her hands and closed her eyes, she chanted the words and raised her hands up to the air and called for Raidon. The pink beam of light shot up into the sky and the three headed black dragon was slowly descending. She smiled, they were ready to go. When the dragons were ready, the girls jumped on theirs and waited for the boys to jump on. The boys climbed on the backs of the dragons and placed their arms around Sakura's and Tomoyo's waist. Sakura nodded at Tomoyo; who nodded back, the girls snapped their reins and the dragons jumped off the cliff and flapped their wings.

Sakura turned to Syaoran and asked, "So, where to now Almighty Master?" she grinned, Syaoran scowled and pointed to the north. Sakura turned back around to the dragon and snapped her reins again, "Raidon, lets fly to the north!" Raidon roared and flapped its wings and took off with tremendous speed. Sakura giggled; Raidon always loved to go so fast in the free sky. Sakura looked back at Tomoyo's dragon to see if they were going too fast. But the white dragon had no problem at all; she was just as fast as Raidon. Sakura turned back and awaiting the destination before them.

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It was in the middle of the afternoon and the four were almost at the village. Sakura heaved a sigh of relief; they actually weren't lost. She looked around at the great scenery and smiled brightly. She let go of the reins and noticed that Syaoran's arms were becoming tighter around her waist; she turned her head back and smiled, "Li-kun, you can let go of me now. Raidon is quite trustworthy, he won't let you fall." Syaoran looked at Sakura's reassuring face and released his arms around her waist. She smiled at him and turned back thinking deeply to herself, "Li-kun sure acts weird sometimes. One day he's happy, and one day he's just plain old mean. I wonder what's up with him."

She moved one eye to one side glancing at Syaoran, he noticed her staring at him and he growled, "Something wrong Kinomoto?"

It caught Sakura off-guard and it made her jump a bit, she put her hand behind her head and turned to Syaoran, "Oh! Well….uh….erm….nothings wrong Li-kun!" She laughed sheepishly and then heard a voice inside her head,

"Something's coming Blossom!" she recognized the voice at once, it was Raidon. She turned quickly and saw a ball of fire coming towards them, fast. She gasped and grabbed the reins. She steered Raidon to the left and just dodged the fire. She looked at Tomoyo, who was horrified; they were attacked completely off-guard!

Then she heard Syaoran shout, "Kinomoto, watch out!"

Sakura turned her head at once and saw dozens of fire balls coming towards them, "Raidon, dodge!" Raidon shot for the air and dodged them; Sakura turned to where Tomoyo was and saw that the fire balls were going straight to her! "TOMOYO-CHAN! YOU HAVE TO MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!"

Tomoyo looked up and gasped, she had no time to react and then she heard from behind her, "SHIELD!" A blue dome surrounded them and the dragon, she turned and it was Eriol. He had summoned his staff; that was gold and had a sun at the end. He was standing up and his staff was beside him. When the fire balls disintegrated, a black shadow was coming towards them; it was a forest green dragon with red eyes. On the back of a dragon was a tall man with black long hair that reached to his waist, it was tied up and he was wearing green trainer pants and no top. He had a brown cloak over him and his hood was covering his face. Sakura gritted her teeth and summoned her wand. Syaoran just summoned his sword and was ready for battle. Both dragons roared with fury and were getting ready for its next attack. The man moved his arm towards them and opened up his hand,

"Thunder." He quietly said, and out from his hands were streams of thunder waves coming towards them, Sakura reacted quickly and threw out a pink card,

"THUNDER!" she shouted and a lion beast-like came out with thunder surrounding him. Then the thunder lion confronted the thunder stream and absorbed it to its power. The stranger had a surprised look on his mouth but shook it off quickly. Then he saw a dark shadow over him. He looked up and saw Tomoyo's dragon over him, she jumped towards him and did some hand motions and shouted,

"Katon: Housenka no jutsu (phoenix fire)!" She took a deep breath and then exhaled; balls of fire were shooting out of her mouth and were going straight to the man and his dragon. The man stretched out his hand and shouted,

"Water!" Then water came out of his hand and extinguished the fire. Then the water was coming towards Tomoyo; she dodged them easily and was on the dragon with the man. She ran towards him and was kicking him from left to right. He dodged each of them and then Tomoyo disappeared. The man looked everywhere and then he noticed she was below him. She kicked him below the chin and sent him flying in the air. Tomoyo then jumped and kicked him with her heel directly on the stomach and he landed on the dragon. His hood was off and Tomoyo landed, with her back towards him. She smirked and started to head for her dragon, she was almost there when the man appeared in front of her, he was just close enough to punch her and Tomoyo quickly reacted to her defense position. She put her arms like an "X" across her chest and slightly bended her legs. She took the full impact of the hit but it didn't hurt her as bad as it should of. She then jumped above him and did more hand motions. The man threw some daggers from his sleeve and Tomoyo was hit. But then a smoke was surrounding her and there was a log in replacement. The man gritted his teeth,

"A replacement technique." He looked around to find Tomoyo and then felt a sharp edge at his neck. Tomoyo was behind him, holding the kunai knife just before reaching his neck. He smirked with frustration, "Heh, you're pretty good little girl. It seems you know all of the techniques of a ninja." Tomoyo was silent and was frowning a bit; she looked at the man more carefully. He had dark brown eyes and his face was a lightly tanned color. But when Tomoyo looked at him more carefully her eyes widen,

"Y-you're Otashi Hatake…" she shuddered a bit when she spoke his name. Otashi smiled a bit and quickly took out a smoke bomb. He threw it on the ground and the place was filled with smoke. Tomoyo drew back and was coughing, she jumped out of the smoke and her dragon caught her in mid-air. Tomoyo continually coughed and Eriol was rubbing her back. He looked around for Otashi,

"Where did he go?" questioned Eriol but Tomoyo couldn't speak, too much smoke filled in her lungs. Eriol looked at the cloud of smoke and then he saw something emerging out of it. The green dragon took off at an incredible speed and was going right towards Sakura and Syaoran. Eriol quickly shouted,

"KINOMOTO-SAN LOOK OUT!" Sakura raised her head and saw the dragon coming for her, and then the dragon fired an immense sized fire ball at Raidon, Raidon tried to dodge the fire ball but was hit at his side and the black dragon started to fall. Sakura fell from the dragon and was heading straight for the ground, she screamed and she was too shocked because of the attack to summon any cards to save her. She looked at Tomoyo and Eriol and they were both shouting her name. She looked at Syaoran who was desperately trying to reach her. He was stretching out his hand towards her and Sakura tried to grab it. They were inches apart and then Syaoran gave one mighty push and he grabbed Sakura's hand. He then pulled her towards him and took out a talisman,

"GOD OF WIND COME FORTH!" The wind was surrounding the both of them slowing down their impact to the ground and safely landed on the trees. Sakura freed herself from Syaoran's grasp and looked up, she saw Raidon falling down from the sky,

"RAIDON!" shouted Sakura, and then with an earth shaking crash the dragon landed on the ground. Sakura saw Raidon motionless and she quickly jumped off the tree leaving Syaoran. She landed safely on the ground and went towards the humongous black beast. She stroked Raidon's back and tears were falling from her emerald eyes,

"Raidon, Raidon! Please, please be alright! Are you okay?" Sakura whispered softly, the dragon moaned and sent her a rainbow through her mind. Sakura sighed with relief, Raidon needed rest. She stroke the dragon and looked up, angry tears were coming our of her eyes and then she took out another pink card, "FLY!" Wings started to sprout from her back and she flapped them. She soared through the air and met face to face with Otashi. "You will pay for what you did to Raidon." She held her pink wand in front of her and was glaring at Otashi; he chuckled at Sakura and was doing some hand motions, while he was doing this he spoke to his dragon,

"Gaia! I need oil!" The green dragon nodded his head and took a deep breath, then the dragon exhaled oil and then Otashi shouted,

"Katon Gamayu Endan!" Otashi exhaled fire and it collided with the oil. The fire surrounded the oil and it was coming right towards Sakura; she took out a card and struck it with her wand,

"WATERY!" shouted Sakura, water came out of the card and was striking the fire, but the water didn't extinguish and the fire was still coming towards her, "I-I don't understand! Why isn't it being extinguished by the water?" She had no time to react and the fire hit her on the chest. Sakura screamed in pain and held her chest tightly, and then the fire started surrounding her and trapped her into a ball. Sakura was slowly getting burned and tears were flooding out of her eyes; she couldn't move and she felt paralyzed. Sakura screamed again as the fire hit her back and then her stomach. Tomoyo looked at the fire ball where Sakura was trapped and her lip was starting to quiver,

"I can't do anything to help her!" Tomoyo shut her eyes tight and shook her head frantically, "What should I do? Sakura-chan is in pain and I can't do any magic!" Eriol looked at Tomoyo who was shaking all over; he frowned and looked at the ball of fire. He then pointed his staff to the sky and chanted,

"WATER THAT IS FROM THE SKY, DESCEND AND HELP SAKURA!" He rose up his arms to the sky and then dark clouds started to form, Eriol then brought his arms down fast and then rain started to fall rapidly on Sakura. The rain was taking effect, but it wasn't strong enough. Syaoran was watching the scene and he saw that Eriol needed his help; Syaoran took out the water talisman and shouted,

"GOD OF WATER COME FORTH!" He hit the talisman with his sword and water came out. The water hit directly at the fire ball and slowly the fire was being extinguished. Then the fire was completely gone; and there was Sakura with serious burns all over her body. The wings from her back disappeared and she started to fall; Sakura was unconscious and deeply wounded. Tomoyo shouted at her dragon,

"TALA, WE HAVE TO CATCH SAKURA!" Tala roared and quickly flew to where Sakura was falling; Tomoyo quickly caught her and laid Sakura on Tala's back. Tomoyo had tears in her eyes when she saw all the injuries on Sakura's body. She clenched her fists and turned to where Otashi was; but he was gone. Eriol looked at the injuries on Sakura's body and spoke to Tomoyo,

"Daidouji-san, we have to heal Sakura as quickly as possible. These wounds could kill her if we don't treat them now!" Tomoyo snapped out of her trance and turned back to Eriol and Sakura.

"You're right Hiiragizawa-kun; tell Li-kun we're going to land near Raidon. I do a better job on healing Sakura when we're on the ground. So please direct Tala to the ground." Eriol nodded and took the reins; he turned to Syaoran, who was still atop the tree,

"SYAORAN, WE'RE GOING TO LAND NEAR KINOMOTO'S DRAGON! MEET US THERE OKAY?" Syaoran nodded and jumped down from the tree; he landed and ran towards Raidon. Tomoyo and Eriol were already there and Sakura was lying on the ground motionless. Tomoyo was beside her and both her hands were over Sakura's body. She was concentrating and finally a green glow was escaping her hands; it was shining onto Sakura's body and slowly the burns were starting to heal. Then one of Sakura's arm flinched and Tomoyo saw it; she gave a big sigh of relief. It took an hour before Sakura was fully healed; her eyes were still closed because of exhaustion. Tomoyo collapsed and was out of breath,

"That took a lot of my chakra…" She was still breathing hard but was smiling to herself, "At least Sakura-chan is alright…" she thought again and then she closed her eyes. Her body fell onto the ground and she was soundly sleeping. Eriol and Syaoran watched the whole scene and were sighing with relief also; seeing Sakura at that state made them feel sick to their stomach. But when they saw Tomoyo collapsed on the ground and falling asleep, they groaned.

"Great, now we can't go to the village if their both sleeping!" scowled Syaoran. Eriol chuckled softly and patted Syaoran's back with his hand,

"It's okay Syaoran, they need their rest anyway. We were really unprepared when Otashi came. Also Sakura was deeply wounded and Tomoyo is exhausted from healing her. Let's just give them the rest they need." Syaoran grumbled and walked to the nearest tree; he laid his back on the trunk and sighed. He put his hands behind his head and looked up at the cloudless sky,

"This may take longer than I thought." He murmured. Syaoran closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep, while Eriol was keeping watch over them and the dragons.

A.N: Well, there's Chapter 5! I'm sorry if my battle scenes suck. I'm trying my best! Please tell me if you like my story so far! R&R PLEASE! DESPERATE!