Two Roses

Authoress: Princess Lalaith.

Sequel to: The Hope Spell

Disclaimer: I've already said this all the last fic, do I really have to do it again? I don't own neither HP nor CCS. I do own this fic though, and its prequel: The Hope Spell(you might wanna read that one first).

Chapter 1.- Glimpses of a vacation.

In the Kinomoto house this day began very differently from others.

"What do you mean you accepted!" Touya yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Oh I'm so happy for you Sakura-chan." Kaho said smiling.

Touya eyed her seriously.

"Oh please Touya-kun, accept it. You knew this was going to happen since long ago." Kaho murmured sweetly to her husband.

"That doesn't mean I accept it." Touya replied.

"Well, otou-san is happy for me, Yukito-san and Kero-chan too." Sakura said resolutely.

"I never said that." Kero yelled from his place, eating.

"You see, the stuff toys agrees with me." Touya murmured.

"I'm not stuff toy." Kero said angrily.

"Kero-chan…" Sakura murmured eyeing him carefully. "I thought you had said you wanted me happy…"

"Hai." Kero agreed.

"And I'm happy with him." Sakura added. "What's the problem in that?"

"You can't be with the gaki." Touya insisted.

"Shaoran-kun is no gaki." Sakura said angrily. "And you can't stop me from being with him. I love him." Sakura insisted.

"Yes he is a gaki, and yes I can stop you." Touya insisted.

"Still at that, ne?" Fujitaka asked Kaho as he arrived.

Kaho just nodded.

"No you can't." Sakura insisted.

"Yes I can." Touya insisted.

"I promised I would never leave him." Sakura said.

"That doesn't mean you have to marry him." Touya replied.

"It does. I'll be with him forever, I promised that to him."

"You can't make that kind of promises. You're still seventeen."

"Mom married when she was sixteen."

"She wasn't marrying a gaki."

"Shaoran is no gaki. He is the one I love and who brought me back from death."

Suddenly everything got silent.

Sakura covered her mouth, noticing her mistake, but it was already too late.

"What do you mean he brought you back from the death?" Fujitaka asked slowly.

"Otou-san, I…" Sakura didn't know how to explain.

"So that's what we felt last month." Touya understood.

Sakura just nodded.

"Sakura, explain yourself." Fujitaka asked worriedly. "What do you mean he brought you back from death? Why did you die?"

Sakura stood in silent a couple of seconds before finally answering.

"I died because I had to give up my life-energy to finish a spell, to annihilate a terrible evil…"

Flashback

By Hermione's idea Sakura had taken out the Hope Card, and began filling the magic heart with the feelings everyone had.

Hope smiled, as the heart was almost full of light.

"Just a little missing." Sakura said as she panted.

"And just us missing." Shaoran added.

Sakura turned her head and they both kissed, still holding the staff.

In that moment there was a flash of light and Sakura began levitating, out of Shaoran's grasp.

"Nani?" he asked.

"Gomen ne(I'm sorry)." Sakura murmured as a tear fell down her eye.

Shaoran just looked at her shocked, not understanding what was happening.

"It is ready Mistress." Hope said.

"Hai." Sakura said still floating. "Release it."

"Demo(But)…" Hope began. "Are you sure?"

"Hai." Sakura said sadly. "I know the consequences of releasing this but it must be done. Hundreds of lives are worth it."

Hope nodded, she was sad, she knew what her Mistress was giving up to do this spell, but if it was her decision she couldn't go against it.

"Power of the heart, of our feelings deep inside. Come forth, I summon you. The magic of the love to come vanquish this evil. I summon you…Hope Spell!" Sakura chanted.

There was a huge flash of light. Everyone had to close their eyes.

Followed by a deep cry. As Lord Voldemort was enveloped in the glow.

A second later the light vanished.

And a body was lying there, dead. It was Sakura's.

End of Flashback

She had known it. Since days before, when she had that terrible dream, she knew she would have to give up her own life to save everyone else. It had been hard but she had come to the conclusion that all those lives where worth her sacrifice.

Sakura hadn't told the rest, but in the last moment, when she was chanting the Spell, she had doubted, she had gotten afraid. She didn't want to die, didn't want to leave Tomoyo, and Eriol, and…Shaoran. But then she thought that if she didn't do that, her loved ones would die, and she would never permit that.

Fujitaka, Touya, Kaho and Kero stood silent, shocked by what Sakura explained them had happened that night on Hogwarts's grounds.

"For some time I felt like I was floating in a Void. Everything white around me." Sakura explained.

"The Crossroads." Kaho murmured.

"Nani?" Sakura asked.

"The Crossroads." Kaho repeated. "The place all souls have to cross to get to the 'Other World'. Like a sort of limbo."

Sakura nodded, understanding.

"I was there, until I began hearing voices. Many people saying they still had hope." Sakura explained. "With each voice I heard I felt more awake, my energies returned. Until there was another flash of light and I gasped as I felt air filling my lungs and my body back on the ground." She almost cried at remembering the sight she had found when she opened her eyes. "Shaoran, and everyone were crying. He embraced me tightly when I opened my eyes. He seemed so happy that I was back, assured me he wouldn't have been able to live without me."

No one spoke for some seconds, still trying to analyze everything Sakura had just revealed to them, it was just too much.

.-.

In China, in the Li Mansion.

Shaoran was training early in the morning, battling an invisible enemy. Although he wasn't really concentrating in the training. More in something, or someone else…

"Sakura…" he whispered to the morning wind.

Flashback

It was night, under a starry sky.

Shaoran was on one knee, before a surprised Sakura.

"Ying Fa, would you marry me?" Shaoran asked.

Sakura stood there a couple of seconds, shocked.

Shaoran lowered his head, thinking he had done something wrong.

Sakura noticed this and she too knelt down in front of him. Slowly she cupped his head with her hands, raising his head to hers.

"Hai." She finally said.

"Nani?" Shaoran asked, a little shocked.

"I said hai, yes." Sakura said. "I will marry you Xiao Lang."

Shaoran slipped a golden band with a pink diamond shaped like a petal on the ring-finger of her left hand.

Sakura smiled as happy tears ran down her cheeks.

"Aishiteru Ying Fa." Shaoran whispered in her ear.

"Aishiteru Xiao Lang." Sakura replied.

Shaoran embraced her tightly, and then kissed her more passionately than ever before. There, under the stars, sealing with a kiss their oath of eternal love.

End of Flashback

"My beloved Ying Fa…" Shaoran sighed.

Suddenly a pebble hit him on the back.

He immediately turned around moving his sword.

"Who's there?" he asked.

He heard light laughter.

And when he got his thoughts in order he could feel them, four auras.

"Xiefa, Fanren, Feimei and Fuutie." Shaoran said annoyed. "Get out of there at once."

"Ah…" Feimei murmured disappointed. "He felt us."

"What I don't get is: Why didn't he feel us before?" Xiefa asked as they stepped out.

"Maybe he was too concentrated in his training." Fanren suggested.

"Or in someone else…" Fuutie said with a smirk.

"Oh I'm so gonna get you for this." Shaoran murmured. "God of…"

"Oh no…" Xiefa said. "Run!"

And they sprinted off, with Shaoran on their heels, throwing thunders, fire and other spells at them.

Even in their situation the four sisters couldn't help but laughing.

"He really is spaced out." Feimei said.

"Yeah." Fuutie agreed. "If not he would have already stroked us."

"Right." Fanren agreed.

Just then Xiefa tripped and ended on the ground.

Shaoran smirked with satisfaction. He was about to call for the God of Water(in the end he just wanted to give his sisters a little scare, not really hurt them) when…

"Children!" an authoritarian voice called.

Immediately Xiefa got to her feet.

"Mother." The five of them greeted at once as they bowed.

"Shaoran, you can finish whatever you planned on doing with your sisters afterwards." Yelan said. "First I need to discuss a very important matter to you."

"What is it mother?" Shaoran asked.

"You will soon turn eighteen, and ready to become the Leader of the Li Clan and the Western Council." Yelan explained. "And because of that the Elders are pressuring me to find you a suitable bride."

"What!" he four sisters shrieked out.

"Our Little Wolf marrying?" Feimei began.

"Before us?" Fanren added.

"Not fair!" Xiefa complained.

"Cute!" Fuutie yelled in opposite.

Shaoran just rolled his eyes at them.

"So Shaoran…" Yelan began.

"You have no need to worry mother." Shaoran said calmly.

He knew what he was about to say would send his already hyper sisters over the edge, and his mother…well, she was too unpredictable for him to know what her reaction would be.

"I've already chosen one." Shaoran explained. "And she too has accepted."

"What!" Again the four sisters cried out. And the questions began raining "When? Who? Why? Where? How was it?"

"Shaoran…" Yelan began.

At the moment the sisters shut up.

He now knew what she was thinking: Would the elders approve her? He was positive they would, after all she was a Supreme Sorceress, the First of them all.

"It is Sakura, the Card Mistress." Shaoran answered.

The sisters began yelling, cheering, congratulating him, in few words, making uproar.

Yelan was still in silence.

The sisters seemed to notice this and calmed down.

"Then I'm sure she'll be perfect." Yelan finally said.

She turned around and left.

Leaving poor Shaoran to deal with his hyper sisters.

.-.

Naoko Yanagisawa was standing on the garden of the house where she had lived for sixteen years of her life(she's seventeen), the house of a family that less than one year ago she believed to be hers, but now she knew it was not.

Flashback

She had awoken to find herself floating about a meter above her bed.

"Yay!" She yelled afraid, and she collapsed to the bed.

A second later her 'parents' entered the room.

"Doushitano(is something wrong) musume(daughter)?" her 'father' asked.

"What is it Naoko-chan?" her 'mother' asked.

"I…I…I just woke up and…and…" Naoko didn't know how to say it.

"What is it honey?" her 'mother' asked sweetly.

"I woke up and was floating one meter above my bed!" she cried out finally.

She though her parents would yell, say she was taking her fantasies too far, or that maybe she had been dreaming. She had never expected what they actually said.

"So it has finally happened…" her 'mother' whispered.

"Nani?" she asked confused.

"You mean, it's time already?" her 'father' asked his wife. "But it's too soon. She's still s child."

"Iie, she isn't." her 'mother' replied. "She's sixteen already. And they told us this would happen before she turned seventeen."

Mr. Yanagisawa nodded, defeated.

"What are you talking about?" Naoko asked. "Please tell me."

"Naoko-chan." Mrs. Yanagisawa said. "You must listen to us, stay calm, we'll explain everything…"

End of Flashback.

"And so they told me they weren't my true parents." Naoko murmured. "My true parents had a lot of problems and couldn't take care of me after I turned one year old, and it was too dangerous for me to stay at my old home with my grandfather and other family. So I was sent here, where they found my 'parents'. They were supposed to raise me and protect me until I showed signs of my true identity, which happened that day. The day I learned my true past. The day I learned I wasn't fully human, but a Sprite…"


Well... what is there to say? I know it took me really a long time to update, I'm sorry for that but I was at my semestral exams and just didn't have any time free. I do now, and I promise I'll try to update as frequently as posible.

Someone told me that Voldemort shouldn't be the evil guy this time, I can tell you he isn't going to be (you must know that if you read the prologue). He will have something to do, but he isn't the villian now. If you have anymore questions ask, and if the answer don't spoil the fic I'll gladly answer.

I hope you like the way I¿m beginning this fic. I tried to enter you on the way the character's life has changed, and this kind of 'intro' will go on until next chapter. When I'll give you the first clue to who the evil one is this time.

See you soon.

Sayonara.