Author's note: Hi ppl! Here's the next chapter you were waiting for. Sorry to say that it's a very short chapter. But before you read I'd like to tell you something.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I made a mistake in chapter 3 where I mentioned his birthday being two months away. Sorry I meant to type it as eight months away. I deeply apologize for this mistake. I'll make sure not to repeat such mistakes again. Sorry once again.

If you don't understand a few things in this chapter, please read it thoroughly…

Chapter 13

Syaoran jerked awake. He sat blinking. He glanced at the clock. There were five minutes to four. He sighed remembering that he had to go to train early that morning. He glanced at Sakura who was still asleep on his bed. He smiled seeing the childish look on her face as she slept and then walked into the bathroom to get changed.

He was out in a few minutes wearing his traditional robes. He came out of the bathroom to see Sakura sitting up and rubbing her eyes.

"You're awake."

"Syaoran." She mumbled stifling a yawn, "Why are you up so early? Are you going somewhere?"

Syaoran nodded. "That awful teacher of mine wants me to start training early today."

"Do you mind if I stay here a little longer? I'm still sleepy." Sakura yawned again.

The young prince shook his head, "Of course not. You can stay here as long as you like. But I have to get going. My teacher doesn't like it if I'm late." Sakura lay down on the bed again pulling the covers over herself. There is still sometime before dawn.

"Goodnight my princess" he whispered as he planted a kiss on her cheek.

"It's good morning" Sakura muttered before falling asleep.

Syaoran pushed few strands of auburn hair away from her face before picking his sword and exiting from the room.

Later that morning when Syaoran returned from training, he found his room empty, his bed neatly made. He smirked. Not that I expected her to be here or anything. Tiredly he sunk on the bed and closed his eyes to catch some sleep. That easy chair hadn't been very comfortable.

Sakura in the meanwhile was completely elated. Her mother's diary had finally revealed the clue to the last riddle. My powers must be getting stronger. Come to think of it I didn't feel very tired last night. This is awesome! The last flower…

She looked inside the diary expecting a very complicated riddle. But…

A black rose…

Sakura stared at the book. What? That's it? She grinned to herself. This is too easy now all she had to do was find the last flower and she could free her family from the curse. But she couldn't help but feel an uncomfortable tug in her heart. Something deep inside her told her that it was not going to as easy as it appears to be.

All day long she kept pondering about that feeling. She couldn't remember seeing any black roses in the mystic valley. But she convinced herself saying that it was a magical place and maybe she'd just missed it.

In fact she seemed so spaced out, that she forgot to eat the fruit that Syaoran had given her during lunch. She came around when he started to get worried and hastily started to eat the fruit reminding herself to keep her guard up next time.

I guess I'm just worrying too much. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to find the black rose tonight. So she forgot about that feeling and raised a spirits up at the thought of being able to see her family soon.

That evening Sakura jumped off her tree house after taking the other three flowers and her mother's diary when

"Sakura!"

She turned around, "Syaoran!" she exclaimed and ran up to him.

"You seem happy today. What's up?" he asked reaching out to pull a leaf from her hair.

She blushed, "Is it obvious?"

"Very."

"Well what's up?" he asked again when she didn't reply.

Sakura debated whether or not to tell him and then decided not to. So she leaned and kissed his cheek, "It's a surprise," she whispered.

He pouted, "but I don't like waiting,"

"Waiting makes it much better," she replied, "Well I have to go now. See you soon, Syaoran."

He waved goodbye and watched her leave feeling glad to see her cheerful.

Sakura hummed a tune as she walked down the usual path to the mystic valley. She reached the end of the cave in no time and pushed open the huge gates with roses carved on them and strode onto the stone path. She settled under her favorite tree at the end of the stone path and decided to check her mother's diary once more just in case and also eat the apple she had bought in the market. But to her disappointment there was nothing else but those three words. Sighing she decided to look for the black rose.

It had become dark and Sakura wearily sat back under the tree. She had looked everywhere but there was no sign of a black rose anywhere. There were all kinds of flowers that Sakura had never even seen before but no black rose. What am I going to do now? She pondered as she paced up and down the stone path when she noticed something.

Shadow…she glanced at the gates of the mystic valley. Black rose! The shadow of the gates fell on the stone path. The gate had a rose engraved on it and it's shadow was obviously black.

Sakura's heart began beating faster. Could this be the answer that she had been looking for? The moon suddenly appeared from behind a cloud and the shadow fell on the tree. At that moment the shadows of both the roses fell at the same spot and then much to Sakura's amazement the tree disappeared and in it's place was a small pathway covered with white flowers.

Sakura ran down the short path only to find a field of black roses. She gasped on seeing the beautiful sight. There were lots of bushes covered with black roses waving in wind. Sakura twirled around happily as the petals flew in the air. She found the right flower quickly and picked it and as soon as she had done so the field disappeared and she was standing in front of the tree again.

Now what?

Suddenly she heard mother's voice inside her head just like the first time she had found a flower.

Well done Sakura! You found all the flowers. Now all you have to do is water the four flowers and then summon the hidden power. Once you do that everything will be back to normal.

"Is that all I have to do?" Sakura asked aloud.

You've found two flowers in two days Sakura and that means you have used too much of your magical energy. Once my voice fades away your magical energy will start draining and that's a slightly painful process.

Sakura gulped nervously and nodded.

Good luck Sakura! I hope we'll see each other soon!

Her mother's voice faded. Sakura waited with bated breath. Suddenly a flash of pain shot through her body and the next instant she felt as though an invisible force was tugging at every fiber of her body. Sakura dropped down to her knees and screamed in pain. Wrapping her arms around herself she hoped she could survive the pain. The pain was unbearable. Finally after about five long minutes it ended. Sakura coughed spitting out some blood and finally collapsed on the ground. Her vision was blurry and her breathing was ragged. Every cell of her body was paining and she felt weak. At last she surrendered herself to the darkness and fell asleep.

Syaoran jerked awake. He had a bad dream. Sakura is in trouble! Without thinking he ran out of his room and to the secret garden.

"Sakura!" He called out.

He ran to her tree house and wrenched the door open. The mattress was empty and looked as though it had not been slept in. Panic filled Syaoran. Something was wrong, he knew it.

"Sakura," he yelled again desperately trying to find her. He ran towards the gate of the palace but,

"Your highness! What are you doing here at this time?" The guard at the gates stared at him surprised. It wasn't everyday you see the prince running around wearing his night clothes.

"Let me go" Syaoran growled at the guard. The man looked frightened on hearing his tone and said nervously, "Sorry Your Majesty, I can't do that."

Syaoran glared at the man dangerously and was about to yell at him but he decided against it. He didn't want to cause a commotion.

"Fine I'm going back in." He walked back to the palace gritting his teeth furiously. She was in trouble and he was stuck in the palace.

I hope you're ok, Sakura

"Xiao Lang! What are you doing up so late?" a voice which Syaoran didn't not want to hear at all came to his ears.

"Mother…" he glanced at her and continued to walk to his room.

"I asked you a question Syaoran," she said reverting back from his Chinese name.

He looked up at his mother and yelled furiously, "She is in trouble and I can't do anything about it! Just leave me alone mother!" He slammed the door of his room shut and leaned on the door. Great. Now I'll have to tell his mother everything…

But to his surprise all he heard was a suppressed chuckle and a rustle of skirts indicating that his mother was leaving.

So it was true. Her son really was in love. Yelan smiled happily to herself as she walked down the aisle. She'd wait. She knew he'd tell her everything and he needed time. And she would wait till he was ready to tell her.

Syaoran sank on his bed thinking about Sakura and how she'd changed him. She had ripped out the mask he had been wearing and melted the ice wall around his heart that he had worked so hard to build. She had showed him who he really was. He was really indebted to her and he didn't know how to repay her.

I love you Sakura, I will love you always……

Sakura blinked and woke up. She looked up at the sky to see the sun blazing. It's probably a few hours after noon she mused. She stood up unsteadily and tried to fly. She was still very tired and flying proved to be a difficult task. But somehow she managed to perch herself on the lowest branch of the tree.

She decided to shut her eyes for a few more minutes but before she knew it she was asleep. When she woke up again it was late afternoon. She then realized something. The sun would set soon. She had to hurry and do what her mother told her. Carrying the diary with her claws and the flowers with her beak was extremely hard and it took Sakura more than half an hour to reach the palace.

She hurriedly dropped the diary in a bush in the secret garden and flew towards the palace. She remembered that there was a vase in the hallway near the dining room. She placed the flowers in a vase and as she was looking for water the whole Li family came walking down the aisle much to her dismay. She could hear their voices.

The four sisters were teasing their little brother again who was yelling at them angrily his face as bright red as a tomato. All of them stopped on seeing the flowers in the vase.

I have no time to hide. Sakura thought panic-stricken and flew right at Syaoran at tugged the front of his shirt.

Syaoran was surprised to see his pet there but kindly asked her, "What do you want?"

Sakura squawked urgently pointing her wing at a maid who was passing by carrying a bowl of water.

Syaoran nodded understanding and grabbed a tiny plate and filled with some water. He held it out to Sakura. The rest of the Li family looked at the two, bewildered.

Sakura carried the plate in her beak and flew towards the vase. The sun would set very soon and was afraid that she might not make it.

Unfortunately for the plate was too heavy and accidentally she knocked down the vase and dropped the plate. The vase landed on the ground and broke; the plate fell on the ground too spraying a few drops of water on the flowers which had landed in a heap. Sakura stared at the mess she had created, aghast.

To make things worse the sun sank behind the horizon. The entire Li family stared surprised as suddenly the little nightingale began to glow brightly

"What the?…" gasped the King as his four daughters shrieked in surprise.

Syaoran blinked as he tried to see through the bright pink light that had filled the hallway, wondering what on earth was happening to his pet.

They all watched awestruck as the little bird began to transform and soon the light faded away revealing a beautiful young girl. The girl landed down on the floor and burst into tears burying her face in her arms.

"Sakura!" Syaoran stared at her.

Sakura sobbed continually. What was she going to do now?

Author's note: Well it's a cliffy. I hope you like this chapter. This story is coming to an end very soon, only two more chapters. I'll try to finish this story within this week. But don't worry. I'm putting up a new story called "My savior, my love" I hope you'll like it. I'm posting it along with this chapter. Plz read it.

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Lol,

sakura doll