Author's Note: I give you another addition to my interweaving plot threads, with hopes that you will be entertained by what occurs within them. ;)

TimeAndRhythmDoesIndeedSleep: Yes, I am including both movies in the storyline of this fic. One of the outlying plot threads might also involve Tsubasa, you'll have to wait and see. ;) Yeah, I had to give Ruby Moon some sort of turmoil, even if it is minor. She realizes that she's stepped over the line now, with this accidental incident, so things should be pretty quiet on her end for a while. :) Thanks for the review. I'm glad I've managed to keep your interest and hope you will enjoy this latest chapter.

Aristania: haha Yes, yes she has. Now it will take something more than any singular ability to reseal the card. In her defense, Ruby Moon didn't know the card was down there any more than Eriol did. His own incomplete memories caused problems for Sakura later on when they failed to warn her about the Unsealed Card or even Su Yung. It will all balance out in the end. ;) Thanks for reviewing. I'm glad my writing kept your interest for this long. :)

Gemini24: I'm glad you liked the chapter and the inclusion of the Cardcaptor Sakura movie within the storyline. Yes there is more Yue. He is a central part of the story after all. As is Kero. That being said, I can't change my characterization of anyone. They all have their good points and bad points. Touya's sometimes sarcastic relationship with Kero doesn't mean they hate one another. Kero did several things during the course of Cardcaptor Sakura cannon that were little mistakes and almost revealed Sakura's presence and abilities to others. I'm simply incorporating his personality into everything the way I think it would have been if Clamp had written about this type of AU. Mind you, there's would be a better and more vivid interpretation. Anyway, Touya doesn't need to be guided like Sakura was, so there isn't much point in making Kero the teacher type or Yue for that matter. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter and have kept on reading. This chapter may put your thoughts about Kero to rest for a bit as they show the different aspects of his relationship with his master and how they do truly care about one another. It's all pre-written, so there won't really be any changes from here on out. Thanks again for reviewing. :)

Now on to Chapter 13. Enjoy!

The next day Sakura and Tomoyo went out sightseeing with Syaoran and Meiling. Meiling seemed to have a penchant for shopping and insisted on taking them, particularly Tomoyo, to all of the finest clothing stores. Touya and Yukito stayed within the vicinity of where they were, scouring book shops in an attempt to find information regarding the old well. Syaoran had promised to show them the location of the well later that afternoon, so they needed to be prepared in case something unprecedented occurred. Although Touya insisted that they check in on Sakura every half hour, citing that he didn't want Syaoran to have any time alone with his sister. That and he was responsible for the wellbeing of both Tomoyo and Sakura, even if they were less likely to get lost with two competent guides showing them around.

"Aw, come on Syaoran, it isn't that bad" Meiling said as she insisted he try on a fine brocade shirt of fine red silk. "You can wear this back in Japan to impress your classmates."

"It would certainly be different" Sakura agreed. "Though we do have to wear our uniforms while we're in school."

"That's right" Meiling said firm serious expression. "Ms. Daidouji, I have something I'd like you to try on."

"Of course, it would be my pleasure. As long as Sakura tries on something as well. I want to film her in it."

The Li cousins looked at her strangely as Sakura smiled awkwardly at her.

"Tomoyo likes to make me clothes sometimes, it's one of her hobbies" Sakura explained.

"Oh so you're an amateur clothing designer, Ms. Daidouji?" Meiling said with renewed respect. "I'd like to see something you've made if it's no trouble."

"None at all and it's Tomoyo. There's no need to be so formal with me" Tomoyo said beaming. "I brought along an outfit for Sakura, but it's back the hotel. I'm hoping to market my own line of clothing some day."

"Why are we only talking about clothing and girly things?" Syaoran muttered to himself.

"You don't have to be here Syaoran" Meiling said giving him a look.

"Actually he does" Tomoyo put in.

"He's returning a favor that was asked of him by someone in Japan" Sakura explained. "The dimensional witch gave him a protection spell and told him to be our guide in Hong Kong while Nii-san looked for somone."

"Who is she? Maybe I can help you find her" Meiling asked curiously.

"She's a spirit sealed away in an old well" Syaoran told his cousin. "Sakura's brother has to set her free and get her to move on."

At last they came to a small bookshop tucked in a small alleyway. The shop itself was empty of any proprietor, but they ventured in anyway.

"The owner must have stepped out Touya" Yukito remarked.

"We might as well have a look around anyway" the Cardmaster answered. "It's probably going to be our last stop for the day."

Yukito nodded and they began to look through the book collection. Then something caught Touya's eye, a book with no title. It was sitting there on a small table, sealed shut by a store label written in Chinese. The picture on the cover showed an intricate drawing with a woman seated on the edge of a great well, her face turned away as she stared at some unknown point in the distance. Touya felt himself be drawn in by the realism of the drawing. Then a mist began to flow slowly in front of the drawing causing his thoughts to feel muddied and his breathing to slow.

Then the woman turned to look at him. Kero shifted inside Touya's shoulder bag and stuck his head out just in time to see picture shift.

Touya reached for the book as he heard a voice call to him.

"Eh?!" Kero said reacting quickly. He tried grabbing Touya' hand, but to no avail.

"Come inside" a woman's voice said from within Touya's mind. It was almost hypnotic.

Kero flew away as Touya lifted the book and went to find Yukito.

There were muffled sounds that the Cardmaster's fuzzy consciousness couldn't make out, but he paid them no mind.

Touya's hand shifted toward the seal as the woman once again beckoned him to enter it.

"To-ya!" Yukito shouted pulling Touya's hand away from the book, though it took most of his strength to do so. His boyfriend was fairly athletic, which resulted in his having a great deal of physical strength.

Hearing his name Touya snapped out of his trance and dropped the book. He blinked rapidly to clear his eyes and lifted his head to stare at a worried Yukito.

"You weren't responding to anything I said" Yukito explained. "I think that book might be magical. Yue agrees."

Touya nodded and quickly backed away from it.

"I think I saw her" he said warily. "She tried to get me to open the book. I think it might be one of the ways to release her seal."

"If she's able to effect things like this outside of the well, then we'd better be careful about how we handle this" Yukito replied. "She even caught you Touya."

"I know. Usually I get a feeling about something like this and it warns me off, but this time it was different. You saved me, Yuki" Touya said with a grateful smile. "I don't know what might have happened if you hadn't been here."

Yukito beamed at him and began to blush slightly. Then he gave Touya a quick kiss on the lips.

"I'm just glad you're alright" he said. "Don't scare me like that again."

"I'll try" Touya said teasingly as he caressed Yukito's cheek. "No promises though. We still have to confront Clow Reed and Kaho."

"Yuck. Do you two have to be this mushy all the time?" Kero said as he flew back into Touya's shoulder bag.

"hmph. No one asked you plushie" Touya said raising an eyebrow at him. "But I do owe you one for helping me out back there. So thanks."

"Yeah, that's right. You owe me cake later" Kero said before curling up and going to sleep.

"We'll see about that. If we make it out this alive."

"Please try to be careful" Yukito insisted. "I don't want you getting trapped in there with her."

"She was sitting on a well in the picture on the book, which means Clow probably sealed her in that place specifically" Touya commented. "If the brat's right about where it's located, we should be able to release the seal when we're ready and send her soul to the afterlife."

"It's a good plan" Yukito agreed "but doesn't that mean there's a spell on the well itself?"

"I'm counting on Yue being familiar enough with Clow Reed's magic in order to break the spell completely. I'll have to control the encounter using the cards. I have a feeling Su Yung is going to be incredibly angry about being left in that other dimension for over two hundred years, which means she'll definitely lash out at whoever happens to be there."

"She must have been lonely there" Yukito said. "I wonder if she ended up regretting that she hurt someone she loved."

"You're too nice Yuki. Much as I'd love to be able to just send her off to the afterlife, we can't take the any chances. If I we don't use any magic on her, she might go off and try to get revenge upon the Li clan and possibly the Clow Cards for what their master did to her." Touya said gravely.

"I know, To-ya" Yukito said sadly. "It's just that two hundred years is such a long time. Her loneliness would have been almost unbearable by then. It's a wonder she didn't simply go mad."

"Maybe she did and that's why Clow never released her" Touya answered thoughtfully.

"He should have just sealed her powers" Yukito commented. "I'm sure he could have found a way to make it less dangerous for her to live in Hong Kong."

"I think by then he was hurting too. Maybe he ran out of options and just sealed her away. She might have threatened Yue and Kero. They were still young at the time, he could have sealed her away to protect them. Or she could have stolen the Clow Cards and tried to seal them away."

Yukito shook his head.

"I'm not sure and Yue can't seem to remember if anything like that occurred" he said. "We're going to have to assume that it all happened just as he and Kero described it."

"It looks that way." Touya agreed. "I guess we should go get that brat so he can show us where the well is. Hey plushie, we're going!"

Kero was abruptly shaken awake as Touya shifted the bag on his shoulder.

"I'm up! I'm up! Sheesh." The yellow cat guardian insisted.

"We're going to let the cat out of the well, do you think you can look after the kids while we're there?" Touya asked.

Kero sighed.

"I might as well, since I still can't change into my true form. It's so frustrating!" The cat guardian complained. "It's no fair that Yue can while I'm still stuck like this."

"How many Clow Cards are we missing?" Yukito asked speculatively. "One of them might be able to break the seal on you."

"I've thought about that and it could be that Clow set it up that way. It's still majorly unfair though" Kero said, his face contorting into a pout.

"Maybe he thought Sakura would find that card without too much trouble" Yukito commented. "We might have missed something, Touya."

"Well anyway, we need you on babysitting duty. Do you think you can handle that?" The Cardmaster said looking down at the guardian still perched in his shoulder bag.

"When I get my true form, you'll have to treat Yue and I the same" Kero grumbled. "Then I'll be just as good as he is."

"We've been over this. I know you think Clow treated the two of you differently, but that might have had something to do with his romantic involvement with Yue. I don't think he was trying to insult your ability to do your job." Touya said exasperatedly. "That being said we're friends and nothing more, understand?"

"Well obviously. Why would I ever be into someone like you when there are so many cute girls around?" Kero remarked cheekily. "Li's cousin is way better looking than you, that's for sure."

Yukito giggled at him, earning him a mock glare from Touya.

"Shouldn't you be looking for another cat to play with or something?" the Cardmaster said shaking his head.

"That's the hard part about being one of a kind" Kero retorted. "I'm too different for anyone's tastes."

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Back in Japan Spinel sneezed lightly and looked around.

"Suppy is there something wrong?" Ruby Moon asked.

They were sipping their afternoon tea in Eriol's little garden.

"I'm not sure, I just felt something unusual come over me" Spinel explained. "It's gone now. Maybe it was that card you let loose earlier."

"That wasn't my fault. I didn't know Clow had buried an unfinished Clow card underneath the house" Ruby Moon said defensively. "Eriol said it was okay, after all."

"He's simply glad that it didn't surface after we left Tomoeda" Spinel countered. "That would have made trouble for everyone, including Kaho's family."

"Places are already starting disappear" Ruby Moon replied. "Eriol's doing his best to keep it at bay, so at least I helped in that way."

"He's been able to control its effects for now and that mailbox down town did reappear" Spinel agreed. "I suppose your mishap did bring up some more unfinished business of Clow's and we do have the research notes to combat it. That doesn't mean you're off the hook though. The card requires the wielder to pay a price in order to tame it."

"What's that?" Ruby Moon asked interestedly. "What does Touya have to give up?"

"Well there is a clause that says the most powerful magician within twenty feet of it has to be the one to give something up" Spinel informed her. "However, it's assumed that that person will be the one to tame it."

"Just tell me already!" Ruby Moon cried impatiently.

"Fine" Spinel said with a sigh. "That person has to give up the most important feeling to them. The emotion will be completely gone and the card will take it for themselves."

"Wait, does that mean he'll have to give up his feelings for Yukito?" Ruby Moon asked eagerly.

"Eriol thinks that the card will use this emotion in order to copy it and claim an affinity, because Clow didn't give it one before he locked it away. That doesn't mean the feeling is gone for good and I highly doubt Touya will suddenly give up on caring about Kero or Yue, even if his romantic feelings disappear."

"hmph! That's not fair!" Ruby Moon said, frustrated.

"Just leave it be, Ruby Moon. Haven't you learned your lesson by now?" Spinel said lightly. "You can't always get what you want, so why make enemies. Touya and that Li kid already have it in for you."

"They can't stay mad at me forever" Ruby Moon reasoned.

"I'm sure they'll give it a try" Spinel said, sipping his tea.

"Suppy you need to stop being such a grump all the time" Ruby Moon commented. "You should get out more."

"And you need to be more practical about what you're doing and to whom" The black cat guardian retorted.

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"Clow Reeeeeeeeed!"

Kero was quick to usher Sakura and Tomoyo out into an alleyway as the form of a woman they assumed to be Su Yung appeared from the well. Her power erupted in storm of fury the moment Touya and Yue released the seal, nearly disintegrating the well. Yelan Li had also appeared to aid them with a magical artifact that cut through the barrier around the well, allowing the seal to weakened more easily.

Syaoran was standing near his mother with a few fire seals at the ready, carefully guarding her back. Meanwhile his cousin Meiling was right beside Kero guarding the girls in the alley.

Touya spared his sister a glance, then turned back to his opponent, satisfied that she and the others were safe for now. He knew that Sakura had been studying magic with Yue and Kero's help, however she wasn't ready to face a threat of this magnitude just yet. She'd only just gotten out of the hospital six weeks before and so she still hadn't completely recovered her physical strength. That would be problem if she needed to move in order to dodge Su Yung's attacks. She was better off on the sidelines for now with Kero, while Yue watched his back.

Su Yung stared down at Touya with a glare that held an infinite amount of hatred.

"Clow Reed! You left me here, but now that you have set me free at last I shall-" Then Su Yung stopped speaking and looked around. She'd first mistaken Touya's stern face for Clow Reed's in her haze and his magic felt similar to that of blue haired wizard, however she could sense that something was different.

"Clow Reed is dead" Yue said coolly as flapped his wings and glided up to where Su Yung stood in mid air above the tattered well. "And so are you, Su Yung. Do you remember me?"

"Yue, the moon guardian" Su Yung said and her voice seemed to echo across the stone walls of the old courtyard. "You were but a child when I first beheld you. Now you have grown. Tell me truly...WHERE IS CLOW REED?"

"I have spoken truthfully" Yue said favoring her with a glare. "He died almost two hundred years ago and sealed the cards away. Now we have a new master."

Touya summoned the Fly card and used it to transform his staff. Then he sat down on it and directed Fly to bring him up next to Yue.

"Who?" she asked.

"Me." Touya answered as he flew up beside Yue.

"You lie! This cannot be true. I cannot be here and yet dead!" Su Yung insisted vehemently.

Touya summoned the Libra Card, something he'd sworn never to use unless strictly necessary. He activated it's power on himself and turned to face Su Yung.

The sorceress had seen the card and was noticeably surprised at this.

"Clow Reed is dead" Touya said. "Yue is telling the truth, something I can't help doing right now. Clow sealed the cards away before his death and they were only recently unsealed by me."

Su Yung put her face in her hands, obviously crushed by this news. Tears flowed from her eyes and fell onto the ground below.

"This...this cannot be. I was so angry with him...I wanted my revenge on him for sealing me away." Su Yung said sorrowfully. The pain she felt was evident in her voice. "Now he is gone. Am I truly dead, young man?"

"You are" Touya replied. "I can sense it. I've been able to see the dead since I was a child. It's been over two hundred years since Clow Reed sealed you in this well. No one could have lived that long without magical aid."

"And I have none" the sorceress admitted. "My spirit birds were my only company in that place. I trust your words and the magic of the Clow Card that has proven them so."

Then Su Yung began to fade away, her ghostly form crumbling as she began to move on to the afterlife. Her soul was finally free.

"I...am...sorry that I mistook you for Clow Reed. I never meant to harm you children, I just missed him...so..." Su Yung said before completely disappearing from their sight.

"I guess Yuki was right" Touya said deactivating the Libra Card and putting it back in his pocket with the others. "She seemed more heartbroken than anything."

"She was foolish" Yue replied "but so was Clow. In the end she still loved him. Maybe I too should forgive him."

"Are you sure?" Touya asked. "We still need to find out what his reincarnation is up to back in Tomoeda?"

"This is true" Yue acknowledged. "I don't know if this person is really Clow or a true reincarnation. I want to see him before I judge the circumstance of his return."

"We'll get it after we find the rest of the cards and restore your brother's true form" Touya said, flying his staff back down to the courtyard.

Yue glanced at the destroyed well below and then followed suit. He felt a little bit of sympathy for Soo Yong for having been sealed away by herself down there. At least his own sealing was within the book of Clow and even then he had been released according to a predetermined timeline. He hope that Su Yung found peace in the afterlife away from anything that reminded her of Clow and her betrayal of him. Yue knew his own past with Clow had yet to be reconciled and he felt it's presence looming over him daily. He would have to speak to Touya about the similarity between the aura of Clow's reincarnation and that of Fujitaka Kinomoto, which had become more evident after their latest encounter with Ruby Moon. Su Yung's assumption about Touya's identity due to Clow Reed's magic had reminded helped him finally put the pieces together about his own uncertain comparison. They would have to test this theory when they returned to Tomoeda. Clow might be using Fujitaka to unknowingly spy on his own children. Either way, it didn't bode well unless there was a reasonable explanation behind it.

"I wish she could open her eyes just one more time" Clow said sadly staring at Yuko where she lay, silent as the dead, on her tatami mat.

"Clow...is that you?" Yuko answered as her eyes flew open. "What..what's happening to me? Why do I feel so strange?"

Clow looked on in horror as he felt his magic surround Yuko.

Yue just stood there paralyzed with fear. He had never seen Clow so anxious before and couldn't understand what was happening to the witch. Keroberos looked deeply concerned for their master as well. There was a void surrounding Yuko, keeping her exactly the same, despite the life being all but drained from her pale cheeks.

"Her time...it stopped" Kero said peering at Yuko before looking up at Clow for some type of acknowledgment.

"You are correct Keroberos" Clow said gravely. "I have done that which I should not and I fear she will suffer because of it."

Yue shook his head snapping himself out of the daze triggered by the repressed memory that had resurfaced in his mind. He now knew why Clow had altered both his and Kero's memories before sealing them and departing for another world. Clow himself had broken one of the fundamental rules and could not reverse it. His disdain for what he'd done had driven him to seal away the Clow Cards and their guardians, before going away to die. Despite Clow's twisted personality, Yue knew that what he'd done to Yuko, however accidental, would have haunted him. So instead the wizard had gone away, possibly in an attempt to fix his mistake, and died once his own age caught up with him. Yuko's continued presence at the shop in Tokyo spoke volumes about the permanency of Clow's mistake. The Dimensional Witch had truly been severed from time and space, unable to die herself and reunite with those she had once held dear, including Clow Reed.

"Hey Yue! You coming or what?" Kero shouted from below.

Yue turned to see that everyone was staring up at him, tipping his wings, he slowly glided back down to the ground. He would have to discuss everything with his brother and Touya another time. The guardian spread his wings and curled them around his form before transforming back into Yukito.

"How did it go?" Yukito asked.

"She's gone" Touya replied. "Yue and I were able to convince her of that she was dead and Clow Reed was long gone. She was finally able to move on. You were right Yuki, I think she did regret it in the end."

"Yeah after destroying the well and screaming for vengeance" Kero put in sarcastically. "I still say she was trouble. So...when's dinner?"

Sakura and Tomoyo giggled in response. Kero never stopped thinking about food and he was always hungry following a confrontation of kind, even if he hadn't actually done any of the fighting.

"How does a bowl of noodles sound, plushie?" Touya asked with slight smirk.

"They'll do for now" Kero answered. "Don't forget you still owe me cake."