A/N: Well thats a pain, lost the whole of the original chapter... well then, may as well move on. I'll just do the most important scene in the opening sequence.

XXX Scene 1

"You know..." Kero ponder to Tomoyo as she worked on finalising Sakura and Naruto's costumes tonight. "Sakura acts very different when she's with Naruto..." Tomoyo glanced over.

"I've noticed that too... Sakura becomes more confident when Naruto backs her or gives her the push forward..." She smiled lightly, the Sakura she was familiar with, was like a ghost when he came into the scene. True, her friend did have her moments, but that gets nearly takes it all away.

'I doubt, even Yukito could bring this much of a change...' She looked over all the times Sakura was around Yukito. But it was so different when it was with Naruto. That tag also, Tomoyo spotted it on Naruto for the first time she met him. But only now sees how deep their bond goes.

"She must really like him..." Tomoyo muttered allowed as she leaned on her arm. Kero perked up at that comment. "Naruto... He does what so many can't, and Sakura, she just becomes this amazing person under his presence. Even if she doesn't like it, she does it for both herself and him, not wanting to fail in front of him..." She closed her eyes for a moment. The thoughts crossed her mind. "I would have to say Naruto and Sakura care a lot for each other, and more than either say." Kero pondered for a moment, then he remembered the comments both the ninja and the cardcaptor shared.

It was true Naruto cared a lot for Sakura, and he knew this. Maybe, deep down Sakura did...

And of Yukito? What place did they see he stand against Naruto in Sakura's feelings? To Tomoyo, she believed, from having spoken to Sakura about Naruto. That the way she spoke of him, and acted round him, was honestly stronger in her feelings, maybe it was because he vanished, she pushed her feelings onto Yukito when he appeared in her life. Maybe, because he was so nice to her, like the ninja had?

Tomoyo pondered for a moment and then looked to Kero. She wanted Sakura to be happy, but her friend had to make her choice. But she'll help in her own way. After all, they were friends and she cared for her. And she knew who would make Sakura truly happy for sure.

XXX Scene 2

"HELP!" The cry of the guard echoed out as he swung from the rope, Naruto himself stood on the roof over the open window, glancing down behind his masked face. He wouldn't be too far from saying, he really trolled the guy. But hey, it was a moment to let his inner prankster and craftiness get the better of him.

"What now? I hope Sakura's nearly done..."Sealing Silent should have been nearly done or done, but no notion to it yet. He was about to check, when he froze for a second, a sound of feet treading drew his attention. "Who's there?" Looking to the moons glow, he made out a figure shadowed in it.

"The clow cards are here..." Naruto turned at full attention to that comment, his keen hearing making out the words.

'Someone else knows of the clow cards... And what's that he's holding?' The item looked square, but that was quickly put away by the figure. "What do you know of the clow cards?!" Naruto demanded, was this person an enemy or possible friend.

"I shall gather them all... No one shall get in my way..." The figure muttered out, drawing a sword from his robes, Naruto tensed and summoned his. "Raiten..." The figure raised their sword. "Shourai!"

"Shou-what?!" Naruto yelled as the sky flickered brightly and a bolt of lightning hit his locations. Sending dust and brick everywhere, as the dust began to settle, the figure lowered his blade. Slowly the smoke began to move and swirl as a light began to shine.

'What's this?' The figure tensed as the dust was cut clean by a glowing blade and blown away, as Naruto stood there, his blade over his shoulder as his power rippled, a bright blue glow emanating from him and his eyes.

Naruto didn't like this kind of surprise. Swing his blade down, Naruto rushed forward and clashed, as the blades met, the young male was knocked back. Naruto had got a good clean look at his foes face, and was surprised. He looked taller some distance away from him. The figure stood quickly and looked to Naruto, and taking a step back ran off.

Naruto took a deep breath as the seal on his hand stopped glowing and as did he. The sword vanished quickly also, if he hadn't brought the blade up over his head and have the blade absorb the lightning, he could have been worse off.

"Naruto! What's going on? We heard an explosion..." Sakura called over the walkie talkie. Naruto picked it up, sounded like there was one other with them, and they were running also.

"I'll explain later. You done...?" Sakura responded with yes. "I'll meet you out front..." Looking to the rope he had tied the guard up with. His whimpering still going on, Naruto cut the line and heard a yell and a thud, followed by a groan. 'He'll be fine, now to get out of here.' And like a ninja, vanished quickly from the area he stood in.

Chapter 6

'I'm worried...' She had been unsettled since last night of what Naruto had told her, of his mysterious attacker. 'And my dream...' Kero had begun to try putting the puzzle together, but he was unsure. Sakura has seen a mysterious boy in her dream, doing exactly she had in her dream when her adventure started. For now, Kero stated to be on guard, and even Naruto now was more active than normal.

She felt giddy; it felt like her dreams, the body guard ninja on his mission to protect her. She felt glad Naruto was here, it made it easier to walk without fear.

"You think he'll just come after the clow cards at any moment?" This had been worrying her, could she be put in danger or the same for her friends.

"I doubt it; if that was the case he would have done it by now, not during the night." Well that was good to hear, "But if he does try anything, I'll give him a piece of my mind!" She giggled as Naruto fist pumped. This attacked has left Naruto annoyed having been attacked so surprisingly.

"I'm sure you'll be able to handle him... After all..." Sakura slowed for a moment. Naruto stopped as she did. "You're the strongest person I know, and you're going to become hokage." Naruto grinned as she smiled. "So everything will be alright. I know it." She really did mean it.

"Thanks..." He missed this, Sakura's kind words of encouragement. "Come on, let's get to class we don't want to be late."

They quickly made their way off to school after that, meeting Tomoyo at the entrance. "Hey..." Naruto greeted.

"Naruto!" Their attention was drawn away from heading to class before the morning started when a group ran over. It was one of his after school classes, the Kendo team. "We need your assistance..." Naruto sighed lightly, not peeved, but still annoyed he had to be dragged away for these small issues.

"I'll see you later..." Bidding farewell, Naruto was quickly dragged away by everyone.

"Naruto is really popular at times isn't he Sakura?" Tomoyo commented amused. Naruto was very popular for his athletic ability, though the cardcaptor knew this was all due to Naruto's training. But this was also Naruto's own fault for signing up to almost all the sport related classes.

Kendo was one of Naruto big things; he quickly picked up the style, mainly to help with his own skill with the sword he carried. "Can't be helped, he made this choice..." As she watched Naruto fade away, she wondered if Naruto was glad to be popular like this or not? It was never his style to begin with... Well in her opinion at least. As Sakura glanced to Tomoyo she could see this bewildered look. "What's wrong?"

"Oh ugh... Nothing..." She never seen Sakura rest her head on her arms like that. The posture reminded her of Naruto really. She smiled, maybe a cute habit?

Soon all three were sat in class, Naruto seemed more bored. "I don't envy Sasuke anymore... He can keep his popularity." Sakura giggled, knowing full well what that mean. Though Tomoyo was in the dark, but guessed easily to what that meant.

"I think it's quite nice, you're very popular in all the sports classes, can't be helped really." Naruto sighed; he had always wondered what it would be like to be popular. Now that he's got it, he wants out of it, oh where the times when being the class fool were a good thing?

As the morning started, things were about to get heated. "Today students, we have a new student joining us from Hong Kong." This got curious chatter amongst everyone, a new student halfway through the school term was unusual.

"I wonder who they are." Tomoyo commented curiously as the door opened, Sakura then quickly felt something spike from Naruto. A dark emotion stormed up as Naruto stood quickly, and in must his style he arm pointed quickly to the young male that had now walked through the door.

"You!" Naruto's gaze didn't weaver as he and the new kid stared each other down. The whole class had gone silent. Sakura stared bewildered at Naruto.

"Mr Uzumaki, I would like you to sit down. And I will see you after class." There was a quickly realisation what he had done and he sat down quickly, but he was still no amused about this.

"What's wrong?" Sakura whispered as the teacher introduced Syaoran Li. Naruto huffed annoyed; Syaoran was the one who attacked him on the roof. "Are you sure?" He nods slowly, his gaze never leaving the Li kid. Once his introduction was done, Li was left to sit in the same row as Tomoyo, but he stopped for several moments, his gaze on Sakura, making her nervous.

"You got a problem?" Naruto asked quickly as he stood, he didn't like the feeling he was getting from Li. And he wasn't about to back down from this regardless.

"No problem..." Syaoran responded, before heading to his seat. Naruto sat and knew he was going to need to come up with a good response for his actions.

The class felt tense, mainly on Naruto's part, who tried to focus, but Syaoran was busy glaring holes into the back of Sakura's head. The ninja had a good mind to bust a skull. But as soon class ended, Naruto was forced to stay behind to explain for his actions. But his attention was on anything but what the teacher said as Sakura gave him a glance and left, with Syaoran right behind her.

Sakura now worried, about Naruto, didn't expect the Li child to appear. "Hey..." She stopped, quickly looking up to the voice, the very new kid be standing there. "Come..."

She was worried, but she went anyway, maybe she could handle this. Naruto believed in her, so she was confident that if something happened, she could deal with it. She followed Syaoran round the school building to the back, very aware she was getting out of sight from everyone.

Sakura stopped once they reached the fence line, while he walked on a few more steps and as he turned, her eyes fell to the object in his hands. A large and square board, with an array of images.

"The kings of gods command gods appear from all directions. Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, thunder, wind, lightning. The new command. Soft thunder, spinning thunder..." The board glowed and a beam fired at Sakura. Stunned, she didn't move as it hit her and glowed.

As quickly as it was there, it faded. "So you do have them... The clow cards are on you right now!" He stated as he looked dead at Sakura. She flinched, almost instinctively she moved to the cards, but froze, if she followed through with his words. She'd prove she did have them.

"How do you know about the clow cards?" She needed answers.

"I'm Syaoran Li, and a descendent of Clow reed." It was a bit surprising to hear that. "The clow cards hand them over."

"I can't... And I won't..." She didn't have them all, they were scattered by Windy. "Right now I'm gathering them..." Syaoran wasn't pleased; he wanted to know, how long had she been gathering them? "About... 2 months..." And she hadn't gathered them all in that time? Yes, she felt bad, but that didn't explain how he knew she had them.

"This board, is one of Clow's relics, it can locate the presence of the clow cards. So I have the capability to find them... Unlike you..." She didn't like his tone, but he showed he was capable. "Hand over the clow cards, and I'll continue from here." Sakura was fine how she was doing, her, Naruto and Kero were doing fine. "Kero... You mean Keroberos... Where is he?" He wasn't here now but at home. "How could the guardian of the cards trust someone like you?"

"Hey..." She maybe kind hearted, but having spent so much time with Naruto. "We've been doing just fine!" She didn't take to kindly to insults.

"Fine or not, as a descendent of Clow, it is my duty to become the owner of the clow cards... So if you don't want to hand them over... I'll take them..." As he stepped forward at that comment, Sakura flinched and her hand moved to her cards. "So you have them..." Crud, she didn't keep her cool. "Give them here!" The second he stepped forward, Sakura tensed ready to defend herself, otherwise she would never be able to stand as Naruto's equal. But her eyes widened as she saw someone appear she knew.

"Back off!" Naruto roared, he did not hold back when he swung. And boy was this kid going to feel it, the Li child stepped back and just caught the force, it wasn't Naruto's full force, but it was enough to knock the kid off his feet.

"Naruto!" She was both glad a worried to see him. The look Naruto was giving the lad... was far from his gentle friendly image and it worried her. 'Naruto...'

"Listen here you snot nosed punk. Lay a finger on her and I'll make you wish you had never stepped foot in this school." Li stood, rubbing off the punch. He didn't expect this; even the force behind the punch startled him. As Li looked to Naruto he froze, red eyes, Li blinked and they were blue. He must have imagined it, seeing the eyes of a vicious beast.

"I don't think you have reason to be here... Uzumaki... This was our discussion." Syaoran stated as he rubbed his cheek. He didn't like this guy, and that face, he was the same person from that night, and he had that sword too... Syaoran really didn't like this... Naruto. "I'll ask you again," he slipped into his fighting style. "Step aside, this has nothing to do with you, I have my own agenda." Naruto clenched his fist, a heated glare was his response, Naruto wasn't backing down.

Syaoran rushed forward, he wasn't about to back down from this taller figure. Quickly he showed his fighting style with swift strikes, catching the blond male off guard. Naruto startled, ducked and dodged. 'So fast, it's like fighting Neji... But this is nothing compared to him...' A quick punch caught him off guard, and Naruto retaliated with a fast punch. Li saw it coming and with a quick move, dodged it. But it did leave its mark as a cut appeared.

Before they could continue, both were yanked into the air. "What's going on here?!" Naruto stopped at the voice, Toya, who was glaring at him. Syaoran was also being held up and struggling. Naruto would have struggled, heck he would have gotten out, but he demanded why he was stopping him from decking the kid. Toya looked to him harshly, and then glanced away.

Naruto stopped and knew where he was glancing too, Sakura... He was dropped and he landed on his butt, Naruto lay backwards and could see the fear and panic. 'Guess that's not the best thing to see really...' Even if it was to defend her, maybe watching him in a fit of anger and rage at this Li kid was not the best thing for Sakura to see.

"Hey!" His attention was broken from Sakura to Toya as the other lad broke free was ready to fend off Toya. But before it got worse, things got calmed by the snow rabbit turning up as he jumped the fence.

"Yukito!" Sakura had a well absorbed distraction, even Naruto was happy to see the male. And he brought food. This quickly broke up the heated event going on, and as Naruto watched Yukito pass the food about, he watched amazed and confused at what happened next.

Syaoran ran, like he'd seen the devil as Yukito passed him food. He would have laughed when Li fell into the mud patch, but he was too stunned, even Sakura was confused. "Did I really just watch that punk run from the snow rabbit?" Sakura glanced to Naruto, but glanced away unresponsive.

When all was done and dusted, Toya and Yukito parted ways with them. Naruto stretched now pleased. "Let's head to class..."

"Naruto..." Naruto stopped in his steps, Sakura had finally spoken. "Why did you step in?" He turned, wasn't that obvious, he was protecting her. "Don't you think I can't, protect myself?"

He stood silent; he was always backing Sakura, encouraging her and wanting her to be able to defend herself. She made a valid point; he had stepped into something Sakura should have been able to handle really.

"You don't think I'm capable do you? You say I am yet... Yet..." Naruto didn't know what to do, Sakura was upset. And he doubted it was just because of this... Something happened... When he gets a chance, that Li brat is getting the stuffing knocked out of him.

No, he had to control himself; he didn't want more trouble in class from his teacher by flipping off the handle. "Sakura, looks don't cry. I didn't think, I just saw what I saw and stepped in. I didn't like it one bit... Please don't cry. Look, let's just get today over with and get out of here."

She nods slowly; she'd be fine but... "I am stronger right?" Naruto nods, he doesn't doubt it. As she walked on, Naruto stared at her back, he feel bad now. He knew Sakura was stronger, but he stepped in to protect her. He cared for Sakura, and would do what he could to make sure she was okay.

Maybe letting her face her own battle, would be step in the right direction.

He went quiet from there, no one said anything, nor did Naruto make any motion at the Li child. For now, he would let Sakura handle it. Once school was over, he followed Sakura and Tomoyo in toe to the park, for Sakura to clear her head.

"Sakura, I'm sorry for my actions... It's just..." She shook her head, she understood that he was protecting her and doing his job. But she would also like to feel she was capable to defend herself. "Very well, unless something dangerous happens, I shall step back and let you handle it."

"Then what, pray tell, what you would consider dangerous to us Naruto?" Tomoyo asked curiously, she wanted to see what boundary he was giving Sakura. Before he could answer...

"Naruto!" He stopped at the call as someone he remembered ran up. "Hi!" He chuckled it was that girl from the shop, what was her name? Ah that's right!

"Hey Nariko, how you been?" Sakura stared confused as to how this young girl was Naruto was talking too. "She was at the shop that time when we helped out. " Oh right...

Tomoyo quick to get the answer returned to Naruto. "So what were you going to say?" Naruto looked back over, that's right.

"Well, you know like..." Naruto was stopped again when a thundering noise echoed out. "Thunder? Whoa!" Naruto was instantly tackled by Sakura and Nariko. "Both seemed to hate thunder it would seem. "Tomoyo, let's get into cover..." She nods, it was odd that there was thunder, but if there was lightning, then being out in the open was not safe. Quickly, they tucked in under the king penguin slide.

Nariko seemed to have a vice like grip on Naruto, while burying her head into his shirt to drown out the noise. "Strange..." Sakura looked to Naruto confused as he looked out to the sky. "The sky looks angry, yet..." He held his hand out. "No rain..." Sakura looked out with him, only to jump back as a bolt of lightning hit the lampposts. He watched as it raced about, and even chasing nearby people. Before returning to the sky, "Hey..." The cardcaptor glanced over. "That wasn't natural... Could that have been, you know?" It took her a second to get it, it could be.

Once Nariko let go, she quickly raced off to look for her mother, and quickly bid farewell to Tomoyo before heading back to Sakura's quickly. Only one person knew the answers they needed...

"Kero... Hey, Kero, wake up..." But the guardian remained in his blissful slumbers, with that Sakura took a deep breath. "KERO!" That got his attention as he head butted the wall.

Once awake, Sakura explained the situation to the guardian. "Syaoran Li...?" Sakura nods slowly, Naruto was leaned against the bed room door. "Must be from the Li clan..."

"From Clow Reed's side..?" Sakura asked curiously and the guardian nods. 'So he was speaking the truth...' She had questioned it, because anyone could say it. Kero then went into the finer details, explaining the factors of the western and eastern magic that was used to make the clow cards.

"Clow sounded like a great mage..." Naruto cropped up. Kero agreed, but Clow did have his problems. But neither got the why as Kero continued.

"Th-then maybe I should have given him the clow cards..." Naruto stood up at her comment, why? "B-because..."

"Don't be saying that, Sakura." Kero spoke; after all she was the one who opened the clow book. This showed she had great magic potential, which meant that these cards she'd gained were in way hers by right. "Your name is on these cards, Sakura. You are their owner..." Sakura smiled, and glad as she glanced to the cards that now floated round her.

"You are strong, Sakura..." Naruto stated as he sat on the bed. "If Kero here even states it, you can't say otherwise." She looked to Naruto, before glancing away with a smile. "Don't let my actions make you think otherwise."

If she hadn't known Naruto so well, today's actions would have made her think twice. But she knew he was out to help her and protect her, like he would.

Her phone rang, it was Tomoyo the storm from that afternoon had crept back, Kero had to agreed that this was no normal storm. So quickly gathering their things, they headed out if it was indeed a clow card it had to be dealt with now.

"Looks like thunder card..." Kero mused as he looked the lightning. Sakura marvelled her new outfit that Tomoyo designed to be resistant to the electricity and was also cute as well. Naruto was dressed in normal orange attire this time. Well, near normal, Tomoyo had taken it and remodelled it, so had a version two, more slim and less baggy, but he could still make all the right movements and adjustments.

"We ready, Sakura?" Naruto asked curiously as he looked to the sky. He then looked to Sakura and see the focused stare she had as she pondered something. Clenching her staff she turned to Naruto. She wanted to do this one alone. She wanted to show she was capable to handling this.

He couldn't help but grin, Sakura wanted to take this challenge head on, and while he would love to help, she did have a point. She needed to see if she could handle it herself, and this was the first step. "Very well..." He then noticed something, someone was nearby, and he smirked.

"What's wrong, Naruto?" She was happy was willing to let her prove herself, but now he seemed too distracted. He said it was nothing before taking off, but not before giving her good luck. "Okay... Let's go Kero!" Sakura called as she turned around. "Fly!" Quickly, she took to the sky, Tomoyo watching on as Sakura dodged the lightning flying at her.

Landing she looked to the sky. "What do we do, Kero?" She wasn't sure and having Kero's advice would be nice. And according to the guardian, they had to return Thunder to his original form. "How do we do that?" Before Kero could answer, the bolt shot down towards them, "Jump!" With that call, but she and Kero made an escape.

Not far off, Syaoran Li was watching. "This is embarrassing, how can this girl really be chosen by the beast of the seal? I'll have to deal with this before-" He froze at the presence before swinging, only for his form to be gripped tight.

"Don't move," Naruto spoke calmly. "Unless you want to break something." The boy stopped fighting, knowing full well he was in that sort of grip. "I won't let you interfere with Sakura's mission." Naruto wasn't normally one to be so harsh and alarming with his actions, but he was doing this for his friend, and hopefully proves to this kid that she's not weak or anything of the above.

"She won't be able to deal with the thunder card; it's too aggressive and I doubt she'll be able to return it to its original form." Naruto remained quiet. "Fine, just watch as your friend is helplessly beaten by thunder." He wondered if gagging this mouthy brat would be a good idea.

"Kero, how do we deal with this?" Sakura asked as she jumped about, Kero went over everything, every card Sakura had, but there was nothing that could subdue thunder. "Kero?" He didn't want to say it, but Naruto would be her best option, his sword could restore it, as there was nothing stronger. "But..." Unless they could hit thunder with something magically strong, it was no good.

Sakura hated this right now, it was her chance to prove herself but all they could do was run, and it would take Naruto to help her. She didn't like it, she had to think of something, something... Naruto like, what would he do in her situation?

'That's it!' It was a gamble, and by Kami will it be utterly unpredictable. "Kero, leave this to me!" With that she jumped forward faster, leaving Kero confused who jumped as Thunder raced past.

"What's that girl doing?" The Clow descendent asked confused, Naruto watched on silently, watching Sakura's every move. Sakura herself was like a rabbit, jumping from one roof top to the other.

'Jump, please lend my all you can, I want to go faster, and higher. Let's work together and go beyond my limits!' Sakura's request was granted as the wings on her feet sparkled; it would do just that for its mistress.

'What's she doing?' Were the thoughts that were going through everyone's minds. Naruto noticed it, Sakura's leaps were getting longer and faster, Thunder was like a dog chasing a rabbit.

"Faster..." She muttered as she was like a ball, bouncing off the building walls, Thunder falling in the same pattern, "Faster..." She glanced back, before jumping up and between two buildings flipped her way to the top, she caught the edge with her free hand and flipped over, she needed to get Thunder in front of her now. And thanks to her nimble form, she was able to rotate in her flips. 'We need to go faster and higher, Jump! Let's do this!' She could see Thunder coming and as she landed on the edge of the building, she crouched as it was on her, the light in the eyes glowed as it engulfed her.

An explosion lit up on the roof and many thought Thunder had got her. Naruto looked to the sky; he could just make out Sakura high in the sky. It was amazing just how high she had jumped. The smoke from the roof burst away as thunder bolted to the sky. 'What you going to do now, Sakura? Show me... show me how strong you are...' He really wanted to Sakura to show just what she could do.

"Here goes nothing!" Sakura yelled as she slowed down, she was so high it was unreal. But the only thing she could focus on right now was the light coming at her. She took a breath and closed her eyes, she could see him walking away but she was right behind him every step of the way. She wasn't about to fall behind Naruto here. She gripped her staff and swung it up above her head.

"She's gonna-!.." Naruto voiced sounded surprised as all watched, this was going to be bad.

"Sakura!" Kero yelled, if only he could have helped her.

"Sakura..." Tomoyo watched on amazed at her courage.

"She's a fool..." Syaoran muttered. This was reckless.

"Sakura! You can do it!" He released Li as he yelled that as hard and as loud as he could.

"Arrrgh!" She swung down; if she missed it was all over. But fate was on her side, the Thunder made contact and there was a blue pulse before the bolt shot towards the ground. Everyone down below couldn't believe, even Li was surprised by that.

"That's it, Sakura..." She was right, she could do it and Naruto felt really proud of her. But then he noticed something, 'No...' Naruto rushed forward catching Li off guard. 'Sakura... What happened?'

The force from the strike had while done its job against thunder, had affected Sakura and the shockwave from the magical contact had stunned her.

"Sakura!" Naruto yelled as he jumped forward faster. 'Oi, fox! I don't care right now for anything else, but give me some power, Kurama!'

The fox in the cell opened one eye, seeing all Naruto saw. 'Heh... Very well...' Naruto's eyes turned red as he was fuelled by the fox and the sky cried out as the chakra in his body affected the sky. Bursting into a red glow, Naruto bolted faster to Sakura.

'I've got to make it... I've got to make it...' He saw her and with a final step he jumped. Catching Sakura's form before it hit the ground, but by Kami Naruto knew this was going to hurt. He humbled and slammed into the wall. 'Ow...' The red chakra faded and the area affect with it stopped. Opening his eyes, he noticed Sakura was fine, he did make it in time. 'What a relief...'

"Um..." She awoke slowly, the numbing feeling fading. "What... Happened..." Slowly, she turned to see Naruto. "Naruto?" She then noticed where she was and jumped up. "Are you okay? What happened?"

He chuckled, "It's nothing..." There was a roar and both looked to the direction of it. "Go deal with Thunder... I'll be fine." She didn't want to, Naruto was hurt helping her. "Hey, I'm a ninja, I've faced worse." Well, if he said so... "Hey," She stopped to look at him. He grinned and gave her a thumb up. "You were great, I'm proud of you Sakura." She flushed, wanting to say something back, but a second roar made her turn to Thunder.

She'd speak to him after, and quickly jumped off down to Thunder. The ninja himself, once the cardcaptor was out of sight clenched his sides, which freaking hurt and he ached all over.

But while that maybe the case, he couldn't help but grin at the events tonight. Sakura had shown a large leap in progress... 'Guess I won't need to stick around once I can get home.' It was a sad thought; he enjoyed it here with Sakura and hoped to help her more. But this showed she was on the right path.

'I'll be back soon, Naruto...' Sakura thought to herself with a smile, Naruto was really happy with her and she felt over whelming happy. Landing, she could see the beast roaring looking about. It looked to Sakura and growled. She took a breath, "Shadow!" The black spirit appeared and engulfed thunder.

"Now, Sakura!" Kero yelled out, before watching Sakura seal it. 'You did well... I don't think I'll ever see anyone top that...' He felt glad watching that, Sakura had just shown she was the most capable and unpredictable cardcaptor ever.

Syaoran jumped across the roof tops, and landed, looking at Sakura and Naruto. He couldn't believe that girl had done that, even if it worked. "You surprise me..." Sakura jumped and turned to see Li, Naruto grunted as he stood. Only for him to stumble and Sakura catch his wait. The child looked to Sakura's staff. "So that's the sealing wand..." He walked up, Naruto holding his defensive stare, but Sakura also did too. Though Syaoran just walked passed, the thunder was theirs, but next time it would be the same.

"Naruto was right, you are strong... But don't let luck get to your head. You're still a long way off becoming anything remotely meaningful as an obstacle in my path..." With that he took off home.

Both Naruto and Sakura turned to see him off, though Naruto stuck his tongue out. "Naruto..." He stopped what he was doing to look at Sakura. "Thank you..." She hugged him tight. "Thank you for believing in me, if I didn't have your belief... I may have back down and had you help me. So thank you for giving me strength."

He was the one to flush now, this was sudden. But he welcomed the thanks, and returned the hug. While this happened, Kero was busy struggling to hold Tomoyo's camera, since both Naruto and Sakura were out of reach. 'I hope this got everything...'