A PLAY FOR THE AGES
I hear something ringing and I just stumble around my room. I grabbed my phone and say, "Hello. Sakura here, what can I do for, yawn, you?"
"Sakura, weren't you the one who wanted to tell us something? We are all waiting for you." Tomoyo says and I find that I'm wide awake. I look at my clock to see that it reads 10:00 at night.
"I'll be right there, tell no one to leave no matter what. I'll be there in ten minutes at most." I scream and run around my room getting ready.
A rock hits my window and I open it finding Syaoran in the cold waiting. 'Give me five more minutes and I'll climb the tree.' I say and he nods towards me. I grab a bag and put the book in there along with a sleeping Kero. Releasing my staff, I call upon the Jump so I can make it safely to the ground, when Toya barges into my room.
"What are you doing, Sakura? It's ten at night! Where could you be going at this time?" He screams as I get out of my window.
"Sorry, Onii-chan. But I must go out right now, it's important. Don't worry, the gang will be with me so I'll be safe. See ya later, onii-chan." I say as I jump to the tree and then out of it, so I can start running towards Syaoran, whom is down the street.
Panting hard I see him with a smile on his face. "I thought you were attacked so I came by to make sure you got to my place safely. Kai is going to get upset if we keep him waiting any longer. If we do, he'll most likely leave us out here."
"Okay." We walk towards the black car and get in. "Hey Kei. Sorry I slept longer than I thought. I hope I didn't burden you at all." I say as Kai starts to pull out of the parking lot.
"Not at all. We were all worried and I was more frightened with Syao-kun than burdened by you. Don't worry about it; you befriended me without a problem even though I was a thief. This was the least I could do." Kai said as he sped away and I get frightened. This is the first time I am actually in a car with Kai as the driver.
As soon as I get out of the car, I nearly fall over and Syaoran catches me immediately. Kai gets out unfazed and walks towards Syaoran's place, while Syaoran picks me up off the ground and walks. "What are you doing? Put me down this instant!" I hiss as he climbs the stairs to his apartment.
"And if I refuse?" Syaoran asks and I glare at him.
"If you refuse, then I will personally disable you for a week. I have enough magic to do that." I state glaring at Syaoran.
"Then do your worst, because I will not put you down." He says and I punch him in the chest. "You need more work on the punch but nonetheless pretty good." He opens the door and the others gape at us.
"Syaoran did you—" Tomoyo starts but was cut off by Syaoran.
"No, she stumbled out of Kai's car and I picked her up and carried her against her will."
"So, Sakura, what is so important that you had to tell us?" Erika says irritated that she is not in bed.
"Well, to put it frankly, we have a new enemy out there. I have no idea whom it is, just that he is out there." I say and everyone is suddenly very serious.
"Sakura, are you positive? We haven't had an enemy in almost four years and now we get one when we are preparing for college." Eriol says in shock.
"Unfortunately, yes and that means that all of us have to be more aware of anything that goes on. Miho will take the 3rd years and Kai will take the colleges. The rest of us need to keep an eye on the seniors or underclassmen." Now everyone is extremely cautious.
"Sakura-chan, are you positive that someone is trying to be on our bad side?" Tomoyo asks and I nod.
"When did you first notice this, Sakura?" Kai asks and I just look at my feet.
"Sakura, when?" Eron and Syaoran say ignoring their hatred for eachother.
"Well, I first noticed, hehehe, when the first week of school, um hehe, ended." I say still looking at the floor.
"WHAT!" Everyone screamed and I felt really bad.
"Sakura, that was a month ago. Why didn't you tell us before." Kero said extremely disappointed.
"Well Sakura, do you have a reason for mentioning it now?" Syaoran asked and I looked up for a moment then back to the ground.
'Sakura please tell us why. I don't think it's a good idea to keep looking at the ground.' Syaoran pleas and I shake my head.
'You don't understand Syaoran. I can't explain why I didn't want to say. I can't just say that I wanted to see if they were going to be allies or enemies, now can I?" I say to Syaoran.
"Oy, Sakura speakto us also. Don't just communicate to Syaoran, tell us why to." Kai says and everyone cheersin agreement.
"Well?" Everyone says and I edge towards the door.
"She wanted to see if they were going to really be our enemies or going to be allies." Syaoran said causing everyone to get more upset me.
"What do you mean? Of course they would be our enemies. Why else would they come to Tomoeda than to destroy!" Erika states and Eron places his hand on his sister.
"I'm sorry." I whisper and run out of the apartment in tears making everyone just sit there confused.
"Damn it, this is why she was so afraid to tell you guys about it. Now she left and in tears, her brother is gonna kill one of us if not all." Syaoran says leaving after her followed by Eron, then Kai.
"Can someone explain what has happened?" Tomoyo asks Eriol who was trying to locate her magical aura.
"Basically, she didn't want to tell us because she knew we would automatically claim they were enemies. She wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt as she's done with all of us. But we still make her feel bad as ever for jumping to conclusions and not letting her do as she feels is right." Eriol says giving upon his search hoping one of the three guys are doing better.
'Where are you Sakura? You won't even let me communicate with you. Let me in Sakura, I want to help you and I've never judged you before. I know your listening somewhere; just tell me where you are please!' Syaoran thought while searching frantically in the dark. He had an idea and ran towards Sakura's favorite spot.
"There you are Sakura. Don't you know how much we were about you." Syaoran said as he sits on the swing next to mine and I turn away. "Sakura, you know that I won't judge you since you befriended me. Please look at me and trust me."
Turning my head, I look at Syaoran with tears streaming out of my eyes. Syaoran got up and hugged me like he did when I told him I was rejected by Yukito. "Thank you Syaoran. You always help me out when I'm sad or crying."
"Shh. Better now?" I nod and he ushers me into standing position while saying, "Good. Let's go back just to let the others know you're okay." I just shudder and think 'anything but that please.' Laughing, Syaoran just nods and takes me home for the night. "See you at school tomorrow, 'kay Sakura." Syaoran says leaving as I climb into my room.
I climb into bed and fall asleep when Toya comes in yelling about something that I can't understand. But someone puts a blanket over me and sets my alarm clock for me.
I dream about someone with a kind smile waiting for me in a storm of cherry blossom petals. I run into the storm trying to find the person. All I can hear are the words I'm coming to find you. Don't
you dare think you can escape me and my family. We will get you, just you wait. Then all around me bursts into flames and I scream.
I jump up from my bed sweating when Toya and Dad came into the room. "Sakura-san, are you alright?" Dad said and I nod looking at my alarm clock. It read 5:30 and I decide to stay up.
"Yeah, I just had a nightmare and woke up. I'm just going to get ready and make some breakfast. Go back to sleep you two, I'll be fine." I say and shove them out of my room. Kero leaves his drawer and looks at me worried.
"Did you have another prophetic dream, Sakura?"
"Yeah, I'm too worked up to fall back asleep. Do you want pancakes for breakfast, Kero?"
"Sure, Sakura. Everyone is sorry about last night too."
"I don't know but okay. See you in a little while, Kero."
Going downstairs, I mix the pancake batter when someone knocks on the door. I grab my key and use the sword card, so if someone attacks I'm in the clear. When I open the door, I see Syaoran raising his hands and I lower my sword.
"Did you have that weird dream also, Sakura?" Syaoran asks as I let him in.
"Yeah, but how did you know that I was awake?" I ask and he just looked at me. "Telepathy, huh."
"Yep." As he sits in the living room. I put the batter in the pan and cook the pancakes. I run upstairs to fetch Kero so the three of us could enjoy breakfast.
"So, you came over because you could tell I had awoken and wanted to make sure I was okay?" I ask while eating.
"Maybe he came over to eat pancakes and have a free breakfast." Kero says as he finished his pancakes.
"I'm here because Sakura is really afraid from that dream." Syaoran says as I choke on my orange juice. Patting my back Kero asks, "Is that true, Sakura?" I nod and finish my breakfast.
"I don't know why but I think that our enemies want to kill us off one by one. They had a murderous look in their eyes. This is why I told you guys last. This is the third dream but it was more extreme than the previous two." I say looking at the clock after washing the dishes.
"Grab your stuff so we can leave, Sakura. Bring your cards also or else we're going to be late and in danger." Syaoran says as he grabs his bag and beaded tassel thing that turns into his sword.
After making sure Kero stayed at home and doesn't follow us, we leave for school. I'm too nervous after the dream to consider the grief my friends were going to give me about the dream. As I settled into my seat, everyone crowded around me and started talking at once that I couldn't even think.
"Everyone just SHUT UP!" Almost everyone in the class looked at my crowd and tried to get closer but was blocked by Eron and Syaoran. "I can't think when you are all talking at once. I think you all should just ask Syaoran about it and leave me alone for today. Or wait a couple of days until I'm over this morning okay, Please." I say and the teacher comes into the classroom.
"Good morning, everyone. Great news, we have gotten permission for Tomoyo's play." Everyone cheered, silenced by Mr. Akamichi. "She has already chosen her cast and needs everyone else to help with the production because it goes on at the end of next month!" Everyone cheered and Tomoyo went up to the front of the class.
"Hello everyone. I will now tell you whom is going to be in the play. Kinomoto Sakura, Li Syaoran, Chang Eron, Chang Erika, Tanaka Miho, Mizuki Kai, Tsukishiro Yukito, Kinomoto Toya, Hiragizawa Eriol, Akizuki Nakuru, Li Meilin, and as narrator Mizuki Kaho. We will be preparing a play that is completely secret. I can't wait to see how you all like it." Tomoyo says and the group groans understanding the reasons for the measurements.
'Tomoyo you are Dead' is what every single person in the Card captor group thought as she sat down. I felt even worse than I had when I woke up this morning. Syaoran just puts his hand on my shoulder to comfort me when the rest of the class started preparing for the play.