PREPARATIONS
Everyone in the school is extremely excited about the play, except me. I go into hiding during lunch when Tomoyo was searching for her cast. That wasn't as easy as I hoped since many people wanted to talk to me. Finally, I found a good spot about fifteen minutes from inside the gym, the only spot that had no one that wanted to speak to me.
'Where are you, Sakura? Everyone is worried.' Syaoran asks and I sigh.
'I am in a spot you won't find me. I just need to be by myself for a while. With the dream and now the play and our new enemies, I just can't handle it anymore.' I respond.
"Then why not just let me help you instead of letting you handle everything yourself and go insane." A voice said behind me and I flinch.
"How did you find me so quickly?" I ask not looking around.
"I just needed to hide also, and followed your magical aura to this place. Please look at me Sakura, I didn't mean to make you sad but everyone's worried about you. You rarely run away from Tomoyo and that makes me even worry about you, considering you used the shield card to hide yourself from me. Don't scare me like that." Syaoran said and I turn around with tears in my eyes.
"Syaoran grabs me in his arms and hugs me while I cry my heart out. "Why are you crying Sakura?" he asks as he rubs my back.
'It's just way too much for me to do during the month. Too much to completely understand and I don't know what to do anymore!' I think while crying.
"Just be yourself okay. Don't do anything you can't and let your friends help. Let's head up for the meeting okay, we're getting the scripts and if it's normal Tomoyo, the two of us are going to be the leads." Syaoran says and I laugh and nod in his chest and we walk upstairs.
Tomoyo somehow got all of the cast to come into school for a meeting and I was scolded by Toya for running away earlier without a good reason. But thanks to Yukito, Toya backed off and all the girls were swarming around the classroom to see all the cute boys. In the entire cast, there are four girls and one Nakuru; then there are five boys and one Yukito.
"Okay I'm going to have to say that if you don't back off, I'm going to personally keep you out of the showing." Tomoyo says with malice in her voice that made everyone leave in an instant. "Finally, I can explain the plot to everyone. So the princess is engaged by her parents to a prince of their enemy. When she takes off one day, she sees a tall masculine peasant that helps her escape from her servants. They get to know each other and the princess falls in love with him when he mysteriously disappears. She looks all over for him when she collapses in front of the palace of 'Clow' and she awakens in the chamber of its prince. She is shocked when the prince is really the peasant that she has been looking for. But when the prince of Darkness comes in to get his fiancé back, he is surprised to find that she has
fallen in love and he goes crazy. A huge war is fought because of the betrayal of the princess, then the prince of Clow dies protecting her while the other prince is trying to get her hand in marriage. But as he is nearing the princess, he is struck down by an arrow and he falls. When the war is over the high priest, brother of the princess, and the head of her court tell her to live on with the memories of the ones she has lost. She is now like a lost lump when the reincarnation of her beloved comes back after a year to be with his princess once again." Tomoyo explained and we all stare at her. "Well do you like it?"
We all nod our heads and she gives us our scripts.
"Tomoyo, why am I the tragic princess in the story?" I ask knowing the answer already.
"Who else could be my Princess of the Stars, but the star user herself. Li is the Prince of Clow since he's Clows descendant and Eron is the Prince of Darkness since he used to be the Dark One. Any other questions about the casting?"
"Just one, Tomoyo, what am I doing in the play?" Kai asks.
"You are the one whom shoots everyone down and also the technician for the play. Is that okay with you, Kai?"
"Yes!" Kai screams and everyone fears for their live. "Don't worry, I used to be the archery captain and ask Meilin she's seen me use my archery."
"He is good. Oh Tomoyo, what is my part?"
"Simple, you are one of the guards that chases Sakura around along with Miho. Also, Erika you are the Queen of Darkness and sets up the marriage between Sakura and Eron." Tomoyo says.
Everyone started to come back for History so Toya,Yukito, Nakuru, Kaho, Kai, and Miho had to leave and our meeting ended. Rika, Chiharu, Naoko, Takashi, and Taki came over.
"Sakura-chan, what happened this morning when you shouted? Did Li-kun hurt you in anyway?" Chiharu asks.
'Calm Down Syaoran.' "No, I had a headache so I couldn't handle the ambush. Then I shouted and pushed them towards Syaoran since he knew the answers. Really everything is just fine." I say guiding them away.
"Oh, Sakura-chan, you're the lead with Li-kun right? Did she come up with something elaborate again?" Rika asked looking at the cast in the room with 5inch scripts and I nod. "Just don't go too crazy then okay." With that they all left.
With a quick glance at all of them, they all had an outraged look in their eyes and I thought that Tomoyo gave them awful parts so I take a glance at Syaoran. He shrugged so I try to write a note but the teacher confiscated it.
'What did that note say?' Syaoran asked.
'Just asking if you started reading the script. Did you?'
'Nope. Killing time by reading. You?'
'Same. Everyone seems really excited about the play. I don't know why though?'
'Probably because it's Tomoyo's script and her cast. They expect a huge production since it's all done by Tomoyo.'
I look behind me to see Syaoran looking right at me with a large grin making me laugh. The bell rings and I get my books into my book bag. "See ya tomorrow, Syaoran. We should read the script so we can start rehearsing. After all, we are two of the three main characters. Bye!" I say running out of the classroom to catch Tomoyo.
Tomoyo is down theblock when I catch her. It's such a sunny day that there should be a pool open. No clouds in the sky and almost 80 degrees. We talk about how fun the rehearsals will be and how we should go out for a shopping day. We stop by the park to sit down and talk. I sit on the swings when I sense an evil presence around us. I stand up and look around me when something slices my cheek. Tomoyo screams while her camera is out and I have my staff out with my cards at the ready.
"Tomoyo," I say dodging the thing barely, "Get out," Jumping away of the attacker. "Of here. It's dangerous. Get HELP!" "Jump" Striking the card with my staff to jump to higher ground. Tomoyo is running out of there as fast as she can and I strike Earthy. "Earthy, bury the force that is coming towards me!" Mountains of earth circle and make a barricade around whatever it was trying to slice and dice me a few moments ago. "Whatever you are, be bound to me under contract by me. Sakura Card." I say without much confidence in actually making it a card but heard that it was one of my abilities as Card Mistress. After a few moments a card materializes in front of me. I take the card with shaking hands and see a picture of a sickle-holding brat. Running at full speed, Syaoran comes up at me. I give him the card and start to cry.
"It's over. It's all over, don't worry about it." Syaoran says still looking at the new card with a horrified expression.
"They really meant to, hic, kill me right then. They really did." I say still crying. We all go back to Tomoyo's and I agree to spend the night so I don't lose my mind. "Mirror, send a replica of my myself and tell my brother that I'm in danger if he notices you're not me." I command. My double comes out and heads for my house.
Syaoran and Tomoyo guide me to her house and stay with me until I calm down. Syaoran reluctantly leaves Tomoyo's so that he can take care of Kai and Meilin. I opened up the script that read "A Nightmare between Three Kindoms" and I laugh since it fits the descriptions perfectly. All of my lines have been highlighted and I see that I have lines in almost all the pages. 'The Kindoms of Stars, Clow, and Darkness have an heir of the same age. Ever since the princess of the Stars and the prince of Darkness have played together since they were five. The prince of Clow was to be the heir to the throne
of Clow and only Clow.' Wow Tomoyo is a wonderful screen writer, she must have gotten this from many different experiences with the Clow cards and everything.
'When the two heirs were sixteen they were engaged to be married. The princess was extremely confused why she had to marry her best friend and lost it. She went out and was chased all around the shopping market and runs right into a young peasant man. The man steadies her and she apologizes. He grabs her hand and leads her towards a back alley that few people actually go in. They stay there as all the guards are running past and searching for her.' I yawn and fall asleep; I dream of the play and can see it actually happening for the most part. The description of the princess fits me perfectly.
Ding Dong. Toya came into the Daidouji mansion and was greeted by Tomoyo. "Sh. Sakura finally fell asleep five minutes ago, she had a traumatizing day." Tomoyo says. A look of relief passes through Toya.
"What did that message mean? The one with 'I'm in danger, we all are." He asked.
"Sakura was attacked today. She almost killed by The Scythe. Sakura was extremely upset and afraid after this recent attack. She was lucky she had her cards with her. If she didn't' she and I wouldn't even be alive right now." Tomoyo says.
"Thank god she is alive right now. I think I would have gone insane if I'd known Sakura had died. But Tomoyo, about the script, why are there so many kissing scenes between her and the Brat? Couldn't you at least make her kiss that Eron kid. He is also her fiancé, yet all the kissing scenes are with—" Ding Dong.
"One moment. I need to go answer the door." Tomoyo answers the door to a very annoyed Syaoran, who was holding a script. "Good evening, Li-kun. You're here about the script too, I see. Why not just follow me so I can talk to both of you at once."
"WHAT IS HE DOING HERE!?" Both Toya and Syaoran screamed when Syaoran went into the living room.
"Quiet. Sakura has had a rough day and finally fell asleep. So just be quiet and let me guess, you are here because of all the kissing scenes I gave to Syaoran and Sakura." They nod and I just slap my forehead. "Li-kun, did you already forget what I had told you the other day. I'm doing this to help you. Toya, you need to let it go. Li-kun is Sakura-chan's boyfriend, so of course they're going to kiss. So both of you can leave unless you have other matters to settle like Sakura's health. If not then leave, or else you'll just get in the way." Neither Syaoran nor Toya left so Tomoyo had some guest rooms set up so they could sleep.
Syaoran's Pov
When Toya had left the room for the night, I went to see Sakura. 'Why didn't you wait for me?' I pick up Sakura up and put her in the bed. I put the script she was holding in her book bag.
"Li-kun, you should get some rest. It's almost midnight and we have school in the morning." Tomoyo says and I shake my head.
"I should have been there. I could've protected both of you." I bury my face in my hands and Tomoyo pats my back. "How can you or anyone ever forgive all that has happened. I deserve to die before I atone for this." I sit on Sakura's bed and start to shake from fear.
"Li-kun, no one expects you to do everything for us. If you keep blaming yourself, I know of one person who will be troubled and you might wake her." Tomoyo said making me aware of how bad I was shaking.
I got up from the bed and headed towards my spare room for some sleep. I feel like punching something from frustration. Throwing myself on the bed, I think about how Sakura vividly remembered her experience. How scared Sakura had been while the Scythe had tried to kill her. I will never let her out of sight or protection of me, Kai, or Eron. This will never happen again. Somehow, I fall asleep to my wild fury around two in the morning.