The Answer's Are Right In Front Of You
Chapter 3- Near DeathSaturday Night
Meilin dropped a book on the table in front of her and massaged her temples. "If I have to read another dust covered thousand page book, I think I'm going to crack."
"We have to find something." Syaoran said as he finished one book and picked up another.
"Syaoran's right. If we don't find something quick, and Sakura's without her powers for to long, she may not be able to live that long either."
"What!" Syaoran said dropping the book.
"Well, she's had her powers for so long that her body is used to containing such large amounts of power. But now that they're leaving, her body isn't so used to it, and it could cause her to die." Eriol explained as he flipped a page in a book.
"And, your sure of it?" Meilin said horrified.
"Positive."
"Well then we have to find something quick!" Meilin said as she picked up another book.
A loud crash could be heard followed by a scream and Syaoran and Meilin looked up.
"Don't worry, it's a regular occurrence. Nakura is probably trying to dress up Spinel or feed him sugar again." Eriol said as he set down a book.
Nakura waltzed in smiling. "It's not that bad. Suppi's just over-reacting. And you have a guest, Master."
Yue walked into the room and stood there until Nakura left before looking at the three.
"I can no longer feel the mistress' power. Why."
"We don't know and we're trying to find something to help her." Syaoran said, as he looked another book.
"Let me help. Sakura won't be very well without her powers for to long. Where is Cerberus?"
"With Sakura, watching her. I hope. Tomoyo and Touya are also watching her." Syaoran said as he looked up wearily and rubbing his eyes.
Tomoyo giggled as Touya spread the whipped cream from her cheek to her nose.
"Now look! I have whipped cream all over my face." Tomoyo said with a grin.
"I can help you with that." Touya said as he began to kiss her cheek and eating the whipped cream.
They were having brownies topped with whipped cream before they started to get into a whipped cream fight.
"Delicious." Touya said as he pulled Tomoyo to himself and hugging her from behind.
Tomoyo smiled to herself, blushing, and looked up at him. "Can we maybe go check on Sakura? We haven't done that since the others left."
"Sure. Maybe she'll eat something. Maybe give her some strength." Touya said as he poured some water and put a few brownies for Sakura and Kero and the walked upstairs and found Sakura lying in bed with her eyes closed.
Kero was sitting beside her on the bed watching her. "She's not doing well."
Tomoyo's mouth went dry as she looked at Sakura. She faintly breathed and she looked as pale as could be. "Will…will she die."
"It's very possible." Kero said.
Both Tomoyo and Touya paled. "How much longer do you think she has?" Touya asked.
"I don't know. I just need the kid to hurry up." Kero said as he sighed.
"Well…we…um…brought some brownies and water. We thought maybe that she could use the food." Tomoyo said taking a step forward. "Or, is she sleeping?"
"I'm…awake." Sakura said as she opened her eyes.
"Would you like something to eat?" Touya asked as he gently walked over to the side of the bed and kneeled down so Sakura wouldn't have to move.
"Hai. I'm really hungry." Sakura said as she attempted to sit up.
"Here, I'll help you." Touya said as he gently helped her up and helped her eat and drink some water before she fell back asleep.
"I don't like this one bit." Touya said as he picked up the tray. He held Sakura's hand and sighed hanging his head. "I can't even protect her from it."
"It's not your fault. And no, you may not be able to protect her from it, but just being there for her helps her just as much as Eriol and Syaoran do." Tomoyo said as she dropped beside Touya rubbing his shoulder.
Sakura's hand dropped through Touya's hand and they jumped and looked at her. She was now faint and was fading.
"She's fa-fading away from existence." Tomoyo said in a small whisper.
"Tomoyo, you stay here. I'm going to Eriol's house to see what's taking so long." Touya said as he stood up and quickly ran out.
"Please hurry you guys." Tomoyo said as she picked up Sakura's hand as she flickered back. "For all of our sakes." As tears formed in her eyes.
Kero sighed and looked out the window. "This is not good at all."
"She grows weak master. Why didn't you bring her here before she started to die?" A man in a cloak said as he looked a large sphere in the centre of the room. Sakura appeared in her bed with Tomoyo and Kero by her side.
"Because she is not ready to come yet." Another man said sitting on a large throne like chair at the front of the room.
"I do not understand master."
"You will understand soon enough. It is not time yet. Much is yet to come." The man said looked at the sphere. "Sakura has much to go though yet."
"Shang, we have located the chosen one." Another cloaked man said running into the room.
"Good. Very good." Shang said as he stood from his throne and waved a stick with a small crystal on top and the man disappeared. The first cloaked man looked scared as he looked over at Shang. "I do not like a person who has no manners to. Just running in here is such improper manners. Now, see if you can go find this chosen one, and destroy it."
"Yes master." The man said as he bowed and quickly walked out of the room.
Eriol sat in his chair as he looked up at Kaho. "Sakura does not have much time left, does she?"
"Iie, I'm afraid not." Kaho bit her lip and looked down. "We alone cannot save her. If the chosen one does not step forward soon, she will most likely die."
"But we don't know who it is. Will they reveal there self right away?"
"Iie. They will wait before they are revealed until the chosen one is revealed." Kaho replied as she leaned back into the couch.
"I need to know now though." Eriol sighed with frustration.
Touya marched in slamming the door causing Syaoran and Meilin to jump and look up at Touya.
Syaoran jumped up. "How is she-"
"She's fading away from existence! We went up to feed her and she went back to sleep and I was holding her hand and she flickered. Something like that and her hand went through mine and she was like a ghost. She fading away and you have to find something."
"All we've found is that 'the chosen one will step forward'." Meilin said as she looked at the shelves of books and picking out one.
"That's not good enough." Touya said not able to be angry with them anymore and dropping on a couch with frustration.
A figure quickly ran through the streets. Dressed in tattered clothes they hoped over the fence to Sakura's house. Out of breath the figure hurried over to the side of the house and leaned against it to catch their breath before scrambling up a tree. Making sure they were well hidden, the figure closed their eyes and concentrated on Sakura.
Yue dropped the book suddenly causing every to jump. "The mistress…I can feel her again."
Syaoran closed his eyes and concentrated. "Your right! I can feel her to!"
The four hurried to the door and ran into it as it swung open to reveal Kaho and Eriol.
"You felt it to?" Eriol said.
"Yea. Come on, let's go." Syaoran said as he grabbed his jacket as the others hurriedly bundled up and ran after him.
The figure smiled and looked through the window to see Sakura's eyes open and Tomoyo and Kero smiled and hug her as she sat up. "Be well, Sakura. You need strength. I better go before I'm missed." The figure said to there self as it jumped down from the tree and hurrying out of the yard. Covering their head with the hooded jacket they pulled it closer to itself, cold with such a thin, tattered jacket and running home.
A cloaked figure stopped at the entranceway and bowed before walking toward Shang and bowing again. "Master, we learned that the man you killed was the only one with the coordinates to the chosen one."
Shang frowned. "Incompetence. I will not stand for it. Find the chosen one before you end up like your late friend."
The man nodded, bowed and ran out.
Sakura smiled to herself as she changed and met Tomoyo and Kero downstairs.
"This is so weird. It felt like I was going to really die. I don't understand. And I kept having flashes. Like…dreams sort of." Sakura paused as she sat down across from Tomoyo. "I kept seeing a man with a cloak, like the one I saw in the field during the festival. It was so creepy, like he was watching me or something."
"Creepy." Tomoyo shuddered.
The door suddenly slammed open and everyone rushed in and stumbled into each other as they stopped at the entrance to the living room.
"Hey." Sakura said as she waved.
"Sakura! Your okay!" Syaoran said rushing over to her and hugging her tightly.
"What happened. How'd you get better." Touya said as he sat down beside her.
"I don't know. It was so weird. All of a sudden I could see some cloaked guy watching me…and then I was awake and in my room and I felt so much better." Sakura said shrugging her shoulders. "I'm just glad I feel better. That was so awful! I couldn't move, I felt so weak…"
"Well, hopefully it won't happen again." Syaoran said unknowingly.
Sakura nodded.
"Well, I suppose I'll go. Call me if anything happens." Eriol said as he waved good-bye.
"Why bother. You'll probably all ready know." Syaoran said. Sakura elbowed him and he grimaced and shot Sakura a look.
"Of course, but you know." And with that Eriol, Nakura, and Yue left.
"Well, this was quite a day. I'm ready to do something! I feel great now!" Sakura said as she jumped up.
"How about a late lunch." Syaoran said standing up.
"That sounds great! I'm starving now!" Sakura said as she grabbed a hold of his hand. "You guys wanna join us?"
Tomoyo cast a glance at Touya and they shook their heads. "We'll just stay here and make ourselves some lunch." Touya said.
"Okay! See ya later!" Sakura said as she hurried to get dressed and head outside.
"I'm just going to go upstairs." Kero said as he left Tomoyo and Touya together.
Touya sighed as he leaned back in the chair. "That better not happen again any time soon. She had me so worried."
"I know." Tomoyo said as she moved over beside Touya and curled up next to him.
"What if that happens again? What if she isn't saved miraculously again?" Touya said.
"Try not to worry about it. I mean, there's not much we can really do. All we can do is hope that it won't happen again. And whatever is going on, will eventually go away and be stopped."
"Yea." Touya paused as he stared at nothing. "How about some lunch."
"Sure." Tomoyo smiled.
They got up and headed into the kitchen. "You sit down and I'll make us some lunch. Then maybe we can go for a walk or something."
"Here, I'll help you. You must be tired." Tomoyo said as she walked over to Touya and started to make some sandwiches.
They sat down and started to eat. When they finished, the two headed back into the living room.
"How about we just stay here Touya. It's cold out and I think it'd be nice to just lie here beside you." Tomoyo said as she curled up again beside Touya.
"Sure." Touya said as he wrapped his arms around her.
A ringing broke the silence and Tomoyo reluctantly got up and dug her cell phone out of her purse.
"Hello."
"Tomoyo! Where are you! I've been so worried about you! We were supposed to do lunch. It's now nine!"
"Oh I'm so sorry okaa-san! I totally forgot! I'm over at Sakura's house."
"Oh! That's all right! How about we do lunch tommorow! I've been so busy and I haven't gotten to spend a lot of time with you lately."
"It's okay…"
"No, it's not. How about this… we'll make a day out of it. You and me. We can go shopping, have lunch, anything you like." Sonomi said.
"That sounds great okaa-san! Are you sure you won't be busy though?"
"I'm sure! I'll cancel my appointments and spend the day with my daughter!" Sonomi said brightly.
"Arigatou okaa-san! I'll be home later tonight. Ja na!" Tomoyo said good-bye and hung up.
"Why didn't you tell her you were with me and not Sakura." Touya said sitting up.
"Because…I haven't quite told her yet…"
"About us?"
"Hai." Tomoyo answered nervously.
"Why not!"
"Well…she's been busy. I haven't had a lot of time to talk to her." Tomoyo protested.
"Fine. But you have to tell her soon." Touya said standing up.
"I will! Don't worry. We're going to spend tommorow together and I'll tell her then. But for now…I should get home…it's getting late." Tomoyo said.
Touya followed her to the door. "You promise to tell her?"
"Hai! Of course!" Tomoyo said as she pulled on her jacket.
"It's cold out. Make sure you keep warm." Touya said as he hugged her and kissed her good-bye.
"I will." Tomoyo smiled. "I call you tommorow. Bye!"
"Bye." Touya waved good-bye and shut the door.
Sakura thanked the waiter as he brought them their meals and smiled at Syaoran. "This feels so great! I can walk and move and everything! When not even an hour ago I was almost dead."
"I still don't understand how you got well so fast." Syaoran said as he took a sip of his drink.
"Me either. But I'm sure glad I did!" Sakura said as she began to eat.
Syaoran just smiled and began to eat also. When they finished and left they headed towards the movie theatre.
"Your choice." Syaoran said as they walked inside. And as he predicted she ended up choosing some romantic movie but he agreed to anyways.
"So you say she's feeling better then." Kaho said quietly.
"Hai. But I have a feeling something like this is going to happen again."
"I just don't understand how she got better."
"I have a pretty good idea that it has something to do with the chosen one." Eriol said.
"Hai. Maybe your right." Kaho paused. "Do you know who it is?"
"For once, I haven't gotten the slightest clue." Eriol said frustrated.
"Cerberus. You must watch over her more carefully from now on." Yue said, his eyes closed and arms crossed as usual.
"I know. But I can't just prevent this kind of thing from happening. I can only support her so much!" Cerberus answered.
Yue paused. "We must find the chosen one."
"How. It's almost impossible. Clow Reed did not leave any clue to who it might be or to lead us to the chosen one."
"I have a feeling they are close, but choose not to reveal themselves." Yue said.
Sarah: Okay. So that chapter was a bit shorter then the others. But I'm trying my best If I were to add the next chapter's plot then this chapter would be way incredibly long. So, I promise the next chapter will be longer. I'll try my best! And in the meant time! Review! Thank-you!