The search
"Alright so, we'll leave the children here and head out and try and find Sakura" Tony said as the adults and children met in their groups for the second time in the four day period. "That's the plan" Fujitaka said. "You know they are going to try and follow us, Syaoran is most worried about his beloved Sakura" Feimei announced "Yes that is why we are going when they are asleep" Tao said with a twinkle in his eye, "I guess so how much time do we have?" Fanren asked. Tony looked at his watch it was 9:00 pm "Around about two and a half days" he said "How about we head home grab around about five-ten minutes sleep and go out looking for them?" Fujitaka said "Yes it has been a long day hasn't?" Sonomi asked.
In Tomoyo's room Syaoran was thinking "A penny for your thoughts gaki" Touya said before receiving a slap from Naruku and growled "That may make you feel better but not him, I mean you're her older brother" Naruku snapped hitting a soft spot. Touya looked like he had seen some bad news. "Cheer up Touya I'm sure the adults will find her" Yukito said. "Yeah I know" Touya said "man for a guardian, this is the biggest mistake ever made, I should be out there looking for her" Kero said. Syaoran looked at Kero with a twinkle in his eye and raised one of his eyebrows, "Why are you looking at me like that Gaki?" Kero asked "You said it yourself guardian" Syaoran said "What do you mean!" Kero shouted "No Kero I think Syaoran means we can't search but you, Suppi, Naruku and Yukito can in your guardian form" Tomoyo explained. "Why didn't we think of that?" Yukito asked "alright the guardians will search for Sakura and then we'll stay here and have a camp out" Meiling said "Good idea and we shall have no sneak outs" Eriol said "Okay" Tomoyo said as she prepared the sleepover equipments.
At midnight the guardians met on the roof of Tomoyo's house "Come on they left two hours ago" Kero said "Let's do this" Naruku said as her wings surrounded her, the other guardians did the same thing. After a few minutes where two people and two stuff teddy bears were stood, what appeared to be an angel, a fairy, a winged panther and a winged Lion; "So where shall we search?" Yue asked Spinel Sun and Ruby moon "I shall go to the west, Keroberos go north, Yue south and Ruby go with whoever" Spinel said "Why is no one going east?" Keroberos asked "Because the adults are that way." Spinel Sun said "Nevermind we'll be back here by 4:30 am deal?" Yue said. "Yes" the other three said "Move out, Sakura's depending on us!" Keroberos said. Soon after that; the guardians moved out.
Iron man was on the east side of the city "Shouldn't you be at home asleep Miss Daidouji?" Iron man asked as she came up to him "I'm sorry I'm just worried and needed to talk to someone" Tomoyo said creeping out of the bush "How long have you been here?" Iron man asked "I've been following you since you left" Tomoyo said "Well I believe you and your friends had an agreement no sneak outs!" Iron man said "I didn't sneak out, I crept out" Tomoyo said "Same thing" Iron man said "How about this, I'll call you first the first chance I get after rescuing Sakura?" Iron man asked "Yes and I'm to return home and sleep?" Tomoyo asked "Yes don't worry if I found anything I'll tell you" Iron man said.
Sakura was trying to get her wrist free 'If I can get my wrist free I can send my locket out in an arrow to point the way to' she thought. Then she felt the cool air on her right wrist, she grabbed the cloth covering her mouth "Why did I just have to get one free, never mind now to send my locket" Sakura said as she said a charm and sent the locket away before replacing the cloth and sliding her wrist back in. 'Sakura 1 Mandarin -1' she thought as she giggled.
It was now midnight "Miss Daidouji, would you like me to carry you home?" Iron man asked "Yes please" Tomoyo said before she saw a glow. She went over the where the glow was to see "IRON MAN!" Tomoyo shouted "What is it?" Iron man asked "That is Sakura's locket, she never takes it off" Tomoyo said "Good girl Sakura" Iron man said smiling "What do you mean?" Tomoyo asked "She sent a clue disguised as another clue" Iron man said "you see; she sent the locket with the chain pointing in an arrow indicating that way to the north, however she made it so the chain arrow was pointing at what was etched into the locket, the sun meaning she can see sunrise in the morning" Iron man explained to Tomoyo "I'll take the locket back to my house," Tomoyo said picking it up before being picked up by Iron man "They are so going to lecture me" Tomoyo said.
Once they arrived, Tomoyo saw an irritated Eriol standing outside in his maroon pyjamas "Sorry I couldn't sleep so I went for a walk" Tomoyo said "Just tell us next time" Eriol said sighing "Oh by the way Sakura sent us her locket" Tomoyo beamed in joy "What?" Eriol asked looking at Sakura's locket. "Are you sure that is her locket?" Eriol asked as the pair walked in "Where were you?" Syaoran said "Walking, anyway I was with Iron man when I found this" Tomoyo said as she gave Syaoran the locket "Sakura's locket, the one I gave her for our anniversary" Syaoran said. "Okay then so why did she send it to that location?" Meiling asked "I don't know, now we have a smaller location to search" Tomoyo said before yawning "Alright to bed now" said a stern voice "Sorry Touya" they all said "Oh and Gaki, can I see the locket?" Touya asked sitting up "yeah sure" Syaoran said throwing the locket to Touya "Thanks Okami" Touya said "What did you call me?" Syaron said "Your name in Chinese is Xiao Lang, little wolf, over here we call a wolf an Okami" Touya said "thanks its better than Gaki, Night Touya" "Night Syaoran" Touya said before opening the locket to see two pictures, one of her family and the other her and Syaoran. The sight of these made Touya shed tears.
"Iron man sir you do realise that at 9am this morning we will have a deadline of 24 hrs" JARVIS said as Iron man flew over the city of Tomoeda "I know JARVIS what time is it now?" Iron man replied "the time is currently 2:00 in the morning sir" JARVIS said "Time to check in, Fujitaka, Sonomi, and Tao come in please I require an update on your status over" Iron man said "This is Fujitaka, I've searched the docks no sign here" Fujitaka said "Tao here we've searched our area and got nothing" Tao grumbled "This is miss Daidouji, bupkiss here I'm afraid even with my bodyguards" Sonomi said "Alright head back home and rest up" Iron man said "Sir this is Col Cross, we've found a broach belonging to the girl" Col Cross said "Alright here?" Iron man asked "below you now sir" he said as Iron man descended. Cross handed him the broach "Mandarin's toying with us" Iron man growled "Alright go back to the bunker and rest up" Iron man said "Yes sir!" Col Cross said.
Iron man was flying by a house when he stopped, outside the house was a tree, but not just any tree a Sakura Tree "Ollie, Ollie Oxen free" Iron man said as he descended to a large window seeing a girl asleep "JARVIS, I've just found her" he said "Alright so where is she?" JARVIS asked "We travelled east and this house has a Sakura tree in the front yard I'm thinking she's where, wake me up at dawn." Iron man said.