Sakura and her New Friend

Chapter 3:- Tomoyo's Decision and Sakura's nightmare comes true...

Warning:- You are about to read something rather difficult. Please bear with me. I will try making the next one alot more nicer! I promise!

At midnight that same night Yue and Kero had got to Tomoyo's house in a matter of what seemed like seconds to them, when it had been about one and a half hours.

Tomoyo washed her hands and was about to go to bed. There was a knock on her window though. She sighed. 'Hang on... It could be Sakura...' She suddenly had a lot more energy and ran over to the window. She saw Kero and Yue standing there on her balcony and looked completely confused.

"Kero-chan?" She opened the door and motioned both of them to come in, which they did.

As they entered the room, Yue looked to Tomoyo with a really concerned look on his face. "Hi Tomoyo"

Tomoyo looked between the guardian's, "What's up? You two never normally come to see me at this time of night... What's going on?"

Kero sighed and looked to Yue who nodded at her. "We need to talk to you Tomoyo... It's best if you take a seat"

Tomoyo nodded slightly and walked over to her desk, turned her chair around and sat on it looking at Kero and Yue.

Yue walked over to her while Kero changed into his plushie-looking form and sat down on the desk.

"We've got a massive problem..." Kero began. "Something happened tonight, and I'm not talking about Syaoran..."

Tomoyo sighed. "Its about Sakura-chan I take it?" Yue nodded. "There was nothing wrong with her yesterday mor-"

Kero couldn't contain the information any longer, "Something's happened to her! She met a young girl today... I think she's roughly one year younger then her... Sakura claims that she met her on the side of the street"

Tomoyo raised an eyebrow. "Yeah? What about it? Sakura's nice and well mannered... There's nothing she wouldn't do to he-"

Yue shook his head. "Problem is, it's gone way to far... She is sleeping in this girl's arms tonight! I don't want to overload you Tomoyo but we are serious. Sakura and this girl called Jessica... I'm not one hundred percent sure... I think she's consumated with her!"

Tomoyo's reaction went from stunned to disbelief. "That can't happen! She's got Syaoran! There's no way she could've!"

Kero stood up and looked at Tomoyo with a very serious gaze. "Its true Tomoyo! To add to it, I witnessed with Yue, Sakura kiss this 'Jessica' if you don't believe me... Have a look at this!" Kero pulled a video tape out of no-where and passed it to Tomoyo. "I managed to catch them together on Sakura's bed"

Tomoyo stood up and walked over to her cinema room. "This had better be important...I have a recital to go to tomorrow" She put it into video player and sat down with Yue on one side and Kero on the other.

"See? There's nothing but st-" Tomoyo's eyes went wide as soon as it started playing. "There's no wa... What the heck is she do-" Tomoyo watched as she saw Sakura and Jessica kiss and fall asleep.

Tomoyo looked down all this information about her best friend was hard to process. She looked back at the cinema screen until it finished.

Yue closed his eyes. "There's more"

Tomoyo looked to Yue. "The last Sakura Card, The Hope, has gone cold in her deck... There's not even a picture of the girl anymore!"

Tomoyo blinked as everything was falling into place. "I've got to tell Syaoran!"

Kero looked to Yue and they both looked to her. "It would be better to tell Eriol at this point because if Syaoran tries to split them up, Eriol will be able to divide them. We don't want Sakura to run off do we?"

Tomoyo nodded slowly with a sad smile on her face.

"I'm going to monitor the situation... If it get's worse, even by a little bit, I'll let you both know" Kero stated. "She trusts me... Maybe I can get her to tell me what's going on"

Yue and Tomoyo nodded. "I'll confront her at school to. We have to get to the bottom of this and quick"

Yue stayed with Tomoyo while Kero flew back to the Kinomoto Household.

Kero flew in very quietly and sat at Sakura's desk as he watched them both. 'I really hope that what happened between you both isn't un-reverseable. Because if it is...We've got a problem...'

[Time:- 6:00am]

Sakura began to stir as the warm that her new friend was giving her suddenly wasn't there. She groggely rose out of bed. She wiped her eye, trying to figure out where Jessica could have gone.

Sakura could hear coughing from the bathroom. She got up and walked over to the bathroom. She knocked on the door. "You okay in there? Touya?"

Within a matter of minutes Sakura-'s worst fear hit her like a ton of bricks. As soon as she heard someone being sick, she opened the bathroom door. Being careful not to wake the other's up.

Sakura's eyes widened as she saw Jessica, holding onto the bottom of the toilet and being sick into it. She almost darted to her and kneeled down next to her, placing her hand on the other girl's shoulder.

"Jess! Hang on... I'll think of something..." Sakura's mind went into overdrive, could it have been last night? She mentally slapped herself, of course it was last night! How could she think any differently!? She rubbed Jessica's back trying to get her to stop being sick.

Kero floated into the bathroom and magically shut the door slowly. "Sakura?" His eyes went wide as saucers as he saw what was going on.

Sakura glanced at Kero with a look of pure horror on her face. "Kero-chan! What can we do? I need to get her to stop being sick!"

Kero raced over to Sakura's left side. "We're going to have to use watery and mirror! Get mirror to rub her stomach and watery to get some ice cold water into a glass for her! Hurry!"

Sakura nodded and summonded both cards, they both appeared and looked between Sakura and Jessica. Sakura looked to them both. 'You both understand what's going on! Mirror! Try to calm her down! Watery, get some cold water into a glass! DO IT!' She mentally commanded both cards.

Mirror raced over and gently placed a hand on Jessica's stomach while watery did as Sakura commanded. Mirror frowned and looked at Jessica's features. Within seconds she had figured out precisely what had happened last night. 'Master... What in the hell happened last night?' She thought to her mistress.

Sakura shook her head as she held the glass in her hands. 'Nevermind that! I'll answer your question after we make sure she's okay!'

Mirror had recognised Hope within seconds because of the little magical energy that she gave off. She was trying desperately to hold herself together... However it was failing.

"Now Sakura! Get her to drink some water! You've got to calm her down!" Kero ordered Sakura. Sakura nodded and started to stroke the other girl's hair.

"Jessica... I know you can hear me. Please drink some water. It'll make everything okay. Trust me. I'll get you some medical attention soon... Just please... Try to calm your body down"

Mirror looked to her mistress as she was started to help 'Jessica's' body to slow down and her breathing started to slowly slow down. She had never seen such determination from Sakura's eyes...

This determination... It was a lot more then when she had faced off against Eriol for complete control over the Sakura Cards. Question was, how in Clow's name did she manage to get Hope away from being a card? More to the point how the hell did she manage to fill Jessica up with her own... Well, juices was the most simple name for it?

"Jessica, take a sip of water. It'll make you feel one hundred times better then you do now." Sakura smiled warmly as Jessica slowly lifted her head up and accepted Sakura gently feeding her the water ever so slowly.

It took about 5 minutes to get Jessica back to normal. As soon as her breathing went back to normal Sakura helped the tired girl to her feet. "I'll call the doctor. I know I have school but I have to make sure you're okay first"

Mirror looked to Kero as both of them had shocked expressions. "Sakura, you have to go to school..."

Sakura glared at Kero. "I can't let her go through that again! She could die if I do that! I cannot... No... I will not let that happen to her!" She had fire in her eyes. Kero slowly backed away as Mirror disappeared into a card and flew back to her room.

'Thanks a lot Mirror. Now I've got to deal with her like this...' Kero thought as he watched Sakura stand up, holding Jessica with both her hands. "You try letting your friend get killed! What would you do if Yue died? Did you think of that!?"

Kero slowly nodded his head. "O-Okay... Let's get her back to your room then"

As Sakura and Kero turned around, Touya was standing at the bathroom door. Behind him her father was on the phone already calling the out of hours doctor.

Sakura walked toward the door and nearly stumbled over. Touya raced forward and caught Jessica before either of them could hit the floor. "I heard her being sick. I'll lo-"

Sakura almost snapped her eyes turning almost red in anger. "You'll do no such thing. I will not... In fact I am NOT going to accept you looking after her! I'll head to school if and when the doctor get's here and NOT before!"

Touya watched as Sakura walked past him with Jessica in her arms. He was shocked that his little sister could get so angry 'specially at him. He looked to his dad who was also stunned by this.

"Yes... That's right. Kinomoto residence" Fujitaka regained his composure slowly. As Sakura walked into her room, making sure not to knock Jessica's head into anything followed by Kero.

Sakura laid Jessica down onto her bed, noticing that Jessica's cheeks were going red. She put her hand on her forehead. "You're...You're burning up!" Sakura almost panicked.

Kero floated so he was next to Sakura. "Sakura, don't panic... That's the last thing that she wants to see"

Sakura slowly calmed down. Kero was right. If she panicked Jessica's tempreature could go sky high. She shook her head as she got rid of the thought. She lowered herself onto the side of the bed. Kero noticed that Sakura was about to cry... She felt helpless he thought.

Kero sat on Sakura's shoulder. "Easy Sakura... You shouldn't give up. She needs you now more then ever" Sakura nodded her head again. She wasn't talking now. She was really concerned about Jessica's health at this point.

Kero floated back to the desk, watching the pair of them. 'Sakura really loves her... I can't get in their way anymore. If I do Sakura will yell at me and tell me to leave. I promised Tomoyo that I'd keep a watch on them both... So that's what I'm going to do' He thought sternly to himself, deciding to help them both from now on. He looked to Sakura's left hand and saw the ring on her finger. Kero nodded albiet shocked.

Sakura leaned close to Jessica's ear. "I will never leave your side Jess. I am not going to leave while you're like this. Never"

Jessica smiled slightly thanking the stars that Sakura was at her side. She winced in pain as her tempreature felt like it was going far to high. Sakura squesed her hand as she tried to get some healing magic to Jessica.

Fujitaka knocked on Sakura's door, Sakura looked to Kero who nodded and opened the door. Fujitaka walked in. "The doctor is on her way. She's going to be here in less then five minutes. She was researching more medication before she left"

Sakura smiled sadly as she turned her head back to Jessica who, from the looks of it, was struggling to breath.

Sakura couldn't do anything other then hold Jessica's hand. She felt extremely useless as she watched the girl she loved go through absolute agony. She shouldn't have done what she did last night... But Jessica didn't want to lose her... So Sakura decided in her head that she would stick with her. No matter what or who got in the way... Even if it was that so called former boy-friend off her's:- Syaoran.

"Sakura. You need to get ready for school. I know you don't want to leave her... But I can't go to work with you here alone. Touya is going to work today, like always. If I leave you here I would be extremely irresponsible"

Sakura turned her head to her dad very slowly, her anger in her eyes was almost to much for Fujitaka to believe. "You heard what I said. I am not leaving her. She needs me now. If she dies... I will never forgive you or Touya!"

Fujitaka took in a deep harsh breath...he had to get Sakura to school... Yet she was being rather difficult because she loved Jessica. He closed his eyes to hear his wife talking to him. 'Fujitaka, I know you don't want to be hard on her. However its the only way to get to listen to you.'

'I can't... do that... If I do th-'

He was cut off by his wife's voice again, 'I don't want to see her like this as much as you do. You are going to have to confront her. If you don't you will be seen as a pushover, a coward and a really bad father... Do you want to lose her to?'

Kero could see that Fujitaka was talking to Sakura's mother and knew exactly what was going to happen if Sakura didn't go to school... It was Friday so she could stay with Jessica the whole weekend...Even next week if nessasary. He knew that Sakura had been studying very hard because she had a test today which would decide her career.

Kero had seen many father's desiplene their children. He didn't want Fujitaka to hit Sakura or anything over this. He could sense that Jessica didn't want Sakura to get hurt either, but she didn't have enough energy to back her up.

Kero flew inbetween Fujitaka and Sakura, he looked at Fujitaka. 'I'll get her to listen. Please, at least let me try'

Fujitaka was quite furious Kero could tell. Fujitaka nodded his head slowly. 'If you can't... I will have to use corporal punishment on her'

Kero nodded his head and turned around. "Sakura"

Sakura growled as she could feel her magic flowing in her viens. She was getting more and more angry by the minute. "I thought I told you to leave me here"

Kero took in a breath. "I am only going to say this once so you'd better listen. You will go to school today. You will be able to come back to see Jessica. I know exactly what you're talking about. Clow had this problem when he was around your age! If he didn't do as he was told, he could have been seriously injured!"

Sakura's evil energy slowly started to disappear as Nadashiko's voice went into Fujitaka's head again. 'Kero is doing a good job. Watch him. If she is really awkward at the door... You're going to have to kick her out and only let her in after school hours alright?'

Fujitaka nodded mentally to his wife. 'I understand'

Kero took in another breath. "Your father is standing over there ready to set you straight! Do you REALLY want him to get angry? He loves you to bits Sakura. We all do. Not as much as you love Jessica from the looks of it. However, do you REALLY think that he would have allowed Touya to help me raise you? If he had given up all those years ago, you would be nothing but a wreck on the side of the street! Seriously, if you don't listen... It won't be him that'll get you to listen. You guessed it, it will be me. I don't want to cause you pain Sakura, but I will if I have to! Now... Do the right thing, GET up and stop acting as though you're a scared child under the age of thirteen. You ARE three years off being considered as an adult! You have less then three minutes to get moving! We'll look after things here. The doctor will be here within three minutes OR did you NOT hear a thing from Fujitaka!?"

Kero was shaking in anger with Fujitaka looking directly at his daughter.

Sakura scoffed. "My dad wou-"

Kero looked to Fujitaka who nodded at him. Kero had no choice. It was time to show Sakura why there are some lines that quite simply should not be crossed.

'Jessica...Let go of Sakura's hand. She's endangering her whole life now. She's willing to die even if it means that your life is saved instead of her's! I can put some knowledge in her head. She can come back when school's over... I might even have to let her father execute corporal punishment if she doesn't listen...'

Jessica closed her eyes and kept them shut. 'I don't want her to suffer as much as me... But if it means that she doesn't lose her life over me... I would rather that she went to school. I'll be okay here won't I? I have you and the cards as well as her family to look at me?'

Kero nodded. 'Of course you will be. I promise you this'

Jessica slowly let go of Sakura's hand as though to pretend that she didn't have enough energy to hold her hand anymore. 'Now...'

Kero lowered his head, nodded, then flew at high speed directly towards Sakura. Colliding directly into Sakura's head, sending the card mistress to the floor.

Sakura got up and looked to Kero. "You're not seriously going to stand in my way are you?"

Kero narrowed his eyes. "You have two choices. You go to school, or your father makes you. I would rather you choose option one to be honest"

Sakura was about to punch Kero, and before Fujitaka could react Touya stepped past him and grabbed Sakura by her shirt and pulled her up so his eyes met her's.

Sakura's anger was there. Touya knew that for a fact. He sighed as he turned around with her in his grasp. "You had your chance. Now its time you saw what being apart of this family is REALLY like! Dad used to slam me against doors and all kinds of things! Your mother never gave me a SINGLE bit of caring that you got! You know what's not fair? You!" Sakura was about to kick him, so Touya closed his eyes.

Jessica was about to open her eyes but Kero floated over to her. 'No Jessica... You don't want to see this bit. In fact, Fujitaka, cover her ears!'

Fujitaka nodded and walked over to Jessica. He knelt down and genuinely looked concerned for Sakura's new partner. He slowly put ear silencers on her ears. Much the same as you see on airplane's.

Touya pulled his other hand so that Sakura could see it. "You wouldn't dare!" Sakura shouted as she tried to wiggle free. Fujitaka and Touya noticed that Sakura was dressed for school... This next bit was going to hurt her. Touya turned his head back to Fujitaka's and his dad nodded at him. If she was not going to see reason the first time... It was the only thing that would get through her skull.

Touya growled at Sakura and...You guessed it...Punched Sakura directly in the face making the girl closed her eyes in pain. He then sighed as he threw her into her coboard door. He walked over to her, as she scrambled to her feet. Trying to fight her older brother... Which was a bad mistake.

Touya's hands turned into fists. "If you don't leave right now. I will make sure that you end up in a hospital bed without being able to even drink water. Now, get lost!"

Sakura took one last look at Jessica and looked at Touya as though to say, Take your best shot.

Touya raced toward his younger sister and grabbed her by the scruff off her neck. He walked over to the top of the stairs as she tried to kick him. Which didn't hurt Touya one bit.

Yukito popped his head out of Touya's room and his eyes widened, just before he could get involved Fujitaka put his hand across him. "No Yukito. She's got to learn that even when your lover is in pain that there are other people who can look after them"

Yukito looked to Fujitaka. "She's going to get seriously hurt if this carries on!"

Fujitaka shook his head several times. "It'll take more then this to hurt Sakura... Trust me, I know. Nadeshiko was in hospital for days before I could get to her. The doctor's told me that I had to visit after I finished work and not before"

Yukito sighed sadly as he watched Touya hold Sakura high above the first step. "You are welcome to come back AFTER school... Not before..."

Sakura began to cough as she looked toward Yukito for help, but when he shook his head much to her suprise she began to get real angry. Just before she could hurt anyone however... Touya did the one thing that Sakura had never thought her brother would do.

Touya kicked Sakura right in the stomach and threw her down the stairs. He turned to his father and Yukito as he walked back to Sakura's bedroom.

Fujitaka walked with Touya back to Sakura's room. Yukito's voice could be heard by both her father and Touya. "I'll make sure she goes to school"

Sakura slowly tried to get to her feet, yet her whole body was shaking. She shook her head a few times 'I can't believe... That they would do that to me. I'm so sorry Jessica.' Sakura thought as she raced towards the front door. Within minutes she felt Yukito behind her, watching her get her shoes on.

"Why didn't you help me Yukito?"

Yukito shook his head. "You have got to learn sometime. I'm sorry this had to happen to you Sakura, I really am, however I know that everything what your father and brother said is true"

Sakura gasped as Yukito walked so he was next to her. "If I had wanted, I could have done a hell of a lot more damage then either of them. I didn't because I knew that you would make the right decision. Now. Please go to school. I don't want Touya to punch you again. You really will be in hospital if he punches you again"

Sakura sighed and opened the front door. "I'll be going then"

Yukito nodded and Sakura turned around, looking directly at him. "Please look after Jessica. She's all I have"

Yukito nodded his head. "I'll do my best. Get yourself to school" He leaned close to her so that only she could hear him. "Hurry, I can hear your father coming down the stairs. I promise I'll look after her. Now go, quickly"

Sakura nodded and raced out of the house while Yukito shut the door quietly behind her.

"Did she leave?"

Yukito nodded at Touya who had come down the stairs. "Yeah she did. Try not to hurt her again okay?"

Touya nodded at him. "I only hurt her to show her what the world can be like if she doesn't listen and pay attention"

Yukito cast a concerned gaze towards the door. "I only hope that she isn't hurt at school either"

Touya looked down for a moment. "I'll make sure that doesn't happen...I'm off to school now"

Yukito looked back at Fujitaka. "Can I stay here? I mean, you have work and Touya has school. I'm sure he can get my homework."

Fujitaka took a few minutes to think about it. "Hmmm... Okay, you can look after Jessica. Call either me or Touya if Sakura reappears before the end of the school day"

Yukito nodded his head. "Alright. I'll make sure to do that"

Fujitaka nodded his head. "Okay, then I'm going now"

Yukito walked past them both, heading for the stairs. "Okay, see you later"

A few knocks were heard on the door. Touya opened it and the doctor smiled at him. "I'm here to see Jessica? I'm doctor Akita Waverunner can I ask your name?"

"Of course, come on in. I'm Jessica's step brother" Touya motioned her to come in. "My friend Yukito here will lead you upstairs to her"

The doctor cast a rather worried gaze to the bottom of the stairs, noticing that there was a small bit of blood on the floor. "Is this her blood?"

Fujitaka shook his head. "No, that's my daughter's. She was being extremely disrespectful and tried to attack me. I deflected her punches and she hit the wall"

Doctor Waverunner nodded. "That can be awkward. 'Specially if she doesn't want to listen. Okay, thanks. I'll head up there now"

Both Touya and Fujitaka nodded and headed to school/work.

They both knew that if Sakura tried to sneak back in they would know. If she tried it though... They didn't want to think about what Kero or Yukito would have to do.

As Yukito opened Sakura's bedroom door he looked concerningly at Kero who was in his plushie position and then to Doctor Waverunner and Jessica. Secretly though, he would let Sakura back in if she was attacked at school. He would make a simple excuse if she did, such as she forgot her textbook or something.

There was one certainty that both Yukito and Kero knew:- Sakura would not want to stay away from Jessica for long.

Phew! I know that one was probably very difficult to read. However it is the truth of life. If you push your parents far enough, they will break as it were. I know that all to well...

Anyway! See you in the next chapter! *waves*

~The Triforce Creator