Hong Kong Fooey!--- Chapter 16
Disclaimer--- Eh heh heh hehhhh... All I can do is dream...
Author's note--- Story written by blue_tuna27 (a.k.a. Wibi-chan)! As you can see, obviously, I haven't written in a while. Eh heh... I've been dying relentless tines... @_@ I don't want to complain any further... Yet I've gotten manga done for this fic. Yay!! Well... to me it's a "yay" matter. Ahahahaha... You can see the manga (of course made by me, despite CLAMP's characters and etc., as it states in the disclaimers of this fan fiction) at my site: http://members.tripod.com/cherry_souwong27 --- You can find this ficcie's manga in Fan Goodies. ^_^ I'm really sorry for this ficcie's delay ;_;... I'll try to make you guys happy once--- or at least myself happy that I actually got this chapter done after all these months, lol... Hohohoho!! Enjoy this chapter, while it lasts! ^o^
Chapter 16
Before they realized it, darkness swept over Sakura and Syaoran, even though the last thing they've seen was a bright, white light. Sakura could feel Syaoran's presence and Syaoran could feel her's. As long as they know they're together, everything is going to be fine...
"Ugh..." Syaoran moaned sleepily, holding something in his arms tightly. His eyes opened one by one and fluttered as his eye sight cleared. It was to his relief that Sakura was in his arms at the moment. Even though it was pitch black, Sakura glowed amongst the darkness and Syaoran could see the angelic features of his beloved. "Ah... Er… Sakura! Wake up!" Syaoran said as he shook Sakura in his arms. He hated to interrupt her serene sleeping face.
"Hoe-e... HOE!" Sakura gasped as she pressed the back of her head hard against Syaoran's chest. "Syaoran-kun! Look!"
It was then he realized that they were carried in someone's arms, when he saw Sakura's feet flying in the air, and that there were long arms under his armpits. Syaoran is the one that is keeping Sakura secure in his arms.
"KYAAHHHH!" Syaoran frenzied, holding Sakura more tightly.
"Hoe-e! It's Yue-san!" Sakura gleamed with a grin on her face, as she looked up at Yue's poker-face. Syaoran sweat-dropped at Sakura's instant reaction from being scared to being happy.
He blushed at his stupidity from noticing Yue's long arms holding him as they flew in the darkness. Syaoran was surprised that Sakura wasn't the least bit worried being in this endless darkness carried by his own arms.
"Nothing personal, descendent of Clow Reed..." Yue said with glaring, ice blue eyes. Syaoran blushed even more. Sakura was clueless instantaneously.
Syaoran cleared his voice and pretended he didn't hear that. "A-hem... So... Where are you flying us to?"
"Before you guys could fall into the darkness, I caught you guys from that blast. As long as Sakura could find the light in herself, this blackness will open for sure," Yue replied in the same bland tone.
In his arms, Syaoran could feel Sakura tense up.
"Sugoi ne! You saved us, Yue-san! Domo arigatou... Demo... what about my house and everyone else? A-and how did you get here?" Sakura said with clearness in her voice, despite the shaking and the tenseness Syaoran noticed from holding her close to him.
"Sakura..." Syaoran whispered to himself, but Yue talked on. It seemed as if there's a lot to say shown throughout his icy eyes.
"Without realizing it, you call certain persons to you... You know how Syaoran just walked there in the snow just to get to you, or whenever he shows up and saves you just out of coincidences? He and others as well are drawn to you. The answers to all that are within your ultimate cards. Basically... they are your automatic guardians," Yue explained.
"S-Sugoi..." Sakura looked down at herself, just now accepting it into her head.
"So the ultimate cards helped us all... all this time? How do you know all of this from the start? A-and how do you know that I went to Sakura's house this morning?" Syaoran said with astonishment. He then scratched the back of his head, thinking how much he cares for Sakura. Syaoran's ears felt warm as his face blushed at the thought of Kero and Yue knowing what he and Sakura done right on her porch when she turned cold and his love has poured out to her.
"I have been talking with Keroberos recently, while you and Sakura are within whereabouts. We did some research on your cards, and observed many things. Keroberos told me to be on look out for you, Card mistress, and so here I am..."
"Hoe-e... I've had them with me all this time... All this time..." Sakura said with a small smile. Tears started to envelope her emerald green eyes. She is really happy that she really was never alone. The ultimate cards were actually looking for her the same way she has been looking for them. 'They are my strength... Iie, matte! My strength was always within me, even if I've forgotten everything... Th-That is why Tomoyo and Meiling were my friends from the start and are always going to be... My heart remembers... remembers their friendship and the light of everybody's happiness... That is why I am drawn to Syaoran-kun... My heart remembers. How could I have felt so lonely from the beginning?! I don't want to forget anymore! I want to remember always... Please let me be with everybody... Please let me be with you, Syaoran-kun...'
"Sakura!" Syaoran said as he held Sakura against him by her arms. Sakura's face started to turn different shades of red as she felt Syaoran's warmth against her back and his lips millimeters away from the back of her ear. She really spaced out there, or just couldn't hear anything because of her ears ringing, but now it doesn't matter to her...
"I-I..." Sakura started.
"It's Kamauin... See that purple light?" Yue said with furrowed eyebrows.
"Ah!" Sakura gasped, hitting Syaoran's chin with the back of her head.
"Geh! Ow… Sakura! Calm down," Syaoran yelled with an amused look on his face.
"Syaoran-kun?" Sakura said with a puzzled look. She wondered why Syaoran has an amused expression, since the time isn't right to be all that happy. Before she could ask him, Syaoran's amused expression fell and changed with a warm expression, that spread a tingle wave from her toes to her hair-top.
"Sakura... Never feel that you're alone. I will always protect you and no matter what, I will get your memory back! We'll get it back together! Never forget that I'm always going to be with you..." Syaoran said with a serious face above her's.
Sakura blushed even more as she tilted her head up to meet Syaoran's firing amber eyes two inches above her emerald green. She couldn't speak or move from that position, so she nodded in place. Something forced Yue back with great impulse and Syaoran's lips pressed against Sakura's from the impact. Even though it was wrong timing to do so, they blushed dramatically. Syaoran's lips brushed away from her lips while the windy force calmed, as if nothing happened--- as if they didn't have that moment of bliss.
Abruptly, bright red blood appeared on Sakura's forehead. Syaoran's eyes widened.
"Sakura?!" Syaoran gasped.
"Yue-san?!" Sakura's eyes also widened. Syaoran and Sakura looked up to see Yue's face. The blood was coming from Yue's wound on his head. "What just happened?!"
"Card mistress... Descendant of Clow Reed... Be careful. Kamauin has the last three ultimate cards..." Yue replied.
"That's right... I have the last three, Sakura," Kamauin came out of the purple light and pulled Sakura along with Syaoran up to the purple light with him. He then grabbed Yue's weak body and threw him amongst the darkness.
"YUE!" Sakura cried. Syaoran threw a death glare at Kamauin.
"He is utterly useless... You wouldn't need him with you. Now that we understood, let's get on with business..." Kamauin said with a crooked grin.
Sakura looked back at Kamauin and glared at him fiercely. Kamauin laughed, but inside, he didn't want to see that look from her face again. Syaoran then threw his fists at him, missing every shot except the first. Kamauin couldn't help but smile the whole time, until Syaoran kicked him from behind.
"You can't get to the ultimate cards if you're gonna' try and kill me at this dark pit..." Kamauin snickered.
"You take too long," Syaoran said simply.
"Fine..."
Without any other thoughts, the last thing they saw was what flashed in front of their eyes while Kamauin turned his back. The flash was once again a bright white light.
"Hehehe..." Sakura could hear giggling, but she didn't want to wake up. Soft lips brushed against her cheek and the giggling was louder than before. Sakura's eyes moved around under her closed eye-lids. They were too hard to open, they're too heavy.
"Hoe-e... I'm too tired," moaned Sakura. She still didn't want to wake up because it's too comfortable. After a few minutes of peace, the softness of the pillows, if it were pillows, turned to dry, rocky ground. Yet her head was still comforted by someone's lap.
"Ohayo gozaimasu!" the same giggling voice said to Sakura's ear.
"Uu-WAhhh..." Sakura yawned and sat up next to the girl. She rubbed her eyes awake and looked at her. "Tomoyo-chan... Ohayo... T-TOMOYO-CHAN?!"
"Kawaii ne! May I ask you, your name?" Tomoyo asked with a smile.
"Nani?"
"Your name? I can call you Kawaii Girl, if you want. You seem lost, but hehehe... You know my name... Silly me... You're not lost..."
"N-nani?!"
"My, what kawaii dress you have! Aieeee! KAWAIIIII!"
Sakura looked down at herself and noticed that it was the same dress as the one in the dream she had long time ago, the dream where she first met Syaoran after having her memory lost, and the dream where she first met Kamauin.
"Tomoyo-chan… Where are we?" Sakura asked as she looked around. All of the sudden the ground that they were on shortened. The land beneath their feet is the only thing to be seen within ten meters of distance around them. It is as if it's their little planet. All around them were stormy purple clouds and strings of dust. "Hoe-e!"
"Nani?"
"Hoe-e… Nandemonai," Sakura said as she sweat-dropped.
"Konnichiwa, Tomoyo-chan!" a boy greeted behind Sakura.
"Ohohoho… Konnichiwa, Kamauin-kun!" Tomoyo greeted back.
Sakura turned around and looked at him. It is the same Kamauin, except shorter than before. She still can't say that he's handsome, but she's got to admit--- he is a bishounen. Sakura blushed for thinking like that and looked down from his piercing green eyes.
"What's taking you so long, Sakura?" Kamauin asked with a straight face.
When it just came to her mind, Sakura stepped back into Tomoyo and gasped, "Hoe?! Kamauin?! Why are you shorter than before?"
Kamauin sweat-dropped and replied, "Does that even matter? I used too much of my power to work on the ultimate card, 'The Memory', but there's a force that's interrupting my power. Since I'm not you, it does serious side-effects to me… such as bleeding tears, and now I've gotten back a few years. That's right. I'm now fourteen all over again. It depends how I used my power…"
"Demo… Why do you have to do all of this?! This wouldn't have happened if you never have to deal with me and the ultimate cards!" Sakura interrupted.
Unexpectedly, Kamauin took Sakura's hand and said with a surprisingly soft and caring voice, "Because… I love you."
Sakura didn't know why, but she blushed. She couldn't move or even twitch. To her relief, Tomoyo clapped her hands and kept on saying, "Kawaii ne!"
Sakura hated to see Tomoyo in a trance like this, so she stomped her feet with a dotted expression. She knows for a fact that Kamauin's the reason why Tomoyo is like this. "Kamauin! You don't love me… This isn't love. Y-You just want power, really… I wish you would understand," Sakura said sadly. She actually wanted to save Kamauin from this darkness in his heart. She wondered how it all started, she really wants to know.
All of the sudden Tomoyo's voice changed and the clouds turned darker. "Ahahahaha… Sakura-chan, you're so kawaii... Ohohohoho… ho… hooooo…" Her hair grew longer and flew everywhere, and her eyes changed from calm to psycho.
"D-Doushite?! Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura gasped as Tomoyo dramatically changed in front of her. Sakura turned around and couldn't find Kamauin anywhere.
"Ohohoho… Sakura-chan… Doushite?" Tomoyo said with vehement eyes and an evil grin. The voice deepened greatly and finally matched Kamauin's.
As Tomoyo grew into a twenty ft. tall giant in proportion, Sakura fell back on to her behind and sweat-dropped with a dot-eyed expression.
"Hoe-e! Tomoyo-chan?!" Sakura exclaimed.
"If I wanted to, I can crush you with my foot, but do I really want to? If I wanted to, I can kill you with Tomoyo-chan and she wouldn't even know that she killed her own friend… But… do I really want to? I know I've hurt you relentless times and it would be hard for you to forgive me, but I would and always would love you," Kamauin/Tomoyo explained as bleeding tears came running down giant Tomoyo's cheeks.
"Onegai… Please don't use Tomoyo's body… Just not her… You're hurting Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura cried with tight fists down at her hips.
"Too late… I'm already Tomoyo-chan. Heh… Well… If you wanted me to, I'll just die inside Tomoyo's body and I'll just be gone like that, Sakura…" Kamauin/Tomoyo replied with a smile on her face.
"Iie! Don't do that! If you have to go use another person's body, use me!" Sakura cried. She couldn't believe this.
It all happened at once. all she could comprehend was darkness covering her eyes. Sakura could hear a little repetitive sentence going on in her head. 'I don't want to forget... I want to remember... I don't want to forget... I don't want to remember...' The last thing that she heard was Tomoyo's soft voice screaming, "Sakura-chan, don't! Nooo! Sakura-chan… Sakura-chan? SAKURA-CHANNNNNNN!"
"Syaoran?" a voice went above Syaoran.
"What do you want? I'm too tired…" Syaoran said sleepily. Drool came down from the side of his mouth and the guy above him grossed out.
"Nahhhh… Syaoran… You baka! Wake up!" a girl's voice shouted in his ear.
"Mmf," Syaoran said.
The girl went to get a mini gong and banged it beside his head.
"KYAAAAAHHHH!" Syaoran sprang up in midair with widened eyes.
Meirin and Souwong looked at him and sweat-dropped.
"Nahhhh… First, you disappeared, and then you reappeared just a minute ago!" Meirin said with an amazed look. Yet she is totally confused.
"What happened, Syaoran?" Souwong asked with cocked up eye brows.
Syaoran breathed in raspy breaths from being frightened, but from something else rather than the gong. 'Sakura?!' he thought suddenly as he ran to the window to look outside. "All of the snow melted?"
"H-Hai… Just when you came, the snow melted quickly, but the sky hasn't even cleared up yet," Souwong replied.
"Hmph…" Syaoran ran a hand through his hair and walked back and forth. "Ah… I have to go to Sakura's house and drop by and see if she's okay… I wonder what happened to the others…"
"May we go with you?" Meirin asked with a softer voice. Souwong nodded at that because he wanted to go see them, too.
"Sure," Syaoran replied with a small smile.
Syaoran, Meirin, and Souwong went together to Sakura's house. Syaoran rang the doorbell and the door was immediately open by Sakura. Souwong guffawed at Sakura's appearance. Somehow, her eyes are angry and a darker shade of green and her hair is darker than before. She wore a silky, white night gown that goes down to her knees, with no sleeves, nor a collar, but a u-neck. Her arms, legs, and feet are bare. No signs were shown of her getting hurt, but a blood stain stood out on her forehead. Yet she was a different beautiful this time. She seems darker than before.
"S-Sakura…" Meirin and Syaoran started at the same time.
With a dot-eyed expression, Sakura threw eggs at Syaoran and Meirin. "Why are you guys looking at me like that?"
"I see that YOU are well… What was the point of that?!" Meirin asked, getting angry. Souwong wasn't at all amused. This is too different for him.
Sakura ignored Meirin and went closer to Syaoran and gave him a lazy look, but smirked at his puzzlement. She pointed her finger on Syaoran's chest and said with a happy smile, and a soft voice, "Hehe… Li-kun… I know that you love me so much, demo… I'm sorry to tell you… I… hate… you… Oh! I'm sorry! I mean that I… despise… you… Ahahaha!" She looked down and twisted her fingers there on his chest with a loop-the-loop. Sakura then immediately looked away from Syaoran and eyed Souwong intensely as she laughed wickedly.
Syaoran looked at Sakura, stunned. He wasn't the least bit amused. "Where are Tomoyo and the others?"
Meirin and Souwong are really surprised. This was never to be expected. "Syaoran, really… what happened?" Souwong asked.
"Yeah, what happened between the two of you?" Meirin asked, rubbing back of her head. She didn't care that the egg was dripping off of her chin.
Sakura laughed again, "Ohohoho! Souwong is the one I love!" She swung around the porch post with one arm and fell in to Souwong's arms. The three coughed at Sakura's unnatural behavior as Sakura rubbed her head against Souwong's chest. Syaoran and Meirin looked at Souwong with widened eyes as Sakura went on with the hugging. Blushing until he couldn't see, Syaoran tried to pull her away from him, but Sakura was stronger.
"Hey, Sakura, no more… This isn't right! Sakura-chan?! Let him go! You c-can't have him!" Meirin-chan yelled. She didn't know what to do when she saw Souwong fighting for breath. Blood started to appear running from Souwong's nose. "SAKURA!"
"Shut up!" Sakura shouted with angrier eyes than before. A purple blast from her fingertips blew and formed a vast distance between her and Meirin. Gusty winds were formed from the blast and made Meirin and Syaoran fly back and slam against the front porch walls.
"Kamauin…" Syaoran said in between raspy breaths.
"N-Nani?" Meirin said as she stood up and rubbed her back.
Without noticing her there, Sakura sat on the rim of the roof above Meirin and Syaoran, with Souwong unconscious in her arms. She then dropped Souwong on top of Meirin.
"Oof… I've never imagined Sakura getting mad at me…" Meirin said, stunned on the ground with Souwong in her arms. The pain inside her heart was worse than the wounds she just got from the slam on the wall.
"Damn it, Kamauin!" shouted Syaoran in fury.
Meirin laid Souwong carefully on the ground and looked up at Sakura with the same fury as Syaoran. 'No matter what, I'll always stand strong!' "Let her go… LET HER GO, KAMAUIN!"
Astonished, Syaoran grabbed her foot with amazing speed that Meirin couldn't accumulate and took Sakura/Kamauin down to the ground. With both of her hands down to the ground useless, Syaoran pushed her/him back as Sakura/Kamauin tried to squirm around to get away.
Sakura/Kamauin smirked and proudly said, "If you kill me, then you will kill your precious Sakura!"
Syaoran's eyes widened, but Merin acted fast before he could've thought what to do with Kamauin inside Sakura's body. Out of no where, Meirin handed handcuffs to Syaoran.
Syaoran and Sakura/Kamauin sweat-dropped and stopped moving around on the ground. "Hey, hey… I couldn't think of anything… I just happened to find these in my pocket!" Meirin explained with red cheeks.
"Why would you have them, anyway?" Syaoran asked quietly. Sakura/Kamauin seemed to be interested.
"I-I… well, it was supposed to be for you. You always gone off without telling either me or Souwong," Meirin said as she rubbed back of her head.
"Oh okay…" Syaoran with an amused expression locked the handcuffs around Sakura/Kamauin's wrists.
Sakura/Kamauin laughed full heartedly. "You guys are fools! You don't have to make me laugh any more, do you?"
"Nah uh… They're not just handcuffs! They not only lock your wrists together, but they also paralyze you in about… mmm… 14 seconds from now? But you can still talk, right?" Meirin replied with a mischievous grin. Syaoran's jaw dropped and Sakura/Kamauin's teeth gritted in anger.
After Syaoran and Meirin waited for that amount of time, Sakura/Kamauin couldn't move her legs and arms. Syaoran's eyes softened and looked glazed as the sun's brightness tear through the clouds. Meirin noticed Syaoran's sad expression and started to ask him of the matter, but he stopped her before she could speak with just a rarely used, handsome smile.
"Sakura… wake up. You don't need to do this… Onegai…" Syaoran whispered closely to Sakura/Kamauin.
Sakura/Kamauin evilly grinned and remarked, "That won't work, Syaoran… Sakura's alone in her darkness… Or rather… my darkness… She's gone, Syaoran… You…"
The voice started to get softer and match the voice of Sakura Syaoran befriended. At first Sakura/Kamauin's dark green eyes widened to a stunned expression, then her eyes closed and opened with brighter emerald green eyes with a softer facial structure. The blood stain disappeared. Meirin's eyes started to water at the amazement.
"Sakura?" Syaoran whispered hoarsely two inches away from her lips. Without thinking, his hands went on her face and played with her hair, combing strands of her hair between his fingers.
"Syaoran-kun?" Sakura whispered back. She sat up and her hair in graceful movement brushed against Syaoran's lips. At that moment, Syaoran felt as if his heart lifted. Meirin clapped her hands with glee. Syaoran's arms went around Sakura's shoulders while her arms circled around his rib cage. His head buried into her shoulder as her chin rested on top of his. "What happened? Where's Tomoyo-chan?"
Meirin went to the front door way and was surprised that there wasn't any damage. Somehow Sakura protected it during the blast, and somehow she knows that Sakura has protected them all. Meirin looked inside from outside of the front window. There was nobody in sight. Within seconds of noticing, a bright yellow light glimmered behind her, off the porch in front of Syaoran and Sakura. Not just Souwong's eye's opened, but Tomoyo, Koinaru, Keimie, Kaho, and Eriol were all there right in front of them, just now opening their eyes as if they were in a deep sleep.
Syaoran and Meirin looked back at the same time as Sakura's eyes softened with joy. The crew didn't know what happened all this time, but stood and ran to Sakura and Syaoran. It seemed like a reoccurrence, since they've ran to the front porch to meet Syaoran and Sakura that snowy morning, and now they're running to meet Syaoran and Sakura once again.
A card popped out of Tomoyo's back and flew to Sakura's hand. Tomoyo gasped at the fuzzy feeling she felt there, but ignored it and turned around to smile at Sakura. Not only that another ultimate card is found, but all of Sakura's friends were found, too. Some how, she knew that Sakura had saved her.