Just One Wish
A CCS fanfiction
Part V
Note: How long was it then?
Part V - A New Reality?
As time flows by, many things happen. Some that are bound to be memorable, some are bound to be forgotten. But the joy and sadness of life remains there, it will always be there.
Sakura tries her best to forget the past things that happen to her. The worst, is the unfortunate death of her one and only love, Li Syaoran. But sometimes, it comes to her mind, what if none of this has happened? The Clow Cards, Kero-chan, and Li… Would it be less painful to her, or more than ever?
The time of a new reality is near, who would try to? And what will happen?
--== Sakura’s House ==--
The next day…
It has been a few quiet hours on the house, gone are the happy moments. Tomoyo stayed along Sakura’s side for company. Kero is now asleep. A new day is upon them.
Tomoyo went up to Sakura’s room.
“Sakura-chan, good morning! Rise and shine now!”
But the bed didn’t even move a bit, not even a squeak.
“Sakura-chan? Hello?” Tomoyo is quite worried.
“Please say something, please wake up!”
But it’s stilled the same. There’s no movement on the bed.
Now worried, Tomoyo removed the sheets and…
“SAKURA-CHAN!!!”
Tomoyo screamed loudly, waking Kero.
“Hey, hey, will you turn it down will ya?”
“Kero-chan! Something’s happened to Sakura-chan!”
“NANI?”
Kero’s shocked at what he sees. Sakura is gone.
“No way, how did she get out?”
“I don’t know. Let’s find her quick!”
“Wait for a second. Let me think…” Kero thinks on how.
“She just can’t disappear like that. And we checked everything before we slept. If she tries to, she’ll make a lot of noise and… OH NO!”
“Kero-chan? What’s wrong?”
Kero looks at the drawer and…
“NO! Just as I thought!”
“Did she…”
“The Clow Book is gone! She used it and…”
“She used the cards to escape? Why?” Tomoyo is worried.
“I can still sense the card… the Through Card!”
“We must find her before something drastic happens!”
“Sakura-chan, why are you doing this?”
-= Meanwhile… =-
While flying up in the sky. Sakura is confused on what to do. She flies around, even dropping down to seas of people. All of them are puzzled on what happened.
“Did you see what I saw?” Some of them asked.
“Wait, I think I’m seeing things…” Others talked.
But to Sakura, she doesn’t care.
As she blindly flies to the street, cars madly turned around and people are startled. Sakura started to think about the things she had experienced these years. Those happy moments, sad moments, things that would bring happiness and tears throughout her life. She remembers everything, then it turned black. An image appears in front of her. It was Li.
“Syaoran… It’s so painful… Painful that I would just kill myself just to follow you in the afterlife. Is this how life treats us? Why?”
Then, she flies down into an intersection, standing in the middle of the street with cars running. It seems that she wanted to die…
“Hey! What do you want to do, kill yourself?” People screamed as they see her standing still in the middle.
“Watch out!” Others are worried.
But she didn’t listen.
“No… I decided this, I want to be with you… please wait for me…”
“SYAORAN!!!” Sakura screams at the top of her voice.
Just then, a truck didn’t see her standing. Turning around is too late. It will hit her. People watched in horror as the truck gets nearer to her then…
“SAKURA!”
In the nick of time Sakura was whisked away from the road, people are relieved and the person who saved her goes to a safe place.
“Sakura… Answer me! Are you alright?” The person asked.
As Sakura started to look around, she looks at the person.
“Is… this heaven?” Then she passes out.
“What could have caused all of this?” The person asked himself.
--== At the River of Fate ==--
“So, how was it that you finally know who I am?”
Li Syaoran, after he found himself on the River of Fate, fought against one of his most powerful enemies he faced, himself.
“Impressive. For your information, I am you, another conscience that resides your body, I know what you do, what you like and most of all that you love. It’s exiting isn’t it?”
“You mean, you live inside me without knowing it myself?”
“No, I am you, let put it that I am another state of mind you don’t know, a dark and twisted one…”
“I don’t believe it! It’s not possible that you’re me!”
“You don’t want to admit it? Well, let’s do something that will change your mind.”
The other Li puts out a knife in his hand and points on his right arm.
“Now, look at this!”
He thrusts the knife in to his arm. Then Li suddenly feels something strange.
“What, what’s this that I am feeling? No! It’s so painful!”
He looked on his right arm and…
Blood flows out profusely.
“NOOOOO!!!” Li screams in pain.
“Now you realize that what I’m saying to you is true. You see, that whatever that I do to myself, the same thing happens to you. Fortunately, you’re dead already, so you won’t die. Instead, you will suffer pain forever!”
“Stop it!” Li pleads to stop.
“Very well then.” Dark Li removed the knife from his arm.
Li felt numbness in his arm.
“What… what are you planning to do?”
“Well… I will answer that. You see that in the last time I am looking at you, you had your chance. You would be the most powerful one in all. You had your chance getting the Clow Cards. But look on what you do, you let that girl get them all and even helping her gets it! At that point I couldn’t stand it and had to do something to steal all of the cards! That’s why I reacted.”
“So that’s why you interfere with my thinking! I thought that sometimes I act so foolishly! It was you that interfering in my mind!”
“I waited for this chance… now that my desires will be true!”
“I won’t let you!” Li tries to attack but…”
“Remember what I said…”
Li suddenly thought that it’s futile to attack his own self.
“No… I can’t…”
“Finally you realized that there’s nothing you can do about it. Now, accept your fate while I, start my path to power!” Dark Li started to vanish.
“Wait!” Li tries to catch up.
“Don’t worry, I’ll make sure that your cherry blossom deserves the care I give to her.”
“You better not do anything to her or else you…”
“You can’t do anything! Now, sweet dreams, Li Syaoran!” Dark Li fires a dark beam at Li.
“Sakura…” Li is knocked out.
“Just wait for me, CardCaptor! Your sweet dreams with your love will be destroyed forever! Ha ha ha ha ha!”
Dark Li has vanished leaving Li on the river, with tears on his eyes.
“Sakura… I’m sorry… I failed…”
--== Sakura’s House ==--
“Tomoyo-chan…” Chiharu tries to comfort Tomoyo.
Tomoyo is deeply worried to Sakura, she knows that she’s experiencing pain and suffering. But she doesn’t have to endure that pain all by herself. She has friends, and she can rely on them.
“Sakura-chan, please come back, were all here for you.” Tomoyo started to cry.
“Tomoyo-chan, don’t worry. I know that she wouldn’t do anything that will hurt herself.” Naoko talked to Tomoyo.
“But she’s confused… I want to help her but…”
“That’s part of life. She has to endure such hardship to go on, though I don’t want to see her suffer like that.”
Meanwhile Kero continues to survey the area for any trace of the Clow Card.
“Damn, she’s fast.” Kero thought. “Why does she have to do this?”
-= Minutes Later =-
There’s still no sign of Sakura, and Tomoyo, Chiharu, Naoko, Rika and Kero are now worried that something may have happened to her.
“That’s it! I’m going to find that girl and I’m going to drag her back here!” Kero is furious.
But Tomoyo immediately held Kero’s tail.
“Don’t do it! You’ll just make her much worse! What she needs right now is our support, not more suffering.” She said.
“That’s right! If you wouldn’t her then we’ll never give you food!” Naoko said.
“Okay! Okay! I won’t!”
Then suddenly…
“Someone’s coming” Rika called the girls.
“Who?” They asked.
A man appeared with Sakura on his arms. She’s unconscious.
“I thought I would see you guys here.” He said.
“Eriol-kun…” Tomoyo wondered.
“ERIOL! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?” Kero spoke angrily.
“Calm down. I’m here to help.”
“Eriol-kun, is Sakura-chan going to be okay?” Tomoyo is deeply worried.
“Don’t worry. She’s just tired. She needs rest right now.”
“Now that Sakura-chan is here, let’s go inside! I think it’s raining!” Rika hurries inside the house.
Rain started to pour down.
“You’re right. Let’s go.” Eriol carries Sakura into the house.
“I wonder why he’s here. Maybe he’s up to something…” Kero is suspicious about Eriol.
“Please don’t say anything bad about him, he just helped Sakura-chan. I know that he wouldn’t do anything bad to her.” Tomoyo said.
“Okay. But I’ll still check up on him just in case.”
As they settle in. Eriol placed Sakura into her bed as Tomoyo and the others look on.
“Sakura, why is this happening to you? Ever since Li died, you’re like this. You’re placing all the blame to yourself. You got to snap out of this or you wouldn’t be the same again! This is what happen if you don’t look at your back! Your simple-mindedness is what made you weak!”
The girls heard what Eriol said, and they hurriedly come up to her room.
“Eriol… that wouldn’t help Sakura-chan get better…” Naoko said.
Kero heard what has happened and confronted him.
“What did you say to her! That’s harsh! If you would keep on doing that then I won’t let you do that to her do you understand?”
“What I am saying is true!”
“Oh, you want to play rough eh? Well, I’ll teach you a lesson!”
As the two started to fight, Tomoyo tried to stop them.
“Stop it!” Tomoyo’s tears started to fall. “Didn’t you know that what you’re doing is making things worse for her! What if she heard all of this? Would it make her feel better? Ever since Li-kun died, she’s an emotional wreck, and any negative things that she hears and sees have a bad effect on her. I tried my best to keep her happy, not allowing her to see my tears as I talked to her. I try to make her happy even I know what I am doing won’t change her! That why please… that’s why please…”
Tomoyo began to faint.
“Stop… this… she… needs our… support…”
And she lost consciousness.
“Tomoyo-chan!” Chiharu shouted.
As the girls went to look up on her. Eriol and Kero just stared at each other, not moving an inch.
“Hey… I think we got it too far.” Kero said.
“Sorry that I got carried away…” Eriol sits down in the floor.
“If she heard it, it would be more painful to her…”
As they lay down, silence broke inside the room. They slowly went down to the living room leaving Sakura alone.
But little did they know that Sakura heard all that has happened and started crying.
After a few minutes, Tomoyo started to gain consciousness.
“Looks like she’s coming around.” Rika said.
“Tomoyo-chan, daijobu desu ka?” Naoko asked.
“Umm… yeah…” Tomoyo moaned a bit.
“What happened after I passed out?”
“Well, Kero-chan and Eriol-kun just reconciled to each other and they’re here since then.” Naoko said.
“Demo… How about Sakura-chan?”
“Unfortunately, she heard all of the things happened and she locked herself up…”
--== Flashback ==--
It’s already noon and they started eating. But with Sakura in an emotional breakdown, they have a hard time just to lift a fork.
“I feel that I’m not hungry…” Chiharu said.
“Me too.” Naoko said.
“Well, if you don’t want to eat that well I’m gonna eat it!” Kero smiled as he sees the food in front of him.
But Eriol stopped him.
“If you do that, we won’t have anything left for the rest of us!”
“Hey! I heard to them that they don’t like eating so I’ll eat them!”
“If you eat them all, there will be nothing left for Sakura!”
Kero put down his fork.
“You’re right. I also don’t feel like eating too…”
Kero not eating? Could be a miracle…
Then they thought about Sakura.
“I’ve better send some food to her, she might be hungry after all of that”. Rika thought.
“Okay, but… I’m not sure if she’s awake now…” Chiharu said.
As Rika gets the food tray, they suddenly heard a loud bang.
“Sakura-chan!” The girls shouted.
“Hey, hey! What’s going on?” Kero asked.
“It’s Sakura…” Eriol stood up.
As they reached towards Sakura’s room, they noticed that the door is closed.
“Sakura-chan!” They are worried.
As Rika tries to open the door, it can’t. It’s locked.
“Sakura, open the door!” Kero is starting to get angry.
As they try to open the door, Sakura suddenly spoke.
“GO AWAY! I DON'T NEED YOU HERE!”
“Sakura-chan! Please open the door! We don’t mean to say those…”
“JUST LEAVE ME ALONE! WHAT FRIENDS I’VE GOT!”
As they continue to talk, Eriol suggested that they should leave her for a while.
“Don’t worry, she’s just too tired. I know that she doesn’t mean to do that.”
“But, what if she…”
“No. Just leave her for a while and she’ll be okay.”
They went down to the living room, not knowing what to do. They continue to hear Sakura’s coarse voice echoing throughout the house.
“Syao… ran…"
--== End of Flashback ==--
“Poor Sakura-chan…” Tomoyo said.
“Now, she’s sound asleep. I hope she stays that way.” Kero added.
“We’ve got to do something to cheer her up! I just can’t stand her continue suffering like this even after a year.” Rika said.
“But with a wound as deep as that, not even time can forget the pain she endured.”
“But we have to do something! It’s for her that were doing!”
“I think so, so what can we do?”
All of them fell silent.
--== Meanwhile ==--
Someone entered the Li residence. The police were puzzled how it happened, it happened at 12:00 noon. A bad time for someone to do crime. But they say that he dispatched everything and left in just a few minutes. Witnesses say the killer wore a green Chinese costume with a cap and told police that he wore a sword that they think is the murder weapon. However they didn’t see the face of the suspect. As they try to analyze what has happened they looked at the victims inside that was unfortunately was killed…
It was the whole Li family…
--== Back at Sakura’s House ==--
As rain continued to pour, a girl was standing outside. She seems to wait for someone. She tries to ring the bell, but chose not to and walked away. But as she walked, the door opened…
“Aww! It’s still raining hard!” Chiharu thought.
As she looks around, she saw the girl. She looked for a second, then turned away.
“Hey! It’s not good to run in a rainstorm! Come in and say while it’s raining."
But the girl nodded.
“Who is it?” Tomoyo asked.
“Now who would come here at this time? It’s raining hard!” Kero said.
“Now watch you’re tongue! Kero-chan!” Naoko said.
As they looked at the girl, something strikes Tomoyo’s mind.
“Wait a minute, I’ve seen you before… you’re…”
“MEI LIN!”
Everyone was shocked.
“Guys, I have something to tell you…”
End of Part V
It’s getting weirder isn’t it?