White Cloud's Mission-Chapter 2
Sakura opened her eyes. Where was she? She looked down and immediately wished she hadn't. She was floating in the middle of some town, which she couldn't recognize. She looked at herself.
"I'm transparent!" she shrieked.
"Well, duh." Sakura nearly had a heart attack. Turning with some difficulty, Sakura came face to face with a girl.
"Who are you?"
The girl laughed and shook her shimmering milky white hair.
"Oh, sorry. Konyannichiwa. I am supposed to be named Angel Sakura, after you. But Sakura is such a plain, Japanese name. So I call myself Bai Yun, White Cloud in Chinese."
"But WHAT are you?"
"I'm your guardian spirit," said Bai Yun, as if it was so obvious, "And you didn't let me finish. I called myself Bai Yun because my beauty rivals that of a delicate White Cloud." And it was true. Bai Yun's skin was a pale white; completing the look her hair gave her. She was dressed in a soft metallic silver dress with spaghetti straps. She shook her hair to look impressive.
Sakura, on the other hand, was not in the mood to be impressed.
"If your name was Angel Sakura, then where are your wings?" At this, Bai Yun turned a bit shy.
"Well, an angel, or a guardian spirit only receives their wings after their human responsibility goes to heaven. So, I had pretty much given up hope. You see, you were never going to die." At this point, another old, wrinkled spirit appeared before them.
"Angel Sakura? Is that you? Will you please take me to the mall? It's getting harder and harder to see."
"Granny, I'm busy. Go get someone else, like Gwendolyn."
The old spirit sighed and replied, "Angel Sakura, oh, nothing." She disappeared, shaking her head. Sakura gasped.
"That was mean! She was nearly blind! And you are doing nothing! Who was that anyhow?"
"She is the guardian spirit of Clow. You know him as Eriol. I was fated to be like that, until poof! I got lucky."
"But if I can never die- saying I believe you- then what am I now?"
"Complicated, dear. It was your birthday, right? On your birthday, the stars are lined up in a way that, for you, bestows power onto your first wish. I believe last birthday it gave power to your first thought. Well, you wished that you never existed, and voila! You don't. But, your cards were feeding off your power, and you never wanted them to have power enough to completely destroy anyone. So Erase just erased your presence on earth, leaving behind your spirit, which is what you are now. And what a stroke of luck for me. I would have otherwise gotten stuck taking care of a human- namely you- for the rest of my eternal life. And now you can go to heaven, and I might not miss my salon appointment. Come, let's go."
"Wait. How do you know all of this? If you were snooping around me, Onii-chan would have seen you."
"Duh. Except that's why would I spend my time watching you? I automatically know these things from being your guardian spirit. I know everything about you. Even your crush on Yukito-san. Come, push your locket and let's go."
"Push my locket?"
"I forgot. You wouldn't know that, would you?" she laughed and pulled from Sakura's neck a locket, which she never knew she had on.
"I was wearing that?" Bai Yun nodded.
"I believe that Touya was the only one who could see it on you. As a matter of fact, he could see it on everybody AND remove his, but it's too risky. If he dies without it, he'd be floating around for all eternity. And so would his guardian spirit. Enough questions. Push the button." Sakura looked at the locket, a pretty silver one. It was intricately carved with designs that seemed to portray all her happiness in her life. In the bottom middle was a Sakura tree, whose branches cuddled a small button. Sakura pressed it, and in an instant there was a clang and Bai Yun and her were standing in front of a door with an imprint of a hand on it. Bai Yun placed her hand in it, and the door opened soundlessly.
"Why do I have to press the button, then you have to open the door?" Bai Yun rolled her eyes.
"Two corny things. First, it's supposed to symbolize that you decide your moment and I open the door for you, a partnership, and second it prevents people from somehow pressing the button and going to heaven without their guardians. Can you shut it up with the questions?" Sakura fell silent. This was her guardian spirit? This crabby, self centered being? Sakura shook her head, and then saw the sight in front of her.
Millions of guardian spirits and spirits were standing in long lines, all waiting to get in. Guardians laughing and chatting with their spirit familiars, unlike Bai Yun and herself. Beside her, Bai Yun sighed.
"It's such a long line! It'll dwindle in the evening. So we could go and approve your 'sad sites' now.'
"My what?"
"I keep forgetting how ignorant you are. You see, in order to get to heaven, you have to seal away all your sad memories in that locket. Then, and only then, are you allowed to get in. If we go around now, checking all your sad spots- the locket will glow red when it finds a suitable site- then it will shorten things later. Come on." Bai Yun took Sakura's hand and teleported her back over the unfamiliar city.
"This is Tomeda, your home. Since you have no clue where to go, I'll decide. Why don't we start with your brother?" Sakura nodded.
"Okay." They went down until they were flying over the rooftops of her town. Sakura looked around.
"This isn't Tomoeda! It's all dark and slum- like…Tomoeda was a cheerful place, and very prosperous." Bai Yun shook her head.
"Wait. You'll see why." She led Sakura to a section of town, into a grand house Sakura knew very well.
"Tomoyo's house!" They went in through the door, into the ballroom. There, on a elevated platform, stood...
"Master Kinomoto Touya sir, we have managed to get the 'taxes' from everyone, or at least the amount required." Sakura let out a gasp that no one could hear. The person on the throne was Touya, and the person who was just now talking was none other that Yukito! Touya walked down and eagerly opened the sack, revealing bunches of bills.
"This will keep me happy for a while. Go now, Yukito." Yukito bowed and left. Touya sat down, a sad look now in his eyes. Pulling out a picture, he looked at it.
"Oka-san, why did you leave me?" He looked up, in the direction of Sakura. He gasped.
"Who are you?" he said, the color draining out of his face. "Oka- san?" Sakura realized that Touya could see the spirit world. Duh. He could see her! She had heard countless time before that she looked like her mother. No wonder that he was so petrified. She looked almost like a younger Nadeshiko.
"Let's go!" hissed Bai Yun. Sakura nodded, tearing her eyes away from Touya.
Outside, she asked Bai Yun, "What happened to him?" Bai Yun looked at her.
"Without you, Touya didn't know why he was seeing things. With you, he knew they were ghosts, since you were the one to ask him, "Are they ghosts?". He went slightly mental, and when your mother died, he cracked. He is the boss of the Cherry Blossoms, a gang that is known for leaving a cherry blossom at the scene of the crime. He is the one responsible for Tomeda's destruction, him and Yukito." Bai Yun stopped, distracted by a chipped nail. Then she started again.
"We can go to your house next." At Sakura's house, there was no sign of life. Sakura immediately went downstairs to the basement. And there it was. The Clow Book. Wedged in between two other books, the book that had changed her life stood there.
Turning to Bai Yun, she said,"If I didn't open the Clow Book, then whom will it transfer its destiny upon? And where is Kero-chan?"
"Kero-chan is still there, waiting. And the book was to go to your father." Something there caught Sakura.
"Was to go to my father?"
"Was." Sakura was upstairs in what was her room. There was nothing there but a faded blue carpet. Turning away from the sight.
She questioned Bai Yun, "Why was?" Bai Yun led her to China, where they went to a white building. Inside were all sorts of crazy people. Mentally crazy people. They went upstairs, into a room with a man.
"Oto-san?" The figure shifted, and there was her father. He looked like he had been crying. Sakura couldn't bear it. She led Bai Yun outside.
"He wouldn't stop crying after both Touya and your mother left him." She said simply.
And so they went. The Cherry Blossoms had killed all Tomoyo, Rika, Naoko, Chiharu, and Yamazaki in a bombing of their school, of which Terada-sensei had survived with massive injuries, and was now in the hospital. Eriol did not exist.
"No need for him, since the Clow Book hadn't been opened." Said Bai Yun. She looked a Sakura awkwardly. Sakura was floating by Eriol's old house, her eyes sad but not glassy. Bai Yun went closer to her. Something in her heart was stirring, something she had never felt before.
"Sakura, we have one more. It's not that sad. We have to go see Syoran." Sakura's eyes suddenly went from sad to angry.
"Why do we have to visit him? Mr. I found a new girlfriend and I'm dumping you." Bai Yun looked at Sakura. She'd find out in due time.
At Syoran's home, Bai Yun had to almost drag Sakura in. Sakura consented finally, in spite of herself. In the kitchen, Meilin was solemnly making tea.
"So he married Meilin after all..."
Outside, in the yard, Syoran was sitting on a rock in his battle uniform. He looked almost dazed and sad. He got up with a sigh and pulled out his sword. Taking some practice moves, he took out his wind element. Bai Yun gasped.
"Sakura, DUCK!" But it was too late. Sakura got rammed with the wind attack. But it was short, because Syoran had dropped his sword when Bai Yun had yelled.
"How come he was able to get me?" Sakura asked Bai Yun. But Bai Yun just stood there, then raised her finger and pointed.
"Look." Sakura turned around. Right there, behind her, was Syoran, unmistakably looking at her.
"Sakura?"
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Me: Um, I apologize for my behavior yesterday, and the behavior of Tasty. She's a bit young.^_^ Well, I tried to make another cliffhanger. NANI? Syoran can see her? Why? HA! You will have to read to find out…
Xiana: Yes, I apologize for the behavior of everyone, we have our studio back! And I'll make sure that M finishes her story,there's not much left.
Me: Thank you for reading though! Ja-
Breeze: *whispers to Xiana*
Xiana: Yes, and I forgot. Please R&R to
todays_sakura@hotmail.com
Me: You said to review and you didn't give my email address? This gives me a bad name!
Xiana: *giggle*
Me: What's so funny?
Xiana: *laughing* Check out your hair! Reflection! Over here, please. Can you make a mirror for your master here?
Reflection: Sure! *makes one and hands it to M*
Me: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! BREEZE! YOU MESSED UP MY HAIR! *mirror cracks* AND 7 YEARS OF BAD LUCK! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU! I'M NEVER GOING TO USE YOU AGAIN! GET HERE! NOW!
Breeze: *meekly comes out* Sorry, Snowflake's got a good sense of fashion... if you can stand the cold.
Me: Really? *goes off talking with Breeze*
Xiana: Why do I ALWAYS end up ending these stories? Oh well. She doesn't own Clamp, Bai Yun is hers, plot line is hers, if you want this story on your site, email her at above address, etc. See you! Ja ne!