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Disclaimer: I don't own CCS, and I don't own anything that deals with our beloved artists--- CLAMP. This is just my own story thing... O_o So, yeah! You get my point!! I hope...
Author's Note: story written by~ blue_tuna27 ^-^ Konnichiwaaa!! This is a NEW ficcie, so be nice!! No, I'm just kidding... About the 'be nice' part. Or maybe not... Okay, anywayz, I want you to know this--- You Must Read This!! --- BEWARE!! This is weird... It's really different, really, I mean really, different... A very new type of a story--- to me, that is... heh heh... This story takes place when Sakura turns seventeen on her birthday... Yeah... It's very different O_o!! Tired of me saying that? Heh heh... Well, here goes... Hope you CCS/whatever fans like this fic of mine!!! I hope it satisfies you!! Please, R&R! It'd be very nice of you!! Okay, finally, the beginning...
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~*~* Dream Stuck *~*~
~*~* Prologue *~*~
In space, there's Earth, small and plagued with hatred, unlike the other planets of other galaxies far away and in its own galaxy. Standing in the center of her bedroom, she felt calm, but something in her inner self hasn't been figured out yet. Earth is crumbling from, basically, humans. The fear, hatred, and the spiteness of people's minds have gotten worse. What has our world gotten into? Sakura looked at her self, in a casual way, at the reflection before her in the big bedroom mirror. She have been spaced out for a while looking at her own eyes. Her emerald green eyes were gloomy, yet serene, just been awake from her deep sleep to an early Saturday morning, her birthday, and the first of April. She's just now turned seventeen, measured five feet and seven inches tall, light brownish-auburn hair grown down to her waist in the same style her bangs were before. Though, she looked at herself, trying to find something, but found nothing, but her lady self standing in front of a mirror. She just stood there, looking at her eyes, into empty depths of emerald pools, that was shown in her reflection of the mirror before her.
"Aiee! Come on, get ready! You're still in your pajamas!" a little creature shouted in to one of Sakura's ears; apparently, Sakura's in her sugar pink long sleeved and long panted pajamas.
"O-Oh! Gomen nasai, Kero-chan!" Sakura replied after she got away from her day-dream zone and her reflection in her mirror. She smiled and went and took out 'The Bubble' card after she got out her baton to clean her self up in the shower room, brushed her teeth, and changed her clothes in a hurry. Sakura had on white overalled shorts with a U-necked, sugar pink, sleeveless shirt underneath. Then she had her hair fixed into two braided pig tails tied in pink ribbons. She hugged Kero after she was done and ran down stairs with a cute smile on her face.
"Be sure to give me treats, if there's any!" Kero shouted as Sakura went out her door, shutting it after her.
When she went down, all was silent and desolate, no happiness what so ever. It all seemed gloomy. There was a few people; Tomoyo, in a blue dress; Touya, in a plain white tee shirt and jeans; Yukito, in tan pants and a long sleeved yellow shirt; and her father, with a nice white shirt and blue jeans on. They were all lying down, dead. No blood, but most likely, dead. Sakura felt no life present. All then was a blur; tears blemished her eyes. Coldness swept over her body, while her heart choked. She drooped down on her knees.
"Kero-chan?! Please, Kero-chan!" Sakura cried out towards upstairs.
"Nani...?" Kero responded as he flew down the stairs cautiously.
Sakura wept with tears running down her face and wanted something to cry on, but there was nothing there for her now.
Kero looked around with a worried expression, and frowned, "Sakura, this, I never knew would happen to you... W-When Yue is gone within Yukito's body, that could mean trouble, then... I have another form..."
"N-Nani?" Sakura asked as her voice cracked.
"We must go to Hong Kong..." Kero whispered in a terribly different voice.
Sakura thought it was just the ringing in her ears. She can't even see him, but his voice was strangely sequacious in her mind. But... what is there to live for...?
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Every animal species is never to be seen anymore, so as every one she has known. There is no life out there, but it's all peaceful and at least there was still plants living.
"Why is this happening K-Kero-chan?" Sakura squeaked as she looked every direction. "Kero-chan?"
Sakura stopped walking in the middle of the street and looked behind her.
"Don't look at me!" Kero shouted behind a tree. The shout was spoken with a voice she has never heard before from Kero.
Sakura was about to laugh, but she has no heart to. She never heard Kero say that before. "Why, what's the matter?" Sakura asked.
Suddenly, Sakura could see massive white wings speckled with hints of gold spread out from behind the tree he was hiding from.
"Nani?!" Sakura gasped as Kero poked his head out from behind the tree. It was human. Sakura gagged.
"Don't look at me like that! Go pack up your things and your brother's clothes! I mean it! Go, go! We're going to Hong Kong, right now! I can't stay here any longer! Hurry up Sakura!" Kero shouted with a strong young man's voice.
"I-I... Okay!" Sakura responded back as she ran back to her house, that's across the street from the tree.
She went in through the door, ignoring the dead bodies, and packed up lot of things that she could find, that they needed mostly. She went into her father's room, Touya's room, her room, and the kitchen. Lastly, she picked up her Clow book and her family photo album, including pictures of her mother, father, brother, herself, friends, and events. She put the album inside her suitcase and but the Clow book in one of her pockets. It took her around thirty minutes to do all of the packing, while Kero waited.
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'What is going on?' Sakura had thought as she went out the door. 'Why Hong Kong? Well, there's nothing else to do... I wish... He was still here...'
Sakura ran to a spot far away from the tree, that Kero was hiding for the whole time.
"Kero-chan! I'm right here! I got out a few clothes, that's Touya's. Plus, I packed a lot of his clothes for you... Here, catch!" Sakura yelled out as Kero let out a human hand. It seems as if his human figure is perfect, by the looks of his arm stretched out to catch the bundle of clothes, but he sounded angry by it.
"Uh... Arigatou. Gomen ne, for snapping at you earlier... It's even your birthday..." Kero said in a voice more calmer and nice to hear.
Sakura smiled warmly, even though Kero couldn't see her from behind a tree. She almost had her eyes welled up with tears for smiling. But she kept her sadness inside herself at the best as she could do.
While Kero changed into her brother's clothes, Kero yelled for help. Sakura gagged.
"Sakura? It's hard to put a shirt on... Heh heh..." Kero said hesitantly.
Sakura let out a puff of air in relief. She then walked to the tree and poked her head around behind the big and thick tree trunk.
'He's beautiful...' Sakura had first thought when she looked at him. His hair was a golden blond color and in the same style as Yukito's. But his face structure seem grim and perfect as much as his eyebrows. Looking into his eyes, she could see that it's gold, too, like his beast form. It all seems unreal like Yue.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Kero asked almost in a whisper.
"I-It's just not Kero-chan..." Sakura whispered in reply. She couldn't barely speak, most likely, speechless.
"Uh... So, will you help me? It's hard to do what humans do, you know... Of course you don't know... You never have been a four legger yourself! Well, at least I know how to eat! That's my most favorite thing that humans do! Eating exotic and delicious stuff!" Kero said with his new charming smile.
Sakura smiled back and almost had her eyes watery from the sadness inside. It hurts her to smile when everybody she has known and loved are dead.
"Um... Can you get rid of your wings?" Sakura asked in an unusual squeak.
Kero looked at her expressionlessly and held onto the tree afterwards. Then the wings fluttered and started to shrink back into his back.
"AHH!" Kero shouted in pain as blood started to stream down on his back. His teeth were grind together and his eyes were closed shut. Sakura then hugged tightly Kero around his waist by his side as he held onto the tree, from seeing that he needs to release his pain. The wings, finally, disappeared into his back. No changes, but two deep gashes gushing out red blood. Sakura also got herself bloody from holding onto Kero.
Sakura cried as Kero breathed hard with droplets of sweat flowed down to his chin. She hugged him more firmly as Kero turned to her direction and her head fit perfectly on his chest.
"Sakura..." Kero said with his voice hoarse from separated breaths.
"Kero-chan! Gomen ne, gomen nasai! It was all my fault... I-I didn't know..." Sakura cried as she held held onto him around his waist.
"It's okay, Sakura... You didn't know..."
"Still!" Sakura cried more loudly.
As she cried on, Kero didn't know what to do. He then thought of the human romance movies and grimaced. But Sakura still held on. Unexpectedly, he started stroking her hair to calm her down in a hesitant way; he couldn't just push her away.
"Come on, Sakura... We need to hurry," Kero said calmly. Sakura didn't respond.
All of the sudden, after Sakura stopped her crying, white light occurred around them and started to guffaw Kero and Sakura while she held on to him. Then he felt strength and his wounds healing up to its finish. He opened his mouth in surprise and looked down at Sakura. When he's fully healed after a few minutes, Sakura dropped down to the ground. Sakura is the one who let out such power.
"Sakura!" Kero shouted while silence was around him. 'Oh, the Book of Clow, she still gained power after the card business was all finished! I need to get her some help... We need to go to Hong Kong...' Kero thought continuously as he picked up Sakura in his arms, swiftly off her feet.
"Sakura, you've grown so much..." Kero said with a grin. Everything was in silence. No life was out there, except the trees and rest of the plants in the whole area of Tomoeda. Then Sakura made some noise by struggling in his arms, while her head fit in to his chest. 'She's going to be okay...' Kero thought with relief. After a quarter mile of walk, at the King Penguin slide, he laid Sakura down in the shelter inside the slide and changed into his cute and little plush toy self. 'Wow I'm puny...' Kero thought as he flew up in the air. He never had thought that changing into his cute little form was so easy to do. He thought he never could change back to his little self when he automatically turned into the winged human form.
He forgot that all of the stuff Sakura packed for him and herself was left where she left them before they walked off. So, he figured he could fly back and get them.
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"Oof..." Kero said as he landed on a big suit case. There were three big ones. "Heh heh heh... hehhhh..." Kero laughed with sarcasm.
"Oh yeah!" Kero gleamed after a few minutes of thinking. 'I can change into my true form...' he thought coolly. He tried, but instead he gets his winged human form. "Nani?!" Still his pants was on, in relief to himself--- it was hard for him to put them on. But there was wings. 'Uh, it's alright, I guess...'
He picked up all the suit cases, two in one hand and one in the other. 'Such strength, this human form has! It's not human... It just looks human...'
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"Wha? Where am I...?" Sakura asked herself, rubbing her head in exhaustion; apparently, she's in a shelter inside the king Penguin slide. Her eyes focused as she tried sit up. Then she heard an, "Oof," when she finally sat up.
"Kero-chan?" Sakura asked for him in a moan.
"Sakura? Good, you're awake... I got the suit cases. You sure packed a lot! Wahh!" Kero said as he stretched him self out, including his wings.
Sakura crawled out of the shelter and ran to him clumsily.
"Daijobu desu ka?" Sakura asked as Kero stretched out his back and his wings. Sakura then walked behind him and looked at his back. 'All the blood's gone...' Sakura thought cluelessly.
"It doesn't hurt. I just turned into my little self and turned back to this form. This form is weird... I'm not used to standing with two legs..." Kero explained with a warm smile as he turned back to see her. Sakura smiled back in reply. "You are gaining more strength than before! You have new power!"
Sakura looked at him oddly and said, "I-I do?"
"Hai!"
"What is it?"
"You healed me, Sakura... You don't even remember...
"Oh... I did?!"
"Hai!"
"Sugoi!"
Kero looked at her smile, then frowned and said in a serious tone, "Though, you passed out... Only use it when you think it is truly right. And I mean it."
"O-Okay, Kero-chan! I'll remember that!" Sakura said as she stood up straight and looked at him in the eyes.
Kero then smiled and replied, "Then, that's settled!" Kero then picked up one of the suit cases. He stopped, suddenly, and frowned again and was about to say something until...
Sakura smiled again and grabbed the Clow Book from one of her pockets and showed it to Kero.
"It's safe!" She said sincerely.
"Okay," Kero replied with a smile.
"Kero-chan, I've got something to say to you... I-I think this ought to be a dream... Gomen nasai, for me saying so," Sakura said quietly with hesitation.
Kero looked at her in surprise and nodded in unison with his eyes gloomy downwards her emerald green eyes. Sakura looked up at him in surprise. She didn't expect this for an answer.
"I knew it... Sakura, don't get carried away with anything because... It would be heart breaking for you..." Kero said after he seen Sakura looking up at him as if she seen a ghost.
"I-I can just wake up, you know... But still, I'm glad it's a dream. It's a night mare so far!"
"I mean it, Sakura, it's going to be chaotic crisis... This is what happens to who ever carries power of the Clow cards, that goes beyond Clow Reed's own power... If you don't finish this dream in a right way... You'll die in your sleep..." Kero said bitterly, but Sakura could see that he was trembling.
"Oh... Now, I get it... I'm glad you know what this all is, but why didn't you say you could be in my dreams that seems so real? You are real to me, right now, but I have a feeling this is a dream, that seems... so real..." Sakura said as she held Kero's free hand, without noticing.
"You must of gained lot of power because you could feel this is a dream, even though it is real at the same time..." Kero paused and looked at her hand on his own, then continued, "This is different from a normal dream... At first, I thought this was all a dream, until I could feel pain from my wings earlier. I think I was in contact with you so I could be in your dream, too, because I slept on your hair. So, that's one thing... This dream, as we both call it, is called, "Kumnun hyonsilsong." It's a term that Clow Reed have called it. His conscience, the evilness of himself, is the one who made this whole thing... And you're obviously chosen to fight with him... Don't ask. At least I'm here with you. You're not the only one who thinks this is exotic. I never knew this would ever happen..."
"Okay, okay... It's alright, Kero-chan. It's just a good thing we're in this together," Sakura replied with her usual warm smile.
Sakura pulled out her key of Clow and said her usual ritual and it turned into her baton, that she've had ever since that day with Kaho Misuki and Yue. She then pulled out two cards, 'The Fly,' and 'The Power' cards. Commanding them for whatever she wanted that will help her to go to Hong Kong, she felt strength coming from her to the cards. Afterwards, she got a cute pair of wings on her back and strength pulsing inside her veins. She then picked up two suit cases that were smaller than the one that Kero's holding right now.
"Ready to fly?" Kero asked with a grin.
"Hoee... I guess we should get to our weird business... So let's get on with it!"
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To Be Continued... On to Chapter 1 of Dream Stuck---
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~*~* Dream Stuck *~*~
Disclaimer: CLAMP stuff belongs to CLAMP!! Hee hee... Short, huh?
Author's Note: story written by~ blue_tuna27!!! Hiee Yah!!! ^_~ So, yeah... Hullo! Here's Chapter 1! And... I hope you like it... If you got anything to say, please R&R this story! It would totally be esteemed! ^_^ So, do you wanna go on, now?
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~*~* Dream Stuck *~*~
~*~* Chapter 1 *~*~
From high in the air, it looked beautiful in her emerald green eyes. Air going into her face felt great as her braids flew gracefully behind her. It was morning of the next day already; a good time seeing the sun rise when they're flying. Anyway, it is the dream world afterall. Time could go faster if it wanted to. The young man beside her, with massive wings, looked at her eyes off and on in glimpses. Her eyes were full, filled with glee.
"Kero-chan! I would like to do this often! This part is my favorite part of the whole dream, you know! I wish we could do this whenever we want when we're not in the dream world!" Sakura yelled at him, since they were going in an extremely high speed in a high altitude a few yards away from each other.
Kero, interrupted from his thoughts, laughed and Sakura laughed with him.
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"All of Japan has disappeared... This is now called the highest cases of all centuries of all the events in the whole world. What happened to them? Could this happen to us and other places? We've no answers..." the news reporter from the television explained with sophistication, though people could obviously see there's sadness behind her grim look. Even though she was continuing on with the report, she was turned off when an old man, named Wei, turned of the t.v.
"We heard enough..." Wei said sadly.
Lot of elders of the Li clan, dressed in Hong Kong's traditional clothing, in the big council like room were thinking and talking of what was going on. But the seventeen year old boy that was top of the council could only think of something else.
'Sakura...' he thought as the name came out as air from his lips. He then finally can talk as he whispered, "She probably have forgotten me... But I have never forgotten you..."
Unexpectedly, a salty drop ran down from his right eye to his lips. 'No way... She can't be... Not dead! Why her and every other person... Why couldn't it be me... Doushite! Sakura... You can't be... I-I still love you!' Syaoran thought as his insides trembled. He then got off his chair and ran out of the enormous room through the Li clan's residence. Everyone in the whole house hold looked at him with clueless expressions as he ran hiding his face. Arriving in his room, he picked up his sacred sword, that has been passed on for centuries, old as Clow Reed himself, and ran out with it in his hand.
Running for ten minutes long in a quarter mile distance away from the Li clan's house hold, he finally stopped. The scenery surrounding him was fairly beautiful before his fiery amber brown eyes. All was grassy hills covered with all shades of green and rainbow colors from the little flowers all around and beneath him. The beauty of all of it reminded him of Sakura. The image before him reminded of Sakura with tears in her beautiful emerald eyes while she gave Syaoran a pink bear with wings while he was leaving and himself saying that he'll come back for her. While he looked at everything with sadness, he dropped to his knees and sat in that position on his feet. His eyes softened while his cinnamon brown hair locks flew gracefully as he gasped for air from all the running. Sword in hand by the hilt, he thrust it into the ground. After a few minutes in that position for a while, he laid his head against his hand on the hilt of the sword. For the first time in years, unexpectedly, he's crying...
"Damn it..."
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"I'm getting tired... How about you?" Sakura asked as she crouched her back forward towards down her knees.
"Hmm... You can't use magic as long for five hours or more. You'll pass out, Sakura... Though, I'm impressed how long you can persist to it. Okay, okay, come over here," Kero replied. he just noticed that they were deliberately slowing down very much.
"Okay... What are you going to do?" Sakura asked, straightening up.
Kero then took her two suit cases and the other in one hand and took Sakura with his free hand in his arms as well.
"Kero-chan?! Let me carry one suit case..."
So, afterwards, dangerously in the air, Sakura ended up with the biggest suit case in her hands. She then got rid of the card magic within her and had the cards go to her pocket. The baton changed into a key after the cards went into one of her pockets.
"Are you at least a slightest bit tired from carrying the suit cases, including me?" Sakura asked while she hid her face with the suit case in her grip. 'I can't be blushing! This is Kero-chan!'
Kero smiled and still looked forward. He then answered in a happy tone, "Iie, not at all! This form is really strong!"
Sakura giggled and looked at his face. Redness crept to her cheeks again.
"Nani? Why are you looking at me like that?" Kero asked.
"Hoee... Nandemonai! I wasn't looking at you! Heh heh hehhhh..." Sakura replied while she tightly gripped the handle of the suit case.
"Oh, okay... What ever you say," Kero said with a clueless expression on his face.
"Sugoi! Look at the scenery!" Sakura gasped at the country scenery below her.
"It's Hong Kong..." Kero answered.
"It seems it haven't been touched like Japan was..." Sakura said with relief in her voice, but Kero could see the dolefulness in her eyes. He could tell that Sakura wants this dream to be over with.
"Hmm..." Kero thought out loudly.
"So, where are we stopping at in Hong Kong?" Sakura asked with a change of an attitude, in which she smiled her cutest smile up at Kero.
"Li clan's residence..." Kero dully replied.
"Nani?!" Sakura gasped, yet her heart went giddy with excitement.
"They're our number one priority! Heh heh... Afterall, they all related to Clow Reed and I'm sure they'll help us..." Kero said with an awkward smile.
"Wouldn't people freak out, though...?"
"Uh... We'll stop where there's nobody and hide our looks, that people freak about for some reason, even if it's the dream world..."
"Okay," Sakura said as she laughed with full rejoice.
Kero looked at her and his nose, with no expectation, twitched.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Sakura asked with a clueless expression.
"You look kawaii when you laugh and smile," Kero answered with an awkward grin.
Sakura blushed and her hands were sweaty from gripping onto the suit case handle too tightly. Kero have always said she looked 'kawaii,' but in a human body like this one and a voice like a young man, it's different.
"Heh heh... Why are you blushing?" Kero asked as he laughed fully. Sakura blushed even more.
"I-It's just the cold, really..." Sakura said hesitantly. It was the truth. She was getting goose bumps all over her arms and legs.
"O-Oh... Gomen ne," Kero answered in a whisper. So, he held Sakura more closely to him while he had two suit cases in one hand.
"Hoee..." Sakura sighed. She wasn't expecting this from the beginning of the whole chaos.
"What is it?" Kero asked in worry.
"Nandemonai... You're really warm. Oh, that's right, you have the power of the Sun, right?"
"Hai... I forgot about that..."
"I-I forgot!" Sakura gasped.
"Nani?!" Kero gasped after she put her head up straight.
"I have blood all over me..."
Kero sweat-dropped and replied, "When we stop, we'll clean up with 'The Bubble' and I'll get a clean shirt on, to satisfy people out here with no question asking... I think you're alright."
Sakura smiled and rested her head against his shoulder.
"We might see that Li gaki... Well, maybe not, if he grew up... So, don't get carried... away..."Kero said, but Sakura was already asleep. He sighed and went on his traveling.
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"Sakura, I found a spot," Kero said peering down at Sakura's angelic sleeping face with his.
Sakura's eyes opened half way and and saw big golden eyes peering down at her own emerald green ones.
"AAHHHHH!" Sakura screamed.
"Not so loud! Here's a place I told you I will stop at, that will hide us from the public... So, wake up before I will drop you!" Kero shouted without thinking. He was very tired that very minute, though he hated when Sakura screams at him when he tries to wake her up.
"Gomen nasai!" Sakura apologized while she was afraid that Kero will drop her, instead he held her more closer. Sakura then looked down and saw that they're on land already.
"Gomen ne, to you, too. I didn't mean to snap at you like that..." Kero apologized back, surprised at his own temper.
Sakura looked up at him and smiled. Kero's nose twitched again and he let her down.
"Ahem... We need to get on with it..." Kero said while he turned his back to her.
Sakura looked at him irresolutely and shrugged. Afterwards, turning her back to him, she changed her key to a baton with the usual ritual and got out 'The Bubble' card to wash herself and her clothes with a nice scent, and letting her hair alone. After that was done, she wasn't wet at all and the blood stain, that was there for a while, is now gone to her own relief.
But Kero was a different story.
"I have to get rid of my wings again..." Kero said with a strangely calm voice.
Sakura looked behind her, at him with a stricken expression, and patted his shoulder.
"You can change back to being the little cute one..." Sakura said with an awkward smile, but she knew that Kero would have thought of that before her.
"I can't... I've tried when you did 'The Bubble' card cleaning technique on yourself..." Kero said as he looked down at himself.
"A-Ano, you said that you could change into that form, earlier!" Sakura replied with her heart starting to get sickened by the pain Kero had to suffer.
"Well, not this time... It never happened with my true form... I-I guess I'm stuck with this one..." Kero said as he looked at Sakura , who looked down this time.
After a few minutes of silence between them, Sakura finally said, "Just... Get out your wings, whenever you need to, as for putting away your wings, also..."
Kero nodded and put his arms around a tree once again. It's at least a good support. Sakura looked at him and nodded slowly.
Again, like he did before, he screamed in pain while the wings shrinked down in his back. Also, there was two deep long gashes gushing out blood all over himself. Kero dropped down to his knees and looked at Sakura with blank eyes.
Sakura got out 'The Bubble' card, again, and commanded it to clean Kero up. After a while, Sakura could see that 'The Bubble' did a great job cleaning his wounds and all the blood, that was all over his back, all gone to her satisfaction.
"Don't use your power on me, Sakura. It will heal, eventually... I have faster cells than a human's, like Yue" Kero said as Sakura examined his back.
"What makes you think that?" Sakura asked as she put her hands on her hips.
"I could feel it healing, but slowly it's going, though faster than a human could heal," Kero explained.
Sakura smiled and said, "Sugoi! But, don't do the wing noumenon often!"
Kero smiled back and went with Sakura helping him walk to the suit cases to examine them. He opened the biggest one and saw that it's all packed with food and other things for survival. After that one, he looked into the other one and saw that it's all packed with Touya's clothing. He figured that the last one was all of Sakura's belongings. Picking up a nice short-sleeved, light blue, mostly polyester-less cotton made, and with a button up collar, he pulled it up over his head.
"Heh heh... I-I need help," Kero said with embarrassment.
Sakura smiled at him and helped him put his head through out the collar of the shirt and putting his arms through out the sleeves.
"There! You look great! Come on lets go!" Sakura said with excitement. Then she stopped in her tracks. "You're okay, right? With the shirt on your wounds?"
"Watashi daijobu desu wa," Kero answered with a smile. "I think they're closing up, now."
"Good! You do know where the Li clan's residence is, right?"
"Hai! It's around a mile walk from here!"
"You're so great, Kero-chan!"
"Arigatou! Hee hee hee..." Kero answered with a grin. 'I know... I'm the all-knowing Kero.'
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"Who is she and who is he?" asked a photographer.
"I don't know... How should I know?" answered a school girl next to him, who eventually adores Li Syaoran.
A few yards in distance away from them, a young man with dark curls said, "She's pretty... But she's with that guy."
"Shut up, Chien! He's cute... But he's with that girl," said his girl friend. Afterwards, they had their own glaring contest.
In the busy streets by the poor street markets, a little girl pulled onto her grandmother's skirt.
"What is it, honey?" the grandmother asked.
"She's pwetty!" answered the little girl.
"Yes... She's a fine young lady..."
Apparently, Sakura and Kero were walking through busy streets and markets in Hong Kong, among the people surrounding them, going everywhere in different directions. Lot of people were looking at them with different expressions of awe or jealousy.
"Kero-chan, everyone's looking at us... Hoee..." Sakura whispered, even though it was very loud around them from the populous area, but Kero could hear her anyway, since Sakura had her hand in his. He's more likely pulling her along.
"Hoe!" Sakura yelled anyway. Then she hugged Kero from the behind and they walked rest of the way like that. Kero sighed. "If you're thinking I'm crazy, I'm not. It's just that in Tokyo, with more population, doesn't look at me like this... They're looking at you, too, but you're so calm!"
Kero's nose twitched and hung his head while he walked along the way while Sakura was dragged.
Then a lady tapped Sakura's back. It turned out to be one of Syaoran's sisters, Li Feimei.
"Sakura?"
"Hoe?" Sakura answered as she let go of Kero and looked behind her. Kero stopped walking.
"It is you! It's me, Feimei! Oh my gosh! You look so lovely! You're alive, too!"
Kero looked down at Sakura and Sakura smiled cheek to cheek up at Feimei.
"You're thinking of going to the Li clan's house hold, right?" Feimei asked as she pulled Sakura along with her.
Sakura then answered, "Um... yeah, both me and Kero."
"Kero? Cute name... Really. Is that a nick name?"
Sakura sweat-dropped while Kero shook his head.
"Mother! Mother! She's here! That pretty girl's here! She wants to speak with you!" Feimei yelled out as she barged in through the door of an enormous ancient Chinese-styled mansion.
"Sugoi!" Sakura yelled in awe as she was let go by Feimei.
All of the furniture, paintings, and figurines was ancient Chinese fashioned. They were all of different colors and had it's one glimmer from where ever the sun was shining at. It was all wonders.
Kero tapped her shoulder and grinned, "Come on! We need to follow her..." Kero said as he pulled her along, once again, interrupting her thoughts.
"R-Right... Sakura answered, but she still walked and stopped after Kero went ahead, so he had to push her along.
All the maids and butlers were smiling at her and awed by Kero's and Sakura's appearance.
After a few minutes gone by, they couldn't find Li Feimei. They were lost until Li Yelan, Syaoran's mother, came and looked at them with her usual grim look. Unexpectedly, Li Yelan hugged Sakura tightly.
"Oh, I missed you so..." she said with an accent for talking in Japanese.
"I-I missed you, too!" Sakura said with tears coming to her eyes, even though she knows that it is a dream.
Feimei was standing there all along and clapped her hands and said, "I'll find my little brother!"
Li Yelan smiled and looked back at Sakura and asked, "Who's this young man here?"
"He's the Guardian Beast of the Clow cards," Sakura said with a cute smile.
The tall lady in front of her laughed and said, "Oh really? I thought he was a lion-cat like beast..."
"I have this form now... It happened ever since Yue died, which was yesterday..."
Li Yelan looked at him in surprise and Sakura was even surprised that Li Yelan was about an inch taller than Kero.
Kero smirked and said in a happy tone, "I'm hungry! Have anything sweet and good to eat?"
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To Be Continued... On to Chapter 2 of Dream Stuck---
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Disclaimer: I don't own CCS, and I don't own anything that deals with our beloved artists--- CLAMP. This is just my own story thing... O_o So, yeah! You get my point!! I hope...
Author's Note: story written by~ blue_tuna27 ^-^ Konnichiwaaa!! This is a NEW ficcie, so be nice!! No, I'm just kidding... About the 'be nice' part. Or maybe not... Okay, anywayz, I want you to know this--- You Must Read This!! --- BEWARE!! This is weird... It's really different, really, I mean really, different... A very new type of a story--- to me, that is... heh heh... This story takes place when Sakura turns seventeen on her birthday... Yeah... It's very different O_o!! Tired of me saying that? Heh heh... Well, here goes... Hope you CCS/whatever fans like this fic of mine!!! I hope it satisfies you!! Please, R&R! It'd be very nice of you!! Okay, finally, the beginning...
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~*~* Dream Stuck *~*~
~*~* Prologue *~*~
In space, there's Earth, small and plagued with hatred, unlike the other planets of other galaxies far away and in its own galaxy. Standing in the center of her bedroom, she felt calm, but something in her inner self hasn't been figured out yet. Earth is crumbling from, basically, humans. The fear, hatred, and the spiteness of people's minds have gotten worse. What has our world gotten into? Sakura looked at her self, in a casual way, at the reflection before her in the big bedroom mirror. She have been spaced out for a while looking at her own eyes. Her emerald green eyes were gloomy, yet serene, just been awake from her deep sleep to an early Saturday morning, her birthday, and the first of April. She's just now turned seventeen, measured five feet and seven inches tall, light brownish-auburn hair grown down to her waist in the same style her bangs were before. Though, she looked at herself, trying to find something, but found nothing, but her lady self standing in front of a mirror. She just stood there, looking at her eyes, into empty depths of emerald pools, that was shown in her reflection of the mirror before her.
"Aiee! Come on, get ready! You're still in your pajamas!" a little creature shouted in to one of Sakura's ears; apparently, Sakura's in her sugar pink long sleeved and long panted pajamas.
"O-Oh! Gomen nasai, Kero-chan!" Sakura replied after she got away from her day-dream zone and her reflection in her mirror. She smiled and went and took out 'The Bubble' card after she got out her baton to clean her self up in the shower room, brushed her teeth, and changed her clothes in a hurry. Sakura had on white overalled shorts with a U-necked, sugar pink, sleeveless shirt underneath. Then she had her hair fixed into two braided pig tails tied in pink ribbons. She hugged Kero after she was done and ran down stairs with a cute smile on her face.
"Be sure to give me treats, if there's any!" Kero shouted as Sakura went out her door, shutting it after her.
When she went down, all was silent and desolate, no happiness what so ever. It all seemed gloomy. There was a few people; Tomoyo, in a blue dress; Touya, in a plain white tee shirt and jeans; Yukito, in tan pants and a long sleeved yellow shirt; and her father, with a nice white shirt and blue jeans on. They were all lying down, dead. No blood, but most likely, dead. Sakura felt no life present. All then was a blur; tears blemished her eyes. Coldness swept over her body, while her heart choked. She drooped down on her knees.
"Kero-chan?! Please, Kero-chan!" Sakura cried out towards upstairs.
"Nani...?" Kero responded as he flew down the stairs cautiously.
Sakura wept with tears running down her face and wanted something to cry on, but there was nothing there for her now.
Kero looked around with a worried expression, and frowned, "Sakura, this, I never knew would happen to you... W-When Yue is gone within Yukito's body, that could mean trouble, then... I have another form..."
"N-Nani?" Sakura asked as her voice cracked.
"We must go to Hong Kong..." Kero whispered in a terribly different voice.
Sakura thought it was just the ringing in her ears. She can't even see him, but his voice was strangely sequacious in her mind. But... what is there to live for...?
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Every animal species is never to be seen anymore, so as every one she has known. There is no life out there, but it's all peaceful and at least there was still plants living.
"Why is this happening K-Kero-chan?" Sakura squeaked as she looked every direction. "Kero-chan?"
Sakura stopped walking in the middle of the street and looked behind her.
"Don't look at me!" Kero shouted behind a tree. The shout was spoken with a voice she has never heard before from Kero.
Sakura was about to laugh, but she has no heart to. She never heard Kero say that before. "Why, what's the matter?" Sakura asked.
Suddenly, Sakura could see massive white wings speckled with hints of gold spread out from behind the tree he was hiding from.
"Nani?!" Sakura gasped as Kero poked his head out from behind the tree. It was human. Sakura gagged.
"Don't look at me like that! Go pack up your things and your brother's clothes! I mean it! Go, go! We're going to Hong Kong, right now! I can't stay here any longer! Hurry up Sakura!" Kero shouted with a strong young man's voice.
"I-I... Okay!" Sakura responded back as she ran back to her house, that's across the street from the tree.
She went in through the door, ignoring the dead bodies, and packed up lot of things that she could find, that they needed mostly. She went into her father's room, Touya's room, her room, and the kitchen. Lastly, she picked up her Clow book and her family photo album, including pictures of her mother, father, brother, herself, friends, and events. She put the album inside her suitcase and but the Clow book in one of her pockets. It took her around thirty minutes to do all of the packing, while Kero waited.
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'What is going on?' Sakura had thought as she went out the door. 'Why Hong Kong? Well, there's nothing else to do... I wish... He was still here...'
Sakura ran to a spot far away from the tree, that Kero was hiding for the whole time.
"Kero-chan! I'm right here! I got out a few clothes, that's Touya's. Plus, I packed a lot of his clothes for you... Here, catch!" Sakura yelled out as Kero let out a human hand. It seems as if his human figure is perfect, by the looks of his arm stretched out to catch the bundle of clothes, but he sounded angry by it.
"Uh... Arigatou. Gomen ne, for snapping at you earlier... It's even your birthday..." Kero said in a voice more calmer and nice to hear.
Sakura smiled warmly, even though Kero couldn't see her from behind a tree. She almost had her eyes welled up with tears for smiling. But she kept her sadness inside herself at the best as she could do.
While Kero changed into her brother's clothes, Kero yelled for help. Sakura gagged.
"Sakura? It's hard to put a shirt on... Heh heh..." Kero said hesitantly.
Sakura let out a puff of air in relief. She then walked to the tree and poked her head around behind the big and thick tree trunk.
'He's beautiful...' Sakura had first thought when she looked at him. His hair was a golden blond color and in the same style as Yukito's. But his face structure seem grim and perfect as much as his eyebrows. Looking into his eyes, she could see that it's gold, too, like his beast form. It all seems unreal like Yue.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Kero asked almost in a whisper.
"I-It's just not Kero-chan..." Sakura whispered in reply. She couldn't barely speak, most likely, speechless.
"Uh... So, will you help me? It's hard to do what humans do, you know... Of course you don't know... You never have been a four legger yourself! Well, at least I know how to eat! That's my most favorite thing that humans do! Eating exotic and delicious stuff!" Kero said with his new charming smile.
Sakura smiled back and almost had her eyes watery from the sadness inside. It hurts her to smile when everybody she has known and loved are dead.
"Um... Can you get rid of your wings?" Sakura asked in an unusual squeak.
Kero looked at her expressionlessly and held onto the tree afterwards. Then the wings fluttered and started to shrink back into his back.
"AHH!" Kero shouted in pain as blood started to stream down on his back. His teeth were grind together and his eyes were closed shut. Sakura then hugged tightly Kero around his waist by his side as he held onto the tree, from seeing that he needs to release his pain. The wings, finally, disappeared into his back. No changes, but two deep gashes gushing out red blood. Sakura also got herself bloody from holding onto Kero.
Sakura cried as Kero breathed hard with droplets of sweat flowed down to his chin. She hugged him more firmly as Kero turned to her direction and her head fit perfectly on his chest.
"Sakura..." Kero said with his voice hoarse from separated breaths.
"Kero-chan! Gomen ne, gomen nasai! It was all my fault... I-I didn't know..." Sakura cried as she held held onto him around his waist.
"It's okay, Sakura... You didn't know..."
"Still!" Sakura cried more loudly.
As she cried on, Kero didn't know what to do. He then thought of the human romance movies and grimaced. But Sakura still held on. Unexpectedly, he started stroking her hair to calm her down in a hesitant way; he couldn't just push her away.
"Come on, Sakura... We need to hurry," Kero said calmly. Sakura didn't respond.
All of the sudden, after Sakura stopped her crying, white light occurred around them and started to guffaw Kero and Sakura while she held on to him. Then he felt strength and his wounds healing up to its finish. He opened his mouth in surprise and looked down at Sakura. When he's fully healed after a few minutes, Sakura dropped down to the ground. Sakura is the one who let out such power.
"Sakura!" Kero shouted while silence was around him. 'Oh, the Book of Clow, she still gained power after the card business was all finished! I need to get her some help... We need to go to Hong Kong...' Kero thought continuously as he picked up Sakura in his arms, swiftly off her feet.
"Sakura, you've grown so much..." Kero said with a grin. Everything was in silence. No life was out there, except the trees and rest of the plants in the whole area of Tomoeda. Then Sakura made some noise by struggling in his arms, while her head fit in to his chest. 'She's going to be okay...' Kero thought with relief. After a quarter mile of walk, at the King Penguin slide, he laid Sakura down in the shelter inside the slide and changed into his cute and little plush toy self. 'Wow I'm puny...' Kero thought as he flew up in the air. He never had thought that changing into his cute little form was so easy to do. He thought he never could change back to his little self when he automatically turned into the winged human form.
He forgot that all of the stuff Sakura packed for him and herself was left where she left them before they walked off. So, he figured he could fly back and get them.
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"Oof..." Kero said as he landed on a big suit case. There were three big ones. "Heh heh heh... hehhhh..." Kero laughed with sarcasm.
"Oh yeah!" Kero gleamed after a few minutes of thinking. 'I can change into my true form...' he thought coolly. He tried, but instead he gets his winged human form. "Nani?!" Still his pants was on, in relief to himself--- it was hard for him to put them on. But there was wings. 'Uh, it's alright, I guess...'
He picked up all the suit cases, two in one hand and one in the other. 'Such strength, this human form has! It's not human... It just looks human...'
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"Wha? Where am I...?" Sakura asked herself, rubbing her head in exhaustion; apparently, she's in a shelter inside the king Penguin slide. Her eyes focused as she tried sit up. Then she heard an, "Oof," when she finally sat up.
"Kero-chan?" Sakura asked for him in a moan.
"Sakura? Good, you're awake... I got the suit cases. You sure packed a lot! Wahh!" Kero said as he stretched him self out, including his wings.
Sakura crawled out of the shelter and ran to him clumsily.
"Daijobu desu ka?" Sakura asked as Kero stretched out his back and his wings. Sakura then walked behind him and looked at his back. 'All the blood's gone...' Sakura thought cluelessly.
"It doesn't hurt. I just turned into my little self and turned back to this form. This form is weird... I'm not used to standing with two legs..." Kero explained with a warm smile as he turned back to see her. Sakura smiled back in reply. "You are gaining more strength than before! You have new power!"
Sakura looked at him oddly and said, "I-I do?"
"Hai!"
"What is it?"
"You healed me, Sakura... You don't even remember...
"Oh... I did?!"
"Hai!"
"Sugoi!"
Kero looked at her smile, then frowned and said in a serious tone, "Though, you passed out... Only use it when you think it is truly right. And I mean it."
"O-Okay, Kero-chan! I'll remember that!" Sakura said as she stood up straight and looked at him in the eyes.
Kero then smiled and replied, "Then, that's settled!" Kero then picked up one of the suit cases. He stopped, suddenly, and frowned again and was about to say something until...
Sakura smiled again and grabbed the Clow Book from one of her pockets and showed it to Kero.
"It's safe!" She said sincerely.
"Okay," Kero replied with a smile.
"Kero-chan, I've got something to say to you... I-I think this ought to be a dream... Gomen nasai, for me saying so," Sakura said quietly with hesitation.
Kero looked at her in surprise and nodded in unison with his eyes gloomy downwards her emerald green eyes. Sakura looked up at him in surprise. She didn't expect this for an answer.
"I knew it... Sakura, don't get carried away with anything because... It would be heart breaking for you..." Kero said after he seen Sakura looking up at him as if she seen a ghost.
"I-I can just wake up, you know... But still, I'm glad it's a dream. It's a night mare so far!"
"I mean it, Sakura, it's going to be chaotic crisis... This is what happens to who ever carries power of the Clow cards, that goes beyond Clow Reed's own power... If you don't finish this dream in a right way... You'll die in your sleep..." Kero said bitterly, but Sakura could see that he was trembling.
"Oh... Now, I get it... I'm glad you know what this all is, but why didn't you say you could be in my dreams that seems so real? You are real to me, right now, but I have a feeling this is a dream, that seems... so real..." Sakura said as she held Kero's free hand, without noticing.
"You must of gained lot of power because you could feel this is a dream, even though it is real at the same time..." Kero paused and looked at her hand on his own, then continued, "This is different from a normal dream... At first, I thought this was all a dream, until I could feel pain from my wings earlier. I think I was in contact with you so I could be in your dream, too, because I slept on your hair. So, that's one thing... This dream, as we both call it, is called, "Kumnun hyonsilsong." It's a term that Clow Reed have called it. His conscience, the evilness of himself, is the one who made this whole thing... And you're obviously chosen to fight with him... Don't ask. At least I'm here with you. You're not the only one who thinks this is exotic. I never knew this would ever happen..."
"Okay, okay... It's alright, Kero-chan. It's just a good thing we're in this together," Sakura replied with her usual warm smile.
Sakura pulled out her key of Clow and said her usual ritual and it turned into her baton, that she've had ever since that day with Kaho Misuki and Yue. She then pulled out two cards, 'The Fly,' and 'The Power' cards. Commanding them for whatever she wanted that will help her to go to Hong Kong, she felt strength coming from her to the cards. Afterwards, she got a cute pair of wings on her back and strength pulsing inside her veins. She then picked up two suit cases that were smaller than the one that Kero's holding right now.
"Ready to fly?" Kero asked with a grin.
"Hoee... I guess we should get to our weird business... So let's get on with it!"
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To Be Continued... On to Chapter 1 of Dream Stuck---
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~*~* Dream Stuck *~*~
Disclaimer: CLAMP stuff belongs to CLAMP!! Hee hee... Short, huh?
Author's Note: story written by~ blue_tuna27!!! Hiee Yah!!! ^_~ So, yeah... Hullo! Here's Chapter 1! And... I hope you like it... If you got anything to say, please R&R this story! It would totally be esteemed! ^_^ So, do you wanna go on, now?
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~*~* Dream Stuck *~*~
~*~* Chapter 1 *~*~
From high in the air, it looked beautiful in her emerald green eyes. Air going into her face felt great as her braids flew gracefully behind her. It was morning of the next day already; a good time seeing the sun rise when they're flying. Anyway, it is the dream world afterall. Time could go faster if it wanted to. The young man beside her, with massive wings, looked at her eyes off and on in glimpses. Her eyes were full, filled with glee.
"Kero-chan! I would like to do this often! This part is my favorite part of the whole dream, you know! I wish we could do this whenever we want when we're not in the dream world!" Sakura yelled at him, since they were going in an extremely high speed in a high altitude a few yards away from each other.
Kero, interrupted from his thoughts, laughed and Sakura laughed with him.
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"All of Japan has disappeared... This is now called the highest cases of all centuries of all the events in the whole world. What happened to them? Could this happen to us and other places? We've no answers..." the news reporter from the television explained with sophistication, though people could obviously see there's sadness behind her grim look. Even though she was continuing on with the report, she was turned off when an old man, named Wei, turned of the t.v.
"We heard enough..." Wei said sadly.
Lot of elders of the Li clan, dressed in Hong Kong's traditional clothing, in the big council like room were thinking and talking of what was going on. But the seventeen year old boy that was top of the council could only think of something else.
'Sakura...' he thought as the name came out as air from his lips. He then finally can talk as he whispered, "She probably have forgotten me... But I have never forgotten you..."
Unexpectedly, a salty drop ran down from his right eye to his lips. 'No way... She can't be... Not dead! Why her and every other person... Why couldn't it be me... Doushite! Sakura... You can't be... I-I still love you!' Syaoran thought as his insides trembled. He then got off his chair and ran out of the enormous room through the Li clan's residence. Everyone in the whole house hold looked at him with clueless expressions as he ran hiding his face. Arriving in his room, he picked up his sacred sword, that has been passed on for centuries, old as Clow Reed himself, and ran out with it in his hand.
Running for ten minutes long in a quarter mile distance away from the Li clan's house hold, he finally stopped. The scenery surrounding him was fairly beautiful before his fiery amber brown eyes. All was grassy hills covered with all shades of green and rainbow colors from the little flowers all around and beneath him. The beauty of all of it reminded him of Sakura. The image before him reminded of Sakura with tears in her beautiful emerald eyes while she gave Syaoran a pink bear with wings while he was leaving and himself saying that he'll come back for her. While he looked at everything with sadness, he dropped to his knees and sat in that position on his feet. His eyes softened while his cinnamon brown hair locks flew gracefully as he gasped for air from all the running. Sword in hand by the hilt, he thrust it into the ground. After a few minutes in that position for a while, he laid his head against his hand on the hilt of the sword. For the first time in years, unexpectedly, he's crying...
"Damn it..."
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"I'm getting tired... How about you?" Sakura asked as she crouched her back forward towards down her knees.
"Hmm... You can't use magic as long for five hours or more. You'll pass out, Sakura... Though, I'm impressed how long you can persist to it. Okay, okay, come over here," Kero replied. he just noticed that they were deliberately slowing down very much.
"Okay... What are you going to do?" Sakura asked, straightening up.
Kero then took her two suit cases and the other in one hand and took Sakura with his free hand in his arms as well.
"Kero-chan?! Let me carry one suit case..."
So, afterwards, dangerously in the air, Sakura ended up with the biggest suit case in her hands. She then got rid of the card magic within her and had the cards go to her pocket. The baton changed into a key after the cards went into one of her pockets.
"Are you at least a slightest bit tired from carrying the suit cases, including me?" Sakura asked while she hid her face with the suit case in her grip. 'I can't be blushing! This is Kero-chan!'
Kero smiled and still looked forward. He then answered in a happy tone, "Iie, not at all! This form is really strong!"
Sakura giggled and looked at his face. Redness crept to her cheeks again.
"Nani? Why are you looking at me like that?" Kero asked.
"Hoee... Nandemonai! I wasn't looking at you! Heh heh hehhhh..." Sakura replied while she tightly gripped the handle of the suit case.
"Oh, okay... What ever you say," Kero said with a clueless expression on his face.
"Sugoi! Look at the scenery!" Sakura gasped at the country scenery below her.
"It's Hong Kong..." Kero answered.
"It seems it haven't been touched like Japan was..." Sakura said with relief in her voice, but Kero could see the dolefulness in her eyes. He could tell that Sakura wants this dream to be over with.
"Hmm..." Kero thought out loudly.
"So, where are we stopping at in Hong Kong?" Sakura asked with a change of an attitude, in which she smiled her cutest smile up at Kero.
"Li clan's residence..." Kero dully replied.
"Nani?!" Sakura gasped, yet her heart went giddy with excitement.
"They're our number one priority! Heh heh... Afterall, they all related to Clow Reed and I'm sure they'll help us..." Kero said with an awkward smile.
"Wouldn't people freak out, though...?"
"Uh... We'll stop where there's nobody and hide our looks, that people freak about for some reason, even if it's the dream world..."
"Okay," Sakura said as she laughed with full rejoice.
Kero looked at her and his nose, with no expectation, twitched.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Sakura asked with a clueless expression.
"You look kawaii when you laugh and smile," Kero answered with an awkward grin.
Sakura blushed and her hands were sweaty from gripping onto the suit case handle too tightly. Kero have always said she looked 'kawaii,' but in a human body like this one and a voice like a young man, it's different.
"Heh heh... Why are you blushing?" Kero asked as he laughed fully. Sakura blushed even more.
"I-It's just the cold, really..." Sakura said hesitantly. It was the truth. She was getting goose bumps all over her arms and legs.
"O-Oh... Gomen ne," Kero answered in a whisper. So, he held Sakura more closely to him while he had two suit cases in one hand.
"Hoee..." Sakura sighed. She wasn't expecting this from the beginning of the whole chaos.
"What is it?" Kero asked in worry.
"Nandemonai... You're really warm. Oh, that's right, you have the power of the Sun, right?"
"Hai... I forgot about that..."
"I-I forgot!" Sakura gasped.
"Nani?!" Kero gasped after she put her head up straight.
"I have blood all over me..."
Kero sweat-dropped and replied, "When we stop, we'll clean up with 'The Bubble' and I'll get a clean shirt on, to satisfy people out here with no question asking... I think you're alright."
Sakura smiled and rested her head against his shoulder.
"We might see that Li gaki... Well, maybe not, if he grew up... So, don't get carried... away..."Kero said, but Sakura was already asleep. He sighed and went on his traveling.
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"Sakura, I found a spot," Kero said peering down at Sakura's angelic sleeping face with his.
Sakura's eyes opened half way and and saw big golden eyes peering down at her own emerald green ones.
"AAHHHHH!" Sakura screamed.
"Not so loud! Here's a place I told you I will stop at, that will hide us from the public... So, wake up before I will drop you!" Kero shouted without thinking. He was very tired that very minute, though he hated when Sakura screams at him when he tries to wake her up.
"Gomen nasai!" Sakura apologized while she was afraid that Kero will drop her, instead he held her more closer. Sakura then looked down and saw that they're on land already.
"Gomen ne, to you, too. I didn't mean to snap at you like that..." Kero apologized back, surprised at his own temper.
Sakura looked up at him and smiled. Kero's nose twitched again and he let her down.
"Ahem... We need to get on with it..." Kero said while he turned his back to her.
Sakura looked at him irresolutely and shrugged. Afterwards, turning her back to him, she changed her key to a baton with the usual ritual and got out 'The Bubble' card to wash herself and her clothes with a nice scent, and letting her hair alone. After that was done, she wasn't wet at all and the blood stain, that was there for a while, is now gone to her own relief.
But Kero was a different story.
"I have to get rid of my wings again..." Kero said with a strangely calm voice.
Sakura looked behind her, at him with a stricken expression, and patted his shoulder.
"You can change back to being the little cute one..." Sakura said with an awkward smile, but she knew that Kero would have thought of that before her.
"I can't... I've tried when you did 'The Bubble' card cleaning technique on yourself..." Kero said as he looked down at himself.
"A-Ano, you said that you could change into that form, earlier!" Sakura replied with her heart starting to get sickened by the pain Kero had to suffer.
"Well, not this time... It never happened with my true form... I-I guess I'm stuck with this one..." Kero said as he looked at Sakura , who looked down this time.
After a few minutes of silence between them, Sakura finally said, "Just... Get out your wings, whenever you need to, as for putting away your wings, also..."
Kero nodded and put his arms around a tree once again. It's at least a good support. Sakura looked at him and nodded slowly.
Again, like he did before, he screamed in pain while the wings shrinked down in his back. Also, there was two deep long gashes gushing out blood all over himself. Kero dropped down to his knees and looked at Sakura with blank eyes.
Sakura got out 'The Bubble' card, again, and commanded it to clean Kero up. After a while, Sakura could see that 'The Bubble' did a great job cleaning his wounds and all the blood, that was all over his back, all gone to her satisfaction.
"Don't use your power on me, Sakura. It will heal, eventually... I have faster cells than a human's, like Yue" Kero said as Sakura examined his back.
"What makes you think that?" Sakura asked as she put her hands on her hips.
"I could feel it healing, but slowly it's going, though faster than a human could heal," Kero explained.
Sakura smiled and said, "Sugoi! But, don't do the wing noumenon often!"
Kero smiled back and went with Sakura helping him walk to the suit cases to examine them. He opened the biggest one and saw that it's all packed with food and other things for survival. After that one, he looked into the other one and saw that it's all packed with Touya's clothing. He figured that the last one was all of Sakura's belongings. Picking up a nice short-sleeved, light blue, mostly polyester-less cotton made, and with a button up collar, he pulled it up over his head.
"Heh heh... I-I need help," Kero said with embarrassment.
Sakura smiled at him and helped him put his head through out the collar of the shirt and putting his arms through out the sleeves.
"There! You look great! Come on lets go!" Sakura said with excitement. Then she stopped in her tracks. "You're okay, right? With the shirt on your wounds?"
"Watashi daijobu desu wa," Kero answered with a smile. "I think they're closing up, now."
"Good! You do know where the Li clan's residence is, right?"
"Hai! It's around a mile walk from here!"
"You're so great, Kero-chan!"
"Arigatou! Hee hee hee..." Kero answered with a grin. 'I know... I'm the all-knowing Kero.'
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"Who is she and who is he?" asked a photographer.
"I don't know... How should I know?" answered a school girl next to him, who eventually adores Li Syaoran.
A few yards in distance away from them, a young man with dark curls said, "She's pretty... But she's with that guy."
"Shut up, Chien! He's cute... But he's with that girl," said his girl friend. Afterwards, they had their own glaring contest.
In the busy streets by the poor street markets, a little girl pulled onto her grandmother's skirt.
"What is it, honey?" the grandmother asked.
"She's pwetty!" answered the little girl.
"Yes... She's a fine young lady..."
Apparently, Sakura and Kero were walking through busy streets and markets in Hong Kong, among the people surrounding them, going everywhere in different directions. Lot of people were looking at them with different expressions of awe or jealousy.
"Kero-chan, everyone's looking at us... Hoee..." Sakura whispered, even though it was very loud around them from the populous area, but Kero could hear her anyway, since Sakura had her hand in his. He's more likely pulling her along.
"Hoe!" Sakura yelled anyway. Then she hugged Kero from the behind and they walked rest of the way like that. Kero sighed. "If you're thinking I'm crazy, I'm not. It's just that in Tokyo, with more population, doesn't look at me like this... They're looking at you, too, but you're so calm!"
Kero's nose twitched and hung his head while he walked along the way while Sakura was dragged.
Then a lady tapped Sakura's back. It turned out to be one of Syaoran's sisters, Li Feimei.
"Sakura?"
"Hoe?" Sakura answered as she let go of Kero and looked behind her. Kero stopped walking.
"It is you! It's me, Feimei! Oh my gosh! You look so lovely! You're alive, too!"
Kero looked down at Sakura and Sakura smiled cheek to cheek up at Feimei.
"You're thinking of going to the Li clan's house hold, right?" Feimei asked as she pulled Sakura along with her.
Sakura then answered, "Um... yeah, both me and Kero."
"Kero? Cute name... Really. Is that a nick name?"
Sakura sweat-dropped while Kero shook his head.
"Mother! Mother! She's here! That pretty girl's here! She wants to speak with you!" Feimei yelled out as she barged in through the door of an enormous ancient Chinese-styled mansion.
"Sugoi!" Sakura yelled in awe as she was let go by Feimei.
All of the furniture, paintings, and figurines was ancient Chinese fashioned. They were all of different colors and had it's one glimmer from where ever the sun was shining at. It was all wonders.
Kero tapped her shoulder and grinned, "Come on! We need to follow her..." Kero said as he pulled her along, once again, interrupting her thoughts.
"R-Right... Sakura answered, but she still walked and stopped after Kero went ahead, so he had to push her along.
All the maids and butlers were smiling at her and awed by Kero's and Sakura's appearance.
After a few minutes gone by, they couldn't find Li Feimei. They were lost until Li Yelan, Syaoran's mother, came and looked at them with her usual grim look. Unexpectedly, Li Yelan hugged Sakura tightly.
"Oh, I missed you so..." she said with an accent for talking in Japanese.
"I-I missed you, too!" Sakura said with tears coming to her eyes, even though she knows that it is a dream.
Feimei was standing there all along and clapped her hands and said, "I'll find my little brother!"
Li Yelan smiled and looked back at Sakura and asked, "Who's this young man here?"
"He's the Guardian Beast of the Clow cards," Sakura said with a cute smile.
The tall lady in front of her laughed and said, "Oh really? I thought he was a lion-cat like beast..."
"I have this form now... It happened ever since Yue died, which was yesterday..."
Li Yelan looked at him in surprise and Sakura was even surprised that Li Yelan was about an inch taller than Kero.
Kero smirked and said in a happy tone, "I'm hungry! Have anything sweet and good to eat?"
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To Be Continued... On to Chapter 2 of Dream Stuck---
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