Written by Sakura Tsukino

September 15, 2001

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            Sakura sagged up the stairs to her bedroom, dragging her backpack with her. She brushed aside a stray lock of her short hair, and sighed. She threw her backpack on top of her bed when she reached her room, and let herself fall next to it, her face landing in her pillow.

            "Why is every day the same?" Sakura muttered through the pillow. It was only the first week of school, and once again everyone had ignored her, no one talking to her unless it was needed, and no one wanted her to play with them, but no one ever said anything. People where nice at her school, but everyone just felt weird around her, one girl had once admitted to her.

            She sighed again and sat up. Sakura was nice to everyone, warm and open to them, always cheering for them, congratulating students with good grades, and always smiling. Why would they be afraid of her?

            "Hey, Kaiju, you alright?" Sakura looked up annoyed at her older brother, Touya. Sakura had just turned fourteen, and still she never one a fight with him.

            "What do you want, Touya?" Sakura asked stuffing her face back into the pillow.

            "Are you alright?" Touya asked walking in to stand next to her bed.

            "Yeah…" Sakura lied, sitting up.

            "Right…well listen, dad and I are leaving to go to a meeting with my new teachers, will you be alright by your self? Dad said you can invite a friend over." Touya said. Sakura felt like laughing. Her? A friend? The only person that was remotely nice to her was that new rich girl, Daidouji, Tomoyo.

            "Yeah, I'll be fine." Sakura said instead.

            "Ok, see you later then." Touya replied, and left her room. She waited a minuet until she heard her father pull out of the driveway with Touya and stood up.

            "Might as well get some homework done." Sakura picked up her backpack and pulled out her math textbook and placed it down on the desk, and opened it to today's lesson.

            She grabbed a piece of paper from her backpack and a pencil, and began to head her paper, when she heard something downstairs, faintly.

            "What? No ones home…" Sakura said worriedly. I must just be hearing- she thought when she heard it again. She gulped and stood up. Perhaps Touya had not gone? Maybe he decided to stay or something? Quietly Sakura opened her door and walked down the stairs.

            "Touya? What are you doing?" She called out through the house, trying to sound casual. She stood still for a minuet, waiting for her brother to hopefully respond. Again she heard something, heading from the basement.

            "Ahh, he must be doing something down there!" Sakura said, unsure. She opened the door and walked down the couple of stairs. It was dimly lit, and Sakura looked around for the light switch, knowing Touya would not be down their if he did not even turn the light on.

            She could not find the light switch, but she could still see, and so she continued to look around. Nothing unusually, just a small library of books her father kept, and a couple of other things, but nothing interesting.

            Sakura stopped when she saw something in between two bookshelves. It was a red, thick book, sitting on a pedestal. Walking closer to it, she saw the outline of what looked like and angel, and the words 'Clow Book', written on top.

            "Clow Book? What is this?" Sakura asked confused, forgetting about the noise and opened the cover. But unlike the pages of words and pictures she had expected, it seemed as if someone had taken a knife and cut a rectangular shaped out of all the pages, and then placed cards in it.

            "Cards?" She picked up the top on, while resting the book on her other arm. She turned it over and saw a strange looking image. It was of a woman, or so it might have been, had she not been wrapped in two long white wings, and her arms where crossed in front of her. On the bottom of the card was written the word 'Windy'.

            "Windy?" she whispered confused, and nearly screamed when a strong gust came from no where and starting knocking over books and papers everywhere. She closed her eyes tightly, and put her arms up in front of her to protect her self, still holding the card.

            When the wind died down, she opened her eyes and gasped, all the cards where gone, except the one in her hand, and the back of the cover was glowing.

            "What happened?!" Sakura gasped. "Where are all those other cards?!" She backed away a few feet as the light suddenly burst, and she could not see. After a minuet, she opened her eyes again hesitantly.

            "Kami-sama…" she breathed as she looked at the form in front of her. It was a man, with long white/silver hair to his waist, where it was then pulled back into a ponytail that continued to his feet. He wore long white robes, with purple, dark blue, and sometimes red markings along it. His arms where crossed, and his eyes where shut. And coming out of his back where two, long, elegant silvery wings.

            "A Tenshi!" The 'tenshi' opened his eyes at her softly murmured words and looked at her coldly, and Sakura saw his purple/lavender eyes for the first tiem. He glanced around him and then looked back at Sakura.

            "I am not an Angel, girl," he said, sounding tired and annoyed. "I am Yue, Guardian of the Moon, and sealer of the Clow Cards, which you let escape."

            "What? You mean this?" Sakura asked lifting up the card that said 'Windy' on it.

            "Yes, their where more of them in that book," he said, glancing down at the red book that was in her arms. "The Clow Book, and because you let them out, you must retrieve them."  

            "How?" Sakura asked confused, still slightly dazed by him. He must be a tenshi! Look at his wings! "I don't know where they are." He looked down at the book.

            "You opened the book, and where able to use that card…that means you have magic inside you, so you will use magic to capture cards. Tell me your name, girl."

            "My name? It's Sakura." She answered unsure.

            "Key of the seal," Yue said, looking at the book, and out of it came a small key with a bird's beak on it. "Someone wishes to make a contract with you. A girl. Her name is Sakura." Sakura stared as the key began to glow, and she felt some sort of energy blow out from it, making her skirt flap out behind her.

            "Key! Give her power! Release!" Yue continued, and the small key grew, until it was a long staff, floating in front of her, and Yue watched with a slight smirk as the symbol of magic glowed beneath the new sorceress's young feet.

            "Welcome to our world, Sakura. Now, grab the staff." Yue instructed, and Sakura did so hesitantly. The staff stopped glowing suddenly, and lay in her clutching hands like another stick.

            "What is this?" she asked staring at all its features.

            "That is the sealing staff, that you will use to capture the Clow Cards." Yue explained.

            "I don't get it, why must I do it, and how will this staff help." Sakura looked back up at Yue and felt scared as he looked down at her impatiently.

            "You are a sorceress now, Sakura. You have had the power to be one since your birth, but I have awakened you hidden magic. These cards where created by a sorcerer like you many years ago, his name was Clow Reed." Sakura felt confused as she heard a wistful note in his voice.

            "Theses cards have a strong magic, like the Windy Card. The Firey Card has power over fire, and the Big Card can turn things into three times their original size. To make sure these cards did not get loose, he created myself to guard the cards, but because of you, the cards are loose. Now it is your responsibility to re-seal them."

            "Oh." Sakura said, not really understanding. Yue glanced at her confused expression and sighed.

            "Listen, gir-Sakura," he corrected, "I will be there to help you but only you can seal them, understand?" She nodded.

            "Yes, but where are you going to live? Do you really live in that book?"

            "I did, before you released the cards. Now I shall live with you." Yue explained.

            "What?! My dad won't let some guy with wings live with me, especially one older than me!" Sakura wanted to hit herself after that. This was a tenshi, or something close to one. She would not have to worry about that.

            "Well than you will live with me." Yue said, unconcerned. She stared at him stupidly.

            "Where? In that book?!" she asked incredulously. Yue sighed and shook his head.

            "Not in the book, forget about it. You can live with me where Cerberus and I used to live." Yue explained.

            "Where is that? And who is Cerberus?"

            "My brother, you might say. But it is really impossible for that, since we where both created by Clow Reed, and are not exactly real. We are merely made to help out sorcerers for eternity." He spat out angrily. Sakura felt bad for him. She could not stand living knowing she was created only to help somebody with someone.

            "This Clow Reed person sounds cruel to do this to you!" Sakura said upset.

            "Really, Sakura? Most sorcerers do it, but you have not grown up with them, have you? Suppose you thought it did not exist, magic? Clow Reed was actually one of the nicer ones. Usually you find sorcerers, especial sorceresses tend to feel better then everyone else because of their powers. No doubt you will be no different in a few years." He responded looking at her like she was a waist of his time.

            "No! I won't do that!" Sakura promised, feeling angry that he would think that of her.

            "Maybe not now, but magic has a way of changing people, not always for the better. Now, come with me." He quickly grabbed her arm, and pulled her to him.

            "Hey! No! Wait, Yue!" Sakura yelled, trying to get away from him. Yue ignore her, and wrapped his wings around them both.

            "To the place of the Moon and Sun's creation!" he said, and Sakura felt her head spin as the ground suddenly fell out from under her feet.

            Around them was a rather large room. It had a couch, a large bed, and a rug on the floor. All along the walls where scrolls in strange symbols she could not read, and a couple of desks had several papers and what looked like designs of cards similar to the one she still had in her hand.

            Yue let go of her and she stood on her feet dizzily. The room was made of wood, and there was a small step to where that bed was. She turned to look back at Yue, who was smirking again at her pale face.

            "Where are we?!?!?! How do we get out?!?!?!" She asked frightened. There where no doors, and no windows anywhere.

            "This is where Clow Reed created Cerberus and I. He created a room outside of space so that he could have a place to put all his magic, and for us to live when we wanted too. And to get out, it's the same way we got in, of course." Yue answered simply, smiling in enjoyment at her fear.

            "Yue please, take me back! My dad and brother will be home soon!" Sakura begged.

            "So?" he asked confused.

            "Yue! They will expect me to be home when they return! If I am gone, they will get angry and worried!" She answered desperately.

            "Well than, I will have to live with you at your house." Yue argued.

            "But I already told you, you can't!" Sakura said, growing angry.

            "Then you will stay here." He smiled, and crossed his arms.

            "Yue, how about you live here, and I will live in my house, and you can tell me how to get here when I need to talk to you." She suggested hopefully.

            "Fine." Yue grabbed her again, wrapping his wings around them, and in a second, they where back in the basement.

            "Now, tell me how to get back to where we just where." Sakura said.

            "Just say 'To the place of the Moon and Sun's creation'." Yue explained.

            "Ok. To the place of the Moon and Sun's creation!" Sakura did as he told her and became upset when nothing happened.  

            "It didn't work. Maybe you where wrong, and I don't have magic." She said sadly.

            "Of course you have magic. It did not work because you did not use the staff. Hold it up and concentrate on it while saying that." She held up the staff and concentrated on it like he had told her too. Please work! She thought.

            "To the place of the Moon and Sun's creation!" Sakura said again, and panicked when she felt herself falling through the floor.

            "Ahhhh!" she screamed, and was not prepared for when she fell on the floor of the room. Yue laughed from behind her, and she saw that it had worked.

            "You should be careful, you could have hurt yourself." Yue warned uncaringly.

            "Forget it, Yue. How do I get back?" she asked softly, no longer worried. Yue looked at her curiously at her voice.  

            "Hmm." He said, looking slightly surprised, as if he had found something in her. "Just say 'back the way I came'."

            "Doomo, Yue." Sakura thanked, smiling brightly, and Yue was taken aback by her friendliness towards him.

            "Back the way I came!" Sakura said, holding the staff up, and held herself back from screaming once again as the floor fell out from under her, and this time she did not fall on the floor of the basement. A second later, Yue stood there next to her.

             "You might be better than I thought, Sakura." Yue told her smiling.

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            Sakura tossed her backpack on the floor next to the front door as she closed the door, while tears streamed down her face the next day after school.

            "Why did they do that?!" Sakura asked no one in particular as she then ran up the stairs, and closed her door behind her. She stuffed her face into the pillow like she had yesterday, and continued to cry.

            She shivered as she felt a soft breeze blow against her back, and ignored it.

            "What don't they like?" she asked brokenly. "Why did they do that to me?" she asked out loud again. She stiffened as a cool finger brushed down her back.

            "Why did who do what to you?" asked a cold voice. Sakura jumped up and turned around, sitting on her knees to look at Yue's impassive face.

            "Yue!" Sakura said surprised, still crying. "Yue, all the kids at school, they are always ignoring me, not wanting to be around me. But today, today it was worse! They all stayed away from me, and when they did talk to me, they made fun of me. They kept saying I was dumb and naïve, always smiling and being nice to people. They said I was not as good as them, and when I started walking home they threw sand and rocks at me. They only stopped when this girl, Tomoyo, started yelling at them!" she weeped.

            Yue smiled down at her kindly and wrapped his arms around her gently, running his hand down her short hair, surprising her. She had thought Yue would always be mocking her, but perhaps she had been wrong.

            "Sakura, I think it has something to do with your magic. Even people with out it can feel it, even if they don't know what it is. It scares most people, and when I awakened your power, they probably felt it even stronger."

            "But Yue, I don't want people to be mean to me, I want to be their friends, and want to have a friend for once in my life." She sobbed.

            "What of that girl? Tomoyo?" Yue suggested. "She did not fear you."

            "Yeah, your right. I'll try to talk to her." Sakura replied, feeling better.

            "Well anyways, Sakura, I came to tell you I felt a Clow Card, and I need you to capture it." Yue said, getting serious, and he pulled back.

            "A Clow Card? Already?" Sakura asked, wiping away a few tears away, suddenly remembering something. "Yue, something happened at school today. A large bird appeared and created a gust of wind, but I was the only that saw it. Everyone thought I was crazy when I asked if they saw it."

            "A bird? It might be the Fly Card." Yue suggested. "Bring me to your school."

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            "This is where I saw it," Sakura explained. "Here, by the soccer field." Yue stood behind her looking around.

            "You know, now that I think about it, I had a strange dream last night. Their was this large bird, and it was injured." She recalled. Yue raised an eyebrow at her.

            "Don't tell me you can also see the future." Yue said smirking again.

            "See the future? What do you- Look! Their it is!" Sakura cut off and pointed upwards where a large bird flew.

            "Sakura! Use the Fly Card!" Yue instructed.

            "Right!" Before Sakura had gone to sleep last night, Yue had insisted that she know how to use the cards, and was thankful he had.

            "The key that hides the forces of darkness! Show your true identity! I, Sakura, command you under the covenant. Release the seal!" Sakura called, and the key in her hand stretched out into the staff, and she pulled out The Windy Card.

            "The card crafted by Clow. Give power to my key. Bestow the power of the card unto my key. Grant unto me your powers! Windy!" Sakura recited the words Yue had given her, and hit the card that hung in the air with the 'beak' of her staff. "Wind! Become my chain of caution!" A form identical to the one on the card shot out of it, and darted towards the bird, but the bird dodged it.

            "Yue! Windy didn't work!" Sakura said, panicking. "Wait! I have an idea." Sakura ran and quickly climbed up the fence next to her.

            "Sakura! What are you doing!" Yue yelled, flying quickly towards her, but was forced back as Fly flew by him, right over the fence. Sakura jumped onto the bird and clung to its neck, and the bird screamed at her.

            "Ahh! It's ok! Don't be afraid!" she said calmingly, hugging its neck, and Fly looked at her with one of its round eyes.   

            "Your hurt," she said, looking at its leg. "Like in my dream." The bird suddenly shrunk, turning into a normal sized bird in Sakura's hand, and Sakura squinted her eyes as she fell.       

            "Sakura!" Yue said angrily as he caught her, and put her back down on the ground. Sakura ignored him and looked at the small bird smiling happily up at her from her palms.

            "Your alright, little guy." She cooed to him, and he rubbed his head against her face, making Sakura giggle. Fly stopped and then turned into a Clow Card once more, and Sakura held it up to look at it.

            "I got it, Yue!" Sakura said excitedly, holding out for him to see. Yue glanced at the card.

            "You only have two out of fifty-two. You should be prepared from now on, Sakura." Yue replied.

            "Huh? But I caught my first card, aren't you glad?" Sakura asked.

            "Why should I be glad? Each card you capture, it gets closer to the day that will either make you my mistress, or make me guardian of the seal again." He said bitterly.

            "Make me your mistress?" Sakura asked confused. Yue shook his head.

            "Forget it, just go on home." Yue replied with a sigh.

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            Eh, what do you think so far? ^.^ I know it is shorter than the chapters in TGWSTM, but I wanted to know what you lot thought. You probably noticed the Japanese words I used, but hopefully I wrote it so you understood it. Hopefully. x.x Well if you didn't, here is what they meant:

Tenshi: Angel

Doomo: Thank you.

Kaiju: What Touya always is calling Sakura. It means 'monster' from what I hear.

            Next chapter I will probably use more, but the translations will be before the actual story, so don't worry. ^_-