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Al right! TGWSTM is finally done, and I can continue with this story. I'm soooo sorry for taking so long. You all have probably heard of writer's block and that's what I got. -.- Anyways, for those who don't know, (I got a review asking about this) TGWSTM is just the abbreviated form of my other fanfics, The Girl Who Stole the Moon, which most of you have already read. I had begun TGWSTM as a one-time thing that just popped into my head during math, my dullest class, last year. So yeah, it has been in my head for a looong time. ^_- But after that I have decided to become a fanfics author, so here is my second one.
Oh yeah, I changed my mind and I am going to use those 'kun' and 'chan' thingies at the end of names. I am just so used to hearing them call each other like that, it got strange not adding them. x.x
Disclaimers- Card Captor Sakura is property of CLAMP and Nelvana, and whoever else.
A.N.- Be Genki! (^.^) (^.^) (^.^) Kami-sama knows I am! (usually ^.^)
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Faraway DreamsWritten by Sakura Tsukino
September 18, 2001
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Sakura had cried, begged, faked sick, and what ever else she could think of to her father so she would not have to go to school that morning. She did not want to go through another day of people shunning her because they felt her magic and where afraid of her for it.
However, her father had insisted she go to school, and so now there she was trudging up the steps of her school, head down. She was thankful for once that she was late, and no one was around. She walked to her locked and pulled out a few books then shut her locker.
"Ahhh!" she screamed as a small head suddenly appeared in her face. She had navy blue eyes that seemed nearly black, and long ravenous hair that was slightly wavy near the end. "Daidouji-san! Gomen-nasai! You startled me."
"Gomen, Kinomoto-san, I should not have surprised you so. I just meant to talk to you, please." Tomoyo explained. Sakura blinked and studied the girl. Why is it that she is not afraid of me or angry like all the others? Perhaps she was too dense to sense it? Tomoyo looked as if she was just talking to any other girl though, with the exception of her wide curious eyes filled with excitement.
"I was just wondering, Kinomoto-san, what this is about?" Tomoyo held out a camcorder, and popped open the display screen. She then pressed a button to play the screen that was on the tape, and Sakura gasped.
It showed Sakura flying on her staff, after using the Fly Card last night. Sakura had been curious as to what it would do, and Yue had told her to try it out. How had Daidouji-san seen her?
"Ah! Wh-what is this, Daidouji-san? A movie?" Sakura asked innocently.
"Yes, a rather interesting movie I recorded last night, of a girl that looks just like you flying around on a large staff with wings." Tomoyo said smiling. "Is that really you, Kinomoto-san? How did you do it?" she asked in a hushed whisper.
"I, ah, well, erm. Oh I guess I have to tell you now." Sakura sighed. "I don't think Yue-san will be happy with me, but I can't make you forget what you've seen and have recorded."
Sakura had never answered so many questions in just a few minuets while they both walked to class. Tomoyo made Sakura retell her, in detail, what happened in her basement, and the capturing of her first card. She even insisted that she make her outfits to wear while she recorded it all.
At lunch, after finishing up on any last details, Sakura and Tomoyo found out that besides the whole incident of the Clow Cards and Yue, they really got along great, and when lunch ended, Sakura invited her over to her house after school.
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"This is the Clow Book that I found all the cards in. Yue came out of it, I think…See, I only have Windy and Fly right now." Sakura and Tomoyo where in her room, while Sakura held up the book and showed her everything.
"Oh wow! These cards really let you fly last night?" Tomoyo's eyes turned glossy as she went into her own little dream world. Sakura smiled at her new friend. She had expected things to get worse as she collected more cards. But now she knew she could stand it since she had Tomoyo, and even Yue.
"Yep. Here, I'll show you." Sakura said brightly, pulling out the chain from inside her shirt that had the key on it. "The key that hides the forces of darkness! Show your true identity! I, Sakura, command you under the covenant. Release the seal!" Sakura stood there with the staff in her hand with Tomoyo gushing all over her, telling her how 'kawaii' she was, and how cool it would be to see her in action.
Sakura stared in shock as she saw what seemed like the air in front of her eyes got distorted, and suddenly standing behind Tomoyo was Yue, looking down at Sakura then Tomoyo.
"I'll get started right away on the costumes! Like you said, you never know when a card will suddenly pop up, or-"
"Sakura-san, who is this?" Yue asked coldly, glaring at the back of Tomoyo's head. Tomoyo stilled, and turned around nearly bumping into Sakura to stare at Yue.
"A tenshi!" Tomoyo said, nearly mimicking Sakura, as her hand flew up to cover her mouth. Sakura giggled.
"Oh, Daidouji-san! That's Yue-san!" Sakura said, realizing how she must have looked when she first saw him.
"Is Yue a tenshi?"
"No! But he sure looks like on, ne?" Sakura whispered in her ear, though Yue heard anyways.
"Sakura-san, why did you allow her to find out about your sorcery?" he asked angrily, ignoring Tomoyo completely.
"Yue-san, doomo, but she saw me last night using the Fly, there was nothing I could do." She replied worriedly.
"So you told her everything?"
"H-hai, I did." Sakura replied looking down.
"Please, ah, Yue-sama, but it was not Kinomoto-san's fault. Besides, I won't tell anyone." Tomoyo said cautiously. Yue regarded her harshly.
"You know what you know, and it is up to Sakura-san to do what she will. And if she wishes for you to know, then there is nothing I can do. However, if you become an obstacle for her to capture the cards, I will do something about it." Tomoyo covered her mouth as her eyes widened and Sakura glared at Yue.
"Yue-san, you will do no such thing! Daidouji-san is-"
"Sakura-san, your duty is to capture the cards. It is mine to keep them sealed. Sorcerers all have something they must do. When they complete that, they then obtain something else they must do. And we must abide by them and the rules until the job is done. Even if it means doing something we don't want to." Yue cut her off, and with a cold glare, he vanished within his wings.
"Well, you where not kidding when you said that Yue could be a little…cold towards people." Tomoyo mumbled, gawking at where Yue had just vanished.
"Yeah, but I don't mind him. I just wonder why he would act like that? I would think it was Clow Reed, but that seems to be the only subject her perks up about." Sakura explained.
"Really? After what you told me about him? That's odd." Tomoyo shrugged.
"Well anyways, Kinomoto-san-"
"Sakura." Tomoyo blinked, as the small girl seemed to beam up at her.
"What?" she asked confused.
"Call me Sakura…Tomoyo-chan." Tomoyo smiled down at the girl she had just met. She had known she was different when she first saw her…she had felt it. Sakura was a special person indeed.
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"Look, there she is! Yes, that's the girl. With the green eyes and strange hair style."
"Stay away from her, that girl is strange."
"Yeah, and only that one girl, that rich kid is ever with her."
"I heard she is a witch. Maybe she cursed the poor girl?"
"Yeah, she tried to help her out, must have felt bad for her, and now look what happened? We have to get her to leave…"
Sakura cringed mentally as she walked down the halls, allowing her hair to go over her shoulders and cover her face. No, I need to learn to ignore them! It's not their fault though, it's my magic…
"Sakura-chan? Are you alright?" Sakura looked up into Tomoyo's worried purple eyes.
"Oh! Tomoyo-chan! Yeah, I'm all right. Let's get to class." She said, smiling falsely.
"Sakura-chan," Tomoyo sighed, waving a finger in her face, "You have to tell me if something is wrong. After all, am I not your friend? After school, you'll tell me all!" Sakura sighed, smiling slightly as her new friend pulled her off.
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Sakura opened her window and looked out at the Moon that hung in the sky. Resting her elbows on the sill, she propped her head on her hands as the leaves rustled in a near by tree.
It had been nearly a month since she had become a Card Captor. She had captured almost one fourth of the cards, and Tomoyo was helping her with the kids at school. Yue stayed the same, acting coldly and uncaring to everyone and everything.
I'm worried about Yue…what happened to make him act like this? Why can't we be friends?
"He is too serious." Sakura stated to the sky. The wind brushed against her cheek, as if trying to tell her a secrete only it knew.
"When I capture all the cards, is he going to leave? What will happen to the cards? They will be sealed again, right?"
A pale hand rested on her shoulder, and Sakura did not move. She knew it was Yue; he had come up behind her out of nowhere what felt like hundreds of times now.
"That is not what you must worry about, Sakura-san. Capture the cards is all you must do, for now." Yue said.
"Yue-san, aren't you glad your not stuck in the Clow Book anymore?" Sakura asked as she turned around to face him. Yue's eyes looked down at Sakura, nearly emotionless.
"I would prefer being back as the seal of the cards, but what I wanted has never been an issue."
Sakura could not believe that Yue, this angel, could be happy locked away when he should be soaring among the clouds with the birds, listening to the stars sing.
"But Yue-san, don't you like being with me at all?" Sakura asked, slightly hurt. Yue-san hates me! Because of me, he was forced to help me get the cards back!
"Gomen! Gomen-nasai!" Sakura said before Yue could say anything, her eyes watering. What a stupid question! Of course he doesn't like being with you! "You don't like it here, and it is my fault. Gomen-nasai!"
Yue had been startled by the question, and was not sure how to answer. Then suddenly Sakura had started apologizing. He stared at her, at a loss as to what to say.
"Gomen-nasai! I promise, I will collect the cards for you quickly so you can return to the Clow Book." Sakura continued, wiping a tear from her eye. She said 'gomen' once more before she ran out of the room.
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After that day, Sakura did her best to avoid being with Yue, and looked everywhere for a sign of a Clow card. If something unusual happened, she hurried to inspect it. Most of the time it was nothing, but when it was a card, she would be sure and fast to capture it.
Tomoyo had started making outfits for Sakura to where, and had recorded every capture she could. Sakura could not stand to be around Yue, even though she began to miss him.
That night, Sakura was in her room, lying in bed trying to get to sleep. But she kept recalling Yue's face in her mind, staring at her impassively. Yue-san really is so beautiful and elegant…Sakura sighed and closed her eyes, pulling her blanket up to her chin while closing her eyes. But he hates me…what can I do to make him forgive me? How do you ask an angel for forgiveness?
Maybe when all the cards are captured, he will finally forgive me…Sakura decided that that had to be the only way, and finally she drifted to sleep, dreaming of Yue's cold face.
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"Tomoyo-chan?"
"Hai, Sakura-chan?"
"Do you like Yue-san?"
"Like Yue-san?" Tomoyo blinked and thought about it, pulling back a strand of black hair against the cold wind. Winter was just around the corner, as the cherry blossoms showed as the drifted around them at Tomoyo's house. They where sitting on the porch in Tomoyo's backyard, just as the sun was setting. "I mean, besides being so quite all the time and all, I suppose he's alright. I'm sure if he would open up some, he would be really nice."
"Tomoyo-chan, I really like Yue-san, but I'm afraid that he hates me." Sakura confessed. "If I had never gone down into the basement, then this never would have happened." Tomoyo walked over and rested her hand on Sakura's shoulder, smiling brightly.
"Don't worry Sakura-chan, I'm sure Yue-san does not hate you."
"I really like him, Tomoyo-chan. He is so ethereal and beautiful. His hair is so silky, and shines like moonlight." Sakura sighed.
"Really?" Tomoyo said nudging her friend. "Are you sure you only want him to be your friend…?" Sakura looked questioningly at her friend.
"Nani?" Tomoyo giggled.
"Sakura-chan, it sounds like you have a crush on the silver-haired tenshi!" Sakura blushed a deep crimson as she stared horrified at the elegant girl.
"Nani?! You're kidding?! How could I like Yue-san when he most likely doesn't like me!"
"Well think about it, Sakura-chan." Tomoyo pried. She smiled, but inside she felt herself cracking. Sakura and Tomoyo never kept secretes, but there was one secrete Tomoyo could never tell Sakura. It was on of her deepest fears that someone might find out, that Daidouji Tomoyo was in love with Kinomoto Sakura.
She did not know when it had happened, but over the course of capturing cards, Tomoyo had been smitten by the bubbly young girl. However, Sakura's happiness is my happiness. If she does love Yue, then I want her to be happy.
So Tomoyo kept up the mask and continued to ask questions to Sakura, until Sakura admitted maybe she did have a crush on Yue.
"Maybe I do, but then, oh Tomoyo-chan! I just know Yue-san could never like me back!" Sakura said brokenly, as tears formed in her eyes. "And he is so much older than me, he looks ageless, and I am only fourteen!"
"Sakura-chan, you must never give up hope. I bet you Yue-san really does have feelings. Under all that ice I'm positive! He just needs someone with a warm heart like yours to melt it."
"Doomo, Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura said, a little brighter, and hugged her friend tightly.
"Your welcome, Sakura-chan." Tomoyo continued, feeling better herself as she watched her friend brighten. Oh Sakura-chan…I'm just glad your so naïve.
"It's getting dark. I better get home, Tomoyo-chan." Sakura said as she stood up. And she was right, already stars where starting to illuminate the dark blanket draped over the sky.
"Bai-bai!" Sakura smiled as they walked around the side of the house, and reached the front.
"Sayonara, Sakura-chan." Tomoyo answered, and walked inside once she saw Sakura walk around the corner of the road to her house.
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"Ow…my feet are so sore!" Sakura complained as she shut the front door of the Kinomoto household, rubbing her shoeless foot.
"Hey, kaiju, what happened to you?" Touya asked from the counter where he was sipping some coffee. Sakura glared and waved her arms around like a bird.
"Do NOT call me that!" she yelled at her brother.
"Well, you are a little small for a monster…but you act like one though, ne?" Touya teased.
"NANI?!"
"Hey, back Sakura-museum-chan?" Sakura turned around and smiled as she saw her father come out from the basement.
"Dad! Yeah, but I stepped on a rock, and now my foot really hurts." Fujitaka walked over and looked at her foot, which had a slight cut in it.
"Hmm, where you wearing your shoe at the time?" he asked, inspecting the small cut.
"Er, well no. I took it off because I stepped in a puddle, and my sock had gotten wet. I had only wanted to take the sock off, but then I stepped on the rock." Sakura explained.
"Well if you want, I could get you a band aid." Fujitaka offered. Sakura smiled but shook her head.
"No, it's sore, but it will be all right. Thanks anyways, dad." Fujitaka helped her up to her room, even though she complained that she had only gotten a cut, and was perfectly capable of doing so herself.
She closed the door behind her, and turned around when she saw a slight waver in the air, and realized that Yue was coming.
Oh no! What does he want? Is there another card? There aren't to many more…soon he will be able to return to the book, and I will never see him again!
Yue appeared, looking down at Sakura, wings spread out, looking as if he was preparing to fly off somewhere.
"Konnichi-wa, Yue-san!" Sakura said, slightly confused. He glanced down at her, his eyes narrowing slightly, making her nervous. "Eh, Yue-san?"
Sakura suddenly confused when she realized that she was lying down. No, not lying down, but being held, and by Yue-san! He turned around to the window, and jumped out flying.
"Sakura-san, I must talk to you, and this time so you won't be able to run away." He muttered to her as he flew higher, clutching Sakura to him tightly.
Talk? About what? Is he leaving?! Is he going to leave me to go into the book and just wait for me to get all the cards?!
He flew across the town till they where on top of Tokyo Tower, and he placed her down.
"Yue-san…" Sakura asked confused as she looked out across the town, then back up at Yue.
"Sakura-san, why have you not been coming home recently till nearly dark? Why are you so insistent to get the cards?" Sakura stared at him wide eyed. Of course he would notice! I can't believe I thought he would not!
"Yue-san, I thought you would be glad if I captured the cards quickly for you." Sakura said, avoiding the first question. However, it would prove pointless.
"Sakura-san, why do you always return so late?" Yue asked again. Sakura thought a moment for a reason.
"Because I look around for anything suspicious that might be a card, and when I'm with Tomoyo-chan I loose track of time, and usually don't notice till it's almost night time." Yue stared down into her eyes, opening the beautiful and exuberant covers to reveal what the book might hold in its seamless pages.
"Don't try to hide behind lies, Sakura-san. Tell me the truth."
"Yue-san, I-"
"Sakura-san, do you believe that I hate you?" Sakura gasped at his interruption, and stared down at the floor she stood on.
"W-what would make you think that, Yue-san?" Yue grabbed her chin in annoyance and brought her face up to meet his.
"Sakura-san, listen. I do not hate you, nor do I desire to be your friend. That is the truth. I assist you in capturing the cards, since you are the card captor. Then, after that is done, we will have to see what will happen. Sakura-san, do you know you only have one more card to capture?"
Sakura cringed at the truth underlining every word he spoke with clarity. Well at least he doesn't hate me, but is he right? During all this time I was worrying about him hating me, had I really captured all the cards but one?
"No, I did not know." Sakura whispered as Yue still held on to her chin.
"Sakura-san…" Yue closed his eyes tightly, than opened them again. Sakura blinked, had there just been a flicker of emotion in his eyes? "Sakura-san, I loved Clow Reed, and I thought he loved me. But I was wrong, he did not love me the way I loved him. Sakura-san, do you know how that feels?"
Sakura stared. She could not believe he was telling her this.
"N-no."
"Have you ever loved someone before, Sakura-san, with a burning passion?" Sakura was scared at the way his voice was rising, however very slightly, and he was leaning down to her.
"N,no."
"Then how would you know how I was scorned, and why I am the way I am. That is why I cannot afford to get close to anyone, for they will only do the same. My purpose is to do nothing but seal the cards." Yue abruptly let go of her chin and stood up straight. Sakura's felt slightly chilled by his absence. She swallowed and opened her mouth to reply.
"I was worried you hated me for releasing the cards." Yue looked at her calmly, and Sakura could tell he knew there was more. "And…and, I can't tell you the rest."
"I told you my secrete, Sakura-san, now tell me yours." She gave a silent nod, than began softly.
"Because I love yo-" In one fluid motion, he placed his hand over her mouth to silence her.
"You answered me that you did not know what it was like to love someone and not have them love you back the same way. And that is a very good thing for someone with such a high spirit. If you finish that sentence of yours, however, I can't promise that should I ask you again, that you should have the same answer." Sakura starred up at him wide eyed.
Even though she knew she would have been blushing furiously had this been any other time, she did not feel at all stupid or put down. He seemed to honestly not care, but perhaps that was even worse. He did not care for her emotions at all.
She continued to stare at him for a while, while he looked down at her as well. After a moment or two though, he picked her back up, and flew back to her room. Neither one said a word.
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I'm so sorry this took so long to post, and not to mention how short it was, but I felt if I waited any longer I would never get it posted! So now after writing this I have so many ideas to write down…Sorry if this was a little…what is it called…angsty? Drama? Dunno…but that's how this fic is going to be, very different from TGWSTM, and I change my fics around a lot, I have found out from what I write in school.
Sakura Tsukino
Japanese Words-
Hai – Yes
Iie – No
Tenshi – Angel
Sayonara – Good bye (as in wont likely see for the rest of the day)
Baka – Idiot
Doomo – Thank you
Nani – What? (as in surprised/shocked)
Musume-chan – Daughter
Ne – Like in 'don't you agree?' or 'right?' exp. the flowers are pretty, ne?(don't you agree?)
Gomen – Sorry
Gomen-nasai – Very sorry
If I forgot any, or if you have any questions, just ask and I'll translate for ya. ^_^