Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ The China Doll ❯ Lost Without Him ( Chapter 1 )

OMG!!! I can't believe that I've actually finished a long chaptered story (the return)!! Which reminds me, I have to work on the forbidden locket. Hee hee. Never mind. Anyways. I just saw the latest ccs episode!!! It was the one with Li (Syaoran - I hate that American name) and Sakura were in the elevator. AND THEY HUGGED!!!! I am totally obsessed!! Like sailor moon and sweet food!! I also saw three hours of sailor moon!!! Of course this chapter wont be posted for a while so just excuse me for a sec.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Hyper scream for S+S)

Heh heh…I'm kinda hyper at the moment cause of the super kawaii moments!! It's a shame Nelvana had to go and screw up the entire CCS experience by …by…doing EVERYTHING!! The voices are …ok…the names are totally screwed, Tomoyo's personality is screwed, all the S+S moments are screwed…I have never seen a single Japanese episode but I can tell you now that it is by far way better than Nelvana's `screwed' version. I think I like that word. Heh heh.

Ok now. Here is the long awaited chapter one of the sequel to `the return'. Enjoy.

Dedicated to: white mist wolf…*sniff* thank you so much for saying all those things…I really appreciate it!! And I'd never leave my readers waiting for that long and I like writing…so if I stopped posting my stuff on ff.n I'd post it on my crappy site

The China Doll

Chapter 1 - lost without him

Sakura rolled over in her bed for the seventh time that night. It was only 11 pm, but nothing she did could take away her restlessness. For three days she hid in her room and refused visitors, phone calls or food. Even Kero had been shut out. He left one morning to see Tomoyo and when he came back he wasn't allowed in. when he gave up trying to help, he flew back to Tomoyo's house to see. Everyday he would knock on her window to check up on her, only to get the blinds closed on him.

She rolled over one last time before finally getting out of bed. She didn't know how she knew, but she knew only two things would help. Option one was out of the question so she went for the second thing that would help her insomnia.

She pulled out two cards and put on a sweater. She opened the window when she realized that she had forgotten something.

She ran to her bed and felt under her pillow before finally finding the thing she was looking for. The letter. The one that explained everything. She quickly went back to the window and climbed out, onto the tree below. She shut her blinds behind her and took out the first card. Fly. She closed the window and flew out into the night.

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When she arrived at her destination, she called back fly and walked through the open balcony door. She was in the place she least wanted to be, but also it was the only place in Japan where she felt the most safety. It still sat untouched from the day he had left.

Closing her eyes, she allowed her senses to guide her to the exact place she wanted. When she opened her eyes, a bed lay in front of her. Slipping out of the sweater, she released the second spirit.

"Dark card, please make this room void of light." She whispered and quietly crept under the covers and fell asleep instantly, taking in Xiao Lang's sweet cinnamon scent that was still left behind on the sheets.

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TAP! TAP!

"Sakura?" asked the floating stuffed animal. He tried tapping again. Usually she would've at least looked through the blinds to assure him she was there but that morning she didn't.

"Kero! What's going on?" asked Tomoyo, who was waiting for him in the driveway.

"I can't feel her in there." He answered, appearing beside her.

"What do you mean?" she asked but already knew the answer.

"Sakura's not there. I can't even feel her trying to hide her magical aura. But I do sense a Clow card." He answered.

"Didn't Sakura catch them all?" Tomoyo asked, confused.

"Hai, demo…it's not a wild one it's a Sakura card. She just used it and I can sense another card being used, too."

"Well, where is it coming from?"

"I think… the park." He answered and flew into her bag while she pulled out her cell phone. They took off towards the park.

"Hello, Miko…it's Tomoyo-Chan. Get the gang and meet me at the park."

"NO!! Don't call them! They don't know about the cards." Kero cried out defensively.

"Oopsies." Tomoyo exclaimed and punched in another number.

"Eriol, we might need your help."

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"What's wrong with Sakura?" Xun asked Tomoyo but she held no answers for him.

"I haven't talked to her since the day before she left the hospital. She told me that she was in love with Syao-Xiao Lang the boy she came out of the building with." She silently cursed her boyfriend for making her promise to tell no one. She wanted more than anything to tell the world that Syaoran had come back and they'd live happily ever after, just like in the fairy tales. "But now she's changed. She refuses to talk to anyone. I want to know what went wrong."

The others hadn't talked to her since before the accident at the library, weeks ago.

When they neared the park Miko remembered something.

"I think Xiao Lang lives near here. Maybe he'd want to help us find Sakura. I know for a fact that he feels the same way." She offered helpfully. She took Sashi's hand and led the group to his apartment.

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Knock! Knock!

They had gotten into the building easily but no one seemed to be answering the door.

"Why not try the handle?" asked Xun. "It might open." He suggested with a shrug.

"You watch too many movies." Saurei scolded but Eriol thought it was a good idea and worth a try.

He lifted his hand to the door handle and gently turned the knob. Without having to use magic, the door opened easily.

When they walked inside Kero and Eriol instantly felt Sakura's magic, which had been gone for so long that they were overwhelmed by the immense power that also felt strangely foreign to them.

Eriol led the way to the bedroom, following the path of Sakura's magic, noticing that she had used fly to get to the balcony door, which had been left open. When they were at Xiao Lang's bedroom they noticed that his door was still open. The room was very dark but Eriol could vaguely see the bed, and the dark card spirit.

She was sitting beside Sakura's form, stroking her hair quietly.

"I believe she is ready to talk, now." She said to Eriol and returned to her card form. Nobody noticed the change from darkness to light.

Tomoyo gently woke Sakura up and noticed her tear-stained cheeks.

"T-Tomoyo?" she yawned. She looked at her other friends and burst into tears again.

"What's wrong!? Why are you crying? Where's Xiao Lang?" asked Tomoyo. She sat beside her friend and drew her into a hug. Sakura fought out of Tomoyo's embrace and walked to a far corner and curled up with a stray sweater.

"Xiao Lang left me." She choked out between sobs. Xun and Saurei immediately began to frown remembering their talk at the dance. Tomoyo, however, was livid and glared coldly at Eriol before urging Sakura to continue.

"His mother was getting sick and Meilin called and he…left." As she said this, remembering the whole day, her heart broke again. "I tried to make him take me with him, I didn't want him to leave me again…" but she found that she couldn't continue.

"Again?" Sashi asked, slightly confused.

Sakura pulled out the crumpled letter and handed it to Tomoyo who read it aloud, skipping the parts that referred to magic, and gasped. Everyone else was in shock. Nobody knew what to say.

"He fell in love all over again." Whispered Tomoyo. Eriol put his arms around her shoulders to comfort her, nut she pushed him away angrily.

"You knew it was him and you had to make me promise not to tell her!!!" she screamed startling everyone. "You are horrible. You ruined her life and didn't interfere with letting Syaoran break her heart again!" Sakura stood and put her hand on Tomoyo's arm

"It's ok." She whispered.

"NO! IT'S NOT OK. He knew Xiao Lang was Syaoran and told me. Then he made me promise not to tell anyone." She cried, and then turned to face Eriol.

"I agree with Syaoran." She screamed into his face…"you really are evil. I never want to have anything to do with you, ever again." And she ran out of the apartment, leaving behind a stunned Eriol.

Sashi glanced at Miko on pure instinct and noticed the gears in her head working overtime. He sighed. She was thinking of a plan.

"What is it this time?" he asked her resignedly. She stopped thinking about her plan and dragged him out of the room and around the corner.

"Sakura's heart was broken twice by the same guy. If we don't do something quick then she might turn to suicide or worse."

"What's worse than suicide?" he wondered aloud.

"Never mind. We have to help her." She insisted quietly. The gears had started up again.

"So what do you propose we do? Do you have some mighty plan?" he asked mockingly but she ignored his sarcasm.

"Yeah, I think I have one…but I need help to put it into action. Tell everyone to meet me at my house this afternoon. I'll get Tomo-chan, but don't tell Sakura-chan." She instructed. He nodded and they went back into Xiao Lang's bedroom.

"What were you two talking about?" Sakura asked, wiping her eyes as they came back.

"Nothing." Miko answered. "Come on, let's take you home." She added and helped Sakura to her feet. She put one arm over her friend's shoulders and led her to the open front door.

They were almost out the door when Sakura remembered something. She ran back into the apartment and returned with the tape from the answering machine and a small wrapped box she had found with her name on it. She had found it on his bed and she assumed Xiao Lang had planned to give it to her, so she decided that she would open it when she got home. It had a single message on it:

To: Kinomoto Sakura

Love,

Li Xiao Lang

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When Eriol dropped Sakura off at home she went straight to her room and found her dinner waiting for her. Then he drove off to Miko's house meet up with Sashi and the others. He was dreading having to face Tomoyo, however. He knew she had a point but he still hat a gut feeling that what he did was right and that in the end everything would be fine. He pulled up into Miko's driveway and walked to her front door.

"Come in. everyone else is here." She said. She was going to explain her foolproof plan that would hopefully mend Sakura's heart.

`This is the one plan that will work.' She smiled to herself, and followed Eriol into her living room.

To be continued…

So how do you like it? I told you I would fix everything!! Now all you have to do is wonder what Miko is planning for Sakura…will Sakura regret it? How am I gonna fix the E+T situation? This story will develop soon, and then you'll find out why it's called the china doll. Please R+R!!!

(P.S. the box is semi-important to this story cause it will reveal some great S+S moments…)

in advance I'd like to apologize for any grief I might cause our two fave couples…heh heh…(S+S E+E) gomen nasai!!!!