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+Stepping Stones to the Future
+This is a fanfic about Tomoyo and
+Sakura . It is a darker story than my previous
+ones and it made me cry as I was writing it on
+paper. I know that all of you are more
+knowledgeable about CCS than I am, but I hope
+you will like the story anyway. There are some
+female to female interactions but no hentai ,
+and as always please send your comments to me at
+rphjas@lycos.com. This is the reason I have begun
+writing again since 1975. I get to hear from you
+and please, comments good or bad are always
+welcome can't get better without them because
+I still want to put my dreams into words for
+you. Humbly yours Joe Saunders rphjas-san at
+rphjas@lycos.com .
+At the Daidouji Estate:
+Tomoyo was satisfied with her preparations.
+Everyone in the mansion was sound asleep and
+her bedroom door was locked. She had laid out
+several of her most precious treasures of Sakura
+on her large four poster bed. She had
+painstakingly placed the camcorder and tripod in
+the right location. The light in the gigantic
+room was at the perfect intensity. A soft
+melancholic melody could be heard in the
+background as Tomoyo worked in the room. Lying
+on the bureau next to her sewing bag, the
+manilla envelope waited to receive the soon to
+be completed videotape.
+Gazing into her mirror, Tomoyo made some adjustments to
+her long lavender hair-tweaking a ribbon here or a bow there.
+She judged her appearance before the mirror. She
+looked like an expert doll maker's masterpiece.
+Beautiful lavender hair fell on her shoulders and
+behind her back. Luminous lavender eyes
+sparkled in her seemingly porcelain-like face.
+Her long dress was a beautiful egg-shell blue
+covered with red lace, bows, and trim. Tomoyo
+sadly smiled at her reflection, but she could
+not cry because all of the tears had been shed
+during previous nights.
+“I must look my best for my Sakura-chan.” thought Tomoyo as she
+steeled up her willpower. Picking up a small
+rubber eraser from the bureau top, she clasped
+both hands around it and brought them to her
+chest as if she were praying.
+“Now for you, my Sakura-chan.”whispered Tomoyo.
+“My one last gift to you...“
+At the Kinomoto home:
+Sakura picked at her food even though she was
+hungry. She had been uneasy throughout supper.
+Touya's teasing bounced off her ears and went
+unnoticed. Her loving father's questions about
+her
+day were lethargically answered. At the end
+of supper, she lazily waved at her father and
+elder
+brother as they went to their respective
+jobs. After finishing her chores, she listlessly
+climbed the
+stairs and walked into her room.
+“Welcome home, Sakura.”said Kero while he was
+playing one of his favorite video games.
+“OhHi , Kero.”said Sakura as she went to
+her desk to start her homework.
+Kero flew up to the desk, licking his lips in
+anticipation of the evening dessert.
+“Hey,
+Sakura where's my dessert?!”exclaimed Kero as
+he angrily plopped down on her
+desktop.
+Sakura looked at Kero with a dazed expression
+and said,“Sorry, Kero-chan. Let me go back
+downstairs to the kitchen and bring you my share.”
+With heartfelt concern, Kero said, “Don't
+worry about it, Sakura. You don't seem like your
+usual
+self today. What's wrong?”He flexed his
+tiny biceps and continued, “Is that Li kid making
+trouble for you? If so, I'll change into my
+true form and bat him around like a soccer ball!
+Sakura shook her head and answered,“No,
+Kero-chan - He's been treating me ok. It's just
+that
+my heart has been feeling like a tick's
+been sucking the blood out of it until only a
+withered husk
+will remain. Oh Kero-chan, I can't
+put it into words!”concluded Sakura with a
+sigh.
+Kero thought for a moment with his hand
+balled under his chin. He asked, “When did this
+feeling
+start, Sakura?”
+It started sometime
+after school and continued as I skated along with
+Tomoyo-chan. It has
+gotten worse since I got
+home and I can't figure out what it is!”
+answered Sakura in a frustrated
+voice.
+Kero responded,“Calm down, Sakura. Banging
+your head against a wall won't solve anything.
+Kero mused,'Since all of the Cards have been
+sealed and Eriol has left, I don't think it is
+anything serious. Maybe you just left your
+recorder at school!”
+Sakura angrily swatted
+at Kero who nimbly dodged her hand. “It's not
+that simple, Kero!”yelled
+Sakura. “I think
+this is a premonition, but I just don't know what
+it is about!”
+Kero guiltily looked at Sakura. “I'm sorry for
+trifling with you, Sakura. I wish
+that I could help
+you better with this problem.
+Hey maybe a nice hot bath and a good night's
+sleep will help you
+clear everything up in the
+morning!”
+“You're probably right, Kero-chan.”said
+Sakura. “And I am sorry I tried to hit you. I
+know you
+were only trying to cheer me up.
+Kero puffed out his little chest and said ,
+“Apologies accepted, Sakura. Trust the great and
+powerful Guardian Beast! All will be well by
+morning and I'll even forgive you for not
+bringing
+me any dessert!
+Sakura weakly
+laughed at Kero's posturing and remarks. ”You're
+probably right, Kero-chan and I
+am way too out
+of it to do anything constructive tonight.”
+At The Daidouji Estate:
+Tomoyo had about five minutes before the
+camcorder and tape player turned on
+simultaneously.
+She had been secretly rehearsing
+and preparing for this evening's performance for
+over a week.
+While completing some minor
+adjustments to her hair and dress, Tomoyo did
+another quick run-
+thru of where she would stand
+and the words she would sing from the lyrics she
+had
+painstakingly written and memorized. She
+still clung onto the little eraser that Sakura
+had given
+to her at their first encounter. She
+thought, “Now I can say the words to Sakura that
+I never dared
+to say. I can use my camcorder,
+melody, and lyrics that I wrote from my innermost
+heart and
+reveal my true feelings this one and
+only time.”
+'I must perform perfectly.'mused
+Tomoyo as she walked to the small tapedx
+placed on the
+floor which divided her bed into
+symmetrical halves.
+“For my beloved Sakura-
+chan,“whispered Tomoyo. She inhaled deeply and
+then slowly exhaled
+- blowing away the facial
+masks that she used in her everyday life.
+“Now
+my soul is bare for Sakura-chan to see.”
+The
+camcorder and tape player clicked on and Tomoyo
+began ...
+At the Kinomoto home:
+Tossing and turning in her bed, Sakura tightly
+hugged the CardCaptor Sakuradoll that
+Tomoyo-
+chan had given her long ago.Beads of perspiration
+rolled down her face and soaked her
+pajamas. Her
+features were contorted into looks of pain ,
+distress, and denial. Gasping for air,
+Sakura
+bolted upright in her bed. She opened her eyes
+and frantically tried to quiet her racing
+heart.
+“Hoe! what was that all about?”cried
+Sakura. But like wisps of smoke or fluffy clouds,
+the
+nightmare refused to be captured. Trembling,
+Sakura got out of bed and went to her desk. She
+somehow knew that she had to open the drawer
+where the Book of the Star Cards was kept.
+After
+opening the drawer, Sakura noticed a white light
+coming from the deck. She urgently
+pickedthrough
+the pile of Star Cards until she found the source
+of the light. It emanated from the
+lastCardthat
+appeared when she had overcome Eriols final
+challenge. The light was pulsing as
+if it were
+a heart beating. Suddenly, an arrow of light shot
+out of the Card and passed through the
+window
+into the darkness engulfing Tomoeda . The Card
+flew behind the arrow of light. As the
+startled
+Sakura watched these events, her hand
+accidentally touched the Light and Dark Card.
+In
+an instant, the two spirits of Light and Dark
+materialized and stood before their Mistress.
+As always, they were holding each other and
+looked regal beyond human comprehension.
+In a
+feathery voice, Dark whispered,“Your soul mate's
+heart is at it'sfinal breaking tonight and
+will
+soon beat no more in this world. This heart cries
+for mending but is willing to remain
+shattered
+for all time to insure your future happiness.”
+In a similar voice, Light began to speak.“The
+path to that heart is revealed by the arrow of
+the
+last Star Card. Follow the light quickly if
+you wish to mend the Heart which my love Dark
+doth
+speak”
+Before Sakura could inquire about
+their cryptic remarks, Dark and Light disappeared
+into their
+Card.
+Sakura frantically grabbed
+the Key resting between her breasts and spoke
+the Words of Power to
+release it. With cheetah's
+speed, she summoned Fly. White wings burst
+through her pajama top.
+Without changing her
+garments, Sakura opened the window and raced
+after the last Star Card in
+the dark night of
+Tomoeda. Sakura's heart beat rapidly and she
+willed her magic to fly as fast as
+the winds.
+“I must find this person!”Sakura thought. “But
+I wonder whom it could be? Is it
+Syaoran?“
+At the Daidouji estate:
+Tomoyo had viewed the completed videotapeseveral
+times. Tears trickled from her lavender
+eyes and
+wetted the dress. Lovingly, she enclosed the tape
+and sealed the envelope. In her
+beautiful
+handwriting, the envelope proclaimed'To My
+Special Someone 'My Only Love -
+Sakura-chan'
+She sealed the envelope and lifted her sewing
+bag revealing a pair of newly sharpened
+scissors.
+With one hand still holding the
+eraser, Tomoyo firmly grabbed the scissors and
+walked to her
+bed. She laid down and arranged
+some of her favorite hand-sewn costumes that
+Sakura had worn
+when she was capturing the Clow
+Cards.'But, unfortunately those days are over',
+thought
+Tomoyo. 'Only in my heart do such
+moments still dwell. Sakura has chosen Syaoran
+and I never
+had the courage to open the gate
+allowing me entrance into Sakura's heart. He got
+there first.'
+whispered Tomoyo as she stared at
+an enlarged photo of Sakura on the ceiling. The
+picture had
+been difficult to place there
+tonight, but it was worth it. Her tears flowed
+more freely as she
+looked at the picture of
+Sakura - branding every feature in her heart and
+soul while her right hand
+came upwards to her
+soft pale neck.
+Suddenly a light appeared in Tomoyo's
+darkened room and she quickly sat up from her
+macabre
+position. A surprised Tomoyo saw a
+Sakura Card spinning in mid-air at the foot of
+her bed.
+Faster and faster it twirled -bathing
+the whole huge room with a heavenly light and
+making
+Tomoyo feel faint and dizzy even though
+she was sitting on her bed.
+Then the sound of breaking glass filled the
+room as Sakura flew headfirst into Tomoyo's
+bedroom.“Tomoyo-chan - Tomoyo-chan, what are you
+trying to do?”cried Sakura -bleeding
+from
+several cuts on her arms, hands, and face. With
+her natural athleticism, Sakura leapt from
+the
+floor and grabbed Tomoyo's wristforcing the
+steely jaws of the scissors away from her soft
+neck.
+For the first time, the shocked Tomoyo
+wore none of her everyday masks and had no
+cheerful
+answers for Sakura's question. Her
+delicate gasping mouth opened and closed like a
+land-bound
+fish seeking water. Before Tomoyo
+knew it, the scissors were in Sakura's trembling
+hands. The
+emotions of anger, fear, and concern
+warred over the landscape that was
+Sakura's face
+and
+eyes. However, concern with a touch of fear
+and desperation won the battle on Sakura's face.
+Her
+wings fluttered weakly and Sakura panted.
+The cuts from the broken glass burned her nerves.
+She
+felt like she would collapse on the floor.
+Instead, she willed herself to sit by
+Tomoyo's
+side and
+violently threw the scissors across the
+room.
+“Tomoyo-chan Why?”asked Sakura as the
+evening's pent-up emotions in her heart
+erupted in
+full force. The tears flooded from her
+emerald-green eyes and stung her cuts. She looked
+at
+Tomoyo's sad face as if to find the answer
+there. Tomoyo bent her head to her chest,
+whispering
+softly between sobs the manilla
+envelope-a videotape-on my bureau...Puzzled,
+Sakura
+squeezed Tomoyo's hands. With one eye on
+Tomoyo, Sakura found the manilla envelope and
+read Tomoyo's notation
+admiring the lovely
+handwriting. Tomoyo looked up and saw Sakura's
+cheek turn fiery red. Sadly, Tomoyo realized that
+all of her plans for Sakura had failed. She was
+supposed to be dead. She had not anticipated her
+beloved Sakura's dramatic arrival. But instead
+of dropping the envelope in revulsion, Sakura
+reverently opened the envelope and tenderly
+plucked out the videotape. She walked to the VCR,
+turned on the TV, and walked over to
+Tomoyo's
+bed.
+“May I sit next to you, Tomoyo-chan?”asked
+Sakura. Tomoyo looked with awe at her beloved
+and nodded. The empty Card stopped spinning and
+it's light dimmed enough for the two girls to
+watch the screen. Sakura held Tomoyo's hand with
+all of her might as the tape started.
+On the
+TV screen, Tomoyo appeared.'She looks like an
+angel.'thought Sakura. Tomoyo was
+bathed in
+light and her beautiful voice could be heard.
+“Sakura-chanIwanted to give you one final
+gift. It is a song I wrote for you and only you.
+I
+know you are crying right now because of my
+death. I willed for my Mother to give you this
+video after my private funeral. But please my
+Sakura-chan. Do not cry for me! My time in this
+world is done. Your quest for the Clow Cards is
+complete. Your need for me is over. I only desire
+your eternal happiness and a joyful future with
+Syaoran. Like your Mother, I will be in Heaven- a
+Guardian Angel only for you. And when your
+life's journey is done, I will be waiting for
+you
+with open arms to hug you and loving hands
+to guide you into Heaven. Maybe there you and I
+can be in love together because on Earth our Love
+can never be.”,Tomoyo paused- closed her
+eyes,
+and clasped her hands to her chest. She inhaled,
+opened her delicate mouth, and began to
+sing...
+Sakura stared at the TV - mesmerized by
+Tomoyo's lavender eyes and angelic beauty. A
+blush
+bloomed on her cheeks. Her tears freely
+flowed and a warmth filled her heart and soul.
+After
+finishing the beautiful song, Tomoyo said,
+“I will always be with you My Beloved Sakura-
+chan. I
+have loved you since I first saw you in
+Tomoeda Elementary and this eraser has been the
+most
+precious gift I have ever received because
+it came from you”Tomoyo whispered as she
+lowered her praying hands and opened one
+revealing the plain rubber eraser. This is only a
+temporary separation, My Love. I am just going
+ahead of you to my destiny.Tomoyo's armsspread
+wide as if to engulf Sakura. A smile appeared on
+her face. However, her lavender eyes
+seemed to
+lose their color.“Sayonara Sakura-chan I will
+watch over you and Love you
+forever.”Tomoyo
+knelt on the carpet as if to pray slowly the
+picture blurred and faded away
+into oblivion.
+Sakura's heart bled more freely than any
+lacerations from the broken window could do.
+Crying,
+Sakura
+thought,'I've hurt Tomoyo-chan
+so deeply.'Though her heart was bleeding from
+sadness and
+regret, Sakura felt the seed of love
+that she had always had for Tomoyo sprout and
+grow
+watered and sunned by Tomoyo'srevelation.
+“So Dark and Light were talking about Tomoyo-
+chan!”thought Sakura. “She has been suffering
+all of this time because her love for me was
+never returned by me for her. I -I am responsible
+for breaking her heart again and again - until it
+shattered and made her want to end her life..“
+Sakura turned to face Tomoyo. Tomoyo had not
+moved since Sakura had come to her bed. Her
+hand
+limply rested in Sakura's grip. Her head was
+still lowered and tears dripped from her
+cheeks.
+Sakure gently removed her hand from Tomoyo'sand
+reached for Tomoyo's face.
+Tomoyo cringed at
+Sakura's tender touch - anticipating a face
+filled with revulsion and anger.
+Sakura cupped
+Tomoyo's cheeks and slowly lifted her head so
+she could look deep into
+Tomoyo's lavender eyes.
+Tomoyo looked at Sakura's face and was stunned by
+the love and
+tenderness that gleamed from the
+emerald green eyes.
+“Sakura-chan...?“
+whispered Tomoyo. With loving motion, Sakura
+pulled Tomoyo's face to her
+own and gave Tomoyo
+a passionate kiss. Tomoyo's fragile body wilted
+under the kiss. Her arms
+reached around Sakura's
+waist and hugged her tightlylike a drowning
+sailor would to a life-line.
+Sakura's hands
+stroked Tomoyo's cheeks and fingered her glossy
+lavender hair. Her slender body
+pressed against
+Tomoyo's and eased her body to a prone position.
+Tomoyo's eyes fluttered and
+she realized that
+sometime during this magical waking dream her
+dress had disappeared from her
+pale body. “Have
+I died and reached my ideal vision of Heaven?”
+thought Tomoyo.“My Sakura-
+chan is in my armskissing me, loving me...Healing me!”
+Suddenly
+Tomoyo's lavender eyes opened and drank up the
+sight of her Beloved Sakura pressing
+against
+her. The Card Mistress was smiling at Tomoyo. Her
+naked body glistened from her
+exertions to
+reach out and mend Tomoyo's heart with the Glue
+of Love.“Tomoyo-chan...I'm
+sorry for all of
+your pain and suffering.”whispered Sakura.
+“It's all my fault!”cried Sakura as
+tears mixed
+with the bloody cuts on her face.
+With
+surprising strength, the porcelain-skinned Tomoyo
+forced Sakura to sit upright on the large
+bed.
+“My Beloved Sakura-chan!”cried Tomoyo “You came
+to save me, but you've injured
+yourself! Please
+let me treat your cuts!
+“Oh Tomoyo-chan My Love,“roclaimed Sakura
+her emerald green eyes sparkling with
+Love and
+Happiness.
+Tomoyo quickly kissed her Sakura-
+chan and ran to her bathroom.
+As she waited for Tomoyo, Sakura gazed at the
+empty Star Card. It had stopped spinning and it's
+light was pulsing like a human heartbeat.
+Sakura bowed her head to the Star Cardandquietly
+thanked it as well as Dark and Lightforshowing
+her the path to her One True Love.
+Tomoyo returned with a moistened towel, a
+first-aid kit, and two sets of softlinenpajamas.
+“Ok
+Sakura-don't move,”said Tomoyo.FirstTomoyo
+looked over Sakura's body with piercing
+lavender
+eyes. She nodded and began to lick and kiss
+Sakura's cuts and scrapes. Sakura swooned
+in
+bliss. Tomoyo gently patted each wound with the
+warm wet towel. She tenderly applied
+antibiotic
+ointment and bandages to each wound - pouring her
+love for Sakura into every
+movement. Satisfied
+that her work was completed to perfection, Tomoyo
+said, “I think I treated
+all of your cuts, My
+Beloved Sakura-chan. But do you hurt anywhere
+that I can't see? Do I need
+to call foradoctor?”
+Sakura answered, “No but thank you My
+Tomoyo-chan. I don't need a doctor. But I do need
+You My LoveMy Tomoyo!“
+Tomoyo beamed as
+brightly as the empty Star Card. She gently
+embraced Sakura and kissed her.
+“Oh My Beloved
+Sakura-chan!”cried Tomoyo. “How often have I
+dreamed of hearing those
+words from you and of
+being your Love!“
+Sakura hugged Tomoyo and
+kissed her.“If you can ever forgive me Tomoyo-
+chan, I will promise
+you that your daysof
+loneliness and suffering will never return
+because you are My Soul Mate-
+My Beloved-My
+Tomoyo-chan.”confessed Sakura. “I want to be
+yours - Forever.”
+Tomoyo cried with tears of
+pure happiness. “My Dearest Sakura-chan, you have
+made my dearest
+wish come true!”
+With love
+and happiness, Tomoyo and Sakura embraced once
+more and Magic flared in the
+bedroom. The broken
+window was miraculously restored. The Star Card
+brightened and slowly
+faded. However, it's face
+was no longer empty because it now bore a
+hologram of Sakura and
+Tomoyo kissing and
+embracing each other and over their heads
+floated a red Valentine-
+shaped Heart.
+THE END
+Author's comments:
+I was hoping to write the
+lyrics of Tomoyo'ssong for you. The words were
+clear in my dream.
+However, Dawn's light faded
+the verses into obscurity. Maybe it's better that
+way so you - the
+reader - can imagine your own
+lyrics to Tomoyo's song of love confessed but
+unrequited on
+Earth, of her plea for Sakura's
+mortal happiness in spite of her suicide, of
+Tomoyo's wish of
+being Sakura's Guardian Angel
+throughout her mortal days and immortal life, and
+of her final
+words of goodbye to Sakura. I know
+I am not a CCS expert like many better writers
+and fans of
+the anime and manga, but I hope you
+will forgive any inconsistencies in this fanfic
+and enjoy it as
+it is written.
+Humbly yours, Joe Saunders at
+rphjas@lycos.com

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