Book Three
Chapter Eleven
Sakura returns from Sunday shopping to find Yukito at her home and giving Touya a haircut and when Yukito offers to cut her hair too, Sakura says absolutely yes. When he is almost done, Touya comes back outside to give them some tea and a woman in sunglasses approaches their garden. Meanwhile Chiharu and Yamazaki are out shopping and spot Sakura, when Chiharu tries to get her attention, Sakura knocks down a store display and runs off! The next day at school Chiharu asks if Sakura was at the toy store, and Sakura says she wasn't, and Chiharu is relieved. She explains when she was out she saw a girl that looked like Sakura. Tomoyo notices Sakura got a haircut and Sakura tells her it was done by Yukito, and when Shaoran overhears he goes crazy and Yamazaki tells them to settle it during gym. Shaoran choses Sakura as his partner to settle their fight, but just before they begin the Badmitton match Yukito calls over from the high school to wish them good luck. Knowing Yukito is watching, both Sakura and Shaoran become determined to win. However, neither win since Gym ends before the match does. After school Tomoyo and Sakura talk and spot a girl who looks exactly like Sakura rolling by on skates. Suddenly Sakura's classmates run over and ask why she destroyed the Stationary Store's display and Tomoyo tells them that Sakura has been with her the whole time, it was impossible for Sakura to have done what they claim. At home Sakura tells Kero what happened and he suggests they do a fortune using the Clow Cards. After setting up the cards and and reciting a chant the first card revealed is the Windy, meaning the remaining cards know about her and her personality and have begun targeting her and her loved ones. The cards are doing this to test her, though not all the cards care about who the Cardcaptor is. Sakura then asks about the girl who looked like her and Kero tells her to reveal the center three cards: Watery, Illusion and Shadow to reveal the attributes of the mystery card. Sakura reveals the final card, Flower to indicate the card's target which is her brother Touya! Meanwhile Touya is riding home when he thinks he sees his sister our riding her skates
Chapter Twelve
Touya is helping the false Sakura look for something while the real Sakura tries to find him. She manages to sense the card and Kero can tell she is getting stronger. She finds Touya's bike and begins seraching the forest, but loses his feeling because the feeling of other people interferes and confuses her since there are no other people there. Kero begins to say the 'g' word (ghosts) but stops himself and just says the other presenses won't let her sense the card. Meanwhile the false Sakura is leading Touya further and further into the forest and back in another part of the woods Sakura is feeling sad that she can't help her brother. Then the false Sakura leads Touya right off of cliff! While Sakura is crying, Shaoran appears saying he's trailing a Clow Card and wonders why Sakura is crying. Sakura spots his compass board and begs him to help find her brother. In the meantime Touya loses his grip and falls from the cliff, hurting himself pretty badly. Though injured, he still insists on helping the false Sakura find what she is looking for, and stop imitating his sister. The false Sakura asks how long he knew, and Touya says he knew almost from the beginning that she wasn't human and hopes she finds what she is looking for so she can be at peace. And when she does go to heaven to say hi to his mother for him before he passes out from the pain. Shaoran manages to find Touya with his board and using the Fly card, Sakura flies to the bottom of the cliff. She is horrified to find her brother so injured and tells the card it will pay for what it did before attacking with Windy. Windy however has no effect, and then Sakura uses Watery ending with the same results. Kero realizes it's a special card and Sakura must say its name to reseal it. Sakura approaches it and notices the card seems sad, Kero reminds her of their reading and Sakura realizes it was imitating her, like a mirror. She says the card's name revealing its true form. Mirror apologizes to Touya for hurting him before becoming a card again. At home Touya's foot is badly hurt and Sakura brings him some food. He notices Kero-chan and Sakura rushes off, but not before saying she's sorry. Touya is confused by what she meant. Tomoyo and Yukito come over to visit Touya and Tomoyo and Sakura go to the kitchen to cut up the cake she brought. Meanwhile Yukito goes up to talk with Touya and ask what happened. He says he thought he saw a spirit but when he awoke he figured it was just his imagination, Yukito figures he is right and then Touya wants to stop talking about it.
Chapter Thirteen
It's Sunday and Sakura is going over to Tomoyo's house to help her with a problem. When she and Kero-chan arrive they see Tomoyo's house is HUGE! Tomoyo invite them in and they go to her room for tea. Tomoyo's mother rushes in and offers Sakura some cake outside, they go, leaving Kero-chan alone and cakeless. But just as he is in the middle of a tantrum realizes he senses a familiar aura. Sonomi can't help but notice how alike Sakura is with her mother, except for atheletics, Nadeshiko was a complete klutz. Suddenly Sonomi remembers that Nadeshiko's klutziness was how she met Fujitaka, she fell from a tree right on top of him. Sakura then asks Sonomi about her father since he never talks about himself and has no relatives, Sonomi says he was a disgusting person because he was nice and perfect with no defects. Sonomi is called off on business but promises to have dinner later and Sakura and Tomoyo return to her room to face the unhappy, uncake-filled Kero-chan. It turns out Tomoyo saved a piece for him and appeased, lets Sakura know there is a Clow Card in the room, and Tomoyo says that's probably why she can't open her box. Each time she puts in the key, it spits it out and she must get to it since it contains her mother's and her special things. Sakura is determined to help and after being put in a costume, starts experimenting with the box and her cards. Kero-chan figures out it's the Shield card, a card that likes to protect special things. Kero-chan then tells Sakura it can only be defeated with a sword and Sakura decides to use the Sword card. She seals the card and Tomoyo is able to open the box. Inside is a bouquet and Sonomi rushes in to see that Tomoyo got the box open. Sonomi's most precious item is the bouquet from Nadeshiko's wedding. Cherry blossoms were Nadeshiko's favorite flowers and if she ever had a girl wanted to call her 'Sakura'. Sonomi drags Sakura off for dinner and Tomoyo checks on the condition of her most precious item: the eraser Sakura gave her the first day they met in third grade.
Chapter Fourteen
Once again, Sakura has woken up late and struggles to catch up with her brother and Yukito. But it turns out they can't go the normal way and are forced to take a detour and run into a Shinto Shrine. Yukito asks Sakura if she ever saw the shrine before, she says no but Touya begans acting strangely. Sakura barely makes it to class on time because of the construction and begins asking about the Tsukimine shrine she saw on the way. Naoko tells her it is famous for it's protection spells and love charms. Upon hearing about the love charms, Sakura and Syaoran immediately become interested. After Yamazaki tells a lie about charms he says that the old math teacher is on vacation and Sakura wonders why. On her way to the Tsukimine Shrine, Sakura crashes right into a woman in sunglasses coming from the shrine. Sakura apologizes, but the strange and beautiful woman seems un-upset and tells her what she wants can't be provided today and says goodbye like they were close friends, confusing Sakura greatly. Sakura talks with Kero-chan about the lady and he asks what kind of aura she has. Before Sakura can talk too much about it, Touya comes in and again becomes suspitious of Kero-chan. The next day Terada-sensei announces they will have a substitute math teacher and the woman Sakura ran into yesterday comes in. Everyone is happy to have the pretty new teacher, but Shaoran is completely suspitious. During break he talks to Sakura about the new teacher, saying she is really powerful and they should be careful. Another person agrees with them: the new teacher. She managed to sneak up on them without them sensing her. She asks some seemingly innocent questions about them. Sakura also senses her power, but instead of being suspitious, Mizuki-sensei makes her feel... happy. Suddenly Touya comes to Sakura to let her know she forgot her recorder and when he spots Sakura's new teacher, says her first name like they know each other. As it turns out, they do know each other. At Touya's school, Yukito asks about Mizuki-sensei, but Touya is reluctant to talk about it. After school Sakura and Tomoyo go to the shrine to buy a charm and Sakura gets an odd feeling, but before they can think too much about it, Shaoran comes to get a charm too. Suddenly the space around them warps, and a maze forms around them.
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