Hi everybody! Well, I'm here with my second fanfic. I hope you enjoy it. I
really don't know what else to write.so I'll see you at the bottom.
"Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!" Sakura cursed while running across the room for the back exit. She stopped in her tracks when the red-orange flames surrounded her. It took her a second to try and remember whether this was a card- capture or a CIA mission. When she finally figured out that his was a CIA mission, she started trying to find some means of escape. No windows, no skylights, and no trap doors leading directly underground. The only two exits were the front and back doors; both of which were inaccessible to her at the moment. She was surrounded by flames with no where to go. Her cards were in her purse, which she had dropped when running after the enemy. "Jump!" She called to the card, but nothing happened. "Jump!" She called again. "Damn! They must be too far away." A while back, she had learned to call on her cards without using her wand, but they still needed to be at a certain distance for her to be able to call them. If they were too far away, they wouldn't be able to come. "Where's Syaoran when you need him?"
She tried looking around some more. The flames were getting closer and they were getting higher. It felt like her skin wanted to melt and slide off her bones. She caught sight of a cargo rope hanging just a few feet above her. She took off her two-inch high-heeled shoes and bounced around a little trying to loosen up a bit. She closed her eyes, counted to three, opened her eyes, and jumped as high as she could. She just barely caught the rope with both hands. She tightened her grip as she felt herself slipping. Her hands were sweaty as she climbed the rope to about six feet from the ceiling. 'I guess climbing that rope yesterday in gym-class did pay off.' When she got to where she wanted to be-not too close to the ceiling but high enough so that she was over the flames-she started to swing on the rope. She swung harder and faster for about ten seconds before she jumped and landed on the other side of the flames. As soon as she hit the floor on two balanced feet, she broke into a dead run straight for her purse and then straight for the door. 'This, ladies and gentlemen, is the ordinary life of Sakura Kinomoto."
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"Oh, my." Tomoyo left her sentence hanging in the air as she took in Sakura's tattered and smokey clothes. "I'm guessing it didn't so well at the club."
"I don't want to talk about it right now. All I want to do is take a nice ice-cold shower and go to bed. You can give me whatever extra information you have tomorrow. And when Mei-ling gets home, tell her that she better get ready because tomorrow she is gonna get her ass kicked.' And with that, she stomped off to her room.
~~~~~~~NEXT MORNING~~~~~~~
Tomoyo, as usual, woke up earlier that the other two to make breakfast. If it wasn't for her, they wold never get a good breakfast. After she got everything ready, she went upstairs to wake the others up.
First up was Mei-ling. Tomoyo was always afraid to go in her room because it was always a mess. "Well, here it goes." She opened the door to find Mei-ling already up and doing her hair in front of her mirror. "Your up." It was more of a statement, not a question. Better for her; one less to worry about. She shrugged it off and set off for Sakura's room. "Breakfast is ready." She called back to Mei-ling from half way down the hall.
She cracked the door open a bit hoping to find Sakura awake like she did Mei-ling; but knew that she was hoping for too much when she opened the door completely and saw Sakura sprawled on the bed still as a rock. To anyone else it would have looked like Sakura were dead; but Tomoyo had known Sakura for too long and knew that that's how she always looked. She walked over to Sakura's desk and opened the drawer to 'Kero's room.' "Kero. Kero wake up." When he wouldn't move, she took the piece of bacon she had in her hand and waved it under Kero's nose. He reached for it, but he still wouldn't wake up. He reached for it again and started floating in the air, slowly waking up as he did. With his eyes still closed, he took the bacon and gobbled it up. "Your welcome." Tomoyo said sarcastically.
"Oh, yeah, thanks."
"Ok, now help me wake Sakura up. You take the alarm and I'll take the horn."
"Aww. I want the horn this time; you always get the horn.'
"Fine, but make sure to press it hard." Tomoyo took the horn from Sakura's night- stand and gave it to Kero and she took the alarm clock for herself. "Three.two.one-" Kero honked the horn right next to Sakura's ear as soon as the alarm clock went off. Sakura swatted at Kero, but missed in her sleep. Then she tried to swat at the alarm clock but Tomoyo kept taking it away and putting it back to her ear again. They kept the routine going until Sakura woke up completely and hit Tomoyo in the face with a pillow. "Hurry up Sakura. I have breakfast ready downstairs." And with that she left with Kero trailing behind her, wanting more of that bacon.
~~~~~~~~~~~AFTER SCHOOL~~~~~~~~~~
Sakura, Tomoyo, and Mei-ling were always the first ones out of class because they started packing their stuff about three minutes before the bell rang. They were walking to their 'pick-up spot' where they would get picked up and taken to headquarters. They were walking in a line with Tomoyo walking between Sakura and Mei-ling because, at this moment, they weren't getting along so well.
"Ok, Mei-ling. Tell me again why you didn't show up at the club last night. See, because at lunch, I think I must have misunderstood you. Did you say you went to the wrong club?" Sakura gave Mei-ling an innocent look that was dripping with sarcasm.
"Then, yes, you did misunderstand me; because I never said I went to the wrong club. I said I got another lead with another club, so I followed it. I called you but for some reason, you didn't pick up your cell phone." Mei-ling sounded like she was getting more pissed off with every word she said.
"Gee, I wonder why that might have been. Oh yeah! I remember now! I was trapped in a burning building with no one else there to help me!"
"Well, gee, miss card-mistress, why didn't you just call on your cards to help you out. Isn't that what you always do?"
"For your information, I dropped my purse which had my cards in it. And, by the way, I don't always use my cards to get out of tough situations!" By now, Sakura and Mei-ling were yelling at each other. Some pedestrians that were passing by were wondering what the hell they were talking about.
"Um, you guys. Could you guys maybe hold off until we get home, this is a little too public. And if you guys keep this up at headquarters, people are gonna start asking questions. We already look suspicious because of how we manage to get out of situations we shouldn't be able to get out of."
"Hmph!" Both Sakura and Mei-ling turned away from each other at the same time. After a couple minutes-which seemed more like hours to Tomoyo- their ride showed up. All three of the girls liked their driver, although, you couldn't exactly say the same for the guys. He was a lean five-foot- nine with blond hair and gray eyes. He was around the age of twenty-three. They only knew this because Mei-ling asked him while attempting to flirt with him. Of coarse, she got shot down because she was only sixteen.
"Hey girls, what's up? How was school?" Michael, the driver, asked them. When he noticed that Sakura and Mei-ling weren't on speaking terms, he turned to Tomoyo to find out what was wrong.
"They're mad because of a mission gone wrong." He nodded his head in understanding and opened the door for the girls. Mei-ling was the first to stomp off toward the open door; next was Tomoyo and last was Sakura. Sakura and Mei-ling both had huffed faces but Tomoyo gave an apologetic look to Michael. All in all, the ride to headquarters wasn't all that comfortable.
~~~~~~~~~AT HEADQUARTERS~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After they passed the 'security checkpoint' their boss walked up to them and gave them a curt greeting. He told them to get to the debriefing room in five minutes. After the debriefing, which was always boring-it was just them telling everyone what happened on the mission-the girls stayed behind to ask Jack a couple of questions. He had told the girls to call him jack because he said that whenever someone called him by his last name, it made him feel old.
Their first question, "When are Syaoran and Eriol coming back?" Their second question, "How much evidence did they find at what was left of the club." And their third question, "How much of the club was left?" All three questions were bunched together in one quick sentence. He didn't really completely answer all their questions. For question one, he answered "soon." And for questions two and three he answered "nothing."
After their little meeting with jack, Tomoyo and Mei-ling decided to go home early but Sakura wanted to stay and finish up some extra paper work. After she finished her paper work, she declined Michael's offer to get a ride home and said she was just going to jog home.
The park she had to pass through to get home was well lit by street lamps so she could see that there was no one else there besides her. She was jogging silently, enjoying the cool breeze that blew in her face occasionally, when suddenly, she felt the ground shake beneath her. She stopped to see if she would feel it again, but had no such luck. She decided it was nothing and kept going when she felt it again. It didn't feel like an earthquake, but then again, she couldn't sense any magic behind it. She looked around for a bit to see if anyone had come around since the last time she looked. Her eyes landed on a small shadow behind some trees that she had just passed. When she looked again it was gone. Sakura-after a few moments' hesitation-decided it was just her eyes playing tricks on her. She turned around to keep jogging, but jumped when she saw a little girl in front of her. The girl looked to be about five or six years old. She just stood there, looking at Sakura with her large crimson colored eyes. After a few moments that the girl didn't speak, Sakura decided to break the ice.
"Are you lost?"
The girl stayed quiet for a few seconds before answering. "No, but you will be." She gave Sakura a quick, cute, babyish smirk before she turned and walked off; disappearing only after a few feet. Sakura didn't know whether to be confused or creeped out. Finally she decided to shrug it off but still watch her back and kept jogging.
As soon as she took the first step, she tripped over something. She sat up to look at what it was, and saw that it was a thread. Suddenly, the same piece of thread she was looking at snapped and each piece wrapped around each of Sakura's ankles. As soon as that happened, she was dragged along that path she had been jogging earlier; only with certain short cuts this time. It dragged her through bushes, puddles from the night before's rain, and almost made her crash into trees-luckily, she avoided those, but only those. By now, she had scratches on her arms and her sweat pants had rips in them, and she was all wet and muddy from the puddles. She looked up to see if she cold see where the 'live wire' was taking her. It took her a few bushes to realize that she was heading straight toward some kind of black portal. When she looked through it, all she could she was darkness and void. Her eyes widened as she noticed how close she was to it.
"Sword card!" Right then, her sword appeared in her right hand. She took no moments' hesitation and slashed at the two pieces of thread that were dragging her to her doom. The pieces of thread that she cut away disappeared into the black void, and just moments after, the black void disappeared into itself. Sakura jumped to her feet when she heard footsteps come in behind her. She spun around only to come face to face with.
Heehee. I don't mean to be evil (yeah right) but I had to stop it somewhere.right?
{Someone throws tomato onto the stage}
Don't you be throwin' things at me!
{More people throw things}
Alright, alright! I'll try to come out with the second chap soon!!! Bye ^_~!
"Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!" Sakura cursed while running across the room for the back exit. She stopped in her tracks when the red-orange flames surrounded her. It took her a second to try and remember whether this was a card- capture or a CIA mission. When she finally figured out that his was a CIA mission, she started trying to find some means of escape. No windows, no skylights, and no trap doors leading directly underground. The only two exits were the front and back doors; both of which were inaccessible to her at the moment. She was surrounded by flames with no where to go. Her cards were in her purse, which she had dropped when running after the enemy. "Jump!" She called to the card, but nothing happened. "Jump!" She called again. "Damn! They must be too far away." A while back, she had learned to call on her cards without using her wand, but they still needed to be at a certain distance for her to be able to call them. If they were too far away, they wouldn't be able to come. "Where's Syaoran when you need him?"
She tried looking around some more. The flames were getting closer and they were getting higher. It felt like her skin wanted to melt and slide off her bones. She caught sight of a cargo rope hanging just a few feet above her. She took off her two-inch high-heeled shoes and bounced around a little trying to loosen up a bit. She closed her eyes, counted to three, opened her eyes, and jumped as high as she could. She just barely caught the rope with both hands. She tightened her grip as she felt herself slipping. Her hands were sweaty as she climbed the rope to about six feet from the ceiling. 'I guess climbing that rope yesterday in gym-class did pay off.' When she got to where she wanted to be-not too close to the ceiling but high enough so that she was over the flames-she started to swing on the rope. She swung harder and faster for about ten seconds before she jumped and landed on the other side of the flames. As soon as she hit the floor on two balanced feet, she broke into a dead run straight for her purse and then straight for the door. 'This, ladies and gentlemen, is the ordinary life of Sakura Kinomoto."
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"Oh, my." Tomoyo left her sentence hanging in the air as she took in Sakura's tattered and smokey clothes. "I'm guessing it didn't so well at the club."
"I don't want to talk about it right now. All I want to do is take a nice ice-cold shower and go to bed. You can give me whatever extra information you have tomorrow. And when Mei-ling gets home, tell her that she better get ready because tomorrow she is gonna get her ass kicked.' And with that, she stomped off to her room.
~~~~~~~NEXT MORNING~~~~~~~
Tomoyo, as usual, woke up earlier that the other two to make breakfast. If it wasn't for her, they wold never get a good breakfast. After she got everything ready, she went upstairs to wake the others up.
First up was Mei-ling. Tomoyo was always afraid to go in her room because it was always a mess. "Well, here it goes." She opened the door to find Mei-ling already up and doing her hair in front of her mirror. "Your up." It was more of a statement, not a question. Better for her; one less to worry about. She shrugged it off and set off for Sakura's room. "Breakfast is ready." She called back to Mei-ling from half way down the hall.
She cracked the door open a bit hoping to find Sakura awake like she did Mei-ling; but knew that she was hoping for too much when she opened the door completely and saw Sakura sprawled on the bed still as a rock. To anyone else it would have looked like Sakura were dead; but Tomoyo had known Sakura for too long and knew that that's how she always looked. She walked over to Sakura's desk and opened the drawer to 'Kero's room.' "Kero. Kero wake up." When he wouldn't move, she took the piece of bacon she had in her hand and waved it under Kero's nose. He reached for it, but he still wouldn't wake up. He reached for it again and started floating in the air, slowly waking up as he did. With his eyes still closed, he took the bacon and gobbled it up. "Your welcome." Tomoyo said sarcastically.
"Oh, yeah, thanks."
"Ok, now help me wake Sakura up. You take the alarm and I'll take the horn."
"Aww. I want the horn this time; you always get the horn.'
"Fine, but make sure to press it hard." Tomoyo took the horn from Sakura's night- stand and gave it to Kero and she took the alarm clock for herself. "Three.two.one-" Kero honked the horn right next to Sakura's ear as soon as the alarm clock went off. Sakura swatted at Kero, but missed in her sleep. Then she tried to swat at the alarm clock but Tomoyo kept taking it away and putting it back to her ear again. They kept the routine going until Sakura woke up completely and hit Tomoyo in the face with a pillow. "Hurry up Sakura. I have breakfast ready downstairs." And with that she left with Kero trailing behind her, wanting more of that bacon.
~~~~~~~~~~~AFTER SCHOOL~~~~~~~~~~
Sakura, Tomoyo, and Mei-ling were always the first ones out of class because they started packing their stuff about three minutes before the bell rang. They were walking to their 'pick-up spot' where they would get picked up and taken to headquarters. They were walking in a line with Tomoyo walking between Sakura and Mei-ling because, at this moment, they weren't getting along so well.
"Ok, Mei-ling. Tell me again why you didn't show up at the club last night. See, because at lunch, I think I must have misunderstood you. Did you say you went to the wrong club?" Sakura gave Mei-ling an innocent look that was dripping with sarcasm.
"Then, yes, you did misunderstand me; because I never said I went to the wrong club. I said I got another lead with another club, so I followed it. I called you but for some reason, you didn't pick up your cell phone." Mei-ling sounded like she was getting more pissed off with every word she said.
"Gee, I wonder why that might have been. Oh yeah! I remember now! I was trapped in a burning building with no one else there to help me!"
"Well, gee, miss card-mistress, why didn't you just call on your cards to help you out. Isn't that what you always do?"
"For your information, I dropped my purse which had my cards in it. And, by the way, I don't always use my cards to get out of tough situations!" By now, Sakura and Mei-ling were yelling at each other. Some pedestrians that were passing by were wondering what the hell they were talking about.
"Um, you guys. Could you guys maybe hold off until we get home, this is a little too public. And if you guys keep this up at headquarters, people are gonna start asking questions. We already look suspicious because of how we manage to get out of situations we shouldn't be able to get out of."
"Hmph!" Both Sakura and Mei-ling turned away from each other at the same time. After a couple minutes-which seemed more like hours to Tomoyo- their ride showed up. All three of the girls liked their driver, although, you couldn't exactly say the same for the guys. He was a lean five-foot- nine with blond hair and gray eyes. He was around the age of twenty-three. They only knew this because Mei-ling asked him while attempting to flirt with him. Of coarse, she got shot down because she was only sixteen.
"Hey girls, what's up? How was school?" Michael, the driver, asked them. When he noticed that Sakura and Mei-ling weren't on speaking terms, he turned to Tomoyo to find out what was wrong.
"They're mad because of a mission gone wrong." He nodded his head in understanding and opened the door for the girls. Mei-ling was the first to stomp off toward the open door; next was Tomoyo and last was Sakura. Sakura and Mei-ling both had huffed faces but Tomoyo gave an apologetic look to Michael. All in all, the ride to headquarters wasn't all that comfortable.
~~~~~~~~~AT HEADQUARTERS~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After they passed the 'security checkpoint' their boss walked up to them and gave them a curt greeting. He told them to get to the debriefing room in five minutes. After the debriefing, which was always boring-it was just them telling everyone what happened on the mission-the girls stayed behind to ask Jack a couple of questions. He had told the girls to call him jack because he said that whenever someone called him by his last name, it made him feel old.
Their first question, "When are Syaoran and Eriol coming back?" Their second question, "How much evidence did they find at what was left of the club." And their third question, "How much of the club was left?" All three questions were bunched together in one quick sentence. He didn't really completely answer all their questions. For question one, he answered "soon." And for questions two and three he answered "nothing."
After their little meeting with jack, Tomoyo and Mei-ling decided to go home early but Sakura wanted to stay and finish up some extra paper work. After she finished her paper work, she declined Michael's offer to get a ride home and said she was just going to jog home.
The park she had to pass through to get home was well lit by street lamps so she could see that there was no one else there besides her. She was jogging silently, enjoying the cool breeze that blew in her face occasionally, when suddenly, she felt the ground shake beneath her. She stopped to see if she would feel it again, but had no such luck. She decided it was nothing and kept going when she felt it again. It didn't feel like an earthquake, but then again, she couldn't sense any magic behind it. She looked around for a bit to see if anyone had come around since the last time she looked. Her eyes landed on a small shadow behind some trees that she had just passed. When she looked again it was gone. Sakura-after a few moments' hesitation-decided it was just her eyes playing tricks on her. She turned around to keep jogging, but jumped when she saw a little girl in front of her. The girl looked to be about five or six years old. She just stood there, looking at Sakura with her large crimson colored eyes. After a few moments that the girl didn't speak, Sakura decided to break the ice.
"Are you lost?"
The girl stayed quiet for a few seconds before answering. "No, but you will be." She gave Sakura a quick, cute, babyish smirk before she turned and walked off; disappearing only after a few feet. Sakura didn't know whether to be confused or creeped out. Finally she decided to shrug it off but still watch her back and kept jogging.
As soon as she took the first step, she tripped over something. She sat up to look at what it was, and saw that it was a thread. Suddenly, the same piece of thread she was looking at snapped and each piece wrapped around each of Sakura's ankles. As soon as that happened, she was dragged along that path she had been jogging earlier; only with certain short cuts this time. It dragged her through bushes, puddles from the night before's rain, and almost made her crash into trees-luckily, she avoided those, but only those. By now, she had scratches on her arms and her sweat pants had rips in them, and she was all wet and muddy from the puddles. She looked up to see if she cold see where the 'live wire' was taking her. It took her a few bushes to realize that she was heading straight toward some kind of black portal. When she looked through it, all she could she was darkness and void. Her eyes widened as she noticed how close she was to it.
"Sword card!" Right then, her sword appeared in her right hand. She took no moments' hesitation and slashed at the two pieces of thread that were dragging her to her doom. The pieces of thread that she cut away disappeared into the black void, and just moments after, the black void disappeared into itself. Sakura jumped to her feet when she heard footsteps come in behind her. She spun around only to come face to face with.
Heehee. I don't mean to be evil (yeah right) but I had to stop it somewhere.right?
{Someone throws tomato onto the stage}
Don't you be throwin' things at me!
{More people throw things}
Alright, alright! I'll try to come out with the second chap soon!!! Bye ^_~!