Time of Power and Love- Prologue!!
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Sakura fell asleep thinkingof the VERY kawaii Syaoran. She dreamt of Syaoran when he would always save her by helping catch the Clow Cards... then scolding her about not being a good Cardcaptor. But the memories were still sweet ones. She dreamt of when Syaoran and her were crazy about Yukito, and when Yukito turned her down, Syaoran comforted her....
Everything in the dream was 'SYAORAN.' Syaoran's battle suit, the smell of his hair, his deep eyes.... everything was Syaoran...
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And she woke up. Sakura sighed. It was another 'Syaoran' dream. Sadly, Syaoran had left many years ago with a promise to come back someday. So far no letters or phone calls were recieved. 'When are you coming back to me, Syaoran?' Sakura thought.
The phone shrieked. Startled, Sakura picked up the phone.
"Sakura-chan? It's Tomoyo, of course."
Sakura sighed again and said, "Hello, Tomoyo-chan. How are you?"
Tomoyo laughed while saying, "O hohoho Sakura-chan, you sound so down. Why don't we go to the park today for a picnic? I packed lots of food."
Sakura smiled. She could always count on Tomoyo to lift her spirits. So she replyed, "Sure, Tomoyo-chan. I'll meet you there. Bye!!"
"Bye!" Tomoyo said cheerfully.
Kero was playing videogames when Sakura got out of bed . It was 9:00 am and a sunny Saturday.
"BAM! BAM BAM!! GOTTCHA!" Kero yelled at the monitor.
On any other day Sakura would tell Kero to be quiet but today nobody was home but them two- Sakura's dad had to plan class scedules for the following weeks at college and Touya was at one of his new jobs, being a life guard at the local swimming pool.
"Bye, Kero-chan. I'm going to go on a picnic with Tomoyo. Don't worry, I'll save you some snacks," Sakura said going out of her bedroom door.
"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah... sure," the little stuffed animal said to Sakura, to engrossed in his videogame to notice she was leaving.
The trees in July were fully covered in cherry blossoms. Sakura rollerbladed with her mind straying to the times of the cardcaptoring days. Her mind blasted with images. She remembered how Tomoyo always taped her card catches, how Meilin would yell and compete with her, how Kero would give her advice on how to catch a card....and of Syaoran helping her catch the Clow Cards.
The park was crazily loud. Little kids were sliding down the King Penguin Slide. Adults were enjoying the evening chatting. Sakura scanned the park and found Tomoyo sitting under a tree unpacking food.
"Good Morning, Tomoyo-chan," Sakura said to Tomoyo and sitting down on the blanket.
"Ohayo Gazaimas, Sakura-chan," Tomoyo said cheerfully, "You look really kawaii today."
Sakura blushed. Tomoyo always gave her compliments and Sakura was always blown away by them.
Tomoyo started talking, "Sakura, are you ready for high school? Can you believe it? We'll be starting Seijou High in less than a month!!"
Sakura was thrilled of going to high school so she brightened while saying, "Of course! I can't wait!"
Tomoyo smiled as she said, "Many new challenges lay ahead in school. I'm gonna take all the technology courses and video tape even more! I made more outifts so that I can video tape you and show you off to everyone!!"
Sakura sweatdropped, "Hooee, yeah that sounds like fun. Even Kero-chan is happy and he's not even going to go..."
"Kero-chan must be bored sitting around all day," Tomoyo sighed, "How can he stand videogames all day long?"
"I have no clue..." Sakura was stopped in mid- sentence because Chiharu. Rika, Naoko, and Yamizaki Takashi had come to the park and saw Sakura and Tomoyo from far away.
"Sakura-chan! Tomoyo-chan! Ohiyo! I didn't expect to find you here!" Chiharu yelled rushing towards Sakura and Tomoyo to talk to them.
Everyone else came and sat down about to talk to each other. Sakura said, "We were just talking about high school.
Takashi began, "In ancient days, high school was only meant ot train youngsters in the ways of living by learning martial arts and being in the army. It wasn't meant for education..."
Takashi was cut off because Chiharu was glaring at him. He immediatly shut up.
Naoko seemed very happy, too. She yelled, "WOW! I can't wait! So many new books to read.
Everyone sweatdropped. Naoko was too much of a smarty pants.
Rika seemed very happy, too. She giggled and said, "I heard that Terada- sensei is going to teach at Seijou High as a social studies teacher. I think that will be fun.
Everyone was happy that there old teacher was returning to teach there class but also wondered why Rika was so ecstatic about it.
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Sakura got home in the early afternoon. When she walked inside her room Kero was STILL playing videogames. Sakura sighed and plopped down next to Kero on the floor in front of the television.
"Konnichiwa Sakura!" Kero said pausing the game, "When you left, I vaguely recall something about snacks..."
Sakura laughed and replyed, "Don't worry, Kero-chan. I brought you yummy food." Sakura took out a peice of cake that Tomoyo had baked and gave it to Kero.
"Arigato Sakura!" Kero said happily.
Kero hungrily bit into the cake and said, "Wah, today has been a wonderful day. First it was playing this fighting game, now cake!! This is heaven."
Sakura gave Kero a concerned look and said, "How boring, Kero-chan."
Kero frowned, "Well, it would get boring after a while, but it is very enjoyable now."
Sakura took his video game controller and unpaused it saying, "Let me try this fighting game once. Maybe it IS fun."
Sakura tried the shooter game that Kero was obssesed with. The character she was playing was shot down before Sakura even had a chance to figure out what she was doing. The gigantic words 'GAME OVER' appeared on the screen. Sakura blinked and said, "Hoo-ee!! What was that? What happened? Is it already over?"
Kero looked like he was going to cry and sorrowfully said, "I (sniff, sniff) spent three hours to get to that point of the game. It was the end of the level."
Sakura frowned and replied, "Sorry, Kero-chan. I'll ummm.... buy you another game then."
Kero smiled brightly and said, "Really? Oh, Arigato. It's okay that you lost, you're no good at shooter games... ^_^"
Sakura laughed and replied, "Yeah, I know. Though I'd like to see you do better."
Kero said, "Okay, I'll show you." He quickly finished eating his cake and talked again picking up the remote which was pretty big for his tiny paws, "This is what you do," he began.
Sakura watched Kero play the game the rest of the day, letting any sorrowful thoughts slip from her memory. Intently watching the television screen all thoughts of Syaoran and high school faded away.
Kero also enjoyed the rest of the evening and was very happy to see that Sakura was having fun and wasn't thinking of the Chinese Li-brat.
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CHAPTER 1 (Saturday... 2 days before the start of school)
"Kero-chan! Are you going to the mall with Tomoyo-chan and me today?" Sakura asked the tiny stuffed doll who was currently staring out the window.
Kero thought for a second and said, "Do I have to stay in your pocket?"
Sakura groaned and said, "Kero-chan, you know you have to. You can't be seen."
Kero said, "Oh, well. I'll go with you and Tomoyo."
Sakura smiled, "YAY! Arigato!"
Kero laughed gleefully and relpied, "You promised to get me a new game about a month ago. I'll get it today."
Sakura sighed whishpering, "Oh, no."
"Is Tomoyo going to pick us up?" Kero asked.
"Yes. In a couple minutes. Then we are going to walk there," Sakura replied.
"What do you plan to get there?" Kero asked curiously.
"Clothes... and anything else that looks good," Sakura said again answering his question.
The door bell rang. Sakura and Kero quickly went down the stairs. Sakura opened the door and stepped out. Kero immediatly flew into her shirt pocket.
"Konnichiwa, Sakura-chan and Kero-chan. How are you today?"Tomoyo asked.
"Good. Kero-chan came with us because I need to buy him a new videogame," Sakura said smiling sweeting at Tomoyo.
"Ok, then," Tomoyo said smiling back.
They walked for ten minutes and reached the small Tomoeda mall. Sakura and Tomoyo walked inside to find a buch of people buying and crowding the stores.
In a time span of three hours, Tomoyo and Sakura went to every clothing store they saw. Since Kero kept on wondering when he'd get his game, Sakura and Tomoyo went to the game store.
"Ahhh... I want that one. No, that one. Oh, my head is getting dizzy from looking at so many games," Kero turned around to look at Sakura with swirled eyes.
Tomoyo laughed, "O hohoho. Here Kero-chan, I'll buy you one game, too, since your having such a hard time deciding."
Kero looked at Tomoyo with sparkling eyes and said extremely loud, "Really? ARIGATO, Tomoyo."
Since Kero had been so loud many people in the store turned there heads toward Sakura with a questioning look.
Sakura sweatdropped, "Hoo-ee.."
After getting TWO games that day, Kero was estatic. He smiled all day long and kept quiet when Sakura told him to.
Around seven o'clock Sakura and Kero returned home. Tomoyo's lady guards drove Tomoyo to her mansion house.
"Wah, Sakura. Today has been a brilliant day. I can't wait till tomorrow to play the games.
Sakura looked at all the bags laid all over her room from the days shopping. Luckily, Tomoyo had paid for some even though Sakura didn't like that. Sakura carefully took out the clothing... many shoes, shirts, pants, sweaters, and skirts. Tomoyo told Sakura not to buy any dresses because she would provide them. Not noticing until now, Sakura saw that many of her shirts and sweaters were a dark green (Syaoran's favorite color) and pink (Sakura's favorite color). For a second, Sakura thought she was crazy. Then she shook her head and got ready for bed.
"Night, Kero-chan." Sakura said to the curled up Kero.
"Good night, Sakura," Kero replied and fell asleep.
'Goodnight, Syaoran-kun. Whereever you are,' Sakura thought to herself.
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Tomoyo simled to herself. She had bought many clothes and a new camcorder that day. Sakura was obviously thinking of Syaoran a lot because half her clothes that she bought were green, the color that Syaoran always wore. In one day high school would start and Tomoyo vowed to make sure she would tape the whole years and make good memories. Tomoyo fell asleep awating the next day.
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Sakura slept and had another 'Syaoran' dream. This one was about the day that Syaoran left. She had a flashback to when Syaoran said he loved her and how surprised she was. He promised to come back to her someday as the train he was on left... his image getting farther and farther awayuntil he was not visible anymore. She loved him and seeing him go broked her heart...
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Sakura woke up from the dream Sunday morning about to cry because life was so unfair. She had the same question engraved in her mind all the time, 'When was Syaoran coming back?'
It was seven o'clock am. The sun was out but Kero was still asleep. Today was Sakura's last day of freedom; tomorrow school started. Sakura yawned and got out of bed and promised herself that today would be a good day. She wouldn't think of Syaoran, not today.
Sakura walked down the stairs. Her dad was already awake and was drinking coffee at the table. He looked up and seeing said, "Ohiyo gazaimas, Sakura-san."
Sakura smiled and replied, "Ohiyo! Where's oni-chan?"
"He went to work. What do you plan to do today?" Fujitaka asked with intrest.
Sakura shrugged and replied, "I don't know. I'm going to call Tomoyo-chan. Maybe we could go somewhere. What about you?"
Fujitaka replied, "I'm going to stop by the college. I need to pick up some notes and then go to a meeting. Actually, I have to leave now." Sakura's dad got up and walked out the door.
"Goodbye, Sakura-san. Have a good day,okay?"
"Hai! Goodbye- have a good day, too," Sakura replied.
Fujitaka left. Now Sakura was all alone with Kero. Today was like any other day compared to the last three months. Sakura would get up and her brother and dad went to work leaving Sakura at home. Then Sakura would do something (like call Tomoyo) and the rest of the day was spent.
So Sakura called up Tomoyo from her living room.
"Moshi Moshi!" Tomoyo's voice answered the phone.
"Hi, Tomoyo-chan," Sakura said.
"I know exactly what to do today. Can I come over?" Tomoyo asked.
"Okay...goodbye," Sakura said wondering what Tomoyo was up to.
"Bye, Sakura-chan!" then Tomoyo hung up.
Sakura set down the phone and went back upstairs to her room to see if Kero was awake yet. She waled inside and saw Kero sitting up, wide awake.
"Wah, Sakura. You're up before me, very impressive," Kero said smiling.
Sakura glared but calmly said, "Tomoyo-chan is going to come over. She has something planned. She hasn't told me what it is though,"
"Oh,okay. I'll wait with you. Maybe she'll take us on a train ride, or we'll swim in the sea..."
The doorbell rang. Sakura ran down the stairs leaving Kero upstairs to what he thought would happen today. She opened the door to see three of Tomoyo's lady guards at the door holding many items.
"Just set them down there," Tomoyo's voice came from behind the guards. The women in black suits set the things on the couch, let Tomoyo in and left. Kero flew down to the room and said, "Ohiyo!"
"Good morning, Kero-chan and Sakura-chan," Tomoyo said brightly.
"What's all this?" Sakura asked.
Tomoyo grinned and said, "Some new dresses I made that I would like you to try on so I can video tape you. Also, there are tapes there from when you were catching cards when you were in fourth grade that I thought you'd like to watch. Are you ready?"
Sakura's eyes widened as she cried, "Hoo-ee! Okay, then."
Kero clapped in joy and laughed saying, "Yay. That is awesome. Let's watch the tapes of the handsome me!"
Sakura plopped in a tape and she smiled sadly at what she saw. On the tape was Syaoran trying with force to take the crads away in their first meeting. The next parts of the tape basically covered when they were rivals. The tape made Kero grumpy, "Hey?! Where's me?! All the tapes are of the Chinese brat and Sakura. Let's stop this and Sakura can put on the dresses, and I'll play my new games!"
"Okay," Tomoyo stopped the tape, "Here Sakura-chan, you can have it."
"Arigato," Sakura whispered. Today's attempt at forgetting about Syaoran had failed.
Sakura put on dresses for the rest of the day till Tomoyo went home and Sakura went to bed. When Sakura got into bed she had a hard time sleeping because her mind kept straying to the tapes of Syaoran and her.
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The alarm clock buzzed at 6:30 am the following morning. Sakura was instantly awake because she realized that today was the first day of high school. Kero woke up with a dazed expression because it had been awhile since he was forced to get up so early.
"Too early! Wake me up later!" Kero cried.
"Yeah... school is too strict," Sakura replied.
Sakura jumped out of bed and got into her new Siejou High uniform. Her hair was put up into two ponytails set at each side of her head... just like it was since she was very little.
"Breakfast!" Touya yelled from the downstairs kitchen.
"Hai!" Sakura yelled back.
Kero flew into her bag and said, "I'm coming with you today."
Sakura didn't complain except to say, "But stay quiet in there."
Sakura ran down the stairs with her bag and sat down at the table.
Fujitaka passed Sakura a bowl of rice with other condiments. Sakura gulped it down and said, "Arigato!"
"Wow! The monster sure ate fast!" Touya exclaimed.
Sakura glared at Touya. Sakura's dad broke the glare by saying, "Here's your lunch, have a good day!"
"Hai! " Sakura exclaimed, "Goodbye!" Then she raced out the door, put on her rollerblades and rode to school.
The school was packed. Students were racing to get to there first class. Sakura looked around for a familiar face but saw no one. Kero peaked his head out of her bag,.
"Wow! This school is big!" Kero exclaimed.
"Get back in the bag, Kero-chan," Sakura said. He obeyed grudgingly and went back in the bag so that he was out of sight.
Sakura looked around more and saw someone that made her freeze. It was a teenage boy. He was turned around so that Sakura could only see the back of him. He was holding a briefcase and his chestnut hair swayed in the wind. He slowly turned around, saw Sakura and smiled.
Sakura was about to faint. In his other hand was a teddy bear. His eyes looked at Sakura with love and happiness. Though he was about twelve feet away from Sakura, it felt like only a couple inches. It was Syaoran. The guy from her dreams.
"Hey! What's going on? Why aren't you moving?" Kero complained peaking out of the bag again, " Oh, NO! It's the Chinese brat! Why's he here?"
Sakura whispered while looking straight ahead and not turning to Kero, "Get back in the bag."
"But, but, oh.... okay," Kero replied sadly.
Sakura walked to Syaoran who looked the same as many years ago, and they embraced in a hug. Sakura cried tears of joy.
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Author's note- Well... that's the end of chapter one. I hoped you like it... Please R&R!
Disclaimer- I don't own CCS!
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Sakura fell asleep thinkingof the VERY kawaii Syaoran. She dreamt of Syaoran when he would always save her by helping catch the Clow Cards... then scolding her about not being a good Cardcaptor. But the memories were still sweet ones. She dreamt of when Syaoran and her were crazy about Yukito, and when Yukito turned her down, Syaoran comforted her....
Everything in the dream was 'SYAORAN.' Syaoran's battle suit, the smell of his hair, his deep eyes.... everything was Syaoran...
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And she woke up. Sakura sighed. It was another 'Syaoran' dream. Sadly, Syaoran had left many years ago with a promise to come back someday. So far no letters or phone calls were recieved. 'When are you coming back to me, Syaoran?' Sakura thought.
The phone shrieked. Startled, Sakura picked up the phone.
"Sakura-chan? It's Tomoyo, of course."
Sakura sighed again and said, "Hello, Tomoyo-chan. How are you?"
Tomoyo laughed while saying, "O hohoho Sakura-chan, you sound so down. Why don't we go to the park today for a picnic? I packed lots of food."
Sakura smiled. She could always count on Tomoyo to lift her spirits. So she replyed, "Sure, Tomoyo-chan. I'll meet you there. Bye!!"
"Bye!" Tomoyo said cheerfully.
Kero was playing videogames when Sakura got out of bed . It was 9:00 am and a sunny Saturday.
"BAM! BAM BAM!! GOTTCHA!" Kero yelled at the monitor.
On any other day Sakura would tell Kero to be quiet but today nobody was home but them two- Sakura's dad had to plan class scedules for the following weeks at college and Touya was at one of his new jobs, being a life guard at the local swimming pool.
"Bye, Kero-chan. I'm going to go on a picnic with Tomoyo. Don't worry, I'll save you some snacks," Sakura said going out of her bedroom door.
"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah... sure," the little stuffed animal said to Sakura, to engrossed in his videogame to notice she was leaving.
The trees in July were fully covered in cherry blossoms. Sakura rollerbladed with her mind straying to the times of the cardcaptoring days. Her mind blasted with images. She remembered how Tomoyo always taped her card catches, how Meilin would yell and compete with her, how Kero would give her advice on how to catch a card....and of Syaoran helping her catch the Clow Cards.
The park was crazily loud. Little kids were sliding down the King Penguin Slide. Adults were enjoying the evening chatting. Sakura scanned the park and found Tomoyo sitting under a tree unpacking food.
"Good Morning, Tomoyo-chan," Sakura said to Tomoyo and sitting down on the blanket.
"Ohayo Gazaimas, Sakura-chan," Tomoyo said cheerfully, "You look really kawaii today."
Sakura blushed. Tomoyo always gave her compliments and Sakura was always blown away by them.
Tomoyo started talking, "Sakura, are you ready for high school? Can you believe it? We'll be starting Seijou High in less than a month!!"
Sakura was thrilled of going to high school so she brightened while saying, "Of course! I can't wait!"
Tomoyo smiled as she said, "Many new challenges lay ahead in school. I'm gonna take all the technology courses and video tape even more! I made more outifts so that I can video tape you and show you off to everyone!!"
Sakura sweatdropped, "Hooee, yeah that sounds like fun. Even Kero-chan is happy and he's not even going to go..."
"Kero-chan must be bored sitting around all day," Tomoyo sighed, "How can he stand videogames all day long?"
"I have no clue..." Sakura was stopped in mid- sentence because Chiharu. Rika, Naoko, and Yamizaki Takashi had come to the park and saw Sakura and Tomoyo from far away.
"Sakura-chan! Tomoyo-chan! Ohiyo! I didn't expect to find you here!" Chiharu yelled rushing towards Sakura and Tomoyo to talk to them.
Everyone else came and sat down about to talk to each other. Sakura said, "We were just talking about high school.
Takashi began, "In ancient days, high school was only meant ot train youngsters in the ways of living by learning martial arts and being in the army. It wasn't meant for education..."
Takashi was cut off because Chiharu was glaring at him. He immediatly shut up.
Naoko seemed very happy, too. She yelled, "WOW! I can't wait! So many new books to read.
Everyone sweatdropped. Naoko was too much of a smarty pants.
Rika seemed very happy, too. She giggled and said, "I heard that Terada- sensei is going to teach at Seijou High as a social studies teacher. I think that will be fun.
Everyone was happy that there old teacher was returning to teach there class but also wondered why Rika was so ecstatic about it.
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Sakura got home in the early afternoon. When she walked inside her room Kero was STILL playing videogames. Sakura sighed and plopped down next to Kero on the floor in front of the television.
"Konnichiwa Sakura!" Kero said pausing the game, "When you left, I vaguely recall something about snacks..."
Sakura laughed and replyed, "Don't worry, Kero-chan. I brought you yummy food." Sakura took out a peice of cake that Tomoyo had baked and gave it to Kero.
"Arigato Sakura!" Kero said happily.
Kero hungrily bit into the cake and said, "Wah, today has been a wonderful day. First it was playing this fighting game, now cake!! This is heaven."
Sakura gave Kero a concerned look and said, "How boring, Kero-chan."
Kero frowned, "Well, it would get boring after a while, but it is very enjoyable now."
Sakura took his video game controller and unpaused it saying, "Let me try this fighting game once. Maybe it IS fun."
Sakura tried the shooter game that Kero was obssesed with. The character she was playing was shot down before Sakura even had a chance to figure out what she was doing. The gigantic words 'GAME OVER' appeared on the screen. Sakura blinked and said, "Hoo-ee!! What was that? What happened? Is it already over?"
Kero looked like he was going to cry and sorrowfully said, "I (sniff, sniff) spent three hours to get to that point of the game. It was the end of the level."
Sakura frowned and replied, "Sorry, Kero-chan. I'll ummm.... buy you another game then."
Kero smiled brightly and said, "Really? Oh, Arigato. It's okay that you lost, you're no good at shooter games... ^_^"
Sakura laughed and replied, "Yeah, I know. Though I'd like to see you do better."
Kero said, "Okay, I'll show you." He quickly finished eating his cake and talked again picking up the remote which was pretty big for his tiny paws, "This is what you do," he began.
Sakura watched Kero play the game the rest of the day, letting any sorrowful thoughts slip from her memory. Intently watching the television screen all thoughts of Syaoran and high school faded away.
Kero also enjoyed the rest of the evening and was very happy to see that Sakura was having fun and wasn't thinking of the Chinese Li-brat.
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CHAPTER 1 (Saturday... 2 days before the start of school)
"Kero-chan! Are you going to the mall with Tomoyo-chan and me today?" Sakura asked the tiny stuffed doll who was currently staring out the window.
Kero thought for a second and said, "Do I have to stay in your pocket?"
Sakura groaned and said, "Kero-chan, you know you have to. You can't be seen."
Kero said, "Oh, well. I'll go with you and Tomoyo."
Sakura smiled, "YAY! Arigato!"
Kero laughed gleefully and relpied, "You promised to get me a new game about a month ago. I'll get it today."
Sakura sighed whishpering, "Oh, no."
"Is Tomoyo going to pick us up?" Kero asked.
"Yes. In a couple minutes. Then we are going to walk there," Sakura replied.
"What do you plan to get there?" Kero asked curiously.
"Clothes... and anything else that looks good," Sakura said again answering his question.
The door bell rang. Sakura and Kero quickly went down the stairs. Sakura opened the door and stepped out. Kero immediatly flew into her shirt pocket.
"Konnichiwa, Sakura-chan and Kero-chan. How are you today?"Tomoyo asked.
"Good. Kero-chan came with us because I need to buy him a new videogame," Sakura said smiling sweeting at Tomoyo.
"Ok, then," Tomoyo said smiling back.
They walked for ten minutes and reached the small Tomoeda mall. Sakura and Tomoyo walked inside to find a buch of people buying and crowding the stores.
In a time span of three hours, Tomoyo and Sakura went to every clothing store they saw. Since Kero kept on wondering when he'd get his game, Sakura and Tomoyo went to the game store.
"Ahhh... I want that one. No, that one. Oh, my head is getting dizzy from looking at so many games," Kero turned around to look at Sakura with swirled eyes.
Tomoyo laughed, "O hohoho. Here Kero-chan, I'll buy you one game, too, since your having such a hard time deciding."
Kero looked at Tomoyo with sparkling eyes and said extremely loud, "Really? ARIGATO, Tomoyo."
Since Kero had been so loud many people in the store turned there heads toward Sakura with a questioning look.
Sakura sweatdropped, "Hoo-ee.."
After getting TWO games that day, Kero was estatic. He smiled all day long and kept quiet when Sakura told him to.
Around seven o'clock Sakura and Kero returned home. Tomoyo's lady guards drove Tomoyo to her mansion house.
"Wah, Sakura. Today has been a brilliant day. I can't wait till tomorrow to play the games.
Sakura looked at all the bags laid all over her room from the days shopping. Luckily, Tomoyo had paid for some even though Sakura didn't like that. Sakura carefully took out the clothing... many shoes, shirts, pants, sweaters, and skirts. Tomoyo told Sakura not to buy any dresses because she would provide them. Not noticing until now, Sakura saw that many of her shirts and sweaters were a dark green (Syaoran's favorite color) and pink (Sakura's favorite color). For a second, Sakura thought she was crazy. Then she shook her head and got ready for bed.
"Night, Kero-chan." Sakura said to the curled up Kero.
"Good night, Sakura," Kero replied and fell asleep.
'Goodnight, Syaoran-kun. Whereever you are,' Sakura thought to herself.
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Tomoyo simled to herself. She had bought many clothes and a new camcorder that day. Sakura was obviously thinking of Syaoran a lot because half her clothes that she bought were green, the color that Syaoran always wore. In one day high school would start and Tomoyo vowed to make sure she would tape the whole years and make good memories. Tomoyo fell asleep awating the next day.
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Sakura slept and had another 'Syaoran' dream. This one was about the day that Syaoran left. She had a flashback to when Syaoran said he loved her and how surprised she was. He promised to come back to her someday as the train he was on left... his image getting farther and farther awayuntil he was not visible anymore. She loved him and seeing him go broked her heart...
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Sakura woke up from the dream Sunday morning about to cry because life was so unfair. She had the same question engraved in her mind all the time, 'When was Syaoran coming back?'
It was seven o'clock am. The sun was out but Kero was still asleep. Today was Sakura's last day of freedom; tomorrow school started. Sakura yawned and got out of bed and promised herself that today would be a good day. She wouldn't think of Syaoran, not today.
Sakura walked down the stairs. Her dad was already awake and was drinking coffee at the table. He looked up and seeing said, "Ohiyo gazaimas, Sakura-san."
Sakura smiled and replied, "Ohiyo! Where's oni-chan?"
"He went to work. What do you plan to do today?" Fujitaka asked with intrest.
Sakura shrugged and replied, "I don't know. I'm going to call Tomoyo-chan. Maybe we could go somewhere. What about you?"
Fujitaka replied, "I'm going to stop by the college. I need to pick up some notes and then go to a meeting. Actually, I have to leave now." Sakura's dad got up and walked out the door.
"Goodbye, Sakura-san. Have a good day,okay?"
"Hai! Goodbye- have a good day, too," Sakura replied.
Fujitaka left. Now Sakura was all alone with Kero. Today was like any other day compared to the last three months. Sakura would get up and her brother and dad went to work leaving Sakura at home. Then Sakura would do something (like call Tomoyo) and the rest of the day was spent.
So Sakura called up Tomoyo from her living room.
"Moshi Moshi!" Tomoyo's voice answered the phone.
"Hi, Tomoyo-chan," Sakura said.
"I know exactly what to do today. Can I come over?" Tomoyo asked.
"Okay...goodbye," Sakura said wondering what Tomoyo was up to.
"Bye, Sakura-chan!" then Tomoyo hung up.
Sakura set down the phone and went back upstairs to her room to see if Kero was awake yet. She waled inside and saw Kero sitting up, wide awake.
"Wah, Sakura. You're up before me, very impressive," Kero said smiling.
Sakura glared but calmly said, "Tomoyo-chan is going to come over. She has something planned. She hasn't told me what it is though,"
"Oh,okay. I'll wait with you. Maybe she'll take us on a train ride, or we'll swim in the sea..."
The doorbell rang. Sakura ran down the stairs leaving Kero upstairs to what he thought would happen today. She opened the door to see three of Tomoyo's lady guards at the door holding many items.
"Just set them down there," Tomoyo's voice came from behind the guards. The women in black suits set the things on the couch, let Tomoyo in and left. Kero flew down to the room and said, "Ohiyo!"
"Good morning, Kero-chan and Sakura-chan," Tomoyo said brightly.
"What's all this?" Sakura asked.
Tomoyo grinned and said, "Some new dresses I made that I would like you to try on so I can video tape you. Also, there are tapes there from when you were catching cards when you were in fourth grade that I thought you'd like to watch. Are you ready?"
Sakura's eyes widened as she cried, "Hoo-ee! Okay, then."
Kero clapped in joy and laughed saying, "Yay. That is awesome. Let's watch the tapes of the handsome me!"
Sakura plopped in a tape and she smiled sadly at what she saw. On the tape was Syaoran trying with force to take the crads away in their first meeting. The next parts of the tape basically covered when they were rivals. The tape made Kero grumpy, "Hey?! Where's me?! All the tapes are of the Chinese brat and Sakura. Let's stop this and Sakura can put on the dresses, and I'll play my new games!"
"Okay," Tomoyo stopped the tape, "Here Sakura-chan, you can have it."
"Arigato," Sakura whispered. Today's attempt at forgetting about Syaoran had failed.
Sakura put on dresses for the rest of the day till Tomoyo went home and Sakura went to bed. When Sakura got into bed she had a hard time sleeping because her mind kept straying to the tapes of Syaoran and her.
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The alarm clock buzzed at 6:30 am the following morning. Sakura was instantly awake because she realized that today was the first day of high school. Kero woke up with a dazed expression because it had been awhile since he was forced to get up so early.
"Too early! Wake me up later!" Kero cried.
"Yeah... school is too strict," Sakura replied.
Sakura jumped out of bed and got into her new Siejou High uniform. Her hair was put up into two ponytails set at each side of her head... just like it was since she was very little.
"Breakfast!" Touya yelled from the downstairs kitchen.
"Hai!" Sakura yelled back.
Kero flew into her bag and said, "I'm coming with you today."
Sakura didn't complain except to say, "But stay quiet in there."
Sakura ran down the stairs with her bag and sat down at the table.
Fujitaka passed Sakura a bowl of rice with other condiments. Sakura gulped it down and said, "Arigato!"
"Wow! The monster sure ate fast!" Touya exclaimed.
Sakura glared at Touya. Sakura's dad broke the glare by saying, "Here's your lunch, have a good day!"
"Hai! " Sakura exclaimed, "Goodbye!" Then she raced out the door, put on her rollerblades and rode to school.
The school was packed. Students were racing to get to there first class. Sakura looked around for a familiar face but saw no one. Kero peaked his head out of her bag,.
"Wow! This school is big!" Kero exclaimed.
"Get back in the bag, Kero-chan," Sakura said. He obeyed grudgingly and went back in the bag so that he was out of sight.
Sakura looked around more and saw someone that made her freeze. It was a teenage boy. He was turned around so that Sakura could only see the back of him. He was holding a briefcase and his chestnut hair swayed in the wind. He slowly turned around, saw Sakura and smiled.
Sakura was about to faint. In his other hand was a teddy bear. His eyes looked at Sakura with love and happiness. Though he was about twelve feet away from Sakura, it felt like only a couple inches. It was Syaoran. The guy from her dreams.
"Hey! What's going on? Why aren't you moving?" Kero complained peaking out of the bag again, " Oh, NO! It's the Chinese brat! Why's he here?"
Sakura whispered while looking straight ahead and not turning to Kero, "Get back in the bag."
"But, but, oh.... okay," Kero replied sadly.
Sakura walked to Syaoran who looked the same as many years ago, and they embraced in a hug. Sakura cried tears of joy.
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Author's note- Well... that's the end of chapter one. I hoped you like it... Please R&R!
Disclaimer- I don't own CCS!