I have entirely finished this story and all that's left to do is type it up
and post it. I had plenty of time to complete it while I was grounded...for
losing a cell phone! Sheesh. I'm still not exactly sure if I'm free now but
I know that I'll be offline a whole lot more. I have also almost completed
the sequel to 'The Return' and that will be entitled 'the china doll' so
look out for that one soon.
This entire story is from one point of view (which I don't usually do) and slightly turns into an AU.
One thing to think about though, is Sakura really a Cardcaptor?
Yumemiro Hito
Chapter 1 – In which reality do I belong?
"Syaoran...I-I don't know what to say!"
"Well since I don't really have anyone to go with and you seemed kind of annoyed at everyone else for asking you, I thought we could...maybe...go as friends." My heart sank a little at the word 'friends', but stayed in my throat. The Syaoran, Clow Reed's mighty descendant, the boy with no emotions was asking me to the prom. Sure, we'd only be going as friends, but maybe, just maybe...who knows. I had instantly gone into hanyaan mode and didn't realize that I had yet to accept.
"Um...Sakura? Daijobu?" his chocolate eyes looking at me with worry.
"Hai!" I answered both questions and jumped into his arms. "Hai." I whispered into his ear not noticing that his face had turned to an unusual shade of red. I was too happy to care.
~*~
Let me explain...I'm Sakura Kinomoto. I'm eighteen and I live in Tomoeda, Japan. It all started when I was ten. I accidentally opened a book that no one else could and ended up releasing cards all over town. Then a stuffed animal, named Kero, came out of the book and basically ordered me to reseal them all...all 52 violent card spirits.
Then after I got back a few cards, Li Syaoran came in from Hong Kong and wanted the cards. We started out as rivals, but eventually became friends. My best friend, Tomoyo, wasn't supposed to be involved, but one night she caught me using a card and she joined me. Right when Syaoran and me were starting to get along, his cousin and fiancée showed up, and boy was she jealous.
I caught all of the cards, passed Yue's judgment test and became card's mistress. Even better, Meilin and me became closer friends and when she left she didn't threaten me to stay away from Syaoran.
But my adventure didn't stop there. We were attacked and one by one I began to change the cards into Sakura cards – cards dependant on my magic. I suspected Clow Reed, the creator of the Clow cards but he was supposed to be dead. When the time came to finish sealing the last two cards into Sakura cards he revealed himself as Eriol Hiiragizawa, a boy from school who turned out to be the reincarnation of Clow Reed.
This is all fine, right? Well, yeah. That is until I figured out that I had fallen in love with my sworn protector, the one and only Li Syaoran. So that's it...now my biggest challenge is not a magical fire breathing monster or some hideous ghost, but some miniscule confession I have to make to Syaoran. Ha! That should be easy after what we've been through, right? I wish...
~*~
"So...do you think anything magical will happen at our prom?" My friend asked me with wonder. I wasn't sure if she was happy for me or for herself.
"You're not bringing your camera are you?" I asked worriedly. I did not want anything like Tomoyo's camera or something else ruining my chances with Syaoran.
"Why not?" she pouted. "And miss all those super kawaii scenes of you two! I will never go anywhere without it!" she squealed. I smiled awkwardly and took a step backward, sweatdropping.
"I have a special surprise for you!" Tomoyo exclaimed cheerfully. A little too cheerfully. She pulled out a blank tape, untitled yet.
"What's that?" I asked with a full sense of dread. I knew very well that I wasn't going to like it, whatever it was.
"Oh,... just a tape I happened to have conveniently in my video recorder at lunch today. It just so happens that it mysteriously taped an incredibly kawaii moment." She answered.
I paled. She had taped Syaoran asking me out!! Was this a good thing? I did have an unofficial record of him asking me to the prom. But...Tomoyo was spying on me. Again. One thing was sure, I wanted that tape.
"TOMOYO! GIVE IT HERE!" I screamed and chased her down the street to my house, our laughter echoing through the town.
~*~
I'll never learn. I should've known that she'd make dozens of copies before teasing me. I was in the tub, surrounded by billions of pink bubbles. Kero was out 'window shopping', which meant that he was drooling over all the wonderful pastries in the windows of bakeries all across town, and everyone else was downstairs watching TV. I looked at the mini alarm clock I'd brought into the bathroom to keep track of time.
10 pm.
I slid under the bubbles just in time to miss the door stealthily opening and closing quietly.
When I pulled my head out of the water I heard onii-chan screaming at me. Then the door opened again.
"Kaijuu! You'll turn into a prune!" he screamed, barging in. luckily he noticed my annoyed look and left before I could grasp the soap and fling it at him.
I closed my eyes and went back to my bath. In seconds I was humming a suitable song for in the tub. Drowning. Next thing I knew, I was singing it. With my eyes still closed, I thought about the song. Instantly I saw Syaoran's face. I was about to whisper his name when a quiet cough came from the door. I almost did drown. I looked at the person who had entered the room just seconds before Touya had barged in. I think he hid behind the door, and out of sight from my brother.
"Syaoran?" I whispered then blushed remembering where I was. Luckily I had bubbles covering the necessary places, but he still turned around like a gentleman, obviously embarrassed.
"Um...I-I ...g-gomen nasai." He stuttered facing the wall. "I should have listened to Kero."
"Kero?" I asked, slightly confused. "You can turn around. I'm covered." I laughed. He was too shy for his own good. He turned around slowly but kept his eyed to the ground.
"I was at Tomoyo's house. She dragged me to her house by blackmail. She said something about a tape. Kero came over to her house. He said he could feel an evil presence near your house. When I asked why he didn't tell you first he said that you were busy. So I came over to tell you. They're probably killing themselves laughing so hard at me." He explained with a rare smile and looked at me.
"Oh yeah. Tomoyo-chan would love to tape this one." I agreed. "I'll be out in a sec. You can wait in my room." I said. He nodded and turned to the door when a booming voice came from down the stairs, coming closer.
"KAIJUU!! Who's in there with you!?" he asked quite loudly.
"Get in here!" I whispered urgently to Syaoran, who had froze in front of the door, with his hand outstretched to the handle. At first he hesitated, going over it in his head, but I knew he wouldn't see anything.
"Do you want to die?" I asked. He shook his head and climbed into the tub at my feet. I shut the curtain just in time. The door banged open and Touya barged in again. I still had the soap in my hands and threw it at him, screaming.
"TO-YA! You hentai!! Stop trying to find excuses to look at me!" He left me alone after I said that.
"I...um...my pant legs are all wet now." Syaoran grumbled quietly. He was crouched and from his knees to his feet was already soaked with soapy water.
"I think I still have the ones you lent me in my room, somewhere." I offered. He smiled at me again. I swear that if I hadn't been aware of the fact that I was naked in a bathtub, with nothing but bubbles covering me, with the guy I was in love with, I would have gone hanyaan.
"Close your eyes while I get out." I instructed. He obeyed but for some reason I couldn't move.
"Sakura?" he asked without opening his eyes. When he got no reply from me he opened one eye but he couldn't do anything.
Very slowly I was being forced to lower my head into the water. I winced in pain trying to struggle against the force but that was about all I could do.
'No!' I tried to scream, but I couldn't make my mouth move.
"Help." I managed to breath as the water rushed over my head and everything went black.
~*~
When I awoke my lungs were burning. I quickly lifted my head from the water and took in deep breaths. I had fallen asleep.
The door opened and a stout woman bustled in. that was when I realized that I wasn't in my regular tub at home.
"Lady Sakura! Did you fall asleep again? You had that dream, too, I suppose. With cards of magic and that Li-boy." She exclaimed. I looked around and realized that I was alone. Syaoran was gone and the tub seemed ten times bigger than I remembered.
"Where's Syaoran?" I asked. I hadn't been paying much attention to the lady and I still had no clue where I was.
The lady laughed at me.
"Lady, the boy is in your dreams, he's not a real person. I keep telling you this but you always seem to have amnesia after those dreams. I'll say it again. Li Syaoran is a figment of your imagination. So are the glow cards, and Cerberus, Yue, Tomoyo and Eriol. Tomoeda isn't a real place. You're a noble, a lady, the princess of Sekai. Do you remember?" she said harshly.
Slowly my 'life' came back to me. I was twenty, not eighteen and first in line to inherit the kingdom of Sekai from my father, the king. I had no brothers but my first-born would be named a Kinomoto. I wasn't a card captor. I was a princess. I didn't live in a life of magic, I lived in the politics of ruling a kingdom. It was just another dream. Dreams that seemed to create another life for me.
"Hai, I remember. Arigato." I dismissed the woman and climbed out of the tub. Instantly I had a towel around me.
"What if it isn't just a dream? It did seem so real. I had another life. I need some answers." I said aloud.
Nobody noticed as I walked out in a robe and went to my room to put on some clothes.
'Oh Syaoran. I love you, but are you real or just another dream?' I wondered as my servants helped me into my corset.
To be continued...
Sugoi!!!!! I've finally finished typing this up. Please review!!!!
This entire story is from one point of view (which I don't usually do) and slightly turns into an AU.
One thing to think about though, is Sakura really a Cardcaptor?
Yumemiro Hito
Chapter 1 – In which reality do I belong?
"Syaoran...I-I don't know what to say!"
"Well since I don't really have anyone to go with and you seemed kind of annoyed at everyone else for asking you, I thought we could...maybe...go as friends." My heart sank a little at the word 'friends', but stayed in my throat. The Syaoran, Clow Reed's mighty descendant, the boy with no emotions was asking me to the prom. Sure, we'd only be going as friends, but maybe, just maybe...who knows. I had instantly gone into hanyaan mode and didn't realize that I had yet to accept.
"Um...Sakura? Daijobu?" his chocolate eyes looking at me with worry.
"Hai!" I answered both questions and jumped into his arms. "Hai." I whispered into his ear not noticing that his face had turned to an unusual shade of red. I was too happy to care.
~*~
Let me explain...I'm Sakura Kinomoto. I'm eighteen and I live in Tomoeda, Japan. It all started when I was ten. I accidentally opened a book that no one else could and ended up releasing cards all over town. Then a stuffed animal, named Kero, came out of the book and basically ordered me to reseal them all...all 52 violent card spirits.
Then after I got back a few cards, Li Syaoran came in from Hong Kong and wanted the cards. We started out as rivals, but eventually became friends. My best friend, Tomoyo, wasn't supposed to be involved, but one night she caught me using a card and she joined me. Right when Syaoran and me were starting to get along, his cousin and fiancée showed up, and boy was she jealous.
I caught all of the cards, passed Yue's judgment test and became card's mistress. Even better, Meilin and me became closer friends and when she left she didn't threaten me to stay away from Syaoran.
But my adventure didn't stop there. We were attacked and one by one I began to change the cards into Sakura cards – cards dependant on my magic. I suspected Clow Reed, the creator of the Clow cards but he was supposed to be dead. When the time came to finish sealing the last two cards into Sakura cards he revealed himself as Eriol Hiiragizawa, a boy from school who turned out to be the reincarnation of Clow Reed.
This is all fine, right? Well, yeah. That is until I figured out that I had fallen in love with my sworn protector, the one and only Li Syaoran. So that's it...now my biggest challenge is not a magical fire breathing monster or some hideous ghost, but some miniscule confession I have to make to Syaoran. Ha! That should be easy after what we've been through, right? I wish...
~*~
"So...do you think anything magical will happen at our prom?" My friend asked me with wonder. I wasn't sure if she was happy for me or for herself.
"You're not bringing your camera are you?" I asked worriedly. I did not want anything like Tomoyo's camera or something else ruining my chances with Syaoran.
"Why not?" she pouted. "And miss all those super kawaii scenes of you two! I will never go anywhere without it!" she squealed. I smiled awkwardly and took a step backward, sweatdropping.
"I have a special surprise for you!" Tomoyo exclaimed cheerfully. A little too cheerfully. She pulled out a blank tape, untitled yet.
"What's that?" I asked with a full sense of dread. I knew very well that I wasn't going to like it, whatever it was.
"Oh,... just a tape I happened to have conveniently in my video recorder at lunch today. It just so happens that it mysteriously taped an incredibly kawaii moment." She answered.
I paled. She had taped Syaoran asking me out!! Was this a good thing? I did have an unofficial record of him asking me to the prom. But...Tomoyo was spying on me. Again. One thing was sure, I wanted that tape.
"TOMOYO! GIVE IT HERE!" I screamed and chased her down the street to my house, our laughter echoing through the town.
~*~
I'll never learn. I should've known that she'd make dozens of copies before teasing me. I was in the tub, surrounded by billions of pink bubbles. Kero was out 'window shopping', which meant that he was drooling over all the wonderful pastries in the windows of bakeries all across town, and everyone else was downstairs watching TV. I looked at the mini alarm clock I'd brought into the bathroom to keep track of time.
10 pm.
I slid under the bubbles just in time to miss the door stealthily opening and closing quietly.
When I pulled my head out of the water I heard onii-chan screaming at me. Then the door opened again.
"Kaijuu! You'll turn into a prune!" he screamed, barging in. luckily he noticed my annoyed look and left before I could grasp the soap and fling it at him.
I closed my eyes and went back to my bath. In seconds I was humming a suitable song for in the tub. Drowning. Next thing I knew, I was singing it. With my eyes still closed, I thought about the song. Instantly I saw Syaoran's face. I was about to whisper his name when a quiet cough came from the door. I almost did drown. I looked at the person who had entered the room just seconds before Touya had barged in. I think he hid behind the door, and out of sight from my brother.
"Syaoran?" I whispered then blushed remembering where I was. Luckily I had bubbles covering the necessary places, but he still turned around like a gentleman, obviously embarrassed.
"Um...I-I ...g-gomen nasai." He stuttered facing the wall. "I should have listened to Kero."
"Kero?" I asked, slightly confused. "You can turn around. I'm covered." I laughed. He was too shy for his own good. He turned around slowly but kept his eyed to the ground.
"I was at Tomoyo's house. She dragged me to her house by blackmail. She said something about a tape. Kero came over to her house. He said he could feel an evil presence near your house. When I asked why he didn't tell you first he said that you were busy. So I came over to tell you. They're probably killing themselves laughing so hard at me." He explained with a rare smile and looked at me.
"Oh yeah. Tomoyo-chan would love to tape this one." I agreed. "I'll be out in a sec. You can wait in my room." I said. He nodded and turned to the door when a booming voice came from down the stairs, coming closer.
"KAIJUU!! Who's in there with you!?" he asked quite loudly.
"Get in here!" I whispered urgently to Syaoran, who had froze in front of the door, with his hand outstretched to the handle. At first he hesitated, going over it in his head, but I knew he wouldn't see anything.
"Do you want to die?" I asked. He shook his head and climbed into the tub at my feet. I shut the curtain just in time. The door banged open and Touya barged in again. I still had the soap in my hands and threw it at him, screaming.
"TO-YA! You hentai!! Stop trying to find excuses to look at me!" He left me alone after I said that.
"I...um...my pant legs are all wet now." Syaoran grumbled quietly. He was crouched and from his knees to his feet was already soaked with soapy water.
"I think I still have the ones you lent me in my room, somewhere." I offered. He smiled at me again. I swear that if I hadn't been aware of the fact that I was naked in a bathtub, with nothing but bubbles covering me, with the guy I was in love with, I would have gone hanyaan.
"Close your eyes while I get out." I instructed. He obeyed but for some reason I couldn't move.
"Sakura?" he asked without opening his eyes. When he got no reply from me he opened one eye but he couldn't do anything.
Very slowly I was being forced to lower my head into the water. I winced in pain trying to struggle against the force but that was about all I could do.
'No!' I tried to scream, but I couldn't make my mouth move.
"Help." I managed to breath as the water rushed over my head and everything went black.
~*~
When I awoke my lungs were burning. I quickly lifted my head from the water and took in deep breaths. I had fallen asleep.
The door opened and a stout woman bustled in. that was when I realized that I wasn't in my regular tub at home.
"Lady Sakura! Did you fall asleep again? You had that dream, too, I suppose. With cards of magic and that Li-boy." She exclaimed. I looked around and realized that I was alone. Syaoran was gone and the tub seemed ten times bigger than I remembered.
"Where's Syaoran?" I asked. I hadn't been paying much attention to the lady and I still had no clue where I was.
The lady laughed at me.
"Lady, the boy is in your dreams, he's not a real person. I keep telling you this but you always seem to have amnesia after those dreams. I'll say it again. Li Syaoran is a figment of your imagination. So are the glow cards, and Cerberus, Yue, Tomoyo and Eriol. Tomoeda isn't a real place. You're a noble, a lady, the princess of Sekai. Do you remember?" she said harshly.
Slowly my 'life' came back to me. I was twenty, not eighteen and first in line to inherit the kingdom of Sekai from my father, the king. I had no brothers but my first-born would be named a Kinomoto. I wasn't a card captor. I was a princess. I didn't live in a life of magic, I lived in the politics of ruling a kingdom. It was just another dream. Dreams that seemed to create another life for me.
"Hai, I remember. Arigato." I dismissed the woman and climbed out of the tub. Instantly I had a towel around me.
"What if it isn't just a dream? It did seem so real. I had another life. I need some answers." I said aloud.
Nobody noticed as I walked out in a robe and went to my room to put on some clothes.
'Oh Syaoran. I love you, but are you real or just another dream?' I wondered as my servants helped me into my corset.
To be continued...
Sugoi!!!!! I've finally finished typing this up. Please review!!!!