Discalimer: I don't own cardcaptorsakura, or else I would have made this into a new movie of it. I am sorry that I do not have many cardcaptorsakura fics up, but I do have a life other than anime! (Well, not really)



The bus was slowly climbing up the steep hill, it's tires creaking around everyone corner. The snow was pushed down by the weight of it as it drove up the hill. Inside the window near the front of the bus was a small boy with brown hair. He was looking outside the window, marveling at the scenery of Idaho. It was almost nothing like Japan. All he saw of Japan was the city. In Idaho, he saw wonderful forests with snow everywhere, falling down in white tufts like feathers. The only thing was that it was so cold...

Syaoran shivered, then wrapped his scarf tighter around his neck and zipped his sweater up a few more inches. He turned around for a moment and his light brown hair swished around slightly.

"You okay?" he asked.

There was a girl next to him with chestnut colored hair and emerald green eyes that held a cheerful glow to them. She shivered.

"I'm kinda cold. It's not this cold back in Japan" she murmured. Syaoran looked at her for a moment, then smiled and unwrapped the scarf around his neck. He wrapped it around her neck and tried to see if he had done the right thing.

Sakura smiled up at him. "Thanks"

Syaoran blushed and turned away. "No problem, I'm not that cold"

Sakura was about to say something else but then stopped, knowing it would only embarrass him.

"It sure was a great idea to come up here. I'm glad you thought of it!" Sakura said.

"It was mostly your idea" was the reply.

"How did you get the cabin for free?" Sakura asked.

"Well it turned out that there was some people that I knew who bought this cabin. They lived in Montana. But they found a better deal somewhere else and decided to stay there for the winter. They didn't want this place to just go to waste so they said I could use it for the winter" Syaoran replied.

"Seriously?!"

"Seriously"

"Wow! They must have been feeling generous" observed Sakura.

"Either that or I just have a persuading image" Syaoran chuckled. The bus continued to spiral through a seemingly endless amount of hills that were covered in about two feet of snow. Sakura could just imagine herself running all over the hills with Syaoran. Her eyes dazzled at the thought. Syaoran was thinking the same thing. Sakura crowded towards Syaoran and looked outside. The snow gleamed all over the hills as though someone flew over it in an airplane dumping glitter all over the place.

"Almost there" the bus driver called out.

In about two minutes Sakura looked over and saw a tiny cottage up to the left.

"You're the greatest" Sakura said, throwing her arms around her and hugging him. Syaoran let her hug him and he blushed again, lighting up his face like a light bulb. They stepped off the bus for the last time and opened the door into the cottage. Sakura's eyes got as wide as plates as she saw it. The inside had a large table set in the middle of the room and two beds to the left. To the right of the table the wall was filled with food of every kind. On one side of the wall was a set of soda boxes and two bottles of apple cider.

On the other side of the house was a door that must have led to a bathroom, a sink, and several cupboards and upside down racks filled with dishes of every sort. There was a wood stove on the last wall with a pile of wood next to it.

Sakura squealed with delight and hurried Syaoran inside.

"How long do we get to stay here?"

"As long as we want" Syaoran said. The real reason he had brought Sakura here was to tell her something important...but he didn't have the courage to. What was the worst she could say? I'm sorry? No?

Syaoran pushed those thoughts out of his head angrily. It was stupid to think that Sakura could love him back.

"Hello? Earth to Syaoran?" Sakura said, shaking her hand in front of his eyes to make sure that his eyes were working correctly. Syaoran snapped out of his thoughts and looked at her.

"Sorry, it was nothing" he replied, then stepped towards the stove and leaned down to look at it. There was already wood in it with newspapers crumpled up. Syaoran smiled. They had everything prepared. He reached up and grabbed the box of matches and opened the box. He pulled one out and shut the box, then he scraped it across the side of the box quickly. The sulfur immediately caught alight and he lowered it towards the newspaper.

The paper immediately caught alight and soon the fire was blazing through. Syaoran shut it and pulled the damper open so the smoke could come out.

Sakura yawned. Syaoran looked at his watch. It was about 9:47.

"Let's get to sleep" he murmured.

"Which bed would you like?" she asked politely.

"I was just about to ask you that" he replied.

"I'll take the red one" she said.

"Then I'll take the green one" he responded.

They both crawled into bed and pulled the covers over themselves. Sakura fell asleep in an instant, but the mighty sleep god skipped Syaoran for the night, because he lay in the bed with his eyes wide open. He mustn't forget the real reason he was here. He looked over at her, sat up on his bed and walked over next to her. Her eyes were closed and her lips were locked in the special smile that they always wore.

Syaoran smiled and reached over and pulled the covers farther onto her, then he went back to his bed and fell asleep in an instant.

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The first thing that made Syaoran wake was that the bed was moving across the floor as though someone was vibrating the whole place so much that it was moving along with the house. He sat up in bed and looked around in surprise. Things all over the place were dancing all around the room like ten drunk people at a party.

Syaoran jumped up and realized what was happening.

"Sakura! Wake up! It's an earthquake!" Syaoran shouted. He ran over to the bed and shook Sakura.

"Watch out!" he shouted and grabbed her out of the bed. All of the dishes on the other side of the house came crashing down, sending razor sharp shards of glass all over the place. She screamed and jumped away.

"Wh-what's happening?" she screamed, backed in a corner with her hands over her head.

"It's an earthquake!" he shouted.

Syaoran grabbed her and raced out. The fire had blazed out of control and was now bringing the house down around them. Sakura had not brought her cards! They could not help them at this time. A huge chunk of the sealing flew off and landed in front of Syaoran and Sakura with a thunderous crash. The fire immediately began spreading to other parts of the house.

In the blink of an eye, the house was suddenly torn apart. It had been set upon a tectonic plate and it shifted. The ground was torn open twenty feet in either direction.

Sakura and Syaoran were flung backwards and through the wall as the house was shaken violently. Syaoran, in mid-air, placed Sakura in front of himself so that he would absorb the shock. They crashed outside into the snow. They were wearing nothing but a sweatshirt each and some long pants, so they were instantly freezing.

Sakura stood up and looked at Syaoran. There as some blood coming out of his mouth. Sakura was instantly alarmed. She bent down near him. "Syaoran!! Are you alright?!"

To her surprise, Syaoran sat up and smiled at her. He wiped the blood off of his mouth. "Come on, let's get out of here"

Sakura and Syaoran ran towards the road. The earthquake had only lasted about twenty seconds, doing less damage than it should have. Abruptly Sakura stopped. She couldn't see the road. It must have been washed away with the snow.

"Wh-where is it?" she asked in an alarmed tone. Syaoran shook his head. "I don't know" he murmured.

They were lost.