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Konnichiwa, minna-san! This is my third attempt at being serious. Okay, now I was watching this TV show and got an idea. I would say that this is a good idea, but I don't know if it is. I was going to do this as joint writing with this fic, but the thing is that I just said to myself, "Never mind." Okay, this is an AU fic, so okay. If you see something you don't recognize, I made it up. I was going to make this a one shot, but it'd be a long one shot.
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Key:
"Talking" 'Thinking' *Actions* ******- Scene Changes, POV's, and Flashbacks {Narrator or narrations}
(My thoughts, over views, opinions, or bits of information that can or can't be useful to you.)
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Disclaimer: I have never owned Cardcaptor Sakura. I never have and never will. CCS belongs to Clamp. That is the end of my story. ^^ I also don't own some of the things I used in here.)
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Chapter One, 1, Isa, Uno, and Ichi of Meeting You There: A Memory In The Ashes By: the Cherri Ookami and my editor: Crystal Megami******
{Sakura and Syaoran sat on a stone bench in Tsukimine shrine and watched birds eat the crumbs they threw from the remains of their bento box meal (Breakfast).}
"When are we going to stop throwing these crumbs?" Syaoran asked as he threw a crumb at a bird
"I don't know. I think the birds like it."
"Of course, the like it. We are giving them free food." He said as he ate one of the cookies that were sitting at the bottom of the box
"Hey! I was gonna eat that!" Sakura said as she threw a crumb at him
"Exactly. You were going to eat it. You should've eaten it before I got hungry." He said bluntly as he dusted the crumb of his shirt
"Well, you are lucky that today is our three year anniversary of us being a couple. If it wasn't, I'd have to you." She said playfully
"Oh, is that was this was for? I thought this was a picnic for nothing." He said sarcastically
"You mean you forgot?" she said agitatedly
"Iie, I was just toying with you and I wanted to see what you'd look like."
"Argh! You're mean." She pouted
"Aww. Don't worry. I remember the whole thing."
"You do?" she asked
"Of course. If this shrine weren't here, we wouldn't have met." He said as he looked around at the temples, rock gardens, benches, and the koi ponds. (This is the AU part, because we all know that's not how they met.)
"I know. Do you remember what how we even noticed each other through the crowd that day?"
"Yeah, sure."
******Flashback (Told in Syaoran's POV)*****
(He is really talking on this part, but it is in his POV. Okay, let's go. ^^)
{I walked through the crowd. People were jabbering about the charms they bought and the fortunes they were told. The sunlight was crashing into my eyes and felt someone crash into me.}
{I looked down and saw a girl.}
"Gomen nasai." She uttered as she turned to look at her friend
{I felt some of my money fall out of my hand. The girl decided to get back with her friend and she spoke to me.}
"What are you looking for?" she asked me
"I dropped ¥40 and I can't find it."
"I could help you." She said to me
{We scoured and someone stepped on my hand as I looked.}
"ITAI! Damn it!" I said
"Oh, gomen nasai. Did I hurt you?" asked a voice
"Kind of. You stepped on my hand." I said as I examined the hand.
{She knelt down and looked at my hand. She stared at it for a while and she looked at me. She had pretty emerald eyes and a great smile. I was somehow mesmerized in her beauty.}
{She had a handkerchief and she wrapped it around my hand.}
{We stayed stagnant and then someone came up.}
"Hey, I found it." Said that girl who bumped into me as she came running toward me with money in her hand
"Hi, Tomoyo-chan!" said the 'handkerchief girl'
"Hi, Sakura-chan." Said Tomoyo "Oh, and here." She said as she shoved the money in my hand.
"Thanks." I said
{They started to walk off and I grabbed Sakura's hand.}
"Hoe?"
"What is you name?" I asked
"Sakura Kinomoto. What is yours?"
"Syaoran Li. Nice meeting you, Kinomoto-chan."
"Call me Sakura. The way you say it makes it sound too formal."
"Sakura-chan, are you coming or not?" called a voice.
"Coming and it was nice meeting you. Maybe we can meet here again." She said as she ran off into the crowd
******End of Flashback and Back to Normal POV******
"That's not how it went." Sakura said
"Hai. That was how I recall it and I have a very good memory."
"Oh, really?" she said as she threw more crumbs at him
"Yeah!" he said as he threw some at her
{As they finished the crumb fight, they went into an agreement.}
"I win! Your treat for lunch!" Sakura said victoriously
"Fine, fine." Syaoran said
{They walked off to a restaurant and settled at a table outside.} (You know, the ones with those umbrellas! ^^ I love those.)
"Waiter. Waiter?"
{A girl with lavender hair came walking up to the table as Syaoran uttered more 'Waiter calls'.}
"Waiter, waiter...*Spots girl* waitress." He said taken aback
"Sorry for making people wait." She said
"Can we have the menu?" Sakura asked politely
"Hai, I go get some."
{The girl came back with 2 menus and left.}
"The Cat Café. Nice name." Sakura said happily (The Cat Café was one of the things that I don't own. It belongs to another great anime and that anime is owned be Rumiko Takahashi. ^_^; The real Nekohaten, in the series, is somewhere else, but not here. That is another part of the AU factor. ^^)
"Yeah. What are you getting?" Syaoran asked as if he didn't hear her
"Maybe I'll get the shrimp ramen with green tea." She said
"Just skip the tea and I'll be fine."
"Why?"
"If you get that and I get what I want, I wouldn't be able to pay for it."
"How much did you bring?"
"$15.00, because I thought this would happen, but I'd win and I wouldn't need it." He said innocently
"Are people ready for order?" the waitress asked
"Umm... yeah. I will have the shrimp ramen."
"Okay, green eyed girl have shrimp ramen. And what brown haired boy have?" she asked
"Umm... pork ramen." He said as he handed the menu to the lavender haired girl
"Okay, I bring pork ramen for brown haired boy. And I bring shrimp ramen for green-eyed girl. I bring food when finished." She said as she left
{They waited just a few minutes and she came back with the food.}
"Here is shrimp and pork ramen for customer." She said happily "Boy look familiar." She said as she looked intently at Syaoran
"Well, I don't know you." He said as he picked up his chopsticks
"I see boy like you in China. You no live in China. You are live here." She said
"I am from China. I'm Syaoran."
"You is King of China when find fiancé. I hear on news from China."
"Yeah, I guess." He said as he blushed and looked at Sakura at the corner of his eye.
"I have fiancé. I have airen."
"I didn't mean it!" said a voice. Sakura, Syaoran and the waitress turned their heads to see.
"You had better keep running!" said another voice.
"I go now. AIREN! Airen must be with fiancé, no violent girl!" the waitress said as she ran off. (@_@ What a weirdo!)
"She's weird." Syaoran said as he started to eat
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{They had left the Cat Café, as they tried to keep from the insane eyes of their waitress. (@_@) They walked past an ice cream stand and bought some for a little afternoon snack. They spent the rest of the afternoon reminiscing about the whole 'Anniversary thing'. By the time it was sunset, they were walking back to the shrine, but on the way, something happened.}
{Syaoran stopped in his tracks as
Sakura walked on.}
"What's wrong?" she asked as she turned around
"I smell something. I think it's... I don't know. It smells like... smoke!"
"Where?"
{Syaoran looked around and tapped her on the shoulder.}
"It's coming from the direction of the shrine!"
"Let's go and hope that it isn't the shrine." Sakura said as she ran
"Wait up!"
****** At the Tsukimine Shrine ******
{Ashes of the shrine laid near the charcoal black pile of rock that used to be the bench they sat on this morning. Sakura entered the gate of the shrine and saw something.}
{It was the tie that pulled the shrine's bell, but was a bit indistinctive since it was now dark red and gray.}
"It's gone."
"I can't believe that the place where we met is just gone. And today of all days, the anniversary of our meeting, it is just a pile of ashes that'll just blow away." He said as he picked up a cherry blossom that was yet to be burnt.
"That doesn't mean that we are going to... " She said sadly
"Oh, no way! Even if this place is gone, that doesn't mean that I don't love you."
"Arigato, Syaoran-kun." She said as she buried her face in his shirt.
{They walked away and something happened.} (Why do I always say that? XD)
{The shrine shined and a rose appeared on what used to be the bench they sat on this morning. A golden line started to form near the bench and weaved its way into the city.}
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Okay, that's it for now! I know it sounds like a stupid idea, but okay, whatever. I was a bit bored, so what I did was shove some of the Ranma ½ crew in there! Akane was the screaming one and Ranma was the one who said that he didn't mean whatever he said. Oh, and Shampoo was their weird waitress of the Nekohaten. I was going to put Ukyo in Ucchan's, but never mind! Now I would give you a sum up of the next chapter, but I probably won't get enough reviews for my self-esteem. XP Ja ne, minna-san!!!!!!!!! ^^