::SETTING:: It was twenty-five years after Sakura, Master of the Clow, had fully transformed all of the Clow Cards into Sakura cards. Li and Sakura married two years ago, and were expecting a child. Toya Kinomoto and Tomoyo Daidouji had been married for thirteen years and have had three children: Botan, and the twins Yuri, and Kohana. Although Sakura was Card Captor, the life of the Kinomoto and the Li families remained peaceful. At least it did until the day of Yuri and Kohana's birthday.
"Sis!" I shouted, "Get out of the bathroom! Botan and I have been waiting for an hour to shower!"
"Patience, Pipsqueak!" Yuri snapped.
My name is Kohana Kinomoto, and that bathroom hog is my twin sister Yuri. She always takes entirely too long to get ready for everything. Today is our eleventh birthday, and we're really excited because today will be our first time seeing Aunt Sakura and Uncle Lei in two years.
"Yuri!" Botan, our two year older brother said, "You're going to be late for your first semester of middle school!"
"Ah! I enjoyed myself so much that I forgot!" Yuri panicked. After fifteen minutes, I was able to go into the bathroom to get ready, which also took me fifteen minutes. Botan took ten.
We were all running around the house like crazy people searching for our stuff.
"I can't find my lunch!" I announced, still running. "Or my tie. And has anyone seen my ribbo- OOF!" I crashed into someone and fell backwards but was caught before I hit the ground.
"Woah, look out Squirt." It was my beloved father, Toyo Kinomoto. He is one of those all-knowing, all-wise fathers with a heart of gold. "One of these days it'll be a pole or a wall that you run into, instead of me!"
"Sweetheart, do you have to tease her about her height all of the time?" That was my mother, Tomoyo Kinomoto. She is captivatingly beautiful. She fell in love with my father when she was in middle school, and like an old fashioned beau, he would leave his college campus every afternoon pick her up from school and take her home.
"He just thinks it's cute because she's as tiny as Sakura was in elementary school!" Yukito explained. Yukito is my father's longtime friend and mine and my siblings' godfather. Ever since Mom and Dad got married, he insisted on helping out with our family. He's so amazing; he is so talented and has no faults, except how much he eats. Dad says that without Yukito, the grocery bills would be a lot lower!
"You look more and more like your grandmother every day," Dad told me with a spacey look on his face. I giggled.
"Come on, Kohana!" Yuri insisted. "Something interesting is going to happen today!"
"How do you know?" Botan asked.
"I can feel it." Yuri winked at us. Then she grabbed my arm. "But it'll never happen unless we get out of this door!"
We laughed and ran out of the door, Botan following behind carrying our forgotten lunches. Yuri always had a good instinct when it came to these things, and whatever was going to happen, we'd be ready for it!