A NEED TO CHANGE

Author: stOkmAi

Full summary: Kinomoto Sakura has changed all cards into Sakura cards, except for one... the LOVE card. "How is this possible?" they ask. Apparently it can't be changed because of her lack of emotion and love... But when the happy-go-lucky heir of the Li Clan, who came to Japan to get the Clow cards from her, decided to help her, will she be able to be as cheerful as him and change the Love card, as well as her heart?

Disclaimers: I do not own Card Captor Sakura. Clamp does.

A/N: My second CCS fic! But even so, please go easy on me.

Edit: Hey, so I decided to edit the story. Not much has changed to be honest, but I've added a few things here and there... So, yeah. Please go easy on me (yet again) for it's been years since I last wrote. huh.

Warnings: OOC-ness! And lots of it from the pair!

CHAPTER I
The Clow Mistress' Challenge

-Tomoeda, Japan-

"Well done, Miss Kinomoto."

It was well over midnight. The moon shone brightly in the clear night sky, making the roofs of the houses in little Tomoeda shine with her radiant glow. The people in this peaceful town slept soundly in deep slumber. Little did they know that a girl by the age of fifteen had just saved the world.

A boy, not older than sixteen, was standing in the middle of the park, wearing blue robes, a big black hat, and holding a very long staff with a sun on the tip. He had blue-black hair, and under his glasses were a pair of azure blue eyes. Although his eyes were warm and youthful-looking, it held knowledge beyond the boy's age. Beside him was a tall, pink-haired woman with butterfly wings and a black panther-like creature, also with wings plus a blue gem on his forehead.

A small smile was curved in the boy's lips. "Although it took you almost two years for capturing the Clow cards you accidentally released, I still congratulate you, for you have done it all alone," he said in a soft yet firm voice.

The girl he addressed as Miss Kinomoto was a few feet before him. She had shoulder-length auburn hair, which was tied in a hairdress-pigtail style. She had emerald green eyes, not as warm as the boy's, but it seemed...expressionless, cold even. She was holding a rod shorter than the boy's, and also beside her was had a man with long silver hair and angel-like wings and a dark orange lion-like creature with wings and armor with a big red jewel on his forehead and chest.

"Actually," she said in a calm yet monotone voice, "I have had great help from you, Eriol, and Tomoyo." She pointed to the girl, also fifteen, with raven hair and amethyst eyes, as she taped the whole conversation.

The boy, Eriol, chuckled slightly. "No, actually I have done nothing but watch you and...interrupt, Sakura."

"Yes, but your interruptions, as you have kindly put it, have somewhat helped me," the girl, Sakura, said in the same monotone voice. "I guess the only real interruptions came from that Chinese girl."

Eriol gave a little smile. "True enough. Hmm. Well then, since you have captured all of my...wait, I mean, all of Clow Reed's cards, I now have a challenge for you."

Tomoyo gripped her camera tighter as Sakura said, "And what may that be?"

"Name the cards as your own."

And that was the Clow Mistress' challenge: to name the Clow cards as Sakura cards.

-The next day, in Hong Kong China-

"AAAAYYYIIIEEE!"

A girl in her late teens (or early twenties?) was running around the house, er, mansion, screaming like a banshee. Apparently her little brother, who was on the second floor, "accidentally" poured a bucket of ice, cold water on top of her, making the ice go under her shirt. The little brother was, well, laughing his head off.

"LI XIAO LANG!"

The boy, called Xiao Lang, was about sixteen, and he had chestnut brown hair and laughing amber eyes. He flinched at the VERY angry tone of voice his mother used. Yet it did not scare him. Nope, this was just one of the normal days in the Li manor.

He puffed his chest up as he walked towards his mother's study, which was at the exact opposite side from where the "accident" took place, and on the first floor (how his mother's voice got to him, no one knew). He passed by his three other sisters helping their younger sister while sniggering behind their brother. Xiao Lang rolled his eyes.

Mrs. Li Yelan slammed her hand in her desk as Xiao Lang sat down. Xiao Lang just blinked at her innocently.

"You have gone too far, Xiao Lang," his mother said angrily. "As much as I want to tolerate your actions at home, it seems that I cannot, for you are like that even OUTSIDE home. Honestly! You have gone too far. You have disgraced the name of the family. The elders have always said that you were an omen, a black sheep. And for years of not believing that, now I fully believe them."

"So?" he said in a tone that irritates the Li elders: a bubbly and cheerful one. "The elders are so old and boring. All they have are their stupid rules and those other crap about not having emotions and stuff. It's pathetic."

"It is not pathetic! That is the way of the Li Clan!" Yelan countered. "Emotion is useless when you fight, for it will only bring to you distraction. You are a man, Xiao Lang. A LI as a matter of fact. It has always been like that. Rid of your emotions."

"And be as boring as those old geezers? Hell no!"

Yelan slammed her hand to the desk. "Enough! As I said, I will not tolerate your actions any longer! You are sixteen, it is time for you to grow up!" Xiao Lang just blinked.

Sighing, she shook her head, then said, "Look, I'm telling you all these because you have to go to Japan tomorrow."

At this, Xiao Lang's eyes lit up. "Really? A vacation?"

"No!" his mother said. "The girl who released the Clow cards has captured all. Apparently Meilin couldn't...handle her."

Xiao Lang snorted. "I always knew Meilin was weak."

"And you, Syaoran?" a voice from the door yelled, using Xiao Lang's Japanese name. They turned to the door to see a girl with her black hair tied in odangos and her fiery red eyes, fuming. She had her hands on her hips. "What do YOU do in your spare time, huh? Like a bully-"

"I was bored, okay?" Syaoran said, throwing his hands up in mock defeat. "Like there's some Clow cards loose here or something."

"That is why the elders have decided, though reluctantly, to send YOU to Japan," Yelan said, finally calm, well, as calm as she can be. "They said that maybe you would find ridding of emotions important when you have a well worthy opponent at sight."

"Ha!" he mocked. "It's a GIRL, mom. Ridding of emotions won't be necessary." Meilin rolled her eyes.

"Remember, Xiao Lang, you must get all of the Clow cards from her before she turns all the Clow cards into her own." His mother informed him.

He punched his palm. "Easy as pie."

-TBC-

A/N: ei! It's me again! So, how was it? I know its short BUT its still the first chappie! I know I changed some stuff (this is based on the anime, peepz! I only read volume 2 of the manga version –sweatdrop–) but this is a fanfic! And fanfics don't necessarily need to follow EVERY ITSY BITSY DETAIL of the real one, right?

REVIEW! (Points to the 'go' button below) I'd really love that. And if you want to flame me, just be sure you state the reason and if the reason is, well, reasonable. Don't flame if you just want to say my story sucks for no real reason at all. You'll just be wasting your time. I'd really appreciate it if you had a very good reason. Constructive criticism, if you must.