We're talking Cross Purposes
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'spoken words'
I haven't seen Card Captor Sakura (eeps . .) only Cardcaptors I'm afraid, and even then, I don't know that much about it either. Just one day, I got this really wacky Idea in my head, so yeah . . .(I noticed a LOT of people don't like Cardcaptors . . . I wonder why? Keke sweatdrop)
Set the scene:
Sakura has transformed all the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards, and Eriol has already revealed himself to be the one behind all the attacks. Basically, Syaoran, Sakura, Tomoyo and Eriol all lead relatively 'normal' lives now, they just get on with life everyday. Inuyasha and the gang (Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kirara) are still looking for Shikon shards, after getting the reasonably large chunk of the jewel taken by Kikyo and given to Naraku. So at the moment, they only have three shards.
And, so the story begins . . .
Chapter One
Sitting on one of the roofs of Kaede's village, were two figures. One of them, was thinking about how much he missed Kagome, while the other, a larger figure, had finally come to the end of his patience, which wasn't very long at all.
/Kagome's been gone for a long time now. How long did she say she was going to stay in that world of hers?/ thought, a certain white haired bishounen.
'Kagome's been gone for a long time now. How long did she say she was going to stay in that world of hers?' said the small kitsune fox, unaware that he had just said the thoughts of the short-tempered hanyou beside him. He chattered on, oblivious to the growl of annoyance that escaped his companion's lips.
'It was three days, wasn't -' Without any warning at all, his 'friend' bashed him on the head, before jumping off the roof and landing gracefully on the ground without a word.
'hey-HEY! WAIT INUYASHA!' Shippo was left all alone on the roof, muttering quietly to himself, 'stupid Inuyasha'.
/Keh. Little brat took the words straight out of my mouth./ Inuyasha thought as he walked away quietly.
Today, the whole of 4th year at Sakura's class was going on a field trip. One, dull, field trip to the Higurashi Shrine. One, dull, BORING field trip.
They had arrived without much incident, editing out the fact that Chiharu had to be practically subdued, by the combined forces of Eriol, Syaoran, Sakura, Tomoyo, Rika, AND Naoko, just to stop her from leaving Yamazaki unconscious for the rest of the day. It had started somewhat with the long- winded 'supposed' history of the Higurashi Shrine.
But at least it ended well.
Yamazaki was quiet, for the time being, though it may have been due to the fact he was a little put off, but the continuous muttering under Chiharu's breath, which sounded strangely like, 'Lies. LIES! All of them LIES!'
As soon as they had climbed up the 78 steps, an old man immediately assaulted them with the history of the shrine.
'Did you know, the history of this shrine originated thousands of years ago? It had all started when . . .' Yamazaki smiled.
'Ah, a man after my own heart.' Everyone turned and looked at him, he sweat-dropped nervously.
'Uh . . .Was it something I said?'
'Souta, I'm leaving!' Kagome called out to her little brother, who was currently playing with Buyo.
'Wait! Kagome -' He was cut off by the shutting of the screen door, but he mumbled the last part, 'don't you remember? There are all these kids here on a field trip . . .oh well, she'll find out.'
/Hmm, wonder what Souta as going to say? Oh well, too late now . . ./ Kagome thought as she went outside.
'Jii-chan! I'm -' She called out to her grandfather, but suddenly saw all the kids around swivel round and look at her. One in particular. Kagome smiled sheepishly, before sweatdropping.
'Er... wrong place? I think I'll just go back inside now . . .' And with that she rushed back inside sliding the door shut. Gasping heavily, she slid down to the floor, GLARING at Souta's sheepish form.
'Why didn't you tell me there was a tour at our shrine today?' Kagome asked accusingly to Souta. He smiled sheepishly, but had the sense not to look at her in the eye.
Kagome slipped quietly through the back door muttering to herself.
'Just my luck . . . me, and my timing . . .' She muttered, as her huge yellow knapsack, was caught on a bramble bush, for about the tenth time. She had gone the long, disused way around the bush to get to the back door of the well house. Praying that no one was in the well house, she gently slid open the back door, took a deep breath and stepped inside. No one was there.
Or so it seemed.
She breathed a sigh of relief. Climbing over the well, she jumped in, travelling hundreds of years back in time to the Sengoku Jidai.
'...And so you see, the Goshinboku's history stretches far beyond our imagination . . .' the old man, was cut off suddenly to great relief of several very bored people, when a door was slid open and a girl with a huge knapsack on her bag stepped out.
'Jii-chan, I'm -' she must've just noticed them, because Syaoran saw her suddenly smile sheepishly before sweatdropping nervously.
'Er...wrong place? I think I'll just go back inside now . . .' Syaoran's gaze lingered on the shut door, for a few moments longer than needed. He could sense a strange aura emanating off her - a MAGICAL aura.
'Who was she?' Li frowned, asking the three that were already going back to their conversation. Sakura turned away from Eriol, and Tomoyo, answering Syaoran.
'Oh, she was Kagome Higurashi, she lives in the shrine with her little brother, mother and grandfather.' They all stared at her.
'er . .hehe . .hoe?' They continued staring.
'Look, I read the newspaper, okay?' That stopped them staring.
'You read the NEWSPAPER?' Eriol asked in feigned shock.
'Scratch that, you READ?!' Syaoran asked in disbelief. She glared at Syaoran and Eriol, and gave a dirty look to Tomoyo who was holding her giggles in.
On cue, Syaoran and Eriol both muttered, 'I'm sorry . . .' Sakura couldn't be annoyed for long, especially when the two boys looked so crestfallen.
'Well, anyways, like I was saying, it was really sad, because she, (Kagome) seemed to have all these diseases, and was sick and away from school a lot of the time.' Sakura mumbled to herself, and ticked off her fingers, '...diabetes, AIDS, cancer, SARS, parkinson's disease, foot and mouth disease, gout . . . poor girl.'
They all sweat-dropped, Sakura was too gullible and trusting sometimes.
Li frowned. Funny, her aura hadn't shown any signs of sickness, or the usual sickly yellow when it was polluted.
Something (he wasn't quite sure what) was afoot.
'Kagome said she was going to be back this morning! Keh, I'll have to go get her.' Inuyasha grumbled to Miroku, Sango, and Shippo who were all currently sitting in Kaede's hut.
'You miss her don't you?' Sango asked suddenly. The question caught Inuyasha off guard.
'Yeah, of course I do!' He replied, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, which, in fact, it was. Realising his blunder, his face coloured, as he went on to correct his mistake, 'I-I mean, we can't do anything without her! We need her to help us find Shikon shards, while she's doing tests in her world!'
'Oh? Seemed there was a little something, more ...' Miroku questioned sceptically, leaving the question hanging.
Inuyasha, was getting pretty flustered by now, 'ARGH! NO you idiot! She's just my Tama detector!'
'IIINNNNUUUUYYYYYYAAAAASSSHHHHHAAAA!' There, was a very pissed off looking Kagome standing in the doorway. Inuyasha blanched at the sound of his name.
'No-NO! Wait Kagome! I didn't mean it – waaitt!'
'SIT!'
A very satisfying Inuyasha-shaped hole was imprinted in the wood.
The instant Kagome had jumped into the well, it's ancient magic kicked in. The tell tale blue green light shone throughout the well, as Kagome landed back into Sengoku Jidai. Too bad it was TOO tell tale.
Eriol was instantly alert, and torn away from his conversation with Tomoyo about how Syaoran and Sakura made such a cute couple.
'Did you feel that?' he demanded of Tomoyo.
'Feel . . what?' She answered, confused. He gazed towards the direction of the well house, with a faraway look on his face.
'Feel that feeling,' he said lamely, before laughing at himself, and went on to explain further, 'It was like ancient magic was at work, transportation magic.' Tomoyo drew a blank at this, but Syaoran turned his gaze to Eriol.
'Yeah, felt like a disturbance, I think it was in the direction of -' Sakura piped up.
'-the well.' Syaoran finished Sakura's sentence for her. Tomoyo noticed this.
'Oh, how CUTE! He's finishing her sentences for her!' She whispered to Eriol. He grinned.
'I know.' Syaoran looked at them whispering curiously, he had a sneaking suspicion of what they were talking about, but it wasn't like he could go around accusing Eriol without proof.
'Eh? Didn't quite catch that . . .' Sakura asked the whispering pair, who ahd gotten as far as discussing advantages of have chibi Sakura's and Syaoran's running around.
'Oh nothing, nothing at all.' Tomoyo lied smoothly, tipping Eriol a wink. Suddenly, she smiled, "Weren't we checking out a magical disturbance near the well?' Eriol nodded, not trusting himself to open his mouth, otherwise he might've burst into a highly undignified fit of giggles.
'Well then, what are we waiting for? Let's check it out!' Tomoyo suggested brightly, once again, very smoothly changing the subject.. Eriol hid a smile when Tomoyo ran off in the direction of the well dragging Sakura with her, before she could protest.
'Shall we go protect our ladies, if harm should befall them?' Eriol turned slyly to Syaoran, who was blushing furiously, and muttered something, which hazily resembled, 'Sakura's not my lady . . .' but when he looked up, Eriol was already catching up to Tomoyo and Sakura.
'Hey, HEY! WAIT UP!'
Upon reaching the well house, Sakura, Tomoyo and Eriol were already in deep discussion, clustered around the edge of the seemingly harmless well.
'It originated from the well, didn't it?' Tomoyo certified, even if she hadn't any magic, she was surprisingly sharp.
'We think so . . .' Sakura wasn't as well toned in her magic as Eriol and looked at him for help.
'Yeah it definitely was, you're right Sakura.' Sakura beamed at him, making Syaoran who was standing by the doorway feel a little envious.
'So, what are we waiting for?' Sakura asked happily, 'Let's go!' Sakura grabbed Tomoyo's hand, and they both jumped into the well.
'Wait -!' Syaoran and Eriol both shouted, but it was too late. They shielded their eyes when a blinding flash of blue-green light was emitted from the well.
'SAKURA!' 'TOMOYO!'
They both called desperately into the well, but they were gone.
Inuyasha lifted himself out of his 'sit' crater.
'What-WHAT WAS THAT FOR?' Inuyasha yelled at Kagome, who ignored him before suddenly turning to look at Inuyasha directly in his eyes.
'Uhhh . . .' /ahhh! . . .why is she looking at me like that?/ Inuyasha thought a little uneasily.
'I feel two Shikon shards near the village!' She said frowning, trying to focus on the location. Inuyasha, Sango and Miroku instantly jumped to their feet.
'Where?' Inuyasha demanded.
'Wait, not two, four! There are four Shikon shards, in the Inuyasha Forest at the Bone Eater's well!' That was all Inuyasha needed to go sprinting off, leaving them standing in the dust his sudden departure had kicked up.
'Ahh, wait Inuyasha!' Shippo yelled after him, bouncing up and down madly.
They peered over the edge of the well that Sakura and Tomoyo just disappeared into. Looking at each other, they sighed.
'Guess there's only one thing to do then.' Eriol looked at Syaoran, who nodded. They climbed onto the edge of the well, looking into the deep black bottomless well, gulping, they jumped.
'Wh-Where are we?' Tomoyo asked, uncertain.
'At the bottom of the well, it think, but . . .' Sakura looked around them, now noting that the walls around them were covered with ivy, and the endless sky could be spooted above them. Tomoyo bit her lip.
Suddenly, a bluish green light flashed brightly, and when it faded away, in it's place was Syaoran and Eriol.
'Don't ever do that again!' Syaoran practically growled at Sakura, ' You're so -' he was cut off, when Sakura suddenly hugged him. Syaoran blushed deep deep red.
'That's so sweet of you Syaoran! You don't have to be worried about me, you know I can take care of myself with the Sakura cards!' Sakura smiled happily, before noticing Syaoran's face, 'err. . .Syaoran? Are you sick? You're really red you know . . .'
'I-I wasn't worried a-about you!' Li stammered out, blushing furiously, trying to prise Sakura free off of himself.
Eriol and Tomoyo watched the scene fold out before them, smiling.They high fived each other, cheering quietly, when Eriol decided to break the pair up.
'You know, guys, maybe we want to get OUT of the well first, and find out where we are, you know that sort of thing, BEFORE we get all huggy wuggy on each other?' Eriol smirked at Syaoran's red face.
Sakura turned red at this as well, and they both instantly jumped apart, looking anywhere but at each other.
'Aww, so cute . . .' Eriol said sweetly, side stepping Syaoran who had just lunged at him. 'Temper, temper!' He shook his finger at Syaoran warningly, who just gave a huff of exasperation, when Tomoyo and Sakura cracked up laughing at their antics. If it was possible, Syaoran blushed even harder, before composing himself and speaking shortly.
'Let's get out of here, then.' But you could still see that a slight blush lingered on his cheeks.
He started climbing up the wall, it being relatively easy with the substantial amount of Ivy. Tomoyo and Sakura followed suite, making their way up.
Syaoran was almost there, just a little further . . . ah, there! Sticking his head head out of the well, his was suddenly looking at a very very smug expression on Eriol's upside-down face.
'AHHHHHH!' Syaoran yelled, almost toppling off the well in shock, if it was not for Eriol's quick reflexes in grabbing him, lifting him up three metres in the air and then dropping him off (literally) on the ground. Before Syaoran could regain his sense of bearing, Eriol had already gone to get Tomoyo and Sakura.
'You know I was wondering why you two hadn't taken the easy way out . . .' Eriol said casually, twirling his huge gold Sun Staff in his right hand. He was floating in mid-air casually behind Tomoyo and Sakura who were still climbing the ivy-clad wall. The latter grinned sheepishly. Tomoyo took her cue.
'Well, not everyone, is as smart as you are Eriol.' She smiled winningly at him, while Sakura nodded encouragely to her, from behind. He faltered for a bit, almost melting at the sunny smile Tomoyo was giving him.
He considered, and studied the looks they were giving him, before shaking his head.
'Not buying it.' He stated frankly.
'Fine, fine.' Sakura shook her head in defeat, before both her and Tomoyo recited, 'Eriol is the smartest and the most powerful magician, he's the hottest guy we've ever seen, and we beg of his grace to take us from this well and drop us off outside.'
'You, missed out, the "He is so much better than Syaoran" bit,' Eriol said smirking widely. Sakura sent Tomoyo a look, that meant 'Oh, why must he torture us so?' To which Tomoyo responded with another look, 'And just how many times is he going to make us to this?'
'Go on, say it.' Eriol urged them, clearly enjoying having power against them. They sent twin glares at him. If eyes could kill, he would be dead thrice times over and buried six feet under. Syaoran would've been proud. They gritted their teeth.
'And Eriol is soooo much better than Syaoran. Now will you get us out of here?' Sakura gave hiim a look, that clearly meant, 'if you don't get us out of here now, you're going down'
'Ok, ok, no need to get all rash and hasty.' He said placatingly, lifting both Sakura and Tomoyo out of the well, and then dropping them both a considerable distance from the ground.
'Ite-ee.' Sakura muttered, landing painfully next to Tomoyo, who was in the same predicament.
By now, Syaoran had come to himself again, and was plotting his revenge on Eriol. He stood up, brushing himself off carefully, intending to do the most damage he could to Eriol, but instead of going to kill Eriol like he planned to, he instead came face to face with a rather large, and nasty end of a huge sharp, sword.
The boy, or whatever he was who carried it, had two pointy dog-ears sitting on top of a fountain of long white hair, and was dressed in a strange red kimono.
Syaoran carefully remained expressionless. Eriol was standing beside him, holding his staff, ready to go offensive at any moment.
Tomoyo and Sakura were still lying in a mangled heap beside the well, a little disorientated, but out of danger nonetheless.
Syaoran's hand lingered to his sword that he always carried around him (with good reason too) and wondered if he could draw it, without being sliced to pieces first of course. It was at this moment, that the white haired boy spoke, menacingly.
'Hand over the Shikon Shards.'
Teehee! My first story . . .Please don't flame me!
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