A/N: Hi! This is my first fic! So, please be nice… I appreciate constructive criticism (but no flames please…) and especially reviews. ;) And thanks to ChibiKitty 14 for beta-ing this!
With this and any of the after chapters later I disclaim all of the CLAMP characters because I totally do not own any of them. I'm just mindlessly borrowing them for this small fic of mine. XD
Just to clear things up, since this is a crossover between Tsubasa Chronicles and Cardcaptor, there will be two Syaoran, Sakura etc… So to make you guys not confused, I will be calling Syaoran from Cardcaptor as 'Li' and Sakura from TRC as 'Sakura-hime.' Okay enough of my blabbering and please enjoy the fic!
Thanks and enjoy the fic!
FEATHERS OF LOVE
Chapter 1 : The Arrival
She woke up. Her eyes blinked twice to get used to her surroundings. Everything's the same. A rustle was felt. Sakura-hime shifted her gaze and looked down beside her. Someone was sitting –or to be more accurate, kneeling- next to her bed. Syaoran. His head was on his arms. His mouth moved but no sound came out. His features were soft and relaxed. The Hime smiled softly to herself.
"Syaoran… what will I do without you…" She whispered. The emerald-eyed princess touched his hand softly then laid back on her soft pillow. Before her eyes closed she heard the excavator softly mumbled in his sleep,
"…Sakura…"
Syaoran woke up to the tweeting singing of the birds and the soft rays of the morning sun. His eyes opened slowly. Syaoran noticed his Hime wasn't there. He leapt up to his feet and almost yelled out, "Hime where are you?!"
Silence for a few seconds. Then –much to Syaoran's relief- her sweet voice was heard from outside the room. "I'm right here!" Syaoran breathed out a sigh of relief and walked out of the room.
At the kitchen, he was surprised to see the table full of food. There were pancakes, eggs, sausages, miso soup (Miso?! In the morning?, thought Syaoran) cereal and any other kind of breakfast-y food he could imagine.
"Goooood morning, sleepyhead!"
Syaoran jumped slightly. Fye popped out from nowhere and greeted him. Fye waved at him. "I bought the food so eat up before you collapse."
"I'm not-"
Gurrrrrrrrrraaaaeeeee…
Fye smirked. "Not hungry, eh?" Fye held back a laugh. "Eat up, Syaoran. You just recovered one of Sakura's feather."
"I- ah… okay. I'll eat. Just let me find the Hime first okay?"
"She's in that room with her cat."
"A cat…?"
"Oh yeah, Sakura found a cat this morning." Fye shrugged.
Sakura stoked the feline's white fur as it lapped milk from a saucer. She smiled. It purred. Syaoran leaned at the doorway as he watched his childhood friend's antics. He smiled.
"Hime, have you eaten your breakfast?"
Sakura looked upwards and smiled at him. "Oh, good morning, Syaoran! Um, no I haven't eaten anything yet. I'll eat later after Mimi-chan is done." Sakura glanced at said kitten. "Mimi-chan triggered a memory from me. When I was small, somebody gave me a cute little rabbit. I can still remember the bunny. But, one thing is that I cannot remember who gave me the rabbit. At all." She frowned slightly.
Syaoran smiled. But from the inside, he was feeling a little desolate. He was the one who gave the rabbit to his precious Hime. Sakura stood up and went over at Syaoran and looked at him directly in his amber eyes.
"Syaoran? Are you okay?"
"A-ah. I'm fine. Just a little hung-"
Guuuuuraaaaahhhheeeaa…..
Sakura giggled femininely. Syaoran blushed. Sakura said, "I think your stomach answered for you. Come on, Syaoran. Let's eat."
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…A symbol appeared underneath the two of them and she could see that they were not alone. Two guys were with them. They chanted something under their breaths. Sakura couldn't hear them properly. Suddenly they floated above the ground and a blinding white light appeared…
"Ah!"
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KKKRRRIIIINNGGGGG!!!
"Mmph…"
Sakura tried to shut the alarm clock up. Her hand going around to search for her missing and yet annoying and very loud alarm clock. "Where… alarm clock. Found it!" Click! Sakura snoozed the alarm clock. She then turned and pulled the covers over her head and went back to dreamland.
"Hey! Sakura!! WAKE UP!!" Kero yelled, trying to push her awake, which were ineffectual due to his small body size. Sakura brushed him off, then went back to sleep. Annoyed by the response, Kero took a deep breath then went to the sleeping girl's ear and yelled out as loud as he could, "SAKURAAAA!!"
Well, that worked.
"Hoe...? Kero... I'm gonna be deaf if you do that often..."
"Ahem..." Kero pointed to her alarm clock and crossed his arms.
Sakura shot up straight in bed an took a quick glance at the clock. "Huh? Hooeee!!" Sakura shrieked as she saw the time. "9.00 am! Oh nooo!! I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!" She rushed to get ready for her picnic with Tomoyo quickly.
Kero sweatdroped. He sighed, "She can never be early, will she."
Sakura wore her pearl blue long sleeved t-shirt and a pair of baby blue coloured mini-skirt. I wonder…that dream was very weird. Sakura dreamt of a person who looked almost exactly like her except that she was taller and looked more mature, like a teenaged Sakura. The teen-Sakura was with a guy wearing a black shirt with a cape. Oddly, that guy looked like Li. I've been having that same dream since three days ago… I wonder if it's like a vision or something… But how can it be Li? He's back in Hong Kong with Meiling.
Sakura stared at the air, thinking of the person she loved most. "Li…" A small sigh escaped her lips but her daze was cut short when Sakura took her cute blue watch with a cat on the face of the clock. She almost yelled out loud when she saw the time.
"Oh no! I'm late!"
The Kinomoto ran downstairs as swiftly as she can and grabbed the picnic basket she prepared last night on the table. Her brother, Touya was there on the dining table, spreading butter on his toast. "Hey, Sakura where are you go…"
Slam!
"…ing…?" Touya didn't finish his sentence as Sakura was already out of the door.
He sighed. "I guess that monster is late again." Touya said as he took a bite out of his toast.
Then suddenly Sakura went back in the house, her feet clad in a pair of roller skates, glared at her brother for a fraction of a second and then shouted "Sakura's not a monster!" Then she went out the door again.
Sweatdrop.
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"I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!"
Sakura skated as fast as she could to the park to meet up with Tomoyo. Sakura slowed down passed the shrine as she felt a very strong magical aura. She stayed put for a moment to decipher the aura.
She couldn't. And she was late.
Sakura tried to put the thought at the back of her mind and skated off. What was that feeling? It was very strong magical aura. Sakura brooded over that fact to herself. She was really in thought because she didn't notice that she was already at the park.
Powdery yellow light strained through cotton-candy clouds and alighted upon swaying grass in the largest clearing of the Penguin Park. A disarming calm wafted on a gentle breeze. Children with pets, bonding families and people of all ages and descriptions lounged around the park. The park was as usual, quite crowded, but not too crowded.
Perfect for a picnic with your best friend.
Though, it would be better if your best friend is with you to have a picnic with…
"Mou… where's To-"
"Mooorning Sakuraaa!"
"Hoeeeee!"
Sakura fell down to the soft green grass below her as Tomoyo called out - or more specific, yelled out- her name. She seemed to appear from the small shrub nearby. Frizzy locks of hair embraced her face statically, like they'd never let go, accenting her wide eyes. Abruptly, her small hands went up and smoothed it down. She looked up, having re-gathered her composure.
Daidoji Tomoyo, Sakura's best friend looked at her, then she laughed softly, her hand covering her mouth femininely. She helped Sakura up.
"O-oh, morning Tomoyo… you scared me."
"Sorry, Sakura." Tomoyo grinned. "C'mon lets start our picnic!"
Tomoyo laid the red and white checkered picnic cloth as Sakura put the food on the cloth. The Kinomoto brought along some cookies (made by Sakura's dad), some strawberry flavoured jelly, and sandwiches. The Daidoji however brought a chocolate cake, some biscuits and lots of candy.
"Did I made you wait long, Tomoyo?" Sakura said before taking a bite of Tomoyo's homemade cake. "Mm! This is delicious!"
"Nah, I just came here when I saw you in your skates." The black-haired girl smiled slightly. "And thanks! I made that myself."
"Wow! I could nev-"
Sakura's words was cut off when suddenly, Sakura felt the aura that she felt earlier on. It was weak, but it was still the same aura. Tomoyo was watching Sakura quietly. She saw her friend quieten down and stared deeply into space. "Sakura are you alright…?" Sakura shook her head and blinked thrice.
"Huh? O-oh, I'm fine…Don't worry, Tomoyo." Sakura looked left and right. "I just felt someone or something's watching us," Sakura said in a whisper.
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"Someone is watching us? Ohh Like spies or something?" Tomoyo said, grinning. She used the same whispering voice that Sakura used.
"A-ah… It's nothing!" Sakura smiled and shook her head. "I guess it was just me. Or maybe it's this feeling of forgetting something…" She placed her finger on her chin, and tried to retrace back what she forgot.
"Can you remember?" The cute Daijouji girl said. Sakura shook her head, making her cute pigtails shake along. "Okay, I'll help. I'll say random things and maybe you could remember."
"Ooo-kayy…"
"Umm…table cloth?"
Nothing popped up in Sakura's mind. "Umm… no."
"A… tree?"
"Sorry…"
Random…random… Tomoyo thought.
"Pillowcase!"
"What?"
"Hehe… Random, yeah. Okay…okay… ummm," Tomoyo looked down and saw all the picnic items. "Food?"
"Food… food…" Something seemed to light up in Sakura's brain. Then it hit her! "AH! I forgot to feed Kero!" Sakura jumped up and skated off. "He's gonna eat all the food in the fridge! I'm sure of it!"
"A-ah! Sakura! I'm coming also!" Tomoyo shot off after her, leaving all the food and basket there. Before she left, Tomoyo put a small note on the basket for a certain someone."
'Wait for us at the shrine…-Tomoyo'
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So. That was my very first chapter. :D Please tell me what you thought of it. Reviews and constructive criticism will be treasured and appreciated and replied to. Flames will be ignored and used to make my BBQ this weekend! Kidding. :D
Thanks so much for reading this until the end. :D