Sakura The Mini Girl.
Author's Note: Welcome to my new Cardcaptor Sakura One-Shot story. Unlike my previous one and unlike the ones that use the English names, this is set during the events of the Clear Card Arc and will not be connected to the Sailor Moon Continuum due to the new anime not following the First English Dub version of the original anime. Thus, it will maintain the original Japanese names.
I'll do my best with it, and while I'm not 100% sure if this will come to pass in the new Anime and it would be nice to see it happen, this a new Clear Card that...well, why don't you go ahead and find out to avoid the spoilers?
I do not own the rights of Cardcaptor Sakura. It belongs to CLAMP.
She had already discovered and captured another new Clear Card just the other day; Gravitation. So far on Sakura's list of new Cards, were Gale, Siege, Aqua, Reflect, Action and now Gravitation, making it six in total.
While her Sakura Cards, all 53 of them, including the Nameless Card created by her own tears two years ago just before Syaoran had returned to Hong Kong, were still blank. It didn't help matters that the mysterious cloaked figure in her dreams still attempted to steal her new Key. She still had no idea who it was or what they wanted other than to steal her powers for some reason. All that matters to her at the moment was try and live out a normal life while investigating what is going on.
Right now, at Junior High School, she and all of her friends; Tomoyo, Syaoran, Yamazaki, Chiharu, Naoko, and their new friend and new transfer student, Akiho Shinomoto, who was very similiar to Sakura and very kind, once again sat in a circle in the school fields for lunch.
"So what's Paris really like, Akiho-Chan?" Chiharu asked, almost excitedly.
"It's really beautiful. Though while it sort of reminds me of England, the Effel Tower is very lovely when it lights up at night on a clear day." Akiho explained, while thinking back of her early memories.
"I'd love to go to England and Paris someday. They sound like very amazing places to visit." Sakura said, thoughtfully.
"Me too! Imagine all the sights we'd see!" Tomoyo agreed.
"I'd like to go visit Germany. It's one of the first places I'd love to visit." Naoko admitted.
"...Paris sounds nice." Syaoran said, though he didn't seem to pay too much attention to what the others were talking about.
As usual, Yamazaki, one for false gossip, then spoke up, explaining a false story, "Speaking of England. As one would have read the old fictional story 'Alice in Wonderland', they say that if you read the part where Alice shrinks in bed, the Shrinking Fairy will appear to you in your sleep and make you two inches tall permamently. The same thing with the American movie 'The incredicle Shrinking Man'."
Both Sakura and Akiho gasped, shrinking back a little in fright identically while muttering in unison, "I-I don't want the Shrinking Fairy to shrink me!"
"That's dangerous!" Syaoran commented, shocked and amazed.
"Another case, if anyone sees you at that height, you will only end up growing into a massive gia-Mmph!" Yamazaki was cut off when Chiharu growled before showing a rice ball into his mouth in annoyance.
"The only thing I wish that could shrink is your BIG mouth." The teenage girl grumbled in exasperation.
Akiho, still a bit gullible, giggled nervously, "I have always loved the Alice franchise, but I promise not to read Alice in Wonderland at night from now on."
"Look what you did? Now you made poor Akiho and Sakura paranoid!" Chiharu angrily grabbed Yamazaki by the collar of his shirt and shook him rather too violently back and forth.
While only both Tomoyo and Syaoran know of this, Sakura thought back of the time when the Little Card shrank her down the size three years ago when she was in the process of capturing the Clow Cards, and then transforming it and the Big Card into Sakura Cards when she had been transported into the book realm of the story Alice in Wonderland.
'I'm really glad Akiho won't have to go through what I did when it came to reading the story.' Sakura thought to herself as she gazed at her new close friend.
Later on Saturday two days later, Sakura had invited Tomoyo over for a visit while Toya and Yukito were hanging out at the latter's house for the night and her father had gone on a business trip for University in another town for a week. He was expected to return home on Monday.
So the girls and Kero had the house all to themselves for most of the day.
"And...all done!" Tomoyo said in delight after she finished with the last stitches of the new outfit she just made for Sakura.
The new battle costume Sakura was test-wearing which now was completed, was a blue dress that went down to just above her knees, with short puffy sleeves on her shoulders, white frills at the bottom of the dress, a white apron to go with it with a white bow on the back, white garter shorts underneath and white long stockings with black clip-on shoes, and a black head band that rested on her head.
"It's a cute costume...but, it kind of reminds me of the costume I wore three years ago." Sakura admitted, feeling a sense of deja vu.
Tomoyo giggled, explaining, "That's because it's based on it with a mixture of the Alice in Wonderland book, combined with the 1951 movie."
"Hoe?" Sakura gapped, startled.
"Don't I look so charming and awesome in my new outfit?" Kero spoke up, hovering all over the place as he now wore a blue top hat and black bow-tie, happily flying around while admiring the pieces Tomoyo gave him.
He then approached the two girls and inquired hopefully, "So, when are we gonna have those chocolate puddings?"
"You always think about food, don't you, Kero-Chan?" Sakura sweatdropped, only for her and her two friends to hear a strange but soft tinkling noise behind them. Blinking in confusion, the trio turned to see...something quite missing.
"What happened to the couches?" Sakura asked. True, the couches of the living room had indeed disappeared.
Or maybe not.
"There they are! I mean...I think it's them." Tomoyo pointed onto the ground where the couches used to be. True to her words, it didn't take Sakura or Kero long before they spotted them...miniturized and now only two inches tall. Kero approached the sudden shrunken furniture and frowned.
"This is not normal. What's going on?" Kero muttered.
Suddenly, they heard another tinkling sound, and this time, the trio whirled around, to see that now the TV had suddenly shrunk. Their eyes widened at the sudden shrinking incident, which then made the trio share glances at a sudden realisation.
"Another Card?" Tomoyo guessed, and Sakura nodded firmly, just as they heard more tinkling sounds and when the group spun around, they saw just in time to see the coffee table shrink and a small orb of light floating away, from the group and into the kitchen.
"Quick, after it!" Kero instructed, and Sakura and Tomoyo nodded, hurrying to catch up to the new Card behind all of this when they froze as it continued to shrink things one by one; From the Dining Table to the chairs, to the Tea-Pot and Coffee Maker. "Sakura! Quick!" Kero called out.
"Right!" Sakura nodded, quickly pulling out the Key and chanted the new magical words and when she finished, it grew into the Dream Staff which she spun around a few times before she, Tomoyo and Kero cried out in alarm when the little Light Orb, apparently sensing Sakura's powers, flew straight towards them.
"Look out!" Sakura cried out, pushing Tomoyo and herself out of the way while Kero hovered out of the way, just in time to avoid the Card who then flew into the hallway.
"How are we going to catch it?" Tomoyo asked, worriedly. "It'll shrink the entire house at this rate."
Sakura nodded in a concerned agreement. "I can't use Gale; it'll only damage the house, and Aqua will end up soaking it."
"If only we could catch it off-guard somehow." Kero thought deepily.
Sakura thought hard as well, until she remembered the Gravitation Card and had an idea. Nodding to herself and telling her friends to stand back, Sakura pulled it out from her dress pockets and chanted it, "Pull back that Orb of Light!"
It worked, because the Gravitation Card's power followed the little orb of Light and successfully caught it, pulling it back against it's will. This allowed Sakura to hold out her Staff and chanted, finishing, "SECURE!"
The dream-like Crystal motions of capturing it engulfed the Orb, before it created it's Clear-Card form, as it and the Gravitation Card overed to Sakura who gently grasped them, while everything that the new Card had shrunk immediately all returned to their original size, much to the trio's relief.
"'To miniturize at will'." Sakura read at the top, before gazing at the new Card's name. "Mini?"
"Sure is a good name for it." Kero commented, referring to the fact that how this Card could shrink anything.
Sakura nodded, before they heard Tomoyo sniffling. They turned to her worriedly, as Sakura asked, noticing her best friend's tears, "Tomoyo-Chan? Are you okay?"
"...I forgot to get my camera to record your capture." Tomoyo sniffled, upset. This only made Sakura collaspe onto the ground(anime-style) with a sweatdrop and groan of disbelief.
Despite this, Sakura stood up and said ensuringly, "Well, maybe hopefully next time."
"Yeah..." Tomoyo nodded, before she suddenly perked up and asked, "Wait. That new Card can 'Miniturize at will', yes?"
"Y-Yeah. Why?" Sakura replied, blinking, slightly caught-off guard.
The way how her friend was now giggling as she went to retrieve her camera from the counter made Sakura suddenly feel like Tomoyo had something planned in her mind...something that is about to scare her.
"To make it up for it...would you please use that Card to shrink yourself for a while so I can record you?" Tomoyo asked.
"HOE!?" Sakura exclaimed, shocked. Did she and Kero just hear her right?
Tomoyo's eyes then twinkled in excitement as she continued, "To see Cardcaptor Sakura, Junior High-School Student, shrunk down to size in the new battle outfit that is suited perfectly for it! I would love to see that experience! Because I never got the full chance with the Little Card three years ago."
The memory of that time returning, and mentally groaning at the fact that, in order to make Tomoyo feel better, Sakura couldn't just say no...even if the idea of shrinking down to size against her will for the third time in her life wasn't really appealing. Though on the other hand, at least this time Sakura didn't have to worry about being shrunk down without an idea in returning to normal or turning too big.
Swallowing the nervousness, Sakura sighed and replied, "...Okay. But I have to return to normal before Toya gets home."
"Hooray!" Tomoyo cheered.
"It's not so bad, Sakura. It won't take long." Kero encouraged. Admittingly, he was actually looking forward in seeing his friend shrunk down to size again, even though the last time Sakura's powers shrank as well. At this time the Staff would shrink with her.
Gulping, Sakura reluctantly held out the Mini Card, chanting, "Mini-Card, upon your master's call, shrink me down to two inches tall!" hitting the card with her Staff which both glowed.
The Card's magic then swirled around her and her Staff before both started shrinking. Tomoyo watched in delight as she recorded this with her camera, while Sakura got smaller and smaller. Eventually after almost a minute, Sakura stopped shrinking and was now only two inches tall. She looked up and sweatdropped nervously at the towering Tomoyo who loomed over her, capturing her new height on camera.
"Oooh! You look so adorable, Sakura! That outfit is much better on you now that you're small." Tomoyo squealed as she bend down on her knees to get a closer look. Kero landed next to the tiny Cardcaptor, standing at his full height which made Sakura flinch a little.
"Hmm...about the same height as you were when the Little Card first shrank you." Kero said after mentally measuring his friend's current size.
"Somehow, that makes me feel even smaller than the last time." Sakura sighed, only to cry out in alarm when Tomoyo suddenly reached out and plucked her wand from her tiny hands and then placed it into her own pockets. "T-Tomoyo!? What are you doing!?"
"I'm only keeping your Staff with me for safety." Tomoyo giggled, and Kero chuckled nervously, but at the same time, he got the idea and decided that it was just harmless fun, while she continued, "I mean, where would the fun be if you grew back too soon, anyway?"
When Tomoyo then reached out towards Sakura, the latter shrieked and attempted to run away, only for Kero to quickly hold her in place.
"Kero-Chan! Not you too!" Sakura cried out, struggling and squirming to break free, but given her current height, her Guardian Beast friend was too strong.
"Calm down, Sakura. We're just having fun." Kero ensured his friend, while he let go of Sakura who was then scooped up by Tomoyo who wrapped her fingers around her tiny body, leaving only her upper half and arms free. The grip wasn't tight, but it was still too strong for Sakura to pull herself free.
While Tomoyo recorded this moment with her camera, saying, "Just like in those giant stories..." sighing in delight and bliss. It just felt so...right, to be holding her best friend in her hand.
She then stood at her full height and carried Sakura with her as Tomoyo and Kero headed for the stairs, towards Sakura's bedroom. Once inside, Tomoyo gently placed Sakura onto her desk while Kero landed and sat next to the shrunken girl who was still nervous.
"Tomoyo, Kero, please...You can't keep me like this!" Sakura cried out.
"I know, but I can't help it. Just being able to have you like this is so exciting! I've managed to capture the moment of the best friend I've ever had shrink herself to only two inches tall and being able to hold you in my hands. I mean, I love you in your original size, but right now, I wish I can keep you like this!" Tomoyo smiled happily, which made Sakura sweatdrop.
"While we're not getting carried away, I have to admit, I like being bigger than you, Sakura. Heh heh." Kero chuckled, somewhat evilly, and Tomoyo secretly shared the expression.
Sakura giggled, still nervous. "Well, being little is tough. But I guess I can try and cope in being this small for a little while."
"Great!" Tomoyo said happily, before she held her hand in front of Sakura, allowing her to step onto it as the normal-sized girl raised the tiny girl to her chest level as Sakura looked up at her huge friend. "So, anything you want to say in your new size?"
"I wish I were big again?"
"Don't worry. You will be soon, when I feel it is time." Tomoyo said, before gazing at Kero and asking, "If it's okay with you, Kero-Chan."
"Well...as long as you go easy on Sakura, then that's okay with me to keep her this way until before Toya gets home." Kero replied, shrugging and decided there was no harm in keeping Sakura in her miniture height.
"Yay!" Tomoyo cheered, while mindful not to drop Sakura who flinched at the loud tone of her friend's voice due to being small. The next thing the latter knew, Tomoyo clutched her the way she did before they entered her bedroom. Tomoyo then put her camera down onto the desk next to Kero before clutch her tiny friend in both hands.
"Uh, Tomoyo? Ahh!" Sakura cried out as she was lifted up to Tomoyo's face, making the smaller girl sweatdrop again at the fact that she was so close and her friend was gigantic in her point of view.
The dark-haired girl giggled, "You're just like a doll, Sakura. If only I could take you home and keep you this small forever!" which made Sakura swallow nervously. Tomoyo then had an idea and carefully placed Sakura onto her shoulder before she approached the closet. She scanned it from top to bottom. Most of what she saw were clothes, either old ones or outfits made by Tomoyo. Finally, she smiled as she found what she was looking for and pulled out a white and blue doll house.
It was one that Sakura showed her when they were younger children. Tomoyo opened it to reveal the insides of it, which contained several doll clothes, and a couple of dolls inside it; two boy dolls and one girl doll.
"Hmm...You only have one girl doll in here, Sakura." Tomoyo commented, as Kero hovered next to her and Sakura.
"I have no idea where the other girl doll is. It's been years since I played with them and the doll house." Sakura shrugged. She was then scooped up by Tomoyo who then placed her into the bedroom of the doll house, next door to the bathroom where the dolls and all of the doll clothes were placed.
Tomoyo then picked up the other dolls and placed them around Sakura who sighed, suddenly knowing what her friend had in mind.
"Continuing our diary of Sakura Kinomoto's adventures by only being two inches tall, we have her placed next to three dolls that she is the same size as them!" Tomoyo said, making up diary words for the video diary.
"Um, Tomoyo?" Sakura spoke up, embarrassed. "Can you not tell Syaoran about this?"
"Don't worry, Sakura. I won't tell him." Tomoyo promised, before she grinned, "I can show him. He won't be jealous." making Sakura groan, while Kero landed inside next to her and the dolls.
"Don't forget me!" Kero called up.
"Oh yes, of course!" Tomoyo giggled, continuing the diary, "And you can see that Sakura is so small, Kero-Chan is three times bigger than her now! In fact, she can even ride on him!"
Getting the idea, Kero leaned forward which allowed Sakura to climb onto his back before he flew up into the air with his miniture friend as his passenger while she had to admit, it was a little bit of fun. Last time Sakura rode on Kero like this was three years ago. All the while Tomoyo was recording this preformance happily, as memories of seeing Sakura small briefly and she hadn't been able to record it at that time.
After a few minutes of flying, Tomoyo held out a hand as Kero then gently tipped Sakura downward so that she ended up falling straight onto her friend's waiting hand where she laid onto. As Tomoyo brought Sakura close to her chest and gazed down at her with a wide smile, she wanted the feeling of just holding her tiny friend in her hand and the feeling of just leaving Sakura so small to last much, much longer. Which disappointed her that Toya would be back tomorrow morning and Tomoyo knew that Sakura would have to return to her original size soon.
"I will always treasure this moment, Sakura. Being able to see and hold you." Tomoyo said, dreamingly.
"I'm glad to hear that...even though it's not easy being this way." Sakura replied.
Tomoyo then gripped Sakura so that she couldn't fall and to the latter's shock and Kero's surprise, Tomoyo carefully dropped Sakura into her other dress pocket, and quickly said, "Don't worry. I'm not taking you home with me...as much as I really want to."
"This is almost like when the Siege Card trapped us." Sakura commented, feeling awkward for being inside Tomoyo's pocket...one which unfortunately didn't have her Staff, while her friend viewed the camera towards where she was, opening the pocket a little so that she could be seen.
"As you can see, Sakura is so small she can even fit into my pockets and making it much easier to carry her with me wherever I go." Tomoyo said via diary mode.
"As much as this is getting a bit too far, why not put Sakura into a box?" Kero half-jokingly suggested.
"What!?" Sakura exclaimed, having overheard what Kero just said.
Much to the Cardcaptor's dismay, Tomoyo gleamed in delight as she agreed with Kero before carefully scooping Sakura out from her pocket, clutching her before approaching Sakura's desk once again before putting down the camera and then opened up a smallish box about the size of a book, before carefully dropping Sakura inside it.
"G-Guys!" Sakura called out, but she was ignored, while Tomoyo filmed this moment.
"So many ways for Sakura to fit into places no person could before, one must find a way to try them all." Tomoyo said happily, "And just a little bit of fun, we can easily close it so she can't get out!" as she and Kero both laughed half-manically, making Sakura sweat nervously.
"You're not serious!" Sakura protested.
Kero shrugged, "It's only for a little bit."
To demostrate to the camera, Tomoyo smiled at the nervous Sakura before the former lowered the lid, closing the box and then latched the lock shut, trapping Sakura inside, while Tomoyo recorded all of this.
"Tomoyo! Kero-Chan! Hello?" Sakura called out while pounding against the wall inside the box she was currently locked in. She then stumbled and fell onto the box floor when the entire thing moved all over the place like an Earthquake, which was Tomoyo who gently picked it up with both hands and sighed contently.
Despite the urge to just pack things up and take Sakura home in her current size, Tomoyo resisted before she placed it gently back onto the desk and opened the box once more, and like the first and second time in holding her mini-friend, clutched her and brought her close to her face once more.
"I'm sorry for scaring you like that, Sakura." Tomoyo apologuised.
"Me too." Kero nodded in agreement.
Despite still being rattled with nervousness, Sakura shook her head, saying, "It's okay. It just startled me." before she tried to pull herself free from Tomoyo's hand, but while the grasp wasn't tight or painful, it was a bit uncomfortable and much too strong in her current height.
"I think we've had enough of Sakura being small. As much as it's fun to have her this way, we can't keep her like this forever." Kero spoke up, finally deciding that it was time to call it quits.
Despite the flash of disappointment, Tomoyo nodded in agreement before bending low and gently placed Sakura onto the floor, before handing her the Staff, much to Sakura's relief.
After her two friends stepped back, Sakura then chanted, "Mini-Card, Reverse the Spell!" since to her surprise, even the Card had shrunk with her. After hitting it, the magic came flying out and swirled around Sakura like a whirlwind. Sakura then slowly grew bigger, until she was back to her normal size. As soon as Sakura stopped growing, Tomoyo hugged her friend happily while Kero hovered over.
"Welcome back, Sakura." Kero said, smiling.
"I'm glad you're back to normal, Sakura!" Tomoyo said, happily.
"Even though you were happy to see me tiny too, right?" Sakura giggled.
"True, but no matter what size you are, you're my best friend!"
Sakura smiled and nodded, though she was more than happy to be back to normal. Though she had to admit, this shrinking experience wasn't as bad as the two previous times and she had been safe in the hands of her best friend...literally!
Even so, the quest to figure out how to restore the Sakura Cards, capture more mysterious Clear Cards and figure out the mystery of her dreams of the cloaked figure continued on.
Meanwhile, in the former Eriol residence that Akiho now lived with her caretaker, the young girl herself was just finishing reading up Alice in Wonderland book she burrowed before putting away and sighed.
"I wonder how Alice could cope in being so small?" Akiho wondered to herself, before shaking her head, as she said, "I don't think I'd be able to."
To be Continued
in
Cardcaptor Sakura-Clear Card Arc.
A/N: I know it's very silly, but I just love shrinking stories, especially when it comes to a couple of my favorite characters who go through the experience. While I am a bit disappointed that none of the Cardcaptors English Cast returned for the new Anime(not that I'm surprised), the new serious so far is good and I do hope that both the Sakura Cards return to normal, regain their powers and that Akiho is not an Antagonist, because I really like her so far.
It's the other new character Yuna D. Kaito that I find suspicious(I only found out about him due to reading the Manga online). But who's the say? The series will run until June if some of the episodes are not delayed by a week or two.
Anyway, hope this story was okay and I hope to see you all again in my other stories, including my still worked on projects. See you later!