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Sunday-

Another day, another card; Madison and I were chasing a card through the backyard when Mr. Big Shot showed up and told us to stay out of the way. He tried to capture the card, but stopped. Frozen in place, mouth open slightly, it appeared he couldn't capture the card. I pushed past him sealing the card easily. Why had he stopped like that? I glanced at the new card; the pain card. It looked like me.

It's night. Dark, scary, and mean!
Oops! I was talking about Li, not the night. Li is dark, scary, and plain mean!
While capturing the Smoke card, Li and I faced another problem, well let me start at the beginning.

I'd left Madison behind this time and Kero was asleep at home. I wanted to prove I could capture a card alone.
It started out okay, until Li showed up and started yelling at me. I turned around taking my attention off the target, my first mistake; I'd left myself wide open for an attack. The card attacked, smoke burning my throat and bringing tears to my eyes.
Li tried swinging in to my rescue as I coughed and tried to claw my way out of the mess, a sleeve held against my mouth and nose, one hand reaching out for his pro-offered hand. I'd dropped my wand while I'd been panicking, which meant I was helpless! I couldn't capture the card and every time our hands met mine would fall right through his.

I guess He captured the card in the end because the next thing remember was his hands cold and shaking against my skin, his voice raw as he called my name over and over, worry etched on his face. I blinked and groaned moving to sit up and couching to expel the smoke from my lungs.
When I opened my eyes up after my coughing fit he was standing, looking down at me, " You pathetic excuse for a-"

I pushed my body into action, my legs felt like jelly. "Just shut up already!" My voice was rough, cracking a little, but I pushed through it, " I can do this alone! If you hadn't shown up I would have been fine!"

He dropped his gaze, looking solemn, "Not the way I see it, Sakura."
I stopped my pursuit in disbelief. His first...nice words to me in...well it could have been his first nice words to me ever. He was being reasonable.
He paused, "Where are Madison and Kero?"

"Home." I whispered. It was obvious, he was startled by my voice, but I could not do anything about it, I was completely out of energy.
He turned away; "I-I'll see you later."And he just left. I watched his back for a minute before retrieving my wand and heading home.

When I got home Kero asked me where I had been. I told him about the whole thing; boy was he mad. You'd think I'd been out committing genocide from the way he reacted. He even said I deserved nearly dying for going out capture card alone. I locked him in the bathroom for that.