Sorry it has taken so long to get this up but I have been really sick and was even in the hospital for a while. I am still not feeling very good but I had most of this written so I decided to submit it.

Disclaimer: Sorry, I don't have the energy to be funny. Clamp owns xxxholic, Tsubasa and Cardcaptor Sakura.

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Chapter 4

Infinite Introductions

I hate that darn witch Kurogane thought as he showed Tomoyo the way to the dinning room. He walked slightly ahead of her, in silence. Stupid stupid witch. This is a game to her. Like we are pawns in her twisted chess match.

He stopped at the door to the dinning room. It was blue and had a crescent moon on it. Kurogane slid the door open for Tomoyo. She stepped inside and placed the white box on the low wooden table. Then she lowered herself to the floor, smoothing the hem of her dress over her knees. Kurogane closed the door and sat down near her. He could not bring himself to look at her much less talk to her. What do you say to someone who looks exactly like someone you know?

The silence was deafening. Tomoyo twirled a curl around her finger. Then with sad eyes she looked up at Kurogane. "I'm sorry that you had to show me the way. I know it was an incovience to you." She bowed her head down and looked away.

Kurogane suddenly felt immensely guilty. He had not meant to make her uncomfortable. He just didn't know what to say to her.

"Uh, No, I just..." Kurogane began to say, turning to face her.

"Hello!" Both Kurogane and Tomoyo jumped as the door suddenly slid open to reveal Watanuki in an apron. "Yuko-san said there was cake." Suddenly he caught Kurogane's eyes and knew that if looks could kill he would be dead a couple times over.

"Sss... ss...sorry Kurogane-san, I didn't mean to interrupt." Watanuki stuttered.

Then he seemed to notice Tomoyo. He slid around the table, trying to be as far away from Kurogane as possible.

"Hi, I'm Watanuki." He introduced himself.

"Tomoyo" she replied.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Tomoyo-chan." He said happily.

"It's nice to meet you too, Watanuki-san." She replied. Then she looked at Kurogane. "Are you with Fai-san and Kurogane-san?"

Watanuki laughed. "No, I work for Yuko-san." Then he caught Kurogane's eye and thought that it would be in his best interest if he was not in the same room as Kurogane right then. Tomoyo noticed him glance.

"I'll just grab this and go." Watanuki said as he picked up the cake. Then he practically ran out of the room. "Nice to meet you Tomoyo-chan." He yelled over his shoulder.

Tomoyo giggled at his silliness. "Watanuki-san is very funny."

Suddenly Kurogane spoke unintentionally loud. "I'm sorry…" He stopped but Tomoyo smiled.

"It's okay." Tomoyo said grinning up at him. "I think you are one of those people who care much more than they let on."

Kurogane was speechless. She was so much like the Tomoyo he knew. She just seemed to know things about how people felt.

And so they both sat again in silence. But this time Tomoyo was smiling and Kurogane almost smiled too.

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"Hello!" Sakura's happy voice said to Fai as she and Syaoran stopped walking in front of him.

"Hhh... hello." Fai said trying to find his voice.

"Hi, I'm Sakura Kinomoto and this is Syaoran Li." Sakura said indicating herself and Syaoran.

Fai introduced himself. "Fai D. Flourite at your service." He bowed his head slightly.

Syaoran look around. "Is Yuko here?" he asked.

"We've come to help her with something." Sakura added.

"Wait!" Fai exclaimed. "You're the magician?"

Sakura nodded a little confused at Fai's strong reaction. "Yes, I'm a magician. Syaoran-kun is too."

"Oh, it's just…" Fai muttered. "You're so young." He finished rather lamely. It was the only he could think of to say.

Luckily Sakura seemed to find this funny because she began to laugh. "Yeah, I get that a lot."

Fai chuckled. "I bet you do."

Something seemed to dawn on Sakura. "Are you the one Yuko-san asked us to help?"

Fai nodded. "Yes, I am. And to answer your earlier question," he said turning to face Syaoran. "Yuko-san is inside with my companion Kurogane and her worker Watanuki-san."

"Has my friend Tomoyo-chan arrived yet?" Sakura inquired of Fai.

"Yes, Tomoyo-chan is here. Kuro-sama took her inside so she could put the cake she brought away." Fai informed them.

"CAKE!" a voice seemed to yell from the backpack hanging off Syaoran's shoulder.

"Kero-chan." Sakura sighed as the zipper on the backpack opened and a small yellow head popped out. "You are not suppose to let people see you. Most people don't know about magic." She scolded him.

"You talked to him about magic already. Sheesh. Besides I can sense he has magic." Kero said grumpily

Sakura turned to Fai. "You have magic? Then why did you need us?"

Fai smiled a rather allusive smile. "Well, let's just say I don't use magic anymore."

Sakura looked as if she wanted to ask more but Syaoran spoke before she could.

"What is it you need Sakura to do?" he asked.

"Hhmm… why don't you come inside and I can explain it more." Fai suggested.

The two teens looked at each other and nodded. "Okay." Syaoran said.

Fai smiled and they went into the house.

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Kurogane and Tomoyo looked over to see the door slid open again. In through it came Fai, Sakura, and Syaoran.

"Sakura-chan." Tomoyo said standing up to greet her.

Kurogane was not one to be easily surprised. Twice in one day was unheard of. What is going on? He wondered staring at Sakura and Syaoran. He could sense that these teens were not the ones he was familiar with.

"Kuro-min, this is Sakura-chan and Syaoran-kun. Sakura-chan is the magician Yuko-san told us about." Fai explained to Kurogane seeing his confusion.

Suddenly Kero flew out of the backpack.

"Oh, yeah, this is Kero-chan." Sakura said introducing the guardian beast to Kurogane, who eyed him incredulously

"It's like that white manju bun." He said.

"Mmm… manju buns." Kero cooed imagining the food. Then the words seemed to sink in. "Hey, you, don't compare me to food." He yelled flying up to shake his tiny fist in Kurogane's face.

"Yeah, he's more like you." Fai said laughing. His words caused both Kero and Kurogane to yell at him. While they fought Sakura and Tomoyo sat together with Syaoran seated nearby.

As Tomoyo and Sakura talked, Kurogane leaned over to Fai. "So there are two of them now?"

"Is seems so." Fai replied. "It's strange, I knew that we would meet people we knew in other worlds, I just never thought we would meet us." Kurogane nodded in agreement. Both men glanced at Sakura and Syaoran. "I don't think we should say anything to them. At least not yet."

As they were talking Yuko entered the room. On her shoulders were both the Mokonas. The Mokonas jumped up onto the table where Kero was also sitting.

"Hey," Kero said looking back and forth between the two Mokonas. "There are now two of you."

White Mokona giggled. "There was always two Mokonas. Yuko make us together."

"I'm glad to see to two arrived." Yuko said to Sakura and Syaoran. She then sat down. "Watanuki should have the food ready hopefully very soon."

Only a minute had passed when Watanuki came in through the still open door. In his hands he carried a tray full of steaming food. He placed it on the table and said. "Time to eat."

Then he noticed Sakura and Syaoran and he gasped. "Syaoran-kun, Sakura-chan you're here. But you're different…"

Sakura and Syaoran threw each other confused looks. "Do we know you?" Syaoran asked.

While Watanuki muttered and threw his hands about, Yuko had been looking at the food tray. "Watanuki," she said sternly. "you forgot the sake."

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It was really hard to find a place to end this chapter. But my friend came up with the idea of using Yuko's love of sake.

I hope this chapter was not too boring; there were many many introductions so I just put them all in one chapter.

Due to my health I don't know when chapter 5 will be up. If you want to see how far I am I update my journal on deviant art a lot and I will start to list my progress on it. You can link to my account by going to my profile here on fanfiction. Or I will update my fanfiction profile too.