Sorry for the late update, but here it is! Enjoy!

Chapter 6: Cherry Blossom Disaster

A gun shot was heard and the runners were off.

Sakura crossed the finish line first in record time and everyone cheered.

"Sakura-chan, you're really fast!" Rika said.

"Thanks!" Sakura said panting.

'It's field day today at Tomoeda Elementary School! There's all sorts of athletic activities going on today, it's great!'

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Sakura heard clapping behind her and perked up when she saw Yukito applauding her victory.

"Yukito-san!" Sakura exclaimed happily coming over to him.

Toya was next to him, holding big bags that held their lunches.

"You sure are fast." Yukito said as Sakura blushed.

"Hmph, she sure doesn't have any other talents." Toya said.

Sakura slammed her foot on Toya's, making him grunt in pain.

"Is that our lunch?" Sakura said pointing at the bags Toya was holding.

"Yeah, Toya and I made them." Yukito said.

"Oh yeah, dad said he'd be here as soon as he can after he's done with his presentation." Toya said making Sakura smile.

"There's going to be a family race later today. Hope your dad makes it for that." Yukito said looking at the events schedule.

"Me too." Sakura agreed.

A bell sounded, signaling for the cheerleaders to get ready for their cheer.

"Oh, I better get ready!" Sakura said.

"Good luck! I'll be taking lots of pictures." Yukito said holding up a camera.

Sakura pulled Toya down and whispered in his ear, "Take lots of pictures of Yukito-san for me later, okay?"

Toya groaned as Sakura went off to get ready.

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"Alright! Sakura's gonna cheer!" Buizel said excitedly in a tree close to the field.

Eevee was sitting on the branch next to him and looked around.

"Do you think she'll mind that we followed her here?" Eevee said.

"Nah, I bet she'll be happy we came all this way to cheer her up!" Buizel said.

Someone who was passing by looked over at the tree and Buizel and Eevee scrampled higher into the tree, out of sight.

The guy looked at the tree funny, but walked away without a word.

"But maybe we should cheer quietly..." Buizel said finding himself in an uncomfortable position.

"You think?" Eevee said from another branch.

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Tomoyo was at the announcing area and was getting ready.

"Tomoyo-chan!"

Tomoyo looked over and smiled when Sakura came over in her cheerleading outfit.

"Hi, Sakura-chan! Ready for your cheer?" Tomoyo said.

Sakura nodded and looked around.

"Where's your mom? You said she'd be here, right?" Sakura said.

Tomoyo shook her head. "She's not here yet, but she said she'd come as soon as she was done with her meeting."

'Tomoyo-chan's mom is the CEO of a large toy company. I've never met her before, so I can't wait to meet her.'

"Oh, I'd better go." Sakura said hearing a whistle blow.

"I'll be recording!" Tomoyo called out getting out her camera.

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As Sakura started her performance, Yukito snapped a couple of pictures of her.

"Sakura-chan's really good, isn't she?" Yukito said taking another picture.

"Yeah, unlike when she first joined. Since she could only catch the baton...with her head." Toya said recalling when Sakura was practicing for the first time.

After a series of flips by the cheerleaders, they hurled the batons into the air.

Unfortunately, Sakura missed the catch and the baton knocked her right in the head.

"See." Toya said pointing.

"Ah..." Yukito said with a sweatdrop.

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Afterwards, Sakura and Tomoyo sat down with Toya and Yukito on a picnic blanket to have lunch.

"This looks great!" Sakura said taking a bite of her lunch.

Tomoyo nodded in agreement.

Sakura looked over at Yukito and was surprised how much Yukito was eating.

"H-hoe!" Sakura said in amazement.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm eating all your food." Yukito said taking a break from his nonstop eating.

"That's okay! You just have a healthy appetite!" Sakura said as Yukito laughed.

"Oh man, that looks really good..." Buizel said as his stomach let out a long growl.

"We could be at home, eating lunch Sakura prepared for us in the fridge, but you insisted on going." Eevee said.

Buizel glared at Eevee, then back at the food.

Eevee suddenly flinched and looked around. 'Was that a Sealed Pokemon?'

"Hey, look at those flower petals." Buizel said as a pink petal floated down.

"Where are they coming from?" Eevee said when a sudden breeze made him shiver.

Buizel just shrugged and continued watching the petals float down to the ground.

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"Sorry I'm late!" Fujitaka called rushing over.

"Dad!" Sakura exclaimed happily.

Fujitaka was out of breath from rushing over so fast from the university.

"I missed your cheer, didn't I?" Fujitaka said sadly looking at the events schedule.

"It's okay. I caught it all on tape." Tomoyo said.

"And I took lots of pictures." Yukito said.

Fujitaka smiled at them and patted Sakura on the head.

"I'm sorry, Sakura-san." Fujitaka said.

Sakura shook her head and hugged him. "I'm just glad you're here now!"

"Here, I made these for desert." Fujitaka said bringing our a tray of jello.

Sakura and Tomoyo took a cup and happily ate them.

'Yum! I wish I could share this with Buizel-kun and Eevee-chan. Oh well, I can give them their own later.' Sakura thought as Buizel glared down at them in envy.

"Envy is not pretty, Buizel-san." Eevee said.

Another jolt of went down Eevee's spine, making him a little irritated.

'Where is it? It must still be hiding if I can't sense it completely.' Eevee thought as a white creature looked down at them from the top of the school.

The creature narrowed its eyes as the wind started to pick up slightly.

"Time to begin..."

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"Tomoyo!"

Tomoyo looked over her shoulder and smiled. "Mother!"

A beautiful, slim woman with short hair came walking over to them.

'Wow! She's beautiful!' Sakura thought in astonishment.

Tomoyo introduced Sakura to her mother and Tomoyo's mother looked at Sakura in surprise, making Sakura tilt her head to the side.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Sonomi Daidouji. Thank you for being such a good friend to Tomoyo." Sonomi said bowing.

Sakura bowed back frantically and said, "Oh, no thanks is necessary, she's always helping me out..."

"You're very cute, you know that, Sakura?" Sonomi said as Tomoyo chuckled and Sakura blushed slightly.

"Tomoyo has told me so much about you, but I still don't your last name." Sonomi said with a smile.

Tomoyo leaned over to Sakura and whispered in her ear, "Mother is very busy, sometimes she doesn't have enough time to listen to details."

"Uh, Kino-" Sakura was interrupted by Fujitaka coming over.

"Oh, is that Tomoyo-san's mother?" Fujitaka said.

Sakura smiled. "Dad!"

Sonomi turned around and when she saw Fujitaka, "AAAAIIIEEE!!"

Sakura nearly fell down by Tomoyo's mother's reaction, not quite what she expected.

"Kinomoto-sensei?!" Sonomi shreiked.

"S-Sonomi-san?" Fujitaka said in surprise as his glasses slid down.

OOOOOOO

"Wow, I didn't know dad knew Tomoyo-chan's mother." Sakura said in surprise as Toya pondered it for a moment.

!Ping Pong! "Our next event is the 100m Family Race! All participants please report to the main gate!" Tomoyo announced over the intercom.

Fujitaka came over and Sakura went over to him.

"Are you sure you're going to run?" Sakura asked.

"Maybe I should do it." Toya offered.

Fujitaka shook his head.

"No, I'll do it. Besides, Sonomi-san made me promise to run. So, where's the main gate?" Fujitaka said and Sakura showed him the way.

"... Should I ask? Or is it none of my business?" Yukito asked.

Toya shook his head. "Sonomi Daidouji-san used to be Somomi Amamiya-san." Toya explained.

"Wait, Amamiya... isn't that your mom's maiden name?" Yukito said.

Toya nodded. "They're cousins. Mom was the only daughter of a rich family. And dad was a young teacher. They fell in love and even though mom knew it would be rough, she married him when she was only sixteen. Her family didn't like it. Sonomi-san always babied mom ever since they were little. So, she opposed the marriage more than anyone."

Yukito looked at the ground, but smiled. "But even in pictures that aren't magazine clippings, your mom always looked really happy, despite all that happened." Yukito said, making Toya smile.

Suddenly, cherry blossom petals started falling around the whole field and Toya looked at them in surprise.

"What's with all the cherry blossom petals? There aren't any cherry blossoms around here." Toya said as Yukito shrugged.

OOOOOOO

"How strange. Guess my mother knows your father, though it doesn't seem to be on a friendly basis." Tomoyo said holding up the finish line.

"Y-yeah." Sakura said with a sweatdrop as she held the other end of the finish line.

Tomoyo looked over at the starting point of the race and gasped. "Mother?!"

Sakura's eyes widened in surprise. "I didn't know your mom was running."

"Neither did I..." Tomoyo said just as surprised as Sakura was.

Sonomi glared at Fujitaka and said, "I will not loose to you this time!"

Fujitaka just gave her an innocent smile and sweatdropped slightly.

As soon as the gun went off, Sonomi sprinted into the lead.

Though she held the lead for a moment, Fujitaka caught up to her with ease, taking the lead and leaving behind a very aggravated Sonomi.

"Wow! You're father is really fast!" Tomoyo said as Sakura watched in amazement.

Suddenly, a sudden jolt pulsed through Sakura's body as the wind started blowing and cherry blossom petals whirled around, falling heavily onto the whole field.

This time, everyone had noticed the petals.

"Wh-where are all these petals coming from?" Rika said in concern.

"I can't see!" Naoko cried.

Sakura looked around and suddenly realized it had to be a Sealed Pokemon.

The petals blinded the racers and prevented them from going on, but Sonomi and Fujitaka continued on running, not letting the petals stop them from victory.

"Th-they're neck-and-neck for the lead." Sakura said nervously.

Tomoyo laughed. "Mother is very competitive."

People let out cries and shouts of confusion as the petals piled higher and higher on the field.

"Help! I can't breathe!" Rika gasped.

"I'm drowning in flowers!" Chiharu cried as the wind picked up and blew the petals around.

Sakura took out her charm and turned it into a staff.

"You're going to use aura here?" Tomoyo said.

"No one can see me through all the petals." Sakura said pointing to people trying desperately to get through the petals.

"Fly!" Sakura commanded as Swellow's wings sprouted from the head of the staff.

Sakura and Tomoyo jumped on and dropped the finish line over to Rika and Chiharu, though they were a little surprised when it came floating down from the sky.

"Sakura!"

Sakura looked over her shoulder to see Buizel waving from a nearby tree and Eevee right beside him.

"What are you doing here?!" Sakura shouted.

"No time to explain! Look!" Eevee said pointing towards the roof of the school building.

Sakura gasped as she saw a tornado of cherry blossom petals.

"So it is a Sealed Pokemon!" Sakura said.

"It's Cherrim, but it's not alone-Hey!"

Before Eevee could explain further, Sakura had already flown towards the tornado of petals.

OOOOOOO

Fujitaka and Sonomi were still neck-and-neck for the lead, but the finish line holders were faultering.

The petals were almost to their shoulders and desperately tried holding up the finish line.

Yukito and Toya took the ends of the finish line and told them to get to higher ground.

"I can't loose! Not to you!" Sonomi cried, giving her all in the final leg of the race as Fujitaka continued smiling.

OOOOOOO

When Sakura and Tomoyo made it to the roof, Sakura pointed her staff at the hurricane of petals and said, "Cherrim! Come on out where I can see you!"

Suddenly, a gust of wind whipped at Sakura's face and fell back.

A creature with white fur stepped out from behind the hurricane and glared at her.

"Is that Cherrim?" Sakura said standing back up.

"No! It's Absol!"

Sakura looked over to see Eevee beside Tomoyo.

"Absol?" Sakura said.

"Absol is the disaster Pokemon! No wonder Cherrim's power is going out of control! Absol has been manipulating Cherrim's power to create this disaster." Eevee said.

"Hmph, guess you know everything about me, eh, little fox?" Absol growled before sending out waves of wind hurtling towards Tomoyo and Eevee.

"Night Slash!" Sakura commanded sending out a wave of dark energy at Absol's attack.

The two waves collieded, negating one another.

Sakura rushed at Absol and hit him hard with Lopunny's Mega punch.

Absol got back on its feet and whipped up a tornado, which attracted Cherrim's petals and sent the tornado of petals at Sakura, blinding her.

"Swellow, blow the petals away!" Sakura commanded as Swellow shot out of the staff and created and strong wind that knocked the petals away.

"What?!" Absol said as Swellow darted towards him and collided full force with him.

Absol was knocked to the ground and Sakura quickly captured him in her staff.

"One down, one more to go." Sakura said facing the tornado of cherry blossom petals.

The tornado of petals slowly died away and a small, pink creature appeared from the center.

Cherrim had red beady eyes and had bigger cherry blossom petals around its head and wore a big smile.

"Hmmm, not really what I had expected." Tomoyo said as Sakura stared at it in fascination.

Cherrim came over to Sakura and started circling her with petals.

Sakura was lifted off the ground and was whirling around in a small whirlpool of petals.

"Huh? Wha? Get me down!" Sakura cried.

"Um, what's happening?" Tomoyo said dumb-founded.

"It's just playing around. Cherrim doesn't mean any harm. It was Absol that was making the petals go all over the place using its wind power." Eevee explained.

"Somebody, get me off this thing!" Sakura cried as she started to get dizzy from the constant spinning.

Eevee came over and grabbed Sakura's shoe with its teeth and dragged her out of the small whirlpool.

"Stop the roof from spinning..." Sakura said dizzily.

"Uh, Sakura, you might want to capture Cherrim before everyone is completely buried." Eevee said.

Sakura snapped out of it and went over to Cherrim.

She held up her staff to it and to her surprise, Cherrim didn't fight back and went right into the staff.

"Hoe? That's it?" Sakura said in surprise.

"Like I said before, Cherrim just likes to play. It doesn't like to fight." Eevee said.

"Ahhh!!" Tomoyo cried.

"What's wrong?" Sakura said.

Tomoyo turned around and said, "I forgot to record your deeds on video!"

Sakura just fell down anime-style as Eevee sweatdropped.

A colorful feather suddenly appeared as well as a dark colored plate and floated down into Sakura's hands.

"Hoe?"

"The Lunar wing and the Dread Plate. The Lunar Wing is said to cure any nightmare. If only we had that a few days ago, huh?" Eevee said as Sakura just smiled.

OOOOOOO

Back on the field, Fujitaka had crossed the finish line first and was surprised to find Toya and Yukito holding the finish line.

He then looked behind him to see a very angry Sonomi.

"No! No! No! Not again! Why do I always loose!" Sonomi shouted.

OOOOOOO

"Why do we have to clean up this mess?" Toya complained.

"It's not that bad. Think of all the stuff we can make out of these petals." Yukito said sweeping the petals into a bag.

Sakura sighed as she picked up a pile of petals thinking what a mess those two Pokemon made.

"Wasn't too bad today, eh?" Buizel said watching the pickup from the tree.

Eevee nodded and chuckled.

On top of another building, a familiar purple-haired boy watched the clean below through a pair of binoculars.

"She's just as pathetic as I thought." the boy commented.

He looked down at her and eyed the charm around her neck.

"But she has the items I've been searching for..."

To be continued...


I took out the part where Fujitaka and Sonomi talk since I didn't see that as much importance so I just let Toya explain it. I also took out the part where Tomoyo says she loves Sakura since I really don't like that all that much and I find it as creepy, no offense yaoi lovers. Absol was captured too quick, but I didn't want this chapter to be too long. Anyways, the purple-haired guy finally makes his actual appearance, so stay posted! Please Review!