Yes, I finally finished with this chapter! This chapter needs the most editing in my case because there are some parts that needed to be in there. Even if Amamiya Misaki did not appear, that does not mean that relationships can be resolve. THIS IS A SHOUJO REGARDLESS!
Pokémon Master: Sakura Rewrite
Chapter 6: Cherry Blossom Disaster
Cheers from the crowds echoed through the Tomoeda Elementary. Guns fired noisily into the air. Hearing another gunshot, the runners were off.
"Go, Satoshi!" a girl with orange hair shouted.
"Come on, Tajiri Satoshi! Don't you want to impress Kasumi-chan!" Her companion, a dark-skinned boy with squinty eyes yelled.
A glare was directed at him harshly which he ignored. "Takeshi Yamamoto!" Kasumi screamed.
"Oh come on, Mizuno Kasumi, you are in love with him."
"I do not!"
Sakura crossed the finish line first with Satoshi Tajiri coming close on second. She smiled at him brightly. "T-that w-was g-good, Tajiri-kun."
Satoshi nodded and shook her hand, oblivious to the glare Kasumi gave him and Sakura. "You're pretty good too, Kinomoto-san."
"Sakura-chan!" Rika called, running over as Satoshi left. "You're really fast!"
"Thanks!" Sakura said still panting.
It's field day today at Tomoeda Elementary School! There are all sorts of athletic activities going on today! It's great!
She heard clapping from behind and saw Touya and Yukito. The latter was applauding her graciously.
"Yukito-san!" Excusing herself from Rika, she ran over to her brother and his friend. Touya was carrying a large box that held their lunches.
"You sure were fast." Yukito complimented. Sakura blushed bashfully.
"She sure doesn't have any other talents." Touya said with a smirk.
Sakura stomped on Touya's foot, almost making him drop the box. He grunted in pain as Sakura turned her attention to the boxes Touya was carrying.
"Is that our lunch?" Sakura asked, pointing to the boxes.
"Yeah, Touya and I made them." Yukito said with a smile.
"Oh yeah," Touya said struck with a memory and looked at Sakura, "Otou-san said he'd be here as soon as he can after he's done with the presentation."
Sakura smiled happily as Yukito took a look of the events schedule he received. "There's going to be a family race later today. Hope your dad makes it for that."
"Me too." Sakura agreed with her usual bright smile.
All members of the cheerleading squad, please report in front of the main gate. Repeat, all members of the cheerleading squad… the speaker spoke stoically.
"Oh, I better get ready!" Sakura said.
"Good luck! I'll be taking lost of pictures." Yukito smiled holding a camera into view.
Sakura tugged on Touya's shirt, making him quirk an eyebrow. He kneeled to let Sakura whisper in his ear. "Take lots of pictures of Yukito for me, okay?"
Touya groaned as Sakura ran off.
"Alright! Sakura's going cheer!" Buizel bounced on a branch of a tree excitedly.
Eevee sighed and turned his gaze to the field close to where he and Buizel chose their hiding place. "Buizel, did you think rationally that Sakura would mind the fact we followed her?"
"Hmm…" Buizel pretended to ponder and scoffed. "Nah, I bet you she'll be happy we came all this way to cheer her on!"
Eevee sighed in defeat. Buizel leaned in to get a closer view on Sakura when he nearly fell out of the tree.
A teenage boy with a sketchbook and an elderly man wearing a lab coat were passing by the tree, discussing about the breeds of Pokémon in low voices. However, their tones of voices were still within the earshot of Eevee and Buizel. They looked at each other and frowned as they scampered higher up the tree.
The men looked at the tree curiously and shrugged. "Maybe just a wild Pokémon."
"Yeah, now come on, we have to meet up with Satoshi-kun and Shigeru-kun! I hope Takeshi-kun brought his famous cookery for lunch today."
"Okay, I don't know how in the World of Pokémon they know of the existence of Pokémon, but I think we should cheer more quietly…" Buizel mumbled dumbstruck as he watched the men leave.
Eevee was still contemplating on the two men to reply. "Yes…"
"That fourth grader Kinomoto sure runs fast, Toru." A boy with short blue hair said to his companion, a boy with tussled brown-orange hair.
"Nobody can win against her, Masato." 'Toru' sighed in dismay.
"Not only is Sakura-chan quick on her feet, she's extremely cute as well!" Tomoyo chirped, alarming the boys. Apparently, she had been listening in their conversation.
"Tomoyo-chan!"
The three looked behind them to see Sakura in her cheer uniform running over.
"Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo smiled jubilantly. Her amethyst eyes spotted the orange uniform Sakura is wearing. "Is that the outfit for this routine?"
Sakura nodded. "Yeah."
"You look lovely… but if only there were some frills on the collar, and a large ribbon on it…" Tomoyo sighed as Sakura felt beads of sweat on her head.
"Where's your mom? You said she'd be here, right?" Sakura asked.
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. That reminds me, Tomoyo-chan never talks about her father at all…
"I have to get going now. Make sure to watch!"
"I will be cheering you on from here!" Tomoyo waved as Sakura ran off to meet with the cheer team.
"She really is cute." Toru grinned.
"Yeah." Masato agreed.
"Well…" The boys looked at Tomoyo who just took out her trademark camcorder. "I'm ready now! I must record Sakura's bravery on film!"
The boys fell over in shock, sweat-dropping heavily.
As Sakura performed with her cheer squad, Yukito snapped pictures of Sakura.
"Sakura-chan's really good, isn't she?" Yukito commented taking another picture.
"Yeah. Unlike when she first joined, she could only catch the baton… with her head." Touya reflected recalling the amusing scene.
After a series of flips, the cheerleaders tossed their batons into the air. Unfortunately, Sakura missed the catch and the baton fell on her head.
"See?" Touya pointed at the fallen Sakura.
"Ah…"
Afterwards, Sakura and Tomoyo were having lunch with Touya and Yukito.
"This is great!" Sakura smiled taking a bite of the omelet her brother and friend made. Tomoyo nodded in agreement.
Sakura glanced at Yukito and gawked at the speed of his food intake. "Hoeee…"
"Oh, I'm sorry! I'm eating all your food." Yukito said noticing everyone's stares excluding Touya who simply sips his cup of tea.
"That's okay! You just have a healthy appetite!" Sakura shook her head quickly, hoping she did not offend her crush. Yukito laughed as a light blush appears on her cheeks.
"That looks so good…" Buizel moaned as his stomach let a long growl of hunger.
"We could be at home, dining the luncheon Sakura prepared for us. No, Buizel, no, you insisted we go to watch." Eevee said with a straight face.
Buizel glared at him then turn his attention of the lunch.
Eevee flinched, feeling a presence of a Sealed Pokémon within the vicinity. A Sealed Pokémon!
"Hey, look at those flower petals." Buizel said watching rain of pink flower petals fall from the sky.
"Where are they coming from?" Eevee asked taking a petal. A sudden breeze blows past his shoulder blades as he shudders in response.
Buizel shrugged and continued to watch the petals.
"I'm sorry I'm late!" Fujitaka cried running to their picnic. Fujitaka was panting from his run from the university, his clothes a mess and a cooler in his arms.
"Dad!"
"Ah! I missed the cheerleading club!" Fujitaka sighed looking at the schedule.
"That's why I videotaped it!" Tomoyo patted her video camera.
"And that's why I took pictures!" Yukito said with a cheery grin.
Fujitaka smiled and patted Sakura on the head. "I'm sorry, Sakura-san."
Sakura shook her head and embraced her father on the waist. "It's okay! I'm happy that you made it!"
"Here, I made them yesterday." Fujitaka took the cooler off his shoulders and opened it, revealing cups of jello. He handed one to each. He then helped Touya and Yukito throw away the trash though Touya was reluctant for he came sweaty and tired.
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 she took a spoonful.
Needless to say, Buizel was glaring at Sakura and Tomoyo with mad jealousy.
"Remember what Sir Aaron used to say about jealousy, Buizel." Eevee sighed. A sensation once more tingled in his spine. Where is that Sealed Pokémon? It must still be in hiding. Eevee frowned irately.
On the rooftop of the school, a small creature's eyes narrowed at the festivity below. "Time to begin…"
"Tomoyo!"
The said girl turned around and smiled delightfully. "Mother!"
A beautiful, slim woman with short burgundy hair, accompanied with female bodyguards, stood with regal elegance and sophistication.
Wow! She's beautiful! Sakura mentally gaped.
"Sakura-chan, I'd like to introduce you to my mother." Tomoyo said.
Sonomi's eyes widen in surprise at the sight of Sakura. Sakura tilted her head in confusion.
"Ah, I'm sorry," Sonomi giggled. "I'm Daidouji Sonomi. Thank you for being such a good friend to Tomoyo."
"Oh, n-no, she's always taken care of me. She's always helping me…"
"You're very cute, you know that, Sakura-chan?" Sonomi asked with a beautiful smile that Tomoyo had inherited. Tomoyo chuckled as Sakura blushed slightly.
"Tomoyo has told me so much about you, but I still don't know your last name."
"Mother is very busy. Sometimes she doesn't have enough time to listen to details." Tomoyo whispered in Sakura's ear.
"Uh, Kino-." Sakura paused and saw her father. "Dad!"
Sonomi glanced behind her and shrieked at the top of her lungs, "AAAIIIEEE!"
Everyone within a five meter radius visibly cringed as Sakura and Tomoyo stared at Sonomi, sweat-dropping.
"Kinomoto-sensei?" Sonomi cried still in shock.
"S-Sonomi-san?" Fujitaka's glasses were now askew from the sudden shriek.
"Your last name is different. I didn't know! You were Amamiya Sonomi." Fujitaka said. Both he and Sonomi have excused themselves from the picnic to "Catch up with the old days." Sonomi forced a smile at Sakura.
"Sakura. I remember that name." Sonomi rubbed her forehead. "Nadeshiko said that when she had a girl, that would be her name." She pointed at him, eyes burning with rage. "I absolutely will not forgive you!"
"I know that Nadeshiko was only in high school." Fujitaka said unfazed by her outburst. "And it was stupid, I was a teacher."
"THAT'S RIGHT! FOR A NOVICE TEACHER TO MARRY ONE OF HIS STUDENTS! MY PRECIOUS NADESHIKO!" Sonomi screamed. Fujitaka could only watch as Sonomi ranted away.
"She was my precious since kindergarten. You're a fool and an insect!" Sonomi scowled. "That she would marry such an insect!'
Fujitaka chuckled nervously, sweat-dropping a little.
"She died when she was only 27! Never! Never! Never!"
"I made a promise to Nadeshiko not to cry."
Sonomi stopped her tirade at this statement and hurriedly shook her head. "Anyway, I will definitely never forgive you!"
"So Dad and Tomoyo's mom used to know each other…" Sakura said still in shock.
Next is the Parents' 100 meter race! Parents please assemble in front of the gate!
"Otou-san!" Sakura smiled up at her father. "Dad, are you going?"
"Should I go?" Touya asked pointing to himself.
"It's okay," Fujitaka smiled at his son. "Sonomi-san said I definitely had to go."
Touya frowned but did not ask any further. Sakura, not wasting a moment, took her father to the track.
"Is it okay for her to hear? Or should we be silent?" Yukito inquired.
Touya nodded and sighed. "Sonomi-san used to be Amamiya Sonomi-san."
"Huh? Amamiya… wasn't that your mom's maiden name?"
"They were cousins." Touya explained. "Kaa-san was a famous financial combine's only daughter. Dad was still a novice teacher. There were hardships after they were married because mom was so young. After high school, she got a job as a stylish model. Especially after she became sick, they opposed it. At Mom's parents' home..." Touya sighed. "Sonomi thought Mom was really cute. She was the number one opponent of their marriage."
"I see." Yukito pondered and smiled at Touya. "But in Nadeshiko's pictures, both at your house and in magazines, she always looked happy."
Touya returned the smile. Yukito and Touya then watched in amazement as rain of flower petals floated from the sky. "Amazing, all these flowers are falling…"
"How strange. Guess my mother knows your father, though not on friendly terms." Tomoyo mused handing a thin line of paper to Rika.
"Y-yeah." Sakura agreed with a sweat-drop.
Tomoyo looked at the starting point of the race and gasped. "Mother?"
"I didn't know your mom was running." Sakura said eyes wide with surprise.
"Neither did I…" Tomoyo agreed just as surprise as Sakura.
"I will not lose to you this time!" Sonomi fumed, glaring menacingly at Fujitaka. Fujitaka smiled innocently, sweat-dropping profusely.
As soon as the signal was off, Sonomi sprinted forward taking the lead. She only took the lead for a moment until Fujitaka sped past her with ease. This only aggravates Sonomi even more.
"Wow! Your father is really fast!" Tomoyo remarked as Sakura watched her father and Tomoyo's mother in amazement.
A sensation passed through Sakura's nerves. Strong gusts of winds sent the cherry blossom petals into the air and fell spontaneously onto the field. This time, everyone noticed the rain of petals.
"W-where are all these petals coming from?" Rika asked in concern as she held the thin strip of paper higher into the air.
"I can't see!" Naoko cried swimming in the rain of cherry blossom petals.
The overflowing storm of petals blinded the runners and prevented from going. Sonomi and Fujitaka on the other hand were unfazed by petals as they continued running to the finish line.
"Th-they're neck-and-neck for the lead." Sakura said nervously.
Tomoyo chuckled. "Mother is very competitive."
As the petals accumulated into piles, people let out cries and shouts of confusion.
"Help! I can't breathe!" Rika gasped submerging in the ever so growing pile of flower petals.
"I'm drowning in flowers!" Chiharu shouted over the wind as she struggled to hold the finish line higher in the air.
Sakura took her charm and summoned the Sealing Staff.
"You're going to use Aura here?" Tomoyo asked as she looked around urgently hoping no one saw the display.
"No one can see me though the petals." Sakura reassured gesturing to the desperate people struggling to higher grounds.
"FLY!"
Sakura and Tomoyo quickly jumped on and flew high above the storm. Sakura blinked as she felt them going lower. Had someone grab onto the staff?
"Sakura!"
"What are you doing here?" Sakura demanded at the sight of Buizel and Eevee hanging onto the end of the staff. Buizel rubbed his nape sheepishly as Eevee sighed.
"There is no time to explain! Look!" Eevee shouted pointing at the school roof.
Sakura and Tomoyo gasped when they saw a sphere spraying cherry blossom petals.
"So it is a Sealed Pokémon!"
"It's Cherrim, but it's not alone- Sakura!"
Before Eevee could say any else, Sakura had already flown to the sphere.
Fujitaka and Sonomi still held onto their leads, running through the storm and mountain of cherry blossom petals. Rika and Chiharu felt like they are drowning as they struggled to keep the finish line from disappearing. A hand gently took Chiharu's part of the goal.
"Soon, you'll need someone taller, so why don't you evacuate?" Yukito said to a flabbergasted Chiharu.
"But the goal…" Rika protested just as her end of the finish line was also taken.
"We can hold it now, right?" Touya reassured.
"I can't lose! Not to you!" Sonomi screeched as she continued to run. Fujitaka continued to run as well smiling innocently.
When Sakura and Tomoyo arrived on the rooftop towing two exasperated Pokémon, Sakura immediately pointed her staff at the sphere. "Cherrim! Come on out where I can see you!"
A gust of wind whipped Sakura's face unexpectedly. Sakura fell back onto Tomoyo.
A four-legged Pokémon stepped forward from the sphere. It has resembles a coyote with a scythe-like tail and horn by the side of its horn. Two blood red eyes molded on a black feline face stared at her coldly as if Sakura was someone inferior.
"Is that Cherrim?" Sakura asked as Tomoyo helped to her feet.
"No! It's Absol!" Eevee shouted.
"Absol?"
"Absol is the Disaster Pokémon! His manipulation of Cherrim's power is what causing this!" Eevee explained looking apprehensively at Absol.
"How knowledgeable are you, little fox, of my kind." Absol said frostily.
"Night Slash!" Sakura yelled.
At the same time, Absol sent a Night Slash of his own. The attacks collided, negating one other.
Before Absol can produce another attack, Sakura ran towards Absol with Lopunny's Mega Punch at hand and hit him on the chest.
Absol stood up and call upon a tornado which attracted Cherrim's petals. On his command, he blinded Sakura with the tornado of cherry blossom petals.
"Pidgeot, blow the petals away!" Sakura commanded. Pidgeot flew out of the head of the staff and flapped his wings furiously, blowing the petals away.
"What?" Without warning, Pidgeot flew towards Absol and rammed into him. Absol collapsed against the roof unconscious. Sakura quickly captured him.
"One down, one more to go." She turned to the sphere. The sphere disappeared, revealing a large cherry blossom with red beady eyes.
"Not really what I had expected." Tomoyo mused as Sakura stared at it in fascination.
Cherrim hovered above Sakura's head and showered her with cherry blossom petals. She was lifted into the air and suddenly twirled and whirled around in circles amongst a cyclone of cherry blossom petals.
"Huh? Wha? Get me down!" Sakura cried.
"Ano…what's happening?" Tomoyo watched her friend dumbfounded.
"Cherrim has a playful disposition. She meant no harm. As I said before, Absol manipulates her actions." Eevee chuckled and shook his head.
"Somebody, get me off this thing!" Sakura cried, her head starting to spin from gyration.
Eevee grabbed Sakura's shoe with his teeth and tug her to firm ground.
"Stop the roof from spinning…" Sakura said dizzily.
"Sakura, you might want to capture Cherrim before the festivity is buried in flower petals." Eevee advised pointing to the catastrophe below.
Sakura quickly shook her head and pointed her staff at Cherrim. Cherrim did not retaliate but simply allowed itself to be carried inside the staff. "Hoe? That's it?"
"Cherrim, as I said before, has a playful temperament. She never likes war." Eevee smiled.
"What can I do with this Pokémon?" Sakura asked staring at her staff.
"You can make any kind of flowers appear." Buizel said simply, having watched from behind Tomoyo.
"That's…it?" Sakura gaped.
"Yep."
"The flowers were suffocating us!" Sakura yelled.
"Ahh!" Tomoyo gasped.
"What's wrong?" Sakura asked
"I forgot to record your deeds on video!" Tomoyo replied mournfully.
Sakura fell over as Eevee and Buizel sweat-dropped. Sakura sighed as a bright green and yellow feather with a pink pearl and a navy blue tablet floated in her arms. "Hoe?"
"The Lunar Wing and the Dread Plate. The Lunar Wing is said to cure nightmares." Eevee told her with a smile. "If only we had the item a few days ago."
Fujitaka crossed the finish line easily. He blinked when he saw his son and Yukito instead of Rika and Chiharu. "Eh? Touya-kun and Tsukishiro-san?"
They looked behind them and saw a boiling red Sonomi. Fujitaka could feel her threatening glare.
"No! No! Not again! Why do I always lose!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Why do we have to clean up this mess?" Touya complained as he sweep the field free of cherry blossom petals. "I came to watch. Why do I have to sweep up?"
"It's not that bad. Think of all the stuff we can make of these petals." Yukito remarked as he helped Tomoyo and Sakura with the bags.
"Ah, where is Otou-san?" Sakura asked inquisitively.
"Your dad and Tomoyo's mom are behind the school building." Yukito responded. Before he can say anything else, Sakura took Tomoyo's hand and ran off.
"Come here for a min!" Sakura said as they ran behind the school.
"Hey! Wait!" Touya called but it was no use. They were already gone.
"Mortifying! Mortifying! Mortifying!" Sonomi fumed. "Because ever since high school, how many times I fought you for Nadeshiko! But I'm always defeated!"
"It would have been rude to lose so intentionally." Fujitaka said gently. "I knew that Nadeshiko was your precious but I did my best for us."
Sakura and Tomoyo who was eavesdropping from the bushes looked at each other surprised.
"Ah, I remember now! Your house! And you lived in an apartment together! You always had Nadeshiko's homemade lunch!" Sonomi scowled. Fujitaka sweatdropped as she ranted about their marriage life.
"Wha-what are they fighting about?" Sakura asked timidly.
"Sakura-chan, listen." Tomoyo whispered quietly into her friend's ear.
"But…" Sakura opened her mouth but Tomoyo nudged her with a smile. "Go for it!"
"Petal Dance! Give those two their flower!" Sakura commanded quietly in her charm. Cherrim burst out, merry as always and did what she was told.
Fujitaka and Sonomi noticed two flowers, flowers that they were speaking of, drifting in the air and allowed the flowers onto their hands.
"Nadeshikos flowers…" Sonomi murmured nestling the flower in her hands. "Nadeshiko always had a smiling face when you were there. I…became angry. It destroyed the atmosphere. I loved her more than anything."
"Nadeshiko loved you too." Fujitaka reassured but Sonomi shook her head.
"But not the way I wanted her to love me." Tears began clouding Somomi's eyes. "But she was happy. She had the best face and smile. She was lucky to marry you."
"I'm sorry. I made a mistake." Fujitaka allowed Sonomi to lean against his broad chest. "She was 16. I was 27. I'm sorry that near the end she spent all her time with me."
"I still hate you a little!" Sonomi cried tugging on Fujitaka's cheeks.
Sakura and Tomoyo walked hand-in-hand back to the field.
"Your mom said I looked like someone." Sakura said thoughtfully.
"I listened to my mom talk about Nadeshiko-san a lot." Tomoyo smiled. "My hair is long because it's going to be like hers."
"I'm glad that our parents will be able to talk things over." Sakura clapped her hands cheerfully.
"Yes!" Tomoyo agreed.
"And your mom really liked my mom! I'm so happy!"
"Yeah!" Tomoyo nodded. She gazed at her cheerful friend and said with a smile, "I love you, Sakura-chan."
"I love you too!" Sakura replied, her smile bright and her eyes shining with happiness.
"Hey!" Touya shouted waving a broom into the air.
"But Sakura-chan's meaning is different when she says she loves me." Tomoyo spoke softly only just above a whisper.
"What is it?" Sakura asked confused, evidently had not caught what Tomoyo said. "Did you say something, Tomoyo-chan?"
"I'll tell you when you're older." Tomoyo grabbed her hands and ran in the direction of Touya and Yukito. "Well, let's go!"
As they helped Yukito gathered the flower petals, Tomoyo sneaked glances at Touya, a blush clear on her cheeks.
They're really identical… Tomoyo thought with a dreamy smile. Sakura-chan and Touya-san's ears…
"Wasn't too bad today, eh?" Buizel said watching the school gather bags of flower petals.
Eevee chuckled. His eyes caught on the men who were talking about Pokémon when they were passing by the Sea Weasel and Evolution Pokémon. They are keeping something if they were talking in such low voices. I hope Sakura know the children that are helping those men
On the top of the school clock tower, a familiar boy with purple hair observed the school through a pair of binoculars.
"She's just as pathetic as I thought." The boy grimaced. He looked at Sakura, eyeing the charm necklace. "But she has the items I've been looking for…"
Hope you like it. This chapter gives me so much grief (not the sad emotion) and exasperation of all chapters. I would like to request something: do not say anything about the physical bodies that any person in CCS has nor anybody in any other CLAMP work. After reading all the CLAMP works, I began ignoring sexual orientation so in some of my fanfiction will have some student/teacher relationship and homosexuality. I would likely genderbend some couplings to test a canon couple's love (now that is just playing with the idea right now, not actually going to do it until every story I uploaded in this site is at least finished). DO NOT ASK ABOUT MY SEXUAL ORIENTATION. No, I am not a 'Bitch in Sheep's Clothing' (I did not curse EVER there but this is a result of TVTropes).
Now for the next chapter, I will properly introduce Wally and Paul. *grins wildly* Oh, now that Wally is here, I will take it in my hands that he meet Sakura in the worst way possible. Because the author requests me to replace Ruka Nogi with one of her choices, I will do it. Ohohohohoho! Now I must go and write the next chapter!
Author Notes
Cameos - I will list the cameos in the author notes if you are confused:
Battle of Water (Chapter 4 which is technically 3): Satoshi Tajiri (Ash Ketchum), Kasumi Mizuno (Misty), Takeshi Yamamoto (Brock)
Cherry Blossom Disaster (Chapter 7 technically 6): Satoshi Tajiri (Ash Ketchum), Kasumi Mizuno (Misty), Takeshi Yamamoto (Brock), guy with sketchbook (Tracy Sketchit), guy with lab coat (Professor Oak), Toru (Todd Snap), Masato (Max)
Romance between Sakura and Tomoyo and Nadeshiko and Sonomi - I put it in there because I want to simply show that incestous love can happen regardless of what happens (please see Syaoran and Meiling as well. They may be an anime-exclusive couple but you can still see that it is something CLAMP would write even though the anime is much tamer than the manga). Che, it's love, just plain and simple love. Tomoyo loves Sakura and always will even if her love is unrequited. She matchmakes Sakura and Syaoran together because she wants her most precious person to be happy. She doesn't need to be in a relationship to be happy. This is her strength and the most admirable one in my opinion. Why she was looking at Touya like she has a crush on him? Because he looks so much like Sakura. I will tell you a rule of CLAMP and my favorite one: CLAMP NEVER EVER break soulmates nor one-sided unrequited love. Even if you pair Touya with Kaho, Touya will always will be in love with Yukito and Kaho with Eriol. Now this is becoming a lecture... I will explain in later chapters as couples start to come forth.
Couples - I am only addressing the Pokemon couples. The CLAMP couples are already established. They will be heterosexual. Why? Because whether it is manga or anime I've seen, the characters are always STRAIGHT. I think there are Fan Dumb (result of TVTropes) out there for everything including CLAMP. However I am not one of those people. I am open-minded and respect anybody's opinions but I am stubborn about my views so don't think about changing it.
Pokemon in Tomoeda and basically the world - I addressed this because in the original, nobody seems to react to Luxio in the streets in Chapter 40. Oi, some Pokemon aren't small and cuddly. There got to many people reacting to Pokemon: they can't just shrug it off as if it was some sort of typical animal which isn't is. Who knows... maybe Sakura sets the rule where children of ten years of old in the Pokemon World. Ohohohoho! I must do dive this mystery! I must not let it slip though my fingers!
