Sorry for not updating! (yes, I say that all the time) I get distracted easily. ; Anyways, it's time to end the cliffy! 'cue cheering' Anyways, HERE WE GO!


Chapter 8: Swimming with trouble!

"Li-kun? Li-kun? What are you doing here?" came Sakura's voice.

Syaoran's eyes slowly started to open. 'W-where am I?' he thought, before he noticed a pink blur next to him. After rubbing his eyes, he then realised it was Sakura.

"W-where am I?" Syaoran asked sleepily as he continued to rub the sand out of his eyes. Suddenly, he remembered! He was leaning over Sakura...then he felt something come onto his back and slightly push him over...then...

"You're in my room...on my bed!" Sakura replied, trying to keep her voice down. Syaoran jumped up and suddenly realized where he was. Looking around, he noticed Nikita sleeping peacfully on the pillow next to him.

"Nikita must've jumped onto my back, pushing me over and falling onto you! Then...I must've passed out!" Syaoran concluded as he simply stared at the sleeping puppy.

"Wait...for you to have fallen straight onto me, wouldn't have to have been leaning over me?" Sakura questioned.

Syaoran blushed slightly as he remembered the other part of the story. 'What had I been thinking?' Syaoran mentally slapped himself, 'Kissing Sakura? She would be so freaked out!'

Syaoran shook his head to clear his mind before answering. "I was laying you down on your bed! You had fallen asleep at the beach so I carried you back!"

"Oh...Okay! Thank you Li-kun!" Sakura gave him a gentle kiss on the cheek before hopping off the bed and heading for the door. "C'mon! Let's go see if the others were awake!" With that, she skipped out of the room.

Syaoran couldn't move. He put his hand to where Sakura had kissed him. 'No! It was just a friendly kiss! Stop thinking about that!' With that, Syaoran quickly followed Sakura out of the room.


Tomoyo, Meiling and Kero were playing wii when the two came out. Tomoyo and Meiling looked at eachother and grinned.

"Good morning you two! I suppose that you had a very...nice sleep?" Tomoyo failed to supress her laughter.

"Hey Syaoran! What were you doing in Sakura's bed?" Meiling also fell into a fit of giggles.

Syaoran's face became very red at this, but Sakura simply tilted her head to the side in confusion.

"Nevermind Sakura." Tomoyo smiled at the two. "Let's go for breakfast."

With that, they all headed off for breakfast, with Kero in Sakura's bag and Nikita in Sakura's arms.


Ms. Mizuki clapped her hands together and everyone turned to her.

"Good morning everyone! I trust you all got good sleep last night!" she seemed to be staring at Syaoran and Sakura when saying this.

Again, Syaoran's face turned red. 'How does she know? Or does she know? You can never tell with her...' Syaoran started to panic. Ms. Mizuki smiled at Syaoran.

"Today, we will not have a challange. Instead, we will go scuba diving!"

This surprised everyone. Regardless of this, Ms. Mizuki continued. "We will get lessons today from the owner, all are welcome to learn but if you already know how, go ahead and explore! Only rule is, no going past the flags! All of you, go back to your cottage and change into your swim gear. All the equipment you need will be suppplied when you get there. Dismissed!"

With that, everyone left, all except Sakura. Sakura walked over to Ms. Mizuki and whispered something in her ear. Ms. Mizuki thought about it before nodding. Sakura smiled and hurried off to catch up with everyone else.

Sakura was dressed from head to toe in scuba gear along with the rest of her friends. "Everyone who wants lessons come in this boat! Everyone else in that boat!" announced Ms. Mizuki as she signalled everyone to two boats.

"Hey Sakura! Have you ever gone scuba diving before?" Tomoyo came towards Sakura.

"No. This will be my first time! How about you?" asked Sakura.

"I've gone tons of times! But I was hoping to videotape you on your first time!" Tomoyo exclaimed as she whipped out videocamera, seemingly from nowhere again.

"Do you always carry and camera with you? Also, won't it get ruined in the water?" Sakura sweatdropped.

"Actually yes!" Tomoyo smiled. "And this camera is waterproof!"

"Fine" Sakura sighed as she looked down at Nikita.

"So, what are you going to do about Nikita?" asked Tomoyo as she bent over to pet the dog.

"I've already cleared that with Ms. Mizuki! Watch!" replied Sakura hapily and she picked up Nikita and ran behind a tree. Sakura then called upon her key and activated the float card. A bubble appeared around Nikita for a moment before disappeareing.

"Great thinking, but won't everyone ask what the bubble is?" Asked Tomoyo.

"I'll just say it's the latest in diving technology" smiled Sakura, "Anyways, let's get onto the boat!"


An hour had passed since Sakura had gotten into the water and by now, she had gotten pretty good. Syaoran helped her get started and Tomoyo helped Meiling. Now, everything was going great and everyone was allowed to go a bit farthur.

Sakura wandered off on her own with Nikita to explore the coral formations. 'It's so pretty...' Sakura thought to herself as she admired the little, colourful fish going in and out of the coral. Nikita floated over to the coral formations and managed to squeeze in. Sakura giggled as she watched Nikita go in and out of the holes.

Suddenly, she felt it... 'A clow card?!' She looked around but could find nothing. Syaoran came swimming up to her. By the look on his face, he could sense it too. They searched around but couldn't find it anywhere. Sakura was getting near the end of the boundries for swimming. Suddenly, she saw the girl. She was just outside of the net making the boundries. Sakura signaled Syaoran over.

'TIME!' Sakura thought to herself as she summoned the card. Their friends around them froze along with the fish. Sakura and Syaoran slipped under the netting.

'Arrow!' A bow and arrow appeared in Sakura's hands and she shot at the girl. Suddenly, an arrow that seemingly came out of nowhere, headed straight for Sakura's arrow. The two arrows collided and disappeared. 'She's still using my clow cards...' Sakura thought to herself as she remembered the mirror. The girl started to swim away.

Sakura looked up. 'Wait!' she thought as she made to go after her, but Syaoran held her back. Sakura sighed and nodded. She knew she couldn't go too far. Syaoran and Sakura slipped back under the net and Sakura released the time card.


"I wouldn't feel so bad about it if I were you" Tomoyo said to Syaoran and Sakura after they told her about the incident. Syaoran, Sakura, Tomoyo and Meiling were sitting on the couches near the TV. "I mean, if she was hard to catch on land, it would be even harder in water!"

"You're right" Sakura sighed, "It was just that we were so close! I feel like such a failure..." Syaoran nodded slowly in agreement.

"Don't talk about you failing!" Meiling complained. She motioned to the bag of ice sitting on her forehead. "At least you didn't swim face-first into a large coral formation! Those things are hard!"

"Well, you guys always have next time to capture the Use" said Kero as he flew into the room and sat down on the pillow next to Sakura. "Knowing this card, even if you don't capture it here, it will follow you guys back home."

"Why would it do that?" asked Sakura. "If I were her, I'd want my freedom! I'd avoid whoever was trying to capture me!"

"Yeah, but otherwise, nobody knows who she is. Things would get boring for her" Kero replied. "She would think that you trying to capture her keeps her busy. That's probably why she keeps showing up."

"That's true, but if she was so bored, why doesn't she just let us capture her?" Meiling pointed out.

"She considers that giving in. She wants you to show her that you're worthy of being her master" Kero replied as he stood up and headed for the fridge.

"Anyways, we can think about it tomorrow. We've had a long day and need some sleep" Syaoran said as he stood up.

"Yeah. I'm beat. Goodnight everyone!" Tomoyo said as she headed for her room.

"Goodnight! Oh, and Li-kun?" Sakura turned to Syaoran. Tomoyo also turned to watch. "Try and stay out of my room this time. Okay?" Sakura said normally.

Syaoran seemed to turn 5 different shades of red as everyone except Sakura turned to stare. As Sakura closed her room door behind her, Tomoyo winked to Meiling.

"Yeah Li-kun!" Tomoyo tried to hold back her laughter. "Don't do anything you'll regret! Goodnight!" Tomoyo and Meiling ran off to their rooms before Syaoran could argue.

Syaoran sighed and headed for his room.


Me: Yes...Yes...It's short! I know! I'm sick! At least give me some credit!

Tomoyo: Um...Nikita? Why is there no disclaimer?

Me: Well, this is my first fanfic, and I forgot to put it in. Also, there's no point in putting it in now!

Tomoyo: Meh, I guess.

Sakura: Anyways, review everyone!