Sakura smiled, staring at the snowy mountain.
"Its so beautiful! The snow sparkles with every ray of sunlight that hits it! Marvelous!" Sakura cheere.d
"Un! Its very beautiful." Nadeshiko smiled.
"Viva Resort Training!" Yaya cheered.
"This is awesome!" Sashi cheered, flying to the snow, piling it up. Daichi and Pepe already made a good size pile of snowballs. They started throwing them at Kiseki, who yelled at them.
"This is so freeing!" Jay smiled, flying around. Chou sighed, sneezing. She shivered, holding her bare arms.
"I cannot stand the cold." She muttered, flying back into Sakura's red and white case, going into her egg. the charas started a snowball fight, aiming at random charas, not surprisingly, Kiseki got the most hits.
"So, Kukai's granfather lives right in front of the training grounds right?" Amu asked, looking around.
"Maybe that's it!" Yaya gasped, pointing to a resort.
"Eh!" Amu gasped.
"Amazing!" Nadeshiko smiled.
"Wonderful!" Sakura smiled along with her.
"Don't tell me his grandfather's a celebrity!" Yaya cried happily.
"Not even close." Kukai told her. He took Yaya's arm, moving it. "We're staying right over...there!" He said, aking her point at a temple that was covered in snow.
"EH! A temple!" Au and Yaya shotued.
"You mean we're not staying at the resort?" Amu asked.
"Well, he did say that we were training at a temple." Sakura chuckled.
"Exactly. A temple, not a resort." Kukai nodded. "I also said it was NEAR the Snow Mountain resort, not that it WAS the resort." Kukai told them. He let go of Yaya's arm, letting the girl sulk. "Well, let's go skiing." Kukai smiled, walking away.
"Y-YOU TRICKED US!" Amu shouted.
"Actually, you just didn't listen." Chou sighed, peeking out. She sneezed once more and went back into the comfort of her egg.
Sakura slowed to a stop next to Nadeshiko, catching her breath.
"I've never gone skiing before. I'm pretty horrible." Sakura sighed.
"Nonsense. I thought you were doing well for a first timer." Nadeshiko smiled at her. Sakura blushed and nodded her head.
"Hey! Is everyone having fun?" Amu asked, in mid air. Her X clip was in the shape of a heart.
"She's doing well!" Nadeshiko comlimented.
"No fair! She's chara changed with Ran! That's cheating!" Yaya shouted.
"Sashi, are you any good with sports?" Sakura asked.
"No, not sports like these. I'm good at martial arts, and boxing. The more physical sports...sorry." Sashi sighed.
"Its okay." Sakura smiled. Yaya stood back up, and fell down, rolling down the hill.
"Yaya!" Sakura shotued, skiing after her. Nadeshiko follwed her, chasing after Yaya.
"Amu-chi! Save me!" Yaya shouted, as she rolled past her.
"Yaya! Wait!" Sakura shouted.
"Stop!" Nadeshiko pleaded, following.
"Yaya! i'm coming!" Amu said, right before sneezing. Kukai joined them, trying to help Yaya.
The Guardians were sitting in a line, in front of Kukai's grandfather.
"Fools! I told you to be back before dark!" He scolded them.
"Sorry, Gramps. We just got carrieed away." Kukai laughed.
"Ngligence!" The old man shotued, hitting Kukai's shoulder with a stick. "You say you got 'carried away'! This is the proof of your negligence. Clean the halls, to clean your soul." He told them.
"Clean the halls?" Amu, Kukai, and Yaya complained. the group sighed, standing up. They went outside, going to the end of the hall.
"So long!" Yaya cried.
"How are we supposed to clean this? Its impossible! It'll take forever." Amu complained.
"Fools!" Kukai's granfather yelled, throwing the doors open. "Its not about how fast you can do it. Polish the floors just a little and they will shine. Don't focus on finding a simple solution." He told them, slamming a bucket of water on the ground.
Nadeshiko smiled, sweeping the hall. Sakura sat beside her, cleaning the walls with a cloth.
"Why must I, the crown prince, do the cleaning?" Kiseki complained.
"Go for it, go for it, Amu-chan!" Ran cheered.
"You can help out too you know!" Amu shouted at her. Kukai whistled, and pushed a cloth around with his foot.
"No slacking!" Su shouted at him and his lazy chara.
"Man! I'm tired of this! No more! no more!" Pepe cired, flailing her arms around.
"No more!" Yaya agreed, doing the same.
"Yuiki-san, calm down." Tadese told her.
"Alright, Yuiki, then how about a race." Kukai suggested.
"A race?" Yaya repeated.
"Yeah." Kukai nodded, crouching on the ground, the cloth in his hands. "Ready go!" He smiled, running of, the cloth never leaving the ground.
"That looks fun!" yaya cheered, doing the same.
"hey, let me try!" Amu cheered, joining the race. Tadese smiled, following after her.
"I wanna try! I wanna try!" Sakura cheered childishly, joining the race.
"Oh my...if its cleaning..." Nadeshiko smiled, glaring at them.
"I ain't gonna loose!" She yelled, chara changing. She took off past them, knocking Amu and Tadese out of the race.
"Sakura-chan!" She shouted out gruffly. Sakura looked behind her and smiled, slowling to a stop.
"You can do it!" Sakura cheered, just as her girlfriend flew past her, bumping Yaya out of the race. the three girl stood next to each other. Yaya and Amu took a bell, and a 'final lap' sign out of no where.
"Final lap!" Yaya cheered, ringing the bell.
"Go for it, Nadeshiko-chan! I'll give you a kiss if you win!" Sakura smiled. Nadeshiko's eyes widened and she smirked, running even faster. Kukai and Nadeshiko were neck in neck. They were running so fast that they were close to burning the wood. Temari sniggered and dropped a banana peel under Kukai's foot. The Jack slipped, falling. Nadeshiko smiled as she ran past the finish line, winning. She slowed to stop infront of Sakura, canceling her change.
"You said I would get a kiss if I won." She smiled. Sakura nodded, and kissed Nadeshiko's cheek.
"My girlfriend's the best!" Sakura cheered, hugging her.
"Man I'm tired." Amu sighed.
"Bu that was so much fun!" Yaya cheered.
"And the prize was totally worth it." Nadeshiko smiled, warpping her arms around Sakura's shoulder. Sakura smiled, and leaned back into Nadeshiko's chest, hodling her arms. The sliding doors opened and the group flinched in fear.
"Who said you could play?" Kukai's granfather asked, glaring at them. "FOOLS!"
"And now after cleaning, we have to cook our own meal." Amu sighed, looking at the rate of food. Sakura shuffled through the ingredients.
"Potato, carrot, potato, potato, oh, a tomato...this should be towards the top." Sakura muttered, taking out the red fruit.
"I'm sorry everybody this is all because of me." Nadeshiko sighed.
"Its no problem, it was fun." Kukai smiled.
"Besides, Kukai was the one who suggested the race...so its really his fault...not yours." Sakura stated, pulling out some noodles. "...we could make pasta..." She muttered to herself.
"Hey! That's right!" Amu shouted, pointing at him.
"Fujisaki's the one who got into it! I didn't want to loose!"
"Amu-chan...Im hungry." Ran sighed, sitting on the old man's shoulder.
"i'm dying of thirst." Su muttered, climbing on the other one.
"I'm so hungry." Sashi sighed, collasing on his head. Kukai's grandfather turned around, shaking them off of him.
"I thought I just heard something..." He muttered.
"Just the wind! It was just the wind!" Kukai said, holding Ran, and keeping her quiet.
"Oh...here's some meat." Sakura muttered, holding up the pakage.
Kukai hummed as he cleaned the rice. During the cleaning he slipped an the rice and water fell out of the bucket.
"No way!" The others screamed.
Tadese smiled as he peeled an onion, but he peeled it so much, there was barely anything left.
"You're kidding!" The group shouted.
Yay cried as he put a knife into a carrot, of course she cut it the wrong way...
"I can't cut the carrot!" She cried.
"Yaya." the others sighed.
A potato flew towards Amu's hand, and the next second, her finger was bleeding from the knife.
Nadeshiko sweat dropped, watching them all flail around.
"Will we ever get dinner ready?" Nadeshiko muttered. Sakura shrugged, and sliced up the raw bacon strips.
"What are you going to make?" Nadeshiko asked.
"Bacon bits. Maybe they'll remember Su, and we can use this as a topping." Sakura muttered.
"Su!" Amu shouted. Sakura nodded and tossed the bacon bits in the pan. not a minute later, Amu was beside her, her X clip now a green clover.
"Wow! This is amazing, Amu-chi!" Yaya cheered.
"In the end, I ended up bruning the bacon." Sakura sighed.
"Don't worry. We'll practice when we get home." Nadeshiko smiled.
"Pretty good Hinamori!" Kukai praised.
"Um...did that fish's tail just twitch?" Sashi muttered, looking at the fish.
"You'll make a wonderful bride, someday." Tadese smiled.
"That's sexist." Sakura muttered.
"Agreed! Picking a wife based on cooking skills? That's horrible, and old fashioned!" Amu agreed.
"Its also deplorable. You're basically saying that women belong in the kitchen." Nadeshiko growled.
"No...I mean...oh forget it..." Tadese smiled.
"Man, this is like, the third time you've gotten yourself into this situation." Kukai laughed.
"First it was saying that my Sakura-chan wasn't cute. Now its being sexist." Nadeshiko muttered.
"Did you really make all this?" Kukai's granfather asked, looking at a piece of fish. the kids flinched, freezing in fear. "I'm pretty sure we only had provisonal ingredients."
"Well...I sorta..." Amu trailed off.
"Never mind about that!" Kukai said. "Itadakimasu!" He cheered.
"Itadakimasu!" his friends shouted, taking a peice of fish, or rice, or anything.
"U-Un." The grandfather agreed, eating the fish.
"Today's wheather is great!" Ran cheered.
"You mean cold." Chou growled, sneezing.
"I said we were going to a snowy mountain, and that you should bring winter clothes, but did you listen to me, no~!" Sakura sighed.
"Shut up." Chou growled, going back into her egg.
"Hey, what's that over there?" Amu asked, pointing to a bunch of snow sculptures.
"its a snow sculpture contest." Sakura said, reading the sign.
"Even that!" Yaya asked, pointing to a rocket,, then a sphinx.
"...Yes...even those." Sakura muttered.
"Sugoi!" Yaya cheered.
"Please enter, won't you?" A man asked, handing Amu a sheet of paper.
"Let's see...the first prize is a one week stay at an expensive hotel." Amu read.
"That one?" Yaya asked, pointng to the hotel that was on the paper. Her, Kukai and Amu had a shining look in their eyes.
"We'll definately win!" They cheered.
"Wouldn't it be better to just do it for fun?" Sakura muttered.
"So we have to chp this away." kukai muttered, hitting a giant snowblock.
"What should we make?" Sakura asked.
"how about a castle, fit for a prince and a princess?" Nadeshiko asked.
"Yeah, and Saku-chi will be the princess!" Yaya cheered.
"Did you just say 'prince'?" Tadese asked.
"Oh no..." Sakura gasped, holding Nadeshiko, while quivering.
"Finally the tiem has come for the king!" Tadese declared. A blu ecape was now around his neck, flowing in a breeze that wasn't there. "We will make a castle fit for a king! Alright, Loyal subjects, you do all the work for me! Let's get started!" He shotued, laughing.
"Why'd you have to say that word?" Sakura muttered, scared.
"I'm sorry...I forgot..." she mumbled.
"Alright, why don't we divide the work into equal parts." Nadeshiko suggested. "I'll take the roof."
"I'll make the floor." Kukai smiled.
"I'll handle the cute decorations!" Yaya cheered.
"And I'll make a tower for the King to look out of!" Tadese shotued, smiling.
"I'll hande the wall, as in the barrier!" Sakura cheered, holding up her shovel.
"Well, that was fun." Kukai smiled.
"i'm sorry, i got carried away again." Tadese smiled.
"no worries, it was actually kind fun!" Sakura smiled.
"Tomorrow's the last day, so we have to work hard and finish it." Nadeshiko smiled.
"Amu-shan...is there something wrong?" Sakura asked her twins.
"Nah, its nothing." Amu smiled.
"Let's go buy some gifts, I'm hungry too." Yaya said.
"Well, there's a hot spring near by, let's go there." Kukai smiled.
They arrived at the town and got some snacks. Nadeshiko had actually fed Sakura the pinkette's snack. Yay ajust cooed over it, saying it was cute and romantic.
"Yeah, but the romance is gone because I can barely move my fingers. That's why she's doing it." Sakura smiled. She held up her hands, and showed the how red they were. "Go ahaead, try moving them." Kukai reached out, and tried moving her fingers. It took him a while, but he made her give a thumbs up.
"Wow, your hands are freezing." He said.
They arrived at the hotspring, to which Sakura eagerly out her hands in, warming them.
"That's much better." She sighed in relief.
"Ate some red bean cakes, bought a few gifts! I'm satisfied!" Yaya said happily.
"Yaya, Sakura." Nadeshiko smiled, winking at them.
"Ah! I forgot to buy something!" Yaya shouted.
"Same here!" Sakura realized.
"That's terrible, you should go back and get them." Nadeshiko told them.
"Come on, Kukai!" Yaya smiled, grabbing his arm.
"Isn't tomorrow okay? You can get them there." He said.
"No! now!" Yaya protested, dragging him off.
"Amu-chan, Hotori-san, you two can go on ahead." nadeshiko smiled, as her and Sakura followed the Ace and Jack.
"A Girl like Amulet heart!" Tadese shouted.
"So he loves Amu but only a part of her, that's rude." Sakura muttered. She was sitting on a grave stone, listening in on Tadese and Amu.
"Should we save her?" Nadeshiko asked.
"Yeah, she won't be able to take much more of this." sakura agreed, standing up. She grabbed a pile of snow, turning it into a snowball. She threw it at the tree infront of them, hitting a branch. The snow fell off, making a loud noise. The four watched Amu shriek and cling to Tadese.
"Oh my, did we startle you?" Nadeshiko asked, walking out.
"I told you guys we shouldn't have made any noise." Yaya muttered.
"Agreed, things were just starting to get good." Sakura muttered.
Sakura felt Nadeshiko shift. She opened her eyes, and saw the Queen sit up, in her bed.
"Nadeshiko...what's wrong?" Sakura asked sleepily, propping herself up on her elbows.
"Nothing...I was just going to fix the bad parts of the snow sculpture." Nadeshiko whispered. "Go back to bed." Nadeshiko smiled, kissing her forehead.
"Can I come too?" Sakura asked, sitting up and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
Nadehsiko placed a finger to her lips, and pointed to Yaya. "we have to be quiet." Sakura nodded and quietly changed out of her pajamas. She put on a pink, turtleneck sweater. She also wore white, jeans. "Here." Nadeshiko smiled, putting a long shawl around her shoulders,
"Arigatou...Nadeshiko..." Sakura smiled. Nadeshiko smiled, nodding. Sakura made sure to put her gloves on this time, and the two were off.
"Amu-chan? What are you doing here?" Nadeshiko asked, as they came to their sculpture.
"I could ask you two the same thing." She said.
"We came here to fix the bad parts from yesterday." Sakura told her.
"Are you here for the same thing?" Nadeshiko asked.
"Yeah, let's work hard, okay?" Amu smiled.
"Ah! Amu-chi, Nade-chi, and Saku-chi! you beat us!" Yaya shouted, running towards them. Kukai and Tadese were following behind her.
"don't tell me, you guys too?" Nadeshiko asked.
"I wanted to keep it a secret!" Yaya smiled.
"So, it looks like we all had the same idea." Kukai smiled.
"Its the 100 monkey effect! Several people think of the same thing, around the same time, and they do it!" Sakura smiled.
"that's exactly what it is. Only with us, its the Guardian effect." Tadese smiled.
"Oh my...what is this?" Sakura asked, looking at the finished sculpture.
"Well, Amu definately made the gates to Hadese." Ran sighed.
"Kukai made a bunch of Soccer ball for some reason." Daichi told them.
"Sakura put butterflies and birds on the roof." Jay sighed. Chou nodded in agreement, not shivering this time. Sakura had finally conviced her to wear some warm clothes, and so Chou had wrapped a shawl around her body.
"And she also tried putting a King and his queen at the front of the castle." Sashi added.
"'Nadeshiko made a Japanese style rooftop." Temari smiled.
"Yaya made the ribbons, dechu." Pepe told them.
"And Tadese made the tower, and the world, cause its his dream to rule it!" Kiseki smiled.
"How did it turn out like this?" Nadeshiko asked.
"We didn't consult each other on what to make exactly...so we made what we liked." Sakura sighed. The group burst out into laughter, looking at their Dream Sculpture.
"In the end, we didn't win." Kukai sighed.
"But it was a lot of fun!" Yaya and Sakura chorused.
"Yes, it was." Nadeshiko smiled. The others gave their agreement.
"Oh, gramps." Kukai gasped, looking at his grandfather.
"Its a shame you didn't win." He told them.
"Yeah, but it was fun." Sakura smiled.
"Wait, how'd you know about that?" Kukai asked him.
"Trying something new and different is good." His grandfather smiled. "I've mande lunch. My Vegiterian diet of enlightenment, its a full course!"
"A vegiterain diet?" Yaya groaned.
"And its a full course?" Amu asked.
"FOOLS!"
"Well, I am hungry." Tadese smiled.
"Let's go!" Yaya cheered, racing to the house. the others followed her, laughing and cheering. Sakura looked back at the where they came from, towards the sculpture.
"It really was the best effort." Sakura smiled, running towards the temple again.