Chapter 5: Sakura and the Circus Fiasco

Tokyo, Japan

"Key that Hides the Power of Space. Show Your True Self to Me. I, Heero Command You Under Contract. Release!" A second later Heero was holding his sword in front of him. Heero and Syaoran were both standing in the training room of their dorm with sword in hand, ready to practice. "So nobody has thought of an explanation for how I created this thing?" asked Heero as he motioned to his sword.

"No," answered Syaoran. "Not yet. But Kero is flying back to Tomoeda to talk to Yue about it. Hiiragizawa doesn't understand how, but it seems his other memory has a blank area in regards to a new Clow Key. Spinel Sun, one of Hiiragizawa's guardians, is also on his way over here to see if he can help."

It had been two days since Sakura and Heero had captured the Wall and Remove Cards and Heero had created the Key of Space. That night, when everyone had returned from the library there were a number of different reactions to the news that Heero had created a second Clow Key. Syaoran and Eriol had been especially surprised, Ami had been the most curious, and Ranma, Ukyo, Duo and Minako were mostly impartial to the situation since they didn't really understand the significance of the news. Tomoyo's reaction was mostly one of disappointment. She was upset that she hadn't been there to videotape the scene. However, she quickly changed from the most depressed to the happiest person in the room when Heero handed her a disk with a digital video of the entire situation he had copied from Wing ZERO's mobile camera that had captured everything. A while back, after Sakura had captured the Color Card, Heero had programmed Wing ZERO's camera to follow Sakura around to capture every card capturing quest on video. He didn't understand what was so great about capturing the cards on video, but it made Tomoyo happy apparently, and since Tomoyo was Sakura's best friend, Heero had decided to do something nice for her. He had been rewarded for his kind gesture with a quick hug of thanks from Tomoyo and another, longer hug from Sakura.

Heero had recently discovered another advantage to having his own Clow Key. According to Sakura, Eriol, and Syaoran, his new Clow Item should be nearly indestructible. This helped Heero because the weapons storage room was quickly becoming depleted. Since Syaoran's sword had magical protection and Heero and Syaoran trained with so much intensity when they sparred, by the time their training sessions were over, whatever weapon Heero had been using was so destroyed it would be practically unusable. Now that he had his own mystical sword, Heero hoped they would not have to destroy any more school property, otherwise the University might start charging them.

Half an hour into their workout session they both noticed out of the corner of their eyes that they had accumulated an audience. A group of maybe a dozen girls were all standing in the doorway, bumping and shoving each other to get a better view of the two guys. Both Heero and Syaoran were wearing green tank tops and black workout pants, so their well toned bodies were easily distinguishable. The two stopped fighting for a moment when they noticed the people watching them, but then looked at each other and shrugged and continued their match. When the two felt they had done enough weapons work they looked over towards the door and were disappointed to find that the girls had still not left. In fact, it looked as if the crowd had gotten larger and a few of the girls had begun to trickle into the room for a better view. Not wanted to stop fighting and give the girls a chance to come over and talk to them, the two decided to just switch from weapons to hand-to-hand without stopping. They did this by recalling their swords without pausing in their battle and smoothly made the transition into hand-to-hand sparring. Neither guy really cared what the girls saw and in fact hoped it would serve to scare a few of them away. Unfortunately their magical maneuver seemed to intrigue the girls even more. An hour and a half of constant fighting later, the guys began to tire. At this point they normally would have stopped, but neither one felt like dealing with the ever-growing number of girls, almost all of which had migrated into the training room. Fortunately the guys' luck suddenly changed when Sakura and Ami came down the stairs together. The two girls were on their way to lunch when they saw the huge gathering of girls in the training room. Curious as to what was going on they walked over towards the training room and were surprised to find that all the girls were staring at Heero and Syaoran sparring. Sakura and Ami could see that they were getting tired since they had watched the two train often enough to know they weren't moving at their highest levels of speed and precision. The girls were wondering why the two hadn't stopped yet since they both new that the guys must be pretty exhausted since it took quite a bit to keep them from going full force when they fought. Then Ami and Sakura figured out that the guys must have not stopped fighting so that the huge group of ogling girls couldn't disturb them. The two decided to help out their respective semi-boyfriends and walked into the room. When the girls walked into the room, Heero and Syaoran quickly picked up on their auras and thankfully sighed inwardly as they stopped sparring.

"Heero-kun, Syaoran-kun," said Sakura and Ami as they walked up to the guys and gave them a hug, wrapping their arms around the guys' necks. They were positioned in a way that allowed both Ami and Sakura to see the girls who had been watching Heero and Syaoran. They could see every girl there had a frown of disappointment on their faces and were staring at Ami and Sakura with a spark of both anger and jealousy in their eyes.

"Thanks," whispered both guys as the girls let go from their embrace.

As Heero and Syaoran saw the other girls in the room slowly leaving, Syaoran got an idea. "How about you girls let us take you out somewhere fun as thanks for helping us out?"

Ami and Sakura's faces lit up at the prospect. "Hai! Where?" asked Sakura.

Syaoran paused, realizing he hadn't thought of that part of the plan yet. Before Syaoran could say he didn't know, Heero interjected. "There is a traveling circus in town. How about that?" Sakura's eyes lit up even more and she emphatically nodded her head yes. Sakura loved the circus and couldn't wait to go with Heero.

"Let us get cleaned up and then we'll go," said Syaoran as the guys went into the locker room.

"Have you been to the circus before Ami-chan?" asked Sakura.

"Hai. But not for some time now," responded Ami.

"Me neither. I hope it is still as fun as what I remember. I loved the circus when I was little."

"We are going with Syaoran-kun and Heero-kun," pointed out Ami. "So I'm sure it will be fun."

"Ready to go?" asked Syaoran as he walked out of the locker room with Heero following closely behind. The girls nodded their heads yes. "It is on the other side of the city so we will have to drive. I hope you girls don't mind."

"Not at all," answered Ami.

"Do either of you know where Duo parked my car the other night?" asked Heero to Syaoran and Ami.

"It's parked right next to mine," answered Syaoran.

"What kind of car do you have Heero-kun?" inquired Sakura.

Before Heero could answer, Ami spoke up. "Just wait and find out, Sakura-chan. You've seen Syaoran-kun's car right?" Sakura nodded. "Well, Heero-kun's car is just as nice. I'm not sure which car is neater." Sakura was stunned. Syaoran's and Tomoyo's cars were the two most expensive cars she had ever seen.

When the four reached the parking lot where their cars were parked, Sakura was shocked. She quickly spotted Tomoyo's car. Her spotless black Mercedes Benz SL500 Roadster sports car was parked at the end of one of the rows. Next to Tomoyo's car was a dark blue Jaguar XKR convertible that Ami informed her belonged to Eriol. Next to Eriol's Jaguar was a bright yellow Acura NSX. Since Sakura had been told Tomoyo, Eriol, Heero, Syaoran, and Minako's cars were all parked together, she had to guess that the yellow Acura was Minako's. Next to the NSX was Syaoran's car; a sparkling silver Porsche 911 Turbo. The last car in the row was a beautiful gleaming red Ferrari 355 Spider convertible.

"Wow!" gasped Sakura as she stared wide-eyed at the five cars. "How do you guys get such nice cars?" she asked.

Heero and Syaoran looked at her and shrugged. "My family just has a lot of money and believes in only the best," responded Syaoran.

"I suppose I'm just used to owning expensive machines," said Heero. The other three gave Heero a curious look, but Heero just brushed it off and began walking toward his Ferrari. "Top up or down?" Heero asked Sakura once they were at Heero's car.

"Can you put the top down?" asked Sakura. "I've never driven in a convertible before." Heero nodded and retracted the convertible top as he started the car's engine and pulled out of the parking lot. As they were driving along the coast, Heero took a moment to glance sideways at Sakura. In his eyes, she looked stunning. Her eyes were closed and she looked to very much be enjoying the fresh sea breeze against her face. Her short auburn hair was flowing smoothly behind her and that only added to the angelic effect of the girl. Every now and again, Heero would look over at Sakura and each time she looked even more and more beautiful. Heero decided that he was glad he invited her to the circus.

Author's Notes:

Well, nothing really important happened this part of the Chapter. I will warn you now that Chapter 5 has three parts, so don't be expecting it to end after Part II. This first part was mainly my excuse to give everyone cool cars. My favorite of all of them is, of course, Heero's Ferrari. That is my dream car.