Author's Notes: I'm so pleased with your reviews! I'm making this into a series (which I was originally
thinking about). Seeing as though I have no time, it will take me a bit to get out the next one. The next
story, just to let you know, will be the float card, but the bigger plot is S+S moving in together. It will be
humor like I've tried so hard to make this one. I love all the people that have and ever will review me
because they're so incredibly nice! CCS is CLAMP's and I have yet to seen anyone try to claim otherwise.
Read, enjoy, sip a soda, and REVIEW! -Anrui
Kero groaned as he held his stomach, "The kid's bigger than I am, but I could stuff more in me than this!" He thought back to when Sakura was taking Biology and remembered something about stomach sizes. "Great! Now I have lots of money and a small stomach!" His stomach gurgled unhappily again.
"I'll buy something for Sakura with the rest of the money, I guess…" Kero thought out loud. He said it grudgingly. Then another idea came to him, "And I can buy something to give to Sakura for me!" Much happier than before, he jumped to his feet. Kero quickly regretted it. "Oh, that doesn't feel good," he held his stomach and fell to his knees. As he hit the floor, something fell out of his pocket and clanged to the ground.
Kero looked down curiously, "And what is this?" He picked up a set of keys, and then remembered that the kid had a car. He thought for a minute and then threw them back in his pocket and sighed, "It's probably back in Hong Kong though…" Kero got up and heard a rustling underneath his shoe. He picked up a piece of paper. "Syaoran, Left your car at Meilin. I thought you'd want it. Love, Yelan," he read out loud.
"Yipee!" Kero exclaimed, jumping up, "I'm going cruising!" Ignoring his stomach, he ran as fast as he could out of the shop and towards the house.
Eriol came up beside him, matching his pace, "Getting your exercise?"
"No, I want my car," Kero panted back.
"I don't know…" Eriol had a mischievous grin, "Meilin is pretty ticked at you…"
Kero froze and looked down disheartened, "But… but I wanted to go driving."
Eriol shrugged, "Then you're going to have to face her." Kero considered the house for a moment, feeling the weight of the keys in his pocket.
"I'll do it!" Kero scrambled up the steps to the door and slowly turned the knob. Hesitantly, he stuck a foot in the door and when nothing happened to it, he put the other beside it.
"Shoo," he wiped some sweat off his forehead as he moved steadily through the living room.
Out of nowhere, an unknown object launched into him, knocking him to the ground. "Did you think you'd get past me, even with all your training, Syaoran?" Meilin asked angrily, poking him in the ribs.
"Oww. Do you have to be so cruel?" Kero complaining, trying to twist his way out from beneath her.
"Maybe if you'd stop leaving me in the middle of a conversation I would," Meilin retorted. She gave him one good hit in the back and then got off him. "That should teach you!" Kero slinked quickly away from her without answering. He put a hand to his back, muttering. Meilin smirked at him and then threw him some aspirin, "Get over it!"
Kero snatched it from the air, "Thanks for nothing!" He squinted his eyes at her, "At least tell me where the garage is!"
Meilin pointed to the door directly in front of Kero, "Gosh, Syaoran, you sure are dense lately… does it have something to do with Sakura?"
"No!" Kero yelled defensively, "I'd just like to have a good time, and everyone keeps getting in my way!" He threw opened the garage door and hopped over the side of the nearest car. It purred to life as he stuck the key in and turned it on.
Kero carefully examined the levers and gauges in front of him. "The P…R…N… buttons have something to do with how the car moves," he thought out loud, "Wait, R is for reverse!" He pulled the lever to the R and hit a petal. The car reared into the back of the garage, tearing the metal from its square frame.
Meilin and Eriol rushed out at the screeching sound. "What did you do to your car!" Meilin screamed, "You just bought that car, and your insurance was already unreasonably high!"
Kero turned back to stare at the scratches littered along the red paint, "And…?"
"Syaoran, that is the new Ferrari you paid a whole lot to have your mother import direct from Europe! Have you already forgotten exactly how much that cost?" Meilin put a hand to his head again, "You must have a fever! I'm taking you to the doctor!"
Kero scooted to the other side of the car, away from Meilin, "It's not a cold! I just don't care about a stupid car!"
"It's not just a car," Meilin repeated, "It's a Ferrari! You are so spoiled! Do you know what I drive? Oh, wait… I don't even have a car!" She raised her voice higher on this last line, and Kero covered his ears.
Eriol, who had been standing quietly, finally spoke up, "Your aura's changed."
Kero and Meilin both stared at him, "What?"
"That's what's been bothering me. Your aura's changed, your magical aura that is. It has a different feel to it… It's almost like…" Eriol tapped the side of his mouth with his index finger in thought.
"Gotta go!" Kero squeaked panicked, and then quickly managed to find his way back into the house.
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Syaoran closed his eyes drowsily as Sakura searched frantically around the room, "Where did I put that wrapping paper?"
Opening one eye again, he gazed at her from the kitchen counter, "Maybe it fell under the couch. You manage to get everything under there!" Syaoran yawned and continued on with his light nap. This is what he expected from the little yellow creature's lifestyle.
"Here it is!" Sakura announced triumphantly from the living room. "But what's this?"
"What's what?" Syaoran asked uninterested without moving.
"Nothing!" Syaoran shrugged and unwillingly sat up as she moved into the kitchen. Sakura placed the object down in front of her and started wrapping it too quickly for him to see.
"I think I'm going to break up with Syaoran," she told him offhandedly.
"What!?!" he cried.
She ignored him, "He doesn't really want to see much of me, and to tell you the truth, Kero, he really doesn't do anything for me anymore."
His mouth just kind of hung open, "But, but Sakura, you said you loved him."
She nodded casually, "And I did… for a while. I don't know. I guess I'm just not attracted to him after we've been so far away for so long. Besides, there is this other guy…"
"Other g…guy?" Syaoran stammered.
"Of course! Did you think I'd leave someone who's so pathetically devoted to me unless there was another man lined up? Did you Syaoran?" Sakura put a little red bow on the top of the gift.
There were tears running down his eyes, "Pathetically devoted? That's a little mean…" He stopped and glared as the rest of what she had said processed, "What did you call me?"
Sakura held up the Change card between her fingers, "You are Syaoran aren't you? That would explain why Kero and you have been behaving so strangely."
"How exactly did you find out?"
"It was under the couch instead of in my purse like the other cards… which thanks to you are covered in ink," she smiled, "Though revenge really is sweet… you had the funniest look on your, um Kero's face!"
"So you're not going to leave me?" he asked quietly.
Sakura picked him up and kissed him on the forehead, "Never. I do love you, and besides, you have already seen down my shirt!"
"I had my eyes closed," he stood up on her palm. "and I thought you looked more sexy in that nightgown."
Sakura blushed, "Syaoran, you're not supposed to tell me those kind of things."
"And why not?"
"Because it sounds really weird coming from Kero's mouth."
"I see your point…" Syaoran grinned, "But we are going to get revenge on him too, right?" Sakura agreed, and Syaoran hopped to the counter laughing. "I can't wait!
She poked him lightly, "As long as you've learned your lesson."
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Kero sat on the couch, flipping lazily through the television channels. "I have nowhere to go, so I'm stuck here!"
"Hey, turn back to that!" Meilin ordered from across the couch.
Eriol munched happily on popcorn beside her, "Yeah, turn it back! I didn't get to see the end of that!"
Kero sighed and rolled his eyes, "It's My Fair Lady. All people ever see is the end, and as a guy you shouldn't want to see it."
"I happen to be comfortable with who I am," Eriol used a small spell to change it back to the movie, "And you're outvoted anyways."
"Don't make me tell your mom about the car," Meilin threatened. Kero nestled back into the couch and pouted.
A door bell sounded just as Eliza's father started singing the "I'm getting married in the morning" song. Kero covered his ears from the racket and went to answer it. "Hello," Sakura greeted happily as he opened the door.
"Yeah, yeah," Kero grumbled before returning to his seat. "Can't they cast people in musicals that can actually sing?"
Eriol and Meilin both shook their heads, still engrossed in the screen. Sakura and Syaoran sat down besides them, "What are you watching?"
They both remained silent for a moment, and then when it went to commercial Meilin answered, "My Fair Lady."
"Oh, I love that movie. Is it the one with Audrey Hepburn?" Sakura clapped her hands together, "I've never seen the end now that I think about it…"
"It's My Fair Lady! If you haven't seen the end, then surely you know what happens!" Kero threw his hands up into the air, "Where have you people been living?"
"I don't know what happens because I didn't want to ruin it," Sakura stole some popcorn out of the bowl, "Besides, Syaoran, I thought you said you had only seen the very beginning before you turned it off."
Kero looked away nervously, "It was on a lot last week."
"No it wasn't," interrupted Meilin, "I waited all last week for it to come on again."
"You know what was on?" Sakura told Meilin excitedly, "That one movie where the two people switch bodies…" Kero jumped.
"Freaky Friday?" Eriol guessed.
She nodded, "That's it!"
Kero fidgeted in his seat, "Let's talk about something else."
Nobody paid him any attention as the movie came back on with Eliza at Higgins's mother's house. "Hey, Syaoran," Sakura whispered to him, "I wanted to talk to you alone."
"Okay…" Kero examined her for a minute, wondering what she wanted. He got up from the couch, happy to get away from the next song and followed her into a room.
As soon as he was in, she shut the door and leaned against it, "I've missed you."
"Uh? Oh, me too!" Kero landed on a nearby water bed and bounced on it, highly amused.
Sakura moved closer, "We've, technically, been together a long time, right?"
Kero glanced over uninterested, "Sure, I guess."
He made a surprised yap as she pushed him down onto the bed and crawled over him, "I was thinking that it was time that we got more intimate."
Kero wriggled out from under her, "No!" He backed against the wall shaking his head, "No, no, no, no, no!"
"Come on, Syaoran. Don't you want me?" she came over and hugged him.
"Alright, alright! I've had enough! I'm not Syaoran, I'm Kero, and his life sucks! I didn't mean to knock the Change card out of your purse… and I just wanted to have some fun… but half the stuff I've done is not any fun at all, and Meilin keeps beating me up!" Kero slid down the wall crying, "So leave me alone already would you?"
Sakura giggled, "It serves you right, Kero!"
He frowned, "You knew?" She nodded gleefully, and Kero pointed at her angrily, "That was not very nice!" Sakura was about to say something when the phone rang. They both went out to the phone in the living room.
The answering machine started with Meilin speaking and then beeped, "Mr. Syaoran, you order of two-thousand dollars is being shipped."
Kero grinned triumphantly because no one else could hear it with the television up so loud. Eriol turned it down to hear, and the lady continued, "I repeat, your order of two-thousand dollars is ready."
"Do you think you could say that again!" Kero yelled at the phone, "I don't think everyone heard you!"
"Once more, your order of two-thousand dollars is ready. Number eight dash five, the electric polka machine." Finally the phone clicked, signaling the end of the message.
"Great!" Kero muttered, "I'm going to get in trouble for a dumb polka machine."
"A dumb, electric polka machine!" Eriol corrected with a finger in the air.
Syaoran was standing up on the arm of the couch, "What were you doing spending my money!"
Kero waved his hands in front of him, "I can explain!"
Meilin looked around, confused, "What's going on?"
"They were switched," Eriol explained.
"Oh… so it wouldn't help to mention the car right now?" she asked in mock-innocence, giving Kero a smile.
Syaoran's eyes got big, well as big as Kero's eyes can get, "What did you do to my car!?!"
Kero backed up, "Give me a moment to explain…" He yelped as Syaoran jumped on his arm and sunk his teeth in. The lights went out all the sudden and when they came back on, everyone blinked.
Syaoran glanced down at the yellow creature on his eyes and thumped him. Kero fell off with a thud. He glared, but then tempted by the popcorn beside him, turned and started happily munching. "Boy, I love my body!" he managed to get out through big mouthfuls.
"My car!" Syaoran remember and ran towards the garage.
"You don't want to go out there!" Eriol warned.
Syaoran ignored him and opened the door anyway. He fell to his knees, "My Ferrari!" Sakura walked over and tried to comfort him.
"Just wait until you get your credit card bill," Meilin told him sheepishly, "I feel kind of guilty for buying such an expensive computer now…"
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Syaoran sat with Sakura on the little green bench on the park. His arm rested lightly around her, and she leaned into him. They watched as the sun sank slowly into the water, casting off brilliant shades of purples and pinks. "I'm glad we still have six days together," she sighed contently.
He kissed her hand, "I'm just glad to be myself again."
She giggled, and he stopped her with a kiss. Sakura pulled him closer, and then looked into his eyes when they parted, "I love you, Syaoran."
He held her as she rested her head against his chest, "I love you, too."
"So tell me I'm sexy in that little pink nightgown again."
Syaoran put his mouth by her ear, "You're sexy in that little pink nightgown."
She shivered and whispered back, "Maybe someday you'll get to see it again." Sakura's cheeks turned a little red, and she gazed back out over the water, "And maybe someday we can see each other everyday… I think I'd like that."
Syaoran nodded, "I think I'd like that too."
