Origami Planning
~*~ Start of Scene One ~*~
By Chibi Ruka Hime
Note: The following fanfics in this series are the novelizations of this CCS RPG chatroom thing I belong to on AIM. It's a continuing series, so more will be coming as more chatrooms are held. This scene is dedicated to Sumi-chan, who was the first to come up with the idea of holding these chatrooms. ^_^ Please enjoy, and any comments are welcome!
"Hoeee…" Sakura said nervously as Chiharu started beating up Takashi again. "You guys…"
Chiharu, who had been beating on Takashi for his last random comment, looked up, while Tomoyo, as always, was taping Sakura's face as this was happening. "Sakura-chan kawaii desu!" she exclaimed as stars came into her eyes.
"Hoeee…Tomoyo-chan, put down the camera…"
Takashi looked up and gave one of his trademark smiles. "Did you know that cameras were originally thought to steal people's souls if they didn't close their eyes?"
"Hoeee?" Sakura said with confusion, but was glad when Tomoyo finally set her camera down.
"Yamazaki-kun! More lies!" Chiharu yelled, beating Takashi even more. But he continued smiling and continued on," Yes, and sometimes people would drop dead during snapshots because they didn't close their eyes."
Naoko's eyes widened at this comment, and she added, "Did you know that ghosts can't be photographed?"
Sakura cringed, and mumbled, "G..Ghosts?"
Chiharu shook her head, but didn't give up on her beating on Takashi. "I didn't know that. Did you, Yamazaki-kun?"
Takashi nodded. "Of course! That way, they can only be absorbed into the film. Sometimes, if there are too many souls and ghosts in the camera, it breaks, and sets them all free to haunt the closest person."
"Na-nani?" Sakura shivered and moved closer to Tomoyo. Tomoyo gave her a reassuring smile, but had picked up her camera again and was taping the scared expression on Sakura's face.
"Sakura-chan, don't believe him," Chiharu said exasperatedly, giving Takashi another blow to the head before dragging him off.
"A camera ghost…kakkoii…" Naoko murmured, her mind filled with images of what one might look like.
"Sakura-chan, don't be afraid!" Tomoyo whispered.
Sakura had a nervous smile on her face, and nodded. "No more…ghost talk…okay?"
"That's the spirit!" Tomoyo said, taping the expression on Sakura's face as Sakura sweatdropped.
"Anou…" A thought suddenly struck Sakura. "Minna, my birthday's coming up soon!"
"Your birthday? Are you going to have a party?" Naoko asked, her glasses slipping down her nose in her excitement.
Sakura nodded. "Hai! I've been meaning to give out invitations, but I haven't had much time to do that yet."
Tomoyo went all starry eyed, and said in a mesmerized voice, "I know just what to get you for your birthday, Sakura-chan!"
"And maybe I can write you a birthday story!"
"Really?? I love your stories, Naoko-chan! But…" Sakura blinked and looked around. "Where's Rika-chan? I want to invite her too."
"She's with the person she cares for the most, where else?" Chiharu said with a devilish smile as she came back to where they were standing, still dragging Takashi.
A dreamy expression came onto Sakura's face. "Rika-chan is so mature…Chiharu-chan, Yamazaki-kun, you two can come too of course, right?"
"Hai hai, count us in," replied Chiharu. "Where will you have it, Sakura-chan?"
"I guess at my house, though…" A frown came onto Sakura's face. "Onii-chan says he doesn't want to see any boys at the party…"
"Does that mean I'm out of it then?" asked Takashi.
Sakura shook her head. "Onii-chan said that, but Otou-san said I could invite whomever I want to though. I want to invite 12 people, since I'll be 12!"
"Sakura-chan, the party can be at my house! I can make you a birthday outfit and decorate the house in streamers."
"That would be great! You have so much space in your house, Tomoyo-chan! And, if we have the party at Tomoyo-chan's, Onii-chan can't say anything! WAI!"
Tomoyo smiled. "Good then! I can help with invitations too!"
"So you'll invite Li-kun too?"
Sakura looked at Naoko. "Hai, I want to invite Syaoran-kun. But I don't know if he'll come or not…" she said, her voice trailing off into silence. "Rika-chan!" She suddenly exclaimed. "There you are!"
"Konnichiwa!"
"Ne ne, Rika-chan, do you want to come to my birthday party?" Sakura asked eagerly, waving at her.
"I'd love to!"
"Really? Sugoi!!! Wait just a minute. I'll go get the materials!" Sakura said, skipping out of the room and coming back with paper, glitter, and markers.
"Materials?"
"Hai! We're going to make the invitations, Tomoyo-chan. Now…" Sakura pulled out the book she had tucked under her arm. "Origami for beginners! We can make origami animals for favors!"
"Kawaii!!!" exclaimed Tomoyo.
"I wonder if I can figure out how to make an origami dragon?" asked Naoko thoughtfully.
Sakura nodded, a proud expression on her face for coming up with the idea. All the girls gathered around Sakura's desk, each taking a sheet of origami paper.
"Now if Yamazaki-kun starts lying again, I'll have to make an origami baseball bat!"
Sakura started giggling at Chiharu's idea. "Ne ne, what is everyone else making?" Sakura asked after a few minutes, looking around the table.
Naoko showed her her origami spider and Rika showed her her ring, while Tomoyo was still folding her swan. "Sugoi…" Sakura started folding her piece of paper, cutting a shape out of the piece of paper. She licked her lips, and taped the shape to the back of her origami animal. "Origami is fun, ne?"
Takashi popped up out of nowhere again, his finger in the air. "You know, origami was used originally for gifts at a wedding. A grandfather was unable to help his granddaughter's wedding, for he had no money or physical strength. He found discarded papers and folded them into cranes to hang from trees, since his granddaughter loved cranes. The art of paper folding was eventually named after him. Origami."
"Honto ni?"
"Sugoi…"
"That is such a sweet story!"
Chiharu sighed. "Yamazaki-kun…I'm giving you a fair warning this time…RUN!"
"But Chiharu-chan, I'm telling the truth!"
"Just as you always do, right?"
Tomoyo, looking up from her swan, glanced at Sakura's, and giggled. Sakura held up the yellow origami bear, with the white paper shape attached to it. "Kero-"
Rika looked at the shape. "Ke-ro?"
"Sh!" whispered Tomoyo.
Naoko pushed up her glasses, and gave the shape a close look. "But that's not a frog …it's a bear…a flying bear…"
Sakura sweatdropped. "Oops. I must have…folded wrong. I could have sworn I was looking at the frog instructions."
"I like flying animals. I wrote a story about them once, but the book disappeared. It was also about a big dragon king."
"Hoeee…" said Sakura, remembering the memory of the big dragon.
Tomoyo gave Sakura a nervous look. "Maybe you misplaced it, Naoko-chan?"
"It's odd. I looked everywhere…but it's a nice mystery story," replied Naoko with a smile.
"Well, maybe you'll find it."
"I wonder if the ghost of the person who started the story took it?"
"G…ghost? Hoeee…"
Chiharu glanced at Takashi and prayed that he wouldn't start another one of his stories about ghosts in front of Sakura.
Takashi held up his creation. "Look, a perfect swan. These were used at the wedding also. They were made for floating, and candles were placed in there." He pointed to the dip in the swan's back.
Rika sighed and blushed. "I'd love to have swan decorations at my wedding…"
Tomoyo smiled back at Rika. "I'm sure it will be lovely."
"Ne ne, look! I made a flying creature!" Naoko held up something that looked frighteningly like Big Kero.
"I-Interesting, Naoko-chan…" Tomoyo commented. Naoko would love Big Kero, she thought to herself.
Chiharu held up her panda, which brought an exclamation from Sakura. "Panda-san no KAWAII, Chiharu-chan!"
"Kawaii ne!" chimed in Naoko.
Tomoyo held up her Sakura-chan origami. Sakura blushed. "Hoeee…Tomoyo-chan…"
"For your birthday, Sakura-chan. Isn't it kawaii?" asked Tomoyo, all starry eyed.
"H-hai!"
Sakura held up her newest origami project, a frog with tiny eyes. "Watch it hop!" Sakura pushed the back of the frog down, and it started hopping at once.
"Kawaii! That reminds me…I've been thinking of getting a pet. Do you think a frog would be a good pet? I was thinking that, or a tarantula, or a snake…" asked Naoko.
"You know…"
Chiharu glanced at Takashi. Uh oh…
"Snakes were kept by Indian royalty as a way of bring long lives! They thought the longer the snake, the longer their life would b-ITAI!" he yelped as Chiharu slapped him.
"LIES! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! LIES!"
Everyone sweatdropped.
"I thought it was a cool story…"
Chiharu calmed down and sighed. "Gomen…anyway, Sakura-chan, who else are you inviting?"
"Anou…" Sakura started counting off people on her fingers. "Well, all of you. That's Tomoyo-chan, you Chiharu-chan, Naoko-chan, Rika-chan, Yamazaki-kun, Syaoran-kun, and Eriol-kun. Oh! I wanna call Meiling-chan and invite her too! Maybe she can come from Hong Kong!"
"Are you sure that's a good idea, Sakura-chan?" asked Tomoyo.
"Hoeee? Why not?" Sakura blinked.
Tomoyo shook her head. "It was nothing. After all, it is your party."
Sakura blinked again, but continued on. "And I wanna have Yukito-san come if he wants…but if I did that, Onii-chan should come, so they can be together."
"That's very nice of you," remarked Rika, twirling with the origami ring on her finger.
"I would ask Akizuki-san to come, but I don't think Onii-chan would like that."
"Hey, I can help prepare the food," volunteered Rika.
"You know, originally at birthdays…"
"Ok, I'll have to leave now," said Chiharu suddenly, dragging Takashi away.
Sakura sweatdropped.
"Anou…"
"Ne, Tomoyo-chan?"
"When are we having the party?"
"I haven't thought about that…My birthday's on a Sunday though."
"What kind of cake would you want?"
"Maybe a plain vanilla?" suggested Tomoyo. "With cherry icing?"
"Cherry filling!"
"Hai!"
"Maybe 2 layered. One vanilla and one chocolate! Syaoran-kun likes chocolate."
"How big should it be?" asked Naoko.
"Umm…"
"If Tsukishiro-san is coming…"
"Then it better be a big cake," said Tomoyo, finishing Naoko's sentence.
"HAI! Oh, minna, this will be so much fun!" Sakura said with a big smile, looking down at her watch. "Hoeeee! It's my turn to make dinner, and I'm late!" Sakura picked up her bag, putting her Kero-chan and frog origami inside. "Ja ne! We'll finish making plans later, ne?"
"Haiii!"
Sakura lifted her bag, and strapped on her roller blades. "See you tomorrow!"
~*~ End of Scene One ~*~
How was that? Please tell me your honest opinion of it! I'm looking forward to seeing how people are enjoying this series.
~*~ Start of Scene One ~*~
By Chibi Ruka Hime
Note: The following fanfics in this series are the novelizations of this CCS RPG chatroom thing I belong to on AIM. It's a continuing series, so more will be coming as more chatrooms are held. This scene is dedicated to Sumi-chan, who was the first to come up with the idea of holding these chatrooms. ^_^ Please enjoy, and any comments are welcome!
"Hoeee…" Sakura said nervously as Chiharu started beating up Takashi again. "You guys…"
Chiharu, who had been beating on Takashi for his last random comment, looked up, while Tomoyo, as always, was taping Sakura's face as this was happening. "Sakura-chan kawaii desu!" she exclaimed as stars came into her eyes.
"Hoeee…Tomoyo-chan, put down the camera…"
Takashi looked up and gave one of his trademark smiles. "Did you know that cameras were originally thought to steal people's souls if they didn't close their eyes?"
"Hoeee?" Sakura said with confusion, but was glad when Tomoyo finally set her camera down.
"Yamazaki-kun! More lies!" Chiharu yelled, beating Takashi even more. But he continued smiling and continued on," Yes, and sometimes people would drop dead during snapshots because they didn't close their eyes."
Naoko's eyes widened at this comment, and she added, "Did you know that ghosts can't be photographed?"
Sakura cringed, and mumbled, "G..Ghosts?"
Chiharu shook her head, but didn't give up on her beating on Takashi. "I didn't know that. Did you, Yamazaki-kun?"
Takashi nodded. "Of course! That way, they can only be absorbed into the film. Sometimes, if there are too many souls and ghosts in the camera, it breaks, and sets them all free to haunt the closest person."
"Na-nani?" Sakura shivered and moved closer to Tomoyo. Tomoyo gave her a reassuring smile, but had picked up her camera again and was taping the scared expression on Sakura's face.
"Sakura-chan, don't believe him," Chiharu said exasperatedly, giving Takashi another blow to the head before dragging him off.
"A camera ghost…kakkoii…" Naoko murmured, her mind filled with images of what one might look like.
"Sakura-chan, don't be afraid!" Tomoyo whispered.
Sakura had a nervous smile on her face, and nodded. "No more…ghost talk…okay?"
"That's the spirit!" Tomoyo said, taping the expression on Sakura's face as Sakura sweatdropped.
"Anou…" A thought suddenly struck Sakura. "Minna, my birthday's coming up soon!"
"Your birthday? Are you going to have a party?" Naoko asked, her glasses slipping down her nose in her excitement.
Sakura nodded. "Hai! I've been meaning to give out invitations, but I haven't had much time to do that yet."
Tomoyo went all starry eyed, and said in a mesmerized voice, "I know just what to get you for your birthday, Sakura-chan!"
"And maybe I can write you a birthday story!"
"Really?? I love your stories, Naoko-chan! But…" Sakura blinked and looked around. "Where's Rika-chan? I want to invite her too."
"She's with the person she cares for the most, where else?" Chiharu said with a devilish smile as she came back to where they were standing, still dragging Takashi.
A dreamy expression came onto Sakura's face. "Rika-chan is so mature…Chiharu-chan, Yamazaki-kun, you two can come too of course, right?"
"Hai hai, count us in," replied Chiharu. "Where will you have it, Sakura-chan?"
"I guess at my house, though…" A frown came onto Sakura's face. "Onii-chan says he doesn't want to see any boys at the party…"
"Does that mean I'm out of it then?" asked Takashi.
Sakura shook her head. "Onii-chan said that, but Otou-san said I could invite whomever I want to though. I want to invite 12 people, since I'll be 12!"
"Sakura-chan, the party can be at my house! I can make you a birthday outfit and decorate the house in streamers."
"That would be great! You have so much space in your house, Tomoyo-chan! And, if we have the party at Tomoyo-chan's, Onii-chan can't say anything! WAI!"
Tomoyo smiled. "Good then! I can help with invitations too!"
"So you'll invite Li-kun too?"
Sakura looked at Naoko. "Hai, I want to invite Syaoran-kun. But I don't know if he'll come or not…" she said, her voice trailing off into silence. "Rika-chan!" She suddenly exclaimed. "There you are!"
"Konnichiwa!"
"Ne ne, Rika-chan, do you want to come to my birthday party?" Sakura asked eagerly, waving at her.
"I'd love to!"
"Really? Sugoi!!! Wait just a minute. I'll go get the materials!" Sakura said, skipping out of the room and coming back with paper, glitter, and markers.
"Materials?"
"Hai! We're going to make the invitations, Tomoyo-chan. Now…" Sakura pulled out the book she had tucked under her arm. "Origami for beginners! We can make origami animals for favors!"
"Kawaii!!!" exclaimed Tomoyo.
"I wonder if I can figure out how to make an origami dragon?" asked Naoko thoughtfully.
Sakura nodded, a proud expression on her face for coming up with the idea. All the girls gathered around Sakura's desk, each taking a sheet of origami paper.
"Now if Yamazaki-kun starts lying again, I'll have to make an origami baseball bat!"
Sakura started giggling at Chiharu's idea. "Ne ne, what is everyone else making?" Sakura asked after a few minutes, looking around the table.
Naoko showed her her origami spider and Rika showed her her ring, while Tomoyo was still folding her swan. "Sugoi…" Sakura started folding her piece of paper, cutting a shape out of the piece of paper. She licked her lips, and taped the shape to the back of her origami animal. "Origami is fun, ne?"
Takashi popped up out of nowhere again, his finger in the air. "You know, origami was used originally for gifts at a wedding. A grandfather was unable to help his granddaughter's wedding, for he had no money or physical strength. He found discarded papers and folded them into cranes to hang from trees, since his granddaughter loved cranes. The art of paper folding was eventually named after him. Origami."
"Honto ni?"
"Sugoi…"
"That is such a sweet story!"
Chiharu sighed. "Yamazaki-kun…I'm giving you a fair warning this time…RUN!"
"But Chiharu-chan, I'm telling the truth!"
"Just as you always do, right?"
Tomoyo, looking up from her swan, glanced at Sakura's, and giggled. Sakura held up the yellow origami bear, with the white paper shape attached to it. "Kero-"
Rika looked at the shape. "Ke-ro?"
"Sh!" whispered Tomoyo.
Naoko pushed up her glasses, and gave the shape a close look. "But that's not a frog …it's a bear…a flying bear…"
Sakura sweatdropped. "Oops. I must have…folded wrong. I could have sworn I was looking at the frog instructions."
"I like flying animals. I wrote a story about them once, but the book disappeared. It was also about a big dragon king."
"Hoeee…" said Sakura, remembering the memory of the big dragon.
Tomoyo gave Sakura a nervous look. "Maybe you misplaced it, Naoko-chan?"
"It's odd. I looked everywhere…but it's a nice mystery story," replied Naoko with a smile.
"Well, maybe you'll find it."
"I wonder if the ghost of the person who started the story took it?"
"G…ghost? Hoeee…"
Chiharu glanced at Takashi and prayed that he wouldn't start another one of his stories about ghosts in front of Sakura.
Takashi held up his creation. "Look, a perfect swan. These were used at the wedding also. They were made for floating, and candles were placed in there." He pointed to the dip in the swan's back.
Rika sighed and blushed. "I'd love to have swan decorations at my wedding…"
Tomoyo smiled back at Rika. "I'm sure it will be lovely."
"Ne ne, look! I made a flying creature!" Naoko held up something that looked frighteningly like Big Kero.
"I-Interesting, Naoko-chan…" Tomoyo commented. Naoko would love Big Kero, she thought to herself.
Chiharu held up her panda, which brought an exclamation from Sakura. "Panda-san no KAWAII, Chiharu-chan!"
"Kawaii ne!" chimed in Naoko.
Tomoyo held up her Sakura-chan origami. Sakura blushed. "Hoeee…Tomoyo-chan…"
"For your birthday, Sakura-chan. Isn't it kawaii?" asked Tomoyo, all starry eyed.
"H-hai!"
Sakura held up her newest origami project, a frog with tiny eyes. "Watch it hop!" Sakura pushed the back of the frog down, and it started hopping at once.
"Kawaii! That reminds me…I've been thinking of getting a pet. Do you think a frog would be a good pet? I was thinking that, or a tarantula, or a snake…" asked Naoko.
"You know…"
Chiharu glanced at Takashi. Uh oh…
"Snakes were kept by Indian royalty as a way of bring long lives! They thought the longer the snake, the longer their life would b-ITAI!" he yelped as Chiharu slapped him.
"LIES! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! LIES!"
Everyone sweatdropped.
"I thought it was a cool story…"
Chiharu calmed down and sighed. "Gomen…anyway, Sakura-chan, who else are you inviting?"
"Anou…" Sakura started counting off people on her fingers. "Well, all of you. That's Tomoyo-chan, you Chiharu-chan, Naoko-chan, Rika-chan, Yamazaki-kun, Syaoran-kun, and Eriol-kun. Oh! I wanna call Meiling-chan and invite her too! Maybe she can come from Hong Kong!"
"Are you sure that's a good idea, Sakura-chan?" asked Tomoyo.
"Hoeee? Why not?" Sakura blinked.
Tomoyo shook her head. "It was nothing. After all, it is your party."
Sakura blinked again, but continued on. "And I wanna have Yukito-san come if he wants…but if I did that, Onii-chan should come, so they can be together."
"That's very nice of you," remarked Rika, twirling with the origami ring on her finger.
"I would ask Akizuki-san to come, but I don't think Onii-chan would like that."
"Hey, I can help prepare the food," volunteered Rika.
"You know, originally at birthdays…"
"Ok, I'll have to leave now," said Chiharu suddenly, dragging Takashi away.
Sakura sweatdropped.
"Anou…"
"Ne, Tomoyo-chan?"
"When are we having the party?"
"I haven't thought about that…My birthday's on a Sunday though."
"What kind of cake would you want?"
"Maybe a plain vanilla?" suggested Tomoyo. "With cherry icing?"
"Cherry filling!"
"Hai!"
"Maybe 2 layered. One vanilla and one chocolate! Syaoran-kun likes chocolate."
"How big should it be?" asked Naoko.
"Umm…"
"If Tsukishiro-san is coming…"
"Then it better be a big cake," said Tomoyo, finishing Naoko's sentence.
"HAI! Oh, minna, this will be so much fun!" Sakura said with a big smile, looking down at her watch. "Hoeeee! It's my turn to make dinner, and I'm late!" Sakura picked up her bag, putting her Kero-chan and frog origami inside. "Ja ne! We'll finish making plans later, ne?"
"Haiii!"
Sakura lifted her bag, and strapped on her roller blades. "See you tomorrow!"
~*~ End of Scene One ~*~
How was that? Please tell me your honest opinion of it! I'm looking forward to seeing how people are enjoying this series.