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The Final Task
--*The Erase Card*--


Sakura and Tomoyo walked silently back to Sakura's house, but Tomoyo soon broke the silence.

"Guess what Sakura?!" She said happily.

"Hoe?"

Tomoyo had stars in her eyes. "I finished your newest battle costume!!! I know it'll look so kawaii on you like always!"

Sakura sweatdropped, "Gee thanks Tomoyo-chan..."

"No problem! I'll bring it over tonight when I have time! We never know when the great card captor might need a great battle costume!" Tomoyo smiled.

Sakura's sweatdropped turned into a billion more sweatdrops as they entered the Kinomoto house. Touya was at work and Fujitaka was at work to. The house was silent except the occasional "YEAH!" from Sakura's room.

"Is Kero playing video games again?" Tomoyo asked, even if she knew the answer.

Sakura nodded as they went up the stairs to study for their history test. "Kero! Will you ever take a break?"

"Hi Sakura," Kero said, ignoring her question.

Sakura and Tomoyo sighed and sat on Sakura's bed while opening their textbooks.

"Argh, I hate this chapter!" Sakura cried in agony. "I'm so going to fail!"

"Come on Sakura! If you can capture clow cards, what's a history test going to do?" Tomoyo reassured her friend.

The time slowly went from 3:00 to 4:00. Sakura nearly feel asleep when all of a sudden she lept off her bed and ran to her window.

"I sense a clow card Kero!"

Kero pressed the pause button on his video game controller. "You're getting good at this Sakura. I sense it too..."

"Then let's go!" Sakura said.

Tomoyo was rumaging around her bag when she pulled out a dress. "Ah ha! I knew I brought at least one costume along! Here, try this on Sakura! It's not as good as the one I was going to show you later, but this one will have to do!"

Sakura smiled at her friend and ran to the washroom to change into the costume. She sighed in relief when she saw her reflection.

The costume was a pink tank top with a matching pink mini skirt with bells sewn onto it. There were matching white gloves with stars on it, and a long flowing cape.

"Tomoyo this costume is awesome! It's way tamer than usual!" Sakura exclaimed while stepping out of the washroom.

Tomoyo smiled in delight and pulled out her video camera. "The tape is rolling, and you've go to get flying Sakura!"

"Hai!" Sakura held out her clow key. "Key that hides the forces of darkness, show your true form before me, I, Sakura command you under our contract, RELEASE!" Sakura held out her hand and her wand appeared. "Fly!"

Tomoyo hopped on behind Sakura, and Kero ducked into Tomoyo's pocket. "All set Sakura!"

Sakura lifted off into the.

Tomoyo reached into her other pocket and pulled out a mask. "I thought this would come in handy someday."

"Why a mask?" Sakura asked.

"Because of that Li-kun! What is he's at the scene and see's you capturing a card?!" Tomoyo pointed out.

"Oh right." Sakura took the mask with one hand, and slipped it on.

Sakura dove under some trees and the three got off the wand. "I think it's nearby..." Sakura whispered.

She stepped out from behind the trees and saw nothing was there.

"Watch out Sakura!" Kero shouted from behind.

Sakura turned around quickly and noticed a blurry misty cloud hovering around, erasing everything in it's path. "Ah! What's that?!"

"It's the Erase Card! Be careful Sakura!" Kero said.

Sakura lept out of the way with the jump card just as the Erase veered around to her. It started chasing after her.

*I can't run forever!"

"Force know my plight! Release the light! Lightning!"

Sakura turned around and saw a boy standing on a tree branch with green chinese robes. *It's Li-kun!*

"That card is mine whoever you are!" Syaoran shouted from the tree branch, eyeing the masked face of Sakura.

Sakura frowned under neath her mask. *Not if I can get it!* "Wood card! Use your branches and bind around Erase! Release and dispel!" She swung her wand onto the card, and Woody appeared.

"It's the Wood!" Syaoran gasped.

"Hmpth, haven't you seen a clow card before?" Sakura mocked.

Syaoran flashed her a glare. "Shut up you pathetic card captor!"

Sakura frowned. *Those words hurt...* She shook her head to relieve her mind of her thoughts. "Erase Card! Return to your power confined! Clow Card!" She raised her wand in front of her as the Erase Card slowly got sucked into it's normal card form.

The card floated into Sakura's hand and she smiled.

"Give me all your cards!" Syaoran demanded as he lept off the branch.

Sakura took a step back. "No!"

"They belong to the Li-clan!"

"The what?" Sakura asked in a lower pitched voice so Syaoran wouldn't reconize her voice.

Syaoran crossed his arms. "The Li Clan is one of the most powerful and famous clans in China. We're the direct desendents of Clow Reed!"

Sakura gasped. Syaoran smirked, "So give me the cards now!"

Sakura clenched her wand. "Fly.." She said under her breath.

Her wand sprouted wings and she jumped onto the wand and flew away. She gave Tomoyo and Kero a signal that they should go back too. Tomoyo nodded and started running to catch up to Sakura.

Syaoran frowned at the disappearing figure. *I'll get those cards. Just watch.*

"That Li-kun is one freaky guy!" Tomoyo remarked as they walked into Sakura's room.

"Who is this guy anyways?! No one explained to me!" Kero complained.

Sakura sweatdropped, "Weren't you listening when he said all that confusing stuff about the Li-clan and Clow Reed, Kero?"

Kero sweatdropped, "Er..."

"He was snoozing," Tomoyo replied.

"I was tired! A guardian beast needs to rest to you know!" Kero argued and flew over to his video game controller and pressed 'Unpause'.

"So, playing video games is resting?" Sakura and Tomoyo giggled.

Sakura dropped the subject smiled when she glanced at the calendar. "Yay! One more week of school before winter break Tomoyo!"

"Hai Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo looked at her watch. "But, I better go home! It's dinner soon, and mother said she would be home for dinner tonight."

"Ok," Sakura and Tomoyo walked down the stairs and Sakura opened the door for Tomoyo to leave.

"Sayonara!" Tomoyo waved and walked away.

Sakura waved back at locked the door. *It's almost Christmas...I wonder what I should get for Tomoyo-chan.*

The past two days for ironic for Sakura. She seemed to have some secret contest between her and Syaoran. They basically competed against each other in everything, from seeing who could be called on by the teacher more, or even competing in how long their essays were.

"Sakura, I think he beat you in that contest. Yours is only two pages long, and his is six!" Tomoyo said.

A stress mark appeared on Sakura's head. "I can't help it if he can find so much to write about "The Legend of Acient Pyramids"! And I don't even like competing with him Tomoyo-chan! But it just happens!"

Tomoyo nodded in understanding. "I see you what you mean. It's just his way of acting that makes it seem like he's competing with you in everything. Maybe you should talk to him?"

"Yeah...maybe..." Sakura thought aloud.

At recess, Sakura saw Syaoran alone on a bench. *He's always alone...well, I don't blame people for being scared of him.* She sighed and neared him

He looked up from the grass he was staring at. At first he had a blank expression, but soon he shot his usual glare at her. "What are you doing here Kinomoto?"

"I...I wanted to talk."

"Talk about what? There's nothing to talk about." He snapped back.

Sakura shifted her weight on one foot. "You know, I'm not trying to compete with you! It's like everything we go, you're trying to beat me at it. I don't want to become enemies with you Syaoran-kun!"

He looked at her, his glare disappearing.

"Can't we just be friends?" Sakura offered.

Syaoran looked at the hand Sakura held out for him to shake. He abruptly got up and walked away. "Whatever Kinomoto. Stop trying to sweet talk me because it won't work."

Sakura watched as he left with a pained expression on her face. "I...I was just trying..." She mumbled.



AN: Ok, so nothing much happened in this chapter, but oh well ;) Winter vacation is starting soon for Sakura and everyone which means the beginning of a little itsy bitsy bit of S+S fluff. Itsy bitsy bit! Well thanks for reading and I would love it if you could take some time and R+R! Thankies ~.^