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The Final Task
--*Love is in the air*--







The bus was awfully quiet as the class was drove back to their school. Everyone was tired from their ski trip, but everyone was still happy and disappointed that it was over already.

Syaoran looked over to Sakura who was sitting beside him, the only thing that seperated him to her was the ile down the bus. He looked at her emerald eyes which seemed to glitter and her auburn hair.

Sakura felt a pair of eyes on her, and turned around and saw Syaoran staring at her, or her direction. "What is it Li-kun?"

Syaoran turned away quickly, hiding his blush. "N..nothing. Your side of the bus has a better view."

"Oh, I see," Sakura smiled and returned to staring at the seat infront of her.

*Why can't I take my eyes off her?! I'm suppose to hate her and think she's pathetic! Argh!!* Syaoran frowned, he hated how he had little mental fights with himself in his brain. *Syaoran, I think you like this Kinomoto girl! No I don't!!!! Yes you do!!!*

"Argh shut up!"

Everyone turned to look at Syaoran.

"Who are you talking to Li-kun?" Sakura said with confusion.

"I was talking to myself."

Sakura giggled, as Syaoran blushed a light shade of red.

Soon the bus pulled up by the school, and everyone got off slowly.

"That was a great trip wasn't it Sakura?!" Rika said happily while getting out of the bus behind Sakura.

"Yeah! I actually go the hang of stopping!" Sakura sweatdropped.

Rika smiled, "Great! I hope we go on another ski trip next year."

Many people around them all nodded.

Tomoyo ran up to Sakura and Syaoran who were walking back to a bench. "Hi guys!! I see you two aren't that mean to each other anymore! I mean, you guys never walk side by side!"

Syaoran blushed and Sakura sweatdropped. "We're friends now, right Li-kun?"

Syaoran just nodded since he thought he had lost his voice, but he managed to say a little yes.

Tomoyo smiled at them. "Sakura, you should start calling Li-kun just plain old Syaoran! Same with you Li-kun! You should call Sakura, Sakura instead of Kinomoto! It sounds so much more friendlier!"

Sakura turned a little pink and Syaoran was to.

"Hey, where's Meiling?" Syaoran asked, changing the subject.

"I was pretty sure she got off the bus before me since I was the second last out," Tomoyo said.

Syaoran excused himself from Sakura and Tomoyo. He had a feeling he should apologize to Meiling for his words at the ski lodge. He walked around to the back of the school, but no one was there. *Where are you Meiling?*

He decided to go to Penguin Park, and as he neared the big slide shaped like a penguin, he saw Meiling sitting on a swing.

"Meiling?"

Meiling seemed to snap out of her thoughts and looked at Syaoran. "Oh hi Xiaolang!"

Syaoran took a seat on the swing next to her. "I'm sorry..."

"Hm?"

"For what I said before..."

Meiling gave him a small smile. "It's...it's alright."

"I mean I do love you, as a cousin. But...I just can't love you the other way...." Syaoran explained.

Meiling seemed to be taking the words in slowly since it took her a while to reply. "I...I understand Xiaolang...you didn't want to be engaged to be in the first place anyways. It was just our parents idea...but I learned to love you, but you didn't." She seemed to trail off. "But, I understand Xiaolang."

Syaoran gave her a 'as if' look. "Are...are you sure?"

Meiling nodded, "I mean, I can't force you into loving me Xiaolang. You must think this is weird, since I'm usually so over protective about you, and I annoy you all the time..."

"No...I don't think your weird..."

"I just really love you Xiaolang, and I just didn't want to see you go off with another girl. But, when I relize that you don't love me the way I do, I understand that if I really loved you, I should be giving you happiness and not giving you trouble." Meiling sighed softly. "I really think you like Sakura. Or maybe you don't, but my point is, as long as you marry someone you truly love, I'm happy for you."

"Meiling..." Syaoran looked at his cousin softly. This just wasn't like her usual snobby, competetive self. After all these years he didn't know this side of Meiling.

Meiling smiled at him. "But, I'll stay be your favorite cousin?"

Syaoran smiled back at her. "Yeah...you'll always be my favorite cousin Meiling. And thank you..."

"Now you don't have to get all polite towards me! We better get home quick or else Wei might worry that we're so late!" Meiling jumped off her swing and started pulling Syaoran home.

Tomoyo, Sakura, Syaoran, and Meiling all gathered at Cherry Tree Street. They had all decided to go on a hiking trip this weekend, and Tomoyo's mother was going to drive them there.

It was a very long drive, and Sakura was getting sleepy and awfully cold. Syaoran saw Sakura shiver slightly, and he took off his jacket.

"Here."

Sakura smiled at him thankfully. "Thank you Syaoran!"

"Kawaii!" Tomoyo giggled crazily.

Sakura was half suspecting Meiling to jump up and grab the jacket back, but she stayed still in her seat, with a half smile on her face. *Thats odd...* Sakura thought.

Finally, after another hour up a steep road they arrived at a cabin that Tomoyo's mother had bought on the mountain.

"Now all of you, quickly unpack! We only have three days up here, but it's better than two days!" Sonomi shooed them into the cabin. "It's nice that you have a long weekend already!"

Tomoyo led Sakura, Meiling, and Syaoran upstairs. There were four rooms, and Tomoyo suddenly had a plan.

"Meiling, you better go into this room!" Tomoyo pushed Meiling towards the room next to the washroom. "That room is my mother's, so we can't go in there." Tomoyo pointed towards the double door room at the other side of the hallway. "I'm taking this! Well, see you guys later when after you unpack!" Tomoyo dashed into the room to the right of the hallway.

Sakura and Syaoran were left in the hallway. Two people left, and one room.

*Oh no, oh no, oh no!!! This is bad!* Sakura thought.

*Oh god, oh god!!!* Syaoran looked over to Sakura. "You can take the room. I can ask Meiling if I can sleep on the floor of her room."

Meiling suddenly popped her head out of her door. "No way Xiaolang! You're not sleeping in my room!" Meiling giggled and popped back into her room.

*What's she up to?!* Syaoran scartched his head and shrugged at Sakura who was giggling. "Guess not then."

"It's alright...we can share a room..." Sakura said, her cheeks burning pink.

Syaoran dragged his bag into the room, Sakura following him. And of course, they had another problem.

"There's only one bed," Sakura stated.

Syaoran started laying out his sleeping bag on the floor. "I can sleep on the floor, you can take the bed."

Sakura smiled at him. "Arigatou (thank you)!!! That's so sweet of you!"

Syaoran blushed twelve shades of red and quickly unpacked the rest of his things. Sakura did the same and after five minutes they both stepped out of the room and downstairs to the kitchen where Tomoyo and Meiling were whispering, but they stopped when they noticed Sakura and Syaoran.

"I see you guys are finally done!" Tomoyo smiled.

"We weren't that slow! We had little problems," Sakura explained.

"There was only one bed right?!" Meiling started laughing.

Syaoran sweatdroppde, "Uh yeah. What's so funny about that?"

"What are you guys going to do?!!!" Tomoyo and Meilling asked excitedly.

"I'm sleeping on the floor, and Sakura is sleeping on the bed," Syaoran explained.

Tomoyo and Meiling's smile fell. "Oh." They both said disappointingly.

Sakura was rather surprised that Meiling wasn't jumping into the air in happiness, but she didn't, instead she was disappointed. *How weird can she be?!* Sakura thought to herself.

"Well, I say you all should go hiking! It's perfect weather to do so!" Sonomi said while cutting out pieces of tomota and cabbage. "When your done, lunch will probably be done too. So hurry along and have fun!"

"Ok mom!" Tomoyo smiled.

They all walked out of the cabin with caps to block the sun from their eyes. They climbed over fallen logs, and rocks, and up steep trails. Finally, they reached something like the top.

"Wow! The view is so beautiful!!!!" Sakura squealed as she ran to the edge carefully and looked out at the ocean and it's rolling waves.

Tomoyo ran up to join Sakura at looking at the view. "It is pretty Sakura! It's so pretty how the sun makes the water sparkle!!"

"You guys, don't get to close to the edge..." Meiling warned, but...

"Hoe!!!" Sakura lost her footing and slipped, Tomoyo reached out to grab her friends hand but she to slipped. "Ahhh!"

Syaoran and Meiling dashed over to the edge and grabbed for their hands. Syaoran was holding onto Sakura's tightly, and Meiling was trying her best to keep hold of Tomoyo.

"Hang on!" Syaoran said.

Meiling slipped, but luckilly Syaoran caught her with her other hand.

"I can't hold onto three people!!!" Syaoran cried out in effort to pull them up.

Sakura looked below her, they would surely die if Syaoran was to let go. *It's now or never, I have to use...a clow card...*

"Key that hides the forces of darkness, show your true form before me, I, Sakura command you under our contract, release!" Sakura commanded while holding onto her pendant.

Syaoran watched in shock as the sealing wand appeared in Sakura's hands. *No...she can't be...*

"Windy! Blow us up to safety! Release and dispel!" Sakura flung out her card and Windy was released and blew them up in a great gust of wind.

They landed softly back on solid groun, and Sakura stood up to clean herself off, but she noticed that Syaoran was staring at her.

"...Syaoran?"

"...You...you have the clow cards..." Syaoran muttered.





AN: Hoe!!!! Syaoran has now found out about Sakura being a card captor!!! What will happen? Will he get the cards and push her over the cliff and let her die?! Or what will happen...? Stay tooned to find out, and please R+R! I really appreicate it!