Author's Note: Disappointing episode they showed on Saturday, wasn't it

Author's Note: Disappointing episode they showed on Saturday, wasn't it? Here I was, expecting Eriol and the gang but instead . . . I get the first episode stuck in between some crap from another!!!!!!!! Anyway, like I said before, I won't be at my house Mon.-Fri.. And I'm not sure if I'll be near a TV either. I'm semi-concerned about which episodes they'll be showing on the weekdays. The old ones or some 'new' ones?

ASHLEY-CHAN: He, he, he! I did that to get your attention. Could u email me and tell me who you think is who?

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Disclaimer: I don't own CCS.
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*~* Chapter Ten *~*

Enchanted Jewelry

"HE WHAT!"

Sakura shuffled her feat and stared at the five men who sat gaping at her in her kitchen. "I told you, he-"

"Wait a minute. Are you telling me WOLFE-SENSEI was hitting on you?!" cried Syaoran.

Sakura let out a sigh. "I wouldn't say hitting . . ."

Fujitaka frowned. "It seems like he WAS implying some . . . sexual . . . stuff, Sakura."

Touya leapt out of his chair. "Damn right he was!! 'Why go to a boy, Sakura, when you could have a man?'" mocked Touya. "I'm gonna go up to the school and get his ass fired and then I'm gonna kick his butt and-"

"NO!" cried Sakura. She didn't want her brother to mess with Wolfe-sensei because she suspected that he was either Yukio or Alan.

They all stared at her.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'NO'!!" bellowed Kero, fluttering madly around the room.

Yukito placed his hand on Sakura's shoulder. "Did he DO anything to you, like . . ."

"Anyth- NO! He . . . nothing happened. He just creeped me out," she muttered, sorry that she'd told the guys.

Syaoran frowned. "Why don't you want him fired? Did he threaten you?"

"Did he say he would come after you if you told anyone what he . . . said?" asked Kero.

She glared at him. "No, he did not and NO, for the LAST TIME, he did NOT touch me or force himself on me! Got that?!"

Fujitaka and the rest nodded.

Touya stared suspiciously at Sakura. "So, why don't you want us to go to the school?"

She finally told them her suspicions.

Their faces relaxed.

"THAT'S All?!!" yelped Kero. "We thought the guy was a pervert. They're just some evil guys trying to take over the world or, in Alan's case, kill off one of the most influential families in that ever existed. Aww, Sakura, we can handle those two!"

"But, don't forget, both of them wanted to kidnap Sakura," pointed out Yukito.

Touya shot Kero a dirty look for saying that Yukio and Alan weren't perverts. "That's a pervert, too, in my book."

"EVERYone's a pervert in his book," muttered Syaoran, turning his face away from Touya.

Fujitaka forced back a laugh. "Well, I must say that if Sakura's correct, then we've got some problems. Since he's your teacher he could almost anything."

Sakura sighed. "Well, I can't just NOT show up at school. I've gotta get an education."

Kero landed on his mistress's shoulder. "You'll still get your edj-umacation. A/N: Think about Rugrats if u don't get it. I mean education. I don't want a stupid mistress."

Syaoran glared at Kero. "That's a nice way to put it."

"Hey, I'm not beating around the bush! I'll tell it like it is!"

"Someone needs to tell you to shut up," murmured Touya.

"That's what I'm saying!" Syaoran agreed.

Kero began to growl. "Now instead of ONE gaki, I've got TWO!!"

Sakura shook her head. "Oooookaaaaaaay . . . well, since this conversation is going nowhere, I'm going upstairs to do some homework."

Syaoran followed Sakura up the stairs and into her room.

"HEY, LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN!!!!!" hollered Touya.

Sakura shut the door behind her. "I want to show you something."

Syaoran sat on her bed as Sakura pulled an envelope out of her pocket. "Here."

Syaoran took it and opened it. He read the note, then tipped the envelope upside down so that the necklace fell out onto the bed. He swore softly. "I swear, the guy's a quack . . ."

Sakura gave him a look. "But when I first came to the door, it wasn't there, or else I would've noticed. And then, there was a gust of wind and I closed my eyes. When I opened them, the note was attached to the door."

Syaoran frowned. "I agree. It's weird . . ." He reached down to pick up the necklace when it began to glow a dark blue. It leapt off the bed and hit the wall behind them.

"What?!"

Sakura stretched over her bed and reached down in between the bed and the wall. Syaoran crawled next to her.

"Do you have it?" he asked.

She shook her head. "I . . . can't reach it!"

Syaoran scooted closer to her and grabbed her wrist. He pushed it farther down.

Suddenly, Syaoran lost his balance and fell over on top of Sakura.

She began to wiggle. "GET OFF OF ME! You're heavy!"

He was just about to get up when she gasped. "I've almost got it!"

They forgot about their compromising position and continued searching for the necklace.

"Got it now?" Syaoran asked.

"No, a . . . little further . . ."

Sakura groped for the chain and felt it brush her fingertips. "Almost! You're going to have to push my hand a little further."

Syaoran didn't want to rip a bone out of her joint. "Maybe I should . . ."

"No! We can't loose sight of it again. Just push."

Syaoran took a deep breath. "Okay . . . here it goes . . ."

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Touya glared at the ceiling. What are Sakura and THAT KID doing up there? It's awfully quite in her room . . .

Touya jumped out of his seat and went up the stairs. He stopped out of Sakura's door and pressed his ear against it.

"You're . . . going to have to . . . push . . . harder!"

Touya's eyes narrowed. What the hell . . . Sakura?

"I'm . . . pushing . . . as hard as I can! I don't want to hurt you!"

THAT GAKI?

"I've almost . . . got it . . . I'm almost there!"

A vein was throbbing in Touya's head. He threw the door open and let out a cry of rage when he caught sight of Sakura lying belly down on her bed with the gaki on top.

Sakura then rolled over in surprise, throwing Syaoran into her headboard. "T-Touya!"

"Yeah, I bet you didn't expect to see me!" He marched up to Syaoran and grabbed the front of his shirt. "You bastard! You could have at least waited till AFTER the wedding!"

Sakura then let out a giggle. "Oh, we weren't . . . Syaoran and I weren't doing you know what."

Touya glared at Syaoran. "Oh, yeah?! So what were you two doing?!"

Sakura held out her palm and showed him the necklace. "This fell in-between the bed and the wall and we were trying to get it."

Touya glared suspiciously at Sakura, then Syaoran.

Syaoran glared back at him. "Do you really think I could do anything to her, FULLY CLOTHED?"

Touya looked down to see that Syaoran was indeed buttoned and zipped in the right places. He set Syaoran down on the floor. "Oh, sorry."

Sakura glared at him. "You should be. Are you hurt, Syaoran?"

He shook his head.

Touya turned to leave, taking one last glance at his sister and the gaki. Okay . . . they do make a charming couple . . .

He left the door open.

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Sakura plopped down on her bed once Touya had left. "Well . . . that was weird."

Syaoran stared at her and fell back onto her bed. "Really? I thought you were used to that sort of thing, with Touya always having a cow and all."

She shook her head. "Not that! How the necklace just flew across the bed when you picked it up." Sakura placed it on the bed. "Okay, touch the necklace."

He eyed Sakura. "Fine."

Syaoran hesitantly reached his hand out to touch the gold chain. Before his hand even made contact with the gold, the chain began to glow a furious dark blue. He instantly pulled his hand back. "What the hell? How come you can touch it and I can't?"

Sakura picked it up. "Well, Sumitomo wasn't very . . . fond of you. I guess he didn't want you to touch is stuff."

Syaoran grumbled something, sitting up. "Well, that means he must have magic. Or at least know someone who does."

Sakura nodded. "I guess no one is really who they seem anymore."

Syaoran frowned. Her voice sounded a bit depressed. "Hey, it's okay." He rubbed her back as tears flowed down her cheeks. "You've still got me and Tomoyo and your dad, Touya, Yukito, Kero, and the gang form school. You're pretty lucky to have that many friends. I can remember the lonely days I had back home."

She looked up at him and wiped away her tears. "I'm just acting too emotional."

Syaoran smiled at her. "It's okay."

Kero flew into the room, eyeing them carefully. "What the heck is going on up here? It sounded like Touya was going to have a cow when he rushed up here."

Sakura shook her head. "Nothing. We're just examining a necklace Sumitomo gave me."

Kero raised an eyebrow and flew over to them. He landed on the bed and reached for the necklace. As soon as he touched it, Kero went flying across the room.

"AHHH!!!!!!!!!!" he cried. "What the HELL is that thing?!"

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Sakura helped Yukito off of the floor. He'd just touched the necklace and had fallen backwards. She looked at the rest of her family who had also come in contact with the jewelry. They were all nursing some sort of injury inflicted on them.

Touya rubbed the back of his head, which had recently come in contact with the kitchen table. "Okay . . . I guess that thing is cursed!"

Syaoran nodded. "I agree. And the spell put on the necklace is powerful. It takes a lot to make an inanimate object do stuff like that."

Sakura put it around her neck. "It's pretty, though . . ."

Syaoran clenched his fists. He didn't want his fiancée to wear some enchanted piece of jewelry given to her by the guy he despised.

Kero spoke up. "Maybe Eriol did it."

They all turned to him.

"Well, he likes to play tricks on Syaoran. He's strong enough to do something like this."

Syaoran looked thoughtful. "Why would he create that note though? I don't know. . . it seems far-fetched, but it is his style." He could see Eriol laughing at them right now.

Sakura shook her head. "It must be from Sumitomo. I've got this feeling it is."

There was a knock on the door. Sakura went to open it. There stood a UPS guy. A/N: Hey, these guys are world wide, right? "Are you Kinomoto Sakura?" he asked.

She nodded.

He handed her a clipboard and told her to sign it where there were X's. As she did that, the man went to get a large box out of his truck/van.

He returned with a huge box. "Here you go."

Sakura dragged it into the house, closing the door behind her.

The guys joined her in the hall.

"Who's that from?" Fujitaka asked.

She shrugged her shoulders and began to open the box. She pulled back the flaps and frowned. There was a ton of that Styrofoam crunchy stuff inside.

"OHHHH, YEAH!!!!" bellowed Kero as he dove into the box. He shuffled around for a while when he came back up with a small box. "Here's something."

Sakura took the box from his hands as he dove back inside. She opened it and groaned. "Not another piece of jewelry!"

This one was a gold band that looked like an engagement ring. On the gold band were beautiful rubies and diamonds. However, the band was way too large to fit on any of Sakura's fingers.

Sakura fell back onto the floor as the ring shot out of the box and flew towards her. She held her hands up in front of her face.

With a blast of light, the gold ring attached itself onto Sakura's ring finger that did not have Syaoran's engagement ring already on it. It shrank to fit her.

She sat up and tried to pull it off. "It's stuck!"

Syaoran knelt next to her. "Not if I have anything to say about it!" He grabbed her finger and began to pull.

"OWWW! SYAORAN, are you trying to pull my finger off?!" cried Sakura.

Syaoran let go of her hand and sighed. "No. Sorry. It's just that . . . well . . .You're already engaged to me."

"How about we try some butter?" suggested Yukito.

"Good idea." Touya went into the kitchen, then came back with a stick of yellow butter.

Sakura wrinkled her nose as Touya rubbed the butter on her finger. Once he was done, he pulled on the ring. "HELL! That thing is stuck!"

Kero popped out of the box and frowned. "Well, if brute force won't work and butter AND force won't work, then it's helpless! This ring must be enchanted, too."

Sakura let out an exasperated sigh. "I'm tired of this! How am I supposed to get it off?!"

Everyone was silent.

Suddenly, Syaoran took Sakura's hand again. "Maybe there's something in Nyoko's spell book."
Sakura's eyes lit up. "Yeah, there might be."

Everyone else looked confused.

"What book?" asked Kero.

As Sakura went upstairs to get it, Syaoran explained to them how they'd found Nyoko's diary and spell book and what it had said.

Kero looked horrified and hurt at the same time. "And you let her go there by herself?! And you guys didn't tell me about what you'd found?! How could you?! I'm her guardian!"

Sakura came back with the leather book. She flipped through the many pages and frowned. "What should I be looking for? Shouldn't we find out what spell was placed on it first?"

Touya frowned. "If you don't know what spell was placed on it in the first place, how do you plan on removing it? A spell-removing spell?"

Kero shook his head. "Doesn't work that way. You need to know what the spell was first so that you can find the spell that will neutralize that one."

Fujitaka nodded. "Makes sense."

Sakura's shoulders drooped. "So, in other words, the ring is stuck on my finger? "

Kero nodded grimly. "I guess so. It's weird- that was the only thing in the box. Why the heck would someone buy such a big box for a little ring?"

Sakura wasn't paying attention.

Fujitaka eyed the ring with curiosity. "Wait a minute! Let me see that ring. It looks familiar."

Sakura went to her father. He studied it, his eyes getting big. "Yes! This is amazing!"

"What?" cried everyone.

Sakura's father produced a book and began to flip through the pages. He stopped at a picture. "Look. This is a drawing of a ring that belonged to an ancient Chinese ruler. An accurate drawing could be made because of a description of it written down long ago. It looks just like this one. The colors and everything match."

Touya raised his eyebrow. "So? Maybe someone made a ring that happened to look like that one."

Fujitaka shook his head. He turned his daughter's hand over and pointed something out. "The year was inscribed on the ring along with the name of the current ruler. Why would someone go through all of that trouble to research an ancient ring, recreate one and give it to Sakura? I'm thinking this is the original."

Syaoran was catching on. "Hmm . . . and the ring DID get smaller once it got on Sakura's finger. It could have once gone on a man's hand."

Yukito nodded. "Maybe magic restored it to its original state."

Touya sighed loudly. "Okay, okay, so I was wrong! Jeez!"

Author's Note:

1) Okay, I ended it there cause I didn't know what to say. Anyway, this chapter's not all that important.

2) Is anyone confused? The identities of everyone will be reveled soon. (I think.) Just remember, jewelry is VERY important to the whole story. That's all. R+R!