Disclaimer: CCS and the characters
do not belong to me, they belong to CLAMP and Kodansha.
" Speech
* Thoughts
~ Sounds
By ~Xiaoling~
Chapter 6: Eriol's Cousin
It was the last day of school for Syaoran, Meiling, Tomoyo, and Eriol and the whole group were in high spirits. It was going to be a long two month vacation since it was summer break, and to Syaoran, it meant more time with Sakura.
They were going through science class with everyone nearly falling asleep as the teacher scribbled out a chart like graph on the chalkboard telling them to copy it down in their notebooks.
"Having fun?"
Syaoran looked up and saw Sakura crouching beside his desk with a grin. "The good thing of being dead is that you don't have to go to school and go through the boredom!" She giggled.
"What are you doing here?!" Syaoran whispered, but Tomoyo heard him since she sat across from him. She turned around to look over her shoulder and gave a little wave to Sakura.
"Miss Daidouji," The teacher snapped, and Tomoyo quickly turned her head back to the front of the classroom. "May I ask who you were waving too?"
Tomoyo turned red in embarrassement. "No one! I was just swatting away a fly!"
The teacher decided to accept that and went back to the lesson.
Syaoran finished copying the chart and glanced over to Sakura. "Well? Why are you here in boring science class?"
"...I had nothing to do!" She smiled. "And besides, school's almost over. You only have one more class after this one am I correct?"
"How do you know? Have you been stalking me?" Syaoran asked suspiciously.
Sakura laughed, "Possibly! But I sure do know that your really cute when you're asleep!"
"Nani!? You watch me sleep?!" Syaoran exclaimed and the whole class turned their heads towards Syaoran who frowned and shot them all glares saying 'don't look at me idiots'.
"What happens to be the matter Mr. Li?" The teacher asked, pushing up her glasses.
Syaoran was stuck with words as he uttered, "N..Nothing! I was...I was thinking about sleeping...and like, like how good it is for your brain..and like yeah..." He slightly turned red.
The teacher stared at him oddly but decided not to waste anymore time. "Ok, will that is the end of science class. I hope you enjoy your summer break, and I'll see you all in good condition in two months! Of to your last class kids!"
"Kids..." Someone muttered.
Syaoran, Sakura, and Tomoyo left for art class. Meiling and Eriol were also in their art class, much to their delight.
"What brings you to boring school?" Tomoyo asked Sakura as they walked down the busy hallways.
Sakura shrugged, "I was bored, and I decided to watch you guys!"
They entered the art room, and half of the class was already there. Meiling and Eriol glanced up and saw Sakura, they waved at the three, but to other people, it seemed like only two people were standing there.
They took their seats at a large art table, Sakura sitting in mid air beside them. "So, what do you guys do in art class?" Sakura pondered out loud.
"I don't know what we're going to do today. Last week we had to work on a carving project with a block of wood!" Meiling exclaimed. "Our art teacher is kinda nuts..."
"You mean she is unique..." Eriol corrected. "Not nuts."
"And last last week we had to do a project with dead bugs!" Tomoyo stuck her tounge out in disgust. "And we had to pin them on this board and label them."
Sakura shuddered, "Yuck."
The art teacher stepped into the room. "I see that you have all beat me here like usual." She said calmly. "Well, today class, we are going to do a simple project that will be completed in one class period." She handed out to everyone three sheets of origami paper. "Origami paper. You can create anything with it, see it in your mind, and create it!" She exclaimed.
Meiling rolled her eyes, "See what I mean, nuts."
They all giggled as they were all handed three pieces each. The art teacher went back to the front of the classroom and took a piece of origami paper herself. She stared at it for a long minute and then she starting folding and folding and soon she ended up with a piano. "See! Think! Imagine! And create!" She shouted clearly. "Everyone can fold origami paper! You do not need great art talent! Now begin!"
Some of the students groaned, but some people got right to work.
"What do we make?" Tomoyo asked to no one.
"Anything! What your imagination creates, you create!" The art teacher exclaimed, answering Tomoyo's question.
Meiling stared at her piece of red paper and suddenly jumped a bit in her seat as an idea sprung to her. She started folded it in little halves and curves and then finally it turned out to be a rose.
"Ta da!" Meiling showed her origami rose proudly, and now she was left with two more pieces of paper.
Tomoyo stared blankly at her purple, black, and aqua paper. "...Er..." She shrugged and folded the aqua piece of paper into a crane.
"How creative." Meiling said with a laugh.
"What?! I couldn't think of anything," Tomoyo sweatdropped, and they all gasped as they turned to look at Eriol's origami. "Whoa Eriol!"
Eriol had all ready finished with all his origami paper, and in front of him stood quite impressive origami. There was one in blue that was in a shape of a sword. Another was like a tree with little leaves somehow folded onto it, and the last one was a swan like thing.
"Nice..." They all commented.
Syaoran glanced at his papers. Pink, green, and white. Sakura took the green peice of paper and folded it for him, into a shape of a little green wolf. Syaoran smiled at her, and he took the pink paper and folded it into a cherry blossom.
White. What could be white?
Syaoran scratched his head, along with Sakura. Then finally he folded and folded and ended up with a white angel. Sakura smiled at him, and they were lost in each other's eyes for a while.
"You know...I think Li-kun has really got it..." Tomoyo whispered towards Meiling.
"Got what?" Meiling asked, confused.
Tomoyo giggled, "Love sickness!"
"Well, I happen to have that too," Eriol commented and took Tomoyo's hand to kiss it.
Tomoyo turned bright pink. "Eriol! Not in school!!"
"I don't care," Eriol said with a mischevious grin.
"Love, is a very big emotion in life. Don't under estimate it dears." The five glanced up and saw the art teacher staring down back at them. She smiled at them, and turned around again.
Meiling shivered, "She gives me the creeps. Was she listening in on our conversation?! How rude?!"
Syaoran rolled his eyes and sighed, "I'm glad you notice that it's rude. You happen to do that all the time yourself."
Meiling pouted and fell silent.
And soon class was over, and summer
was in, and so the fun begins.
"Nehehehehe!!!" Syaoran turned around but was met with a big pink water balloon. "Ah!!" He yelped as he was left soaked. "It's not fair! You're invisible!!"
He could here Sakura giggling as she revealed herself. "Hehehe! It's funner that way!" But she remained visible for the rest of the water balloon fight.
"Ee!!" Sakura shrieked as a water balloon came exploding at her stomach. "You'll pay for that!!!" She went running after Syaoran with two balloons ready to hit Syaoran at the feet and head.
The two ran around the park shrieking and laughing. No one was around thankfully, since it was around seven o clock at night, and no one really went to the park this late.
After a couple more throws the two were left soaked and happy.
"Hey, how come the water balloons don't go right through you?!" Syaoran questioned as they sat on the grass, gazing at the pinkish sky.
Sakura winked, "Magic! I don't want it to go right through me, and so, they don't!"
Syaoran looked sort of confused for a while, but then he shrugged. "Sakura..."
"Yes?"
"...Do..do you still love me? I mean.." He was turning red and he was starting to sweat. "I mean, I'm not the same Syaoran you knew...but..."
"Do I still have the same feelings towards you?"
Syaoran nodded greatfully that he didn't have to say it himself as he looked away in embarrassment.
Sakura giggled at how awkward he felt, and he turned him gently so that they faced each other. "Syaoran Li, my feelings will never change for you no matter who you have reincarnated into! You still have the same soul, the same loving soul that I love so dearly!" She exclaimed and fell into his arms.
He felt a light pressure, and he returned the hug, his face burning red as bright as a light bulb. "...I love you to...even though I have lost the memories of our past together..we can have new memories! That we can both share together."
Sakura smiled at him, and the two
stayed in each others arms until the sun fully setted.
A boy, around twenty, was holding a board that looked much like Syaoran's lasin board but different. A white beam shot out from it's center, leading towards Penguin Park.
*It's there...! Another wandering
ghost...* The boy smiled to himself as he broke into a run towards the
park.
Sakura perked up from Syaoran's arms as she felt a bad feeling coming towards them. "Do you...sense something?!"
"...Sort of..." Syaoran strained his senses, and he could slightly feel a whitish aura. "An aura..."
"I have to go! This isn't good...I'll see you tomorrow though!" Sakura quickly waved good bye and vanished.
Syaoran frowned in worry. *What was that about..?* He stood up from the grass and proceded home, just as a boy ran out of the bushes.
"There's no one here..." The boy said while panting. "That doesn't make any sense...the board is never wrong..." His eyebrows furrowed in frustration.
*But you can't run away from me.
I always suceed in catching ghosts...way better then my dispicable cousin
Eriol...*
"Hey guys," Eriol greeted as he met up with Tomoyo, Meiling, and Syaoran in front of the aquarium. A boy was beside Eriol, he had a sort of frown on his face.
"Why did you call us all here?"
"And who's that guy beside you?"
Eriol waved his hand towards the boy beside him. "Meet my cousin Luke." He said it without any excitement.
Everyone eyed Luke oddly, but Tomoyo broke the silence by offering her hand in a hand shake. "Nice to meet you! I'm Tomoyo Daidouji!"
Luke grunted, "I don't accept your hand shake."
Tomoyo frowned and dropped her hand. "How rude." She muttered.
"I'm Meiling Li...and I don't really like you," Meiling said calmly, and recieved a slight shove in the side by Tomoyo and Syaoran.
"Be nice," Meiling heard Syaoran mutter.
"I'm Syaoran Li, don't mind my cousin," He introduced.
Luke gave them all a cold glare. Meiling chuckled, "You know, you remind me alot of Syaoran!"
Syaoran glared at Meiling but it caused her to laugh more. "See! You're both grumpy and all!"
The two shot her glares and Meiling decided to hold her mouth. "Where's Sa.. I mean Sarah?!" Tomoyo finished quickly.
"Who's Sarah?!" Meiling asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Dummy! She means.." Syaoran started but saw the odd eye Tomoyo was giving him. "I mean Tomoyo means..you know! Sarah, that new girl in our class..."
Luke rolled his eyes. "You are all a bunch of stupid idiots." He grumbled. "Eriol, I don't believe that you, as a ghost catcher, makes stupid friends like these people." He grunted and turned around, leaving a fuming group behind.
"I assume he has magical abilities too?" Syaoran asked Eriol.
Eriol nodded, "We're not exactly at good terms either. Luke and I were never very nice towards each other...and I have no idea why he's in Tomoeda all of a sudden..."
"Anyways, where's Sakura?!" Tomoyo asked. "She always seems to be around."
"Right here."
The four turned around and saw Sakura gliding over towards them with a worried look on her face. "I don't feel very...good...I keep on sensing another aura around.."
"Oh, it must be my cousin you're sensing. His name is Luke..." Eriol muttered.
Sakura frowned, "A ghost catcher I persume.." She said sadly.
"Don't worry...we won't let him catch you," Syaoran reasurred her.
Sakura gave him a small smile. "I
hope that's true..."
AN: Oh dears...Eriol's cousin is
here! Don't mind, I had name block and the first name I thought of was
Luke so I used it >. I don't really like it so if you have suggestions
on boy names, then please do tell! Thanks, and stay tooned!
