Aila-chan is very giddy. She's dancing around, and singing.
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There was a slight yell, which caused Shaoran to look up, only to see Sakura falling over. He ran over, and caught her in his arms before she hit the ground.

Seeing she was all right, he looked up to the roof, only to see Eriol smiling down on him.

"So sorry, Sakura-chan! It was an accident! You aren't hurt are you?!" he asked, knowing full well that Shaoran had caught her in time. Sometimes his faith in his favorite descendant surprised him.

Shaoran glared at Eriol, knowing that pushing Sakura was no accident. If this was part of Eriol's plan then-

At that moment Shaoran looked to Sakura, who was looking right at him. He was still holding her, and he began to realize that he could feel every curve of her body while holding her. His cheeks began to burn as he quickly set her down.

Eriol then jumped down next to them in his usual all smiles self.

"Are you OK, Li-san?" Sakura asked as she reached for his forehead. "You look sick."

"No! I'm fine." He answered as he began to move away from her plus the smiling Eriol, and run/walk towards the city.

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Cherry Blossoms and Magic

Chapter 5~
Tomoyo-chan, and the Decision on the Cards!

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"Sakura! Your back!"

As Sakura walked up to the porch, sore in every muscle, she couldn't help but smile as she embraced her best friend.
Through all the miles of walking through the city, they had finally made it. Made it to her house, and the greeting Tomoyo.

"I was so worr... who are they?" Tomoyo was looking over Sakura's shoulder, and had finally noticed the 2 men in odd clothing who stood inside their gate.

"Oh them?"

"Unwanted annoyances! Thats what!" the guardian beast with the Osaka dialect had just emerged from her obi, and sleep, and was obviously still in a mad fit.

"Kero!" Sakura reprimanded. Kero just grunted something and flew into the house, most likely to find food.

Sakura watched him go, then continued.

"They need a place to stay for a while until their ship arrives. So since we have an extra room..."

Sakura stopped. Tomoyo was looking at her in a funny way with that glint in her eye.

"Ohohohooohoo!" She started to laugh, not bothering to cover it with her fan. "Here I thought you where a completely, hopeless, case. To cute and innocent to try something like this."

"Na.. nani?!" Sakura squeaked.

Tomoyo's gaze returned back to the 'guest', then back to Sakura.

"I must say, you've done better then I would of ever imagined! You got two very handsome, and wealthy looking men! Two! I couldn't ever dream of doing that." Then she raises her voice a little louder, and jumps forward and hugs her. "Oh well. It a known fact that my kawaii Sakura-chan is too kawaii to pass up. So which one are you going to marry?"

"NANI!?" Sakura yelled, realization of what Tomoyo meant finally reaching her head. "Its not like that at all!"

"Oh I knew that, Sakura-chan. I just had to see that reaction."

Sakura laughed a nervous laugh lightly.

"Sorry to interrupt, Tomoyo-chan." Eriol started. Sakura had told them on the way information about Tomoyo. "May I call you Tomoyo-chan?"

"Yes, go ahead."

"Thank you." He smiled at her, then bowed low. Sakura spotted Shaoran rolling his eyes. "I am Hirisugawa, Eriol. You may use my first name. This here is my cousin, the eternal grumpy one, Li, Shaoran. We are very honored that Sakura-chan has invited us to stay you."

Tomoyo nodded her head, the ran towards them, and somehow began to push them both towards the house.

"Oh, the honor is all ours to have to stay with us! These are exquisite Chinese robes by the way." Tomoyo's fashion popped up with interest."Are you two from China?! Oh, don't answer now! We have food inside, that is if Kero hasn't eaten it all. And lots of Sake! I want to hear all about what happened. I'm sure it's a very interesting story to tell!"

Tomoyo grinned at Sakura, who began the nervous laughter again.

Sakura's mind was currently filling with things to leave out of the story telling. A whole list of them. 'But the Sake? Ugh oh.'

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"And here we are! Eating at this table with your lovely self." Eriol finished to Sakura's relief. He had thankfully left out most of the parts she wanted left out.

Tomoyo was currently pouring a second serving of sake to everyone. They had just gotten done with the green tea, and Tomoyo had insisted everyone try some of the "Best sake this side of mount Fuji-sama."

"However, there's still some more details about Sakura-chan, which I'm sure you'll love." He suddenly announced.

Sakura face-faulted She knew it was too good to be true that Tomoyo wouldn't find out every embarrassing detail.

"Hooeeeeeeeee."

Shaoran turned his head at the odd sound coming from the girl next to him. ("Tomoyo-chan" had "insisted" that he sat in that particular seat. ^_~)

'That girl is too open with her emotions. Just looking at her, and someone could tell what she's feeling.' Shaoran thought. Sakura looked to him, feeling his gaze, which he quickly diverted, suddenly finding Eriol's bowl of rice and fish very interesting.

His eyes grew wide as he watched the guardian come from Tomoyo's empty bowl, to Eriol's, and empty it out in seconds. 'That thing must be a bottomless abyss.'

Then it started to head towards HIS bowl of rice, oblivious to Shaoran watching him.

Shaoran's hands quickly grabbed the bowl, and lifted it above reach from the potential consumer. At this Kero looked at him with a glare, to which Shaoran gave with equal poison.

His head turned to the sound of laughter trying to be suppressed next to him.

Sakura stopped laughing when she saw he was looking at her. She blushed, only to begin giggling again.

Shaoran frowned, and she laughed harder. (He's not aware that he looks humorous lifting a bowl of rice above his head, with an angry Kero still glaring at him)

"What do you find so funny?"

"Nothing." She choked, trying to stop laughing. She only succeeded to a giant smile.

"What do you mean 'nothing?'"

"I mean nothing was amusing." She was now fanning herself, and looked to with arrogant defense. Her emerald eyes boring into him.

"Don't take her seriously, Li-san." Tomoyo giggled. "Sakura gets like this after drinking even a little bit of sake." Tomoyo grinned at Sakura innocently.

Sakura's eyes went wide, and blushed.

'I'll never understand women.' Shaoran thought as he began to eat his rice. 'Especially these Japanese ones.'

He looked over to see Tomoyo whispering something to Eriol while they both looked at him. They just grinned at him when they saw he noticed them. Identical grins.

Now he knew why she bugged him. Ever since they began eating, the raven haired girl made him very uncomfortable. 'She's like the female version of Eriol.'

"So when is Sakura going to have possession of HER cards, you annoying, meddlesome, hypocrite of a reincarnation?" Kero implied.

Eriol took a sip of his sake. "You want to settle this now?"

Nods came from everyone.

"All right." He leaned over, and picked up the Clow book which had been on the center of the table.

Every one watched as he opened the lock, and the lid flew open, causing Sakura to jump up in surprise.

Inside Sakura could see the deck of cards. On top was a card with a pretty picture of a womanish figure in the wind. There was writing on it which she couldn't depict.

Eriol lifted the deck. "I assume you've given the key to Sakura already?" At the mention of it, she reached for it which was on a silk string around her neck.

Kero nodded.

Eriol then placed one hand over the deck while he held it, and began to chant in a language she couldn't recognize. The cards began to glow a light blue, and at this point, Eriol lifted his hand, and the top card flew at Sakura. Then another, this time to Shaoran. Soon all the cards where split between the two.

Every one was quiet, and Sakura looked down at the pile before her.

"Why did you do that?! Why didn't you set them loose, or give Sakura all th-"

Eriol raised his hand silencing Kero.

"The cards have chosen who will be their owners. That makes it fair, since both of them had equal rights to the cards.

"But what about the prophecy?!"

"The one about the cards being let loose to release havoc on the world?"

Kero nodded, everyone else just listened quietly for an explanation.

"That won't happen for a couple more centuries. Sorry, but no cardcaptoring in this century."

Kero lurched forward at this. "WHAT?! But I was so sure... Sakura, she's-"

"She is. You found the right person. It's just not the right time."

"Huh?" Kero questioned. Sakura was just as confused, most likely more.

"She is the one." Eriol took another sip of sake. "However, it will be her reincarnation who will be the one to open the book. In the future."

"So does that mean that I won't have to worry about the prediction with her rival?"

"Why do you want to worry about that? The prophecy of that particular subject will repeat over and over again., Throughout their rebirths, whether its card business or not. When a soul meets it mate, you can't stop it."

Sakura was utterly confused. She knew they where talking about her, but she didn't get it. By the looks of it, Shaoran and Tomoyo didn't either.

"I can try!" Kero yelled.

"It will be useless. Why get in the way?"

"But he-"

"Don't ruin my surprise, Keroberous"

"But. But. ARGHHHHHHHHH!" Kero began to hold his head like he had a sickening headache.

Sakura was looking back and forth between the two, trying to make sense of the mess.

"I don't mean to interrupt you conversation with Kero, but since it seems to be about me, can you tell me?"

"Sorry Sakura-chan, but no. People shouldn't know their future. Besides, its nothing to worry about. You'll find out about it later."

"My soul mate?"

Eriol nodded, and gave her a sweet smile. (A/N: Aila says "a smile says many things!"). "Tomoyo's right, no matter what you do, you are cute."

Sakura's blush from the sake covered most of her face now because of his comment.

"So you gave her half the cards because her reincarnation will be the one who opens the book?"

"Yep. The cards know what will happen eventually, so they know they will be together again soon."

"What will happen." Shaoran was finding it very hard to follow his mother's advice on trusting his cousin. His mother always listened to Eriol. Like the time Eriol told his mother not to set up his betrothal, or to not let him inherit the leadership of the clan until he was 20. Eriol had to convince the whole clan on that, and Shaoran was still angry at Eriol for doing it. His whole clan trusted Eriol, and he had to as well.

"Can't tell you." Eriol smiled.

He expected as much.

"So you can't tell me the stuff on my soul mate?" Sakura asked quietly.

Eriol stopped eating, and turned to her. "Don't worry yourself. You'll know him in time."

"My soul mate?"

Eriol nodded.

"Can't you tell be more?"

"Nope."

"Hoeeeee." She knew she wouldn't get any more information out of him.

Shaoran ignored her outburst this time, and tried to return to eating. He was thinking about how Eriol looked at him funny when he was just talking to Sakura. 'What does the Clow reincarnate have planned?'

They all stopped when the heard a noise out side.

Shaoran reached for his pendant, and instantly his sword was in his hand. He saw Sakura eyes go wide when she saw this. 'Not like she can't do it with the Clow wand she seems to have.'

"Daidouji-san! Kinomotto-san!" he saw the girl seem to relax. 'They must know who it is.'

"The Emperor is destroying houses looking for thieves, and he's heading this way." The voice finished.

Tomoyo ran to the shoji door and swung it open. Outside they could see a woman in at the gate.

"Arigato for the warning, Achicah-san! We'll be on alert."

The girl began to run away at the sound of marching steps.

"Better get on alert now! They're 3 houses away now!" She yelled, disappearing down the street.

Sakura turned to Eriol and Shaoran. "We have to hide you!"

"If you don't remember, your where seen at the palace, in front of most guards with your little show a couple of days ago." Shaoran contorted matter-of-factly.

"He's right." Tomoyo started. "We all better make a run for it."

Tomoyo ran to another room. The soldiers came a house closer, and now she could hear yelling, and ripping of paper walls.

"Ready!" Tomoyo came back, carrying 2 bags. "I have some of your stuff too, Sakura, so lets go!"

Eriol and Shaoran picked up their bags next to the table, and followed Tomoyo to the back exit.

Sakura continued watching the guards now 2 houses away, when she saw a tall man in black robes. A chill went up her spine. It was him.

"Come on! Lets get out of here!" Shaoran had ran back when Sakura was noticed missing, and he took hold of her arm and led her to the back yard. The sounds of soldiers approaching the house filled their ears.

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This chapter didn't turn out like I hoped, but the next chapter has a lot of action! And you find out some more on Sakura's past! It's already written out, and if the stupid tropical storm stops, I'll be able to have it up possibly later tonight. Ja Ne.