I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccccckkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, ok...It's been a while...
*Tanya walks in*
Tanya: A WHILE? THE LAST TIME YOU POSTED A CHAPTER WAS BEFORE THE NEW YEAR!!!
Adrienne: So it's been a while... So sue me!
Tanya: A thousand dollars please.
Adrienne: Here...The thousand dollars I'm NOT making by publishing this fanfic... Come on people...Did you actually think I was getting rich off this stuff? I'm not. I mean I wish I owned this stuff, but, truth be told, I'm not a millionaire.
Tanya: Get that out of your system?
Adrienne: Yeah, I think so.
Tanya: good!!! Now on to the much delayed story!!
Adrienne: Not like yours is coming along any better!!
Tanya: HEY NOW!!! *begins to chase Adrienne*
Adrienne: Read now before I end up as next weeks dinner!!
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Chapter 8...The plot thickens
"Wake up kid!! It's time to go to school!" Kero loudly shouted in Syaoran's ear.
"Huh? Wh-what? What's going on?" he asked as he sat up, blatantly confused.
"You have twenty minutes to get ready for school!"
Syaoran bolted up out of his "bed" and upstairs to see if the girls were awake yet. "Are you girls up yet?" he asked as he knocked on the closed door. He heard a muffled groan as he opened the door.
"Hey! Don't you ever wait to see if we're even decent?!" came a gruff voice, which was merely a very sleepy and confused Sakura.
"Well, are you?! We gotta get up and get going!"
"Yes, hang on."
Syaoran entered the room to find a surprise. "Where's Tomoyo?"
"M-huh? Right there on the floor...Well, she was..." Sakura pointed at a now spotless floor where Tomoyo's sleeping bag had been the night before when she had gone to sleep. Sakura glanced at the clock, which read nine o'clock. She stared at it, momentarily dazed. Then it hit her.
"We don't have to go to school today!! It's Saturday!"
Sakura could see the fumes leaking out of Syaoran's ears, and his eyes bulge out.
"THAT LITTLE STUFFED ANIMAL!!!!!!!"
"He's not stuffed!"
"He will be when I get my hands on him!"
After a few minutes of sweet talking, Sakura managed to calm Syaoran down. He was still mad though.
"Where is Kero, by the way?"
"I don't know. We didn't see him at all yesterday." Sakura glanced over at the video game Kero normally played, only to find it unoccupied.
"And I didn't see any of your brother yesterday."
"He normally does that. He disappears for days at a time over at Yukito's house."
"Where IS everybody? This house is deserted!!!"
There was an awkward silence as they realized they were completely alone. Unknown to either of them, an unseen glass eye was watching their every move. Beside the glass eye sat one who saw through glass all of the time. They were seated precariously on an unsteady tree branch. The glass eye attempted feverishly to stifle her giggles.
Sakura and Syaoran still didn't notice. They just sat there, not sure of what to say or do. Sakura suddenly burst into laughter, peering up from her position of lying down in bed.
"What? What's so funny?" He was now sitting on the edge of her bed, watching his giggling cherry blossom.
"You are still in Touya's pajama's and you still don't have any clothes of your own!"
"And you think this is funny?"
"No, (hehe) what's funny (hehe) is that (hehe) you are going (hehehe) to have to wear (hehehehe) your dirty uniform (hehehehehe) again (hehehehehehehehehehehehehehhehehehehehehehehe) to go over to your house (hehehehehehehe) to get (hehehehehehe) your clean clothes (hehehehehehehe)!" No longer able to contain her laughter, she gave into it willingly.
Seeing Sakura in a fit of giggles and pain (her stomach hurt from laughing so much) made him smile. She really was beautiful. He began to laugh, simply because his flower thought his situation was so hilarious (which he had to admit it really was). After they allowed about five or so minutes for their laughter to die down, Syaoran turned to go to don his dirty uniform so he could obtain clean clothes.
"Hello?! Wait up!!"
Syaoran snapped around to look at her. She was propped up as much as she could manage, and was peering at him with her arms crossed over her chest.
"What?" he asked blankly.
"Well, are you going to leave me here, helpless in my bed, or are you going to help me up so I can at least do some work around the house and defend myself if need be?"
Syaoran sweatdropped as this realization sunk in on him. "Of course I'm not going to leave you alone. You know I'd never do that," he said as he quickly rushed over and pulled back the sheets to help his angel out of bed. He lifted her up in his strong arms and set her down, standing her upright. "Will you need any more help?"
"Do I look like I am purely helpless?"
"Is that a rhetorical question, or do you want me to answer that?"
Sakura looked up at him with a look of fury on her face. She rushed over to her bed and grabbed a pillow and threw it at an unsuspecting Syaoran. The missile made a direct hit on its target. He stood for a minute, stunned at what had just transpired. After gaining his composure, he picked up the pillow off the floor, and aimed at Sakura.
"Wait! You can't do this to me!!! I'm injured!!!" she said with a puppy dog face.
Syaoran, determined to not let this affect his judgement, retorted, "You seemed well enough to put your whole body into throwing it at me..." He playfully tossed the pillow at her, making contact on the first attempt.
Sakura's face contorted into one of excitement and joy. "Pillow fight!!!" she screamed as she grabbed the pillow and began attacking full force.
"But...But you only have one pillow!! You have to have at least two to have an actual fight!"
"It's ok. I'm injured. This is my `handicap' for this fight," she said with a huge grin on her face as she continued the unfair assault of feathers.
Syaoran, pretending to not enjoy her unfair advantage, grabbed the pillow in an effort to halt the barrage of attacks. This resulted in sending the pair in a flat spin. They were having fun spinning around, and it soon turned into a game of who could make the other let go first.
"I'm gonna hurl you all the way across the room!"
"Oh, yeah! I'm gonna toss you out the window..."
"Oh, Syaoran, you wouldn't do that really, would you?"
"If you don't let go now, it may be your fate."
By now, they were laughing so hard at what they were doing that they could not hear any of the giggles coming from outside. Nor could they hear a thump as the giggler finally could not contain herself and fell out of the tree. Nor did they hear the second thump as the giggler's contriver skillfully jumped out of the tree to contain his giggler's screaming.
They spun round and round, faster and faster, until Sakura could no longer keep her balance. She tumbled backwards, but didn't manage to let go of the pillow. Her backward force pulled Syaoran down with her. When he had managed to regain his wits and his breath, Syaoran realized he had fallen on top of Sakura, and that his face was only inches from hers. It would be so easy, so simple, to just lean down a little and place a soft, gentle kiss on her lips. Oh, how he wished he had as much bravery around her as he had when facing the cards.
He quickly stoop up, his face as red as a blooming rose. He looked down at his cherry blossom. She was still trying to catch her breath, and seeing Syaoran only inches away had only succeeded in taking away what little she had managed to gather.
A voice suddenly pierced the deep thoughts she found racing through her brain. "Are you okay?" Sakura stared out, as if in a trance of some sort. "Did I hurt you?" The voice was becoming panicked. As quickly as he had left, Syaoran was by her side again, kneeling next to her. She clutched her stomach as she gasped for air. Her vision was blurry. She could see shapes moving around. They were talking, but she couldn't distinguish anything that was being said. She thought she saw three figures, but wasn't sure. She heard some more of the voice, but it sounded different this time. "I'm gonna go get some help." She managed to straighten out her thoughts enough to call out, "Syaoran!! Don't leave me!!" The shape nearest her returned to its abandoned post at her side. She heard the voice again, but was able to understand it now. "I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going to leave you. Tomoyo and Eriol are here too." Sakura looked up as the other shapes moved toward her.
"Are you okay?" came the different voice she had heard earlier. It was higher pitched than the comforting voice. Sakura realized it belonged to her best friend.
"Tomoyo?"
"I'm right here. What happened? Are you okay?"
Sakura's vision began to clear, and she was soon able to make out her friend's features.
"Yeah. I'm okay. I just got dizzy and couldn't catch my breath. I guess it was like the opposite of hyperventilating. I couldn't breath or see."
Syaoran looked down at her, his amber eyes full of concern for his precious angel. "You are sure you're ok?"
"Yes. I'm positive."
"Then who am I?"
"Syaoran Li."
"Okay, okay. Maybe you are feeling better, and at least can make out voices or see...But I would like you to rest...Get your strength back. I'll put you back in bed."
"NO! I am NOT going back in bed. I have been in bed ever since my `accident'. If you want me to rest, take me downstairs so I can at least talk to you guys in an upright position on the couch."
Syaoran was a bit taken aback at her firm response, but quickly shook it off, glad that his cherry blossom was feeling better. He gently lifted her up off the floor and carried her downstairs. He bent over sideways and set her down on the couch in a sitting position. He then sat next to her, awaiting Tomoyo and Eriol's company. After a few awkward minutes of waiting, Syaoran got restless.
"Where are those two? They were right there in the room with us right before we came down here. They didn't follow us...We would have seen them. Where could they be?"
"I don't know, silly. Why don't you go see if they are still up in my room?"
Syaoran got up off the couch, which was extremely hard to do, and headed upstairs. Moments later, he came bounding back down them. "They aren't upstairs at all! I checked all of the rooms! They are nowhere to be found!"
"Don't be silly," (Ok, I know I have overused the word silly, but I think it's sweet in this fic, so bear with me, k?) "They couldn't have just disappeared, could they?"
Syaoran's face lit up with a realization. "They might have disappeared. They did kind of `appear' out of nowhere...Wait till I get my hands on that magician..."
"Calm down...You're getting worked up over nothing."
"I am not! I think they have been spying on us..."
Sakura shrugged her shoulders. Sometimes it was not worth arguing with him. "Just calm down. Let's watch a movie or something. Or we can go get your clothes."
"I'm not going to leave you all by yourself, and, seeing as how Tomoyo and Eriol are no longer here, that means I can't leave. So I guess we'll just watch a movie till they get back."
His eyes scanned the living room for a movie of some sort to watch, when his glance fell upon a video cassette lying on the table. There was a note attached to it. He wondered why he hadn't seen it before. (all these things I'm hinting at...I hope you guys pick up on half this stuff...jeez) He picked up the tape and began to read the note.
Syaoran and Sakura,
Sorry to leave you like this, but a family crisis came up this morning that I just had to deal with. Sorry about it, and I know you needed to get your clothes for the weekend, Syaoran, but if it can wait, I wish you would because I don't think Sakura's well enough to make that kind of a walk just yet. I figured you guys might get bored waiting around for me to get back, so I took the liberty of providing some entertainment for you big babies...Enjoy!!
Tomoyo
Sakura looked over at Syaoran. "What does the note say?"
"It's from Tomoyo. She says this video is here for our entertainment because she had to attend to a family crisis. Hey, wait! If she had to attend to a `family crisis', then what the heck was she doing in your bedroom a few minutes ago?"
The ever dense Sakura had yet to put all of the pieces together. "Maybe she just stopped momentarily to see how I was doing before rushing off to take care of her family."
Syaoran sighed and let his brain relax. If her friend was trying to set them up, he wouldn't stop her... He walked over to the VCR with the video and popped it in.
"What movie did she say she left?"
"She didn't...I guess we'll just find out soon enough."
"Didn't the tape have a label?"
"Actually, it didn't..."
He joined Sakura on the couch, sitting half-way between her and the end of the couch. The beginning credits began to scroll on the screen...
(I'm thinking about just ending it here..........Ok, ok...I don't have the heart to end it just yet...but you have to wait till next time to see what happens to these two...come on people...I'm running out of ideas here...A little help or sugar would be much appreciated...)
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Meanwhile...
"Do you think they suspect anything?"
"I think Syaoran does, but as usual, Sakura is oblivious."
"Perhaps it's better that way...You work your magic soooooo much better when the `victim' is totally and completely unaware..."
"Too true, my little conniver."
"What do you have up your sleeve next, my magician?"
"The next phase of our plan, of course."
"You mean the next phase of MY plan, don't you?"
"I'm helping too...How do you think you'd be able to carry out your plan without my magic?"
"I wouldn't be able to...I would have been seen by now, and I would have been heard by now...Thank you very, very much."
"My pleasure. I do, however, think I should be reimbursed for all that I have done for you."
"How do you propose I do that?"
"A kiss would be nice."
"A kiss? Really..."
"I felt you would be more than overjoyed to give your favorite magician a kiss."
"Fine. But next time you get one, you have to actually earn it..."
"Oh, and how would I earn it?"
"Let me get back to you on that..."
After a seemingly endless pause...
"Mmmm...That was rather good. I suppose I WILL have to work to earn my next one."
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Ok, the end of this chapter...
I know exactly how I want things to happen, but I don't want them to happen yet...
I mean you KNOW that Syaoran is gonna ask Sakura to the dance, but it's just not time.
(or will he even ask her? *grins evilly* *slaps self* I'm not the evil one...I'm not...That's Tanya's job. I'm the sweet, kind, innocent one...)
Tanya: I have yet to find anyone who agrees with that fact besides one person...
Adrienne: *muffles Tanya* SHUT UP!!!
Tanya: *frees self* Fine, fine...I like living, so I'll shut up.
Adrienne: Thank you. Oh, yeah, read and review...
Tanya: Duh, they've already read...
Adrienne: Fine...Then review already!!! The more reviews, the faster I get the next chapter up...
Tanya: We saw how well that worked LAST time we reviewed...
Adrienne: Ok, the more ideas I get in reviews, the faster I get the next chap up...
Tanya: ok, I'll believe that one.
Adrienne: Come on people!!! REVIEW!!! How hard is it? *calms self down* Merci beaucoup (thank you very much) to all those who have already reviewed. And thank you to whoever cleared up for me how Syaoran and Eriol are related... I'd give you credit, but can't pull up the internet right now *mumbles something about parents saying she spends too much time on internet, so they took away the password* so I'll give you credit when I can. I'm still gonna make them cousins for my story... it fits better if they are...don't ask me how, it just will...Trust me, I'm the writer... BTW, I don't know any Japanese, but every now and then, I'll throw in French. Forgive me when I do, but it'll only be in the author's notes, and I'll translate it too.
Tanya: you done?
Adrienne: I think so. Why?
Tanya: cuz the sooner you get done ranting and raving, the sooner they'll review, if they haven't lost all desire to already.
Adrienne: *blushes* sorry...Review now, s'il vous plait? (please?)
Ok, ok...It's been a while...
*Tanya walks in*
Tanya: A WHILE? THE LAST TIME YOU POSTED A CHAPTER WAS BEFORE THE NEW YEAR!!!
Adrienne: So it's been a while... So sue me!
Tanya: A thousand dollars please.
Adrienne: Here...The thousand dollars I'm NOT making by publishing this fanfic... Come on people...Did you actually think I was getting rich off this stuff? I'm not. I mean I wish I owned this stuff, but, truth be told, I'm not a millionaire.
Tanya: Get that out of your system?
Adrienne: Yeah, I think so.
Tanya: good!!! Now on to the much delayed story!!
Adrienne: Not like yours is coming along any better!!
Tanya: HEY NOW!!! *begins to chase Adrienne*
Adrienne: Read now before I end up as next weeks dinner!!
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Chapter 8...The plot thickens
"Wake up kid!! It's time to go to school!" Kero loudly shouted in Syaoran's ear.
"Huh? Wh-what? What's going on?" he asked as he sat up, blatantly confused.
"You have twenty minutes to get ready for school!"
Syaoran bolted up out of his "bed" and upstairs to see if the girls were awake yet. "Are you girls up yet?" he asked as he knocked on the closed door. He heard a muffled groan as he opened the door.
"Hey! Don't you ever wait to see if we're even decent?!" came a gruff voice, which was merely a very sleepy and confused Sakura.
"Well, are you?! We gotta get up and get going!"
"Yes, hang on."
Syaoran entered the room to find a surprise. "Where's Tomoyo?"
"M-huh? Right there on the floor...Well, she was..." Sakura pointed at a now spotless floor where Tomoyo's sleeping bag had been the night before when she had gone to sleep. Sakura glanced at the clock, which read nine o'clock. She stared at it, momentarily dazed. Then it hit her.
"We don't have to go to school today!! It's Saturday!"
Sakura could see the fumes leaking out of Syaoran's ears, and his eyes bulge out.
"THAT LITTLE STUFFED ANIMAL!!!!!!!"
"He's not stuffed!"
"He will be when I get my hands on him!"
After a few minutes of sweet talking, Sakura managed to calm Syaoran down. He was still mad though.
"Where is Kero, by the way?"
"I don't know. We didn't see him at all yesterday." Sakura glanced over at the video game Kero normally played, only to find it unoccupied.
"And I didn't see any of your brother yesterday."
"He normally does that. He disappears for days at a time over at Yukito's house."
"Where IS everybody? This house is deserted!!!"
There was an awkward silence as they realized they were completely alone. Unknown to either of them, an unseen glass eye was watching their every move. Beside the glass eye sat one who saw through glass all of the time. They were seated precariously on an unsteady tree branch. The glass eye attempted feverishly to stifle her giggles.
Sakura and Syaoran still didn't notice. They just sat there, not sure of what to say or do. Sakura suddenly burst into laughter, peering up from her position of lying down in bed.
"What? What's so funny?" He was now sitting on the edge of her bed, watching his giggling cherry blossom.
"You are still in Touya's pajama's and you still don't have any clothes of your own!"
"And you think this is funny?"
"No, (hehe) what's funny (hehe) is that (hehe) you are going (hehehe) to have to wear (hehehehe) your dirty uniform (hehehehehe) again (hehehehehehehehehehehehehehhehehehehehehehehe) to go over to your house (hehehehehehehe) to get (hehehehehehe) your clean clothes (hehehehehehehe)!" No longer able to contain her laughter, she gave into it willingly.
Seeing Sakura in a fit of giggles and pain (her stomach hurt from laughing so much) made him smile. She really was beautiful. He began to laugh, simply because his flower thought his situation was so hilarious (which he had to admit it really was). After they allowed about five or so minutes for their laughter to die down, Syaoran turned to go to don his dirty uniform so he could obtain clean clothes.
"Hello?! Wait up!!"
Syaoran snapped around to look at her. She was propped up as much as she could manage, and was peering at him with her arms crossed over her chest.
"What?" he asked blankly.
"Well, are you going to leave me here, helpless in my bed, or are you going to help me up so I can at least do some work around the house and defend myself if need be?"
Syaoran sweatdropped as this realization sunk in on him. "Of course I'm not going to leave you alone. You know I'd never do that," he said as he quickly rushed over and pulled back the sheets to help his angel out of bed. He lifted her up in his strong arms and set her down, standing her upright. "Will you need any more help?"
"Do I look like I am purely helpless?"
"Is that a rhetorical question, or do you want me to answer that?"
Sakura looked up at him with a look of fury on her face. She rushed over to her bed and grabbed a pillow and threw it at an unsuspecting Syaoran. The missile made a direct hit on its target. He stood for a minute, stunned at what had just transpired. After gaining his composure, he picked up the pillow off the floor, and aimed at Sakura.
"Wait! You can't do this to me!!! I'm injured!!!" she said with a puppy dog face.
Syaoran, determined to not let this affect his judgement, retorted, "You seemed well enough to put your whole body into throwing it at me..." He playfully tossed the pillow at her, making contact on the first attempt.
Sakura's face contorted into one of excitement and joy. "Pillow fight!!!" she screamed as she grabbed the pillow and began attacking full force.
"But...But you only have one pillow!! You have to have at least two to have an actual fight!"
"It's ok. I'm injured. This is my `handicap' for this fight," she said with a huge grin on her face as she continued the unfair assault of feathers.
Syaoran, pretending to not enjoy her unfair advantage, grabbed the pillow in an effort to halt the barrage of attacks. This resulted in sending the pair in a flat spin. They were having fun spinning around, and it soon turned into a game of who could make the other let go first.
"I'm gonna hurl you all the way across the room!"
"Oh, yeah! I'm gonna toss you out the window..."
"Oh, Syaoran, you wouldn't do that really, would you?"
"If you don't let go now, it may be your fate."
By now, they were laughing so hard at what they were doing that they could not hear any of the giggles coming from outside. Nor could they hear a thump as the giggler finally could not contain herself and fell out of the tree. Nor did they hear the second thump as the giggler's contriver skillfully jumped out of the tree to contain his giggler's screaming.
They spun round and round, faster and faster, until Sakura could no longer keep her balance. She tumbled backwards, but didn't manage to let go of the pillow. Her backward force pulled Syaoran down with her. When he had managed to regain his wits and his breath, Syaoran realized he had fallen on top of Sakura, and that his face was only inches from hers. It would be so easy, so simple, to just lean down a little and place a soft, gentle kiss on her lips. Oh, how he wished he had as much bravery around her as he had when facing the cards.
He quickly stoop up, his face as red as a blooming rose. He looked down at his cherry blossom. She was still trying to catch her breath, and seeing Syaoran only inches away had only succeeded in taking away what little she had managed to gather.
A voice suddenly pierced the deep thoughts she found racing through her brain. "Are you okay?" Sakura stared out, as if in a trance of some sort. "Did I hurt you?" The voice was becoming panicked. As quickly as he had left, Syaoran was by her side again, kneeling next to her. She clutched her stomach as she gasped for air. Her vision was blurry. She could see shapes moving around. They were talking, but she couldn't distinguish anything that was being said. She thought she saw three figures, but wasn't sure. She heard some more of the voice, but it sounded different this time. "I'm gonna go get some help." She managed to straighten out her thoughts enough to call out, "Syaoran!! Don't leave me!!" The shape nearest her returned to its abandoned post at her side. She heard the voice again, but was able to understand it now. "I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going to leave you. Tomoyo and Eriol are here too." Sakura looked up as the other shapes moved toward her.
"Are you okay?" came the different voice she had heard earlier. It was higher pitched than the comforting voice. Sakura realized it belonged to her best friend.
"Tomoyo?"
"I'm right here. What happened? Are you okay?"
Sakura's vision began to clear, and she was soon able to make out her friend's features.
"Yeah. I'm okay. I just got dizzy and couldn't catch my breath. I guess it was like the opposite of hyperventilating. I couldn't breath or see."
Syaoran looked down at her, his amber eyes full of concern for his precious angel. "You are sure you're ok?"
"Yes. I'm positive."
"Then who am I?"
"Syaoran Li."
"Okay, okay. Maybe you are feeling better, and at least can make out voices or see...But I would like you to rest...Get your strength back. I'll put you back in bed."
"NO! I am NOT going back in bed. I have been in bed ever since my `accident'. If you want me to rest, take me downstairs so I can at least talk to you guys in an upright position on the couch."
Syaoran was a bit taken aback at her firm response, but quickly shook it off, glad that his cherry blossom was feeling better. He gently lifted her up off the floor and carried her downstairs. He bent over sideways and set her down on the couch in a sitting position. He then sat next to her, awaiting Tomoyo and Eriol's company. After a few awkward minutes of waiting, Syaoran got restless.
"Where are those two? They were right there in the room with us right before we came down here. They didn't follow us...We would have seen them. Where could they be?"
"I don't know, silly. Why don't you go see if they are still up in my room?"
Syaoran got up off the couch, which was extremely hard to do, and headed upstairs. Moments later, he came bounding back down them. "They aren't upstairs at all! I checked all of the rooms! They are nowhere to be found!"
"Don't be silly," (Ok, I know I have overused the word silly, but I think it's sweet in this fic, so bear with me, k?) "They couldn't have just disappeared, could they?"
Syaoran's face lit up with a realization. "They might have disappeared. They did kind of `appear' out of nowhere...Wait till I get my hands on that magician..."
"Calm down...You're getting worked up over nothing."
"I am not! I think they have been spying on us..."
Sakura shrugged her shoulders. Sometimes it was not worth arguing with him. "Just calm down. Let's watch a movie or something. Or we can go get your clothes."
"I'm not going to leave you all by yourself, and, seeing as how Tomoyo and Eriol are no longer here, that means I can't leave. So I guess we'll just watch a movie till they get back."
His eyes scanned the living room for a movie of some sort to watch, when his glance fell upon a video cassette lying on the table. There was a note attached to it. He wondered why he hadn't seen it before. (all these things I'm hinting at...I hope you guys pick up on half this stuff...jeez) He picked up the tape and began to read the note.
Syaoran and Sakura,
Sorry to leave you like this, but a family crisis came up this morning that I just had to deal with. Sorry about it, and I know you needed to get your clothes for the weekend, Syaoran, but if it can wait, I wish you would because I don't think Sakura's well enough to make that kind of a walk just yet. I figured you guys might get bored waiting around for me to get back, so I took the liberty of providing some entertainment for you big babies...Enjoy!!
Tomoyo
Sakura looked over at Syaoran. "What does the note say?"
"It's from Tomoyo. She says this video is here for our entertainment because she had to attend to a family crisis. Hey, wait! If she had to attend to a `family crisis', then what the heck was she doing in your bedroom a few minutes ago?"
The ever dense Sakura had yet to put all of the pieces together. "Maybe she just stopped momentarily to see how I was doing before rushing off to take care of her family."
Syaoran sighed and let his brain relax. If her friend was trying to set them up, he wouldn't stop her... He walked over to the VCR with the video and popped it in.
"What movie did she say she left?"
"She didn't...I guess we'll just find out soon enough."
"Didn't the tape have a label?"
"Actually, it didn't..."
He joined Sakura on the couch, sitting half-way between her and the end of the couch. The beginning credits began to scroll on the screen...
(I'm thinking about just ending it here..........Ok, ok...I don't have the heart to end it just yet...but you have to wait till next time to see what happens to these two...come on people...I'm running out of ideas here...A little help or sugar would be much appreciated...)
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Meanwhile...
"Do you think they suspect anything?"
"I think Syaoran does, but as usual, Sakura is oblivious."
"Perhaps it's better that way...You work your magic soooooo much better when the `victim' is totally and completely unaware..."
"Too true, my little conniver."
"What do you have up your sleeve next, my magician?"
"The next phase of our plan, of course."
"You mean the next phase of MY plan, don't you?"
"I'm helping too...How do you think you'd be able to carry out your plan without my magic?"
"I wouldn't be able to...I would have been seen by now, and I would have been heard by now...Thank you very, very much."
"My pleasure. I do, however, think I should be reimbursed for all that I have done for you."
"How do you propose I do that?"
"A kiss would be nice."
"A kiss? Really..."
"I felt you would be more than overjoyed to give your favorite magician a kiss."
"Fine. But next time you get one, you have to actually earn it..."
"Oh, and how would I earn it?"
"Let me get back to you on that..."
After a seemingly endless pause...
"Mmmm...That was rather good. I suppose I WILL have to work to earn my next one."
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Ok, the end of this chapter...
I know exactly how I want things to happen, but I don't want them to happen yet...
I mean you KNOW that Syaoran is gonna ask Sakura to the dance, but it's just not time.
(or will he even ask her? *grins evilly* *slaps self* I'm not the evil one...I'm not...That's Tanya's job. I'm the sweet, kind, innocent one...)
Tanya: I have yet to find anyone who agrees with that fact besides one person...
Adrienne: *muffles Tanya* SHUT UP!!!
Tanya: *frees self* Fine, fine...I like living, so I'll shut up.
Adrienne: Thank you. Oh, yeah, read and review...
Tanya: Duh, they've already read...
Adrienne: Fine...Then review already!!! The more reviews, the faster I get the next chapter up...
Tanya: We saw how well that worked LAST time we reviewed...
Adrienne: Ok, the more ideas I get in reviews, the faster I get the next chap up...
Tanya: ok, I'll believe that one.
Adrienne: Come on people!!! REVIEW!!! How hard is it? *calms self down* Merci beaucoup (thank you very much) to all those who have already reviewed. And thank you to whoever cleared up for me how Syaoran and Eriol are related... I'd give you credit, but can't pull up the internet right now *mumbles something about parents saying she spends too much time on internet, so they took away the password* so I'll give you credit when I can. I'm still gonna make them cousins for my story... it fits better if they are...don't ask me how, it just will...Trust me, I'm the writer... BTW, I don't know any Japanese, but every now and then, I'll throw in French. Forgive me when I do, but it'll only be in the author's notes, and I'll translate it too.
Tanya: you done?
Adrienne: I think so. Why?
Tanya: cuz the sooner you get done ranting and raving, the sooner they'll review, if they haven't lost all desire to already.
Adrienne: *blushes* sorry...Review now, s'il vous plait? (please?)