"What do you mean we have a problem?" Eriol asked, not really concerned
about what it was.
Before Ray could spit out a single word, Kaho said" It's properly nothing. Come on, Eriol. Let's get back to dancing."
Ray rolled her eyes at Kaho and turned her back to Kaho." Syaoran knows about Sakura being alive," she said.
"Why didn't you stop him from finding out. Are you afraid of getting hurt by little Syaoran," Kaho said, baiting Ray.
Before Eriol could tell Kaho the truth, a blur of color passed from the other side of the kitchen and pinned Kaho to the counter. Ray stood next to her, her blade against Kaho's neck.
"Do you really want to die today? Because if you don't I suggest you shut up," Ray hissed.
"And why would I listen to a slut like you," Kaho whispered low enough so that Eriol couldn't hear.
Before Ray could hurt Kaho, Eriol yelled on the top of his lungs for them to stop it. Anytime ray and Kaho were in the same room, it was a death match. Both hated each other with the passion of a thousand suns.
"Ray, put the knife down and back away from Kaho," Eriol said calmly.
Ray backed away a few inches, but kept her knife drawn.
"Kaho honey, I gave Ray instructions not to interfere with the finding of Sakura being alive," Eriol said.
Kaho took that into consideration and walked into the living room where Eriol kept his spying glass. Kaho wanted to find out for herself if Sakura was now in danger from Syaoran. Eriol and Ray followed behind her. Eriol got out his staff and performed the spell that made it work and focused the looking glass on Syaoran.
Syaoran was out of breath from running. He was having trouble finding a pay phone so he could call home. He had finally found one on Main Street and he punched in the number to call collect and put in his own home number. The phone rang a few times before Lerae picked it up.
"Hello."
"Hey, this is Syaoran."
"Syaoran, you are so dead meat. Do you know how sick with worry I've been about you. What ever drove you to Tomeda. Sakura's dead, you saw it with your own eyes so why do you have to make sure."
"That's what I'm calling about. I went to the park and I saw Sakura flying, avoiding Yue's ice crystals. She is very much alive."
"Are you on some kind of medicine or something."
"Mom, for god sakes I know what I saw. Sakura is alive and well and has the cards with her."
"So why are you calling anyway."
"I need you to tell the clan about Sakura. I am coming on the midnight flight and I have enough money for food. Tell the elders that they need to have a meeting tomorrow and I'll speak in front of them."
"Ok, but I have one question. If Sakura is living, then who was the one you killed."
"Oh, I haven't thought about that."
"Well, the clan is going to ask and you need to have an answer."
"All right, I am going to go because since you're calling collect, it is going to cost a lot so..bye."
"Bye," and Syaoran almost had hung up when he heard Lerae say" Don't forget to bring some proof back with you," and Lerae hung up.
In some respects, Syaoran was happy about Sakura being alive. He had loved her and he still did. He also had a second chance to get the cards and become the leader of the clan and the master of the cards. He had the chance to relive history and correct all the mistakes he had made last time. Syaoran walked away from the pay phone and down towards the airport.
Eriol and the others watched Syaoran from the looking glass. They had heard the entire conversation with Syaoran and Lerae and there was going to be trouble.
"Kaho, can you please call Nakura down here and could you go to the school and enroll one student in the 9th grade," Eriol said, his eyes never wavering from the looking glass.
Kaho knew better then to argue with Eriol when he went into his fatherly, protect Sakura at all costs mode. She walked outside of the room and yelled for Nakura to come down. Kaho grabbed her coat from her bedroom closet and jumped in the car and drove towards the school.
Eriol, after hearing the door slam, stood up with the throne of evil and started to pace in front of Ray. Ray looked on in curiosity. She wanted to know what Eriol was planning. There were thumps of feet hitting the steps and the door to the living room opened and Nakura walked in.
"What do you want?" she asked
Eriol stopped his pacing and looked in Nakura's direction. " Tell me something. Does she," he made a motion towards ray," does she look too much like Sakura that it might cause a problem if per se Sakura came in contact with her."
Nakura made a circle around Ray, sizing her up. Ray watched on, her eyes following all of Nakura's movement. In Nakura's opinion, Ray didn't look that much like her though she was supposed to. Ray was shorter and muscular. Her eyes were a different color and her hair was more on the red side of auburn then blonde. Sakura's hair was cut short like it was when she was ten, and ray's was long that came to the small of her back.
"Well, if needed she could pass for Sakura but otherwise they don't look too much the same," Nakura said.
"Why do you want to know if I look too much like Sakura. It's really annoying when everyone else knows what's going on and you don't. Now spill," said Ray.
"Syaoran is more powerful then me and Nakura and Suppi. We can't protect Sakura if Syaoran decides to attack or a member of the clan does. Someone has to be close to Sakura to protect her at all times and that person is going to be you."
"What do you mean me?" asked Ray before realizing what his words had meant," no way, I'm not going to school."
"Why not?" asked Nakura
"Because I have to deal a enough horny guys trying to feel me down. I don't need any more. I get enough of them at the bar."
"Any guy who actually tried to do that, we all know you would kick their ass without a second thought," Eriol said, smirking.
"Anyway if you didn't dress so provocative, maybe we wouldn't have this problem," Eriol added, knowing it would make ray mad.
It worked perfect. Ray got mad. " Don't bring my clothing into this. I just happen to like the way I dress. I have the body for it so why shouldn't I show it off."
Nakura made some remark under her breath about showing off her body which came from Nakura's self-conscious about having no chest.
Eriol decided just to let the topic rest. He, being a guy had no objections of what Ray wore." Come on Ray, you're the only one that is powerful enough to stop him and you are ruthless. You'll do anything to get the job done."
"True," Ray replied meekly.
Just at that moment, Kaho walked into the room with a bag in her hand.
"Did you enroll Ray in school?" Eriol asked
"Yeah." Here, this is your uniform," and she pushed the bag into Ray's arms. Ray opened the bag, which contained a shirt and a skirt. Ray held up the skirt and immediately replied," I'm not wearing this."
"You have to. All the girls do," insisted Eriol.
"Well, I'm not every girl. I hate skirts and."
Nakura interrupted Ray. "Come on, there not that bad. They're pretty."
"Do you think I care if it's pretty. I'm not wearing it."
"You will wear it."
"You're not my boss, Eriol."
Nakura sat down on the couch and listened to their argument. This was going to be interesting. Neither would give in.
A bird chirped announcing the start of a new day. The sun was peaking out from the horizon and Syaoran was in the car heading home. Wei had picked him up from the airport and Syaoran was going home to tell the clan what he had saw. The car pulled in to the driveway and the car came to a stop. Syaoran stumbled out of the car and to the front door. He was feeling groggy. His flight had left at midnight and the only sleep he had gotten was on the hour drive from the airport. Syaoran, half-asleep, pulled out the key to the mansion out of his pocket and put it into the lock. The door opened and Syaoran walked in. He started to walk in the direction of his room, which was in the left wing. He seriously needed sleep. He had almost accomplished sneaking away to his room, when his mother saw him. She ran to him and wrapped him in a huge bear hug. Syaoran was in shock, his mother wasn't the touchy feely type. She was scarring him.
"Honey, the clan wanted to see you. You got proof that Sakura's alive?"
"Yeah ," and Syaoran reluctantly followed Lerae to the downstairs chamber where the elders meet.
They walked into the room where the seven-stonefaced elders sat. Syaoran grabbed a seat near the door and Lerae sat down next to him.
Ty stood up and announced," We have come here together for this meeting to discuss Syaoran's findings. I give the floor to you, Syaoran."
Ty sat down and Syaoran stood up. "I went to Japan to prove to myself that Sakura was dead, but this is what I found." Syaoran got out of his pocket a packet of pictures of Sakura that he had took with a disposable camera and he slammed the pictures on the table for empties. "Sakura is alive and doing well and she still possesses the cards."
"What do you mean she is alive? You killed her," shouted Mari.
"I thought I had killed her. But I guess I didn't," Syaoran replied meekly.
Brad started laughing evilly. He hated Syaoran and here was his chance to pick on him, " Well, maybe you didn't kill your girlfriend. Maybe you are just lying to us."
Before Syaoran could hurt Brad, Ty held up his hand. " Stop it, Brad. We don't doubt your honesty Syaoran. You honestly thought you had killed her. But here is the question. Who did you really kill?"
The room was slient in thought. Aubrey was going to speak, but Brad interrupted him. "Does the deal still stand. That whoever gets the cards will become the leader of the clan."
"Yeah."
"That is so simple. You mind as well let me be the leader because the clan is so totally getting the cards," said Brad, overconfident of himself.
"It's not that easy," whispered Aubrey.
All eyes were on him. "What do you mean it's not that easy," said Will, annoyed.
"The tiger will protect the cards and Sakura to the death. Also, since Sakura is alive, she would have to die for us to gain access to the cards," he said.
Everyone was silent, just digesting the information.
Syaoran stood up and announce that since he wasn't needed there, he was going to leave and get some sleep. The elders watched him go and continued their discussion over the cards.
Sakura stood in at the base of Tokyo tower. She was there to meet someone, somebody that would be familiar to her. She looked up and saw the girl who looked like her. Her form was in shadow but she could tell it was her. She looked different for some reason. Over the past 4 years, the girl who was her twin had haunted her dream. She was always giving advice to Sakura and Sakura thought of her as a friend. Sakura looked around her and her eyes locked on to a shadow. The entire area around the tower was light up, except that spot. She looked up at her double and she could see it motioning her to look at the shadowy area. Sakura shrugged and looked at the area. A wolf sprung out the shadows, its teeth bared. Sakura screamed and woke up. Her alarm clock was ringing and she shut it off. She pulled her uniform out of her closet and ran downstairs. She checked the white board and found that her brother and her dad had both left. She grabbed a piece of fruit from the table and headed off to school.
When she got to school, she found that for once in her life, she wasn't late.
"What's the matter with you. You're not late," teased Eriol.
Sakura stuck out her tongue at him and sat down. "Everyone sit down because the bell rang," their teacher, Mrs. Silver said.
"Today we have a new student named Ray. Ray come on in," Mrs Sliver said.
Ray walked into the classroom in her new uniform, a shirt and pants. She had won in their argument over if she had to wear a skirt or not. Oh course they were guy's pants but Ray didn't care.
"Ray, there is a seat behind Sakura. Why don't you sit there," Mrs. Silver said.
Ray started walking down the row of desks, nervous that Sakura would recognize her.
Before Ray could spit out a single word, Kaho said" It's properly nothing. Come on, Eriol. Let's get back to dancing."
Ray rolled her eyes at Kaho and turned her back to Kaho." Syaoran knows about Sakura being alive," she said.
"Why didn't you stop him from finding out. Are you afraid of getting hurt by little Syaoran," Kaho said, baiting Ray.
Before Eriol could tell Kaho the truth, a blur of color passed from the other side of the kitchen and pinned Kaho to the counter. Ray stood next to her, her blade against Kaho's neck.
"Do you really want to die today? Because if you don't I suggest you shut up," Ray hissed.
"And why would I listen to a slut like you," Kaho whispered low enough so that Eriol couldn't hear.
Before Ray could hurt Kaho, Eriol yelled on the top of his lungs for them to stop it. Anytime ray and Kaho were in the same room, it was a death match. Both hated each other with the passion of a thousand suns.
"Ray, put the knife down and back away from Kaho," Eriol said calmly.
Ray backed away a few inches, but kept her knife drawn.
"Kaho honey, I gave Ray instructions not to interfere with the finding of Sakura being alive," Eriol said.
Kaho took that into consideration and walked into the living room where Eriol kept his spying glass. Kaho wanted to find out for herself if Sakura was now in danger from Syaoran. Eriol and Ray followed behind her. Eriol got out his staff and performed the spell that made it work and focused the looking glass on Syaoran.
Syaoran was out of breath from running. He was having trouble finding a pay phone so he could call home. He had finally found one on Main Street and he punched in the number to call collect and put in his own home number. The phone rang a few times before Lerae picked it up.
"Hello."
"Hey, this is Syaoran."
"Syaoran, you are so dead meat. Do you know how sick with worry I've been about you. What ever drove you to Tomeda. Sakura's dead, you saw it with your own eyes so why do you have to make sure."
"That's what I'm calling about. I went to the park and I saw Sakura flying, avoiding Yue's ice crystals. She is very much alive."
"Are you on some kind of medicine or something."
"Mom, for god sakes I know what I saw. Sakura is alive and well and has the cards with her."
"So why are you calling anyway."
"I need you to tell the clan about Sakura. I am coming on the midnight flight and I have enough money for food. Tell the elders that they need to have a meeting tomorrow and I'll speak in front of them."
"Ok, but I have one question. If Sakura is living, then who was the one you killed."
"Oh, I haven't thought about that."
"Well, the clan is going to ask and you need to have an answer."
"All right, I am going to go because since you're calling collect, it is going to cost a lot so..bye."
"Bye," and Syaoran almost had hung up when he heard Lerae say" Don't forget to bring some proof back with you," and Lerae hung up.
In some respects, Syaoran was happy about Sakura being alive. He had loved her and he still did. He also had a second chance to get the cards and become the leader of the clan and the master of the cards. He had the chance to relive history and correct all the mistakes he had made last time. Syaoran walked away from the pay phone and down towards the airport.
Eriol and the others watched Syaoran from the looking glass. They had heard the entire conversation with Syaoran and Lerae and there was going to be trouble.
"Kaho, can you please call Nakura down here and could you go to the school and enroll one student in the 9th grade," Eriol said, his eyes never wavering from the looking glass.
Kaho knew better then to argue with Eriol when he went into his fatherly, protect Sakura at all costs mode. She walked outside of the room and yelled for Nakura to come down. Kaho grabbed her coat from her bedroom closet and jumped in the car and drove towards the school.
Eriol, after hearing the door slam, stood up with the throne of evil and started to pace in front of Ray. Ray looked on in curiosity. She wanted to know what Eriol was planning. There were thumps of feet hitting the steps and the door to the living room opened and Nakura walked in.
"What do you want?" she asked
Eriol stopped his pacing and looked in Nakura's direction. " Tell me something. Does she," he made a motion towards ray," does she look too much like Sakura that it might cause a problem if per se Sakura came in contact with her."
Nakura made a circle around Ray, sizing her up. Ray watched on, her eyes following all of Nakura's movement. In Nakura's opinion, Ray didn't look that much like her though she was supposed to. Ray was shorter and muscular. Her eyes were a different color and her hair was more on the red side of auburn then blonde. Sakura's hair was cut short like it was when she was ten, and ray's was long that came to the small of her back.
"Well, if needed she could pass for Sakura but otherwise they don't look too much the same," Nakura said.
"Why do you want to know if I look too much like Sakura. It's really annoying when everyone else knows what's going on and you don't. Now spill," said Ray.
"Syaoran is more powerful then me and Nakura and Suppi. We can't protect Sakura if Syaoran decides to attack or a member of the clan does. Someone has to be close to Sakura to protect her at all times and that person is going to be you."
"What do you mean me?" asked Ray before realizing what his words had meant," no way, I'm not going to school."
"Why not?" asked Nakura
"Because I have to deal a enough horny guys trying to feel me down. I don't need any more. I get enough of them at the bar."
"Any guy who actually tried to do that, we all know you would kick their ass without a second thought," Eriol said, smirking.
"Anyway if you didn't dress so provocative, maybe we wouldn't have this problem," Eriol added, knowing it would make ray mad.
It worked perfect. Ray got mad. " Don't bring my clothing into this. I just happen to like the way I dress. I have the body for it so why shouldn't I show it off."
Nakura made some remark under her breath about showing off her body which came from Nakura's self-conscious about having no chest.
Eriol decided just to let the topic rest. He, being a guy had no objections of what Ray wore." Come on Ray, you're the only one that is powerful enough to stop him and you are ruthless. You'll do anything to get the job done."
"True," Ray replied meekly.
Just at that moment, Kaho walked into the room with a bag in her hand.
"Did you enroll Ray in school?" Eriol asked
"Yeah." Here, this is your uniform," and she pushed the bag into Ray's arms. Ray opened the bag, which contained a shirt and a skirt. Ray held up the skirt and immediately replied," I'm not wearing this."
"You have to. All the girls do," insisted Eriol.
"Well, I'm not every girl. I hate skirts and."
Nakura interrupted Ray. "Come on, there not that bad. They're pretty."
"Do you think I care if it's pretty. I'm not wearing it."
"You will wear it."
"You're not my boss, Eriol."
Nakura sat down on the couch and listened to their argument. This was going to be interesting. Neither would give in.
A bird chirped announcing the start of a new day. The sun was peaking out from the horizon and Syaoran was in the car heading home. Wei had picked him up from the airport and Syaoran was going home to tell the clan what he had saw. The car pulled in to the driveway and the car came to a stop. Syaoran stumbled out of the car and to the front door. He was feeling groggy. His flight had left at midnight and the only sleep he had gotten was on the hour drive from the airport. Syaoran, half-asleep, pulled out the key to the mansion out of his pocket and put it into the lock. The door opened and Syaoran walked in. He started to walk in the direction of his room, which was in the left wing. He seriously needed sleep. He had almost accomplished sneaking away to his room, when his mother saw him. She ran to him and wrapped him in a huge bear hug. Syaoran was in shock, his mother wasn't the touchy feely type. She was scarring him.
"Honey, the clan wanted to see you. You got proof that Sakura's alive?"
"Yeah ," and Syaoran reluctantly followed Lerae to the downstairs chamber where the elders meet.
They walked into the room where the seven-stonefaced elders sat. Syaoran grabbed a seat near the door and Lerae sat down next to him.
Ty stood up and announced," We have come here together for this meeting to discuss Syaoran's findings. I give the floor to you, Syaoran."
Ty sat down and Syaoran stood up. "I went to Japan to prove to myself that Sakura was dead, but this is what I found." Syaoran got out of his pocket a packet of pictures of Sakura that he had took with a disposable camera and he slammed the pictures on the table for empties. "Sakura is alive and doing well and she still possesses the cards."
"What do you mean she is alive? You killed her," shouted Mari.
"I thought I had killed her. But I guess I didn't," Syaoran replied meekly.
Brad started laughing evilly. He hated Syaoran and here was his chance to pick on him, " Well, maybe you didn't kill your girlfriend. Maybe you are just lying to us."
Before Syaoran could hurt Brad, Ty held up his hand. " Stop it, Brad. We don't doubt your honesty Syaoran. You honestly thought you had killed her. But here is the question. Who did you really kill?"
The room was slient in thought. Aubrey was going to speak, but Brad interrupted him. "Does the deal still stand. That whoever gets the cards will become the leader of the clan."
"Yeah."
"That is so simple. You mind as well let me be the leader because the clan is so totally getting the cards," said Brad, overconfident of himself.
"It's not that easy," whispered Aubrey.
All eyes were on him. "What do you mean it's not that easy," said Will, annoyed.
"The tiger will protect the cards and Sakura to the death. Also, since Sakura is alive, she would have to die for us to gain access to the cards," he said.
Everyone was silent, just digesting the information.
Syaoran stood up and announce that since he wasn't needed there, he was going to leave and get some sleep. The elders watched him go and continued their discussion over the cards.
Sakura stood in at the base of Tokyo tower. She was there to meet someone, somebody that would be familiar to her. She looked up and saw the girl who looked like her. Her form was in shadow but she could tell it was her. She looked different for some reason. Over the past 4 years, the girl who was her twin had haunted her dream. She was always giving advice to Sakura and Sakura thought of her as a friend. Sakura looked around her and her eyes locked on to a shadow. The entire area around the tower was light up, except that spot. She looked up at her double and she could see it motioning her to look at the shadowy area. Sakura shrugged and looked at the area. A wolf sprung out the shadows, its teeth bared. Sakura screamed and woke up. Her alarm clock was ringing and she shut it off. She pulled her uniform out of her closet and ran downstairs. She checked the white board and found that her brother and her dad had both left. She grabbed a piece of fruit from the table and headed off to school.
When she got to school, she found that for once in her life, she wasn't late.
"What's the matter with you. You're not late," teased Eriol.
Sakura stuck out her tongue at him and sat down. "Everyone sit down because the bell rang," their teacher, Mrs. Silver said.
"Today we have a new student named Ray. Ray come on in," Mrs Sliver said.
Ray walked into the classroom in her new uniform, a shirt and pants. She had won in their argument over if she had to wear a skirt or not. Oh course they were guy's pants but Ray didn't care.
"Ray, there is a seat behind Sakura. Why don't you sit there," Mrs. Silver said.
Ray started walking down the row of desks, nervous that Sakura would recognize her.