This is my first fic so it might not good and some grammars are well.... not good...
English is not my first language so bear with me. But I'm trying my best to do it well!
I'm studying on how to write a good fic! And i think the ff net is a good place to start
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I don't own ccs, card captor, card captors sakura but Clamp and other big companies that make big bucks! Don't sue me, It unwise to sue the poor and poor in english!
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"Prologue"
Sword of Reed
Dark night it was.
It was another deep night in the old Kinomoto's Residence place.
The place was dark indeed and the smooth swoosh of the wind could only be heard. It was full moon that night; it had a mesmerizing bright that shone in a certain window. In that window a yellow figure sat in a corner resting by the windows rest?
It had two little dotted eyes and stared into the moon motionless.
*The silence broke to small words.*
"Why now? How could it be?" Kero frowned and asked himself
"Sakura?" He looked by his left side, a young girl in deep sleep
"Good bye"
Then a strong flash of light struck the window, a light so intense and beamed so brightly
And then it faded away.
Thump! The little yellow figure was nowhere in sight by the window but in the soft carpet. Lying there, with its eyes still looking out of the window
It had been a while since Li returned back to Japan again, when he convinced his mother and the whole clan that he would staying in Japan and finished his study there. It wasn't easy to convince a very conservative and overly protective clan.
It's pretty hard especially to the future leader of the Li clan.
"Xiaolang, I know that you still have one to capture back in Japan" Yelan said.
Syaoran blushed a very deep red.
"Well then, we will not stop you. The happiness of the future leader will be
also the happiness of the whole clan."
Syaoran smiled and bowed down before his mother. Yelan raised her hand and put it on Syaoran's shoulder. "Go forth, you have the blessings of the clan and our ancestors"
Syaoran stood up and picked his bag at his left side.
"Don't worry mother, I'll visit you and the clan." Syaoran bowed down and turns around.
Then he left for Japan.
Syaoran lived alone in an apartment near Sakura's place, He also insisted that Wei would no longer accompany him. He knew that he could manage all by himself now.
During that night also.
Syaoran felt restless. He was tumbling in bed and uneasy.
Alone in a dark, cold surrounding, Syaoran looked around and saw his Sakura in a distance standing in the midst of the black oblivion. Syaoran ran toward Sakura, arms opened, but as he advanced closer to her, the distance between them widened as if he didn't move at all. Reaching for Sakura's hand, he heard a yelp.
"Syaoran! Help me! Where are you??!!" Sakura screamed, her feet sinking fast underneath
Syaoran noticed it was Sakura and she was sinking very fast.
He tried to run after her, but he couldn't come any closer to her.
The oblivion was swallowing Sakura and Syaoran tripped over while watching his love slowly disappearing out of sight.
"Sakura, hold on!" Syaoran held out his hands, inching closer to Sakura. He screamed inside of his head, "Why? Why can't I come near her? Oh God, please don't take her away from me."
Syaoran then felt a beam of light struck his eyes, it was a blinding light that he never seen and he felt his heart started to pound faster. Struggling, he tries to pick his body up.
And then Syaoran sat upright on his bed still panting from the dream,
He was breathing very fast and perspiring hard.
He looked at his surroundings, a four-cornered wall, a small coffee table by his side, and an opened TV in front of him.
He sighed, "It was just a dream." He looked at his alarm clock. It was 3:30 am and the place was still in tranquility. He could only hear the sound of the buzzing TV and his breath. "What could it be?"
Morning came.
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
An auburn-haired girl popped her head out of her sheets and reached for something on the shelf.
Her hand traveled until she felt something and took it. And pressed it,
Ring! Ring! Ring!
She moaned again by the noise and popped her head out and reached again in the shelf, but she didn't feelanything this time.
Ring! Ring! Ring!
She decided to sit up and look for the clock. The sleepy green emerald eyes scoured the room. Then she found the red round clock on at her desk.
It read 7:00 am.
"Hoeeeeeeeeeee!!!! I'm late!!! I'm late!!!" She jumped wildly out of her slumber and rushed to her dresser and changed into to her school uniform.
She started fixing her hair and then rushed out the door quickly.
"Kero, see ya later" she said as she shut the door behind her..
Sakura slided down the stairs and passed the hallway.
She took a quick glance into kitchen and found her father and his brother fixing breakfast.
"Ohayo!" Sakura cheerful greeted and looked at her mother's picture.
"Ohayo, mother," she added.
Her father answered back, "Ohayo!"
"Ohayo kaiju!" Touya said.
"I'm not a kaiju!" Sakura protested
"Oh yeah, why then you are still late, kaiju?" Touya grinned.
Sakura came closer to her onii-chan and stomp on her brother's foot. But Touya was very quick. He avoided the rampaging foot of his sister.
He smirked at her sister's attempt.
"Sakura, here's your lunch and I also packed your breakfast in it"
Sakura's father handed her the bag filled with delicious food.'
"Arigatou" Sakura answered as she reached for her pack of munchies.
"By the way, Squirt, Is it today that your class will have a trip?" Touya asked.
"Yes, we will be attending a seminar about the Philippine history," Sakura
answered.
"Ah, yes, the Philippines, an archipelago of wonders," her father added.
"Really?" Touya questioned answer.
"Yes, there are still unknown places that haven't been explored" their father explained.
"I think you two should be going now or you'll be late" he added.
Sakura and Touya left the house. Sakura was wearing her roller blades while her brother hopped on his bike. Sakura and Touya met Yukito on their way. As Sakura reached Tamoeda School, Yukito threw her a candy, an usual happy morning routine for Sakura.
Sakura rushed to her classroom and she was very lucky that Mr. Terada hadn't came yet.
Tomoyo looked at her friend and greeted her "Ohayo Sakura-chan!"
"Ohayo" Sakura beamed said beamingly.
Then she proceeded on her chair beside Tomoyo. Before she sat sits. She noticed
that Syaoran was glum as he stared out the window beside him, his eyes were like during those days that their report cards would be handed to them, the only difference that he was much more gloomy.
"Ohayo! Syaoran-kun" Sakura greeted.
He didn't react and still staring and in deep thoughts."O-HA-YOU !" Sakura repeated.
He started to wake up from reality and then looked look at Sakura's worried face,
Syaoran blushed, speaking in a monotone voice. "Ohayo, it's nothing really."
She asked in a mild tone, "Are you sure?",
Syaoran nodded and during at that whole time. Tomoyo was videotaping them
"How kawaii, I'll name this Sakura's worry," Tomoyo giggled.
Syaoran and Sakura sweatdropped.
7:33 am, Mr. Tirada entered the room and started discussing the first thing before they proceeded to their trip.
"Remember, this seminar will serve as your assignment during on your summer vacation and you will. write a report about it. So listen carefully to the lectures."
The whole class nodded eager to start the trip.'
On the bus.
"Are you sure?" Sakura asked.
"Of course!" Tomoyo giggled.
Sakura and her best friend Tomoyo sat together in the bus while Yamazaki and Syaoran sat behind them.
"Are you sure Syaoran will be pleased if I do that?" Sakura asked unsurely.
"Hai!" Her bestfriend cheerfully responded.
Syaoran was still in his thoughts about the dream he had last night and didn't hear the whole conversation. He was still not sure of what it meant but it felt like real. His heart still ached and couldn't remove the pain.
"Sakura," Syaoran muttered mindlessly.
"Nani, Syaoran-kun?" Sakura turned around and responded.
He moved his head to his right and saw Sakura looking at him.
"I l..lo.. wah,,, ath" Syaoran almost confessed his feeling and noticed that Sakura was sitting beside him now.
"Wha.. what i?." the chinese boy blushed and looked downward.
"What is it?" Sakura asked.
"Nothing, I.. m.ean.. what... why are you here?" Syaoran changed the subject.
"Ah, I just want you to ummm," Sakura fiddled with her the fingers.
Syaoran raised his eyebrow with a confused look on his face.
"Invite you to a dinner tonight at my place!" Sakura blurted out.
"...Are you sure, will it be okay with your brother?" Syaoran asked back.
"Onii-chan has to work tonight and my father will not be coming home so I can use a company," Sakura blushed.
Syaoran was overjoyed when he heard that and his heart almost popped out in that instant.
But he managed to maintained his firm composure but inside.. he was very delighted.
"This will be a very good day for me," Syaoran said to himself, completely forgot the dream that troubled him a second ago.
"Daijobou! What time then?" Syaoran asked while looking out the window.
"Around 7, is it okay with you?" Sakura said
"Fine." In a cold monotone voice he said
Then a very familiar finger pointed upward interrupting their conversation.
"Did you that the word fine came from Finland?"
Chiharu gave Yamazaki the cold glare, but he didn't care. Yamazaki rambled on his stories again that captured the attention of the whole class on the bus.
Seminar Hall
They were given some stubs on the entrance of the exhibit hall and were reminded to keep them.
Some exhibits of the Filipino native were displayed in the hallway of the Seminar. There are large clay pots. Curiously, Sakura read the note besides them.
"Burial Pots of the Ifugao. These large clay pots served as the coffins for the dead in the northern tribes of Luzon, the Ifugao. " Sakura read.
Then a beaming lad came behind her.
"Do you know that these pots were are actually a safe haven for ghosts?" Yamazaki said while pointing his index finger upward.
Sakura shook her head and almost scared and puzzled.
Tomoyo comforted her and told that Yamazaki was is on his stories again.
But Naoko agreed with Yamazaki's story
This made Sakura even more afraid and tried to take Tomoyo away from the clay pots.
"Well yes it is true, that this?" Yamazaki continued (you know the rest).
Sakura shivered from Yamazaki's revelation and examined the other exhibits.
Syaoran was also busy looking at the exhibit. He saw some warlike old jars, linen cloth, native dresses, and this one captured the attention of the young lad, a cave drawing of a
long hair Chinese man holding a sword.
It wasn't the painting was well-drawn but he felt a familiar presence around it. He tried to find the note besides the painting but he didn't see any at all. Syaoran asked staff aboutthe sword but when the staff was about to tell him.
"Okay class the seminar is about to begin," Mr. Tirada announced to the whole class.
The class of 6-2 of Tamoeda went to the seminar room. The seminar talked about the archipelago of the Philippine islands, and out of 7,107 islands, only one-third of it had have been explored" as the presenter pressed the clicker on his hands.
Gradually the discussion discussed the influences of neighboring countries in the Philippines.
"During the Pre-Hispanic era, The Chinese was the major influential force that took control of the most of the islands.
The Chinese built some architectural structures and formed a community on the islands but most of these were destroyed during the Spanish regime.
The Spanish spoiled the Chinese's plan to colonize the islands.
The Chinese didn't leave the country; some still remained and worked as merchants. And up to now, China Town is still there in Tondo."
There are very few Chinese artifacts recovered in the Philippines although we still believe there are more unexplored parts of these islands that contains evidence that the Chineses lived there once.
The rest of the talk was about the relation of the Philippine culture to its neighboring countries, mostly China and Japan. Sakura sat between Tomoyo and Syaoran. Syaoran was listening very attentive and interested in the topics regarding excavating sites and other ancient artifacts, while Sakura was taking notes and Tomoyo was videotaping Sakura.
"This artifact was recovered at the northern region of Dumaguete......"
The talk ended after 2 hours.
A fat old man walked on to the stage carrying a box and put it in the middle of the stage.
"The Seminar Committee has decided a raffle draw. The two winners will win the grand prize of a trip and full accommodation to the Philippines for the rest of the summer vacation."
announced by the man
A Chinese man with an embedded emblem of some sort on his clothing went to the stage. Syaoran looked carefully on the emblem clothing. It was somewhat familiar to his sight. A dragon holding a sword with the sun and the moon placed on its head and at its tip of the tail respectively. As Syaoran stared the emblem on of the man's clothing, he realized that some magical force had been released. And it was coming from the stage. He focuse his attention to the Chinese.He was right; the Chinese man bending down to pick the entries was the source of the magical power.
Syaoran was going to ask Sakura if she felt it also, but when he
turned his head to ask Sakura. The whole place turned to dark oblivion and the only thing that was visible to his sight was is the man picking the entries.
"The winners are numbers 567 and 568. Congratulations to the two of you. We will inform you when will the two of you be leaving."
Syaoran heard the announcement while in a very dark place and still concentrating about the strange things he saw. Then the darkness of oblivion broke, and when he heard a scream. It was Sakura screaming. The whole place started coming back to normal.
"I won, I won, I won!!!!" Sakura shrieked delightfully.
" So your number is 567?" Tomoyo asked.
"Hai, how about you Tomoyo?" Sakura asked cheerfully.
"I'm number 566" Tomoyo answered.
"So that means number 568 and your date would be," Tomoyo looking toward in the other side of Sakura who was looking at Sakura very attentively.
Sakura looked at Tomoyo's sight
"HOEEE!!!" Sakura sweatdropped
At Kinomoto's residence.
"What do you mean the kid is going to eat dinner here and what do you mean the two of you will go to the Philippines?" Touya went into in a rampage after he heard the news.
"Oni-chan, I thought you have work tonight?" Sakura tried trying to change the subject.
"Yes, I'm about to go and I'm late!" Touya grumpy said glaring at Syaoran who was siiting straight in the sofa.
Syaoran, of course being Syaoran, glared back also. The two had their own grudge through all this years.
Touya's Thoughts-----
"Mess with my sister, I'll mess your hair even more, kid!"
"There is no way that this kid will be my future brother in law! No way, I'll
rather die!"
Syaoran's thoughts----
"The Guardian of Hades is here!"
"The workaholic freak!"
Sakura looked at them both and went between them and faced her brother.
"Onii-chan, He is my guest. Can't you be more polite to Syaoran?"
"Polite? Hmmm?I can't recall anything about politeness to this kid?"
"Hmph!" Sayaoran stared more more intensely at Touya
The staring contest was heating up. Two pairs of sharp eyes met each other making a spark of electric discharged between the two.
Neither did Touya nor Syaoran wanted to lose the staring contest, but they were interrupted by Mr. Fujitaka entering the house.
"I have news for to you two," Mr. Fujitaka said smiling to his two siblings. Syaoran stood up and said his respect to Sakura's father, " Konbanwa."
Mr. Fujitaka replied back and smiled, "So you're invited by my daughter to have dinner with us?"
"Hai sir" Syaoran answered quickly.
"I'm very sorry if I can't join you two. Because I have some things to take
care of." Mr. Fujitaka smiled back at the young lad
"Father, I thought you're suppose to be working tonight?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, but there is somewhat sudden changes. I'm been picked to head an
exploration to the Philippines!" her father cleaning the lens of his glasses.
"Wow, what a coincidence! Syaoran and I are also asked to spend our summer vacation in the Philippines as well!" Sakura cheered.
"So that means?" she added.
Sakura explained to her father what happened at the seminar
"Of course, when will the two of you be leaving?" Mr. Fujitaka asked.
"Next two days!" Sakura coming out of the kitchen with a tray of goodies
"Well, what do you know, same as mine" Fujitaka smiled.
Touya felt something unusual on such coincidence.
Touya thought,
"Not everything is only coincidence but they are all planned ahead."
Toyua couldn't help but to stay silent during the whole conversation. He knew that something like this would happened.
Touya and Mr. Fujitaka left the house. Touya went to work while Mr. Fujitaka
went to the university to take his belonging for the excavation trip. Sakura and Syaoran were left in the house. Even though Touya knew that the kid was staying alone with his sister for dinner. Touya knew that it would be okay to left them. Touya didn't don't like Syaoran but in his heart he knew he could trust the guy. It was that he didn't
want some kid to take his sister away from him especially the Chinese gaki.
Sakura went up to her room to change clothes and to invite Kero down while she left Syaoran with some tea and cakes. She knew Kero would be very upset when they didn't invite the greedy toy down to eat during meal times.
Syaoran sat in the couch not moving an inch. It was It's very funny though that he came to Sakura's place many times but he still felt like it was his first time.-__-;;
Teacups, a teapot and a piece of strawberry cake stared back at him waiting to be devoured. He suddenly remembered the first time he was invited to Sakura's house.
He brought some cookies he made during their cooking class to Sakura when she got sicked. Syaoran blushed. It was the first time also that he was invited into a girl's room, not just an ordinary girl's room but Sakura's room. It looked like a haven built for an
angel. The place she slept, the place she dreamt, and the place where she had her moments. Truly a sacred place. He thought.
All that thinking made Syaoran thirsty.
Syaoran decided to drink some tea. He poured some substantial amount of tea in on one of the empty teacups. Syaoran knew that tea making was one of Sakura's expertise and for that reason he learned to like tea more. He put down the teapot on the table and slowly raised the cup to his mouth.
He mildly blew and takes a sip.
"HOEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Kero -chan!"
He spat out some of the tea he just drank, but he managed to cover his mouth with his handkerchief. He then remembered Sakura and his dream last night.
"Could it be?" Syaoran with a worried face stood up.
He made haste into Sakura's room climbing the stairs.
His heart was pounding very fast and felt more and more every time he made his steps.
With a caring heart, he opened the doorway to heaven. He saw an angel on her knees sobbing and crying.
tbc
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Nanashi1
English is not my first language so bear with me. But I'm trying my best to do it well!
I'm studying on how to write a good fic! And i think the ff net is a good place to start
Thanks to FF net!
So enjoy!
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Disclaimer:
I don't own ccs, card captor, card captors sakura but Clamp and other big companies that make big bucks! Don't sue me, It unwise to sue the poor and poor in english!
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"Prologue"
Sword of Reed
Dark night it was.
It was another deep night in the old Kinomoto's Residence place.
The place was dark indeed and the smooth swoosh of the wind could only be heard. It was full moon that night; it had a mesmerizing bright that shone in a certain window. In that window a yellow figure sat in a corner resting by the windows rest?
It had two little dotted eyes and stared into the moon motionless.
*The silence broke to small words.*
"Why now? How could it be?" Kero frowned and asked himself
"Sakura?" He looked by his left side, a young girl in deep sleep
"Good bye"
Then a strong flash of light struck the window, a light so intense and beamed so brightly
And then it faded away.
Thump! The little yellow figure was nowhere in sight by the window but in the soft carpet. Lying there, with its eyes still looking out of the window
It had been a while since Li returned back to Japan again, when he convinced his mother and the whole clan that he would staying in Japan and finished his study there. It wasn't easy to convince a very conservative and overly protective clan.
It's pretty hard especially to the future leader of the Li clan.
"Xiaolang, I know that you still have one to capture back in Japan" Yelan said.
Syaoran blushed a very deep red.
"Well then, we will not stop you. The happiness of the future leader will be
also the happiness of the whole clan."
Syaoran smiled and bowed down before his mother. Yelan raised her hand and put it on Syaoran's shoulder. "Go forth, you have the blessings of the clan and our ancestors"
Syaoran stood up and picked his bag at his left side.
"Don't worry mother, I'll visit you and the clan." Syaoran bowed down and turns around.
Then he left for Japan.
Syaoran lived alone in an apartment near Sakura's place, He also insisted that Wei would no longer accompany him. He knew that he could manage all by himself now.
During that night also.
Syaoran felt restless. He was tumbling in bed and uneasy.
Alone in a dark, cold surrounding, Syaoran looked around and saw his Sakura in a distance standing in the midst of the black oblivion. Syaoran ran toward Sakura, arms opened, but as he advanced closer to her, the distance between them widened as if he didn't move at all. Reaching for Sakura's hand, he heard a yelp.
"Syaoran! Help me! Where are you??!!" Sakura screamed, her feet sinking fast underneath
Syaoran noticed it was Sakura and she was sinking very fast.
He tried to run after her, but he couldn't come any closer to her.
The oblivion was swallowing Sakura and Syaoran tripped over while watching his love slowly disappearing out of sight.
"Sakura, hold on!" Syaoran held out his hands, inching closer to Sakura. He screamed inside of his head, "Why? Why can't I come near her? Oh God, please don't take her away from me."
Syaoran then felt a beam of light struck his eyes, it was a blinding light that he never seen and he felt his heart started to pound faster. Struggling, he tries to pick his body up.
And then Syaoran sat upright on his bed still panting from the dream,
He was breathing very fast and perspiring hard.
He looked at his surroundings, a four-cornered wall, a small coffee table by his side, and an opened TV in front of him.
He sighed, "It was just a dream." He looked at his alarm clock. It was 3:30 am and the place was still in tranquility. He could only hear the sound of the buzzing TV and his breath. "What could it be?"
Morning came.
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
An auburn-haired girl popped her head out of her sheets and reached for something on the shelf.
Her hand traveled until she felt something and took it. And pressed it,
Ring! Ring! Ring!
She moaned again by the noise and popped her head out and reached again in the shelf, but she didn't feelanything this time.
Ring! Ring! Ring!
She decided to sit up and look for the clock. The sleepy green emerald eyes scoured the room. Then she found the red round clock on at her desk.
It read 7:00 am.
"Hoeeeeeeeeeee!!!! I'm late!!! I'm late!!!" She jumped wildly out of her slumber and rushed to her dresser and changed into to her school uniform.
She started fixing her hair and then rushed out the door quickly.
"Kero, see ya later" she said as she shut the door behind her..
Sakura slided down the stairs and passed the hallway.
She took a quick glance into kitchen and found her father and his brother fixing breakfast.
"Ohayo!" Sakura cheerful greeted and looked at her mother's picture.
"Ohayo, mother," she added.
Her father answered back, "Ohayo!"
"Ohayo kaiju!" Touya said.
"I'm not a kaiju!" Sakura protested
"Oh yeah, why then you are still late, kaiju?" Touya grinned.
Sakura came closer to her onii-chan and stomp on her brother's foot. But Touya was very quick. He avoided the rampaging foot of his sister.
He smirked at her sister's attempt.
"Sakura, here's your lunch and I also packed your breakfast in it"
Sakura's father handed her the bag filled with delicious food.'
"Arigatou" Sakura answered as she reached for her pack of munchies.
"By the way, Squirt, Is it today that your class will have a trip?" Touya asked.
"Yes, we will be attending a seminar about the Philippine history," Sakura
answered.
"Ah, yes, the Philippines, an archipelago of wonders," her father added.
"Really?" Touya questioned answer.
"Yes, there are still unknown places that haven't been explored" their father explained.
"I think you two should be going now or you'll be late" he added.
Sakura and Touya left the house. Sakura was wearing her roller blades while her brother hopped on his bike. Sakura and Touya met Yukito on their way. As Sakura reached Tamoeda School, Yukito threw her a candy, an usual happy morning routine for Sakura.
Sakura rushed to her classroom and she was very lucky that Mr. Terada hadn't came yet.
Tomoyo looked at her friend and greeted her "Ohayo Sakura-chan!"
"Ohayo" Sakura beamed said beamingly.
Then she proceeded on her chair beside Tomoyo. Before she sat sits. She noticed
that Syaoran was glum as he stared out the window beside him, his eyes were like during those days that their report cards would be handed to them, the only difference that he was much more gloomy.
"Ohayo! Syaoran-kun" Sakura greeted.
He didn't react and still staring and in deep thoughts."O-HA-YOU !" Sakura repeated.
He started to wake up from reality and then looked look at Sakura's worried face,
Syaoran blushed, speaking in a monotone voice. "Ohayo, it's nothing really."
She asked in a mild tone, "Are you sure?",
Syaoran nodded and during at that whole time. Tomoyo was videotaping them
"How kawaii, I'll name this Sakura's worry," Tomoyo giggled.
Syaoran and Sakura sweatdropped.
7:33 am, Mr. Tirada entered the room and started discussing the first thing before they proceeded to their trip.
"Remember, this seminar will serve as your assignment during on your summer vacation and you will. write a report about it. So listen carefully to the lectures."
The whole class nodded eager to start the trip.'
On the bus.
"Are you sure?" Sakura asked.
"Of course!" Tomoyo giggled.
Sakura and her best friend Tomoyo sat together in the bus while Yamazaki and Syaoran sat behind them.
"Are you sure Syaoran will be pleased if I do that?" Sakura asked unsurely.
"Hai!" Her bestfriend cheerfully responded.
Syaoran was still in his thoughts about the dream he had last night and didn't hear the whole conversation. He was still not sure of what it meant but it felt like real. His heart still ached and couldn't remove the pain.
"Sakura," Syaoran muttered mindlessly.
"Nani, Syaoran-kun?" Sakura turned around and responded.
He moved his head to his right and saw Sakura looking at him.
"I l..lo.. wah,,, ath" Syaoran almost confessed his feeling and noticed that Sakura was sitting beside him now.
"Wha.. what i?." the chinese boy blushed and looked downward.
"What is it?" Sakura asked.
"Nothing, I.. m.ean.. what... why are you here?" Syaoran changed the subject.
"Ah, I just want you to ummm," Sakura fiddled with her the fingers.
Syaoran raised his eyebrow with a confused look on his face.
"Invite you to a dinner tonight at my place!" Sakura blurted out.
"...Are you sure, will it be okay with your brother?" Syaoran asked back.
"Onii-chan has to work tonight and my father will not be coming home so I can use a company," Sakura blushed.
Syaoran was overjoyed when he heard that and his heart almost popped out in that instant.
But he managed to maintained his firm composure but inside.. he was very delighted.
"This will be a very good day for me," Syaoran said to himself, completely forgot the dream that troubled him a second ago.
"Daijobou! What time then?" Syaoran asked while looking out the window.
"Around 7, is it okay with you?" Sakura said
"Fine." In a cold monotone voice he said
Then a very familiar finger pointed upward interrupting their conversation.
"Did you that the word fine came from Finland?"
Chiharu gave Yamazaki the cold glare, but he didn't care. Yamazaki rambled on his stories again that captured the attention of the whole class on the bus.
Seminar Hall
They were given some stubs on the entrance of the exhibit hall and were reminded to keep them.
Some exhibits of the Filipino native were displayed in the hallway of the Seminar. There are large clay pots. Curiously, Sakura read the note besides them.
"Burial Pots of the Ifugao. These large clay pots served as the coffins for the dead in the northern tribes of Luzon, the Ifugao. " Sakura read.
Then a beaming lad came behind her.
"Do you know that these pots were are actually a safe haven for ghosts?" Yamazaki said while pointing his index finger upward.
Sakura shook her head and almost scared and puzzled.
Tomoyo comforted her and told that Yamazaki was is on his stories again.
But Naoko agreed with Yamazaki's story
This made Sakura even more afraid and tried to take Tomoyo away from the clay pots.
"Well yes it is true, that this?" Yamazaki continued (you know the rest).
Sakura shivered from Yamazaki's revelation and examined the other exhibits.
Syaoran was also busy looking at the exhibit. He saw some warlike old jars, linen cloth, native dresses, and this one captured the attention of the young lad, a cave drawing of a
long hair Chinese man holding a sword.
It wasn't the painting was well-drawn but he felt a familiar presence around it. He tried to find the note besides the painting but he didn't see any at all. Syaoran asked staff aboutthe sword but when the staff was about to tell him.
"Okay class the seminar is about to begin," Mr. Tirada announced to the whole class.
The class of 6-2 of Tamoeda went to the seminar room. The seminar talked about the archipelago of the Philippine islands, and out of 7,107 islands, only one-third of it had have been explored" as the presenter pressed the clicker on his hands.
Gradually the discussion discussed the influences of neighboring countries in the Philippines.
"During the Pre-Hispanic era, The Chinese was the major influential force that took control of the most of the islands.
The Chinese built some architectural structures and formed a community on the islands but most of these were destroyed during the Spanish regime.
The Spanish spoiled the Chinese's plan to colonize the islands.
The Chinese didn't leave the country; some still remained and worked as merchants. And up to now, China Town is still there in Tondo."
There are very few Chinese artifacts recovered in the Philippines although we still believe there are more unexplored parts of these islands that contains evidence that the Chineses lived there once.
The rest of the talk was about the relation of the Philippine culture to its neighboring countries, mostly China and Japan. Sakura sat between Tomoyo and Syaoran. Syaoran was listening very attentive and interested in the topics regarding excavating sites and other ancient artifacts, while Sakura was taking notes and Tomoyo was videotaping Sakura.
"This artifact was recovered at the northern region of Dumaguete......"
The talk ended after 2 hours.
A fat old man walked on to the stage carrying a box and put it in the middle of the stage.
"The Seminar Committee has decided a raffle draw. The two winners will win the grand prize of a trip and full accommodation to the Philippines for the rest of the summer vacation."
announced by the man
A Chinese man with an embedded emblem of some sort on his clothing went to the stage. Syaoran looked carefully on the emblem clothing. It was somewhat familiar to his sight. A dragon holding a sword with the sun and the moon placed on its head and at its tip of the tail respectively. As Syaoran stared the emblem on of the man's clothing, he realized that some magical force had been released. And it was coming from the stage. He focuse his attention to the Chinese.He was right; the Chinese man bending down to pick the entries was the source of the magical power.
Syaoran was going to ask Sakura if she felt it also, but when he
turned his head to ask Sakura. The whole place turned to dark oblivion and the only thing that was visible to his sight was is the man picking the entries.
"The winners are numbers 567 and 568. Congratulations to the two of you. We will inform you when will the two of you be leaving."
Syaoran heard the announcement while in a very dark place and still concentrating about the strange things he saw. Then the darkness of oblivion broke, and when he heard a scream. It was Sakura screaming. The whole place started coming back to normal.
"I won, I won, I won!!!!" Sakura shrieked delightfully.
" So your number is 567?" Tomoyo asked.
"Hai, how about you Tomoyo?" Sakura asked cheerfully.
"I'm number 566" Tomoyo answered.
"So that means number 568 and your date would be," Tomoyo looking toward in the other side of Sakura who was looking at Sakura very attentively.
Sakura looked at Tomoyo's sight
"HOEEE!!!" Sakura sweatdropped
At Kinomoto's residence.
"What do you mean the kid is going to eat dinner here and what do you mean the two of you will go to the Philippines?" Touya went into in a rampage after he heard the news.
"Oni-chan, I thought you have work tonight?" Sakura tried trying to change the subject.
"Yes, I'm about to go and I'm late!" Touya grumpy said glaring at Syaoran who was siiting straight in the sofa.
Syaoran, of course being Syaoran, glared back also. The two had their own grudge through all this years.
Touya's Thoughts-----
"Mess with my sister, I'll mess your hair even more, kid!"
"There is no way that this kid will be my future brother in law! No way, I'll
rather die!"
Syaoran's thoughts----
"The Guardian of Hades is here!"
"The workaholic freak!"
Sakura looked at them both and went between them and faced her brother.
"Onii-chan, He is my guest. Can't you be more polite to Syaoran?"
"Polite? Hmmm?I can't recall anything about politeness to this kid?"
"Hmph!" Sayaoran stared more more intensely at Touya
The staring contest was heating up. Two pairs of sharp eyes met each other making a spark of electric discharged between the two.
Neither did Touya nor Syaoran wanted to lose the staring contest, but they were interrupted by Mr. Fujitaka entering the house.
"I have news for to you two," Mr. Fujitaka said smiling to his two siblings. Syaoran stood up and said his respect to Sakura's father, " Konbanwa."
Mr. Fujitaka replied back and smiled, "So you're invited by my daughter to have dinner with us?"
"Hai sir" Syaoran answered quickly.
"I'm very sorry if I can't join you two. Because I have some things to take
care of." Mr. Fujitaka smiled back at the young lad
"Father, I thought you're suppose to be working tonight?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, but there is somewhat sudden changes. I'm been picked to head an
exploration to the Philippines!" her father cleaning the lens of his glasses.
"Wow, what a coincidence! Syaoran and I are also asked to spend our summer vacation in the Philippines as well!" Sakura cheered.
"So that means?" she added.
Sakura explained to her father what happened at the seminar
"Of course, when will the two of you be leaving?" Mr. Fujitaka asked.
"Next two days!" Sakura coming out of the kitchen with a tray of goodies
"Well, what do you know, same as mine" Fujitaka smiled.
Touya felt something unusual on such coincidence.
Touya thought,
"Not everything is only coincidence but they are all planned ahead."
Toyua couldn't help but to stay silent during the whole conversation. He knew that something like this would happened.
Touya and Mr. Fujitaka left the house. Touya went to work while Mr. Fujitaka
went to the university to take his belonging for the excavation trip. Sakura and Syaoran were left in the house. Even though Touya knew that the kid was staying alone with his sister for dinner. Touya knew that it would be okay to left them. Touya didn't don't like Syaoran but in his heart he knew he could trust the guy. It was that he didn't
want some kid to take his sister away from him especially the Chinese gaki.
Sakura went up to her room to change clothes and to invite Kero down while she left Syaoran with some tea and cakes. She knew Kero would be very upset when they didn't invite the greedy toy down to eat during meal times.
Syaoran sat in the couch not moving an inch. It was It's very funny though that he came to Sakura's place many times but he still felt like it was his first time.-__-;;
Teacups, a teapot and a piece of strawberry cake stared back at him waiting to be devoured. He suddenly remembered the first time he was invited to Sakura's house.
He brought some cookies he made during their cooking class to Sakura when she got sicked. Syaoran blushed. It was the first time also that he was invited into a girl's room, not just an ordinary girl's room but Sakura's room. It looked like a haven built for an
angel. The place she slept, the place she dreamt, and the place where she had her moments. Truly a sacred place. He thought.
All that thinking made Syaoran thirsty.
Syaoran decided to drink some tea. He poured some substantial amount of tea in on one of the empty teacups. Syaoran knew that tea making was one of Sakura's expertise and for that reason he learned to like tea more. He put down the teapot on the table and slowly raised the cup to his mouth.
He mildly blew and takes a sip.
"HOEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Kero -chan!"
He spat out some of the tea he just drank, but he managed to cover his mouth with his handkerchief. He then remembered Sakura and his dream last night.
"Could it be?" Syaoran with a worried face stood up.
He made haste into Sakura's room climbing the stairs.
His heart was pounding very fast and felt more and more every time he made his steps.
With a caring heart, he opened the doorway to heaven. He saw an angel on her knees sobbing and crying.
tbc
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