Disclaimer: I don't own Cardcaptors.

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Tomoyo went to her desk and pulled out 5 photo albums and laid them out on the floor.

Sakura opened one of them and there were pictures of them when they were little and in each of the others, were pictures of Tomoyo, Meilin, Syaoran and Eriol growing up.  She got to the most recent ones and chose the best ones to use in her picture.

"I'll go now so I can start the picture," Sakura said

"Okay, c'ya" Tomoyo said

"Bye" Meilin said

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Chapter 5

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Sakura ran home clutching the pictures Tomoyo had given her.  She went into her house and up to her bedroom.

She went into her wardrobe and got out her paints.  She'd thought that she would never use them again but she had a new reason.

She got out her easel and canvas, clipped the pictures up on the easel, and started to paint.

Hours passed and Sakura was still painting, she wouldn't even stop for dinner, she just wanted to get it finished.  Her Aunty had brought her some dinner and it lay forgotten on Sakura's desk.

The picture was taking shape nicely and Sakura promised herself that she wouldn't stop painting until it was finished.

Midnight passed and about 12:30 she painted the final stroke.

"Phew" Sakura said as she stepped back to take a good look at the picture.

It was a picture of Syaoran, Eriol, Sakura, Tomoyo and Meilin, they were outside under a tree and they were laughing and smiling.

Sakura smiled at the picture, it just made you want to do that.  She laid down on her bed and fell asleep.

~~~In the Morning~~~

When Sakura woke, the sun was streaming through the window onto her face.

She moaned and looked at her watch.

"Oh no!" she said, it was 9:00.

"I'm late, I'm late, I'm late," she said as she quickly changed into her school uniform, grabbed her bag and stuffed her books in it.

She ran downstairs and grabbed some bread from the breadbin and ran out the door towards school.

When Sakura got to school, she ran into her classroom, her face was red from the running and her hair was messy.

"Sorry I'm late" she said to the teacher

"It's okay, don't let it happen again, please take your seat" the teacher said

Sakura took her seat in front of Syaoran and sighed.

The teacher continued the lesson

~~~Between Classes~~~

"Why were you late?" Tomoyo asked Sakura

"I was up late finishing he picture last night"

"Oh, cool, can I see?"

"If you want, just don't tell Syaoran, okay?"

"Sure"

~~~After School~~~

Tomoyo went to Sakura's house and Sakura showed her the picture.

"Wow! That is so cool! It's so intricate, no wonder it took you until midnight to finish"

Sakura blushed at the compliment and said, "It's nothing"

"Nothing? It's cool!" Tomoyo said and was then interrupted by the phone ringing.

"Hello?" Sakura answered

"Hey, Sakura, it's Syaoran, do you want to come over now, Eriol's here and we're going to do some training"

"Hai, I'll come over now" Sakura said, her voice turning serious

"Okay, see you in a minute"

"Bye"

"I have to go to Syaoran's house to do some training" Sakura said

"Okay, I'll just go home, see you tomorrow" Tomoyo said

Sakura saw Tomoyo to the door and then she ran up to Touya's room and knocked on the door.

The door opened and Touya said "What do you want Kaijuu?"

"How many times have I told you not to call me that?" she asked "Anyway, get into your training clothes, we need to train"

"Where?" Touya asked

"At Syaoran's place, his sensei's gonna train us too"

Touya grumbled a bit then went back into his room to get changed into his training clothes.

Sakura ran to her room and quickly got changed into her training clothes.

She met Touya in the hallway and they told their Aunty where they'd be and Sakura ran next door and Touya followed her.

Sakura ran up the steps and was about to knock on the door when Syaoran opened it.

"Oh, hi Syaoran" Sakura said

"Hi Sakura, Touya" he said, trying to be polite to Touya "Come in, Wei's waiting for us downstairs" and led the way downstairs

"Is Eriol already here?"

"Hai, he's been here for awhile, he came after school"

They went down into the huge training room.

"Wow, this is so big" Sakura said

It had everything, gym mats, exercise machines, swords and a clear space for sparing.

"Okay, let's get started" Wei said

The four teens stood in a line in front of Wei.

"Okay, first you're going to spar in partners, Syaoran, you will spar with Touya and Eriol, with Sakura, okay?" when no one protested, they stood in front of their partners.

"Don't go easy on me cause I'm a girl" Sakura teased Eriol

"Don't worry, I won't" Eriol said and smiled

Syaoran and Touya didn't say anything; they were too busy giving each other death glares.

Sakura, Eriol and Wei sweatdropped.

"Hoeee, if looks could kill…" Sakura started to say, but stopped when Touya turned to glare at her.

"Come on, let's get started" Wei said

They stood in front of their partners and took a fighting stance.

On the word from Wei, they started sparing.

Sakura and Eriol were well matched, they kept on fighting, one would get the advantage and then the other would gain it back.

Touya and Syaoran were fighting desperately, it was probably mostly Touya, and Syaoran was just keeping up with him.  Touya never liked any guys around Sakura, he was too protective.

After about half an hour of furious sparing, Wei said "Okay, that's enough"

The four teens stopped at that and stood facing Wei, panting hard.

"That was good, Eriol, you need to work on your offensive a little more instead of keeping to defence all the time" Eriol nodded "And Sakura, you need to work on your defence" Sakura nodded "Touya, you need to work on your anger when you fight, you can't let your feelings show, otherwise your opponent will use them against you" Touya nodded reluctantly "Syaoran, you did well, you know what you need to work on" (actually I can't think of anything lol)

"Okay, now we'll work on strategy"

Author's Notes:

Man, this is hard work, please review, I like reviews.

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