Now or Never
Disclaimer : I don't own Card Captor Sakura or any of the characters
" - Someone speaking
' ' - Someone thinking
"Syaoran? Syaoran! Earth to Syaoran!" said Sakura Avalon, a teenager with shoulder length amber hair and emerald green eyes. She tapped him on the shoulder and his head shot up from the book he was reading.
"AH! Oh, Sakura-Chan, it's just you," he said as he ran his fingers through his short brown hair.
"Fell asleep again?" she asked as she grabbed the old taped up book from his clutch and looked at the title.
"No, I was reading until someone so rudely interrupted me," he said as he glared at Sakura and grabbed his book back.
"Werewolves? Why on Earth are you reading a book about werewolves?" Sakura asked as she messed up his hair.
"They interest me alright?" he replied abruptly.
"Ok, ok, just wondering," Sakura said innocently.
Sakura pulled a chair over to his table and rested her head on her hands, quietly observing Syaoran. Just then a girl with long purple hair walked into the library and looked around.
"Tomoyo-Chan! Over here!" Sakura said loudly as she swung her arm in the air.
"Sakura-Chan! I couldn't find you anywhere. I should have known you were with Syaoran-Kun," she said, grinning, until Sakura kicked her hard.
"Ow! What was that for?!" she yelped out in pain.
Sakura glared at her and Tomoyo sat down at their table.
"So what have you all been up to?" Tomoyo asked as she took a strand of her purple hair and tucked it behind her ear.
"Studying," Syaoran muttered. He looked up briefly and then went back to reading his book.
"I think we've lost him," Sakura giggled as she poked him.
Tomoyo watched Sakura poke Syaoran and started to smirk. As soon as Sakura noticed, she stopped.
"So Syaoran, I was thinking of dying my hair hot pink and cutting it into a mohawk" said Tomoyo sarcastically.
"Mm-hm," he replied, not once looking up from his book.
"Syaoran!" Sakura shouted.
"What?!" he yelled back.
"Could you put the book down for one second?" she asked.
He put the bookmark in the book and shut it.
"Daijoubi-san invited us to stay at their cottage this weekend," said Sakura.
"Without adults," Tomoyo added.
"Cool," he replied.
"Cool?! This is great! One whole weekend without adults!" Sakura squealed.
"Or brothers," Tomoyo added as she winked at Sakura.
"I don't think Tori would have volunteered to spend a weekend in a cottage with 3 hyper-active teenagers," Sakura replied.
"Man, Syaoran-kun's totally out of it today," said Tomoyo as she looked at him with his head in his hand staring at the ceiling.
"Tell me about it. Wait, I have an idea," Sakura said as she started to whisper something into Tomoyo's ear. Sakura got up from her chair, whispered something into Syaoran's ear and walked out of the library, giggling. Tomoyo looked at Syaoran's face go red and started giggling too.
"Care to explain yourself?" he asked Tomoyo. She tried to keep a straight face, but failed miserably.
"Did it wake you up?" she asked him.
"Yes it did," he replied, going as red as a ripe tomato.
"You like her don't you?" Tomoyo taunted.
"What are you talking about?" he stuttered, going even redder.
"You do like her!" Tomoyo squealed, "Come on, admit it!"
"N..n...o..." he stuttered.
Tomoyo took one look at his face and knew instantly that he was lying. Syaoran went an even deeper shade of red and ran out of the room.
* * *
"Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan! Wait up!" Tomoyo shouted as she saw Sakura walking in the dark bushy forest.
"Hey Tomoyo-chan! Did it work?" Sakura asked her.
"Oh, more than you can imagine.." Tomoyo replied.
"What?" Sakura asked.
"Hey, have you heard of that new Italian restaurant?" Tomoyo asked Sakura.
"Yeah...I guess so," she responded sounding confused.
"Good. I'm going there tomorrow, want to come?" Tomoyo said.
"Sure, sound's fun!" replied Sakura.
"Ok! Tomorrow. Seven o'clock. La Festa. Be there!" Tomoyo winked at Sakura and walked away.
* * *
Tomoyo rushed home and picked up her phone. She flipped through her address book until she got to 'L'. She dialled Syaoran's number and he picked up the phone.
"Hello?" he asked.
"Hey Syaoran it's Tomoyo. Meet me at La Festa tomorrow at seven o'clock sharp," she said and she immediately hung up. Syaoran stood still for a second, his mind too busy to focus on sitting. He was going to go too. Tomoyo might have something important to tell him. Something real important.
* * *
Syaoran looked at his clock. Eleven fifty-nine P.M. He sprung from his bed and ran outside. The cold pierced through his skin. Midnight. He stood there as his body changed. His nose turned into the nose of a werewolf. Long, with a wet black nose on the end. His eyes changed from brown to blood red. His ears became brown, furry ears. His legs and arms turned into paws. Within ten seconds, he was a werewolf. He sniffed the cold winter air and suddenly sprang into the forest, at lightning speed. He ran until he got to the north-west corner of the forest. There stood approximately ten werewolves.
"I'm glad you could make it, Li-kun."
