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Chapter 11 - The Card Mistress






I walked around the familiar neighborhood. I cannot believe that I still remember this whole place. It's like I've been living here my whole life. It's been three years... nothing's changed. Wow... lucky me!! ^_^



I looked around and my eyes eventually found a clock. Up high in a tall building. Strange. I shrugged. Oh well. It is almost 3:00. Card Mistress Sakura should be coming home soon. Ah, here she comes.





"Hoeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?!!! OH HINA-CHAN!!!!!" Sakura almost ran into Hinako. Then she hugged her, making it feel like she ran over Hinako anyway. "Ungh... Car- I mean, Sakura-san... I'm happy to see... you too but... my... stomach..."



"Hoee, gomen ne!!"



Hinako smiled. "That's alright. Well, how's everything been while I was gone?"



Sakura looked at her. "We thought you were gone!!" She sniffed a little and Hinako felt really guilty. "But then later 'nii-chan became more less grouchy again." she smiled. Hinako blinked. 'What did she just say?'



"Hehe," Sakura sweatdropped, "Gomen, I'm just babbling, but 'nii-chan seemed better." She smiled to show that no harm was done and Hinako felt a little better. But if she made Touya cry before... she tried to shrug it off. After all, what's past is past.



"Let's go!! Heehee!!" Sakura skated back to her home, then circled back to Hinako to make sure that she would make it to Kinomoto residence. Hinako had to smile though. Sakura was still her angelic innocent self full of genki spirit Sakura style! ^_^



They walked in the front door. "Otou-san!!! Hinako-chan came back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sakura yelled at the bottom of the stairs. Aah, Clow-sama's look-a-like. I smiled. He came down the stairs and I ran up and hugged him. "Konnichiwa!!! I missed everyone!! How are you? Did anything happen while I was gone? Are you busy? Can I help?"



Fujitaka-san smiled. "Ah, I'm glad you're back also Hinako-san. Actually, since Touya isn't home yet, we'll have a little extra quiet time we can use to clean the house." Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Card Mistress shudder. I giggled. "Oh, nothing. I'll help ^_^!" I said, to answer his questioning gaze. "Okay, let's get started. Sakura, maybe you should go to Tomoyo's house for a while so we can really get some cleaning done." Sakura and I wondered how badly the house needed to be clean because if she had to leave... o_O ... oh well. I smiled and went to the bathroom to get some rags and cleaning agent.








[3 hours later...]
"Ahh... I think we need to celebrate Hinako-san."



I looked around at the house we were standing in. It was sparkly clean, JUST LIKE THE PICTURE ON THE CLEANING LIQUID! ^_^ I heard some sounds in the kitchen and I went in to see what Fujitaka was doing.



"Huh? What are you doing?"



Fujitaka smiled. "Making some lemonade. And let's make some brownies!" I looked at the clean, sparkly oven. "Hm... do you think that it'll become dull again? I mean it's so soon after we cleaned."



"No... ^_^ it usually lasts a while."


"Okay! Then I'll get started ^_^." I got the ingredients and started to make the brownies. I suppose lemonade tastes good with brownies. I'm not sure as I haven't ever tried it before. But I guess there's a first for everything ^_^.



"Oh, Fujitaka-san?"



"Yes?"



"Shouldn't we call ca-Sakura-san?"



"Oh yes... yes we should... I'll go do that right now."


Fujitaka called Tomoyo's house and told Sakura to come back. And to get Touya. When I heard Fujitaka-san saying Touya's name, my heart skipped a beat. 'Oh no... what if... ?'


"Oh no Sakura... you shouldn't say that about your onii-chan. ----- Well, he still should come home. And remember, Hinako-san is here with us again. ----- Okay, thank you Sakura. I'll see you soon." Fujitaka hung up.


"Oh, gomen nasai, Fujitaka-san for taking up so much space." I bowed. He chuckled. "You can always stay here with us for as long as you want, whenever you want. You don't take up space. Besides, you help out in our home also." Somehow, Fujitaka-san always manages to make me feel better. Card Mistress and Touya are very lucky to have him as a father. Oh yes- Touya's coming home soon... oh no oh no oh no...


Suddenly the door opened. "Hello?"


"Hello, Sakura-san." I called out. I didn't come out, the brownies were almost done anyway, but I heard the door come back to a close as I heard Sakura-san go back out and yell, "Onii-chan, Hinako-chan's still here!!!!!"


My hands started to shake and sweat a little bit. I hope nothing is wrong. Fujitaka tapped my shoulder. I turned around, still nervous. "Don't worry." he said smiling. "Just be sure to be careful." Then he started walking back upstairs. I stood there, wondering what he could mean.



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ah i finished the chap... yay ^_^ now i'll go work on another fic... hehe