Ok, sort of too tired to say a lot of stuff now. But I'll say this, you you guys never have to worry. I will never abandon my stories! Never. It may take me months, but I never will! However, if its been a while, and you have even e-mailed me, and gotten no response, then consider me dead. Then I give permission for someone to continue my stories. ^_^

Ok... good night. Hope you like this.... schools out ^_^.... I go to an anime convention friday.... oh look, its 6:04 in the morning

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"That's the future you, Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo yelled out.

"Hoe?" Sakura said looking back, and then looked at Hana again. "Hoeeeeeee!?"

Hana/Sakura was now looking back at her again with the awkward smile.

"Hana is the future me?!"

"Yes! And you and Li-kun make the most kawaii couple I've ever seen!!!" Tomoyo yelled.

'Couple?' Sakura looked back and forth between Hana/future her and Jin/Li-kun. Back, and forth, back and forth, and then to little Li-kun who was looking at her the reddest she had ever seen him.

"HOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" It just connected.

Tomoyo couldn't withhold her excitement. "Kawaii, Sakura-chan! I'm going to call this tape 'Small Meets Big!"

Hana/Sakura suddenly looked up from all the commotion and looked to the door. This was so not the time for it to happen. Why did a card have to appear now?

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Small Meets Big

Chapter 11

Umi, Umi, Umi, U-Nani?

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Syaoran (the older) gave her a look that said he sensed it too.

The room grew silent as the remaining two card captors sensed the presence as well.

Tomoyo paused recording, suddenly understanding why her subject were no longer moving. She took it to an advantage. "This is so monumental." She commented, starting to record once again. "The regular 'Sakura-chan and Li-kun sense a card' times two! I love this!"

The younger Sakura gave Tomoyo a look of 'she never gives up' while the other three continued to look about, senses on alert. Sakura continued to watch her friend as the sparkly eyes too affect. Most likely they were brought on by thoughts of more 'kawaii' scenes she would be recording with two Sakuras.

All heads suddenly turned to the window as a torrent of wind blew the branches of a tree outside. The older Syaoran then ran to the door, followed by his younger self, and the older her, the older Sakura. This was still two much for Sakura. They explained how it happened, but still...

"Its gone." The older Sakura said as she looked outside.

The card was gone.

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Sakura watched as the sun reflected off the ocean as the bus rounded yet another cliff. The sky was as blue as it could get, and the temperature was oh so nice. But why then, did she feel so miserable?

Beside her Tomoyo sat in the standard issue beach/field trip uniform, with her hair tired up in a pale purple srunchy. Every couple of minutes, as if on schedule, Tomoyo would shift her camera's target from the older version to the younger version of Sakura, or vise versa. It also seemed to Sakura that her friend was getting impatient with this way of recording.

"Oh Sakura-chan, I don't know how much more I can take of this." Sakura felt slightly better for a second that her suspicions were true. "I can't stop thinking that while in the time I'm recording Sakura-san, I'm missing something totally kawaii that your doing."

Ever since they discovered that "Hana" and "Jin" were Sakura's and Syaoran's future selves, to prevent any confusion while talking, the older ones would have the "san" prefix, while the younger Syaoran and herself kept "kun" and "chan." This made perfect sense to Sakura. They were older then them, but then again, did it count when it was your self? She wasn't going to get into that kind of stuff. Too confusing.

"You two should sit together so that it would be easier for me to film!" Tomoyo grinned at her wonderful idea.

"To.. Tomoyo..." Sakura uttered as she stared blanking into the camera lens shoved into her face, before it then again swiveled over to its previous subject, the older Sakura.

"Ohohoohooo!" Tomoyo suddenly squealed, causing Sakura to cringe. It couldn't be good. "Syaoran-san has his arm around Sakura-san's shoulder!"

That was a bit too loud...

A most of the students around them turned their heads back and forth, looking at the younger Sakura, then at the younger Syaoran, who sat way at the front of the bus. Then most of them gave Tomoyo a skeptical look, before returning to what they were doing. Sakura even thought she heard one of them say "Has Daidouji lost it?"

"She lost it a long time ago in the first grade when she first met Kinomotto-san."

"Tomoyo." Sakura whispered over to her friend who was still recording her older self. "You should keep it down with stuff like that!"

"I can't help it." She wasn't going to move her camera at all. "Seeing you two together like this is so cute! I just can't control myself sometimes." So what if the future Syaoran had his arm around her future self. That's just the sort of thing a boy friend would... what kind of boyfriend was Syaoran to her future sel-

"I'm gonna kill that gaki!" Sakura bag suddenly announced. Sakura wrapped her arms around the bag, trying to muffle the voice, and looked around to make sure no one heard. She had told Kero earlier about the future her and Syaoran, but she left out a minor detail. A detail that would of remained unknown if Tomoyo would shut up about it being so cute. Then maybe she would stop blushing for once that day, and then maybe-

"If I kill the gaki now, he'll never get the chance to ask you out."

Sakura turned a deep red as she began vigorously hitting the bag. She stopped and looked at the bag. Hopefully that would shut him up for a while. Sakura suddenly noticed the camera in her face. Tomoyo began giggling.

Sakura sat back into the seat, and looked at the window, trying to ignore Tomoyo. Why did Kero hate Syaoran anyway. And what business was it of his who she would eventually go out with. Her eyes fell on the younger Syaoran, who sat in the second row in the front of the bus. How could Syaoran possibly like her like that. There was a slight possibility that she could possibly admit to before, but now he wasn't even talking to her anymore. He was back to acting like when they first met. Yesterday after that card disappeared, he went home without a word. Then when he came to school, and she said her usual "Good morning" he ignored her. Did she do something without realizing it?

"Aww, Sakura, don't be so upset. I'm sure Li-kun is still in shock about the whole future thing. He'll be fine soon."

I hope so...

"He better stay as far away from her as possible if he wants even the smallest chance of surviving to puberty."

"Shut up Kero!" She yelled as she continued the recent pounding of the bag.

The bus was silent, and that was when Sakura noticed practically every one on it looking at her.

Sakura laughed nervously and ducked down into the seat.

Not only was that humiliating, but worse yet, the only one who wasn't looking at the spectacle she was making was Syaoran.

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"Ok class," Mr. Terenada projected his voice over the excited chatter of elementary school kids. "You've already received your cabin assignments, and your belongings are being taken to them. However, this year we'll be doing things differently on this school-beach trip. As you can see, girls have been separated from boys."

Every one shrugged this off. It was nothing new.

"During the course of the next three days, the opposite gender will be your rivals. There will be a number of activities and projects you will go through during this trip. Now I've talked it over with the teachers, and its been decided that the winning side will get..."

Mr. Terenada gave the dramatic pause so perfectly, that some students looked like they were about to fall over from leaning forward so much. He grinned. "Excused from all the summer break homework!"

There was a wave of cheers. Break homework was always a pain to everyone.

"Now let me finish." He continued. As soon as he said so, everyone became silent. "The winners will be determined by how many points the side has. Your side will receive one point for each activity you win, so it is essential you try your best in the activities.

Now the first activity will be the only activity today, since we have just gotten here, and were all starving. The goal is to make the best dishes to present before the teachers and fellow class mates. So in other words, its a cooking contest."

Mostly all the boys groaned.

"So since its for the whole class, each side need to make the total of about thirty servings. You have until dinner time, 7:00 o-clock. So get to it."

Everyone began dispersing, a lot of them boys with gloomy faces.

"Its not fair." Sakura heard one boy complain. "This is going to be a girl win, hands down! I don't know how to cook anything but instant foods!"

"Sakura-chan, you can cook some, right?" Chiharu asked as she met up with her.

"Some." Sakura answered.

"You know," Yamazaki suddenly appeared behind Chiharu. "Cooking contest started over 1,000 years ago with iron blacksmiths who had to cook in their smith fires. The problem was that they could only cook for a very little time in their smit-"

"Shut up Yamazaki!" Chiharu yelled before smacking him in the head and dragging him off.

"fire. Their companions and them eventually had to come up with very quick recipes, or their food would burn. Eventually it led to the cooking rivalry known as Iron Chef!"

"That's a lie, right?" Sakura asked as she watched to two walk off.

Naoko turned to Sakura. "It has been years now, and you haven't been able to figure these things out yet?"

"Sometimes I worry about Sakura's future." Rika added.

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Sakura feel onto the bottom bunk with a soft "thunk." The boy side had won the cooking contest. The girls were humiliated, or at least most were. The reasons to the girl's lost were several.

First, every time Sakura ran into Syaoran, say to get a pot filled with water, or to get a daicon radish, Syaoran treated her like when they first met; with a "mild" glare and without saying a word, or he just plain ignored her.

::FLASH::

Sakura: Oh, hi Li-kun! Do you need to use some of this pepper?

Syaoran: ::Ignore::

MINUTES LATER

Sakura: Can I use that pot?

Syaoran: ::passes pot with out a word, or looking at her::

::END FLASH BACK::

That behavior got Sakura to thinking about what was wrong with their friendship. The problem here was she was thinking about it while she was cooking. The result? A ruined tempura batter, and over cooked vegetables. They had to replace Sakura's part of the meal with rice balls made by Rika.

Another reason to their loss? Never go into a cooking competition if you know Li Syaoran is entering it. Thanks to him and his remarkable Chinese dishes, the boys produced meals worthy of a cooking show. In fact, Sakura betted Syaoran could start his own cooking show.

"Hey, Sakura."

One by one the girls walked into the cabin. Luckily, they had all been assigned the same cabin-mates as last time.

"Guess what I know?" Naoko smiled mischievously as she sat down on her bed.

"What?"

"Remember the cave story last year?"

Sakura didn't like where this was heading...

"Yeah!" Rika answered enthusiastically.

Naoko smile grew, and she gained a smug look. "Well I did some more research on the area, and I found tons of old stories! Ghost and more!"

"Hoee...."

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Sakura sat next to Syaoran on the sand. The stars were just starting to show.

"Do you feel better, Syaoran?"

"Yeah, I think the ocean air is helping."

Sakura leaned back, into the sand, and watched the full moon. The rice balls were really appropriate tonight. (Authors note: Its sort of a tradition in Japan to eat rice balls on nights there is a full moon. Why? Rice balls look like moons I guess.) "I still can't believe you'd play such a mean joke on yourself."

"Well believe it. It happened."

"Why would you do something like that?"

"I don't know for sure, but I think he's mad at me."

Sakura looked at Syaoran confused. "Mad?"

Syaoran sighed. "I'll explain it to you later."

That was a good enough answer, she supposed. Sakura went back to laying in the sand.

"Ok." She responded. "Well, anyway, I'm glad Tomoyo was recording you at the time. Your facial expression when you took a bite of some of that Dim Sum... it was hilarious. If I hadn't been so worried at the time, I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from laughing."

"So he didn't put any on your dish?"

"Nope. But even if he did, I don't think I'd react like you did. I think at least half the staff were staring at you."

"Yeah well, it was all over the disk. Totally covering it. Of course, I didn't think much of it, because he blended it in perfectly with the sauce. There was so much that when I ate that bit of it, all I could taste was IT.

"Well, I guess only you could think of doing that to yourself. I didn't know you disliked the stuff. It makes sense though; only you know your own, true weakness." Sakura smiled. "And now I do too."

Syaoran gave her a side glance. She was smiling happily. "Don't get any ideas."

"I wouldn't dream of it!" She grinned. "However, I wonder what Eriol would do if Tomoyo ever showed him that tape..."

Syaoran cringed at the thought.

"And I wonder another thing too..." Sakura continued. "Where would your younger self of gotten that Yam jelly. I didn't think our school would supply something like that."

(Authors note: A little info on Syaoran here. According to CLAMP, Syaoran's favorite food is Dim Sum, and his least favorite, most hated food item is Yam jelly.)

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"Hoeeeeeeee!" Sakura yelled as she grabbed on to Tomoyo. Naoko had just finished another ghost story, and Sakura didn't think she could survive much more of this.

"No more ghost stories! Please?!" Sakura begged, still with a death grip on the happily smiling Tomoyo. "Don't you know something other then ghost stories?"

The girl with the glasses looked to Sakura, thoughtful. "Well, there was this one, nice love-type story I liked-"

"Tell that one!"

"Ok." Naoko grinned, and all the girls curled up in their blankets closer. They didn't remember Naoko telling something like a love story.

"A long time ago... say... Oh about 300 years ago, there was a village. In fact the same village that the story of the vampire cat took place in!" Naoko pointed out.

"Don't go back to that, please!" Sakura hid herself under the covers again. According to Naoko, the village used to be right where the camp was located, and that even in this century, there had been deaths of people in the area by the "vampire cat."

Naoko reassured the scared girl. "Don't worry Sakura, I won't.

"Anyway, there was a boy and girl, a bit older then us, but not by too much. They had been best friends since they were young, and that friendship even blossomed to the point of love, but neither of them had admitted it.

So anyway, one day, on a dark and stormy night, an old Kuro Miko came into the village. (Author translation: Kuro Miko - a evil or dark Shinto priestess) This Miko was collecting the souls of young girls to keep her youth and beauty, and it turned out that since the village was so small, the girl was the only young one in it, so the girl was the miko's target. This would of been fairly simple to get, because most of the time, because to get a soul, you'd just need to kill the person. But the Miko needed souls of girls who drowned in despair. I don't remember the reason why.

Anyway, after watching the girl for a while, she knew that the boy was always watching out for the girl, and she was seldom left alone. She knew she had to get him out of the way, so se got her familiar, and mean old big ugly white snake, to slip its poisonous venom into his food one day. Within an hour the boy was sick.

No one knew what was wrong with him, and were scared to catch it sickness, so they didn't help. At first, the girl took care of him. His parents had died when he was very young, so there was no one else to take care of him. But then the girls parents feared she too would get sick if she continued to take care of him, so they forbid her to continue.

So just being told she couldn't help him, she ran to the ocean and wept The nights clouds where dark purple, and the waves huge because soon a storm would start. This is when the Kuro Miko approached her.

"Young girl," the Miko said. "I've seen this before, and I know the cure. Only a person who is closest to the victim of the sickness can help. That person is you, is it not?"

The girl nodded, listening intently to the woman.

"Good. This is what they did to cure the people. They had to go to the nearest tori (Author translation: those cool little gates at Shinto temples and in the water. They are supposed to be something like spiritual gates to heaven or something. Sorry, I don't know too much about shintoism.) place their hands on it, and pray, sending their prayers strait through the gate to the gods. Then, if the gods are willing, they will cure the person. It is the only way."

The girl believed every word, and looked out to the water. There was the towns main tori, and the one closest to where the boy lived. Slowly the girl walked out to the water, shed of her outer kimono, and began wading out into the water. The waves were getting bigger, the water deeper, and soon the girl was struggling to keep her head above the water as she swam out to the tori.

The boy, however, sensed something was wrong. He ran out of his house, and saw someone was swimming in the stormy waters. Looking more closely, he knew it was the girl. He ran out there, and immediately began swimming after her, because he knew the water were dangerous, and that the girl wasn't a good swimmer to begin with.

The guy soon swam all the way over there, and grabbed the girls hand right when she got the tori. But as soon as he did get her hand, a big wave came and they both drowned!"

All girls in the room got anime sweat drops. Naoko had practically shouted the last part in an attempt of a better effect. It didn't work.

"Anyway, the two died together, and since they died right at a tori, the gods knew about their death real fast, and about what the Miko tried to do. They punished the Miko then and there with a thunder bolt, and killed her. Now, rumor has it you can go to that tori, place your hand on it, and when you make a wish about a relationship with a guy, the guy and girl who died there will help make it come true!"

The whole room was silent Sakura wasn't sure, but she suspected everyone had the same idea too; Naoko needed to practice telling love stories more.

"That was... it was a nice story." Chiharu grinned.

"Y.. yeah." Tomoyo added.

"I thought you guys might like it!" Naoko smiled sweetly.

"At least it wasn't a ghost story ." Sakura mumbled.

"I wouldn't say that completely." Tomoyo said. "It sounded like at the end, that those two people are haunting the tori."

"You know..." Naoko looked thoughtful. "I think your right Tomoyo."

"Hoeeee!" Sakura jumped on her bed, and pulled her pillow over her head. Something fell from her bed and onto the floor, where Chiharu picked it up.

"Oh! You brought your kawaii lion cub plushy!"

Sakura looked from under her pillow at Chiharu, who was currently squeezing Kero into a hug. Sakura almost forgot how much Chiharu liked plush toys.

"I wish I would of bought one when the story had some." Chiharu commented, looking at Kero who was trying his best to play the "stuffed toy."

"If you want, I can get one from my mother. Her company makes them." Tomoyo, of course.

"Really?!"

"Hey guys!" Rika suddenly yelled from on top of a bunk. She was currently looking out a window. "Come and see this!"

One by one the girls gathered on top of the bunk and looked out the window. First up there was Tomoyo, and instantly her camera appeared in her hands.

"Geeze!" Chiharu climbed up with them followed by Naoko. "You think she was filming Sakura with such enthusiasm!"

Tomoyo giggled, and that's when Sakura had a strong suspicion of what they were looking at.

"Aww, they're so cute." One of them commented.

"Oh my god, Sakura!" Tomoyo yelled out from behind her camera. "You have to see this! Hana just pushed Jin into the water!"

I don't want to look. Sakura stayed on her bunk, rooted.

"Ohohohohoooo!" Tomoyo started giggling, and soon the others were too. "I need to get closer!" Tomoyo suddenly announced. Every one in the room gaped at her.

"You can't truly be serious." Rika called after Tomoyo as the girl jumped down off the bunk, and hurriedly began putting on her shoes. "We'll get in trouble if we're caught spying on them!" But as she spoke, Rika was getting off the bunk, and heading for her shoes as well.

"I want to go too!"

"I'm coming!"

"Hoeeee."

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"What did you do that for?" A very wet Syaoran asked as he wiped water from his face and looked to the grinning Sakura.

"Well," she leaned over to get closer. "You said you felt better, and you were just there... and.... and it was hard to resist!"

"Your never going to grow up, are you?"

Sakura grinned in response, leaning even closer. Syaoran suddenly smiled, deviously.

"Well, resist this then." The grabbed onto her arm, and pulled her down with a splash.

"Hoeeeeeeee!"

Sakura sat up in the knee deep water and faced Syaoran, who was grinning.

"Now we're even." He said.

Sakura smiled innocently, before pouncing at him in an attempt to duck him, but her grabbed her and spun her around, restraining her an a strong hold she couldn't get out of, facing away from him.

"I should of known better."

"Ummhmm." He answered.

She felt his head nudge hers to the side and she stretched out her neck as he began kissing her delicately, at the same time loosening his hold.

"Be careful." She warned. "I don't want to have to explain a hikki to Terenada-sensei tomorrow."

Syaoran smiled in between kisses.

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Onshore, under the safe underbrush of several bushes sat five little girls, four of them eagerly watching the couple.

"This is so cute!"

"Don't you think its gotten a.... a bit heavy for us to watch?"

"What's wrong, Rika? This is very educational for us!" Chiharu responded. "It could come in handy in the future!"

"I don't think so..."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that Rika...." Naoko butted in. "I bet Chiharu can't wait till tomorrow where she can try this out on Yamazaki." She snickered.

"I would never do that with Yamazaki!"

"Why not?"

"We... we're too young."

Sakura sat, her back facing them. She did not need to see her and Syaoran... kissing! And why did they have to talk about it so much? Every time one of them commented, she was sure she grew redder.

How in the world would she and Syaoran end up like that? She loved Yukito... and so did Syaoran! How did they go from that to each other?

A few more giggles erupted from the girls, and even a "Oh my." Sakura turned a shade of darker red. She froze when she heard Tomoyo go "All right Sakura-chan!" How could Tomoyo be so careless with something like that?! Hopefully the others didn't notice the slip.

Movement in the corner of her eye caught Sakura's attention. There, not too far off in the tree, was Ms. Mitzuki. Was she watching... it too?

Mitzuki turned her head to Sakura, and with a smile, winked at Sakura.

SHE KNEW!

Sakura spun away, even more embarrassed. Why was this happening to her. This didn't happed to normal people! Normal people don't see their future selves kissing a future self of a present friend!

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Sakura had her arms wrapped around his neck and pulled in closer as they kissed. She didn't think he was regretting being pushed into the water anymore so much. The broke apart for a moment, but then Syaoran spotted something past her, and frowned.

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"Tomoyo! He's looking this way!" Chiharu said as she started grabbing onto the filming girl.

"Shhh or he'll hear you!"

"It doesn't matter now..." Rika said and pointed towards the couple. Everyone watched in horror as "Jin" began walking towards them.

"What is it, Syaoran?" The older Sakura called out.

Crap! Sakura thought to herself. Why'd she have to use his name? She could tell by the confused looks on the girls faces that they didn't miss it.

"I thought I saw the reflection of a camera lens!" He yelled back to her.

Everyone automatically glared at Tomoyo, who smiled back meekly.

The branches near them began rustling as he approached, and Sakura closed her eyes, willing to disappear. There was total silence after a moment, and slowly Sakura looked up. There the older Syaoran was looking down at them with a not so happy expression.

A second later, the older Sakura walked up next to him. "Oh...." She said seeing them, eyes going wide.

"Ughh... Hi Hana and Jin-sensei!" Naoko smiled, standing up. Slowly everyone else followed her example. "Nice night for a walk, isn't it?"

"We'll, we better be going back to our cabin now." Tomoyo joined in. "Its rather late now." Slowly Tomoyo was backing up, and suddenly grabbed onto Sakura's hand. all the girls ran off, Tomoyo dragging Sakura, leaving a surprised couple behind.

Everyone was breathing hard when they reached the cabin.

"I don't think they are following us." Chiharu announced, looking out the window.

Rika looked around worriedly. "Won't we get in trouble?"

"Nope." Tomoyo smiled, happily she sat down on her bed and begun re-playing her newly recorded S+S moment through her camera. "They'd be too embarrassed to explain the reason of what we were watching."

Sakura fell onto her bunk, face into pillow. Next to her was Kero, stiff as a toy.

I knew we were going to be caught.

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Kaho Mitzuki smiled to herself as she watched the older couple walked off.. Things were going to go from interesting to entertaining.