Oui, summmmmmmmeeeer. I love summer. Don't you? ^_^
Sorry about my last chapter's little intro. I was seriously about to start falling asleep when I finished the chapter, and wanted to get it out as soon as possible. I forgot all about stuff I wanted to say like "Sorry I made the card in the last chapter just "disappear". I was stumped with what to do there, so I just skipped it. Oh well, my story." ^_^
Convention was great. I bought a big giant Inu-Yasha Plushy! Its so cute. But what really pisses me off is that it seems Japan does not realize how much of a money maker they are missing. I look through the whole con, and I didn't really find anything of Syaoran. No little pins, no cute plushy, no posters, no anything! I want a Syaoran plushy! And a pin! Its not fair. But anyway, con was nice. I got to see the live action Tokyo Babylon movie, and OH! If any of you out there like other CLAMP shows, you will absolutely LOVE their newest, CHOBITS! Its adorable, and not in the cute Cardcaptor Sakura kind. ::hint:: Quoting the kawaii Chi "Hedeki Hentai!" But I will always love Cardcaptor Sakura, and I think it will always remain my #2 anime.
I'll try to post the next Syaoran Yasha chapter soon. Sorry that's taking so long, it usually doesn't. But I'm just really trying to start turning it from the main Inu Yasha plot. I'm tired of having the same exact stuff happening.
Ok, well bye now. And promise not to flame me about Syaoran in this chapter until you read, ugh, the chapter completely. ::is afraid of getting flames for a certain thing::
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"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.
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Small Meets Big
Umi Umi Umi... Syaoran
(I'm not really creative with my titles, am I?)
Chapter 12
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"Hey Sakura, coming to breakfast?" Rika looked at the usually energetic girl who lay on the bunk staring at the bottom of the bunk above her. Immediately Sakura sat up and smiled at Rika.
She had just figured out what she was going to do.
"Yeah, in a minute Rika." Sakura grinned as she watched Rika leave, then looked at her bed to make sure Kero was asleep. He was snoring soundly.
She quietly climbed off the bed, and began to search her bag. There on the bottom was the plastic bag she was looking for. Ever so slowly, she tried to pull it out without making a sound. However, this didn't work very well, it being plastic, and the ever familiar crinkle filled the cabin.
Exactly 3.5 seconds later, Kero was up and staring at Sakura.
"What are you doing, Sakura-chan?"
"Noting." She answered as she slowly stood up, bag hidden behind her.
"That wouldn't happen to be my bag of sweet tasty candies behind you, would it?"
Sakura smiled, she couldn't really say "no".
"What were you planning on doing with that?"
Sakura continued to smile as she began searching for a chocolate bar with the little time she had left. It only made a louder noise.
"Sakuraaaaaaa...." He growled.
She finally grabbed one, and tossed the bag back at Kero before running out the door, making sure she shut it behind her.
"Give me back my chocolate bar!" Kero yelled from behind the door. To bad for him he knew he couldn't come out.
Quickly, Sakura headed for where breakfast and the rest of the class was.
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'Jin-sensei' continued to glare at the four little girls as they sat, eating their breakfast of pancakes and other things. They tried not to look like it, but he knew they could sense him glaring at them, and he was glad. If he could make them uncomfortable for spying on him and Sakura last night, by all means he would try.
There was an obvious elbow to his side and he broke his glaring concentrating to face Sakura.
"You don't need to do that."
"But I want to. Unless you want me to think of other ways to get back at them."
Sakura loaded her plate with pancakes. "How old are you again?"
"Who was it last night declaring they will never act their age?" He responded.
"Fine. Go on glaring at them. But I bet you Terenada-sensei will catch on eventually, and he'll probably think your some weird pervert or something." She took in a forkful of pancake after saying so.
Syaoran porpped his head on his hand, and decided not to glare at girls anymore. Although he didn't see how glaring at girls would make someone a pervert.
Movement to the side caught his eye, and he watched as the younger Sakura took her seat next to the other girls. Sakura late for a pancake breakfast. Its Almost as odd as Kero being late for one.
He felt another jab in the ribs.
"I'm not glaring at them anymore." He loudly whispered back.
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"You know, pancakes were originally-"
Syaoran automatically shut out Yamazaki's usual chatter. He wasn't in the mood. In fact, he felt unusually, what was the word? Oh yeah, grouchy.
In the corner of his eye he spotted Sakura sit down next to Tomoyo. When she began to look his way, he made sure he had his head turned and was looking in the opposite direction.
"Li-kun, are you mad a Kinomotto-san for some reason." Yamazaki asked, finally getting through to Syaoran.
Syaoran gave Yamazaki a side glance. Was it really that obvious? Good. Then maybe even Sakura was getting the message. "No." He answered.
"You sure?" Yamazaki began grinning. "You know, you can always talk to me if your having problems with girls."
"I am not having problems with girls. In fact, I think I'm doing just fine with the matter."
"What, you got a girlfriend?!" Suddenly Yamazaki seemed to become enlightened. "Sakura..." It was more of a statement then a question.
"No, I DO NOT have a girl friend, and if I did, it wouldn't be her."
"Oh yeah, that's right, your engaged to your cousin." He said it as if it was the most normal thing in the world. "Arranged marriages are always a bother, aren't they?"
Syaoran grimaced at the mention of her.
Yamazaki still looked at Syaoran with curious expression as Syaoran decided on the eggs over the pancakes.
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"Ohayou class!" Terenada yelled out to the crowd surrounding him. "You all ready to gain more points?"
There was a loud affirmative yell in response.
"Ok! Our first activity for the day is a relay race! Each side is to pick four people for running, then another for swimming. First team to have the swimmer reach Mitzuki-san out in the water, wins the point! Now start discussing among your selves about who will be the players. You have until eleven o'clock today, and that's when we'll start the race!"
Next to him, Syaoran heard someone move behind him. Then there was a tug at his sleeve.
"Ughh, Li-kun... can I talk to you privately for a minute?"
Syaoran was surprised for a second, then quickly turned around with a stern face. Sakura was there, hands behind her back, looking at her feet.
"Please?" She asked again.
Around him the students were already starting group together, but he suspected it would be another couple of minutes before they really became organized.
"Fine."
She led him off behind the closest tree, which was thoroughly surrounded by bushes. As soon as they where out of view, she spun around, and held out something in front of her.
"Here." She said, eyes still to her feet. "Its... its to say I'm sorry."
Syaoran blink a bit bewildered at the chocolate bar she held out to him. "So... sorry for what?"
"For whatever I did to cause you to act differently to me..." Her head lifted some, but she wasn't looking at him.
She was actually offering him chocolate as an apology when she didn't do anything. "Sakura...." What was he going to say? He had to do something... He leaned back against the tree. and looked at his own feet. "You...." He had to say something. "A candy bar wont help me." He knew she was looking at him now, so he avoided eye contact with her completly. "I... I just..." Could he say it? "I just don't want anything to do with you anymore.."
There was a long pause without a sound until...
"Wha... what?" She clearly didn't expect that response.
"I... I'm done here! Ok? I was only..." he hoped to god she couldn't see his face. "There's no reason for me to pretend to be your friend anymore.." He could feel his hands become fist. "All the cards are captured. I... I lost. There's no reason for me to even talk to you anymore."
"Pre... pretend?" She practically whispered it, and it tore at him. "You...you only pretended to be my friend?" She sounded like she was about to cry at any minute.
He couldn't answer her. All he could do was lower his head more.
Sakura took a step forward. "You... you can't be telling the truth. All this time, you... you were just pretending? You never once considered me your friend? Never?!" She came right up to him, and he couldn't help but look her in the eye. She was crying. "You have to be lying. It... It can't be true!"
He turned away from her. "I'm... not lying. I never was... your friend, and... and I was only using you so I could get a chance at the cards!"
A moment later a few twigs snapped, and he listened to her run away.
Syaoran slid down till he was sitting on the ground, placed his head in his hands. He paused for a second, and brought a hand in front of his eyes. It was wet. He was actually crying.
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Sakura walked around some more, behind trees this time. Her younger self was missing. She had already looked in the cabin, where Kero had nothing to say but stuff about candy, and then after the rant about candy, he started questioning her about what exactly happened between her and Syaoran on all those Cardcaptor missions when he wasn't there.
Suddenly, while rounding one of the cabins, Sakura heard a sound. It sounded like someone crying. Sakura quickly found the source sitting behind a tree. There she was, six years younger, and crying.
"Sakura, what's wrong?" She asked her younger self.
The girl jumped in surprise, and quickly began whipping her face as she stood up.
"Its nothing Ha... Hana-san."
"But why are you crying then?" The older girl leaned over to be eye level with the younger girl.
"L..." She looked away from her older self as she whipped the rest of her hears off her sleeve. "A wasp... or maybe it was a bee. I don't really know which, but one stung me.... But I'm alright now." Sakura forced a smile to the older girl.
A smile the older one knew all too well.
"Ok. Well Tomoyo-chan and the others are looking everywhere for you. I think they want you to be the swimmer."
"They do?"
The older Sakura nodded and smiled. "Yep. I think everyone thinks your the best swimmer for the girl's side."
"Oh." The younger girl responded. "Well, I guess I better go find them... thanks." she began to walk in the direction of the beach, but suddenly stopped. "H... Hana-sensei?"
"Hmmm?"
"Is... Is Li-kun the swimmer for the boy's side?"
The older Sakura paused before answering. There was no doubt now. "No, K.. Kinomoto-san. Li-kun was asked, but he didn't want to."
"Oh." Sakura said before running off.
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"Ok, ready..." Terenada had an arm up, and a whistle in his mouth. A second later the loud whistle was heard, and the relay race begun. Sakura watched as two students she didn't know very well, began running to their goal, a good quarter mile away, up a hill.
"This is starting to be bad." She said.
"What is? " Syaoran responded as he watched the young girl take the lead. "The race, or other things."
"Other things." She paused before continuing in a low voice. "I found the younger me crying. I never cried on this trip, and I never was stung by a bee like she claimed."
"Do you know what happened?" He looked at Sakura.
"I... I suspect it had something to do with you. Younger you that is. I think... I don't know what I think, but what ever it was, I found myself crying, because of it."
Syaoran was silent for a while. "I'll talk with him."
"Do you know what he did?"
"... Maybe."
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Syaoran sat about 50 yards away from the water's edge, and Sakura. The whole class was waiting for the runners to get there so the final part of the race, the swimming part, would get going.
So he had blushed at her in the past. That didn't account for much. People blush when they're embarrassed, didn't they? It didn't mean he actually liked her.
Syaoran slouched down more, and rested her head on his knees. But why was he feeling so miserable now?
Sakura began looking his way again, and he lowered his eyes.
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Tomoyo lowered the camera, and looked with concern at Sakura. Something had to have happened. Sakura looked sadder, and Syaoran's attitude had changed from rude to... to depressed. And just now when Sakura looked at him... Something must of happened between them, and she missed it.
But... it didn't seem like something she would of called cute.
Tomoyo looked over at Syaoran, a bit mad. Why'd he have to act like such a jerk.
She would just have to devise a way to make things back to what she knew as normal.
There were loud cheers as a boy and a girl suddenly appeared running, and heading strait for the two players waiting at the water. It was time to tape Sakura, even if she was upset.
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Sakura prepare to get in the water as Hotaru, the last runner for the girl's side, approached. The short but fast girl slowed down a bit after getting on the sand, but managed to stay ahead of the boy's runner, and tag Sakura's hand, starting her turn.
Sakura waded quickly out till the water reached up to her knees, and dived in, hearing to boy's swimmer just getting in the water. She could hear cheers and shouts from the shore, but concentrated everything on reaching Ms. Mitzuki. Quickly she swam through the water, taking stroke after stroke, trying not to think of anything but her goal of one of her favorite teachers.
Sakura suddenly noticed there where a lot of shots of "Sakura!" from the shore, and she looked above the water for a second to see the had swam past Ms. Mitzuki, who was smiling at her a good ten yards away. Not to far, the boy's swimmer was catching up.
Sakura immediately began swimming again, swimmer her fastest towards the teacher. Finally she grabbed the teacher's hand and broke to the surface. Four seconds later, the boy swimmer reached them.
"Good job, the both of you." The teacher smiled.
Sakura managed to smile back, and looked back to the beach were a crowd of girls had gathered, already chanting her name. It was a nice long swim back. Out to the side, away from the girls, Syaoran still sat, but she couldn't see anything more, she was too far off.
Did he mean it?
Overhead Sakura heard a squawk, and she turned her head to watch a sea gull land on the red wood of the tori. The tori was only a few yard away, but up close it looked bigger then she assumed it was. In fact, it looked as high as a one story house, and that was the part above the water.
The bird was joined by another gull, and Sakura's eyes grew wide as the Tori seemed to glow for a few seconds.
Naoko's voice found it's self in the back of her head. "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!"
"I wonder if that's true..."
Sakura looked back the shore. Syaoran was no longer sitting where he was.
"Sakura!" She could hear them yelling for her.
She took one last glace at the tori before beginning to swim back. Could she have imagined it glowing?
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"Sakura won it for us!" Tomoyo cheered. "We finally have a point!" She had her camera centered on Sakura as a few of the other girls got her a towel.
"You know," Chiharu began as she handed Sakura s soda. "You had me worried there when you were swimming off course."
"Yeah. For a second there, I was worried that the guys were going to win this one."
"That would only be possibly if the guys had Li-kun swimming." Naoko commented.
Rika looked thoughtful too. "I wonder why he didn't."
Chiharu gave them a devious grin. "Maybe he got cramps from breakfast!"
"You think so?"
Sakura looked down as she began walking back to the cabin, unaware that Tomoyo was watching her every step of the way.
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Tomoyo smiled in finally finding her target She had been looking for him every where since the swimming race after lunch, but he had totally disappeared, and skipped dinner, as well as the second activity for the day. But no one, not even the great Li Syaoran, could hide forever from the all seeing eyes of Tomoyo Daidoji.
Tomoyo slowly approached the brown haired boy from behind, and managed to get right behind him without him noticing at all. Tomoyo grinned, happy with herself. She rarely got to sneak up behind him, and only was able to do so when he was... distracted.
Tomoyo looked at the boy. He sat, staring off at nothing. He looked worst then Sakura. Well, he better be, after making her like that.
"Oh, here you are Li-kun, I've been looking everywhere for you!" She practically yelled with fake enthusiasm, causing the poor boy to jump about three feet in the air. He spun around, the surprise in his eyes instantly turning to a glare as he looked at her.
"What do you want?"
"Ohhh, nothing. I just want to know what you did to Sakura." She answered "innocently."
He turned away, and crossed his arms. "I didn't do anything to her."
"Reeeeally." Tomoyo wasn't going to let him brush it off like that. "Then why is my Sakura-chan looking so depressed, and even about to cry when someone mentions you!"
"I told you, I didn't do anything to her!" He was loosing his patience with her. "I just told her something, and that was it!"
Now she was getting somewhere. Syaoran had turned his face back away from her. "And what, I ask, did you tell her?"
"That is really none of your business, Dai-do-ji-san." He spat back, emphasizing every sylable of her name.
"Anything to do with Sakura is my business." Tomoyo knew she beginning to get a dangerous tone in her voice. Syaoran either wasn't noticing it, or didn't care.
"Why you st-" She was cut off by the appearance of the older Syaoran. She paused in the middle of talking. Syaoran, oblivious to the entrance of his older self, went on...
"Well go on! Say what you were going to sa-" The older Li took the younger's arm, pulling him back.
"Go on back to Sakura, Tomoyo. I'm going to talk with him."
"Let go of me you freaking idiot! Isn't it obvious I don't want to talk to anyone right now!?"
Tomoyo looked at them both once more before giving in. "I hope you'll be able to get sense in him. If you can't, then your just a hopeless cause."
The older Syaoran just ignored her comment as he held onto younger Syaoran. "Just go Tomoyo." Then, "And I don't want to catch you and your camera around me either."
"Don't worry!" She yelled back, already out of site from the trees. "Li-kun isn't cute unless he's with Sakura!"
"Let go of me!" 'Little' Syaoran yelled once more, this time attempting to kick him. The bigger lifted him up by the shirt and brought him to eye level. "You and me have got to have a talk." He said as he began carrying the 'kid' to a better 'talking spot.'
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"Sakura," Chiharu had her head rested on Sakura's bunk as she looked at the girl. "Are you ok? You haven't really said anything all day."
Sakura stopped watching the bottom of the top bunk, and turned to face her friend.
"I'm ok." She said quietly. "I just don't think I'm feeling too well."
Chiharu sat up strait. "You want me to go get a teacher?"
"No." Sakura turned over again, and studied the boards of the bunk over head once again. "I'll be fine."
"Anyone want to hear anymore stories?" Naoko asked out loud.
For once Sakura didn't care. Maybe it would take her mind of things...
"Ok." She responded, getting a few really odd looks from people.
Chiharu grinned. "Now I know for a fact Sakura-chan isn't feeling well. She actually wants to hear a scary story!"
"All right! Then I should make it a good one." Naoko was grinning ear to ear as every prepare to get comfortable for the story.
Next to her, Sakura felt Kero snuggle against her. She assumed he was trying to make her feel better. She didn't really know if it helped much.
"Hey, Naoko-chan." Sakura asked quietly, but everyone heard her. "Can you tell that one about the tori again?"
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Syaoran set his kid version down on the side of a nice sandy dune before sitting down next to him. The younger had pretty much giving up on struggling after all his attempts to escape failed, so the older Syaoran was pretty confidant that the 'kid one' wouldn't try it anymore.
He leaned back into the sand, and looked at the sky. It was a nice night with a quarter moon, and being so far from the city brought the stars out more. Now all he needed was for the other to talk-
"Well, arn't you going to begin your "talk?"" The p.o.ed tint in the boy's voice was still there. Man, he hopped he wasn't this bratty to everyone when he was younger.
"I was thinking you could."
"Well your not too bright, are you?"
"I don't remember putting myself down this much when I was younger."
"Well, your not going to be me, so it doesn't count."
The older continued to watch the sky. At least the conversation was sort of underway now. "And why is that?"
"Because I don't... I don't love Sakura!"
"Why were you so hesitant in saying it then?"
He could hear the 'Minnie Him' move around in frustration. "I DON'T!"
Syaoran (the elder one) was silent... for a bit. "If you don't have feelings for her, then why are you acting like this?" There was silence, and he didn't think there was going to be an answer, so he continued. "Look, I've been trying to think of the reasons your acting like this, and I came up with a few. Its alright for you to like her. No one will be pissed at you."
"... I don-"
"Look ok? Do you really think you can lie to yourself?" Ok, so his last comment there was a bit ironic, but it still made sense either way. He sat up, and looked at the younger one. The younger was clearly was upset at the moment. Syaoran smiled. "I think I feel like an older brother right now for once." He saw the younger Li look at him for a second in interest. "Here I am, talking girl problems with what feels like a little brother... and a really annoying one."
"I'm not your little brother." There was that attitude again.
"Your right. Your me. Though you may not think so, but I know what your going through. I went through it, it was just a few months later from now. I totally would not accept my feelings for her. It was driving me crazy."
"...And what did you do?"
Older Syaoran smiled, and leaned back into the dune. "I kept on denying it until it was almost too late. I didn't accept it until I thought I lost her."
The younger looked startled. "What happened?!"
Older Syaoran looked at him from the corner of his eye. "I shouldn't keep telling you stuff about the future, but I'll give you a hint. I never, to this day, go near an elevator with black haired foreigners around."
The response was a quizzeled look.
"I don't let Sakura near those two when they mix either."
The younger was still confused. And Syaoran smiled again. Let him try to figure it out.
They sat in silence for a few more minutes. The waves were actually very soothing. If Syaoran didn't watch it, he thought he'd actually fall asleep there.
"Ugh... what about...Yukito..."
"Yukito?" He actually hadn't thought about that in so long. The younger nodded his head vigorously, with a very serious expression.
"You don't have to worry about Yukito. He thinks of both you and Sakura as younger siblings, and nothing else. In fact, you know Yukito is Yue now, right?"
Little Syaoran nodded his head.
"Well, you are partially attracted to him because of that magic." He saw the eyes of his younger self grow bigger in understanding. "And, well, that, and Yukito's just a nice guy. Besides, you don't... man, I can't believe I was actually..." He saw his younger self watching his every move. Syaoran sweat dropped. They really didn't need to get into a homosexuality subject. "Well, ahh, Yukito and Sakura's brother have been sort of a thing, so you really don't want to get involved in that. Especially because that jerk who Sakura calls a brother already thinks you..." Syaoran suddenly smiled again. "You know, I think Sakura's brother can actually predict what will happen in the future ."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you know how he wants you to "stay the hell away" from his little sister right?
Little Syaoran nodded enthusiastically.
"Well, how do you think his reaction was to when Sakura told him we were going out?"
The boys eyes grew big. "She told him?"
"Yep. I had to hide for about a week until her father finally calmed him down. And for months after he was always going 'I knew it! I knew it form the moment I saw the stinking gaki!' So I guess he predicted I'd get along with his Kaijuu a little too well from the beginning."
"Ohh." There was a pause of silence between the two, until finally the younger asked another question. "What about, Mom, and the clan, and..." he seemed to gulp at the next word. "Meilin?"
Syaoran turned his head to hide his smile from the kid. The was way too amusing. "Oh, them." The boy seemed to be leaning forward, he defiantly wanted to know. "The Clan disowned me."
The boy's eyes practically popped out of his head, and he fell over to the side.
"I'm just joking!" He didn't need him to faint right now.
The boy sat up, glaring.
"Actually, Mother loves Sakura to death. Well, at least the best she can show it. Of course, the horrid four (his sisters) think she's the cutest thing. And the Clan members, well they weren't too happy at first, but once they met her, they were ok with it."
"... And.... Meilin?"
"Don't worry about her. In fact, in the time before I got together with Sakura, Meilin was in fact trying to set me and Sakura up. She called off the whole engagement and everything."
"SHE DID?! MEILIN?!"
Maybe that was a bit too big of a shocker for him.
"Yep, she really did that."
"I don't believe you."
"Go ahead and believe what you like."
Young Syaoran fell back in content, and started to watch the stars like the older. After a few minutes, the older one actually asked.
"What exactly did you tell Sakura?"
The boy was silent. Perhaps he wouldn't give an answer-
"I... I told her that all this time I was actually pretending to be her friend to make it easier to get the cards."
Older Syaoran was actually rather surprised. "I think I actually underestimated you. I didn't think I could ever say that to her."
The boy was silent, and a troubled look was on his face.
"You know, take how you feel, and multiply that by, oh, about ten, and you'd get a pretty good idea of what Sakura is feeling right now. you know how gullible she can be." The boy remained silent as Syaoran began to stand up. "You should really think about what to say to her."
And think about how Tomoyo will kill you if you don't. He thought to himself as he left the 'kid-him' to reminisce about what he now knew.
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Sakura tried to walk as quietly as possible as she passed the teacher's cabin. All the lights were out, so everyone was most likely asleep, but she wasn't going to risk it.
"Again Sakura, I will ask you what your doing out here sneaking around at night!" Kero complained as he flew next to her. "It can't be a good, logical reason unless we are looking for something to eat, which I know we aren't because we passed the cooking area quite a while back.
"Shhh, Kero." She hushed him as her foot finally touched the sand, allowing her to begin running.
"Why are we going to the water?" Kero asked grumpily.
"I'm going to go make a wish on the tori."
"IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!?"
"Shhh!" Sakura put a finger to her lips in an attempt to quiet him.
"You didn't actually believe that Naoko's story was true, did you?"
"You don't know if it is or not, but there's one way to find out."
"You are really gullible, you know that Sakura."
But Sakura wasn't listening anymore. She was busy stripping her clothes off to get down to her bathing suit. After doing so, she folded all her clothes into a pile.
"Your serous?!" Kero yelled as he watched Sakura begin to walk into the water.
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The young Syaoran was still thinking on the dune, when he heard a noise. He quickly looked over the sand towards the water, and almost fell over in surprise when he saw it was Sakura and the Clow card guardian.
"Sakura! What are you doing?" Kero yelled after her. The girl was wading into the water, and in her swimsuit. What was she doing?
"SAKURA!" Kero yelled.
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Sakura was now swimming, the water now well deeper then her height.
"Sakura!" Kero yelled again. "you really shouldn't be swimming at night, no matter how good a swimmer you are! You should always have someone with you when you swim."
"Its alright Kero," She said between strokes. "I have you here, so I'm not swimming alone. It will be alright."
Kero continued flying above her, nervous. He didn't like this at all. Not at all. "As soon as you touch the tori, were going strait back, right?"
"Yes Kero." She reassured him. "As soon as I touch it, we can go back."
"This is about the gaki, isn't it? It has to be!" Sakura didn't answer, and they were now getting near to the tori. "Its all his stinking fault. You already know your going to be with him in the future, so why are you doing this?!"
"I have to."
She slowed down and began chopping in the water when she was within a yard from the tori. In a second, she could make her wish. Sakura looked up at the tori in awe. She was even closer now, and it was amazing. Not only in sheer size, but in the lighting too. The moon light was hitting it at just the right angle, and it gave off a ghostly glow.
Ghost. Sakura had to stay strong. So the Tori may be haunted, but if it was, the ghost were good ghost, so she really didn't have nothing to worry about. She hoped.
She reached out a hand, and began to touch its barnacle covered wood, when suddenly-
"Sakura! This is a-"
The Tori immediately began to grow brighter, and suddenly what were once small waves around her began to grow bigger. She clutched onto the side of the Tori as the waves began to get violent.
"Sakura!" Kero yelled.
Suddenly, above her, a ghostly glowing woman appeared, but Sakura knew it wasn't a the girl's ghost, even if she was dressed in the traditional robes. The whole area now seeped of a card aura, and this was no doubt the card.
Another wave crashed against her. It was hard to believe that a minute ago there were practically none. The card above her began smiling wickedly. Sakura reached for her wand key, but suddenly she realized she didn't have her cards.
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Oui, a cliff hanger. Sorry about that. ^_^''. But ugh, I'm, its been shorter time them my last update, hasn't it? Don't worry. This cliff hanger is soo good to me, as soon as I finish editing and posting this chapter, I'm gonna start writing the next! ^_^ Sorry about it not having as many funny moments. I don't even think there were any jokes in it. It was a pretty serious chapter, or at least as serious as I've gotten in this story. Oh well, be sure to tell me what you think, and tell me what you want to see in future chapters