Masterful!

By: Kamika Farinas

This is a pretty funny chapter. . . Of course. . . I'm just the author. . . Heh. . . Hope everyone likes it though. . . Syaoran's b-day. . . I can't believe I'm up to this now. . . *grins* Oh, btw. . . I've decided that after I finish this story. . I'm planning on revising EVERYTHING! I went back and I noticed that Chapter 10 went on for the last 3 chapters. . . I found so many errors! So. . . Just wanted to tell everyone that!

SHOUTOUTS TO REVIEWERS:

To Aila: *grins* Heh! I'll figure out a way to get your gift in the story. . . *grins evilly*

To butterfly_grl4: You'll see what it is. .

To Lady Sutaa: Yup! You're right about it causing trouble on Syaoran's B- day but. . . It's more harmless than harmful. . . *giggles*

To Mei-Hua: *grins* Thanks for all the comments! Your reviews really encouraged me!

Cards Captured: Flame (Fire), Nightmare (Dream), Blare (Silent), Sink (Float), Clear (Erase), Aqua (Water)

Disclaimer: I don't own Cardcaptor Sakura or any of its characters. Kay? Now shoo people!

Last thing that happened. . .

She hisses as she answers quietly, "It's Syaoran's birthday tomorrow!" She exclaims.

Meiling's eyes go wide with surprise, "Already? July 13?" She thinks to herself and nods, "It is. . ."

Tomoyo regains her starry eyes, "We have to do SOMETHING!"

Again, everyone stares at her.

Tomoyo chuckles nervously and continues her conversation with Meiling, "Let's throw him a surprise party tomorrow!"

Meiling nods, "Let's do it!"

Part Thirteen

Sakura, Tomoyo, and Meiling sit in the kitchen in the house that they had rented. They had decided that it would be better to rent a house rather than stay in a hotel room.

Tomoyo sighs, "So. . . All we know is that Syaoran likes chocolate. . ."

Sakura nods, "It's easy enough to make the cake. . ."

Tomoyo stands, "So why are we sitting?! Let's get cooking!"

Meiling giggles, "Let's start. . ." (Okay. . . Keep in mind, I know absolutely NOTHING about cooking so. . . . don't blame me if this sounds really, really bad. . .)

Sakura gets started on making the bottom part (What do you call it? I'm sorry if it's wrong. . . .). Tomoyo would work on the icing and Meiling just helped out with whatever she could.

Sakura stares at the oven. Her part was almost done and Tomoyo had finished the icing long time ago.

Tomoyo grabs the finished part and starts putting some icing where she thought it would match. Sakura sneaks in a little of icing from the bowl. She grins as she plops her finger full of chocolate icing in her mouth. Her eyes bulge as she realizes its taste.

"AHHHH!!!" She screams as she starts hacking all the contents that were in her mouth onto a napkin. Tomoyo was startled at her action and almost dropped her icing. She turns around and stares at Sakura.

"What's wrong?" Tomoyo asks.

Sakura pants as she leans over the counter, sipping a glass of water. "Did. . . did you know that. . . . that. . . . The icing tastes SOUR?!?!" Sakura exclaims out loud.

Tomoyo blinks, "Nani? How's that possible?" She takes a small taste of the icing and as Sakura, her reaction was the same. She coughs harshly, "Nani?!?! What happened?" She asks taking a glass of water and pouring it down her throat.

Sakura pants, "It's a good thing we have Meiling buying some other treats. We'll just have to go buy a cake. . . ."

Tomoyo nods. Both turn to the counter after hearing a laugh.

"I see you guys are having trouble with your cake. . ." Kero laughs holding a spoon full of pudding in front of him.

Sakura glares, "Kero!"

Kero laughs again and he takes a gulp of his pudding. His eyes go wide and he spits out the pudding onto the nearest thing which just happened to be the window. Sakura stifles a laugh.

Kero glares at her, "Did you do something to my pudding, Sakura?" He says suspiciously.

Sakura laughs, "I didn't do anything but that was funny. . ." She grins.

Kero glares again and then turns around, mumbling, "But it's sour. . ." Tomoyo shakes her head.

"Now's not the time to be fighting, you two." She says.

Sakura nods and looks out the window, "It's a good thing that Eriol was able to convince Syaoran to go out today. . ."

Tomoyo nods too, "Let's just hope that today won't be a COMPLETE disaster. . . ."

The door opens and Meiling enters.

"Konnichiwa! I'm back!" She greets as she opens the door.

Sakura grins and rushes towards her, "What'd you buy?!" She asks.

Meiling blinks, "I just bought donuts, cupcakes and some drinks. . ."

Sakura smiles, "Yay! Our cake came out bad. . ."

Meiling shakes her head, "I doubt it was that bad. . ."

Tomoyo turns to look at the unfinished cake. "Believe me. . . It was. . ."

Meiling blinks and sighs, "Sure. . . ."

She grabs the bags and puts them on the table. Sakura stares at the tasty treats. Meiling stares at her and giggles.

"You could have one. . ." Sakura's eyes glow happily.

"Arigato!" She yells as she grabs a cupcake and stuffs it in her mouth. Sakura blinks as the taste registers in her mind.

"Ahhhhhh!!!!" She yells as she starts spitting out what she had in her mouth onto a napkin.

Meiling blinks, "What's wrong?" She asks.

Sakura groans, "Not again!"

"Nani?"

Sakura sighs as she gulps down a glass of water, "It twas sowar. . ."

Meiling blinks in confusion, "Nani?"

Tomoyo clears her throat and Meiling turns to her. "Sakura said that the cupcake was sour. . ."

Meiling's eyes go wide, "NANI?!?!?!? How can that be? I just ate one when I was on the way here. . . It wasn't sour at ALL!"

Tomoyo sighs, "Everything edible has been extremely sour. . ."

Meiling groans, "Now we have to buy some more food. . ." She turns to Sakura, "Are you going to stay?"

Sakura nods, "Yeah. . . I have to work on decorating. . ." Meiling nods and turns to Tomoyo, "Are you coming?"

Tomoyo nods, "Sure. . ." She grabs her jacket and walks out the door with Meiling.

Sakura sighs and looks around. Kero sits on the counter pondering to himself. He speaks, "Sakura. . ." Sakura turns to Kero.

"Nani?"

"Don't you think it's weird that every food that has entered this house has been sour?"

Sakura blinks, "Come to think of it. . . I did feel a small pang of a Clow Card feeling every time I ate something. . ." Kero nods.

"Just what I thought. . . This isn't coincidental. . . It's the work of a Clow Card. . ."

Sakura nods, "Yeah. . . . I think you're right. . ." She looks around, trying to key in on the location of the Clow Card. She stops at one specific spot, a cabinet. Sakura closes her eyes. "It's there. . ." She says softly.

Kero nods.

Sakura makes a move towards the cabinet and opens it. Quickly, a figure flies out and runs into the living room. Sakura blinks as Kero yells, "Go after it!" Sakura nods and runs off.

Sakura enters the living room to find nothing there, just a donut. Sakura stares at it, wanting to eat it but she knew there would be something wrong. She just didn't know what. That's when it all registered in her head. She blinks. 'Sour. . . Everything I ate was sour. . . So this has to be. . .' "Sour Card! Show yourself!" She yells after figuring out what it was. A small girl that looked exactly like the Sweet Card appears in front of her. Sakura notes that the only difference was that she didn't look as puffy as the Sweet Card did and not as. . . well, sweet.

The Sour Card grins in front of her. Sakura glares, "You ruined all the work that me and my friends did! You're going to pay!"

The Sour Card grins evilly. She rushes towards Sakura and an opening door behind her. Sakura gasps as she knows that it could only be two people. Sakura pulls out a card. "Windy!" She yells. The card wraps itself around the Sour. Meiling and Tomoyo enter the house with bags of food in their arms. Sakura runs up to the card but at the last second, the Sour card throws something towards the bags. Little shiny powder hurls in the air and lands straight inside the bag. Sakura groans.

"Clow Card! Return to your power confined!" She yells sealing the card.

From beside her, Tomoyo gasps. Sakura holds the card in her hands as she turns to look at Tomoyo. "What's wrong?" She asks.

Tomoyo groans, "The food's sour! Now we have to go to the store and get some more food. . ."

Sakura thinks to herself, "Actually. . . I think I can do something. . ." She says. She pulls out a Clow Card. "Sweet Card! Make deserts to celebrate Syaoran's birthday!" The Sweet Card obeys and on the table, were dozens of treats including cupcakes, ice cream, and donuts. There was also a huge cake at the center of all this. Sakura turns to the living room and takes out another card, "Create Card! Create some decorations for the party!" The living room was instantly covered with balloons, streamers, and confetti.

Tomoyo blinks and thinks out-loud, "Why didn't we do this in the first place?"

Sakura and Meiling face fault. "Tomoyo!" They whine at the same time. Sakura was about to reply more when she felt 2 familiar auras. She grins. "He's coming!" She yells out.

Meiling and Tomoyo nod. Both take hiding places behind the couch. Sakura takes her hiding place behind a plant which was next to the light switch. Sakura turns off the light when she hears voices arguing behind the door.

"Why did you bring me to such a useless thing?" Syaoran yells.

Eriol groans, "I didn't know you knew about that place!"

"I LIVE in Hong Kong! Of course I would know!" He opens the door to be met with darkness. "Huh? I wonder where the girls are?" He flips the light switch and at that moment, Sakura, Tomoyo, and Meiling pop up.

"SURPRISE!!" They yell. Syaoran steps back in surprise and blinks. A bright flash covers his sight. Syaoran groans.

"Tomoyo! Did you have to record that?!"

Tomoyo giggles with her camcorder in her hand, "I'll just call this Syaoran's Surprise!" She says.

Syaoran laughs as he looks around. "This place looks great! Did it take you a long time?" He asks.

Sakura stifles a laugh, "You could say that. . ." She says.

Immediately, Meiling yells out, "PRESENTS!"

Syaoran sweatdrops, "It's my birthday and she wants to open presents. . ." He sighs as he walks over to the corner where his gifts laid. The first box he saw was from Touya. He turns to Touya in shock, "You gave me a gift?"

Touya growls from where he sat next to Yukito and Sakura. "Just open it. . ."

Syaoran nods and opens the gift. He sweatdrops as he sees the contents, "A First Aid Kit?" He questions.

Sakura hits her brother on the arm, "Touya!"

Syaoran just sweatdrops and puts the gift down. The next gift was from Yukito. He opens it up to see a container filled with cookies.

Yukito grins, "It's really good. . . Chocolate-chip cookies!"

Syaoran smiles and nods, "Arigato!" He lays the gift on top of Touya's. The next gift was from Tomoyo and Eriol. (Okay. . . I wanted to make this really perverted. . . but. . . *sobs* I couldn't think of anything besides the sick thing in my head. . . *shudders* so. . . Don't mind this one. . . *laughs*) Syaoran shudders as he thinks of the numerous things they would have given him. To his surprise, it was none of the sort. He opens the gift only to find a single book. The title on the other hand was another topic. It was titled "Obsession with Sex." Syaoran sweatdrops and turns to the two.

Both of them were laughing extremely hard. Sakura was a beet red and Touya's face was about to explode. Meiling was laughing and so was Yukito.

Syaoran responds hesitantly, "Thank? You. . .?"

Tomoyo and Eriol laugh. "You're welcome. . ." They both say at the same time. Syaoran sighs and looks at the next box. It was from Meiling. (*giggles* I like this gift!) Syaoran sweatdrops when he sees what was in it. Meiling laughs.

"Syaoran! Do you like?"

Syaoran turns beet red as he shows it to everyone. They were boxers with little wolves on them. (Aila! I put your gift in! *grins*)

Meiling winks as she speaks, "Put them to good use. . ." Not only was Syaoran red but so was Sakura. Both were a lovely shade of garnet.

Syaoran blinks as he watches Touya try to lunge at him. Yukito holds him back. Syaoran quickly starts for the next box. It was from Sakura. Syaoran sighs. 'Finally, something non embarrassing. . .' He thinks. He opens the box to find two things. The first one was a stuffed wolf. It was a dark gray with brown and had dark brown eyes. It was more of a chibi-wolf than an older wolf. At the bottom, there was a small certificate. Syaoran reads it out-loud.

To Syaoran:

This certificate guarantees you a day away from Touya Kinomoto and Keroberos.

Syaoran smiles at this while both Touya and Kero start fuming. Sakura smiles sweetly at both.

It also guarantees you a day to spend with only the lovely Sakura Kinomoto.

Sakura laughs as she whispers something in his ear. "And YOU decide what we do. . ."

Syaoran turns another lovely shade of red, an even darker one than all the others. Touya growls.

"Over my DEAD body!" He yells out.

Sakura glares at her brother, "That can be arranged. . ." She says coldly.

Touya blinks in surprise. His sister never would say something like that. He sits down quietly and tries to see if what just happened was true.

Syaoran smiles at everyone. "Arigato for the party and gifts! I really liked them. . ." He takes Sakura in his arms and whispers in her ear, "Especially yours. . . . I plan to put it to good use. . ."

Sakura blushes.

"Kawaii!!!" Tomoyo yells with her camcorder aimed at the two.

Eriol sighs, "Some things never change. . ."

Outside. . .

A soft voice speaks, "Happy birthday. . . Syaoran. . ." The figure walks away while continuing, "My Brother. . ."

To Be Continued. . . .

Whee!!! I finally got this chapter out! Syaoran's B-day! *giggles* Well. . . I thought I was ignoring Syaoran's sisters so I wanted to put them in. . . *sweatdrops* Now I have to figure out what their role is. . . *laughs* Well anyway. . . I hope everyone liked! Review!!! Ja! :Þ