Disclaimer: I do not own CCS or the characters, they officially belong to CLAMP.








Green Ribbons
Chapter Two: Is this Love?
Written by xx tainted kisses xx







When I think about expressing my feelings,
Why do the words suddenly disappear?
Even though I realize what's so precious,
So irreplacable, I can't say it.





"Hoe!!" Kero ducked as a dirty white sock came aiming straight at his innocent yellow face as he watched his mistress dance around in circles amongst different articles of clothing. He couldn't help but sweatdrop as he was blinded by a pink furry sweater.

"Sakura!!!!!"

"Hoe!!!!! Nani?????!" Sakura desperately tried to find her way out of the sleeveless grass green shirt that she was trying to wear while kicking away the mass of clothing at her feet.

Kero growled as he crawled out from under the sweater, his tiny paws balled up into fists. "I am being killed!!"

"Hoe?! Kero-chan! Are you ok?!" The auburn haired girl had finally gotten her head through and was busily scanning her messy room for her guardian beast. She sweatdropped when she saw the little yellow bear flying up to her with an angry face across his features and one of her dirty socks in his paws.

"Gomen nasai Kero-chan!! You don't know how..how frantic I am at the moment!!" Sakura apologized in a hurry while she jumped into her closet and basically flipped it inside out. "Ha! Found it!" She bounced on one foot trying to get herself into a black skirt that was cut just above her knee caps.

"How do I look?"

"Like a kaijuu."

Kero dropped to the ground lifeless as Sakura frowned, hearing the familiar taunting voice of Touya Kinomoto. "Onii-chan!! Mou! This must be the billionth time I've told you! I am not a kaijuu!"

Touya smirked as he eyed her room with a raised eyebrow as if he was inspecting something. "My, my, look what the kaijuu has done to her room. What did you do? Go crazy and toss everything around?"

"Iie!! Ugh!! Why are you up here anyways?!"

"I was wondering why you were making so much noise. You know the whole house was shaking," Touya retorted as he looked at his little sister. "Why are you all dressed up?" He asked, with an air of suspicion .

Sakura shrunk back, she had completely forgotten that she was not in her pajamas which was her usual dress at home. "Uh...I was trying on clothes that I haven't worn in a long time! I was seeing if they still fit! Do you think this still fits?" Sakura asked innocently, blinking her round watery eyes at him.

Touya scowled as his head disappeared behind the door. "If you need me I'll be in my room."

"Hai!!" Sakura pushed the wooden door to her room shut as she danced in front of her mirror while combing her hair out. "I'm so excited Kero!"

"Just to see that gaki?" Kero said disapprovingly as he went over towards her desk and picked up the Mirror Card. "So you're going to use this?"

"Oh right! I almost forgot!" Sakura admitted sheepishly as she finished clipping a light green star clip into her hair to match her sleeveless top. She reached for the star key that hung loosely around her neck on a dainty silver chain as she closed her eyes to repeat the familiar chant.

"Oh key that holds the power of the stars, reveal thy true form. I, Sakura, command you under contract, release!!" Sakura's eyes snapped open as the tiny key slowly extended into a long pink staff. "Mirror Card, become my exact reflection! Mirror!" She struck her wand upon the card as a mist of light surrounded them both.

A huge round mirror appeared before Sakura, with a smiling beautiful girl with long cascading hair tied back with strands of green ribbon. The girl stepped out of the mirror, instantly becoming Sakura's twin.

"Konnichiwa!" Sakura greeted cheerfully.

Mirror smiled softly back at her mistress, "Arigatou (thank you)."

"Iie(no), I should be saying thank you! And by nine o'clock, change into my pj's ok? Or else onii-chan will probably get suspicious at your outfit," Sakura pointed out as she grabbed her handbag and opened the window. "I'll be back at around ten or ten thirty, ok?"

"Hai." Her twin nodded while seeing her off.

"Bye bye!" Sakura waved as she flew into the night with her pink feathery wings sprouted on her back, and soon she disappeared from sight into the twilight sky.

Mirror closed the window slowly as she looked around her mistress' room and at all the clothing screwn about. She giggled softly as she crouched down and began hanging the clothing piece by piece back into the closet.

"My god, is the kaijuu cleaning up?!"

The Mirror Card's head snapped up at that familiar voice of her one and only...She felt her cheeks burn, and she prayed to dear god that she was not glowing red in front of her mistress' brother.

Though he must have noticed her awkward behavior, for his taunting and laughing eyes suddenly were replaced by a confused and suspicious expression. "...Eh? Daijoubu Sakura?"

"Eh! Daijoubu!!" Mirror quickly got up, her eyes downcast as she snuck a glance at him shyly.

Touya opened the door to his sister's room further as he fully stepped into the room, wearing a blue sweater and grey track pants. His dark hair fell across his eyes messily as he stared straight into Mirror's eyes. "Ano..."

Mirror tensed, clutching the ends of her skirt in her hands as she drew in a breath sharply and looked back into Touya's eyes.

"You're..." Touya struggled to feel the presence in front of him, straining with the little magical power he had regained throughout the years after giving them to his best friend, Yukito. "You're...you're...not my sister." He simply stated while a small smile curved onto his face.

"...I..." Mirror stuttered as she racked at her brain for something to say. Yet she was as speechless as someone that was unable to speak at all!

"It's ok, I won't tell Sakura," Touya assured. "You like the ribbons I gave you?"

The Mirror Card looked at him confused, but then noticed that she had her hair ribbons also clutched in her hands. "...Hai!" She turned pink at Touya's discovery and wondered deeply what he was going to think of her now.

"That's good," He looked at the closet and then at some of his sister's clothes that were still left on the peach colored carpet. "Where did she go?"

"...Out..." She didn't lie, her mistress was indeed 'out', she just decided not to say with whom. "Um..." She began, but once again lost her will to speak.

"Huh?" Touya blinked.

"I..." She looked pleadingly into his eyes, desperately wanting to speak the words that seemed to be at the tip of her tongue, but yet at the very depths of her heart at the same time. Mirror frowned sorrowfully, knowing that it would be ridiculous to tell him...yet her heart was crying out 'yes!', yes to everything she wanted to tell him, yes to her own feelings, yes to everything in the world.

"I...I......"

Touya gave her a sympathetic look, not quite knowing for sure what this girl, that resembled his sister at the moment, wanted to say.

"I...love.....togowatchthosebigscreenthingies!" She spat out and quickly looked away in utter embarrassment.

He sweatdropped, walking closer to her figure as he tilted her chin upwards with one strong hand. "What did you want to say?" He asked gently, not wanting to frighten her for the girl was actually shaking slightly like a scared mice and that he was the cat.

"I meant...I love to watch those big screen thingies..." Mirror repeated shakily.

"Big screen thingies?" Touya raised an eyebrow while stepping back, his hand leaving her chin much to her dismay. "Big screen thingies.....hmmm...do you by any chance mean the movies?" He guessed at the girl's strange use of vocabulary.

"...H..Hai!! That's it!"

Touya chuckled as he walked back towards the door to her room. "Are you leaving?" Mirror couldn't help but ask and let the words escape her tender lips.

"Well, I'm leaving this room, but you are too." Touya stated as he opened the door.

"I...am?"

"Get a jacket or something, it might get cold," He simply commented as his figure disappeared down the hallway and into his own room.

The Mirror Card blinked, not really knowing what Touya was up to, but whatever he was up to, she felt incredibly happy.




"Sakura."

She jumped into his arms, startling him for an instance but he quickly regained his composure like always. "Shaoran!"

"Don't turn into Meiling! I'm warning you! No surprise hugs!" Syaoran scolded, although he did love it when Sakura surprised him with such acts.

Sakura smiled, knowing that Syaoran was just being shy and the whole 'manly man' thing. She giggled knowingly, catching the side glance that Syaoran was giving her. "What?"

She shook her head, auburn locks shaking along with her. "Nothing! I'm just so happy!" She declared as she ran ahead of him.

"Happy happy happy happy!!!!!" She squealed as she danced under the darkening sky, since it was almost seven.

Syaoran couldn't stop the urge to smile as a small grin crept up to his lips. "I think you should stop spinning like that if we want to get to the movie theatre on ti.." Yet he was interrupted when his hands were taken from his jean pocket and he was now being spun around by Sakura who was also spinning around with him in pure joy.

"Shaoran-kun!" Sakura called out in between giggled and intakes of breath. "Happy birthday to you!"

Syaoran smirked and would not let Sakura spin him any longer when he pulled her in with his strong muscular arms, with her head landing softly against his chest. "Hoe?" Sakura blinked, feeling utterly warm in his comforting arms.

"I'm holding onto you from here on and until we get there," Syaoran stated calmly.

"Doushite?! (why)" Sakura cried out like a child.

"Because you will start spinning again, and we don't know how long you're going to keep doing that," He teased, his warm amber eyes meeting her dancing emerald ones.

Sakura kicked her legs when Syaoran picked her up. "Wa!! Demo (but) it's so embarrassing being carried around like a baby!!" She complained but was hopeless when she noticed that her little wolf was not going to place her down any time soon.

"Eh, call this punishment for acting like a crazy little girl," He remarked as he continued walking to the movie theatre with his cherry blossom held close to him.

"Mou!! Shaoran!! People are staring at us!" And indeed they were. Some pointing, some commenting at how strange or how cute they looked, and some simply staring at them as if they were celebrities of some sort.

Sakura sweatdropped, wondering what on earth would happen if her dear friend Tomoyo had been around, and had realized that she had just missed a 'kawaii moment'.

"We're here! We're here! Now can you let me go?" Sakura pleaded with wide eyes.

"Of course," He gently brought her back down onto earth, for Sakura actually had felt like she was in heaven moments ago.

"Oh, and Syaoran?" Sakura smiled as she reached into her handbag and pulled out a neatly wrapped present with green ribbon tied in a neat little bow at the top. "Here!" She placed the gift into his hands and looked over her shoulder. "Let's go line up before the line gets even longer."

"...Hai!" Syaoran glanced at the present and smiled to himself as he tucked it safely into his pocket, letting his girlfriend lead him to the line up hand in hand, soul by soul.

Unknown to them, two other people came shortly after them and were a couple people behind them in the line.

"...Are you sure...about this?"

The tall strong figure of Touya simply nodded, "Stop worrying. It's not like Sakura to get mad at you for coming out to the movies."

"I know...demo...it's not part of my task!" Mirror cried out.

"Relax," Touya placed a hand on her shoulder, making warm little shivers run up her spine. Nani...what is this that I'm feeling? She thought with a distant look in her shimmering eyes. "Come on, the line is moving." He brought her back to reality with his calm and considerate voice, making the butterflies in her stomach do loops and swirls before landing back down.

This was truly bliss.




"I am not leaving you here!"

"No! Don't you understand?! You have to leave now or else we'll both die!"

"Iie!! I can't just abandon you and run like a coward! I love you!"

Sakura sighed with content at the huge screen in front of her as the two star characters interacted together. She snuck a glance at Syaoran and noticed that he was not completely touched by the movie and remembered that he wasn't a big big fan for romance.

She smiled to herself when suddenly she realized she very badly had to go...to the washroom. And yet it was the best part of the movie and she did not want to leave her soft red cushioned seat at all! And so she sat there but with the nagging feeling of wanting to go the washroom, and Syaoran must have noticed her fidgeting, for his worried amber eyes were upon her.

"Is something wrong Sakura?"

"No..." Sakura blushed, but thankfully the theatre was dark and no one could see her cherry-like face. "I just need to go to the restroom."

"Then go," Syaoran raised an eyebrow.

"Demo this is the good part!"

He sweatdropped, "Uh...but it's bad for your health to keep it in, so go."

"...Ok..." Sakura reluctantly left her seat as she crept quietly to the washroom.



She stared with wide eyes at the big looming screen in front of her, with the people on it saying such words that she had wanted to say so badly but was unable to. And here they were, on this screen, and they said it so easily.

Somehow she felt her heart racing, with the scene of a confessing couple in front of her, and the man she loved most sitting a few centimetres away. The Mirror Card had never felt this way before, with the pounding in her chest and the blood rushing within her false body.

And then she could no longer take it.

"I have to go." She whispered.

"...Where?"

"...Uh...washroom!" Mirror jumped up from her seat as she made a mad dash to the washrooms with a whirlwind of emotions mixed in her.

She stepped into a washroom stall and leaned her back on the cool blue tiled wall behind her. Is this the feeling of love?






AN: Hehe, thanks for reading this so far! And the reviews make me so happy ^_^;; The next chapter will be about the swapped dates and the outcome....? Eek, stay tooned ^_~