A CCS Fanfic By Card Captor Schlueter (a.k.a. Syaoran-kun)
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Chapter Four: When Amber Eyes Turn Green
"Hurry! It's getting away!" shouted Sakura.
We had been chasing `The Change' card for almost an hour. That blasted blue iguana thing was giving me a headache. Sakura and I chased it through the park with Tomoyo and her camera only a couple of steps behind. I had hoped that this afternoon would be quiet after facing `The Illusion' and `The Mirror' just yesterday.
Yeah, right.
If that wasn't enough, Kero-Chan and Kero-Ni had insisted on coming too. There are few things less amusing than listening to two stuffed animals argue with each other over absolutely everything.
"Sakura!" I said. "If we both use `The Dash' card, we should be able to cut it off. You go left and I'll go right!"
"Good idea." replied Sakura.
"Dash Card! Release!" Sakura and I used the incantation in perfect synch with each other. (Weird, ne?) Almost immediately we started gaining ground on `The Change' card.
I managed to tackle the card first with Sakura catching it just a split second behind me. The card struggled to get away and it was starting to glow. I knew that couldn't be anything good, so I had to move fast to seal it.
"Change card! Return to your power confined!"
We were surrounded by the card's blue glow for a few seconds. It was so strong I had to close my eyes. When I opened them again, the card had been sealed and was sitting on the ground a couple of feet away. My head suddenly filled with dull pain. That damn card.
"Are you guys all right?" asked Tomoyo.
I got to my feet. "I think so, Daidouji." I said. What was that? My voice sounded weird for some reason.
Tomoyo blinked. "What did you say?"
"I said I'm fine. Geez... What's up with my voice all of a sudden?" Tomoyo and the Keros were staring. "What's up? Why are you all staring?"
"Are... you feeling okay, Sakura-Chan?" asked Tomoyo.
Sakura-Chan?
No.
It couldn't be.
Just then I heard a slight moan and a voice that I recognized very well as being my own say "Li-kun. Did we get the card?" I turned around and found myself face to face with... me!
It was! My life sucks.
"Oh no..." mumbled Sakura as me. "Not this again."
"Looks like `The Change' card strikes again." mumbled Kero-Chan.
A time like this requires calm reasoning, thought and planning. So I did the one thing I could. I screamed.
"No! NO! NOOOO! Why do these things always happen to me?!"
"Now just calm down, Sak- er.. Syaoran." said Kero-Ni.
"Calm down?! This is the worst thing that's ever happened to me?! This is even worse that being trapped as that stupid stuffed animal!!"
"Gee, thanks." Kero-Chan grumbled sarcastically.
"You know, this isn't exactly the greatest moment of my life either, Li-kun." said Sakura. "Besides, we only have to go through one day of this and then we can change back." "One day? Who told you that?" asked Kero-Ni "The card from my book requires forty eight hours."
"ACK!" This was not good news to me.
Kero-Chan nodded. "Since the brat's Clow book comes from a different reality, there will be some minor differences in the cards' powers."
"Well, that's just great. How wonderful." I grumbled with enough sarcasm to kill a bison.
"Now, Li-kun." Tomoyo chided. "You shouldn't use that attitude. It's not ladylike."
"ACK!" I replied. "Don't say things like that!"
**
So there I stood, just in front of Sakura's house, staring at it. I must've looked very stupid.
"Would you quit staring and just go inside!" Kero-Chan shouted. Sakura had insisted that he stay with me in case I "slipped out of character", so to speak. "I'm freezing."
"You think I'm not?" I replied. I was not taking the idea of being trapped in Sakura's body for the next two days very well. Half of that was because of the damned school uniform. I was feeling a draft creeping up into places where drafts should not creep, if you get my drift. Stupid skirt. This was bad. It was even worse than that whole incident involving the school production of `Sleeping Beauty' which I was trying very hard not to think of and failing plus, I had no idea of what to expect and how the hell was I going to pass myself off as Sakura who clearly got lucky in the sense that I live alone and don't need to worry about acting like myself around other people after four o'clock. With that mental rant out of the way, I walked up to the door.
Before I had a chance to touch the doorknob, Touya opened it. He glared at me and I instantly became nervous.
"You're getting home awfully late." He said.
He was about to say something sarcastic, no doubt one of his usual taunts that Sakura complains about, when I lost my temper. After all that had happened to me today, I was not in the mood to listen to Touya mock me. So I punched him in the stomach.
"I'm not in a good mood today, Touya." I growled striding briskly past him.
"Geez..." moaned Touya. "What's up with you today? You're acting like that Chinese brat."
Brat, am I? I turned to face him and promptly kicked his legs out from under him. "Maybe it's just something you bring out in people." I said. I started to head upstairs when Touya got back to his feet.
"You're being a real pain, Sakura." He grumbled.
"Yeah, whatever." I muttered and headed up to Sakura's room. Once the door was closed, Kero-Chan came to life. I tossed my hat on the bed.
"Okay," said Kero-Chan. "You remember what we talked about. You know, staying in character? That was a very good example of what you shouldn't be doing."
"Why not?" I said as I sat down at the chair near Sakura's desk. "He had it coming. Sakura should've done that years ago."
"That's not the point." said Kero-Chan.
"You know, now that I think about it..." A smile came to my face "This is my opportunity for some payback. Heheheheh. Touya's going to regret calling me a brat."
Kero-Chan sweatdropped. "Don't you think Sakura's going to be a little bit mad if you pummel her brother into oblivion?"
"Why would she?" I asked. "Besides, who could stay mad at this kawaii little face? Hee hee. This could be a blessing in disguise! I can get away with murder! All because I inhabit this adorable little package!"
"Please stop, kid..." Kero-Chan said nervously. "You're starting to scare me."
"I guess it was inevitable that there'd be some perks to this." I said looking at myself in the mirror. "I mean, look at this stupid uniform. What kind of weirdo pervert designed these things? How does Sakura wear this kind of thing?"
"Uh... If you don't like that, you're not going to be too impressed with the rest of Sakura's wardrobe." Kero-Chan said ominously. He floated over and opened the closet door to reveal the vast wardrobe of Sakura Kinamoto, including Tomoyo's battle outfits(TM).
"ACK!" was the only thing I could say. It turns out that Sakura did not own a single pair of pants. What happened to the feminist revolution? I was starting to wish Sakura didn't go out her way do be fashionable.
I was back to being depressed again. I slumped down on the floor and buried my face in my hands trying desperately not to think of who and where I was.
"I don't see what you're so depressed about." muttered Kero-Chan. "I mean, at least you're still a human this time, right?"
"Yeah... but..."
"But what?" Kero-Chan asked.
"Never mind." I said.
"Does this have anything to do with your crush on Sakura?" Kero asked.
"WHAT?!" I felt my face turn red. "I... I don't... I don't know what you're talking about."
"Sure, you don't." said Kero-Chan sarcastically. "You only hide it like an elephant in a haystack. Only Sakura would be naïve and innocent enough to miss it, but don't think the rest of us are in the dark."
"ACK!" I seemed to be using that expression a lot lately.
"You didn't think you could fool the guardian beast, did you?"
I managed to regain some composure, although my face was still very red. "No, but I thought I could fool a stuffed animal."
"AH-HA! So you admit it!" Kero-shouted triumphantly.
I almost fell over. And then, I fell over. Kero had tricked me! I had been tricked by a stuffed animal!
This was not my day.
"Ah, don't worry about it." said Kero-Chan. "I won't tell her."
"You won't?"
"And miss watching you flounder like an idiot? Never."
"Gee, thanks." I replied sarcastically. I got to my feet and sat down on Sakura's bed. "I wonder how Sakura's doing right now."
"Don't worry." said Kero "She's a much better actor than you are."
I glowered at him. He just smirked and flew around the room. That dumb stuffed toy.
I looked over and saw my reflection in the mirror. I saw the face that I cared so much about. But it wasn't really her face this time. Somehow it seemed different when I was the one behind it. I had always wondered what went on in Sakura's head, but I didn't have any better an idea now than ever. I wasn't in Sakura's mind; I was just in her body (Yikes, that sounds like a loaded sentence.) I wasn't any different except in appearances.
I started to give that some serious thought. After all, it was going to be a long two days.
Next: See Li deal with various nightmares of being Sakura! See Li attend cheerleading practice! See Li try to act like Sakura around Sakura's friends! See Li have a panic attack caused by something we can't mention here! See Li continue to abuse Touya!
All this and other things in "Chapter Five: She's Not Who She Used To Be."