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It was Tuesday, but Sakura had been in bed nearly the whole morning. When Sakura finally started to stir the next morning, she found Niko sitting by her bedside quietly reading to herself. "Morning" Sakura chirped as he climbed out of bed and walked over to the wardrobe. "Morning Sakura," Niko replied, placing her book on a side table. "After last night Mistress Yelan told us not to wake you and therefore cancelled the dance lesson for this morning." Sakura picked up an outfit before enquiring, "Dancing lesson?" "For the ball. Did you not know?" The puzzled look on the young girls face gave the required answer so Niko explained. "On Friday the ball will start with only the elders - that will include most of the guests. Then there is basically a whole lot of entertainment brought in especially for the event. Most of it takes place after eating but before we even get to the food the four Li girls will perform. It is a tradition they hold at every household event. Once they have finish, you and Syaoran will enter - you are both the guests of honour after all. It will all be explained at the rehearsals, but I'm guessing from the dancing lessons that you probably have to dance together."
After having tea with Yelan and the four daughters, Sakura went to her room to write to Tomoyo. She was feeling lonely with all her friends still back in Japan and she had promised her best friend that she would tell her everything that happened. She also wanted to inform Kero, the guardian of the Clow Cards, about meeting Clow Reed and her very own star being born. She had nearly finished explaining everything including about the city, the huge mansion and the Li family when her eyes started to feel heavy. The other night had used up more energy than she thought. Laying her head on the table to rest she was asleep in seconds.
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At six am Sakura was sitting wide awake in bed where she had been for the last hour. Her impatience had finally got the better of her and she decided she could no longer sit in bed and instead got dressed and made her way downstairs. The only other person she found to be up in the house was Wei. "Good Morning Miss Sakura. Are you going out?" "I was hoping to go into town and do some shopping. Sorry it's so early but I couldn't sleep any more". "You have slept a lot the past couple of days," Wei chuckled as Sakura's faces reddened slightly. "I'll get Xellous to drive you."
On reaching the city Sakura started to wonder the streets. She had first been her two days ago when she went shopping with two of Syaoran's sisters but even though she had seen it before, she was still amazed by the size of the place. It was also extremely busy, even for this time in the morning. Most of the day she spent sight seeing, just looking around at everything she could possibly find. Armed with a camera, she snapped away at anything memorable to take back and show Tomoyo. Having no idea of the time as it flew by but she did manage to do what she had come into town for. The present she chose for Tomoyo included a traditional Chinese dress made of blue silk as well as spare tapes for her V8 which she constantly used to film Sakura's card capturing adventure. Her father and brother, Fujitaka and Touya, weren't especially into anything in particular so she just picked out traditional Chinese souvenirs. Her father would be pleased with whatever she brought back while Touya was lucky to be getting a gift at all, the amount of times he called her a monster.
That left Kero and Yukito. Yukito was her brother's best friend who was at their house so much that he was practically family. Sakura had once had a crush on him but he had explained how he looked someone else. Sakura didn't mind all that much, especially when she found out it was Touya as she just wanted them both to be happy. However, buying gifts for these two was simple. Both were constantly eating - Yukito just needed to keep his strength up while Kero just had the biggest sweet tooth.
After purchasing two baskets full of sweets and cakes she decided to do something that wasn't the best idea in the world but wouldn't harm anyone either. Making sure she was totally out of view from anyone she got out one of the Clow Cards. Releasing the wand, she lowered it onto the Sweet Card to no avail. It was then that she remembered the other night with Clow Reed. He had given her a new incarnation to release the wand. That must mean she needed another incarnation to release the card as it now had to get energy from her star. Raising the wand once more she started to chant.
"The Clow Cards created by Clow Reed, Please discard your old image, Change once again, To be under your new mistress called Sakura"
Placing the wand to Card it spun around until the symbol of Clow disappeared to be replaced by the star symbol that was also on the wand. The writing had also changed, naming it a Sakura Card. "Release and Dispell" she cried once it had stopped spinning, making the tiny spirit emerge, tip-toe across one of the food baskets and then return to card form. "That will please Kero," she thought to herself, holding the newly changed card to admire the change she had brought about.
Running into the alley where he had sensed the magic from he found Sakura looking at a strange pink card. "Syaoran!" she ran over to him as soon as she saw him. "Look, I transformed my first card!" Holding the card in front of him made him look at the new symbols that had formed. "That must have been what I had sensed" He realised. His voice seemed to turn angry again as he started to lecture her about using her powers in public. Straight away he say the hurt in her eyes and he felt guilty for taking away that excited glow she had a minute ago. "Look, maybe it was a good thing you did it this time as it helped me find you but be careful next time." They started to walk back through the streets to where Syaoran had a driver waiting. "Why made you come and find me anyway?" she asked. Looking down at the floor he explained, "I've been searching for hours. Mother was worried sick about where you had got to." "Oh! I didn't mean to worry anyone. I told Wei where I was."
It was Tuesday, but Sakura had been in bed nearly the whole morning. When Sakura finally started to stir the next morning, she found Niko sitting by her bedside quietly reading to herself. "Morning" Sakura chirped as he climbed out of bed and walked over to the wardrobe. "Morning Sakura," Niko replied, placing her book on a side table. "After last night Mistress Yelan told us not to wake you and therefore cancelled the dance lesson for this morning." Sakura picked up an outfit before enquiring, "Dancing lesson?" "For the ball. Did you not know?" The puzzled look on the young girls face gave the required answer so Niko explained. "On Friday the ball will start with only the elders - that will include most of the guests. Then there is basically a whole lot of entertainment brought in especially for the event. Most of it takes place after eating but before we even get to the food the four Li girls will perform. It is a tradition they hold at every household event. Once they have finish, you and Syaoran will enter - you are both the guests of honour after all. It will all be explained at the rehearsals, but I'm guessing from the dancing lessons that you probably have to dance together."
After having tea with Yelan and the four daughters, Sakura went to her room to write to Tomoyo. She was feeling lonely with all her friends still back in Japan and she had promised her best friend that she would tell her everything that happened. She also wanted to inform Kero, the guardian of the Clow Cards, about meeting Clow Reed and her very own star being born. She had nearly finished explaining everything including about the city, the huge mansion and the Li family when her eyes started to feel heavy. The other night had used up more energy than she thought. Laying her head on the table to rest she was asleep in seconds.
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At six am Sakura was sitting wide awake in bed where she had been for the last hour. Her impatience had finally got the better of her and she decided she could no longer sit in bed and instead got dressed and made her way downstairs. The only other person she found to be up in the house was Wei. "Good Morning Miss Sakura. Are you going out?" "I was hoping to go into town and do some shopping. Sorry it's so early but I couldn't sleep any more". "You have slept a lot the past couple of days," Wei chuckled as Sakura's faces reddened slightly. "I'll get Xellous to drive you."
On reaching the city Sakura started to wonder the streets. She had first been her two days ago when she went shopping with two of Syaoran's sisters but even though she had seen it before, she was still amazed by the size of the place. It was also extremely busy, even for this time in the morning. Most of the day she spent sight seeing, just looking around at everything she could possibly find. Armed with a camera, she snapped away at anything memorable to take back and show Tomoyo. Having no idea of the time as it flew by but she did manage to do what she had come into town for. The present she chose for Tomoyo included a traditional Chinese dress made of blue silk as well as spare tapes for her V8 which she constantly used to film Sakura's card capturing adventure. Her father and brother, Fujitaka and Touya, weren't especially into anything in particular so she just picked out traditional Chinese souvenirs. Her father would be pleased with whatever she brought back while Touya was lucky to be getting a gift at all, the amount of times he called her a monster.
That left Kero and Yukito. Yukito was her brother's best friend who was at their house so much that he was practically family. Sakura had once had a crush on him but he had explained how he looked someone else. Sakura didn't mind all that much, especially when she found out it was Touya as she just wanted them both to be happy. However, buying gifts for these two was simple. Both were constantly eating - Yukito just needed to keep his strength up while Kero just had the biggest sweet tooth.
After purchasing two baskets full of sweets and cakes she decided to do something that wasn't the best idea in the world but wouldn't harm anyone either. Making sure she was totally out of view from anyone she got out one of the Clow Cards. Releasing the wand, she lowered it onto the Sweet Card to no avail. It was then that she remembered the other night with Clow Reed. He had given her a new incarnation to release the wand. That must mean she needed another incarnation to release the card as it now had to get energy from her star. Raising the wand once more she started to chant.
"The Clow Cards created by Clow Reed, Please discard your old image, Change once again, To be under your new mistress called Sakura"
Placing the wand to Card it spun around until the symbol of Clow disappeared to be replaced by the star symbol that was also on the wand. The writing had also changed, naming it a Sakura Card. "Release and Dispell" she cried once it had stopped spinning, making the tiny spirit emerge, tip-toe across one of the food baskets and then return to card form. "That will please Kero," she thought to herself, holding the newly changed card to admire the change she had brought about.
Running into the alley where he had sensed the magic from he found Sakura looking at a strange pink card. "Syaoran!" she ran over to him as soon as she saw him. "Look, I transformed my first card!" Holding the card in front of him made him look at the new symbols that had formed. "That must have been what I had sensed" He realised. His voice seemed to turn angry again as he started to lecture her about using her powers in public. Straight away he say the hurt in her eyes and he felt guilty for taking away that excited glow she had a minute ago. "Look, maybe it was a good thing you did it this time as it helped me find you but be careful next time." They started to walk back through the streets to where Syaoran had a driver waiting. "Why made you come and find me anyway?" she asked. Looking down at the floor he explained, "I've been searching for hours. Mother was worried sick about where you had got to." "Oh! I didn't mean to worry anyone. I told Wei where I was."