Cherry Blossom Destiny
Chapter Seven
~Selene Serenity~
Disclaimer: I don't own CCS. It is property of CLAMP. I do own this fanfic, so please ask me if you want to put it on your site, prior to doing so.
Author's Notes: Yeah! New chapter! Well last time we left the CCS crew Yue and Yuki had switched places via the change card. This should be rather interesting. Well let's jump right into the story!
Acknowledgements: I'd like to thank my friend Jessica for helping me with the incantations for the new staff in this story. I have always forgotten to thank her. She also inspired the character of Shatano.
~Chapter Seven~
"Okay Sakura, I bet you that in the next six days that we have left that you can't make Yue laugh." Kero offered.
"Okay, sure. But that means that I bet YOU that you can't go the same six days without any pudding!" Sakura poked him in the belly.
"What!? No pudding?" Kero exclaimed.
Sakura nodded solemnly. "Yup."
"Oh all right…" Kero feebly agreed. They shook hands on it.
The two of them were in the living room the afternoon of the switch of Yue and Yuki. At that point Touya had just passed the living room. "This should be interesting." He muttered.
***
The next day Sakura, Touya and Yue, (AN: I'll call him by their real name.), were walking to school. "So you survived your first day I see." Sakura smiled at Yue.
"Barely." Yue and Touya gave an exasperated sigh.
"Oh come on! It's only one week. I'm sure it's not that bad!" Sakura laughed.
"Oh, it is that hard, it is." Yue grumbled.
"Sakura! Touya! 'Yuki'!" A chorus of voices cried. The three of them turned around and saw Tomoyo, Eriol, Meling, Syaoran, and Nakuru walking towards them.
"Hi Guys!" Sakura smiled and waved. The group soon caught up with them and they all continued on to school.
A block before the school a flash of pain shot through Sakura. She fell to her knees and gasped for air. "Sakura!" The others all cried and dashed to her side.
"What's wrong?" Eriol asked.
"He's…he's here…" Sakura said in between her gasping breaths.
"Who's he?" Touya asked.
"Shatano…" Yue explained. Everyone looked over at him. He was standing and kept a serious and protective face.
"How can you tell?" Syaoran wondered. "You don't have your powers in Yuki's body."
"Somehow I still have the power to sense magic." Yue told them.
"He's right…" Sakura said, still panting. Touya and Tomoyo then helped Sakura stand up. "Shatano is somewhere here in Tomeda. He's been haunting me in my dreams but he's here now."
"That means we really need to on our guard." Eriol said.
"Someone must be watching Sakura at all times." Yue agreed.
"Right." The others nodded.
***
"Class, please settle down." Sensei Tomoho called from the front of the class. All of the students quieted down and looked up to the front of the room. Standing next to him was a boy in very strange clothing. He wore a dark trench coat and sunglasses. You couldn't even tell if he was wearing the uniform. "We have a new student. (AN: what a coincidence huh? Shatano, new student…hm… Aren't I obvious?) His name is Natasho Black." He then turned to Natasho. "Please take a seat."
"Of course." He nodded and walked to an empty seat.
***
(AN: For the next section I want to keep in mind that Sakura, Tomoyo, Eriol, Meling and Syaoran are all freshmen in High School and Touya, Yuki and Nakuru are seniors. I don't know if that is the correct age difference but I need that for this chapter.)
Lunch arrived finally a few days later and the seniors and freshmen shared a lunch period. Sakura, Tomoyo, Meling, Nakuru, Touya, Yue, Eriol, and Syaoran sat at one table together. Sakura sat in between Tomoyo and Syaoran. She turned and faced Syaoran. "Syaoran, I need to ask you a favor." She told him.
"What is it?" Syaoran asked.
"Throw your mashed potatoes at me." Sakura replied.
"What!?" Syaoran asked, puzzled.
"Throw your mashed potatoes at me." Sakura repeated.
"Why?"
"Just do it!" Sakura cried.
"All right!" Syaoran laughed and lunged the potatoes right in her face.
"Thanks!" Sakura said, still smiling. She wiped the potatoes off her face and threw them back at him. Syaoran ducked and the potatoes smashed right on to Eriol's right cheek. "Oh! Eriol I'm sorry!" Sakura made a fake gasp.
"Sakura!" Eriol exclaimed. He grabbed a fork full of peas and flung them towards Sakura. Sakura leaned back so the peas went right past her and hit Tomoyo instead.
Tomoyo slowly turned to look at Eriol. "And what was that for!?" She cried.
"Tomoyo! I'm sorry! I meant to hit Sakura." Eriol apologized.
"Oh really?" Tomoyo laughed and picked up her entire try and began to throw it back at Eriol, but Sakura knocked her in the side a bit so the tray flew at Touya. It smacked him right in the face. Touya froze and there was silence.
Everyone at the table starred at him. "Uh, Touya?" Sakura whispered.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" Touya exploded. "I was just sitting here having a nice quiet lunch and I get this tray in my face!"
"I'm sorry Touya." Tomoyo squeaked.
"Just cut it out!" He made a fist. Everyone nodded and went back to their lunch. (Well except for Tomoyo because hers was either on the table floor or Touya!)
From the other side of the cafeteria Natasho sat and watched the group with their little food fight. He lowered his sunglasses slightly and gave them all an evil glare.
***
Sakura had to stay after school that day for cheerleading practice so when she left she was walking alone. Just as she walked outside she saw Natasho. "Hello." She smiled and waved at him. Natasho walked right up to her and grabbed her wrist and twisted it. "Ow!" Sakura yelped. "Stop it!"
Natasho let out an evil cackle. "Why should I little Miss. Cardcaptor Sakura?"
Sakura gasped. "What!? How do you know about that?" She asked.
"Only because I have envied Clow ever since he made those cards and soon they will be mine!" He cackled.
"Shatano!?" Sakura cried.
"Righto!" He laughed. "Or in your case…" He said and took off his sunglasses. "Kyle."
Sakura leaned back in fright. "Kyle!?" She said shocked. "It can't be! You can't be the bad guy!"
"Well, he's not really the 'bad guy' Kyle replied.
"What do you mean 'he'?" Sakura asked.
"I mean I am using Kyle's body as a host!" And lower toned voice cackled. This was the voice Sakura recognized from her dream. A black shadow creature emerged from Kyle's body and Kyle passed out and began to fall to the floor when…
***
Yue had been sent to look for Sakura because no one had been told about her cheerleading practice. He had reached the school and was turning around a corner when he heard an evil cackle. He ran to it and saw Sakura's new classmate, Natasho, standing in front of Sakura and holding her wrist. "Sakura!" He cried. A shadow creature appeared from Natasho that now looked like Kyle to him.
'Yuki?' He thought to Yuki in HIS body.
'Yes?' Yuki replied.
'We're changing.'
'WHAT!?' Yuki gasped. 'You mean I have to use my, I mean your powers!?'
'Yes.' Yue replied.
'But, but, but I don't know how!'
'I'll help you!' Yue argued.
'A…a…all right.' Yuki agreed hesitantly.
Wings wrapped around Yue and then spread out to reveal Yuki in Yue's body. 'What do I do?' He asked.
'Fly over there! It'll just happen!' Yue told him. Yuki nodded and flew over to Sakura. He was there just in time to catch Kyle as he fell to the ground when Shatano emerged from him. "Yuk…Yue!" Sakura gasped.
'Now raise one of your hands and concentrate all of your energy into it.' Yue instructed.
'What will that do?' Yuki asked.
'It will make the crystals I use to attack appear.' Yue explained.
'All right.' Yuki agreed. He held up his hand and concentrated all of his energy into the palm of his hand until a cluster of crystals appeared floating just above it. "Wow!" Yuki said amazed.
'Now shoot them at the shadow thing!' Yue demanded. Yuki did so. Shatano was taken of guard and hit badly. He gave a piercing scream and shot back at Kyle.
"Yue, Yuki, whoever! Let go of Kyle!" Sakura cried. Yuki laid him down and ran over to Sakura.
Kyle slowly stood up and faced Sakura and Yuki. "Sakura, I will get you again and kill you!" He cried and flew up into the air.
Right then and there Sakura broke down crying. She clung to Yuki tightly and cried into his (I mean Yue's) robes. 'I think you might want to take over now. Seeing as you like her so much.' Yuki thought to Yue.
'What!? How do YOU know about that.' Yue demanded.
'Please! We're practically the same person! I can hear a lot of things if you don't block me out!' Yuki laughed.
'Oh fine.' Yue sighed. Yuki backed away from Sakura and changed into Yue. (Yuki!)
"Yue!" Sakura cried and ran over to him and cried. "He's going to kill me!"
"Sakura, It's going to be all right. "You're strong enough to beat him. And all your friends will be there to help you! You know that." Yue assured her.
"Ya…that's true. He's just really creepy!" Sakura giggled, calming slightly.
"Creepy, I believe that would be the biggest understatement I've ever heard!" Yue laughed as he led Sakura back home.
"Hey! You laughed!" Sakura gasped with a smile.
"Oh my gosh I did." Yue put his hand to his mouth. "Now that's creepy." He smiled.
Sakura laughed. "YES! Kero owes me dessert for a week!" She shouted.
"Huh?" Yue arched an eyebrow.
"Never mind." Sakura smiled and they walked home.
***
"He what!?" Touya cried. "Are you all right!?"
"Yes Touya! I'm fine!" Sakura assured him. "We'll just have to keep our guard up."
"You better be careful!" Touya muttered.
Everyone had gathered at the Kinomoto residence that next morning so Sakura could tell them about what had happened.
"Sakura, I don't think Shatano is going to attack you any time soon." Eriol stated. "There are still some cards left to capture, but I don't think Shatano wants to do the work. He's waiting for you to capture the cards and take them from you. After you capture the last card, that will be the time to worry." He explained.
"All right." Sakura nodded. "I suppose that makes sense." She paused. "What time is it?" She asked.
"It's 8:35." Tomoyo replied. "Why?"
"Oh my gosh! Yue! Get over here!" Sakura yelped.
"Oh right!" Yue remembered and walked over in front of Sakura.
"That's right, Sakura has to change Yue and Yuki back in exactly one minute." Eriol pointed out.
Sakura held out her key. "Oh key that gathers powers from the sun, the moon and stars. Release the staff that I may use against the cards that he will chose!" She gripped on to her staff and pulled out the 'normal' change card. "The shadow of night is upon us now so I call upon the cards of Clow! Change card! Release your powers now!" She shouted just as the clock changed to 8:36.
Yuki ('s body) stood before her. "Um, Yuki?" Sakura whispered.
"Sakura?" Yuki blinked. He looked down at himself. "Hey! I'm back!" He cried.
"Oh good." Sakura let out a sigh of relief. "I wasn't sure if it would work."
"Don't worry. It worked." Yuki smiled.
~In the mind of Yuki and Yue~
'Aw…You must be upset Yue.' Yuki teased.
'Why?' Yue asked.
'Because your quality time with Sakura is over!' Yuki burst out laughing in his mind.
'Would you just drop it!?' Yue screamed.
'Okay, okay. I was just kidding.' Yuki calmed. 'You know you don't really have to wait until she needs your help. You can come out whenever you want to.' He offered.
'Well what if I don't feel like it?' Yue asked.
'You know you want to.' Yuki grinned.
'Do you ever shut up?' Yue wondered.
'Nope!'
'I should have guessed.' Yue "rolled" his eyes.
Author's notes: up, that's it for the chapter. We'll be seeing more of Shatano/Kyle soon don't worry. There are still some cards to capture in the next chapter but were coming to an end pretty soon. The next chapter should be really funny so be prepared. Muw ha ha!
Chapter Seven
~Selene Serenity~
Disclaimer: I don't own CCS. It is property of CLAMP. I do own this fanfic, so please ask me if you want to put it on your site, prior to doing so.
Author's Notes: Yeah! New chapter! Well last time we left the CCS crew Yue and Yuki had switched places via the change card. This should be rather interesting. Well let's jump right into the story!
Acknowledgements: I'd like to thank my friend Jessica for helping me with the incantations for the new staff in this story. I have always forgotten to thank her. She also inspired the character of Shatano.
~Chapter Seven~
"Okay Sakura, I bet you that in the next six days that we have left that you can't make Yue laugh." Kero offered.
"Okay, sure. But that means that I bet YOU that you can't go the same six days without any pudding!" Sakura poked him in the belly.
"What!? No pudding?" Kero exclaimed.
Sakura nodded solemnly. "Yup."
"Oh all right…" Kero feebly agreed. They shook hands on it.
The two of them were in the living room the afternoon of the switch of Yue and Yuki. At that point Touya had just passed the living room. "This should be interesting." He muttered.
***
The next day Sakura, Touya and Yue, (AN: I'll call him by their real name.), were walking to school. "So you survived your first day I see." Sakura smiled at Yue.
"Barely." Yue and Touya gave an exasperated sigh.
"Oh come on! It's only one week. I'm sure it's not that bad!" Sakura laughed.
"Oh, it is that hard, it is." Yue grumbled.
"Sakura! Touya! 'Yuki'!" A chorus of voices cried. The three of them turned around and saw Tomoyo, Eriol, Meling, Syaoran, and Nakuru walking towards them.
"Hi Guys!" Sakura smiled and waved. The group soon caught up with them and they all continued on to school.
A block before the school a flash of pain shot through Sakura. She fell to her knees and gasped for air. "Sakura!" The others all cried and dashed to her side.
"What's wrong?" Eriol asked.
"He's…he's here…" Sakura said in between her gasping breaths.
"Who's he?" Touya asked.
"Shatano…" Yue explained. Everyone looked over at him. He was standing and kept a serious and protective face.
"How can you tell?" Syaoran wondered. "You don't have your powers in Yuki's body."
"Somehow I still have the power to sense magic." Yue told them.
"He's right…" Sakura said, still panting. Touya and Tomoyo then helped Sakura stand up. "Shatano is somewhere here in Tomeda. He's been haunting me in my dreams but he's here now."
"That means we really need to on our guard." Eriol said.
"Someone must be watching Sakura at all times." Yue agreed.
"Right." The others nodded.
***
"Class, please settle down." Sensei Tomoho called from the front of the class. All of the students quieted down and looked up to the front of the room. Standing next to him was a boy in very strange clothing. He wore a dark trench coat and sunglasses. You couldn't even tell if he was wearing the uniform. "We have a new student. (AN: what a coincidence huh? Shatano, new student…hm… Aren't I obvious?) His name is Natasho Black." He then turned to Natasho. "Please take a seat."
"Of course." He nodded and walked to an empty seat.
***
(AN: For the next section I want to keep in mind that Sakura, Tomoyo, Eriol, Meling and Syaoran are all freshmen in High School and Touya, Yuki and Nakuru are seniors. I don't know if that is the correct age difference but I need that for this chapter.)
Lunch arrived finally a few days later and the seniors and freshmen shared a lunch period. Sakura, Tomoyo, Meling, Nakuru, Touya, Yue, Eriol, and Syaoran sat at one table together. Sakura sat in between Tomoyo and Syaoran. She turned and faced Syaoran. "Syaoran, I need to ask you a favor." She told him.
"What is it?" Syaoran asked.
"Throw your mashed potatoes at me." Sakura replied.
"What!?" Syaoran asked, puzzled.
"Throw your mashed potatoes at me." Sakura repeated.
"Why?"
"Just do it!" Sakura cried.
"All right!" Syaoran laughed and lunged the potatoes right in her face.
"Thanks!" Sakura said, still smiling. She wiped the potatoes off her face and threw them back at him. Syaoran ducked and the potatoes smashed right on to Eriol's right cheek. "Oh! Eriol I'm sorry!" Sakura made a fake gasp.
"Sakura!" Eriol exclaimed. He grabbed a fork full of peas and flung them towards Sakura. Sakura leaned back so the peas went right past her and hit Tomoyo instead.
Tomoyo slowly turned to look at Eriol. "And what was that for!?" She cried.
"Tomoyo! I'm sorry! I meant to hit Sakura." Eriol apologized.
"Oh really?" Tomoyo laughed and picked up her entire try and began to throw it back at Eriol, but Sakura knocked her in the side a bit so the tray flew at Touya. It smacked him right in the face. Touya froze and there was silence.
Everyone at the table starred at him. "Uh, Touya?" Sakura whispered.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" Touya exploded. "I was just sitting here having a nice quiet lunch and I get this tray in my face!"
"I'm sorry Touya." Tomoyo squeaked.
"Just cut it out!" He made a fist. Everyone nodded and went back to their lunch. (Well except for Tomoyo because hers was either on the table floor or Touya!)
From the other side of the cafeteria Natasho sat and watched the group with their little food fight. He lowered his sunglasses slightly and gave them all an evil glare.
***
Sakura had to stay after school that day for cheerleading practice so when she left she was walking alone. Just as she walked outside she saw Natasho. "Hello." She smiled and waved at him. Natasho walked right up to her and grabbed her wrist and twisted it. "Ow!" Sakura yelped. "Stop it!"
Natasho let out an evil cackle. "Why should I little Miss. Cardcaptor Sakura?"
Sakura gasped. "What!? How do you know about that?" She asked.
"Only because I have envied Clow ever since he made those cards and soon they will be mine!" He cackled.
"Shatano!?" Sakura cried.
"Righto!" He laughed. "Or in your case…" He said and took off his sunglasses. "Kyle."
Sakura leaned back in fright. "Kyle!?" She said shocked. "It can't be! You can't be the bad guy!"
"Well, he's not really the 'bad guy' Kyle replied.
"What do you mean 'he'?" Sakura asked.
"I mean I am using Kyle's body as a host!" And lower toned voice cackled. This was the voice Sakura recognized from her dream. A black shadow creature emerged from Kyle's body and Kyle passed out and began to fall to the floor when…
***
Yue had been sent to look for Sakura because no one had been told about her cheerleading practice. He had reached the school and was turning around a corner when he heard an evil cackle. He ran to it and saw Sakura's new classmate, Natasho, standing in front of Sakura and holding her wrist. "Sakura!" He cried. A shadow creature appeared from Natasho that now looked like Kyle to him.
'Yuki?' He thought to Yuki in HIS body.
'Yes?' Yuki replied.
'We're changing.'
'WHAT!?' Yuki gasped. 'You mean I have to use my, I mean your powers!?'
'Yes.' Yue replied.
'But, but, but I don't know how!'
'I'll help you!' Yue argued.
'A…a…all right.' Yuki agreed hesitantly.
Wings wrapped around Yue and then spread out to reveal Yuki in Yue's body. 'What do I do?' He asked.
'Fly over there! It'll just happen!' Yue told him. Yuki nodded and flew over to Sakura. He was there just in time to catch Kyle as he fell to the ground when Shatano emerged from him. "Yuk…Yue!" Sakura gasped.
'Now raise one of your hands and concentrate all of your energy into it.' Yue instructed.
'What will that do?' Yuki asked.
'It will make the crystals I use to attack appear.' Yue explained.
'All right.' Yuki agreed. He held up his hand and concentrated all of his energy into the palm of his hand until a cluster of crystals appeared floating just above it. "Wow!" Yuki said amazed.
'Now shoot them at the shadow thing!' Yue demanded. Yuki did so. Shatano was taken of guard and hit badly. He gave a piercing scream and shot back at Kyle.
"Yue, Yuki, whoever! Let go of Kyle!" Sakura cried. Yuki laid him down and ran over to Sakura.
Kyle slowly stood up and faced Sakura and Yuki. "Sakura, I will get you again and kill you!" He cried and flew up into the air.
Right then and there Sakura broke down crying. She clung to Yuki tightly and cried into his (I mean Yue's) robes. 'I think you might want to take over now. Seeing as you like her so much.' Yuki thought to Yue.
'What!? How do YOU know about that.' Yue demanded.
'Please! We're practically the same person! I can hear a lot of things if you don't block me out!' Yuki laughed.
'Oh fine.' Yue sighed. Yuki backed away from Sakura and changed into Yue. (Yuki!)
"Yue!" Sakura cried and ran over to him and cried. "He's going to kill me!"
"Sakura, It's going to be all right. "You're strong enough to beat him. And all your friends will be there to help you! You know that." Yue assured her.
"Ya…that's true. He's just really creepy!" Sakura giggled, calming slightly.
"Creepy, I believe that would be the biggest understatement I've ever heard!" Yue laughed as he led Sakura back home.
"Hey! You laughed!" Sakura gasped with a smile.
"Oh my gosh I did." Yue put his hand to his mouth. "Now that's creepy." He smiled.
Sakura laughed. "YES! Kero owes me dessert for a week!" She shouted.
"Huh?" Yue arched an eyebrow.
"Never mind." Sakura smiled and they walked home.
***
"He what!?" Touya cried. "Are you all right!?"
"Yes Touya! I'm fine!" Sakura assured him. "We'll just have to keep our guard up."
"You better be careful!" Touya muttered.
Everyone had gathered at the Kinomoto residence that next morning so Sakura could tell them about what had happened.
"Sakura, I don't think Shatano is going to attack you any time soon." Eriol stated. "There are still some cards left to capture, but I don't think Shatano wants to do the work. He's waiting for you to capture the cards and take them from you. After you capture the last card, that will be the time to worry." He explained.
"All right." Sakura nodded. "I suppose that makes sense." She paused. "What time is it?" She asked.
"It's 8:35." Tomoyo replied. "Why?"
"Oh my gosh! Yue! Get over here!" Sakura yelped.
"Oh right!" Yue remembered and walked over in front of Sakura.
"That's right, Sakura has to change Yue and Yuki back in exactly one minute." Eriol pointed out.
Sakura held out her key. "Oh key that gathers powers from the sun, the moon and stars. Release the staff that I may use against the cards that he will chose!" She gripped on to her staff and pulled out the 'normal' change card. "The shadow of night is upon us now so I call upon the cards of Clow! Change card! Release your powers now!" She shouted just as the clock changed to 8:36.
Yuki ('s body) stood before her. "Um, Yuki?" Sakura whispered.
"Sakura?" Yuki blinked. He looked down at himself. "Hey! I'm back!" He cried.
"Oh good." Sakura let out a sigh of relief. "I wasn't sure if it would work."
"Don't worry. It worked." Yuki smiled.
~In the mind of Yuki and Yue~
'Aw…You must be upset Yue.' Yuki teased.
'Why?' Yue asked.
'Because your quality time with Sakura is over!' Yuki burst out laughing in his mind.
'Would you just drop it!?' Yue screamed.
'Okay, okay. I was just kidding.' Yuki calmed. 'You know you don't really have to wait until she needs your help. You can come out whenever you want to.' He offered.
'Well what if I don't feel like it?' Yue asked.
'You know you want to.' Yuki grinned.
'Do you ever shut up?' Yue wondered.
'Nope!'
'I should have guessed.' Yue "rolled" his eyes.
Author's notes: up, that's it for the chapter. We'll be seeing more of Shatano/Kyle soon don't worry. There are still some cards to capture in the next chapter but were coming to an end pretty soon. The next chapter should be really funny so be prepared. Muw ha ha!