"…" - Talking (NO Duh!)

^…^ - Thinking

(…) - My daft self

… - Singing/Battle Chants (I just found their battle chants and am going to use them in future chapters)

CAPS - Shouting or emphasis on that word

Disclaimer:

teddybearwithwings: I don't wanna! I hate disclaimers! *sigh* Oh well, someone's got to do it, but definitely not me. Hey, here comes Kero.

Kero: *flies in general direction of tbwwings* Tum tee tum…

tbwwings: *snatches Kero out of the air* Unsuspecting prey…

Kero: Hey, hey! That's my tail there you've got in your grubby paws! Let go!

tbwwings: Not until you say the disclaimer for me.

Kero: That!? You're pulling my tail and causing me to be in utter agony for ONE. STUPID. DISCLAIMER!!?? Geez, what is WITH you authors and disclaimers anyway? They don't bite.

tbwwings: Look, just do it. I'll give you three cups of pudding.

Kero: Six cups of pudding and a eight pack of top quality Energizer batteries. Sakura won't let me near her Gameboy after that 'you've just used up all sixteen batteries I bought two days ago' incident unless I get her new batteries.

tbwwings: Four cups and a four pack.

Kero: Five cups and a six pack.

tbwwings: Four cups, six pack, that's my final offer.

Kero: Fine, fine. tbwwings does not own CCS and anything else she doesn't own.

tbwwings: And…

Kero: *exasperated sigh* AND if anyone tries to sue her, I'll breathe fire up the person's bloody ass. There, happy now?

tbwwings: *grabs Kero and stuffs IOU in his mouth* There you go. *hops away*

Kero: *looks at IOU* Hey! Come back here! Oh well, she had better get me that pudding or I'll breathe fire up HER bloody ass.

1 Camp times two

*Chapter 9: Camp one, Day five & The Trip to Camp Prick*

~*~ Flashback ~*~

Back at the cabins, everyone had decided to go to sleep early, and they were now in bed, drifting into a blissful sleep.

~*~ End Flashback ~*~

"Sakura, wake up. Wake up!" Tomoyo tried in vain to wake her sleeping best friend up, "Oh, you won't, will you? Let's see how you react to ICE WATER!" Tomoyo marched off to the bathroom.

"HOE~! I'm up! I'm up!" Sakura yelled, scrambling out of bed, forgetting that she was in the upper bunk, and falling a meter and a half with her blankets tangled in her limbs.

"Ha! Thought so. You were awake the whole time. And thank god I had my camera. OHOHOHOHO~!" Tomoyo laughed with her V8 in hand, making Sakura sweatdrop.

"When will you EVER put that thing away?" Sakura asked.

"How about… NEVER! I just LOVE~ filming my kawaii Sakura blossom cause she's just so KAWAII!! And my kawaii Sakura blossom had better get changed and packed in half an hour. Nakuru and I have told the guys to meet us outside the dining hall for breakfast and our debriefing." (It's not THAT kind of 'debriefing' you perverts) Tomoyo grinned, getting this starry-eyed look, then trotting out the door. Then, she opened the door just a little and said, "Oh yes, and Sakura, your outfit's on my bunk." After which she shut the door, this time for good. (No, I don't mean that the door will never be opened. I can't risk Sakura being stuck inside in one of my beautiful creations with no one {especially Syaoran} to admire her)

Sakura turned to see her outfit laid out on Tomoyo's bunk, piece by piece, together with a note that said, 'After you've put this on, get Mirror to do your make-up and hair. I want you absolutely gorgeous for the prize presentation after lunch. Don't be late, Tomoyo' just like that.

Sakura scanned through the note and studied her outfit. "Hoe~." Tomoyo, quite obviously, wanted to try out the Goth look on her. She hurriedly put on her outfit, and released Mirror and, apparently, Mirror knew what she had to do even before Sakura could say anything. She transformed into a splitting image of Sakura and said, looking Sakura over, "Mistress, I may need Create's help here. Do you mind?"

Sakura released her staff once again and released Create, then telling Create to do everything Mirror wanted it to. After much pondering, she decided not to shrink the staff back in case Mirror needed more help from the other cards.

Sakura was right to leave the staff out. In the end, Mirror had wasted so much time thinking, Sakura had to use Time to stop time slow down time for a while and use Dash to help Mirror make her over in record speed. Now, she was strutting down the lane to the dining hall.

It came into view, along with the others. Nakuru had obviously had her coffee, for as soon as she spotted Sakura, she started jumping up and down and in circles shrieking things like, "Oh my god, Sakura is sooo~ KAWAII!!" or "KAWAII! She's just so simply KAWAII~!!" Tomoyo had her V8 out and was congratulating herself on another perfect creation. Syaoran, however, was blushing a scarlet never before achieved by man. Eriol, looking at Syaoran, grinned his mysterious I-know-who-my-cute-descendant-likes grin. Takashi just smiled and said, "Now, I know why you're late." Touya was none too pleased about Syaoran standing there like a stupid fool, gaping at his little kaijuu.

Sakura jogged up to them and said, in a happy voice, "Ohayo!" Obviously not noticing Syaoran and his scarlet face.

Touya and Nakuru, in the front, pushed the door open, in a dramatic way, and marched in slowly, with Sakura and Tomoyo behind Nakuru and Syaoran, Eriol and Takashi behind Touya, in that order. (Ooh, what was that saying again? Something about being late for the whole grand entrance effect)

Everyone turned their heads to gape at them, guys at the girls, girls at the guys. They were getting the grand entrance they deserved, but mainly because they all looked absolutely great.

Nakuru had her hair beaded again, this time, pulled into a high ponytail. She was wearing a sleeveless rose button up blouse, with small metal buttons that had even smaller butterflies carved in the middle of each button. She had buttoned up every button except the last button, showing a bit of skin just below the belly button, and the top collar button. She topped it off with a black choker with a red butterfly at the side. She also wore a ruby red pair of bell-bottoms and black-strapped three-inch platform sandals, which she had uprooted from the bottom of her closet, it being there for several years together with the rest of her 70's theme Halloween costume.

Touya hadn't quite cared about what he wanted to wear, considering his ensemble, consisting of a white Nike T-shirt with a big yellow and black Nike logo in the middle (I have one just like it, given to me by my bro because it's too small for him now) and grey cargo pants, was thrown on five minutes beforehand.

Takashi wore a navy blue hooded windbreaker with white lining over a black T-shirt, and jeans.

Eriol had his hair neatly combed down, as usual. He, unlike the other three boys, had picked out his outfit himself and took care in doing so, probably because he wanted to impress a certain violet-eyed girl. He wore a white T- shirt inside an open button up short sleeve shirt, a shade of blue identical to that of his eyes. To complete it, he had put on a loose pair of black pants.

Tomoyo was set up with an elegant touch. She wore a maroon sleeveless turtleneck that reached halfway down her bum and a dark grey skirt that reached her knees. She finished it off with black ankle boots and a necklace around her neck (outside the collar) that consisted of a piece of nylon string (think fishing line) with a matted silver clasp and a little round piece of silver with a hole through the side and a solitaire diamond in the middle threaded through it.

Syaoran, having not have woken up as early as Eriol, had his outfit picked out by his 'dear ancestor'. He wore a short sleeved dark green button up shirt, left three out of the six buttons unbuttoned, with a white T-shirt on the inside. He, like Touya, wore a pair of cargo pants. Quite unfortunately for him, the green of his shirt accented his blush quite well.

Sakura, being the cause of his blush, had been dressed up pretty well herself. She donned a black tube top just above her belly button, with an elaborate silver dragon in a silver circle. She wore with it, a black miniskirt halfway down her thigh, with a hot pink fringe. She had an ankle- length coat with flared sleeves. The top half (From the top to roughly where her top ended) was semi-transparent black, and where that half ended, was a silver strip that went round and the only 'button'. On the right, was a metallic pink cherry blossom, and on the left, was a metallic pink piece of ribbon made into a loop to loop around the blossom. She wore black boots, with one-and-a-half-inch heels, just below her knee. The boots had a hot pink zip down the front, from the top to her ankle.

She wore a scarlet lip-gloss (Strawberry flavoured), a faint hint of blusher, and silver eye shadow. Her hair had a four bits wrapped in thread. One in dark purple, one in dark red, one in dark green and another in dark blue. There were also about five bits beaded with beads in the order of dark purple, dark green, dark red and dark blue, then the pattern repeated all over until the whole length was done, with intervals of two and a half inches in between each bead. After all that, Mirror had pulled everything into a high ponytail with a black scrunchie, and taken four bits of hair in the ponytail and braided them with a thread of one of the four colours, wrapping them at the end to bind everything together.

Just in case anything went wrong, Mirror had also packed a small black leather backpack, with a clasp that was a miniature version of the dragon on her top in sterling silver, with lip-gloss, bits of thread, beads, a spare scrunchie, eye shadow and blusher. She had got Create to create the beads, thread, scrunchies, make-up and backpack.

Everyone else in the hall kept sneaking glances at them throughout lunch, the guys flirting recklessly with Tomoyo and Sakura whenever either of them went to top up their plate at the buffet table, and the girls desperately trying to get the attention of Eriol, Syaoran and Takashi by doing things like accidentally-on-purpose bumping into them, swishing their hair in front of them at the buffet table, sometimes getting their hair and dandruff onto the food.

The girls from Cabin 8 tried introducing themselves to each of the of guys personally, getting a "Whatever" from Syaoran, a "Nice to meet you, but I'm really hungry so may I please proceed to my table so I can feast on this delicious buffet uninterrupted" from Eriol with emphasis on the last word, and a "Did you know that there are such a thing as guys who do not like being flirted with while trying to battle their way to the table to eat on this planet? Well I'm one of them, so will you please excuse me" from Takashi who never failed to raise the finger of truth.

Even their counsellor, a girl who goes to the same university as Touya, went up to Touya at the buffet table, earning herself the silent treatment and the finger as soon as her back was turned.

When lunch was over, Mrs Campbell went on stage. "Good afternoon, hope you had a nice lunch. Now, may I invite the counsellors to come up front to the judges' table. Your booklets are placed in front of your seats, and you are to look through the instructions on the front page and judge the kids as they come up to get their certificates. You are requested to be fair." She explained.

Touya, Nakuru and all the other counsellors walked up, sat according to the number of the cabin they were in charge of, and read the instructions on the top of their booklets. Mrs Campbell waited patiently up on stage, for them to finish reading, turn over the page, and pick up the supplied pens, to continue, "I'll call out your names, one by one, according to which cabin you're in, and in alphabetical order. Then, you'll come up on the staircase to my left, get a certificate like this," she held up a yellowish rolled up piece of paper tied with a red ribbon, made to look like diplomas, "bow, and leave on the staircase on my right. Is that understood?"

The kids in the hall nodded, some of them angry with her for calling them kids. She ignored this, and said, "Cabin one, Tajiri, Kenji…" a brunette boy leapt up the stairs onto the stage in two bounds, and Sakura & Co. Waited for their turn to go up, "…Cabin four, Daidouji, Tomoyo…" Tomoyo sauntered up with the stage as a few guys' mouths dropped open slightly, "…Kinomoto, Sakura…" Sakura hopped up the stairs tackling two steps at a time, making more guys' mouths drop open, including Syaoran who blushed, and the girls jealous, "…Cabin five…" Mrs Campbell called out the guys' names one by one, making the girls forget their jealousy and gape. She continued until she was done with the whole list.

"Now that we're done with the certs, will the judges pass their booklets up to me for the final tabulation." The counsellors all dumped their booklets on the two unfortunate people in the middle, Touya and Nakuru, who had to hand all in. Mrs Campbell giggled slightly at this as she calculated everything quickly and recorded winners.

"Alright, settle down," Everyone was restless in excitement, "Here are the best dressed people in these hall. There are eleven categories, best dressed female individual, best dressed female cabin, best dressed male individual, best dressed male cabin, best dressed individual, best dressed cabin, best dressed female counsellor, best dressed male counsellor and best dressed counsellor. First, we shall announce best dressed female individual and cabin, then best dressed male individual and cabin, best dressed individual and cabin and after that, we'll pass around score sheets for you to judge the counsellors who will come up on stage and 'model' for you. When we've tabulated those results, then we'll announce the best dressed counsellors. The last two, would be judged by me, the best dressed and most suitable camper couple, and the best dressed and most suitable counsellor couple."

"For best dressed female individual, Sakura Kinomoto, from Cabin 4!" Sakura and Tomoyo screamed with delight, hugged each other, then Tomoyo pushed Sakura off onto stage to collect her medal and a voucher for a free 12- month subscription to Seventeen. "Best dressed female cabin, Cabin 4!" Nakuru squealed with delight, and started singing 'We Are The Champions' as Tomoyo and Sakura jumped up, dragging her onto stage for their medals and vouchers for free 12-month subscriptions to YM.

"Next up, best dressed male individual, Li Syaoran, Cabin 5!" Syaoran sat there, with a shocked look on his face as four hands pushed him and he walked up to receive a medal and a $40 voucher at the arcade in the mall in Tomoeda. "Best dressed male cabin, Cabin 5!" Touya, with a smug look on his face, and the other three boys marched up the stairs onto stage to receive their medals and $10 vouchers for Online Games in the arcade.

"Now, the so called battle of the sexes. We've got two warring individuals and two competing cabins. Which will win? All I can say is, GIRL POWER!" The girls screamed as more catcalls were heard from Cabin 7 and the other guys. Sakura, as individual winner, had earned a sash, a medal and $50 cash. The whole cabin each won a medal and $20 cash, and a shared trophy for the counsellor to keep.

Then, Mrs Campbell called the counsellors up on stage and passed out the score sheets. The counsellors walked forward, paused, turned around, paused, walked to their original position, paused, and turned to face the campers. Meanwhile, the campers were scribbling scores down on the score sheets. Then everyone passed the score sheets back as Mrs Campbell calculated mentally.

Mrs Campbell looked at her watch and said, "Oops, not much time left, I'll make this quick. Best dressed female counsellor, Nakuru Akizuki, male, Touya Kinomoto, hmm two winners in the same family. Best dressed counsellor, Nakuru Akizuki. This really is girl power." Nakuru received a sash and a $50 voucher at Giordano and a medal and $50 cash. Touya received a medal and a $50 cash.

"Now, couple time. Many of you may have guessed this, and like most other years, our couples are our individual winners! Round of applause please, for these amazing individuals." Sakura and Syaoran received a tiara and a crown, respectively, and a reservation for two at Pasta Fresca. Touya and Nakuru got a tiara and a crown, respectively, but unfortunately, the crown fell off Touya's head as he received a major glomping. They too got a reservation for two at Pasta Fresca.

Mrs Campbell then marched them off back to the cabins to pack, then they had to assemble back in the dining hall.

Our winners received a good lot of glares and stares, in utter hate, jealousy, admiration, envy, or at least two of the aforementioned.

Back at the cabins, it was found that all bags were already packed, so the girls took their bags to the boys' cabin to hang out before assembling again. Currently, Nakuru was literally hanging off Touya, and everyone was teasing Sakura and Syaoran. All of a sudden, the three other campers stopped and got these looks on their faces that only meant trouble for our favourite couple. They huddled together and Tomoyo started speaking, "Takashi, Eriol, you guys grab them and……"

When they turned around, the two boys pounced onto Sakura and Syaoran, who were surprised and rooted to the spot. Tomoyo, on the other hand, took a long piece of rope. Eriol and Takashi pushed S+S facing each other, towards each other. Tomoyo then tied them together, leaving them in a very compromising situation, faces centimetres away from each other. The couple started to blush really hard, because not only were they tied together, they had lost their balance and Sakura was now on top of Syaoran.

Touya saw this, and got really, really, REALLY mad, with sixteen veins popping. He threw Nakuru off and tore the ropes off, then grabbing Syaoran out from under Sakura by the shirt. He was about to punch him despite Sakura's cries and pleas, but Nakuru announced at the top of her voice that it was time to go assemble.

Touya reluctantly dropped Syaoran and, grabbing his bag, stomped out. By now, Sakura was so worried, her lip-gloss had been smudged, and her make-up looked awful.

She rushed to Syaoran's side; he was sitting up, supporting himself with his hands, wondering what the hell just happened. "Daijoubu desu ka?" (Was that right? It's supposed to mean 'Are you all right?') Sakura asked, her voice full of worry.

He turned and said, "I…I'm all right. You?" ^Man, even with all her make-up smudged, she still looks like an angel^

"A…Alright." She blushed at Syaoran's concern.

"KAWAII!!" Heads turned to see Tomoyo with her V8 in hand. "Or maybe not so kawaii, Sakura needs to have her make-up touched up." Tomoyo dragged Sakura up as Nakuru and she plopped her down on the bunk next to them, which happened to be Syaoran's.

Syaoran, still blushing, was helped up by Eriol and caught his bag thrown by Takashi.

"Hey Tomoyo, we'll be going to the dining hall first. We'll fill you in on whatever you miss." Eriol said, walking out behind the other two boys.

*Time gap*

Sakura looked better than ever, even if she did just dash into the dining hall looking all flustered. She ran, shouting, "Hoe, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late, I'm so sorry, I'm late!", so she didn't notice one of the jealous girls from Cabin 8 (the one who tried to hit on Syaoran) stick out her foot to trip her, as her cabin mate poured coffee all over the floor, meaning to make her trip and fall all over coffee, ruining her outfit.

However, Sakura noticed on time, and jumped over the perfectly tanned leg stuck out in front of her. Not that it was a good thing, she ended up landing on the coffee and skidding across the floor and into the arms of Syaoran who got up to help her.

They stared at each other's faces for a moment before noticing the close proximity of their faces. They let go of each other and heard a loud "Kawaii!" as everyone in the hall watched our fave couple-to-be blush to the ends of the Earth.

They sat down at their respective tables as Mrs Campbell asked, "May I ask, if you please, why you're so late?"

Nakuru got up from her seat and answered, "Well Mrs Campbell, we had all packed early and decided to hang out at the guys' cabin for a bit before coming here, and the guys must have seen us, because the moment we opened the door, they threw a glass of water in Sakura's face, she was in front. So, we had to redo her make-up, you could imagine the looks on everyone's faces if they saw their winner with smudged make-up."

The guys shot her accusing glares, as Touya hissed, "Liar."

Nakuru just shrugged and said, "Well, it was all I could think of."

Mrs Campbell, accepting the excuse, though she felt something wrong about it, told the girls in Cabin 6 to fill them in on what happened.

Their counsellor, Tenshi Momoto, said, "Hey, congrats, love your make-up, is it different?" It was, no one could remember what she looked like, so now, Sakura had dark plum lipstick, and silvery rose blush, topped off with a trace of hot pink eye shadow.

Tenshi continued, "Well, she just finished debriefing us when you came in, she's told us that the owner of Camp Prick is her sister, Laura Cooper. A lot of the campers here are going to Camp Prick, so there are three buses, two going round the lake to the other side to Camp Prick, one going back to Tomoeda. Either way, the trip would take at least ten hours…"

"Hoe…That long? It only took us four hours to get here."

"That's because the highway we took is now under repair. Yesterday, there was a major accident, explosions and all. Anyway, they've supplied us with a thermos flask and a two-tiered lunch box each to fill up at the buffet table with a snack after this. We also get to eat as much as we want and do what we want, as long as you stay in the dining hall of course, until around eight p.m., when Mrs Campbell will start calling out the names of people going back to Tomoeda and they'll leave first. Then, all the campers going to Camp Prick will get on the other two buses with four counsellors on each, while the other two follow Mrs Campbell in her station wagon. So, now we're free to do all we want. I'm gonna fill my lunchbox, wanna come?"

The other three girls followed her to the buffet table and filled lunchboxes, thermos flasks, and plates as they chatted happily. On the way back to the table, Tenshi met her sister, who was in Cabin 2, and started talking to her.

Sakura, Tomoyo and Nakuru decided to merge tables with the guys, as most other Cabins had done, so it won't be so boring talking to the same people all day.

The moment they sat down, Touya had Nakuru by her collar, "You stupid…"

He couldn't continue because Takashi had yanked him backwards. After that, all they did was eat, talk, eat, talk until Tomoyo brought this up, "This is boring. All we do is eat, talk, eat, talk. Let's do something like Truth or Dare or something."

Sakura, being the dense little girl she was, yelled, "I'm game!"

Slowly, the rest agreed one by one, except Takashi who was dragged off by Chiharu. Trouble came when they reached Syaoran, "Nuh uh. No way am I playing that satanic game."

"Aw please? Everyone else is playing." Sakura knew he couldn't resist her puppy eyes. That was something someone had yet to do.

"Alright, alright, I'll play the stupid game, but I go first."

Everyone agreed to that as he started is dare, "Sakura, truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"I dare you to use the Erase Card to make Eriol and Tomoyo forget everything about being a couple."

"Hoe… OK. I'll do it. I can't release the staff here, good thing Kero taught me how to use the cards without the staff." She closed her eyes and concentrated, then reopened them and said, "Time, come to my aid. Stop time for everyone but those here at the table."

Suddenly, everyone but them stopped in their tracks. "Erase, Create, come to my aid. Erase Eriol and Tomoyo's memories of being a couple. Then create memories of what would have happened if they weren't a couple." There was a bright flash of light that confirmed the dare done.

"Alright, my turn. Eriol, truth or dare?" Sakura asked.

"Dare."

"I dare you to french Tomoyo." Sakura smirked. Tomoyo shrieked. Strangely enough, no one turned to stare.

"Oops, I forgot to start time again." Sakura said sheepishly. "Time, restart time." Everyone started moving.

"That's better. Eriol, you still have to do your dare. Unless you want to change it." Sakura said.

"I…I'll change."

"Okay, I dare you to go on stage, run across and then run back here, flapping your arms pretending to be a chicken." Sakura giggled at the mere thought.

"Fine, I'll do it." Eriol got up and ran up the stairs, flapping his arms and squawking like a chicken. Everyone started staring. They knew the reason for this, and it isn't that he had gone mad. Let's just say that the five other people whom he had been sitting with rolling on the floor, clutching their sides and laughing their heads off tended to be VERY suspicious.

He got back as Tomoyo was starting to recover. "You do realise *giggle* that I *giggle* got it all *giggle* ON TAPE!?" And she broke out into laughter again.

Eriol, totally embarrassed, turned away and started muttering, "That did not just happen, that did not just happen, that did not just happen…"

They continued the game, daring Touya to do the macarena and Nakuru to punch the counsellor from Cabin 8 for hitting on Touya, until Mrs Campbell took the mike and announced that it was already eight p.m. They stuffed whatever into their bags and waited for their names to be called. Little did they know, Eriol had flicked his wrist a little while she was still announcing the people going back to Tomoeda.

When they got to the last bus, Sakura and Syaoran were the last to get on (guess why), and there were only two seats left, side by side. They realised that when they looked around, and saw Nakuru sitting with Touya up front, Tomoyo sitting with Eriol, Chiharu sitting with Takashi, Rika sitting with Naoko, and basically, the rest of the bus was filled up.

They walked over and sat down, Sakura next to the aisle. After a few minutes, Syaoran felt a light pressure on his shoulder. He looked down, saw Sakura sleeping peacefully, and started blushing. He then leaned against the window and dozed off.



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