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Disclaimer: Only Sara, Mana, Manaturs, Ayane, Jintaro (Coming soon.) and the Sara Cards belong to me.
A New Riddle
Chapter VI
Announcements and the Ayane Dairy opens
"Ugh, my head." Kero groaned as he sat up off Sakura's pillow.
"Keroberos, you're finally awake." Nakuru said from the seat next to the bed. "Sakura-chan asked me to look after you. She's in the middle of her dinner."
"What am I doing here?"
"Naoko-chan used you to hit Riddle-san over the head. It was quite brave. Come one, we should go see what House Sakura-chan gets put in. I wonder if Eriol-sama gets put in Gryffindor again."
"I wouldn't be surprised if Sara gets put in Slytherin."
"Me either."
"Day- Daidojie Tomoyo." Professor McGonagall said, calling Tomoyo up to be sorted.
"It's Daidouji." Tomoyo said, sitting on the stood while McGonagall put the sorting hat on her head. All of the first years had already been sorted.
"Ah, Tomoyo Daidouji. Yes, you are very smart and loyal, that means HUFFLEPUFF!" roars of cheers and claps erupted in the dinning room that had now been set up just like the Great Hall.
"Hiiragizawa Eriol, I think."
"Yes, it is." Eriol said as he passed Tomoyo when she went to sit at her table.
"CLOW REED! How dare you come back to this school? You caused enough trouble with me last time!" the sorting hat screeched in his mind.
"But I'm the reincarnate of him, not truly him." Eriol said, trying to hide the blush that now spread across his face.
"I guess you wish to stay in your old House?"
"Yes please."
"GRYFFINDOR!" a hush went over the five people at the front and they looked over to Tomoyo. Already they had been split apart.
"Kimono Sakura."
"It's Kinomoto." Sakura said waving at Tomoyo as she sat on the stool.
"Card Mistress. Interesting to see you here. Brave, strong, smart, lots of nerve, GRYFFINDOR!" Sakura glanced over at her bestfriend quickly before she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"You will have some classes together, I will make sure of that." Yelan whispered in her ear. Sakura smiled quickly and walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat opposite to Eriol who was sitting next to Harry.
"You two look so alike." Sakura whispered to Eriol.
"Li Meilin."
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Li Syaoran."
"GRYFFINDOR!" the sorting hat yelled. Syaoran ran over to the Gryffindor table and sat next to Eriol and noted that Eriol and Harry did look alike, opposite Sakura.
"Riddle Sara." McGonagall called out almost in detest. Sara sat on the stool and felt the large hat being placed on her head.
"A Riddle, huh? What are we going to do with you?"
"You are probably going to put me in Slytherin. Oh, I'm going to be as bad as my father. Oh, let's all hide from Sara. She might put a stupid spell on us." Sara said in a bored tone.
"Quite brave and vicious, maybe Slytherin is the one for you, but from what I can see in here, you would probably kill one of your fellow House Members in the middle of the night and we don't want that happening, do we?"
"I do."
"I really don't know what to put you in."
"And is that a first, you old hat?"
"Professor McGonagall, I fear that this young lady is too hard for me to judge. That and she refuses to go in any House." The Sorting Hat said, turning itself around on Sara's head.
"That's great. I'll stay in my assigned room." Sara said, taking the hat off her head.
"Yanagizawa Naoko." McGonagall said. Naoko sat on the stool and was declared a Hufflepuff. Sara started to walk over to the staircase to leave.
"Miss Riddle, wouldn't you want some dinner?" Professor Dumbledore asked, clapping his hands for the feast to appear. Sara, who was now standing behind Draco leant forward and grabbed an apple that was meant for dessert from a bowel and walked out of the room.
Everyone who was too busy watching the scene finally realised that the food was there and tore into it.
Then a high-pitched scream filled the room and everyone turned to see Kero fall down the staircase that Sara had just walked up. (There's a staircase in the dinning room that leads to that wing.)
"Watch where you're going, Guardian!" Sara yelled.
"We're sorry. We didn't see you." Nakuru was heard. Meanwhile, Draco had turned around in his seat, (His seat is right in front of the staircase. That was why Sara was behind him) and picked up the yellow teddy bear like guardian.
"Kero." Sakura whispered. Eriol and Syaoran turned to see as their backs were towards this sight and gasped when they saw Draco, Crabbe and Goyle play with Kero.
"What is it?" he asked with a humoured tone in his voice He went to hang it loose by the tail when he felt something bite down into his hand. He looked down to see Mana clamped onto his hand. "You again?" he pried Mana off his hand and threw him across the room.
"Fiery!" Sara called from behind him. He knew this all too well. He quickly turned to see Sara with the Fiery Card behind her. She smirked. "Nobody hurts my Guardian but me."
"Well, that's um, great Sara." Mana laughed, getting himself up off Susan Bones's dinner plate. Draco had thrown him over to the Hufflepuff table. She was just about to pick him up when Tomoyo, Meilin and Naoko ran over to him and picked him up instead.
"Are you okay, Mana?" Tomoyo asked.
"Of course I am." He snorted.
"You are becoming more and more like Sara." Meilin groaned.
"And that's a bad thing?"
"Yes." Naoko said. Mana took off in the air and attacked Draco again but was caught by Eriol, who stood up on his seat and turned to Draco.
"Leave him alone." He said on a really deep voice.
"Everone sit down!" Yelan Li yelled, causing Eriol to sit, along with Tomoyo, Nakuru, Naoko and Meilin and to make Draco let go of Kero. Sara just stood with her arms folded over her chest. "We are going to behave."
"Yes, we all have a few announcements. First with our new grounds. There have been a few rumours going around. Miss Riddle over there is NOT possessed for one, Moaning Myrtle hasn't flooded the toilets and Fawkes is still alive and well. But, there is a creature in Hogwarts and it is indeed a Basilisk." Professor Dumbledore said, making the students whisper quietly. Then he clearing his throat silenced them. "We also have to get to the point of the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. We have a new teacher this year, and she is Madam Li."
"HOE!!" Sakura screamed accidentally.
"Hello, students. I am Madam Li, the owner of this castle. I am not very experienced with schooling work so I shall have a few people to help me." Yelan said and five people came into the room. Sakura, Syaoran, Meilin, Tomoyo and Eriol knew them all too well. "We have my daughters; Fenren, Fuutie, Sheifa, Feimei and the man with grey hair is Yue. And to help you out in the library, we have Touya Kinomoto and Nakuru." Touya walked into the room, earning a couple sighs from the girls at different tables.
"HOE!!" Sakura screamed again.
"Calm down, Sakura." Syaoran whispered to her across the table.
"What is he doing here?" she whispered back.
"What's my mother doing as a teacher?"
"She's your mother?" Harry asked, listening in to their conversation.
"Yeah. I wonder what she's done to my room."
"You should be glad she didn't choose Nakuru." Eriol muttered.
"If the students are finished, we have some more announcements. I have scheduled for the fifth years and over that they shall have extra classes with Madam Li, Yue, Nakuru and Touya, as he likes to be called, that will be the history of magics where you will learn about wars and the such. We all understand that you will not know your way around the castle so we have decided to show the prefects around. They will take you to your classes each day while you get used to your surroundings." Dumbledore said.
"We have already gotten your luggage to your rooms." McGonagall said.
"So on with dinner!"
Everyone ate with excitement, with even more excited conversations.
"How's Dudley treating you?" Hermione asked Harry.
"Dudley?" Sakura asked.
"He's my cousin I live with unfortunately. I'm their slave." Harry explained. "As Sara told you, my parents were killed ages ago and they're my only living relatives."
"My mum died soon after I was born. My brother has the power to see her. Touya Kinomoto is my brother. I apologise now for anything he does to you, Syaoran."
"That's okay." Syaoran said.
"What would Touya do to Syaoran?" Harry asked.
"They really hate each other. It's a huge war whenever they see each other."
"Oh, so it's like Sara and Malfoy." Hermione said.
"Yeah."
"And I thought we were going to have troubles with him this year." Ron laughed. "The whole of Slytherin's going to be on her tail."
"But they'll get off it once they see what she's willing to do to them if they annoy her." Eriol said.
"Yeah. When we were at Diagon Alley, they ran into each other and Sara punched him straight into a wall, which I can imagine was really easy." Sakura said.
"Especially after seeing her fight against the Fight Card." Syaoran put in. "She was amazing."
"Did you notice the flare in Sakura's aura when you said that?" Eriol asked. "Sakura loves Syaoran. Sakura loves Syaoran. And the feeling's returned." He chuckled loudly and the two blushed red.
"Shut up." Syaoran snapped.
"But why would I want to do that, my cute little descendant?" Eriol asked in Japanese, leaving the English students dazed.
"Because your cute little descendant is getting annoyed."
"Why?"
"Because you're annoying."
"Why?"
"Because that's you."
"Why?"
"ERIOL! Shut up!" Sakura yelled. Eriol was just about to ask 'why' again. Sakura could tell. Just as he opened his mouth Sakura said, "Eriol! Don't you dare. Or else I'll have to take a page out of Sara's book." Eriol closed his mouth and grinned.
"Now why do you feel like you need to do that?"
"Maybe I'll just get Syaoran's sisters to coo over how cute Chibi Clow is."
"Chibi Clow?" four voices said in the background and then the voices got nearer. "We taught Sakura-chan a new name for Eriol!"
"Stop calling me that!" Eriol groaned. "My name is Eriol Hiiragizawa. Not Chibi Clow, not Clow, not anything to do with him."
"Fine then, Eriol Hiiragizawa." Feimei grumped.
"It just doesn't have the same chime to it." Fuutie whined and then they left.
"Why do they call you Chibi Clow, and what does it mean?" Harry asked.
"I, ah, remind them of the sorcerer Clow Reed and chibi in Japanese is mini." Eriol said.
"Do you mean the Clow Reed? The one that created the Clow Cards and then destroyed the Ayane Cards?" Hermione asked.
"You've done your homework." Eriol chuckled. "Yes. That is exactly the Clow Reed that I'm talking about. We are currently in the Li Clan Castle, too."
"WHAT?!" Hermione screamed, getting the attention of everyone in the room. She then looked at Syaoran and Yelan. "That would make you a descendant of Clow Reed."
"Yes it would." Syaoran said.
"I always wondered what happened to Clow Reed. It said in every book that he, like Ayane, disappeared one day. I personally think that he created the elixir of life and never died."
"I don't think so. I think he was reincarnated." Sakura said.
"Really? Why?"
"I think that he and Ayane was reincarnated."
"Oh, you mean that in their next lives that they would be together again instead of a life of feuding like their last." Hermione finished.
"What?" Eriol asked, almost spitting out the potato that he was eating.
"It said in a book that I read that Ayane liked Clow." Hermione said. Sakura giggled and Syaoran chuckled.
"But I think the question there was if Clow liked Ayane back. And besides, you can't be sure with those old books." Eriol said.
"Hm, Sara has Ayane's diary." Sakura said. "I'm sure that if we ask her nicely she'll give us a quick look."
~*~ Up in Sara's room ~*~
Sara picked up the purple leather book that she knew was Ayane's dairy. It was very old and she could see the edges of torn pages just by looking at it. Then she opened it.
Thursday, 15th March.
Name: Ayane Tale.
Age: 27
Birth date: 31st of March (it's so close!)
Favourite Colour: Purple
Favourite Food: Anything Clow cooks me.
Best Friend: Clow Reed.
Dear Dairy, I know, pathetic way to start, but I am really bored. Clow started his long awaited project on the Clow Cards. It's like he's forgotten all about me. I've decided to make my own, that's why I've started you. I'm going to write down all the things that I do to create these cards-the Ayane Cards.
I wish Clow would pay more attention towards me. (Sigh.) Yep, you've probably guessed it. Clow is my love interest. BUT HE'S IGNORING ME!!!!!!!! I know, it's a bit young of me, but I can't help it if I feel that way. Oh, Clow's coming in. Bye.
Ayane.
Sara snickered.
'Ayane did like Clow after all. Puh, stupid fool.' Sara chuckled in her mind.
"What's so funny?" Mana asked.
"You're old master liked Clow Reed. How pathetic. I hate hearing that sort of stuff."
"You didn't hear it. You read it."
"Fine, I hate reading it."
"Ayane loved Clow."
"Mana!"
"What? You heard it this time."
"I hate knowing about it."
"Well, you can't rid that from your mind."
"You are very frustrating."
"I know."
"I'm going to hurt you soon."
"No
you won't. I'll fly downstairs and the professors will catch you beating up on
a poor defenceless charmed toy."
"Really?"
"Really."
"Don't be too sure about that." Sara said and quickly reached out an arm to him and grabbed him by the tail. Mana yelped and tried to get himself out of Sara's grasp.
"Let me go. Let me go. Let me go. Let me go. Let me go. Let me go. Let me go. Let me go! LET ME GO!" Mana yelled. Sara snickered and then heard a knock on her door. She stormed over to it and opened it.
"What?" she growled. She heard Eriol chuckle and he handed her a piece of parchment.
"Madam Yelan has decided to put you with Gryffindor. You are to use the Gryffindor timetable. Oh, and we may have to have some periods with Slytherin and Hufflepuff. See you then." Eriol chuckled again before he left.
Sara was fuming. She had to se Draco again, much to her dislike.
"Try not to kill him again." Mana said.
"You never answered me before when I asked you what had happened."
"That's because you wouldn't like the answer."
"Tell me."
"Fine. When the kid said that your father didn't want to, your aura turned black along with your staff and eyes and you were put into a trance-like state. You were like that for a while and you created the Death Card again. You nearly told it to kill Draco when Naoko hit you over the head with Kero, rendering the both of you unconscious." Mana explained.
"She hit me?!" Sara screeched. No one had ever dared to touch her, let alone hit her.
"Yes well, it was either that or you having to go back in time again."
"It's the principle that counts. She hit me?"
"Yes, now get over it."
"I decline. She has more nerve then I thought. How interesting."
"Are you okay? I've never heard you say anything like that before."
"Shut up."
"That's better."
"Really funny."
"Isn't it just?" Mana asked, earning a swipe to the head from Sara's hand. "Ow, I didn't need that."
"If it shuts you up, you did."
The Gryffindor prefect led them down the stairs to a corridor to a large portrait of a fat lady. She then moved, causing Sakura to jump.
"She moved, the painting moved!" she screeched.
"I'm sorry, miss. That is not the password." The painting replied.
"Jinko Kawaii." The prefect said and then turned to the other students. "Do not forget that password." And then the painting nodded and flew open like a door and the students were able to see a large room with a fireplace and a few chairs. A few first and second years ran forward into the room. "Boy dormitories are to your right and the girls are to the left. Your stuff has already been put into place."
Sakura, Syaoran and Eriol walked around the room.
"Do you know what room this is, Syaoran?" Eriol asked.
"Not at all."
"You sound like you know it, Eriol." Sakura said. Eriol shook his head.
"No. I just thought that he might, because he lives here and all." Eriol said loudly, much to the distaste of Syaoran.
"You live here?" some sixth year asked.
"Arigato, Hiiragizawa." Syaoran snarled.
"You're welcome." Eriol chimed back.
"Does that mean that Madam Li is your mother?" a fourth year asked. Syaoran nodded his head. "And all those girls?" he nodded his head again. "And Touya?"
"He's my brother." Sakura said. Older girl swarmed Sakura, asking her if she could get them together.
"And I thought I was an attraction." Harry groaned from the other side of the common room.
"Are you jealous, Harry?" Hermione asked. "I thought that you would have been happy to get out of the spot light."
"So did I."
"Maybe we'll get a normal year this year." Ron said, relaxing back into one of the chairs.
~*~
Hello! Well, actually I should say goodbye -for now- but anyways. Sorry if this is a bit late. Sorry if the next one is a bit late too.
~Jinko Kawaii.
