Title: HP/CCS Crossover

Chapter: 1 - We're off to Hogwarts, England!

By: Sparkling Crystal

"OMG!!!!"

Sakura yelled into the phone, "I can't believe you got the letter too!!!"

"Yes!" Syaoran moaned on the other end, "Now just calm down and listen to me!"

Sakura silenced down almost immediately, which was really hard to do, despite her excitement and the millions of questions on her tongue.

"There was also another sheet included in the letter, and it said that we're going to stay with this guy until school starts...so he's kinda like our 'host'...now what's his name again? Anyways, some rabbit-guy I think…And the school we're going to attend is-oh yeah…Hog-warts. What a disgusting name…And the rabbit guy will help us get the school supplies listed on the letter by changing our money to theirs...err...somehow...Then we'll finally go to that warty school for this year…"

Syaoran tried to state the situation while going over the letter from Professor Dumbledore.

Sakura nodded, then realizing he can't see her, said a simple "Oh!"

"How are you going to explain it to your dad then?" Syaoran asked, "My mom encouraged my to go, for it can, quote, 'expand and improve my knowledge of magic in the western world.'"

Sakura thought for a while, "That's a good question…Maybe I should ask Onii-chan…"

Syaoran stayed silent, he didn't care or want to have to do with anything about Touya, who always call him a "Chinese gaki". "It doesn't matter, as long as you meet me at the airport next week when we leave for England," he finally said.

Sakura agreed, "See you then!"

* * *

Syaoran sat down on the cold metal chair by the airport.

An airplane from the large window took off, leaving hundreds of people gazing upon it, wishing their family and/or friends a safe journey.

He slowly looked down and stared at his shoes. "Where was Sakura?" he thought to himself, "What if she didn't get through with her dad? But then she would have phoned me. So…she's late then?" Syaoran checked his watch. 11:16 am. The plane will leave in less than half an hour. Where was she?? The announcements had already started calling for their names. What if they missed their plane? How would they get to England then? What should he do? Maybe she's somewhere else in the airport; this is a big place after all… Should he look for her? Or maybe-

"SYAORAN-KUN!!!"

A loud, cheery voice cried from the back.

Syaoran quickly turned, and he saw Sakura running towards him as fast as she could. All his worries from a minute ago dissolved into thin air in less than two seconds. He held out her hands, and she jumped into them as he embraced her.

He twirled her around for a few spins until they finally stopped laughing.

"How did you tell your dad?"

Sakura smiled cheerfully, "Onii-chan helped me, and for once he didn't even call me kaijuu… As much as I'd hate to admit it, I'm going to really miss him…" She slowly looked down onto the floor.

"We won't be able to miss anyone if we don't catch the plane now!" Syaoran said as he suddenly remembered the time and quickly dragged Sakura to the check in place.

* * *

"Are you sure this is the place?"

Sakura asked nervously as Syaoran slowly walked up to the neat house. She looked around the neighbourhood, it was an extremely neat and orderly place. The perfect-ness made her even more nervous.

"Hai. My English may not be perfect but it matches the address from here," Syaoran said as he pointed at the letter, "And the gardener rabbit-guy we're looking for is called…um…oh…Hare-y Pot-argh." Syaoran flinched, "Does all western people have such weird names?"

Sakura stepped up by the doorbell and gently pushed it.

DING DONG~!

They stood in silence for a little while.

Yet soon enough a tall, skinny woman came to the door. She smiled as she saw Sakura, but also seemed to not realize the fact that Syaoran was there too. The two looked at each other and both gave a "YOU-introduce-us" look. But that was not needed, for the tall woman seemed to have known what they were here for.

"Oh, you must be that Japanese exchange-student! OH DUDLEY~!!! Come out and greet this cute young lady!!" She yelled into the house.

Before Sakura could say anything, a fat giant boy came thumping like an elephant towards his mother. And seeing how beautiful Sakura is, rushed to give her a hug.

Sakura screamed as two plump arms stretched over her and started to close.

Syaoran seemed to have also noticed what was happening. No sooner than said he was grasping his sword tightly with his hands. "BACK OFF!!!" he growled roughly. This wasn't jealousy, this was simply anger and frustration. "How dare that disgusting, fat pig hug my girl?!" he thought as he gave Dudley a deadly glare.

Dudley immediately backed off. Syaoran quickly stepped in front of Sakura. The mother also took a step backwards, and started shrieking into the house in an irritated tone, "HARRY! GET OUT HERE!!"

Syaoran eyed them carefully, unsure of their purpose.

"Isn't 'Harry' the name of the boy we're supposed to meet?" Sakura whispered to Syaoran.

Syaoran nodded slightly, "Think so."

A skinny boy with dark, messy hair and a pair of old glasses came out of the house. He smiled at them curiously. "Hello, I'm Harry Potter. Please to meet you, um… Sa-ker-la and Say-or-run," he greeted.

Syaoran glanced at him suspiciously and lowered his sword.

Sakura giggled, but still politely shook hands with Harry. "Please to meet you, Potter-san. I'm Kinomoto Sa-ku-ra, you can call me Sakura. And that's Li Syaoran, or Syaoran-kun."

Harry stared at her for a brief moment, "Err...my name is Harry...Harry Potter..."

Sakura looked at Syaoran questioningly. "They don't use 'san', it's Japanese, remember? Translated would be something like 'mister', and they use it before the word instead of after," Syaoran pointed out.

Sakura immediately understood, "I'm sorry, Mister Potter, I'm just used to saying it so much that I forgot-"

Harry blinked a few times, then bursted into laughter, "S-Sorry, didn't mean to laugh at you. But here we just call each other by name, I'm 'Harry' and simply 'Harry'." Although Harry was used to be called "Mr. Potter" by his professors or other adults who find him and his scar to be "simply amazing", hearing these words formally coming from a girl exactly his same age was totally hilarious.

Sakura quickly nodded as her face turned slightly pink.

Harry smiled back at her, personally he found her to be pretty attractive. Sakura was much prettier than Hermione, and way friendlier than Cho Chang. He studied her: glistening emerald-green eyes, short and straight auburn hair, energetic smile, attractive figure, and a cute personality.

"That's my Aunt Petunia and my cousin Dudley," Harry explained briefly, "Come inside, we were just having dinner!"

Sakura nodded respectfully and followed him inside. Syaoran also followed, eyeing Dudley doubtfully from time to time. Aunt Petunia and Dudley both stared at the two exchange students with wide-opened eyes. They wanted to know more about them but were quite afraid to do so.

Over dinner they all learned more about each other, Hogwarts, and what kind of magic they might be doing. Soon Harry showed them upstairs. The three boys were sharing Dudley's large room while Sakura was to have Harry's little room to herself.

* * *

Sakura circled in Harry's little room, it was quite small but very comfortable. After all, it was only going to be one week before leaving on the Hogwarts Express.

Syaoran came in carrying her luggage.

"Arigatou," She said with a smile.

Syaoran wiped his forehead, "I think I'm going to shower first if Potter-san and um… Dudley, doesn't mind." Since the instant that Dudley hugged Sakura he had hated him all the way.

Sakura nodded in acknowledgement, "Ja ne!" After unpacking she sat herself onto Harry's bed. "Ah..." she sighed as she laid down onto the small but very comfortable bed. All this traveling was extremely tiring. Then suddenly the thought of sleeping in another guy's bed hit her. Her face turned red immediately, but she quickly shook it away. After all, this was the only possible arrangement they could have with a house of this size... Out of nowhere, a loud screech boomed from the back of the room. Sakura let out a scream of surprise and fell back onto the floor.

In less than a minute, Syaoran and Harry both rushed into the room, with Dudley tagging along in the back, afraid to get too close to them. Sakura pointed to the corner of Harry's room, behind the large, old closet. "S-Something was there! And there was a loud sound-" She tried to explain.

Harry suddenly smiled apologetically, "Oh, Sorry! I forgot to take her away. That's my owl, Hedwig!"

"Owl…" Sakura said as she tried to breathe properly ever again, "An owl…?!"

Syaoran cocked an eyebrow as he gently pulled Sakura back up, "Mister Harry, I mean, HARRY, why do you keep an owl in your bedroom?"

Harry started for Hedwig's cage, "Here we use owls to send letters and stuff. I'll move it to Dudley's room with us so it won't disturb you." Dudley's mouth was wide-opened and about to protest but Harry just ignored him.

Sakura let out a sigh, "It's okay, now that I know what it is, I don't think I'd be scared again. I just...kind of took it by surprise. And besides, Dudley's room should be quite full already with three boys sleeping in it."

Harry looked at her again.

"She's very thoughtful too," he thought to himself. After Syaoran finished talking to Sakura the three boys returned to Dudley's room for the night.

* * *

"We're going to Diagon Alley today," Harry said to them the next day.

Sakura yawned and nodded at the same time. It was still night in Japan, and she barely got any sleep the last night. Even though the bed was quite cozy and very comfortable, it was still different from the one she was used to sleeping in. Not to mention the fact that it was another guy's bed.

Syaoran sat himself beside Sakura and started examining Dumbledore's letter again. "We're going to get our supplies there," Harry explained, "but first we have to go Gringots, the bank, and change your money into ours."

Aunt Petunia entered the kitchen with their breakfast. She had been treating Sakura and Syaoran with much respect and spoke to them as little as possible, being afraid of their magic as much as of Syaoran's sword. Unlike Harry, they had no restrictions on when and where they could use their magic. And also unlike Harry, Syaoran's temper is very short, and if anything happens to Sakura he would likely burn the whole house down within a few seconds.

As for her husband and their son, they've been staying in their rooms or outside of the house as much as they can to avoid them. "He's going to get it good when they leave." was on both her and Uncle Vernon's minds.

Sakura was blinking her eyes, trying to maintain awake. Failing, she leaned her head softly onto Syaoran's shoulders. Syaoran's face turned pink for a few seconds but he quickly changed to topic to discussing their trip with Harry.

Harry noticed too, and a little flash of jealousy passed before calling himself dirty and low-down. After all, who was he when Syaoran and Sakura were an obvious couple? But then… he thought as a bit of hope springs up in his mind…what if Sakura WASN'T with Syaoran? Maybe they're just friends? Maybe they're just VERY GOOD friends?

His thoughts were suddenly interrupted by Syaoran's questions.

"Do we have to acquire a wand?" Syaoran was getting to the topic of, "I'm sure Western Magic would be different than both of our magic, such as the fact that I can't use Sakura's cards and she can't use my sword. Would we have to start from the beginning again? Or...?"

Harry shrugged, "Since you're learning 'our kind of magic' your devices wouldn't work for our spells and incantations, and vice versa. So I guess you would need to get a wand too."

Syaoran nodded, "That makes sense. Do you think your teachers would mind if we brought our stuff there anyways?"

Harry shrugged again. For once he felt stupid, before they came he was so sure it would be easy to teach them and show off all the stuff he knows about Hogwarts, but now he already can't answer two of Syaoran's answers in a row.

"Well, I guess it depends who gets to decide," Harry finally said, "It'd probably be Professor Dumbledore or the Head of your House."

By now Sakura and Syaoran already knew quite a bit about Hogwarts and the kind of stuff they might do there. "I certainly hope I would not get into Slytherin or Hufflepuff, I can't predict what Mother would do to me if I did…" Syaoran muttered to himself.

"'Hmm?" Harry slightly raised his eyebrow.

"Nothing." Syaoran mumbled, "So...when will we start for Diagon Alley?"

"Once Uncle Vernon and Dudley are ready," Harry said without thinking, he was looking at how innocent Sakura looks when she was sleeping, and how he wishes that he was in Syaoran's spot right now…

Syaoran immediately shot a look at Harry, "DUDLEY is going with us? DUDLEY? Wasn't he a uh…doesn't he not know magic?"

"Yeah, he's a Muggle," Harry said, after being taken by surprise, "But he goes to another school in London, Smeltings or something-"

Just as Harry was talking, Uncle Vernon entered the Living Room, and he turned to the three of them. "Harry! Tell your - your friends that we're ready to go and…um…" He looked at Syaoran and his sword on the table. Although he wasn't wearing his costume he still kept his sword around him all the time. "…and whenever…whenever they're ready…we can go," he finished, trailing off. He called himself a coward, being afraid of a boy the age of his niece!

"And I already have all your luggage up on the car, so…no need to get them," He muttered gruffly as he left the room.

Syaoran gently pulled Sakura up from his shoulder, "Sakura, we're leaving for London now, Sakura!"

Sakura yawned as she opened her eyes and gazed at Syaoran, "...Nani?"

Harry was looking at all this quietly from the side. He can't help the feeling of jealousy inside his body. But he JUST met Sakura! Syaoran has probably been with Sakura for years! He quickly shook his head, what was he thinking of? As soon as they get to Hogwarts he'll meet Ron and Hermione and he'll be fine again. …Right?

Syaoran stood up from his chair, "Our luggage is already in the car and now we're leaving for London."

Sakura quickly got up too, "Oh!"

Syaoran picked up his sword and walked towards the door. Sakura followed, then turned to see Harry still sitting on his chair thinking. So she called to him curiously.

"Harry? Aren't you coming on the car too?"

Harry quickly snapped out of his thoughts and back to reality. Sakura gazed at him questioningly. Harry hurriedly got up and caught up with Sakura.

"Yeah…let's go then."

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~*ARTHUR'S NOTE*~

This is my first CCS/HP crossover…I hope it's not bad, and please review! I hope I won't get flames…I never did before…but then I've never wrote HP stories before either…! *sweat-drops* Nervous…