I want to thank my online pal, Arcticflames, for Tomoyo and Eriol's scheme!! She rocks! I'm forever grateful for this idea!!

(Note: The Sense Card belongs entirely to me...except she's a Card...yeah.)

*** This is the 6th chapter of "Together, Forever, as One" and will be fun! I promise!

Love, Ryoko

Chapter 6-Slowy McSlowerton Can't Catch a Snail

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "So...it's decided then."

"Well I guess. We were going to have to get those two together some day!"

"Your right, sweet, it's been too long."

Tomoyo blushed at Eriol's remark, but waved it from her thoughts. They were sitting in a comfortable room in Syaoran's mansion, discussing their latest plan for the Cherry Blossom and Little Wolf.

At first, the idea was to lock them both in the fence around the pool. Very tempting, Eriol had admitted, but he figured with Sakura, she would be WAY too stubborn. Syaoran was the one that wanted her, not her him; at least...not yet. (A/n At this moment, please insert an evil grin. :)Z))

No, Eriol had decided he would summon a monster "by accident", and they would be forced to fight together. Of course, Syaoran and Sakura had first started out their relationship with a battle. Why couldn't they restart it the same way?

Tomoyo had wholeheartedly agreed, and so the planning began. Extensive research as to which kind of creature, planning for when, how, where, why: the usual.

In Sakura's case: Tomoyo was to tell her that they were going to meet in the park at 4:00PM, and take a walk. She made it clear that they needed to have some "girl time" as Tomoyo so fondly put it, and talk about what Sakura would do with the Sakura Cards now. "Are you sure you want to get rid of them?"

In Syaoran's case: Eriol was to tell him that they were going to meet in the park at 4:00PM, and take a walk. He made it clear that they needed to have some "guy time" as Tomoyo so fondly put it, and talk about his training. "Have the Elders been pushing you too hard?"

The extremely cliché trick: Eriol and Tomoyo never actually meet Sakura and Syaoran.

Finally: Eriol summons a giant dragon to defeat them, and they have to work together to fight it off.

"As they would have said back in England: bloody brilliant." Eriol said; pleased with this new scheme his lovely had cooked up.

"Arigatou Eriol-kun. Now, we set it into action."

~*~*~* 3 hours later *~*~*~

The sun was shining, birds were singing, the sky was blue, the clouds were white and fluffy, Syaoran was headed one way, and Sakura in the other.

Two heads were facing the ground. Two voices were muttering, and two brown- haired heads suddenly collided.

*THUNK*

"Oww!!!!" was the unanimous exclamation on impact.

"What was that for?! Oh, it's you." They said in unison, both stressing the 'you' as if it was a vulgar term and gave their mouth a horrible taste.

Both glared at each other, though Syaoran's was a bit pitiful compared to what he used to do and because of who he was looking at. He just couldn't be mad at those sparkling, majestic, orbs of emerald perfection...

"STOP SAYING WHAT I SAY!" Sakura yelled.

"STOP ACTING SO FREAKING IMMATURE!"

"OH YEAH, WELL WHO'S THE ONE SAYING FREAKING? THE LAST TIME I SAID THAT WAS SECOND GRADE!"

"STOP LYING, ONNA! IT FITS YOU TOO WELL!"

"SHUT UP, CHIBI WOLF-BOY, I BET YOU HOWL TO THE MOON EVERY NIGHT!"

"OH YEAH, WELL~"

"ROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!"

An earsplitting roar sounded in the middle of Sakura and Syaoran's incessant bickering, and they had suddenly become face to face with a gigantic green dragon.

Sakura's eyes went wide. The last time she had fought something like this was...could she remember? The Earth card, yes that was it, and this one, she could tell by the smoke coming from its nostrils, could breath fire.

Then in as if in slow motion she saw the fire build up, the dragon's mouth open, and a fiery death was about to succumb her.

"MOVE IT YOU BAKA!"

Strong arms wrapped around her waist, and Sakura was flung out of the way, landing underneath whoever had saved her.

Sakura opened her eyes and saw Syaoran and, behind him, the once-green grass of the park destroyed. Small flames were left there, tasting the air and trying to grow, but that was all. Her eyes went wide at the destruction, and looked to Syaoran for help. He always knew just how to fight, what Card to use, where to use it...

"What were you THINKING?! Get up and use the Cards, Sakura! We don't have time for this!" He yelled, shattering her hopes of him being a hero.

She had forgotten that she was the hero, and always will be.

She reached for her necklace, and, almost automatically, chanted the words to summon her staff.

"Key that holds the power of the stars, reveal thy true form before me. Under the covenant, I, Sakura, command you, RELEASE!"

She pulled the Dash from her coat pocket, holding it with expert precision between her middle and first finger, her eyes set.

"DASH!"

And soon she was sprinting faster than the wind to the tail of the dragon. From there she ran up his back, the scales hard underneath her feet.

She was feeling a passion that had left her for the past 13 years, and now it rose strongly inside of her, giving her amazing strength. With each bit of returning confidence came more speed, and when Sakura got to the head of the dragon, she knew exactly what she had do to do, and she was shining pink.

"SWORD!"

Her star staff had become a long pink sword, and Sakura drove it straight into the monster's head, expecting to split it easily, but in vain. As soon as the sharp point hit those scales, the dragon roared in annoyance, whipping his head around, trying to stop the seemingly bug-sized girl on top of him.

Sakura was flung off, and instinctively in mid-air pulled out yet another card.

"FLY!"

Great wings sprouted from her back.

Syaoran could only stare in wonder. How had this woman, who had seemed so sad, tired, and miserable, suddenly transform into HIS Sakura, the one who had saved his life countless times, changed who he was, why he was, and everything about him, for the better?

Hope leapt inside of him, and something he knew all to well snapped at him, "What are you doing? Help her!" He had to help her defeat this thing! If she was to be injured, his life would go down the drain. She was his hope! He had to stop that enormous beast! He summoned his sword, feeling the routine of it coming back. How come this felt so different when he did this every day in training? He had such a strong sense of purpose now.

The sword wasn't just a weapon, but a means of defeating what had come against him. It was a channel for his energy. He began to glow green as Sakura landed beside him, her white, downy wings barely skimming the ground and fitting her perfectly. Sakura made a beautiful angel. Without even glancing at the man beside her, she pulled out yet another Card, this one with subtly different markings on the back than the others.

"SENSE!"

This was one of the new cards Sakura had made from Create when she was about fourteen. It told you the enemy's weaknesses, target areas, power level, strongest element (if any), and reason for attack. All crossed Sakura's mind like reading a book, and a puzzled look crossed her features as she stood next to Syaoran.

There was no reason for its attack! But it wasn't that he was just a reckless creature. It said the information was "inaccessible", whatever that meant, but it was weak to water and lightning, and used the element fire. Its power level was 20, not too high, but hard nonetheless. The only target area was the diamond-shaped ruby between its eyes, and it was extremely slow-moving, which was rather unlike dragons.

**behind the tree, watching**

Tomoyo giggled to herself. "She can't figure out his reason!" (More random giggling)

Eriol couldn't help but laugh too. "Did you see the look on Syaoran's face when he saw Sakura with wings?! This is priceless!"

"Aw, I just wish Sakura was wearing one of my kawaii outfits!"

"Well, do you have one in mind?"

"Of course! I've only been picturing her in it the whole time!"

Eriol grinned evilly. He knew she would. This would turn out great.

"Well, close your eyes and I'll show you something. Don't open until I tell you, and keep concentrating on Sakura in that outfit."

Tomoyo closed her eyes and nodded, wondering what he was about to do. Eriol closed his eyes also, and faintly glowed blue, and then it subsided.

"Now, look at Sakura." Tomoyo opened her eyes and turned to look at the cherry blossom when~

"HOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"S-Sakura, what happened to your clothes?!" Syaoran asked frantically as he blushed crimson.

"I-I don't know! They just changed and now I look like I'm in one of Tomoyo's crazy outfits!"

Syaoran thought he could hear laughing faintly over the roar of the confused dragon, who was still circling trying to catch the Sense, but shrugged it off.

While the user gathered the information, they needed time to process it and decide on a plan, so Sakura had taught the Sense to run around for a bit, teasing whatever was attacking about its weaknesses. It was quite good at it, and amusing to watch. She used it on Kero whenever he was being annoying.

Right now it was saying, "Oh come on you big oaf! Can't ya catch me? No, you're too slow and cumbersome, might break a nail or something, trying to go so fast." The dragon could only roar deafeningly at the little yellow girl look-alike that was actually Sakura's card.

"Yeah, that bothers you doesn't it? Come on at me, Slowy McSlowerton, you couldn't catch a snail even if it was on a leash!"

The dragon swiped his claws at her in a crazy rage.

Sakura was watching, pondering over what to do, and finally got an idea.

"Look Syaoran, I'm going to need your help. He's weak against water and lightning, but has a power level of twenty. We'll have to hit it with both. I'll use the Jump and drench it with Watery, and then you use Thunder. You see that red spot between his eyes?"

Syaoran nodded.

"That's its power source and, naturally, its weak spot. Hit him there and that should do it if Sense can be trusted."

She winked at him, and Syaoran felt another blush rise to his cheeks as he nodded.

"Ready, go!" Syaoran started them off and ran around to the front of the dragon, where he distracted it from Sakura who had used the Jump and was now in the middle of its long circled body.

(A/n: like in the second movie at the beginning where she fights that fire dragon that Kero and Yue set up for her...if you've seen it ^^)

"WATER!" and the graceful, blue, mermaid-like creature was soaring over the dragon, raining tiny water droplets over it as it cried in pain. To the dragon, the water was like acid, each milliliter of water searing through the scales and onto its flesh in pure vicious agony. But that wasn't enough to stop it.

Sakura looked down at Syaoran, and he nodded, pulling out an ofuda.

"THUNDER!" He called, and a brilliant strike of lightning cut through the sky, heading straight for the dragon's head.

In a rush of white light, the huge creature has gone, and Sakura fell from the sky, suddenly exhausted from her use of power. Syaoran, who had been training with the clan these past 13 years, had energy to spare, and caught Sakura in his arms as she fell.

She had fought amazingly, even when she was out of practice, and he was proud of her. There was so much in Sakura that he missed, and now that she was here in his arms, it seemed like everything was right again. It wasn't whiney Meiling (A/n: No offense to anyone! This is how Syaoran thinks! I love Meiling! She's so spunky!) with him, but a sleeping angel, his cherry blossom.

He brushed a few locks of her auburn hair from her face, and noticed the soft flush in her cheeks from the exertion, and how soft her skin was. Her mouth was slightly open, and he was so tempted to kiss her, to wake her up to smile again, but she didn't want him anymore, so he let the angel rest. She deserved some peace from the stress in her life lately. He couldn't imagine what she was going through. All he knew was that he missed her and their daughter more than anything in the universe.

A single salt tear fell down Syaoran's cheek and landed on the burned ground beneath him. He lowered his head to Sakura's ear, noticing her amazing scent, and whispered, "I'm sorry, Sakura, but I love you."

And his lips met hers.

~*~*~*~~ END CHAPPIE 7!!!!!!!!!!~~*~*~*~

CLIFFIE!!!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAhAhAHAHA!!!!!!!!

*knives thrown at her* AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FORGIVE ME PLEASE REVIEWERS! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!

Speaking of reviewers, I need to give a little credit here..

Kita~~ Yes, Syaoran told Meiling about his and Sakura's daughter, and she and him faked a marriage. The clan doesn't know. (They'd FLIP if they knew about S+S!)

MElly L~~ Yep! I am continuing! Thank you for reviewing!

Lady Phoenix~~ thank you for finally explaining and thanks for reviewing! I love Meiling too, so I won't make her all dumb. And maybe I like being weird. Evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil! *If you're confused, go read "Stuck"*

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