Konnichi wa, minna-san, and Merry (late) Christmas! I'm terribly sorry that I took so long to update the story, school's taking up a lot of my time. But, holidays are here now, so I have some extra time to type!

Kero: Yummy.. all those Christmas cakes and candies..... I can't wait for next year!

LY: yes, well, Mr. Chubby, time to make a new year's resolution... perhaps cutting down on those sweets?

Kero: NEVER! NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER never never never....

LY: He he... anyway, here's the next chapter, I've been trying to make them longer. Thanks so much to everyone who reviewed! I really appreciate it! Enjoy!



Disclaimer: I don't own CCS so don't sue, you wouldn't get any money from me cuz I have none!



One More Day

by Lady Yunalesca

Ch.4- Aquatic Adventure Part I

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"Good morning!" Mr. Terada's classroom door opened and Sakura cheerfully walked to her seat.

"Well, you certainly look better," Tomoyo glanced at the clock, "And you're early!"

Sakura flexed her muscles and smiled, "Yep! I've never felt better!"

A pale pink rose was unexpectedly thrust into her face from behind. "Hoe? What's this for?" she turned around and stared confused at Syaoran, who was slowly turning red, and delicately she took the flower.

Syaoran replied, "I still feel really horrible that I couldn't help you yesterday."

Sakura was touched. She got up and gave Syaoran a big hug, making him turn even more red. "Thanks, Syaoran, but you know it wasn't your fault. Please stop beating yourself up over this," she sat back down and smiled, "I'm fine now, so let's just move on."

Syaoran let it go, but he could see in her eyes that she was still really scared. ~ That's Sakura,~ he thought, ~ never wanting to worry others with her problems~

Kaori saw Sakura hug Syaoran, and she was furious. She completely forgot to hide her aura. Syaoran and Sakura's heads both snapped towards Kaori, who had quickly looked away and struggled to look happy and conceal her aura. Syaoran noticed, however, that before she looked away, Kaori had an evil glare fixed on Sakura.

Tomoyo saw the surprised look on her friends' faces, thinking she must have done something weird, "What's wrong you guys?"

Before they could answer, Mr. Terada walked in. "Alright, please take your seats." he opened a tan coloured portfolio. "For your trip to the aquarium today, you'll be in groups of five. Each group will get a camera, so get some good pictures, it will count toward your grade."

Some of the children quietly groaned as he began reading the groups off the list in front of him. "..and the third group is Sakura, Tomoyo, Syaoran, Kaori, and..."

~Please no please no please no...~ Syaoran crossed his fingers. Tomoyo crossed her fingers as well, but she was thinking ~Please him please him please him...~

".... Eriol. One of you please come get your camera."

"No!" Syaoran silently cried as he got up to receive their camera. Tomoyo, on the other hand, made Sakura giggle at the huge smile on her face and the way her eyes sparkled hearing Eriol's name be called.

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Mr. Terada finished reading the aquarium rules and gave each group a map. "....so, one last time, make sure you follow the rules, and have fun! We'll meet back in the lobby at 12 o'clock for lunch."

Syaoran handed the camera to Tomoyo, "Here, you're good with cameras and stuff, so you should take the pictures."

"So, where should we go first?" Eriol traced his finger along the map.

"Let's let Syaoran decide!" They all looked over and saw Kaori hanging on Syaoran's arm, just like Meiling, except she was playing with his hair as if they were dating.

"Ah! Will you get off me!" Syaoran tried to push her away, but she wouldn't budge.

Tomoyo whispered in Sakura's ear, "I see what Syaoran meant when he said Kaori was worse than Meiling."

Sakura could only nod, she was getting jealous and angry.

"Um..." Eriol sensed the tension and tried to distract everyone. "Why don't we go that way?" He pointed to his left.

Kaori gave him the death glare, but smiled again when Syaoran said, "Sounds good to me."

They started to walk out of the lobby, while Eriol glared back at Kaori and muttered, "I don't trust her."

Tomoyo looked back, "Did you say something, Eriol?"

"Uh, no, Tomoyo, nothing at all. Shall we go?" He held out his arm.

"S-sure." she shyly took his arm, and walked down the hall, both of their faces tinged light pink.

The group made their way through many halls, and the walls were made mostly of large aquariums filled with lots of different types of fish. Tomoyo was happily snapping pictures, and Syaoran managed to get Kaori off of him for a few minutes, claiming that she bruised his arm. Of course, the last thing she wanted to do was hurt Syaoran. Eventually they came to an exhibit with a large round pool in the center. The walls here were also large fish tanks, but they noticed that the ceiling was made of a huge glass dome that let the sunlight get through to the sea creatures. They were so captivated by this that no one even noticed the sign they walked by, which read "Exhibit closed."

"Wow! The water is so clear! It's beautiful!" Sakura leaned over the railing to get a better look.

"Be careful, Sakura." Syaoran was desperately trying, once again, to pry Kaori off him, but it seemed that every time he talked to or about Sakura she would hold on tighter.

Kaori was happily clinging to Syaoran when a sign in front of the pool caught her eye. "Um, I'll be right back, I think I left my... notebook! Um... in the endangered fish exhibit."

She ran around the corner, and making sure that no one was around, she took out a book and began chanting. Kaori ran back when she heard a loud scream and her group shouting, "Sakura!"

Sakura was splashing around trying to get back on land, but the water was at least 5 feet below the top. "What happened?! I thought I heard Sakura scream!" Kaori forced herself to look panicked.

Tomoyo frantically looked around for help, but other people took notice of the sign and stayed out of the exhibit. "The railing somehow broke and Sakura fell in the water!"

"What?! Isn't that the shark pool?!" Kaori looked scared, but inside she was laughing at Sakura's feeble attempts to get out of the pool.

This news made Tomoyo faint, but Eriol caught her and gently put her on the ground. Sakura also heard the word 'shark' and started panicking even more. No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't reach the top.

Then Syaoran's heart stopped when he saw that familiar dorsal fin.

(plays JAWS music)

He laid on the ground and tried to reach Sakura's hand, but she was too far away. The fin was getting closer...

"HELP ME!"

~I can't use my magic in front of Kaori...~ Syaoran thought, ~But Sakura....~ "Argh! Come on Sakura! Try harder! I've almost got you!" he shouted.

"Syaoran!" just as he was about to reach Sakura's hand, Kaori pulled him away, "Get back! You might get pulled in, too!"

"What are you doing Kaori!?" The creature finally got underneath Sakura and leapt up.

"Aaahh!" Sakura screamed.

"SAKURA!!!" tears formed in Syaoran's eyes and he tried to go to her, but Kaori held him back.

Then he heard the friendly nickering of a dolphin and opened his eyes to see Sakura sitting on the dolphin with her eyes shut tight and crying.

"Sakura!" he roughly pushed Kaori aside and pulled Sakura off the dolphin and into his arms.

Sakura hugged him tight. "Syaoran? Wh-what happened? Am- am I-"

"Shh..." Syaoran cut her off, "You're safe now." he didn't care that she was getting him soaked, he was just happy she was okay and held her close. Both of them were softly crying tears of joy.

"Ahem, I don't mean to ruin this special moment, but you should move away from the edge, don't you think?" Eriol was knelt beside Tomoyo, and glaring at Kaori; she looked disappointed.

The tow didn't hear Eriol and were still holding each other when Tomoyo woke up. They came back to reality when they heard, "KAWAII!!!" and saw the little red light on Tomoyo's video camera.

Kaori was flipping mad, but she managed to hide her aura. When she took a better look at the sign, she found it said "Shark exhibit", but what she failed to read underneath the words in smaller print was "next week". ~Ooh! I'm such an idiot!~

Eriol read her thoughts, and immediately suspected she was behind the incident. As Tomoyo and Sakura went off to get dry clothes for Sakura, Eriol began 'mind-talking' to Syaoran about Kaori.

~Syaoran, don't you think it's weird how as soon as Kaori left the railing broke?~

Yeah. Just look at her now; she looks disappointed that there wasn't a shark ready to eat Sakura.

~You're right. You had better watch over Sakura carefully. I can sense powerful magic coming from Kaori.~

Don't worry, I will.

They ended their telepathic conversation and left the exhibit to meet Sakura and Tomoyo. Kaori just watched the two leave and thought sadly, ~They don't trust me anymore~ then slowly walked to catch up with them while trying to think up a new plan.

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Kero:...NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER......

LY: Well, there you go! I promise to put up Part II within the next week, since I still have a week of vacation left.

Kero: .....NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER.....

LY: Okay, Kero, you don't have to cut down on sweets! Just please stop yelling!

Kero: NEVER NE- *sniffle.... * you promise?

LY: Yes.... Here, have some cake right now.

Kero: Oh boy! *munch munch munch*

LY: I hope you enjoyed this chapter, please don't forget to review! It's great motivation for me, I really appreciate every comment and/or tip from you guys! Ja ne!