The end is fast approaching

-Naoko

thank GOD!

-Kuri-chan

What? You don't like this story?

-Rika

No, I just want a vacation

-Kuri-chan

Ha! It's not like you work very hard at this thing you call a job. All you do is say we don't own CCS. Which we don't.

-Sakura

=^¬.¬^= don't take away my only source of income.

-Kuri-chan

^.^

-Sakura

Still Sakura's POV

Meling gave me a look. "You can be so dense at times, Sakura-chan."

"Sorry!" I said, miffed. "I can't help it!"

"I MEAN," Meling said, "That it's only a matter of time until we can get you set up with Syaoran. Trouble is; he's never admit to liking you. You're going to have to make the first move."

"Oh. I can do that. I think," I said.

"Now, we have to plan when this is going to happen," Meling clasped her hands. "It has to be perfect. Tomoyo will want to be there I'm sure."

I sweatdropped. "Um. I'm not sure if I want Tomoyo to be there. You know what she's like."

Meling continued on as if she hadn't heard me. "And I'll want to see it too. It'll be so cute! We'll stay out of sight for you of course."

'Great!' I thought. 'I'll have to do it when they're not around. Which is practically impossible because Tomoyo is my best friend and Syaoran is Meling's cousin.' Meling was still planning my confession to Syaoran.

"Um. do you want something to eat?" I asked, trying to distract her.

"Sure!" Meling said. She stood up. "We'll continue this later."

I gave a nervous laugh. "Yeah." We left the room.

Syaoran's POV

When I woke us they were gone and the lights were out. I flew cautiously out of the opening and looked around. The moon was full so the room was bright. It was a bedroom. 'How did I get here? And how do I get out and back home?' I took another good look at my new body. 'This is too bizarre.'

I flew over to the desk and sat down. "How am I going to get out of this mess?" I mused aloud. "I don't want to have this body for the rest of my life!" 'If I do, I might never get the chance to tell Sakura that I like her too!'

Suddenly, the top drawer in Sakura's desk opened and a pink book flew out. I stared at it, then got up and hurriedly backed up as far as I could go, which was almost against the lamp. 'OH MY GOD! WHAT'S HAPPENING?' A lock on the book unlatched and it opened. By itself. I cowered against the lamp. "This can't be happening. This can't be happening!" I muttered. The book was filled with cards. The card on the top started to glow and it flew out of the book and turned into a girl with long hair. She was holding a mirror.

"Hello," she said shyly.

"H-h-hi," I stammered.

"You're in the wrong body, aren't you?" she asked me.

I stared at her. "How do you know?" I asked her.

The girl hung her head. "I'm afraid we," she gestured to the floating book," are responsible for it. You see, our mistress, Sakura, has magical powers. We are the form in which she can use her powers. In other words, we are her magical outlet."

My mouth dropped open and I stared at the girl. "And how does this pertain to me?"

"Well, sometimes if Sakura doesn't use us for a while, her magic builds up and gets released and, well, something that isn't supposed to happen happens. This time, somehow, Sakura used the Switch Card and changed bodies with you and her temporal guardian Keroberos." She paused. "What I don't understand is how it happened if you didn't touch Keroberos' body."

I stared at her again. "Can I change back?"

"Yes," the girl said. "But I'm not sure how. This wasn't supposed to happen," she said again.

"What do I have to do?" I asked her.

"We can go down and asked Sakura how we're supposed to set this right," the girl said. She walked to the door and opened it."

"Wait for me!" I cried. I flew after her. The girl led me down a flight of stairs and towards a kitchen. Sakura was in the kitchen cooking something and Meling was sitting at a table in front of it with her back to us.

"Are you sure you don't need any help?" Meling was asking her.

"Positive," Sakura said.

"HA! Only fools are positive," Meling said.

I grimaced. Meling always said stupid stuff like that.

Sakura laughed and turned towards the table. Her eyes widened as soon as she saw us standing/hovering in the background.

"Is something the matter?" Meling asked.

Sakura laughed nervously. "I.uh.just realized I forgot something! I'll be back." She hurried out of the kitchen, grabbed the girl and I, and dragged us out of the room.

"What do you think you're doing?" she hissed as soon as she had us in the bathroom. "You KNOW you're not supposed to come out when I have company! Especially you Kero-chan!"

"We have a problem," the girl said to Sakura.

"A. problem?" Sakura asked. "What is it?" she asked urgently.

"Somehow, Keroberos has switched bodies with someone else."

Sakura groaned and looked at me. "Well then, who are you?" she asked.

"Syaoran Li," I said timidly.

Sakura's eyes widened.

Sakura's POV

'Crap! Could he have heard?' I thought. "How. how long have you been in that body?" I asked Syaoran.

"Uh. a little while," he answered.

I hoped against all hope that he hadn't overheard my conversation with Meling. I would rather be found out when I told him instead of that way. On the other hand, it would make things a bit easier. If I didn't actually have to build up the courage to tell him I liked him.

"Oh." I said. It was obvious he wasn't going to elaborate. I sighed. "Well, were going to have to switch you two back."

"That would be good," Syaoran said. "I don't want to be stuck in this body forever." "Do you think you could sneak to your house with Meling?" I asked him.

"Sneak?" Syaoran looked at me blankly.

"You know. so she doesn't see you."

"Why can't she see me?"

I was beginning to get exasperated. "Think of how you reacted when this happened to you. You freaked out quite a bit, didn't you? Meling will freak out too, and I don't want to have to explain it to her, and I'm sure you don't want to either. Plus." I paused. "I really don't want too many people to know about this."

"Alright then," Syaoran responded.

'He's not very talkative. I hope he talks more when he isn't in awkward situations because he wont is a very interesting boyfriend - wait! What am I thinking?! I don't even know how this is going to turn out yet. He probably thinks I'm some sort of a freak.'

Meling tapped on the door. "Is everything alright in there?"

"Yeah" I said.

"What do you need that's in the bathroom?" Meling asked.

"Um. there's a pot in here."

"That's a strange place to put a pot," Meling commented.

"My father was using it for cleaning the bath," I said.

"Oh. Ok!" Meling said brightly. "Well, if you're alright in there, I'll go back and sit down."

I turned to the girl. "You should get back into your card form."

The girl nodded. She dissolved and reformed into the pink card she started out in and flew into my pocket.

"And as for you," I said to Syaoran.

"I have to hide, don't I?"

"Yep! Don't worry. I'll be able to keep Meling occupied for a while. Just.make yourself at home in my room. You'll be able to hear when I come up." I opened the door and Syaoran flew out. I walked back to the kitchen. Meling was at the table again, looking at the picture of my mom.

"That's my mother," I told her. "She died when I was very young."

"I'm sorry!" Meling said. "She's very pretty."

I smiled. "Thanks."

"Where's that pot you needed?" Meling asked.

"I. uh. realized I didn't need it." I said.

"O.k. Well, what are we eating?" Meling asked me.

"How do pancakes sound?"

Syaoran's POV

I flew up to Sakura's room. Opening the door was a bit difficult, but I managed it. 'I wonder if she knows I overheard that conversation she had with Meling. Probably. Actually, maybe not. I should tell her I heard, but then it'll just be awkward and I wont be able to tell her I like her and WHY DOES THIS HAVE TO BE SO DIFFICULT?!?' I looked around the room. There was a game console by the TV, along with a couple of movies, but I didn't feel like any of that right now. I supposed the best place to stay out of sight was the drawer I started out in, so I flew over to it. It was fitted out like a mini room. "This Keroberos had it pretty nice here," I muttered and flew into it. I sat down on the bed and contemplated how I was going to tell Sakura I liked her.

Sakura's POV

After we finished eating we headed up to bed. I went in first and looked around. There was no sign of Syaoran so I assumed he had found a place to hide.

"I'll set up your bed," I told Meling.

"Let me help," Meling offered. Together we dragged out my family's inflatable mattress and made her bed.

After we were done, Meling plopped down on the bed and asked me, "So, when are you going to do it?"

"Uh." I didn't really want to talk about this with Syaoran in the room but I had no choice. "I don't know."

"You could do it tomorrow!" Meling said.

"Well, I could, but shouldn't I get some time to work up my courage?" I asked trying to avoid eye contact with her.

"Sakura-chan." Meling replied and smiled at me.

"Y-yes?"

"You have all the courage you need, I wont let you leave our apartment tomorrow until you do." She answered and smiled mischievously.

I sweatdropped.

"Meling-chan, please!" I begged.

"Nope. Conversation has ended. Let's get some rest. Tomorrow morning I'll help you pick out an outfit."

Meling switched off the light and was snoring in no time. I, on the other hand, couldn't sleep a wink. I figured that Syaoran was probably hiding in Kero's drawer so I walked over to it, carefully avoiding Meling's outstretched hand, and opened the drawer.

"Li-kun?" I whispered.

"What?" he asked.

"Are you hungry?"

His head popped out of the drawer. "A little bit. Why?"

"Well," I was a little nervous. "We could go downstairs and I could make you something," I offered.

He stared at me a moment before he nodded. He flew to the door and I followed. We went downstairs and I made some more pancakes. We sat in silence for a while at the dinner table when I was finished.

Syaoran's POV

'This is really awkward. Her pancakes are good though!' I started wolfing them down. When I looked up, Sakura was laughing at me.

"What are you laughing at?" I demanded.

She reached over and wiped some maple syrup off my nose. I blushed. She also blushed and we finished the meal in silence. After that we headed back up to Sakura's room.

Sakura's POV

I'm not sure what time I fell asleep but when I woke up Meling was going through my closet. I moaned and rolled over.

"Ah! You're finally awake! Come on, get up. We, I mean you, have a bid day today," she said cheerily.

"I don't want to go," I replied and pilled the sheets over my head.

"You're so lazy Sakura-chan. Get up," Meling said and dragged me out of bed. "I found the perfect outfit.

I was finally filly awake and noticed that Meling had chosen my green summer dress with pink cherry blossoms on it. I decided not to resist Meling. I really didn't want to see her angry. I went into the bathroom and dressed. When I came out, Meling was ready to do my make-up and hair.

I moaned and sat down.

"Syaoran won't be able to resist you when I'm done," she boasted.

I was beginning to feel like a doll. Meling pulled my hair into a small braid and held it with a rubber band. Apparently she had also taken a few cherry blossoms from the tree out my window. She wove them into the braid. I must admit, I liked what I saw when she was finished.

"It's really nice," I said and examined my hair in the mirror.

"Great! Let's go," she said and walked downstairs.

"Ok, I'll put my shoes on and meet you down there," I said and smiled. 'Maybe this won't be so bad'

I strapped the shoes on and walked over to the desk drawer.

"Li-kun, let's go," I said as I put my key and Clow Book into my bag.

Syaoran popped out and flew into the bag.

Once we had finally left the house we made it to the apartment in no time. We walked in.

Meling went to make something to eat. I went to the bathroom and let Syaoran out.

"Lead me to wherever your normal body is please. I'll fix everything." I said. He flew out and headed to his room. I opened the door and we both went in. Kero was sleeping on Syaoran's bed. I walked over to the bed.

"Kero-chan! Wake up!" I said and shook him.

He woke up immediately.

"Sakura! You have to fix this! I almost lit myself on fire yesterday. This place is so strange! Help me!" he begged.

I pulled the Switch Card and key out.

"You two have to hug," I told them.

They embraced and I switched them back.

"Kero, go ahead and go home. I'll be there in a bit." I told him.

Kero nodded, relieved, and headed towards the window.

"Thanks," Syaoran said to me once he was gone.

I looked at him. I then reached up and kissed him on the cheek and ran out the door.

"Sakura-chan, where are you going?" Meling asked me as I was running out the door. "I have to go!" I replied and left.

Syaoran's POV

I stared after Sakura, stunned. "She kissed me," I said out loud. "She kissed me."

Meling marched in, irate. "I saw her running out of YOUR room," She said dangerously. "What did you do to her?"

I turned my head to look at her slowly. My expression must have still looked stunned because she cried, "Syaoran! What's wrong?"

"She. kissed me," I said. I blinked a couple of times. The realization finally hit me. Sakura liked me and wanted to do something about it.

"She kissed you?" Meling was incredulous. "After all the plans we made up and all the work I put into her she didn't even wait for me?!?"

I had to do something about this. "I have to go too!" I said to Meling and ran out.

"Waaaaaaaaaaait!" Meling shrieked after me. "I wanna go too!"

I opened the door to the apartment. "No you're not!" I said and slammed the door shut.

As soon as I got outside, I weighed my options. I couldn't drive. The bus stop wasn't too far away, but unless I was mistaken, there were quite a few stops between my apartment and Sakura's house. I wanted to get there as soon as possible. I wanted to make sure Meling wasn't there and I wanted to get there before I ran out of courage for what I was going to so. I decided to run there. It wasn't too far.

I arrived at Sakura's house 15 minutes later, flushed and out of breath. I paced in front of her gate for a couple of minutes, then walked up to her door and rang the doorbell. Her brother answered it.

I wasn't prepared to talk to anyone other than Sakura. "Is.. uh. Kinomoto- san here?" Touya looked at me suspiciously. "Yes," he said slowly. "would you like to speak to her?"

"Yes please," I said.

"Come in," he said and stepped back.

I entered and looked around. Everything looked different now that I was my regular size. Sakura entered the entranceway. "Li-kun!" she exclaimed and turned bright red. "What are you doing here?"

I opened my mouth. "Kinomoto-san - " I almost couldn't do it. "Kinomoto- san, I. . . er. . . um. . . uh. . . will you go out with me?"

Sakura beamed. "Yes! Of course! I'd love to!"

I smiled too. "Great!" I said. "May I call you Sakura?"

"If I can call you Syaoran."

"Of course," I responded.

There was a small silence. Sakura gave a nervous laugh. "I don't know what to say."

At that moment the doorbell rang. "I'll get it!" Sakura called. She opened the door.

Tomoyo and Meling were standing there. Tomoyo was holding a video camera.

"Don't tell me it already happened!" She cried, dismayed.

"Yep," Sakura said. I could have sworn she looked a bit smug at the fact Tomoyo couldn't film her.

Meling and Tomoyo looked at each other. Tomoyo brightened. "That's ok!" I'll just film the happened and euphoria between the two of you."

Sakura sweatdropped.

Tomoyo pulled her camera out and started filming. Meling still looked miffed. "I can't believe you didn't wait for me," she said sullenly.

I shrugged.

"Would you guys like to stay for dinner?" Sakura asked us.

"Sure," we all replied.

"Alright, I'll go tell my dad then.

THE END!

Well, how'd ya like it??

-Sakura

WE WANT YOUR INPUT!

-Naoko

Yep yep!

-Rika

You guys going to be writing anything else?

-Kuri-chan

maaaaaaaaaybe

-Naoko