Author's Notes: Hey, greetings from psychic720, I began starting my fan fic some time ago, and here's chapter 2 if you're actually keeping up. Now as always you have to know that Sakura and Li are in their freshman year in high school and are like 15. Remember, Do not take my ideas without permission, it took me a long time to think of this fic, so don't even think about taking it without permission. Please contact me at psychic720@yahoo.com if you're going to do anything with my fan fic, tell me for approval.
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Disclaimer: All characters of CCS are the property of CLAMP! not mine. So please don't sue me. This is only written for entertainment purposes, not for profit, you won't get any money, be cause I'm broke, and I'm not getting any from this.
Anyways, here's my story… (PS thank you for continuing my fan-fic)
Note: This is probably one of the mushiest chapters of the entire fic, hopefully it will be less mushy in the future.
Li Syaoran's Story
By psychic720
Revised by banana84
Chapter 2
"Shield!" Sakura activated her card in defense. As always the trustworthy shield cast over Li, Tomoyo, Kero, and her.
The dark purplish blast collided onto the shield, but it did not wear away.
From a distance, a boy observed the onslaught. He was safely perched on top of a tree. He wore a silk like long sleeved flannel shirt which he wore under a thicker, white, over-shirt, which went down to about halfway down the boy's thighs. Over that, the boy wore a dark blue robe, which he pushed the side flaps slightly to his sides so that the robe wouldn't cover the front part of the thick shirt and the boy's black pants. Drawing a long, slender sword, no wider than 1.5 inches (3.75 cm,) the boy pointed the blade towards the flashes of light. The pattern on the hilt gave a sharp flash of yellow-white light.
"Aww…" The boy smiled. "So this is it…" the boy placed his sword, back in to its scabbard.
Still surrounded the four stood inside the shield, not knowing what to do. Sakura got paler, and paler. "Hey, you OK? You're weakening" Li yelled as he held Sakura up in his arms. "Hold on for a bit longer."
Sakura forced a smile. "I… I'm fine, don't worry!" she chimed. Sakura said trying to reassure her friends. She tried to use the card's power longer but the blasts of purple mist just kept on battering the shield. Sakura could not hold the shield any longer; she fainted in to Li's arms. The shield collapsed as the dark blasts pierced through.
"Psychic Barrier!" A voice called through the darkness. A blue-white barrier engulfed Sakura, Li, Tomoyo, and Kero. "Reflection!" At this moment the all the purplish blasts were repelled of the blue-white light screen back towards their attackers.
"What?" Li yelled in confusion. "What happened?"
"Psychic powers… could this be..." Kero thought for a moment. "Could this be... the Power of Wisdom!?!"
"You mean the one of the realms who uses aspects of Yin for his magic?" Li asked. "I don't see anyone else is here though," Li said as he still held the unconscious Sakura in his arms.
"Since Tri-Realms Chang San-Fong made involves balances of the three powers created from the theory of Yin and Yang," Kero replied "Chang always believed in balances between his powers. The Sage of Wisdom has the most knowledge of all three sages. However he is the most cowardly."
"So that reveals why The Sage of Wisdom isn't here," Tomoyo murmured. "At least he's generous enough to give us this barrier for a while." Tomoyo tried to help her unconscious friend. "Sakura-chan wake up!"
The black armored troops rose back to their feet after being knocked off them. Enraged they decided to recuperate their wounds before making another assault.
"You feel helpless, Syaoran Li? Not that bad, is it?" A voice shrouded in to Li's head. Li looked around in a panic, but his view was slightly blurred through the psychic barrier. "Of course it would be bad if you start panicking though…"
"Where are you, Who are you!?!" Li exclaimed.
"Nani, Li-kun?" Tomoyo looked up as she now held Sakura.
"I'm hearing, voices…" Li murmured.
"Voices? Kid, what are you talking about are you out of your mind!?!" Kero exclaimed.
"No use trying, really! I like the effort though… They can't hear since my brain is telepathically linked to your head only! That's somewhat useful at times!" The voice chimed happily again. "Any ways, for where I am, I'm somewhere in Tomoeda, and who I am, you already know! Simply no reason to tell you something you already know!" the voice laughed happily again.
"You're the Sage of Wisdom aren't you!" Li yelled out. "Why don't you come out and assist us like a real sage would do. You're a disgrace for a descendant of Chang San-Fong!"
"I'd be more of a disgrace if I were slaughtered for a foolish reason, wouldn't I? Even so, I'm not truly the Sage of Wisdom yet… gomen!" The voice mocked Li. "Even if I truly was, there's ten or so black armored guys down there and… each one, one smack, BOOM! I'm off to kingdom come! Nope, don't want that to happen."
*Kero was right* Li thought. *This Wise guy really has no guts.*
"But don't you worry," The voice said again. "I may not help you get out of this directly, but…" the voice paused for a second, "if you're the one who I believe you are, I can teach you to get out of this. Don't worry about it at all."
"What do you want me to do?" Li yelled to the distance.
"Is Li-kun going mad, Kero-chan?" Tomoyo asked.
"It's sad, but, yes," Kero replied. "Didn't like him that much any ways."
"Ease your mind and just let it wander from thought to thought, for the moment." The voice murmured. "Now, let the energy you feel flow throughout your body. Might be helpful to sit cross legged like in Chi Kung meditation or Yoga, whatever you want to call it!" … "You should be able to feel a magical aura flowing rapidly you now."
Li nodded, he was still in a complete trance. The voice continued, "When your head feels mellow and empty let your mind release your stresses as you shoot the your stresses out to the world."
Li shot his eyes open, lightning blazed throughout of his body when he emerged from his trance. Li raised his arms as electrical currents shot within him. Li yelled in agony.
"Li-kun! Daijobu desu ka?!?" Tomoyo screamed.
Lightning rings shot every particle of magic away. Every Black armored people were fired back in amazement. Even the psychic barrier was fired away. Soon, all was quiet.
The ten or so abnormal people had faded away from the scene. Li lowered his hands as his mind relaxed. His face dripped with sweat.
"Kid!" Kero shouted. "What the hell did you do?!?!"
Li's eyes focussed again. "What happened?"
His question never was answered because something of greater importance to the boy occurred in his mind. Sakura moaned as her eyes fluttered awake.
Li immediately ran over. "Hey! You okay!"
"Tomoyo-chan, Kero-chan, Li-kun…" Sakura murmured, "what happened?"
Li never answered as he embraced Sakura tightly.
"Li-kun?" Sakura murmured. "What's wrong? Li-kun stop, I can't breath. Daijobu?"
"Ohhhh!" Li immediately backed away, turning in to a bright tomato. "Gomen."
Tomoyo was screaming with delight. "That was the greatest endings ever! Sakura awakens, and a nice dramatic ending, what else can I get?"
"Nani?" Sakura asked confusingly. "What's so dramatic?"
Li collapsed to the ground upon hearing this.
"Kid…" Kero said grimly. "What happened before you executed those powers?"
"Huh?" Li stammered.
"Kid, you were acting like a lunatic before those flashes of light occurred!" Kero yelled. "I thought something good was going happen!"
"Li-kun, what do you remember happened?" Tomoyo asked.
"What happened?" Sakura stammered. She was still regaining her strength from that one KO.
"Li-kun did some amazing attack!" Tomoyo screamed with delight.
"Shut up and let the kid talk," Kero interrupted.
"I heard strange voices in my head and all of a sudden I felt urged to follow its orders," Li replied.
Kero looked grim. "Telepathy, clever, but cowardly he is. Whoever this guy is won't fight directly but makes someone else do the dirty work for him." The creature smirked.
"I'll dirty work you!" The voice called out in the distance. "So, I want to live… Anything wrong with that?"
"He does have a point." Sakura stated. "Who does want to die?"
Li glared at the girl for a long moment, Sakura stepped back nervously at his death glare.
"Why don't you show yourself?" Li yelled. Nothing but an utter silence followed that statement.
Cracks in the distance could be heard. "Ah crap!!" The voice yelled.
Sakura, Tomoyo, Li, and Keroberos, all glared in one direction as a branch fell from a tree, followed by a red blur. THUD!
"Oh…Medic…" the red, robed figure stammered.
Sakura noticed the familiar voice. "Rikou-kun?"
"No I'm not!" The blue robed one exclaimed.
The four ran over to the one laying face down to the ground. Li yanked the red hood off the mysterious one's head. The familiar black-haired American appeared under the hood. Tomoyo grabbed her camera and recorded. "This may mean a new cast members to Sakura's adventures, sweet!"
"T… Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura stammered. "Don't you ever get bored of your recording?"
Tomoyo smiled. "NO! you're still so cute! Even when you fight!"
Sakura collapsed in dismay. The girl looked up at the group for awhile, "Huh? That fall didn't hurt as much as usual…"
"NEXT TIME FALL ON SOMEONE ELSE!" Rikou exclaimed in agony underneath the girl.
[Later that night.]
Rikou Daidouji sat up as he rubbed his head. He attempted to get the unfortunate event of falling out of tree out of his head. If he feared anything more than death, it was heights. *That's why I never am able to get the hang of heights because I keep falling down* He jittered as he tried to get all the pains of falling, and Sakura falling on him, out of his mind.
"Rikou-kun, you can use magic?" Tomoyo asked as she gave her camera a little rest. "That's neat!"
"Yeah, I think so," Rikou said as he still tried to get the wooziness out of his head. "I'm not really sure anymore, it's sort of hard to tell after the one blow to the head."
The four people sat there and stared at Rikou "What… what did I do? I just fell from a tree! What can you get when one has a phobia to heights?"
"Hoe? Is that why you said you were trying to conquer your fear on the tree?" Sakura asked in amazement.
"I said too much already," Rikou replied. "Anyways, it's getting dark, and we've got school tomorrow so, bye!"
"Rikou-kun, matte?!" Sakura yelled, but it was too late. In a slight flash of blue light, Rikou was gone.
"Nani! What happened?" Sakura screamed. "He like vaporized in thin air! Like a Ghost! HOEEEE!" Sakura grabbed her head as if trying to conceal her entire body with only her arms.
"Baka!" Kero replied. "That kid's no ghost! What are you so scared about!"
Tomoyo soothed her friend. "Sakura-chan, I saw him too! Five years ago, Li-kun said that people without magic can't see ghosts!" she said a matter of factly. "Nothing to worry about!"
"D…Demo, it's just sort of creepy!" Sakura stammered. "How was he able to do that!"
Li immediately butted in, "The Realm of Wisdom has a magical spell which is able to be used by the psychic practitioner, Teleportaion…"
"Wow! That's cool!" Sakura said excitedly, "How'd you know that!"
Li blushed, he turned away from the girl, "I…I read it in a book!"
Keroberos returned to his cute, false form, "Yo kid! You getting a fever something?" he teased. "You're red! Or are you red because of--"
"Shut up!" Li swung a fist towards the creature that immediately evaded the attempt.
"Well, at least we know that 'the sage of wisdom' is wise at running away." Tomoyo stated matter-a-factly.
Li and Tomoyo left Sakura to go home to their own houses as Kero, in his false form, went with Sakura.
"I'm glad that was over!" Sakura said happily as the two walked along, "Now I can get some sleep!"
"Only one…" Kero mumbled, "So he's not a Sage… or not at least yet… which means that there's a chance that it's just a false alarm…"
"Nani?" Sakura asked. "What are you talking about, Kero-chan?"
"Nothing…" The creature replied.
"So, Rikou-kun's a Sage?" Sakura asked.
"No!" Kero shook his head vigorously. "He's not a Sage yet, apparently not yet!"
"What?" Sakura asked. "But I do think he's in my dream! You said that my dream was a premonition that the Sages were gathering!"
"He was alone…" Kero replied. "One can only be a sage if there are two others possessing the other powers of Chang, San-Fong. Even so…"
"What do you mean by that?" Sakura asked
"Chang San-Fong believed in many Yin/Yang balances. If a Sage gains this, he loses something else, it's the way of Yin and Yang!" Kero replied.
"So, does that have an explanation to my question?" Sakura asked, " I still don't really understand!"
"Rikou uses the Powers of Wisdom, ne?" Kero asked.
"I think so…" Sakura answered.
"The Sage of Wisdom carries the most knowledge and experience of all the three sages, making him able to adapt to any situation. However, from wisdom one gains cowardice, of all three sages, the one of wisdom is the most gutless, and will probably not act unless he's truly confident that he can achieve success."
"Oh," Sakura was starting to understand. "But you said that Rikou-kun wasn't the Sage of Wisdom!"
"He might become that but he isn't yet, this I'm sure!" Kero replied. "OK, the Sages work together in order to have the maximum power they posses. Rikou was working alone!"
"He could still be a sage, ne?" Sakura asked.
"To be a Sage, the three "chosen ones" must execute the superior attack of the Tri-Realms..."
"The attack that you don't know…" Sakura said dryly.
(Sweat drop) "Since Rikou, or whatever his name is, was by himself, it is probable that he hasn't found the other two and hasn't yet did the attack, making him of a lower rank."
"So what is he?" Sakura asked with curiosity.
"A Taoist Mage of the Realms," Kero replied. "A single candidate for Sagehood is called a Taoist Mage, When that one person finds the other two candidates, all three become the Spiritual Warriors of Chang. Finally, together, they will perform that one attack and become the three Sages of the Realms!"
"Wow!" Sakura gasped in amazement, "it sounds hard! When I became the Card Mistress, I only needed to capture all the cards and defeat Yue!"
"Nani? Are you saying there's not much glory in being the card mistress now?" Kero said
The Kinomoto residence soon appeared in front of the two.
"Sage or not, Rikou-kun seems like a nice person!" Sakura chimed.
"Feh, I won't like him until he brings me some cookies!" Kero replied.
(The next day)
Sakura woke up from the same dream she had dreamt of before. "What's with all of this?" Sakura shuttered after thinking of the strange thought. "I know what's it all about now, but it still doesn't make sense!" Sakura didn't like what she saw at all. Flashes of light engulfed the whole area in her dream as three people fought each other madly. She could now recognize Rikou-kun, but who was that other person. "Why do I get hit in the end?" the girl shook the thought away.
"Oh well," she brightened up, "That probably won't happen for awhile anyway! Everything will be ok for sure! Kero-chan?"
Sakura turned to the drawer, which the sleeping stuffed animal lay. "Hoe? Kero-chan's not awake?" She glanced up at the clock. "Nani! It's only six o'clock!" Sakura slowly jumped out of her bed to observe out the window. "It seems like a nice day, might as well head to school early." Sakura grabbed her uniform. She leapt in to the shower and continued her old daily process.
[Later that day]
Sakura bladed on to the high school campus, "There's no one around?" She glanced at her watch. "Well it's only 6:45 any ways. She went down to a bench and pulled out her textbooks to begin studying for her classes. She ran down the confusing math equations as she tried to apply them to memory.
Sakura still had a grudge on Math as she looked down the long set of equations. She didn't really get much as she attempted to learn. It wasn't successful. "Hoeeee, I'll never understand math!" she placed her book down for a moment. At that moment, soft, gentle sounds entered in to Sakura's ears. "?"
Sakura placed her book in her bag as she investigated the sound, with each passing moment, the sound became clearer. "Is that a Violin?" Sakura thought to herself as the clear strokes of a stringed instrument entered her mind. The girl smiled at the melodious song. "It's so relaxing, and peaceful…" she thought.
She finally ran up to a window and peered in. There stood Rikou with a violin placed on his shoulder, each fluent stroke poured more intricate, yet delicate music in the room. Sakura was transfixed by the quality of music she heard. Finally it stopped, as Sakura's trance faded away. The Teachers stared at Rikou as they made their discussions and decisions.
"Goodness…" The teacher replied. "You play really well, when did you start playing?"
"About a decade ago," Rikou replied.
"OK, We'll tell you'll get a letter about your results in the mail, it won't be surprising though!" The teacher finished their judgements and let the boy go.
Rikou packed up his Violin and trudged out of the room, he met with Sakura outside. "So, Sakura, what are you doing at this hour?"
"You mean you already knew that I was watching?" Sakura asked.
Rikou smiled. "When you've trained in the psychic powers, it's easy to figure out when a fly approaches you!"
"That's pretty neat!" Sakura replied as she trudged next to Rikou. "I wish I could do that… Anyways, I got up early so I came to school. What about you?"
"I felt like joining a few clubs, but I'm sort of not the one who likes school in the afternoon, so I'm sticking to the morning," Rikou said as he walked along.
Sakura remembered back to her dream *One of those people in the dream was definitely Rikou, demo…*
"Rikou-kun,"
"What?" Rikou said.
"Anno, why did you come to Japan?" Sakura asked.
"Traditional purposes, that's all," Rikou said. "After I finish this traditional thing, I'm returning home to America! Then I can forget I had magic…"
Sakura looked at the boy queerly. "You don't like it here, Rikou-kun?"
Rikou grimaced. "No it's not that!" Rikou replied quickly. "People seem a lot nicer here in Japan any ways. You and Tomoyo are really cute!"
"Arigato," Sakura slightly blushed at the compliment.
"What has no one said you were cute or something?" Rikou asked.
"Well Tomoyo-chan said I was cute, and some of my friends, but that's-"
"Not even that Li-kun? Man! He's pretty dense!" Rikou added.
Sakura looked at the boy, "Um, why do you think Li-kun should have thought me cute?"
"He should tell you that himself! Rikou laughed. He glanced at his watch. "7:00! Oh shoot! Sorry, I got to go to another tryout! I'm sort of late!" Rikou dashed away from the girl. "I'll see you in class!"
[School Starts]
"Ohayo goziamas, Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo walked in with her sing song voice. "So how was your morning?"
"It was OK I guess," Sakura replied.
"Oh! Have you seen all the clubs Rikou-kun signed up for?" Tomoyo said.
"I've seen him attending various tryouts in the morning." Sakura replied. "He was like trying out for the Orchestra, Basketball, Soccer, and the Chess Team. He was really good at the auditions."
Meanwhile, Li Syaoran slowly slipped in back of Sakura as he enviously listened to the ongoing conversation of another boy's exploits.
"He also tried for the basketball, soccer, chess, martial arts, and archery after school." Tomoyo said. "I saw his applications when I worked in the office for community service."
The door slowly opened as Rikou paced in the room. He settled in his seat next to Li-kun. At this moment, all conversation of Rikou's activity attendance ceased.
"Ohayo!" Rikou said. "What's going on?"
"Nothing. How's your morning so far?" Tomoyo asked.
"Nothing interesting, I didn't get to get a lot of sleep because of last night. You guys know." Rikou said. "Don't want to stay up late doing that again!"
Tomoyo leaned over to her friend. "He seems to be reluctant to use his magic…"
[Lunch Break]
Sakura, Tomoyo, and Li sat with Chiharu, Naoko, Yamazaki, and Rika on a large picnic blankets chatting away as they ate their food. That is with the exception with Li who was still secretly glancing at Sakura once in awhile.
"Did you hear about the kid who decoded that virus in Computer programming class?" Chiharu blurted.
"Who?" Tomoyo asked.
"That one American transfer student!" Naoko replied. "What was his name? Rikou Daidouji, that's it!"
"What happened?" Sakura asked.
"There was a huge virus that erupted on the school computers, It was like destroying everything!" Rika began. "Then that boy, Rikou took out a small lab-top the not much larger than a VHS cassette. He then connected it to the master computer and in no time destroyed the virus!"
Rikou was seen walking over to the blanket. "Mind if I sit with you guys?" He asked.
All of the girls shook their heads as the super genius settled down onto the picnic blanket where Sakura and her friends were. At this moment Li scowled
"My, my," Rikou said as he inhaled the fragrance of his lunch food. "Is this real food I smell?"
"Rikou-kun, you bought lunch?" Tomoyo asked. "Are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure. In America, on the other hand, I sure wouldn't be sure, especially when the chicken nuggets could be bounced across the room." Rikou dropped his tray onto the picnic blanket. Immediately, his chicken nuggets bounced in to the tree.
Sakura, Tomoyo, and her other friends exchanged strange looks as sweat drops poured down everyone's head.
(Sweat drop) "Okay, Japanese nuggets fly to a tree," Rikou said. "There goes half my lunch (sigh…)"
"Tomoyo-chan," Naoko said, "Isn't he Rikou Daidouji? Man he's cute!"
"Hai…" Tomoyo replied.
Rikou placed some food in his mouth and immediately ran to a near by garbage can. "Oghhhhhh, Bleck, yuck! All school food is the same, Internationally!" Rikou spit out the food.
"I guess he's not real good with the food," Tomoyo murmured. Rikou turned around wiping the spit off his face with a paper towel. Tomoyo continued to look at the returning boy "Rikou looks a little familiar the more I look at him."
"Are you sure you haven't met?" Chiharu asked. "He has your last name."
"No…" Tomoyo said. "I don't remember meeting him at all."
Rikou walked sickly back. "I've got to go back to packing lunch." He moaned.
"Talking about chicken nuggets, they really were intended for bouncing balls," Yamazaki said. "That's why they bounce so high! About five hundred years, In the American state of Alaska…"
Chiharu raised her hand to smack him.
"No wait this is interesting." Rikou stopped the girl.
"So the Alaskan government proposed an idea to The House of Representatives of the United States, of catching chickens and turning them into nuggets." Yamazaki continued. "American children could then play and eat at the same time, since they could bounce nuggets at incredible heights!"
"That's great," Rikou said. "Pretty nice for a story."
"It's true," Yamazaki said.
"You know its false Yamazaki-san!" Chiharu began to beat Yamazaki.
"It was false!?!" Sakura and Li exclaimed. The two immediately looked at each other.
"It's simple," Rikou said. "There wasn't even a US of A Five hundred years ago, and now he says Congress made this up. Sure, Congress can be weird, but not this."
"Your mind analyzes everything carefully, Rikou-kun!" Sakura murmured. "You know a lot about your country!"
Rikou rose a hand to his head and laughed. "You flatter me! That's just some basics of US government! As for my analysis abilities? What else can you get if you have an IQ over two hundred thou--hundred."
Chiharu continued to beat up Yamazaki until the end of the lunch.
[After School.]
Sakura, Tomoyo, Li, and Rikou sat at a round table in Li's house. Li wasn't really concentrating on his homework as he continually stared at Sakura from an angle.
"I get it!" Sakura exclaimed with glee. "I finally get it!" Sakura finally closed her math book. Sakura relaxed a bit, "Arigato! The help worked!"
"Sure," Tomoyo said to her friend.
"No prob," Rikou replied. "Those problems should die anyway."
The only person who didn't respond was Li, who was still in his afternoon trance.
"Yo! Li-kun! What's going on." Rikou waved a hand in front of his face. "You finished too, right?"
"Oh, um, yeah!" Li replied.
*This guy seems preoccupied.* Rikou thought. He gazed at his watch… *6:00, perfect.*
"Ahh, Li-kun, since it's six o'clock, let's make some lunch for the cute girls, yes?" Rikou requested.
Rikou took Li's arm as he sent down telepathic waves down it. "I got something to ask. C'mon." Rikou pulled Li in to the kitchen.
The two other girls resumed chatting. "I'm glad Rikou-kun became our friend, he's really smart!" Sakura smiled. "He might be able to help ease that grudge I have in math, ne!"
"Rikou's not really smart…" Tomoyo said.
"What are you talking about?" Sakura asked. "You heard about it, he destroyed that virus in school!"
"He's not smart…" Tomoyo said. "He's a super genius! When he was telling you of his analysis abilities, he was about to say he had an IQ of over two hundred thousand, he figured out that he was in the eyes of common people so he changed it to two hundred."
"So Rikou-kun is… extremely intelligent…" Sakura said surprisingly.
"He probably went through some intensive psychic training in America, to increase his IQ by that much," Tomoyo said.
"So desu, ne…" Sakura said. "Now that you bring it up, he doesn't seem to really want to do the training at all." Sakura reflected back to that conversation with Rikou. "Rikou-kun said he's only here for traditional purposes, he said he only wants to go home after he's done here. He said he could then forget he had magic. It sounds he was really reluctant to come to Japan, or learn magic at all in the first place!"
"Rikou seems like a cheerful person from the outside, but is truthfully undergoing serious depressions internally…" Tomoyo said. "It seems he tries to make other people cheerful with his fake cheerfulness so they won't see the truth behind his mask…"
"That's sort of sad…" Sakura said.
Tomoyo smiled "Since he seems to want to help people, maybe he can help Li-kun with his social problems! Then he could tell you something!"
Sakura looked at something. "Why can't Li-kun tell me now? He can trust me, I'm his friend, or I think he thinks I am, ne?"
Tomoyo shook her head. "Now's not really the time for him to tell you! Ne!"
Sakura smiled, "I still don't understand all these riddle things but I'll just wait for that time to arrive," she looked back at her friend. "Wait, how did you know he had something to say to me?"
"It's just a feeling!" Tomoyo replied.
"You really know what's going on in other people's minds Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura said. She looked towards the kitchen, "I wonder what's going on over there?"
[Li's kitchen]
"So what did you want to ask me?" Li asked, with a stern look on his face.
"Ummmmm, where are your onions…" Rikou asked as he took out a butcher knife and a slab of beef.
"In the cupboard over there, but since you are the wise one, I suppose that's not what you wanted to know."
"Nope that's not it…" Rikou turned as he pointed the butcher knife towards Li.
Li immediately jumped back as assumed a stance. "What the are you doing?" Rikou asked. "I'm not going to kill you, I want to know something."
"You want my blood, the way you hold that knife!" Li exclaimed.
"That's not it." Rikou said. "Calm down, I just want to know if like Sakura-chan!"
Li tensed even more as he turned red. "What's with the knife?"
"Oh, that's what you worried about!" Rikou still kept the knife in the same position. "The best way to cut up some beef is by a good spin with the hand around the middle finger. However you have to give it a good arms spin" (Don't try this at home) "It's a lot easier w/ telekinesis."
"What?" Li was confused.
"Like those spinning saw things," Rikou said, "watch…"
With a flick of a wrist, the knife swirled around in Rikou's palm. Li was fascinated by the amazing stunt as the knife cut up the beef. His hand swirled over the beef as he cut up the meat up as if doing a magic spell. The knife glittered through the light. Finally, Rikou slammed down the knife, "There, you see all the beef is evenly cut. This is the advanced way to make beef-steak."
Li stood there with his mouth gaping. "So answer my question," Rikou finally said.
Li turned bright red. "Ahh, Well I y—no… I don't like her"
"Calm down man," Rikou said. "OK, if you don't like her, GOOD, because I do. Don't have to worry about making a friend mad, so I'll try to get her, OK?"
"NO!" Li yelled as he grabbed the other boy.
"I knew it!" Rikou said as he "flambéed" the Beef in the skillet. "You reacted, meaning you do like her! You cannot pass the eyes of the Psychic. If you were just her friend you should be delighted that someone wants to try an go out with her!"
Li turned in to an even brighter red. Rikou continued his statement, "Don't be so embarrassed, Syaoran-kun! If you don't know anything about socializing with the feminine side, here's the basic tip, There is no fire until there's a source of ignition, what you need is a spark. Now girls are sort of shy at these things, it's really rare that they will actually come up to you and say- cough, cough" Rikou cleared his voice. "I love you!!!" Rikou said in a high pitched voice. "(normal voice) Nada, doesn't happen. Usually back in America, the male that does the proposing and stuff. So, I think that you should start it."
"Y…you've got to be kidding," Li stammered. "What happens if she rejects me?"
"All these years she hasn't right?" Rikou said. "You've known her for five years now, right?"
"How did you know that?" Li asked.
"I
am psychic-I know all," Rikou said.
"But-" Li started.
"No buts. If it doesn't work, you can kill me. I'm going to be there to back you up, but you'd rather me not, when you actually do these things. Don't worry about a thing, I'll do my best to set you up. Just go straight in for the kill, you'll know what she means about you immediately. Oh look! The meats ready, time to serve!" Rikou ran out of the Kitchen.
*Maybe he's right* Li thought. He ran out of the
door. *He said I could kill him if it doesn't work anyways!*
[Later that time]
"Hanyann!!" Sakura yelled with delight, "Rikou said this was going to be one of his special recipes, I can't wait!"
"How do you know it's going to be good? Rikou hasn't even showed us the meal yet," Li grunted.
"Here, candlesticks!" Rikou jumped in from the kitchen "The only thing better than Rikou's prize beef-steak is Rikou's prized beef-steak with candle-light. It makes it seem more formal!"
Tomoyo followed through the door behind Rikou. "We have all what we need now, ne? Rikou-kun?"
"Unless we could get a Violinist!" Rikou replied, "I could do that but I, can't I have to leave pretty soon. Anyhow, here's your dishes!" Rikou placed down two trays in front of Sakura and Li who he conveniently seated facing each other. Li slightly blushed.
"Here's your dish Tomoyo," Rikou said passing a dish covered with plastic wrap.
"Hoe? What's with the wrap?" Sakura asked.
"I have to go, my mom's here to pick me up." Tomoyo replied.
"Demo-" Sakura started.
"I've got to go too," Rikou said. He picked up a dish. "I hope you don't mind me taking this, Li-kun."
"What! Rikou-kun!" Li exclaimed.
"Don't fret about a thing, it may not be as fun with all four of us together, but I do believe that my recipe will be good none the less!" Rikou chimed.
Sakura had already been starting to eat the beef. "It's really good! Rikou-kun you're very good at cooking!"
Rikou rose his hand to the back of his head. "Stop flattering me, I don't want to start blushing." He laughed. "Li-kun, you won't mind if you let Sakura stay here for awhile?"
Li blushed as he fiddled his napkin on his lap.
"I take that as you don't mind!" Rikou exclaimed. "C'mon Tomoyo, looks like we should leave the two alone for awhile!"
"Hai! Ja ne! Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo chimed.
"Ja ne!" Rikou followed the girl out the door.
Li sighed as he looked longingly at the girl from the other side of him who was still gulping down the food.
[Outside Li's apartment]
Rikou stepped out of Li's
apartment and mounted his bicycle. He sat on his veichle next to Tomoyo who was
now stepping in to her car.
"You told me to get a ride home," Tomoyo said as she walked to her ride. "All this was a plan to get Sakura-chan and Li-kun together, ne?"
"Uh huh…" Rikou said, "I noticed that Li kid continues to stare at Sakura. So in the kitchen I asked him if he liked her. He obviously said no. I said I liked her and would try to get her on a date if he didn't want her. He obviously had a reaction."
"Hee, hee," Tomoyo giggled, "No wonder you're the candidate for the Sage of Wisdom!"
"Yep, I know all…" Rikou said as he started to stare at Tomoyo.
"Nani? What is it?" Tomoyo asked. "Why are you looking at me?"
"You seriously look familiar…" Rikou said. "Especially your eyes."
Tomoyo had a slight blush after looking in to the brown eyes. She smiled casually. The eyes continued to stare at hers intensifying with concentration. Tomoyo tried to ease the concentration as she went into the car.
"Ja ne, Rikou-kun," Tomoyo said.
Rikou rose his hand to his eyebrow and flicked it outward, like a military salute, to respond to one of his new friend's departure.
"I've seriously met her somewhere." Rikou said. Rikou rose his tan hand to brush back his black hair. "Maybe I should do some meditating to figure out. Well I've got to go to the department store to get some school supplies."
Rikou mounted his red mountain bike and rode off in the sunset.
[Back at Li's house]
Li felt extremely uneasy as Sakura continued to eat her serving of Rikou's recipe.
"This is so good," Sakura said. "Rikou-kun cooks really well."
Sakura glanced over to Li's plate. "Syaoran-kun…"
Li sat up immediately. "What?"
"Why haven't you eaten anything? Your plate's still the same as you got it," Sakura asked.
"Um, I wanted to tell you something…" Li asked. *If Rikou is right, now's the time to try it*
"Hoe, Tomoyo-chan was right, you did have something to say to me!" Sakura replied. "Maybe she has psychic powers like Rikou-kun!" Sakura giggled. The girl noticed the boy starting to tense up. "So what is it you wanted to tell me?"
"Ummmmmm… Oh you know those black armored people last night." Li failed at his first question.
"I remember that night. It was extremely scary. Those people were real mean and rude," Sakura murmured. "They were pretty powerful too, they knocked me out."
*I'll kill them for that* Li thought. "They wanted to steal your Cards. According to what that stuffed animal said, they want to take over the universe."
"Yeah…" Sakura murmured. "Li-kun, I remember Tomoyo-chan said that you did some great powerful attack to destroy all of them. Can you tell me about it?" Sakura asked.
"Uhhhhh, I couldn't really recall that moment," Li said.
"Too bad, it sounded really neat at first," Sakura sighed. She continued to poke at her beefsteak. "Li-kun, you said you didn't return to Hong Kong because you had to do something."
(sweat drop) "W…why do you ask?" Li stammered.
"I don't want to be too filled with questions but, I thought people could finish their work in a matter of a few years, ne?" Sakura asked. "Are you still finishing up what you were trying to do?"
"Do you want me to leave or something!" Li's eyes began to bulge.
"No!" Sakura exclaimed. "I mean you've been a good friend and all! demo-"
*Here comes Rikou's tactic.* Li thought. He walked out to the living room. Sakura followed him.
"I didn't mean that! Li-kun!" Sakura followed the boy out to the living room.
Li sat down on the couch and glared straight ahead. Sakura sat next to him, "Li-kun, gomen!" She patted Li's shoulder trying to soothe him. "I didn't think what I said would hurt you! I was just curious! It's nice that you are in Japan, but you haven't seen your family for awhile now, I thought you might have missed them or something!"
"You still don't know why I'm really in Japan…" Li murmured.
"Nani?" Sakura said confusingly. "Well, no you told me--"
Li quickly embraced Sakura and kissed Sakura on her lips. Sakura sat there with shock. After sitting there in a trance staring at the boy for about five seconds, Sakura immediately shoved the boy away after the sudden action. She smacked him squarely on the face.
"S…Syaoran-kun!" Sakura stammered. She stood up and back stepped away from the dumbstruck boy. "Syaoran-kun, Syaoran-kun, that was, that was… Hoeeeeee! I can't describe it." Sakura quickly began rubbing her lips for a few seconds. The girl glanced back at the boy who was now pawing his face. A bright red stinging mark revealed from underneath the boy's hand. Sakura slowly advanced forward took, kneeled down, and slowly took Li's hand off his face. She closely examined the huge red mark.
Sakura looked down to the ground, "Gomen nasai…"
Li looked up at the girl who didn't notice his stare.
"Nani?" Li asked. "I…I think I should b...be the one to say that! Uh, why did you say sorry?"
"I didn't realize I hit you so hard, even though what you did was rather mean," Sakura replied. "Let's just forget about it, and we can just continue being friends!" Sakura brightened up. "That would be better, ne?" Sakura smiled. "I'll go get you some ice." Sakura ran to the kitchen and was quickly back with a bag of ice. "Here this should stop the stinging!" she slapped the make shift ice pack on the boy's face.
"COLD!!!! IT STINGS!" Li yelled.
"Gomen!" Sakura cried. "Just stay still it should stop hurting after awhile!" Sakura held the ice pack on the side of the boy's face.
"Gomen," Li murmured.
"I said forget about it didn't I?" Sakura asked cheerfully.
Li gazed at the girl for a very long moment. He blushed brightly. The outside door burst open.
"Ni hao--" A black haired girl burst in to the door. "What's going on? SYAORAN! WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN I WAS GONE!" The girl's two dark buns shook as the girl boomed with anger.
Sakura immediately dropped the ice pack. Shock, surprise, and anxiety took over Sakura's body. "Meiling-chan!" she finally managed to say.
(End of chapter 2)
Author's notes: This chapter was slightly longer than expected. But it didn't take me as long to type up. Anyways, how do you people like my fan-fic right now! Tell me what you think at psychic720@yahoo.com. Your suggestions make me continue. Tell me what you think please. Contact me if you've read my stories, I'd really like to know what I should do.
So far in this story, you have a kid from America being able to do all this stuff, and turns out to be the Psychic Sage of Wisdom. He seems to like Sakura himself, how can Li overcome this? Continue reading my fics and figure out. I'm quite proud of Rikou's addition. Note that all characters belong to "CLAMP!" not me. This fan-fic does belong to me however, so don't you ever think about plagiarizing.
Sakura and Li are 15/16 in this Fic, take note of that always. If you don't like how I do the personalities of the characters (Li, Tomoyo, Sakura) tell me. This is my perspective of each character, tell me yours (This is the Japanese version, so keep that in mind.)
Note of names: my sister kept on complaining why I chose Rikou instead of any other Japanese/Chinese names. First, I live in America, and don't even know a single word in Japanese, I just went to a Japanese/English, English/Japanese server and typed in an adjective and see if it was use like I name. Rikou means clever, shrewd, intelligent, and wise. It also means Science and Technology, which is why I chose Rikou since it seemed to suit him. I had an awkward feeling that Rikou was used as a girl name, but I figured that it could be used for both genders.
I recently got an E-mail stating that they didn't understand some of the Japanese words I sometimes used, so here are some that I found.
Japanese word notes:
(meaning of names)
Sakura- Cherry blossom (Duh!)
Rikou- Intelligent, wise, clever, cunning, etc./Science and Technology. (Read the section on top for more detail.
(general words)
Daijobu desu ka?/Daijobu - Are you all right?
Hoee-Sakura's word under surprise or distress.
Hanyan- schweet (usually used only by Sakura)
Gomen/gomen nasai- sorry/I'm sorry
matte- wait
chan/san/kun/sama- a title usually placed after a name to be polite. (i.e. brother/sister/mother/father something like that...)
demo- but
Ota-san- father
Oga-san- mother
Oni-san/chan- brother
Onei-san/chan- sister
(I do not know the exact way to spell these, I just write them by how they sound...)
So you have Li trying to start some relationship with Sakura. There's seems to be a familiarity crisis between Tomoyo and Rikou, and Meiling Li returns, what else can you get in a fan-fic. This is going to be a grand reunion! I hope you're not going to kill me with all these cliffhangers for every chapter, or that the fic sucks currently.
If you're reading my fan-fics at all contact me at psychic720@yahoo.com, please!
-See you in the next chapter
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July 6, 2001 notes: again some revisions were done to make this better than my original copy. I can really see that my writing skills are developing. I think that's good.
July 29, 2001 notes: revised this again, this time, a lot of the former mush has been taken out to make it a whole lot less mushy.