Author's notes: Hey, this chapter was out later than intended, really sorry! I was really busy these weeks, so I rarely had the chance to type. That doesn't really matter does it? Anyhow, I'm really, really, really, glad you're all back for chapter 3 of my Fan-fic, Thanks!
As always, I want you to note that Sakura and Li are 15/16, and at the beginning of their freshman high school year. Please do not, take my ideas from my fan-fic without permission. It took me a long time to work on this, and I don't want anyone else taking the credit for my sweat (not that anyone would want to…)
I recently got a little information and realized what I formerly wrote, was slightly wrong. Some parts in my fic had some stuff that doesn't really go along with the Anime. (I.e. such as Syaoran not confessing to Sakura yet.) In this chapter, I'm going to try to correct these mistakes without changing my already posted chapters. I've seen the entire anime now, so I do know that some stuff I wrote wasn't exactly right. Is that libel? When I first wrote this fic I thought I knew enough to write a logical CCS fanfic. So I guess not. Hum! I'm not sure if I have enough information to write this. Maybe I should quit before I really do get sued… (Someone stop me…) Hopefully I'll be able to cover it up without changing my posted chapters so I wouldn't have to necessarily quit. (Good, ne?)
I am going to add a prologue, which I should've added before, but before I didn't see the ending of season three so I thought what I wrote was proportional.
Anyways, thank you very much for continuing my fan-fic!
-Psychic720
Author's symbols: " " Character's talking (verbally and telepathically)
* Character's thoughts
[ ] My notes in the story
( ) General notes.
Disclaimer: All characters are the property of CLAMP! Not mine, so please don't sue me. You won't get any money out of it because I'm broke!
Japanese word notes:
(General words)
Ja/ Ja ne- See ya (informal)
Daijobu desu ka? /Daijobu - Are you all right?
Hoee-Sakura's word under surprise or distress.
Hannya- schweet (usually used only by Sakura)
Gomen/gomen nasai- sorry/I'm sorry
Sumimasen-Excuse me/Sorry
Douzo- Here (here you go)
Domo- thanks
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...)
Li Syaoran's Story
Chapter 3
"COLD!!!! IT STINGS!" Li yelled.
"Gomen!" Sakura cried holding the ice pack on the side of the boy's face.. "Just stay still and it should stop hurting after awhile!"
"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 ha--" 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.
"Kinomoto-san!" Meiling screamed. "I left Japan believing that you were my friend and…!"
"No… It's not what it seems!" Sakura yelled. She turned to Li. "It was just so sudden, I couldn't really figure what was going on."
Meiling's anger burned a little more. "Syaoran! You—!" Meiling's memory soon faded back a few years ago…
(Flash back)
Syaoran and Meiling are standing on the balcony of the Li Residence's Apartment. The two are still eleven years old. The late, night sky is close to being silent. Wei is setting hot tea onto the table. He looks out at the two kids and smiles. Outside, the stars twinkle with a mystic light across the night sky.
"What is it that you want to tell me?" Meiling said quietly looking away from Syaoran, outward away from the apartment.
"If a person I like most has appeared," Li replied with a quiet tone of voice himself, "I've promised that I'd tell you…"
Meiling looked downward below the balcony once she heard this, "mm, So, the person appeared," Meiling looked back up at the boy.
"Yeah…" Syaoran replied.
Meiling looked down again at the edge of the balcony. "I see… Kinomoto-san?"
"Ho…how come?" Syaoran stammered.
"The only females you called by their first name were your sisters and me…" Meiling looked down sadly, she pretended to brighten up, "…In that case the engagement is called off…"
-From Card Captor Sakura, episode 60 Sakura and her Precious Friend
Meiling quickly snapped back to the world of reality. Syaoran already did say that he loved her the most, so why are you still fussing about? The girl observed the two for a little while longer. My heart still burns though!! She dashed from the room to clear her anxiety.
"Meiling, I—wait!" Li exclaimed.
Sakura got up and slowly vacated Li's apartment. "I think I have to go," Sakura murmured. "Thanks for the meal Syaoran-kun…" Sakura ran after Meiling out of the room. "Meiling-chan! Matte!"
After Sakura had chased Meiling for a few minutes, "Meiling-chan!"
Meiling stopped abruptly. She glared at Sakura for a few seconds, her expression soon lightened. Her face dropped slightly "Forget it… I guess I thought since he hadn't seen you for a few years that he somewhat forgot you for awhile." Meiling tried to fight a back a few whimpers. "But when he returned to Japan recently, I guess I was wrong!" Meiling tried to smile. "His feelings are still the same for you as before, ne…? Three years ago!"
Sakura blushed slightly. "That was when we were only in sixth grade! We were so little then, we probably couldn't even describe what love even was then, ne?" Sakura said cheerfully, trying to cheer her friend up. "Then we were just really close friends to each other then and thought we had affections for one another, but now we've gotten older, we've matured, ne?" Sakura said happily. "I'm sure Syaoran-kun, knows that—Meiling-chan, matte!"
Meiling dashed off as hard as she could. Although Sakura had said something otherwise, Meiling just knew that it wasn't true… She stopped for a slight second "Even if you thought that, Syaoran thinks otherwise…" The girl dashed away again.
"Meiling-chan!" Sakura called. Meiling just kept on running. "Thinks otherwise… Hoee? Meiling-chan!" Sakura stared after the running girl. *Syaoran did say he loved you, but that was a few years ago. That was just an old childhood fantasy, it was a long time ago, ne?* Sakura thought about this really hard she shook her head lightly with confusion. *Then why did Syaoran-kun…*
After some time, Li returned to his room. After lightly shutting the door, The boy plopped down onto his bed. He stared at the ceiling miserably. "Rikou-kun was wrong," he mumbled to himself. "It probably won't work at all… She probably just thinks that was just a fantasy of her younger days and long forgotten about it. (Sigh!)"
(Later that night)
Meiling ran to the old Penguin Park where she fought the Fight Card a few years ago. "Syaoran…" she murmured. Water started to drip from her eyes followed with anger. She tried to brighten up. "He had already told you already, why are you still mopey about it!?!"
Thunder crash followed her words followed by pouring rain. Water started to beat on Meiling's head. Although she was soaking wet, a fury wad flaming within her. She tried to calm down. She screamed after doing so. "Why do you still think about him, he already told you, our engagements off anyways!" Meiling whined. "Since he was staying in Hong Kong for awhile, you tried to win him back, it didn't work out as you intended though. Even though Syaoran told me his feelings, I was still attached to him…" The girl thought more about her depressions before going unconscious through the beating rain…
(During that night)
"Curse the rain!" Rikou exclaimed. His entire body was soaked from head to toe as he continued to bike home. He attempted to bat away the falling water from his face. "I thought it was bad enough in Seattle!!!" The vision pouring rain throughout his entire summer vacation entered his mind. "God! Give me a break already, I escaped the rains of Seattle then I get trapped here! Ahhhhh! Damn you!" A Lightning bolt cracked from the sky as it hit the ground in front of Rikou's bike tire. The boy froze with fright. "SORRY GOD, LAO TZU, BHUDDA, ZUES, OR WHOEVER'S IN CHARGE UP THERE! I DIDN'T MEAN IT! I DON'T USUALLY CUSS!"
He swerved to a stop at the Penguin Park.
"Rain, Rain go away, didn't I leave you at home that other day?" Rikou mumbled. He went to the shelter of the penguin slide to beat out the water in his jacket. "Great, my jacket has been saturated with water… Seattle has too many days of rain, but compared to this downpour!?!"
Rikou turned as he saw an unconscious girl on a bench nearby. "I wondered what happened to her…" Rikou thought to himself. "Could she be a homeless bum?" Rikou put on his Seijouu high uniform's jacket and walked over to investigate. "Nah, her clothes are too nice to be a homeless person. Hmm, her clothes are of a nice Chinese design… handmade? The person who made this was really good! The stitching was done quite well." He put the back of his hand onto the girl's forehead. "My god! She has a fever!" Rikou grabbed his pack as he reached for some Aspirin. He yanked out a bottle from his pack. He tore off the cap as he tried to search for the pills.
"I drank them all already?" Rikou groaned. "She can't stay in this weather for long. I've got to get her to some shelter, but, in this weather, it's pretty slow to go by bike. So how…" Rikou smacked his face. "Duh! You're Psychic, you have supernatural powers!" Rikou took the girl's luggage that he found nearby, grabbed his own stuff, and took the girl's arm. "TELEPORTATION!" Rikou exclaimed.
The two vanished from the beating rain in a flash of blue light.
(The next morning)
Meiling stirred around on a bed. Her eyes slowly opened. She immediately sat up. "Where am I?" Meiling's eyes darted around the room. The room was rather spacious; Meiling was actually a little impressed as she looked at the various decorations around the room. Her eyes gazed around the comforting, yellowish-white walls with various pieces of artwork around the room.
"Oh, I see that you're awake," said a boy with a Seijouu high uniform on. He placed a breakfast tray onto a nightstand next to Meiling's bed. "Here's some breakfast if you want any."
"Where am I?" Meiling asked. She was still confused of her surroundings.
"Well you're at my house, of course," The boy replied happily. He handed her a thermometer. "Put this under your tongue."
"Sho whoi om oi here?" Meiling asked as she struggled with the thermometer.
"I found you last night unconscious when I was biking home last night." The boy said. He plopped himself onto a nearby chair in the room. "You had a fever so I decided to take you to my house for medical aide. It was also pouring outside, and it wouldn't be right to just leave you there. Let me see the thermometer." The boy took the thermometer. "Good, your fever's dropping. My name's Rikou Daidouji, Well actually that's the name I go that name here, My full name is Jake Rikou Long Chang Daidouji, Rikou Diadouji is the name I go by here, but I'm mixed ethnic, and you?" Rikou offered a hand.
"I'm Mei--" Meiling glanced down at her arm. The girl noticed the white sleeve from a silk like nightgown. This isn't what I was wearing last night that MEANS! "PERVERT!" Meiling immediately attempted to hit Rikou.
Rikou quickly deflected the smack with his arm, but the hit got to his face anyway. "What was that for?" The boy complained rubbing the red mark on his face.
"I'm wearing different clothing than from what I wore from last night! Meaning you must have--" Meiling screamed.
"What?" Rikou asked astonished.
A woman, around fifty years of age came in. "Rikou, do you need any help?" She asked.
"Oh your clothes! My nana changed you not me! Do I really look like a pervert to you!?!" Rikou exclaimed at Meiling.
"That girl's laundry is done." Rikou's nana said.
"OK!" Rikou said. He turned back to Meiling. "Now that we resolved our little conflict, what's your name?"
"Gomen..." Meiling said with a slight blush from embarrassment. "My name's Meiling Li."
"Meiling… That's a pretty name," Rikou slightly smiled. "That also explains the Chinese clothing you wore when I brought you here. You're Chinese, yes?"
"Here's her laundry, Rikou," Rikou's nana came in with a huge bundle of clothes.
"Thanks Hannah!" Rikou replied.
Rikou's nana, Hannah, smiled and left the room.
Rikou glanced at the bundle, a Seijouu high; female's uniform caught his eyes. "You go to Seijouu High?"
"I was going to start soon, I had all my paperwork in…" Meiling replied.
"So what made you sit out in the rain last night?" Rikou asked, munching a piece of toast he snared from the breakfast tray he brought up. He sat in a small, gray, desk chair backwards facing the girl.
Meiling face fell downward at the question "I really don't want to talk about it…" Meiling murmured.
Rikou looked up at Meiling's eyes. "It's a love thing ain't it?" Rikou teased.
"NANI?!?!?!" Meiling yelled blushing madly.
"Oh! So it is a love thing!" Rikou smiled happily. He leaned forward on the back of the chair. His face was straining of to prevent laughter. "I was only joking before…"
Meiling looked away from the boy. Her memories reflected back about Syaoran, she quickly rubbed it away.
"Forget it..." Meiling said in defeat. "I don't really want to talk about it..."
"Sure you do… So who was the S.O.B.?" Rikou replied happily, he noticed the glare he got. "'K, I'll shut up. Much better if you tell your thoughts to others though, it makes you feel much better! Or it makes me feel better though!" the boy said happily. Rikou turned to the door to leave. "I'll see you in the afternoon, Jya ne!" He put on his uniform jacket, which hung from a hook outside
Meiling slowly lied back down on her bed. "Rikou-kun?" Meiling called after the boy.
"Nani?" Rikou asked, he turned to look at the girl.
"Arigato…" Meiling murmured.
"Don't mention it right now!" Rikou said. "All you need to do is to rest right now…" Rikou approached the bed and slowly moved the bed covers comfortingly to the girl's chin.
"Domo" Meiling said, drifting off to sleep.
Rikou looked at Meiling for one last time before he left, one very long time. Rikou shook his head. "What am I thinking?" Rikou thought to himself. He looked back at Meiling again. "Then again, she is pretty cute..." Rikou rolled his eyes. "Anyways, you got to get to class like you said!
Rikou advanced downstairs where his nana was stirring some coffee.
"How's the girl?" Hannah asked him.
"Fine!" Rikou said happily, "A little depressed, but fine!"
"Cute, isn't she?" Hannah looked at the boy slyly.
"Yeah..." Rikou replied, reaching for some toast while passing the table.
"I bet a bunch of boys from where ever she came from would definitely like to go out with her! She's cute and pretty... Uh huh!" The woman sipped her coffee.
Rikou looked at the old lady quizzically. "Are you trying to suggest something?"
"Nothing!" Hannah said. "Even if I was, you'd have already figured out with your psychic abilities!"
"I'll pretend I didn't hear you…" Rikou rubbed the old woman's shoulders. "Listen I'll think of that stuff later, when I feel like it. Just don't bother me with that stuff at the moment, please!" Rikou glanced up at the clock hanging on the wall. "I gotta go now. Bye Hannah!" With that, Rikou took his pack mounted his bike outside and left his house.
Hannah walked up the stairs after Rikou left. The woman glanced in to Meiling's room. She glanced at the breakfast tray, then at the girl. "She hasn't eaten a bit. Might as well put it in the fridge so it won't spoil here." Hannah placed her hand on top of Meiling's forehead. "Her fever's dropping that's good. I wonder what happened to the girl." She thought about Rikou. "If Rikou doesn't fall for this one, I doubt he'll ever marry! I mean this one's cute, pretty, and living in his home for awhile!" The woman thought happily to herself. "He'll fall for this one I bet, even though Rikou never had any feelings for the opposite gender in America. With his popularity there, that's sort of amazing he hasn't tried to attract another. Since this girl's going to be here for awhile, might as well set the two up!" The woman thought happily. "Usually mother's do that stuff, but you have looked at the boy as your own son all this time."
(Seijouu High)
Syaoran slowly trudged to the front of the school. "The last evening just made my life a lot harder…" The boy thought, slowly pacing agonized through the high school gate. He miserably stared downward as he approached the school building. "Meiling was rather different yesterday… She usually did agree about me and Sakura." The boy slowly lifted his head and glanced outward down the street. Li saw Rikou pedaling down the walk on his bike towards the school. The boy swerved to a stop next to Li.
"Ohayo! Li-kun!" Rikou said stamping his foot to the ground and dismounting his bike next to Syaoran. "Good weather today isn't it! Back in Seattle, we had a few of these good sunny days." Rikou spat a loogie into the dirt of the garden next to him. "Sumimasen, had a (In English) loogie (Japanese)in my throat for awhile." Rikou then looked at the half angry, half-depressed face that Li had. "Did you have a good evening yesterday?"
"No!" Li exclaimed. "Your strategy was horrible! You imbecile!"
"Whoa, calm down…!" Rikou astonished by the harsh tone of voice that he had just received. "So what went wrong? What exactly happened?"
Li started, reluctantly, his face began to turn red. "Well I… Well she sort of started it--"
"What she said she loved you!?!" Rikou exclaimed. "That's amazing!"
"No that's not what happened!" Li yelled.
"Then what did? You're not getting anywhere! Learn how to be social, God!" Rikou exclaimed. He looked at the other boy mischievously "Unless you'd rather me read your mind and see every single detail that you have in your brain."
Li's eyes bulged at once when he heard the suggestion. He began talking immediately. "Well she asked why I didn't go back to Hong Kong," Li started. "And I sort of…" Li started to blush.
"You what!?!" Rikou exclaimed. "You sort of what! I'm getting bored! Did you stand on your head? Jump out the window! Commit seppuku! What!"
"I KISSED HER!" Li exclaimed.
"You WHAT!?!" Rikou blurted. "You're insane! Insane!"
"What's wrong with that!?!" Li exclaimed. "Don't lie about that!"
"If there isn't a definite feeling for the other, that is wrong! Only idiots do that. Doing that before things are apparent is suicide!" Rikou exclaimed. The boy thought for awhile. "Listen, friend, just let this thing cool down for awhile and try again some time later, next time with a formal arrangement…"
"Formal arrangement? What do you mean by that?" Li asked.
"You'll see when the time comes…" Rikou replied. "I'll have everything planned out by then...!"
"W…what do you mean?" Li asked nervously. "Why are you doing this?"
"Because I have nothing better to do." Rikou closed his eyes and he soon drifted off in his own little world, he then reopened his eyes. "I thought that Sakura already said she loved you most…"
Li blushed madly at this. "That was a few years ago…"
Rikou just stroked his chin calmly. "Why are you still uncomfortable then, ne? Just ask her out sometime, I don't know! I don't see why I should need really give you help." Rikou glanced at the boy curiously. "I've been single and not looking all this time! You should have more experience then me, ne?"
Li rose his hand. "Matte, It's just that—"
Rikou turned away. "Wait, If I am right, you just met five years ago, you had all that mushy stuff a year or two later and then you left for Hong Kong!?!"
Li looked at the boy surprised. "How can you figure that all out?"
"(Sweat drop) Stop underestimating my psychic abilities!" Rikou said dryly. "Anyways we have class next… Let's go!"
Li looked down at the slightly shorter boy, by an inch, "Why do you give me advice, if you haven't witnessed it yourself?"
"Because it's fun playing a matchmaker…" Rikou replied. "There's nothing else I can really do that's exciting, for the moment."
Rikou is really social, and nice, but still really weird. Syaoran thought. Somewhat like Daidouji-san in a way… Heck he is a Daidouji-san anyways!
Sakura happily skidded to a stop next to her child hood friend. Although she had faced a confusing event the other night, no one could really figure out the way she appeared
"Ohayo! Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura greeted.
"Ohayo goziamas, Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo greeted back. "You seem cheerful today!"
Sakura thought back to the other day for awhile. *I can't figure out what happened yesterday, what was it?* she thought for a little longer. "There was this one event that made me sort of stressed yesterday, but I seem to have forgotten it after last night's sleep!" Sakura chimed.
"That's nice isn't it?" Tomoyo replied.
"Actually I wonder what it was…" Sakura stated. "But I guess it wasn't so bad since I can't seem to remember it currently."
The two girls walked towards their class.
Tomoyo and Sakura entered the class. They took their seats. Later, Li came in with Rikou. Rikou still continued to have his innocent looking smile on his face, as Li continued to blush at the sight of Sakura. "C'mon, lighten up," Rikou mumbled to Li. Rikou smiled. "Ohayo, Tomoyo-chan, Sakura-chan! Well it seems like a good morning, no need to mention it!" Rikou settled down on his desk.
Sakura had a slight flash back of her former day. "Syaoran-kun, um where's Meiling-chan?"
Li tensed up for a slight while. "She's not with me…" he replied.
"Nani?" Sakura asked with some slight worry in her eyes. "Didn't Meiling-chan ever return to your house?"
Li shook his head. "She never did come back…"
"She didn't return?" Sakura wondered. "I hope Meiling-chan's ok…"
"You know?" Rikou started, "I met a girl named Meiling last night!"
Sakura looked over at the boy. "You did, where is she?"
Rikou smiled. "Over at my place for the time being."
"Thank goodness…" Sakura exhaled with relief. "She's Syaoran-kun's cousin."
Rikou turned to Syaoran. "She's your cousin, ne? I'll just send her over to your place after when she recovers from her fever."
"What? she got a fever?" Li asked with concern.
"Who wouldn't?" Rikou replied. "No one could stand that much rain last night, not even a Seattleite!"
"Ah…" Syaoran grunted. The boy stared ahead at the girl in front of him. She indeed looked slightly different from a few years ago, but she was still her same self. The boy drifted off in his little dream world for the next minutes.
At this point, the each person left the others in an uncomfortable silence. Silent minutes passed by slowly as the morning began.
"Tomoyo-chan!" Rikou started, breaking the silence.
"Nani?" Tomoyo asked.
"How 'bout comparing answers with me?" Rikou continued.
"Sure," Tomoyo replied.
Rikou and Tomoyo advanced to a table across the room across the room from Sakura and Li.
"So what did you get for number one?" Tomoyo asked.
"Fifty-six degrees," Rikou replied.
"So did I! What about two?" Tomoyo replied.
"Actually checking answers was just an excuse to get you away from Li-kun and Sakura-san," Rikou said. He looked back to the couple across the room.
"What do you mean?" Tomoyo asked, staring in his direction.
"Look," Rikou pointed to where Sakura and Li were sitting. "They continue to sit there in utter silence, not even speaking a word to each other as they review their homework. No talking no socializing, chatting, zero! Something's probably happened... No wait, not probably, definitely!"
"Really?" Tomoyo said as she stared over to her friend. "Sakura-chan seemed really cheerful this morning."
"A person doesn't always show their thoughts by their appearance, trust me, I know…" Rikou continued to look at the other two. "I know…" The boy's smile slowly faded as a frown began to appear on his face.
Tomoyo looked at the boy closely. "Rikou-kun? Daijobu?"
Rikou shook his head. The smile reappeared on his face. "No nothing's wrong, why do you ask?"
"You never really do frown…" Tomoyo said, "Are you ok?"
"It's nothing… I was just remembering about something…" Rikou murmured. He quickly brightened "Anyways, what I mean there is something has really gone wrong between those two. Usually you three would go and check your answers right now. They still remain in silence." Rikou snapped.
"That's true, so what did you want to ask me?" Tomoyo asked.
"Well A) you are Sakura's friend, and B) you've known the two for about four, probably five years now , more maybe. What I want is what started the two's little, let's just put it as a relationship. Tell me everything you know!" Rikou replied.
"Hai..." Tomoyo said. "Basically, Sakura met Li-kun during the time when she was still capturing the cards. At first they were somewhat rivals. Well at least Li-kun thought Sakura was…"
"Well I guess that's from his stern self!" Rikou laughed. "Anyways I'd probably look at Sakura as a rival if I was Li, he was competing to capture the cards against her, ne?"
"Hai!" Tomoyo started again. "But it wasn't just the Clow Cards that they were rivals over…"
"What else was there a rivalry of?" Rikou asked.
"Love…"
"WHAT!!!!!" Rikou gapped he had already leapt out of his chair. He soon noticed people were looking at him. He sat back down. He glanced around. "You're telling me that one of them is gay?" he said almost silently.
"They used to both like a older boy named Yukito." Tomoyo said.
"So Li's not straight…" Rikou murmured.
"No that wasn't it." Tomoyo said. "It was soon realized was that Yukito was truly Yue—"
"Yue?" Rikou thought. "Heard of him, he was supposed to be the Judge of the Master/Mistress of the Clow Cards." Rikou fingered his chin. "They said he was extremely powerful, I'd like to take him on…"
"Anyways, Li soon began to like Sakura-chan," Tomoyo finished her story. "Although she hasn't said so herself, but I know that Sakura has some feelings for him somewhere…"
Rikou thought for awhile. "Li's not—you know, that's good… I'm not sure if it's enough information, but I think I may have a plan."
"Nani? What is it?" Tomoyo asked curiously.
"Ok, we know that Li-kun definitely has feelings for Sakura-san, and Sakura-san has feelings for him deep buried somewhere but hasn't realized it. Now, the weekend's tomorrow and--" Rikou started. The teacher entered the room, ordering class to start.
"I'll tell you the rest of the details after school," Rikou said. "It would be nice if the computer room was open after school, it would be much easier to organize this.
"We can plan your plans at my house!" Tomoyo said. "We have pretty good computer software there!"
"That's great!" Rikou exclaimed. "Are you busy at 4:00?"
"No, we can meet then!" Tomoyo replied. *This is going to be sweet, getting Sakura-chan and Li-kun togeth--*
"Rikou and Tomoyo Daidouji, please take your seats and deal with your social lives later!" The homeroom teacher demanded.
"4:00, your house, ne?" Rikou whispered.
"Right!" Tomoyo replied as the two returned to their seats.
"I'll tell you a little more during the lunch hour," Rikou added. *Feh! I learned little from that! But it was something at least… Can't blame Tomoyo-chan anyways, you've got a superior psychic mind…*
The teacher scanned the role list. "Well it looks like everyone's here…"
(Lunch hour)
"So you see, that's what basically I told Li to do," Rikou said. "However, I think it didn't really work. It probably might've worked if that idiot didn't kiss her." Rikou chuckled. "I thought Li-kun was a nonsocial person, surprisingly he has the guts to do so."
"So what was your plan?" Tomoyo asked.
"We just need to get Sakura and Li together, alone, an hour would be nice, two if possible… darkness is sometimes good, ne?" Rikou replied.
"You make it sound so simple, but how do we do it?" Tomoyo asked.
"You're extremely close to Sakura, ne?" Rikou asked.
"Hai…" Tomoyo replied.
"Tomorrow, just invite her to a cinema on Saturday afternoon." Rikou said. "As for me, I'll get Li to come along."
"Li-kun's really reluctant if you don't give him a reason," Tomoyo replied.
"Don't worry, I'll give a legitimate reason! I didn't train psychic abilities for ten years for nothing!" Rikou replied.
"It sounds like it will work." Tomoyo said. "But why do we need to organize it?"
Rikou replied. "I document everything! It's much easier to see if they're any flaws!"
"Sure, we'll just meet at my house at 4:00," Tomoyo replied with a smile.
"Oh one more thing," Rikou said.
"Nani?" Tomoyo asked.
"Umm, what's your address? I don't know where you live," Rikou asked. "I could figure out, but that's by reading your mind, don't want to do that very often!"
Rikou thought for awhile. "Li-kun already had told Sakura of his feelings a few years ago, ne? I guess he should arrange this himself…"
Tomoyo looked up at the boy. "Too bad there isn't away to make Li-kun do just that—"
Rikou snapped. "Of course we can, but just not directly…"
Tomoyo looked at Rikou. "How?"
Rikou smiled. "It's really simple…"
Sakura rounded the corner of the school as she searched for Tomoyo. "Chiharu-chan said that she saw Tomoyo go with Rikou-kun somewhere. I wonder why Tomoyo went with Rikou," Sakura thought. She rounded another corner thinking for a reasonable answer.
"Oomph!" Sakura collided in to a brown haired boy.
"Sumimasen!" Sakura said. She began picking up some of the books the boy brought. "Douzo—Syaoran-kun!" Sakura backed up a bit. The event from the last day shrouded in to her head. She blushed thinking about it. You both know you both think of each other, I guess there are nothing to be uncomfortable about…
Li took his books tensely. "Domo."
Sakura backed away a bit more. Although she backed away, she had lightened up a bit. "Oh, Syaoran-kun, Have you seen Tomoyo-chan anywhere."
"About last night…" Li started.
"Oh, Meiling-chan was so angry last night, I wonder if she's calmed down sigh…" Sakura interrupted. "Meiling probably still has feelings for you, even though she called off your engagement…"
"Sakura, yesterday, I…" Li started.
"It's fine!" Sakura smiled. "I no longer remember a thing you did, it was just a big accident!"
"Demo--" Li tried to speak again.
"Hey! Li-kun, Sakura-chan! Over here!" Rikou called from a picnic blanket that he was sitting on.
"Konnichiwa! Tomoyo-chan, Rikou-kun!" Sakura called. She ran over to the blanket. Li followed. "What were you two talking about?" Sakura asked.
"We were just planning for the weekend," Rikou replied.
*Planning?* Sakura thought. "Tomoyo-chan, are you going out with him or something?"
"We were thinking about going to a cinema tomorrow, want to come Sakura-chan?" Tomoyo asked.
"Sure!" Sakura replied happily.
Rikou turned to Li, "You can come too, Li-"
"I'm going!" Li blurted out. He didn't particularly trust Rikou. Therefore he wanted to follow him just in case he was thinking about taking Sakura.
"Tomorrow at noon, OK." Rikou said. "It is the weekend, you know." The boy looked down to pick something in his lunch, a small contact lens popped out of the boy's eye. "Whoops."
The boy slowly picked around his food and searched for the lens. Sakura noticed something queer about the boy's eye, which was naked without the lens. There, instead of the usual brown eye that usually showed, the eye had turned blue.
"Ah here it is!" Rikou said happily. The boy picked up a brownish lens.
"Rikou-kun?" Sakura asked.
"Nani?" Rikou busily wiped the grease from his lens.
"Do you really have blue eyes?" Sakura asked.
"Eh?" Li leapt forward and pried the boy's eyes open. Indeed, one was brown, the other blue. He looked closely at the brown eye. This eye had no contact lens in it. He stared at the other eye, in which the contact fell from, it was blue.
Rikou pushed the boy away. "I have two eye colors…" he said quietly picking up his food and munching it calmly. "One eye is blue the other brown." Rikou sighed. "I put the contact in so that it appears that I only have one eye color—Anyways about the weekend!"
"Hoe?" Sakura jolted at the sudden mood change of the boy.
"We're all going to be there, ne?" Tomoyo asked lightly. She noticed something strange about Rikou, but couldn't tell what. A grim look was still in the boy's eyes, the girl ignored it for the time being.
The four chattered away as the lunch hour went on.
(4:00, Daidouji residence)
"So that's pretty much a plan!" Rikou said.
"It sounds so simple..." Tomoyo thought, "You sure that's it?"
"Of course, there could be no other possible variable that could get in the way!" Rikou said. "Of course if the world blew up all of a sudden, we'd have a problem. However, the Mayan calendar said that was going to happen in 2011. The two needs to be alone, for a few minutes, just enough time without distraction. Cinema's perfect since it is relatively dark and it is easy to have a quiet conversation since every one else is preoccupied. So in the end, they say their mush, we pop in all of a sudden and BOOM! They're happy, we're happy, end of story and who know how they live after!"
Tomoyo thought. "I can't really think of anything else we could do..." The girl brightened up. "Let's try it!"
"Of course there's the problem that Li's slightly mute," Rikou said, "Hopefully he's smart enough to seize the opportunity."
A loud grumble could be heard throughout the living room. Rikou frowned, "How about we get something to eat, was that your stomach?"
Tomoyo shook her head, "No--"
"Then it must be mine!" Rikou interrupted happily, "How about we get something to eat, to the kitchen!"
"Good, old potatoes, not so flashy, yet still tastes good, and easy to make!" Rikou said with delight. He began his cooking. Rikou took out some old gravy that he made earlier. "No matter what, smashed, baked, boiled, chipped, fried when they're doused with my special turkey gravy recipe, it'll taste wonderful no matter what!"
Tomoyo busily cooked some Japanese recipes. "When did you start using magic, Rikou-kun?"
"A decade ago," Rikou said. The question made him look a little grim. He didn't like to reflect back to the night when his father began to vigorously teach him the ways of psychic forces.
"You didn't want to learn magic did you," Tomoyo asked. She had noticed the grimness in Rikou's eyes.
"No," Rikou murmured. "Dad would always try to overload my mind with the psychic ways of my ancestor Chang, San-Fong. It was really intense." Rikou sighed. "You're the only one so far I've dared to tell this to, but, I didn't like the training at all."
Tomoyo looked over to Rikou, finishing his potato recipe, and starting to scramble eggs. The grim look appeared on his face. "You were sort of forced to learn this magic, weren't you?" she asked.
"I guess, it was worth it…" Rikou replied. "Now I can read a fifty thousand page book in five minutes, and memorize it in that time period. The 240,000 IQ is pretty nice. Psychic powers have improved my abilities, mentally, and physically. However, it's sort of painful for your mind to multiply it's capacity by a hundred thousand in a matter of ten years…" Rikou didn't even want to think about the pain. He changed the subject. "Enough about me, Tomoyo-chan! How were you like when you were younger?"
Tomoyo smiled. "All I remember it was less intense than you when I was growing up!" She reflected back, "I would spend most of my time recording films of Sakura-chan, and going on picnics, childhood was really fun for me!"
"Hey! I had some fun with my Dad, and other friends too you know," Rikou replied. *Barely…* "I wasn't only learning psychic philosophy you know!"
(Later that evening)
"Man I'm bushed!" Rikou said, he slumped onto a sofa. "But that meal was good..." Rikou patted his stomach lightly.
Tomoyo walked in with some tea. "Here, this should ease you." She sat down next to the boy.
"Arigato…" Rikou gulped in the tea. He looked up at the girl for awhile. "Have you been to America before?"
Tomoyo shook her head. "I haven't left Japan in my life!"
Tomoyo stared at the boy who seemed to have drifted off in a trance. His hands were placed relaxed onto the boy's knees, his eyes were slightly slit, the only parts of his eyes, which were exposed, had illuminated with a blue-white light.
"Rikou-kun?" Tomoyo looked at the boy. "Rikou-kun? Daijobu?" Tomoyo tugged lightly on the boy's arm.
Rikou's eyes slowly opened, the blue light soon faded from his eyes. "Oh! Sumimasen…" Rikou lifted his arms and slowly dropped them in front of his body. "I sort of went off and meditated, I just wanted to see what was happening here in the past. It's sort of dumb that I'd use my powers just to solve this little love thing… My father would kill me if he found out that I'm using psychic abilities for such a simple matter—"
"It wouldn't really hurt would it?" Tomoyo asked.
"No! Of course not!" Rikou said. *Later on though is another story, but that's something else…* "Anyways, in my meditation, I saw that, there was a play before Li-kun returned to Hong Kong, ne?" Rikou looked at Tomoyo for a confirmation.
"Hai, that's right…" Tomoyo said.
"Well, let's go to a bit before that, before his first return to Hong Kong. Ok Li-kun said something like…" Rikou stood up from the couch. "That mushy crap you know."
Tomoyo smiled at the sudden change of words. "Interesting way of phrasing it."
Rikou looked up away from Tomoyo's eyes. "You woke me up before that vision could answer all of my answers, but I can bet that was Sakura's reaction. Probably no response to that sudden reaction, though. But according to my instincts, I do believe she already told him, though…" Rikou walked over to where he placed his tea-cup, he picked it up and lightly placed it down. He then looked at his hand for awhile then glanced over to Tomoyo. "Damn it, I swear I've seen you somewhere."
Tomoyo shook her head casually. "Unless you've been to Japan, there's no way we could've met, unless we bumped into each other when Sakura and I went to Hong Kong."
"Which I didn't go to Hong Kong, or at least excluding their airport."
Rikou dropped his head, and began to frown again. Tomoyo noticed. "You ok?"
"Yeah…" Rikou said. Tomoyo observed the boy a little more. It almost looked as if he was going to cry. Rikou brushed the tear off. He brightened up a bit. "I still don't really understand why Sakura-san and Li-kun are so shifty around each other!"
"You couldn't figure out in your trance?" Tomoyo asked.
"You awoken me just before it was going to get dramatic!" Rikou exclaimed.
"Gomen…" Tomoyo said. "It's would probably be easier for you to understand if you saw the whole entire story with your own eyes… You'll probably figure out."
"Ok. I'll just continue to meditate this evening, and tell you the information later, I guess." Rikou said. The boy thought for a second. "Even though the two met years ago, Li-kun just recently returned back to Japan, from Hong Kong a month or two, maybe three ago, ne?"
Tomoyo nodded. "He left Japan after Sakura-chan told him her feelings when they were twelve…"
"If the world revolved around love, I'd call him an idiot, but, I get it!" Rikou snapped. "The time slowly wears away the little relationship sigh! means then they'll have to start all over again because of the separation, pity… I take that back, Li's an idiot. He should just let it loose"
"That probably explains the awkwardness between the two before when they met again," Tomoyo thought.
"Heck I can never be sure, until I see it, I'll meditate tonight, maybe I'll figure out!" Rikou said. *I don't know why I'm doing this, I guess I'm that nice a guy, who knows!*
(Later)
Rikou picked up the documented papers of his devised plan. "Well everything's planned out, I might as well head home!" Rikou picked up his pack. "Sorry for the bother…"
Tomoyo shook her head. "It's for Sakura-chan's happiness, why should I be bothered?"
"Ok you could have it your way!" Rikou laughed. "If I have any changes to the little plan tonight, I'll call!"
Tomoyo walked Rikou to the door. "Sayonara, Rikou-kun!"
Rikou rose his hand to his head and flicked it outward, similar to a salute, but more informal. "Jya ne, Tomoyo-chan!" Rikou reached for the doorknob, only to notice that the door opened by itself.
Tomoyo was taken back by surprised by the sudden opening. She then noticed that Rikou just merely took a step back no surprise on his face.
Tomoyo's mother, Sonomi Daidouji, walked in through the door. "Konnichiwa, Tomoyo!"
"Oga-san!" Tomoyo embraced her mother. "You're home!"
Sonomi smiled, "The meeting ended early, so I came home. But what were you doing!"
"Oh?" Sonomi looked up at Rikou who had stood up for some time now. "Are you Tomoyo's friend? Who are you?"
"I'm Daidouji—" Rikou began.
"Oh you're that American transfer student that Tomoyo was talking about. You have the same Last name as we do! Sort of a surprise! What's your first name?"
"I am Daidouji, Rikou," Rikou replied, he politely bowed his head. *This is what they do in Japan, different from the handshaking in America, but you're not in America are you?*
"NANI!" Sonomi exclaimed. "Repeat your name, please…"
"I am Rikou, Rikou Daidouji," Rikou felt a bit nervous. *What's going on?*
"R…Rikou Daidouji?" Sonomi asked. "What's your full name?"
"Jacob Rikou Daidouji…" Rikou replied. "I go by Rikou here. I'm mixed ethnic though."
"Where are you from?" Sonomi asked.
"The United States," Rikou replied, sweat began to go down his head. *What's with the interrogation?*
"Who's your father?" Sonomi asked.
"John Yoshi Daidouji…" Rikou continued to answer questions.
"When were you born?" Sonomi asked.
"September 3," Rikou added.
Sonomi grabbed Rikou and placed him next to Tomoyo. She stared through the two sets of eyes. "I…it is you!" Sonomi said with excitement. "My son!"
(End of Chapter 3)
Author's notes: I'm glad that you people got this far, am I getting boring? If so tell me. So here's the regular notes. I know the story really sucks [someone please disagree with me,] but I'm working really hard on it. So Please continue!!!!! It's interesting, yes? Please keep your eyes out for chapter 4. Contact me right now at psychic720@yahoo.com, OK? Or please at least write a review. Continue my fics please! I've been working hard on 'em and deserve feedback please!!!!!!!
Historical notes: There's something I'd like to point out. Chang San-Fong was a real person. He was a Chinese Taoist Martial Artist of the Wudang Martial Artists during the Chinese Son Dynasty (960-1279 AD.) He is credited for making Tai Chi Chuan in 1101 AD. All this is fact. Chang San-Fong having a descendant named Rikou Daidouji is all false. I only made this up for the excitement of my fan fiction. There are no records about Chang San-Fong meeting Clow Reed either (Not that Clow Reed was real.) Chang also did not really make the Three-Realms. Again, I did that for the entertainment. This is all false. Also another thing about Chang San-Fong, I've seen many translations of his name (includes Zhang San-Feng, Cheng San-Fong, Chang, San-Feng, etc.)
If you people want some more historical notes, what I wrote about Chang San-Feng and Clow Reed has slight bumpiness. Supposing the Clow lived during a point in history, I can make a vague guess from his clothing and hairstyle that he lived during the mid to late Ming dynasty, earliest. This is just a guess, for I'm not CLAMP (somebody asked if I was, I was really happy someone thought this!) and don't know when Clow lived. Anyways, Chang, San-Feng was over a hundred years old when the Ming dynasty took over China in 1368. Supposing that the records are right and that he died at around 150 years, there's probably no possible way for Clow and Chang, San-Feng to meet, ne? I guess you'll just have to live with my writing for now. This historical stuff confuses me too. Legend states that Chang went to the capital and someone painted a portrait of him, this painting exists but its historical fact is questionable since Chang would've probably been over five hundred years old if it was true. History's weird, ne?
Description notes: Someone asked told me that they couldn't imagine how Rikou looked like. I'm just too lazy to figure out how to describe him in text. So I'll just put a description of him here:
Birthdate: September 3
Hair color: Gray (Like Tomoyo's+Yuki's hair color)
Eye color: Brown/Blue at the moment
Height: 6 feet/ 1.8288 meters app. (Slightly shorter than Li in this fic, Which I'll make 5'11" any objections?)
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite subject: Computer Science
I'll write more maybe later.
Thank you for reading my fics,
-Psychic720
-Keep on a look out for chapter four!