Young Winter, Sweet Smiles...

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Chapter 5: The Blizzard

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A tale of Tomoyo (Madison) and Eriol.

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Notes:

1.) They are all 19 in this story.

2.) MOST IMPORTANT I DO NOT OWN CLAMP OR CCS OR CC OR ANY MOVIES!!! Please don't sue me if you find the story like someone else's or like a movie or a t.v. show or something. I won't know cuz I made this story up from my mind (this is fully true). If you do find it like someone else's story or like a movie or t.v. show you've seen before please tell me and I'll consider removing it.

3.) The theme song is changed again.

4.) New things added to the story!!! Now there's a Song of the Chapter and Story Shout-Outs!!!

5.) New Racial Expression - Sweat Drop!!!

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Summary: Tomoyo's older sister died and she has to fulfill her sister's last wish that she told Tomoyo before she died. Tomoyo has to then journey to Japan with her best friend, Sakura, and find her sister's boyfriend and give her sister's ashes to him (her sister was in very deep love with her boyfriend). While on the way Tomoyo and Sakura meet up with Eriol and Li. They all end up together at the same ski lodge. Then Tomoyo later finds out that Eriol's brother is also dead (or her sister's boyfriend)! What should she do? Eriol looks like he is starting to develop feelings for Tomoyo. Will they end up loving each other? This story is a complex mixture of courage, not giving up, hate, sadness, anger, but mostly the compelling words of love that bring Tomoyo and Eriol together (as long with Sakura and Li ^-^ just to be fair).

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Facial Expressions:

^-~ = winks

~-^ = ouch or sometimes 'sour'

^-^ = smiling

~-~ = annoyed or 'oh that gotta hurt'

~(8)- = little chick (see it? if not tilt your head)

+-+ = cute expression

=-= = blacked out (hehe)

XD = laughing

x_x = poisoned

-_-' = sweat drop

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Theme Song: Love This Way - By: Eden's Crush

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Note from Author: Sorry I haven't updated for so...long!!! I mean like I'm very sorry. Thanks to all the people who reviewed and all the people who voted for the poll of the chapter!!! Now there is a song of the week!!! Also, I changed the Theme song of the story, AGAIN!!! Hehe. Now it's Love This Way by: Eden's Crush!!! There's also Story Shout-Outs where you get to recommend SOMEONE ELSE'S story to the readers!!! The poll stays the same. COME ON PEOPLE VOTE!!!!!! ^-^' sorry for the shouting but I really want people to vote. Gomen Gomen!!! Now to the story!!! I deleted some of the notes that I've posted for the last 4 chapters so if you want to read them then look on the last four chapters but I'll be keeping the disclaimer up.

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Annie: I finally let SeeSi back in with us. Hehe. That was only because SeeYa and I went out there and smacked him in the head with a baseball bat. We sneaked out the back door and went behind him and hit him. Now he's out in comma. Hehe. He should wake up sometime next month.

SeeYa: That was fun. We should have done that more often.

Annie: Oh we'll be doing that a lot more to get SeeSi to shut-up. You can count on that. SeeYa has become my favorite now. SeeSi is just ditched. Oh well. I have a feeling that SeeYa is going to date before SeeSi even though SeeSi is much prettier (cuz of her new fur you guys voted for). But after you people vote SeeYa is going to have a pretty new coat of fur too!!! That makes SeeYa kind, smart, shuts her mouth when she has to, and pretty!!! Hehe. Good thing SeeSi isn't here to hear that. Now back to the story!!!

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Back At The Ski Lodge

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"Are you sure your ok? Are you really really sure because I don't want your father to kill me," asked Sakura with a very worried voice.

"I'm fine, Sakura. Just tired. Let me sleep," answered Tomoyo from under the covers.

Eriol and Li entered the room after hearing all the talking about 'are you ok Tomoyo' from Sakura which didn't even stop for a second coming from Sakura's mouth.

Li walked up to Sakura and put his hand on her shoulder. "She's going to be fine Sakura. You can't keep bugging her. She has been though a lot and needs sleep," said Li reassuring Sakura and at the same time sort of begging her to stop bugging Tomoyo.

"Ok," said Sakura while taking one more look at Tomoyo and walked out of the with Li to get some lunch together. (hehe, finally their being nice to each other!)

"Go to sleep Tomoyo. If your better the next day I'll take you skiing. Ok?" said Eriol trying to make her sleep.

"Sure Eriol. But you have to keep your promise," said Tomoyo before falling asleep.

"Sure. Sure," said Eriol before walking out of the room and getting his lunch with Li and Sakura who were talking about the weather being awkward with each other's kind company for that was the first time they were ever nice to each other.

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Li and Sakura's Conversation Before Eriol Joined Them

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(It sortta went like this...) (This is for all you Li and Sakura lovers)

"So...how's it been," asked Sakura.

"Fine. Fine. What about you?" responded Li.

"Fine. The weather seems nice."

"I know. But I heard that there might be a blizzard tomorrow. But it doesn't seem like it at all."

"I know. Very weird weather here."

"I know."

"So..."

"Um...want to go skiing tomorrow. I mean not as a date but for fun. The last time I saw you, you were pretty good (A/N not Li's thoughts: Yeah right). "

"Um...sure and thanks. You were pretty good to (A/N not Sakura's thoughts: Yeah right. I sharply remembered them crashed into each other many times. hehe)."

"So...um...hope it's good weather tomorrow."

"Me to."

"Eriol's here. Let's order lunch."

"Ok. Sure."

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So Called Tomorrow For Them but The Next Day For Us...

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Eriol was right. Tomoyo had recovered from the last days shock and was back to normal. Tomoyo and Eriol were racing each other from the experts slope and Li and Sakura were holding each others hand trying to get the grip of skiing. Eriol had just won another race against Tomoyo.

"What does that make? Um...the 12th win in a row?" said Eriol teasingly at Tomoyo.

"Oh shut-up. How about we take a break and ski over there in the forests?" said Tomoyo pointing at a far off forest that look deserted.

"Sure. Let's just hope there won't be a blizzard along the way."

"Don't worry there won't be. Plus it's still quite close to the ski lodge so if it does well make it to the lodge in time."

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Li and Sakura....

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Meanwhile...

"Let's go back to the lodge and take a rest," said Sakura after several attempts to ski but ending up falling everytime. Either on her butt of her face.

"Yeah," said Li looking worse than Sakura and holding his sore arm. Li finally learned how to ski and was teaching Sakura but every time Sakura fell she would pull rather hard on Li's hand and causing Li to fall down with Sakura not being able to keep his balance.

They sat in the lobby and waited for Eriol and Tomoyo to come back from their skiing. Suddenly the news woman from the T.V. said something that caught the attention of everyone in the lobby of the ski lodge.

T.V. Reporter with a worried voice: The weather may look nice but don't be fooled. The weather predictors have just took in information on a blizzard coming it's way into the east of Japan in the mountains. The blizzard will be a level 5 meaning that the blizzard will hit with full impact. The blizzard is said to hit the mountains ranges in about 30 minutes. This isn't a maybe blizzard but a 100% sure blizzard. This blizzard WILL hit and skiers need to be alarmed not to go out and stay inside until further notice. Please turn off all electric appliances right now. Here are the list of the following ski resorts that need to round up their skiers with the 30 minutes and get to safety. Please don't panic and please stay inside until we give further notice from the police that will visit all ski resorts shortly after the blizzard. The blizzard may last several days but mostly likely only last one day. Were keeping our hopes up. Please keep safe and review the following lists...

Surely enough the ski lodge that Li, Sakura, Eriol, Tomoyo, and a bunch of other people were in was on the list. Suddenly the manager of the ski lodge ran into the room.

"EVERYONE LISTEN UP!!! A BLIZZARD WILL HIT THIS PLACE IN ABOUT 30 MINUTES!!! I NEED THE STRONGEST GUYS AND EXPERIENCED SKIERS TO FOLLOW ME A ROUND UP THE PEOPLE OUTSIDE WITHIN THE FASTEST TIME POSSIBLE!!! EVERYONE ELSE RECEIVE DIRECTIONS FROM MY WIFE AND HELP HER TURN OFF ALL ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, SORT OUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE STAYING IN THE SKI LODGE, GET THE EMERGENCY FOOD OUT, GATHER AS MUCH WATER IN BUCKETS AS POSSIBLE, AND SET GET OUT ALL THE CANDLES AND CARRY THEM ALL IN THE UNDERGROUND BASEMENT!!! MOVE OUT!!! (that means that people can start doing what they have to do in the times of emergencies)" shouted the manager of the ski resort.

Li and Sakura stayed behind to help the bosses wife finally admitting that they weren't very good skiers. Li helped with filling the buckets with water and taking the buckets downstairs. Sakura helped bring blankets and blankets to downstairs and bringing the food down (the foods that you can eat without having them being cooked). Both Li and Sakura were very worried as to that Eriol and Tomoyo were still outside skiing. Hoping that the people who were rounding up the skiers outside would find them and bring them back safely.

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30 minutes later still with Li and Sakura

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Li and Sakura were still trying to look around the room looking for Eriol and Tomoyo. But they had to sit until the manager of the ski lodge finished calling roll and making sure that everyone was there.

Outside the blizzard are slowly starting to form.

The manager started calling roll.

"Peter Holland..."

"Here"

"Katie Peters..."

"Present"

"Phillip Park"

"Here"

Finally they came to the end of the list with only 4 people to go.

"Li Showron..."

"Here"

"Sakura Kinomoto"

"Present"

"Eriol Hiiragizawa... Eriol Hiiragizawa..."

Li and Sakura with the rest of the people in the room began to panic.

"I'm sure that he's in one of the bathrooms. Please stay clam and we'll finnish roll calling the search for him," said the manager and he continued calling roll.

"Tomoyo Daidouji... Tomoyo Daidouji..."

Li and Sakura were very frighten now. The whole room got up with permission of the manager and started looking for Eriol and Tomoyo around the ski lodge. With no luck the manager finally round up 4 other men and went to search for Eriol and Tomoyo before the blizzard got too strong.

Sakura was with the manger's wife and Li crying nonstop because Tomoyo was lost as long with Eriol in a level 5 blizzard. The manager's wife went to go get some water for Sakura.

Li was at lost at what to do with a crying woman so the best thing he thought of was hugging Sakura. That was what he did. Li lugged Sakura and never let go afraid that if he did Sakura would burst into tears again (I know, weird -_-"). Sakura little by little stopped crying.

"Why are you so good to me after all the bad things I said and did to you sinced I met you," said Sakura weakly still hugging onto Li.

"Because, you were the only girl who ever understood me under weird pressure. You took time to know me," replied Li. Li pulled away from the hug and kissed Sakura on the cheek (awwwww...that was for all you Sakura and Li lovers).

Rose (I decided to call the manager's wife because I didn't want to say manager's wife, manger's wife, all the time so yeah. Now the manager's wife will be called rose) came back with a cup of water. Sakura drank the whole cup and went to sleep on Li's lap with a huge quilted blanket over then since the weather was getting colder by the hour (don't get any wrong ideas, ok, that was for all you sick people out there ^-^ JK. Just don't get the wrong idea).

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With Eriol and Tomoyo (let's turn 45 minutes back the extra 15 minutes because of all the roll calling and stuff and yeah)

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By then Eriol and Tomoyo were deep into the forest talking each about their life back home. They only stopped once so that Tomoyo could take her medicine. They each got to know each other better. They talked about their life back home, their goals, their dreams, their sister/brother (Sliver and Tin-Sin), and their family.

A cold wind whipped by them and it started to snow.

"Pretty. I can't believe it's snowing!!!" squealed Tomoyo as she danced around in the snow as it fell around the two people.

They sat in the snow and continued to talk about their life. Then suddenly the wind started growing faster and harder and it pushed Eriol and Tomoyo gently and the snow started to fall faster. Tomoyo started getting cold and Eriol suddenly stood up.

"Tomoyo. Come on. We need to go back to the ski lodge. This might be the beginning of a level 5 blizzard (boy was he right)," said Eriol with much concern in his voice as he helped Tomoyo up off the ground.

"A...a...a...b...blizz...blizzard?" asked Tomoyo with worry in her voice.

"Yes, a blizzard! Now let's go before we get stranded in the snow and lost."

Tomoyo and Eriol walked back the way that they had came but suddenly an intense wind came pushing Tomoyo to the ground. The snow suddenly seemed to snow harder since the wind became more intense.

"Tomoyo let's go!!! It's about to reach a level one. We got to go before it rises any higher," said Eriol once again helping Tomoyo up.

Tomoyo and Eriol made their way to the ski lodge in a pace as fast as then can go.

"Tomoyo. Were going to have to stop. The blizzard is at a level 3 and need to take shelter before we freeze to death."

"We can't. I don't see any shelter anywhere."

"Tomoyo sit here and wait. I'll dig a hole in the ground and we can stay there until the blizzard passes."

Tomoyo who was freezing by now sat down beside Eriol who had grabbed two pairs of thick gloves out of his pockets. He handed one over to Tomoyo who put the think gloves over the ones she was already wearing. Eriol did the same thing and started to dig with his hands. With the think pair of gloves Eriol kept his hands warm as he dug the hole.

Eriol worked slow at first still getting used to the cold winds. After a while Eriol picked up a pace and dug deeper and deeper into the ground. Soon it was finished and Tomoyo and Eriol crawled into the little makeshift shelter.

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Back To Li and Sakura

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Sakura had finally woken up only to find out that the storm outside was getting hitting with to much force and they could not continue searching. Sakura as if it was planned out, broke into a crying fit saying it was all her fault and that she should have kept Tomoyo from skiing that day or pulled her back into the ski lodge when she went back.

Li tried to comfort Sakura and made little progress but it was working. He acted calm but in his mind he was secretly worrying for Eriol and Tomoyo.

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Tomoyo and Eriol in the Makeshift So Called Shelter

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The two were sitting there waiting for the storm to be over. They started to talk again about their life again. Suddenly Tomoyo was shivering being the delicate girl she is she got colder faster.

Eriol went over to her side and wrapped his arms around her. Suddenly Tomoyo started crying.

"Tomoyo what's wrong?"

"Just sad. What if I never see my dad or Sakura again. I don't want to die. Not here anyway. I just can't help it."

"It's ok Tomoyo. We aren't going to die and if we do we have each other. Not that we will ever die but still."

"Really?" said Tomoyo looking into Eriol's dark blue midnight eyes.

Eriol look back at Tomoyo's deep dark purple eyes. They slowly leaned forward and closed their eyes. They kissed. Tomoyo's first kiss...

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Annie: Hehe. Such good ending.

SeeYa: I agree.

SeeSi wakes up: What happened?

Annie and SeeYa sneak up behind SeeSi's back both with heavy baseball bats in their hands.

Annie in a whisper: 1...2...3!!!

On 3 Annie and SeeYa slammed the bats oh SeeSi's head. SeeSi fell again looking dead but not quite because she could still breath.

Annie: That was fast. That should last the next week. Hehe. I can't believe I wrote this all in a day!!! 7 pages. Not bad. Anyway. SeeYa it's time to do your job!!!

SeeYa: See Ya all readers!!!! Don't forget the poll!!!

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Chapter Poll:

What Color should SeeYa be? SeeYa is currently white.

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1.) Green with blue stars.

2.) Light Cloud Blue with White stars. (SeeSi had Yellow stars and the same fur)

3.) Black with a single white star on her head.

4.) Stay the way she is. (SeeYa is a SHE not a HE)

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