Thanks for all the reviews. I can't believe how many I'm getting. Unfortunately, it may be a while before I update again, since I am now in year 11 at school, and well that terrifies me. I've been working on chapters over the holidays, but now, well now I'll have to put school before my stories.
Anyways, I promise to try and update as soon as I can.
Disclaimer- The wonderful creations of both CLAMP and J.K. Rowling, obviously don't belong to me.
Chapter Eighteen-
"PRESENTS!" Cried Kero as he flew about the dorm.
"Keroberus, shut up." Riara mumbled, trying to sleep.
Kero had been going on about the presents all yesterday and now, when everyone was still sleeping, or at least, trying to, he was being annoying loud.
Yuri opened an eye, knowing she wouldn't be able to get back to sleep. Once awake, she couldn't sleep til nightfall. "Kero, be quiet and let the others sleep. If you do, I'll give you an extra serving of pudding, ok?"
Kero looked at Yuri with an immense look of worship. "Thank you Yuri samma. Thank you, thank you, thank you." He said.
"But you have to be quiet." Yuri reminded him. "One peep, and all that pudding goes to Suppi."
Kero immediately landed on Sakura's bed and shut his mouth.
Yuri smiled at the Guardian Beast and made her way downstairs. Making sure that no one was awake, she transformed her wand back into the staff and called upon her Sword card to train.
She was still there when Sakura awoke two hours later at seven.
"Merry Christmas imouto san." Yuri said as a greeting.
"Same to you." Sakura replied. She smiled. "You do realise that you own Kero pudding, don't you?"
Yuri nodded. "He was quiet. He gets his pudding."
Sakura looked at Yuri's sword. "Want an opponent?"
Yuri grinned. "Might be interesting."
Sakura quickly transformed her wand back into her staff then called upon her Sword card.
The two swords were extremely similar, but if one looked closely, you could notice the differences. Yuri's sword had four wings on it's hilt, instead of two. The gem that was also there was a darker pink, indicating the colour of the aura of the wielder.
The two sisters touched their swords together before bowing to each other. They then began to duel.
Tomoyo, Naoko and Meiling awoke to the clang of swords. They looked to Sakura and Yuri's beds and saw that they were empty.
Tomoyo screamed with delight at the thought of taping them and hurried to get dressed.
Naoko and Meiling shrugged and followed her downstairs where they witnessed Sakura and Yuri in a heated battle.
"Nice to see that you remember this, imouto." Yuri said, grinning, as she thrust her sword at Sakura.
Sakura flipped backwards to dodge the thrust and grinned back. "I've learnt a few new things too." She showed this by rapidly thrusting her sword at Yuri.
"Training with Syaoran must have worked. But you're not the only one who has learnt new things." Yuri replied, slashing at Sakura.
Sakura barely had time to counter the blow as Yuri punched at her. "Hey!" She protested.
"Oh, are you telling me you haven't learnt that?" Yuri asked, over the cheers coming from Meiling, Naoko and Tomoyo. They had been cheering ever since they had turned up and it obviously didn't matter to them who won.
There was a clattering at the stairs as Syaoran, Jamie, Eriol and Harry raced down the stairs.
Syaoran began cheering for Sakura, Jamie cheered for Yuri. Harry cheered for the both of them, as did Eriol, seeing that if he cheered for one of them he'd be accused of favouritism. (Favouritism- something that takes place in my home a lot. Mum and little sister go off shopping, it's Amber Dream (Not my real name but still) do this, do that. Not FAIR)
Ron, who had heard the cheering, walked downstairs slowly to see that Harry had his arm around one of the exchange students. He wasn't quite sure of her name. As far as he was concerned their names were too hard to remember. 'Nako? Ninako, no… it was… N…nn.. Naniko.'
Suddenly Yuri burst out laughing, shocking Sakura.
"What?" Sakura asked.
"Weasley has a problem remembering our names." She said happily, not caring if he heard. "Hey Naniko." Yuri cried, waving to Naoko.
"What?" Naoko was confused.
"He reckons your name is Naniko, Naoko." Yuri giggled again, lowering her sword as she laughed.
Sakura saw this, and as she laughed, she thrust at Yuri, hoping to win.
*CLANG!*
Their swords met in an X, Yuri smiling at the shock in Sakura's eyes.
"First rule of fighting, of any kind. 'Don't let your guard down.'"
Sakura still looked shocked, but that look disappeared soon, replaced with one of cunning. Her hand itched to grab her Fly card and take this duel to the sky.
Yuri's eyes lit up at the notion running through Sakura's head. "I'd love to Sakura, but…" She broke off, indicating to the other students who were making their way downstairs.
Sakura sighed sadly as she leapt away from Yuri and got ready for another attack.
"WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN HERE?" Came Hermione's voice.
The cardcaptors groaned as they heard her.
"A sword fight, if you don't mind." Yuri replied.
"SWORDS?!" Hermione sounded like she was about to hyperventilate.
"Yeah, swords." Sakura said, sounding a little angry at being interrupted.
"Don't you know that you could be hurt?" Hermione asked, surprised by what she considered immense stupidity from two people who always seemed so smart.
Tomoyo growled at her, shocking the exchange students. Ok, it was strange to see Sakura angry, but Tomoyo? It was simply unheard of.
"My kawaii Sakura chan and my kawaii Yuri chan are not stupid. You are if you think that they would hurt each other. They would rather die than let us here get hurt because of them, so what makes you think that they'd hurt each other when they are shimai." Tomoyo snapped, slipping into Japanese in the end.
Hermione looked confused. "Shimai?" She asked.
Tomoyo sneered. "Oh, that's right. You don't understand when I speak in Japanese. Guess you aren't as smart as you thought." Tomoyo then turned and walked out of the common room, her disgust obvious.
The exchange students stared after her.
Eriol was the first to speak, and when he did so, he did in Japanese. "Wow, the last time she was that mad was when I accidentally destroyed one of her dresses that she was making for you two when she was Eve." Eriol looked at the closed door with a slightly dreamy look. Tomoyo was simply stunning when she was angry like that. He always thought that, although he did prefer it when her wrath was aimed at someone else, like today.
Sakura and Yuri looked at each other with grins on their faces, having listened into Eriol's thoughts.
Hermione stood there shocked, when she noticed that Harry was with them and had his arm around one of them.
"Harry." She called.
Harry turned at the sound of his name. Seeing that Hermione wanted to speak with him, he gave Naoko a quick kiss on the cheek and walked over to Hermione. "Yeah?" He asked. He smiled, almost forgetting something. "Oh, by the way, Merry Christmas."
Hermione looked shocked then she smiled. "Merry Christmas to you too." She replied. Her eyes then narrowed. "What are you doing with them?" She asked.
Harry looked shocked. Why was Hermione acting this way? "Because they're my friends." He saw that she was about to say something. "It would be too hard to explain at the moment, but believe me, they know me better than anyone."
"But how is that possible?" Hermione asked.
"It is, but he can't tell you how because that would be telling and until certain secrets are revelled, telling is not allowed." Naoko said, walking over to Harry, slipping her hand into his. "Yuri and Sakura have decided to forgo training this morning because it's Christmas and they decided that now would be a perfect time to spend with Granger and Weasley since come lunch time, its going to be completely chaotic and if you think he'd let you get away, you need to think again, cause believe me, he won't. Neither will she for that matter. Too busy exclaiming how kawaii things are." Naoko smiled up at Harry and placed a gentle kiss on his lips. "It's lucky that I remembered when I did or I wouldn't have been able to get you a present."
Suddenly Sakura and Yuri looked at each other.
They grinned, but then their grins turned to looks of shock.
Sakura groaned. "Lily, I know you said we were talented, but this could really be looked at as bad luck. Why do we have to cause so many scenes?"
Yuri smiled gently at her younger sister. "Its who we are. Now we better get out there before some professor attempts to stun them and makes them mad."
Sakura and Yuri disappeared from sight just as a loud roar echoed through the school.
Syaoran gasped softly as he recognised the roar. It belonged to Amberite, Sakura's dragon. He suddenly remembered something.
***FLASHBACK***
"And then Amberite and Silvernight turned up on Christmas Day. It shocked all the professors and they all attempted to stun them but of course, you know that Amberite and Silvernight are impervious to magic. As soon as Yuri and I showed up, they stopped misbehaving and calmed down. They also promised that if we ever went to Hogwarts again, they'd come and visit us on Christmas." Sakura said, smiling at Syaoran.
***END FLASHBACK***
'They were going to get caught!' Were Syaoran's first thought. Suddenly he heard Naoko's voice.
"Look Harry, its Amberite and Silvernight. Let's go see them." They took the long way, running out the common room door and down the stairs.
Syaoran then noticed that he was the only sorcerer in the room, meaning that Eriol, Jamie, and Meiling had left. He quickly focused his energy and disappeared from sight.
Out on the grounds of Hogwarts, students were inching towards the two dragons that stood in front of the lake.
The larger one, obviously a male, was about ten feet tall and was a beautiful amber colour. He also had brilliant emerald eyes that showed his intelligence.
The smaller one was a female and was almost black in colouring. Her eyes though were a shade darker than the male's. They both were sleek and elegant.
Hagrid stared at the dragons wistfully. A male and a female. They'd make beautiful babies, he was sure of it.
The other professors were at a lose for words. How could they get them to leave?
The two dragons seemed content to just stay where they were, not really caring about the people around them.
The students continued to inch forward, much to the dismay of the professors.
Suddenly, the head of Ravenclaw attempted to stun the female dragon, aiming her stunning spell right between the eyes of the dragon. The spell bounced off the dragon's scales and shot into the air.
Everyone was stunned. Who had heard of dragons impervious to magic?
The spell had obviously not harmed the dragon, but still it was annoyed. About to cover the professor in flames, the female dragon stopped what she was doing at the sound of her name.
"SILVERNIGHT! DON'T!" It was Yuri and she was running towards the dragons, Sakura by her side.
McGonagall stood in front of them. "Where do you think you are going?" She demanded.
"I would of thought that obvious. We're going to see the dragons." Yuri replied flippantly.
"You are going no where near those dragons. They are impervious to magic." McGonagall said.
Yuri and Sakura shook their heads. They had no time to deal with bothersome professors.
Suddenly, they disappeared from sight, leaving McGonagall to stare at the empty space in front of her.
There was a joyous laugh from behind her and she turned to see Sakura and Yuri race up to the dragons.
The dragons both lowered their heads and butted them against the sisters, causing them to laugh.
"We almost forgot that you were coming to visit." Sakura said, petting Amberite on the head, causing the dragon to purr.
Naoko came rushing down the hill, Harry right behind her. She saw that Eriol, Syaoran, Jamie and Meiling had taken the easy way by translocating themselves there. She sighed and disappeared, Harry following after her. When they reappeared, they were standing beside the dragons.
Naoko heard a musical trill and looked up to see that Jadeian was floating down to land on her shoulder.
"Hey Jadeian." She said. She then gasped. She looked at Jadeian, then to Amberite and Silvernight. She heard a giggle and turned to glare at the two twins. "More secrets?" She asked plaintively.
Sakura smiled widely. "No, just little things you had to figure out yourself. We didn't want to tell."
"And besides, you seemed to have worked it out." Yuri added.
Meiling looked confused. "Worked what out?"
Naoko sighed. "Why Jadeian is this colour."
"And why is that?" Meiling asked.
"Because of me and Harry. She's the colour of his eyes and her eyes are the same colour as mine. Just as Amberite is the same colour of Syaoran's eyes, and Amberite's eyes are the same colour as Sakura's. Same goes for Silvernight."
Suddenly there was another musical trill and Tomoyo appeared by their side. She seemed calmer as she looked up to the sky. She gasped. "Dasrell." She whispered softly as a purple phoenix swooped down from the sky to land on her shoulder.
Yuri groaned. "It's almost time." She looked to Sakura who had an identical look on her face.
"Great." Sakura groaned as well. "We better go make sure everything is in place." She was about to say more when she felt the flicker of an aura. She grinned, placing the flicker to be above Tomoyo and Eriol. She sent Yuri a look and she grinned in reply.
The mistletoe appeared above Eriol and Tomoyo.
"Ah, Eriol, Tomoyo, you know that evil mistletoe that has been running rampant the past few days?" Harry began hesitantly. At their nods, he continued. "Well I hate to be the one to tell you, but its floating right above you." He pointed to the mistletoe above them.
Eriol groaned. He glared a the twins who looked taken back.
"What?" They asked in unison.
"I know you did it so don't bother trying to deny it." He snapped.
Tomoyo placed a hand on his arm. "But they couldn't have."
"They may have done it at night. You know they did disappear for most of that night after they had played that prank on Meiling and Touya." Eriol said, determined to find them guilty.
Sakura frowned. "We went to a tower where we leapt off to make a sharp dive before flying at top speeds through the Forbidden Forest."
"Did you know that there was a family of unicorns out that night? They were so incredibly beautiful. We stopped to talk to them before continuing with our flight. After picking up speed we broke through the canopy and then floated over the lake. We could hear the mermaids singing." Yuri said, a frown on her face too.
"After that we felt some people watching us," Sakura paused to frown at Harry, who looked slightly guilty. "So we translocated ourselves to their position. After scolding them, we left because professors were coming to investigate your little earthquake." Sakura's frown turned to a glare as she looked at Eriol, who squirmed under her gaze.
"Well, in all actuality, we didn't really leave, we just made ourselves invisible. We would have stuck around if it weren't for the people watching us and the fact that more professors, aside from Erin and Yukito were coming. We then proceeded to tease Erin and Yuki, while confusing the hell out of our watchers and the professors. It was rather fun." Yuri said in closing.
"See Eriol, they couldn't have done it." Tomoyo said, although she wasn't entirely sure.
Eriol sighed. "Fine Tomoyo. I'll stop accusing them."
"Good." With that said, Tomoyo leant closer to Eriol and placed a chaste kiss on his lips. She looked up, hoping to see that the mistletoe had left. Unfortunately for them, it hadn't.
"I think it needs something more substantial." Syaoran suggested, grinning slyly.
Tomoyo and Eriol blushed, but soon Eriol began to grin. He leant down and kissed Tomoyo gently.
"KAWAII!" Sakura and Yuri screamed happily.
The pair broke apart, blushing. They looked at the twins who had identical expressions on their faces, to go with their starry eyes. What was missing though, was the camera.
"Where's the camera?" Eriol asked. "I thought you would have taped it."
Sakura, still looking at the couple with starry eyes accidentally let something slip. "We got it on tape. The mistletoe did." She suddenly came out of her stupor and began to blush.
"Uhh ohh." Sakura said softly, noticing the murderous look on Eriol's face.
"How do you know that the mistletoe taped it?" He asked, his voice soft.
Yuri grinned, knowing that they were caught. "Jamie," She called. "Come here please."
Jamie complied instantly, as did Syaoran when Sakura called him over to her.
"You know Eriol, as much as we would like to answer your questions, I'm afraid that would be telling." Yuri's grin grew as she leapt onto the back of Silvernight. Silvernight had crouched down low just so she could. Jamie jumped on after her.
Yuri smiled as she watched Sakura and Syaoran do the same, leaping onto Amberite's back.
"Now, I think we'll go for a trip until lunch." Sakura said, as Amberite and Silvernight began to beat their powerful wings.
Sakura, Yuri, Syaoran and Jamie all grinned as they watched Eriol's face change from one of smugness to one of horror when he realised that they would get away with it.
"Bye Eriol!" They cried as Amberite and Silvernight flew off.
Sakura, Syaoran and Jamie got back to the castle a few minutes before lunch. Yuri wasn't with them, having left just after they took to the sky.
Sakura was beginning to get worried. She had no idea where Yuri was and it looked like she wasn't at the castle.
Sitting at the Gryffindor table, she noticed that she was getting many strange looks. She placed them to the fact that she had flown away on the back of a dragon, instead of the mistletoe. If anyone else had known about the mistletoe, they would have been glaring murderously at her like Eriol and Harry.
Professor Dumbledore noticed Sakura sitting at the table. Getting up, he walked over.
"Ms. Kinomoto, I would like to have a word with you and the rest of the exchange students please." He said softly.
Sakura looked up at him, surprised. "Oh, Dumbledore-Sensei. As much as I would like to listen to what you have to say, I have a matter of the utmost urgency about to take place, which I must take care of."
Suddenly Sakura, Syaoran, Eriol, Tomoyo, Meiling, Jamie, Naoko and Harry all stood up, shocked. They had just felt Yuri's aura flash.
Eriol looked to Sakura, a suspicious look on his normally calm face. "What is she up to, Sakura?" He asked, his voice soft.
Sakura had tears in her eyes, shocking Eriol. "I don't know!" She cried. " Just after we flew off on Amberite and Silvernight, Yuri disappeared! I couldn't feel…" Sakura broke off, still able to know when to stop.
Eriol's eyes narrowed. "Are you lying?" He asked, still slightly suspicious.
Tomoyo glared at Eriol. How could he be so cruel to her Sakura chan when she was obviously worried. Sakura and Yuri never acted like this when they were trying to cover a prank. "Eriol kun. I am surprised at you. Can't you see how worried Sakura san is about Yuri?"
Eriol's gaze lost its harshness. "I'm sorry Sakura, I just had to know."
Sakura looked up, glaring slightly. "Eriol, why do you think I would use that as a cover? What with those twins running around?"
Eriol gasped softly, only just remembering about the twins. "I forgot about them." He admitted.
Sakura snorted. "How could you forget? They're the reason why we're here. And I've been feeling flares in Yuri's…." Sakura broke off, knowing that they'd understand. "What if they have her? What if she's in trouble? I should be there with her. My One san is in trouble and I can't do anything." Sakura said softly, turning to Syaoran.
Suddenly, her head shot up as three familiar auras entered the hall. She looked towards the doors to see that Touya was leading, a smile on his face. Behind Touya was Fujitaka Kinomoto, her father, and floating beside Fujitaka was Nadeshiko.
Sakura gasped and left Syaoran's arms to go and embrace her father. "Otou san." She whispered.
Fujitaka held his daughter close. "Sakura. How are you?"
Sakura smiled, before looking to her brother. "Onii chan, Yuri is missing." She said, waiting for the explosion.
She wasn't disappointed.
"WHAT?!" Touya cried. "HOW CAN SHE BE MISSING?" He turned to glare at Jamie. "This is all your fault." He said, heading towards Jamie, intent on hurting him. He was surprised when Erin stopped him. "Touya, how could you think that its Jamie's fault?"
Touya turned to glare at Erin. "Then its your fault and her stuffed animal's fault. You should have been watching her."
Yukito stood up and walked over to his best friend. "Touya. Your imouto chan had a dragon with her that was impervious to magic. What other protection did she need? And besides, if any wizards tried to harm her, how far do you think they'd get? She has more power than this entire continent, as does Sakura. You know that a wizard couldn't harm her."
Touya looked lost. Who could he blame?
Nadeshiko smiled when she heard that thought. "My son, why do you need to blame someone?"
Touya still looked lost, and Sakura was joining him.
Sakura looked to her mother. "Okaa san." She said softly, a hand reaching out to her.
Suddenly there was a flare of a dark pink aura.
Sakura went to place her hand on Nadeshiko's arm, expecting it to go through her, she was surprised to find that it didn't. Nadeshiko was solid and alive.
"Okaa san." Sakura cried, falling into her mother's arms.
Nadeshiko caught her daughter in a hug, wondering why she could hold her.
"Merry Christmas Sakura san, Touya kun. This is my present to my Onii chan and Imouto san. Enjoy it, because I can only hold it till they arrive." Yuri's voice echoed through the Hall.
Jamie looked up to the front of the Hall to see Yuri sitting on the professors' table. The professors all had shocked looks on their faces, indicating that she had only just arrived.
Yuri seemed to sway while she was sitting, so Jamie rushed to the front of the Hall and grabbed her off the table.
"You just got most of your strength back, and you pull a stunt like this." Jamie shook his head. "Do you like making us worry?"
Yuri grinned. "I've had my strength back for days, and besides, any magical drain is worth the looks on their faces." She indicated to the ecstatic looks on Sakura's, Touya's, Fujitaka's and Nadeshiko's faces.
Sakura looked to Yuri. "Yuri, over here please." She said, calling her over.
Jamie carried Yuri over, but when she protested, he reluctantly let her walk by herself.
"Yes Sakura?" She asked, curious. She hadn't wanted to interrupt on their time.
"Is this why you disappeared?" Sakura asked.
Yuri nodded. "I've been meditating for the past few hours, concentrating my energy into doing this."
Sakura smiled. "Thank you so much." She said, embracing her. She turned to her parents. "This is my twin sister Yuri." She said in Japanese, causing Dumbledore to stare.
Both Nadeshiko and Fujitaka nodded to show that they already knew this. They had both gotten their previous life's memories a couple of days ago.
Fujitaka looked at the girl who his daughter loved so much. "So, you are the one who preformed this miracle, and all for Sakura and Touya."
Yuri nodded shyly. "Yes I am, Kinomoto kun."
Fujitaka shook his head. "There will be none of that. I am your Otou san, and I…" Whatever Fujitaka was going to say was cut off as Yuri looked to him with her eyes filled with hope.
"Honto?" She asked hesitantly.
"Honto." Fujitaka replied.
Yuri screamed happily. "Otou san!" She cried, hugging Fujitaka.
Fujitaka smiled as he hugged his new daughter back.
Nadeshiko, Sakura and Touya watched with gentle smiles on their faces.
Nadeshiko then said something that made Yuri rush over and hug her too. "I may have to leave soon, but I want you to know Yuri, you are my daughter."
Suddenly there was a beautiful melody from above them. They looked up to see that Dasrell was circling above them.
Eriol, Tomoyo, Naoko, Harry, Meiling, Syaoran, Jamie, Erin and Yukito all walked towards the family in the middle of the Hall.
Sakura, Yuri and Touya all gave Nadeshiko and Fujitaka one last hug before they became enveloped in light. The light was the colour of their auras. Nadeshiko glowed a dark purple, while Fujitaka glowed a medium blue, not light, not dark.
Tomoyo and Eriol also began to glow the colour of their auras. Tomoyo, a soft violet, Eriol a bright blue.
The auras then began to merge, becoming one. Tomoyo's and Nadeshiko's became a vibrant purple, while Eriol's and Fujitaka's became a deep blue, that bordered on black.
When the auras dispersed, where four people had once stood, there were now two. Before anyone could get a good look at them though, the group glowed pink and disappeared.
There was a stunned silence in the Hall as everyone tried to figure out what had just happened.
Inside Sakura and Yuri's secret room stood twelve people, four spirit like apparitions and two floating stuffed animals.
Everyone's outfits had changed from their school robes to formal dresses and suits from Clow and Eve's time.
Sakura was dressed in a light pink off-the-shoulders evening dress with a square neckline. She wore pale pink gloves and had soft pink slippers. Her jewellery consisted of pieces that Syaoran had given her in their previous life. Her earings were made from pink sapphire and were carved intricately into cherry blossoms. Her necklace was a simple gold chain with a pink sapphire cherry blossom as a pendant. Her hair framed her face, it had been left down.
Yuri was wearing a gown of similar design in a darker shade of pink. Her gloves were a dark pink, as were her slippers. Yuri's hair was pulled back from her face, a few strands left to curl and frame her face. Strands of gold with dark pink diamonds were braided intricately through her dark blue/black hair. The strands were part of a three piece jewellery set that Jamie had given her for Christmas one year in their previous life. The other two pieces were a necklace and earings. Her necklace was a simple gold chain with an intricate design of a lily engraved in dark pink diamond. Her earings were drops of pink diamond.
Meiling wore a ruby red evening dress with opened sleeves that hung to the floor. The neck was scooped. She wore no gloves, but she had soft slippers of the same colour as her gown. Her black hair was pulled back into a small bun by ruby and diamond hair pins, with the rest of her hair hanging loose below it. Touya had given her the jewellery that she wore now. From her neck hung a silver chain from which hung a ruby pendant. Inside the ruby was a perfect lotus bloom. Her earings were drops of ruby with carvings of lotus' in the middle in diamond.
Naoko's gown was a golden yellow colour. The sleeves of the gown came all the way down to her wrists, where they were held by gold chains connected to rings that she wore on both her middle fingers. Her slippers were also gold and the neckline of the dress dipped slightly. The jewellery that she wore was Harry's gift to her on the night of their engagement. On her left ring finger sat a simple gold ring with the words 'I love only you' engraved into it. Her necklace was a chain of small emeralds and amber. The centre stone of the necklace was a piece of amber carved in the shape of a heart. Engraved in the heart was a tulip. Her earings were strands of amber. Naoko's hair was braided into a bun, which was held into place by amber hair pins.
The guys were equally as handsome as the girls were stunning.
Syaoran was wearing a forest green tail coat and white pants with forest green stripes up the side. His hair was still as messy as ever though.
Jamie's outfit consisted of a sea-green overcoat, a white shirt underneath the overcoat and slightly darker sea-green pants. His hair showed that it had once been brushed back, but his hair had fought against that and resumed its usually messy style.
Touya was dressed in all black, except for his shirt which was white. He had a jacket slung over his arm as he looked at Meiling, his eyes slightly wide.
Harry was wearing the opposite to Touya. He was dressed in all white except for his shirt which was black. He was also wearing his jacket. His normal glasses which had been through the works had been replaced with more elegant ones, but they didn't cause him to loose that boyish look about him.
Clow was dressed in his usual robes and Eve was wearing something similar to what the Through Card wears, only it was deep purple. Eve's hair was pulled back from her face and held in place by amethyst hair pins.
"Hello Mother." Yuri said sweetly, smiling at Eve's look.
Eve turned to look at Yuri and Sakura. She looked astonished, then she screamed and ran to embrace her daughters.
"My daughters, you are here. You are safe!" She cried, tears leaking from her eyes.
Sakura looked at Eve surprised, then the look disappeared as she realised that the last time that Eve had seen them alive was the day before she and Yuri had left to battle the Akai twins. She then saw Clow behind Eve and smirked. "Mother, please inform Papa, that as much as we may have missed him, we are going to ignore him. That trick that he pulled the other night was uncalled for, especially considering the fact that we are here for a very important thing." Sakura didn't really want to say what they were there for, considering that it would make them unhappy.
While Clow looked outraged, Eve looked at her youngest curious. "What are you going on about?" Eve was about to ask more, when she suddenly froze, remembering something that one of her half reincarnations' had seen.
***FLASHBACK***
"That's why you left. You had to stop the Akai twins from releasing the Dark Forbidden Magic. But, did you?" Naoko asked.
Yuri and Sakura looked at each other and sighed, and pulled away from Jamie and Syaoran.
"Guess we have to finish, huh?" Sakura asked, looking down.
"Yep. I'll do it." Yuri replied, placing a hand on Sakura's shoulder.
Sakura looked at Yuri gratefully and Yuri smiled gently.
Yuri took a deep breath and let it out on a sigh. "After we left, Sakura and I tracked the Akai twins to Rainbow Falls. They were there and they had already released the Dark Forbidden Magic. Sakura and I fought them though, using up nearly all of our magic. The twins were grinning horribly, saying that after they had made us too weak to fight, they'd go after our family and our loved ones. Then they'd come back for us. The things that they said were and still are too terrible to repeat." Yuri and Sakura shuddered at the thought of the twins' threats. Syaoran and Jamie took a step forward but stopped when Eriol shook his head.
"The thought of you dying pushed Sakura and I over the edge. Something inside of us snapped." Yuri shook her head. "It gets a little fuzzy after this. All I can really remember is that there was a flash of pink mixed with the purest white. Then, there was darkness. That's all I remember."
***END FLASHBACK***
"You didn't stop them?" She asked softly.
Sakura and Yuri looked shocked, then they realised that she had remembered something that Tomoyo had known.
Yuri nodded. "Yes. They somehow survived what happened." Yuri then looked to Touya. "Mother, you are ignoring Touya."
Eve blushed at her mistake and rushed over to embrace her son. "You have grown more handsome my son, and it seems even more protective of your sisters. I didn't think it could be possible." Eve smiled at the look on Touya's face. She then saw Meiling. "Meiling, dear child, I hope my son hasn't been like his father." Eve grinned at Clow's angry huff. "If he starts to act overbearing and pompous, just ignore him and he'll come begging fro attention."
Meiling giggled and had a mischievous glint in her eyes. "Of course, Lady Evelyn."
Eve shook her head. "I could have sworn we had stopped using the 'Lady' and I was Eve to you."
Meiling blushed. "I'm sorry. I forgot for a moment."
Eve then spied Syaoran and Jamie, who were standing stiffly near the back of the room. Eyes sparkling, she walked back and pulled them forth. "What are you two doing hiding?" She asked, her eyes sweeping over them. "You two are looking quite handsome. I do hope that my reincarnation, the one with the unusual fetish for cameras, has gotten many kawaii pictures of you two with my daughters."
Syaoran and Jamie blushed, then Syaoran groaned at the smirk that Jamie sent his way. Tomoyo had more pictures of him with Sakura in what she considered kawaii moments, than he knew possible.
Eve grinned and Syaoran knew that she had heard what he had thought. She then stopped grinning and looked at Jamie. "Why doesn't she have as many kawaii pictures with you and Yuri?"
Yuri stepped forward. "Mother, its because I got reincarnated away from Sakura and your reincarnations."
Eve's eyes narrowed as she looked to Clow. "So your father made a mess of his calculations. You suffered needless pain because he made a mistake?" Eve's voice was slowly rising.
"Mother, stop. Getting me to be reincarnated again was hard enough, but to get me close to the rest of you? Papa did his best." Yuri said, sending a small smile in Clow's direction. "Just because I happen to be really angry at him at the moment, doesn't mean that you need to be."
Eve still glared at Clow, but her attention was diverted by her spying Harry and Naoko holding hands.
"Kawaii!" She cried, causing the others to sweatdrop.
"Yep, Tomoyo is most certainly her reincarnation." Syaoran grumbled.
"Except she seems to scream it louder than Eve does. Maybe she'll take some pointers and tone it down a little." Jamie murmured to Syaoran.
Syaoran nodded the winced. Something had kicked him in the shin, hard.
-That wasn't very nice, Syaoran.- A voice echoed, before Jamie cried out in pain. –Serves you right, Jamie-
Sakura looked to the spirit like apparitions and grinned at Tomoyo. "Tomoyo, stop picking on Jamie and Syaoran. Next training session they may remember and decided to get back at you."
Suddenly there was a bright light as Erin, Yukito, Riara and Kero were enveloped by their wings. When the light cleared, in their place stood Nerina, Moon Guardian to the Yuri Cards, Yue, Moon Guardian to the Sakura Cards, Riara in her true form, a magnificent tiger, Sun Guardian to the Yuri Cards and Keroberus, Sun Guardian to the Sakura Cards.
Nerina and Riara walked towards Eve and knelt before her.
"Mistress, it is good to see you again." Nerina said softly.
"I have missed you." Riara added.
Eve smiled at her creations. "I have missed you both as well, but I am no longer your mistress. Yuri is now and I want you to take good care of her, as you did before."
Both her creations nodded.
On the other side of the room, Yue and Keroberus were greeting Clow in the same way.
Clow smiled gently as he told them to look after his daughters. He then smirked as he looked from Yue to Nerina.
"Tell me Yue, you have regained your senses and do not still consider yourself in love with that Nerina over there." While Yue blushed, Nerina got to her feet.
"I refuse to acknowledge you. The only good things that you have done is create my Yue and you also helped in the creation of my current mistress and her sister. Though you helped very little. Mistress Eve did most of the work." With that Nerina turned her back on a spluttering Clow.
Yuri and Sakura giggled, but it was cut short as they felt Clow gathering his energy to cast a spell on Nerina.
Yuri shook her head and placed a shield around Nerina.
Clow sent his energy in a spell towards Nerina, but was shocked to see it return to him, causing his long hair to shorten to Harry's length and turn bright orange.
Everyone burst out laughing, including Kero. Even Yue managed a small smile.
"WHO DID THAT?!" Clow roared.
Yuri smirked as she looked to her sister. "Think that was good enough payback for that scare that he gave us?" She asked, ignoring Clow still.
Sakura shook her head. "Not quite. One more thing." Sakura waved a hand in Clow's direction, causing his clothing to change from his regal robes to a bright blue holter-neck dress that reached mid thigh. On his feet were dark blue high-heel platforms. "Now that is good enough payback." She said through giggles.
Yuri, while giggling, waved a hand. "You forgot something." She said as a canvas appeared with a painting of Clow looking that way. She waved her hand again and four video cameras appeared, as well as photo cameras, each taking pictures of Clow. "Now this moment will never be forgotten."
The look on Clow's face was one of complete outrage that caused everyone to fall down laughing. Yue's small smile grew to be an all-out-grin, something no-one had ever seen before.
After Clow finally convinced his two daughters to return him to normal, everyone sat down and enjoyed their Christmas lunch. After lunch, while giving out Christmas presents, Sakura and Yuri froze. They could feel a dark aura approaching the castle, but it wasn't one of the twins. This aura was weak, like a ……. Wizard's.
Harry suddenly grasped his scar, and through clenched teeth he ground out. "Voldemort. He's here, outside the castle."