Decompression Period (A CCS Dark-ish Shoujoai Lemonade)
By the Reanimated Raynor (Reanimated_Raynor@interactive.rogers.com or Ryn0r@hotmail.com)
Notes:
Lemonade. 14+ at least. I don't care how mature you are, Hotaru. Away.
CCS and every other anime/show/anything I mention I don't own except for one thing I'll mention at the end because it's crucial to the plot.
Remember me? Of the depressing fics based on songs?
Based on Decompression Period (Obviously) for the most part, but also on She Loves Me Not a little. At least, in the beginning it is. With me, you can't be too sure how it's gonna end up. Set before Yamato Gun III, but after YGII, like Somewhere I belong. Specifically, directly after the capture of the Yuri card (A card made up not by me, but Erica Friedman). Only this is in the CCS universe instead of the Digimon one. And when I say directly, I mean it. The only thing missing is (don't kill me) the Lemon scene in between the capture and now. And one night.
Are you noticing a pattern here? There's the dark segment at the end of the first season of my NiST series, which I can't publish because they're MSTs, unfortunately, there's Easier To Run (Sailor Moon), there's The End and Somewhere I Belong (Digimon), and now Decompression Period (CardCaptor Sakura).
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Sakura woke up slowly, her vision slightly blurry. She felt very contented, but...why? She tried to shake the cobwebs out of her system and figure out what she did last night. Did she...no, she didn't masturbate. She never felt like this after that, anyway. At least, not for this long. No, it was something similar, but not...
Movement caused her to nearly jump out of her skin. She realized it was Tomoyo, rolling over in her sleep.
Tomoyo? In her bed?
The memories came rushing back to her. The capture of the Yuri card. Her friend finally telling her what she wanted to for so long. And then...Sakura was surprised they made it to her room before...
She looked at Tomoyo, now on her stomach, a peaceful smile on her face as she slept. She was at the very least naked from the waist up, and probably from the waist down as well.
That was when it hit her. Sakura slept with Tomoyo last night.
Sakura got up and sat on the side of the bed, her mind still trying to grasp why. All she could remember feeling was...was this incredible feeling of desire, and love, for Tomoyo. Could the Yuri card have done that to her?
She thought back to when she was attempting to fend it off, when it was kissing her with more passion than Sakura thought possible. She was trying to capture it, so she was trying to pull away, but...but another part of her was trying to override the rest of her. She wanted to be kissed like this, but...something was missing.
She had pulled right away at the start, but then something about the Card changed. Sakura had felt confused right then, but she felt that the card somehow made her think that it was Tomoyo. And Sakura then relaxed her grip slightly, since she had loved Tomoyo since the day she met her, and the Card struck. [What did it do to me?] Sakura thought. [I remember feeling like something was stuck into my back when it bear hugged me...I could have sworn it gave me an aphrodisiac or something.]
[And that was why I did what I did with Tomoyo.] Another part of her mind seemed to finish for the first.
[No, I love her! Besides, she loves me! She said so!]
[Was that her or the Card? Tomoyo said herself she likes nothing more than making you happy. So couldn't she have done this with you to make you happy, instead of because she loved you? And the card did make you think it was Tomoyo.]
[I--I don't know...I'm so confused...]
The conversation between her right and left brain was cut short when Sakura felt a pair of arms wrapping around her waist. "Good morning, Sakura-chan." Tomoyo said, resting her chin on Sakura's shoulder. "Did you sleep well?"
"Yeah, I did. That was probably the best night's rest I've ever had." Sakura replied, smiling at her friend.
"It seemed like you needed a lot of rest."
Sakura giggled. "Yeah, well, let's just say you're a natural at pleasing others."
"I think I'll take that as a compliment."
"Good. I meant it as one."
"So...anything you were planning on doing today?"
"Not really. You had something in mind?"
"Well, after we straighten out this room, we could always plan something..."
"Yeah. I think that can wait a little..." Sakura said, turning around and kissing Tomoyo...
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Two orgasms later, both girls were up and about, attempting to make the room tidy again. Or at least, as tidy as it normally was. "So you've kept the fact that you've loved me secret for years. Explain to me: Why did you slip up now?" Sakura asked as she straightened her bed.
"I don't know, exactly. Probably, I saw the Yuri card kissing you and I got jealous. I wanted to be the only one your lips would ever touch." Tomoyo replied.
"I don't think that the Yuri card counts. I mean, I barely met it. Kissing someone like that is more of an after-a-month-of-dating thing."
"Guess you messed that up twice. Once with it, once with me."
"I guess I did, didn't I? Oh well. No regrets. At least I've known you for...how long?"
Then her hearing acted like she just dove underwater as her mind argued with itself again. [No regrets? You don't even know if it's real or not. For all you know, the Yuri card's effects drove your hormones crazy and you acted on the first opportunity for release you could find.]
[No...I love her...]
[But does she love you?]
[Of course she does!]
[Are you sure? She might just be trying to make you as happy as she can.]
[No, that's not it!]
[Yes it is! She's just making you happy! She doesn't love you!]
"NO!"
"Easy, Sakura. I just wanted to know if you wanted to go to the park later. Don't go crazy on me."
Sakura blinked. [Oh no, I just said that out loud, didn't I?] "Sorry, Tomoyo, It's not that. I'd love to go the park with you later."
"You sound kind of out of it, Sakura. Is something wrong?"
"No, nothing's wrong..."
"Alright."
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That night, Sakura lay in her bed, thinking hard about herself and about Tomoyo. She loved her, didn't she? Tomoyo did. Sakura knew she did. Otherwise, why would she have done this? Surely, she wouldn't go to all this trouble just to make Sakura happy, would she?
That was her last thought as she drifted off to sleep.
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She was in her room again, kissing Tomoyo. but no sooner than she realized where she was, Tomoyo broke the kiss. "Come on, Sakura." Tomoyo said. "I just came over to study."
"Please...Tomoyo..." Sakura said, moving to kiss Tomoyo again.
"No, Sakura." Tomoyo replied, getting off the bed and gathering her things. "Look, I like you and all, but I'm getting pretty tired of catering to your every whim." Tomoyo slung her backpack over her shoulder. "Goodbye." She said as she walked out the door, leaving a dumfounded Sakura in her wake.
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Sakura woke with a start, jumping almost right out of bed. [What was that?] She thought to herself as she uneasily lay back down, trying to get her thoughts in order.
[What's happening. Can't you see? She's just making you happy.]
[No! We've already...]
Sakura's thoughts ground to a complete halt. We? She has had three arguments already with herself. Why is she tearing herself up about this? And why does it seem like one of the sides of the argument isn't her own thoughts?
She looked at the clock. 9:31 AM, May 16, 2003. [Tomoyo might be up...I've got to talk to her about this.]
She sat up again, and picked up her phone, dialing Tomoyo's number.
"Hello?" Came Tomoyo's voice.
"Hi, Tomoyo-chan. Sorry to call you so early."
"I think I can forgive you, Sakura-chan."
Sakura chuckled. "Thanks. Listen, I need to talk to you about something."
"Like what?"
"Like in person, if possible. Would it be possible for you to come over?"
"Yeah, sure! Of course, Sakura-chan! I'm always open to come over!...Is everything alright?"
"Yeah...I think. See you when you get here." Sakura said before hanging up.
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[Knock, knock]
"Hi, Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura said, opening the door for her friend. "Come in!"
"Hi, Sakura-chan! How are you doing?" Tomoyo said as she walked in, both she and Sakura walking up the stairs to Sakura's room.
"Pretty good, you?"
"I'm fine. A little confused as to why you couldn't just talk to me on the phone, but still fine. Being friends with a Cardmistress has kind of made me expect the unexpected."
"I would bet." Sakura said as she walked into her room and sat down on her bed. She sighed. "My thoughts are kind of in a jumble right now. The ones concerning us, I mean."
"What? What do you mean?" Tomoyo said, looking even more confused.
"I mean...I don't know what I mean. I'm about as confused as you are. One part of me seems to be completely happy that you're in love with me, and we can express our love to each other, but...there's this other part of me that seems to think you don't really love me."
"Why, Sakura, that's crazy! Of course I don't love you!"
"That's what I--What?" Sakura said
"I said I don't love you, Sakura. How hard is that to understand?"
Now Sakura seemed even more confused. "Hold on. Say exactly what you just said one more time."
Sakura watched Tomoyo's lips as she talked. The movements of her mouth didn't match what she was saying. "Whoa!"
"What?" Tomoyo asked.
"This is too weird. Your lips are saying one thing, but I'm hearing another. I'm hearing that you don't love me at all."
"That's...not right."
"Yeah. Now I'm even more confused."
Then Sakura and Tomoyo heard movement behind them. "[Yawn] You know, some people get up at something less than barbaric hours on Sundays."
"Sorry, Kero."
"It's alright, I'm hungry anyway. But wh..." Kero said, trailing off. "Sakura...do you feel any different?"
"A little, why?"
"Because...I can kind of sense a change in you. Something that wasn't there a couple of days ago."
"Like what?"
"I don't know, exactly. Can you describe how you feel to me?"
"Just...really confused. My brain keeps having arguments with itself."
"Hold on. That's--Sakura, you're being possessed by a Card."
"A card? Which one?"
"The Confusion card. It keeps telling you things that serve to confuse you to no end, and can even go so far as to mess with what you're hearing to confuse you even further."
"Well, I am completely confused, I'll tell you that."
"Yeah, it's the Confusion card. Listen, whatever you hear from it, you've got to avoid being confused by it. Even if it questions your fundamental beliefs, you've got to fight it. Do you understand?"
"Yeah, I..." Sakura said.
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[Are you sure you want to listen to that stuffed animal? He couldn't even guard the Cards from _you_! Can you really trust him?]
[Of course! He's my guardian!]
[An unreliable guardian. You can trust him at most a tenth of the distance you could throw him.]
[I can trust him. I know I can. You're just trying to confuse me.] Sakura thought matter-of-factly.
[I'm telling you the truth. Kero's unreliable, you can't beat the Confusion card simply by not being confused!]
[Hah! This coming from the card itself posing as a part of my mind! Maybe you could have kept going on the Tomoyo train of thought, but Kero's a whole 'nother kettle of fish.]
At that point, Sakura started to get a massive headache. "Ahhh..." She said, holding her temples. "What...is...it...doing to me?"
"It's being exorcised, Sakura! You've got to keep fighting!"
"I can...barely think..."
"Come on, Sakura!" Tomoyo said. "You can do it!"
[She's right. Tomoyo really does love me.]
[NO! She's just trying to make you feel better!] The Card yelled into Sakura's mind, ramping up the pain a couple more notches.
[Aaah....so...much pain...you...] Sakura thought, trying to keep her wits about her. [Tomoyo...does...love...me!]
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The card shot out of Sakura in a black mass. "Man, that feels better." She said.
"Good. Now get the card!" Kero said.
"Yeah." Sakura said, getting out her staff. "Confusion! Return to your card! CONFINE!"
Sakura swung her staff and it seemed to hit the air itself, a card-shaped energy field forming right at the tip. The black mass was sucked into the field, forming into a card. Sakura plucked it out of thin air. "The confusion card." She said, examining the card. "I think."
"What do you mean, you think?" Kero said as she and Tomoyo walked around to look at the card's face.
The face was completely blank. "Even as a card, it's confusing."
"Well, now that we've got that under control, do you want to go make breakfast?" Kero asked.
"Alright." Sakura said, leading Tomoyo and Kero out of her room and down the stairs.
-_----_--
End.
End notes:
So much for being anywhere near close to Decompression Period. Oh well. I'm happy with this. ^^
Oh, one more thing: The confusion card is MINE.
RynØr
By the Reanimated Raynor (Reanimated_Raynor@interactive.rogers.com or Ryn0r@hotmail.com)
Notes:
Lemonade. 14+ at least. I don't care how mature you are, Hotaru. Away.
CCS and every other anime/show/anything I mention I don't own except for one thing I'll mention at the end because it's crucial to the plot.
Remember me? Of the depressing fics based on songs?
Based on Decompression Period (Obviously) for the most part, but also on She Loves Me Not a little. At least, in the beginning it is. With me, you can't be too sure how it's gonna end up. Set before Yamato Gun III, but after YGII, like Somewhere I belong. Specifically, directly after the capture of the Yuri card (A card made up not by me, but Erica Friedman). Only this is in the CCS universe instead of the Digimon one. And when I say directly, I mean it. The only thing missing is (don't kill me) the Lemon scene in between the capture and now. And one night.
Are you noticing a pattern here? There's the dark segment at the end of the first season of my NiST series, which I can't publish because they're MSTs, unfortunately, there's Easier To Run (Sailor Moon), there's The End and Somewhere I Belong (Digimon), and now Decompression Period (CardCaptor Sakura).
¯¯¯---_______Decompression Period_______---¯¯¯
Sakura woke up slowly, her vision slightly blurry. She felt very contented, but...why? She tried to shake the cobwebs out of her system and figure out what she did last night. Did she...no, she didn't masturbate. She never felt like this after that, anyway. At least, not for this long. No, it was something similar, but not...
Movement caused her to nearly jump out of her skin. She realized it was Tomoyo, rolling over in her sleep.
Tomoyo? In her bed?
The memories came rushing back to her. The capture of the Yuri card. Her friend finally telling her what she wanted to for so long. And then...Sakura was surprised they made it to her room before...
She looked at Tomoyo, now on her stomach, a peaceful smile on her face as she slept. She was at the very least naked from the waist up, and probably from the waist down as well.
That was when it hit her. Sakura slept with Tomoyo last night.
Sakura got up and sat on the side of the bed, her mind still trying to grasp why. All she could remember feeling was...was this incredible feeling of desire, and love, for Tomoyo. Could the Yuri card have done that to her?
She thought back to when she was attempting to fend it off, when it was kissing her with more passion than Sakura thought possible. She was trying to capture it, so she was trying to pull away, but...but another part of her was trying to override the rest of her. She wanted to be kissed like this, but...something was missing.
She had pulled right away at the start, but then something about the Card changed. Sakura had felt confused right then, but she felt that the card somehow made her think that it was Tomoyo. And Sakura then relaxed her grip slightly, since she had loved Tomoyo since the day she met her, and the Card struck. [What did it do to me?] Sakura thought. [I remember feeling like something was stuck into my back when it bear hugged me...I could have sworn it gave me an aphrodisiac or something.]
[And that was why I did what I did with Tomoyo.] Another part of her mind seemed to finish for the first.
[No, I love her! Besides, she loves me! She said so!]
[Was that her or the Card? Tomoyo said herself she likes nothing more than making you happy. So couldn't she have done this with you to make you happy, instead of because she loved you? And the card did make you think it was Tomoyo.]
[I--I don't know...I'm so confused...]
The conversation between her right and left brain was cut short when Sakura felt a pair of arms wrapping around her waist. "Good morning, Sakura-chan." Tomoyo said, resting her chin on Sakura's shoulder. "Did you sleep well?"
"Yeah, I did. That was probably the best night's rest I've ever had." Sakura replied, smiling at her friend.
"It seemed like you needed a lot of rest."
Sakura giggled. "Yeah, well, let's just say you're a natural at pleasing others."
"I think I'll take that as a compliment."
"Good. I meant it as one."
"So...anything you were planning on doing today?"
"Not really. You had something in mind?"
"Well, after we straighten out this room, we could always plan something..."
"Yeah. I think that can wait a little..." Sakura said, turning around and kissing Tomoyo...
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Two orgasms later, both girls were up and about, attempting to make the room tidy again. Or at least, as tidy as it normally was. "So you've kept the fact that you've loved me secret for years. Explain to me: Why did you slip up now?" Sakura asked as she straightened her bed.
"I don't know, exactly. Probably, I saw the Yuri card kissing you and I got jealous. I wanted to be the only one your lips would ever touch." Tomoyo replied.
"I don't think that the Yuri card counts. I mean, I barely met it. Kissing someone like that is more of an after-a-month-of-dating thing."
"Guess you messed that up twice. Once with it, once with me."
"I guess I did, didn't I? Oh well. No regrets. At least I've known you for...how long?"
Then her hearing acted like she just dove underwater as her mind argued with itself again. [No regrets? You don't even know if it's real or not. For all you know, the Yuri card's effects drove your hormones crazy and you acted on the first opportunity for release you could find.]
[No...I love her...]
[But does she love you?]
[Of course she does!]
[Are you sure? She might just be trying to make you as happy as she can.]
[No, that's not it!]
[Yes it is! She's just making you happy! She doesn't love you!]
"NO!"
"Easy, Sakura. I just wanted to know if you wanted to go to the park later. Don't go crazy on me."
Sakura blinked. [Oh no, I just said that out loud, didn't I?] "Sorry, Tomoyo, It's not that. I'd love to go the park with you later."
"You sound kind of out of it, Sakura. Is something wrong?"
"No, nothing's wrong..."
"Alright."
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That night, Sakura lay in her bed, thinking hard about herself and about Tomoyo. She loved her, didn't she? Tomoyo did. Sakura knew she did. Otherwise, why would she have done this? Surely, she wouldn't go to all this trouble just to make Sakura happy, would she?
That was her last thought as she drifted off to sleep.
---¯¯¯¯¯¯
She was in her room again, kissing Tomoyo. but no sooner than she realized where she was, Tomoyo broke the kiss. "Come on, Sakura." Tomoyo said. "I just came over to study."
"Please...Tomoyo..." Sakura said, moving to kiss Tomoyo again.
"No, Sakura." Tomoyo replied, getting off the bed and gathering her things. "Look, I like you and all, but I'm getting pretty tired of catering to your every whim." Tomoyo slung her backpack over her shoulder. "Goodbye." She said as she walked out the door, leaving a dumfounded Sakura in her wake.
--¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Sakura woke with a start, jumping almost right out of bed. [What was that?] She thought to herself as she uneasily lay back down, trying to get her thoughts in order.
[What's happening. Can't you see? She's just making you happy.]
[No! We've already...]
Sakura's thoughts ground to a complete halt. We? She has had three arguments already with herself. Why is she tearing herself up about this? And why does it seem like one of the sides of the argument isn't her own thoughts?
She looked at the clock. 9:31 AM, May 16, 2003. [Tomoyo might be up...I've got to talk to her about this.]
She sat up again, and picked up her phone, dialing Tomoyo's number.
"Hello?" Came Tomoyo's voice.
"Hi, Tomoyo-chan. Sorry to call you so early."
"I think I can forgive you, Sakura-chan."
Sakura chuckled. "Thanks. Listen, I need to talk to you about something."
"Like what?"
"Like in person, if possible. Would it be possible for you to come over?"
"Yeah, sure! Of course, Sakura-chan! I'm always open to come over!...Is everything alright?"
"Yeah...I think. See you when you get here." Sakura said before hanging up.
--¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
[Knock, knock]
"Hi, Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura said, opening the door for her friend. "Come in!"
"Hi, Sakura-chan! How are you doing?" Tomoyo said as she walked in, both she and Sakura walking up the stairs to Sakura's room.
"Pretty good, you?"
"I'm fine. A little confused as to why you couldn't just talk to me on the phone, but still fine. Being friends with a Cardmistress has kind of made me expect the unexpected."
"I would bet." Sakura said as she walked into her room and sat down on her bed. She sighed. "My thoughts are kind of in a jumble right now. The ones concerning us, I mean."
"What? What do you mean?" Tomoyo said, looking even more confused.
"I mean...I don't know what I mean. I'm about as confused as you are. One part of me seems to be completely happy that you're in love with me, and we can express our love to each other, but...there's this other part of me that seems to think you don't really love me."
"Why, Sakura, that's crazy! Of course I don't love you!"
"That's what I--What?" Sakura said
"I said I don't love you, Sakura. How hard is that to understand?"
Now Sakura seemed even more confused. "Hold on. Say exactly what you just said one more time."
Sakura watched Tomoyo's lips as she talked. The movements of her mouth didn't match what she was saying. "Whoa!"
"What?" Tomoyo asked.
"This is too weird. Your lips are saying one thing, but I'm hearing another. I'm hearing that you don't love me at all."
"That's...not right."
"Yeah. Now I'm even more confused."
Then Sakura and Tomoyo heard movement behind them. "[Yawn] You know, some people get up at something less than barbaric hours on Sundays."
"Sorry, Kero."
"It's alright, I'm hungry anyway. But wh..." Kero said, trailing off. "Sakura...do you feel any different?"
"A little, why?"
"Because...I can kind of sense a change in you. Something that wasn't there a couple of days ago."
"Like what?"
"I don't know, exactly. Can you describe how you feel to me?"
"Just...really confused. My brain keeps having arguments with itself."
"Hold on. That's--Sakura, you're being possessed by a Card."
"A card? Which one?"
"The Confusion card. It keeps telling you things that serve to confuse you to no end, and can even go so far as to mess with what you're hearing to confuse you even further."
"Well, I am completely confused, I'll tell you that."
"Yeah, it's the Confusion card. Listen, whatever you hear from it, you've got to avoid being confused by it. Even if it questions your fundamental beliefs, you've got to fight it. Do you understand?"
"Yeah, I..." Sakura said.
-¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
[Are you sure you want to listen to that stuffed animal? He couldn't even guard the Cards from _you_! Can you really trust him?]
[Of course! He's my guardian!]
[An unreliable guardian. You can trust him at most a tenth of the distance you could throw him.]
[I can trust him. I know I can. You're just trying to confuse me.] Sakura thought matter-of-factly.
[I'm telling you the truth. Kero's unreliable, you can't beat the Confusion card simply by not being confused!]
[Hah! This coming from the card itself posing as a part of my mind! Maybe you could have kept going on the Tomoyo train of thought, but Kero's a whole 'nother kettle of fish.]
At that point, Sakura started to get a massive headache. "Ahhh..." She said, holding her temples. "What...is...it...doing to me?"
"It's being exorcised, Sakura! You've got to keep fighting!"
"I can...barely think..."
"Come on, Sakura!" Tomoyo said. "You can do it!"
[She's right. Tomoyo really does love me.]
[NO! She's just trying to make you feel better!] The Card yelled into Sakura's mind, ramping up the pain a couple more notches.
[Aaah....so...much pain...you...] Sakura thought, trying to keep her wits about her. [Tomoyo...does...love...me!]
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The card shot out of Sakura in a black mass. "Man, that feels better." She said.
"Good. Now get the card!" Kero said.
"Yeah." Sakura said, getting out her staff. "Confusion! Return to your card! CONFINE!"
Sakura swung her staff and it seemed to hit the air itself, a card-shaped energy field forming right at the tip. The black mass was sucked into the field, forming into a card. Sakura plucked it out of thin air. "The confusion card." She said, examining the card. "I think."
"What do you mean, you think?" Kero said as she and Tomoyo walked around to look at the card's face.
The face was completely blank. "Even as a card, it's confusing."
"Well, now that we've got that under control, do you want to go make breakfast?" Kero asked.
"Alright." Sakura said, leading Tomoyo and Kero out of her room and down the stairs.
-_----_--
End.
End notes:
So much for being anywhere near close to Decompression Period. Oh well. I'm happy with this. ^^
Oh, one more thing: The confusion card is MINE.
RynØr