Disclaimer: ::sigh:: This is depressing even though this is my first story.
but as a young teenager, I can't afford to buy ownership upon Card Captor
Sakura. But once I'm a famous and rich psychologist/ lawyer/ journalist/
privet investigator I'll be sure to buy it.
"My True Self" by aSwtXiAoLAnG
Hong Kong, China
Li Mansion Monday, June 14
As Sakura walked into the mansion, thoughts flew past her mind as of what could happen this summer. So many things have already happened within the last week. Another person, practically a stranger had found out that she was the Card Mistress, she had to explain to that person how she had obtained the Clow Book in the first place and how it was as she went about the journey of capturing the Clow Cards and making them into Sakura Cards, had to decide weather she should go to Hong Kong, had a huge argument with her brother over the phone about her decision, and had to pack a summer's worth of clothing. Who was this person that found out Sakura was Card Mistress and demanded at once that Sakura come with them to China? Li Yelan. How did she find out? Sakura blames Kero.
~*~ Flashback ~*~
Tokyo, Japan Kinomoto Mansion Sunday, June 6 "Kero! Stop making so much noise! Yelan is downstairs with Daddy discussing business." Sakura said in a hushed voice.
"PUDDING!" squealed the red cheeked Kero.
"Shh!"
Yelan turned around when she heard the squeal. She turned back to Fugitaka. 'What's going on back there?' thought Yelan. She had suddenly felt a flash of magic a second later.
Sakura had used the Silent Card on Kero to stop his squealings. Kero hadn't noticed. He just went about eating his dessert happily. Sakura smiled in triumph as she plopped down on her bed and put on a pair of headphones and turned on her mp3 player.
"Fugitaka, where is the restroom? I'd like to freshen up." Said Yelan.
"It's upstairs next to Sakura's room." He replied.
"Thanks, I won't be long." Yelan smiled as she walked up the stairs. She was absolutely certain that there was magic coming from upstairs. Yelan concentrated as she walked down the hall. She sensed a light pink aura coming from inside one of the rooms. She stopped at a pink door. She knocked once. Yelan heard nothing. She knocked again, a little harder this time. Still nothing. Yelan slowly turned the handle and pushed the door open quietly. She peeked in. She saw Sakura lying on her large bed with a magazine within her hands. Yelan was totally sure that she felt something come from this room. Sakura still hadn't noticed Yelan behind her door. Yelan's eye's roamed around the room, looking for anything peculiar. She saw a rather large bowl of chocolate pudding and something quite small moving behind the bowl. It was a moving stuffed animal! But Yelan concentrated a little harder. There was source or magic surrounding the creature! Yelan covered her mouth refraining herself from making any noise. She gave the room a look over once more. On the table there was a pink book that seemed strangely familiar. It was the Clow Book! Only, no longer was it a Clow Book. Yelan put two and two together. The yellow thingy on the floor eating merrily was most likely Ceroberus in his false form. So this would make Sakura. what? Yelan thought for a moment. DUH. That means that Kinomoto Sakura was the Card Mistress! Yelan flung the door open. Sakura scrambled up. Kero quickly flew under the desk.
"Sakura are you the Card Mistress?" Yelan said it as bluntly as possible. She didn't know of any other way to ask.
Sakura gapped at Yelan for some moments. She was at a loss. How would Yelan know about the Cards? Sakura just choose to play dumb, praying to God that it would work.
"Pardon? Yelan, I don't know what you're talking about."
Yelan sighed. She walked over to Sakura's unorganized desk covered with college applications, brochures, and essays. Yelan crouched down and looked under her desk. She stretched out an arm and retracted her arm with Kero securely held in her hand. Kero tried to stay stiff. He sweat dropped as Yelan inspected him. Sakura looked on incredulously.
Yelan muttered something under her breath and held out her other palm. She tried dropping Kero into the small flame, but he flew away with his mouth open. (He's still under the Silent Card's magic, so he can't yell)
"That is what I'm talking about, Sakura. You can let you're aura loose now." Yelan said as she looked up at Kero.
"Well, since you know. I guess I can give Kero his voice back."
Yelan smiled in amusement as she heard the childish nickname. As Sakura was giving Kero his voice back, Yelan thought of what she should do now, now that she knew who the Card Mistress was. They had been looking for her for years now. Who knew it would be her business partner's daughter? She and Fugitaka and been friends for a very long time, they had met though Nadeshiko, and had kept in contact by correspondence. It was about 10 years ago that Fugitaka had come across the diamond mine, and Yelan became his partner that they became better friends. Yelan came out of deep thought as soon as she heard Kero speak.
"So. uh.now what are we gonna do?" He asked sheepishly.
"What are you all doing in Sakura's room?" Fugitaka poked his head inside the room.
~*~ End of Flashback ~*~
So this is how she ended up at the Li Mansion. Yelan had a school for teenagers with magic. She had insisted that Sakura stay for the summer. Fugitaka thought it was a fantastic idea. Sakura protested much though. She was 17. This was going to be her last summer at home before she would prepare for college. And she still needed to decide which college to attend too.
But there were other reasons why Sakura wanted to stay in Tokyo. Reasons that I can't mention now. But even so, those reasons weren't a good enough argument against going to Hong Kong.
'It doesn't matter now anyway.' Sakura thought. 'I'm here and that's all there is to it.'
She took a deep breath as she walked though the entrance hall and into the living room. There, was Yelan, another older man, maybe a little younger then Sakura's father, and a group of about 15 teenagers.
"Good, you're here. Here are students that you will be having classes with." Yelan looked down at her watch. " Oh my! I must be leaving otherwise I'll be late for a meeting. You'll be sharing a room with Lan. Lian will take care of everything else. Bye now!" And so she left.
The tall man shook his head. "Hi, Sakura. I'm Li Lian. You can call me Lian. Um.I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to tell you. But I'm basically here when Yelan is not." He sort of sweat dropped and grinned sheepishly. Suddenly, two guys came running in though the back door. One had brown hair and incredible brown eyes, the other blue hair and blue eyes.
"Eriol! Finally, someone I know." Sakura said as she walked over to him and gave him a hug.
"Sakura? I didn't know you'd be here. Syaoran, why did you tell me that the new kid would be some bimbo air head?" Eriol grinned.
"Uncle Lian, sorry we're late. Eriol here just HAD to make a stop." Syaoran said ignoring Eriol's comment and Sakura's glare.
"It's okay. Now introduce yourself to Sakura here."
"I'm Li Syaoran. Call me Li." He said gruffly.
"How do you know Eriol?" asked Lian
Sakura told the story of how Eriol was helping her turn the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards.
"Okay. well I gotta run an errand. Start socializing or whatever you children do. I'll be back in an hour."
A girl with long wavy black hair down to the end of her back and dark brown eyes had stood up and walked over to where Sakura was standing. "Hey, I'm Lan. Let's go to our room so that you can start unpacking and I'll give you a tour of the place in a bit. You don't wanna hang around these two too long. They might rub off on you."
Eriol and Syaoran glared at her. She glared back.
The girls walked upstairs and turned. They went for quite a while they came to a stop at a white door with the number 46 on it. They had chatted about a lot of things. Friends, school, movies, guys. the regular stuff.
"So. what do you think of Syaoran?" Lan asked.
"He seems kinda cold to tell the truth."
"Really?"
"Yea, why?"
"Well. I just want you to watch your back. When he was little, the Elders had predicted that he would become Master of the Cards. But when they found out that someone else had obtained them they started having him train harder for some weird reason. I'm afraid that Syaoran might try to pick a fight with you or something."
"Oh really? Is he good?"
"He's one of the best. well. 'cept for me of course." Lan laughed.
"Who are the Elders?"
"A bunch of old dudes that are supposedly wise."
"How do you know so much about Li?"
"We're cousins."
"What?!?! Seriously? You guys seem nothing alike." She exclaimed.
"In some ways, we are alike though." Lan thought for a bit and then continued. "We're both really serious. Though I'm only serious when I have to be."
Sakura's stomach growled. "When's dinner?" Sakura asked.
"At six. What time is it now?"
"5:54" she replied. The girls went back to what they were doing until they realized a minute later what time it really was.
"Crap! We're not supposed to be late for dinner! They aren't allowed to start until everyone's there! Let's run!"
They ran outside the door, having some difficulty getting out since they were trying to get outside at the same time. They ran down the hall, Lan tripped a couple times, and some how glided down the staircase with out too much trouble. They made it to the dinner table at 6:05. ( Yuppers. it's a big mansion.)
The two sat down in the two seats next to Eriol and across from Syaoran. Eriol was laughing at how messed up Lan's hair was, since it was hardly ever out of place. Syaoran smirked in amusement at Sakura's disgruntled face. (Is it just me. or did that rhythm?)
"You kids are lucky you aren't the last ones here otherwise everyone would be fuming at you for delaying their dinner a whole 5 minutes." Mused Eriol.
"Who's last?"
Syaoran smirked again. "Who do you think?"
Sakura saw Lan's eyes advert to the chair in the middle of two other boys. She noticed Lan's cheeks grow slightly pink. Sakura nudged Lan's ribs with her elbow.
"So who is it, huh?" Sakura asked.
A guy with light brown slightly tousled hair and aquaish eyes strolled in.
"Bao." She whispered.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Well. the first chapter isn't the best I've ever written. but it'll get better. So after a whole year of reading other fan fictions, envying author's abilities to write well, and day dreaming about different writing topics, I decided to finally put my own story up and see how good I really am.
Next chapter you'll find out a little bit more about Lan and Bao, meet Sakura's other classmates, and see what life in a magical school made up by a clueless 14-year-old is really like.
PS- I never really thought about the other student's names. so if any ones every really, really, really bored, then go look up so names and maybe leave the definitions of the names and the origins of the name in a review..
Well. thanks for reading. and now you know what to do. I provided you with the story, all you have to do to keep me motivated is to REVIEW
"My True Self" by aSwtXiAoLAnG
Hong Kong, China
Li Mansion Monday, June 14
As Sakura walked into the mansion, thoughts flew past her mind as of what could happen this summer. So many things have already happened within the last week. Another person, practically a stranger had found out that she was the Card Mistress, she had to explain to that person how she had obtained the Clow Book in the first place and how it was as she went about the journey of capturing the Clow Cards and making them into Sakura Cards, had to decide weather she should go to Hong Kong, had a huge argument with her brother over the phone about her decision, and had to pack a summer's worth of clothing. Who was this person that found out Sakura was Card Mistress and demanded at once that Sakura come with them to China? Li Yelan. How did she find out? Sakura blames Kero.
~*~ Flashback ~*~
Tokyo, Japan Kinomoto Mansion Sunday, June 6 "Kero! Stop making so much noise! Yelan is downstairs with Daddy discussing business." Sakura said in a hushed voice.
"PUDDING!" squealed the red cheeked Kero.
"Shh!"
Yelan turned around when she heard the squeal. She turned back to Fugitaka. 'What's going on back there?' thought Yelan. She had suddenly felt a flash of magic a second later.
Sakura had used the Silent Card on Kero to stop his squealings. Kero hadn't noticed. He just went about eating his dessert happily. Sakura smiled in triumph as she plopped down on her bed and put on a pair of headphones and turned on her mp3 player.
"Fugitaka, where is the restroom? I'd like to freshen up." Said Yelan.
"It's upstairs next to Sakura's room." He replied.
"Thanks, I won't be long." Yelan smiled as she walked up the stairs. She was absolutely certain that there was magic coming from upstairs. Yelan concentrated as she walked down the hall. She sensed a light pink aura coming from inside one of the rooms. She stopped at a pink door. She knocked once. Yelan heard nothing. She knocked again, a little harder this time. Still nothing. Yelan slowly turned the handle and pushed the door open quietly. She peeked in. She saw Sakura lying on her large bed with a magazine within her hands. Yelan was totally sure that she felt something come from this room. Sakura still hadn't noticed Yelan behind her door. Yelan's eye's roamed around the room, looking for anything peculiar. She saw a rather large bowl of chocolate pudding and something quite small moving behind the bowl. It was a moving stuffed animal! But Yelan concentrated a little harder. There was source or magic surrounding the creature! Yelan covered her mouth refraining herself from making any noise. She gave the room a look over once more. On the table there was a pink book that seemed strangely familiar. It was the Clow Book! Only, no longer was it a Clow Book. Yelan put two and two together. The yellow thingy on the floor eating merrily was most likely Ceroberus in his false form. So this would make Sakura. what? Yelan thought for a moment. DUH. That means that Kinomoto Sakura was the Card Mistress! Yelan flung the door open. Sakura scrambled up. Kero quickly flew under the desk.
"Sakura are you the Card Mistress?" Yelan said it as bluntly as possible. She didn't know of any other way to ask.
Sakura gapped at Yelan for some moments. She was at a loss. How would Yelan know about the Cards? Sakura just choose to play dumb, praying to God that it would work.
"Pardon? Yelan, I don't know what you're talking about."
Yelan sighed. She walked over to Sakura's unorganized desk covered with college applications, brochures, and essays. Yelan crouched down and looked under her desk. She stretched out an arm and retracted her arm with Kero securely held in her hand. Kero tried to stay stiff. He sweat dropped as Yelan inspected him. Sakura looked on incredulously.
Yelan muttered something under her breath and held out her other palm. She tried dropping Kero into the small flame, but he flew away with his mouth open. (He's still under the Silent Card's magic, so he can't yell)
"That is what I'm talking about, Sakura. You can let you're aura loose now." Yelan said as she looked up at Kero.
"Well, since you know. I guess I can give Kero his voice back."
Yelan smiled in amusement as she heard the childish nickname. As Sakura was giving Kero his voice back, Yelan thought of what she should do now, now that she knew who the Card Mistress was. They had been looking for her for years now. Who knew it would be her business partner's daughter? She and Fugitaka and been friends for a very long time, they had met though Nadeshiko, and had kept in contact by correspondence. It was about 10 years ago that Fugitaka had come across the diamond mine, and Yelan became his partner that they became better friends. Yelan came out of deep thought as soon as she heard Kero speak.
"So. uh.now what are we gonna do?" He asked sheepishly.
"What are you all doing in Sakura's room?" Fugitaka poked his head inside the room.
~*~ End of Flashback ~*~
So this is how she ended up at the Li Mansion. Yelan had a school for teenagers with magic. She had insisted that Sakura stay for the summer. Fugitaka thought it was a fantastic idea. Sakura protested much though. She was 17. This was going to be her last summer at home before she would prepare for college. And she still needed to decide which college to attend too.
But there were other reasons why Sakura wanted to stay in Tokyo. Reasons that I can't mention now. But even so, those reasons weren't a good enough argument against going to Hong Kong.
'It doesn't matter now anyway.' Sakura thought. 'I'm here and that's all there is to it.'
She took a deep breath as she walked though the entrance hall and into the living room. There, was Yelan, another older man, maybe a little younger then Sakura's father, and a group of about 15 teenagers.
"Good, you're here. Here are students that you will be having classes with." Yelan looked down at her watch. " Oh my! I must be leaving otherwise I'll be late for a meeting. You'll be sharing a room with Lan. Lian will take care of everything else. Bye now!" And so she left.
The tall man shook his head. "Hi, Sakura. I'm Li Lian. You can call me Lian. Um.I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to tell you. But I'm basically here when Yelan is not." He sort of sweat dropped and grinned sheepishly. Suddenly, two guys came running in though the back door. One had brown hair and incredible brown eyes, the other blue hair and blue eyes.
"Eriol! Finally, someone I know." Sakura said as she walked over to him and gave him a hug.
"Sakura? I didn't know you'd be here. Syaoran, why did you tell me that the new kid would be some bimbo air head?" Eriol grinned.
"Uncle Lian, sorry we're late. Eriol here just HAD to make a stop." Syaoran said ignoring Eriol's comment and Sakura's glare.
"It's okay. Now introduce yourself to Sakura here."
"I'm Li Syaoran. Call me Li." He said gruffly.
"How do you know Eriol?" asked Lian
Sakura told the story of how Eriol was helping her turn the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards.
"Okay. well I gotta run an errand. Start socializing or whatever you children do. I'll be back in an hour."
A girl with long wavy black hair down to the end of her back and dark brown eyes had stood up and walked over to where Sakura was standing. "Hey, I'm Lan. Let's go to our room so that you can start unpacking and I'll give you a tour of the place in a bit. You don't wanna hang around these two too long. They might rub off on you."
Eriol and Syaoran glared at her. She glared back.
The girls walked upstairs and turned. They went for quite a while they came to a stop at a white door with the number 46 on it. They had chatted about a lot of things. Friends, school, movies, guys. the regular stuff.
"So. what do you think of Syaoran?" Lan asked.
"He seems kinda cold to tell the truth."
"Really?"
"Yea, why?"
"Well. I just want you to watch your back. When he was little, the Elders had predicted that he would become Master of the Cards. But when they found out that someone else had obtained them they started having him train harder for some weird reason. I'm afraid that Syaoran might try to pick a fight with you or something."
"Oh really? Is he good?"
"He's one of the best. well. 'cept for me of course." Lan laughed.
"Who are the Elders?"
"A bunch of old dudes that are supposedly wise."
"How do you know so much about Li?"
"We're cousins."
"What?!?! Seriously? You guys seem nothing alike." She exclaimed.
"In some ways, we are alike though." Lan thought for a bit and then continued. "We're both really serious. Though I'm only serious when I have to be."
Sakura's stomach growled. "When's dinner?" Sakura asked.
"At six. What time is it now?"
"5:54" she replied. The girls went back to what they were doing until they realized a minute later what time it really was.
"Crap! We're not supposed to be late for dinner! They aren't allowed to start until everyone's there! Let's run!"
They ran outside the door, having some difficulty getting out since they were trying to get outside at the same time. They ran down the hall, Lan tripped a couple times, and some how glided down the staircase with out too much trouble. They made it to the dinner table at 6:05. ( Yuppers. it's a big mansion.)
The two sat down in the two seats next to Eriol and across from Syaoran. Eriol was laughing at how messed up Lan's hair was, since it was hardly ever out of place. Syaoran smirked in amusement at Sakura's disgruntled face. (Is it just me. or did that rhythm?)
"You kids are lucky you aren't the last ones here otherwise everyone would be fuming at you for delaying their dinner a whole 5 minutes." Mused Eriol.
"Who's last?"
Syaoran smirked again. "Who do you think?"
Sakura saw Lan's eyes advert to the chair in the middle of two other boys. She noticed Lan's cheeks grow slightly pink. Sakura nudged Lan's ribs with her elbow.
"So who is it, huh?" Sakura asked.
A guy with light brown slightly tousled hair and aquaish eyes strolled in.
"Bao." She whispered.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Well. the first chapter isn't the best I've ever written. but it'll get better. So after a whole year of reading other fan fictions, envying author's abilities to write well, and day dreaming about different writing topics, I decided to finally put my own story up and see how good I really am.
Next chapter you'll find out a little bit more about Lan and Bao, meet Sakura's other classmates, and see what life in a magical school made up by a clueless 14-year-old is really like.
PS- I never really thought about the other student's names. so if any ones every really, really, really bored, then go look up so names and maybe leave the definitions of the names and the origins of the name in a review..
Well. thanks for reading. and now you know what to do. I provided you with the story, all you have to do to keep me motivated is to REVIEW
