Chapter 3: What Clow Reed Does...
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Beginning POV Sequence
Sakura: You ever feel like you could look at something and see it a different way the anyone else in the world can?
I do... and it's scaring me.
Syaoran is the person that I despised the most when I was younger. I thought he was such a pain. But I can't let him near me... I won't allow it.
No matter how much I want him to kiss me, put his arms around me and hold me.
Touya is really going to kill Syaoran.
I better tell him to start running now.
... Where would he run, Sakura... if he runs off America, eventually, he's going to have to face Japan before China...
Oh man, Syaoran is so dead...
Syaoran: Right now, I'm thinking about Touya. I'm thinking about what Touya's going to think if I walked through the door with Sakura in my arms. I wonder what he would think if I ran up into her room like that?
I'm wondering what I would think.
Of course, this will NEVER happen, by the way Sakura is pushing me away so badly. She wants me away from her.
But I can't .... I can't hold back much longer.
Mei-lin: Sakura has to leave tomorrow afternoon. I will get her out of my hair, then Syaoran will be mine in our little love pad forever.
The way it should be...
End of POVs
'Sakura... Sakura... Sakura... Sakura... Sakura...' Sakura suddenly felt like she was floating. She opened her eyes to see Cerebos and Yue on each side of Clow Reed. Her Star Staff was in her hands.
"Sakura." Clow Reed said. "You have collected all of the cards, you have learned the secrets of your family, your brother's abilities of seeing spirits, your father's reincarnated power, your mother..."
Sakura visibly flinched.
Clow Reed didn't take notice, even though he knew that she did. "Yet, you still don't open your heart to my descendant, even after he did to you. Look over there." he pointed to an open void of stars. "Would you rather have this happen in four years?" The stars shifted and Mei-lin and Syaoran's forms were visible, yet made up of the stars. Mei-lin was in a white wedding dress and Syaoran in a tux. They held each others hands, and just before they kissed, Syaoran looked over to Sakura, longingly. She stared back, her heart shattering. She closed her eyes.
"Don't worry, I won't make them." he said. "Or, would you like this?" Mei-lin's figure dispersed and Sakura's own body moved to the star Syaoran. She practically floated to him and into his arms. Even for stars, they were strong and for the first time, Syaoran smiled. He sure wasn't smiling before. He brought his head forward, the smile never leaving his lips and...
She woke up...
"Shimatta!" she swore through gritted teeth. Clow Reed was becoming like Eriol, playing tricks. He knew how badly she wanted him to kiss her. That was cruel. She looked around her. Sakura cards were floating in the air. As she looked over all 52, they fell, in rapid succession into the book. She snapped it shut and realized that she wasn't breathing right. Her braid was around her throat. She was probably tossing and turning in bed. She threw it behind her, it hitting her back with a thwap sound. She got up and walked to the mirror. Her eyes were rimmed with red. She went back to her pillow and felt the top of it.
'Yep, I had been crying.'
She went to her bookbag and opened the front pouch. She took out the TY and a picture. The picture was of her and Syaoran, the night she had passed Judgment. Her teacher actually took it. The stupid costume looked cute and embarrassing at the same time, but she didn't feel like it at the time. She still felt proud as Syaoran put one arm around her waist and she put her head in the crook of his neck. She had felt proud and her smile showed it. Syaoran, however, looked happy and gleeful for once.
And almost ten years later, Sakura finally saw the red hue over the bridge of his nose.
She smiled at the picture and touched her hair. Her hair had grown considerable since then. She suddenly had an idea.
Taking the SwordCard out of the deck, she summoned it. Then, walked to the mirror. Sitting down on the desk chair, she held up her braid and the sword and closed her eyes as she hacked at her hair. She ran her hand threw it, feeling and smiling at the length. It brought back some good memories. She brushed it, feeling as if she accomplished something and went to bed.
***
"What do you plan to do about Sakura and Syaoran, Master Reed?" Yue asked, as they watched over the young woman.
"She has a lot of pain in her heart. Do you think it's because of..." Cerebos started.
"Yes. I think it has a lot to do with that." Clow Reed rubbed his forehead. "He must gain her trust again, then her affection and love."
Cerebos frowned. "He already has, Master Reed."
"Not in a way that Sakura can control. She knows that she loves him, and he to her, but..." he sighed. "She must open her heart."
Yue thought for a moment. "And what of Mei-lin?"
"Mei-lin will have her heart crushed, yes... but she must learn that being a spoiled brat won't get her ahead in love and life. But she also doesn't love Syaoran."
"What do you mean?" Yue turned his head.
"That isn't love. What Sakura and Syaoran feel for each other... that's true love. The shyness, they way they pass each other and smile as if they have a secret that only they know..." Clow Reed began.
"But, sir." Cerebos thought. "They do have a secre.."
"Shut up, I'm not done." Reed coughed. "Anyway, how they accidentally knock hands and both blush. You must notice these little things."
"So, what are you going to do?" Yue asked.
"What if... what if I make Sakura spill her heart to Syaoran?"
"You mean, tell Syaoran the 'reason'? Cerebos asked.
"Yes. I know exactly what to do. Then she will truly know who her mother ment." Clow Reed smiled and nodded. "It would be better that you don't know what I do, you two." He touched each of there foreheads and their wings covered there bodies. Finally, they fell back into their physical bodies.
(One and a half pages?!? I can do better than that!!!!)
***
"Sakura?!?" Kero-kun was flying over Sakura's head, trying to wake her.
"What?!?" Sakura shot up. Her hair was a mess, her eyes still had a pink hue around it, and her face was twisted into an angry scowl.
"It's time to rise and shine!"
Sakura made a deeper squall. (haha) "It doesn't look like I'm shining very much, does it?!?" She laid back down to her pillow, which was calling her.
"GET UP, SAKURA!"
Kero-chan had no clue of what came next.
Suddenly, a huge, (well, relatively small to us) white, pillow was coming to him at a very fast rate. Kero was completely knocked out of the air. He climbed back up on the bed, looking really kawaii with that frown of his!!!
"Look, I don't care if you go to school!"
"SCHOOL!" Sakura shot up, jumped out of bed and dove into her suitcases, since she didn't unpack yesterday.
"KERO, WHY THE ONE-STEP LADDER, BACKWARDS THREE, DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP EARLIER?!?" clothes were being flung into the air at a the same speed as a concord. Kero had to dodge quickly so he wouldn't get hit. He counted on his fingers, trying to decipher what Sakura said. He groaned. He wasn't good at math and hockey. He shook his head.
"I tried! Don't you think I tried! You didn't set your alarm clock! AGAIN!"
"Grr." Sakura growled as she grabbed an outfit and some scrunchies and ran into the bathroom for a quick shower. Kero raced after her just in time to get the door slammed in his face. He knocked on the door.
"Sakura, by the way, how did you dream last night?"
Sakura was leaning over the tub, testing the water when he said that. Her other hand slipped and turned on the hot water by mistake.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CCCCRRRRRR@*@*@*@PPPPPP!!!!"
She screamed. She shut off the water, swearing to kill Kero. Then, she remembered that if she didn't take a shower, she was not only going to be late, but be stinky. She turned the water back on, this time leveling the water out.
"What? It was just a simple question!" Kero yelled and grumbled to the bedroom.
A few minutes later, after she was finishing up, Syaoran knocked on the door.
"Sakura, come out, now! We're going to be late!"
Sakura let the water beat on her at little more before answering.
"You mean Mei-lin waited for me?"
"No." he replied. "She's waiting for me and I'm waiting for you. Hurry up!"
"Alright." she said, reluctantly, not wanting to get out. A shower was exactly what she needed after a dream like that.
Unfortunately, Syaoran didn't hear that.
Syaoran barged in. "SakurAAAAAHHHH!!!" Syaoran covered his mouth.
There stood Sakura, in nothing but a bath towel, one foot on the edge of the tub. An angry scowl was on her face.
"Syaoran! I said I was coming out!" Sakura's body was drenched in nothing but water. Her towel was slipping a little, showing more cleavage than he had ever seen on her before. Her hair and the silver key was plastered to her body. She noticed the towel and pulled it up.
"I-I-I d-d-id-'n-t h-hear!" Syaoran stammered.
She growled and walked over the edge toward him and stood in his face, all five foot, three inches of her.
"Perv!" Slap. Thrown out the door. Slam. That was Sakura's four step process.
Syaoran stood out side of the door, holding his face. Kero was to the right of him, Mei-lin to the left, both mouthing him off on walking in on Sakura. The only way to escape the chatterboxes was to think... deeply... about Sakura and his feelings. 'Sakura doesn't like me... so why should I waste my time on her.' Syaoran thought bitterly. 'It's not as if she has some big secret on why she shouldn't like me. She just doesn't. So, I won't give any thought on her.' Of course, Syaoran didn't realized thinking that he wouldn't think about her, is thinking about her.
Sakura stepped out of the mist of the bathroom in a dark green halter top that had a slice of extra skin on her stomach and light blue jeans that accentuated every curve of her lower section. Her hair was styled the way it was when he met her...
And fell in love with her.
Syaoran thought for a minute. 'Okay, this time, and only this time, is when it doesn't count.' He could feel the twitch of his smile, but he forced it down.
She smiled, her contagious smile. "Hi. Hold on, I gotta get my backpack and I'll be ready to go."
Syaoran shook his head and all three of them walked out the door.
Syaoran: I don't know if I'll be able to follow up on my promise to myself. When the steam cleared and Sakura had her stomach showing, her tight pants, her shirt, so tight on her...
I'm going to stop.
But that doesn't alter the fact that she doesn't like me.
Mei-lin: I saw the way Syaoran was looking at Sakura. The light smile, the puppy dog eyes, the way he just itched to hold her. He was throwing himself at her feet, and she wasn't doing anything about it.
Maybe I should reconsid-
NO, MEI-LIN! You mustn't change the fact that he would be disgracing the Clan, loving the Clow Mistress after you didn't get the cards yourself would be absurd. He can't love the Clow Mistress, think of what Sanori, Clan Leader and mother to Syaoran and his siblings might do...
Think of Manoa... my mother...
Sakura: HOOEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What am I going to do?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I really didn't care that Syaoran saw me in a towel. In fact, I felt comfortable.
Syaoran shouldn't be here. It's official that Touya is going to kill him.
Kero is going to tell Syaoran that I like him, and then my whole cover would be blown. Syaoran would know that I loved him and then would pressure me into admitting my secret.
Someone unlock my heavenly heart...
Authoress Rant: Um... like it? Well R&R
R&R- It doesn't mean Roaches and Raid.
Authoress Rant: Like the story?
(No answer)
I SAID LIKE THE STORY!
(YEAH!)
That's better.
Beginning POV Sequence
Sakura: You ever feel like you could look at something and see it a different way the anyone else in the world can?
I do... and it's scaring me.
Syaoran is the person that I despised the most when I was younger. I thought he was such a pain. But I can't let him near me... I won't allow it.
No matter how much I want him to kiss me, put his arms around me and hold me.
Touya is really going to kill Syaoran.
I better tell him to start running now.
... Where would he run, Sakura... if he runs off America, eventually, he's going to have to face Japan before China...
Oh man, Syaoran is so dead...
Syaoran: Right now, I'm thinking about Touya. I'm thinking about what Touya's going to think if I walked through the door with Sakura in my arms. I wonder what he would think if I ran up into her room like that?
I'm wondering what I would think.
Of course, this will NEVER happen, by the way Sakura is pushing me away so badly. She wants me away from her.
But I can't .... I can't hold back much longer.
Mei-lin: Sakura has to leave tomorrow afternoon. I will get her out of my hair, then Syaoran will be mine in our little love pad forever.
The way it should be...
End of POVs
'Sakura... Sakura... Sakura... Sakura... Sakura...' Sakura suddenly felt like she was floating. She opened her eyes to see Cerebos and Yue on each side of Clow Reed. Her Star Staff was in her hands.
"Sakura." Clow Reed said. "You have collected all of the cards, you have learned the secrets of your family, your brother's abilities of seeing spirits, your father's reincarnated power, your mother..."
Sakura visibly flinched.
Clow Reed didn't take notice, even though he knew that she did. "Yet, you still don't open your heart to my descendant, even after he did to you. Look over there." he pointed to an open void of stars. "Would you rather have this happen in four years?" The stars shifted and Mei-lin and Syaoran's forms were visible, yet made up of the stars. Mei-lin was in a white wedding dress and Syaoran in a tux. They held each others hands, and just before they kissed, Syaoran looked over to Sakura, longingly. She stared back, her heart shattering. She closed her eyes.
"Don't worry, I won't make them." he said. "Or, would you like this?" Mei-lin's figure dispersed and Sakura's own body moved to the star Syaoran. She practically floated to him and into his arms. Even for stars, they were strong and for the first time, Syaoran smiled. He sure wasn't smiling before. He brought his head forward, the smile never leaving his lips and...
She woke up...
"Shimatta!" she swore through gritted teeth. Clow Reed was becoming like Eriol, playing tricks. He knew how badly she wanted him to kiss her. That was cruel. She looked around her. Sakura cards were floating in the air. As she looked over all 52, they fell, in rapid succession into the book. She snapped it shut and realized that she wasn't breathing right. Her braid was around her throat. She was probably tossing and turning in bed. She threw it behind her, it hitting her back with a thwap sound. She got up and walked to the mirror. Her eyes were rimmed with red. She went back to her pillow and felt the top of it.
'Yep, I had been crying.'
She went to her bookbag and opened the front pouch. She took out the TY and a picture. The picture was of her and Syaoran, the night she had passed Judgment. Her teacher actually took it. The stupid costume looked cute and embarrassing at the same time, but she didn't feel like it at the time. She still felt proud as Syaoran put one arm around her waist and she put her head in the crook of his neck. She had felt proud and her smile showed it. Syaoran, however, looked happy and gleeful for once.
And almost ten years later, Sakura finally saw the red hue over the bridge of his nose.
She smiled at the picture and touched her hair. Her hair had grown considerable since then. She suddenly had an idea.
Taking the SwordCard out of the deck, she summoned it. Then, walked to the mirror. Sitting down on the desk chair, she held up her braid and the sword and closed her eyes as she hacked at her hair. She ran her hand threw it, feeling and smiling at the length. It brought back some good memories. She brushed it, feeling as if she accomplished something and went to bed.
***
"What do you plan to do about Sakura and Syaoran, Master Reed?" Yue asked, as they watched over the young woman.
"She has a lot of pain in her heart. Do you think it's because of..." Cerebos started.
"Yes. I think it has a lot to do with that." Clow Reed rubbed his forehead. "He must gain her trust again, then her affection and love."
Cerebos frowned. "He already has, Master Reed."
"Not in a way that Sakura can control. She knows that she loves him, and he to her, but..." he sighed. "She must open her heart."
Yue thought for a moment. "And what of Mei-lin?"
"Mei-lin will have her heart crushed, yes... but she must learn that being a spoiled brat won't get her ahead in love and life. But she also doesn't love Syaoran."
"What do you mean?" Yue turned his head.
"That isn't love. What Sakura and Syaoran feel for each other... that's true love. The shyness, they way they pass each other and smile as if they have a secret that only they know..." Clow Reed began.
"But, sir." Cerebos thought. "They do have a secre.."
"Shut up, I'm not done." Reed coughed. "Anyway, how they accidentally knock hands and both blush. You must notice these little things."
"So, what are you going to do?" Yue asked.
"What if... what if I make Sakura spill her heart to Syaoran?"
"You mean, tell Syaoran the 'reason'? Cerebos asked.
"Yes. I know exactly what to do. Then she will truly know who her mother ment." Clow Reed smiled and nodded. "It would be better that you don't know what I do, you two." He touched each of there foreheads and their wings covered there bodies. Finally, they fell back into their physical bodies.
(One and a half pages?!? I can do better than that!!!!)
***
"Sakura?!?" Kero-kun was flying over Sakura's head, trying to wake her.
"What?!?" Sakura shot up. Her hair was a mess, her eyes still had a pink hue around it, and her face was twisted into an angry scowl.
"It's time to rise and shine!"
Sakura made a deeper squall. (haha) "It doesn't look like I'm shining very much, does it?!?" She laid back down to her pillow, which was calling her.
"GET UP, SAKURA!"
Kero-chan had no clue of what came next.
Suddenly, a huge, (well, relatively small to us) white, pillow was coming to him at a very fast rate. Kero was completely knocked out of the air. He climbed back up on the bed, looking really kawaii with that frown of his!!!
"Look, I don't care if you go to school!"
"SCHOOL!" Sakura shot up, jumped out of bed and dove into her suitcases, since she didn't unpack yesterday.
"KERO, WHY THE ONE-STEP LADDER, BACKWARDS THREE, DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP EARLIER?!?" clothes were being flung into the air at a the same speed as a concord. Kero had to dodge quickly so he wouldn't get hit. He counted on his fingers, trying to decipher what Sakura said. He groaned. He wasn't good at math and hockey. He shook his head.
"I tried! Don't you think I tried! You didn't set your alarm clock! AGAIN!"
"Grr." Sakura growled as she grabbed an outfit and some scrunchies and ran into the bathroom for a quick shower. Kero raced after her just in time to get the door slammed in his face. He knocked on the door.
"Sakura, by the way, how did you dream last night?"
Sakura was leaning over the tub, testing the water when he said that. Her other hand slipped and turned on the hot water by mistake.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CCCCRRRRRR@*@*@*@PPPPPP!!!!"
She screamed. She shut off the water, swearing to kill Kero. Then, she remembered that if she didn't take a shower, she was not only going to be late, but be stinky. She turned the water back on, this time leveling the water out.
"What? It was just a simple question!" Kero yelled and grumbled to the bedroom.
A few minutes later, after she was finishing up, Syaoran knocked on the door.
"Sakura, come out, now! We're going to be late!"
Sakura let the water beat on her at little more before answering.
"You mean Mei-lin waited for me?"
"No." he replied. "She's waiting for me and I'm waiting for you. Hurry up!"
"Alright." she said, reluctantly, not wanting to get out. A shower was exactly what she needed after a dream like that.
Unfortunately, Syaoran didn't hear that.
Syaoran barged in. "SakurAAAAAHHHH!!!" Syaoran covered his mouth.
There stood Sakura, in nothing but a bath towel, one foot on the edge of the tub. An angry scowl was on her face.
"Syaoran! I said I was coming out!" Sakura's body was drenched in nothing but water. Her towel was slipping a little, showing more cleavage than he had ever seen on her before. Her hair and the silver key was plastered to her body. She noticed the towel and pulled it up.
"I-I-I d-d-id-'n-t h-hear!" Syaoran stammered.
She growled and walked over the edge toward him and stood in his face, all five foot, three inches of her.
"Perv!" Slap. Thrown out the door. Slam. That was Sakura's four step process.
Syaoran stood out side of the door, holding his face. Kero was to the right of him, Mei-lin to the left, both mouthing him off on walking in on Sakura. The only way to escape the chatterboxes was to think... deeply... about Sakura and his feelings. 'Sakura doesn't like me... so why should I waste my time on her.' Syaoran thought bitterly. 'It's not as if she has some big secret on why she shouldn't like me. She just doesn't. So, I won't give any thought on her.' Of course, Syaoran didn't realized thinking that he wouldn't think about her, is thinking about her.
Sakura stepped out of the mist of the bathroom in a dark green halter top that had a slice of extra skin on her stomach and light blue jeans that accentuated every curve of her lower section. Her hair was styled the way it was when he met her...
And fell in love with her.
Syaoran thought for a minute. 'Okay, this time, and only this time, is when it doesn't count.' He could feel the twitch of his smile, but he forced it down.
She smiled, her contagious smile. "Hi. Hold on, I gotta get my backpack and I'll be ready to go."
Syaoran shook his head and all three of them walked out the door.
Syaoran: I don't know if I'll be able to follow up on my promise to myself. When the steam cleared and Sakura had her stomach showing, her tight pants, her shirt, so tight on her...
I'm going to stop.
But that doesn't alter the fact that she doesn't like me.
Mei-lin: I saw the way Syaoran was looking at Sakura. The light smile, the puppy dog eyes, the way he just itched to hold her. He was throwing himself at her feet, and she wasn't doing anything about it.
Maybe I should reconsid-
NO, MEI-LIN! You mustn't change the fact that he would be disgracing the Clan, loving the Clow Mistress after you didn't get the cards yourself would be absurd. He can't love the Clow Mistress, think of what Sanori, Clan Leader and mother to Syaoran and his siblings might do...
Think of Manoa... my mother...
Sakura: HOOEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What am I going to do?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I really didn't care that Syaoran saw me in a towel. In fact, I felt comfortable.
Syaoran shouldn't be here. It's official that Touya is going to kill him.
Kero is going to tell Syaoran that I like him, and then my whole cover would be blown. Syaoran would know that I loved him and then would pressure me into admitting my secret.
Someone unlock my heavenly heart...
Authoress Rant: Um... like it? Well R&R
R&R- It doesn't mean Roaches and Raid.