Disclaimer: I do not own card captor Sakura or any one of their characters. I only own the plot and the characters I created. Credits also go to Song
of the Wanderer by Bruce Coville for inspiration on one of the gifts.

-SILENCE-

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" a red-faced Syaoran shouted. He would have continued shouting if not for Sakura who told him to be nicer. Only then did he take to muttering curses and expletives under his breath.

"Glad to see you welcome me so my very dear descendent." Eriol said obviously amused. "I came to help." He continued.

"More like you came to help us all get killed." A still annoyed Syaoran had answered.

"Mou, Syaoran-kun, be more polite... he is your ancestor you know. And I thought the Chinese place filial piety before all else." Tomoyo added teasingly.

Ignoring Syaoran, Eriol continued, "Clow asked me to pass some stuff to the girls which may help them along at the right time."

"Sheesh! What a chauvinist!" Meilin shouted greatly indignant.

"Aaa, how nice of Clow-sama." Sakura said.

Everyone sweatdropped at the two extreme reactions.

The ever-composed Tomoyo said, "So, what did Clow-sama ask you to bring?"

With the grace of a magician, Eriol took out a red ring and gave it to Meilin and a white sphere to Tomoyo [something like what Medafil gives Cara in the book stated above.] and a conch shell to Sakura.

"Hoe, what is this?" [Sakura of course]

"Place it at your ear" Tomoyo advised

"Indeed, this conch shell will enable you to listen to Clow's advise though it may not be of much help as he may succeed in confusing you further with his cryptic prophesies."

To Tomoyo, he said. Place the bauble in your palm. Though it was as large as a bowling ball, Tomoyo was shocked to note it weighed scarcely more than a feather.

"It's beautiful! Like a giant pearl lit up from the inside!" Tomoyo exclaimed.

"There's more. Place one hand below and the other on top and twist it clock- wise." The sphere became smaller and smaller till Tomoyo was frightened that it would disappear.

"Now anti clock-wise" Eriol instructed. The sphere grew in size. Tomoyo was extremely amused and turned it back to the size of a cherry and put it into her pocket and to her delight, it extinguished.

"Hey! What about mine?" Meilin exclaimed.

"Well, actually I do not know. I only know it is a vital link to the past. The exact instructions I do not know." Eriol said sheepishly.

Meilin was disappointed but tactfully said nothing seeing Eriol's discomfort at admitting that he the great Eriol Hiiragizawa did not know something.

"Well, I'm sure no one can be expected to know everything." Said the sensitive Tomoyo.

"Hai, I'm sure Eriol-kun did his best." Said the caring Sakura. [Syaoran just snorted]

Back to his original confident self, Eriol informed them that they had already obtained permission to live in Clow's mansion and train there after school.

"Hoe! Touya allowed?" Sakura cried... extremely surprised.

"Indeed, Sakura-chan. I do have my ways you know." Eriol said.

"First ask Fujitaka-sama, than ask Yukito-san to convince Touya ne? Eriol- kun?" asked Tomoyo.

"Hai" Eriol said, amazed at how Tomoyo could guess.

Anyway, it was getting late so they decided to pack up and meet at Eriol's mansion in an hour.

-------- One hour later --------

Everyone arrived, all that is but Sakura. "Three... Two... One..." Tomoyo counted out loud.

"DOUMO SUMIMASEN! [Very sorry] OSOKUNATESUMIMASEN [sorry for bring late!] Touya told me a hundred things to do and another hundred things not to do and just in case I forgot, he made me sit down while he recorded it on tape and typed it out and printed it." Sakura said while waving two tapes and three pieces of paper. "Oh, and he made me bring this to play for everyone to hear."

Then she inserted a tape and pressed play while Tomoyo and Eriol both produced earplugs to put in their ears.

"YOU! YES YOU! YOU CHINESE GAKI! LISTEN UP GOOD! IF YOU DARE TO BULLY MY SISTER OR MALNOURISH OR OVERWORK HER OR EVEN TOUCH A HAIR ON HER HEAD I'LL MAKE SURE YOU LIVE TO REGRET IT. YOU WILL NEVER EVER..."

Tomoyo [and Eriol] who still could hear Touya's voice despite the earplugs could not help but laugh. Eriol managed a chuckle though.

' If everyday is going to be this interesting, I'd probably die of lack of oxygen due to excessive laughter' thought Meilin who was rolling on the floor uncontrollably because she caught a glimpse of Syaoran's face when he heard Touya's voice.

END OF 2nd SHORT N SLOW CHAPTER

A/n: I'm going off to watch a movie so I'm sorry if you find this too short. I tried to make things clearer [about the gifts of Clow in particular the conch shell] but found no inspiration for the prophecy that Sakura should hear. Please be a nice soul, do a good deed a day and read and review. Thank you very much! I'll edit it and make it longer if i hav the time.