A Cardcaptor Sakura Fanfic by Haru Glory
Disclaimer:
Read the previous chapter.
Christmas Bash
Chapter 3: Preparations
Sakura woke up very early the next day. She was both happy and excited for she remembered that Shaoran was back and was staying for a long while. Not only that but the night before, after Shaoran had left, Tomoyo called to let her know that they will be working with Shaoran and Meiling on the hall that they will be using.
"You better come here early, Sakura." She remembered Tomoyo telling her, "We need to start preparations for the room early, with only less than forty eight hours left."
"Calm down, Tomoyo." She remembered replying, "Don't worry, we'll make it just on time to make this the best party of the year!"
It was a good feeling, encouraging Tomoyo like that. It was also a rare occasion that Tomoyo was worrying about some party.
"But then," Sakura thought as she began to take a shower, "I would have been worried too, if this was my party."
Kero-chan was still sleeping though, dreaming about all the stuff that he could eat if he was the 'king of the world'...that has always been what Kero-chan would dream about for as long as Sakura could remember.
Several minutes in the shower and Sakura was already cleaned up, She then went to her closet and pulled out her light yellow shirt with a brown colored ribbon on its collar and a pair of jeans. Quickly she dressed herself up and soon after combed her hair.
When she had finished preparing herself, she went over to where Kero-chan slept and waked him up.
"Kero-chan." Sakura said, "Wake up."
"My muffins...don't go..." Kero-chan muttered in his sleep.
At this, Sakura decided to shake Kero-chan a little bit harder causing the yellow stuff toy-like creature to bolt right out of bed screaming something about Sakura stealing his muffins.
"Oh, come on, Kero-chan!" Sakura said trying to put some sense into the flying creature, "Snap out of it!"
After she had managed to bring Kero-chan back into his senses. Sakura made her way towards the dining room where she was greeted by her father.
"Good morning, honey." Mr. Kinimoto greeted, "had a nice sleep?"
Sakura nodded as she took her seat beside her brother, "I'm going over to Tomoyo's house, dad, we're going to get the place ready for the party tomorrow night."
"What about your chores?" Toya asked her as he munched his way passed some bread.
At this Sakura's eyes began to plead to Toya.
"You're not going to fool me with that act of yours again, Sakura." Toya told his little sister.
"Come on, Toya!" Sakura pleaded, "Just do my chores until I come back from Tomoyo's house, then I'll do your chores for a week."
At this Toya raised his eyebrows, "A week?"
Sakura nodded.
"I'd say it's a fair bargain, son." Mr. Kinimoto said, "Besides didn't you say you had nothing to do today and that you were going off with Yukito somewhere next week?"
"Oh yeah, that's right." Toya replied, "Okay then squirt, you've got yourself a deal."
After eating her breakfast, with Kero-chan closely hidden on her backpack, the two made their way towards Tomoyo's house.
Tomoyo was happy to see her early as she made her way towards the hall.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo greeted, "Thanks for coming over so early."
"Don't mention it." Sakura replied as she eyed the room.
And as if reading her bestfriend's mind, Tomoyo told her, "Li and Meiling are not here yet. But they said over yesterday by the phone that they'll be glad to help."
"R-right." Sakura replied with a smile, "Then shall we begin the decorations?"
"Sure." Tomoyo replied as she went over to the next room and began to drag a huge box. Seeing the shocked and confused look on Sakura's face, Tomoyo explained to her what was inside the box, "Everything we need to make this room partyish is all in here."
"Y-yeah." Sakura replied as she helped Tomoyo drag the box into the room.
"While Meiling and Li are not here yet, I'll be helping you with the decorations." Tomoyo told her once the box was in the middle of the room.
"And what will you be doing once they arrive?" Sakura asked.
"Baking the cake and cooking the food for tomorrow night of course." Tomoyo replied smiling.
With that said, the two began to work on the room. It was a good thing that Sakura brought her magical key and a couple of her cards for with it she used the fly card to place the streamers and balloons as well as other paraphernalia on the hard to reach places. An hour had passed since Sakura arrived when the doorbell suddenly rang.
Of course, being in a mansion, it also means that Tomoyo's family had a lot of servants. So it was only natural that it was the butler who answered the door. When the butler returned, he was already with Shaoran and Meiling.
"Hey Kinimoto-san, Daidoji-san!" Meiling greeted, "It's nice to see you guys again."
"Same here!" Sakura replied as she flied back down and landed on her feet.
"Sorry for being late." Shaoran apologized, "It was all Meiling's fault."
"Is not!" Meiling argued back.
"It is, if you hadn't took so much time in deciding what you were going to wear, we would have been here an hour ago." Shaoran said.
"It's okay really." Tomoyo broke out the argument, "Sakura had just arrived a couple of...uh...minutes ago. Right, Sakura?"
"R-right." Sakura lied.
"Well then," Shoaran said rubbing his palms together, "let's get started."
At this Tomoyo began to walk towards the kitchen, the others of course noticed this.
"Hey Daidoji-san, where are you going?" Shoaran asked.
"Yeah, aren't you going to help us out?" Meiling added.
"I'll just be in the kitchen baking the Christmas cake for tomorrow night." Tomoyo replied as she continued to make her way towards the kitchen.
"You're going to back a cake?" Meiling asked getting excited, "Let me help!"
"Sure!" Tomoyo replied.
And with that Meiling went with Tomoyo and left Shoaran and Sakura to deal with the room by themselves. Kero-chan of course, upon hearing the word 'cake' followed Tomoyo and Meiling at once.
"That's something you won't get to see everyday." Shaoran said making Sakura giggle.
"Yeah." Sakura agreed, "well, let's get this room ready for the big party."
"Right." Replied Shaoran as he went by the box and pulled out the base of what seems like a large detachable Christmas tree. "Now where can we put this?"
Shaoran then began to look at the room. There was a fireplace at the far end of it with a large space at it's side. Upon seeing the space, Shaoran immediately saw the best and perfect place for the tree.
The base of the tree was far heavier than Shaoran thought though, as he tried to carry the tree of to the spot where he saw it to fit perfectly. Sakura seeing that Shaoran was having a hard time carrying just the base, then pulled out another card from her pocket. This time the Power Card. Using the magical wand that was still in her hand, she then ordered the card to give Shaoran enough strength to carry the tree.
Shaoran was surprised when he saw that he was able to carry the base with only one hand. He then realized that Sakura had helped him by giving him the power from the card.
"Thanks." Shaoran said as he began to move a lot quickly while carrying the base towards the spot right next to the fireplace.
"All in the days work." Replied Sakura smiling.
When the base was finally placed, Sakura and Shaoran then helped each other in placing the other parts of the detachable tree. It took them a while to finally put it back together, when they finally did, the two decided to rest for a while before resuming into their decorative work.
"It's really been a long time since we've work together like this." Shaoran suddenly said.
"Yeah." Sakura agreed.
"So, Sakura-chan, what have you been up to for the last two years?" Shaoran asked.
"Me?" Sakura asked and seeing as Shaoran nodded she began to tell him what she had been doing, "Well, for one, I've been keeping a close watch over the city."
"Oh, yeah." Shaoran said suddenly remembering something, "I remember you mentioning in one of your e-mails that weird things are still happening, even though you caught all the clow cards and turned them into Sakura cards."
Sakura nodded, "But we still don't have any leads as to who's behind all of this."
"Aren't you getting tired of all the saving the world business?" Shaoran suddenly asked.
"Maybe...a little." Sakura admitted, "But even though, I'd like to quit I can't...so much depends on me."
"How 'bout school?" Shaoran suddenly shifted topics seeing that Sakura was being depressed by their current one, "You're still part of the cheering squad right?"
Sakura nodded, "School's been busy. It's finally relaxing to have a lot of spare time to kill. It's a good thing to have the Christmas season around...to have some break and all."
"...not to mention the presents." Shaoran joked making Sakura laugh a little.
"How about you Shaoran-kun?" Sakura asked, "How's life back at China?"
"Pretty much the same..." Shaoran replied, "It's been really boring back there ever since you left after you won the prize on the lottery."
"Boring?" Sakura asked confused, "What do you mean, 'boring'?"
"Well, unlike here in Japan...China's been quite calm for the past...well...four years." Shaoran told her, "no mysterious phenomenon, no sudden disappearances...nothing quite note worthy."
"Well, I hope you didn't leave any unfinished school business back there, Shaoran-kun." Sakura said.
"School?" Shaoran repeated, "Didn't I tell you last night that Meiling and I are going to study back here?"
"In Tomoeda High School?" Sakura asked.
Shaoran nodded, "That's where you and Daidoji-san are studying right?"
"Yes. But why did you suddenly decided to change schools?" Sakura asked.
"I don't know..." Shaoran lied, "I just felt like it."
Shaoran then stood up and began to head towards the box filled with decorations. It was apparent to Sakura that Shaoran doesn't want to talk about his reasons-what ever it may be and she left it all at that and resumed with her work.
Meanwhile, as the two worked hard to make the room beautiful for the party. Both Meiling and Tomoyo were almost finished with the cake and Kero-chan was almost finished munching his way through a cup of pudding.
"Meiling, what's the real reason you wanted to help me with the cake?" Tomoyo asked, "No offense but I can bake it on my own you know."
"I know that Daidoji-san." Meiling replied, "I just wanted to give Kinimoto-san and Shaoran-kun enough time to talk with each other...after all those two had been separated for a long, long time."
"Being the cupid now...are we?" Tomoyo asked.
"A bratty cupid." Added Kero-chan with a loud burp...loud enough from a stuff toy looking creature.
"At least I know how to help with work!" Meiling argued. "Unlike some...thing that just go around the kitchen snooping for any chocolates, muffins and or Pudding!"
"What did you say!?" Kero-chan exclaimed flying eye-level to Meiling.
"Come on you guys." Tomoyo stopped the fight before it got worst-which it always does when it's between Meiling and Kero-chan or Kero-chan and Shaoran, "We still have a lot of work to do before the afternoon ends."
So Meiling and Kero-chan with a grunt turned back against each other and began to help Tomoyo with whatever they can offer as a help.
Back at Sakura and Shaoran. Both were almost finished decorating the room as four o'clock came.
"Where will we put this?" Sakura asked as she began to half drag a large welcome banner.
"How about over there?" Shaoran asked pointing over the large ark that could be seen on top of the large oaken doors towards the room, "Can you put it up there?"
"No sweat." Sakura replied as she once again used the fly card and attached the two ends of the banner one after the other.
It must have been because she was thinking about something or she was just tired, but no matter what the reason was back then, Sakura suddenly-accidentally-called off the power of the fly card. It was a good thing that Shaoran quickly saw this, as Sakura began to fall from such a high place. Quickly, with all the speed that he's got, he rushed forward to catch Sakura in his arms. With a soft enough thud, Sakura landed safely on Shaoran's arms, although she did not notice this at first for she had shut her eyes closed during the fall. She only opened them again when she heard Shaoran's voice.
"Sakura-chan, are you alright?" Shaoran asked concerned.
"Shaoran-kun?" Sakura asked, then noticing that she was still in Shaoran's arms, she quickly turned red.
"What's wrong, Sakura-chan? Are you alright?" Shaoran continued to ask not noticing that he was still holding her in his arms.
"Umm...Shaoran-kun...you can...p-put me..down now." Sakura stammered.
Shaoran was confused at first before realizing that he was in fact still holding her in his arms. He too quickly turned red and hurridly but gently placed Sakura back on the ground after muttering a soft "Sorry".
Sakura must have screamed as she fell from the air, for seconds after Shaoran had placed her down, Meiling and Tomoyo with Kero-chan close behind them came running towards the room with a worried expression.
"Sakura did something happen?" Tomoyo asked.
"Are you hurt?" Meiling added.
"Did a large alien suddenly appeared out of nowhere and attacked you?" Kero-chan blurted out.
"KERO!!!" Meiling and Tomoyo shouted at the flying creature, "You have been watching far too many sci-fi movies."
"Ah..Eh..heheheh..." Kero-chan could only laugh, "So what happened, why'd you scream Sakura?"
Sakura was still blushing as well as Shaoran.
"Shaoran-kun, you didn't..." Meiling began but was cut short by Shaoran's sudden burst of reply while still going scarlet.
"Of course not, Meiling!" Shaoran shouted, "Sakura just fell from up there when she was pinning that banner."
"Is that so?" Tomoyo asked, still not believing Li's reply.
"Shaoran-kun's telling the truth guys, thanks to him...nothing bad happened to me." Sakura replied, "He caught me when I was about to hit the ground."
Now Shaoran was as red as a freshly picked Tomtato.
"Well, it was really fortunate that Li-san is here with you Sakura." Tomoyo agreed, then she looked at her wristwatch and said, "Oh my, Meiling we better head back to the kitchen or we'll burn the cake."
"Right." Meiling replied, "Well catch you two later, Come on Kero."
"Right behind you." Kero said as he smelled the cake.
When the three were finally out of earshot, Sakura and Shaoran could not help but sigh a sigh or relief.
"What's wrong with those two?" Shaoran asked.
"I don't know." Sakura replied, then she looked around the room and seeing that everything was in order she nodded, "It seems like we're already through."
"Yeah." Shaoran agreed, "Let's go and see if Daidoji-san and the others need any more help."
With that the two made their way to the kitchen. There they found the two girls already covering the cake with white icing and Kero-chan was now finishing his fourth cup of pudding.
"Oh, what are you two doing back here at the kitchen?" Meiling asked as she saw Shaoran and Sakura enter the kitchen.
"We just finished decorating the room." Sakura answered, then she faced Tomoyo, "Is there anything left to do?"
"Well, there is one more thing." Tomoyo replied, "Kero-chan just decided to attack our pudding, at the rate he's eating it, there won't be any pudding left for tomorrow."
Seeing where Tomoyo was getting at, Sakura agreed to go with Shaoran to the mall. After all, she was also still searching for presents to give not only her friends but also her family...and as for Shaoran, he could not leave Sakura alone now can he, after all it was almost dark outside.
To be continued...
A/N:
Okay, that chapter turned out different from what I expected when I wrote it back...since I can't remember. Anyway, if you guys are wondering about the names, it's 'cuz the name's that I used in this fic are the ones that was used when CCS was aired in the Philippines (yup, I'm a Filipino) on ABS-CBN. I don't have any clue if they use the same names but as far as I know, Sakura's last name is not Kinimoto in the English version but rather Avalon...the same could be said with the spelling of the names. With that said, here's the low down on Chapter 4.
Next time on Christmas Bash, Sakura and Shaoran had made their way to the mall and after buying the pudding for the party. They began to search for a perfect present not only for each other but also for their friends and family. Next time on CCS: Christmas Bash, Chapter 4: Searching and Shopping. Please Review!!!! (o.)