Love Can Be Magical By: Chibi Maylan

Chapter Seven A/N: Sorry for the delay! It's been Christmas break and I'm still on holidays for another two weeks. I had a bit of writer's block but here I go again! Review after please!

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Mika was now on their tail as they turned into a street and went to a stop next to a run-down looking mansion.

"They're walking up towards that house. It must be where they live." Nakahito watched as they pulled up a few houses down. Mika got out of her car and waited until they went inside. "Yep. This is it. We'll be having that statue in no time." Mika grinned.

After checking that no neighbors were looking, they cautiously climbed over the wired door that led to the garden. On their knees, they could hear voices talking inside and clanks of plates. They reached the garden with an awe. "Pretty" Mika breathed. "Looks like they'd paid a big amount of money for it." He replied.

"SYAORAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Mika and Nakahito jumped up in surprise, noticing they were under an open window they quickly ducked before anyone could see them. They sweatdropped.

"What? Oh, Mei Ling.. What are you doing here?" a male voice replied coolly. "Visiting.. I've been here for some time with the girls. It's such a lovely place! Where'd you get the money for this? The furniture and all." The female replied.

Mika and Nakahito looked at each other and Mika mouthed out 'Rose'. "Err. Money? We've been working it off." Syaoran lied.

"I'm off to have a shower." Eriol sneaked off seeing Syaoran's desperate plea for him to stay.

"I see. I'd have thought Aunt Yelan had given some money for it" Mei Ling muttered. "Ah! Look at the time, I've gotta go work at Neko-Neko today!" Meiling then exited from their sight. "See you later Syao-kun!!!"

Mika and Nakahito were about to head home since Syaoran and Eriol were obviously going to stay home. When they heard Eriol suggest going to the beach. Waiting for them to leave Mika and Nakahito then started to break into the back entrance and were amazed to see the inside of their lavish- styled house. They broke into the doors and started to search the lounge and kitchen. "Nothing" Nakahito announced as they headed towards the corridor that led them to the stairwell and living room. Mika tripped over what seemed like a blue soft toy and threw it into the front door.

Suddenly, they heard sirens and screeching. Mika and Nakahito looked around themselves and before they knew it, they were swept off their feet and stuck in a net that hung them tightly onto the ceiling. Panic came across Mika as she tried to free herself. "What the heck is this? Some home made alarm?!" Nakahito nodded. "I guess they knew we were coming!" He replied.

It took them some time before they eventually got out of the tangled mess. Swearing from under their breath they continued to look. Mika went carefully across the room to a small cabinet with crystal and glass ornaments. There, on the top shelf shined the Rose D'or. "Aha!" Nakahito pryed open the closet and carefully grabbed it. "Let's get out of here." And with that, they left.

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It was nearly sundown and there was not many people left on the shore. The tickled pink and purple sky was beaming onto the water and the girls loved it.

"Aiii!! Great view!" Sakura gazed at the sea. Eriol nodded in agreement as he settled a picnic basket onto the sand. Tomoyo started to run towards the water in her swim suit. Followed by Sakura, Syaoran & Eriol.

They swam until they couldn't touch the ground. Syaoran and Eriol were swimming near each other when they suddenly couldn't see Sakura or Tomoyo near them.

Sakura and Tomoyo had began swimming until they met a dolphin. Tomoyo greeted it as they began to communicate with the dolphin. They then headed back up towards the boys. "Tomoyo! There you-" Eriol got interrupted by Tomoyo as she kissed him on the lips. Syaoran stared at Eriol and before he knew it Sakura was by his side. "Pucker up" she murmured before kissing him too. Syaoran and Eriol looked at each other exchanging glances.

"Come on you two! Stop blushing and come under water with us, the kiss was just to make you able to breathe under water, silly!" Sakura and Tomoyo laughed as they dived under water again.

"How was it being kissed eh?" Eriol grinned. Syaoran looked down and grinned. "Shut up, Eriol." Syaoran replied as they followed the girls under water. The girls were right, when Syaoran had thought he would pass out because he couldn't breathe anymore he felt the magic work onto him and he could breathe.

They soon saw a ship wreck and a dolphin holding a blue shell in its mouth. Sakura and Tomoyo were making dolphin noises which to the boys' surprise had been understood by the dolphin as it nodded and swam off into the wreck.

"That was our new friend. He was lonely and asked if we could play with him for a while. So I agreed, and right now he's hiding that shell in the ship and soon enough we'll be searching for it. Oh, and no, we wont use our magic!" Tomoyo giggled. Soon enough the dolphin appeared and the girls started to swim for the entrance.

"Let's go!" Eriol called out as he too began to swim. Syaoran close behind. They saw the girl's enter a room on the left side of the ship's corridor. Eriol had entered the opposite room. He peeked through the sunken furniture of drawers that were full of clothes and books now floating amongst Eriol. Syaoran saw Sakura exit the left room and head off to the other room next door with a smile.

"Come on, Syaoran! Get with the game" Eriol looked under the bed. Syaoran searched until Eriol began to exit the room and swam for the main cabin. "Hey! here it is!" Eriol grinned as he held up the blue shell. The girls came out of the room they were in with a sigh. "You guys win" Tomoyo declared as she grabbed the shell. "Don't we get a prize?" Eriol grinned. Sakura laughed and Tomoyo eyed him. "A prize? Well.. what is there to give such spoilt boys that both have their own Goddess?" she laughed and glanced at Sakura who nodded. "I guess, we could both give you a tiny prize. Sakura! One, two.. three!" Sakura and Tomoyo hugged the boys and then gave cheeky laugh.

They then said goodbye to the dolphin and started to head back towards the surface when Eriol stopped. "Oh! Wait, I wanted to bring back this thing I saw on the wreckage.." Eriol began to turn back as the three waited for his return.

Tomoyo glanced back at the wrecked ship, it had been ten minutes and Eriol still did not come back. Syaoran checked his watch to see if was still working, it showed that it was near 7 o'clock. "Where is he?" Sakura wondered as she floated next to Tomoyo.

"I think we better check on him, he might have gotten lost in that ship or something" said Tomoyo worriedly. Syaoran nodded in agreement as they swam back towards the ship.

They were near the entrance when to Tomoyo's horror she saw something that made her heart pound with worry. The three were all horrified to see Eriol stuck under a wooden mast that was once settled upright, now slanted and keeping Eriol from moving.

"Eriol!" Syaoran called out, swimming up to his friend. He could see Eriol's glasses shattered and his eyes shut. "Eriol! Wake up, Come on.." Syaoran tried to lift up the wooden mast. "Is he." Tomoyo asked. Syaoran searched for a pulse. "I can hear it! He's okay." Syaoran sighed with relief. "I think it's just putting weight onto his legs. "Sakura, come help me lift this." Syaoran picked up one end of the mast. Sakura sighed. "Let me do it!" and used her magic to destroy the wooden mast.

"Eriol! Eriol! It's Tomoyo, are you hurt?" Tomoyo asked and gave a little gasp. Eriol's leg had a huge gash in the left leg. He soon stirred and gave a cry of pain. "Yeah" he mumbled. Sakura weaved up a cloth in order to try and stop the blood from going out. "This isn't good." Sakura muttered. Tomoyo began to cry. "I'm so sorry Master Eriol! It was I who had thought of playing under water. It was my entire fault, Master Eriol! How can I ever re-pay you? Oh, Master Eriol." she wailed. As her tears dissolved into the water.

"W-W-ishh.." Eriol stammered as the pain grew. "Come again?" Syaoran replied. Eriol tried to get up. "I've g-g-got t-two more w-w-wishes. ouch.. t-to h-h-have." He mumbled, sitting slowly to sit up. "Oh! You could.. but.. Master, wouldn't it be best to go to the hospital?" Tomoyo sighed. Eriol smirked at what Tomoyo had just said.

"I hate hospitals." He muttered bitterly. "I'd rather have you heal me
than go to
one. Ouch!" He felt more pain. Tomoyo swam next to him.

"Say the words, and you've got it." She said sympathetically. "I, Eriol. Wish for Tomoyo t-to. Heal my w-wound" he stammered on. With that Tomoyo did her work and revealed a healed left leg. Eriol shook it to test the leg for pain. "Thank You, Goddess Tomoyo." He smiled. Tomoyo lunged at her master and embraced him into a hug. "I'm sorry" she murmured as he smiled. "It's okay, let's go home now, shall we?" Eriol began to swim.

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Mika and Nakahito left with ease after grabbing what they needed. Nakahito was talking about how glad his father would be when he'd find out they successfully stolen the Rose D'or and was ready for their billion-dollar sale convention. Mika couldn't help but smile as she thought of the money that'll roll into her account.

"I bet father will resign soon leaving the company to me, after all he said that he'd retire this year and I'd love to be in his shoes as boss. With my lovely new assistant." Nakahito nudged Mika. "Flattering" she replied, pulling into the company car park.

On the top floor, sat Mr. Negashima grumpily in his armchair and was staring into his laptop screen. "Ah, there you are! What's this? Oh my god! It's the Rose! Good work, son. Mika, darling, your work is always successful." He smiled as he walked across to the door, grabbing the statue.

"As always, I'll be handing in your payment this weekend earlier, Mika. Oh, Nakahito! You'll get a surprise reward later on this week too." Negashima said.

Mika and Nakahito smiled in delight.

"How did you get it?" Negashima asked, admiring the glittering statue.

"We were leaving the café when Ms. Hajime had spotted the gentlemen; Mr. Eriol Hiiragazawa and Mr. Syaoran Li." Nakahito started to explain.

"We followed them home with caution, then waited for the right time to explore their home and snatch the Rose quite easily, too easy for my liking" he continued.

"You made sure you didn't leave anything behind, I hope." Negashima replied. "Ofcourse father!" He replied, then Mika gasped. Grasping into her pockets she searched for the pocket knife she and Nakahito used for the net-alarm.

"Nakahito.. the knife, missing." she murmured. Nakahito flinched as he heard her. Cursing under his breath he maintained his smile in front of his father. "Well, I've talked to some lovely business men from Russia, China and even America this morning. They are very interested in bidding for this statue of gold. Who wouldn't after all, Clow Reed was a man that was adored and envied by all. This statue that we have is one of his all-time favourites that was carved especially for himself in gold." Negashima beamed. "It even has something attached to it. Looks a bit worn off, let me see.
The golden rose that shines in light,

Can be lovely when taken in sight,
But knowst this warning,
That the time will come,
As soon as the Rose loses it's petals,

You too will lose something very dear,
May it be life, money or jewels,

Beware the Rose..."

Negashima looked at what he had just quoted and gave a glance of disbelief at what it had mentioned.

"How could this thing loose it's petals? It's supposed to be made solid of gold" Mika queried. The two men amongst her shrugged and Nakahito and Mika went out of the office, leaving Mr.Negashima with the safe.

"We have to get back the knife!" Nakahito said firmly. "I know. I think it is with the net, we placed it in the corner of the room." Mika replied. "We'll go back tomorrow evening. Hopefully they did not find out."

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TBC..

I'm going to leave it here for now! ^_^'' Review now, please!

~ChibiMaylan.