Disclaimer: Since I'm not feeling creative today, I'll make this plain and simple. I don't own CCS.
Another's Notes at the bottom!
The next day (or Monday or Getsuyoobi)
The alarm clocks blasted throughout the campsite since they had all agreed on a time to wake up the night before. Sakura turned hers off, but there was still Syaoran, Tomoyo, and Eriol's alarm clocks.
Sakura's POVUgh... Why Syaoran-kun not turn off alarm? Ugh...Turn off for him. Darn, can't reach... I know...use pillow. (A/N: Sakura's not fully awake, that's why she doesn't think in complete sentences)
Syaoran's POVWhat's that pink and white thing floating above my head? Oh well I must be dreaming.
/Deep down inside you know what that pink and white thing floating above your head is./
I thought I told you to shut up!
/You can never shut up your conscience. Now I suggest you open your eyes before you get hit./
Huh? ... Ah! (A/N: Syaoran is more awake than Sakura, but not completely awake either. And Sakura's POV starts at the same time as the Normal POV, and Syaoran's POV starts right before Sakura hits him with the pillow.)
Normal POVSakura reached beneath her head for a pillow, and then reached her arm out to be slightly above Syaoran's head. After a few seconds, she let her hand drop with an inhuman force due to gravity. (A/N: Let's just say Syaoran thinks very fast.) A brief silence, then Syaoran's shouts could be heard throughout the camp.
"SAKURA WHY DID YOU HIT ME IN THE HEAD WITH A PILLOW?"
Sakura, of course, shouted back.
"I DID NOT HIT YOU WITH A PILLOW! I HIT YOUR ALARM CLOCK!"
"YOU ... YOU...SAKURA! YOU MISSED AND HIT ME WITH YOUR PILLOW!"
"Oh, really? Gomen nasai (I'm sorry). Itai ka (Does it hurt)?"
"It's ok. It didn't really hurt." (A/N: Yes, I know, they stopped yelling so suddenly.)
She kept on fussing about him, and when he insisted that he was ok, she changed and walked out. (There are two tents, and in the middle is the fire for cooking, warmth, and meetings.) She ate some food, and then turned to face the sickening cheerful and awake Tomoyo who handed her and Eriol a list, then started to talk.
"Ok, there are the lists, and who's supposed to get what. We can't have one person doing all the work, so that's what that is for. We'll meet back here around dinnertime to eat and count who got the most. Get lunch for yourselves. Winning team doesn't have to provide food for the whole day tomorrow. Oh yeah, and all the things are in the forest, so don't get lost!"
Sakura looked at the list and groaned. It had at least 20 things on it, ranging from a petal of a flower to a branch of a certain tree. (A/N: I'm not going to name everything on the list, all you need to know is that one thing was a sakura flower.) Syaoran heard the groan and looked over her shoulder.
"Oh come on Sakura, it's not that bad."
"Oh yeah? Well then how are we going to find a sakura tree in the middle of that forest? I can't even smell one sakura flower!"
"Well Daidouji-san never said we can't use the cards," Syaoran said.
"You're right! Yatta (expression of happiness)!"
"Ok, ready, set, GO!"
And they set off. The first item on the list was, coincidentally, a cherry blossom. Sakura and Syaoran pretended to search for awhile, then Sakura called her wand and used the flowery card to make a sakura flower.
By then, Tomoyo and Eriol had caught up to Sakura and Syaoran, and she started to panic and say that Sakura still wasn't in the right position yet (next to Syaoran). Eriol, however, said that it would actually be better if Sakura was behind Syaoran, since when she trips she'll crash right into him.
"Oh that's right! You're so smart Eriol-kun!" Eriol blushed and looked away. Tomoyo reached her hand out, and after a moment's hesitation, turned his head towards her so that she could see his face. Unlike Sakura, who doesn't notice when Syaoran blushes, Tomoyo could see quite clearly that Eriol was blushing, and that caused her to blush, too. This one act planted the seed of hope in both their hearts, and that seed would soon blossom and grow.
Sakura and Syaoran were wandering around the forest trying to find the next item. Suddenly a tree root lifted ever so slightly off the ground, enough to make Sakura trip but not enough for either of them to notice that it was magic that did it and not just a tree root in her way. Sakura, as you can guess, tripped, and fell forwards. Syaoran was walking in front of her, and she was starting to speed up so that she could catch up with him when she tripped. The weight of Sakura plus the speed she was moving at made them both crash into the ground, Sakura on top.
"Oh no Syaoran-kun daijoubu desu ka (are you okay)?" Sakura asked as she got up off him. She sat down next to him and helped him sit up too.
"Hai (yes), I'm fine, although I never expected you to be able to knock me over." Syaoran joked.
"Gomen nasai (I'm sorry), Syaoran-kun," Sakura said as she hugged him. Syaoran was surprised but didn't think as he put his arms around her. 'This feels so right' he thought to himself. Sakura tilted her head up so that she could be heard. "I was just trying to catch up to you but I didn't see the tree root and since I was running my weight plus the speed knocked us over and I'm soo sorry that I—"
"Maa maa (calm down)... Daijoubu (It's ok) Sakura. I'm fine, you're fine, and neither of us is hurt. Daijoubu (It's ok)," Syaoran whispered soothing words into her ear and put a finger over her lips. He immediately blushed, and moved his finger. Sakura had a light pink tint on her cheeks too, and he noticed this.
Syaoran looked deep in her eyes. Sakura stared right back at him and they both thought that they could get lost in the other's eyes, emerald in amber and amber in emerald.
Sakura's POV'Wow, his eyes are gorgeous... I really should stop staring at him... But I don't want to... After all, he'll probably never know... that I like him... What was that sound? Oh no, I just spent at least a minute staring at him... he must think I'm weird.' She tore her gaze away from him.
Syaoran's POV'Wow, her eyes are so beautiful... they're like windows to her soul...' (A/N: Don't they think slightly alike?)
/Well aren't you a poet?/
'I'm going to ignore you now...'
/You know she's blushing. Now would be a good time to confess!/
'You know, that's the smartest thing you've ever said...'
Normal POV
Eventually, Sakura looked away before Syaoran could get the courage to even open his mouth, since he was silent for so long just looking in her eyes. At that one movement, Syaoran immediately lost his nerve.
"Ano (uh)...we'd better get going," Sakura said.
"Oh yeah, let's go."
The rest of the scavenger hunt went uneventful, and in the end it was a tie so they decided that they would get food for each other. They ate dinner, and then went to sleep early since they woke up early that day, spent the whole day on a scavenger hunt, and caught their own dinner. They were all dead tired and they immediately fell asleep.
Tomoyo's DreamTomoyo was walking through the forest. 'Hmm... this place seems familiar... where is it?' she asked herself. Then she saw the exact spot where Eriol had blushed and the tree root that Sakura had tripped on. That was when she realized that she was in the forest next to their campsite. Strangely, she could see everything in perfect detail, unlike normal dreams, which were usually very fuzzy. Suddenly, the intro for a song popped into her mind, and then the lyrics.
Out here in the quiet of the night
Beneath the stars, and moon...
Eriol walked into her vision, and Tomoyo immediately knew that the song would sound perfect on a piano. But when she looked closer at Eriol, she noticed that he was wearing something that resembled a hippie costume. The whole thing was a shade of light brown, and there were darker brown designs on the bottom cuffs of the shirt and pants. His hair had somehow grown longer and changed color, from blue-black to frizzy brown. It was done up in many braids, and he had on sunglasses too. Around his neck hung a pair of bongos, which he started playing from.
'No! That's not how Eriol is supposed to look! Wait, this is my dream. I can change things.' She then closed her eyes and concentrated really hard. She managed to stop the sound of the bongos, so she assumed he was back to normal, with a piano. When she opened her eyes, she got a huge surprise. He was dressed as a punk rocker! His hair was back to normal, except it was spiked up in a mohawk. It looked like he had used at least two cans of hair gel to do it. He wore clothes that were basically black with white writing on it, but the whole outfit was torn up at places. Before he could start playing his electric guitar that he was holding, Tomoyo quickly closed her eyes and concentrated on changing him again.
This time when she opened her eyes, she first looked at Eriol's face to make sure that his hair was normal. It was. However, when she looked farther down, she realized he wore only his boxers.
"Ah! Eriol's only wearing boxers!" Tomoyo yelled out loud. She shut her eyes tight, turned bright red, and then changed him... again.
This time she got what she wanted. Eriol was in a suit and tie, sitting on a piano bench, playing the song that Tomoyo had heard in her head. Pure instinct (or something else) told her to move aside the leaves hanging down from the tree in front of her. She did as told, and almost gasped aloud. There, sitting in the middle of a clearing, were Sakura and Syaoran. They were just sitting there, and Syaoran had his arms around Sakura. Sakura was leaning into Syaoran's chest, and Syaoran was leaning against a sakura tree. They were both silent. Tomoyo started to sing the lyrics of the song along with the piano part.
Suddenly, her vision clouded over. When it cleared again, she was standing, no floating, above the same clearing she had just seen, but she wasn't facing them. She was facing a figure that floated alongside her. The figure's eyes couldn't be seen because she was wearing a huge hat. The hat covered the entire top of her head. The length of her hair couldn't be seen because of the cape that the figure wore. This cape fastened at the front with a very ornate design. Under the cape was a simple dress that hugged her body. She looked to be in her 20s or 30s. It was hard to tell without seeing her face.
Tomoyo immediately recognized it as one of Sakura's cards, but she couldn't tell which one. The card answered her question though.
"I am the Dream Card. This," the Dream Card waved an elegant sleeve at the clearing below them, "is possible but it is only possible with your help," she said in a mystical voice. (A/N: I suck at descriptions, so if you really want to know how she looks, just go to yahoo or google and search Cardcaptor Sakura Card Pictures or something like that.)
"But, how can I make it possible? I only saw them when they were already in that position."
"Yes, but that is not what you need to help them with. All I can tell you is to trust your instincts, and your memory. Remember everything in this dream, for you shall need it later. And now, I must go before Mistress realizes that I am gone. Your vision will black out and when you open your eyes again, you will be awake and lying in your tent." The Dream Card smiled, ever so slightly. "And you will get a very big surprise."
Just as promised, Tomoyo's vision blacked out and when she opened her eyes, Eriol was leaning over her head, very close to her head. She let out a little shriek, and almost sat up. She stopped in time though, because if she had sat up, she would have hit Eriol in the nose.
"What were you doing?" Tomoyo demanded.
"Well..." Eriol said, looking very uncomfortable, "ano (uh)... you were... sleep talking." Tomoyo immediately froze up.
"What... what did you hear?" Tomoyo felt herself heating up as she thought of the fact that she could have said anything, including her feelings for Eriol, or even worse, she realized she might have yelled something about him wearing only boxers! (A/N: Strange, she didn't seem to notice that she thought of him as Eriol, not as Eriol-kun in her dream...) Her face was bright pink by then, and Eriol's face was red.
'How can I say what I'm about to say next without sounding completely blunt? Ah, I got it... I think' Eriol thought
"Ano (uh)... what exactly did you say I was wearing?"
At that point Tomoyo felt relieved that she hadn't said something like "I love you Eriol" but tense since she had to answer what he had asked.
'What-can-I-say-What-can-I-say-What-can-I-say--' Tomoyo looked away as she desperately tried to think of something to say. All of a sudden, Eriol's hand reached out and cupped Tomoyo's cheek gently. He turned Tomoyo's face so that she was facing him. Tomoyo couldn't help it; she looked deep into his eyes. As if from far away, she heard Eriol's voice.
"If you don't remember, you don't have to wrack your brain for an answer you know," Eriol said gently. His voice broke the spell. Tomoyo looked away.
"I know," she whispered.
"Now go back to sleep. After all, we have to beat Sakura and my cute little descendent tomorrow in the relay race." Eriol smiled. Tomoyo smiled too, and on impulse, hugged him. She then lay back down in her sleeping bag, leaving behind a confused but happy Eriol.
'But I thought she doesn't like me...'
In Sakura and Syaoran's tent, Sakura's dreamSakura was walking through the forest, leisurely, when she encountered a clearing. She was about to walk into it when she noticed two figures sitting. One was leaning against the other, and the one being leaned against was leaning against a sakura tree. A part of Sakura's brain registered the fact that indeed there was a sakura tree in this forest, but she wasn't really paying attention to the tree. No, she was paying attention to the two figures because they looked vaguely familiar. She somehow was able to look closer, as if someone pressed the zoom in button on her eyes, and saw that the two figures were she and Syaoran! They were lying in such a way that Sakura was sure that Sakura (for easier reading, from now on, whenever I'm referring to the people in the clearing it'll have a after it.) should have blushed by now, or even have bolted. However, they both looked very comfortable.
Abruptly a song started playing out loud. Sakura got a brilliant idea. She would make this dream reality. All she needed was to find this place, get Syaoran to the place once she found it, and ask Tomoyo and Eriol for a little favor. She sat down and started planning. The whole time the song was playing in her head, and she was so preoccupied that she didn't notice a figure with a cape, long hair, and a large hat sitting in the tree above her watching and smiling.
'I am so glad that I was the only one out of all of us to be able to help Mistress show her true feelings, and Mistress's friends too. I think I have done a good job. The others will be happy..."
Author's Notes: I can't believe it! I got three reviews! And I'm on someone's favorite author's list! Yay! I'm so happy that I got chapter two edited and posted! Ok, oh yeah, and thank you to Killer2Be for telling me that Eriol's last name is spelled Hiragizawa. And thank you Izzy-Luver for putting me on your favorite author's list! Now answers to reviews!
babyangigurl- You think my writing's funny? Yay! I didn't think it would be funny. Or cute. Thank you! And thanks for leaving a review.
Aldalote- And again, I didn't even intend for it to be cute! But that's an added bonus. And thanks for the advice!
Killer2Be- I like your name, it reminds me of my friend. (Not literally, in the funny way, as in my friend is kind of "violent" and she's kind of "dark" too. I'm not saying you are though!) I don't take offense from constructive criticism, and definitely not for correcting a mistake I made! I only find flamers rather offensive. So thanks for the help!
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By the way, since I'm always curious as to when someone updated a chapter, from now on I'll write the date I updated. 10-20-04