Score Card so far:
- One Engagement Ring
- One Dead (Post-Corpus) Tomoyo
- Sakura in insane asylum for Two weeks
- One promise that Homosexuality is a major factor, but not the driving factor behind this project.
... Oh! And one person catching the yu-yu-hakusho cross plot! Good for you WaMat!
Happiness is never assured, but yet I am still not officially involved with CLAMP or CCS.
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She was always the odd girl out in elementary school.
Chiharu and Yamazaki always had each other, even when all they could do was fight. Fighting was just the natural way they flowed together, where one stopped, the other would begin. Each one completed the other.
Even Rika, who she thought she had a connection to, was engaged. And for a very long time at that. She always had some one who completed herself, even if the rest of the group couldn't tell exactly whom.
Sakura, Tomoyo, and Syaoran though, had a dynamic no one could completely understand. Tomoyo supported everyone, Sakura most of all, and Sakura then supported everyone in turn. When Syaoran was added, the three spent so much time worrying about everyone else, it's a wonder they had time for themselves.
She really only had her books and writing to retreat into.
Then High School hit.
All of a sudden, people were expected to have relationships, make-out sessions, shopping trips. She wasn't prepared for a change of that magnitude.
Everyone else had some one to spin off too. Even Tomoyo rooted her self in the self destructive obsession she had on Sakura. Naoko couldn't help but pity her. No one could really do anything about it, it was just the thing Tomoyo did. It was part of what made her Tomoyo. It wasn't like Sakura would wake up Gay one morning, and make it all come true. She didn't believe it, she knew Tomoyo didn't believe that, no one even thought of it as a possibility.
A few years of that, then Tomoyo up and died.
Suddenly, Sakura was incomplete. It simply didn't make sense.
She still had Syaoran. They were engaged to be wed. She still loved Syaoran, it was all over her face. It shouldn't have affected her that much. But it did, and none of her precious books could explain why.
Obviously, Naoko was just looking in the wrong books. This required a trip to the library.
Hopefully they removed that pesky 99 books at one time limit.
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"Good Morning! Welcome to the Other Side!"
Maxwell didn't have time for this foolishness. He had to finish the finance report before morning. "Get the hell out of my office girly, before I call Security."
The perky teenage girl glared at the older business man. Obviously one of the janitorial staff's children was wandering the building. The fact she was in pink kimono or what ever the hell the Japanese call them, was just a sign she was spending too much time playing games instead of important work.
"Maxwell Stanton, right?"
He just grunted in reply, trying to go back to the keyboard... which his head was laying on...
As he stared down on his body, the girl pulled a small 3x5 card from her robes, reading carefully, "Maxwell Stanton, age: 45 earth years, blood type: O, cause of death: heart failure, judgment: yet to be determined. Please come with me."
"But.. but..."
"Please sir, your time has passed. You must continue on."
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Somehow, the thing bothering Tomoyo most as she opened the barrier between worlds, the blue wisp following closely behind her, was how much she needed to work on her opening line.
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Sakura shot up in bed, looking franticly around her room. Kero was still asleep, but at her desk was the human form of The Dark card, gazing longingly at moon though the window.
The dark haired woman turned in the seat and smiled at her mistress, "That's wonderful Sakura. You felt her too?"
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Note: Character sections in order are: Naoko, OC, Very short Tomoyo, and Sakura.
