Chapter 6

'Tomoyo-chan, it's wonderful!' Sakura shouted happily.

This morning, Sakura bumped into Tomoyo on her way to school. Tomoyo had made her a jacket, as promised. It was a light pink jacket at knee length. It fitted at the waist and showed her female forms perfectly.

'It looks wonderful on you, Sakura-chan! I think I'm going to make more for you!' Tomoyo shouted as well, filming Sakura in her new jacket.

They walked together to school, while Tomoyo told some things about Tomoeda. Sakura listened only with one ear. She was still thinking about the idiotic evening of the previous day. Kero had told her how to capture the cards and how to use her key. The key could actually turn into a magic wand and with that she could capture the cards.

While Kero explained everything he could think of, Sakura had observed him. He was looking like a little teddy bear with a cute tail and funny white wings. He told her that this wasn't his originally form, but she couldn't picture him as he described.

"I'm so cool!! Like a real dangerous guardian!" Yeah right…

Kero had also told her that, if a Clowcard was nearby, she would feel it. She hadn't felt anything yet, but on the other hand, she wasn't so sure she could 'feel' it. What should she feel?

Keroberos, now in her room, was a big problem, so she figured out. She couldn't bring him to school, and the Kinomoto's might see him if he were alone at home. Luckily, when all the visits came yesterday night, her housemates where gone. Touya had a job somewhere, and Fujitaka had a meeting from his work. She had told Kero that for this day, he was not allowed to leave her room. She just hoped that would be enough.

They reached the school and went to their class. This was Sakura's second day, and she wasn't even late! They greeted the ones who were already there and sat down.

When Terada-sensei entered, everybody sat down on their seats and stopped talking. 'Today we have a new exchange student joining this class.' A boy with a big frown on his face and chestnut colored hair entered the room. 'Introduce yourself, please.'

'Li Syaoran from Hong Kong.' Was al he said. He looked directly at Sakura, who made herself as small as possible under his look.

'Welcome in Japan, Li-san. You can sit at the last table by the window, behind Asymia-san.' Terada-sensei continued.

Syaoran walked to the seat behind Sakura and sat down, not giving any sign of recognition. He didn't say a word, until it in the break, when Sakura turned around to see him in the face.

'Li-kun, why didn't you tell you where going to this school? I was surprised to see you here.' Sakura said.

'You didn't have to know.' Was all he said.

'Do you two know each other?' Tomoyo asked with a happy voice, filming the little scene.

'Sort of.' They said at once.

When they went downstairs to eat, Syaoran was invited to sit with them, and so it happened that Syaoran joined the group of friends. It didn't take long to make him feel a bit more at ease, because everyone was friendly at him, in contrary to the people around him at home. They didn't expect anything from him, except being a friend, like they all did.

And so it came, Syaoran was never far away from Sakura, without her realizing that he did it all for the cards.

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Sakura walked with Tomoyo and Syaoran to the Daidouji-residence. Tomoyo's mother had invited them to come over, anxious to know Tomoyo's new friends. It had been a week now, since she arrived.

Nobody had seen Kero, luckily, who was mostly asking for food – after two days he went downstairs to get the food himself, without Sakura's permission – or otherwise he was pondering about the cards. None of them had showed itself yet, and he was a bit nerves about that.

Sakura never had a chance to talk to the little creature, and if so, he just changed the subject like he didn't even notice. She really wanted to know more about her past and especially about her parents and Kero knew more about it.

They were passing the penguin park, when Sakura had a strange feeling in the back of her mind. She saw Syaoran looking around him, searching for something, when she realized that that feeling had to be a Clowcard. She turned over to Tomoyo, who waited for them to continue their walk. Syaoran also looked at Tomoyo.

'We have no time, we have to risk her knowing it.' Syaoran exclaimed. Sakura silently nod. After all, if cards would appear on stupid moments, she couldn't keep it a secret for everyone. It was better to have an ally on their side.

'Just stay close, Tomoyo-chan. I'll explain everything later.' Sakura said. Then she turned en followed Syaoran who was already running in the direction of the card. They all run across the penguin park, into the bushes. They all stopped when they saw what had changed. Wherever they looked, there were flowers. It was like it was snowing flowers.

'Get your wand.' Syaoran ordered.

Sakura didn't hesitate, but was kind of nervous. She had pulled the key from under her shirt and cast the spell that bound the key to it's larger form.

'The key which hides the power of the dark,

Show your true powers before me.

I, Sakura, command you under our contract,

Release!'

The key grew before her eyes into a wand. Kero had told her this would happen, but she was surprised nonetheless. She grabbed the wand that flew before her and was ready for whatever was about to happen.

Sakura had no idea how to catch the card. And to make it al worse, the book with remaining cards was still at home. A voice calling 'Sakura!!' made her turn around. There was Kero, with the book of Clow carrying in his small paws. He was tired from carrying the heavy thing.

Sakura caught the book, when Kero dropped it. Opening it, she took the cards out of it. She had about thirty cards already is her possession, thanks to Kero. He had explained her how the cards could be used, and also what every card could do.

'It's the flower! You are lucky, Sakura-chan! Your first one is an easy one.'

'How's that?'

'Flower is a nice card, she probably let you catch her voluntarily.' Syaoran answered, getting a mean look from Kero.

Sakura called out 'Flower, show your true form!' and in a wild mix of colors, Flower appeared in her true form. She was a lovely women in a dress made of flowers. She smiled at Sakura.

'Flower, may I catch you?' Sakura asked hesitantly. Flower nodded, still smiling, and Sakura began the binding spell.

'Return to the guise you were meant to be in,

Clowcard!'

Flowers form began to disappear and the mix of colors and light flowed into a card, at the end of her wand. When the light dimmed, there was a card floating in midair. It stayed there for a moment and then flew to Sakura's hands.

Sakura looked at the card in her hand and then started to jump in the air, happy as she was. "The first card I captured!" She was laughing and turning in circles, when she realized they where all staring at her. Kero was smiling proudly, Syaoran had a cute little smile on his face, as he was looking at her, and Tomoyo was filming everything.

'Sakura-chan! Good job! I told you, you could handle it.' Kero said, while he rested at her shoulder.

'Thank you, Kero' Sakura said, smiling from ear to ear. 'And thank you to, Li-kun.'

Syaoran blushed a bit, but Sakura didn't notice that. Tomoyo on the other hand, did. 'Oh

my, this could be fun.' She muttered. 'But can anyone tell me what is going on?' Tomoyo asked.

Sakura stopped smiling and Syaoran looked away from Sakura, now giving his attention to Tomoyo. They began telling her what had happened, starting from the period of Sakura escaping her home. Syaoran helped her in the story, when she didn't exactly know what had happened. This way, Sakura figured some things out, she hadn't know yet.

Tomoyo didn't respond shocked, what they would have expected. 'Oh my, this sure could be interesting!' she said while looking at Syaoran sharply. He cringed a bit, while Sakura had no idea what her friend was talking about.

Syaoran on the other hand, knew exactly where Tomoyo was getting to. 'You wished.' He said in his former cold tone. Tomoyo didn't pay any attention to him anymore.

'But if you are the card mistress, then I got tons of chances to film you! And I can make your costumes! Oh, I already got an idea for the next time! You would look absolutely kawaii in that!'

Sakura and Syaoran nearly fell from astonishment. Large sweat drops appeared on their heads. 'Do you really have to do that?' Sakura asked, but by the looks on Tomoyo's face, she knew that the next time, she would wear some kind of strange costume.

When everybody calmed down a bit, they continued to walk to Tomoyo's home. Arriving there, Sakura eyes grew. Tomoyo's home was huge! She remembered her friend telling her mother was the owner of a big company. She sure earned a lot of money if she could afford this.

Entering the villa, a tall lady came running down. She had brown hair that ended shortly over the ears.

'Hello, hello. You must be the new friends of my Tomoyo! I'm Daidouji Sonomi. Hello, You must be Li-san, aren't you the cutest! And you must be Asymia-san!' For a moment she was quiet and just looked at Sakura. 'You really look like my Nadeshiko.' She said in a low voice, full of emotions.

'Enough of that! Lets drink some thee together, so you can tell me about Hong Kong! It must be lovely there, it is such a big city!'

'Who is Nadeshiko?' Sakura asked without realizing. She blushed when she noticed. "Me and my big mouth! She obviously doesn't want to talk about it!"

Sonomi looked a bit sad. 'She was my cousin. I really liked her, but she married one of the Kinomoto's and died soon after her second child.' Looking at Tomoyo she continued. 'I try to remember her when I see my own child. She has the same lovely hair as Nadeshiko had.'

Sakura looked at her new friend. "Does Sonomi-san mean one of the Kinomoto's that I know, or is it someone else?" She didn't know, but she was sure to find out. "And Tomoyo really has beautiful hair."

They all followed Sonomi to a large living room where they sat down on the couches. A young lady entered the room when Sonomi called and took her orders. Just a few minutes later she reappeared with tea and cups. She putted them on the table and left the room once moor.

'You both lived in Hong Kong, didn't you?' Sonomi began the conversation after sipping from her tea. 'Tell me about it, please. I'd love to know more about it.'

Syaoran didn't open his mouth, so Sakura began to tell her about the place. She talked about the neighborhood she lived in and the places she had been to. She told Sonomi about the places tourist always went and little facts about all those attractions.

When Sonomi asked Syaoran for some things, he answered with little words. He didn't like to talk about it. His clan wasn't unknown and he wasn't supposed to give away any secrets. He didn't tell her what his status was and he didn't tell her where he lived. He listened to Sakura, babbling about her past and sometimes he helped her when she wasn't sure of something.

He felt kind of guilty when he heard her speaking. She had really liked her past, her parents and her friends. She missed them, and he felt guilty of that. His mother, and therefore he himself, was the cause of her sudden change of life. He thought he was blessed when he found out she was happy here as well, but it didn't take away the guilt.

Listening to the what sounded like the story of her entire life, without certain details of course, he caught himself staring at her. He knew her for a week now, and after their first encountering, he had never let her in his minds if it wasn't for the book. He fought against his thoughts about her and pushed them back once more. He was absolutely not allowed to have any special feelings for the owner of the book. That could endanger his mission and that was the most important thing at the moment. Even his friendship wasn't real, it was all for the book.

While his colder emotions took control over again, he also saw that Sonomi enjoyed listening at Sakura. She simply loved the girl, it was written all over her face. When Sakura hadn't anything more to say, and Sonomi and Tomoyo didn't have anymore questions, Sakura and Syaoran went home again.

They said goodbye to Tomoyo and her mother and walked away. Syaoran felt that Sakura was a bit sad, so he walked her all the way home. They didn't talk and soon they reached the Kinomoto-residence.

'Thank you, Li-kun, for bringing me all the way home.' Sakura said when she stood at the door. She smiled, although she didn't feel like it.

'No problem. Goodnight, Asymia-chan.' And Syaoran walked away.

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