Chapter Three
Disclaimer: NO, CLAMP'S STUFF ISN'T MINE. And no, you're not allowed to poke me.
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Ch. 3 – Dream with Me
"Ne, Sakura!" Meilin hopped off from her swing and landed precisely next to her auburn-haired friend. "How's life?"
"Slightly tiring with a 50 chance of rain," Sakura muttered, her eyes half-closed.
"Ne, if you go around half-conscious like that, molesters will come and grab your ass and you won't like that," Meilin hissed in Sakura's face. "Then you'll take out your key and show your magic to the face of humanity! Your father wouldn't like that….no, no, no! Tsk, tsk, Kura-chan!"
Kero flew out from Sakura's lunch bag and turned into his guardian form. "Since when did Rae Meilin give out orders to the Mistress of the Star Cards?" he growled.
"I'm her best friend!" Meilin puffed. "I can give her advice any time I want, whether she's the Mistress of Fluffy Bunnies or NOT!"
Tomoyo narrowed her eyes, and sat down beside Sakura on the cool, damp grass. It had rained. Right in the middle of July. Here Sakura was, all depressed because her first chance at human mating was over.
"It's alright if you fail the first time, Sa-chan," Tomoyo reassured her. "It's not like capturing Clow Cards – you get a second chance with another guy."
"It's not like that, Tomoyo," Sakura whined, moving to face her friend. "He had a warm aura, and even his voice was so…enticing!" Suddenly, she remembered the misadventure she had with the Dream Card, and wondered if Tomoyo had forgiven her yet…
"Syaoran's the exotic type of guy," Meilin mused for a moment. Then she had an image of her chocolate-eyed cousin wearing a Hawaiian grass skirt and a flower chain around his neck. "Then on second thought, perhaps that's the wrong word…" She sweat dropped.
Kero laid down next to Sakura, who sighed and laid her head on top of Kero's golden tan fur. (I had a tough time deciding between 'golden brown' and 'golden tan' and realized that Kero isn't a cookie, so ya…help me out here, folks!)
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"Ah…Dignity has returned…"
"Hiiragizawa! Shut your face or I'll do the job for you!" Syaoran said through clenched teeth. "I'm not going to see that Sakura girl ever again!"
"Awww, poor baby! I don't want to see you scrunched up in a fetal position like a baby," Eriol cooed, patting Syaoran softly on the head.
"Gnnnn…"
Eriol took a peek at the other side of the fence. They're still there…
"OF COURSE THEY ARE!"
We have a precious chance right now…
"TOO LATE! WE HAD A PRECIOUS CHANCE LAST TIME!"
If Meilin Rae but moved a little to the left…I could even…
"STOP THOSE HENTAI THOUGHTS THIS INSTANT, HIIRAGIZAWA!"
They aren't hentai thoughts…they are long lost dreams awoken after eons of magic…
"In other words, you have a crush on THE Tomoyo Daidouji," Syaoran snickered. He ran over to the fence and swiftly hopped over it.
Sakura gasped. "Anta!" Memories of the night before flooded her mind.
Syaoran blushed but stayed steady, and stared Tomoyo in the eye. "You…" he motioned. "Eriol Hiiragizawa has a crush on you."
With that, he decided his role was done, and he ran back over the fence to where Eriol was seething.
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"I believe it's that time of month again," Sonomi sighed, looking at her calendar.
"If it's the fact that you're taking our girls to an all-boys' school, the whole faculty knows," mused a nearby maid.
"Honto desu ka?" Sonomi looked startled.
"I can drive them," offered another maid.
"Alright, that saves me a lot of headaches of memories…" Sonomi muttered, passing the maid her keys.
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"Spinner and I have stayed long enough, Master," Ceroberos said through the television screen, which had momentarily shown a Mario Party game.
Spinner nodded, seeing Nakuru on the other end. "We think that it is time for the young Mistress to start her own journey."
"Then, I am sure," concluded Ceroberos, "that she will be ready for the final test."
"That, of course," said the darkly cloaked figure in front of the fire, "will be arranged. I am sending to you now, the portal of which you will enter and be free of your service to her…only temporarily, of course. She will need you before the final day."
"Thank you, Master…"
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"Your glasses are getting fogged, Hiiragizawa," Syaoran said, snickering. "Are you blushing?"
"I am thinking."
"Yes, about her."
"Do not speak."
"Too bad, dude. I yield my own magical powers, and they grow stronger each day due to your thick presence."
"Yes…once I leave, all your powers will disappear with me."
"Why's that?"
"Because…I am temporarily storing my power in you. I am preparing you for the final day. After that day, if she fails, you will receive all her power and won't need mine."
"Sweet ass."
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"Aww…must we go again?" Sakura whined. It was the end of July. Another month of moping around for that Syaoran. Now it was time to meet him again, and she was dreading it.
"You're going to be fine," said Tomoyo, trying on two summer dresses at once.
"And you're going to rip a seam," Sakura snickered, using her magic to sew up a rip in Tomoyo's skirt.
"Try this on for size," Tomoyo said, passing Sakura a fluttery, pink material.
"THIS WILL BE TOO SKIMPY!" Sakura whined, without catching the soft dress.
"TRY IT ON, FIRST!" Tomoyo snapped back, slipping into a white hanker top and a khaki mini skirt. She left her amethyst hair down, and then braided it down the side of her face.
"I'm going to go find Kero first…" Sakura announced, slipping off the side of the bed. She teleported downstairs before Tomoyo could even raise a finger.
A moment later, after Tomoyo had taken a blue, strapless summer dress out for Sakura, the girl in question teleported back.
"Nani desu ka, Sa-chan?" Tomoyo asked, giving her worried Sakura a queer look.
"KERO-CHAN'S MISSING!" Sakura exclaimed. "SAME WITH SPINNER!"
Tomoyo and Sakura teleported around the entire mansion, but to no avail. Finally, a maid stepped up to the tired girls.
"Are you looking perhaps…for this?" She handed them a navy blue envelope with a moon emblem on the flip side.
Tomoyo graciously thanked the maid, and then teleported to where Sakura was crying.
"There, there, Sa-chan," Tomoyo said reassuringly, as she opened the letter with her magic. "Kero and Spinner will be back at your side before…THE FINAL DAY COMES?" She stood up, grabbed the levitating letter, and re-read it.
"It doesn't lie…" Sakura said.
"You already read it?" Tomoyo questioned. Her friend nodded.
"Well now…what do we do?" Tomoyo asked disdainfully. "We can't sit here waiting for the LAST DAY! We should go out and find our guy friends. C'mon, Sakura!"
She dragged Sakura back upstairs and changed her into the blue dress. Before Sakura found her voice again, they were in the minivan and speeding to the high school.
"I really don't know where you find the energy for this, Moyo-chan," Sakura moaned.
They arrived not a moment too soon, and Tomoyo stepped out first. She tried to drag Sakura out with her, but failed.
"Please…drive me home. Tomoyo will find her friends sooner or later," Sakura commanded.
Tomoyo gasped, and in the blink of an eye…well, you know what happened.
Syaoran turned and saw a minivan spouting engine exhaust. "Your lady has arrived, your love-sick highness," he mocked. "She arrived in all her glory."
Eriol sent an icy chill down Syaoran's back. When he was satisfied with the silence, he smiled. It is time… Without a moment's hesitation, he teleported next to Tomoyo while she was looking the other way.
However, his secrecy was blown by the fact that his aura had remained unshielded.
Sensing the tremendous aura, Tomoyo gasped without looking. You're the one in my dreams!
Only one… Eriol smiled, and pulled Tomoyo into a deep embrace.
Away, under the shade of a tree, Syaoran snickered yet again. "You're the one in my dreams…" he gasped, almost choking on laughter. He didn't realize there was a girl standing right behind him…
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"Why, you INSOLENT SON OF A BITCH!" Sakura hit the boy with ultimate force, her power card strengthening her by a billion tons. The metal bar WASN'T hollow after all, and it WAS pretty heavy.
Syaoran didn't even have the time to curse before she was all over him, and bruises and scars appeared all at once.
Meanwhile, Eriol was still making out with Tomoyo. Well fine, not really. Actually, they weren't at all. It was just a dream.
Tomoyo stared intensely into Eriol's deep navy blue eyes, her soul being sucked right into them. Eriol at the same time couldn't help but notice how emotional her deep amethyst eyes were. His arms were still around her waist, and he was all too aware that his power would be sucked away by the pounded and bleeding Syaoran if he didn't let Tomoyo go and yell at Sakura soon…but oh…the pleasure…
It was humanity all over for her. She couldn't imagine a better place to be. She had had many visions of him, of his power, and of his smile, but every time she woke up because of Sakura's dreams, she forgot his face. She forgot his eyes too. Those eyes that she sank into and drowned in. It had happened time and time again. It wasn't something she could help. No, it was way beyond that now.
It was a deep compassion she had never felt before. It was deeply…enchanting. Yes, she, Tomoyo Daidouji, had fallen in Love.
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Exit Lina