Disclaimie:

The last disclaimer for my first story, rather depressing, isn't it?

I don't own CardCaptor Sakura, if I did, I wouldn't be writing fanfiction, now would I?

Dodging the Raindrops

Epilogue

Plot by: The Can-Can group

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The smell of bacon woke her up that morning. That smell was never around that early in the morning, which meant that something special is up. What was it though? As the world came into more of a focus, she began to try to remember what was so special that someone would get up to make breakfast.

A knock on the door broke her concentration. "You don't want to be late, do you?" Her mom was up. With a quick glance to the clock, she realized that the apocalypse must be on them; her mom was never up that early.

Her mom said something about being late. What could one be late for? She didn't have any appointments, and she was sure about that. Late… late… What could it be?

"You need to get going, school will be starting soon!" Her mother called, again, a few moments later.

"Of course!" Suzo shouted as she hurriedly got out of bed and threw some clothes on. School! Her first day of high school, how could she forget? It was only the single most important day of her teenage live. Well, second most important. The most important was getting a boyfriend, but high school is, like, some rite of passage, proof that she was almost an adult.

"Suzo?" Her mother asked worriedly from the kitchen.

"Nothing, mom. I just remembered something." Suzo excitedly left the small bedroom, carrying her brand new back bag with her.

The two occupants of the small kitchen looked up as she entered with her curls bouncing. "Morning mom! Morning Syaoran!"

"Suzo! How many times do I have to tell you to call him 'dad'?" Her mother asked with a disapproving look on her face as she flipped a pancake. The man at the table looked up from the newspaper and gave her wink before taking a sip of coffee and going back to reading.

"You stop encouraging her!" Suzo's mom sent a glare to Syaoran, who seemed to shrink into his chair.

Suzo laughed as she took a seat across from her dad of five years. Like he had promised her mother (or so she was told), he came back to Japan and got married to her mom. Suzo sort of remembered him, but it was all hazy, like some dream. During the first year of living together as a family, she'd call him "Mr. Li," but when he told her to just call him "Syaoran, or better yet, dad," she went with the former instead of the latter. Her mom wasn't too happy about that one.

Syaoran offered to get a bigger house, but her mom said that she didn't want a new house; she just wanted the man (Syaoran said that he blushed profusely at that, something he hadn't done in years, supposedly). "Besides," her mother said one evening when they were discussing it. "This is my haven."

"From what?" Suzo asked.

Her mother smiled sadly and shook her head without saying anything. It made Suzo wonder, what happened that would cause such a reaction.

"Morning Kero!" Suzo turned her attention to the chew toy on the table. Kero had died when she was ten. Her mom told her that larger dogs last only nine to ten years and that it was his time. He was a happy dog and died in his sleep. She remembered crying a whole day after seeing him lying in his doggy bed, not moving when she called out his name.

Something soft rubbed against her legs. Laughing at the ticklish feeling, Suzo scooted her chair back just far enough so that she could pick up the cat and place him in her lap. "What are you doing, Yue?" She asked the cat, not expect an answer.

Yue is a completely white cat, except the dark patch of fur that looked like a crescent moon. Syaoran had told her, when they were picking out names for the cat that they adopted two years earlier, that moon in Chinese is "Yue." The name stuck. Yue is a very calm cat with eyes that seemed to be endless and tended to have an "I don't care" look on his face.

"Keep the cat away from the table!" Her mother reprimanded as another pancake was flipped into the air.

"Your mom is another one of her moods," Syaoran whispered from behind the paper as she placed the cat back on the ground.

"I heard that!"

He gave Suzo a pointed look to which she laughed quietly.

"Here," her mother said as she placed several pancakes onto the plate in front of her, along with a few pieces of bacon and some scrambled eggs. "Eat up, you only have ten minutes before he gets here."

Suzo nodded before digging into the meal set out in front of her. The three eat in silence, like a normal family would. Suzo loved her family; she's got everything that she'll ever need. A mom who loves her a lot and a new dad that didn't try to buy her with gifts and presents. Yes, to her, they were the perfect family, with just enough flaws to make everything interesting.

A knock at the door announced the presence of someone in front of the wooden structure.

"I'll get it." Suzo got up and ran to the door.

Behind her, Syaoran made a comment about "young love" and she could hear her mother mumble something in agreement.

"Hi," Suzo said after opening the door. In front of her stood Ryu, her boyfriend, with the silver dyed hair, had a hand raised as if he was about to knock again. Her mother was a little reluctant at allowing Suzo to go out with him (especially since he's a second year with a driver's license), but after Suzo brought him home to meet her parents, she had lightened up a bit and allowed the relationship to continue.

"You ready?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

Suzo nodded enthusiastically and shouldered her back bag. "Bye, guys. I'll see after school!"

"Good byes" and "have a nice days" resounded after her as she closed the door.

"I think I'm going to be scarred for the rest of my life," Ryu commented as they walked down the hallway. Upon asked the reason why, he replied, "I saw your parents tonguing. And seeing your girlfriend's parents going at it just ruined my appetite."

"They're probably making up," Suzo explained dryly. Whenever there was an argument between the two, there would be "making up" afterwards, for which, most of the time, Suzo knew she was too young to see.

"What?"

"Nevermind."

An arm snaked around her waist and Suzo found herself trapped between two arms."I do know a way for you to remedy that, however."

"Oh?" Suzo asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yep," Ryu smiled as he bent down a little bit so that he could kiss her. Suzo was lucky, she got her father's genes instead of her mother's, and ended up being fairly tall, not as tall as Ryo though. Suzo blushed, as the kissing got a bit too passionate for her. Ryu being her first boyfriend, she still wasn't too sure about everything, especially when it came to this part of the relationship. Ryo must've sensed the small bit of discomfort, because he grinned into the kiss and pulled back.

"My appetite is back," He whispered to her as he pulled her in close.

"You need help," Suzo replied after regaining some of her breath.

"I was talking about lunch," Ryu replied with the grin still on his face as they began to descend the stairs. "Second years have an early lunch. Its right after third period."

"Yeah," Suzo replied with a hint of sarcasm. "I believe you."

Ryu laughed and brought out his car keys. The two got into the car and began to head to school. The school was a public school, something of her choice since Syaoran offered a private school. She said that a public school would be more fun then private, plus she all ready knew what she wanted to be when she grew up and an education that a public school would give her would be fine. Plus, she thought as she looked at her boyfriend from the corner of her eyes, she didn't want to leave him all alone without her.

They pulled into the parking lot for the students and got out, not before Ryu made sure that the parking permit was in the correct place.

"I'll see you a few minutes, okay?" Ryu asked after giving her a short kiss. "I need to talk to one of my friends about something."

"Yep," Suzo replied with an enthusiastic nod of her head. With Ryu grinning, they went their separate ways.

Suzo headed over to the outdoor cafeteria, where some other students were sitting as they waited for the first bell to ring. Brining out a notepad, Suzo began to continue on a story that she had started the night before. Pausing in her writing to think about what to do next, she looked up and saw a blond girl that looked very familiar. The blond girl turned her head towards her and made eye contact. Within a few seconds, the girl walked over to her.

"Are you Suzo?" The blond haired girl asked.

"Yes," Suzo replied as she lowered her eyebrows in confusion. "Who are you?"

"Tinamori," the girl replied. "I'm sorry about what I did when I was in preschool. Ever since I was in the Covent, I had wanted to apologize for what I did." The girl, Tinamori, bowed, showing that she was being sincere about the apology.

"Does it matter?" Suzo asked politely. "I don't remember what you did that would cause you to join a Covent, however, I'll say I forgive you to put your mind at ease."

Tinamori looked at Suzo with confusion. "Why would you do that? I did something very terrible, you should still be hating me."

Suzo shrugged. "Can't hate you if I don't know what I'm supposed to hate. Besides, I need a friend, I'm a first year, so I don't have any friends here, except for my boyfriend, but he doesn't count."

Ryu joined the two with a mock hurt look in his eyes. "I think that I'm insulted. I think that I should count since there is a 'friend' in 'boyfriend.'"

"Sure," Suzo replied with the rolling of her eyes. "Whatever you say."

"Are you serious?" Tinamori asked, disbelieving.

Suzo nodded as she scooted over to make room for her boyfriend. "My mom told me that a person's past shouldn't matter. All that matters is what you do to make up for it. So, if you want, your punishment is that you have to be my new friend."

"Trust me," Ryu whispered to Tinamori. "That's the worst punishment ever."

With the sun shinning brightly over them, Ryu laughed as Suzo began to yell at him, and Tinamori smiled a little.

It was the best first day of school, ever…

The End

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Of a story that took me over a year to do. The last chapter of my first story, now I won't feel so guilty anymore when I put something else up and completely ignore this one. However, I'm proud to say that I didn't take a whole year to write this five-ish page epilogue. Go me!

I had the part with Tinamori coming back planned for a long time. The epilogue was going to be in first POV (Suzo's) but, I like it this way better. Most of the loose ends are tied, except for Eriol and Tomoyo. They're married with two children and the rest is clichéd history.

This is the sappiest thing I have ever written, I surprised myself. This just makes me want to do a story about Suzo and Ryu's relationship, not sure if I will though, especially since I have a new story that I'm going to put up as soon as get this one up (it's a Naruto story, the plot's too hard to explain, so I won't) and the new Fruits Basket fanfiction that I put up (GO READ IT! PLEASE!)

This story is my first story, started during my first year of high school (very dark times), where I was depress all the time (as evidence through my rather brash and insecure/ immature Authoress's Noties of previous chapters). As you will notice, my writing has improved immensely (this story is like the evolution timeline thing, going from a simple story with poor writing, to something much better and more complex in the writing style) and I'm rather proud of it, even though there are about a million plot holes over the place, which I'm not going to say since that'll just make me want to correct it.

The saying that is mentioned at the very end of the last chapter and the very beginning of the first chapter, is something that I came up with when I was coming home from taking care of a neighbor's pet. It was raining out and that's what inspired it.

Now, this is where I say my thanks:

Thank you, Aunt Avis for reading this and telling me what you think. I've always enjoyed our chats online and what not.

Thankies to demi-kaijuu, for being my very first, ever, reviewer and giving the encouragement that I needed.

I'd like to say thanks to all the reviewers that reviewed my story (and giving me over 130 reviews). That makes me the happiest the most since this is my first story (I'm getting tired of saying that…) and it's not all that great to begin with… (Read my other stories!)

Thanks people who read, but don't review (I'm one of those types so its all good). Even if you don't review, but you still like the story, it makes me happy knowing that there are other people out there.

And I'd like to thank any future reviewer (that means you!). Even if its ten years from now, please, go ahead and leave a note, I won't mind at all.

Thank you, everyone! The reviews made me happy!

Now, go read my other stuff!

Questions? Comments? Complaints? Just want me to get off my ass and write some more chapters against my will? Just click on the purple button and off you go…

Sincerely yours,

The Can-Can group