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A mischievous spirit: The Passion Card Chapter 3 0000000000000000"AAAAAA!"
"Sakura-chan… are you alright?" Tomoyo looked at her friend who had grown 6 years overnight with worry.
It had been two weeks now since two of her closest friends had changed, and they still haven't found out the reason to their transformation. She had been surprised and thrilled at the same time when she had first seen Sakura in this form, she had always thought that her young friend and cousin was so adorably cute, but she had no idea that she could turn out like this in six years time. Today, they were inside the Kinemoto residence, Touya and Yukito were still in school and won't be back until a few more hours, and the card mistress' temper has almost reached its limit.
"I don't understand! Why can't we find the Time card!"
Tomoyo could only smile sadly at her friend. When Sakura scooted closer to her and lowered her voice, her eyes widened at her friend.
"Tomoyo-chan… why is Syaoran ignoring me these past few days?"
Tomoyo could only chuckle in response and patted her friend in return. "Don't worry, Sakura-chan… he's just making sure that nothing happens to you…"
Sakura shook her head, her long tresses flowing in rich creamy waves. Behind her, Syaoran stared at her in longing, a look that didn't go unnoticed by Tomoyo.
"Trust me, Sakura-chan… he cares about you. Hnnn… tell me, what exactly do you feel when Syaoran's around you?"
A slight blush covered her friend's cheeks, "Why do you ask that, Tomoyo-chan?"
"Because, if I'm not mistaken, Syaoran feels the same for you… he's only distancing himself to make sure that your brother won't find a way to rip him from limb to limb…"
Sakura turned red at Tomoyo's words and knew exactly what she meant. Though at the age of 14, they were already well aware of what sexual attraction means, especially now. For the past few days, aside from the fact that they were looking for a way to remove the power of time cards over them, the two of them have found some of their spare time to actually indulge their curiosity for one another. Along with a few… unbelievable kisses.
"Syaoran wouldn't be able to do anything especially with Touya watching his every move." The two girls giggled at her response. At that same instant, Sakura's head snapped up and stared at the direction of her room.
Syaoran noticed her reaction and looked at the direction she was looking. Furrowing his brows, he turned and looked directly into her eyes, sensing the same this that she was feeling at that same time.
"Do you sense a clow card, Sakura?" he asked her quietly and saw her nod slowly as she stood up quietly with Kero beside her
"It's the time card…" Kero whispered, and ever so softly she summoning her staff and went up the stairs behind Syaoran quietly. As he opened the door to her room, he readied his sword and entered with Sakura in tow, but just as she entered, the door slammed shut behind her. Yelping in surprise, Sakura pounded on her door, "Tomoyo, Kero-chan! Are you alright!"
Tomoyo gasped as the door shut in front of her. She had been following the two in front of her with her ever ready camera in her hands, ready to take the action in her camera when Sakura's door shut in her face.
"Sakura? Li? Are you two alright in there?" she called out worriedly
"Yes! But please call my brother and tell them what's going on! We can't get out, the room's sealed tight!" came Sakura's voice
"Sakura! What's going on!" Kero called out, already worried for her safety after sensing the rest of the cards come to life.
"Kero! The other cards are moving against us!" came her panicked voice
"Hold on, Sakura!" he yelled as he breathed fire right to the wall to no avail.
"Sakura! The shield card is protecting the door and it seems that the lock card is responsible for locking you in!" he called back
"I know! Kero-chan… there's another card in here…"
"What card is it, Sakura? Sakura? Sakura!" Kero yelled and started to worry when Sakura no longer answered him and there was just complete silence from the room, he couldn't even here anything from Li as well.
"Li! What's going on! Hey!"
Turning towards the stairs, he watched as Sakura's brother pounded up the stairs with Yue and Tomoyo behind him.
"What happened!" Touya barked as he skidded to a halt beside the fully transformed lion.
"I don't know. The cards suddenly turned against Sakura and trapped her within her room with that Chinese gaki!" he said
Yue released one arrow only to have it disintegrated. "I don't understand… the cards have warmed up and trusted the mistress… why are they going up against her now? They usually only want the best for their mistress… they wouldn't want to put her in any harm..."
Tomoyo blinked and gasped as each information sunk in catching everyone attention. "Maybe that's what's happening…maybe they're doing this for Sakura and Li-kun"
"What! Why on earth would…" Kero trailed off and a dull shade of red covered his furry face.
Yue stared at the lion and understood the blush that covered the other guardians face and remembered exactly what the other was thinking.
"What!" Touya looked at one to the other, "what's going on!"
"I just remembered that there was one card that Clow reed created… a very mischievous card that played on two peoples emotions… well not exactly play with them… more likely, heightened them…" Kero said
Touya's eyes narrowed, "Define heightened…"
"AA…errr…"
"What's the name of this card?" Touya barked back at them
Touya stopped short and stared at the moon guardian's answer before Tomoyo's voice wafted over to them.
"Oh dear… I think that's the reason why Sakura and Li have been transformed to the way they are right now." she whispered in shock with her hands covering her mouth
"The card needs them to be in this form so that it can act its magic on them, work on their emotions…"Yue told them all quietly as he trained one more arrow at the door.
Touya looked at everyone with him and felt panic claw up his belly.
"SAKURA!"
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Li held his sword higher in a defensive pose with Sakura behind him. Inching back towards the door, he listened to the conversation of Sakura with the stuffed bear outside as she continued to try to unlock the door.
"Sakura… Sakura!" he whispered all the while not keeping his eyes of the two spirits before him.
Sakura then turned to him and stood still as she saw the spirit of the two cards before them. The light and the dark card stood floating on each on the other side of a bright light. The light then transformed into a spirit of a clow card who stood giggling uncontrollably at the two standing in front of her.
"What do you want!" Li asked the unknown spirit.
The spirit only smiled before lifting its hands and a bright light engulfed all of them. As the light dissipated, Sakura and Li were surprised when both the light and dark card held each of them, restraining them.
Starting to feel scared, both of them struggled to no avail.
"What's going on! Light… Dark!" Sakura asked the cards that held them as tears pooled in her eyes in frustration.
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" Li yelled as he continued to struggle against dark's hold. Having trouble with the kid turned teen. Looking at the mysterious spirit for help, the spirit tilted its hand and summoned two more cards from the book. Before any of them could react, the power card materialized as well as the silent card. Coming close to the Chinese teen, the power card easily held him with the dark card and the silent card spread its power within the room and blocked out the sounds of the people trying to open the door outside, but not before they heard the name of the card responsible for all of their problems.
Passion.
To be continued….
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AN: hehehe! Me feeling inspireddd! Hope you like this chappie! Enjoy! Ja ne! Don't forget the revies!
Aoi-chan