Disclaimer: I do not own Card captor Sakura or any of its characters and places. It's all Clamps'. I just own the story I made up.
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It All Began With A Dream
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Chapter sixteen : Arrival of a Friend
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A few hours had passed since the revelation of his status, and Kinomoto had gone to the supermarket to get some food.
Hiiragizawa and Li were both in the living room, talking about things in a low voice.
Instinctively, and especially by the way the two were throwing him glances threw the open door of the bedroom, Syaoran knew that they were talking about him, and maybe looking for a solution to bring him back to his world, or dimension as Hiiragizawa called it.
Li had lent Syaoran some of his clothes, since they had the same size. There was a large green shirt, black baggy pants and a light sweater. The boy found these things really weird at first, but quickly found out they were quite comfy. He wondered what kind of face Sakura would have made seeing these…things on him.
He had tried to stand up sometime before, but his legs were to weak to support his weight and he almost collapsed on the floor. Luckily, Eriol wasn't too far and he had caught him before he landed. How embarrassing for the amber-eyed boy…
After his disastrous attempt, the gang had decided for him to stay at Li's until he was better.
'A Prince!' thought the boy in bed, his head spinning a little 'I'll have to ask Eriol when I go back, if I ever. I'm sure he knows something'
He turned his head from the door, where the two shot him an other glance and stared blankly at his night-table.
A half-full glass of water attracted his eyes. It was Kinomoto who had brought it to him, thinking that he was thirsty, and she was right.
Inopportunely, this gesture caused Li to glare deadly at Syaoran, but only Hiiragizawa noticed it and he smiled widely, laughing a little behind his hand, and earning a death glare from his parent too.
Suddenly, a ringing sound made him turn toward the living room's door and he watched Li stand up with a sigh and walk to some kind of black box which gave another ring. He picked up another black box, smaller, which was on the larger one, and pressed a button. The box gave a faint 'bip' and Li carried it quickly to his ear.
"Li residence." The boy said to the box.
Syaoran blinked and bent his head to the side, clueless. Was Li crazy or something to be talking to an inanimate object?
Li waited a moment and looked as if he was listening to something and then, spoke again.
"Well, she not here at the moment, but she'll come back soon."
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"She'll stay here a bit longer, we found someone…" he continued but got interrupted.
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"We found him in the old tower."
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"Hmmhmm…"
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"Yeah"
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"All right, you can come. You know where I live."
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"Okay, I'll tell her when she'll come back."
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"Bye"
And he placed the black box down and returned to his seat, next to Hiiragizawa.
"It was Daidouji" he told the blue-haired boy.
'Now, where have I heard this name' wondered Syaoran.
"Tomoyo-san?" said Hiiragizawa a hint of curiosity in his eyes. "What did she want?"
'Tomoyo!' Syaoran opened his eyes wide 'So there is a Tomoyo in this world as well.' He shot a corner glance to Hiiragizawa 'I wonder…'
His thoughts were interrupted by the slam of the entrance door.
"I baaaaack!" chanted Kinomoto in a clear and cheerful tone. "Did anything happen while I was away?"
She finally appeared in Syaoran's sight, carrying a large paper back close to her. Li stood up to help her and she gladly let him take the heavy bag full of food.
"Daidouji has phoned. She wanted to know where you were. She has something she wants to show you, so she'll be coming over." The amber-eyed boy informed her before heading for the kitchen to get rid of the bag now in his arms.
The girls face broke into a large and bright smile.
"Great! I really wanted her to meet the second Li-kun!"
Li, who was back in the living room shot a death glare to Syaoran through the opened door.
Suddenly, another weird ringing sound, louder than the one who had come from the black box, resonated in the flat, causing Syaoran to jump and almost fall out of his bed.
Hiiragizawa, who saw him do that and then turn his head frantically from side to side to see from where the sound was coming began to laugh almost insanely, and he earned a few perplexed looks from his two friends.
Li had got up and walked toward the entrance door to open it. Syaoran could not see what was happening there, but he heard a feminine familiar voice say something and Li answered. The door closed and he heard the voice excitedly calling Kinomoto's name. The sound of footsteps became louder as the two persons, Li and the stranger entered the living room.
In a swirl of raven-black hair, the newbie lunged on Kinomoto and crushed her with a tight hug. When she released her, she was turning her back to Syaoran, so he couldn't tell who it was, but he had the impression that had already seen this raven hair somewhere before.
All of a sudden, he taped his forehead.
'Of course! It can only be…' he mentally laughed at his own stupidity.
"Tomoyo-chan!" squealed Kinomoto, grinning from ear to ear "I'm glad you could come. I wanted to…"
But she was cut off by Daidouji who was still back to Syaoran.
"Sakura-chan! I've just finished the cutest outfit for you ever! I just couldn't wait longer; I had to see it on you!"
Syaoran smiled, seeing the similarities the two Tomoyo had.
His nose started to tickle him.
"I brought it with me of course," Continued the girl, not breathing, "It's in my backpack. I've even brought my cam-…"
"Atchoo!"
Syaoran, not able any longer to hold the tickling in, sneezed, and Daidouji, surprised to learn that there was someone else in the house except for Li-kun, Hiiragizawa-kun and Sakura-chan, turned to face the person in the bedroom.
Her smile froze.
Her entire body froze.
The room went deadly silent, nobody was moving, almost not even breathing. It was as if someone had pushed the "pause" button of a movie.
Daidouji blinked once. Twice. Thrice.
She studied the boy in bed's face and then turned, s…l…o…w…l…y…, to compare his features with the amber-eyed boy who was standing next to her little Sakura-chan. They were exactly the same. Both had chestnut hair, amber eyes, the same nose, same lips, and a well built body. Everything was identical!
Her gaze went back to Syaoran and then…
She smiled widely, and brought her joined hands to her heart.
"How kawaii!" she finally shrieked, breaking the heavy silence and warm the cold atmosphere "Two Li-kuns for my little Sakura-chan!"
Everybody sweat dropped at her exclamation and both amber-eyed boys blushed heavily.
"Hohohohohoho!" she laughed and searched in her bag to take out her famous cam-recorder, which she pointed on a stupefied Syaoran. "I have to immortalise those moments!"
"Hoe?" Kinomoto shrieked, clueless.
Hiiragizawa just smiled.
Cam-recorder still in hand, Daidouji entered the bedroom to be able to film in details. A few times, she changed her us from a Li-kun to the other, and then on Kinomoto.
"Can I film them side by side?" she asked with starry eyes.
The blue-haired boy sweat dropped.
"Daidouji-san, they're not animals in a zoo you know... In addition, Syaoran there is too weak to stand up." He answered, showing the boy in bed by a head gesture.
Daidouji sighed and shrugged, and Syaoran quickly added.
"Oh, but I'm fine now. I can try to walk…"
He tossed the green blankets aside and threw his legs to the bed border. It seemed like a 'déjà vu'… actually like the first time he had tried to walk back in his world, at Sakura's cottage.
Carefully, he stood up and tried to take a few steps. Seeing he had a good balance, he relaxed a bit and made some more steps around the room.
He looked at his 'audience' and grinned at them before walking toward them, but before he managed to reach them, he tripped over his bag he hadn't seen and fell forward.
Hi instincts told him to get a hold of something, and that thing was…Kinomoto's leg.
Startled, the girl gave a gasp and lost her balance under the weight of Syaoran. They both fell with a loud 'thud', the amber-eyed boy on top of her.
Immediately, he got of her a stood up, before giving her a hand, his face deep red. The girl was laughing, and Syaoran was glad she wasn't hurt. He turned to face the three others. Daidouji was still filming, and Li was being held back, his face red from anger, by a, as usual, smiling Hiiragizawa who commented.
"Nice way to go Syaoran-san." he giggled, as Syaoran became even redder "But I see that you're better than before."
And he let go of Li, who had calmed down a bit, before the boy could hit him.
Kinomoto smiled at Li who blushed lightly, and clapped in her hands once.
"I'm sure you're all getting hungry. Do you mind if I use your kitchen Li-kun?"
She started heading to the kitchen, but Li stopped her and told her he'd do it, which he did, a twenty minutes later, they were all sitting around a table. On the table were some soup, fried rice, some lemon-chicken, and a few spring-rolls. Everything seemed delicious.
"I guess you are as good as ever at cooking, my cute little descendant" complimented Hiiragizawa after swallowing a spoonful of soup, while Li clenched his fists at his ending words.
"Don't call me that!" he growled.
"Why are you calling him your 'cute little descendant'?" asked Syaoran, widening his eyes.
"It's because" explained Hiiragizawa "I'm the reincarnation of Clow Read and the Li family is a family who descends from Clow. This makes Li-kun here my 'descendant' in a way."
"I see… So it means that I'm a descendant of Clow Read as well?"
The blue-haired boy nodded and continued to eat. For a moment, the only sound in the room was the clashing of spoons in the bowls or the baguettes and the swallowing.
At the same time, reaching for more rice Hiiragizawa and Daidouji's hands came in contact, but was immediately broken by a quick movement of the two blushing beings.
"Are you two together?" asked an innocent Syaoran, really surprised by their behaviour towards each other.
The two interested went purple and lowered their head. Meanwhile, Li split his soup back in his plate and Kinomoto chocked on some rice.
"Wha…What made you think such thing?" replied a madly blushing raven-haired girl.
Li and Kinomoto were now howling with laughter and Syaoran didn't have a clue why.
"Well, in my world, you two are getting married soon, and I thought that since you and them are basically the same, you should like each other… but I guess I was wrong…" he answered, blushing a bit too for entertaining such talks.
Hiiragizawa and Daidouji blushed even more, if it was possible.
Kinomoto was rolling on the floor, laughing like a madwoman and Li was laying his head beside his plate, hitting the table with his fist.
"You were wrong." said the blue-haired boy, staring at his hands as if they were the most interesting thing in the world "I don't like Daidouji-san that way…"
Daidouji's head shot up and sent a glare at Hiiragizawa.
"You mean you don't… like me?" she asked, her eyes watery, her mouth lightly pouting. You could tell she was about to cry.
"Hem…" Hiiragizawa began, uneasy and blushing "It's not what I meant Tomo-Daidouji-san"
Li and Kinomoto had clamed down a bit and they looked at Daidouji who had her head facing the floor, making it impossible to see her eyes and say what she was going to do next. The more likely was crying.
"Hey…" added the blue-haired boy, concern and worry on his usually calm face "D…don't cry…"
Her shoulders started to shake. Every body stopped moving and held their breath in, waiting for the final outburst.
Who never came.
Instead, the girl cracked up, laughing hard, unable to stop herself.
"You should have seen your faces!" she hiccupped to the gang and to Hiiragizawa in particular, between to waves of laughter "You looked so funny"
All of them sweat dropped, but her laugh was contagious, and soon, all of them were laughing without reserve, except for Syaoran who was a bit lost…
After a while, they were back to their serious selves again, and they continued their meal, as if nothing ever happened.
"Tell us more about your world, or dimension, whatever." said Kinomoto, breaking the silence.
Seeing her smile so friendlily to Syaoran, Li shot him yet another death glare that made him gasp, but he was getting used to them, so he paid it no attention. Receiving about twenty death glares per hour makes that to you...
"Ahem…" he started, quite embarrassed by the looks,the people around the table gave him "Well, I fear I won't be able to tell you much, since I lost my memories, as I already told you…"
Daidouji gave a small 'oh my' and gave him a comforting look. This action made Syaoran get a death glare, but this time by Hiiragizawa. He looked at him quizzically, Li and Kinomoto too, and he blushed lightly, avoiding their gaze. As for Daidouji, she hadn't seen what had occurred.
"From what I know" he continued "I am the prince of the Li's and Sakura, the princess of the Kinomoto's"
Kinomoto and Daidouji gave him a starry look, honoured to have a prince in front of them, and giggled, hearing him saying Sakura. Li and Hiiragizawa rolled their eyes and shot him a glare again.
'I wonder if I'll get out of this world alive…' he thought, eyeing the two jealous boys
"The Li's are in war with the Fâ's principality, and the Kinomoto's are in the middle of them. I don't remember the reasons of this war, but as soon as I get back to my world, I'll make my best to make these fighting's stop, after rescuing the princess Sakura of course."
And he told them his story, from the moment he was found in the river, up to now, including Sakura's kidnapping and how he learned how to use magic, but omitting the kissing scenes or any embarrassing stuff.
Kinomoto and Daidouji, as a good audience, gasped or 'awwwww'ed at the good times, but Li's eyes were getting angrier and darker at every more word. As for the blue-haired boy, he had blushed countless times when Syaoran was explaining his double's relationship with Daidouji's.
At the end of the tale, the amber-eyed boy was breathless, and he quickly drank his glass of water.
Outside, the sun was setting.
The table had been cleaned up meanwhile, and Daidouji, seeing the time, quickly got up.
"It's this late already!" she gulped "I'm sorry, but I have to go. I guess my dress will have to wait for another time, ne, Sakura-chan? I'll see you tomorrow at school! Bye everyone, and thanks for having me." She bowed and left.
All of them stared blankly at the door, dumbfounded.
"I have to go back too" said Kinomoto, standing up "Otherwise, my brother will scowl me." She seemed to hesitate "Are you sure you can keep Syaoran-sama here Li-kun?"
The boy frankly nodded and gave her a small smile.
"Don't worry. I'll make it my affair…" he answered her request.
She giggled and nodded, a small blush forming on her cheeks and on his as well.
"Okay then," she said before bowing "I shall leave now. Thanks for everything and see you tomorrow"
And like Daidouji, she left.
Li sighed deeply and crashed on his sofa. Hiiragizawa laughed loudly and patted his pal's shoulder.
"Nice way to go with women Li." He teased, earning a 'oh so familiar death glare and a 'shuddup' gritted threw teeth. "What are we going to do with our uninvited guest tomorrow? We have to go to school."
Li sat up and thought for a moment.
"Maybe we can take him with us. I won't let him stay alone in my apartment, that's for sure!" he said
Syaoran was starting to get annoyed to be considered as absent. They could at least talk to him directly.
"Hmmm… That could be a solution" agreed Hiiragizawa after a moment of reflexion. "We could say that he is a relative of yours, staying in Japan for a bit. But isn't he too resembling to you?"
"Don't worry. I'm sure they'll buy it. I'll arrange that with the principal later. I'm sure he'll be okay with that… After all, my family has some influence over the college."
Syaoran wondered for a moment if he should say something, but he decided to stay quiet, since he was not very welcomed here.
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(A.N: I'm finally over with this chapter. Thanks to all for your wonderful reviews I love so much. I must apologise for being so late in my updates, but I've been very busy these past weeks, and I couldn't update. I hope you'll understand… Just for the past chapter, Edo is the ex-name of the actual Tokyo, but the places changes a bit from dimension to dimension, so the Tower is Syaoran's world is in Edo, but it's in Tomoeda in the others world. Get it? If you still don't get it, armageddonangel, don't worry, it will become clearer as the story goes on…
If you have more questions, please ask me in the reviews and I'll do my best to answer them.
So, 'till next time, this has been Suohfei.)