Past, Present and Future
Author's Note: Sorry not much has happened lately. I hope that things will move faster, but they stll have to investigate that flash of light. thank you for all the wonderful reviews. Read & Review!
Author's Note #2: To the person who asked if something was going on between Eriol and Tomoyo. The answer is No and there is a reason for this so keep reading.
Beta Note: Hello. You won't be getting many beta notes, but when you see them they will be important. If Cat kept chapter 2 the way I corrected it, you would see a great difference in her writting. From now on, I'm going to make as little changes as possible, to keep it more in her writting style. The biggest changes will be the ones I couldn't let slip. If you don't like it, let me (Victoria87) know by e-mail. DO NOT FLAME CAT FOR THAT!
Disclaimer: Once again I do not claim any ownership of CCS. It all belongs to CLAMP.
Chapter 3: Investigations
It was the day after the supper filled with questions. It had stpped raining but the clouds still hadn't dispersed, making it gloomy. Eriol was going to wake Crystal up that morning, but when he arrived in her room, he found the bd made and a note waiting for him.
Dear Eriol,
If you were coming to wake me up, sorry.
I had other things to do. Will be back by lunch.
Crystal
Eriol just sighed. Somehow he was expecting the spunky 14 year old to do something like this.
He looked out her window at the gloomy sky. He wasn't worried about her, but he couldn't shake the worrying feeling hanging over him.
/I wonder how Sakura's search is going/ he thought to himself.
Meanwhile...
"Thank god for gloomy weather." said Sakura as Yue & Keroberos flew over head.
"Yeah. Because of it, there's no one around and those two can search from the air." smiled Tomoyo who was still videotaping Sakura even after all these years.
Sakura just smiled before looking up. "How's it going up there!" she yelled at her guardian beasts.
Yue came down first. "Everything looks perfectly normal." he said crossing his arms.
"Does anyone other than me find it odd that, that girl, Crystal, showed up not too long after the flash of light?" asked Keroberos after landing.
"It might be connected. Let's check up on Touya and Syaoron." she said pulling out her cell phone and dialing Shaoron's number.
On the other side of the park, Syaoron and Touya were argueing over which direction to start searching.
"We should search that way." said Syaoron pointing to the right.
"I say we go that way." said Touya pointing left.
"Right!" said Syaoron.
"Left!" argued Touya.
"Right!"
"Left!"
"Ri..." Syaoron's next arguement was interupted by the ring of his cell phone. "Hello?"
Touya just stood waiting impatiently for him so that they could argue again.
"No we haven't started looking... It's not my fault!... Yes... Ok I will... Yeah, bye..."
"Who was it?" asked Touya after he hung up.
"Your sister. She's getting mad at me for something YOU STARTED!" said Syaoron stressing the "me" and yelling the "you started".
"Your point?"
"We've been argueing for sooooooooo long that they're done searching their half and are coming to help us."
"That's great then! It'll take us less time!"
"That's not great! That's bad! We split up at..." he checked his watch. "5:00 am. It is now 8:30 am. We have been argueing for the past three and a half hours!"
"Oh... oops?" he shrugged.
"Big time oops." He sat down on the bench just as Sakura and the others arrived.
"You lazy butts!" she deathglared them both as she arrived. "We'd be done by now no thanks to you!"
"He started it!" they said.
"I don't care who started it! End it and start searching!"
"Okay." sighed both at once.
Sakura was about to turn around and talk to Tomoyo when they heard rustling in the bush to their right.
"What was that?" asked Tomoyo looking worried.
"I knew it would have been safer going to the left." said Touya.
Sakura deathglared her brother before looking up and mouthing to Keroberos and Yue to stay hidden.
Syaoron slowly snuck closer to the bush when he heard a voice talking to itself.
"Stupid branches! Snagging on my dress. I hate forests!" They could hear a tugging sound before the voice became louder and more frustrated. "This is my best dress!" cried the voice before a large tugging sound sound was heard and Crystal came tumbling out, almost missing Syaoron.
"Crystal!" they all cried.
"Ouchies!" she said standing up and rubbing her ass. "That hurt!"
"Hi Crystal!" said Sakura.
"Huh?" she turned around and finally saw them. "Oh hi!" she said happily.
"What was that all about?" asked Tomoyo gesturing to the bush.
"Oh that? Dress got caught." she shrugged puffing out her dress. "Where's Yukito?"
"Oh. He went to... uhhhh..." started Sakura.
"Buy breakfast!" came Yukito's voice coming out of the bush holding nine shopping bags. "Wanna join us?"
"Sure!" she smiled happily.
They walked back to the Penguin slide and Sakura noticed Kero hiding in one of the bags.
During lunch Crystal looked through one of the bags and found Kero. He stayed still, acting like a teddy bear, making Crystal go starry-eyed.
"Oh my god! Yukito, he's so cute!" she squealed hugging Kero.
"Oh. I guess I forgot he was in there." he smiled. "You like teddy bears?"
"I collect them! And my collection is still growing!" she smiled still holding Kero. (A/N: Another thing that's the same for me.)
Yukito just smiled as she looked over Kero, over and over again.
"He's so well made! I've never seen one like this! He must be rare."
"He is." said Yukito nodding.
"Wow! You're so lucky." she said putting Kero down and picking up her juice.
"So what are you doing out here?" asked Tomoyo.
"Oh, I Iost something yesterday before Eriol found me. I came to look for it."
"What did you lose?" asked Sakura thinking that maybe they had found it.
"A locket. It has 'To: Cris-chan' engraved on it. It's very special to me."
"Oh. Hold on a minute." said Sakura looking through her bag and pulling something gold out. "You mean this?" she asked showing it to Crystal.
"Oh my god! Yes that's it! Thank you so much!" she said hugging the locket tightly, before putting it around her neck.
It didn't take long after that for lunch to come, so everyone split up, saying bye for now.
A/N: A little humor at Kero's expense never hurts! Next chapter I'm hoping to make things more interesting. Read & Review please! I need the encouragement!