Title: The Time Machine
By: Crazy Kawaii
Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance
Summary: What do you get when 2 nerds decide to mix science and magic? A TIME MACHINE! Syaoran and Eroil accidently bring back a girl from 2,000 years in the future named S-6/K-8. What will happen? What happenes in the future?
Chapter 3: Shower Lesson
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Sakura was in a funny room, lying in a funny bed. She rolled over to see the boy sleeping calmly on the floor. The room was lightly illuminated by some kind of light from outside. She quietly got off the bed and walked over to the window and looked out.
She stared at the moon. Something that she did not have in her time. It was beautiful, she thought.
She was incredibly tired at the moment. This guy named Syaoran was being really nice to her. He was also fairly good looking for a nomad.
"Monoka..." She whispered.
"Yes, Sakura-chan?"
"Tell me everything you know about... 2006 AD... "
"Yes, Sakura-chan."
She listened while Monoka spoke. For the first time in her life, her eyes blurred with tears as she stared intently at the moon.
She was so far away from home, even though she was there.
Same place.
Different time.
For you, it would be like living in ancient Egypt while they were building pyramids. The pharoh seems so certain he will rule forver. But you know what happens. You know that it won't last. How they live is primative, it seems stupid because you know better. The food they eat looks discusting because... it is.
Sakura gazed at the moon as Modoka told her about the 'technology' and sent her images to her eye computer.
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Six hours later
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"Holy crap, twenty-six missed calls!" Syaoran said, looking at his phone.
S-6/K-8 woke up.
She had dreams of huge gigantic computers and huge box telecommunication devices and odd cars that released harmful chemicals in the air and strange cloths and a lot of other things...
The fact that she could read and write and speak the same language was very odd, but she was happy at the coincedence.
Syaoran was playing on the phone thing.
"Is that... a... sell fone?" She asked.
Syaoran nodded. "Are there cell phones in your time?"
She shook her head. "We have... a more... advanced way of comunicating with each other."
"Like how? Do you have one?" He asked.
S-6/K-8 nodded.
"Can I... see it?" He asked, excited.
She pointed to her ear. "It is inside. I also have a persacom. "
Syaoran blinked. "What's a persacom?"
"A persacom is a personal computer." She said. "It is installed in the ear."
"It's that small!" Syaoran gasped.
She nodded.
"Wow."
She smiled a bit. Syaoran's heart lifted a little and... she had braces!
"You have braces!" He exclaimed, and pointed to her teeth. He would have thought that in the future, there would be better ways of straitening teeth but whatever.
"Braces?" She questioned.
"Yeah, the metal on your teeth."
S-6/K-8 was confused. She took the 'braces' off.
He said, "Or not. What's that for?"
She looked up for a moment. "How am I going to put this... its apart of my persocom's ...memory."
"Oh. That's... thats pretty advanced..." He said. "For this time. I mean, who would have thought..."
She nodded an put on the 'braces'. It did not really look like braces. It looked like four little metal things that were shaped like squares that S-6/K-8 had on her front four bottom teeth.
"Okay, here is what is going to happen." Sakura said. "I am not going to tell you anything about the future. It does not seem right, and you will freak out, I know for sure... so do not ask."
Well now he was really curious.
"Okay." He agreed.
She walked around his room.
"Is this a computer?" She pointed to his sleek new Sony laptop computer.
He said, "Yes."
"Wow...It is gigantic."
She pointed to the television. "What is this?"
"T.V."
"Wow..."
She pointed to the video game counsel.
"Video games." Syaoran said. S-6/K-8 leaned in closer and looked at the video game counsel.
"Wow..." She pointed to the PS2 symbol on the game. "What does that mean?"
"Play Station Two." Syaoran said.
"Honestly?" She paused, then,"You know that there is a Sony PS 907?" She said.
"No way!" Syaoran said, his eyes went wide. Must be... super.. awesome...
"I did not even know there was a Play Station 2 until I saw it right now. I believed they started at 890."
She shrugged.
"Tell me about it! Please...?" Syaoran asked. He loooved video games.
"Well, it is like..." She paused. "You know what a visor looks like?"
He nodded.
"Yes. It is a visor that goes over your eyes, and you play." She said.
Syaoran was like this- ( O . O; )
Sakura said, "You like video games alot, do you not?"
Syaoran nodded and smiled.
"On Tidus, it is the the video game spot in the solar system. You walk into a room and play. It is quite fun..."
"Tidus? Solar system?"
"Yes. It takes about a week to travel there from Earth. I have been there once with my brother. I believe he lives there now. Well, not now-" She paused. "I forgot, I was not going to tell you anything."
Syaoran frowned. "But I'm not freaked out!"
S-6/K-8 shrugged and laid back down on the fluffy bed. "There are more than video games. If I told you what happened to your kind, you would piss in your pants."
"What?" His kind? What did that mean?
She smirked knowingly.
"I am not going to tell you." She rolled over and faced Syaoran. "I do not know what to ask. I believe I already know everything I need about your time. This time."
He blinked. "Oh."
After an awkward moment of silence, Syaoran decided to change into regular cloths. "I'm going to take a shower. You can take one now or after me... and I can get you some cloths to change into."
"Take what?" She asked. Syaoran was gathering his cloths for the day.
He said, "A shower."
She said, "What?"
He said, "A shower. You... step into a... box... naked... and clean yourself as water pours all over you."
It sounds ridiculus when you have to explain it like that.
"What a waste of water." She said.
Syaoran shrugged. "I don't need to worry about hot water running out-"
He stopped. She was talking about water in general. "So... is there a water shortage...?"
S-6/K-8 nodded. "There is absultely no clean water left. It e- Ah, I forgot. I wont speak." She frowned.
"How do you keep clean then?" Syaoran asked.
"It is hard to explain in words you'd understand... hold on..." She paused, and started talking to her 'persacom' "Monoka, how would you explain it?"
"Okay." She said. "You know how a magnet works, right?"
"Uhuh."
"You go into a room... and well... all the bad sustances are... taken off." She shrugged. "It is not something you explain, you just go along with it. How do you...shower?"
He says..."Well. First, you get into the shower. Then, you get naked..."
She snorted. "You are kidding, right?"
Syaoran shook his head. "Nope. Well, if you dont believe me, you can just watch-"
She said, "No thank you."
Syaoran shrugged. "Your loss." He laughed at his own perverted joke. "Okay anyway, so.. you're in the shower, naked, by the way, and there are two knobs..."
Sakura looked clueless.
"Okay, here, look." They went into the bathroom.
"There's the knobs. They control the temperature and pressure. Left is cold, right is hot. The more you turn each knob to the left, the more water and either cold of hot it gets. Okay?"
She said, "Uhuh..."
"And there's the shower head." He pointed to the shower head. S-6/K-8 looked up. "The water comes out from there."
She said, "Uhuh."
"That..." He pointed to shampoo and conditioner. "You clean your hair with that. The hair on your head."
"Okay."
"You put a little bit in your hair, like a... gram or two. Then, you lather it in your hair, then rinse it all out. Okay?"
She nodded. "Okay."
"Okay, here's the fun part." He said. He pointed to a bar of soap. "This, you use to clean your body. Just rub it on a washcloth" He handed her a wash cloth "then rub the wash cloth all over your body. Then, rinse all the soap off."
"Uhuh."
"Then your done! Turn the water knobs back and the water turns off."
"Oh."
"So... your going to be all wet when you finish so... you dry yourself off with a towel when your done. It'll take a while for your hair to dry, but it doesn't matter."
Sakura nodded. "Is that all?"
He nodded.
She said, "Oh. Okay... can I ... take a shower... now?"
He nodded again.
S-6/K-8 let out a small smile. "Okay."
He beamed.
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Ten Minutes Later-
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He laid on his bed. What a morning...
All of a sudden, "HOOOOEEEEE!"
Oh god.
He ran to the bathroom.
"S-6/K-8, what is it?" Syaoran exasperated. She needed an easier name.
He put his ear to the door.
"It just got really hot... but it is fine now." Sakura said, her voice muffled.
"Okay!"
Syaoran frowned. He half wanted her to come running out of the bathroom naked but... Well, not half wanted.
Another ten minutes passed, and Syaoran was sorting out his room.
The shower was off, and S-6/K-8 came out with her cloths on.
"So... how was your first shower?" Syaoran sat up.
"Good." She said. "It is so relaxing... I like it."
"Great. I'm going to take one now, so... stay in my room. Please don't go out, my mom might see you and freak out, okay?"
She nodded.
Syaoran went into the bathroom and Sakura laid on his bed.
The showers were weird. The cars and computers and TV's were weird.
"Monoka." Sakura said.
"Yes Sakura-chan?"
"Tell me more about 2006 AD."
"Yes Sakura-chan."
Images flooded her vision. Sakura closed her eyes and her wet hair stuck to her face.
She fell asleep in minutes.
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Syaoran saw S-6/K-8 asleep on his bed. So peaceful.
Syaoran's outfit was simple.
Black tee-shirt, dark jeans, black shoes.
He slipped his cell phone and wallet in his pocket and decided to show S-6/K-8 around later.
He stood by his bed, S-6/K-8 sleeping peacfully besides him.
Should he wake her?
Naah.
He just stood there and watched her.
He wondered...
What did she know about her world? His world? He wanted to know... but at the same time, he didn't.
He was afraid.
Why would girls like her be armed with three guns? Why did she wear a mask? Why did she wear a complete body suit, so that even her hand a feet were covered?
Was Earth that bad?
Riiing riiiing... dun dun duuuun. duga duuun...
(syaoran's awesome ring tone)
Syaoran heard his cell phone ringing and scrambled around to find it.
"Dammit, where'd I put it..." He said to himself.
He heard it, it was so close.
Riiing riiiing... dun dun duuuun. duga duuun...
It was flowing him where ever he went!
Riiing riiiing... dun dun duuuun. duga duuun...
Then he realized it was in his pocket.
He took his phone out of his pocket and answered it.
He greeted, "Moshi-moshi?"
"SYAORAN! WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM!" Came Eriol's panic stricken voice.
Oh yea. He was going to tell Eriol, wasn't he?
Should he?
He said, "I know."
"I've been trying to call you all day, I went to the basement and when I got there, the time machine was completely fried..." Eriol sniffed. "So-"
Syaoran repeated, "I know."
"-wait. You know? How'd you know... Did you mess it up!" Eriol said.
Syaoran said, "No! I didnt... Eriol, it worked. That stupid time machine worked."
"Nu-uh. You're not in the future. You can't be, or you wouldn't be talking to-"
"No no... it didn't send me, I brought somebody back."
Pause.
"You serious?"
"Yes." Syaoran sat on his bed.
"Holy crap, you actually said yes, not yeah or yea... holy crap. Who?"
Syaoran paused. "... S-6/K-8."
Eriol said, "What?"
Syaoran said, "Look... you need to find a way to bring people back to their regular time. This girl is way off from her time."
Eriol said, "Oh la la, c'est une fille!"
Syaoran said a little more forcefully, "Look, Eriol, I'm not fuckin joking. Your stupid time machine worked, and we need to take her back to her fucking time, alright? Call me when you fucking got something."
He hung up on Eriol.
While he was on the phone... S-6/K-8 woke up. The pillow her head was on was wet. She saw Syaoran sitting by her. He smelled... very pleasant.
She sat up and yawned. She knew a little more about his time... the present time.
Syaoran turned around and saw Sakura was awake.
"Hello." Syaoran said.
S-6/K-8 said "Hi."
"Um... are you hungry?" He asked.
She nodded.
"We can go out to eat..."
She nodded again.
Syaoran got up. So did S-6/K-8. She walked over to Syaoran's closet and took out her boots and slipped them on.
He walked quickly out of his room and Sakura followed. They ran down the stairs and headed to the front door.
Sakura stopped right at the door.
Syaoran said, "What's wrong?"
"I do not think you could answer this but... is the air safe?"
Syaoran was thinking: Uhh
She looked at the sky.
"Wow." She whispered.
He looked at her curiously.
Did she ever see the sky before? Perhaps it was different in her time. Air polution probably accumalated.
S-6/K-8 slowly stepped out of the house, holding her breath. After a while, she gave up and started breathing.
They made it out the door without being scene. That was good.
Syaoran asked, "So... what do you eat in you time?"
They got in his car.
"Food." She replied seriously.
Ha.
He said, "Yeah, well, what kind? I dont want to make you eat something you think is really gross."
Syaoran remembered it those movies that took place in the medieval period, that ate gross looking food. At the Medieval time period was only around 500 years ago... and S-6/K-8 was 2000 years ahead.
Wow. 2000 years...
She said, "I am pretty open-minded."
He sighed. "Do you like... um. Meat?"
They were driving now.
She said, "Like what?"
He shrugged. "I dunno. Come on, give me a hint."
"I am pretty open minded." Sakura repeated.
Syaoran chuckled. "Okay then..."
They drove in silence and S-6/K-8 was staring with her mouth open at the scenery. Her eyes were wide and she turned around occasionaly to keep her gaze on an object.
"What are you looking at that's so interesting?" He asked.
"Everything!" She gasped.
Syaoran smiled.
He wondered...
How would the Earth look in 2000 years? Will the sky be gray? Black? Orange?
Okay maybe not orange.
But would his house still exist? His town? Country? Will he be remembered?
She was still gawking at the scenery, making little comments to herself like,
'Oh shit!' and 'Fuck!'
Syaoran stopped in front of a little fast-food place.
"What do you like better... Japanese food or American?"
She gave him one of those looks that says, 'You're stupid.'
"American?... I... do not...know..." She muttered.
Right. She doesn't know.
"Um... you wanna come in to chose?" He asked.
"Sure." She shrugged.
They got out of the car and she was still scanning every inch in sight.
The fast-food place was called, Yum-Miam Food. Syaoran thought it was pretty good.
As soon as they stepped inside, Sakura looked at everything wide-eyed.
She looked at the menu. There was pictures of some of the food entres.
She leaned over to Syaoran and whispered, "Is that the food you eat?"
Syaoran nodded.
"Ugh!" She said, clearly disgusted.
Syaoran chuckled. Open-minded his ass.
"Well, what do you eat?"
She looked around in silence.
"Oh, come on. I need something to work with. Can you describe it?"
"People." She said.
"..."
She smirked.
He said, "Are you serious?" Oh no, he was hanging with a hannibal from the future.
She continued smirking.
"..."
"I am joking. That would be disgusting, like this shit you eat..."
They stepped outside again and walked back to the car.
Syaoran said, "So.. describe the food of your time."
She coughed. "Well... everything is in... bar form."
He said, "Oh!"
She said, "Oh?"
Syaoran nodded.
S-6/K-8 raised her eyebrows.
He said, "I know where to go! You don't eat a lot do you?"
She said, "Define 'a lot'."
He said, "Uhh... whatever..."
They drove to a gas station.
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To sum things up, Syaoran bought S-6/K-8 a crap load of power bars.
She had one and said it wasn't bad, but way better then the other stuff the Earth people ate.
Then, she ate some candy bars, and fell in love.
Her favorite candy was chocolate. So anyway...
Syaoran learned this:
New Earth people shot nutrients into their blood stream and maintain 'the healthy pH balance'. They ate 'bars' to satisfy they hunger... so that meant... there wasn't a whole lot of fat people in the future.
The day went by faster than Syaoran expected. Eriol didn't call back.
S-6/K-8 was still looking at everything wide-eyed.
And Syaoran... He learned to look at things in a different perspective.
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an: that took... more than a year to post, lol SORRY!