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Rika: Indeed, and we apologize for the mistake with chapter five. Suzuki's computer ate the chapter and put that there instead.

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Rika: Evil is an understatement...anyways, on with the story!

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Eriol's Troubles

By: Rika and Suzuki

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"Aah..." Eriol sighed happily. "It's too bad we couldn't come a few months earlier. I love Japan in the spring."

"...huh?" Ron asked, looking confused.

Eriol looked at him for a minute, before realizing that he was talking in Japanese. "Ah yes, forgive me." He waved his hand. "There. Now you can speak Japanese." He smiled happily as Syaoran muttered something about him being a show-off.

Hermione groaned unhappily. "But I almost, kind of understood you! Besides, how did you do magic without a wand?"

Eriol smiled, ignoring her question. "Your accent in Japanese is very nice...very polite." He nodded, and then asked Sakura if she needed any help.

"Sooo...what is this again?"om asked, picking up one of the small fried balls on the plate in front of him.

"Takoyaki." Eriol said happily. "It's basically fried octopus. It's actually very good." he said as he popped one into his mouth.

"Umm..." Ron said, quickly putting it down. He laughed nervously. "I think I'll just stick to tea, thanks."

Harry carefully picked one up and examined it.

"Are you going to eat it, or just play with it?" Kero growled irritably, his mouth full of takoyaki.

Harry ignored the magical creature and instead took a small bite. His eyes brightened.

"Hey...this a tually isn't that bad!" He stuck the rest of the piece in his mouth.

"They look too much like fried spiders for my taste..." Ron said with a shiver. "Thanks anyways."

Sakura giggled. "I'm afraid of spiders too." Syaoran just huffed.

"You're afraid of spiders? You scardy cat."

"Hey..." Ron said indignantly. "You've never had to run away from a 20 foot tall spider and his loyal, but very hungry minons.

"Hoe?" Sakura said, and grabbed onto Syaoran's arm. Syaoran just blushed.

"Awww! It's so kawaii!" Tomoyo said, clapping her hands and giggling.

Eriol smiled. "It's so good to be back in Tomoada..."

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After they'd sent Kero and Suppi upstairs with a plate of takoyaki, they all sat down in the living room.

"So, you're wizards?" asked Sakura. "I've never met a wizard before. Have you Syaoran?" Syaoran shook his head.

Eriol smiled and took a letter out of his back pocket. He handed it to Sakura. "Well Sakura-san, you'll be meeting a lot of them soon. That is if you decide to come along."

"A school for magic?" Sakura asked.

"Actually, it's only a school for witchcraft and wizardry. They don't study other magic."

"You mean they don't study real magic..." Syaoran muttered. Eriol gave him a look that clearly meant 'yes, that's true, but if you don't need to go badmouthing people to their face', and continued.

"Wizards can only do certain types of magic, you see."

"Why are you talking like that?" asked Ron, interrupting. "You're a wizard too."

Before Syaoran or Meiling could make and comments, Eriol said "Of course we are." in that tone of voice that said 'think whatever you want' and changed the subject to telling Sakura and Syaoran all about Hogwarts.

Sakura smiled. "It sounds like fun."

"What! You're not thinking of going, are you?" asked Syaoran in disbelief.

"Well..." Sakura said slowly. "I don't want to leave Tomoyo-chan behind...I would miss her terribly. And I don't want to go alone..."

"Of course not!" Eriold said. "I wouldn't dream of inviting you and Syaoran and not Tomoyo-san and Meiling-san. They're the two other teachers talked about in the letter. Tomoyo-san here will be teaching Muggle Studies, and Meiling-san with be Hogwart's first ever Martial Arts teacher. If that's ok with you two, of course..."

"That sounds like fun Hiiragizawa-kun." Tomoyo said, "But if I am going to teach Muggle Studies, I first need to know what a muggle is."

"A muggle is the wizard's term for a non-magical person." Eriol explained to her.

"Oh!" Tomoyo said happily. "Then I should be good at that." She giggled softly, causing Eriol to gaze happily at her, and Syaoran to growl at him. The chain reaction continued with Sakura 'hoe'-ing, Syaoran blushing, Tomoyo 'kawaii!-ing, Meiling rolling her eyes, Eriol chuckling, and Syaoran growling at him again. Harry, Ron, and Hermione watched all of this in amazement.

"Wow..."

Oh yes. I almost forgot." Eriol said. "I already sent a letter to your mother Syaoran., so don't worry. She said that it would be perfectly fine that you went with Sakura, and that you should make sure to write her and keep her informed of your grades."

Syaoran grumbled. "Great..."

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The rest of the day went by somewhat normally. Fujitaka said it would be perfectly fine if Sakura went to Hogwarts if Syaoran and Eriol were going as well. He trusted them. Touya on the other hand protested. He thought that she was much too young to be going to the other side of the world, especially if the gaki was going. Harry piped up that people from all over the world went to Hogwarts, some as young as 10. Poor Harry...he had to open his big mouth.

"I don't care if the Emperor of China went to Hogwarts! Sakura is too young. Besides, hogs don't een HAVE warts!" He then gave Harry a glare that would have sent Snape cowering in a corner. "Who are you anyways?"

"You've never heard of Harry Potter?" Hermione asked before Harry could stop her.

Everyone shook their head. "It doesn't even ring a jingle bell." Meiling said.

"It's a miracle!" Harry said happily, jumping and dancing in place. Touya backed up slightly.

"Ok then..." he said, staring suspiciously at Harry. "I don't want Sakura going to school with that freak!"

Fujitaka smiled. "Now now Touya...don't insult the guests." He paused for a second. "And as for Sakura, please remember that I am her father, which makes me in charge of her educatioanl needs. I think that this trip will be good for her, and therefore she is going."

"Yay!" Kero said. "Now, let's eat!"

Syaoran shook his head. "You greedy stuffed animal."

Kero stuck his tongue out. "Brat."

"Kero!" Sakura said, snatching him out of the air. "Be nice to Syaoran!"

"Why? He is a brat." Touya said.

"Why are you defending the plushie?" Syaoran asked with a snort.

"Because for once I agree with it. You are a brat." Touya grumbled, glaring at Syaoran. Unlike Harry, Syaoran was unintimidated, and glared right back.

"Touya! Syaoran is NOT a brat!" Sakura said unhappily.

"Yeah!" Meiling agreed.

"Stay outta this, kid!" Kero said. "You might get hurt."

"You wanna take me on plushie?" Meiling said in a challenging tone. "Bring it!"

"Meiling, don't waste your time with the plushie." Syaoran said.

"Ah...never a dull moment." Eriol said. "I've been away too long." He nodded matter-of-factly.

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After that, there were a few more regular out-bursts from everyone, and soon it was time to go to bed. Unfortunately, Eriol's house was no longer standing, so they couldn't stay there. Nakuru happily said that she would stay with Touya. Said person looked highly afraid, before he stated that he was staying at Yukito's house tonight, and that the brat was not allowed to stay at Sakura's house if he wasn't there. Tomoyo said that Eriol and his friends could stay at her house tonight, much to Syaoran's chagrin.

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Rika: Yay! We're finally done!

Suzuki: Yupyup! And to answer ruler of all evil's question, they're in the sixth grade in the Sealed Card (which would make them about 13?). Oh, and this takes place a bit after the Sealed Card, though the part with Harry taking over the phone was taken out of the Sealed Card.

Rika: We hope that answered your question ok!

Suzuki: We hoped you liked everything.

Both: BYE!