Yet again, hello.

A/N: As a routine I'd like to thank for your reviews. Not that I do it just because it's routine. I really am grateful. So, from the bottom of my heart, thanks.

Disclaimer: I shouldn't have to disclaim CCS. I mean, when have I ever claimed it in the first place. Honestly these things don't make any sense.

Here's some more Japanese for you, my friends:

Yatta - Used to celebrate something good that has happened. Like: "Yatta! I'm finally old enough to drink legally!"

Info:

"Character talking"

Character thinking

(Me talking)

Story:

Card Captor Sakura

Chapter 2: Sakura and the Storm

Part 2: Partly Cloudy With Chances of Rain

"I called my mother and told her I will be home a little late today. So, shall we go Li-kun?" Sakura skipped her way out of the school gates followed by Syaoran who seemed to be immersed in his own thoughts.

I don't... 'Like' her. Do I? No, that can't be. She's kind of annoying actually. And I don't feel like cuddling her at all. He thought, remembering his supposed girlfriend back in Hong Kong. Then why do I feel so weird around her? Could it be her aura? Yeah! That must be it. Her magic is powerful enough to break the seal so that means her aura must be powerful enough to make me feel unease. It's just a matter of getting used to her aura. That's all! He smiled to himself, satisfied with his conclusion.

"Bleh!"

"Huh?!" He fell back in the real word. Sakura broke his concentration just like she did when they were talking to Terada-sensei. This time, however, she didn't look concerned. Instead, she was making an ugly face, using both her hands to pull her lips as far as she could and sticking her tongue out.

When she noticed Syaoran's gaze falling down upon her eyes she started to laugh. "You dazed off again. You just stopped walking and looked down. I thought you'd stepped on something, but then you weren't answering when I called and you started making some weird faces and..." She stopped, noticing Syaoran didn't find it funny at all. "So... what were you thinking about?" She asked.

Syaoran immediately changed the subject, not wanting to discuss that subject with her, since she was, in fact, the subject. "Why do you always have to be so overly energetic?" He said, starting to walk again.

Sakura frowned. "That's just my personality, if you don't like it, I don't care." She pulled the skin under her eye down and stuck her tongue out at him. Syaoran's face formed itself into a smile from her cute pouting, but it faded away as soon as he noticed it. Sakura forgot completely about Syaoran's last words when she caught a fleeting glimpse of his smile. "Hoe? You smiled again!" She said in a teasing but friendly tone, now walking backwards so she could face Syaoran directly.

"No, I didn't. It was your imagination." Syaoran looked away. She really is annoying.

"Yes, you did."

"No, I didn't."

"Of course you did."

He came to a halt and looked back at Sakura. He frowned upon seeing her teasing smile and took a deep breath. "If I'm saying I didn't it's because I..." Syaoran was cut of by a drop of water falling on the tip his nose. "It's raining." He stated, forgetting what he was going to say.

Sakura felt a couple of raindrops fall on her as well. "It's just a soft rain. We can still go to your house." As if on cue, the soft rain turned instantly into a rainstorm, soaking both Syaoran and Sakura. "Hoe! How did that happen?"

"Never mind that, let's look for shelter." He looked around for anything to cover them. "There! Under that giant penguin." They ran under the big, blue, penguin king slide at the middle of the local park. There was a convenient space inside penguin king which was just big enough for the couple to sit down without their heads touching the ceiling.

"What was that?" Sakura looked over at Syaoran who was seating right beside her. "It was sunny a few minutes ago."

Syaoran was looking at the sky, but Sakura couldn't tell what he was looking at. "It's a Clow card. The..." He was cut off by a familiar voice coming from behind him.

"The Storm card." Syaoran and Sakura turned around towards the voice.

Sakura smiled when she saw who it was. "Kero-chan!"

Kero frowned. "Who gave you the right to call me that, Sakura?" He protested.

Sakura giggled. "I think it matches you. I mean, a cute flying... thing like you should have a cute name. And Kerberos looks like the name of some spooky monster." She said, her voice showing a hint of disgust when saying the word 'Kerberos'.

Kero made a pose. "You're wrong. People should adore my gracious form with a powerful name like Kerberos." Sakura sweat dropped. "But... I'll allow you to call me Kero."

"You're just an egocentric stuffed toy." Syaoran said under his breath.

Veins popped out of Kero's head. "What did you call me, brat?"

Syaoran glared at him. "Who's the brat?" He extended his hands to grab Kero but Sakura stopped him.

"Li-kun! Kero-chan! We need to lock the card! It's not time for fighting." Her obvious argument succeeded in getting both Syaoran's and Kero's attention. "Kero-chan, first of all, when did you get here?"

Kero's face turned serious again. "I felt the presence of a Clow Card, so I followed its presence to get here."

"Kinomoto-san, do you have your staff and the cards we already captured with you?" Syaoran asked.

"Yes, they are right here." She took out the cards and her magical key.

"Ok, I have a plan to get the card." He looked up at the sky. There was a pink cloud that covered the sky above them. "See that cloud over there?" It was pretty obvious which cloud he wanted Sakura to see. The pink color really stood out in the sky.

"I do." She looked up at the sky too, seeing the cloud that was getting bigger each second.

Syaoran proceeded. "The card is hiding inside of it. You could use The Fly card to get there but it would do you no good cause you can't capture it while flying with your staff." He made a short pause to see if Sakura was keeping up with his thoughts. "So I..." Kero flew between Sakura and Syaoran.

"The brat uses his wind magic to throw you into the cloud and you capture it. You won't fall on the floor cause his wind magic will soften the fall." Syaoran glared at him.

"No, that's..." He was interrupted again, this time by Sakura.

"Alright, let's go." Sakura ran out of the shelter followed by Kero.

"But..." It was too late. I meant for me to go up there with her Windy card. I don't want to put her in danger. He thought, following them nevertheless.

Sakura summoned her staff. "I'm ready, Li-kun." She said with determination.

Syaoran sighed, it was all happening too fast and he wasn't sure about what he was doing. It just felt like something was wrong in that plan.

"Alright, but be careful." He said unconsciously. Sakura smiled at him and nodded. Her smile made him feel uneasy, just like it had in the past few times. "Huh... Ready?" He said, not feeling ready himself. The girl looked at the sky and nodded slowly. "Good." He summoned his sword and took a piece of paper from his pocket. "Huu-ga, Shiyou-rai!" He shouted, pressing his sword against the little inscription on the paper.

A strong gust of wind sent Sakura violently flying towards the cloud.

"Let's just hope she can do it." Kero said as Sakura disappeared into the dense cloud.

"Hoeee!" Sakura grabbed her staff tightly. Her speed was slowly decreasing, which meant that soon she would stop going up and start falling.

Calm down Sakura, you still have to lock the card. Huh? There it is!

She looked up to see a very small girl with curly hair. Everything on her, from her skin to her clothes, was pink like the cloud surrounding them. Sakura positioned herself in a sudden moment of courage, provided by the adrenalin running through her. "Get ready Storm. Return to the shape you are meant to be in. Clow card!"

Sakura thought at first that her magic had failed, since the gravity was acting on her body much faster than her magic was acting on the card. But after a second that seemed like a whole hour, the clouds around her vanished and the curly haired girl's energy materialized a small card in front of her, just like the fly had before.

"Yatta!" She reached for the card, but her happiness soon vanished as she noticed the card fly away from her fingers. "Hoe?" It didn't take half a second to realize that it wasn't the card that was fleeing. She was falling.

"Kyahhh!" She looked down and saw that she was much higher than she had imagined. Syaoran and Kero were barely visible as tiny dots in the distance. After three seconds falling she felt numbness take over and everything turned white. She'd fainted.

"You did it Sakura!" Kero shouted, but it was in vain. Even if Sakura were awake she wouldn't be able to hear him.

Syaoran looked at Sakura's body falling like a lifeless doll and a thought crossed his mind. What if I mess up? Several images of Sakura falling down directly on the floor flashed inside his head. He tightened his grip on his sword and felt his throat dry up. A feeling he could not quite explain was running through him. It was a simple task to stop Sakura from falling down, but he wasn't sure he could do it anymore. Though part of him said it was obvious he could, he couldn't feel any confidence.

"Now, brat!" He felt a kick on his face. When he looked back up he saw Sakura was dangerously close to the floor already. His conscious self lost all power over his actions.

He didn't even think as he pulled another paper from his pocket. "Huu-ga, Shiyou-rai!" Sakura was still twenty feet away from the floor when the magic started taking effect, but that was still nearly not enough considering the high speed of her fall.

Syaoran watched as Kero flew to Sakura's prone body that had just been gently laid on the floor by his magic. His body was still working at full speed. It would probably take a couple of minutes for it to accept that danger was over.

Kero slapped Sakura's face. "Sakura, wake up!" Sakura's eyes twitched a bit. "Are you ok?"

She slowly opened her eyes. "I... I did it Kero-chan." She said smiling.

Kero smiled, relieved. "You're ok. So... where is it?" He said, looking around for any trace of the card.

Sakura looked up. The card was slowly falling from the sky. "It's still falling, look." She pointed to the card at the same moment that the wind changed its course and it started falling in a different direction. In the middle of the houses of Tomoeda, to be more precise. "Hoe? It's getting away."

"After it! We can't let it free itself again!" Kero said, flying after the card with Sakura right behind him.

Syaoran chose not to go after them. Or rather, was too distracted with his own thoughts to do so.

This was different from my dream... He returned his sword to its talisman form and wandered slowly back to his house.

"Got it!" Sakura picked up the card from the floor.

Kero sighed in relief. "Good. If we had taken too long..."

Sakura opened her backpack and took the Clow book out of it. "There you go." She said, putting the card back in the book. "I got three cards already. We'll be done before we know it. How many cards are there left?" She asked, putting the book back.

"Forty nine." Sakura dropped her backpack in shock.

"Hoe! I thought there where something like twenty cards! How can someone make so many different cards?" She said.

"Didn't you see how thick the book... Wait! Someone is coming." He looked at a corner where steps and conversation could be heard louder each second.

Sakura picked her schoolbag. "Quick! Hide in here." She relaxed her spirit, making her staff return to its key form. "Let's go... Huh? Where's Li-kun?"

Syaoran was walking back to his apartment. He had his hands in his pockets and was walking at a very slow pace, looking down. In the dream I was so angry. But when I'm around her... It feels like it's not really me. It's like I turn into somebody else. Could her aura alone be doing that?

"Found you!" Syaoran stopped. He wasn't surprised by the voice that came from behind him, but still, he sighed wishing to be left alone. "What happened? We were going after the Clow Card and we didn't see you. Then we went back to the park and your backpack was there, but you were gone." Syaoran turned to face her and saw that she was in fact holding his backpack in her hands. "Did you find a Clow Card or something? Kero-chan thought you might have. He's out there looking for you too." She said.

Syaoran shook his head. He tried to be as direct as possible in his words so he wouldn't end up saying something uncharacteristic again. "I just thought you could handle it on your own." He took his backpack from Sakura's hand. "Thanks for bringing it to me." He started to walk away from Sakura. "Bye."

Sakura followed him. "But aren't we going to study today?"

Syaoran stopped and faced Sakura. He had forgotten about the study time, but was glad to find a good excuse to avoid it just by looking at her. "We're all wet from the rain. You should go to your house and take a bath. I gotta clean up too."

Sakura nodded. "So... Another day then?"

Syaoran sighed. "Yeah... Another day, I guess."

They said their goodbyes and headed to different directions. Sakura was oblivious to the fact that as soon as Syaoran arrived at his room he would spend the rest of his day trying to figure out what he had felt the moment she was unconscious. Syaoran had found himself rather obsessed with that moment. He was almost sure by now that there was something happening with him that was beyond his own thoughts and feelings.

Not much time after talking to Syaoran, Sakura arrived at her house. As soon as she stepped in, she saw Touya coming down the stairs.

"Monster, where were you?" He noticed Sakura's wet clothes. "What the... What happened?" He asked as Sakura removed her shoes.

"It was raining." She said, but got a weird look from Touya.

"No it wasn't." He said, raising an eyebrow.

"The rain didn't get here? It was a quick, small rain. It's not that surprising that it couldn't even cover all of Tomoeda." She had a feeling that Touya was still not convinced.

Touya sighed. "Go take off these wet clothes and take a bath, you'll get a cold... And you're getting the whole house wet" Sakura nodded before running up to her room.

She opened the door and saw Kero playing her video-game. "Hey, Kero-chan."

"Hey." Kero didn't even look up to speak. He seemed much too focused on the TV screen.

"How can you play this when you can hardly reach the buttons?" Sakura was surprised to see Kero's high score. "Hoe! You're good."

"Ha ha ha! I am the video-game master! No one can beat me!" He made a fighting pose imitating his character from the game. Not half a second latter he was back with his eyes on the screen.

Sakura smiled, amused. She opened her closet and took clean clothes out. "I found Li-kun. Turns out he didn't find any card." She said while going through her underwear drawer. "He just thought we didn't need his help to pick up the card."

"Too bad." Kero said as he mashed the buttons.

Sakura took her bundle of clothes and reached for the doorknob. "I'm going to shower now." Kero was too distracted with the video-game now to care about what she was saying.

"Good luck." He answered.

Sakura looked at him curiously and sighed. "Oh, forget it."

TO BE CONTINUED...

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A/N: OK... You've done so much as read five chapters of my story so far... that takes plenty of minutes to do right? So why not take a couple more to review? It's SO easy and it makes people so happy. You can't argue with that can you? I mean... You've already gone so far, you might as well finish the job.

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