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Beta: Romantic Princess

Tomoyo, Sakura -10

Kagome-14

Touya, Yukito -16

Chapter One

Kagome yawned sleepily, she'd been living in Tomoeda for the last year, and it had been more than pleasing. She got along with a good number of upper classmen, and a number of the elementary students. Sadly she hadn't made many connections to the members of her own freshmen year.

She personally adored a ten year old by the name of Sakura Kinomoto, she was related to Touya and she was possibly the cutest child in the history of cute. While her best friend was rather elegant for one so young, but then again Tomoyo's family was rather loaded, at least as far as monetary value.

Kagome sighed, as she glanced around her sparse apartment. It was depressing to live by herself, but she really didn't have a choice. She could live by herself and go to school here or become a ward of Japan. That wasn't something she wanted to do, Kagome sighed before moving her rice bowl and miso bowl away, before walking back toward her room and shimming out of her sleeping clothes.

She actually liked this school uniform, it involved a black skirt, short sleeved skirt and a simple baby blue blazer jacket. Playing with her hair lightly, it was quickly pulled into a ponytail its wavy mass out of her face.

Smiling softly, she grabbed her keys and ID card, before lightly dancing out the door. And locking it behind her, running down each flight of stairs, she could only hope today was going to be a good day.

Throwing down her skateboard she started on her way. Kagome smiled, "Touya!" She pushed against the ground again, and she was a goofy rider, right foot forward and all.

Touya slowed on his bike, "Kagome."

"Where is Sakura?"

"Probably about to catch up." Touya smirked in amusement.

"Sister Complex," Kagome chided laughing at his annoyed look.

Kagome blinked, as the space beside her was suddenly full of light brown hair and a slightly nauseated face.

"Ah, are you okay Sakura? And don't you usually go to school later?" Kagome asked.

"Ah, but then I wouldn't get to see you or…" Sakura blushed.

Kagome giggled softly, before a wide smile ran across her face.

"Good Morning." A smiling white haired boy waved.

"Morning." Kagome waved content.

"You're early Sakura."

"She scarfed her food in like 3 minutes." Touya smirked.

"Sister Complex," Kagome replied.

"What about you Kagome?"

"Track practice."

"So you did join?" Touya asked surprised.

She nodded in agreement, as they all started back toward the school. "It'll up my food budget, I get a monthly budget from you know the fund my parents left. So if I join track they'll pay my tuition. So it makes things easier."

Touya frowned.

Yukito nodded in understanding, fidgeting a bit to get more comfortable on the back of Touya's bike. "Ne Sakura, have you been having problems sleeping or something?"

"Ah, why do you ask?" Sakura had a really cute expression on her face, she was slightly confused.

"Touya said you've been oversleeping." Kagome answered off handedly.

"Hai, are you worried about anything or staying up to much?" Yukito asked.

"What does she have to worry about?" Touya snorted.

"Boys?" Kagome replied, chuckling at Sakura's blush and Touya's glare.

"Ah, I'm here." Sakura said slightly hastily.

"Here Sakura." Yukito tossed her a hard candy.

"Neeh, so smooth Yukito." Kagome teased.

"Kagome!" Touya scolded, he didn't want to think about Yukito being smooth, or his little sister's crush.

"Ah, so mean Touya." Kagome pouted, stepping off and popping the end of her board into her hand to walk alongside the slow moving bike.

"Hai hai, are you coming over tonight?" Touya asked.

"Who's cooking?" Kagome asked, staring upwards.

"Dad."

"Hmm sure, but you have to help me with my Algebra." Kagome shuddered.

Touya snorted "Hai, can you help Sakura with science? Neither Dad or I will be there till later today."

"Sure!" Kagome smiled, "Yukito's not coming?" Kagome sent the white hair boy a pout.

"No, my grandparents are home this week."

"Oh, tell 'em I said hello then. I'm off to the field. Ja ne!" Kagome waved, before sprinting off.

Both boys waved, before making their way to their respected teams.

Kagome sighed; she was exhausted, her legs burned! She was good at running, but that didn't mean she needed to be run into the ground to get faster. Not only that, but there were now ten pound weights on her ankles.

Kagome opened the door to a clean cut front door, "Sakura? SAKURA?"

"Kagome!" Sakura launched toward the older girl, burying her face in her stomach.

"Sakura what's wrong?" Kagome asked, slightly worried.

"Something keeps making noise." Sakura replied, still attached.

"Let's go see what it is then." Kagome stated, rubbing Sakura's back gently.

Sakura nodded, but had a very unhappy look on her face.

The two of them paused every time the large shuddering, thump sound reverberated through the house. They quickly found themselves sneaking into the basement, were Kinomoto-san kept many of his books. They passed several shelves of books until they came in front of the last row, and stood silent in front of a small desk.

Sakura was getting more and more jumpy as they walked around.

Kagome's eyes went wide, it… that... book was glowing.

Sakura turned around to see what Kagome was looking at, moving closer Sakura nearly cried when the book stopped glowing.

Kagome quickly followed, both of them jumped when the lock popped right off, Kagome gently took the book from the younger girl. Opening the cover to find a strange card inside, pulling the card out for closer inspection.

"What does it say Kagome?" Sakura asked, curious.

"Windy, it's an English word." Kagome answered, just before a massive gust of wind surrounded the two of them, the cards inside the book seemed to be shooting off into different directions.

Kagome gasped shocked before she slide to the ground that couldn't have been a good sign, thing that should be able to go through the roof DID, what was she going to do?

"Kaa… Kagome!" Sakura squeaked, pointing at the book which had dropped to the ground.

It was glowing a bright color, a blinding golden yellow, while something was coming out of the, the cover? It was small and yellow, looked a bit like a teddy bear with white wings and spoke with an Osakan dialect.

The small bear went on to explain that its name was Kerberos, and was the guardian of the book of Clow, which apparently kept the cards that had been locked in.

Kero eyes went wide, he woke up and this is what had happened "THE CARDS ARE GONE? Where did they go? What happened?"

"Ne, Kero, is this you're looking for?" Kagome asked, putting the card in front of the small taking stuffed toy she was still a bit shocked.

"This is it, yeah this, what about the rest?" The little toy smiled.

"They flew away." Sakura replied, hiding slightly behind Kagome.

"How did that happen?" Kero asked, shocked.

"I read out windy, and a gust of wind occurred taking the other cards away." Kagome stated.

Kero looked a bit faint, "WHAT? That's bad, really bad. If the Cards aren't in their book they cause problems."

"Like what?" Sakura asked, a bit nervous.

"Disaster will befall the earth, they are magical and were created by a great sorcerer Clow Reed," Kero continued, "Each card is alive with his power, for example Windy had wind powers while Fiery has fire powers."

Kagome sweat dropped what had she gotten into this time?

"So you must have had some power, now what's your name?" Kero asked, pointing at Kagome.

"Kagome…" Her eyebrow raised slightly worried.

"Alright stand up," Kero smiled cheekily when the girl did as he asked. "Alright stay put, Key of the Seal, Here stands the one who wishes to enter in contract with thee, a girl name Kagome. KEY! The girl stands before you. RELEASE!"

Kagome's eyes widened, as a very light pink staff with a strange bird like head atop it It's winged top was partially gold while the round eye like gem was strangely enough a deep blue (she could have sworn it was red before). How the heck?

"Grab the staff, Kagome!" Kero yelled cheerily.

When Kagome did so, she was startled to see herself in a magical circle, what kind of contract had she just entered?

"Alright! The birth of a Card Captor! Hey Kagome you need to write your name on the card." Kero smiled.

Kagome glared, she was fifteen, she lived alone and now she was a card captor, what the hell? Was someone against her?

Kagome huffed, "That's all fine and good, but we have other things to do. So come on plushie"

The rest of the up the stairs and through a good bit of their study session, Kero alternated between pouting and yelling.

"Ne, Touya I thought you said you dad was cooking?" Kagome asked, watching him at the stove.

"Hn, something came up at work." He replied as he continued, both of them content with the silence.

"How is your grade in math anyway?" Touya finally asked, finishing the meal. Curry was one of Kagome's favorites, and he liked it well enough.

"Pft. I have an 84, but I really want to get an A before the end of the year, I mean it would look better on my transcript for college." Kagome muttered, moving to help Touya set the table.

"That shouldn't be too hard to pull out." Touya muttered.

"Yeah, yeah. Says the smart one over there," Kagome replied, sticking her tongue out laughing.

He snorted, sticking his head out of the kitchen he yelled "Sakura, dinner is ready."

Both of them could hear the younger girl running down the stairs.

"Kaijuu," Touya teased after they were all settled.

"I'm not a monster!" Sakura yelled annoyed, her arms waving.

Kagome snickered, glad she was sitting next to Touya instead, and Sakura would have smacked her a lot if she'd sat beside the younger girl.

"Nhhh, I don't believe you." Touya continued.

"Sister Complex." Kagome laughed at the glare sent her way, "This is really good by the way Touya."

"Hn, Thanks." Touya glanced at her out of the side of his eye. Something was bothering her but what?

"It was really good! I still have homework left, gotta go!" Sakura hurriedly put away her dishes, before grabbing a sweet out of the fridge and rushing up the stairs.

Both of them blinked in surprise, Kagome finally sighed. "I'll go help her then." She muttered, putting her things away before following.

Touya was left staring at them, a thoughtful expression on his face. The two of them were hiding something from him, and he wanted to know what it was.

Kagome sighed, she hated hiding things. Shaking that thought off, Kagome found herself going up the stairs, and down the hall way to enter into Sakura's room where Kero was hiding.

"So, Kero found anything?" Kagome asked curious.

"Nope, just that they are nearby."

Sakura frowned, "So what do we do?"

"We wait, so how about we finish your homework and go to bed, I'm sleepy." Kagome replied.

"Hai!" Sakura quickly changed, as did Kagome, before the both crawled into bed.

"Night Kero." The girls chimed in together

"Hmm, Goodnight Kagome, Sakura." Kero responded, content to snuggle down in Kagome's hair it was soo nice and soft and warm, within minutes the three were asleep.

Kagome sighed, as she watched the boys play soccer, she generally enjoyed playing but she didn't feel like it today. The bang upon the fence woke her up, it was Sakura and she was getting extremely starry eyed while staring at Yukito. Her friend Tomoyo was standing next to her apparently they were out for P.E. as well.

Yukito waved happily before beginning to run over to say hello, one minute he was jogging lightly toward the fence that separated the elementary and high school the second he was eating dirt.

Kagome snorted when Yukito tripped, before walking over to check on the boy, she could only sighed when Touya grabbed his cheeks and started pulling. "Oi, stop it Touya."She bopped the older boy lightly on the head.

She nearly died laughing at the peeved look on Sakura's face, just as things were beginning to calm down a bit a very large gust of wind seemed to overtake the school. Kagome gave a small cry as she found herself on the ground, nestled with Yukito within Touya's arms. She could feel herself blush as the wind continued to intensify. Looking up Kagome was shocked to see a HUGE bird, probably bigger than an airplane riding above them.

"What the heck?" Kagome gasped, she'd felt something strong from the bird. Was it a Clow card?

"You okay?" Touya asked his face rather near hers.

Kagome nodded a faint blush on her face. "What about Yukito and you Touya?"

"Dusty but fine." Touya replied.

"I'm alright." Yukito sent that gentle smile.

Kagome nearly groaned, still blushing, why was she best friends with the two hottest guys in school?

"Neh, Does Sakura have practice today?" Kagome finally asked after a long silence.

"Nope, why?" Touya looked at her with a suspicious look in his eyes.

"I want to see her, duh." Kagome rolled her eyes.

Yukito laughed, "Why is that?"

"She asked me about making cheesecake." Kagome replied easily, it wasn't a lie, just an exaggeration by about a month.

Touya snorted, before walking away, "Just catch her after class," he yelled over his shoulder.

"Ah, what kind are you two making?" Yukito asked.

"Not sure yet." Kagome replied cheerily "Want to try it after we're done?"

"Sure!" Yukito looked very much like a kid who got the candy.

"Hmm, what to make." Kagome said aloud, all the while wondering what to make of the extremely large bird.

"Sakura!" Kagome called, there had been no practice today and Sakura was the only on besides herself who knew about the cards.

"Oh! Kagome, umm, we, aah have a problem." Sakura fidgeted.

"Hmm?"

"Tomoyo heard me talking about it, and she got it out of me I'm sorry!" Sakura looked down she felt really guilty.

"Sakura don't worry about it, she could probably help now come on were going to get supplies to make a Cheesecake, question is what do you want to make?" Kagome asked.

"Ah, thanks Kagome. And what about Chocolate?"

"Alright, nee, does Tomoyo want to come?" Kagome asked a cheery smile on her face.

"Let me go ask!" Sakura promptly disappeared, before coming back several minutes later with an innocently smiling Tomoyo.

Kagome pouted on the inside this one was going to a sneaky little child. "Alright you to let's go!"

For the next hour, Kagome would take the two through a number of markets. Needless to say it was a very enjoyable adventure. It would be another hour of mixing and making a mess then cleaning before the three of them settled into Sakura's room to talk about the events of the day.

"So did anyone beside Sakura and I see the extremely large bird?" Kagome finally asked.

"I didn't, and neither did anyone else form what I understand." Tomoyo responded.

"A huge bird hmm?" Kero asked, a curious expression on his face.

"It felt like windy did, Kero." Kagome stated, watching him before lifting a hand to allow the flying plushy to land.

"You should let me dress you up Kagome! Card Captor Kagome! Such a nice ring!" Tomoyo smiled innocently.

Kagome sweat dropped, this was why Tomoyo made her nervous. "Nope, not gonna happen."

"Sakura, Tomoyo, Kagome, your cake is finished!" Fujitaka yelled.

All three girls hurried down, "Are you three the only one's here?" He asked, "I could have sworn someone else was here."

Sakura epped, "I was practicing ventriloquism." She waved, blushing wildly.

Kagome giggled, while Tomoyo nodded.

"Has it cooled down yet, Mr. Kinomoto?" Kagome asked a cheery smile on her face.

"Yes, and please call me Fujitaka." Kinomoto responded.

Kagome blushed, "H.. hai." Before nodding.

"Hmm, it seems both Touya and Yukito are running late. Do you plan on staying again tonight Kagome, what about you Tomoyo?"

"If you don't mind, Mr. Kino… ah Mr. Fujitaka." Kagome smiled.

"I'll call my mother." Tomoyo smiled, before leaving to speak with her mother at the hallway phone.

That evening was a great deal of fun for the three of them, minutes before for it was time to turn out the lights a gust of wind much like what had been at the school earlier in the day rattled the windows.

Kagome groaned, before looking at Kero. "Yup it's a card. Let's go!"

Kagome nearly cried, it was time for sleep not card chasing! "I'll be back okay, you two stay here."

"But Kagome this is my fault." Sakura muttered.

"No it's not Sakura. But I want you guys to stay until I'm sure it's safe for you to be around the card alright?" Kagome asked eying both of them.

"Only if I get to dress you up and tape this!"

Kagome sighed, "What are you going to do with all this?"

"Make Sakura do it too! SOO CUTE!" Tomoyo lost a bit of her composure before bringing it back in.

"FINE! Bye!" Kagome waved clamoring out the window, before shimming down the tree nearby.

Kagome swore softly as she ran after the monstrous bird, she cried out in surprise when the bird swooped lower than before causing her to stumble forward scraping her hands, and knees.

Over and over the bird dove, Kero told her to uses Windy to bind the stupid thing. But Kagome had to find a spot where she wouldn't be knocked over.

Kagome sighed in relief, before yelling as she continued to run when the bird opened its mouth and shot a super strong gust of air. Literally catapulting her into the air, within minutes the bird was once again on the move. Unfortunately for Kagome either the bird was blind or just stupid because now she was on its back and it didn't seem any bit happy about it.

Pulling out the chain with the small birds face from beneath her tank top, she spoke "Show your true powers before me. I, Kagome, command you under our contract, release!" The magic circle expanded to its original form of about 3 feet in length. Just as the staff expanded the bird, went through a loop, Kagome screamed as she felt her body leave the bird, she was so going to die.

"KAGOME, USE WINDY NOW!" Kero shouted, it was muffled considering he was holding onto her pajama bottoms.

"WINDY, BECOME A BINDING NET!" Kagome yelled, tossing the card up roughly, before shouting "RELEASE!" As the staff's beck struck the card.

Minutes later after a rough landing, Kagome found herself beneath a large falling bird. Lifting the staff, she spoke "Return to the guise that you were meant to be in! CLOW CARD!" The bird seemed to turn into tendrils of mist before raveling closer and closer together to form the card.

Once the bird was again a card, a sense of relief seemed to pass through her. In her hand were to cards, Windy which already held her name, and Fly, which seemed determined to kill her. But then again this was more along the lines of not knowing what to do. "Ne, Kero, thanks." Kagome pulled the stuff toy close and kissed his cheek.

Kero blushed, "You're welcome..."

"Are you sure I'm the right choice though? I was kinda bad."

"You'll bet better kid." The little bear replied, smiling.

"Hai!" Kagome replied, "Neeh, Kero will… will you stay with me?" Kagome looked toward her feet.

"Of course!" Kero cheered.

Kagome smiled brightly, "Let's go back to Sakura's."

Kero nodded before landing on her head. He was beat, if he was in his true form, Kagome wouldn't have been so heavy. Damn, he was going to have to work on that how would he protect his card captor?

It took her nearly ten minutes to get back, before she climbed up the window. She'd been gone for nearly an hour.

Tapping the window, she smiled when Tomoyo opened it up. "How did it go?" She asked, helping Kagome in.

"Okay, you guys can watch next time, but I would suggest staying back. I think I'm the only one in any real danger." She answered, before hunting through Sakura's desk drawer to find a pen. Kagome let out a sigh of relief as she scribbled her name across the bottom of the card.

"I'll tell you about it in the morning kay?" Kagome muttered before, grabbing the younger girl and falling on the bed next to a sleeping Sakura. Tomoyo nodded, laughing softly this was going to be a fun year!