Chapter 1: A Card Captor Sakura Christmas; Chapter 2
(by moezychan, added on 2005-12-25 16:11:19 AEST) [Discussion Topic]
A Card Captor Sakura Christmas
Chapter 1
Introduction: While experienced in fanfiction writing, I’ve never done a Card Captor Sakura fanfic. I’m doing this for a Christmas present for the entire forum, and I’m hoping you all will enjoy it. Also, please bear in mind that I haven’t done a fanfic for almost a year, and I haven’t seen Card Captor Sakura in at least half a year.
Summary: First, despite this being a CCS fanfic, I’m going to make Syaoran the lead character; there will be focus on the other main characters, but overall it’s centered on Syaoran.
Syaoran had to move back to Hong Kong, China, and it’s been 1 year and 6 months since he’s seen Sakura. He stays in contact with her through letters and phone calls, but what he really wants is to see Sakura.
This fanfic will show his struggles, and give a more mature approach to his feelings. By mature, he realizes how important Sakura is in his life, and how much he needs her; especially at Christmas. Also, the characters are 14 in this fanfic.
Disclaimer: Card Captor Sakura© does not belong to me. It belongs to the artist and manga team called CLAMP©. This fanfic is not for profit, but merely for enjoyment. Please, if any affiliates of CLAMP© are reading this, which I highly doubt, do not sue me, because I am a very poor college student, and you will not get a dime! This I can guarantee you!
It seems in life that there are only 2 ways to go. One you can go along with what everybody says, and not complain. It has its advantages, and disadvantages. It’s obvious that the disadvantages of doing everything one tells you to is that you have absolutely no freedom, but how pray tell can it have it’s advantages? Simple; you will always be able to depend on people and you know you will always be protected.
Then comes the second way; the way that a young boy named Li Syaoran found quite early in his life. The second way is being forever alone. This Syaoran found out when he decided to move to Japan in order to capture the magical Cards of Clow. He remained diligent and was not deterred by his mission. Or at least so he thought.
He realized that from living there, he would have no one to depend on. Well of course he had his guardian Wei, but in his way of being alone was from learning to cope with a very dangerous girl in his mind. She was dangerous to his entire way of thinking.
How could she be so cheerful?! How could she be so diligent without ever losing that smile?! How on Earth could she stand to smile at him when he constantly called her worthless?! He never did find out the answers to these questions, and if you were to ask him, he wouldn’t even bother answering.
He had long given up trying to figure her out. His only thoughts were on figuring out how to keep her smiling and keeping her safe; and most importantly, how he could love her which was what he was currently trying to figure out as he overlooked his enormous home that he new would one day belong to him.
Syaoran gave a sigh of frustration and confusion as he continued to look outside his window. It was very beautiful scenery with luscious evergreens, gardens covering different areas of the massive landscape, a beautiful mystical blue lake that shimmered in the morning sun, but none of this scenery mattered to him. The only thing that he saw was buried in the back of his mind. How beautiful her luscious green eyes were; for in Syaoran’s mind nobody could have more beautiful eyes than the one of his true love; Kinomoto Sakura mistress of the Sakura Cards, once known as Clow Cards.
As he continued to think, the downstairs of the Li manor was being decorated for Christmas. There was to be a 20 foot tree delivered, and rows of garland and holly. The entire staff was working their hardest trying to get the manor ready for Christmas. It was in just 1 week for today was December 18th.
Not much time left to get ready, but this didn’t concern Syaoran. What he was more concerned about was that this would be the second Christmas he missed with Sakura. He remembered the first time he spent Christmas with her. It may not have been that special but he’ll never forget it for the sole reason it was the first time he spent Christmas with her.
Flashback… (for fair warning, in this flashback, [he] is Yukito, and [she] is Sakura)
Syaoran was trying desperately to get Meiling off of him, but to no avail. Why did she insist on bringing her to this amusement park?! He couldn’t stand places like this. Syaoran struggled, but Meiling’s grip would not falter. It didn’t help that she and that guy arrived; that wonderful guy who was always so nice, and kind to him. He could never say his name, but at least he could look at him.
Feeling very nervous, Syaoran took long strides to keep up with his extremely tall crush; meanwhile, Meiling and that girl were talking; about what? It didn’t really concern him. All that concerned him was keeping his stride in pace with him.
Eventually they stopped walking because he was getting hungry. It was to be expected. He was always hungry.
To show this he stated, “I’m starting to get hungry,” as he noticed a small outdoor café.
“I’m hungry too,” Meiling chimed in.
“Then shall we eat here?” she asked.
“Yes let’s!” he agreed.
As they all overlooked their menus, a familiar voice stated, “May I take your order?”
“Onii-chan,” she stated with confusion.
“Onii-chan! You really do work everywhere, don’t you?” she stated as he set out their drinks.
He dismissed it with a shrug of his shoulders.
After her Onii-chan took their orders, he returned in a few moments with their meal. It looked delicious, but the only one who was eating was him. It was like he inhaled the food, instead of merely eating it.
Meiling, who never saw him eat before stated, “Sugoi.” It truly was an amazing sight.
To defend his crush, Syaoran spoke up, “To be able to eat so much food…!”
“Is a sign that you’re really health, ne?” Syaoran’s crush spoke up.
Syaoran was speechless, so he nearly blushed and nodded. That’s when she spoke up, “Honto ni so da ne,” with her ever present smile.
He looked over at her after she stated this, and instead of saying anything more, she merely closed her vibrant green eyes and smiled at him. His response was to look in awe and blush. Wait a minute! Blush, for her?! No. No no no! It couldn’t be! He didn’t like her! He liked him! To prove this, Syaoran shook his head trying to get rid of the crimson mark that appeared on his face. He did not like her! She was his rival!
He didn’t have time to dwell on his feelings though because at that moment, an ever familiar presence appeared.
“A clow card,” Syaoran and his rival stated.
At stating this, all the wires in the amusement park started to crackle with the fire that suddenly appeared. Meiling looked at it in amazement, while he stated, “Is that a special affect?”
“It’s not an affect; that’s a real fire,” her Onii-chan stated with curiosity.
This is when Syaoran looked at her, and they silently agreed. Both ran towards the fire, with her Onii-chan in pursuit yelling, “Matte!”
‘I don’t have time for this,’ Syaoran thought, but in fact he did have time. He pulled out the one card that would help and yelled, “TIME!” while striking it with the tip of his sword.
She looked at him in curiosity, and he yelled, “Hiyaku! SLEEP no card ka!”
She finally understood and proceeded to say her chant, “Oh key that hides the powers of the darkness; show your true form to me. I, Sakura, command you! Release!”
The key obeyed and transformed to her sealing wand. She wasted no time, and took out, “SLEEP!”
SLEEP flew overhead everybody, and soon the magic worked. Everyone was sleeping, and soon Syaoran would join them.
“Li-kun!” she yelled as he collapsed with only his sword keeping him from completely collapsing.
“The TIME card uses a lot of my energy. I’ll be fine, but you have to do something about that fire!” he stated logically.
She nodded her head and called out the one card that almost always guaranteed victory for her, “WINDY!”
WINDY worked its magic on the fire, but instead of binding it, WINDY helped it! This couldn’t be! WINDY was an element card!
“Sakura! Windy can’t stand up to fiery!” a familiar Osaka accent shouted.
“Kero-chan? What are you doing here?” she spoke up.
“That doesn’t matter! Windy may be an elemental card, but it can’t stand up to fiery! It isn’t aggressive enough!” the stuffed animal explained drastically.
“What elementals do you have?!” Syaoran invited himself into the conversation.
“WINDY and WATERY, so this must be the fire card” she answered timely.
“It’s the FIERY card!” the stuffed animal yelled.
At that statement, a group of flames merged together to reveal a very haughty and confident women immersed in flames.
“So you decide to show your true form,” the stuffed animal stated.
“FIERY is an attack card! You can’t defeat it with WINDY, so its only enemy is…” Syaoran began.
“Mitzu!” she positioned her wand to call upon her WATERY card.
“You can’t just beat it with water!” the stuffed animal cried, “WATERY and FIERY are equal in strength! If you use that card, it won’t decide the outcome!”
Meanwhile, FIERY was sick of being ignored, so to remind the Cardcaptor of her presence, she sent a wave of flames at them. Obviously talking was out of the question, so she decided to run away from the flames. Syaoran in the meantime was grounded due to his low energy.
“What can I do?!” she cried in helplessness.
“Use both WINDY and WATERY at once!” the stuffed animal cried.
“It’s impossible to use 2 elemental cards at once!” Syaoran contradicted.
“But if we don’t, FIERY will burn up the whole park, and it won’t end there,”
“Iie! This is everybody’s park! I won’t let you do that,” she directed that last comment at FIERY.
“Onegai, do your best with me, one more time,” she pleaded, “Kaze, Mitzu, work together to contain the flames! WINDY, WATERY!”
She summoned the cards, and working with one another the 2 elementals were able to douse the flames. FIERY tried to fight back, but to no avail; WINDY and WATERY were too much for the haughty card. Syaoran looked at the amazing scene in awe, “But 2 elementals…” he truly was confused.
“Imiya!” the stuffed animal shouted.
“Return to your true form, Clow Card!” she shouted to finalize the battle.
Skipping Ahead…
After the battle, Syaoran took it upon himself to torment the stuffed toy, and then shortly after the park began to wake up from their peaceful slumber. Meiling naturally had to find out what happened, and she questioned Syaoran while they were in the Ferris wheel. Syaoran proceeded to tell her, and she truly was disappointed that she couldn’t witness it.
Meanwhile, as she was complaining, she came into view. She was sitting in a cart opposite of his and Meiling’s, with him, and there was a huge smile on her face. Syaoran couldn’t help but look at her in such a fashion that his face turned crimson at the site. Little did he know, at that time, that he would fall in love with her, and think about her at every waking moment?
End Flashback
To some, that story might not have been much, but to him it was truly wonderful, because she had made it wonderful. He would have dwelled on this thought, but there came a demanding knock at the door, and Syaoran knew it belonged to only one person, “Come in Meiling.”
“Mou Syaoran, how do you always do that?!” Meiling stated with annoyance.
Syaoran was in no state to answer, and Meiling knew him well enough to figure out why, “You’re thinking of Kinomoto-san again, ne?”
“Aah,” Syaoran confirmed.
“Well I have news for you dear cousin,” Meiling stated with a poignant grin.
Without stating anything, she handed Syaoran a small invitation card. On it was:
You are cordially invited to a Christmas
Celebration on December 24th at the
Daidouji Manor. The party will begin at 5:00pm.
Please show at 4:00pm; respond no later than December 22.
We patiently await your arrival.
Please wear formal dress.
It was seeing this that only one thought entered Syaoran’s mind, ‘Sakura!’
Despite the fact that Syaoran said nothing, Meiling knew by the small smile on his face what he was thinking. She gave a small smile as well. It was rare to see her cousin smile, and when she did, it made her feel all warm inside, even though she knew that smile wasn’t for her.
Meiling came to accept the fact that Syaoran would not love her the way she wanted to be loved. Seeing him happy like this was more meaningful than anything in the world for her. She finally understood what Daidouji Tomoyo meant. It was very relieving and comforting.
Meanwhile…
Speaking of Daidouji Tomoyo, she was currently getting ready for her Christmas party. Being the daughter of a very rich mother, that owned a very extravagant house had its advantages, and it really made it more efficient to plan for a party. Of course okaa-sama was more than willing to help; especially when she would get to see Sakura-chan the one and only daughter of her precious Nadeshiko. The servants also would be more than happy to help, and the house would soon be ready for Christmas.
Even with all that was going on, Tomoyo couldn’t help but feel very manipulative. She loved to set her kawaii Sakura-chan and Li-kun up together. She also, for the first time in her life, felt trapped. How would she get her kawaii Sakura over to her house in a fancy dress and all ready for Li-kun? She was truly at a loss. Getting Sakura over of course was no problem; all she had to do was say she needed her help.
Her kawaii Sakura-chan was always willing to help anybody. She wouldn’t dare question the reason why, but she would wonder why she had to get dressed. Sakura-chan may have her naïve moments, but she could tell when Tomoyo was planning something. Sakura-chan was far from dumb.
“Maybe Meiling-chan can help me!” Tomoyo suddenly voiced.
Meiling was always ready to help with a scheme to get Sakura-chan and Li-kun together. One could not forget the first time she attempted to do that! Keeping this thought in mind, Tomoyo took out her cell phone, compliments of Okaa-sama, and dialed #2. The phone rang 2 times when she heard a familiar voice say, “Moshi-moshi?”
“Meiling-chan, Daidouji des,” Tomoyo stated.
“Daidouji-san nani des ka?” Meiling inquired.
“I already know how to get Sakura-chan here, demo I can’t figure out how to get her to dress up. What should I do?” Tomoyo implored.
“I don’t think you should ask me Daidouji-san. I think this is more in the area of Hiiragizawa-san,” upon hearing this, Tomoyo’s eyes opened wide and wondered why she didn’t think of that before!
“Arigatou gozaimashite, Meiling-chan! Sayonara,” Tomoyo couldn’t nearly even express her gratitude! If anybody could help, Hiiragizawa-kun would more than able to!
“Do itashtimashite Daidouji-san. Ja ne. I can’t wait for the party!” Meiling was more than willing to help.
“Tomoyo ended the call and proceeded to call Hiiragizawa-kun. She patiently waited as the phone rang, and on the third ring she heard a droll voice state, “Hiiragizawa residence.” It was Spinal Sun.
“Spinal-san, Daidouji des,” Tomoyo stated for the second time that day.
“Daidouji-sama, how may I be of assistance?” Spinal offered.
“Would you please put Hiiragizawa-kun on?” Tomoyo requested.
“Of course, chotto matte kudasai,” Tomoyo-chan waited with the utmost patience, when she heard, “Daidouji-san, to what do I owe this unexpected pleasure?” Hiiragizawa-kun was forever a gentleman, despite Syaoran’s thinking of him.
“I have a favor to ask of you,” she stated with utmost confidence.
“I am at your disposal,” he replied.
“It has been a year and a half since Sakura-chan and Li-kun saw each other and Sakura hasn’t been the same since. She hardly ever smiles, and she is constantly in a daze; even more so than usual. Meiling-chan and I found a way to get them together; we have a party planned. Li-kun knows, but I want to surprise Sakura-chan. For that I need your help,” Tomoyo briefly explained.
Hiiragizawa Eriol was certainly a force to be reckoned with, especially when coming up with a plan to manipulate his lovely half-daughter that inherited his cards, and to his oh so cute little descendent.
With that evil smile of his, he answered in his disguise voice, “Of course I would be more than happy to help Daidouji-san.”
Oh boy. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Author’s Notes: First chapter ended, but it’s not on a standstill! Just click the next button, and you’ll see the continuation of the story! I hope you’re enjoying it so far! Only 2 more chapters to go!
In dedication to all the members at CapturedWings.net/Forums
Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year
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