Guardians of Tomoeda - Chapter Three

Episode 3—Guardians of Tomoeda—I don’t own CCS.

Syaoran’s point of view

I woke up, yawning. As I brushed my teeth, I heard the crazy person I was being forced to live with running around and stomping through the house. The floor was shaking and all. Fatty, I thought, shaking my head.

I went into my room and started dressing. I threw my pajama bottoms into the laundry bin, Sakura still jumping around downstairs. What a pain… It was when I was taking my shirt off that my door clicked, and she came in. “H-hey, I thought we agreed on knocking before we came into each other’s room!” I said, my face a little hot.

She glared at me, not hearing what I said. “You took them, didn’t you?” she growled. Fatty. “Where are my clothes!?”

“How the hell should I know!? You actually think I’d take your clothes!? What’s WRONG with you!?” I shouted.

“Well, when I put pervert plus Sakura’s clothes, it equals--“

“A window?” I smirked.

“No, that’s one plus one, my equation equals Syaoran took them,” she looked at me with a pouty face.

I laughed, kind of sarcastically. “I can’t believe you think I’d take your fatty clothes!” Now I was laughing for real. Her face went red with anger.

“Why, you stupid little--“ she began, but the maid cut her off by putting a hand on her shoulder. “If you’re looking for your clothes, Lady Sakura, I’ve put them in the laundry. They’ll be out by dinner time.”

“Oh, uh… thank you.” Sakura was a little embarrassed as she stuttered her pathetic thank you. The maid looked around and saw my laundry bin.

“Oh, Master Syaoran, I didn’t realize I hadn’t taken your laundry to wash yet, let me-oh!” she saw that I was shirtless. “Oh, well, I’m sorry for interrupting!” she backed out of the room, chuckling. “Wh-what? Wait, you’ve got it wrong!” I put my hand out after her, but I bumped into Sakura. “Er, sorry…” she looked at me angrily, then saw my bare chest and blushed. Neheheheh…I’ve seduced her…I chuckled sarcastically at my inside joke.

“Eeeekkk!! Pervert!!” she screamed as she pushed me away from her. I slammed into my desk, a few of my books falling out the open window. “Agh!” I yelled in pain. “Jeez, Sakura, I think you opened a wound in my back…!”

She was still looking at me, red in the face, a defensive look on her face. I blinked, then laughed. “Are you happy you got such a hot body for a comrade?” I asked, turning on my charm as I backed her towards the doorway. “I work out a lot.”

She nodded. “Yes… N-no, I mean no!!” she screamed in my face. I laughed some more.

“Would you like to leave?” I asked warmly. She nodded her head, frowning at me. She was past the door step now. “Good. ‘Bye,” I said, slamming the door in her face, smiling. I heard her ‘raarrargh’ and walk away. I burst into hysterical laughter. Wiping a tear from my cheek, I pulled my shirt on.

At breakfast, Sakura glared at me. I smiled back at her, but couldn’t contain it. “Pfft- AHAHA!!” She whipped a fork at me, which I narrowly dodged. “Hey, it was a joke, fatty, chill!” my anger rose slightly. “FATTY!?” she yelled.

Somehow, we ended up in a serious food fight. I threw my whole bowl of porridge at her fat head, and I ended up with egg yolk in my face. Food was everywhere, on the walls, the floor, the table, put not on our plates or bowls. Our hands were dirtied from throwing the food. We stood panting.

The maid came out of her hiding spot, and scolded us. “Really, milady, Master, you shouldn’t do things like that! Oh, look at the mess you two have made! You two go wash up, and we’ll start cleaning this mess…” she sighed. Sakura stiffened.

“I won’t have it!” she said, putting her foot down for emphasis. “The two of us will clean this up!”

“Wh-what?” the maid stuttered. “But…we’re your maids! And I’m head maid, Kaoru, and I demand that you go wash up!” Kaoru didn’t demand it, but she said it rather pleadingly. “Forgive me, but—“

“No,” Sakura cut her off, grabbing her hands. “We made this mess, and we’re going to clean it up! Isn’t that that right, Syaoran?” she added, looking at me.

I was a little startled by her want to help head maid Kaoru, but I understood, too. I nodded. “Yes. There are certain things that you alone can do, and certain things that we can do, too. If I let you do everything for me, then I wouldn’t have my awesome body,” I glanced at Sakura, who was red at my comment. I chuckled softly, so no one would hear. Sakura could be so cute when she wanted to.

So after a fight, Kaoru gave up and we got to clean up the mess… oh to joy. “Hey… nice job ordering her around like that,” I told Sakura.

She glared at me. “Shut up,”

“Hey, it was a compliment! Okay, let me rephrase this; good job at standing up for yourself to the maid. They’re like machines, I bet they’ve never had a break in their lives… you did good.” I shot her a small smile.

She smiled a little back. “And you have good biceps,” she sat there for a minute. I was kind of taken aback. Then she realized what she said. “Oh, crap, I said that out loud, didn’t I??”

I started laughing. We cleaned up the rest of the mess, and flopped down onto the big comfy couch. (not the show, fools) Sakura looked over at me. “You know, I don’t like you because of what I said earlier,” she declared.

I waved a hand at her. “I know. The feelings’ mutual.”

She leaned back, a little more relaxed. Then the Tomoeda alarm bell went off. “What?! An attack?!” I yelled to my comrade, raising my voice to get over the blaring alarm.

She just nodded in response. We ran out side, looking down at the district. (I don’t know if I’ve told you this, but our ring of three houses floated above the city, kind of like the school, but there was a long path from ours to Tomoyo and Eriol’s, with another branching off at the middle to get to Meiling’s)

What we saw was incredible.

Razor sharp horns and spiked hooves, a deadly giant mountain goat terrorized the district.

What the hell…!? That’s frickin’ pathetic! A mountain goat!? I thought to myself, almost disappointed. I even heard Sakura giggle. I sighed. No matter what it was, we still had to protect Tomoeda. Not waiting for the other 4 to catch up, I took out my ofuda and jumped over the side of the pathway.

“Hey, goat, here!” I said, throwing the ofuda at it. It kind of made a messed up baah as it shook its razor sharp horns. It did almost nothing…!

“Syaoran, wait!” I heard Sakura’s voice behind me. “You idiot, wait for the whole group next time!”

“You’re too slow, fatty, so shut it!” I snapped back at her.

“Argh! You are sooo STUPID! And I am not fat!” she took out her staff and a Clow card. “I’ll do this without you! Arrow card!” she yelled, flipping the card and hitting it with her staff, sending an arrow shooting at the goat. It made a blast and the goat was bleeding.

I won’t let her get all the credit! I took out my sword. Though it was rare, I was a martial arts master and a great swordsman. Wrapping an ofuda around the sword, I jumped down further and slashed the goats horn off. It yowled in pain as the horn fell into the…crap!! The horn was headed straight for a Tomoeda house!!

In the nick of time, Eriol swooped down, and just randomly hit the horn back towards Tomoyo, who destroyed it with a flaming wand.

“Hey, Syaoran!” Meiling yelled at me. “Don’t take my job as warrior!”

“Sorry…” I mumbled back, though she’d never be able to hear from the distance we were at.

She took out a bow and arrow, and shot the goat’s eye. Sakura set another arrow on fire and Meiling shot it, setting the goat’s pelt on fire. It wailed in pain and thrashed around.

I thought hard about how we could kill it without destroying our district. Then it hit me. “Heyyyyyy!” I shouted up to Meiling, who blushed back at me. I took out an ofuda and wrote ‘grow’ on it, throwing it up to Meiling. “Put this on your sword, then cut the goats head off!!”

She nodded, following my instructions. Her sword grew, and she jumped down, slicing the goats head off. It fell, and Sakura used the Fly card to swoop down and destroy the body and head. Oh, no, you don’t!

I jumped from rock to rock as fast as I could, trying to catch up to her. She spotted me, and swerved, attempting to knock me off the rocks. We ended up in a cat-and-dog fight, leaving the others to dispose of the rest.

We left as Tomoeda thanked us. I tried to get away as soon as I got onto the path, but Tomoyo pulled back my green robes. “Oh, no. You two almost demolished Tomoeda. What happened to team work!?” she yelled.

Eriol nodded his head sternly. “Yes. You guys better learn to work together, or we’ll all lose our powers and become regular Tomoeda citizens. Is that what you really want?”

Sakura hung her head with me. “No…,” we muttered.

Tomoyo let go. “We’ll find a way to make you guys friends.”

Eriol smiled. “I think the Tomoeda welcoming festival will do that for us. I looked it up. C’mon, I’ll tell you about it.” He grabbed her comrade’s hand and they ran down the path. Meiling had already departed.

I looked at Sakura. “I guess it is our fault…”

She nodded. “But I just really hate you…”

“…Thanks…”

“Well… lets try to be nice from now on, okay? We’re gunna have to if we live together. Maybe even—“ she broke off. “Never mind.”

“What?” I blinked.

“Nothing,” she said, walking away. I grabbed her wrist. “Eek!”

“What?” I smiled. I think I know what she was thinking…

She blushed. “I was going to say ‘maybe even a romance thing’, but that would never happen, right?”

I blinked again, my face a little hot. “W-well, no, I mean…” I looked away. I noticed I was holding her hand. I quickly took it away, but she lost her balance.

Lightning fast, I grabbed her again. I pulled her up, and we stared at each other. “Thanks,” she breathed.

We stared.

We started laughing.

“I guess we can be friends. Even if it does happen, which it probably won’t, we have to be friends first.” Sakura said.

“Yes. So, lets try, even if you do hate me,” I smiled. She nodded, and we walked back to the house. This just might be bearable.

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