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Captor Sakura belongs to CLAMP!
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Shi-chan: This is one of those
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~By Shimegami-chan
Warnings: Uh...none! ^^::
Sakura hummed quietly to herself as she took off her hat and hung it up.
"Ohayo, Sakura-chan!" a cheery voice called.
"Ohayo, Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura answered in kind.
The raven-haired girl smiled happily and began to unpack her books. "Did you
get your summer story written? We're reading them today, you know!"
"Ho~eeee..." Sakura cast her gaze at the floor. "I tried to
write it...but I got so caught up in stuff...demo...it's mostly done!" She
smiled sheepishly. "Kero-chan finished it for me while I was doing my math
work. Every time I let him do my math he gets it all wrong and I have to re-do
it."
Tomoyo laughed and sat down just as Tsutsumi-sensei entered the room. "All
right everyone, take your seats."
Sakura sat down and hummed quietly to herself, waving to Syaoran over her
shoulder. "Ohayo!"
"Ohayo," he mumbled in response.
Tsutsumi-sensei stood at the front of the class and took roll call before
returning to the subject of the summer break homework. "We'll start with
your Creative Writing stories, which, as I said before school ended, we'll be
reading in class. Kinomoto, why don't you start?"
Sakura gulped. Perhaps Tsutsumi-sensei really did have a
"No-Homework-Done," alarm in him, just like Kero-chan had said. She
cleared her throat and began speaking.
"Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess. The princess was in love
with a sweet prince, but he lived in a kingdom far away. However, the prince
would sometimes send the princess candy, and she would not feel lonely.
One day the princess decided to go and visit her prince. She and her ultra-cool
kakkoi, uh..." Sakura blinked at the red pen markings scribbled on the
page. They were covering up and changing some things. Kero-chan! Sakura loudly
cleared her throat. "Gomen nasai. Ano...she and her guardian beast
Kereberos traveled through a dangerous forest to her prince's kingdom. It was
very far away. Demo, Kereberos was a strong and powerful ally, and though the
princess was weak, he--" she broke off again, gaping at Kero's edits. She
was going to kill him if he made a fool of her in front of the whole
class!
Syaoran and Tomoyo were staring at her in shock. Sakura coughed again and
grinned in apology. "Ah, gomen, gomen! Um, though the princess
was...weak...the strong and powerful Ke-re-be-ros," she uttered the words
syllable by syllable in an almost-growl, "protected her from harm."
The pencil marks stopped there, an indication of when in the story Sakura had
abandoned it in favour of her math work. Sakura prayed to Kami-sama and Clow
and whoever else might be out there that Kero-chan hadn't destroyed it from
here on in. The marks of the red pen looked almost like blood on the paper.
Sakura gulped.
"Kinomoto?" Tsutsumi-sensei questioned.
"H-Hai! It's all right!" She smiled and gritted her teeth. "The
princess pined over her prince for a very long time, until her Guardian Beast
became angry and abandoned her all alone...in the woods!" He's dead!
"So, the princess decided that the prince wasn't worth it and went home too.
When she got there Kereberos had eaten all the cake in the castle. Except for
the extra stash he had hidden in the pantry. In the end the Prince got married
to another Prince, which couldn't be helped. So, the Princess and her Guardian
stayed in the castle for the rest of their lives, happy and eating cake. The
end."
Sakura's cheeks burned bright red as she handed her paper to Tsutsumi-sensei
and returned to her seat. It was all she could do not to just pass out on her
desk. "Kero-chan...hidoi..."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
After school Tsutsumi-sensei handed back all the papers corrected, stopping
Sakura on the way out. "Kinomoto..."
"H-Hai?"
"I noticed you were having some trouble today reading your paper. I've
never known you to be shy in my class, but it's all right. Worn out from your
vacation, are you?"
Sakura nodded in assent.
"Well, I had to take off some marks because you had a lot of spelling
mistakes near the end, but it was a very nice story. Not your typical fairy
tale." Tsutsumi-sensei smiled at her. "Very creative. Here you
go."
He handed her the paper, a red "95" circled at the top.
"A-Arigatou!" She bowed hurriedly and ran out to catch up with Tomoyo
and Syaoran, who were discussing their own marks.
"What'd you get, Daidouji? I got an 80." Syaoran boasted.
"Ano...90." Tomoyo said quietly. Syaoran turned red and looked away.
"Ah! Sakura-chan!" She turned to wave at her friend. "How did
you do?"
Sakura grinned. "95. I didn't make too much of a fool of myself, did
I?"
"Iie." Tomoyo smiled back.
"Well, I need to go. have to pick up something." Sakura waved and
veered around a corner on her skates, bidding her two friends good-bye.
"Ja ne!"
"Ja!"
Sakura folded the paper into a neat square and placed it in her pocket before
skating away.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Kero-chan."
"Konnichiwa, Sakura!" Kero pounded on the controls of the video game
her was playing. "How was school?"
"I passed in my creative writing assignment."
"Ah, really? That's good."
"Uh-huh."
There was a moment of silence before Kero's game sprite died and he turned
around. "Nani?"
"I got a 95."
"Is that good?"
"Yeah."
"Oh."
"I brought you a present."
That made him sit up and take notice. "Oh? Dokodokodoko?!? Where?!"
Sakura smiled faintly and handed him a small bag. "I figured since we
intend to eat cake for the rest of our lives, we'd get started now."
Kero dove into the bag and fished out a slice of strawberry cake.
"Cakeyocakeyocakeyocakeyo!"
"Kero-chan?"
"Cakeyocakeyocakeyocakeyo! Nani?"
"Nice story."
"Thank you. "Cakeyocakeyocakeyocakeyo!"
"Kero-chan?"
"Hmm? Mmph, mmph, mmph, mmph..."
"You're never doing my homework again."
~Owari!
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Shi-chan: LOL, nothing fancy, just a cute idea I had. ^^;;
Must...not...succumb...to the kawaii...Kero-chan-ness! It was mostly
rambling...I'm too tired...might revise it later. Ja!
Conan: *huggles Kero-chan* Kawaii!
Kero: You just watch it, Detective Boy.
Shinichi: ^^;;