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At Daidouji resident, Tomoyo came back home earlier than she ordinary times.  When
she had arrived home, a servant informed her that her guest was already waiting for
her since half-hour ago.  It was the time before school day ended.
 
Tomoyo had got a phone call from her visitor yesterday, and they made appointment to
meet each other today after the end of the school day.  This was the reason why
Tomoyo hurried to go back home ahead of time today
 
With great haste, Tomoyo moved to the room her guest was waiting for her, and
opened the door to meet her guest in the room.  As if the visitor could sense the girl's
arrival, she placed a magazine she had read before Tomoyo came on the table in front
of her.
 
"Hello Tomoyo-chan," cheerful sharp but smoothly voice greeted Tomoyo at the first
steps of the girl came in the room.
 
The visitor smiled at Tomoyo smiled at her guest, "Good afternoon Fuutie-san," and
turned to the round pink fish that looked at Tomoyo by greeting eyes "Good afternoon,
Shiki-chan."
 
It was Fuutie, who had called Tomoyo yesterday.
 
To Tomoyo she had been little surprised when she had got the Phone call, how Fuutie
could get the telephone number of her home, and furthermore posterior of making their
appointment the young woman had said that she would come to her home by herself,
and had said 'don't worry'.
 
Nevertheless there was not the real matter to worry about, Tomoyo cogitated, after
arriving to Japan only an hour the young lady could find the way to Tomoeda
Elementary School by using Shiki-chan searched for her little brother's track.  Nothing
to be suspected if the young lady could find her home without lost the direction.
 
Tomoyo gave Fuutie a greeting bow as the young lady and her magic creature, Shiki-
chan, did so, and then the girl called a servant to give some orders of beverage and
cakes for serving her guest some more.
 
After receiving order, the servant nodded in acceptation of the order and left the two
girls in the room.
 
When the servant had walked out Shiki-chan drifted around Tomoyo; as if it was happy
to meet a person it knew or its friend again, caused Tomoyo giggled.
 
"Fuutie-san, does Shiki-chan is so friendly like this to everyone?"  Smiling Tomoyo
asked, taking hold Shiki-chan's on the right fin and led the magic creature to sofa.  The
long black hair girl sat down on the other side of the sofa Fuutie was sitting.
 
"No," Fuutie said as a matter of fact, "Only with persons who have a 'good spirit'," she
smiled at Tomoyo whose lap Shiki-chan was curling up, smiling back at her.
 
Before the two ladies could go more to their conversation, they heard a sound of
knocking the door of the servant who came into the room for serving the cool beverage
and cakes to Fuutie and Tomoyo, and went out.
 
Stroking Shiki-chan on her lap, Tomoyo was sitting quietly.  For certain the girl wanted
to talk with the woman in front of her about Shaolan, as she knew that the boy was
afflicting because of leaving his beloved.  However this was their family's story, as an
outsider how could she bring herself to dissent in taking the boy home?  Tomoyo
thought.
 
Depression of silence was tiding in the room.  Calmly, Fuutie lifted her glass to sip her
cool beverage, then smiled at Tomoyo to decrease the uncomfortable silence.
 
"Tomoyo-chan, you're already know that Shaolan's going back to Hong Kong, right?"
Fuutie said first.
 
The girl was little surprised by the beginning of their conversion, as if the young woman
could read Tomoyo's mind, but lastly she replied to the question, "Yes, I already know."
Shaolan might tell his eldest sister, she thought.
 
Fuutie smiled still at her and continued, "And you want to talk to me about Shaolan's
going back to Hong Kong, right?"
 
The last statement evoked Tomoyo's deep violet eyes widened, "How could you know?"
 
Fuutie shrugged softly, "Girl intuition," she said.
 
Tomoyo marveled how could young woman knew what was in her thought, even Fuutie
spoke like not-thing-special-just-girl-intuition-everyone-could-know but what the young
woman did was on the far side of not-thing-special-just-girl-intuition.  Fuutie had called
to her first yesterday, then went to her home by herself, and hurtled straightaway to the
point the girl wanted to talk with her as if the young woman could read her thinking
thoroughly.  Even so it was not much dubiousness since the young woman was 'Li' and
Tomoyo herself wont to unordinary things she had faced before.
 
"Yes Fuutie-san, that is what I want to talk about" Tomoyo said.
 
"Me too that want to talk to you about this."  Fuutie smiled, placed the glass she held on
the table, "He's falling in love with Sakura-chan and you know this, right?"
 
Again that the young woman's speech made Tomoyo surprised but nodded.
 
"I think I don't have to worry about my little brother would become a gay," Fuutie gave a
joke drove a little smile was decorated on the girl's face.  "He's felling in love with
Sakura-chan but he still haven't told her he love her and Sakura-chan seem not to know
his feeling too" said young woman.
 
"You know all?" The girl asked.
 
"You know, Tomoyo-chan, my young brother's not a good liar, all things he thinks
especially about Sakura-chan are written clear visible on his face."  Fuutie said half
playfully.  She did not tell the girl that some of the things she knew were the result of
her 'ransacking for the selective information', and then she looked at Tomoyo's light
concordant smile and followed with a big sigh. "But anyway he has to go back home
now, it has a high possible that he'll not let Sakura-chan know his feeling."
 
Tomoyo nodded and said, "He have already told me to keep this in secret because he
doesn't want to hurt Sakura-chan."  Girl paused, reluctant to say next sentence, "Fuutie-
san, do you…really have to take him home?"  At last she could come up herself to ask,
Tomoyo thought while waiting for Fuutie's answer with patience.
 
Instead Fuutie shook her head, disagreed, "No I have not, it is himself that must go
home, and he knows he must.  He knows all the time 'Li' clan depends on him, and he
knows what he has to do.  Even he has to sacrifice his own happiness."  The young
lady said.
 
'Sacrifice,' the word made Tomoyo gasped, this was not fair, only a ten years old boy
likes Shaolan had to sacrifice himself for his clan, Tomoyo thought.
 
Seeing Tomoyo's eye became darken, Fuutie's face was abrupt saddened and her
eyes were pleading the girl.   "Tomoyo-chan, this is his duty for our clan and he is
willing to take it all by his own will.  I hope you would understand his situation."
 
"I do, Fuutie-san," Tomoyo replied gently.
 
"And sad thing is I could not help him either, not matter how many times I thought
about it." The elder's voice went distressing even more.
 
"Fuutie-san…" Tomoyo tried to find some word to comfort the young woman.
 
"So I think that during he's still in Japan, I want to make this time to be his best memory
for him before he'd leave and I need your help.  That is what I want to talk to you."  The
young woman leaned little forward to the girl, said earnestly  "Tomoyo-chan, would you
please help me?"  She asked.
 
Fuutie needed her help? Tomoyo wondered, "My pleasure, Fuutie-san, but how could I
help you?"
 
"You are a very good girl, Tomoyo-chan," Fuutie smiled satisfactory, bent down to
whisper to Tomoyo to her ear as the girl listened to her plan intensely.  "I plan to…"
 
Two ladies whisper a second before Tomoyo exclaimed in exciting, "It would be a
lovely scene!  I would love to help, Fuutie-san."  Then she paused a second before
continued, " Beside tomorrow is a very good day too."
 
"Good day?" Fuutie suspected in the girl statement.
 
"Yes, very good day," Tomoyo repeated and smiled to the young woman. "Wait for me a
minute and I would settle all for you."
 
Tomoyo put Shiki-chan on sofa.  She jogged excitingly from the room then came back
a minute later with her Computer Notebook, and then sat on sofa she had sat before.
Started to perform some computer works
 
Curiously Fuutie and Shiki-chan moved to sit beside Tomoyo while the girl was
dexterous performing some works to her computer.  Poor things the language that
showed in computer screen was wholly Japanese language, she could not interpret all
excepted some Kanji words but only few words could not make her understand what
Tomoyo was performing anymore.
 
Lastly looked like Tomoyo had made some purchasing order, she went out to a fax
machine in her home as it was sending some papers of the purchasing order to the
girl.  Minutes passed by Tomoyo returned to the room that Fuutie and Shiki-chan were
inside.
 
"Here Fuutie-san," the smiling girl handed Fuutie the papers which were faxed to her as
she had made the purchasing order minute ago.  "The date is tomorrow," she said
 
The young woman took papers from the girl.  Nevertheless the papers totally contained
with Japanese alphabets; predictable, Fuutie had come to Japan days ago, how could
she understand all alphabets were written in Japanese Language?
 
Realized that reading Japanese language was a big problem for Fuutie, then Tomoyo
sat down next to the young woman and begin to explain all things in the papers.
 
When understood all matters in the papers Fuutie promulgated, "Wow! How great you
are, Tomoyo-chan!"  Young woman turned to looked the girl and grinned, "You're right
Tomoyo-chan, tomorrow is very good day"
 
Tomoyo smiled and nodded in correspond.
 
Fuutie rose one of her slim hand up to her face level, pointing to Tomoyo with
frolicsome as if this was a sign.  "And don't forget."
 
"Video camera," two ladies said and giggled together as they plan began.
 

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"I'm home," said Sakura dully when she reached her home.  She opened the door and
entered.
 
"Oi Kaijou, you came home very late today," Touya greeted his little sister drowsy, he
was in the kitchen as today was his turn to prepare dinner.
 
"Um," Sakura replied inattentively
 
Touya stuck his head out from the kitchen to look at his little sister.  <Why this time she
did not contradict me to call her Kaijou like she ordinary would do? > He wondered.
Seeing his unenthusiastic Sakura walked completely absentmindedly upstairs aroused
the big brother to worry about his little sister.
 
<What's up with her now? > Touya thought apprehensively.
 
At the Sakura's bedroom, Kero sat on the floor, and looking at pictures of several types
of cake in a cooking book while day dreaming that he was eating all those appetizing
super giant cakes.  The day dreaming blinded him not to aware of the coming of his
master and coming of a door panel attack.
 
"Ack!"  It was all Kero could talk after the door panel attacking.  He groaned as the pain
hit his forehead.
 
Poor Kero-chan&hellip;
 
"En?" Kero marveled, <Why doesn't it hurt as much as it used to be? > He doubted,
rubbing his forehead and looked up to the person who was entering the room.
 
It was Sakura
 
"I'm home Kero-chan," the girl said with a dreary face.
 
Kero saw Sakura gently closed the door without said anything.  She slumped to her
bed not as exuberance as she ever used to be.  The girl only immersed her face on her
own pillow.
 
<What's up with her? >  Kero thought the as similar as Touya's.
 
Kero flew slowly near the girl and observed her. She merely buried her face on her
pillow and clutched the pillowcase firmly as if she were crying but tried to keep the
weeping noise from breaking through to be heard by others, at least by Kero.
 
"Sakura," Kero called to her worriedly, concerning about the girl.
 
The girl had no answer from his call.  She buried her face on her pillow still, not paying
her attention on him and her handgrip on the pillowcase tightened.
 
"Oi, Sakura what happened?"  Kero tried to comprehend the girl in concern and care
for her.
 
The girl only shook her head, "No, nothing," she muttered to the pillow, "Nothing."
 
Kero did not ask or bother the girl any further but worry for her was still adhering on
him, he knew she was sad.  Though Sakura did not want to tell him, she might need
some times to be alone right now, he thought to himself.
 
"Sakura, I am going to Tomoyo house, and I would be back awhile later," Kero said
 
The girl simply nodded but did not asked any question, why he would go to Tomoyo's
house, but she murmured about thanking him.  She genuinely wanted some times to
be alone.
 
Then Kero sent a worried look at the girl once before he winged away from the girl out
of the window of the room, leaving the girl alone.  The best place now for Kero was
Tomoyo's house, which had a lot of delicious sweet things for him, and then he flew
from Sakura's room to Tomoyo's house.
 
To Sakura, she did not really needed times to think but her brain, rather, went blank as
a voice was recalling in her head
 
[Sakura-san&hellip; when a person who is close to you end up by going some place far
away, please think hard about how you feel then, and how it different with how you feel
about my going.  Because if you do that, you'll know who is the person you truly think
of as your 'number one',] was what Eriol's gentle voice had said to her before he left
from Japan.
 
<Thinks heard how I feel and I would know who is the person I truly think of as my
'Number one.'>  Sakura repeated the speech of the boy.
 
When Sakura brought it up, trying to think about the different between the leaving of
Eriol and the leaving of Shaolan, she still thought that the leaving of her both friends
were too bad awful bad.
 
Shaolan who, at first, had appeared as her rival for Yukito and the Clow Card, but
whatever happened he always protected her, and always helped her.  From that time
she had captured the Shadow card, the erase card till the final judgement, and all the
incidents that Eriol had set.  The boy always was by her side, protecting her, helping
her and encouraging her when she was frightened or despondent.
 
She remembered when she had confessed her feeling to Yukito, but Yukito already
had the person that he loved most.  She had not cried in front of others especially in
front of Yukito, fearing that Yukito might be burdened by hurting her feeling.  She had
not cried in front of others not even Tomoyo or Kero but she had cried in front of
Shaolan and had said all things she thought.
 
She remembered when he had handed her his handkerchief and the warmness of the
boy's shoulder when she had leaned and had cried on his shoulder, his hands that had
embraced her to comfort her when she had sad were so sooth.  The warmness of his
hand and his shoulder helped her to ease her sadness--
 
<W-w-what am I thinking???>  Sakura's thought was cut off, when she realized she
thought about when Shaolan had embraced her.
 
Sakura felt her face grew hot and she made a motion to her mirror that was located on
the table beside of her bed to take a look at her face, then she realized that face grew
flushed crimson.  Thanks God Kero had left now, she thought.
 
Withal the girl face converted to discolor again when she thought of Shaolan was
leaving her. She felt her breath was ceased, and her chest was being tore away.
Shaolan was leaving her, she thought; Shaolan was leaving her&hellip;
 
Sakura could felt a droplet of tear ran down from her eye to her smooth cheek.  She
dropped herself to her bed and sank her face on her pillow again, as she could not
stop her tears and the hurt that was inside her chest.
 
[Thinks heard how you feel and you would know who is the person you truly think of as
your 'Number one.'] The question Eriol had asked her was repeating again and again
in her head
 
Shaolan was leaving her.  Shaolan was leaving her, she could not threw the thoughts
away her head, while she tried to restrain not to let any sobbing sound out as much as
she could by buried her face, which was wetted by her teardrops into the pillow.
 
<&hellip;I&hellip;I&hellip;>
 

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At Shaolan's apartment, the boy was standing in front of his own room.  He took a deep
breath, trying to shake the melancholy on his face off.  If his sister saw him like this, she
would worry about him very much and he did not want his sister to worry about him.
After the moment of simmering down, Shaolan opened the door with a stone-cold
expression on his face.
 
"I'm back," he said evenly.
 
Silence&hellip;
 
There was not any sharp voice of greet him from his sister the previous days before.
Shaolan took off his shoes and entered.  He looked around, searching for his eldest
sister and her magic creature.  He walked to his sister's bedroom and knocked the
door
 
Silence&hellip;
 
<Maybe she is sleeping, > he thought, then he opened the door for confirmation of his
thought.
 
No one was there &hellip;
 
Then the boy wandered to the bathroom, which was his sister's favorite place.  He
knocked and called.  "Fuutie-oneesan, are you in there?"
 
Silence&hellip;
 
Using his one hand, he pushed the door of the bathroom and it was not locked and no
one was in there.  After the boy had walked around for find his sister and her magic
creature, he began to worry about the young lady. Where could she have gone? She
had just arrived in Japan for a few days, even though she had Shiki to show the way to
where she wanted to go, but Japan was still estranged to her.
 
Finally Shaolan walked to Sofa in the main room to sit, but all sudden a phone ring
called him up.  Shaolan stood up and moved to pick up the telephone receiver.
 
"Hello?" Shaolan began.
 
"Hello Shaolan," the young woman's sharp voice came from the other side.
 
"Fuutie-oneesan? Where're yo--"
 
"I am still shopping with Shiki-chan and I might come home late.  Don't worry anything
about me, and I would go back and make dinner for you.  Bye"
 
"Wait--"
 
Before Shaolan could finish a sentence, Fuutie had already hung up.  The words 'Don't
worry' and 'Make dinner' of her made him became more worry in some way, but at
least he knew she was safe.  He sighed and hung up his telephone receiver.  He
hoped that his sister would not put any strange ingredients in the dinners like she had
done, since after the day Shiki-chan had been boiled, and kept telling him that it was
nourishing for his health, he must eat it all, and he had to eat it all.  Even he absolutely
did not want to eat the stuff..
 
Again, Shaolan threw himself to the sofa to sit comfortably.
 
He looked around his room.  Almost all furniture and things, which were his, were
bundled to ready to move out from this apartment and to leave from Japan, leaving
Sakura.  When he thought of these things, he would feel like his stomached was
wringing, his head ached and there was a hurt inside his chest all the times.  Even now
he was feeling all that pains washed over his body.
 
May be some rest would make the aches disappeared, although he knew only one
ache that could not disappeared with only rest, the hurt in his heart.
 
He walked to bathroom to take a bath.  After he had finished, he walked out from the
bathroom with a towel on his head, drying his hair, and he dressed his pale green
pajamas.  He headed to his bedroom to have some rest, he felt very tired in this week,
really tied.
 
To go back to Hong Kong, Shaolan was extremely busing; he had to do many things in
order to prepare to go back home.  Telling teacher that he would resign, and he need
to manage many documents.  Telling the caretaker of the apartment that the room he
lived on would be returned, which the door bolt was already repaired.  Nevertheless
his mind was still with the girl that he loved.
 
Shaolan entered his bedroom, which had some things that he had not packed them
yet.  Among of them were his sword, Sakura's handkerchief that she had aided him
after she had captured the shadow card, and the yukata she had made for him.
 
He lied on his bed in his bedroom and his both feet touched the floor, staring at the
things until sleep quickly took the tired boy to fall asleep.
 

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"Thanks for letting me use your telephone, Tomoyo-chan," Fuutie said after she had
hung up the telephone receiver.  She smiled to the younger girl thankfully.
 
"My pleasure, Fuutie-san," Tomoyo replied gently and smiled back.
 
The truth was Fuutie did not go to shopping, though she was at Tomoyo's house all the
time since before Tomoyo had arrived and they had just finished the proceeding of the
plan minutes ago.  The young woman looked at her wristwatch; it was 6:00 P.M., and it
was already late, she still had a place to go to.  It was the important place that she had
to go today.
 
"I have to go now, Tomoyo-chan," Fuutie said to the girl.  She went to the sofa and bent
down to pick a paper bag that had the videotapes and a photo album she had
borrowed from Tomoyo days ago inside. She handed the paper bag to the girl.  "Here
Tomoyo-chan, these are the videotapes and photo album I borrowed from you."
 
The girl shook her head as she pushed the paper bag in Fuutie's hand back to the
young woman gently, "It's yours Fuutie-san, I said that I give it all to you.  It is yours
now."
 
"En? If you give me your collection would not be in the full set,"
 
Tomoyo gave the elder lady her bright smile. "I have many copies in my video theater,
so don't worry about my collection."
 
"Oh! Thank you very much Tomoyo-chan," Fuutie beamed cheerfully at the girl, who
smiled back at her.
 
Fuutie turned to call her magic creature, "Shiki-chan, it's time to go," but did not had
any response from the magic creature, "Shiki-chan?" Fuutie called again but she still
did not get any response or any sign of the magic creature.
 
Fuutie and Tomoyo began to walk around the room to find the magic creature: under
the table, the side of the sofa and every corner in the room, but Shiki-chan was not
found.
 
Once again, the worry crept to Fuutie.  The situation like this had happened before; it
was the day that Shiki-chan was boiled nearly to death.
 
Suddenly Shiki-chan flew quickly from the big garden of Daidouji resident and passed
from a window of the room, which was opened, to its master with excitement, and the
magic creature also had something was lying on its round back.
 
Fuutie turned to face her magic creature, which was drifting in front of her but slightly
above Tomoyo now.  The young lady was relieved from the worry, now her magic
creature was safe, Fuutie asked, "Shiki-chan, where did you go?"
 
Shiki-chan turned its back happily to the young lady, wanting to show her what it had
found outside.
 
"Um? Let me see, what's on your back," Fuutie said kindly.  She took a good look to
what was laid on the back of her magic creature.  She found a yellow doll, which had
two little wings on its back, was lying sprawly on the back of Shiki-chan.  The yellow
doll looked a little dirty, like something had trundled on it.  Fuutie used her both hands
to gather the doll up from Shiki-chan's back, "Wow! How cute! Is he your friend?"
Fuutie asked the magic creature.
 
Shiki-chan nodded jubilantly.
 
To Tomoyo, she thought that the doll on Fuutie's hand looked like&hellip;
 
Abruptly the yellow doll sat up on the young woman's hand, "Whose friend?!  That
balloon trundled on me!!"  The doll yelled with anger, and then gasped when he
realized that he was sitting on a stranger's hand, the young woman might be startled
that a doll could talk.
 
"Kero-chan??" Tomoyo surprised.
 
"Kero-chan?" Fuutie looked at Tomoyo then Kero.  She lifted Kero, which was using his
full effort in pretending to be ordinary doll stuff, up by her both hands to the level of her
face and stared at him nose to nose. "So you're the guardian Cerberus, right?" Fuutie
said and smiled at Kero.
 
The young woman speech made Kero jumped on to his feet with surprise and followed
with his serious expression, "You know me?  Who're you, lady, I can sense power from
you."  He asked tensely, frown between his eyebrows.
 
Fuutie smiled sweetly still at him, "No need to be suspicious of me, I'm Li Fuutie, nice to
meet you."
 
"Li?" Kero repeated her last name in wonder, looking at the young woman.
 
"She is Li-kun's eldest sister, and she already knows all of us " Tomoyo told confused
Kero as she smiled at him.
 
Fuutie put her one hand to dust gently some dirt from Kero's forehead with concern
and said, "My Shiki-chan trundled on you, right?" She turned to glare at Shiki-chan and
Shiki-chan itself seemed to be startled by her glare.  She used her one hand beat
Shiki-can on its forehead softly.  Though her beat was not hard at all, but the beat was
much enough to make the magic creature's droplet of tears fell from its big round eyes.
With a sorry expression, Fuutie coiled her face back to Kero, "My Shiki-chan just
excited to find another magic creature, you might be hurt a lot.  As I'm Shiki-chan's
master, I'm so sorry."  The young woman kissed on his yellow forehead gently and
smiled at him, causing him blushed.  Later on she looked at the crying Shiki-chan,
"Come here to apologize to Cerberus," the young woman commanded.
 
Shiki-chan drifted slowly to Kero, which was standing on Fuutie's hand, and bowed to
him guiltily.
 
"Would you please forgive Shiki-chan?" Fuutie begged him for his forgiveness for her
magic creature
 
Kero was speechless, beholding the crying magic creature.  He also felt guilty that he
caused the magic creature to cry.  Kero nodded, forgiving the magic creature.
 
"And would you please be Shiki-chan's friend?" Fuutie asked him in gentle tone.
 
Kero turned to gazed at Fuutie and then Shiki-chan, which was staring at him hopefully.
Kero nodded.
 
Immediately after Kero had finished his nod in agreement to be Shiki-chan's friend, the
magic creature threw itself to him, caused them both fell to the floor.  Shiki-chan tried to
use its both fins to hug Kero as if it was so happy that it had a friend.  Poor thing, the
fins were too short, the fins could not even reached Shiki-chan's big round eyes.  When
Shiki-chan tried to hug Kero, it looked more like Shiki-chan were wrestling and
trundling on Kero than trying to hug him.
 
"Get off me!!!"  Kero-chan yelled but Shiki-chan did not listen, the happy magic
creature was still trying to hug him.
 
Watching the two magic creatures were wrestling on the floor made the two ladies
giggled.  To Tomoyo, she was amazed Fuutie could manage the angry Kero very well,
and moreover, without using any food to calm him down.
 
Looking at the two magic creatures, Tomoyo asked "Kero-chan, why do you come
here?"
 
Being trundled on by Shiki-chan, Kero who was laying with his stomach on the floor
and Shiki-chan on his back said "Sakura, she look sad and I think that she wanted
some time to be alone, so I left her alone and went to you"
 
"Sad? Sakura-chan sad, how?"  Fuutie asked, she and Tomoyo became worry.
 
"I don't know, she's like that after she came back from school."
 
Worrying about Sakura, Tomoyo turned to Fuutie and said, "May be because today
Tarada-sensei informed the our class that Li-kun's going to go back to Hong Kong"
 
"That Li boy's going back to Hong Kong?  What's going on?"  Kero made a question.
 
The two ladies had looked at each other before they decided to tell Kero what was
really happening.
 
A moment later, they all sat on the sofa in the room, Kero was eating a piece of cake
and listened to Tomoyo and Fuutie, who now Shiki-chan was on her lap, told him about
what was going on.
 
Lastly, the mouthful of cake, Kero let a big sigh out and said, as if it was silly thing,
"That Li clan always have silly thoughts.  Poor that Li boy."
 
"Kero-chan!" Tomoyo suddenly cut him off.  The girl knew what was Fuutie thought
about the matter of 'Li' clan and the young woman's little brother.
 
"W-what what??" Startled Kero asked.
 
Seeing Tomoyo turned to look at Fuutie worriedly, then he followed the girl's eyesight
direction to look at the young woman.  All Kero saw was Fuutie was sitting calmly, but
sadness was on her face and her deep black eyes.  Realizing that what he had said
made the lady was saddened; he slapped his hand on his mouth, feeling himself was
culpable.
 
Shiki-chan stared at her and tried to put both of its short fins wrapped around her small
waist, wanting to comfort her.  'Master please don't sad,' could be read on its round
eyes.
 
Stroking Shiki-chan forehead lovingly, she gave her lamenting smiled to the magic
creature on her lap, Tomoyo and then Kero.  "Cerberus's right&hellip;all," she said sadly
which made Kero's felt more guilty of his thoughtless speech.
 
Uncomfortableness and silence was extended in the room, lastly Kero broke the
silence and said stammeringly, "Er&hellip;do you&hellip;what me to help you anything? Er&hellip;Li
lady?"
 
Fuutie looked at Kero her face was softened. "Call me Fuutie," she said and gave him a
delicate smile, "Thank you a lot, Cerberus.  I'd want your help too but it has to be after
you finish your cake."
 
"En? Why?" Kero was perplexed.
 
"Well, I want you to go out to guide me, and I don't think that you'll want to startle others
on the street if you hold the cake and eat it outside.  Besides you also want to finish this
cake, right?"
 
Kero looked down on the delicious cake he was eating.  The young lady was right.  He
would has to pretend to be ordinary doll stuff when he went outside, furthermore, he
could not bring the cake outside with him and ate it while he was leading her the way
on street.
 
Kero was Kero.  He would not let go of eating any delicious food, especially if it was
confection.  He began to eat his cake quickly, forgetting to ask her where she wanted
to go.
 
While Kero was eating his cake, Tomoyo turned to Fuutie and asked her in whisper as
the girl did not want to disturb Kero's happy times.  "Fuutie-san, you could use Shiki-
chan to find the way but why do you still want Kero-chan to guide you?"
 
"It's social relationship," Fuutie whispered back and smiled to the girl, "And Shiki-chan
is happy that has a new friend, I can bet, Shiki-chan will not leave Cerberus so easy if
I don't go with him."
 
Tomoyo turned her face to look at the magic creature.  She saw that Shiki-chan, which
had drifted from Fuutie's lap, now cuddled near Kero.
 
"I see," Tomoyo smiled to the lovely scene of the two magic creatures were snuggling
to each other, although the one of them seemed more like annoyed.
 
Beholding Kero, who Shiki-chan cuddled by his side, was trying to speed up in eating
his cake.  Fuutie smiled beautifully at him.  "You're really cute, Cerberus," she said as a
matter of fact.
 
Again, the young woman made Kero surprised and choked the big piece of cake that
was in his mouth.  His face turned from yellow to green and then purples, as he could
not breathe, because a big piece of cake he was eating was lodged in his throat.
 
The change of color on Kero's face made the two ladies and one magic creature
startled. They ran around to find some water.
 
Tomoyo grasped a glass of water and handed to Kero, "Kero-chan, here, drink water!"
 
Kero quickly dunked his head in to the glass, which Tomoyo had handed to him, and
took a big swallow of water for clearing his throat, which was filled with a big piece of
cake.  A second later he emerged his soaking head from the glass of water, gasping
for oxygen.  "You almost killed me!"
 
Holding a vase as if ready to throw the water inside the vase to Kero for giving him a
rush of water, Fuutie said, "Just because I said you're really cute?" She put the vase on
its place, could not help but giggled when she saw his soaking face.
 
"What are you laughing about?!" Kero said out loud with annoy.
 
"Oh! Nothing nothing, I am sorry if my word made you choke, but you look really cute."
Fuutie bent down to Kero with a bright smile, "But your true form is really smart too,
even I only have the chance to see your true form from Tomoyo-chan's videotapes,"
she said half flattery.
 
Some times flattery could help in many situations, and now too.  Kero's anger had been
vanished and to be replaced by his pride and ego.  He jumped on his feet, both of his
hands on his hip and smirked with full level of confidence in his physical appearance.
 
"Of cause! My true form is smart, even this form is cute too," Kero said proudly with
Tomoyo, Fuutie, Shiki-chan were cheering behind him.  The good mood Kero twisted
his body to Fuutie and asked her eagerly, "And where do you want me to guide you the
way?"
 
Fuutie smiled attractively at him, her flattery gave her little more effective result than
she expected.  <What Shaolan wrote in his diary is right after all, > she thought and
little wondered what the situation, that she was going to face, would be if what Shaolan
had written in his diary was completely accurate.
 
She bent down to Kero, and her pretty smile was on her face. "I want you to guide me
to Sakura-chan's home," she said gently.
 
"Ennnnnn?????"  Was all Kero could response.
 
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03/06/2000
To Be Continue Next
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My Confession: As I must confess to you, this is my first CCS fiction & first fiction that I
succeed to send it to home page. ^-^  So it might not good as others but I will try to
improve myself, as CLAMP's thick fan I swear next will coming in few mouth.
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1. Ah!!!!! Why This Fiction Have To Coincide With The Original CCS Now!!!!!!
2. I Really Intend This Fiction To Be One Short!!!!!!   AaaaH!!!!!
 
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