10th Card | Video/Action for Olivine

[notakaijuu]

Backdated to April 1st!

[ The Feed comes on to Sakura sitting in the sand. Behind her, an Arcanine is running with a terrified-looking Minccino on its back. A frantic Ledian is chasing them from the air. ]

Is it on now, Kero-chan? It is? Okay, uh, hi everyone! [ She beams brightly. ] Um, today's my birthday. I'm turning twelve!

[ She looks past the 'Gear, presumably towards the ocean. ]

I might not be able to spend it with my family, but at least I'll get to spend it with all my friends here. Plus, twelve is older than eleven! I'll be able to do more stuff now. Soon, my brother won't even be able to call me a kid!

[ Her grin is triumphant for only a moment before it's replaced by a startled look when her Arcanine roars. She cranes her neck to look behind her. ]

A-ah! Toto, stop it! You're scaring Yuki!

[ She jumps up and takes off towards them, stumbling and falling once or twice. The 'Gear is dropped to the sand as her Ursaring runs after to help. ]

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[notakaijuu]

[ For her, it really is that easy. ]

I'll wait for him, no matter how long it takes! I'll wait for him to get here, and when he does, we'll travel all over together, and we'll raise our Pokemon together. It'll be the best!

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[usedlaserbeam]

[God bless you, CLAMP canons.]

You think he'll manage to find his way back to you here?

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[notakaijuu]

Yes! He would've come back to me if I were still in Japan, and I know he'll be able to find me here, too! Even if it is a different world.

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[usedlaserbeam]

I'm very impressed by your Syaoran-kun, Sakura-san. And I'm sorry he didn't find you in time to be here with you today.

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[notakaijuu]

He'll make up for it when he gets here. And I bet your friend will make up for missing your birthday, too.

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[usedlaserbeam]

[Little does she know that it wasn't his birthday that was missed, but his partner's...and yet, for Yagyuu, there really isn't that much difference. Regardless of which of them was celebrating, what mattered is that they were supposed to be together.

Not that he'd ever mention that part of it, though.]

Do you think so? What do you think I ought to demand of him, to make it up to me?

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[notakaijuu]

[ She looks thoughtful. Taking this question really seriously, man. ]

Go to a festival with him, and make him win you prizes! Make him share his lunch with you. [ She pauses. ] But mostly, just ask him to spend the day with you, to make up for lost time.

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[usedlaserbeam]

[Man, if Yagyuu's heart were anything other than cold and black and merciless, he would find this so cute right now.]

What should I do if he refuses?

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[notakaijuu]

If he loves you, he won't! Because he'll want to make you happy. I know I'm happiest when I can make Syaoran-kun happy.

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[usedlaserbeam]

[WHOA NELLIE HOLD ON THERE ONE MOMENT—]

I never said anything about love, Sakura-san.

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[notakaijuu]

But that's how you made it sound. [ Still smiling. ] And besides, there's different kinds of love, Yagyuu-san.

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[usedlaserbeam]

[Sweet Federer ABORT ABORT ABORT no absolutely not we are not talking about this right now this is not a good subject QUICK SAY SOMETHING ELSE —]

We're good friends, and on a team together. Spending our birthdays together is a tradition, that's all.

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[notakaijuu]

You can love your friends, too! I love all my friends, especially Tomo-chan. She's my best friend.

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[usedlaserbeam]

Somehow I doubt my friends would take too kindly if I told them so, though.

[Tennis players just don't do that kind of thing. They are far too manly. And also tennis.]

Is she? What is she like?

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[notakaijuu]

[ Headtilt. ] Why?

Tomo-chan is great! She's really, really nice, and she's good at sewing, singing, cooking, and basically everything else, too.

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[usedlaserbeam]

[He's not even going to dignify that question with an answer, Sakura. He's a teenage boy, men do not do these things of which you speak.]

She sounds like quite the perfect lady.

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[notakaijuu]

[ But whyyyyyyyyyyyy? Confused!Sakura. ]

She's also my cousin! Or, well, my second cousin. Her mama and my mama were cousins.

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[usedlaserbeam]

[Because he expresses all of his emotions through tennis. So there. :| ]

And you spend a lot of time together?

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[notakaijuu]

[ That sounds silly. >| ]

Uh-huh! We do a lot of things together!

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[usedlaserbeam]

[Tennis is not silly. It is very serious and also totally manly and definitely not full of homosocial tension.]

It seems you have plenty of people worthy of missing, Sakura-san.

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[notakaijuu]

[ Yeah, okay. Whatever you say~. ]

I miss everyone from home. They all mean so much to me.

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[usedlaserbeam]

We'll all go home someday, though.

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[notakaijuu]

But then I'll miss the friends I've made here. [ A pause. ] Yagyuu-san, do you think it's possible to bring all the worlds together?

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[usedlaserbeam]

[What kind of question is—]

I can honestly say I've never considered it, Sakura-san.

[A lie. He certainly has, and more than once. It's just that he's never liked the answers he's arrived at.]

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[notakaijuu]

I have. I think it'd be nice to bring all the worlds together. Then I could have all my friends with me at once, and there would be so many new places to explore.