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1 I've been dabbling at this little thing for a while now, but only
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2 today did I get the inspiration to finish it, in part from Spheeris's
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3 wish list. So I guess you could say this is a bit of a birthday
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4 present. :) Hope it stands well on its own.
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5
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6 The One You Love Best
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7 a Tale of Card Captor Sakura
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8 by Star Knight Abraxis
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9 abraxis@goldengate.net
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10
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11 Disclaimer: The characters don't belong to me, but I'll put them back
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12 when I'm done with them, okay?
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13
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14 She'd set up a camera, hidden away in one corner of the room, to
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15 tape all this. She couldn't trust her hands not to start shaking at
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16 a moment like this... but she wanted this recorded. For closure, if
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17 nothing else.
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18 "Thanks for having me over, Tomoyo-chan! I still wanted to
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19 talk to you about what to do for Shaoran-kun now that he's leaving.
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20 I'm a little nervous..."
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21 'You're not the only one, Sakura-chan,' she thought. "Can we
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22 talk about that a little later? There's... there's something I
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23 wanted to tell you first."
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24 "Oh?" Sakura plopped down on Tomoyo's bed, clutching a stuffed
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25 animal to her in a manner so cute as to set Tomoyo's pulse racing.
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26 "What is it?"
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27 Tomoyo took a deep breath, steadying herself. She knew she
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28 shouldn't be doing this; it was so horribly selfish... but she had to
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29 tell Sakura. Just once, before Sakura went off to Shaoran forever.
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30 "Sakura-chan... I love you."
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31 Sakura smiled brilliantly. "I know that, Tomoyo-chan! I love you too!"
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32 "No!" Tomoyo cut her off, a bit more sharply than she intended.
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33 "I... don't mean just like that. I'm in love with you, Sakura-chan.
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34 Passionately. Romantically. With all my heart."
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35 Sakura nodded, looking a little confused. "I know. Like I
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36 said, I love you too."
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37 Tomoyo blinked. Her mouth went dry. "Y-you... know?"
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38 "Well, sure. I mean, why else would we have been dating for so long?"
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39 Tomoyo sat down heavily on the bed. She couldn't quite feel her
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40 legs anymore. "D...dating?"
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41 Now Sakura was looking a little worried. "All those things
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42 we've done together, just the two of us, like going to movies or the
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43 shrine festivals, even catching Clow Cards sometimes. Well,
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44 Kero-chan was there too, but he's sort of a chaperone, I guess." She
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45 looked at Tomoyo with concern. "Didn't you think they were romantic
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46 enough?"
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47 She had, oh how she had, but she had been sure that was all in
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48 her own mind. But for Sakura to feel the same way?
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49 No. It was impossible. "What about Shaoran-kun?"
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50 Sakura blinked. "What about him? I wanted some advice on
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51 whether I should get him a going-away present or something, but that
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52 can wait. Whatever you're worried about is more important."
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53 "No, it's just... I thought you, well... had a crush on him?"
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54 "Hoe?" Sakura shook her head. "The only person other than you
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55 I've ever had a crush on was Yukito-san, and that turned out to be
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56 just because he was Yue and I was attracted to the magic." She
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57 blushed a little. "I don't think I ever thanked you enough for
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58 putting up with me through all that. I mean, some of the time, it
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59 must have seemed like I'd dumped you for him. But... it wasn't like
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60 that. It was just... I think the magic dazzled me, and I couldn't
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61 think of anything else whenever I saw him." She looked down, a
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62 little ashamed. "I don't know why you didn't just abandon me when I
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63 did that. I must have seemed so heartless, and you could do so much
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64 better than me..."
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65 Tomoyo jolted slightly at that. "But there's no one better than
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66 you, Sakura-chan!" The words almost came by reflex, so overwhelmed
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67 was she by the revelation after revelation, but they were of course
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68 truer than anything she knew.
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69 Sakura smiled, blushing. "Thank you, Tomoyo-chan. That's one
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70 of the reasons I love you so much. Because you can always see the
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71 best in me, even when I can't."
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72 Now Tomoyo could feel herself blushing, her cheeks warm with
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73 embarrassment. 'Reasons she loves me. She loves me. Sakura-chan
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74 loves me.' The words were spinning dizzily around her brain, not
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75 actually completely sinking in yet. But oh, how beautiful they
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76 were...
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77 "I know I haven't always been the perfect girlfriend, but I hope
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78 I can always make you happy. And I want to always be there for you.
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79 Because you've always been the best part of my life. You always make
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80 me feel special.
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81 "And because I love you."
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82 Sakura took Tomoyo's hands in her own, gently. "Is that what
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83 you were worried about? You were thinking I might be falling for
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84 Shaoran-kun?"
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85 "Well... maybe a little," Tomoyo breathed dazedly. 'Her skin is
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86 so soft...'
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87 Sakura smiled. "Well, don't worry. I don't love him. He's a
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88 good friend, but he's a boy... and he's not you. I want to grow up
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89 with you. I want to give my first kiss to you, some special night.
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90 I even want to marry you, if we could, someday. And someday, when
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91 we're both old ladies, I want to sit with you watching your tapes of
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92 us as little kids and laugh at how silly we used to be, and sigh at
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93 how in love we were even then. Even now.
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94 "I want to be with you forever."
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95 All Tomoyo could see was Sakura's beautiful green eyes, staring
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96 into hers, full of love. How had she not seen it before?
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97 She heard, distantly, her mother's voice shouting from
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98 downstairs. "Sakura-chan, your brother's on the phone. He wants to
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99 talk to you."
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100 "Mou..." Sakura groaned exasperatedly. "He sure can pick the
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101 wrong moment. I'll be right back, Tomoyo-chan." Sakura drew her
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102 girlfriend into a quick but close hug, then stood to race out the
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103 door.
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104 Slowly, Tomoyo looked around the room. Her eyes fell on the
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105 camera, still hidden in the corner, still recording the stunned look
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106 on her face.
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107 And to think she'd wanted to see *Sakura's* expression!
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108 And with that thought, the disbelief left her all in a rush,
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109 leaving only giddy happiness. Sakura-chan loved her. The same way
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110 Tomoyo loved her back. She'd loved her for the longest time. And
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111 Tomoyo had missed every single hint.
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112 She flopped back onto the bed, smiling dreamily. "Hanyaaaan,"
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113 she sighed happily.
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114 And she'd thought *Sakura* was the clueless one.
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115
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116 Author's Notes:
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117 I've read a few Tomoyo/Sakura fanfics recently, and while many
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118 of them were quite good, I also noticed a bit of a sameness to a lot
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119 of them. Either Tomoyo and Sakura were already a couple, with the
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120 briefest of explanations, or Sakura found out how Tomoyo felt (often
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121 through magic), and after a bit of soul-searching, came to
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122 reciprocate. Being as perverse by nature as I am, I wondered if
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123 there wasn't a different way to approach it. This is the result.
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124 I won't claim this fits perfectly, or even well, with CCS canon.
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125 I haven't even seen the whole series or read all the manga at this
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126 point. But isn't it a fun idea? :)
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127 I also have a more serious CCS work in progress, dealing with a
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128 secret admirer of Tomoyo (and I'm actually drawing her from canon),
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129 but it's taking a bit longer than this. Hopefully it'll get done
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130 sometime in this geological epoch.
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