Day Three: Snow--Sakura
Title: Twelve Years of Christmas; Chapter Three: Snow
Author: KHLostEmpress
Characters/Pairings: Syaoran/Sakura
Genre: Romance/Christmas
Briefsummary: Well, exactly as the title mentions, twelve years of the Christmases of Sakura and Syaoran starting after the ending of the main story. 500-1500ish word stories, starting today and ending Christmas Eve. Twelve Prompts of Christmas challenge
Sakura frowned slightly at the sky with just the barest downward turn of her lips, minutely disappointed. The sky was a clear bright blue with not so much as a wisp of a cloud in sight. Normally, this would not be a cause for concern or any other sort of dismayed feelings, but today was a rather different sort of day from which Sakura had been hoping for a certain type of weather.
“What’s wrong, Sakura? Are you cold?”
Sakura pulled her gaze down from the sky over to the concerned expression of her boyfriend, Syaoran, whom she should have been paying attention to in the first place, seeing as they were on a date at that very moment. So, she flashed a smile at him and said, “Nothing. I’m fine.”
But apparently Syaoran didn’t believe her as his frown just turned deeper. Sakura waved her hands in front of her as she quickly said, “No, really. It’s not really anything.”
“Which means it’s still something,” Syaoran said almost instantly.
Sakura opened her mouth to reply and realized that he had a point. She sighed heavily and muttered, “It’s just silly.”
“That doesn’t matter to me,” Syaoran said. “If something’s bothering you, I want to know about it.”
Finally, after a few moments of biting her lip, she gave in and exclaimed, “It’s not snowing!” Namely, it was Christmas Eve and there wasn’t so much as a speck of snow on the ground. It just didn’t seem right to have a Christmas without snow. She looked over at Syaoran apprehensively, but found what she could only describe as an indulgent and exasperated smile on his face-she didn’t know why she was expecting him to laugh at her, since Syaoran didn’t exactly laugh very often. She blinked at him confused and said, “What?”
He gave her a small shrug and asked, quite seriously, “Why don’t you change that?”
Sakura rolled her eyes at him and said, “You can’t just change the weather, Syaoran.”
To her surprise, Syaoran let out a small chuckle-now was not the time Sakura had been expecting him to laugh at her. “You have the Sakura Cards, right?”
“Of course,” Sakura said, confused why he would ask her that. Her hand moved unconsciously to finger the bag that she kept them in slung around her neck. She never went anywhere without her cards, though she did not often use them.
“And the Star Wand?” Syaoran asked and there was an expectant look in his eyes that Sakura just did not understand. Sakura nodded to his question and he smiled at her as he continued, “Then I don’t think it would be a bad idea to gift Tomoeda with some snow.”
Sakura was just about to ask Syaoran what he was talking about when her eyes widened in realization of what he had been saying all along. “Oh!” she exclaimed. Without another word, she grabbed onto Syaoran’s hand-which caused a minor exclamation of “W-wait!” from the boy which Sakura promptly ignored-and started running down the street, pulling Syaoran behind her. She found her way to a copse of trees and finally let go of Syaoran’s hand, who immediately crossed his arms in front of his chest and turned his gaze away from her, but Sakura was too excited to really notice.
Sakura glanced around to make sure that no one was around or could see them, and then reached to her neck and tugged the tiny key out from underneath her shirt and coat. She pulled it over her head and held it out in front of her, speaking the spell she had said so many times before:
Key that hides the power of the stars,
Show your true form before me.
I, Sakura, command you under our contract.
Release!
With a whirl of magical wind, the Star Wand extended out in front of her and she grasped the rod in her hand. She reached into her bag, pulled out one of her Sakura Cards, and flung it into the air as she called out, “Snow!” She lifted the Star Wand up to activate the card and Snow appeared out of the card into a swirl of flurries. Sakura smiled with delight as Snow flew up into the air and caused white snowflakes to drift around them.
As the Sakura did her work of covering Tomoeda in a blanket of white, Sakura looked at Syaoran with a wide smile and said, “Thank you, Syaoran.”
With a smile of his own, he reached out slowly to take her hand and said, “You’re welcome, Sakura.”
Author: KHLostEmpress
Characters/Pairings: Syaoran/Sakura
Genre: Romance/Christmas
Briefsummary: Well, exactly as the title mentions, twelve years of the Christmases of Sakura and Syaoran starting after the ending of the main story. 500-1500ish word stories, starting today and ending Christmas Eve. Twelve Prompts of Christmas challenge
Sakura frowned slightly at the sky with just the barest downward turn of her lips, minutely disappointed. The sky was a clear bright blue with not so much as a wisp of a cloud in sight. Normally, this would not be a cause for concern or any other sort of dismayed feelings, but today was a rather different sort of day from which Sakura had been hoping for a certain type of weather.
“What’s wrong, Sakura? Are you cold?”
Sakura pulled her gaze down from the sky over to the concerned expression of her boyfriend, Syaoran, whom she should have been paying attention to in the first place, seeing as they were on a date at that very moment. So, she flashed a smile at him and said, “Nothing. I’m fine.”
But apparently Syaoran didn’t believe her as his frown just turned deeper. Sakura waved her hands in front of her as she quickly said, “No, really. It’s not really anything.”
“Which means it’s still something,” Syaoran said almost instantly.
Sakura opened her mouth to reply and realized that he had a point. She sighed heavily and muttered, “It’s just silly.”
“That doesn’t matter to me,” Syaoran said. “If something’s bothering you, I want to know about it.”
Finally, after a few moments of biting her lip, she gave in and exclaimed, “It’s not snowing!” Namely, it was Christmas Eve and there wasn’t so much as a speck of snow on the ground. It just didn’t seem right to have a Christmas without snow. She looked over at Syaoran apprehensively, but found what she could only describe as an indulgent and exasperated smile on his face-she didn’t know why she was expecting him to laugh at her, since Syaoran didn’t exactly laugh very often. She blinked at him confused and said, “What?”
He gave her a small shrug and asked, quite seriously, “Why don’t you change that?”
Sakura rolled her eyes at him and said, “You can’t just change the weather, Syaoran.”
To her surprise, Syaoran let out a small chuckle-now was not the time Sakura had been expecting him to laugh at her. “You have the Sakura Cards, right?”
“Of course,” Sakura said, confused why he would ask her that. Her hand moved unconsciously to finger the bag that she kept them in slung around her neck. She never went anywhere without her cards, though she did not often use them.
“And the Star Wand?” Syaoran asked and there was an expectant look in his eyes that Sakura just did not understand. Sakura nodded to his question and he smiled at her as he continued, “Then I don’t think it would be a bad idea to gift Tomoeda with some snow.”
Sakura was just about to ask Syaoran what he was talking about when her eyes widened in realization of what he had been saying all along. “Oh!” she exclaimed. Without another word, she grabbed onto Syaoran’s hand-which caused a minor exclamation of “W-wait!” from the boy which Sakura promptly ignored-and started running down the street, pulling Syaoran behind her. She found her way to a copse of trees and finally let go of Syaoran’s hand, who immediately crossed his arms in front of his chest and turned his gaze away from her, but Sakura was too excited to really notice.
Sakura glanced around to make sure that no one was around or could see them, and then reached to her neck and tugged the tiny key out from underneath her shirt and coat. She pulled it over her head and held it out in front of her, speaking the spell she had said so many times before:
Key that hides the power of the stars,
Show your true form before me.
I, Sakura, command you under our contract.
Release!
With a whirl of magical wind, the Star Wand extended out in front of her and she grasped the rod in her hand. She reached into her bag, pulled out one of her Sakura Cards, and flung it into the air as she called out, “Snow!” She lifted the Star Wand up to activate the card and Snow appeared out of the card into a swirl of flurries. Sakura smiled with delight as Snow flew up into the air and caused white snowflakes to drift around them.
As the Sakura did her work of covering Tomoeda in a blanket of white, Sakura looked at Syaoran with a wide smile and said, “Thank you, Syaoran.”
With a smile of his own, he reached out slowly to take her hand and said, “You’re welcome, Sakura.”