Chapter 3: -Quiet Voices
"Ahhhhhhhhhh! It's trying to eat me!"
"Mau!"
Thud.
There was a pause while the four who were sat in the kitchen, warming up worked out the implications of those events and then there was a rush for the living room, where Kero was going, "Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!" and Yugi's half brown spotted Bengal kitten his mother had bought home last night mewed at them from her position stood atop the teddy.
"Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!"
"Kero, Aiko's only a kitten."
"Get it off!"
Yugi sighed and the girls giggled, picking up his cat and putting her on the sofa.
"She's crazy!" Kero complained as the group brought their drinks into the living room and settled down to talk.
"She's seven weeks old."
"She's still crazy."
"She's gorgeous!" Tea said, offering her fingers to the bundle of fluff and got them licked in return.
"Oh yeah, side with the crazy cat." Kero grumbled.
"She's a baby, you're hundred of years old!"
"She's bigger then me!"
"By an inch!"
"She's still bigger then me."
"Are you a man or a mouse?"
"Technically I'm a lion."
"Which makes you what… two hundred times her size right now?"
"Shush."
There was another round of giggles as Aiko settled down to sleep on Yugi's lap.
"Anyway, shouldn't that make you technically family."
"I am in no way, shape or form related to that insane fur ball."
"You are both members of the feline family."
"Doesn't count."
"Ahhh-choo." Sakura sneezed, spilling some of her hot chocolate. Seeing Yugi was about to wake his cat up so he could clean up, she shook her head, "I've got it."
She was back, six sneezes later, with a dishcloth and tea towel, cleaning up her mess quickly and sat back with them it time to hear Kero play a hundred questions with Yugi about the Millennium Puzzle which was still hung around his neck on the thick gold chain, Tomoyo having said he could keep it until it clashed with a costume, and then he would need to swap it over.
Unfortunately, to a lot of the questions Kero asked, Yugi only had 'I don't know' or 'Mostly' as an answer, including 'were you aware of what was going on during those fights?' and 'do you remember what happened directly after you finished the Puzzle?'
However Yugi did know the answer to 'do you have any cakes?', which he answered by getting a tub of cakes out of the cupboard and treating his friends to a couple each.
There was then another round of explanations about magic, which dissolved into a talk about Clow Reed and the problems he came across, including a stern warning about showing off their magic to anyone outside the group.
Not all mages were willing to treat powerful youngsters with the same respect that Kero was or Clow Reed would have. Some of them would see tools to be used, or rivals to be destroyed. It was dangerous enough to have the Clow Cards loose, without inviting trouble from outside sources.
It was on this lovely note that Tomoyo's bodyguards, who Yugi had taken some hot chocolate out to, but had refused to come in, knocked on the door to say that Miss Daidoji had to go home, Sakura noted that she should be home soon too as Toya was doing the tea and took Kero with her, and Tea realised she should have been home almost an hour ago.
Aiko mewed for food and Yugi put down her bowl, filled with kitten food, before sitting on the side, with the cold remains of is hot chocolate and thought about everything.
He was scared, if he was honest, he couldn't remember the two battles with the Clow Cards, he didn't know anything about his magic, and while he was pretty certain for the way that Kero was talking, that Sakura's Clow Cards wouldn't attract many trouble makers, he didn't know how many people knew about his brand of magic, and what trouble it could cause his friends.
Would it be better to pull away now, rather then risk endangering his friends?
Oh he could say that Sakura's magic was just as dangerous, he didn't underestimate the power of the Clow Cards even slightly, but…
"Mau?" Aiko was attempting to join him on the side, making Yugi slide off the side and pick her up for a cuddle.
And he was inviting trouble. They followed Sakura into battle, because that's what friends did, could he expect them to do any less for him…?
Not with the wish…
Yugi still felt guilty about that, wondering if they were his friends because of the wish… except that couldn't be true, right? Tea had been his friend before he'd made the wish… and Sakura and Tomoyo had been nice to him the day he'd completed it… right?
"Mau." Aiko licked his hand, demanding to be put down.
He smiled and put the small ball of fur down. Said fluff ball proceeded to go into the living room and climb up the curtains, sitting, somehow, on the curtail rail and mewing loudly.
Once she was down, bored of that game, she proceeded to follow Yugi upstairs and sleep on the top shelf of his bookcase while he started his homework.
Work on homework now, worry about things that can't be helped later…
The whispering voice, the one that sometimes guided him when he was uncertain, and the blackouts stayed at the back of his mind…
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"Hey guys."
It was Thursday lunch time and the group were sat under their tree , out of sight of the main football pitch, but not too far from their door for when the bell rang.
Tomoyo was the last to join them, her bag really bulging today, and she sat with them and showed off a tape of something or another.
"The music teacher recorded my voice last practise," Tomoyo was saying, "And gave me a copy."
"What for?" Yugi asked, "Everyone knows you have the best singing voice in the school."
"It's for a competition." Tomoyo looked excited. "Next week there's an inter school music competition and the teacher needs a copy of me singing to convince the headmaster to let me enter."
"You'll get in easily." Tea said, passing Kero a sandwich. It seemed to have become a habit recently.
"I've got practice every weeknight until the competition." Tomoyo continued, "But the teacher says that she'll work with me." She paused, "Before I forget…" She pulled out four mobile phones from her bag. "Mum wants to know if we can test these for her company."
There were two blue ones and two pinks ones, with Kero and Yugi getting the blue ones and Tea and Sakura getting the pink ones.
"I've already put our numbers in the phone book. I figured it would be a good way to keep in contact during Captures."
"It's a good idea." Yugi nodded.
"What about credit?" Tea asked, already contemplating swapping the numbers over from the phone her parents had gotten her.
"Mum said something about a 300 minute limit." Tomoyo frowned, thinking, "On each phone. She wants to know if they're easy to use and can do everything they need to." She shrugged.
"At least mine's blue." Kero said, noting the wing motif that seemed to adorn everything around Sakura, "No offence, but pink isn't my colour."
"But you'd look so cute in pink." Tomoyo half teased and half started scheming a pink costume that would look good on Sakura and Yugi that she could get Kero to wear pink for.
Yugi shuddered, just knowing that Kero's words meant there was pink in his future and decided that he didn't want to know, getting on with eating.
"Can we stay and watch?" Tea asked, trying to change the subject. "I'd love to hear you sing."
"Sure." Tomoyo nodded, "Then maybe we can go out for ice cream afterwards."
"Yeah!"
"Sure!"
"Yum, ice cream!"
"Kero!"
"What? I can have some can't I?"
Kero was over stuffed on ice cream when they finally got home, late that evening.
Practise had gone so well they'd had two or three ice creams each. She hadn't realized just how much Yugi ate until she saw him buy his own food and Tea had seemed completely unsurprised by the fact he was into his fourth ice cream by the time they were walking home.
"Urrrgg… I can't moooooove." Kero was complaining as Sakura's mobile phone went off.
"Kinomoto Sakura speaking, how can I… Ms Daidoji?" Sakura frowned, "Tomoyo's lost her voice? Of course I'll speak to the teachers tomorrow. I hope she gets better soon." She paused, "It might be all the practising… can you tell her I'll be over tomorrow and I'll see if the others want to come… thanks… bye." She put the phone down and flopped onto her bed, dislodging the Guardian of the Clow, who bounced and nearly fell off of the bed.
"Tomoyo's lost her voice?" Kero sounded really concerned.
"Uh huh. Her mum thinks' it's because she was practising too much but she can't even whisper…"
"How strange. Is she sick at all?"
"No, that's the weirdest… Kero… You don't think it could be a Clow Card do you?"
"Huuummmm." Kero frowned, thinking, "I do know of one Clow Card that might steal a voice, but we'd have to wait to see if it comes back before we can start thinking like that."
"What's it called?"
"The VOICE." Kero said, "It takes voices it likes and uses them, because it doesn't have one of it's own."
"Oh… but why Tomoyo's?"
"Because she has the best singing voice I've ever heard. It makes sense that The VOICE would want it."
"But…" Sakura sighed, got up, picked up her mobile again and started calling everyone.
Kero watched her in action and smiled slightly. She had good friends, he certainly wouldn't have expected Tea and Yugi's help considering that Yugi had only really gotten to know Sakura on Monday. If anything he was concerned about the lack of people available to teach Yugi and Sakura about the other forms their magic could take.
He was certain that the gold net spell Yugi had cast to try to catch The CLOUD had been something that Yugi had thought up on the spot and he could see how both useful and dangerous working like that with magic could be. If anything Kero had the easy job, Sakura's magic was clearly focused on the Clow Cards, and anything extra she could do would be quite easy to teach since he'd seen Clow Reed in action before.
"We're going around after school tomorrow." Sakura said firmly, as she put the phone down for the third time and sank onto her bed. "Hopefully Tomoyo will be better by then, but if not…"
"We'll find it." Kero promised.
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"Hi Tomoyo." Tea said, "How are you feeling?"
Tomoyo paused, wrote something down and held up a sign that said, "I'm fine, honest."
"Still nothing?" Yugi asked, sitting down at Tomoyo's gesture.
"The doctor says he doesn't know what's wrong, but I think it's a Clow Card."
"How do you know?" Kero asked, leaving the bag.
"A pink ribbon like thing attacked me and once it left, so had my voice."
"It's The VOICE." Kero explained again for Tomoyo's sake.
"That's great." Tea said, once Kero had finished, "But how do we lure it out so we can capture it?"
"The VOICE would come out again if it heard a voice as good as Tomoyo's." Kero said.
"But none of us can sing that well." Sakura pointed out.
There was a knock on the door, causing Kero to dive into Sakura's school bag, and Tomoyo's mother stepped into the room with four cups, a pot of tea and a box that looked like a cookie box. "Hello." She nodded to the group.
Tea, Sakura and Yugi got to their feet and bowed, "Hello."
"I've never met you two before." Tomoyo's mum looked interested, as she looked over the two newcomers to the room.
"I'm Gardener Tea," Tea smiled at her.
"I'm Muto Yugi."
"I'm Tomoyo's mother, it's nice to meet you." She smiled at them, putting the tray down and laughing when Sakura went to help her, telling Sakura she didn't have too, but accepting the help.
The box turned out to have cake in, which, once Tomoyo's mother had left of course, swiftly fell to the hunger of the teddy bear, who ending up chasing Yugi around because Yugi actually wanted to eat his cake instead of giving it to Kero.
The distraction didn't last long however, and soon they were back to trying to find a solution to the VOICE problem.
"Tomoyo? Do you still have that tape?" Yugi asked, an idea forming in his head as Kero landed on his plate and stole some of the cake from it.
Tomoyo frowned, nodded and, looking confused, went and got it from the desk.
"Do you have a stereo?" Yugi asked, and grinned when Tomoyo opened a cupboard to reveal one and speakers, "Ok, I have an idea."
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"A light dances among the clouds
And seasons pour down on the meadow…"
A pink ribbon shot into the empty room, stopped and becoming a very pink girl who looked confused, not knowing where the sound was coming from.
Sakura shot into the room, closely followed by Yugi.
The Clow Card turned to flee.
"No you don't!" Amethyst had gone ruby again as Yugi cast something that shimmered purple and blocked off the windows causing VOICE to stare at him, scared.
"Clow Card!" Sakura called, attracting her attention, and holding out her staff, "Return to the guise you were meant to be! Clow Card!"
The VOICE turned into pink smoke which became a Clow Card and flew into Yugi's hand, a little yellowish light rising from it and floating into Tomoyo.
"What would I do with a Clow Card?" Yugi asked, amused, and would have handed it over to Sakura had she not been hovering over Tomoyo, asking about her voice.
"Sakura…" Sakura glomped her best friend in relief.
"Well that was easy." Tea said, sounding surprised.
"VOICE isn't an offensive card." Kero said, as Yugi handed over the Clow Card.
"But why did it float to Yugi?" Sakura asked.
"Clow Cards will often choose who they consider to have captured them by who forces them back into their true form or they feel did the most work to capture them." Kero said, frowning, "It's up to the other person the Clow Card chooses if they want to hand over the Clow Card to the real Cardcaptor or keep it for themselves."
"Will VOICE listen to Sakura if it chose me?" Yugi asked, concerned.
"You gave it to her of your own free will. It should accept this easily." Kero nodded, "But be careful with what spells you're throwing around."
The purple barrier at the windows faded away and Yugi sat down heavily.
"Five down, forty seven to go."
"Ahhh, don't say it like that!" Sakura complained, "It makes it sound like it'll take me forever!"
"Five in five days? Doubt it." Tea pointed out.
"One a day." Tomoyo giggled.
"Does this mean I have to catch one tomorrow because there was only one this time?" Sakura asked.
"I hope not." Yugi said, "We're going to Domino after school!"
"I doubt a Clow Card would have gone that far." Kero pointed out.
"I wonder if Mum has anymore cake…"
"Cake?" Kero asked.
"I'll go ask."
"Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake!" Kero started dancing and chanting, making everyone forget exactly what they'd been talking about.
"Mau!"
Thud.
There was a pause while the four who were sat in the kitchen, warming up worked out the implications of those events and then there was a rush for the living room, where Kero was going, "Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!" and Yugi's half brown spotted Bengal kitten his mother had bought home last night mewed at them from her position stood atop the teddy.
"Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!"
"Kero, Aiko's only a kitten."
"Get it off!"
Yugi sighed and the girls giggled, picking up his cat and putting her on the sofa.
"She's crazy!" Kero complained as the group brought their drinks into the living room and settled down to talk.
"She's seven weeks old."
"She's still crazy."
"She's gorgeous!" Tea said, offering her fingers to the bundle of fluff and got them licked in return.
"Oh yeah, side with the crazy cat." Kero grumbled.
"She's a baby, you're hundred of years old!"
"She's bigger then me!"
"By an inch!"
"She's still bigger then me."
"Are you a man or a mouse?"
"Technically I'm a lion."
"Which makes you what… two hundred times her size right now?"
"Shush."
There was another round of giggles as Aiko settled down to sleep on Yugi's lap.
"Anyway, shouldn't that make you technically family."
"I am in no way, shape or form related to that insane fur ball."
"You are both members of the feline family."
"Doesn't count."
"Ahhh-choo." Sakura sneezed, spilling some of her hot chocolate. Seeing Yugi was about to wake his cat up so he could clean up, she shook her head, "I've got it."
She was back, six sneezes later, with a dishcloth and tea towel, cleaning up her mess quickly and sat back with them it time to hear Kero play a hundred questions with Yugi about the Millennium Puzzle which was still hung around his neck on the thick gold chain, Tomoyo having said he could keep it until it clashed with a costume, and then he would need to swap it over.
Unfortunately, to a lot of the questions Kero asked, Yugi only had 'I don't know' or 'Mostly' as an answer, including 'were you aware of what was going on during those fights?' and 'do you remember what happened directly after you finished the Puzzle?'
However Yugi did know the answer to 'do you have any cakes?', which he answered by getting a tub of cakes out of the cupboard and treating his friends to a couple each.
There was then another round of explanations about magic, which dissolved into a talk about Clow Reed and the problems he came across, including a stern warning about showing off their magic to anyone outside the group.
Not all mages were willing to treat powerful youngsters with the same respect that Kero was or Clow Reed would have. Some of them would see tools to be used, or rivals to be destroyed. It was dangerous enough to have the Clow Cards loose, without inviting trouble from outside sources.
It was on this lovely note that Tomoyo's bodyguards, who Yugi had taken some hot chocolate out to, but had refused to come in, knocked on the door to say that Miss Daidoji had to go home, Sakura noted that she should be home soon too as Toya was doing the tea and took Kero with her, and Tea realised she should have been home almost an hour ago.
Aiko mewed for food and Yugi put down her bowl, filled with kitten food, before sitting on the side, with the cold remains of is hot chocolate and thought about everything.
He was scared, if he was honest, he couldn't remember the two battles with the Clow Cards, he didn't know anything about his magic, and while he was pretty certain for the way that Kero was talking, that Sakura's Clow Cards wouldn't attract many trouble makers, he didn't know how many people knew about his brand of magic, and what trouble it could cause his friends.
Would it be better to pull away now, rather then risk endangering his friends?
Oh he could say that Sakura's magic was just as dangerous, he didn't underestimate the power of the Clow Cards even slightly, but…
"Mau?" Aiko was attempting to join him on the side, making Yugi slide off the side and pick her up for a cuddle.
And he was inviting trouble. They followed Sakura into battle, because that's what friends did, could he expect them to do any less for him…?
Not with the wish…
Yugi still felt guilty about that, wondering if they were his friends because of the wish… except that couldn't be true, right? Tea had been his friend before he'd made the wish… and Sakura and Tomoyo had been nice to him the day he'd completed it… right?
"Mau." Aiko licked his hand, demanding to be put down.
He smiled and put the small ball of fur down. Said fluff ball proceeded to go into the living room and climb up the curtains, sitting, somehow, on the curtail rail and mewing loudly.
Once she was down, bored of that game, she proceeded to follow Yugi upstairs and sleep on the top shelf of his bookcase while he started his homework.
Work on homework now, worry about things that can't be helped later…
The whispering voice, the one that sometimes guided him when he was uncertain, and the blackouts stayed at the back of his mind…
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"Hey guys."
It was Thursday lunch time and the group were sat under their tree , out of sight of the main football pitch, but not too far from their door for when the bell rang.
Tomoyo was the last to join them, her bag really bulging today, and she sat with them and showed off a tape of something or another.
"The music teacher recorded my voice last practise," Tomoyo was saying, "And gave me a copy."
"What for?" Yugi asked, "Everyone knows you have the best singing voice in the school."
"It's for a competition." Tomoyo looked excited. "Next week there's an inter school music competition and the teacher needs a copy of me singing to convince the headmaster to let me enter."
"You'll get in easily." Tea said, passing Kero a sandwich. It seemed to have become a habit recently.
"I've got practice every weeknight until the competition." Tomoyo continued, "But the teacher says that she'll work with me." She paused, "Before I forget…" She pulled out four mobile phones from her bag. "Mum wants to know if we can test these for her company."
There were two blue ones and two pinks ones, with Kero and Yugi getting the blue ones and Tea and Sakura getting the pink ones.
"I've already put our numbers in the phone book. I figured it would be a good way to keep in contact during Captures."
"It's a good idea." Yugi nodded.
"What about credit?" Tea asked, already contemplating swapping the numbers over from the phone her parents had gotten her.
"Mum said something about a 300 minute limit." Tomoyo frowned, thinking, "On each phone. She wants to know if they're easy to use and can do everything they need to." She shrugged.
"At least mine's blue." Kero said, noting the wing motif that seemed to adorn everything around Sakura, "No offence, but pink isn't my colour."
"But you'd look so cute in pink." Tomoyo half teased and half started scheming a pink costume that would look good on Sakura and Yugi that she could get Kero to wear pink for.
Yugi shuddered, just knowing that Kero's words meant there was pink in his future and decided that he didn't want to know, getting on with eating.
"Can we stay and watch?" Tea asked, trying to change the subject. "I'd love to hear you sing."
"Sure." Tomoyo nodded, "Then maybe we can go out for ice cream afterwards."
"Yeah!"
"Sure!"
"Yum, ice cream!"
"Kero!"
"What? I can have some can't I?"
Kero was over stuffed on ice cream when they finally got home, late that evening.
Practise had gone so well they'd had two or three ice creams each. She hadn't realized just how much Yugi ate until she saw him buy his own food and Tea had seemed completely unsurprised by the fact he was into his fourth ice cream by the time they were walking home.
"Urrrgg… I can't moooooove." Kero was complaining as Sakura's mobile phone went off.
"Kinomoto Sakura speaking, how can I… Ms Daidoji?" Sakura frowned, "Tomoyo's lost her voice? Of course I'll speak to the teachers tomorrow. I hope she gets better soon." She paused, "It might be all the practising… can you tell her I'll be over tomorrow and I'll see if the others want to come… thanks… bye." She put the phone down and flopped onto her bed, dislodging the Guardian of the Clow, who bounced and nearly fell off of the bed.
"Tomoyo's lost her voice?" Kero sounded really concerned.
"Uh huh. Her mum thinks' it's because she was practising too much but she can't even whisper…"
"How strange. Is she sick at all?"
"No, that's the weirdest… Kero… You don't think it could be a Clow Card do you?"
"Huuummmm." Kero frowned, thinking, "I do know of one Clow Card that might steal a voice, but we'd have to wait to see if it comes back before we can start thinking like that."
"What's it called?"
"The VOICE." Kero said, "It takes voices it likes and uses them, because it doesn't have one of it's own."
"Oh… but why Tomoyo's?"
"Because she has the best singing voice I've ever heard. It makes sense that The VOICE would want it."
"But…" Sakura sighed, got up, picked up her mobile again and started calling everyone.
Kero watched her in action and smiled slightly. She had good friends, he certainly wouldn't have expected Tea and Yugi's help considering that Yugi had only really gotten to know Sakura on Monday. If anything he was concerned about the lack of people available to teach Yugi and Sakura about the other forms their magic could take.
He was certain that the gold net spell Yugi had cast to try to catch The CLOUD had been something that Yugi had thought up on the spot and he could see how both useful and dangerous working like that with magic could be. If anything Kero had the easy job, Sakura's magic was clearly focused on the Clow Cards, and anything extra she could do would be quite easy to teach since he'd seen Clow Reed in action before.
"We're going around after school tomorrow." Sakura said firmly, as she put the phone down for the third time and sank onto her bed. "Hopefully Tomoyo will be better by then, but if not…"
"We'll find it." Kero promised.
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"Hi Tomoyo." Tea said, "How are you feeling?"
Tomoyo paused, wrote something down and held up a sign that said, "I'm fine, honest."
"Still nothing?" Yugi asked, sitting down at Tomoyo's gesture.
"The doctor says he doesn't know what's wrong, but I think it's a Clow Card."
"How do you know?" Kero asked, leaving the bag.
"A pink ribbon like thing attacked me and once it left, so had my voice."
"It's The VOICE." Kero explained again for Tomoyo's sake.
"That's great." Tea said, once Kero had finished, "But how do we lure it out so we can capture it?"
"The VOICE would come out again if it heard a voice as good as Tomoyo's." Kero said.
"But none of us can sing that well." Sakura pointed out.
There was a knock on the door, causing Kero to dive into Sakura's school bag, and Tomoyo's mother stepped into the room with four cups, a pot of tea and a box that looked like a cookie box. "Hello." She nodded to the group.
Tea, Sakura and Yugi got to their feet and bowed, "Hello."
"I've never met you two before." Tomoyo's mum looked interested, as she looked over the two newcomers to the room.
"I'm Gardener Tea," Tea smiled at her.
"I'm Muto Yugi."
"I'm Tomoyo's mother, it's nice to meet you." She smiled at them, putting the tray down and laughing when Sakura went to help her, telling Sakura she didn't have too, but accepting the help.
The box turned out to have cake in, which, once Tomoyo's mother had left of course, swiftly fell to the hunger of the teddy bear, who ending up chasing Yugi around because Yugi actually wanted to eat his cake instead of giving it to Kero.
The distraction didn't last long however, and soon they were back to trying to find a solution to the VOICE problem.
"Tomoyo? Do you still have that tape?" Yugi asked, an idea forming in his head as Kero landed on his plate and stole some of the cake from it.
Tomoyo frowned, nodded and, looking confused, went and got it from the desk.
"Do you have a stereo?" Yugi asked, and grinned when Tomoyo opened a cupboard to reveal one and speakers, "Ok, I have an idea."
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"A light dances among the clouds
And seasons pour down on the meadow…"
A pink ribbon shot into the empty room, stopped and becoming a very pink girl who looked confused, not knowing where the sound was coming from.
Sakura shot into the room, closely followed by Yugi.
The Clow Card turned to flee.
"No you don't!" Amethyst had gone ruby again as Yugi cast something that shimmered purple and blocked off the windows causing VOICE to stare at him, scared.
"Clow Card!" Sakura called, attracting her attention, and holding out her staff, "Return to the guise you were meant to be! Clow Card!"
The VOICE turned into pink smoke which became a Clow Card and flew into Yugi's hand, a little yellowish light rising from it and floating into Tomoyo.
"What would I do with a Clow Card?" Yugi asked, amused, and would have handed it over to Sakura had she not been hovering over Tomoyo, asking about her voice.
"Sakura…" Sakura glomped her best friend in relief.
"Well that was easy." Tea said, sounding surprised.
"VOICE isn't an offensive card." Kero said, as Yugi handed over the Clow Card.
"But why did it float to Yugi?" Sakura asked.
"Clow Cards will often choose who they consider to have captured them by who forces them back into their true form or they feel did the most work to capture them." Kero said, frowning, "It's up to the other person the Clow Card chooses if they want to hand over the Clow Card to the real Cardcaptor or keep it for themselves."
"Will VOICE listen to Sakura if it chose me?" Yugi asked, concerned.
"You gave it to her of your own free will. It should accept this easily." Kero nodded, "But be careful with what spells you're throwing around."
The purple barrier at the windows faded away and Yugi sat down heavily.
"Five down, forty seven to go."
"Ahhh, don't say it like that!" Sakura complained, "It makes it sound like it'll take me forever!"
"Five in five days? Doubt it." Tea pointed out.
"One a day." Tomoyo giggled.
"Does this mean I have to catch one tomorrow because there was only one this time?" Sakura asked.
"I hope not." Yugi said, "We're going to Domino after school!"
"I doubt a Clow Card would have gone that far." Kero pointed out.
"I wonder if Mum has anymore cake…"
"Cake?" Kero asked.
"I'll go ask."
"Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake!" Kero started dancing and chanting, making everyone forget exactly what they'd been talking about.