Chapter 9: - A SWEET Evening
It was late on Friday evening and Sakura was just finishing the batch of cakes, which, as long as her brother didn't eat them all overnight, would come with them to the Tournament tomorrow.
They'd gathered at Yugi's place for a couple of hours after school, to say hi to Joey and discuss their plans for the Tournament. They were all going, of course, Sakura wanted to watch, since she was interested in the game, but didn't feel she was ready to enter a tournament, Joey wanted to get out of the house, Yugi, of course, was trying for victory, Tomoyo wanted to record it and Tea didn't want to be left out.
All bar Kero that was, who had told them, rather firmly, that he was staying at home, as he had no interest in playing at being a stuffed toy all day while they played cards. Yugi had said that he didn't expect to get past the group stages anyway, but Kero had said, 'no thank you' repeatedly and said that he'd have his phone if they needed to reach him.
It had been awkward at first. They didn't really know Joey very well, and he didn't really know them, but the awkwardness had slowly slipped away as Joey was filled in on the Clow Cards and the Puzzle, introduced to Yami, who had woken up when Sakura had let him see her staff properly, and then he'd told them about him and his little sister, Serenity, mentioning that she had to go to the doctors a lot, but not really explaining why.
By the time all of that had been settled, they had decided who was going to bring what, and went their separate ways, it had been about five o'clock, which left Sakura more then enough time to make some cakes for tomorrow.
Or it would have done, had the first batch not turned out so sweet that they'd been uneatable.
This was her second batch, and she'd done everything exactly to the recipe. Now she was just waiting for them to cool.
"Hi Sakura-Chan."
Sakura blushed the moment Yukito started speaking, turning around quickly and giving him a shy smile, "Hello Yukito-San." She half curtsied, as her brother's best friend slid into one of the chairs at the table. "Would you like a cake?"
As Yukito's appetite was legendary, she wasn't surprised when the teenager, with short grey hair and soft brown eyes, grinned and nodded.
Hoping that she had it right this time, she put a, still slightly warm, cake on a plate and passed it over.
Yukito took a bite as Toya entered the room, "Hey monster." Toya nodded, swiping a cake off of the cooling rack and sitting at the table, ignoring Sakura's protest that those cakes were for her friends.
"They wouldn't eat them anyway." Toya told her, "What did you do? Add twice the amount of sugar?"
"Not again!" Sakura complained, quickly tasting one herself and groaning.
"I don't think it tastes so bad." Yukito said, finishing his off and looking at Toya, "You going to finish that?"
Toya, more then used to his friend's whims by now, just snorted, amused, as Yukito swiftly polished off the other cake.
"Would you like the rest of them, Yukito-San?" Sakura asked as she tried to work out whether she had enough flour to try again.
"I couldn't steal all of your cakes, if they're for the others…"
"I don't mind, honest." Sakura flashed him a smile as she found another half bag of flour and just enough sugar to try one last time. "If you'd like them."
"Thank you, Sakura-Chan." Yukito nodded, then surprised the girl by coming around the counter and helping her set up. "But I can't take them without helping you make a fresh batch, that is, if you don't mind, Toya." The teenager, who had been friends with Toya for a long time, it had to be two or three years by now, gave him a small, pleading smile and Toya scowled, knowing Yukito was trying to guilt him into helping.
"If we don't help, they'll never get finished." Toya grumped, getting up and sweeping the cakes on the cooling rack into a tin, putting them aside for the time being, in order to make room for the next batch. "But this time I'll add the sugar." He smirked.
Sakura grumbled but nodded, knowing Toya was just teasing.
Yukito chuckled, watching the interaction with a great deal of amusement. "We should ice them too." He said, making Toya groan and Sakura's eyes light up, the girl darting to the cupboards to find the icing sugar, "I'm sure the others will enjoy them more if we do."
"We'd better be able to eat some of these." Toya continued to grump.
"I only need seven." Sakura told him, "So any that are left over, you can have."
"Seven?" Yukito asked, confused. "I thought you only had three friends who were going to this tournament?"
"Well there's Yugi, Tea and Tomoyo, and then there's Joey, who's staying with Yugi for a while, and I want to take a couple extra, just in case someone else wants one." Sakura explained, feeling guilty for lying but there was no way she could tell Yukito the truth. Her brother had worked it out on his own but she didn't know how much Yukito was aware of, which was why Kero was still hiding behind a picture frame.
"Joey?" Toya questioned, not sure that not having heard about any friends in Tomoeda with that name.
"Wheeler Joey." Sakura explained, as Yukito started weighing out the flour and she broke the last of the eggs. "We met him in Domino."
"When you went to see Muto-San's grandfather?" Toya frowned, wondering if it was the same Wheeler Joey that had defeated the FIGHT card.
"Uh huh." Sakura nodded, watching her brother make the connections in his head. After Yugi's 'accident' at the Aquarium, she'd had to tell her brother everything, including about Yugi's Shadow Game with Ushio, and the blonde that had managed, somehow, to defeat a Clow Card.
Toya was convinced that there was something unusual about the kid, and looked forward to running into him.
Toya frowned, caught Yukito about to weigh out the sugar and seized the bag. "No way, Yuki," He warned him, "You'd add enough sugar to rot their teeth."
"I wouldn't!" Yukito protested, but not particularly strenuously, winking at Sakura, who giggled.
"I saw that Yuki." Toya half mock growled, as he weighed out the right amount and added it to the mix. "They should be right this time."
"I'm going to watch them." Sakura told him, "And make sure nothing goes wrong."
"Good." Yukito and Toya stayed down until the cakes went in the oven and then they headed upstairs to work or play games or something. It wasn't unusual for Yukito to sleep over, as his Grandparents, who he lived with, were often away on trips around the world.
Sakura sat, in front of the oven, the timer ticking, just staring at the cakes.
Kero poked his head out from behind the photo, "Are they gone?"
"Uh huh." Sakura took her eyes off the cakes for a moment or two and sighed happily.
"If it had just been your brother, it wouldn't have mattered, but since Yukito was here, I had to hide." Kero complained, "I wanted one of those cakes."
"They were too sweet again." Sakura shook her head, "You hated the first batch."
"And you're sure you sensed a Clow Card the last time around?" Kero frowned. "And you didn't just add too much sugar?"
"Uh huh. I double checked the sugar the second time." Sakura turned back to watch the cakes, eyes widening as a tiny little parchment yellow fairy darted into the oven.
"I thought so, it's The SWEET!" Kero growled, as Sakura opened the oven and tried to catch it, causing it to fly out of the oven with a disapproving look and hover over the table, which turned into chocolate.
"What?" Sakura yelped, as she activated her key.
"SWEET can turn anything into anything sweet." Kero told her, "But hates things like salt and…"
Sakura grabbed the huge pot of salt, shutting the door that her brother and Yukito had left through and turning to look at SWEET, who didn't seem the least bit phased. In fact it giggled as it darted around the kitchen turned dining room.
Chairs that were cookies were all well and good, they probably tasted delicious, but they would be no good to sit on, just like candy cane and icing clocks weren't helpful and chocolate bookcases would melt in the heat, just as the table was starting to do.
This had to stop.
Sakura chased the Clow Card around the room, knocking over chairs and yelping as she bashed her knee on the chocolate table.
"Are you alright?" Toya asked, opening the door. "I heard a…"
SWEET darted out of the door and Sakura growled in frustration. "Oniichan!"
Toya moved aside to let Sakura catch up with the card she was chasing, trying not to be amused as the small fairy turned everything in the hallway into something edible and sweet, grateful that Yukito was in his room, writing up his English homework.
Sakura chased it into the living room, where the sofa had already become a big sponge cake and SWEET was working on making the rest of the room match it, shutting the door behind her, then turning to SWEET, who, quite frankly, looked bored of this game and was looking an escape route.
"Return to the guise you were meant to be!" Sakura started.
SWEET darted behind the TV.
"That's not going to work…" Kero growled, "You're going to have to trap it somehow."
Sakura snuck around the back of the television set, chucking some of the salt at SWEET. It shook itself off, looking angry and attempted to fly away.
A second handful forced it to fly the way Sakura wanted it to, straight into a corner. "Return to the guise you were meant to be," She repeated. "Clow Card!"
SWEET became a card again and slowly all of the furniture became furniture again.
"Why?" Sakura asked, confused, as she wrote her name on the card.
"Clow Reed had a sweet tooth." Kero sighed as they headed back to the kitchen, where Toya was waiting, "And he created SWEET to make sweet things to eat at anytime."
"He really created a card for that?" Toya didn't sound amused, stealing one of Yukito's cakes and trying it. "These taste fine now. I take it that card was making them sweeter then usual?"
"Uh huh." Sakura nodded.
"It was a relief when he created SWEET." Kero growled at Toya, "It was always around to provide something to eat when Clow got lost in his work."
Toya just snorted as Sakura righted the chairs. "Are we going to have anymore distractions tonight?"
"I hope not, but I'll warn you if I have to go out." Sakura promised.
Toya just nodded and exited the room.
Sakura took a deep breath and sank into a chair, leaning back and looking at the ceiling.
"Are you alright, Sakura?" Kero asked, concerned as Sakura blushed a bright pink.
"Yu-Ki-To-San!" She giggled in response, having not had a chance to do so before now, having been concerned about the cakes and what with Yukito being in the room.
Kero just sighed, wishing that his Cardcaptor didn't have a crush on her brother's best friend. She always ended up swooning over him sooner or later.
The timer buzzed, shaking Sakura out of her reverie.
Kero watched, amused, she darted to the oven to get the cakes out and started missing the icing.
She was determined to get these cakes right…
"I hope you're going to save some for me." He said, watching as she put white icing on and added the little gold candy balls that she'd found in the cupboard.
"Why do you think I said I needed seven?" Sakura asked, "Me, Tomoyo, Yugi, Tea," She counted them off on her fingers, "Joey, Yami and you, to take upstairs while I'm out."
"Oh." Now Kero felt silly. "But what if Yami doesn't want one?"
"He might," Sakura said defensively, "It would be rude for me not to take one for him and if Yami doesn't want it, Yugi might, he eats quite a bit."
"Women will be envious of him and Yukito later on in life." Kero nodded sagely.
"Huh?" Sakura gave him a confused look as she started cleaning up, washing the worst of the cake mix off the bowls and things and putting said bowls and things into the dishwasher.
"They can eat as much as they like, but they don't gain any weight." Kero explained.
Sakura continued to look confused, but Kero knew she'd understand in a few years.
"You ready for tomorrow?" Kero asked as she cleaned the sides down, watching the cakes hungrily.
"Uh huh." Sakura nodded, "But it's only a card tournament, it's not like we're going to be chasing Clow Cards."
"True." Kero allowed, but he'd been thinking more along the lines of the fact that Yugi's magic was tied to the game that Yugi was going to be playing tomorrow and they didn't know if anyone there would have the same powers.
However he didn't want to worry his mistress and they had already proved they could handle the unexpected, so he didn't want to say too much.
"It's going to be fun." Sakura giggled. "And Yugi's going to win, just you wait! We'll come home with the prize!"
Kero couldn't help being caught up in his mistress's enthusiasm, even though the prize was little more then a couple of rare cards. "You think so?"
"I know so!" She giggled, "Yugi never loses!"
Kero acknowledged that this was true, smiling slightly at the thought of the small boy who he'd been mentoring for the last couple of months beating Duellists with twice his experience, then chuckling, thinking that a simple card game would never become popular enough to be particularly well known.
This was probably a good thing. Famous names could attract trouble and attracting trouble was a bad idea.
"I'm going to give Yukito one of these cakes!" Sakura giggled, quickly putting two on a plate and making some tea to take up to Toya's room. "Wait for me in my room?" She asked. Kero nodded and she darted upstairs, carefully balancing the tray.
Kero just rolled his eyes as he floated up the steps. He had been under the impression that people didn't fall in love until they were twenty four, or perhaps that had just been Clow Reed… there had been that one lady magician when his master had been eighteen or so, who had learnt everything she knew from Clow, but they had been banned from speaking of her, after Clow had had to seal her to prevent her attempts to take over the world.
He entered Sakura's room and sat on the Book of Clow, just in time for Sakura to dart in the door, giggling like a lunatic, shut it behind her, and then lean against it, sliding down, once again sighing "Yu-Ki-To-San."
"Not again." Kero complained, well versed in his Cardcaptor's feelings on the matter by now, and staying well away until the phase that he referred to as 'find-the-nearest-plush-toy-and-squeeze-it-to-death' phase was over, since, unfortunately he was not immune from being considered a suitable toy when Sakura was in this state. "Sakura, you have class in the morning." He pointed out.
She stayed in that happy daze for a few moments longer, and then got up and got changed, heading to bed with little complaint and falling asleep without any more fuss.
Kero sighed, straightening out a few things, checking the eighteen Clow Cards that currently rested inside the Book of Clow, and making sure that the blanket covered the girl, that he both cared for and guarded, properly, before curling up in the bed that she had made him in the bottom drawer of her desk.
Tomorrow, he decided, while Sakura and her friends were playing cards. He'd be trying to be Toya's high score on that racing game…
They'd gathered at Yugi's place for a couple of hours after school, to say hi to Joey and discuss their plans for the Tournament. They were all going, of course, Sakura wanted to watch, since she was interested in the game, but didn't feel she was ready to enter a tournament, Joey wanted to get out of the house, Yugi, of course, was trying for victory, Tomoyo wanted to record it and Tea didn't want to be left out.
All bar Kero that was, who had told them, rather firmly, that he was staying at home, as he had no interest in playing at being a stuffed toy all day while they played cards. Yugi had said that he didn't expect to get past the group stages anyway, but Kero had said, 'no thank you' repeatedly and said that he'd have his phone if they needed to reach him.
It had been awkward at first. They didn't really know Joey very well, and he didn't really know them, but the awkwardness had slowly slipped away as Joey was filled in on the Clow Cards and the Puzzle, introduced to Yami, who had woken up when Sakura had let him see her staff properly, and then he'd told them about him and his little sister, Serenity, mentioning that she had to go to the doctors a lot, but not really explaining why.
By the time all of that had been settled, they had decided who was going to bring what, and went their separate ways, it had been about five o'clock, which left Sakura more then enough time to make some cakes for tomorrow.
Or it would have done, had the first batch not turned out so sweet that they'd been uneatable.
This was her second batch, and she'd done everything exactly to the recipe. Now she was just waiting for them to cool.
"Hi Sakura-Chan."
Sakura blushed the moment Yukito started speaking, turning around quickly and giving him a shy smile, "Hello Yukito-San." She half curtsied, as her brother's best friend slid into one of the chairs at the table. "Would you like a cake?"
As Yukito's appetite was legendary, she wasn't surprised when the teenager, with short grey hair and soft brown eyes, grinned and nodded.
Hoping that she had it right this time, she put a, still slightly warm, cake on a plate and passed it over.
Yukito took a bite as Toya entered the room, "Hey monster." Toya nodded, swiping a cake off of the cooling rack and sitting at the table, ignoring Sakura's protest that those cakes were for her friends.
"They wouldn't eat them anyway." Toya told her, "What did you do? Add twice the amount of sugar?"
"Not again!" Sakura complained, quickly tasting one herself and groaning.
"I don't think it tastes so bad." Yukito said, finishing his off and looking at Toya, "You going to finish that?"
Toya, more then used to his friend's whims by now, just snorted, amused, as Yukito swiftly polished off the other cake.
"Would you like the rest of them, Yukito-San?" Sakura asked as she tried to work out whether she had enough flour to try again.
"I couldn't steal all of your cakes, if they're for the others…"
"I don't mind, honest." Sakura flashed him a smile as she found another half bag of flour and just enough sugar to try one last time. "If you'd like them."
"Thank you, Sakura-Chan." Yukito nodded, then surprised the girl by coming around the counter and helping her set up. "But I can't take them without helping you make a fresh batch, that is, if you don't mind, Toya." The teenager, who had been friends with Toya for a long time, it had to be two or three years by now, gave him a small, pleading smile and Toya scowled, knowing Yukito was trying to guilt him into helping.
"If we don't help, they'll never get finished." Toya grumped, getting up and sweeping the cakes on the cooling rack into a tin, putting them aside for the time being, in order to make room for the next batch. "But this time I'll add the sugar." He smirked.
Sakura grumbled but nodded, knowing Toya was just teasing.
Yukito chuckled, watching the interaction with a great deal of amusement. "We should ice them too." He said, making Toya groan and Sakura's eyes light up, the girl darting to the cupboards to find the icing sugar, "I'm sure the others will enjoy them more if we do."
"We'd better be able to eat some of these." Toya continued to grump.
"I only need seven." Sakura told him, "So any that are left over, you can have."
"Seven?" Yukito asked, confused. "I thought you only had three friends who were going to this tournament?"
"Well there's Yugi, Tea and Tomoyo, and then there's Joey, who's staying with Yugi for a while, and I want to take a couple extra, just in case someone else wants one." Sakura explained, feeling guilty for lying but there was no way she could tell Yukito the truth. Her brother had worked it out on his own but she didn't know how much Yukito was aware of, which was why Kero was still hiding behind a picture frame.
"Joey?" Toya questioned, not sure that not having heard about any friends in Tomoeda with that name.
"Wheeler Joey." Sakura explained, as Yukito started weighing out the flour and she broke the last of the eggs. "We met him in Domino."
"When you went to see Muto-San's grandfather?" Toya frowned, wondering if it was the same Wheeler Joey that had defeated the FIGHT card.
"Uh huh." Sakura nodded, watching her brother make the connections in his head. After Yugi's 'accident' at the Aquarium, she'd had to tell her brother everything, including about Yugi's Shadow Game with Ushio, and the blonde that had managed, somehow, to defeat a Clow Card.
Toya was convinced that there was something unusual about the kid, and looked forward to running into him.
Toya frowned, caught Yukito about to weigh out the sugar and seized the bag. "No way, Yuki," He warned him, "You'd add enough sugar to rot their teeth."
"I wouldn't!" Yukito protested, but not particularly strenuously, winking at Sakura, who giggled.
"I saw that Yuki." Toya half mock growled, as he weighed out the right amount and added it to the mix. "They should be right this time."
"I'm going to watch them." Sakura told him, "And make sure nothing goes wrong."
"Good." Yukito and Toya stayed down until the cakes went in the oven and then they headed upstairs to work or play games or something. It wasn't unusual for Yukito to sleep over, as his Grandparents, who he lived with, were often away on trips around the world.
Sakura sat, in front of the oven, the timer ticking, just staring at the cakes.
Kero poked his head out from behind the photo, "Are they gone?"
"Uh huh." Sakura took her eyes off the cakes for a moment or two and sighed happily.
"If it had just been your brother, it wouldn't have mattered, but since Yukito was here, I had to hide." Kero complained, "I wanted one of those cakes."
"They were too sweet again." Sakura shook her head, "You hated the first batch."
"And you're sure you sensed a Clow Card the last time around?" Kero frowned. "And you didn't just add too much sugar?"
"Uh huh. I double checked the sugar the second time." Sakura turned back to watch the cakes, eyes widening as a tiny little parchment yellow fairy darted into the oven.
"I thought so, it's The SWEET!" Kero growled, as Sakura opened the oven and tried to catch it, causing it to fly out of the oven with a disapproving look and hover over the table, which turned into chocolate.
"What?" Sakura yelped, as she activated her key.
"SWEET can turn anything into anything sweet." Kero told her, "But hates things like salt and…"
Sakura grabbed the huge pot of salt, shutting the door that her brother and Yukito had left through and turning to look at SWEET, who didn't seem the least bit phased. In fact it giggled as it darted around the kitchen turned dining room.
Chairs that were cookies were all well and good, they probably tasted delicious, but they would be no good to sit on, just like candy cane and icing clocks weren't helpful and chocolate bookcases would melt in the heat, just as the table was starting to do.
This had to stop.
Sakura chased the Clow Card around the room, knocking over chairs and yelping as she bashed her knee on the chocolate table.
"Are you alright?" Toya asked, opening the door. "I heard a…"
SWEET darted out of the door and Sakura growled in frustration. "Oniichan!"
Toya moved aside to let Sakura catch up with the card she was chasing, trying not to be amused as the small fairy turned everything in the hallway into something edible and sweet, grateful that Yukito was in his room, writing up his English homework.
Sakura chased it into the living room, where the sofa had already become a big sponge cake and SWEET was working on making the rest of the room match it, shutting the door behind her, then turning to SWEET, who, quite frankly, looked bored of this game and was looking an escape route.
"Return to the guise you were meant to be!" Sakura started.
SWEET darted behind the TV.
"That's not going to work…" Kero growled, "You're going to have to trap it somehow."
Sakura snuck around the back of the television set, chucking some of the salt at SWEET. It shook itself off, looking angry and attempted to fly away.
A second handful forced it to fly the way Sakura wanted it to, straight into a corner. "Return to the guise you were meant to be," She repeated. "Clow Card!"
SWEET became a card again and slowly all of the furniture became furniture again.
"Why?" Sakura asked, confused, as she wrote her name on the card.
"Clow Reed had a sweet tooth." Kero sighed as they headed back to the kitchen, where Toya was waiting, "And he created SWEET to make sweet things to eat at anytime."
"He really created a card for that?" Toya didn't sound amused, stealing one of Yukito's cakes and trying it. "These taste fine now. I take it that card was making them sweeter then usual?"
"Uh huh." Sakura nodded.
"It was a relief when he created SWEET." Kero growled at Toya, "It was always around to provide something to eat when Clow got lost in his work."
Toya just snorted as Sakura righted the chairs. "Are we going to have anymore distractions tonight?"
"I hope not, but I'll warn you if I have to go out." Sakura promised.
Toya just nodded and exited the room.
Sakura took a deep breath and sank into a chair, leaning back and looking at the ceiling.
"Are you alright, Sakura?" Kero asked, concerned as Sakura blushed a bright pink.
"Yu-Ki-To-San!" She giggled in response, having not had a chance to do so before now, having been concerned about the cakes and what with Yukito being in the room.
Kero just sighed, wishing that his Cardcaptor didn't have a crush on her brother's best friend. She always ended up swooning over him sooner or later.
The timer buzzed, shaking Sakura out of her reverie.
Kero watched, amused, she darted to the oven to get the cakes out and started missing the icing.
She was determined to get these cakes right…
"I hope you're going to save some for me." He said, watching as she put white icing on and added the little gold candy balls that she'd found in the cupboard.
"Why do you think I said I needed seven?" Sakura asked, "Me, Tomoyo, Yugi, Tea," She counted them off on her fingers, "Joey, Yami and you, to take upstairs while I'm out."
"Oh." Now Kero felt silly. "But what if Yami doesn't want one?"
"He might," Sakura said defensively, "It would be rude for me not to take one for him and if Yami doesn't want it, Yugi might, he eats quite a bit."
"Women will be envious of him and Yukito later on in life." Kero nodded sagely.
"Huh?" Sakura gave him a confused look as she started cleaning up, washing the worst of the cake mix off the bowls and things and putting said bowls and things into the dishwasher.
"They can eat as much as they like, but they don't gain any weight." Kero explained.
Sakura continued to look confused, but Kero knew she'd understand in a few years.
"You ready for tomorrow?" Kero asked as she cleaned the sides down, watching the cakes hungrily.
"Uh huh." Sakura nodded, "But it's only a card tournament, it's not like we're going to be chasing Clow Cards."
"True." Kero allowed, but he'd been thinking more along the lines of the fact that Yugi's magic was tied to the game that Yugi was going to be playing tomorrow and they didn't know if anyone there would have the same powers.
However he didn't want to worry his mistress and they had already proved they could handle the unexpected, so he didn't want to say too much.
"It's going to be fun." Sakura giggled. "And Yugi's going to win, just you wait! We'll come home with the prize!"
Kero couldn't help being caught up in his mistress's enthusiasm, even though the prize was little more then a couple of rare cards. "You think so?"
"I know so!" She giggled, "Yugi never loses!"
Kero acknowledged that this was true, smiling slightly at the thought of the small boy who he'd been mentoring for the last couple of months beating Duellists with twice his experience, then chuckling, thinking that a simple card game would never become popular enough to be particularly well known.
This was probably a good thing. Famous names could attract trouble and attracting trouble was a bad idea.
"I'm going to give Yukito one of these cakes!" Sakura giggled, quickly putting two on a plate and making some tea to take up to Toya's room. "Wait for me in my room?" She asked. Kero nodded and she darted upstairs, carefully balancing the tray.
Kero just rolled his eyes as he floated up the steps. He had been under the impression that people didn't fall in love until they were twenty four, or perhaps that had just been Clow Reed… there had been that one lady magician when his master had been eighteen or so, who had learnt everything she knew from Clow, but they had been banned from speaking of her, after Clow had had to seal her to prevent her attempts to take over the world.
He entered Sakura's room and sat on the Book of Clow, just in time for Sakura to dart in the door, giggling like a lunatic, shut it behind her, and then lean against it, sliding down, once again sighing "Yu-Ki-To-San."
"Not again." Kero complained, well versed in his Cardcaptor's feelings on the matter by now, and staying well away until the phase that he referred to as 'find-the-nearest-plush-toy-and-squeeze-it-to-death' phase was over, since, unfortunately he was not immune from being considered a suitable toy when Sakura was in this state. "Sakura, you have class in the morning." He pointed out.
She stayed in that happy daze for a few moments longer, and then got up and got changed, heading to bed with little complaint and falling asleep without any more fuss.
Kero sighed, straightening out a few things, checking the eighteen Clow Cards that currently rested inside the Book of Clow, and making sure that the blanket covered the girl, that he both cared for and guarded, properly, before curling up in the bed that she had made him in the bottom drawer of her desk.
Tomorrow, he decided, while Sakura and her friends were playing cards. He'd be trying to be Toya's high score on that racing game…