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Playing Your Cards Right

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A CCS spamfic

Disclaimer: CLAMP'S, not mine. Not that I think they'd WANT this one...

Dedication: For Raye Johnsen, a VERY belated birthday gift. Maybe this will make
you smile, someday.

~*~*~*~*~

Sakura stood where she had just shattered the vines that had bound her. Beside
her, Mizuki-sensei waited, her solemn eyes watching the Final Judgement. She had
performed her role; now it was up to the young girl to figure out what to do.

"I need a card that won't hurt Yue..." Her hands fell to her deck, and she
started to flip through them. She couldn't think of Yue as the grim judge; in
his face, she saw the lines of Yukito, the boy she had cherished for so long.

She couldn't bring herself to hurt him. That was why she had tried to use the
Woody to imprison him. Sakura's gloved hands fell on the gentle Windy. She had
captured so many cards with her, surely...

As she raised the Windy, a sudden hesitation came over her. "Kero rules Firey
and Earthy... That must mean..." She didn't know much, but the Watery and the
Windy were the other two elemental cards, and Clow-san seemed to like separating
things equally.

Yue floated in the air, the moonlight reflecting off his wings. "Are you going
to do nothing?" he asked. "It's time for this farce to end." His hands raised
slowly, between them a bow of light forming, one which she knew would release
powerful magic. He was an expert archer, she knew now, just like Yukito....

Just like Yukito...

Her eyes widened in realization, and she pulled out a card, striking it with her
changed wand.

"SWEET!"

Watching from a distance, Kero roared in triumph. "She did it!" he said.

Li raised an eyebrow. "How?" he asked. "How did she beat him?"

"She found the one card Yue was vulnerable to. Did you ever notice that Yukito
loves to eat?"

Li nodded. "Yes..."

"Yukito is Yue's subconscious. Yue never eats because he thinks he's above it.
It results in a SEVERE craving for food. Guardians don't have to eat, but we
like to. Deny a craving, and it gets vicious."

Up on the tower an hour later, a sugar-drunk moon guardian pronounced Sakura the
Mistress of the Cards.

END