storypaint | Masterlist: 18coda

Community: 18coda
Completed: 21 Aug 06
Claim: Cardcaptor Sakura

Title: Going Home [link]
Pairing: Eriol gen primarily, Eriol/Kaho implied
Theme: 1. a capella
Words: 587
Rating: G
Excerpt: For a moment someone with the Sight would have seen another man overlaid on the boy's small form, a much older man with the same contented smile and long blue hair. But no one was there but Eriol.

Title: Her Voice [link]
Pairing: Touya/Kaho
Theme: 2. cadence
Words: 536
Rating: G
Excerpt: There was a cadence to their relationship not unlike her voice--it flowed quietly and easily without any trouble from teacher-student to girlfriend-boyfriend.

Title: Five Ways Syaoran Never Confessed to Sakura [link]
Pairing: 1. Syaoran/Sakura; 2. Eriol/Sakura and Syaoran/Sakura; 3. Yukito/Sakura and Syaoran/Sakura; 4. Syaoran/Sakura; 5. Meiling/Syaoran and Syaoran/Sakura
Theme: 3. canon
Words: 684
Rating: G
Excerpt: The Chinese was thick in Sakura's mouth, but she managed to joke that Meiling wouldn't even have to change her name when she got married.

Title: Innocent [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Sakura primarily; Syaoran/Sakura, Tomoyo/Sakura
Theme: 4. dolce
Words: 404
Rating: G
Excerpt: The lone wolf scowls at me, and I grin back, trying to keep the sadness out of my eyes, for I have looked into the future, read the signs, and what I have found bodes not at all well for Li-kun.

Title: Growing Old [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 5. fermata
Words: 1291
Rating: G
Excerpt: There was something that bothered Eriol about being a reincarnated magician--doing things twice.

Title: Something Blue [link]
Pairing: Tomoyo Sakura primarily; Syaoran/Sakura
Theme: 6. ostinato
Words: 680
Rating: PG, shoujo ai
Excerpt: Tomoyo stole a kiss from her love the day she married. The day, that is, that her love was married.

Title: Letter [link]
Pairing: Fujitaka/Nadeshiko
Theme: 7. grave
Words: 662
Rating: PG, heavy discussion of character death
Excerpt: One of the books I've been reading lately suggested that writing a letter to someone you lost helps tie up loose ends. I don't know if that's true or not, but I'm willing to try.

Title: Fate [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo; past Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 8. incidental music
Words: 728
Rating: G
Excerpt: He tiptoed around her and her enchanting eyes and she never knew the truth, though she suspected it.

Title: Nocturne[link]
Pairing: Terada/Rika
Theme: 9. nocturne
Words: 422
Rating: PG13 for sex
Excerpt: She smoothed down her dress before she lifted a finger to ring the bell, but he opened the door and caught her hand.
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Title: Sweeping Up the Heart [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 10. elegy
Words: 1220
Rating: PG for character death
Excerpt: Nakuru climbed into his lap as though she were small and he was the comforter, which he usually was, but she hugged him and he didn't mind the weight.

Title: A Different Kind of Lonely [link]
Pairing: Syaoran gen
Theme: 11. rubato
Words: 178
Rating: G
Excerpt: The Cardcaptor a girl! And such a spastic one!

Title: Legato [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Sakura
Theme: 12. legato
Words: 100
Rating: PG for general creepiness
Excerpt: This is nothing like a shoujo manga.

Title: Constancy [link]
Pairing: Tomoyo/Sakura; Syaoran/Sakura
Theme: 13. sempre
Words: 181
Rating: G, shoujo ai
Excerpt: All Tomoyo has to do is wait, and though that makes things easier when she tires, it also makes her sad.

Title: Child [link]
Pairing: Touya gen primarily; Syaoran/Sakura
Theme: 14. vivace
Words: 393
Rating: G
Excerpt: I was ten, and she was three, and it became my goal to let her be a child as long as she needed to be.

Title: Lovesick [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Sakura; past Syaoran/Sakura, past Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 15. senza
Words: 1092
Rating: G, mention of character death
Excerpt: "I can't do without you," he said. "Marry me."
"You're delirious," she said, sounding sad and amused.

Title: Things Unsaid [link]
Pairing: past Touya/Kaho; Touya/Yukito, Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 16. mosso
Words: 373
Rating: G
Excerpt: I wanted to say it as much as I thought I had wanted to yell at her when she left.

Title: Giving In [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo primarily; Eriol/Kaho, Syaoran/Sakura, Tomoyo/Sakura
Theme: 17. ritenuto
Words: 2082
Rating: G
Excerpt: "I don't know if I should hit you or kiss you," she said finally.

Title: Safe Port in the Storm [link]
Pairing: genfic; Tomoyo/Sakura mentioned, Syaoran/Sakura and Eriol/Kaho implied
Theme: 18. rhapsody
Words: 1493
Rating: PG
Excerpt: "That's quite a storm," he said calmly. She couldn't help it; finally, she laughed and said, "Why didn't you take an umbrella?"