ep05

                    Sakura to Panda to Kawaii Omise
    In a bed, a little girl was asleep. Suddenly a panda doll started to jump. All the dolls jumped, and the panda jumped out.
<Title screen: Sakura and Panda and Cute Shop>
     Sakura was roller blading to school. In "Twin Bells", a lady was moving in. "A new shop is opening," Sakura said, stopping. The lady dropped a box of stuffed animals. Sakura helped her to pick them up. "There are lots of cute stuffed animals," Sakura said. The lady smiled. "Are you opening today?" "Yes, thank you," The lady replied. "My name is Maki Matzumoto." "My name is Kinomoto Sakura," Sakura replied. "Please visit it. Later in the afternoon I should be done," Maki said. "OK!" Sakura happily consented. Maki dropped the box again. Sakura sweat beaded.
     The bell signaled end of the school. Sakura, in cheerleader's uniform, was washing her hands. "Sakura-chan, do you know a new store opened?" Chiharu asked. "Twin Bells?" Sakura asked. "Yeah! Do you want to visit it after school today? I've invited Rika-chan and Naoko-chan as well." "I promised with Tomoyo-chan, too. Why don't everyone go together?" Sakura said. "Sure!'
    There was a sweet singing sound. 'Tomoyo-chan is in the choir. She's really good, and she won many contests,' Sakura's voice narrated. 'What a beautiful voice...' Sakura thought, looking in on her. Tomoyo looked up and smiled.
    "Tomoyo-chan is looking for a pouch," Sakura said. "Yes, I need them to carry around batteries with," Tomoyo said. "I think I should looks for a notebook," Sakura happily said. "I'll look for stuffed animals," Chiharu added. Chatting, the girls came upon the shop and found it still closed. "Look's like it's not opened yet," Chiharu said. "No, it's open," Sakura said, pointing at the "open" sign. "But it's not cleaned up at all," Tomoyo said. Maki dropped what she was carrying. "Ah, welcome, Ara, you're from this morning," Maki said. "I've brought my friends along, but..." "Ah, sorry it's such a mess," Maki said. "Shall we help you clean up?" Sakura asked. "I can't ask you to do that!" Maki replied. "But we wanna see the cute things soon," Sakura said. The girls agreed. Maki smiled and thanked them.
     The girls started to clean up. Maki dropped a star-shaped doll and it tripped Rika. Rika fell, crashing into things. Tomoyo was putting up the dolls when she noticed "By Daidouji Corporation". She smiled. Sakura was battling with a tape, which refused to come off her hands. Maki came out with tea and snacks. "Thank you; I've just moved here, so there was no one that I knew. Please go ahead." The girls sat around the table. "You still can't really tell what's where.. please come again tomorrow," Maki added. Suddenly a panda doll rolled out. Maki looked startled and dismayed. Chiharu picked it up. "Kawaii.." She said, hugging it. "I thought it was a soccer ball," Sakura said. Chiharu smiled.
     "Chiharu-chan has a lot of stuffed dolls," Sakura commented, looking at her room. "It somehow looks like a safari, right?" Tomoyo said. "I have more in the livingroom. I'll show you," Chiharu said. They were moving out to the living room when they heard a sound. "I'll go check," Chiharu said, going back to her room. The girls go after her when she doesn't come out. Chiharu was looking at her room in dismay. It was totally wracked, and panda was gone. Tomoyo commented that it was strange, as they came right after there was a sound.
     In the Highschool grounds, Touya shot a soccer ball through the goal. The admiring girls all went crazy.   Sakura and Tomoyo were nearby, discussing about the previous day's events. "I'm worried," Tomoyo said. "I heard there was a store which cursed you with being robbed." "Is it Maki's shop?" Sakura asked, worried. "I don't know. It's a rumor that is going around in the toy business." "Kinomoto," Terada called. "Ah," Sakura said, running to the stacks. She easily jumped over them.
     Sakura and Tomoyo visited the store again. Maki looked up at them and smiled, but stopped when she noticed their startled expression. The panda was there. "It's happening again. It happened in the previous shop, too..." Maki said, going rather pale. "It happened countless times. The rumor spread that if you bought something in this store, you'll be robbed. The culprit was never caught, and people suspected that perhaps I was doing it. Maybe I should just close the shop." Tomoyo and Sakura started to protest. "It's impossible with me by myself." Maki said. "I was engaged. To a designer. But he died in an accident... he loved stuffed animals, so it was his dream to sell his own dolls in his store. If I quit, h'ell be sad, right?' Maki looked up. "But I can't take this anymore..." Sakura and Tomoyo exchanged sad glances.
<CM Break-- Sakura Card!>
     It was night. "A Clow Card that collects stuffed animals? There ain't no such silly card," Kero said. "But please check! You know the aura of a Clow Card, right?" Sakura asked. "It depends on case by case," Kero replied. "If it's card, I can do something. Please?" Sakura pleaded. "I guess I have no other choice. Shall we go togheter?" Kero asked, smiling.
     "Maki-san, the tea you've made us was very delicious. Will you please teach me how to make it?" Tomoyo asked sweetly. Maki consented. "OK, she managed to distract her. Let's look for the card," Kero said. "The panda was suspicious. Let's look for it first," Sakura said. Kero was flirting with a stuffed animal, saying, "Aren't you a pretty one.." "What are you doing?!" Sakura cried. "The point is to let the water cool a bit once you've boiled it," Maki explained to Tomoyo. "Oh, I see," Tomoyo replied. "Ah, now I should check on my shop," Maki said. "Ah! Do you know that Sri Ranka used to be called Sailong? That is why there is a tea called Sailong Tea!" Tomoyo suddenly blurted out. "Oh, really? I didn't know it was name of a country," Maki said, interested. "And in milk tea, there is an effect of settling stomach..."
     Sakura was looking under the table when she bumped her head against it. She made a painful expression. "If you make sound, we'll be found," Kero said. "I feel Clow Card's aura!" "Where?' Sakura asked. "Under here," Kero replied. Sakura grabbed the panda stuffed doll. "No, it ran away," Kero said. 'Didn't it change into another doll just now?" "Eh?!" Sakura cried.
      "Did you know that editting is not necessarily splicing and cutting scenes from a tape? Just dubbing the scenes you like is called editting, too," Tomoyo told Maki. "But if you dub a tape, the quality drops. So you use a high quality VCR, and video tape, and camcorder." 'Sakura-chan, if you don't hurry, I"ll run out of things to talk about!' Tomoyo thought. "Ain't them... not these either..." Kero was saying in the other room. "Digital camera is definately the best so far. It is very convenient that the video software dubs things cleanly," Tomoyo went on. "But it involves a complex artistry. Ah, it's extremely convinient that the batteries that last long came out lately. Before, you had to carry mountain of batteries, and it was so heavy!"
       "Here?" Sakura asked Kero. "That's it! That's the Jump Card!" Kero said. Sakura stared at a pink rabbit thingie. It suddenly broke free from her, all the stuffed animals gathering around it. "And inside of a lens.." Tomoyo was saying, when there was a crashing sound. "Someone is in the store," Maki said. "Ah! Wait! Maki-san!" Tomoyo cried, running after her. Maki ran out to the store, and saw stuffed animals bouncing around in a frenzy. The glass window broke, and Jump ran outside, all the stuffed animal trailing after it. Maki fainted out. "Please take care of Maki-san!' Sakura cried, running after it. "Too bad, I won't be able to video tape this time," Tomoyo sadly said.
     They ran out after the mob of stuffed animals to the penguin park. Sakura attempted to grab the Jump, but failed and fell. "Where?!" Sakura sharply asked, standing up. "Above!" Kero replied. They looked up to see floating stuffed animal. Some attacked her. "It doesn't hurt at all...." Sakura said, as she was hit by a stuffed animal. "It's running away!" Kero screamed. "Wait right there!" Sakura cried, running after it. She grabbed it. It went up...up...up... Sakura looked down and turned blue. With a kick, Jump broke free from her. Sakura momentarily stayed in the air... then fell down. "Hoeee!!!" She took her key out and released it. "Fly!" She cried, getting on her staff. "Over there!" She landed in front of Jump. "Return to the form in which... Wait!" She cried, as Jump started to bounce around everywhere. "Tree, which luxuriates in green, come forth to my aid! Wood!" Sakura cried. The wood wrapped it up. "I caught it!" Sakura happily said.
     "This is just horrible.." Kero said, climbing out from under all the stuffed dolls. All the dolls suddenly rushed away to somewhere. "What?"
    Tomoyo stepped out from the bush. "Have you sealed the card yet?" She asked Sakura. "I was just about to," Sakura replied. "I made it in time, then," Tomoyo happily said. "How about Maki-san?" "She's all right," Tomoyo replied. Suddenly Jump broke free, and absorbed all the stuffed animal within itself. It turned gigantic. "I wonder if it plans on chasing us..." Kero asked. It came after them. "Run away separately!" Sakura cried. 'Right!' Tomoyo and Kero replied, running in other direcitons. Jump decided to target Sakura. "Our step sizes are too different!" Sakura cried, running as fast as she can. Jump caught up with her. It was just about to step on her when...
     It fell. It exploded, and all the dolls came out. Sakura looked at it. It was lying between the dolls, its eyes in swirls. "Seal it now!" Kero said. "Return to your true form! Clow Card!" Sakura cried, sealing it. "Well done!" Kero said. "It was hard..." Sakura said. "Jump Card is aggressive, but it's stupid," Kero added. "Now comes the hard part," Tomoyo added. "Hard part?" Sakura asked. "We have to return all these dolls to the shop," Tomoyo said. The dolls were littered all around the park....
     Sakura and Tomoyo entered Twin Bells. "It's open, and it seems the business is doing well," Sakura happily said. "Is it a friend for panda?" Maki asked, as she rang up the price for a stuffed lion. "Yes. But it was a strange panda. It returned home," Chiharu said. "I was so surprised I fainted," Maki said, laughing. "It seems that Maki-san cheered up," Tomoyo said. "And you learned how to make a delicious tea, too," Sakura added. She turned to her bookbag. "Kero-chan, you told me there was no silly card that would collect stuffed animals." "Well, Jump is like a stuffed animal too. Wasn't it just looking for friends?" Sakura suddenly knocked over a shelf. "Ah! Sorry!" Sakura cried. Kero shook his head. "It seems that Jump is not the only thing that's causing trouble for Maki-san."
<Kero-chan ni Omakase!>
Konyanyachiwa! It's time for Leave It To Kero-chan of this week! Today is especially for those who watch this show every week! We'll show the inside of Sakura's house. Come along until the end. This is Kinomoto residence. It's made of wood and it has garage as well. Next we'll go inside. This is the living room, the place for relaxing. Dining room, kitchen, bathroom. Oh, isn't this the basement library? This was the place where I was guarding the card without sleeping at all. Last is Sakura's room. There are stuffed animals lined up, so it's pretty cute. Here we go, Kero-chan~ Check!!! This is my favorite picture. Don't you think I look the coolest?! Well, now you know details of Sakura's house. There are rooms I couldn't show yet, but that will all come later. Then look forward to next time. Honana~