This dialogue is by Hissori Danko and is used with her full permission. Please don't use it without asking her first.
1. Sakura and the Mysterious Magic Book
Sakura: Who? Who's calling me?
Sakura: (Yawns) Ah, this sound.
Fujitaka: Sakura-san, breakfast is almost ready!
Sakura: Yes!
Sakura: My name is Kinomoto Sakura. I'm a fourth grader at Tomoeda Elementary School. My favorite subjects are P.E. and music. I hate math. Anyway, my most noticeable trait is that I am an energetic girl! As for my family…
Sakura: Morning!
Touya: What were you running around in your room for?
Sakura: I wasn't running!
Touya: It was really noisy though.
Sakura: I was walking NORMALLY.
Touya: When you walk, it sounds like a monster is jumping around.
Sakura: Sakura is NOT a monster!
Sakura: The mean one is my brother, Touya. He's a sophomore in high school. He goes to Seijou High. It's right next to my school. He's always mean! Just because he's a little taller.
Sakura: Can't stand it! Someday I'll be as tall as an electric pole and then I'll DEFINITELY…
Sakura: SQUISH him!
Fujitaka: Friendly in the morning, aren't we?
Sakura: This is my daddy, Fujitaka-san. He's an archaeology professor at the university. He's really good at cooking, and sewing. I love him!
Fujitaka: Here you go.
Sakura: Wow! It looks good! Itadakimasu! [Note: Itadakimasu is said before a meal.]
Sakura: This is my family. What? Mother? My mother died when I was three years old, but I'm not lonely. I have my daddy and my big brother too, even though he's mean.
Fujitaka: Is it good?
Sakura: Uh huh!
Touya: Gochisousama.
Sakura: Huh? You're going already?
Touya: Morning soccer practice.
Fujitaka: Go and have a good time.
Touya: Ittekimasu.
Sakura: Hey! Wait, wait a minute!
Sakura: Gochisousama.
Fujitaka: That's enough?
Fujitaka: Here, lunch.
Sakura: Onii-chan?
Fujitaka: He already left.
Sakura: Oh!
Fujitaka: Is your club meeting today?
Sakura: Yes. Ittekimasu!
Fujitaka: Have a good time!
Sakura: How far is he? Wow!
Sakura: Ah! There he is! Wait a minute!
Touya: Huh? Isn't it all right for you to leave later?
Sakura: But…but, you always go to school with 'him'.
Touya: Yuki!
Sakura: Huh?
Yukito: Morning!
Yukito: Morning, Touya. Morning, Sakura-chan. You're up early, aren't you?
Sakura: Yes!
Touya: Well, she ate breakfast in five minutes.
Yukito: I see you're energetic today, too, Sakura-chan.
Sakura: This is Tsukishiro Yukito. He's in the same class as my brother, a high school sophomore. (11th grade) I can't believe he's friends with my barbarous brother. He's such a nice and wonderful person.
Yukito: Bye, now, Sakura-chan.
Sakura: Here, already!
Sakura: Yukito-san!
Tomoyo: He's smooth.
Sakura: Tomoyo-chan!
Tomoyo: Sneaking presents to you! He is smooth!
Sakura: M-morning, Tomoyo-chan.
Tomoyo: Good morning, Sakura-chan!
Sakura: Daidouji Tomoyo-chan. She's my best friend. She's smart, pretty, and the daughter of the president of a really big company.
Tomoyo: Sakura-chan, you were so cute just then.
Sakura: Hoe?
Tomoyo: You were holding the candy, and looking really dreamy…
Sakura: Uh, Tomoyo-chan.
Tomoyo: I wish I had a video or picture of that!
Sakura: Are you listening? Tomoyo-chan's hobbies are taking pictures and videos. She's taken a lot of me, but…
Tomoyo: Oh, yes! I just bought a new camcorder! Please let me take some more videos of you!
Sakura: Okay, but shouldn't you tape something more interesting?
Tomoyo: There is nothing more cute than you, Sakura-chan!
Tomoyo: Then, I'll bring the recorder tomorrow! La la la la la, la la la la…
Sakura: I think maybe Tomoyo-chan is a little…weird.
Teacher: …then we see the face of a boy with his mouth opened like the letter, "O". I think he was surprised. The magical…
Sakura: I wonder if that was me?
Tomoyo: What a cute picture! What is it?
Sakura: Today…oh, ah…
Teacher: Kinomoto-san.
Sakura: Yes!
Teacher: Please read.
Sakura: Later, okay?
Tomoyo: …From the 12th line.
Sakura: Maybe he thinks it's a magical orange. In any case, the butterfly transformed…
Girls: Wow! Cool!
Naoko: Sakura-chan is so good!
Chiharu: She looks so cool!
Teacher: Thank you, Kinomoto-san. Next, we'll practice tossing! Everyone, please get your batons ready!
Girls: Yes!
Sakura: That dream DOES bother me. I'll heave to tell Tomoyo-chan about it. What?
Chiharu: Sakura-chan's really good at sports and baton.
Naoko: Uh-huh.
Chiharu: But I guess these things happen every once in awhile.
Naoko: Uh-huh.
Sakura: I'm home!
Sakura: Hoe?
*Fujitaka: I will be home around 9:00 today. Please heat up some curry for dinner. Snacks are in the fridge.
**Touya: 4:00 work, 7:00, home.
***Sakura: Normal.
Sakura: "I will be home at 9:00." Oh, Otou-san's late today.
Sakura: Huh? Is someone here?
Sakura: …and Onii-chan and Otou-san aren't here now…
Sakura: It's from Otou-san's library. What'll I do? What if it's a robber? I'll just look from the door. If someone's there, I'll call the cops.
Sakura: Eh? There's no one here?
Sakura: It's that book.
Sakura: Hoe?
Sakura: Card? Win…um…
Sakura: Win…Windy.
Sakura: What is this? Hoe?
Kero: Konyanyanichiwa!
Sakura: Hoe?
Kero: Thanks for wakin' me up.
Sakura: An Osaka accent?
Kero: This book was in Osaka for so long that the accent kinda stuck.
Sakura: Batteries? Where's the switch?
Kero: I'm NOT a toy! I am the guardian beast of this book, Cerberus!
Sakura: Guardian? Cerberus?
Kero: Yeah. I guard the cards in this book so that they don't do bad stuff. That's my… WWAAAHHHHH!!! There's no cards! Why? Why? Where'd they all go?
Sakura: This?
Kero: Yeah, this! This is it! …and the other cards?
Sakura: Well, when I said "Windy"…
Kero: Uh-huh.
Sakura: It became really windy.
Kero: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Sakura: …and they all flew away!
Kero: Oh, so that's it!
Kero: WHAT?!?!
Sakura: Gouchisousama.
Touya: Where are you going with that?
Sakura: I'm going to eat it while I study in my room.
Sakura: How's it going?
Kero: Bad. I can't tell where the cards are at all.
Sakura: Here.
Kero: This looks really good. In this book there were Clow Cards.
Sakura: Clow Cards?
Kero: Clow Cards. When unleashed they will bring chaos to this world.
Kero: They are special cards created by a magician called Clow Read. Each one is alive with its own special powers. They do as they please, and on top of that, ordinary people are no match for them. But Clow made this book, and put me, the guardian beast, on the cover. Anyway, we need to get the cards back. You'll help me.
Sakura: Eh? Why me?
Kero: You're the one who used the magic wind and scattered all the cards!
Sakura: But isn't it your duty to make sure the cards don't get away?
Kero: I kinda fell asleep…
Sakura: For how long?
Kero: About 30 years.
Sakura: Are you really a guardian beast?
Kero: Hey, these things happen!
Sakura: So that sound was you snoring, huh?
Kero: Anyway, since you could open this book, you have at least some magic. And you…your name is?
Sakura: Sakura.
Kero: Well then, Sakura, stand over there.
Sakura: Hoe?
Sakura: Hoe?
Kero: O, Key of Capture!
Kero: There is one who would enter a contract with thee. A girl named Sakura, O Key, give this girl power! RELEASE!!
Kero: Sakura! Take the rod!
Kero: All right! It's the birth of a Cardcaptor!
Sakura: Ehhh??? Can't can't can't do it!
Kero: Oh, it's so fluffy!
Sakura: I can't be a Cardcaptor!
Kero: Cardcaptor. Catcher of the Clow Cards. Doesn't that sound cool?
Sakura: I'm just a normal elementary school kid! The world in chaos? Whatever.
Kero: And who used this to scatter all the Clow Cards?
Sakura: So, who fell asleep and didn't guard the cards?
Both: Grrr…
Sakura: What a strong wind!
Kero: Sakura!
Sakura: What's that?
Kero: A Clow Card! It must be the Fly Card! Quit your gawkin' and hurry up!
Sakura: And do what?
Kero: Cardcaptor Sakura's first job!
Sakura: Ehhh???
Sakura: Why in my pajamas?
Kero: What are you saying, world's only Cardcaptor?
Sakura: It's impossible! It's too big!
Kero: Don't gimme girlish stuff!
Kero: Sakura, magic! The Key, do as I told you!
Sakura: O key that hides the power of the dark, by covenant, reveal thy true form to me! This, Sakura commands! RELEASE!
Kero: Okay, Sakura, the Fly Card has characteristics of the wind. You should be able to use the Windy Card you have to capture it!
Sakura: Are you sure?
Kero: You need to get a little closer though.
Sakura: What do I do? It came flying at us!
Kero: Sakura! The Windy Card!
Sakura: No, it's coming back!
Kero: Hurry, use the Windy Card!
Sakura: But it's…impossible here!
Kero: Well do something! You're the Cardcaptor!
Sakura: Do something? Maybe I CAN do something!
Kero: What 'cha gonna do?
Kero: Sakura! Sakura!
Sakura: Oh wind, give me strength! Be the chain that binds it! WINDY!
Sakura: Return to thy true form! CLOW CARD!
Kero: Way to go, Sakura!
Sakura: I thought I'd die!
Kero: See, you're the Cardcaptor I anticipated!
Sakura: I never said I'd do it!
Kero: These different experiences will build character. Well, you've captured the card. Let's use it!
Sakura: What can it do?
Kero: Just try it!
Sakura: FLY!
Kero: How is it? Doesn't it feel good?
Sakura: Uh-huh.
Kero: Let's work hard together, Cardcaptor Sakura!
Sakura: Uh-huh. Hey! I haven't said that I'd do it.