# 19 - Sakura and Akiho's Lullaby
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**[01:31] Sakura**
"This hand... Here. Put this
human hand through the door,
**[01:36] Sakura**
and say, 'Please give me
mittens that fit this hand.'
**[01:41] Sakura**
Understand? You must not offer this hand,"
**[01:47] Sakura**
the mother fox told her son.
**[01:52] Sakura**
"Why not?" asked the little fox.
**[01:57] Sakura**
"When humans realize they're
speaking to a fox,
**[02:02] Sakura**
they won't sell you mittens.
**[02:05] Sakura**
In fact, they'll catch you
and put you in a cage."
***SIGN*** Sakura and Akiho's Lullaby
**[02:18] Sakura**
How was that?
**[02:19] Kero**
Ya didn't stutter at all.
I heard everything perfectly.
**[02:22] Kero**
Sounds good!
**[02:23] Sakura**
Really?
**[02:24] Kero**
Yep!
**[02:25] Kero**
I can tell ya got up early
every morning to practice.
***SIGN*** Buying Mittens By Niimi Nankichi
**[02:30] Sakura**
Since Rika-chan lent me this picture book,
**[02:33] Sakura**
I hope I can read it well.
**[02:35] Kero**
You'll be reading with Yukibunny, right?
**[02:38] Sakura**
Yeah! Yukito-san volunteers to read
to people at lots of places.
**[02:43] Kero**
Just the two of you?
**[02:45] Sakura**
That was the plan...
**[02:48] Sakura**
But I'm thinking of inviting one more.
**[02:52] Akiho**
Reading... to others?
**[02:55] Sakura**
You've never heard of it?
**[02:58] Akiho**
No, I'm sorry.
**[02:59] Sakura**
You take things like picture
books, and... um...
**[03:03] Syaoran**
It's like story time.
**[03:05] Syaoran**
Like reading stories to children,
you might call it.
**[03:08] Akiho**
Oh, I understand!
**[03:11] Akiho**
So you read books?
**[03:12] Sakura**
Yeah! I'm reading to kids at the
pediatrics ward this time.
**[03:16] Akiho**
That's amazing, Sakura-san!
**[03:18] Sakura**
It really isn't...
**[03:20] Sakura**
Hey, want to join me?
**[03:23] Sakura**
You too, Syaoran-kun!
**[03:26] Sakura**
I thought it'd be nice
if we did it together.
**[03:28] Sakura**
Then we could all act out different parts!
**[03:30] Akiho**
B-But my Japanese isn't that good...
**[03:34] Tomoyo**
You'll be just fine.
**[03:35] Tomoyo**
When you read "Ten Nights of
Dreams" in Japanese class before,
**[03:38] Tomoyo**
it sounded lovely.
**[03:40] Syaoran**
I can't do it.
**[03:42] Syaoran**
I was awful in our elementary school plays.
**[03:45] Tomoyo**
Your portrayal of a princess
was very... unique,
**[03:49] Tomoyo**
but as a prince, you were wonderful!
**[03:51] Akiho**
You really were.
**[03:53] Syaoran**
How do you know?
**[03:56] Syaoran**
Anyway, I can't.
**[04:01] Sakura**
The piano, then!
**[04:04] Sakura**
How about you play the piano
to accompany the story?
**[04:07] Syaoran**
Well, Daidouji is better at piano than me...
**[04:10] Tomoyo**
I have to shoot the video.
**[04:25] Akiho**
His face is all red...
**[04:28] Tomoyo**
Sakura-chan's attack
reduced his HP to zero.
**[04:33] Syaoran**
F-Fine! I can do just the accompaniment!
**[04:37] Sakura**
Thanks!
**[04:38] Syaoran**
S-Sure...
**[04:43] Sakura**
Akiho-chan?
**[04:44] Akiho**
I-If I wouldn't be in your way...
**[04:47] Sakura**
Thanks!
**[04:50] Akiho**
S-Sure...
**[04:51] Tomoyo**
Akiho-chan's HP just dropped to zero, too.
**[04:56] Wei**
* Well, now! You'll be playing*
* the accompaniment?*
**[04:59] Syaoran**
That's how it turned out, for some reason.
**[05:02] Wei**
*What sort of story is it?*
**[05:04] Syaoran**
It's about a fox that goes to buy mittens.
**[05:09] Wei**
*Why?*
***SIGN*** Syaoran
**[05:10] Syaoran**
*Because it's cold.*
**[05:12] Wei**
But doesn't he have his own fur?
**[05:15] Syaoran**
*Even with fur, it's still cold in winter.*
**[05:18] Wei**
Does the story have a happy ending?
**[05:21] Syaoran**
*Yeah, I guess so...*
**[05:24] Wei**
Well, then, as you requested,
**[05:27] Wei**
I will email you a score appropriate to
such a story in the next thirty minutes.
**[05:34] Syaoran**
I appreciate it.
***SIGN*** Tell him to switch to a video call
**[05:39] Wei**
*Other than that, is everything going well?*
**[05:44] Wei**
*You don't call me very often.*
***SIGN*** Buying Mittens By Niimi Nankichi
**[05:49] Syaoran**
Meiling filled you in, didn't she?
**[05:51] Wei**
*She did.*
**[05:53] Wei**
* She told me how much she enjoyed*
* being in Japan again,*
**[05:57] Wei**
*and how happy she was to see her friends.*
**[06:00] Wei**
* She also told me that you seemed*
* to have made a serious decision.*
**[06:09] Wei**
I know that from the day you came home
to the day you returned to Japan,
**[06:14] Wei**
your mother gave you truly
rigorous training.
**[06:21] Wei**
And I know that you grew much stronger.
**[06:26] Wei**
*But I am still worried.*
**[06:29] Wei**
* After all, my only wish is to protect you,*
* Syaoran-sama, no matter what happens.*
***SIGN*** Syaoran
**[06:37] Syaoran**
*Thanks.*
**[06:39] Wei**
So please...
**[06:41] Wei**
* Turn on video mode so that*
* I can see your face.*
**[06:46] Syaoran**
*My sisters are there, aren't they?*
**[06:48] Girls**
Gulp!
**[06:48] Syaoran**
*I know you're there.*
**[06:50] Syaoran**
Perfect timing.
**[06:51] Syaoran**
Please stop sending me pictures of food
and large videos through messages.
**[06:57] SisA**
* But doesn't seeing delicious food and*
* your beautiful sisters make you happy?*
**[07:01] Syaoran**
You send too many.
**[07:02] Girls**
*What?!*
***SIGN*** Syaoran
**[07:08] Syaoran**
*Wei, I'll be watching for the piano score.*
**[07:10] Wei**
Understood.
**[07:14] SisA**
In that case, we'll just have
to send him a longer video.
**[07:18] Girls**
Agreed!
***SIGN*** Rumble
**[07:26] Wei**
You are so kind.
**[07:28] Wei**
That is why I worry about you.
**[07:34] Akiho**
The little fox walked beneath
his mother's belly,
**[07:35] [Messenger] Text**
Onomatopoeia and Phenomimes
**[07:39] Akiho**
blinking his round eyes and looking
all around as they went on.
***SIGN*** Buying Mittens By Niimi Nankichi
**[07:47] Akiho**
Eventually, their... pass?
**[07:50] Kaito**
Do you mean "their path"?
**[07:54] Akiho**
Yes, that's it.
**[07:58] Kaito**
What is that?
**[07:59] Akiho**
I'm writing down the parts I need to
be careful on or made mistakes with.
**[08:05] Kaito**
You're not writing them in the book itself?
**[08:08] Akiho**
I can't write in this book!
**[08:11] Akiho**
Its author worked so hard to write it.
**[08:17] Kaito**
You truly do like books, don't you?
**[08:21] Akiho**
It's "love"!
**[08:24] Akiho**
F-For books, I mean...
**[08:27] Kaito**
All this practice must
be making you thirsty.
**[08:31] [Messenger] Text**
Onomatopoeia and Phenomimes
**[08:31] Momo**
* There was no need to correct*
* that statement, Akiho.*
**[08:33] Kaito**
How about some tea?
**[08:35] Akiho**
Y-Yes, please.
**[08:37] Akiho**
It's black tea with honey today?
**[08:39] Kaito**
Yes, since honey is good for the throat.
**[08:44] Kaito**
Have some chocolates, too.
**[08:47] Akiho**
Thank you.
**[08:51] Akiho**
This seems like a lot for
just the two of us.
**[08:54] Kaito**
Don't worry. It'll be just enough.
**[08:59] Momo**
*To fill my beautiful body, that is.*
***SIGN*** Public Reading
**[09:07] [SONG] Text**
Night on the Galactic Railroad
Buying Mittens
**[09:09] Yukito**
With so many things on his mind,
**[09:14] Yukito**
Giovanni turned away from the
professor without a word.
***SIGN*** Night on the Galactic Railroad
**[09:17] Yukito**
Thinking that he had to hurry home
to bring his mother the milk
**[09:20] Yukito**
and tell her that his
father was coming home,
**[09:24] Yukito**
he ran along the river bank toward
town as fast as he could.
**[09:30] Yukito**
The end.
**[09:34] Yukito**
Thank you.
**[09:35] Girl**
That was really good!
**[09:37] Girl**
Where is "Heaven"?
**[09:38] Yukito**
Well...
**[09:40] Syaoran**
He *is* good.
**[09:41] Tomoyo**
Yes.
**[09:42] Sakura**
Yukito-san was amazing!
**[09:45] Sakura**
But, but... C-Can I really do this?
**[09:48] Akiho**
I-I'm getting nervous, too.
**[09:51] Syaoran**
It'll be fine.
**[09:54] Syaoran**
You both practiced so much.
**[09:56] Sakura**
Yeah...
**[09:57] Akiho**
Right.
**[09:59] Tomoyo**
Here. Wear these.
**[10:21] Sakura**
A cold winter came from the north
**[10:25] Sakura**
to the forest where a mother
fox lived with her son.
**[10:29] Sakura**
One morning, the little fox tried
to step outside their den,
**[10:33] Kero**
I figured you'd have outfits ready.
**[10:35] Sakura**
but with a cry of "Ah!" he tumbled back
down to his mother, covering his eyes.
**[10:36] Tomoyo**
They're very simple, though.
**[10:38] Kero**
But he refused to wear one.
**[10:42] Tomoyo**
It's best that he can play
the piano comfortably,
**[10:45] Tomoyo**
so I gave up on him this time.
**[10:47] Tomoyo**
This time.
**[10:50] Akiho**
She didn't want her sweet
baby to develop frostbite,
**[10:55] Akiho**
so she decided to go into town that night
**[11:00] Akiho**
and buy woolen mittens that
would fit his little paws.
**[11:04] Akiho**
The dark, dark night came,
wrapping the forests and fields
**[11:09] Akiho**
in its shadows like a great blanket,
**[11:13] Akiho**
but no matter how it tried,
the snow was such a bright white
**[11:17] Akiho**
that it shone through the shadows.
**[11:21] Akiho**
After some time, their path brought
them in view of a single light.
**[11:26] Akiho**
When the little fox saw it, he said,
**[11:30] Akiho**
"Mom, look how low that star has fallen!"
**[11:37] Sakura**
"That's not a star," his mother
said as her feet froze in place.
**[11:47] Sakura**
"It's the light of the town."
**[11:50] Sakura**
Seeing the town's light
**[11:52] Sakura**
reminded the mother fox of the time she
and her friend had gone into town
**[11:57] Sakura**
and had a terrible experience.
**[12:01] Sakura**
Her friend had ignored her pleas to stop
**[12:04] Sakura**
and tried to steal a duck from a farmhouse.
**[12:09] Sakura**
The farmer had spotted them and
chased them, and they fled,
**[12:13] Sakura**
barely escaping with their lives.
**[12:17] Akiho**
With no other choice, she decided
to send her son into town alone.
**[12:25] Sakura**
"My son, hold out one paw..."
**[12:28] Akiho**
Said the mother fox.
**[12:32] Akiho**
She held his paw in her own for a time,
**[12:37] Akiho**
and turned it into an adorable
human child's hand.
**[12:41] Boy**
Wow!
**[12:44] Yukito**
Isn't that amazing?
**[12:46] Sakura**
"It's a human hand.
**[12:49] Sakura**
Listen to me, son.
**[12:51] Sakura**
When you go into town,
you'll see many human homes.
**[12:56] Sakura**
You must find the one that has a
sign with a rounded hat on it.
**[13:02] Sakura**
When you find it, knock on
the door and say, 'Hello!'
**[13:10] Sakura**
When you do that, a human will open
the door a tiny bit from the inside.
**[13:16] Sakura**
Then, you must put this hand...
**[13:20] Sakura**
Here. Put this human hand through the door,
**[13:24] Sakura**
and say, 'Please give me
mittens that fit this hand.'
**[13:29] Sakura**
Understand?
**[13:31] Sakura**
you must not offer this hand,"
**[13:34] Sakura**
the mother fox told her son.
**[13:40] Akiho**
He saw signs with bicycles, glasses,
and many other things on them,
**[13:46] Akiho**
some newly drawn with fresh paint,
and others peeling like an old wall.
**[13:54] Akiho**
But he had no idea what any of them meant,
**[13:58] Akiho**
as he had never been to town before.
**[14:03] Akiho**
Finally, he found the hat shop.
**[14:06] Akiho**
There hung the sign with
the large, black silk hat
**[14:13] Akiho**
that his mother had directed him to,
illuminated by a blue light.
**[14:18] Akiho**
The little fox knocked on the door
as his mother had instructed.
**[14:24] Akiho**
"Hello!"
**[14:26] Sakura**
Then he heard the sound
of movement inside,
**[14:32] Sakura**
and the door opened just a few inches,
**[14:35] Sakura**
making a ribbon of light stretch out
over the white snow on the road.
**[14:41] Sakura**
The little fox was so startled
by the bright light
**[14:45] Sakura**
that he put the wrong
hand through the door,
**[14:49] Sakura**
the one his mother had told him
he mustn't let the humans see!
**[14:57] Kid**
No! He can't do that!
**[14:59] Girl**
Yeah! That's bad!
**[15:01] Boy**
He'll get chased, like the other foxes!
**[15:03] Kid**
He'll get caught!
**[15:04] Kero**
Oh, boy...
**[15:07] Akiho**
Wh-What should we do?
**[15:28] Akiho**
"Please give me mittens
that fit this hand!"
**[15:32] Sakura**
The hat maker thought, "What's this, now?
**[15:38] Sakura**
That's a fox's paw. A fox's paw
is asking me for mittens.
**[15:44] Sakura**
He must be planning to
buy them with leaves."
**[15:50] Sakura**
So he said, "Give me money first."
**[15:56] Sakura**
The little fox obediently
handed the hat maker
**[16:00] Sakura**
the two silver coins he'd been holding.
**[16:04] Sakura**
The hat maker held each coin
between a thumb and forefinger,
**[16:08] Sakura**
and tapped them together.
**[16:10] Sakura**
When he did, they made
a fine clinking noise,
**[16:13] Sakura**
so he knew that they were
real coins and not leaves.
**[16:19] Sakura**
So he took a pair of children's
woolen mittens from a shelf
**[16:23] Sakura**
and handed them to the little fox.
**[16:27] Sakura**
The little fox thanked the hat maker
and turned back the way he'd come.
**[16:33] Akiho**
"Mom said humans were scary,
but that wasn't scary at all.
**[16:40] Akiho**
He saw my paw, but he didn't
do anything to me!"
**[16:45] Sakura**
Thought the little fox.
**[16:47] Sakura**
Then, as he passed beneath a window,
he heard a human's voice inside.
**[16:53] Sakura**
It was a such a gentle, such a beautiful,
**[16:58] Sakura**
such a calming voice.
**[17:04] Akiho**
Go to sleep, go to sleep,
**[17:10] Akiho**
here on Mama's breast.
**[17:16] Akiho**
Go to sleep, go to sleep,
**[17:22] Akiho**
here in Mama's arms.
**[17:29] Sakura**
The little fox knew without a doubt that
the voice belonged to a human mother.
**[17:37] Sakura**
After all, his own mother
sang in such a gentle voice
**[17:42] Sakura**
when she rocked him to sleep, too.
**[17:47] Sakura**
Hearing this made him miss his mother,
**[17:53] Sakura**
so he went running back to
where the mother fox waited.
**[17:58] Akiho**
The mother fox had been trembling with worry
**[18:04] Akiho**
as she waited for her son to return.
**[18:08] Akiho**
When he did, she held him to her warm
chest and felt like weeping with joy.
**[18:15] Sakura**
The two foxes returned to the forest.
**[18:20] Sakura**
The moonlight made their coats shine silver
**[18:25] Sakura**
and cobalt shadows stretch from their feet.
**[18:29] Akiho**
"Humans aren't scary at all!"
**[18:33] Sakura**
"Why do you say that?"
**[18:34] Akiho**
"Well, I put my real paw
through the door by mistake.
**[18:39] Akiho**
But the hat maker didn't try to catch me.
**[18:43] Akiho**
He just gave me these nice mittens."
**[18:47] Sakura**
And then he clapped his
mittened paws together.
**[18:54] Sakura**
Shocked, his mother gasped, "Oh, my!"
**[18:58] Sakura**
And then she murmured, "I wonder
if humans really are good.
**[19:02] Sakura**
I wonder if humans really are good..."
**[19:15] Kid**
The fox finished his errand!
**[19:17] Kid**
The hat maker was so nice!
**[19:18] Girl**
You're so cool!
**[19:20] Girl**
Play a song from TV!
**[19:21] Boy**
You're a really good singer!
**[19:23] Akiho**
Thank you...
**[19:25] Girl**
Why do you sound so nervous?
**[19:26] Kid**
Hey, when will you come read to us again?
**[19:29] Akiho**
Well, um...
**[19:33] Sakura**
Let's practice together again.
**[19:35] Akiho**
Okay!
**[19:40] Kero**
Ya really did a good job today.
**[19:43] Sakura**
Thanks.
**[19:44] Sakura**
It got a little crazy in the
middle, but I had fun.
**[19:47] Sakura**
I think I'd like to be in the
audience next time, though.
**[19:51] Sakura**
If ya wanna see today's,
Tomoyo got it on video.
**[19:54] Sakura**
Release!
**[19:57] Sakura**
Record!
**[20:03] Sakura**
I used it before we started.
**[20:05] Kero**
When'd ya do that?
**[20:07] Sakura**
Show me what you've recorded!
**[20:23] Sakura**
It's Tomoyo-chan!
**[20:25] Kero**
That means I'll be there, too!
**[20:29] Kero**
Who's that old dude?!
**[20:32] Sakura**
Akiho-chan?
**[20:38] Sakura**
Syaoran-kun?
**[20:42] Sakura**
None of them are here...
**[20:47] Sakura**
This isn't... today's reading.
**[20:52] Sakura**
I guess I did it wrong...
**[21:01] Sakura**
Kero-chan?
**[21:02] Kero**
I just got an email from Yue.
**[21:05] Kero**
He said he's got a ton of
sweets that expire today,
**[21:08] Kero**
so I can have 'em. I'm headin' over there!
**[21:11] Sakura**
Huh? Now?
**[21:13] Sakura**
But it's late!
**[21:15] Kero**
Expiration date!
**[21:17] Sakura**
I'm pretty sure you'd be fine even if
they were a week past their date.
**[21:23] Kero**
How rude!
**[21:27] Yue**
This is it?
**[21:28] Kero**
These were in the recording Sakura
played with the Record card.
**[21:34] Kero**
These uniforms were used
over thirty years ago.
**[21:38] Kero**
They don't match the ones the
nurses at today's reading wore.
**[21:42] Kero**
Which means...
**[21:44] Yue**
The card recorded footage from the past.
**[21:54] Kero**
Yeah.
**[21:55] Kero**
Sakura doesn't seem to have a clue, though.
**[21:59] Kero**
The only magicians I've met who were powerful
enough to show the past are Clow and...
**[22:07] Kero**
only three others.
**[22:10] Yue**
She inherited the cards from
a descendant of Clow,
**[22:14] Yue**
then transformed them into her own cards.
**[22:18] Yue**
And now, she's still...
**[22:20] Kero**
I knew her magic had
gotten stronger, but this strong?
**[22:27] Kero**
Sakura's magic has grown strong.
**[22:30] Kero**
Immensely strong.
**[22:34] Kero**
We need to contact Eriol.
**[22:36] Yue**
No matter what it takes.
**[24:10] Kero**
Hidey-howdy-ho!
***SIGN*** Leave It to Kero-chan!
***SIGN*** Bear Cat
***SIGN*** K
**[24:13] Kero**
Time for another energetic
"Leave It to Kero-chan!"
**[24:15] Kero**
Today we're introducin' Akiho's
stuffed bunny, Momo!
**[24:18] Kero**
Her blue muffler adds a colorful
touch to her white body,
**[24:20] Kero**
and she wears a fancy accessory
on her left ear.
**[24:22] Kero**
Her bent right ear and beauty mark below
her right eye give her character.
**[24:26] Kero**
I thought she seemed like
a sophisticated plushie,
**[24:28] Kero**
but shock and surprise outta
the blue... she's alive!
***SIGN*** Closed Open
***SIGN*** Bear Cat
***SIGN*** K
**[24:31] Kero**
Looks like the full cast is here now!
Can't wait to see what happens next!
**[24:34] Kero**
I'm so excited, I'm gettin' hungry!
I want some homemade chocolates, too!
**[24:38] Kero**
Ta-ta!
***SIGN*** Next Episode Preview
**[24:41] Sakura**
Syaoran-kun and I are going to visit
my great-grandfather at his villa.
**[24:45] Sakura**
What is it he wants to give me?
**[24:48] Sakura**
Next time, "Sakura, Rainbows, and Grandpa."
***SIGN*** Sakura, Rainbows, and Grandpa
**[24:51] Sakura**
Say it with me: "Release!"
***SIGN*** End