Cardcaptor Sakura / Cardcaptors fanfiction by hyper terra [http://terrastar.pitas.com]
Genre [secret]
©Cardcaptor Sakura and its characters belong to CLAMP
Chapter one: Morning Rain; A Favor
As Sakura skated gracefully to school, she glanced upon everything beautiful around her. The falling sakura petals, the birds flying above her head, the sun's rays penetrating the leaves of the other trees.
What a beautiful day! She thought.
Unexpectedly, her watch beeped, reminding her that she is very late from school.
"Hoe! I'm gonna be late!" She skated faster and faster, not minding her brother who just passed by on his bike.
"Kaijuu! You almost ran over me!" Touya shouted. "Watch where you're going!"
"Gomen nasai, onii-chan!" Sakura replied but didn't even bother to stop.
Touya watched her skate away to school. That kaijuu keeps getting weirder and weirder everyday...
**
She stopped dead in her tracks at the school gate as she heard the school bell ring.
Sou na...I'm late...matte...maybe Mihana-sensei is late...yoshi! I hope that terror Algebra teacher gets sick or something...
She continued on to change in her normal school shoes. She ignored the second bell that rang again...
**
"Now, to be able to know whether the function has an inverse you apply this formula..." Mihana Junoue, the high school algebra teacher, grabbed a piece of chalk and started writing on the clean blackboard.
The faces of the discombobulated students sank to their desks as they saw the writing Mihana wrote.
(f o g)(x) = (g o f)(x) = x
"...or simply..."
f((g)x) = g(f(x)) = x
Oh God....I can't take this. Tomoyo thought as she tried to understand what the equation means. And where IS Sakura? She's been late for 20 minutes! She glanced over Sakura's desk.
"Sakura...Monster Mihana is going to kill you..." She whispered to herself.
Unfortunately, Mihana heard Tomoyo. She raised an eyebrow, symbolizing authority.
"Ms. Daidouji! Stand up!...Perhaps you have something to share to the class." Mihana said sternly.
Tomoyo stood up and bowed. "G-gomen, Mihana-sensei..."
They heard Meiling snicker.
"...Ms. Li! Stand up and write on the board the answers to the homework I gave the class." She said.
"...ano...Mihana-sensei...I" Meiling muttered.
"...Nani? You didn't do your homework?!"
"Demo, I don't understand the lesson! You go way too fast!" She stomped the ground. "You won't even ask us if we understand!"
"You uncouth girl! Learn some manners, will you!" Mihana banged the board.
"Demo!..." Meiling clenched her fists.
"Be quiet! Never talk back to your teacher!"
Tomoyo lowered her head in shame. She started the Meiling vs. Mihana shouting match. Meiling stopped shouting and felt sorry for Tomoyo.
"Ms. Daidouji. Next time, you should stop whatever you're doing. You're disrupting my class....You too, Ms. Li!"
"Hai, Mihana-sensei..." Tomoyo murmured.
"Ms. Li?"
"...Hai...Mihana-sensei." Meiling gritted her teeth. obake-sensei...
"Next meeting, we will have a long test about what I discussed today!" She took her stuff on the teacher's desk. "Make sure you studied. Next time, try to observe proper decorum."
"Ms. Daidouji, Ms. Li, you two are going to the detention room after dismissal. Goodbye." She went straight out of the room.
**
The other students groaned...but no one dared to blame Meiling. They knew that Meiling would beat them up if they did.
"No! That's so unfair!" Meiling shouted. "She is such a witch!" She looked at Tomoyo, who was about to burst into tears. "I'm sorry, Tomoyo-chan...I got you raked up into a mess."
Tomoyo sighed. "It's okay, Meiling. It was MY fault after all...I started it." She gave a weak grin.
Meiling smiled. "At least we're going to be together in detention!" Then Meiling's smile turned into a frown. "...with Monster Mihana."
They both giggled. Meiling stopped.
"Oh no! Who's going to fetch Xiaolang from the airport?! He's coming later in the afternoon!" She frenzied.
"Xiao-what? Who is he?" Tomoyo asked.
"Xiaolang is his Chinese name, while Syaoran is his Japanese. He's my faaaaavourite cousin! He's so cute you'll want to cuddle him up!" Meiling ranted on and on. "...But, no one is going to fetch him from the airport to Tomoeda!"
"Uh-oh...I think you should worry about that later. The next teacher is about to come." Tomoyo said as she heard the sliding of the door.
**
The door slid slowly and the students looked at whoever came in and sighed in relief and continued with their talking to one another.
"Sakura?!" Meiling shouted.
"Sakura-chan! I was so worried!" Tomoyo wore a glad face. "You were later than usual."
"Not to mention lucky! You missed the whole Algebra class!" Meiling said.
Sakura just smiled at Meiling. "Why? What happened?"
"Tomoyo and I got into detention..." Meiling said. "And, no one could fetch Xiao-..." She stopped as she looked at Sakura evilly.
Sakura gave her a weird look. "What? Is there something on my face? WHAT?!"
Meiling kneeled down. "Sakura...onegai!!!"
"Another favor, huh?...Okay, what is it this time?" Sakura smiled forcefully.
She clasped her hands. "My cousin, Xiaolang, is coming to Japan at five o' clock in the afternoon. Can you fetch him from the airport to my apartment? Please?"
Sakura thought for a while. "hmmm.....okay. You win."
Meiling hugged her tightly. "Arigato! Arigato! Sakura! You're the best!" She looked at Tomoyo and smiled. "I guess I have nothing to worry about while we're in detention!"
Tomoyo smiled back. "You're right."
Time passed by and things in school are going well...almost. Sakura still took down notes in Chemistry class, Tomoyo just listened quietly to the teacher rant on and on about Binary Ionic and Molecular Compounds. And Meiling? She slept unsuspected behind Sakura's back.
Ding...Dong...Ding...Dong....
"Yes...." Meiling woke up. "The lunch bell always wakes me up!"
"Well, Meiling...I guess I would have to move Chemistry to lunchtime to keep you awake, ne?" The teacher smiled and left. Good thing that their Chemistry teacher was nice.
Knock...Knock...Knock...
"Ms. Li and Ms. Daidouji! Meet me at the office for a while..." Mihana said.
"Aw! Jeez! ....Come on, Tomoyo...Mihana-sensei could get worse..." Meiling stood up and took Tomoyo's hand.
"Uh...okay...Ja ne, Sakura-chan! Can you find a table for us later at lunch? Arigato!" Tomoyo said as she strolled away.
Sakura picked up her stuff from the table when her scientific calculator fell on the aisle, creating a startling sound.
"Hoe?!"
She quickly bent down and picked it up, checking if it still works.
"Yokatta...It's not broken..." She sighed in relief. "I would fail Chem if I don't have this."
"Excuse me! Can you, like, move? You're, like, blocking our way!" An acute voice behind Sakura said.
Sakura looked behind her. "Hoe!" She quickly stood up and brushed her skirt. "G-gomen nasai, Auriko-san..." She bowed.
Auriko rolled her eyes. "Whatever, Kinomoto! Just stay out of our way!" She said as she passed by.
"By the way, that's Hikada-san to you, not Auriko! Oh, please! You're nothing compared to me!" She raised her head.
"Gomen, Hikada-san..." Sakura bowed again.
"Hmph! Whatever! Let's go, Haru. We, definitely, couldn't stand losers in the classroom." Auriko motioned her friend behind her to follow. Haru raised her face swiftly away from her and followed Auriko.
Sakura took her stuff and left the room. She put them in the locker and leaned beside it.
God...school is...very stressful. And add Hikada and Haru to that mixture...crap...
Thank God it's lunchtime...
She played with her auburn hair for a while when she remembered something.
"Can you find a table for us later at lunch? Arigato!" Tomoyo's voice reminded her in her memory.
"Hoe! I forgot to get them a table!" Sakura quickly rushed to the canteen.
**
Sakura looked around the crowded canteen for a free table, but to no avail because the canteen was jam-packed with high school girls and boys.
Sorry, Tomoyo-chan... She mentally apologized.
Sakura came across the vendor machine and decided to buy a soft drink to cool her down. She inserted a 100 ¥ coin into the slot and pressed the green Coca-Cola™ button. The panel displayed a smiley face and the word 'Arigato' flashed in Hiragana. Sakura heard a dropping sound inside the machine and picked up the Coca-Cola™ in can.
"Sakura-chan!!" A faint sound of Tomoyo's voice was heard meters away from Sakura.
"Ah! Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura searched the canteen for Tomoyo. "Doko ni? (where are you?)"
An agitated hand was waving at her. "Sakura-chan! Over here!" Tomoyo waved some more.
"Hoe! There you are!" Sakura marched towards Tomoyo.
Tomoyo was sitting with Meiling, Chiharu, Rika and Naoko. There were all giggling about something.
"Hey guys! What's happening?" Sakura sat down beside Tomoyo. "What are you talking about?" She asked as she pulled the tab of the can open. "...And what happened with Mihana-sensei?"
"Forget about Mihana...We were talking about Meiling's cousin, Syaoran. He's coming to Tomoeda today!" Naoko replied.
"I know....So, how does this Xiaola- *ahem* Syaoran look like?" Sakura cleared her throat. "It's hard to pronounce his Chinese name!" She drank her softdrink.
"He's so cute and handsome that you would just want to cuddle him up!" Chiharu quickly responded. "Ne, Meiling?"
Meiling nodded happily. "Wanna see his picture again?"
They all nodded except Sakura. "Hai! Hai!"
Meiling noticed Sakura's passivity. "Sakura?"
"Hoe?...oh! Hai! I want to see his picture, please." Sakura smiled.
Meiling took out a picture from her pocket. She showed it to them. "Here."
Rika swiftly grabbed the picture from Meiling and gazed at it. "woooh....Everytime I look at him, he gets cuter and cuter!"
Meiling took the picture back. "Rika! You saw this picture twice already!...Here you go, Sakura. You'll need it later." She handed the picture to Sakura.
Sakura observed the picture carefully. In the picture, there was a boy and a girl (meiling) in it. The boy has brown hair and amber eyes.
Well...he's not really that cute...he looks so...arrogant.
He was trying to get away from Meiling's death grip. The young little Meiling grabbed the poor boy's neck and was trying to kill him.
Sakura laughed at the SD (super-deformed) Syaoran and Meiling she formed in her mind.
"Well, what do you think? Is he cute or what?" Meiling enthusiastically asked.
"...he's...." Sakura did wavy hand motions. "...okay...I guess..."
"...And he's gonna be fetched by Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo added.
"NO WAY!!!" Chiharu, Rika and Naoko shouted in unison.
"You are sooo lucky, Sakura!" Rika said.
"People in our school are going to be sooo envious!" Chiharu added.
"....not to mention you two are gonna be romantic!" Naoko topped it off.
"Naoko-chan!!" Sakura screamed.
They all laughed.
Ding...Dong...Ding...Dong...
"What? Already?!" Chiharu responded. "Anyway, see ya guys! Rika, Naoko and me are in gym class! Bye!" They stood up and left, leaving Sakura, Tomoyo and Meiling.
"Oh yeah! Meiling and I are in Cooking Class! We gotta go. We're in baking!" Tomoyo announced. "Bye, Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo and Meiling stood up.
"Okay...Ja ne..." Sakura drank the last drop of her soft drink. "I'm going too...in History class."
"Whoopee..." Meiling sarcastically said. She sounded like a zombie.
"Ja ne! (see ya)"Tomoyo exited the canteen. Sakura waved.
"Don't forget, Sakura. Xiaolang's coming to the airport at five o' clock in the afternoon! You would have to fetch him by then and bring him to my apartment."
"Don't worry, Meiling...I will." Sakura smiled.
"Thanks!"
And with that, Meiling was sprinting off to her next class. Sakura shrugged and threw her can in the metal trash basket, creating a soft, yet loud, clanking sound.
"History...Looks like this Syaoran will have to wait."
to be continued...
hurrah. first chapter done.^^ I guess from the looks of the events, sakura is meeting syaoran first.
