The Truth Behind The Girl
Sakura was a shy/outcast type of girl, her only friend was the outgoing Tomoyo. She works at the diner her mother owned before she died, now owned by her father, Sakura sings and waitresses with Tomoyo. Syaoran transferred to their school after being sent to Japan by his mother to collect the Clow Cards, only problem is: Sakura's already on the job. Similar to the original story, but they are older, Syaoran doesn't know that it's Sakura and a few extra ideas.
Other Things: Not real time, cards captured will NOT be in order of captured in the anime or manga and will follow the number as in the manga, powers will include both anime and manga.
Rating: T (May change further on)
Disclaimer: I do not own CCS or any songs mentioned in the story.
Chapter 1: The New Boy
"KERO!" The little winged plush toy fell into the mound of soap suds that were firing rapidly at the girl. Determination fired in her emerald eyes. "That's it!" She pulled a card from her pocket, "No more miss nice girl!" She threw the card into the air and lifted the pink staff that was in her hand. The bird like head hit the card and dark ribbons flew from it. "SHADOW! Collect and contain the bubbles before you!" A cloaked figure swirled round said bubbles and held them in a dark dome. The girl stood before it with her staff raised. "Return to the guise you were meant to be in," She lowered her staff and it stopped on an invisible barrier, "CLOW CARD!" The invisible barrier turned to a card, light blue streams came from the dome and into the card.
She sighed as the card flew to her hand and the plush toy flew to her side.
"Took you long enough!" He whined. "Clow used to use that on me all the time, evil thing."
"Well I'm sorry Kero!" She retorted. "At least I got you out and caught the card." She put the Bubble card and the Shadow card back in her pocket.
"True. And using shadow was a good idea, I'm surprised you came up with that on your own." The girl sharply turned to face him.
"What's that supposed to mean?!"
"I mean you normally need help," Kero smirked.
"Hmph!" She turned her back to him. "I'm better at this than you think. And with that attitude..." She smiled slyly, "You're not getting any desert tonight."
"I'm sorry! So sorry!" He pouted, "PLEASE don't take away the sweets."
"I'll see!"
A good distance from them, someone in green robes stood in a tree. "Impressive," he mused aloud. "A bit childish, but still. Who is she? If only I could see her face, then I wouldn't have to reveal the magic, I'd just know who has the cards." He jumped down from the tree and headed away from the park.
"THAT WAS GREAT SAKURA!" Another girl ran from the bushes, her long dark hair flowing behind her and a camcorder covering her violet eyes. "You were so cute. Especially in that outfit." Sakura sweat dropped.
"Do I really have to wear these costumes Tomoyo?" She looked down at her attire: Pink puffy trousers, a split skirt lined with purple over the top, an embellished top to match and a flowery hat that covered her whole head. The back of the top had two golden Cs embroidered around each other. She pulled of the hat to let her lower-back length, wavy auburn hair fall free.
"Yes you do!" Tomoyo had stars in his eyes. "A special job requires special clothing, plus it hides your identity to anyone who's around. Even Kero has a matching hat and bow." The comment was true as the plush toy and a great big pink and purple bow round his neck and a hat similar to Sakura's.
"We should get home." Said toy spoke. "You two have school tomorrow and it's late."
"Good point," Tomoyo pulled out her mobile and within seconds, a van was beside the park. "Go get changed and we'll take you home."
"Thanks!" She did as Tomoyo had said and was soon sitting beside her in the car, with Kero lounging on her lap.
"Sakura?" Tomoyo started making Sakura look up at her, "Are we working tomorrow morning or just after school?"
"Just after school." Sakura replied. "As we left to find the card, Dad called to us saying that if we were late not to worry about working in the morning."
"It's a good thing he knows, other wise we would be in a bit of a pickle."
"Well... me being me, I didn't notice that he was there when I opened the book and set the cards free."
"Typical Sakura, head in the clouds," Kero piped up, making Sakura flick his ear.
"Anyway..." She continued. "Dad said that he and Mother knew I had some power in me but kept it a secret for me to find out, his argument was that if they told a 3 or 4 year old they had magic in them, they would go off on some hyper spree, and then he just couldn't find the right time to tell me."
"You never told me if your brother knows," Tomoyo said, getting a curious look from Kero.
"Me neither."
"I don't know." Sakura confessed, "He knew I had power, but I don't know if dad told him that I opened the book."
"How many cards have you got now anyway?" Tomoyo queried.
"Um..." Sakura pulled the cards from her bag and counted. "Windy, Fly, Wood, Shadow, Mirror, Watery, Dash, Little, Sword and now Bubble, that makes 10."
"10 collected, 42 to go." Kero mumbled. Sakura sighed.
"I'm going to be doing this for a long time." She breathed.
"At least it means you can wear lots of my costumes." Tomoyo had the sparkles in her eyes once more. "I'm going to make you look super duper cute in the future."
"T-Tomoyo..." Kero and Sakura said in unison.
"Oh, look where we are." Sakura pointed out the window at her house. "Thanks for the lift, I'll see you at school tomorrow." Tomoyo nodded as Sakura and the plush toy got out of the car.
"See you tomorrow."
Sakura opened the door and walked in, kicking off her shoes and hanging up her jacket.
"Did you get it?" A familiar call came from the kitchen.
"Sure did Dad, after it caught Kero." She sat on the chair and looked to her father, Fujitaka, he was lent over the counter, making his and Sakura's lunch for the next day. He brushed a brown bang from his face and looked at Sakura with his fatherly brown eyes.
"Which one was it today?" He was always concerned when his daughter went of catching the cards, but made it a point to be involved with what was happening.
"The Bubble - " Sakura was cut off as Kero floated in front of her.
"It's a horrible card!" He started. "Clow always used it on me, leaving me for ages with the soap suds soaking into my fur and tickling my nose." Sakura chuckled slightly and silently pulled it from her pocket. Kero went of on one of his rants facing the window. Sakura put her finger to her lip, silently called her staff and released the card on Kero. "SAKURA!"
Both father and daughter fell to the floor laughing.
"I'm sorry Kero, it was too good to resist." Sakura said around her giggles.
"Hmph!" Kero floated up the stairs and out of sight.
"That was a bit unnecessary Sakura." Fujitaka sighed.
"But funny." She smiled at him and the pair got up.
"True, now off to bed, you have school tomorrow. Don't worry about working in the diner in the morning, get a lie in." He handed her a glass of juice to take with her and a cookie for Kero. "Why you work there, I do not know, you're 15 and want a job, you don't have to work there, we're perfectly fine." Sakura's smile faltered slightly.
"I want something to do. I can't go out, seeing as it's only Tomoyo who is willing to be friends with me. Her mother made her get a job – to show responsibility – So she's either working at the diner or partying like the outgoing girl she is." Sakura explained.
"Ok then." He kissed his daughters forehead, "Now, bed." Sakura nodded.
"Night!" She called as she climbed the stairs. She gave the cookie to Kero, got changed and went to sleep, prepared for another monotonous day.
"Class, I have important news today." Sakura sat listening to the teacher drone on, she never really paid attention, just sat in her seat staring out of the window. She sat on the far side, on seat from the back with an empty chair behind her and Tomoyo to her right. "From now on we will have a new student." This comment made Sakura actually pay attention, the only free seat was the one behind her, and knowing her luck, she'd be made to look after the new kid. She wasn't good around people. True she was relaxed around her family, Tomoyo and when performing at the diner, but she knew them, most of the people at the diner were regulars so she calmed down, but around people she wasn't familiar with, she would clam up or just stay away all together.
"His name is Li Syaoran and I expect you all to be nice and help him find his way around." Into the room walked a boy about a head height taller than Sakura's petite frame. His uniform hanging effortlessly on his well built body. Black trousers, white shirt with red, black and white tie and a black blazer with the school's logo on the pocket – white and red stripes round a blue 'T' and 'H'.
"The only free seat is too the back, behind Miss Kinomoto. I hope you enjoy your time here." The teacher pointed to the seat behind Sakura and Li took his seat. As he walked past he brushed his chocolate locks out of his face and took a good look at Sakura. "Kinomoto?" The teacher's voice made Sakura look up inquisitively. "Would you be so kind as to make sure Li knows his way around and can get to classes?" Sakura didn't get much of a choice as the teacher's glare pierced into her. Just my luck, She thought. She just nodded and lowered her head to the paper once more. "So class, home room time is your own, so just keep the noise down." The class all replied with a loud chant of 'Sure' or 'OK'.
As usual Sakura spent the time writing new songs or talking to Tomoyo. Today was no different. Tomoyo pulled her chair to sit alongside Sakura's desk and help her write.
Behind them, various students had come over to introduce themselves to the new boy. Li, though, was more intent on watching the girl in front of him. Such a strange aura, he pondered to himself barely listening to the people around him, Something is different about that girl.
"Tomoyo..." Sakura started, "What do you think of this?" She handed the paper to Tomoyo.
"Hmm..." Tomoyo read it to herself, "Looks good, full of emotion and meaning."
"Oh yeah, you're singing with me tonight!" Sakura commanded. "You promised you would and have been postponing it over and over again."
"Fine, but you are singing this new one, it suits you more than me."
"OK." As Sakura went back to finalise the song, she could feel a glare, not piercing but not friendly and she suspected it was coming from Li's amber eyes. She could feel the glare was moving up and down her body. What's so interesting about my back? She pondered, I'm only in my uniform. True that the uniform wasn't much desire, a white blouse, knee-length white pleated shirt and a black jumper with the school logo on.
"Sakura? You ok?" Tomoyo's comment brought Sakura out of her daydream.
"Huh? Oh, yeah," She replied and looked up at the falling cherry blossoms from the tree they were sitting by.
"You haven't eaten any of your lunch."
"I'm not really hungry." Sakura kept staring as her mind started drifting.
"It's not healthy Sakura, you don't eat much as it is." Tomoyo picked up Sakura's lunch, making her turn to Tomoyo. "Eat!" She almost commanded, taking some food from the lunch and holding it to Sakura. After a few minutes of negotiation, Sakura finally obeyed and took a few bites of her lunch, continuing once the taste hit her mouth. "Better," Tomoyo sighed. "I assume this has something to do with the new boy."
"EH?!" Sakura almost spat out her food, "W-Why would you think that?"
"You're my best friend, I can tell," Tomoyo looked at her with care in her eyes, "Now spill." Sakura sighed and did as she was asked.
"I just had this feeling he was staring at me, all through home room and through the lessons, thank heavens we're in the same room all of today." Sakura took another bite of her food. "I'm just thinking what his problem is with me? Why he keeps staring at me?" Sakura looked to her friend, "You haven't got magic in you, so you wouldn't feel it, but he has a really powerful and slightly menacing aura to him. It's weird." Sakura sat up straight suddenly.
"Is it...?" Tomoyo asked, Sakura nodded. "Come with me, I have the perfect outfit in my locker." Sakura sweat dropped.
"At school, Tomoyo?"
"Always prepared. Now come on." the pair put away their lunch and headed to Tomoyo's locker. She pulled out a bag and handed it to Sakura. "You can't change at school, what if someone sees? Change in the forest on the way."
"The forest?" Sakura repeated.
"It'll be fine. We'll check that the coast is clear and then you'll stay hidden." Sakura nodded at Tomoyo's comment, what was the point in arguing?
"Oh, first thing's first." Sakura scanned the corridor, only to find it empty as everyone was outside and this hall was only for lockers. "Good, no people." She pulled a small golden key,, with the same white, red and gold bird head as her staff, on a piece of cord from under her blouse. Tomoyo nodded. "Key which hides the power of darkness, reveal your true form to me! I, Sakura, command you under our contract, RELEASE!" A bright light and the pink staff floated in front of her. She took a card from her bag and threw it to the air. She raised her staff and called on the card. "MIRROR! Create a copy of Tomoyo and myself to take our places!" A pale girl with long green hair and holding a mirror appeared before them. She nodded and stepped through an invisible barrier, becoming two, a copy of Tomoyo and a copy of Sakura. "Thank you Mirror." The copies bowed and walked away.
"Come on then," Tomoyo ushered Sakura out of the building. Keeping a careful eye out, the pair ran from the school. "Which way?" Sakura stopped, closed her eyes and felt for the presence.
"Penguin Park again."
What do you think? As I mentioned before, it does follow the original plot line slightly, but I'm adding things and changing things.
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