Hi minna-san! I'm back with a three part story! I should finish it soon! … Hopefully. §sweatdrop§ Sorry I haven't updated When Two Worlds Meet, The Other Side and Falling In Love With You for a while! I'm still typing up When Two Worlds Meet and the other two I'm just braindead. GRR!
Disclaimer: I don't own it. I don't own it. I don't own it. §men in suits poke me ever time I say that§ I don't own I- Man: you don't own WHAT? §sigh§ I don't own Cardcaptor Sakura…CLAMP does.
Dedication: Ok. I know I can never stop dedicating things. But this one's for my nee-chan Lyssa because she's helping me beta read for it…
Hope you like it!
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No matter how long I wait… love just won't find me. Is one kiss just too much to ask for? If this sounds like you, don't give up! Come visit our agency!
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"So she's in class F-1 and her name's Kumi right?" asked 15 year-old Kinomoto Sakura, her shiny auburn hair and sparkling emerald eyes glistening in the sunlight.
"Yeah. She's the one. The thing is, I never get a chance to talk to her." Answered Kazaya, scratching the back of his head. There was a moment of silence.
"I see. Well god! Why didn't you tell me sooner Kazaya? How was I supposed to know huh? I would've helped you out if you told me earlier!" Sakura exclaimed, whapping Kazaya on the back. Kazaya blushed with excitement.
"Y-You mean it? Thanks so much Sakura! I owe you big time!" he beamed melodramatically and grabbed onto Sakura's hands.
"Huh?" Sakura's face was full of confusion.
"It's nice to have a well-connected friend! You're the best!" and with that, Kazaya walked off waving Sakura goodbye.
'Oh no! I did it again…' she groaned inwardly.
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"Hey! Kazaya seems to have a girlfriend!" called a student from class A-2, when Kazaya walked past the window with Kumi.
"WHAT? You played cupid again?" screamed Naoko, a friend of Sakura's.
"Why do you ALWAYS help the guy you have a crush on?" Chiharu, another friend yelled at poor Sakura.
"You're TOO nice! How lame can you get? Mou…"
"It's just plain baka-ism when it comes to you isn't it?" Rika shook her head. (k/n: baka-ism is MINE!)
"Hey! Sakura you look horrible! The time of month for you?" joked Kaiji.
"Oh shut up!" growled Sakura with a gloomy aura.
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'So many friends and acquaintances. My phone book proves it! I'm well liked and yet…'
"Why won't anyone fall for me?" cried Sakura as she got up to the top deck of the school and held out her cellphone over the railing.
"This dumb thing!" she glared at it as tears slowly dropped onto the open screen.
"I might as well throw it away!" She sobbed, ready to throw the phone when a hand caught her own.
"Hold on there! What a waste… Don't do something you might regret." Came a husky masculine voice from behind her.
Sakura turned around with brimmed eyes of tears and saw a tall boy about her age with chocolate brown hair strewn messily and the most intense amber eyes.
"Why don't we use that network of yours productively?" he asked. Sakura stared, intensified by his wonderful features.
"How would you like to come and work with me? If you're interested… Drop by and see me someday! Okay? See ya later!" he said cheerfully as he handed Sakura her cellphone along with a piece of paper and walked off waving.
'That guy... I know him… Li Syaoran, a junior… he's the class B-3 flirt! Girls go absolutely gaga over him! In freshman year, my year, junior year and hell, even senior years! "Work..." What did he mean by that?' Sakura pondered as she followed the directions. She got there in no time.
"But this is a club room. 'The Library Club'? How odd…" Sakura pushed open the door.
"Um hi! Are you…" she trailed off.
A girl with long, slightly curled lavender hair and periwinkle eyes looked up at her from a desk.
'Wow! She's lovely! Is she a first year? I haven't seen her around before.'
"Can I help you?" the girl asked.
"Oh. Um. I'm just… I'm here about 'work'…?" Sakura trailed off once more. The girl's eyes widened for a moment.
"Okay! Are you in the book yet?"
Sakura's face twisted in confusion.
"The book? No…"
"Then enter your contact info here."
"Huh? What kind of info?" Sakrua asked cluelessly. The girl raised a borw.
"Do you have a cellphone?"
"Oh! Sure! That info!"
"So tell me... What's your type?"
"Huh?"
"The type of guy you like!" the girl exasperated.
"Oh! Let's see… someone who's kind…and honest."
"Can you be more specific please?"
"Nagase! From the band Tokio! Does that help?" The girl pulled out a book from a certain shelf.
"Yes that will help good enough. Let me see… Here we are! A good selection… Just pick a few to start with… and we can arrange an immediate date once the guy agrees!" Sakura's mouth opened and her eyes bulged.
"So you'll introduce me to them? You're too kind!"
"Glad to help." The girl replied.
Ba-bump. Ba-bump.
"Hmm! This sooooo totally cool!" Sakrua said to herself.
"First this one… and then this one… oh! And this one too! Yeah, yeah!"
The fee for an introduction to this level of man is five hundred dollars! First class!" The girl said, holding up five fingers.
"F-Five hundred dollars? You charge for this? How cuckoo!" ejaculated (k/n: not that way!) Sakura in surprise.
"Of course we charge for it! It's work. Economy is only three hundred!"
"It's w-work? So this work here… It's… Uh. What do you call it?"
"Well, I call it a dating agency!" Syaoran commented, walking in the room.
'"Dating Agency"? What the hell is that?'
"Tomoyo, try to be nicer on the job." Syaoran gave the girl a weird look. Tomoyo growled back in response. Syaoran's face suddenly turned into a big grin at Sakura. She eeped.
"We just started this service. Pretty lucrative eh? Of course the school doesn't know about it. Ehehehe. I've had my eye on you… How would you feel about joining us? I can't help but think you'd make a great go-between!" he smiled goofily, scratching the beck of his head.
"IS THAT ALL I'M GOOD FOR?" Sakura raged with two anime veins.
'But… that jerk smiled so cheerfully…'
"Aww… come on." Syaoran pouted.
"Okay. I'll try it." I gave in half-heartedly shaking his hand.
'…That I just… gave in!'
"Good deal!" he said, shaking my hand back.
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'And so, my life as a professional cupid began.'
Dating Agency! Join Now! We are working for you! WE work so you DON'T have to!
"What's this? You've started your own dating service? Getting jilted has made you demented!" Chiharu exclaimed.
"Now it's a job?" inquired Naoko.
"I don't care! Whatever! Spread the words to your friends! The single ones! OH! And don't tell our teachers!" Sakura informed as she ran off to give out more flyers.
'Girls and boys want to fall in love so badly… That they were soon beating a path straight down to our door!'
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"Now then… Our system is like most popular matchmaking clubs. Select your type from the member profiles. If he or she agrees to it, we set you up! We stay actively involved until your date becomes a permanent partner with you. Normal rate is three hundred dollars."
"Uh… I really prefer older guys. Not little highschool boys!" Yui Maikozawa of class F-3 scoffed at Sakura.
"We can help you! It takes all kinds… And we've got 'em! From the-boy-next-door to players! If you STILL can't find your type... Our skilled staff will search through our entire network to help you!" Sakura pressed on further.
"Yeah! We work hard so you don't have to!" Syaoran flashed his oh so popular grin to all the girls who started clapping. Tomoyo just stood there with an annoyed look on her face and a brow raised with a looming aura secluding those around her.
'We'd found the one thing that everyone had been looking for!'
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"WHOAAA!" Tomoyo, Syaoran and Sakura's faces gasped with awe as they counted the pile of money they attained so far.
"Look how much we made already! What if the school finds out?" Syaoran huffed.
"It's like a birthday and New Year's all at once! They'll kick us out for sure!" breathed Sakura.
"This isn't enough. No… It's not nearly enough at all! We HAVE TO make more! MORE! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!" Tomoyo screeched with a weird look across her eyes so scary that Sakura and Syaoran started to back up against the wall.
"T-Tomoyo! But why do you need so much money?" exclaimed Sakura and Syaoran.
"I'm saving up! It's my future war fund! I have to be able to start my own company! YAH! I'll be a fashion designer! I won't have to depend on men! I'll live on my own! WE HAVE TO WORK HARDER!" Tomoyo said with a creepy look over her ENTIRE face. Sakura and Syaoran both just stood there and stared with open jaws.
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"Does Tomoyo hate men or something? She's so kawaii! It's really quite a shame." Sakura asked, while walking on the way home with Syaoran.
"She has just always been that way... She says she doesn't need a man to help her and that she's an independent woman." Syaoran replied.
"Hmmmmmmmm… Well… That's too bad. So you've been friends since junior high?" Sakura tried to start up a new conversation.
"Yeah. I've known her for a long time…" Syaoran sighed.
"Hey! It's snowing!" he exclaimed, rushing ahead of Sakura.
"What about you Li-san?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you get kicks out of flirting with girls? Don't you want someone special at least?" Sakura asked with such intensity. Syaoran stopped in his tracks and turned to look at her with a look in his eyes. A look that looked so much like pain and despair, but a look that was indescribable and unimaginable.
"I'll stick to the flirting. I like to be free to be able to do my own things." He replied nonchalantly as he turned back and continued to trudge his way through the snow.
"But… How can guys be so aloof? I would want more! I'd like to have a boyfriend. Knowing that someone in this world cherishes you… I bet that feels really nice." Sakura said with passion. Syaoran looked back once more at her. His eyes with care this time. Her eyes widened a little in surprise to his sudden movement.
"That is so adorable Sakura!" he smiled.
"Hey! Are you making fun of me or something? No way. That was not adorable at all! Nope. Zettai! ZENZEN!" Sakura closed her eyes. Syaoran put a hand on top of her head. She opened one eye to look at him with a pout.
"Can't you take a compliment?" he said in a low voice. Sakura blushed.
'I bet… Everyone's searching. We're all the same. As our lives become more indulged, it just gets harder to find something special. Something real and meaningful.'
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And that's the end of my first chapter! I hope you liked it! I typed it up in only 45 minutes! I'm so proud of myself! I usually take forever because of other things… -' Please review! I would like feedback! And the more reviews I get, the faster I update! 1953 words… wow. Not a lot for five pages… but I took out a whole bunch of them so I guess it makes sense.
Lub,
Kiari
