Hi guys! So, this is the new edited prologue, I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I do not, nor ever will, own Card Captor Sakura or any of its characters.
Tomoyo came out of nowhere. The girl had to be a ninja or something, for the way she snuck up and gave Sakura a heart attack nearly every day. You'd think that the brunette would get used to it, but she was so sneaky that Sakura was caught off guard every single time. It was amazing and frustrating at the same time. But mostly it was irritating, because after nearly every attack, Sakura ended up pinned to the ground underneath her ecstatic friend, who seemed to have a strange obsession with her.
"T-Tomoyo!" Sakura could hardly breathe let alone speak as she was crushed underneath her best friend's weight. "You're squashing me!" The sentence was quick and she barely managed to squeeze it out. Tomoyo rose gracefully from on top of her friend, smiling sheepishly as she held out her hand to help Sakura up. The brunette sighed and took it, finding herself suddenly on her feet once again.
"Sorry, Sakura. I just can't help myself sometimes. And I was already so excited, it was like seeing you just escalated it to new levels. You have that effect on me, you know." Tomoyo smiled brightly, flashing her pearly white smile. Sometimes Sakura wondered why she hung out with someone like her when she could easily be friends with anyone in the school. It made very little sense to her, but she appreciated the other girl being her friend anyway. Not many people in the school took that risk, considering Sakura's social status, and Tomoyo was paying for that risk. It seemed as if as soon as the girl had started hanging out with her, everyone else had shunned her.
Sakura sighed before smiling a little. "What's got you so excited? I might have to hunt it down so that my poor head doesn't keep hitting the floor so hard." She laughed a little, watching as Tomoyo laughed too. The two of them were closer than close. Nothing could tear them apart.
"Well…" The dark haired girl giggled, a light pink gracing her cheeks. "You'll never guess what just happened to me…" Tomoyo stared dreamily off into space for a moment, before returning her attention to Sakura. The brunette now had a sneaking suspicion about what had the girl so giddy. "I was just on my way to the class, and I was going through the hall…" Another giggle erupted from within the raven-haired girl, and Sakura sighed. The girl was growing steadily a darker pink. "Um, I was just walking down the hall, and out of nowhere Eriol popped up and stopped me. He seemed a bit nervous, and he kept biting his lip, so I thought maybe something bad had happened. But when I was about to ask him what was wrong, he just blurted it out!"
Sakura stared at Tomoyo blankly, waiting for her to specify just what it was that Eriol had blurted out. When it was apparent that the girl wasn't going to do so – she seemed to be off in some dreamland – Sakura cleared her throat.
"What did he blurt out, Tomoyo?" Tomoyo's face lit up even more, and something tripped an internal sensor in Sakura's head.
"He asked me out! Can you believe it? Eriol came and asked me to grab an ice cream sometime! Like, on a date! Sakura, he likes me! I could die of happiness!" The brunette stared in shock at her friend. Tomoyo grabbed at Sakura's hands suddenly, and pulled the girl around the classroom, dancing and laughing as Sakura attempted to keep herself from falling. The ground seemed more magnetic whenever Tomoyo was around.
"Tomoyo… You're gonna pull my arms off…" Sakura found herself suddenly in contact with her friend when the girl stopped abruptly. With no warning of this, she ended up running straight into the once-moving Tomoyo. And somehow despite the fact that Tomoyo had the appearance of a light, fragile girl, she was still solid as a brick wall when Sakura ran into her. The brunette ended up somehow on the floor, wincing at the pain that shot up her back.
"Oh sorry, Sakura. I was just so… Ah! I'm so excited I could explode! I mean, Eriol asked me out. ME!" Tomoyo held out a hand for her friend, which Sakura tentatively took. As soon as she was back in a standing position Sakura brushed herself off before turning to her friend.
"So… He asked you out?" Tomoyo nodded enthusiastically, biting her lip to keep from shouting again. "Oh Tomoyo, I'm so happy for you! I told you he liked you, he was just too shy to ask you! Oh, good for you!" Sakura smiled, and grabbed her friend's hands, squeezing them. Tomoyo grinned back, glowing with happiness. "So, when are you two going?"
"Well, we worked it out so that we can go after school today. You don't mind, do you? I mean, I know we usually walk home together, but this is the only day we are both free! Please say you don't mind!" Tomoyo looked at Sakura with pleading eyes, puppy expression working at max. Sakura sighed.
"It's fine, Tomoyo. I can walk home alone. I'm not a child, you know." As much as she said that, she was sort of sad inside. It was their tradition to walk home together until their paths divided. They'd been doing so since elementary school.
"Oh my god thank you!! Thank you so much, Sakura! I'll never forget this!"
Sakura smiled at her friend, happy that she was happy. If it was just this once… she could sacrifice their tradition just this once for her friend's happiness.
"Okay everyone, sit down." Sakura looked over her friend's shoulder to see Terada-sensei entering the room, a stack of papers in his arms. She released her friend's hands and sat down in her desk. Tomoyo did the same. "Good morning, class."
"Good morning, Terada-sensei!" The class responded in unison, and Sakura saw Rika smiling brightly up at their teacher.
"Okay then class, shall we start?" Sakura leaned forward in her desk, resting her head on her arms. Another day of boring classes. And at the end of this boring day, she would be walking home alone. Sighing heavily, Sakura closed her eyes and listened.