FALL PLAY
by Daidouji Tomoyo
DISCLAIMER: (gotta love these! = P) Card Captor
Sakura/Cardcaptors © CLAMP/Kodansha. "Fall Play" is a fanfic written
by----- ME! This story takes place sometime during the series (or maybe an
alternate scene..?)--- Meiling and Eriol are present in this, both
are students along with Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo,
and others at Tomoeda Elementary
School.
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CHAPTER 1: Tomoyo Daidouji's "Romeo and Juliet"
"UGH..... KERO-CHAN, I'M GONNA BE LATE AGAIN!!!"
"You
know, Sakura-chan, at this rate, you will never get up on time... you're just
impossible, you know that?"
Hi everybody!
Kinomoto Sakura here. I'm a 10-year-old fourth grader attending
Tomoeda Elementary School... P.E. is my
game but Math is not my thing! During daytime,
I'm just your average kid--- nighttime, I play my second life as a Card
Captor! My mission, should I wish to accept it (actually I did not
have a choice on this one since I was the one who opened the book
in the first place), is to capture all the missing Clow Cards and restore them
to the mysterious yet magical Clow Book--- or disaster will befall this world
(well, that's what Kero-chan told me when we first met). I live in your
average house with my dad, archeology college professor/researcher Kinomoto
Fujitaka, my nasty brother 17-year-old high schooler Kinomoto Touya, and of
course, the wonderful, powerful, not to mention totall cute Guardian of the
Clow--- Cerberus!! (But you can call him Kero-chan, even if he never liked the
cute name!)
Today is another normal school day morning (yeah right)
for me, getting up with the alarm clock busted again (well, I do think my alarm
clock is busted...) and Kero-chan, as usual, did not even bother wake me up even
(although he always insisted that he always does.... yeah, sure thing...).
I dashed through the restroom to wash my face, gargle, brush my teeth, and fix
my hair and through my closet to slip in to my school uniform. Looking at
my clock, I only had fifteen minutes left before the school bell rings and the
gates close. I slipped in to my shoes, grabbed my schoolbag and my pair of
rollerblades and I was on my way down the stairs...
To a surprise my dad
was already waiting right at the last step along with my lunch box on his
hand. Thank goodness he knew that I was going to be rushing again.
"Good morning, kiddo!"
"Oh boy! Thanks Dad!" I cheered happily as I
grabbed the lunch box from him. I dashed again to the dining table to grab
a piece of roll. And as usual, relaxing at the breakfast table was the
nasty guy that I just mentioned earlier.
"On the rush again, eh little
monster...?"
"Don't even GO THERE!" I glared right at Touya as I
gulped through the whole glass of orange juice that my dad just poured for me
and grabbed a roll from the bread basket right in front of Touya. There
was not enough time for me to argue again with my brother so I dashed my way to
the shoe closet and put on my favorite rollerblades. "Okay Dad, I'm
goin'..."
"Don't forget my hug, sweetheart!" I jumped right in to my
father's loving arms and held him tightly. I decided to relax a bit in my
father's protective arms and smiled widely. "I love you."
"I love
you too, Dad!" I looked up to him as he patted me on my head. Meanwhile
Touya was also on his way out from behind.
"I'm outta here too, Dad...
I'll see you later."
"You two take care of yourselves now--- don't get
yourselves in to trouble!"
"We won't, Dad!"
Touya and I waved
goodbye in unison as I dashed right away along with Touya on his
bike. It used to be that I had to skate my way through while trying to
race along with him but this time, I decided to hitch behind him by grabbing the
seat and letting me skate in relaxation as the bike's wheels turn round and
round. We stopped on the way as we met up with Touya's best friend (and my
old crush), Tsukishiro Yukito. I found myself feeling all floaty again
right when I took my first glimpse on him, but not as much floaty as I feel
floaty around... um, well... you didn't hear that... just ignore that
part. Heh.
"Just in time, you two," I heard Yuki-san's voice with a
wave.
"Hi there Yuki-san!!" I waved happily as I clinged on to the seat
with my other hand.
"Yo," Touya just gave him a little wave.
"Ready?"
"Hey there Sakura-chan... on the rush again, I see?" Yuki-san
chuckled, looking right straight at me.
I sighed happily, feeling
myself red all over: "Heh... um..." I shyly scratched my head, trying to find the
right words to say. "Well.... umm.... you should get used to it by now,
Yuki-san!"
Yuki-san took his seat on the bike as Touya pedaled along on
the way to school. Again, I clinged my grip on to the seat and let my
skates glide along the road. I figured that it was much faster this way,
since Touya was strong enough to pedal through the streets at a heavy load and
at the perfect speed anyway. "You look a little spunky today,
Sakura-chan! Care to tell us what's up today?"
I giggled a
bit. "Well... um... yesterday our class was chosen by our school to
produce and perform our annual school fall play--- and Tomoyo-chan was chosen as
the director!"
"Fall play, eh," I heard Touya replied from my little
story. "I remember those... I used to work as a cast director... I wanted
to play the lead guy but I literally sucked at memorizing lines... but either
way, it's fun..."
"I... um... I'm not very good at the stage myself...
heh..." I blushed a bit, chuckling nervously. "So... I think I'll just do
backstage work... I know it'll upset Tomoyo-chan, since she always wanted me to
be the leading girl of our upcoming play, you know?"
"What kind of play
are you guys doing?" Yuki-san asked. He looked really excited just by the
way he reacted on his perfect, handsome smiling face.
"I don't know yet,
but Tomoyo-chan's going to be choosing the play for us," I replied. "It'd
better be a good one though..."
"That's too bad that you're not going to
audition for a role, Sakura-chan," Yuki-san continued on. "You even have
the face and the look for it." Right away I blushed crimson
red.
"Of course,
our mom was the center of attraction.... runs in the family," I heard Touya
spoke of our mother with such pride in his voice. Just in case that I
forgot to mention, my mother died when I was only three. I never really
met her well but Dad always talked about her. Every day Dad would always put up
a new and different pic of Mom at the living room. Mom used to work a
model when she was younger so we had tons of pictures of her from posters to
magazines to calendars... you name it, we got it. Tomoyo-chan's mom,
Daidouji Sonomi, said once to me that I looked a lot like Mom (who was also
Tomoyo-chan's mom's cousin and best friend, by the way). I guess you could
say that our mothers' relationship with each other is almost exactly the same as
mine and Tomoyo-chan's friendship. Like mother, like daughter, I
guess.
"Aw, come on Sakura-chan... why don't you give auditioning a
try...?" Yuki-san continued to encourage me.
"But Yuki-san, I don't want
to be the center of attraction again... you know how Tomoyo-chan is... even if I
didn't have to audition she'd still pick me as the leading role anyway...
heh..." I felt a sweatdrop falling from the side of my face, trying to hide my
embarrassment with one of my one-million-yen smiles. "I... I mean... being
behind the scenes would be a nice change, you know?
"Ah well..." Yuki-san
sighed with a little grin on his face. "I tried... but it's up to you,
Sakura-chan!"
"Besides," Touya interrupted in between, "if they're going
to have some Shakespeare as their play this little monster here would choke on
stage between her lines anyway...." Okay, that's not very funny,
Touya-niichan... I thought to myself. I decided to speed up a bit
ahead using my rollerblades and glared right at the nasty brother.
"YOU'D
BETTER TAKE THAT BACK OR I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR BUTT AGAIN,
TOUYA-NIICHAN!!"
Touya just smirked right at me: "You don't even know
what I'm talking about, squirt..." Well, he did kind of had a point...
Shakespeare, huh? I've never heard of it. Must be high school
stuff. Shakespeare sounded English too... maybe I should ask Eriol
Hiiragizawa-kun when I get to school. He is from England, after
all.
"Whatever, okay?" I turned my head away from him, trying to control
myself before I go crazy and injure my brother and accidentally injuring
Yuki-san in the process.
Finally, the gates of Tomoeda Elementary was
appearing closer to my direction. This was the time for me to split from
the two guys. "Awrighty, this is my stop! Thanks for the hitch ride,
guys!"
Yuki-san waved goodbye at me: "Have fun in school now,
Sakura-chan!"
"AND STAY AWAY FROM THAT LITTLE PUNK BRAT TOO, YA LITTLE
MONSTER!" I heard Touya yelled right behind me. The "little punk brat"
that he was talking about was Li Syaoran, the silent, sometimes self-absorbed
Chinese kid from Hong Kong who sits behind me in class. I wished sometimes
that Syaoran and Touya would get along one of these days. I admit that he
did try to attack and hurt me when we first met when I refused to give up the
Clow Cards I collected to him when he asked for them. But now he gradually
changed. Now he is my partner and ally at capturing the missing Clow Cards
and trying to stop the "evil" that will befall if we failed to capture all of
the cards.
"Go away already, Oniichan!" I stuck my tongue at my brother
as I entered the Tomoeda Elementary gates, still rolling along with my
rollerblade. I swear, Touya really needs to try and get used to having
Syaoran hanging around with me instead of the "little punk brat" that he used to
know in the beginning.
Ah... Li Syaoran-kun... Remember earlier when I
introduced you to Yuki-san and that I mentioned that he was my former
crush? Let's just say that my secret love interest slowly shifted from
Yuki-san to the "little punk brat". Everytime I hear or think of Syaoran's
name I felt myself completely all floaty, way more floaty than the way when I
see Yuki-san, to be honest. Sometimes Tomoyo-chan would tease me that
I "floated all the way to Cloud Nine" everytime I see Syaoran.
I heard that "Cloud Nine" expression from Rika-chan once. I still have no idea what
it meant, since Tomoyo and all the other girls were enjoying themselves
teasing me too much about it. It was bad enough that they tease
me because I freak out a lot whenever I hear horror stories about
ghosts and other spooky stuff like the ones Naoko-chan always tells quite
often.
While imagining myself seeing Syaoran smiling right
towards me my eyes suddenly woke up to reality and saw him right at the
distance. I grinned happily and rushed my rollerblades towards his
direction, calling his name at the same time: "SYAORAN-KUUUUUN!!"
I
noticed Syaoran turning his head, but seemed a little unsure as to where the
voice was coming from. I decided to give him a big wave and called out his
name again: "SYAORAN-KUUUUN!! OVER HERE!!!"
I remembered that one
day during one of our card capturing missions that Syaoran and I got stuck in
the elevator one time. We were trying to get up to the building to find
the card but the elevator got stuck in the middle of the building. I
remember myself being so scared and horrified because I thought that we would
never get out safely, but Syaoran was there next to me, trying to keep me
calm. He was so nice and so sweet that time that I could not even imagine
seeing him being this nice to me ever. Then without our awareness the door
opened and found myself falling down from the height. Syaoran panicked
when I fell and called out my first name for the very first time. Luckily
I had my wand and called forth The Fly to save myself from falling... then I
flew up back to the elevator to meet with Syaoran. For the first time ever
that he called me by my first name, Sakura, rather than the usual "Kinomoto"
that he always referred me to since the beginning. And right then, we
embraced each other in comfort... then he said that I can call him by his first
name, Syaoran, if I would let him call me Sakura.
Everybody else in
school still called him by his last name, Li (or Li-kun, depending on who it
is), but I was the only one throughout the whole school who can call him
Syaoran. I felt like I was the luckiest girl ever, even way much luckier
than his fiancee, Li Meiling! Oi.... Li Meiling... I'll tell you more
about her later.
My heart jumped in excitement right when Syaoran finally
found where the voice was coming from. I kept on waving at him happily as
I noticed Syaoran standing still, waiting for me to reach him.
"SYAORAN-KUUUN! WAIT UP!!"
Syaoran smirked a bit, then all of a
sudden, turned into a worried, shocked look. Eh? What's wrong,
Syaoran-kun...?
"Sakura! Look out! Watch were
you're---" Before I even realized what he was trying to say I found myself
tumbling all over the place after I found the stopper of my right rollerblade
tripped on the first step of the stairs towards the
building...
"AAAAAAAAHHH!!!" I shrieked as I tumbled all over the stairs
and landed right back at the floor beneath the building stairs.
"Ouch..." I opened my eyes and clearly saw all the other kids staring in
different faces right at me. I slowly got up as I noticed Syaoran bending
down right next to me, taking my hand and helping me get up from the
ground.
"Clumsy as usual, eh, Sakura?" Syaoran glinted a little smile on
his face as I wiped off the dirt off of my hair and my school uniform at the
same time. I looked up at him and sighed happily. He had the most
wonderful, beautiful pair of amber eyes I have ever seen. He did not have
to fix his hair and put on a little cologne just for a girl to be attracted to
him. I can see why Meiling was so attached to this boy.
"Eheh....
heh..... um..." I giggled in embarrassment, trying to hide the blushing on my
face. "You know me way too well, Syaoran-kun!"
"Are you okay? You're not hurt, are you?" He looked at
me with such worry on his face. This look of his completely made my heart
flutter even more towards heaven. How adorably cute he looked. I
just wished that we were more than what we are to each other now sometimes
(which probably explains my floaty feelings around him, but I'm still not quite sure
if it was what I thought it would be...), but since we were only in
fourth grade, I did not know if he already reached to the
stage where girls and boys suddenly find themselves attracted to each other rather
than the old style of "boys versus girls" thing back in kindergarten till now. Syaoran was
way too mature at his age, actually, and did not really know how to have fun like
your average 10-year-old kid, so I thought that he would know how it
feels to love a special person. But, knowing that this boy was
already engaged, I knew in my mind that there was no way that any other girl would
ever win his heart.
I finally stood up and looked right at him with a
smile: "I'm okay, Syaoran-kun. Thanks a lot." I noticed that he was
still holding my right hand. I could not help myself but look right at his
eyes, not even noticing that I even squeezed his hand holding mine a little
bit. I found myself blushing even more and there was a hint of redness
coming on his cheeks as well. He even looked more adorable everytime he
would always blush.
I wished that this little moment of silence would
last forever. Unfortunately, like all things, this moment had to end---
"AAAAH!! KAAAAWAAAAIII!!! YOU GUYS ARE SO CUTE
TOGETHER!!!"
"HOE?!" I shrieked right when I heard that familiar awed
voice that I always knew forever. Darn it, Tomoyo-chan... why'd you
have to come at this time...? Right away I noticed Syaoran immediately
dropping my hand and slowly backed away from me, also blushing at the same
time. "Tomoyo-chan?!"
I turned my head and there she was, right at
our right side. Tomoyo-chan had her favorite video camera in front of her
face again--- all this time, she was taping Syaoran and me having this little
moment. "The world has GOT to see this!! You guys just looked so
sweet together!"
I hushed at Tomoyo-chan, feeling a little nervous
because the whole school was passing by us and there was a possibility that we
may get overheard by some random kids. That was how rumors can be
spread. "Tomoyo-chan, not too loud!"
"Uhh..." I heard Syaoran
joining in our little conversation, "I gotta go... I forgot that I had to check
something out at the library... meet you in class..." I noticed his face was
still blushing, and as usual, he dashed off without saying
bye.
"Syaoran...... kun......?" I
murmured his name, looking a little curious. Tomoyo-chan finally turned
her camera off and stood right next to me with a little disappointed look.
"Tomoyo-chan...?"
Tomoyo-chan shook her head. "That Li-kun... he'll
never get it..."
"Hoe...? Get what?" What was Tomoyo-chan
talking about...?
"Oh! Hee hee... um... nothing..." Tomoyo blushed
and giggled at the same time. I looked at her with a suspicious eye then
decided to ignore it. "Um, anyway Sakura-chan, glad to see you're on
time!"
"I know," I smirked happily. "I hitched a ride with
Touya-niichan, so I got here pretty early!"
"Atta girl, Sakura-chan!"
Tomoyo-chan cheered happily. "Oh I can't wait till after school... we're
going to have our first fall play meeting today! We're gonna start talking
about what play we're gonna do and who's gonna be in it, both on stage and off
stage! Sakura-chan, I've even got the perfect outfit for you
too---"
Right away, I interrupted her, giving her the sad news.
"Um... Tomoyo-chan... I want to work with you--- backstage."
"Eh?"
Tomoyo-chan blinked in confusion and turned to me. "Sakura-chan, what are
you talking about? You're going to play the lead female
character---"
"No no no!" I shrieked, laughing at the same time.
"Um... please, Tomoyo-chan...? For a change I don't want to be the center of
attraction...? Please...? Besides, I'm not very good at acting and
memorizing lines, so... " I sighed deeply and lowered my eyes. "I'm sorry,
Tomoyo-chan... I don't want to upset you, but..."
Tomoyo stood silent,
then quickly, she patted me on my shoulder with a smile on her face: "Aww, I see
what you mean, Sakura-chan. Hey, that's okay! I mean, I've got all
the videos of you as a Card Captor, so you're always going to be the star of my
handy camera, you know that! I don't see why not, you know?"
"A-are
you sure you're okay by this...?" I asked her again, just to be sure that I did
not hurt her feelings.
"Of course, Sakura-chan! You can help me out
with helping the actors out with their lines, you know?" Tomoyo-chan
smiled. "And maybe you can help me make the costumes and set up the
props too! It'd be so much fun, trust me!"
I gave her a big
smile and hugged her at the same time: "Thank you so much, Tomoyo-chan!
You're the best!"
"That's what friends are for, you know that,
Sakura-chan." We both held each other's hands tightly as if it was a "best
friend" handshake. "Come on, we'd better get to class!"
"Yeah!" I removed my
rollerblades and dashed together right inside the school building. We
waved and said hello to all the other kids we knew until we reached the entrance
of our classroom. Up ahead we took a glimpse at a kid leaning next to the
door with the suave look on his face. He had dark hair, deep blue eyes,
and very clear pair of glasses. I noticed Tomoyo's eyes filled with
admiration and stars right when she saw him.
"Uh... Tomoyo-chan...?" I
wondered, feeling another sweatdrop falling on the side of my
head.
"Ah! Just the person that I wanted to see!" Tomoyo blushed a
little with a smile on her face and skipped ahead of me towards the kid next to
the door. "Hiiragizawa-kun!!"
Eriol Hiiragizawa, another one of our
three foreign exchange students in our class this year (Syaoran and Meiling are
the other two) from England who charmed practically everyone in school including
the teachers but at the same time he looked pretty much mysterious behind that
dashing smile of his. He was a true gentleman, lots of girls go crazy with
his gesture, and for some reason, Syaoran gets a little suspicious everytime he
sees me with Eriol and starts hanging out with us. I know that Eriol had
no type of affection towards me and I also don't have any myself towards him
either. We were just being good friends.
"Ah!" Eriol gasped when he
took a glimpse of the two of us heading our way towards his direction. "It
is the East... and Daidouji Tomoyo is the sun!"
Tomoyo-chan just giggled
after she heard Eriol made that little gesture. Being a naive, curious
girl that I am, I absolutely had no idea what he meant by that. Must be a
British thing. "Hiiragizawa-kun! I've been looking all over for
you!"
Eriol stood up from his leaning and gave his usual smile towards
Tomoyo-chan. "Well, now that you have found me, Miss Daidouji, what can I
do for you?"
"Um... Hiiragizawa-kun...?" I finally reached them, giving
Eriol a little wave of hello. Tomoyo continued to murmur towards him:
"D-do y-you... know anything about... Shakespeare...?"
There's
that word again - Shakespeare. That name that Touya mentioned earlier
today. What the heck is it, I thought. Or... who is that?
"What is a Shakespeare, by the way?" I blinked in confusion.
Eriol
just laughed at me and turned his eyes towards Tomoyo: "Shakespeare...?
Daidouji, are you trying to tell me that you would like to have a Shakesperean
play as our fall play for this year?"
"My mother talked to me about it...
and she even let me borrow her copy of the script too. It had such
beautiful language, even if I had trouble trying to figure out what they
all meant... it's such beautiful poetry!" Tomoyo blushed and leaned against the
wall next to Eriol. "I would love to have it as our fall
play!"
"Wait a minute, Daidouji..." Eriol chuckled nervously.
"Shakespeare is a little too advanced for a fourth grade play... you do know
that there are... well..."
"That's why I came to you,
Hiiragizawa-kun! I thought you could probably help me with making some
changes with the play, you know? And maybe make the words easier for all
our actors to memorize and act them out with such character, you know? And
besides, I think Romeo and Juliet is the most romantic story I have
ever heard!"
"Tomoyo-chan....? A romantic play...?" I blinked, as I
giggled nervously. "Whew... thank God that I don't NEED to be in it... I'd
probably freak out at something like that... heh... heh..."
"You?
Not in the play...?" Eriol spoke with a low tone. "Oh, that's a darn
shame, Kinomoto... nevertheless, it's your choice!"
"Thanks,
Hiiragizawa-kun..." I smiled nervously, feeling another sweatdrop falling from
the side of my head. "But it's okay, I'm still gonna help out too, you
know, but I'm gonna help Tomoyo-chan out on running this whole play... and I get
to coach actors too on how to do their part! I can't wait!"
"Now
that's good news then," Eriol replied, smiling again.
"Anyway, back to
the play," Tomoyo went back to the subject. "So Hiiragizawa-kun, what do
you think? I came to you for this, since I figured that you're from
England and stuff and you know how---"
"Understandable, Daidouji," Eriol
nodded humbly with his usual smile. "So... Romeo and Juliet,
huh? Well then, I'll try the best of my knowledge of that play to help you
with the final script. I do think that we'll all be taking a break today
from all our classes just to plan out this fall play. That's what I heard
from Terada-sensei and Mizuki-sensei and all the other teachers earlier
today. What perfect opportunity indeed!"
Whew.... no Math...
thank goodness! I smiled thinking about this day. Then
suddenly, I frowned... What?! No P.E. and music? Darn
it...
"Hey, we'd better get to class now!" Tomoyo-chan cheered
happily. "Let's get started with the script! I brought the original
script here, thanks to my mom! Come on Sakura-chan,
Hiiragizawa-kun!" Right away, she took both mine's and Eriol's wrist and
excitedly dragged us inside the classroom.
"H-hey, Tomoyo-chan... wait up!" I shrieked in
shock, getting myself dragged in the classroom.
"My my," Eriol chuckled along,
"aren't we on a perky mood today, Daidouji?"
Tomoyo-chan just
giggled. We sat at our seats and waved hello to all the other kids in
class. When I took my seat I noticed that Syaoran and Meiling had not
arrived here yet. I wonder what was taking them so long. Normally
they would usually be early... earlier than I am in fact. Where are those
two, anyway....?
To be continued...
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