~~Morning True~~
On April Fool's Day, Yamazaki and Chiharu send a fake newsletter depicting the death of their head cheerleader, Sakura. Syaoran, reading it in H.K., believes it... and changes. S+S
A Card Captor Sakura S+S fic by Melissa Ordesky.
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Prologue - 30th March
"Takashi?"
"Hm?"
"You're a genius."
From his position at the laptop, Yamazaki twisted to face his beaming girlfriend. Depositing a small warm kiss on her cheek, he turned back to his masterpiece.
"Sakura will go nuts when she sees this," Chiharu predicted, snuggling closer to Yamazaki on the stool and admired the professional look of the prank. "April Fool's Day a stupid idea, she said. This'll kill her!"
"April 1st. Tragedy struck Tomoeda High yesterday afternoon when the school lost its brightest asset of the school, its head cheerleader, Kinomoto Sakura.
"Sakura, 16, was shopping with her best friend Daidouji Tomoyo when the disaster struck. A women, unidentified, thought to be from Kyoto, attempted suicide off Tokyo Tower. She survived, as she collided with Sakura, who died from the injuries sustained in the impact.
"Her father and brother are said to be distraught. "It's all my fault," Daidouji sobbed. "If we hadn't passed by the tower, Sakura would still be alive. Ironic that she should endure so much to be killed by the selfishness of one stupid individual."
"Amen to that, says this paper. Stupidity is the cause of most major accidents and tragedies. School will be closed on Friday 3rd April so that any student wishing to attend Sakura' funeral may be excused." Yamazaki finished reading it, and smirked.
"It would be really cool if we got the day off from this article," Chiharu said, watching as Yamazaki cut and pasted articles from the real newsletter due out later in the week into the fake one, and printed off a copy.
"It sooo would," Yamazaki agreed. "Mustn't dream. I'll get this over to Iori in reprographics. He'll get it copied and sent out to all the usual addresses."
Chiharu giggled. "We'll teach her for saying April Fool's Day is one of the most idiotic Western traditions."
"Knowing her, she'll believe it herself," Yamazaki said, putting the copy into a plastic folder.
"And be scared of herself!"
"What do you mean?"
Chiharu looked at Yamazaki densely. "She's scared of ghosts, don't you remember what happened when Naoko used a snippet from Scream in her presentation on Western films?"
Yamazaki buried his head in Chiharu's jumper to muffle his snorts of laughter. "H-h-h-h-hehehe," he laughed. "I don't think the fish have either!"
"Should it go out to everyone?" Chiharu asked, looking fondly down at the boy sniggering into her shoulder. "I mean, Sakura's dad might actually flip, and we'd save postage if we missed out our ex-students, you know, Hiirigizawa, Meilin, Li..."
"Um, I'll remember to tell Iori to miss those obvious ones out," Yamazaki promised.
Chiharu grinned in anticipation of the joke two days hence.
They didn't know the problem.
The problem was twofold. One - jokes are not universally funny, and two - promises...
...were made to be broken.
~TO BE CONTINUED~