Chapter 1: Unexpected Visit
It was an evening like no other. There was something in the night air that smelled like a thousand deaths from below the ground. A dark figure stood by the clock tower of Tomoeda. Soon enough the whole of Tokyo would come crashing to ground, finally revenge would be so sweet.
The sun was shining; there was no trace of the evil that was to happen from last night. Just the sound of Sakura and Touya's early morning quarrel.
Dingdong, the Kinomoto residence's doorbell rang. As Mr. Kinomoto opened the door, boom! He went straight to the floor with a little figure on top of him, laughing out loud. "Ha ha ha, I miss you so much." The little figure still clings on Mr. Kinomoto's neck as he stood up. The expression on Sakura's face was blank. She can't clearly understand what or most probably who is this person clinging on his dear father's neck. Something inside of her would like to approach the visitor but something as well says something wrong is bound to happen.
"Well, are you just gonna stand there and look at me?" she said looking straight at Sakura. There was something in her eyes that Sakura has seen before, yet she couldn't remember. "Ha, Touya?!" then went straight to Touya and gave him a tight hug.
"Did you miss me?"
Sighs, "I'll go pick it up." Touya said.
She then looked at Sakura with that weird look again. There was certainly something going on between these two, a bit of conflict maybe but we really aren't sure, are we?
"Sakura…" someone broke the silence between the two.
"Sakura, this is your cousin Hikaru" Mr. Kinomoto said.
"Hi, I'm Hikaru." She reached for Sakura's hand and smiled. The weird look in her deep blue eyes went away by that time.
She's just like me, Sakura thought. "Hi! I'm Sakura."
"Hey, where do you want me to put these?" Touya asked carrying all of Hikaru's things.
"You could put it to the guest room." Mr. Kinomoto said.
"You could put it in my room, is it okay father?" Sakura asked looking at Hikaru.
"That'll be great." Hikaru answered.
Meanwhile, inside Sakura's room…
" Yeah, that's it!" Boom! Boom! "YEAH!!!" Kero-chan flew with excitement. He took a spoonful of pudding and danced. "Aahh, this is the life". Sakura entered the room in a hurry. "Hey, I just won the game again" but Sakura went out of the room just before Kero-chan finishes his sentence. Aargh, Sakura peeked and said "Kero, clean up the room we have a visitor staying with us."
Footsteps towards Sakura's room"Here we are" Sakura said opening the door of her room. Aaaaarrrrgghhhhh. The whole room was a mess! Clothes scattered all over the floor, video game discs tossed all over the bed, pudding smudged over her table. Of course Sakura can't blame anyone else and she can't clearly pinpoint the culprit for the mess.
"It's okay, no biggie" Hikaru said while picking up the clothes Kero threw all over the floor.
"I'm really sorry. Believe me my room is not usually like this."
"Hey, it's okay. Really." Hikaru said smiling at Sakura. The next thing that happened was so fast. Hikaru fell to the floor just after she smiled at Sakura.
"Today we'll be having a new student with us. You could come in now".
Mr. Terrada wrote something in the board. Hikaru Kinomoto.
It was raining hard that day. Everyone was just excited to go home. It was a tiring day, for what reason nobody knows. Sakura wasn't there to walk Hikaru home, Hikaru insisted on going home alone after all. There was something in the rain that Hikaru always loved. The feeling of the rain that gently drops on your skin, it's coldness, the feeling of having the rain kiss your face and tell you I'll never leave you. Hikaru closed her umbrella gently. She walks underneath the sunless sky wishing she could be one with the rain. The weight of the world on my back is tiring, Hikaru thought. "How I wish it would just be all over…" those were her last words before she fainted few blocks away from the Kinomoto residence.
When Hikaru woke up, she was no longer in her soaking wet uniform. She has no idea where she was or what time was it but the smell of tea made her forget that. She studied the room where she found her self. A place that once haunted her in her wildest dreams, like a place where she was once a princess waiting for her prince's arrival once upon a dream. She stood up away from the bed that gave her the comfort of her sleep. She headed for the beautiful mirror that greeted her with a familiar reflection. "What a lovely dress, just like the ones I have in my dream" Hikaru said touching her long black-blue hair. Hikaru never realized that she was no longer alone; there he stood carrying a tray of tray of sweets and hot pot of tea.
"You look lovely in that dress" he said smiling at her.