Guardians of Tomoeda

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Episode One - Comrades

Sakura's point of view

Beep! Beep! My alarm clock went off at the appointed time. I turned it off drowsily, looking at my calendar. I gasped. Today was the day Hogosha school let out- the day I would get a comrade! I was so excited! I crossed my fingers that I would get my friend Tomoyo, though I knew it was unlikely…

Oh, crap! I should've introduced myself by now. Ahem. I'm Sakura Kinomoto, age 17. I'm a student at Hogosha- the Guardian school. Well, until today, that is. Today, I was going to graduate and get a Comrade, a Ruling Group, and a District. A Comrade is a person that you have to like, live and breathe with- and usually, if it's a boy and a girl Comrade pairing, they end up falling in love. (Giggle ~) A Ruling Group is consisted of two sorcerer Comrades and one warrior. Together, they defend and protect their District. My brother, Toya, is Comrades with Yukito Tsukishiro. Their Ruling Group is made up of them, Sonomi Daidouji and her partner Kaho Mizuki, and their warrior, Yue Reed. Their District is Youkai- it's a scary place…

I quickly got up and got dressed. I stepped outside of my dorm room to see my friends Tomoyo and Meiling emerging from their rooms, too. All of the girls lived in a dorm, each with their own room. There were parties all the time. One time, we even tried to sneak into the boy's dorm, but we got caught. It's never a dull moment!

My friends greeted me excitedly.

"Hey, guys," I said, grinning. "So- who do you want for your Comrade? Guy-wise, of course."

"TOTALLY Syaoran Li!" Meiling shouted immediately. "Too bad I'm a warrior and I don't get a Comrade…"

I rolled my eyes. Meiling was completely infatuated with this guy. A lot of girls were. I thought he was pretty average, I guess. But I'd never really talked to him, so don't take my word for it.

Tomoyo cleared her throat. "Eriol Hiiragazawa is cool, in my opinion." A light blush was visible on her cheeks, breaking through her normal cool. I giggled. She was totally in love with Eriol.

"Too bad Yukito is my brother's Comrade," I sighed, almost forgetting to lock my door behind me. "I guess Kerberos is cool." I didn't have many feelings for Keroberos, but we'd talked sometimes, and he was nice enough.

We stepped out of our dorm. It was suspended in…nothingness. There was just space all around us. Everyday we had to use our powers or strength to get from our dorms to our classes. Tomoyo and I could use our magic, but Meiling had to rely on her strength and jumping power. Sometimes she just gave in and asked for help, though, heheh.

I whipped out my FLY card. "FLY!" I yelled, and my pink staff extended and grew wings. When I landed in the school, I pulled out my DASH card and ran at super speed down the hallway, Tomoyo and Meiling on my heels.

We thought we were going to be late, but it turns out we were kind of early. So we just sat and gossiped for a while.

Suddenly I felt a presence behind me. I turned; it was Syaoran Li. I heard Meiling let out a small 'eep.'

"Er, hi," I said.

"That's my seat," he said, pointing to my chair.

"Uh, yeah. I'm just sitting her till the bell goes."

His face darkened. "That's my seat," he repeated.

I frowned up at him. "Can't you find another one? I'll only be here for like a minute."

He shook his head stubbornly. He motioned for me to get up. My anger was rising.

"I won't move! I'm sitting here until the bell rings, and that's final!" I yelled.

Syaoran looked taken aback – RING – but it quickly changed to amusement as the bell for class rang. My face flushed. My fight had been for nothing. I got up and trudged angrily over to my seat. Jerk, jerk, jerk, idiot, jerk, jerk, jerk, fool, and so on…

Mr. Terada came into the classroom. He was a teacher because he went somewhere no one should ever go: novasu. A group of trolls living near his District had taken his comrade, also his wife, and killed her. He let his anger get the best of him and destroyed the trolls, along with half of his District. He could've had his memories stripped and become a normal citizen, but he begged to still be around magic, so they let him be a teacher.

As he entered the classroom, the windows went dark. If you tried to get outside now, you'd fall away into nothingness.

"Hello, students," he said with a smile. "Today is the day you graduate, and get you Comrades and your Ruling Group, and your District. It's also the day you might fail and be humiliated, er, everywhere-wide." He threw his arms out to imitate 'everywhere', a grin on his face, like he didn't care what happened to us.

"Yeah, yeah, get on with it!" a student yelled.

Mr. Terada looked taken aback, but quickly recovered himself. "Very well," he said, clapping his hands together. "Let the ceremony begin!"

Everything in the room jumped a little in a puff of smoke. When everyone and everything was settled, I looked around to see more festive furniture and bright colours. Everyone started talking excitedly. Mr. Terada cleared his throat but no one listened. He picked up a rock and whipped at some kid's head to shut us up. "Ow! OMG, there's blood!" he screamed. No one tried to help him, fearing they would end up with the same fate.

Satisfied, Mr. Terada started to name off all of the Comrades.

"Tomoyo Daidouji, your Comrade is Eriol Hiiragazawa!" he announced. Tomoyo blushed and smiled, and ran over to sit beside Eriol. He grinned back at her. Lucky.

The naming went on and on until finally it got to me.

"Sakura Kinomoto, your Comrade is…" Th-thmp. Th-thmp. My heart was pounding and my palms were sweating. I was so excited! "…Syaoran Li."

My heart dropped. My jaw could've dropped, too, right to the floor. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU! I wanted to scream, but I couldn't. I looked over at Syaoran. He made no signs of moving, so I had to get up and sit down grudgingly in the chair next to him.

Our Ruling Group consisted of Eriol, Tomoyo, and Meiling, so we got lucky there. But it didn't help the fact that I was partnered with that… thing!

"Our District is Tomoeda," Tomoyo said with a smile. I smiled back and looked at Meiling. She turned her head away angrily.

Crap. She was probably mad that I'd been paired with Syaoran. Ugh. She probably even thought that someday, Me plus Syaoran would equal Heart. NEVER!

I sighed. I was gonna have a hard time working with Mr. Butt Face…no matter how cute he was.

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