Writer's Note:This fanfic is being co-written with a friend of mine, she doesn't have an account in so we're gonna share mine, Thus I have changed my pen name from jewelcrystal-potter to jewelcrystal-vampirecookie. I'm jewelcrystal and she's vampirecookie. Hehe LOL! Hope you guys like it coz our story is very nice. We've already conceptualized the whole plot and what's gonna happen in this story, all that's left is to type it down and update. This is gonna be rated M later on due to adult themes and cursing. I'm not gonna put an age limit, so if you think you're mature enough to read this then go ahead. We await your opinions! Chapter 1 is here! Fay, Kurogane, Watanuki, Eriol etc. will be introduced in later chapters… Standard disclaimers apply… nothing belongs to my friend and I, aside from a few toothbrushes and our coffee mugs LOL! –jewelcrystal
Chapter 1: First Kiss, Second Kiss
SxSxSxSxSxSxS(the convenience store)SxSxSxSxSxSxS
'Hi, My name is Sakura Kinomoto. I'm an average senior second year high school student at Seijuu High. I live with my mother and two younger twin brothers in Tomoeda, Japan. My father died a year ago in a car accident. I work a job after school to help finance our family because our mother is very frail and sickly, even before my father died. We are poor but we are a happy family, we have each other.'
"Sakura-chan," an old man with graying hair and brown smiling eyes called. "You're late again for your shift."
'This is Minoru Yamada-san, he runs the convenience store that I work for. He is very kind and considerate. He would sometimes give me the extra bento boxes that weren't sold for my family.'
"Gomen Yamada-san," Sakura said bowing her head to him. "I had to stop by the pharmacy after school today. I had to buy more of the medicine that okaa-san needed," the emerald-eyed teen, with auburn hair up to her shoulders, said and smiled apologetically.
"You never change Sakura-chan," the kind old man said returning the smile. "Go on, put on your apron and you can man the cashier."
'Everyday since last year's incident has been like this for me. I wake up very early and prepare breakfast for all of us. And along with breakfast, I also prepare bento for my younger brothers and I. I take a bath and prepare myself for school then I wake mother, Kenji and Renjou (the twins) for breakfast. We eat it together. Then I help Kenji and Renjou to prepare. Then we all say goodbye to okaa-san and leave for school.
'A normal school day for me would be uneventful. I would eat lunch with my friends under the sakura trees. We would spend our time talking about KAMUI. He is a famous pop singer and I am his biggest fan among all of my friends. Today at lunch, we talked about his upcoming concert next week here in Tomoeda, Japan. I really want to be there and watch his concert but I don't have the money or the time.'
"Sakura chan," Mr. Yamada called out from the back room of the convenience store. "You can leave now, I'll be closing up the store in 20 minutes," he said as he came out of the back room and went to the refrigerator where the bento was stored. "But of course, before you leave," Mr. Yamada continued as he opened the refrigerator and took out the remaining 3 unsold bento boxes. "You can take these for you and your family," he said as he put them in a plastic bag and handed them over to Sakura.
"Arigatou Yamada-san!" Sakura said as she bowed thankfully to him and handed him her apron. "See you tomorrow!" she said and left through the front door.
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Outside, on the streets, Sakura was walking along the dark lonely sidewalks to get home from the convenience store. It was already 9:00 in the evening. Today was one of her later shifts at the convenience store.
'It's so dark out tonight. Maybe there are gangsters and killers and rapists out there in the dark alleyways. Oh no, Sakura! Don't think that!' she scolded herself. 'Ah, okay… think something else… Mr. Yamada really is very generous. Thanks to him giving me the extra bento, I wouldn't have to prepare some for Kenji and Renjou. And okaa-san can have the largest one. Oh there's the intersection where I'll turn left into our street.'
The sixteen-year-old girl bounced her way to the corner. When she was turning left to the other street, a man was coming at her at a very high velocity that she couldn't even dodge. The man bumped into her (insert bump sound here). Sakura fell over to the floor (insert thump sound here) and the bento she was carrying in a plastic bag flew out of her hands and crashed (insert crash sound here) a few meters away from her, the food spilling out onto the dirty street.
"Aaaaaaaaaaah!" exclaimed Sakura when she fell down. The man, surprised by her scream, grabbed her hand, covered her mouth and pulled her to the adjacent very narrow space between two buildings I like to call an alleyway.
"Shhh… be quiet," the man said in a gentle voice.
"Aaaaaaaaaah! The bento!" Sakura cried out upon noticing the spilt bento on the street they just left. The man pushed her to the wall, placing his hands on either side of her head, trapping her.
"I said quiet," the man said in a firm voice.
"No! Let me go! Don't!" Sakura yelled. Being apprehensive, her right hand involuntarily went up and slapped the man.
(SMACK!!!)
The man's face snapped to the side upon impact with Sakura's right hand. His messy chocolate-brown bangs parted for a while, revealing a wolf-shaped birthmark on the left temple of the man. The man faced Sakura again, his amber eyes stared coldly into her emerald ones.
'Oh God! What's gonna happen to me? His eyes are so intense, I feel like I'm drowning in them. What's he gonna do to me? I've gotta yell out for help.'
Sakura's lips parted, ready for her to scream bloody murder.
"This brat," the man murmured, then he leaned down and crashed his lips unto Sakura's. Sakura's eyes went wide with shock.
'Hoooeee! What is he doing? He's kissing me! And this is my first kiss too. This cannot be happening! But I feel so warm.'
When the man finally pulled away, Sakura felt dazed and weak in the knees. She was speechless.
"Good girl," the man stated. "It seems that only a kiss was needed to keep you silent," he added, making Sakura turn strawberry-red at his statement. He leaned closer to Sakura, closed his eyes and seemed to relax a little. "Just stay like this for awhile," he said.
"Where is he?" a gruff voice emanated from the other exit of the narrow alleyway.
Sakura's head snapped to the side, trying to see where the voices came from.
"I think he went that way," a screechy voice replied as two silhouettes came into Sakura's view.
"We have to catch him," the gruff voice said again. "We can't afford to let him live."
'This is my chance! They must be policemen looking for a criminal or something.'
Sakura's mouth opened again ready to scream, this time with more conviction. But the man had also stirred at hearing the voices and had also anticipated Sakura's reaction. The man grabbed Sakura's chin, making her face him, his bright eyes boring into hers, melting into her soul.
'His beautiful intense gaze, it entrances me. I can't seem to think of anything but look into his deep amber eyes and drown in them.'
The voices faded away into silence as the two men left to look elsewhere. The man's bright amber eyes turned dull as he let go of Sakura. He stepped back against the other wall and slumped down on the floor.
Sakura, surprised of the sudden freedom, looked down at the man a little worriedly. She knelt down to his level and touched his left elbow.
"Hey, are you alright?" she asked in her sweet tones. The man was unresponsive and just stayed the way he was with his eyes closed. 'What's this wetness on my thumb?' She looked down at the man's arm that she was touching. 'Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . This is my chance, I can escape now.' She stood up and made to run away but she looked back at the man slumped down on the floor. She could see beads of sweat falling on his face from his forehead. She went back to the man and knelt down beside him again and looked at his bloody left arm. 'There's a bleeding wound on his upper left arm. I didn't notice it before because of his black long-sleeved turtleneck top. It's still bleeding pretty heavily.'
"Are you hurt?" Sakura asked with a sweet smile. The man looked at her skeptically as if saying: 'isn't it obvious.'
"Let me look at it," Sakura suddenly tore of the right sleeve of her long-sleeved dress. The man looked at her questioningly.
"What are you doing?" he asked as she tied her sleeve tightly around the wound.
"My home is just nearby. You should at least get your wound cleaned up," Sakura stated.
"You can leave me," the man replied. "You don't have to help. Go."
"No, I can't leave you!" Sakura said in a stern voice.
"Do you know what you're doing?" the man asked her grimly.
"Yes I know what I'm doing," Sakura answered. The man looked at her in wonder. "I can't leave you here! You're hurt."
SxSxSxSxSxSxS(at the Kinomoto apartment)SxSxSxSxSxSxS
The door opened and Sakura guided the man with gentle pushes inside the one-room, one-floor, one-living room/ dining room/ kitchen apartment that she and her family lived in.
"Sorry it's cramped and small," Sakura whispered as she gently pushed him along. The man noticed that the door to the bedroom was open and he caught a glimpse of two little boys sharing a futon, sleeping in funny positions and a middle-aged lady sleeping on another futon. Sakura led the man to sit and wait a while on a cushion at the dining/ kitchen table.
Sakura went to the bedroom and closed the door. She opened the closet and changed her clothes to a simple shirt and shorts that she used as pajamas, folding her now ruined long-sleeved dress neatly. She also took out a shirt that once belonged to her father and went out of the bedroom and gave the man the shirt.
"Here, you should take a shower first to clean the wound and then you can change into this." Sakura said as the man took the shirt from her as she pointed to the door leading to the bathroom.
While the man was showering, Sakura took out clean bandages from a cupboard above the kitchen counter. And she also took out the cotton ball and alcohol from the other cabinet.
'Would he be alright? His wound seemed pretty deep and painful. Maybe I should have brought him to the hospital.'
The door of the bathroom opened and the man came out the door with only his pants on. His messy brown hair dripping wet. His six pack abs glistening with beads of water from the shower. He was still holding the shirt Sakura offered. Sakura turned strawberry-red, thinking wicked thoughts.
'Hoooeee! What's he doing? Why is he topless?' The man went to her and sat down beside her. 'Oh no! He's so close! What's gonna happen now? Maybe . . . .' she thought shaking her head from side to side to clear her head of such thoughts. "Uhhh… What are you doing?" she asked in a trembling voice? The man held out the shirt to Sakura, she took it.
"I can't put it on while my wound is still bleeding. It'll only get soiled with blood." He replied to her query.
"Right," Sakura sighed in relief that what she was thinking was wrong. "Okay, I'll start cleaning your wound now," she said as she took out a cotton ball and put alcohol on it. She tenderly patted the alcohol drenched cotton ball onto the man's wound. The man gasped out at the sudden pain upon contact of the open wound to the alcohol. Sakura clamped her hand over his mouth and put her index finger to her lips.
"Quiet," she whispered. "My okaa-san and little brothers are asleep." She let go of his mouth and made to continue daubing the wound. The man was shocked. And he chuckled deeply amused.
"How ironic! A while ago I was the one telling you to be quiet. Now you're telling me to be quiet." He said with a smile and a chuckle. Sakura stared at him.
'His smile is so kawaii! When he smiles, he doesn't look like an evil man at all,' she thought as she continued cleaning his wound.
"You know, I never asked your name yet," Sakura stated as she was now bandaging up the wound with the clean bandages she prepared earlier. "So what is it? Your name, I mean," she asked.
"It's Syaoran," he said in his deep chocolaty male voice.
'What a strange name, it doesn't seem to be Japanese.' She thought as she continues to wrap the bandage around the wound.
"Why were you wounded?" Sakura asked continuing the interrogation. "And why were you being chased by those men? What really happened?" she kept on.
" It's better if you didn't know all those things," the man replied. "How about you? What should I call you?"
"My name's Sakura," she replied in her sweet as honey voice.
"Ah….. Sakura…." Syaoran sighed out, as if digesting the information.
'The way he says my name, it makes me feel so delightful,'she thought as she again reddened like a strawberry.
"There, it's finished!" Sakura exclaimed smiling after tying the knot to the bandage. She looked at Syaoran's face still smiling and noticed that his face was coming ever closer to hers. She got shocked and nervous. 'What's he doing now?' She put both her hands on his bare chest and gently pushed him slightly away. "What are you doing?" she asked.
"Huh?" Syaoran said. " A thank you kiss."
"Thank you kiss? Huh? HOOOEEEE! No Uhmm… eto… ano… ahh…" Sakura stuttered, her eyes not looking at Syaoran.
"Don't tell me that I was your first kiss a while ago?" Syaoran asked with amusement in his voice. Sakura reddened like a tomato and Syaoran chuckled, seeing this. "Okay, I'll teach you the right way to kiss."
Sakura was shocked speechless again. Syaoran's face came closer to hers; His bright eyes staring into her glittering ones; His lips centimeters from hers; She could feel his breath on her lips, then she could feel his lips crushed against her own. It felt right as she closed her eyes. Syaoran slowly parted her lips as the soft butterfly kisses turned deeper.
"That's right," Syaoran said in between kisses. "Use your tongue," he added. He gently pushed his tongue through Sakura's lips caressing her tongue with his. Sakura felt like she was on cloud nine, their tongues wrestling with each other. While in the kiss she felt something else in her mouth other than Syaoran's tongue. She accidentally swallowed the unknown object. Then she suddenly felt sleepy and dizzy. Her lips going limp against Syaoran's, her eyes drooping. She slumped down on the floor lying down. Her vision blurring, She could hear a soft whisper in her ear something like: "Thank you Sakura," then her world dimmed into darkness.
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Writer's Note: Here it is! Chapter 1!!! Please review!!! My friend and I are very thirsty for reviews! Please!!! Tell us what you think!!! Hehe! -jewelcrystal