Though this may seem like another story I've written, but it really isn't.
It's got a mainly different plot but also some parts are the same…I swear
it's only by a coincidence. I hadn't thought of it till now so…
Dedicated to the one and only megan!!! And I predict that she'll be my first reviewer!!!lol j/k I know that already cause I told her it's going up.
Also to misty…erm…that's what you told me to call you…here's a little S+S to tide you over till I get up the china doll…
Kura-Kura
Chapter 1 – "I'd like that a lot"
"Sakura-chan! Wait up!" Tomoyo called to her best friend.
"Oh hi Tomoyo. Are you ready for that big math exam we were supposed to study for?" she asked anxiously pausing to let her friend catch up with her. Tomoyo nodded in response.
"Let me guess, you tried but it didn't help?" she laughed at Sakura's pained expression. As they rounded the corner their high school came into view. They had just started their first year in Seijuu High and already the exams were raining down on them. They made it to homeroom just in time for the late bell and sat down in their seats.
Sakura had finally gotten settled into the new routine and didn't look as disappointed that everyone who entered wasn't her Syaoran. Everyone told her to move on but she knew that one day Syaoran would come back to Tomoeda and when he did she swore up and down that she'd tell him how she felt. It was too bad he never called or wrote or kept in contact and gradually she forgot her promise and began to move on, even though deep down inside of her she knew she'd never give up on him. She met a nice guy in the grade above her and they had just become a couple. During the anthem she saw him walking through the halls, later than usual.
After the anthem and the announcements, Sakura's math teacher made an announcement of her own.
"There is a man living in the penguin park district who asked me to enquire to my students about a possible babysitter for his two little girls who are four and nine. He's a widower and he just moved here around a month ago and needs the help when he's gone. Is anyone willing to go?" she asked. Only Sakura's hand was raised. "Thank you Kinomoto-san. I'll let him know." Then the rest of the day went on like usual.
"Kinomoto-san!" her math sensei cried catching Sakura as she was headed out of the doors. "Here's the man's address and his telephone number. His name is Li-kun, and his children's names are Tamashii who is four and Koji, short for Kojika, who is the nine year old. From what I've seen of them they are really sweet children." The sensei said and gave Sakura a small piece of paper with the information. She smiled and turned back to the building and walked back into the school.
'Li-kun…' Sakura thought to herself thinking fondly about the ten-year-old boy she remembered. She caught herself before her thoughts went any further and shook her head trying to rid herself of those happy thoughts. 'He's not a part of my life now and besides I'm over him; I moved on.' She told herself, trying her hardest to believe her own words.
She turned the corner and closed her eyes thinking of other things when she walked head first into someone tall. She stumbled backwards and felt a hand catch her arm before she hit the ground.
"Gomen-nasai! Gomen, gomen." She repeated looking up at the man who was staring at her. She suddenly got a sense of importance emanating from him and shrank back in his glare. She managed a weak smile before walking around the man.
"Are you Kinomoto-san?" the man asked, seeming to have just found his voice.
"Um…yeah, why?" she asked and turned around to look more closely at the man.
He was about six feet tall with rugged brown hair and warm amber eyes that were caught between a cold, glare and a loving look. He was wearing a large, dark green sweater with black jeans. He looked like he was about in his mid thirties.
"My name is Li-sama." He introduced himself and stopped when he saw Sakura's shocked expression. "I believe your sensei told me you had offered to baby-sit for me. Thank you." He smiled slightly. Sakura recovered from her obvious shock from meeting this man who was so much like Syaoran, only older and responded politely to him.
"It's really ok. I hope I'm a good baby-sitter for them." she exclaimed modestly and began to fidget slightly.
"I know they'll love having you baby sit them." he said with a knowing look, then walked away. "I hope I'll hear from you soon on when you'll be able to start." He smiled, and Sakura swore she could hear him saying something beneath his breath to himself, which sounded like, 'I was such a baka!' but she dismissed it and walked home.
"Kero-chan! Stop eating and listen to what I'm trying to tell you…he looked exactly like Syaoran would look when he's in his thirties. And he looked at me like he knew me. That's not possible is it?" Sakura asked the tiny yellow animal who was stuffing his face full of chocolate pudding, and for the most part, ignoring what Sakura was saying.
"So maybe he's from the future." He exclaimed not really thinking about what he was saying.
"Is that even possible?" she asked incredulously. He looked up at her with confusion.
"Is what possible?" he asked. Sakura face faulted and fell to the ground.
"Time travel." She answered.
"No that's not possible. At least not that I know of. Why are we talking about time travel anyways?" he asked.
"I thought that maybe that guy I met on my way home might be related to Syaoran. He doesn't have any uncles or a father, not that I know of anyways. Why should I care anyways? He's gone, I've moved on." She said again to herself. Kero had gone back to his pudding and ignored her.
"Is Manoto-kun going to call or what?" she whispered aloud. Manoto Koshi was Sakura's boyfriend and they had been dating for a few months, ever since she had finally let Syaoran's memory rest in peace. Though Manoto was known to be a bit aggressive at times and sometimes took out his frustrations on her, she never found fault in him. She walked to her bedroom and pulled out the small slip of paper that her math sensei had given to her and decided to give Li-kun a call and work out a schedule for her job.
"Li-kun residence, Kojika speaking." A young girl's voice answered on the third ring, sounding breathless.
"Hi. This is Kinomoto Sakura. May I please speak with your father?" she asked as politely and maturely as she could. On the other end she heard the child gasp.
"Kura-Kura!" she whispered, but a male voice came on before Sakura could ask what she had said.
"Hello, Miss Kinomoto. Are you calling about our schedule?" he asked politely.
"Um…yeah. I'm calling to tell you that I'm available everyday after school till about 9:00 pm and on Saturdays, too." She exclaimed to Li-kun.
"That'll be great. I could use the baby-sitter all of those days. I get home around 6:30 though but you'd be welcome to have dinner with us and I could also drive you home. When can you start?" he asked, seeming quite friendly.
"How about tomorrow after school?" she offered.
"That would be needed. Do you have the address?" he asked.
"Yeah. Oyasuminasai, Li-sama." She said before hanging up.
"Wait, please call me Xiao Lang. No need to be so formal." He laughed slightly and hung up. Sakura sat on her bed holding the cell phone in her hands staring at it in shock.
'Wasn't that Syaoran's Chinese name? I thought he told me that just before he left…NO! These are just coincidences. Syaoran is in Hong Kong and he's only fourteen…not thirty-five. He may be engaged but there's no way he could have children already…'she though to herself as she dropped the phone to her bed. 'Coincidences, coincidences, they're nothing but coincidences.' She repeated to herself again.
"I'M OVER HIM!" she screamed and buried her head in her pillows and began to cry. "I'm over him, I really am." She whispered. Kero flew into the room and floated over his mistress as he watched her cry herself to sleep. He was beginning to worry about the stress 'the kid' was putting her through even while in Hong Kong, thousands of miles away.
The next afternoon, Sakura walked to Li-sama's house, lugging her oversized backpack with her. That day every teacher seemed to pile on the homework till someone's bag split apart at the seams. She climbed up the stairs to a lovely detached house and pressed the doorbell. She waited quietly for a few seconds, then someone answered the door. It was a small little girl with short auburn hair tied up in similar fashion to her own. She had her father's dazzling brown eyes and little rosy cheeks. She looked about three or four.
"You must be Tamashii. My name is Kinomoto Sakura and I'm your baby- sitter." Sakura greeted the child pleasantly and gave her a warm smile. The little girl's face froze in awe and she nodded her head.
"'Akura!!!" she squealed when she finally was able to talk. "Papa! Kura- Kura's here!!!" she called after her father and then went bounding into the house leaving the door wide open.
"Come on in!" a voice cried to Sakura from the kitchen, inviting her inside.
Quietly, Sakura walked into the house, shutting the door behind her. She slipped off her shoes and walked into the house. This time another girl came into view, stepping out from the kitchen. In every aspect she was the feminine version of her father. She was tall for her age but she was very well built so her height wasn't noticeable. She had tousled brown hair, like her father's and it came out just past her shoulders. She had piercing brown eyes that held no emotion except a small lingering pain, which expressed a burden that no one should have to bear. They were filled with sorrow, but they softened a bit when she saw Sakura. She nodded her head in hello but didn't smile. She reminded Sakura of Syaoran when he had first came to Tomoeda.
"Otousan's just trying to make us dinner. The key word here is trying." She cracked a small smile which didn't last very long and gave Sakura a small sense of honour at being privileged enough to see it. She turned back to the kitchen and led Sakura to her father.
"Konnichiwa, Li-sama." She greeted the man who was bent over the stove with beads of sweat on his forehead. He looked frustrated.
"Konnichiwa Kinomoto-san, how were you always able to make such good food?" he greeted her.
"What are you talking about?" she asked and gave the man a confused look. He looked up at her and for a few seconds he seemed confused at her question, like the answer was obvious, but then he shook his head dismissively.
"Never mind. I was just thinking about my late wife." He said and turned quickly back to his dinner.
"She wasn't your wife." Koji reminded him. "At least not yet…"
Li-sama turned around to his daughter and looked at her painfully, as though her words hurt him.
"She always felt like my wife and she should have been if I didn't screw up my life so much." He said gaining his composure and lifted the pot of boiling liquid off of the stove. He took the stuff to the sink and poured it down the sink.
"Kinomoto-san, can you make a half decent dinner for them? I'll add that to your baby-sitting money?" he pleaded.
"Sure!" she agreed quickly. "But you don't have to give me extra money." She added while going to the fridge.
"Can you make konnyaku?" Tamashii asked. Both Sakura and Li-sama made a disgusted face.
"Um…no, not really. Is there something else you want?" she asked going through the contents of the fridge.
"How about egg noodles? Or sushi? Or teriyaki chicken with steamed rice?" Koji offered a list.
"I like konnyaku!" Tamashii cried in protest. Li-sama picked up the little girl.
"I can make that tomorrow for you." He whispered softly to the girl. She sniffed and gave up on her tantrum.
"Where's your mother?" Sakura asked Koji but realized it was the wrong thing to say a little too late.
"Our biological mother is dead." Koji answered flatly. "Oh, she wasn't that great as a mother. She was forced to marry otousan and then she abused everything and everyone. She died just after Tamashii was born of a drug overdose." She explained quickly, noticing Sakura's embarrassed expression.
"I'm sorry." Sakura mumbled feebly.
"It's ok." Li-sama exclaimed. "At least they had somewhat of a mother figure. She was so beautiful…" he began to drift off in memory of this girl, but shook his head when he noticed his daughter's smiles.
"Oh. Heh heh." He laughed and put his arm behind his head. "I have to go out now so I hope you enjoy yourselves." He exclaimed then turned to his two daughters who had seated themselves at the dining room table and looked at them sternly. "Don't mess around here. There was only one reason I brought you two here, because I wanted to see you before I lost you. Please don't reveal too much now." He finished and stood up straight. Sakura didn't understand anything he was telling his children but didn't say anything because Koji and Tamashii seemed to understand. Li-sama turned around and walked towards the door. He paused for a moment
"Oh and one other thing. Please call me Xiao Lang, Kinomoto-san. I hope we have more time to become better acquainted tomorrow." He exclaimed.
"Then you can call me Sakura, if you'd like." She called to him as he opened the front door.
"I'd like that." He said softly. "I'd like that a lot."
To be continued…
So? How was it? I have something around thirty other ideas but this one was too good to let pass. I just started to type instead of writing it down, which takes more time. If you have anything you want explained…(as much as I can anyways) then just ask! You can also review to tell me what you think something is and I'll tell you if it's right…
There's a kind of small thing behind the two girl's names and if anyone wants me to say what it is, then I'll say that in the beginning of the next chapter.
Please review!!!
Dedicated to the one and only megan!!! And I predict that she'll be my first reviewer!!!lol j/k I know that already cause I told her it's going up.
Also to misty…erm…that's what you told me to call you…here's a little S+S to tide you over till I get up the china doll…
Kura-Kura
Chapter 1 – "I'd like that a lot"
"Sakura-chan! Wait up!" Tomoyo called to her best friend.
"Oh hi Tomoyo. Are you ready for that big math exam we were supposed to study for?" she asked anxiously pausing to let her friend catch up with her. Tomoyo nodded in response.
"Let me guess, you tried but it didn't help?" she laughed at Sakura's pained expression. As they rounded the corner their high school came into view. They had just started their first year in Seijuu High and already the exams were raining down on them. They made it to homeroom just in time for the late bell and sat down in their seats.
Sakura had finally gotten settled into the new routine and didn't look as disappointed that everyone who entered wasn't her Syaoran. Everyone told her to move on but she knew that one day Syaoran would come back to Tomoeda and when he did she swore up and down that she'd tell him how she felt. It was too bad he never called or wrote or kept in contact and gradually she forgot her promise and began to move on, even though deep down inside of her she knew she'd never give up on him. She met a nice guy in the grade above her and they had just become a couple. During the anthem she saw him walking through the halls, later than usual.
After the anthem and the announcements, Sakura's math teacher made an announcement of her own.
"There is a man living in the penguin park district who asked me to enquire to my students about a possible babysitter for his two little girls who are four and nine. He's a widower and he just moved here around a month ago and needs the help when he's gone. Is anyone willing to go?" she asked. Only Sakura's hand was raised. "Thank you Kinomoto-san. I'll let him know." Then the rest of the day went on like usual.
"Kinomoto-san!" her math sensei cried catching Sakura as she was headed out of the doors. "Here's the man's address and his telephone number. His name is Li-kun, and his children's names are Tamashii who is four and Koji, short for Kojika, who is the nine year old. From what I've seen of them they are really sweet children." The sensei said and gave Sakura a small piece of paper with the information. She smiled and turned back to the building and walked back into the school.
'Li-kun…' Sakura thought to herself thinking fondly about the ten-year-old boy she remembered. She caught herself before her thoughts went any further and shook her head trying to rid herself of those happy thoughts. 'He's not a part of my life now and besides I'm over him; I moved on.' She told herself, trying her hardest to believe her own words.
She turned the corner and closed her eyes thinking of other things when she walked head first into someone tall. She stumbled backwards and felt a hand catch her arm before she hit the ground.
"Gomen-nasai! Gomen, gomen." She repeated looking up at the man who was staring at her. She suddenly got a sense of importance emanating from him and shrank back in his glare. She managed a weak smile before walking around the man.
"Are you Kinomoto-san?" the man asked, seeming to have just found his voice.
"Um…yeah, why?" she asked and turned around to look more closely at the man.
He was about six feet tall with rugged brown hair and warm amber eyes that were caught between a cold, glare and a loving look. He was wearing a large, dark green sweater with black jeans. He looked like he was about in his mid thirties.
"My name is Li-sama." He introduced himself and stopped when he saw Sakura's shocked expression. "I believe your sensei told me you had offered to baby-sit for me. Thank you." He smiled slightly. Sakura recovered from her obvious shock from meeting this man who was so much like Syaoran, only older and responded politely to him.
"It's really ok. I hope I'm a good baby-sitter for them." she exclaimed modestly and began to fidget slightly.
"I know they'll love having you baby sit them." he said with a knowing look, then walked away. "I hope I'll hear from you soon on when you'll be able to start." He smiled, and Sakura swore she could hear him saying something beneath his breath to himself, which sounded like, 'I was such a baka!' but she dismissed it and walked home.
"Kero-chan! Stop eating and listen to what I'm trying to tell you…he looked exactly like Syaoran would look when he's in his thirties. And he looked at me like he knew me. That's not possible is it?" Sakura asked the tiny yellow animal who was stuffing his face full of chocolate pudding, and for the most part, ignoring what Sakura was saying.
"So maybe he's from the future." He exclaimed not really thinking about what he was saying.
"Is that even possible?" she asked incredulously. He looked up at her with confusion.
"Is what possible?" he asked. Sakura face faulted and fell to the ground.
"Time travel." She answered.
"No that's not possible. At least not that I know of. Why are we talking about time travel anyways?" he asked.
"I thought that maybe that guy I met on my way home might be related to Syaoran. He doesn't have any uncles or a father, not that I know of anyways. Why should I care anyways? He's gone, I've moved on." She said again to herself. Kero had gone back to his pudding and ignored her.
"Is Manoto-kun going to call or what?" she whispered aloud. Manoto Koshi was Sakura's boyfriend and they had been dating for a few months, ever since she had finally let Syaoran's memory rest in peace. Though Manoto was known to be a bit aggressive at times and sometimes took out his frustrations on her, she never found fault in him. She walked to her bedroom and pulled out the small slip of paper that her math sensei had given to her and decided to give Li-kun a call and work out a schedule for her job.
"Li-kun residence, Kojika speaking." A young girl's voice answered on the third ring, sounding breathless.
"Hi. This is Kinomoto Sakura. May I please speak with your father?" she asked as politely and maturely as she could. On the other end she heard the child gasp.
"Kura-Kura!" she whispered, but a male voice came on before Sakura could ask what she had said.
"Hello, Miss Kinomoto. Are you calling about our schedule?" he asked politely.
"Um…yeah. I'm calling to tell you that I'm available everyday after school till about 9:00 pm and on Saturdays, too." She exclaimed to Li-kun.
"That'll be great. I could use the baby-sitter all of those days. I get home around 6:30 though but you'd be welcome to have dinner with us and I could also drive you home. When can you start?" he asked, seeming quite friendly.
"How about tomorrow after school?" she offered.
"That would be needed. Do you have the address?" he asked.
"Yeah. Oyasuminasai, Li-sama." She said before hanging up.
"Wait, please call me Xiao Lang. No need to be so formal." He laughed slightly and hung up. Sakura sat on her bed holding the cell phone in her hands staring at it in shock.
'Wasn't that Syaoran's Chinese name? I thought he told me that just before he left…NO! These are just coincidences. Syaoran is in Hong Kong and he's only fourteen…not thirty-five. He may be engaged but there's no way he could have children already…'she though to herself as she dropped the phone to her bed. 'Coincidences, coincidences, they're nothing but coincidences.' She repeated to herself again.
"I'M OVER HIM!" she screamed and buried her head in her pillows and began to cry. "I'm over him, I really am." She whispered. Kero flew into the room and floated over his mistress as he watched her cry herself to sleep. He was beginning to worry about the stress 'the kid' was putting her through even while in Hong Kong, thousands of miles away.
The next afternoon, Sakura walked to Li-sama's house, lugging her oversized backpack with her. That day every teacher seemed to pile on the homework till someone's bag split apart at the seams. She climbed up the stairs to a lovely detached house and pressed the doorbell. She waited quietly for a few seconds, then someone answered the door. It was a small little girl with short auburn hair tied up in similar fashion to her own. She had her father's dazzling brown eyes and little rosy cheeks. She looked about three or four.
"You must be Tamashii. My name is Kinomoto Sakura and I'm your baby- sitter." Sakura greeted the child pleasantly and gave her a warm smile. The little girl's face froze in awe and she nodded her head.
"'Akura!!!" she squealed when she finally was able to talk. "Papa! Kura- Kura's here!!!" she called after her father and then went bounding into the house leaving the door wide open.
"Come on in!" a voice cried to Sakura from the kitchen, inviting her inside.
Quietly, Sakura walked into the house, shutting the door behind her. She slipped off her shoes and walked into the house. This time another girl came into view, stepping out from the kitchen. In every aspect she was the feminine version of her father. She was tall for her age but she was very well built so her height wasn't noticeable. She had tousled brown hair, like her father's and it came out just past her shoulders. She had piercing brown eyes that held no emotion except a small lingering pain, which expressed a burden that no one should have to bear. They were filled with sorrow, but they softened a bit when she saw Sakura. She nodded her head in hello but didn't smile. She reminded Sakura of Syaoran when he had first came to Tomoeda.
"Otousan's just trying to make us dinner. The key word here is trying." She cracked a small smile which didn't last very long and gave Sakura a small sense of honour at being privileged enough to see it. She turned back to the kitchen and led Sakura to her father.
"Konnichiwa, Li-sama." She greeted the man who was bent over the stove with beads of sweat on his forehead. He looked frustrated.
"Konnichiwa Kinomoto-san, how were you always able to make such good food?" he greeted her.
"What are you talking about?" she asked and gave the man a confused look. He looked up at her and for a few seconds he seemed confused at her question, like the answer was obvious, but then he shook his head dismissively.
"Never mind. I was just thinking about my late wife." He said and turned quickly back to his dinner.
"She wasn't your wife." Koji reminded him. "At least not yet…"
Li-sama turned around to his daughter and looked at her painfully, as though her words hurt him.
"She always felt like my wife and she should have been if I didn't screw up my life so much." He said gaining his composure and lifted the pot of boiling liquid off of the stove. He took the stuff to the sink and poured it down the sink.
"Kinomoto-san, can you make a half decent dinner for them? I'll add that to your baby-sitting money?" he pleaded.
"Sure!" she agreed quickly. "But you don't have to give me extra money." She added while going to the fridge.
"Can you make konnyaku?" Tamashii asked. Both Sakura and Li-sama made a disgusted face.
"Um…no, not really. Is there something else you want?" she asked going through the contents of the fridge.
"How about egg noodles? Or sushi? Or teriyaki chicken with steamed rice?" Koji offered a list.
"I like konnyaku!" Tamashii cried in protest. Li-sama picked up the little girl.
"I can make that tomorrow for you." He whispered softly to the girl. She sniffed and gave up on her tantrum.
"Where's your mother?" Sakura asked Koji but realized it was the wrong thing to say a little too late.
"Our biological mother is dead." Koji answered flatly. "Oh, she wasn't that great as a mother. She was forced to marry otousan and then she abused everything and everyone. She died just after Tamashii was born of a drug overdose." She explained quickly, noticing Sakura's embarrassed expression.
"I'm sorry." Sakura mumbled feebly.
"It's ok." Li-sama exclaimed. "At least they had somewhat of a mother figure. She was so beautiful…" he began to drift off in memory of this girl, but shook his head when he noticed his daughter's smiles.
"Oh. Heh heh." He laughed and put his arm behind his head. "I have to go out now so I hope you enjoy yourselves." He exclaimed then turned to his two daughters who had seated themselves at the dining room table and looked at them sternly. "Don't mess around here. There was only one reason I brought you two here, because I wanted to see you before I lost you. Please don't reveal too much now." He finished and stood up straight. Sakura didn't understand anything he was telling his children but didn't say anything because Koji and Tamashii seemed to understand. Li-sama turned around and walked towards the door. He paused for a moment
"Oh and one other thing. Please call me Xiao Lang, Kinomoto-san. I hope we have more time to become better acquainted tomorrow." He exclaimed.
"Then you can call me Sakura, if you'd like." She called to him as he opened the front door.
"I'd like that." He said softly. "I'd like that a lot."
To be continued…
So? How was it? I have something around thirty other ideas but this one was too good to let pass. I just started to type instead of writing it down, which takes more time. If you have anything you want explained…(as much as I can anyways) then just ask! You can also review to tell me what you think something is and I'll tell you if it's right…
There's a kind of small thing behind the two girl's names and if anyone wants me to say what it is, then I'll say that in the beginning of the next chapter.
Please review!!!