A/N: Yes, I finally managed to get some time and redo the chapters. It actually was harder than I thought it would be. I really appreciate all the great reviews I got before I went all HIATUS on you guys especially since my first fic was a total and complete failure. I don't want to blow my own horn, but these chapters are actually much better than the ones that I did have. They're not boring!
I already posted a new update on my bio containing some juicy sneak previews of Double Cross again, I am so sorry for my long hiatus. Please forgive and start to review again. All the feed back makes me feel happy and loved. I will do my best to update more, but it'll be hard since school started again. Please enjoy the newly revised chapter! Wait, can you see my pretty little symbols?
NEW Story Summary: Black Cherry Blossom and Little Wolf were the best in their organization each honing their skills to perfection, waiting for the day they would come face to face. Now one of the agents has gone undercover to gather the secrets from the other. The mission: To destroy the enemy from the inside out. It never mentioned that they couldn't fall in love.
Chapter 1: The Beginning
A lone alarm clock rang its sound bouncing off the walls and into the ears of the sleeper. "HOEEEE!!!!!! Onii-chan! Why didn't you wake me up?!" Sakura Kinomoto fell out of bed and rushed to get herself ready for school in only a few minutes. She stomped down the stairs that led to the hall before entering the kitchen or living room. "ONII-CHAN NO BAKA!! You set my alarm clock an hour behind!" Her trained ears picked up the faint mutter of 'kaijuu' and her foot automatically crushed his.
"ITAI!!" Touya Kinomoto, older brother to Sakura, yelled. "It's a wonder that a kaijuu like you has friends. I thought by now you would have crushed them all." He quickly got up from the wooden table in the kitchen and made it out the door before she could injure some other body part of his. "Ja ne, I'm off!"
Mr. Kinomoto laughed and shook his head. "Ohayo, Sakura. Would you like some breakfast before you leave?" He held a plate piled with fresh off the stove goods.
Sakura shook her head, but grabbed a piece of toast. "Ohayo otou-san. Gomen, demo I'm late. Ja ne!" She said rushing to put on her skates and headed out the door. "Matte onii-chan!" Sakura gazed upwards at the falling cherry blossom petals. She giggled and hummed happily while turning around and skating backwards until she bumped into someone.
"Oi! Watch where you're going!" A male voice said roughly. The owner had been shoved to the ground by Sakura.
Sakura rubbed her sore butt and looked up to see a pair of fierce amber-maroon eyes glaring at her. She got up and bowed, "Gomen-nasai." At least she had the decency to show some manners.
"Yeah, whatever. Next time, watch where you're going." Came his rude reply. He left Sakura with a really bad first impression of himself.
Sakura growled under her breath, muttering things about the boy as she skated to school, which she never arrived early for. She entered the locker hallway just as many students left for class.
"Saku! Ohayo!" A cheery voice greeted our honey-haired spy.
Sakura smiled at the amethyst eyed agent. "Ohayo Tomoyo." She opened her locker, located next to her best friend's locker, and started to fix her hair.
Tomoyo's creamy white hand held out two long needles. "Here Saku, you'll be needing these." She said with a hinting tone in her voice, but it didn't raise suspicion. Years of practice had taught her how to emphasize key words without anyone, other than who it's directed to, to pick up on it.
"Arigatou." Sakura took the needles and fixed them in her hair. She made pouty faces into her locker mirror trying to see if the hairstyle worked to make the needles look like metal chopsticks for styling hair. She knew that she didn't want to repeat that mistake of making them look like what they really were, weapons.
Tomoyo's eyes narrowed and she spoke in a low whisper, "You have your 'things' Saku?" Her voice was deadly serious, telling Sakura that she wasn't talking about her womanly items.
"Hai, no need to worry." Sakura answered nonchalantly, finally satisfied with her look and closed her locker. She knew exactly what Tomoyo was talking about.
Tomoyo smiled as if there was no tension of paranoia in the air. "I have my 'things' too." She hooked arms with her second cousin as they went to class and just blurted out, "I heard we have a new student."
Sakura groaned; just what she needed to be investigating a new student that could likely be their enemy. "Boy or girl?" Her tone made it obvious that she wasn't pleased.
Tomoyo raised an eyebrow and Sakura's humorous attitude. "My sources inform me that it's a boy." She studied her companion more closely. Was there something that she wasn't sharing?
"Great!" Sakura replied sarcastically. There was nothing she hated more than being flirtatious to a boy just to get information out of them without raising any eyebrows. It just wasn't her. She hated everything about having a target that was male, but she couldn't back out now. It was way too late.
Tomoyo rolled her eyes, "Come on Saku." She dragged her friend to their seats on the other side of the classroom. "It's not going to be that bad. It might be fun!"
"Ohayo, Tomoyo-chan. Sakura-chan." A meek female voice said from across the room.
Tomoyo and Sakura turned to see a maroon haired girl and smiled. "Ohayo Rika," they greeted their friend together and sat down. Sakura was the second to last person on the first row and Tomoyo was next to her on the second row.
Sakura could feel the guns strapped to her back and the daggers at her thighs poking her. She wiggled around a bit to move the weapons away; the uncomfortable feeling wasn't something she could get over. It didn't matter that she had been wearing them daily for the past couple of years.
"Daijoubu desu ka Saku?" Tomoyo asked worriedly. She didn't want to jump to any conclusions, but told herself it was the usual, her weapons. Her cousin was just that predictable.
"Hai, daijoubu." Sakura nodded and stopped wiggling around as Terdada-sensei walked into the classroom. Everyone took their seats and closed their mouths as class was about to begin.
"Ohayo gozaimasu, class." Terdada-sensei greeted with a smile. It was a normal classroom routine. He checked role as the class greeted him in return. "Today we have a new student."
Sakura and Tomoyo exchanged glances. They knew what each other was thinking and kept their eyes on the classroom entrance. The door opened and in came a boy with messy hazel hair.
Sakura's jaw dropped. She recognized those piercing amber-maroon eyes. Her suspicions were starting to form wild theories in her mind.
"Saku?" Tomoyo leaned over, trying not to draw attention to herself as their teacher talked for a while about the boy. "Is something wrong?" She could feel some suppressed feelings coming from her friend.
"Iie, iie, I'm fine." Sakura faked a smile, but knew she couldn't fool Tomoyo. Her eyes were glued to the new boy whom she had run into earlier this morning.
Tomoyo looked puzzled, but she left Sakura alone. She knew better than to mess with Sakura while she was moody. Oh well, she'd find out about it later on.
The boy seemed to be scanning the room in search of something out of the ordinary. His eyes fell between a green-eyed girl with honey brown hair and an amethyst-eyed with dark violet hair. The brunette looked oddly familiar to him and it finally dawned on his senses that she had bumped into him earlier that morning. He frowned inwardly at himself; how could he have not been more perceptive.
Terdada-sensei was naming general information about him (namely lies supplied by certain people, but no one had to know) to the class. "Please introduce yourself to the class." He finally addressed the boy.
"Watashi no namae wa Li Xiao Lang desu." The transfer student bowed down. No one seemed to suspect anything so far which was an excellent sign for him. All that work to learn Japanese and its recent culture didn't go to waste.
"Arigatou Li-san. Please take your new seat; it's behind Daidouji-san who will be raising her hand." Terdada-sensei nodded to Tomoyo and stepped out of the way.
Tomoyo raised her hand every so slowly and shot her seatmate a look. To any normal person, it could mean a dozen different things, but Sakura knew exactly what it meant and nodded.
"Kinomoto-san, Daidouji-san," Terdada-sensei said suddenly, startling many of the students, "as ambassadors of this class I expect you two to show Li-san around the school and get him comfortable. Also, I am excusing you from today's lesson to take time and get to know him."
The two glanced at each other, having a silent conversation. That was exactly what they were going to ask. "Hai Terdada-sensei." They turned to Li and began making introductions making sure that they came off friendly enough that he would feel open to them, but not friendly enough that he would stick to their side by glue. They didn't need someone on their back wanting to know where they were.
Sakura was colder to Li. She answered him with annoyance in her voice, clearly upset that he didn't apologize to her earlier this morning. "I'm sure there's no need for introduction, ne? I already know everything I need to know about you. You're a prick, non-chivalrous, and discourteous." Her eyes were narrowed into slits as she glared at him. Maybe she was just be over-dramatic about the whole morning situation, but it still bugged her.
Tomoyo studied the exchange between the two. This was obviously the reason why she showed up irritated at school. Sakura had met him before school and had a miss-encounter with Li. "Now, Saku," She said playing her part, "don't be rude. He's new here and doesn't need any lip from you."
Sakura bit her tongue and crossed her arms while looking the opposite way. She prayed that Tomoyo would make her apologize because she refused to. She had her rights and didn't have to. "Schedules, Tomoyo." Her voice sounded like an electronic reminder.
Tomoyo smacked her forehead, "Of course, how could I forget? Li do you mind if I take a look at your schedule? I want to see which classes you have. I don't want to look like a baka showing you around the school and passing your classes." She smiled and held out her hand, waiting politely.
Sakura snorted at Tomoyo's comment, ignoring that warning look that it earned her. Tomoyo looking like a baka? As if, that would never happen. Maybe to her, but never to Tomoyo. She waited, staring at the ceiling like it was the most interesting thing in the world.
"Well, it seems like you have only a total of three classes with me, Li." Tomoyo handed that paper back and turned to Sakura. "Gambatte anata, Sakura. He has a total of four with you because he has two classes with the both of us."
Sakura could have sworn her eyes bugged out. She had four classes with this insensitive boy? "Nani?!" Her voice was louder than she meant it to be and most of the student body eyes were on her. Great, this was exactly what she needed. "Gomen," she squeaked sitting back down in her chair, pretending to be embarrassed by the whole dilemma.
Li raised an eyebrow at Sakura's behavior and knew better than to shrug it off. He senses were telling him that something more was going on than what the two girls were letting on. He tried as best as he could to hide that fact that he was scoping them out, gathering what he could while looking natural. It wasn't hard, but he didn't know about these two. There was something strange about them, like they had something to hide, but at the same time thee was nothing to hide.
Sakura rested her chin on the palm of her hand and stared in envy at the Sakura trees just outside the classroom. They were swaying in the breeze, going with the flow of nature and didn't have to worry about anything. The trees had everything that they needed. It was like a painting, perfection.
"Enjoying the view?" A voice asked, breaking Sakura out of her spell.
Sakura nodded and slowly turned. Her jade eyes landed on the person and saw . . .
A/N: I know what you're all thinking. What a lame cliffhanger, right? I thought so too and I was going to change it, but then I started to confuse myself with what I'd have to fix in the next chapter in order to make this a better ending. Please review and I'll be so happy! I'll make better chapters. C'mon! It's not that hard. Follow my step-by-step instructions! If you're the kind of person who waits till you've read everything, then you have a while to go. Just let me know with a quick review how you like it so far. Do I need to change anything? I will accept flames, all negative critiques if you feel that I need to improve myself.
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