Note: Decided that I'd try and keep updates frequent and will avoid submitting half finished chapters - instead I'll keep chapters a little shorter than I would normally, more cliff-hangers which y'all love.
Chapter 1
The school bell chimed, the tolls ringing across the school grounds slowly. Students still filed in through the gates, among them were Shaoran and Sakura. Sakura looked around in wonder at her new school. She had been here several times since her elder brother came to school here but she had never fully explored the place.
"Sakura-chan! Li-kun!" The two looked up to see a girl with long, black hair running towards them from inside the school. Sakura's smile widened when she saw the girl.
"Tomoyo-chan!" She exclaimed, running forwards. Shaoran followed more slowly as the two girls chatted away for a few moments. Then Tomoyo turned to Shaoran.
"Good morning, Li-kun. It's good to see you again." She said, smiling, her ever formal tone still the same as he remembered.
"Good morning." He said, smiling back. He and Tomoyo had become quite good friends from when before Shaoran confessed to Sakura, Tomoyo advising and helping him. The bell chimed again and the trio looked towards the main school building.
"We're going to be late if we don't hurry." Sakura exclaimed but Tomoyo shook her head.
"We're meant to wait here for the teachers since we don't know what classes we are in yet." She said, Sakura sighed in relief. The crowds filtered out as the older students walked into the main school building and much of the trio's old classmates were revealed to them along with a few new ones.
Sakura ran over to a group of three girls and a boy talking not far away from them and chatted animatedly to them. Tomoyo followed and Shaoran was about to when a boy and a girl passed in front of him, temporarily blocking his path. The girl glanced at him, grinning at him, the expression sent shivers down his spine.
"Don't worry; soon she won't distract you anymore." She said, Shaoran's eyes widening in surprise; but then the two were gone, walking away and leaving him to contemplate her words. Another boy walked past him, he too stopped in front of Shaoran and smiled comfortingly.
"Ignore them… they can't do anything." He said in a tone of assurance, also walking away. Shaoran stood watching him go, wondering what the meaning of it all was.
"Shaoran! Over here!" Shaoran awoke from his dazed state and looked up. Sakura was waving at him, calling him over. He walked over to the group, the friends from back when they were all in the school across the fence.
"It seems we all came here then." One of the girls, Rika, said.
"Yeah isn't that great. But the teachers will be different… I'll miss Terada-sensei." Another of girls, Chiharu, said.
"Yeah. Ah, looks like those teachers are coming here." The boy, Yamazaki, said, pointing at a group of teachers making there way from the main school building towards the assembled students.
"Okay, quiet please, quiet!" One of the teachers called, clapping his hands together. A hush descended across the students as they turned to listen to the teachers.
"Welcome to Tomoeda High. Before we send you off to your rooms with your homeroom teachers we'll sort out the groups you're in."
The teachers separated in front of the crowd and started to call out names for students to go and line up behind them.
"Kinomoto." Sakura jumped in surprise then walked over to behind the teacher, no one she recognised was there yet, she watched the group of friends who were still standing together in the midst of the crowed, and Shaoran was looking back at her.
"It'd be great if we were in the same class…." Sakura murmured to herself.
"But then there'd be problems between us." A boy beside Sakura said. She jumped, having not noticed him.
"Eh?" She blinked, confused. The boy grinned maliciously at her and suddenly she was afraid, taking a couple of steps away from the boy, holding her hands up against her chest.
"Oh don't worry; I won't hurt you unless you and him are stubborn." The boy's grin widened. Sakura wanted to scream, indeed she felt like she was about to but then someone stepped between her and the boy, interrupting that fearful smile.
"Is there a problem?" The person demanded. There was a feral growl from the other side of the person; but then Sakura saw the boy stalking away to join a girl somewhere in the crowd who had assembled behind the same teacher as her, they spoke in hushed whispers, both glaring up at the person who had saved Sakura from that grin. She noticed that the two looked almost identical… twins.
"Are you alright?" The person asked, Sakura looked up to see her saviour. It was a boy, taller than her, the same height as Shaoran. His hair was blonde and his eyes blue, he was smiling comfortingly, the smile reaching his eyes. Sakura nodded, lost for words for a moment.
"Y-yes… thank you." She managed to mumble. The boy nodded.
"Excellent. Those two are trouble… try and steer clear of them." He said, his expression turning a little more serious; but the smile soon returned. Sakura nodded understanding and the boy turned around to chat with some of the people behind him, leaving Sakura alone to her thoughts.
"Sakura! Are you alright?" Sakura looked up; Shaoran had appeared next to her, his expression worried. She forced a smile and nodded her head.
"Yeah, it's nothing, really." She replied, then: "Are we in the same class?" She asked, Shaoran nodded, Sakura's smile widened. "That's great!" She exclaimed.
"It seems like we're all in the same class, Sakura-chan." Tomoyo's voice came from behind Shaoran and he turned around, the group of girls and Yamazaki making their way over to them. "They wanted to keep friends together, I think." She said, smiling. Sakura nodded her head.
"I'm so glad. I was getting worried I might have been alone."
"Don't worry; I won't let you be alone my love."
The voice sounded in her head, it was familiar, the grin that had scared her so emerged in her mind and she shuddered, closing her eyes and trying to shut out the image. She felt hands on her shoulders and the vision disappeared instantly with what seemed like a cut off cry of frustration.
"You're not alright at all." She heard Shaoran whisper so that the others couldn't hear; she looked up into his worried face and felt her eyes become wet. She blinked, refusing to let the tears fall at that moment.
"I'll tell you later." She promised, Shaoran's worry didn't fade but he nodded reluctantly, letting her go before the others noticed. Sakura noticed that the boy from earlier who had stepped in was glancing out of the corner of his eye. He smiled, turning away.
"Okay, listen up!" The teacher in front of them called, the students hushed again, looking to their new homeroom teacher. He was a short and round man with a jolly face. "My name is Tschumi Hiro. Now, if you follow me, I'll show you all to our homeroom for the year." The teacher waddled off in the direction of the main building; the other classes seemed to be staying in the yard until they had gone to prevent anyone getting lost.
"Here are your lockers, just change your shoes and come to me to get your locker number." The teacher said, standing at the end of the row of lockers. After they had put their out-of-doors shoes in the lockers, the teacher waddled off again with the class following. The man ascended one flight of stairs and then took a left down the corridor, stopping one room from the end. He motioned to the open door.
"Come come, in you go." He said, gesturing with his arms to the door still. The class filed inside and the teacher followed, waving his hand at the room.
"Choose your seats, for today at least. If there are any problems we'll sort it out then but I'm sure you're all grown up enough to get along." He made his way to the front of the classroom, pulling the chair out from under the desk and sitting on it with a sigh, motioning for the students to do the same.
"Now, this'll be our homeroom for the rest of the school year. Do you all remember where it is?"
"Yes." The chorus came back in unison. The man nodded, smiling.
"Well, there's quite a bit to go over now. Just let me get the papers…." He muttered, leaning to the side and rustling around in one of the drawers of the desk. As he did so, the boy and girl who had harassed Sakura and Shaoran turned their heads to stare individually at the two.
"You're mine."
Sakura cringed, slipping down in her seat a little, holding her head in her hands, wanting to never hear the voice again. Shaoran reached forwards and put a hand on her shoulder.
"It's alright, we'll figure it out later, okay?" He whispered, she turned around, surprised.
"You can hear it too, Shaoran?" She asked, her voice trembling. Shaoran nodded.
"Don't worry about it, just ignore it." He whispered.
"Aha! I've found it!" The teacher exclaimed, immediately the voices disappeared from Sakura's and Shaoran's heads as the class' attention turned to the front again. The man had laid a huge file on the desk in front of him and had opened it, taking out various smaller plastic slips and taking the paper out of them.
"Right, here's a map of the school… and here are your timetables… make sure to write them down in your school diaries when you get them." He said, standing up and making his rounds, handing out the paper to each person before waddling back up to his desk.
"Remember, if you have any problems just ask a teacher or another student." He said, sitting down again. The school bell rang as he finished and the man smiled. "Ah, we finished right on time. Go to your lessons as said on that sheet… ah your first two are P.E. Well for today that means you've got some free time." He said, the class exploded into cheers immediately followed by incessant chattering. Yamazaki stood up, they had all sat close together; and turned around to them.
"Let's go outside then." He said, the group agreed, Chiharu stood up too.
"Let's go explore the grounds! We'll need somewhere to eat." She said, the others agreed and the group filed out of the room.
The boy and girl from earlier leaned against the windows, watching the group file out of the building, looking around, pointing, smiling and laughing.
"When will we get a chance?" The girl's voice sounded in the boy's head.
"Follow them after school… perhaps we can find an opportunity then." The boy responded, the girl grinned.
"Good idea. Don't hold anything back, they won't know what hit them until they're ours."
The blonde boy with the kind eyes watched the twins, thinking to himself. He nodded after a moment and hurried out of the classroom. It seemed that he would need to tag along with Sakura and Shaoran more than he had first though, the twins had already become aggressive.