A/N And I'm back! Good thing there's no more SATs for year 9s in England anymore! YAY! Anyways, ENJOY!!!! This is, in my view, a bad chappie. Nothing interesting, until the end that is, and lots of time jumps.
Chapter 2
12 YEARS LATER
A skirt swished around the slender legs of a pair of girls of 15.
Sakura Daidouji (she had been adopted by Sonomi) had wavy, auburn hair down to her waist. Her sparkling emerald eyes glittered like jewels as she giggled at something her companion had said. She was wearing a pretty pale green skirt that had simple pink ropes tied at the waist. On the end of the ropes were pretty faux jewels that were cherry blossom shaped and boasting a pure white diamond colouring. Leading to the jewel on the end, she had a few beads of every colour. She was wearing a white top. The sleeves were puffy, long and tight at the wrists. At the centre of the neck of the top was a slit, held together by a white ribbon that tied into a floppy bow at the top. So that she preserved her modesty, she wore a pale pink strappy top underneath. There was also a small nacklace around her neck, it was a small pink key with a star in the centre.
A small white puppy was following her.
Her and her companion were carrying books.
Her companion, Tomoyo Daidouji (Sakura's adoptive sister) , was also very beautiful. Her long raven hair was tied into a plait that reached midback. She was wearing a dress that was a bit lower than her knee. It was a pale lavender colour, with white lace at the hem, around the v-neck and on the sleeves. The sleeves were spgghetti straps egded in lace. Around her waist, there was a belt of white material. The top of the material was just bellow her bust and the bottom was just higher than her hips. It had a beautiful design of assorted, lavender coloured flowers, scattered around, embroidered onto the strip of fabric. It was held there by a white ribbon laced through holes cut into the material and tied into a bow at the bottom. On her feet were a pair of sandles, like Sakura had on her feet. Tomoyo had a bracelet with a small purple key on it, as small as Sakura's. It had a small black treble clef in the center instead of the star.
She was holding a small yellow bearlike creature in her white and silver fabric shoulderbag. The creature had wings and its mouth seemed to be moving and the wings seemed to flap every now and again.
Sakura giggled at something Kero had said. The pair walked into a building that was a bit bigger than the rest of the village. It was time for school.
Lesson 1 - Maths
Sakura and Tomoyo listened carefully while the teacher drone on about Algebraic equations and such. However, there was a BIG difference between the two girls. Tomoyo was watching and understanding. Sakura, on the other hand, was watching and failing to comprehend anything the teacher was saying, let alone do work!
Since Tomoyo sat in front of Sakura, she turned around to try to explain. Unfortunately, she gave up, seeing as Sakura was a hopeless case. It was a wonder that Sakura had gotton so far, barely scraping a passing mark each year. This was Sakura's least favourite subject. Unsurprisingly.
Lesson 2 and 3- Food Tech. AKA Home Economics in America. (It lasts 2 hours, each lesson lasts 1 hour each)
Today was a free lesson and they were able to make anything they wanted. It was the day before the summer holidays, after all. They enjoyed this lesson thoroughly, Kero, however, was unable to see what they were cooking, as he had been banned from the cookery room for obvious reasons. Yuki, on the other hand, helped
Flashback
The room was a mess. Plates had been smashed, class students and the teacher were hiding under a table, all apart from Sakura. The trail of chaos ended at the paws of the one and only plushy Kero. He had devoured the food in the bat of an eyelid. Sakura was scolding Kero who was ignoring her as he sat contentedly in a plate, patting his rather large stomach.
End Flashback
Sakura had chosen to make a traditional english Victoria cake, dusted in icing sugar. It's filling was a sweet strawberry jam, with real bits of strawberries and butter icing, a delicious combination. Enough to make your mouth water.
Tomoyo had chosen to make a medium spice curry that smelt soo good, the entire class flocked around it just to smell and see the dish, imagine the taste if it smelt so good. It had an array of spices, enough of each to make a great smell but stay less than spicy and Tomoyo had garnished it with a small sprig of coriander. Yummy!
It's no wonder they had passed this lesson with flying colours.
Lunch
Not very interesting. Kero just devoured Sakura's food, Tomoyo's food and their various friends' food. Chiharu and Naoko's stomachs were left unfed, as were Sakura's and Tomoyo's. Luckily, the four weren't very hungry after they had eaten Tomoyo's curry, Chiharu's spaghetti, Naoko's vegetable soup and for desert, Sakura's cake.
Lesson 4 - Art
The group were sitting there in art, adding colour to a fantasy picture they had been working on. The full term (semester in America) was based on the theme of fantasy. The first half term, they had made detailed clay statues of mythical creatures. The second half was dedicated to making a picture. It was fantastic. This was one of their favourite subjects.
Sakura's painting was inspired by Kero's larger form. Ceroberus was prowling facing the person looking at the picture, his eyes seemed to follow you around the room and he seemed to growl at you, fangs bared. The background was a plain black, making his golden coat seem to glow.
Tomoyo's painting was of a nymph, her face upturned towards the moon. She was bathed in the silver light. This made the pool of water she seemed to be walking along smimmered with an ethereal light and small lights floated around her. There was a figure in each of the glowing lights. They were faeries.
Chiharu's painting was of a unicorn, standing regally in a field. the picture was in black and white. The effect was breathtaking. It was painted as though you were stood, watching the unicorn behind a tree, it's horn was gleaming in the light of the sun.
Naoko's picture was done in chalks. The picture was of a mermaid sitting on a piece of driftwood in the middle of the sea combing her hair. It was at sunset and the blue of the water shone a sapphire blue. The sky was a pinkish was that had streaks of fiery orange. The sun was the same orange that was smudged with red. This made the blue of the mermaid's hair stand out and the serene green of her tail was covered in a white sheen to make it look like it was wet, infact, her whole body had a sheen of white.
End of School Day
Sakura returned home, with three slices of her cake. One of them was being eaten by Kero. One was for herself. The other was for Sonomi, or Auntie, as Sakura liked to call her. She knew she was adopted. On the way home, she and Tomoyo split because Tomoyo had an errand to do. Sakura walked home with Kero and almost walked into her friend and guardian, Yukito Tsukishiro. Yukito was quite friendly, the complete opposite of his cold alter-ego Yue. His eyes shone with happiness when he saw who it was. Although, the effect on Sakura was quite different. Her face ressembled that of a blushing tomato. Sakura had developed a crush on the dark grey haired male.
They greeted and walked home together. Sakura gave up her slice of cake and decided to give the peice she kept for herself to Yukito. He was kind and insisted that they shared it. He said it was delicious and that Sonomi was going to love it. They split their ways when they came to the Daidouji residence. It was a large house as Sonomi owned a sucessful clothing shop that Tomoyo made clothes for. Sakura, Tomoyo, Chiharu and Naoko modeled the clothes every Saturday.
"Auntie! I'm home! Tomoyo has gone to run an errand for you."
Sonomi came down the flight of stairs. She ushered Sakura into the Kitchen. She sat her down and slowly looked into the eyes of the girl that was her daughter.
"As you know, our house is very large and we have plenty of extra room."
"Yes Auntie. Why?"
"Well, we are having guests to stay. They are the son and neice of a friend of mine. I would like your help with decoration the rooms to their taste."
"Of course! Do you know them well?"
"Yes, I would like you to decorate one room in peach, white, yellow and red, for a female. The other is for a male, I would like it in green, blue and white."
Sakura saluted to her 'mother' and gave her the slice of cake she had saved. Sakura rushed to the shops to buy paint, duvet and pillow covers and the furniture to get delivered the next morning. She brought the paint home and started the paint work. She worked for a while and recieved help from Tomoyo. Sakura had great taste in room designing. She had designed hers and Tomoyo's room and it had turned out fine. Sonomi had decided to design her own room. And so, she started with the white room first.
Later
Sakura came out of the green room next to her own bedroom. The room next to that was the white room. She was covered in paint and sported overalls and they were covered in paint, yet Sakura came out not touched by the paint. She washed up and went down to get her dinner. Tomoyo had gone earlier, she had done her job. Sakura was just laying down the carpet after finishing the detail on the walls. She just needed the furniture and that was going to come tomorrow. Soon after dinner, she went to her pink, green and white room, and fell asleep straight away.
The next day
Sakura woke up late but refreshed. She had a shower, brushed her teeth and hair, and got changed befor going to breakfast. Her hair was up in a high ponytail, tied with a white band. She was wearing a white and silver zip-up hoodie over a white cap sleeved top. She was wearing a grey denim pleated mini skirt that just touched her knees, with a silver chain belt with silver glittery cherry blossoms on the ends. On the feet were a pair of silver glittering leg warmers and a pair of white and silver adidas trainers.
After breakfast, she was drawn by voices. One male and one female talking to the familiar voice of Sonomi.
They were standing at the entrance of the house, both dark haired, the young male had chocolate brown hair but the young female had dark brown, almost black hair. Sakura gasped.
The female seemed very happy to be here, but it was the boy she was worried about. He seemed like he was angry, like he didn't need to be here, like he didn't want to be here.
Sakura's POV
What could be wrong, what could we have done to have angered him? Had he somehow found out that he was the only male in the house? Surely that can't be it! We have Eriol and Yamazaki and Yukito and a lot more males in the village.
His face looked up and a memory stirred deep inside of me. It's all fuzzy, from before I got here, with Tomoyo and Sonomi. And then he turned around and he stares into my eyes. My heart beats faster, no male has ever held my gaze for more than 5 seconds, it was deemed disrespectable by the village to hold the gaze of the opposite sex for too long.
But I'm breaking the rule too. I was staring into his golden ember eyes as he stared into my emeralds. The girl tapped him on the shoulder, causing him to look away and a slight tint of red colouring his cheeks. I turned away and slammed straight into Tomoyo I hurriedly said sorry and rushed down the stairs, pausing slightly to compose myself.
I walked past casually, stealing a glance at the boy, before Sonomi grabbed my arm and said:
"Show our guests to their rooms please!"
"Hi, I'm Sakura, what are your names?"
"Oh..My name is MeiLin Li and this is my cousin, Syaoran. Don't mind him, I think he's overwhelmed by the size of your house, our house is slightly smaller and a bit more complicated, we've lived there for years and we STILL get lost!"
I giggled at that. I showed Syaoran his room first, it was quite large and next to mine, the whole back wall was glass and there were panels of stained glass, depicting pictures of the sea, boats or fish and pure white curtains. They showered rays of colour anound the room, the walls were white with green and blue stripes changing in sizes and the floor was a soft white carpet. The bed was silver with pale blue and green sheets with white silouettes of white seahorses. The wardrobe was white and silver, there was alsoan ensuite bathroom with a white bathtub, toilet and basin. It was tiled in blue and green tiles, varying it shades with random sparks of silver tiles here and there.
Next was MeiLin's room. Her room was slightly larger than Syaoran's with the same wall of glass. There were no stain glass panels however. Her curtains were a pale cream with various climbing flowers up its length. Her walls were peach with a design of climbing roses on the far wall, they were randomly placed on a background of ivy painted carefully and with care. Each leaf was original and no two were the same. The roses were in pink, red, white and peach. Her carpet was a luscious red and very soft. Her furniture was white, with matching bed, vanity, stools and a soft fluffy sofa. Her bed was a cluster of throw pillows with single teddy bear about the size of her forearm. It was white with a red ribbon tied around it's neck. The ensuite bathroom was peach with a large bath that had sunken into the floor like a pool.
"Woah! How did you do this in a day?!?!" This was Syaoran. He wasn't easy to surprise but that was pretty amazing.
MeiLin had all but fainted. She dived onto her bed and snuggled upto her bear. She read the lable and gave Sakura a hug to say thank you for her marvellous room and the bear.
Syaoran retired to his own room, well he tried to, He was stopped by Kero's incessant cries for food and Yuki following closly behind. Yuki jumped straight into Sakura's arms and she was forced to intoduce the pair of them before taking Kero down for some food and settled him down with his PS3. She was joined by MeiLin to take Yuki for a walk. They strolled out to the village and took MeiLin to the shop where they met Tomoyo. Bad move.
"Yay! More manequins *ahem* I mean people to make clothes for! OH HO HO HO! This will be fun."
Tomoyo forced MeiLin onto the raised platform and took all kinds of measurements. This was when Tomoyo noticed a necklace much like hers and Sakura's. It was white key with a red rose entwined around it. Tomoyo pretended not to notice and stiffled a little giggle when her own key 'accidently' slipped out of her shirt and reted ontop of her top, thus eliciting a small gasp from MeiLin. It was then did she notice the pink key hanging around Sakura's neck. Her eyes widened further and she became a statue for quite a few seconds before dragging them into a clearing in the forest. Sakura cast a shield so that no one would find them, she then summoned Syaoran who seemed utterly surprised.
"I feel that he would want to know...am I wrong?"
With that Sakura summoned her Star staff.
Key of the star,
With powers burning bright,
Reveal the staff,
And shine your light!
Release!
The symbol of her power appeared. She pulled out her pink pouch, decorated with a golden star and scattered cherry blossoms and showed MeiLin and Syaoran the first card which happened to be The Flower. Now it was Tomoyo's turn.
Key of music,
Reveal yourself before me,
Show me the power,
Within my Melody!
Release!
Tomoyo's staff appeared, the same size as Sakura's but in lilac. At the top was a ring with a single black treble clef. Where the ring was attached to the base, was a blue sapphire, burning with power. She pulled out a small pouch, purple in colour and boasted black musical notes, varying in size. Inside were cards like Sakura's but were purple and instead of the star, she had a dark purple treble clef.
MeiLin trusted them with her secret cards and staff,as they did wth her, as Syaoran revealed his sword and ofudas.
Key of nature,
Make yourself known,
The power of nature,
Shall now be shown!
Release!
Meilin's silvery white staff appeared in her hand, same size as the other staffs. It was gorgeous with a single crystal rose climbing up around the pole, it's green crystal stem gleaming in the light and its single bloom perched itself on the top, glittering in the sun. MeiLin too had a set of cards. They were white and had the same backing as the other two except it was a symbol of nature that replaced the star and the treble clef.
Stars appeared in Tomoyo's eyes as she rattled on about costume ideas and filming chances.
Meanwhile, everyone sweatdropped.
A/N What do you think? The chants for Tomoyo and MeiLin are mine, I made them up so if you want to use them, ask first please! Over 3000 words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
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