It started with a kiss.
SUMMARY: Sakura Kinomoto was forced to act on a horrid play made by her classmate. She was supposed to act the heroin on the story but something happened… and poofed… she was now going to act the male protagonist of the story. And to her surprise, the heroin will be played by her bestfriend…. She was afraid to do the play.. but why
PAIRINGS: Shaoran/Sakura and Eriol/Tomoyo.
Disclaimer: I do not own Card Captor Sakura or any of it's characters. But I do own the plot.
FLASHBACK
"Ok. Here are some of the changes. The twins will be Rika and Chiharu. Chiharu said that she could come to the practice so nothing to worry. And Sakura will be.." a flash of light can be seen on her eyeglasses.
'I had a bad feeling about this' Sakura thought as she gulped.
" will be the hero which is Nikki."
"what?" Sakura instinctively asks.
Naoko just ignored her. "And Tomoyo will be the Heroine or Miki."
Tomoyo was a bit surprised but giggle nonetheless.
"WHAT?!!!" Sakura can't believe what just she heard.
But since Naoko do not want any questions and argumentation, she just ignored Sakura who seems like gonna sank in the earth 20 feet under. She cannot believe that she will act as a boy, which she once wish the moment the announcement of characters was announced and will be partnered to her beloved Tomoyo. Moreover, come to think of it that there is a scene where a kiss will take place.
"What a fate…." Sakura silently whispered together with a sigh.
Chapter 4: The Play
Sakura's POV
Sigh. Here it comes. Ohhhh.. my heart .. it's beating so fast that it hurts. Ok… Deep breaths. That will do the work. Inhale. Exhale.
"Sakura-chan? Are you alright?" its Rika.
"Of course I am! I'm just a little nervous, that's all…" I answered her.
She nods and I hear her say, "its just normal to be nervous before you perform on the stage. Just do not think that everyone's watching you." Then she walks away.
Everyone is watching me? Chills. She makes me more nervous. She should not have said that. Sigh. But actually, its not the audience that makes me so nervous. It's second on my reason-to-be-nervous list. It's the kiss.. oh my… I can my face heating up again. argggghhhh!
I shook my head violently to erase the unnecessary thoughts about kissing my bestfriend. I. Am. Going. To. Kiss. Her. Nyah!!!!!!! Stop thinking about that Sakura!!! Darn it.
And besides, Tomoyo already agreed 'bout he kiss. She said that it's alright since we are best friends. Sigh. Yeah, best friends. If she only knew…..
Normal POVIt was quarter to six in the afternoon. The play will start at six p.m. The chairs at this time are already full with students, teachers and parents.
At the back stage, Naoko's yelling different commands everywhere. This was her play after all and she wants it to be perfect.
"alright, minna-san! Please come here!" Naoko yelled loud enough for her classmates to hear and not the audience outside the curtain. Everyone gathered around Naoko, who was holding a clipboard and pencil.
"Are all the casts already in their respective costumes?" Naoko queries.
They all look at the 4 main casts. Rika and Chiharu were wearing an identical costume since their characters are twins. They both were wearing an all-green-mermaid costume. Green pearls, green necklaces, green tube-bra and green mermaid tails.
Sakura on the other hand was wearing a, well, plain human clothes. Plain human 'manly' clothes. A white T-shirt with red jerkins on top partnered with red baggy pants (1).
And lastly, Tomoyo's very beautiful on her costume. It fits her perfectly even though it was really for Sakura. Suffice to say, they were thankful that it fits her. She wore an all-pink-mermaid costume. A crown beaded with pink pearls, a necklace with a pendant shaped like a sea shell and a shelly-tube-bra. Her tail was pink and the scales were perfectly detailed in all aspects. Her hair was just like that. She let it flow like the waves of the sea.
"Tomoyo, you are so beautiful." Someone complimented.
Sakura was in awe as she looks at her beloved Tomoyo. 'ethereally beautiful..' she thoughts and a blush crept on her face.
"thank you" Tomoyo answered with a giggle. "but this costume was for Sakura. It's much more beautiful at her." She then looks at Sakura longingly while the latter just blinks, blush, and then laughs nervously.
Naoko nod. "Costumes, check!" Naoko stated followed by a scribble on her clipboard. "Are the harnest ready?" she then looks up at the ceiling where the students responsible for it are placed.
One of the students up there with a mop like head nods and held a thumbs-up.
Naoko nods. "Harnest, check!" she said. Harnest is a cord tied up on a pulley and the other end to the human who wants to be lifted up. This is what the mermaids are going to use so that they appear to be swimming under water. "safety belts on the mermaids?" Naoko once again asks catching the attention of her fellow classmates.
Tomoyo, Rika and Chiharu looks at the not-so-obvious-for-the-audiences-sake safety belts and held a thumbs-up to Naoko who just nods her head and said something with a 'check' at the end while scribbling something.
"Guitar for Sakura?" Naoko looks at Sakura who positioned her guitar on her shoulder and nods to Naoko who said check and scribbled again.
"Are the background music, display and props are all set?" Naoko asks.
The props men held a thumbs-up and beamed at her.
Naoko nods vigorously and smiled at them wholeheartedly. "Alright!! All things are set! We are now going to begin the play! I trusted all the things to you guys! Everyone of you! Let's do our best! Ikimasho minna-san! Goodluck!"
"yeah!" everyone cheered as they go to their respective areas.
Sakura climbed up at where she should be while someone's tying her on the pole. She took every deep breath she can manage.
Then Shaoran, Meiling and Yamazaki entered the back stage. Meiling complimented Tomoyo's costume and she boasted how she will be more beautiful in one of the mermaid's costume while the former just giggles. Yamazaki was busy catching his breath while Chiharu was strangling his neck with a wide smile on her face. And Shaoran was mouthing good luck to Sakura who just nods her head. And after a few more chit-chats, the three bade their good lucks and went back to their respective seats.
Naoko inhaled deep and took the microphone. "We will now start the play entitled Song of Love. Please sit back and relax as you watches the play performed by the students of Terada-sensei, section 2-A. thank you for waiting."
The curtain opens.
The stage's appearance was beautiful. It really portrays the under water scenery. In the middle of the stage was the head of the sunken ship where a man was tied on its pole. Different fishes were swimming around and different seaweed were planted on the ground.
The play begins.
They start playing music.
The party goes on the deck, where the side of the ship comes down and the song starts...
Nikki hangs from the mast.
Nikki: Adrift, adrift, adrift... From how many dreams have I awakened? How many morrows have
passed...? The days when victory meant everything have come to an end... Yesterday's
friends become tomorrow's foes... So flow the days filled with betrayal and enmity...
Once one reaches the summit, all that remains is one's inevitable downfall... All has
become lost... The innumerable wounds, once decorations of glory, have begun instead to
ache... Aaah, have I awoken...? Where might I be...? Could this be the Grave of the Narwhales
that is said to lie hidden in the seas?
The other members of the band float to him and release him.
Nikki: Where am I!? So... I am all alone. Just deserts for the likes of me... Betrayed
by the very ones in whom I trusted... Gone are the friends with whom I shared my dreams...
Alone, with no lover to share my sorrows...
Miki arrives.
Miki: Hither...
Nikki: Is someone thither?
Miki: O'er hither...!
Nikki: Be it thou...? My savior sweet?
Miki: Aye, manly mariner...
Nikki: Be thou not a mere maiden but a... mer-maiden?
Miki: Thou art surprised...?
Nikki: Only that one such as thee would help a human like me... My eternal gratitude is
thine, sweet siren of the sea...
Miki: 'Twas but the proper thing... Why art thou alone here? Whence cometh the wounds
that afflict thee so...?
Nikki: 'Tis too sad a tale to tell one so fair...
Miki: If thou wishest not to speak of such things, I shan't force thee to tell them unto
me. Instead, kind sir, may I inquire as to the world from which thou comest...?
Later...
Miki: Enough! That shall suffice. What a wretched woeful tale thou hast! Thou needest
not fight e'ermore. The world form wence one comest lacks any form of pleasure.
Nikki: Pleasure...?
Miki: Dear sailorman... Let me hear the song that thou dost like best! A splendid song
from a far-away world, unknown to the likes of me...
Nikki: A song...? Of such a thing I know naught... Wherefore wouldst thou hear my
croonings, Neptunian nymph? Surely there is naught to be gained from it!?
Miki: What a poor, miserable man thou art! Songs be the soul's delight... When one is sad,
songs gently envelope one's sorrows... And when one is happy, songs are there to share
the joy with thee. That be the very essence of song!
Nikki: So thou sayest... Unfortunately, singing has no relevance to me. I long forgot how
to laugh and how to cry.
Miki starts singing.
Nikki: How awfully nostalgic!? I feel as though I have heard that song before, somewhere,
long ago. A mysterious melody that bathes thee in a warm glow...
Miki: It is a precious song, handed down generation to generation on my island. It seems
to have reached the heart of thee, who knows not of song... Now make me a promise... Repay
me for saving you by singing this song for me.
Nikki: Hold on! Such a thing I cannot do!
Miki: "Cannot" is different from "will not!" Please promise to grant this one
petition!
She vanishes.
Nikki: Wait! Do not go!
Later, he plays the song on his guitar...
Nikki: Sigh...! As I thought... I am unable to perform such music!
Rika: Thou seem troubled...
Nikki: Who might ye be?
Rika: Our sister shan't come out again until thou singest!
Nikki: Please, I beg ye! Teach me how to sing.
Chiharu: Music and song are not something that thous canst teach or learn. They are things
that thou must feel!
Rika: First try playing the notes.
He plays them.
Chiharu: That is terrible! 'Tis void of all emotion! Thou dost need not to be a bard, so
long as thou express thy feelings. The thoughts of thy heart that words cannot express...
Let thy instrument tell us what thou want to say...
Nikki plays again.
Chiharu: 'Tis better... Keep it up...
He keeps playing.
Rika: Thou art a kind man. We can tell from the sound thou makest...
Chiharu: Hehee... Thou hast got it! Aye... 'Tis becoming fun!
They fly around the boat while he plays.
Later, he plays with Miki.
Nikki: Well... What dost thou think?
Miki: 'Tis beautiful! Each note enwraps my very soul... If ever thou art sorrowed and at
the limits of despair... Then croon this song and remember, dear, this very moment...
The time when our hearts began to beat to one rhythm... And know that our song will
continue on forever more...
Nikki: Lo! The stars doth twinkle in accord with our song... The brighter one is the Star
of Diarmuid... And next to it the Star of Grania can be seen shining so faintly...
We mariners navigate our vessels by these two stars!
Miki: Thou art a knowledgeable man! I naught knew the names of such luminaries. I just saw
them as jewels that shine in the night sky...
Nikki: I didn't realize that stars could look so beautiful... I never took the time to gaze
at them like this before... Nor ever heard the song that they had been singing unto me. Now
that I have spent what seems like days singing here with thee... I have come to realize
that there is more than what seems be... The twinkling of the stars... The waving of the
waves... Even silence itself... All sing in harmony with thee and me.
Miki: 'Tis strange to think that both thy world and mine share the same stars.
Nikki: Speaking of which, I must soon return to my world.
Miki: Wherefore, dear sir? Thou dost not like it here?
Nikki: My pursuers are nigh... My staying here will endanger thy folk...
Miki: Then allow me to come with thee, sweet sir...
Nikki: I cannot allow such a thing! One step out of here lie treacherous tempests and
woeful warfare. Yet, even then... Even then, thou dost shalt come with me?
Miki: I know that for certainty... Yet for this place only to have peace while the whole
world is at war is a selfishness itself. Perhaps the love we share can be shared with
the whole world. Both nature and mankind must surely desire to live hand-in-hand...
Nikki: Then comest thou to me, my sweet sea sprite... Until the whole world hath come
to live in heavenly harmony... Upon that day shall I bring thee back to this idyllic
isle. Then... Then and only then... Will both our worlds have peace between nature and
humanfolk... And resonate in chorus with our anthem dear. Together, let us build that
whole new world... Come my maiden, come...!
The curtain closes for a few minutes and opens again.
Continues acting as what the narrator are saying
Narration: So the two plays the song together as they magically ascend from the sea down under. The whole world hears their song and slowly touching their hearts. Tears welled up their eyes as they realize what they have done. For the battle they keeps on fighting has no longer meaning in their living. So as the tune of the song telling to them, stop the inept war and start a new fruitful beginning together with love in their hearts for each other. Humans… Demi-humans…. Each one of them can live and love together as the two of their kinds portrays to them. The human man, named Nikki and the demi-human woman, named Miki.
Background: Nikki and Miki embraces each other while looking on each other's eyes lovingly. The Humans and Demi-humans on their backs while cheering. the song was still playing on the background.
Nikki and Miki's faces slowly nearing and nearing to each other until their lips met…
Closes curtains.
The crowd was cheering very loud while clapping their hands as the curtain opens again to reveal the casts. The casts even receives a standing ovation from the audiences as Naoko introduces them to the audiences…
A/N: Fweeehhhh!! Wow! The play was……… what? Is it good? Please Review! Is it confusing or what? if it confuses you please asks me and I'll do my best to clear it to you or even edit this chapter. Please tell me.. I want to know your opinions…
Who wants to hear the music they sang on the play????????
R&R
Sorry.. I'm not good at describing costumes…… hehehe…
Reply to Reviews:
SnowCharms- hey! Thanks 4 reviewing!
Cholfie27- thanks for reviewng!! Well, sakura was not really a homo… I just make her like that on the first part… you'll know what will happen on the later chapters… I cannot promise to make Shaoran not an OOC but I'll do my best to make him himself.. gets? And yes! Rizalia and Bonifacio are Filipino words. To be honest, they are the names of Filipino heroes who fought for the independence of the Filipino people, for the freedom of the Philippines. And I am a pure blooded Filipino….. Thanks again!!!!! Please stay tuned!!!
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