PLAY
Summary: Sakura Kinomoto is part of DNGR. Syaoran Li is a new recruit. She's in high school. He's in high school. They're to audition for some play. But what happens when everything in Sakura's life is becoming the play itself? This is my first fic. REVIEW!
Note: Hey there! Here's the ninth chapter, also the second part of REASONS!
REASONS part 2
Before anything they said could be processed, a beep from her pocket caught her attention.
"Ooh. Sorry girls, got to take this." Sakura stood up and practically ran to the garden. After looking for a secluded part where no one could possibly hear her, she took out her glasses and answered the call.
"Yo. Sakura here."
"Okay. This is just weird." A voice from the other side of the line said.
"What?" Sakura said, alarmed. "What's happening Tomoyo?"
"I did a background check on Itou Hiro, like you asked me to, and guess what I found out?"
"What?"
"He's alive, Sakura." Tomoyo said. "Itou Hiro's alive."
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It was like a bucket of cold water was dumped on her, waking her up from a nightmare, only, when she woke up, the nightmare didn't end.
She's been living a lie.
She felt her knees give in and she fell on her knees on the hard, cold ground. Willing herself not to cry, she squeezed her eyes shut, praying that this was just a dream. Better yet, a nightmare.
"Sakura?" Tomoyo's voice brought her back to reality.
It was real. Her ex-fiancé was alive. Itou Hiro, the guy from her 'class', and the Itou Hiro from her past, was only one person.
'But how?' Sakura thought angrily. 'Didn't her sister tell me that he was dead?' Tears threatened to spill out now.
'But you were never invited to the burial.' The little voice in her head rationalized. 'You never even saw the body.'
'Yea.' She thought bitterly. 'I never saw the body. Tamara told me that they were going to bury him here in Tokyo, and they moved the very next day.' Tears were flowing freely from her eyes now. 'I'm so stupid!'
"Sakura?" Tomoyo repeated. "You still there?"
Sakura shook her head, lifter her glasses and furiously wiped the tears away. "Y-yea, I'm still here. Don't worry." She said, sounding more convincing than she actually felt.
"Are you alright?" Tomoyo asked concern evident in her voice. "I know this is such a big shocker. I coul-"
"No. No, I'm fine. Don't worry." She lied with a smile.
If Tomoyo noticed, she didn't say. "So, anyway, the other person? Yamamoto Isabella?"
"Yup?"
"She's the only daughter of Kia Silver and Yamamoto Negi, the owner of Yamamoto Corporation, one of the largest companies in the world. Her GPA is not so hot though, seems that she repeated kindergarten…wait, is that even possible?" Tomoyo chuckled. "The other information, I sent it to your email."
Sakura, who has calmed down by now, sighed. "Thanks Tomoyo."
"No prob… sis."
Sakura sat there for a while before she finally stood up made her way back. On her way to the cafeteria, she heard angry voices coming from behind a tree, in a secluded area. Curiosity enveloped her whole body. She sneaked and jumped up the tree. It was a clear night, but she couldn't make out who exactly was talking, all she knew was that it was a girl and a boy. The girl was backed up to tree with her hands on either side of her head, each held by the boy. She also noted that the voices were quite familiar.
"NO! Could you please get off me?" A female voice said angrily.
"Oh come on! I know you want this too." A male voice, rather lustfully.
Then a loud slap echoed into the silent night. Apparently, the girl managed to wiggle her right hand from the guy's grip.
"What the fuck?!" The guy said, letting go of the girl's other hand. "What was that for?!"
"That's what you get for being such a big jerk!" At that, the girl ran from the boy, who just… stood there, not trying to run after her even when she tripped on a root. When the girl was out of his sight, he did something that sent chills up Sakura's spine.
He smiled.
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When Sakura came back from her 'spying' (or eavesdropping, as her conscience kept reminding her), Akira was gone, saying she was ill, according to Lia and Rika. So after finishing her food, and her conversation with the two students, Sakura made her way to her room, finding Akira fresh out of the shower, dressed in pink pajama bottoms and a sleeveless white shirt.
The dorm room was spacious: two single beds separated by a nightstand, two other nightstands on the other side of the beds, two study tables on the wall of each side of the room, two closets, two dressers, a mini fridge, the main door was on the left side and the door to the bathroom was directly in line with in on the right side. (A/N: If you want to know what it looks like, go to my multiply site and look for the pictures for play… :D merylincise)
"Hey Keiko." She said when Sakura entered the room.
"Hey there." Sakura greeted. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
Sakura noted that she seemed nervous about something, and her body was shaking a bit. She narrowed her eyes. Something wasn't right. "What did Ichigo want?"
"Nothing!" The defensive tone in her voice surprised Sakura. "I mean, nothing you might be interested in. He just wanted to know something about a… project the… uh… student council is currently working on."
Though she sounded convincing enough, Sakura caught her lie. Acting like she believed it, she shrugged and proceeded to her bed, but not before she saw Akira let go of the breath she's been holding. When Akira started to walk back to her bed, Sakura noticed that she was trying not to put pressure on her left leg.
"You don't have to hide it you know." Sakura said, walking to her drawers. Opening the top drawer, she took out her first aid kit and a towel.
She almost stumbled when Sakura said that. "Hide what?" She asked, as if nothing was wrong in the world.
"That you sprained your left ankle." Sakura approached her and bent down to examine her ankle.
"I did not sprain my ankle!" She said, but her ankle did not agree with that statement, because she accidentally put too much pressure on it, which left her on the floor, clutching her ankle in pain.
"Right. That's why you're sprawled on the floor. I believe you." Sakura said, getting up and putting ice in a zip lock. Going back to her patient, she placed the zip lock on Akira's swollen ankle, wrapping a bandage around it, so that it would stay in place. When Sakura was about to carry her to her bed, there was a knock on the door.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
"Don't move." Sakura said, rather ordered. She went to the door and opened, coming face to face with a nervous looking Syaoran. "What do you want cuz?"
"You forgot this," He said, holding up her messenger bag. "in my room. Thought you might need it."
"There it is!" Sakura grabbed it and hugged it close. "Thanks cuz."
When he was about to leave, she suddenly remembered Akira. "Hey Sayoran, could you help me?" He looked at her questioningly. "My roommate sprained her ankle and I can't carry her to her bed." She said, moving aside for him to see Akira sitting on the floor with a bandage on her feet.
"It's okay Syaoran." (A/N: First names right? :D) She said, blushing in embarrassment. "I could stand up on my own."
"Do not move young lady!" Sakura ordered, sounding like a mother scolding her child, her eyes ablaze for more effect.
Syaoran shrugged and went to Akira. Placing one hand under her knees and the other supporting her back, Syaoran carried a blushing Akira to her bed.
"Thanks." Akira mumbled, bowing her head so that her hair hid her face.
"No prob." Syaoran said, going back outside.
When the door closed, Sakura went to Akira, who was amusingly very red. "What was that?!" She shouted, throwing a pillow at Sakura.
"What was what?" Sakura asked, genuinely confused (or acting genuinely confused anyway. "What did I do?" She said her eyes wide like an innocent child.
"You didn't have to ask him to carry me you know." She mumbled, placing her face in her hands.
"Well, would you have rather slept on the floor?" When Akira shook her head wildly, face still in her hands, Sakura nodded. "I didn't think so." Grabbing her towel, she placed it on a pillow and placed Akira's ankle on the toweled pillow. "You are not going to class tomorrow."
"What?!" Akira shouted. "I have a test tomorrow! Keiko, I have to go." She pleaded.
"No." Sakura firmly said. "You have to have this ice pack for twenty-four hours."
"Please Keiko?"
"No."
"Pretty please? I haven't missed a test ever!"
"There's always a first, right? Don't worry, I'll talk to your teacher. I'll also let you eat dinner with us."
Akira huffed, crossing her arms in front of her chest. "Fine."
That's when Sakura noticed it. She grabbed both Akira's hands and saw a few scratches on the back of it. "What's this? Where'd you get these?"
Akira tried to grab her hands back, but Sakura held firmly, looking at her in the eye. "I don't know." Another lie. "May I have my hand back?"
Sakura looked at the scratches, it wasn't something to be bothered about, but they were recent, like something you got when your hand was held against your will to a rough surface.
Then something clicked. The familiar voices, Akira's ankle and the scratches at the back of her hand, her nervousness, the lies… it all added up.
She let go of her hands spoke to Akira in a whispered voice. "I want you to sleep. Don't let anyone come in, okay?"
"What? Why?"
"JUST… just, don't okay?" Sakura whispered. "I have to speak to my cousin about something important. I'll come back as soon as I've sorted this matter up, okay?"
Akira nodded, clearly scared of the sudden change in the atmosphere.
Sakura, still fully dressed, got her jacket and keys and went to the door. Before she stepped out, she looked over her shoulder at Akira. "I'll be back before curfew." She said.
Akira just nodded.
As Sakura was walking through the deserted corridors of the girls' dorm, she thought about the matter at hand. She didn't know if it was connected to the killings, but something told her that it was something important, something that shouldn't be ignored.
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"What are you doing here?"
Sakura pushed passed a half- naked Syaoran who was only wearing green boxers, and into their room. Their room was the same as the girls' only, they had green walls.
"Where's Ichigo?" She asked.
"I don't know." Syaoran said, closing the door and facing Sakura. "Why?"
"He tried to rape Akira."
Syaoran's eyes widened. "Okay... I wasn't expecting that."
"I got a call from Tomoyo, and when I was on my way back, I saw a couple fighting, and I kinda… eavesdropped." Sakura grinned guiltily. "Anyway, the guy had the girl backed up to the tree and was trying to convince her to sleep with him. So the girl slaps him and runs away, tripping on a root in the process, but the guy doesn't follow her… he just smiles!" Sakura shuddered at the memory. "I was thinking that the voices were quite familiar, and when I saw scratches on Akira's hand, I knew it. I mean, it just… CLICKED!"
"Okay. Let me get this straight." Syaoran said. "You think that Ichigo and Akira are the people you saw?"
"I don't think it was them. I know it was them." Sakura said, pacing.
"Okay… so you know that it was Akira and Ichigo. So? What're you getting at?"
"I think it might be best that we don't leave the two of them alone." Sakura said. "I think there's more to Kobayashi Ichigo than just being the student body president."
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The next day, which was a Friday, passed without any unusual occurrence… unless you consider Tomoyo calling at three in the morning… normal.
"OH MY GOSH! I TOTALLY FORGOT TO TELL YOU YESTEREDAY!" Sakura pulled her earpiece away from her ears. "I can't believe I forgot! How could I forget?"
"What?" Sakura groggily asked, not quite understanding what Tomoyo was telling her. "Tomoyo, could you call later? It's only three."
Tomoyo, who was still rambling, didn't hear her. "So anyway, I was like, 'No way!'. But you know, I already knew. So she was all, 'She was the best we heard! I don't think anyone could be better than her.' And I was like, 'Yea, you could say that again.'"
"Hmmm… that's nice." Sakura murmured, not really listening. Only hearing.
"So, I told them you and Syaoran would be back two weeks from now, and they told me to just e you the scripts." Tomoyo rambled on. "And they told me that there was going to be a sex scene in the play."
"Really? Okay."
"Sakura? Did you hear what I said? There's going to be a sex scene in the play." Tomoyo explained. "And you're IN IT."
"That's ni- WHAT?!" Sakura was awake now. "What did you say?"
"Now that I've got your attention," Tomoyo squealed. "I was just calling to tell you that YOU got the lead role in the play!"
"Damn it!" Sakura shouted, falling back to her bed.
And that's how her day started.
After that, not much happened; it was just like an ordinary day at school: the bitches (Isabella and her posses) tried to intimidate her (which only caused half of the cheerleading squad to back down because of Sakura's glares); then the jocks (their boyfriends) tried to bully her (but they all ended up in the infirmary); during lunch, the Barbie wannabes tried to impress Isabella by trying to dump their lunch on Sakura (but they only ended up humiliated). Yes, so it was just an ordinary day at school, and soon, it was dinner already.
"What a day!" Sakura exclaimed as she sat at their table. "I'm so tired."
Akira, Lia, and Rika were already there, along with Syaoran, Ichigo, Rika's boyfriend, Takashi (A/N: is his name Takashi or Yamazaki?!), and three other of Ichigo's friends that she didn't bother remember the names. Ichigo had tried to sit beside Akira but Sakura, seeing Akira's terrified eyes, immediately plopped herself down there.
Flashback
"Oh! Were you going to sit here?" She had asked Ichigo with wide, innocent looking brown eyes.
"Actually I wa-"
But before he could finish that sentence, Sakura squealed. "I knew you wouldn't mind!"
End Flashback
So now, she was sitting with Akira on her left, and Ichigo to her right. Lia and Rika were seated across from them beside the three nameless face, while Syaoran sat on the right of Ichigo and the left of Takashi, nervously looking around for the Barbie Brigade, as Sakura had named them.
"Yes Keiko, that usually happens when the whole cheerleading squad, the jocks, and the wannabe Barbie Brigade, as you so call them, are after you, you know?" Lia said, pointing her fork at Sakura. "I'd also be tired if I was on the phone at three in the morning too."
"What?" Sakura, plus the rest of the table, asked.
"Akira told us that you were at the phone this morning." Rika said.
"You were up?" Sakura asked, looking at Akira.
Akira held up her hands defensively. "Hey! Who wouldn't wake up with you shouting profanities at phone? I thought I was going to go deaf at the curses you were shouting at the phone." Then she added thoughtfully. "Though, I couldn't understand what you were shouting half the time, like you were speaking a different language or something. But I knew you were swearing because you had this flame in your eyes."
At this, the whole table looked at Sakura, expecting an explanation. She just smiled nervously. "I do that when I'm upset?"
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Okay, so obviously, I haven't finished the Reasons chapter…err… part… anyway, it's still going to have a part three, I know you're all anxious to find out why Hiro is still alive… but I'm saving that for the next chapter… :D… so… school here will start on Tuesday, and I PROMISE that I will try to update before the avalanche of homework, projects, researches, etc. come knocking on my bedroom door… :D… and since I'm going to be going to college in two years, I have to get AWESOME grades… well, maybe just GREAT grades… anyway… I hope you guys understand… :D
I will try to update this coming days!
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Merylin
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