It was half way through the week of camp, and as the day was rather hot they would be spending it down at the beach most of the day; it was also where they would be doing rock climbing. Sakura sat in the shade beneath a tree, watching the students as they messed around in the water and kicked balls in the sand.
"Hell yes!" Rena shouted.
Sakura looked over as her sister ran along the pier and jumped off the end, doing a perfect flip in the air and landing in the deep water. She was sure she could hear Syaoron groaning because his hand was covering his face. She smiled, amused as her sister resurfaced with a big grin on her face.
"Seriously? A front flip?" he said from the top of the pier down to where Rena was in the water.
"Yeah-that's the whole point of jumping off the pier; doing stupid shit…and trying not to kill yourself." Rena laughed.
He rolled his eyes. "Fine; as long as you don't kill yourself." He said.
"Come join me." She said, throwing seaweed at him.
"Lovely." He muttered, and jumped in; he resurfaced and chucked seaweed at her face, taking her by complete surprise.
"Damn you…" she muttered.
Sakura couldn't help herself from laughing as she watched the two chuck seaweed at each other in the water; she was in hysterics.
"What's going on?" Fai asked as he walked over. Sakura pointed to the two who were still madly chucking seaweed at each other, not giving up until one of them decided to give up or someone intervened.
"Looks like they're making a sport out of it." He joked.
"Oh yeah-the sport of seaweed fighting." Sakura continued to laugh.
"Have you seen Chii?" He asked.
"Oh; she's just over there with Tomoyo. Why?" Sakura said, pointing towards the two girls who were sitting underneath a large beach umbrella.
"I found one of her bracelets in the sand; figured I should give it back to her." He said.
Sakura looked at him out the corner of her eye. She wondered how he knew it was hers. "How do you know it's hers? Wouldn't you need to ask the students who it belongs to?" Sakura asked curiously.
He laughed. "It's got her name on it, see?" He said, showing Sakura the sterling silver bracelet with the heart charm that had her name engraved on it in fancy lettering with a rose underneath it.
"So it does too." Sakura laughed.
"Well, I'm going to go give this back to her then; see you later." He said, and left her to chill in the sun.
As if he just found that lying in the sand… She thought to herself, But then, I could be wrong… she wondered what was going on between those two.
Not that she could talk. Now that she thought about it, he did accept the fact that she was dating one of her students awfully fast.
She let out a shriek as she felt the icy cold yet slimy feeling of ice slide down her back, receiving a few looks from students and teachers. Even Rena and Syaoron stopped throwing seaweed at each other to look. Sakura whipped her head around furiously to find Syaoran laughing his head off and his hand full of ice.
"You…!" She hissed.
"That was priceless!" he laughed.
"You seem to have forgotten that I'm a teacher." She smiled menacingly.
"Oh, you just got yourself into shit now!" Chii shouted out at him.
He immediately stopped laughing. "What?"
"You just scored yourself a little detention with me this afternoon at the campsite-no activities; instead, you'll be doing all the chores that need doing. Do enjoy yourself while you still can-I'll be waiting for you in half an hour." She smiled.
Rena and Chii were laughing hysterically. "You got told!" Chii laughed.
"Karma, bitch!" Rena snorted.
Syaoran didn't look too pleased. "Ah, the benefits of having a teacher as your girlfriend." Sora said as she popped up beside him.
"Where did you come from?" He muttered.
"Mars. Don't give me attitude; you brought it on yourself." She snorted.
"Oh shut it." Syaoran rolled his eyes.
"Don't scare the shit out of her." Sora said. He groaned.
Sakura stood unhappily in the sun with Yuui and Sora, pulling her sunglasses down over her eyes.
"Are you sure?" The blonde asked.
"He can suffer." Sakura muttered.
"But he really wanted to do this afternoons activity." Sora said.
"Well isn't that a darn shame." Sakura growled. She was clearly angry, and wasn't giving up on her little punishment.
"He stayed back all of Monday though." Sora pointed out.
"That was for something a little different." Sakura muttered. Sora looked at Yuui and shrugged.
"Ok. See you later." They said, and she left, dragging the teen behind her.
Indeed she did make him do all of the chores that needed doing around the campsite such as collecting more firewood and cleaning the left over dishes and putting them away. After doing these things she was satisfied.
"You can go back down to the beach now." She said.
"What?" He seemed surprised by her sudden change in attitude.
"You wanted to do this afternoons activity right? You can go." She said.
"Oh, thank you." He said. He was about to turn around and walk back down to the beach, but he wanted to know if she was coming too.
"Are you coming too?"
"No, I have a few things I need to do here." She said. He seemed disappointed.
"Ok." He said, and left her alone.
As he made his way back down to the beach, he thought he could smell the faint smell of blood, but brushed it off as perhaps someone maybe injuring themselves down at the beach on a rock or something. He continued down the path and over to the group who were lining up for the rock climbing. Chii looked over, surprised.
"You mean she actually let you go?" She asked.
"Yes, yes she did. Way to state the obvious." He replied, rolling his eyes.
He was distracted by his brother grabbing his shoulder, "Have you seen Rena?" He asked, his eyes showing signs of extreme worry.
"No, I haven't-why?" He asked.
"She left shortly after you and Sakura did-she needed to ask Sakura for something. It's been over an hour-she should have been back ages ago!" he said.
Dread suddenly settled into the pit of Syaoran's stomach.
"What?" Syaoron asked.
"I could smell blood earlier…" he replied. Shock hit his brother, and then panic.
"What and you didn't think to go and-!"
"Calm the fuck down! It wasn't strong from where I was, so I didn't think much of it."
"How am I supposed to be calm?!" He yelled.
"What's going on?" Sora demanded.
"Go on, tell her." Syaoran said.
"Rena's missing."
"You mean she didn't meet with Sakura?" Sora asked.
"We never saw her." Syaoran answered.
"That's not good." Sora murmured.
"Both of you stay put; I'm going to go speak with the teachers-this is a serious matter. Kei isn't here either." Sora said with a warning in her voice. She didn't want either of them running off and doing something stupid like they had on Sunday afternoon.
Syaoron looked at his brother with alarm. Syaoran didn't look too pleased either-Sakura was alone at the camp; what if she was attacked?
They waited for the teachers to finish discussing the situation at hand, and Sora returned with Fai and Yuui.
"Come on you two, we better get moving. The other students don't know what's going on for now, and its best that they don't." Yuui said.
"What about Sakura?" Syaoran asked. "You can go back to her; we'll look for Rena." Sora answered.
"Wait; I should let you know where I could smell the blood from." Syaoran said.
"Alright."
He led them to the point of the path where he could smell the blood from, and sure enough it was still there.
"Thanks." Sora said, dismissing him.
"Good luck." He told his brother, and god he hoped they found her in an alright condition for both Sakura's sake and his brother's sake.
Sakura looked up as Syaoran came running over, a look of relief flooding his features.
"Syaoran? Why are you here?" she asked, closing her book and standing up.
He knew he had to explain to her, but he didn't want to. He didn't want to see the look of fear she wore, but he knew that she needed to know. "What's wrong?" She asked, sensing that something was terribly wrong.
He walked over to her and cupped her face in his hands, leaning in against her.
"I'm sorry," he murmured softly, "but Rena's gone missing."
She shook her head. "No…" she said. "It's not true."
"Sakura, look at me." He said.
She did. She was so utterly shocked that she couldn't feel her legs anymore.
"My brother, Sora, Fai and Yuui are all looking for her. It's going to be fine." He said-at least he hoped. Who knew what her condition was like.
"What about Kei-where's he?" She asked.
He shook his head. She fell to the ground.
What's happened to Rena?
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