Well hi everyone. I am back with Chapter 3: More Evil Pain for Sakura. It
took me a while to do the last chapter since it was so long and my 8 year
old brother and sister were playing on the computer. Sorry about that.
Nothing to worry about. I hope you'll like this chapter. So read and enjoy.
Chapter 3: More Evil Pain for Sakura.
A few hours later, when her parents came home, her legs were still sore but with half the pain as before. She struggled to get down the stairs but luckily her parents were in the kitchen so they didn't see her. She walked as normal as she could back to the kitchen. Her parents saw her coming and said, "Oh hi Sakura-chan. When did you get home?" "Right after school. We went to the swimming pool next to the school for gym class."
"I see. Was it fun?" asked Kaho.
"Hai," said Sakura and sat down in her chair at the kitchen table. She secretly rubbed her calves under the table to see if she could ease the pain a little more. "So how was your work?"
"Fine. Your father was able to fix the motor boat after it broke down when we were very far away from the docks."
"That's good," she said and stopped rubbing her calves realizing that the pain was not going to go away.
"Anyway what would everyone like for dinner tonight?" asked Kaho.
Sakura and her father both said, "Nikkuman (meat buns) please."
"Alright. One plate full of Nikkuman coming right up. It will probably take awhile though. So why don't you two do something until then?"
"Okay," they both said. Sakura went back up to her room. She got a hardcover book from her bookshelf, got onto her bed, lay on her stomach putting the book on her pillow, took out her math homework, put it on the book and started to work on it. She was having a bit of trouble with it.
When her mother called her and her father for dinner about an hour later, she closed her book, sat up and swung her legs over the side of the bed. She stood up from her bed and noticed that her legs didn't hurt anymore. She sighed a sigh of relief and walked down the stairs.
She sat down in her chair and Kaho put the plate of Nikkuman in the middle of the table. Sakura's father came to the table as well and sat down in his chair. Then Kaho, too, sat down in her chair. They all took two Nikkuman to start off with.
After dinner, Sakura went up to her room and continued with her math homework again. She finished it just as bedtime came.
The next morning.
Sakura went to the swimming pool building's entrance doors and walked in. She walked up to the swimming club sign-up sheets and wrote her name in the girls' column. When she had put the pen attached to the paper with string down, she saw something out of the corner of her eye on the boys' sign-up sheet. She looked at it more closely and saw that the name, Syaoran Li was on the same line as hers was except that his was on the boys' list.
Sakura walked to school and entered her classroom. She sat down at her desk. Syaoran, who was finishing off his math sheet from yesterday, looked up. "Ohayo Kinomoto-san."
Sakura turned around in her seat and said, "Ohayo Li-kun."
"How are your legs today?"
"Much better!" she said. "When my parents came home a few hours later, I was kind of stumbling on the stairs going down."
"Did you fall?" asked Syaoran with concern.
"Iie. I didn't fall but my legs wouldn't work for me. It was like my legs were asleep. Ever get that feeling?"
"I think. Is it that feeling when your legs feel a little paralyzed and you can't even lift them at all?"
"Yeah. Something like that," said Sakura as Tomoyo came through the door. "Sakura-chan? She asked as she sat down. "How are your legs today?" Sakura turn towards her friend and repeated the same thing that she had said to Syaoran. "Oh," was all Tomoyo could say before Adatchi-sensei came through the door. Sakura then turned to the front and got ready to pay attention.
"Today in math class we will go in pairs of three to correct the math homework. You may choose your own groups and the place that you want in the class." Sakura, Syaoran and Tomoyo smiled at each other, stood up, and walked to a corner. They took out their math sheets and started correcting. When each group was finished correcting, Adatchi-sensei told them to go back to their seats.
When gym class came again in the afternoon, Hishida-sensei said, "I have an announcement for all those students who signed up for the swim club. We will be holding try-outs for the students that have signed up. In other words we had too many students signed up and we only need 15 per team."
Sakura spoke up, "So it's not just a club but a team as well?"
"That's right Kinomoto-san. Very good," he said. "Those of you who have signed up, come to the pool building next to us after school and we will start the try-outs."
After school Sakura and Syaoran walked over to the swimming pool building and entered. They walked up to the desk at the entrance. "Excuse me," said Sakura. The woman behind the desk looked up and said, "Hai. May I help you?"
"Um, hai. Could you tell us if Hishida-sensei arrived for the swimming club try-outs?"
"Hmm. Yes I think he did. Names please. Last name first." The woman got ready to write their names on a clipboard in front of her indicating that they have arrived.
"Um.I'm Kinomoto Sakura," said Sakura.
"And I'm Li Syaoran," said Syaoran.
The woman wrote their names on the clipboard and checked them off.
Sakura was about to go into the girls' change room when she heard Syaoran say, "I forgot my swimsuit at home."
"Hoe?" said Sakura. She looked in her backpack and noticed that she forgot hers too. "I forgot mine too."
"Well we're going to have to get them at home and come back here pronto I guess. Let's go," said Syaoran.
"Hai."
They went to their houses, grabbed their swimsuit uniforms and ran back to the swimming pool building. (A/N the sign-up sheet said for all students participating to wear their swimsuit uniforms.)
Before Sakura left though, she left a note on the kitchen table for her parents to read as soon as they got home. It said, 'Okaa-san, Otou-san. I have joined a swimming club and team at school and right now I am at the try-outs to see if I can make the team. I might be a little late coming home tonight, though. Gomen. I have my cell phone with me in case I have to phone you or you need to phone me if there is an emergency so don't worry about me for I will be just fine. Sakura.'
Syaoran tells his mother that he was going to the try-outs over the phone before he left.
When they got back to the swimming pool building, they re-entered the swimming building and headed to their change rooms. They got their swimsuits on fast and arrived at the pool area at the same time from the other doors. Sakura had taken her hair down again from gym class that day. Sakura and Syaoran both saw Hishida-sensei and walked up to him.
He saw them coming and said, "So, both of you have entered. I saw your names on the sign-up sheets. Kinomoto-san how are your legs doing?"
"Well they don't hurt anymore," said Sakura.
"That's good to hear," said Hishida-sensei.
"Hai. So when and where do the try-outs start?"
"Another good question Kinomoto-san. They will start in about 5 minutes and will be held over there," he said pointing to the swimming pool lanes in the deep end.
"Okay. Arigatou,' said Sakura. She and Syaoran walked to the beginning of the lanes in the deep end.
When they got there, they both sat down on the bench where the other participating swimmers were sitting.
5 minutes later, Hishida-sensei walked over to the bench, stood right in front of it, and said, "Okay everyone. You may not know this, but I am the coach of this club and team."
Sakura and Syaoran's eyes went wider with surprise when he had said that.
Hishida-sensei continued. "I am also the gym teacher for some or most of you. We will now begin the auditions but first, I will explain a few things. First off, I will be calling you up with you surnames being first followed by your first name. Next, when you hear you name, you will stand up and walk to the edge of the pool and pose yourself so that you will be ready to dive. The when you hear me say, '3. 2. 1. GO!', you will dive in and do four laps. One to the other end and back. Then you will repeat that once more. Okay? I'll start with the boys I will also be timing you speed with a stop watch."
"Okay," said everyone.
"But one more little thing you should know about. When it comes to putting a team together and then training it to be very good or even the best it can be, I can get a little strict. So remember that for this team."
"Okay."
"Also I will be calling out your names in alphabetical order. So listen carefully."
"Hai."
"Now let's begin shall we?" He picked up a piece of paper and starts to call out names.
A few minutes later.
"Li Syaoran. Your turn," said Hishida-sensei.
Syaoran stood up and walked to the edge of the pool. When he heard Hishida- sensei call out, "3. 2. 1. GO!, he dove into the water and swam as fast as he could. While he was doing his laps, Hishida-sensei wrote down on a pad of paper. When he was done his four laps, he got out of the water and sat back down beside Sakura who said, "Wow Li-kun you were fast! I hope you make the team!" Syaoran blushed a little at her comment and said, "I hope you do too, Kinomoto-san," without stuttering.
"Arigatou."
Then Hishida-sensei said, "We have finished with all the boys. Now we will start on the girls."
He called out the first girl on the list in alphabetical order. When he got to Sakura's name he said, "Kinomoto-san. Your turn."
"Hai!" she said and walked to the edge of the pool. She took the diving position. Hishida-sensei said, "3. 2. 1. GO!" a few seconds later.
Sakura dove into the water and did the four laps. She was almost as fast as Syaoran, but maybe just a bit faster. When she was done, she used the underwater ladder to get out of the pool. She was at the last step on the ladder and had just raised her leg to step onto the floor of the pool area, when she felt the pain again and suddenly lost her balance. She fell backward into the pool again, her head going underwater.
Syaoran and Hishida-sensei saw this and yelled, "Kinomoto-san!"
Sakura resurfaced again and gasped for air. Then she kind of choked on the water.
"Are you okay?" asked a very worried Syaoran and Hishida-sensei.
"Hai, I'm.fine," she said still choking.
"You don't sound fine," said Syaoran.
"I'm really fine," she said not choking anymore. "I guess I just slipped on the ladder steps. Do you mind if I just go and swim in one of the other lanes?"
"Iie. You're sure you're okay?"
"Hai!" she replied and dove into the water like a dolphin and swam four lanes over.
Syaoran stopped worrying about Sakura and focused his eyes on the other participants.
Meanwhile Sakura had gotten to the corner of the pool and surfaced. Then she dove back in and tried to stay there as long as possible before coming back up for a breath. She wanted to resurface and dive again for a few more minutes. After 6 minutes of surfacing and diving, she got tired of it so she decided to lay herself on the bottom of the deep end until she needed air. She closed her eyes and relaxed.
A few hours later, it was time for everyone to leave the swimming pool building.
SYAORAN'S POV It was time to leave the building. But where's Kinomoto-san? I know that she didn't leave the building. I looked around but couldn't find her. I looked and looked but I still couldn't find her. That was when I noticed that in the last lane in a corner seemed darker. I walked over to the corner and looked down. It was darker all right but what was causing it? That's when I saw a human figure in the corner. I dove into the water even though I was already dry and swam as far as I could. END OF POV
SAKURA'S POV I heard a sound from above be but what could it be? I opened my eyes and saw something swimming towards me. I almost gasped when I remembered I was still under water. So instead, I start swimming upward to the top. When I thought the figure saw that I was coming back up, it did too. We both swim up the same time and gasped for breath. I turned around and saw. Li-kun?! END OF POV
Syaoran grinned at Sakura and said, "What were you doing down there?"
"Relaxing and practicing staying underwater for a long time."
"Exactly how long were you down there for?" he asked in a kind of stern voice.
"I don't know. About 3 minutes," she lied.
"You're lying. I can tell," teased Syaoran.
Sakura blushed a little. "Okay, okay. About 6 minutes."
"That's actually pretty good."
"Hai. Considering that I haven't been in water for a few months since my birthday."
"You haven't?"
"Iie."
A minute later, Syaoran said, "Let's get out of here and change."
"Hai," said Sakura and swam to the stairs. She walked up them, but as she took a step away from the steps, she fell again. "Oh boy. More cramps."
"Your legs again?"
"Hai, but worse than last time," she said.
"Oh boy," Syaoran said. "This time we don't have your friend here."
"Uh oh," said Sakura, "How am I going to get home?"
****How is she going to get home? Find out in the next chapter. Also find out another bad thing that is going to happen to her. I went overboard with the typing again. Gomen. Oh well. At least it'll keep you busy by the time the next chapter comes out. I also didn't add Tomoyo in here very much either. Gomen about that too. Hope you enjoyed this one. Please, Please, Pleeease, Review!! Arigatou!
Chapter 3: More Evil Pain for Sakura.
A few hours later, when her parents came home, her legs were still sore but with half the pain as before. She struggled to get down the stairs but luckily her parents were in the kitchen so they didn't see her. She walked as normal as she could back to the kitchen. Her parents saw her coming and said, "Oh hi Sakura-chan. When did you get home?" "Right after school. We went to the swimming pool next to the school for gym class."
"I see. Was it fun?" asked Kaho.
"Hai," said Sakura and sat down in her chair at the kitchen table. She secretly rubbed her calves under the table to see if she could ease the pain a little more. "So how was your work?"
"Fine. Your father was able to fix the motor boat after it broke down when we were very far away from the docks."
"That's good," she said and stopped rubbing her calves realizing that the pain was not going to go away.
"Anyway what would everyone like for dinner tonight?" asked Kaho.
Sakura and her father both said, "Nikkuman (meat buns) please."
"Alright. One plate full of Nikkuman coming right up. It will probably take awhile though. So why don't you two do something until then?"
"Okay," they both said. Sakura went back up to her room. She got a hardcover book from her bookshelf, got onto her bed, lay on her stomach putting the book on her pillow, took out her math homework, put it on the book and started to work on it. She was having a bit of trouble with it.
When her mother called her and her father for dinner about an hour later, she closed her book, sat up and swung her legs over the side of the bed. She stood up from her bed and noticed that her legs didn't hurt anymore. She sighed a sigh of relief and walked down the stairs.
She sat down in her chair and Kaho put the plate of Nikkuman in the middle of the table. Sakura's father came to the table as well and sat down in his chair. Then Kaho, too, sat down in her chair. They all took two Nikkuman to start off with.
After dinner, Sakura went up to her room and continued with her math homework again. She finished it just as bedtime came.
The next morning.
Sakura went to the swimming pool building's entrance doors and walked in. She walked up to the swimming club sign-up sheets and wrote her name in the girls' column. When she had put the pen attached to the paper with string down, she saw something out of the corner of her eye on the boys' sign-up sheet. She looked at it more closely and saw that the name, Syaoran Li was on the same line as hers was except that his was on the boys' list.
Sakura walked to school and entered her classroom. She sat down at her desk. Syaoran, who was finishing off his math sheet from yesterday, looked up. "Ohayo Kinomoto-san."
Sakura turned around in her seat and said, "Ohayo Li-kun."
"How are your legs today?"
"Much better!" she said. "When my parents came home a few hours later, I was kind of stumbling on the stairs going down."
"Did you fall?" asked Syaoran with concern.
"Iie. I didn't fall but my legs wouldn't work for me. It was like my legs were asleep. Ever get that feeling?"
"I think. Is it that feeling when your legs feel a little paralyzed and you can't even lift them at all?"
"Yeah. Something like that," said Sakura as Tomoyo came through the door. "Sakura-chan? She asked as she sat down. "How are your legs today?" Sakura turn towards her friend and repeated the same thing that she had said to Syaoran. "Oh," was all Tomoyo could say before Adatchi-sensei came through the door. Sakura then turned to the front and got ready to pay attention.
"Today in math class we will go in pairs of three to correct the math homework. You may choose your own groups and the place that you want in the class." Sakura, Syaoran and Tomoyo smiled at each other, stood up, and walked to a corner. They took out their math sheets and started correcting. When each group was finished correcting, Adatchi-sensei told them to go back to their seats.
When gym class came again in the afternoon, Hishida-sensei said, "I have an announcement for all those students who signed up for the swim club. We will be holding try-outs for the students that have signed up. In other words we had too many students signed up and we only need 15 per team."
Sakura spoke up, "So it's not just a club but a team as well?"
"That's right Kinomoto-san. Very good," he said. "Those of you who have signed up, come to the pool building next to us after school and we will start the try-outs."
After school Sakura and Syaoran walked over to the swimming pool building and entered. They walked up to the desk at the entrance. "Excuse me," said Sakura. The woman behind the desk looked up and said, "Hai. May I help you?"
"Um, hai. Could you tell us if Hishida-sensei arrived for the swimming club try-outs?"
"Hmm. Yes I think he did. Names please. Last name first." The woman got ready to write their names on a clipboard in front of her indicating that they have arrived.
"Um.I'm Kinomoto Sakura," said Sakura.
"And I'm Li Syaoran," said Syaoran.
The woman wrote their names on the clipboard and checked them off.
Sakura was about to go into the girls' change room when she heard Syaoran say, "I forgot my swimsuit at home."
"Hoe?" said Sakura. She looked in her backpack and noticed that she forgot hers too. "I forgot mine too."
"Well we're going to have to get them at home and come back here pronto I guess. Let's go," said Syaoran.
"Hai."
They went to their houses, grabbed their swimsuit uniforms and ran back to the swimming pool building. (A/N the sign-up sheet said for all students participating to wear their swimsuit uniforms.)
Before Sakura left though, she left a note on the kitchen table for her parents to read as soon as they got home. It said, 'Okaa-san, Otou-san. I have joined a swimming club and team at school and right now I am at the try-outs to see if I can make the team. I might be a little late coming home tonight, though. Gomen. I have my cell phone with me in case I have to phone you or you need to phone me if there is an emergency so don't worry about me for I will be just fine. Sakura.'
Syaoran tells his mother that he was going to the try-outs over the phone before he left.
When they got back to the swimming pool building, they re-entered the swimming building and headed to their change rooms. They got their swimsuits on fast and arrived at the pool area at the same time from the other doors. Sakura had taken her hair down again from gym class that day. Sakura and Syaoran both saw Hishida-sensei and walked up to him.
He saw them coming and said, "So, both of you have entered. I saw your names on the sign-up sheets. Kinomoto-san how are your legs doing?"
"Well they don't hurt anymore," said Sakura.
"That's good to hear," said Hishida-sensei.
"Hai. So when and where do the try-outs start?"
"Another good question Kinomoto-san. They will start in about 5 minutes and will be held over there," he said pointing to the swimming pool lanes in the deep end.
"Okay. Arigatou,' said Sakura. She and Syaoran walked to the beginning of the lanes in the deep end.
When they got there, they both sat down on the bench where the other participating swimmers were sitting.
5 minutes later, Hishida-sensei walked over to the bench, stood right in front of it, and said, "Okay everyone. You may not know this, but I am the coach of this club and team."
Sakura and Syaoran's eyes went wider with surprise when he had said that.
Hishida-sensei continued. "I am also the gym teacher for some or most of you. We will now begin the auditions but first, I will explain a few things. First off, I will be calling you up with you surnames being first followed by your first name. Next, when you hear you name, you will stand up and walk to the edge of the pool and pose yourself so that you will be ready to dive. The when you hear me say, '3. 2. 1. GO!', you will dive in and do four laps. One to the other end and back. Then you will repeat that once more. Okay? I'll start with the boys I will also be timing you speed with a stop watch."
"Okay," said everyone.
"But one more little thing you should know about. When it comes to putting a team together and then training it to be very good or even the best it can be, I can get a little strict. So remember that for this team."
"Okay."
"Also I will be calling out your names in alphabetical order. So listen carefully."
"Hai."
"Now let's begin shall we?" He picked up a piece of paper and starts to call out names.
A few minutes later.
"Li Syaoran. Your turn," said Hishida-sensei.
Syaoran stood up and walked to the edge of the pool. When he heard Hishida- sensei call out, "3. 2. 1. GO!, he dove into the water and swam as fast as he could. While he was doing his laps, Hishida-sensei wrote down on a pad of paper. When he was done his four laps, he got out of the water and sat back down beside Sakura who said, "Wow Li-kun you were fast! I hope you make the team!" Syaoran blushed a little at her comment and said, "I hope you do too, Kinomoto-san," without stuttering.
"Arigatou."
Then Hishida-sensei said, "We have finished with all the boys. Now we will start on the girls."
He called out the first girl on the list in alphabetical order. When he got to Sakura's name he said, "Kinomoto-san. Your turn."
"Hai!" she said and walked to the edge of the pool. She took the diving position. Hishida-sensei said, "3. 2. 1. GO!" a few seconds later.
Sakura dove into the water and did the four laps. She was almost as fast as Syaoran, but maybe just a bit faster. When she was done, she used the underwater ladder to get out of the pool. She was at the last step on the ladder and had just raised her leg to step onto the floor of the pool area, when she felt the pain again and suddenly lost her balance. She fell backward into the pool again, her head going underwater.
Syaoran and Hishida-sensei saw this and yelled, "Kinomoto-san!"
Sakura resurfaced again and gasped for air. Then she kind of choked on the water.
"Are you okay?" asked a very worried Syaoran and Hishida-sensei.
"Hai, I'm.fine," she said still choking.
"You don't sound fine," said Syaoran.
"I'm really fine," she said not choking anymore. "I guess I just slipped on the ladder steps. Do you mind if I just go and swim in one of the other lanes?"
"Iie. You're sure you're okay?"
"Hai!" she replied and dove into the water like a dolphin and swam four lanes over.
Syaoran stopped worrying about Sakura and focused his eyes on the other participants.
Meanwhile Sakura had gotten to the corner of the pool and surfaced. Then she dove back in and tried to stay there as long as possible before coming back up for a breath. She wanted to resurface and dive again for a few more minutes. After 6 minutes of surfacing and diving, she got tired of it so she decided to lay herself on the bottom of the deep end until she needed air. She closed her eyes and relaxed.
A few hours later, it was time for everyone to leave the swimming pool building.
SYAORAN'S POV It was time to leave the building. But where's Kinomoto-san? I know that she didn't leave the building. I looked around but couldn't find her. I looked and looked but I still couldn't find her. That was when I noticed that in the last lane in a corner seemed darker. I walked over to the corner and looked down. It was darker all right but what was causing it? That's when I saw a human figure in the corner. I dove into the water even though I was already dry and swam as far as I could. END OF POV
SAKURA'S POV I heard a sound from above be but what could it be? I opened my eyes and saw something swimming towards me. I almost gasped when I remembered I was still under water. So instead, I start swimming upward to the top. When I thought the figure saw that I was coming back up, it did too. We both swim up the same time and gasped for breath. I turned around and saw. Li-kun?! END OF POV
Syaoran grinned at Sakura and said, "What were you doing down there?"
"Relaxing and practicing staying underwater for a long time."
"Exactly how long were you down there for?" he asked in a kind of stern voice.
"I don't know. About 3 minutes," she lied.
"You're lying. I can tell," teased Syaoran.
Sakura blushed a little. "Okay, okay. About 6 minutes."
"That's actually pretty good."
"Hai. Considering that I haven't been in water for a few months since my birthday."
"You haven't?"
"Iie."
A minute later, Syaoran said, "Let's get out of here and change."
"Hai," said Sakura and swam to the stairs. She walked up them, but as she took a step away from the steps, she fell again. "Oh boy. More cramps."
"Your legs again?"
"Hai, but worse than last time," she said.
"Oh boy," Syaoran said. "This time we don't have your friend here."
"Uh oh," said Sakura, "How am I going to get home?"
****How is she going to get home? Find out in the next chapter. Also find out another bad thing that is going to happen to her. I went overboard with the typing again. Gomen. Oh well. At least it'll keep you busy by the time the next chapter comes out. I also didn't add Tomoyo in here very much either. Gomen about that too. Hope you enjoyed this one. Please, Please, Pleeease, Review!! Arigatou!