Hi again. Thanx to aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllll the people who had reviewed. I luv you all very much. But let's continue with the story. I'm sure most of you have guessed who the captains were, if you didn't then you are going to find out now.
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Chapter 3 A new beginning
Announcer: "Here's the captains of the winners. Miss Chiharu Mihara and Sakura Kinomoto! Congratulations to the Seijuu high cheerleaders!"
The entire room quieted down.
"YOU were the captain of the best cheerleading squad in Japan?!" Hanna said with distaste.
"Congrates! Always knew you had talents," Cameron said giving Sakura a peck on the cheek.
"Whoa, and who's the babe co-captaining with you?" Michael said. Melissa gave him a play smack.
"That's one of my good friend, Chiharu. You remember her don't you Syaoron?" Sakura asked. Suddenly, a mental image just popped out of nowhere of all the old gang in Japan. They look like they were 10. The image disappeared as quickly as it came. Sakura was confused.
"Yeah, I remember Chiharu. The only person who could shut Takashi up," Syaoron amused. He missed Takashi and his friends in Japan. They were the ones who taught him how to loosen up from the clan business even though Sakura and Tomoyo were the only ones who knew about it.
"They are a couple now. It's rather fun seeing them together, since Chiharu always seems to be bickering at Takashi," Sakura said. She misses her friends and sometimes wished she never came to Hong Kong. But she knew that attending this school would look great on her college applications.
"Well, Syaoron, you seem to know lots of hot babes back in Japan. Why didn't you ever mention them?" Brad joked. The guys all laughed while the girls threw them a disapproving look.
"We were all just good friends," Sakura said. 'I wished we were more than that, but I guess I was wrong."
Syaoron shuddered at her words. 'Just good friends? What does she mean?'
"You know what guys? Let's do something else than watch home videos," Meiling said. She didn't enjoy the conversation very much.
"Maybe truth or dare again?" Melissa asked.
"Nah, that gets boring. We should do something more fun," Michael said.
"Any ideas, Michael?" Sam asked. As much as she enjoyed seeing Hanna and Meiling get put down, she doesn't want people to start bothering Sakura. She knows Sakura hated to be at the center of attentions.
"Maybe we could play some video games?" Brad suggested but it got booed down.
"May spin the bottle?" Hanna said. She of course wanted to kiss Syaoron.
"That's cool. Let's see, the bedroom's closet should work," Sam said. The gang agreed.
"What's spin the bottle?" Sakura asked. Everyone was surprised.
"I guess they don't have that game in Japan. Well, it's a game were you spin the bottle and whoever it pointed to, you have to spin 5 minutes in the closet with," Cameron explained with grin. He couldn't waited when he and Sakura get to be alone in the closet.
"I don't think we should play it if Sakura doesn't know about it. She might find it…" Syaoron was cut off by people. He didn't want Sakura to lose her innocent or be taken advantage of. Even if it was just simply kissing.
"Nonsense, she will be fine. Stop worrying," Sam said. The game started. Melissa spun and it landed on Michael.
"Perfect," Michael said as he led Melissa into the closet.
"What do you think they are doing?" Brad joked.
"Probably trying to bite each other off," Meiling answered.
"Well that should be logical, considering they are a couple and everything," Sakura said. Everyone but Syaoron smiled and laughed at the comment.
"You guys, quit it," Sam said as she was trying to stop laughing herself.
"I think Sakura should spin next so she would know what's actually going on in there," Cameron said. He can't wait till the bottle pointed to him.
"No fair. I want to spin," Hanna said. Everyone knew she wanted Syaoron in a closet.
"I don't think so," Meiling said.
"Cat fight," Brad teased. Melissa and Michael came out with a satisfaction grin as Sam knocked the door to signal time was up.
"Your turn," Sam said as she handed Sakura the bottle. Sakura flicked her wrist and the bottle spun around and around. It seemed forever before it started to slow down.
"Damn, girl, not that hard or none of us will get a turn," Sam teased. Some laughed. Some didn't. The boys all concentrated on when the bottle will stop. Some girls did too. The bottle finally stopped at a chestnut hair boy.
"No way," Syaoron said. He was afraid he might loose control if he was so close to her alone. He didn't want Sakura to hate him. 'But she already does.' A tiny voice said.
"No no no, no backing off," Sam pushed. She knew there was more than a friendship between the couple. Brad, Melissa and Michael all agreed while Meiling, Hanna, and Cameron objected.
"LET US ASK SAKURA WHAT SHE WANTS TO DO!" Melissa screamed on top of the crowd.
Sakura already knew there was a bit more than it seems with the game. But what could she do? She knew Syaoron the longest and trusts him over everyone there. 'It's safer with him than anyone else.' 'But are you sure that's the really reason?' a voice taunted. "I guess I won't mind. I guess maybe I'll get to know him all over again in five minutes." Some laughed.
'I know what you are talking about but it seems like you have no idea what you just said.' Syaoron thought. He and Sakura was reliantly pushed into the closet by Brad and Michael.
Sakura and Syaoron sat next to each other in the crowded, dark closet.
"You have no idea what you were doing out there were you?" Syaoron asked.
"I'm sure you could've done better, o great Syaoron," Sakura said sarcastically.
"I know I could've."
"Well, I'm so sorry if I'm stupid, dumb, incompetent, unable to do anything, clumsy, scaredy little girl compared to you," Sakura screamed in Syaoron ear.
"I never said any of that before."
"Yes you have." Syaoron threw her a confused look. He saw Sakura's face and understood. She was talking about when they first met each other.
"We should talk in Japanese just in case people are eavesdropping," Syaoron whispered into Sakura's ear. His husky voice sent a chill down Sakura's spine. She nodded, unable to trust her voice.
(Everything else is in Japanese between the two until further noticed.)
"I'm sorry if I ever said those things. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings and it was long before I knew you. You are none of those things as you proved to Yue, the world, and me while you were capturing the Clow cards. I don't want you to remember me as some mean street scum you knew," Syaoron whispered. His face was extremely close to Sakura's. He could feel Sakura's warm breath. 'God, she's still so enchanting after so many years. She could have me under her spell without trying.'
"I guess I overreacted a little," Sakura answered weakly under Syaoron's stare. She could feel the heat rising in her face. "So how's your life going since…you left Japan?" Sakura asked.
"Not as well as you think," Syaoron answered. A silence fell upon the couple. Neither of them moving an inch.
"Why did you leave?" Sakura said as she tried to control her tears. 'I never got to tell you about how much I cared. And now you care for someone else.'
"I had to. My family needed me. It was not by choice," Syaoron answered. He brushed away the tears coming down Sakura's cheeks. "I never wanted to leave you. You were the first real friend I had."
'Is that all I mean to you?' Sakura thought.
'I wish I could tell you what you really means to me.' Syaoron thought.
Syaoron put his arms around Sakura's waist and in her hair. He pulled her closer. "Don't cry. It makes me sad to see you so unhappy." Sakura put her head on Syaoron's hard chest.
"I was so sad when you left without a word, without saying goodbye."
"I didn't have a choice. I knew it would hurt more if you had to see me again before I go." 'And I probably not able to go back if I saw before I left.'
"But it would meant that you cared a little. Meant our friendship wasn't nothing in your eyes."
"It worth far more than anything possible." Syaoron said. A knock came from the other side of the closet door.
The gang pressed onto the door to hear what's going in the closet. First they heard some shouting and then rapid yet soft Japanese.
"Damn it, we can't understand what they are saying," Hanna cursed. Meiling could've pick up a few words from here to there but none of it really made sense. Her Japanese had been worsened since she was a kid. However, no one knew that Sam could've understood most of the conversation. Her family had trained her with advance Japanese. She, however, didn't really disclose anything she heard.
"Sounds like they are having a deep conversation," Michael observed.
"At least now you two don't have to worry about them sucking each other," Melissa giggled. The answer was for Meiling AND Hanna and the group knows it. Meiling was not happy that people are treating Hanna like Syaoron's girlfriend too.
The group talked about what they could possibly talk about. Sam knocked after 5 minutes and the couple came out. Sam could be certain that Sakura had cried even though it was not visible to everyone else.
"What did you guys do while we weren't looking?" Brad teased.
"Nothing," Syaoron said forcefully. "We just talked. Relived some memories together."
"Right," Michael said. Everyone was a little skeptical. No girl could resist Syaoron and certainly there was something between this one and him. The game continued till midnight but neither Syaoron nor Sakura was hit or spun again.
* * * * *
A week had gone by since the party. Syaoron and Sakura had been on friendlier terms but they still kept their distances, uncertain what the other thought about that night. Sakura had became a part of the cheerleading team, easily beating everyone who was trying out for the replacement on the team.
"Hi guys," Sam and Sakura greeted as they sat down at the usual table with the usual people.
"Did you guys know that there's a talent show coming up in 2 weeks?" Melissa said excitedly. She loved to watch these kinds of events even though she never participates in them.
"A few of the better girls on the dance team and I are putting on a show. I'm sure it'll win first place," Hanna said. The group teased.
"Are you ladies going to enter too?" Cameron said sweetly. He still tried to charm Sakura.
"Definitely," Meiling said. "I don't know what I you can bet."
"I don't' know. I don't really have any talent….." Sakura said.
"Nonsense, you are wonderful at cheerleading and dancing. I'm sure you could do something," Cameron praised.
"Sakura, you could sing the song your friends and you wrote, played, and singed that won 3rd place at Seijuu," Sam said. She heard one of the tapes before.
"I don't' know," Sakura said doubtfully.
"You should definitely try. What's the loss? You don't even have to prepare that much since you've done it before," Brad pointed out.
* * * * *
The crowd responded loudly to Hanna and her group of dancers. They were the best out of the ones that had gone. Meiling gritted her teeth. She did a play with a bunch of people but it didn't get nearly as much applause. Hanna threw her a triumph look as she came off the stage. 'That'll show Syaoron how much I am better than the little bitch Meiling.'
"Whoa, that was some performance!" Brad said as he jumped onto the stage. He's the official host of this talent show. "Now, the last, but not the least, Ms. Sakura Kinomoto singing never had a dream come true. (It's by S Club 7)
The curtain rose. The back of a chair was showing. The chair slowly turned toward the audience as the music started.
Everybody's got something, they had to leave behind,
One regret from yesterday, that just seems to grow with time,
There's no use looking back, oh wondering, Rachel, Tina & Hannah: (oh wondering),
How it could be now, oh might have been, R,T&H: (oh might have been),
Oh this I know, but still I can't find ways to let you go,
Sakura had turned completely facing the audience. She seemed emotionless.
I never had a dream come true
Till the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby,
I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be with you.
Then her eyes met Syaoron's in the audience. She started to loosen up, less afraid. She sang to the music.
Somewhere in my memory I've lost all sense of time,
And tomorrow can never be cos yesterday is all that fills my mind,
There's no use looking back, oh wondering R,T&H: (oh wondering),
How it should be now, oh might have been R,T&H: (oh might have been),
Oh this I know but still I can't find ways to let you go,
'If only you knew who I wrote this for.'
'if only I was the one you wrote this for.'
I never had a dream come true
Till the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby,
I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be
She stood up and walked into the middle isle in the audience. She became a part of the music. Part of the song, no longer aware of the eyes of the other than Syaoron's.
You'll always be the dream that fills my head
Girls: Yes you will, say you will, you know you will oh baby,
Jo: You'll always be the one I know I'll never forget,
There's no use looking back oh wondering, R,T&H: (oh wondering),
Because love is a strange and funny thing, R,T&H: (and funny thing),
No matter how I try, I try I just can't say goodbye, no no no no,
Highest emotion point. Sakura started come back to the world and walked back up stage.
I never had a dream come true
Till the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby,
I never found the words to say, R,T&H: (never found the words to say),
You're the one I think about each day, R,T&H: (you're the one I think about each day),
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be with you.
A part of me will always be with you, oooohhh.
The crowd exploded after Sakura finished. Everyone stood up. The reaction was equally great for her as for Hanna.
"Boy oh boy, not only she wrote a fantastic song. Ms. Kinomoto can SING!" Brad came up applauding.
Backstage, people are hugging Sakura.
"You were great!" Sam said as she gave her a hug. Hanna threw Sakura a dangerous look.
"May the best person win," Hanna said coldly as she walked away.
'Don't' worry about her. She's like that," Cameron said as he scooped Sakura up. "I know you are going to win."
"Thanks," Sakura said as she came down to the earth again. She wish it was Syaoron, who was scooping her up, but instead, he just gave a simple "good job" to her.
All the contestants and the audience settled down as Brad begun to announce the winners of the talent show.
"And now, the second place, and after a major showdown in the judges booth," Brad joked. The crowd laughed but the contestants were all nervous. "is………………"
Hope you liked this chapter. Since I had some free time so I decided to write chapter 3 a bit earlier. Hope you all liked it. R&R
~Lovie-chan