AN: Thanks to all of you who reviewed. Your confidence has given me a major self-esteem boost. Special thanks to AnimeWarrior, my editor/best friend/twin sister. I love you man. Sorry the last chapter was so short, but I was afraid no one would like it and then I'd be wasting my time. Oh well, on with the show!
Disclaimer: I don't own CCS or CC so get off my back! You can't take my empty wallet! The voices! Now that I'm done with my nervous breakdown...here's my fic!
*** Change of Scenery
*~* Change in P.O.V.
~~~ Flashback
If you don't remember names please check prologue.
Getting Back to the Basics...or Not
Chapter 1: When Time Changes Enemy to Friend
By: AnimePrincess
*~* Sakura
I was startled back from memory lane by the shrill ringing of my phone.
"Hello?" I asked politely.
"Hey Sakura! Whatcha doin?" I immediately recognized the voice of...
"Oh hi Madison. I'm doing math. Do you know how complicated rational expressions are?" I whined.
Ignoring my question Madison answered, "Since you're not busy, lets go shopping."
With a slight groan, I agreed and hung up the phone. I got up to change out of my high school uniform and into something more comfortable. After I decided on my pink sun dress, I told Kero of my plans, not that he was listening anyway. I heard my doorbell ring and knew it was Madison. I opened the door and asked,
"Madison, when you called were you on your cell phone a block away from my house?"
"No! It was a block and a half." she responded giggling.
"Bye Dad! Bye Tori! Going to the mall! Be back before curfew!" After that I slammed the door behind me, not waiting to hear any complaints.
*** the mall
*~* author
"Madison why exactly are we here again?" Sakura asked as she and Madison walked aimlessly about the mall.
"I've got to get new material for the dress I'm going to make for you for the dance this Saturday." Madison said cheerfully, and had Sakura been paying attention she would have noticed the evil, devious smile on Madison's face.
"Madison how many times do I have to tell you? I'M NOT GOING!" Sakura yelled causing the other shoppers to look at her strangely. Sakura smiled and giggled nervously. Madison wanted to die laughing at her friend's embarrassment. Sakura just wanted to die.
"You are going Sakura and there's nothing you can do about it." Madison said trying to get the message out to Sakura that the topic was not open for discussion. Suddenly Sakura thought of the perfect excuse.
"I can't go, I don't have a date." Sakura smiled confidently and triumphantly. Madison just smiled back, even more cocky, which got Sakura wondering what she was planning.
"It's a masquerade ball. You're not supposed to have a date. The masquerade ball is the best event of the year. The suspense makes it fun." Sakura was running out of excuses.
"My father won't let me go." Even as the words were coming out of her mouth, she knew Madison had already thought of that.
"You know I already asked him." Madison countered as if reading Sakura's mind. Sakura was out of excuses, so she caved in and let Madison drag her from store to store.
***China
*~*Li
No matter what I did and how long I did it, Sakura would not quit haunting my mind. At the rate I was going I was going to kill myself just trying to forget that angelic face of hers. Even as these thoughts ran through my mind, I was training like the mindless zombie I was brought up to be, but woke up the day I met Sakura. In six years that day has not left my mind.
~~~
*~*author
"Settle down class," Li heard the teacher say through the door. "Today we have two new exchange students, Li Showron and his cousin Meilin Rae. They are from Hong Kong, China." When the teacher had announced their names, Li and Meilin took it as their cue to enter. The two new students glared as they stood in front of their new classmates. Li was glaring around the room when a pair of bright emerald green eyes caught his. The owner was a petite looking girl with golden brown hair and pale delicate skin, but her most mesmerizing feature was her eyes. The teacher's words broke Li out of his deep revere.
"Li you may sit behind Sakura Avalon. Sakura please raise your hand." Li looked out around the room and found his angel was raising her hand. He could not believe his luck, but he knew somewhere down the road Fate was going to demand pay back for its kindness.
~~~
*~*Li
Now I know what that pay back is. Fate gave me a taste of Heaven and then ripped it away as quickly as it had come. Oh well easy come easy go, right? That's what everyone is telling me. "Move on with your life. Forget she ever existed. There are plenty of fish in the sea." Guess what...everyone is wrong. They don't know what it's like to find your soul mate, your destiny. Most of them married because they were brought up to believe it was what they had to do, for the good of the clan. We were all raised to believe emotions made you weak and soft, in reality it's just the opposite. Emotions give you the power and courage to do things you wouldn't have thought you were capable of.
Knock! Knock!
"Come in!" I called, expecting to find my mother coming to make sure I wasn't sneaking a call to Sakura or anything. Instead of my mother, Meilin was there grinning at me.
"Meilin why are you grinning like that? You aren't planning to make me go on another blind date are you? Ever since the engagement was broken off you have been trying to get me a girlfriend and it makes me wonder why." My confession of suspicion didn't even put a dent in her evil looking smile.
"I know you'll love my news." she paused, she loves to keep me in suspense until I'm ready to ring her neck. "We have to go back to Japan for a week." Meilin was obviously very excited, which makes me wonder why. Of course, being the pessimist I am, I voiced this thought.
"Because one of the charities the clan donates to and supports is having a charity ball and your mother decided we should represent the clan and attend." Meilin's announcement was just what I have been waiting three long years to hear.
I guess she must have left, because when I was back from Cloud Nine, she was gone. Finally, I get to go back to Japan. Fate is giving me, us, a second chance. Which makes me dread what pay back it will ask for its generosity this time.
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AN: So what did you think? Do you like it?Love it?Want some more of it? If so R&R ASAP! I tried to make this one a bit longer. Another BIG thanks to all of you who read my last chapter. This is my first time ever posting a story, so as I get more comfortable with it, my chapters will be longer. Later days!
P.S. If you want to e-mail me and get to know me personally, my address is princessmeatballhead2003@yahoo.com or forerunner2000@juno.com E-MAIL ME!!
~*~ AnimePrincess ~*~
Disclaimer: I don't own CCS or CC so get off my back! You can't take my empty wallet! The voices! Now that I'm done with my nervous breakdown...here's my fic!
*** Change of Scenery
*~* Change in P.O.V.
~~~ Flashback
If you don't remember names please check prologue.
Getting Back to the Basics...or Not
Chapter 1: When Time Changes Enemy to Friend
By: AnimePrincess
*~* Sakura
I was startled back from memory lane by the shrill ringing of my phone.
"Hello?" I asked politely.
"Hey Sakura! Whatcha doin?" I immediately recognized the voice of...
"Oh hi Madison. I'm doing math. Do you know how complicated rational expressions are?" I whined.
Ignoring my question Madison answered, "Since you're not busy, lets go shopping."
With a slight groan, I agreed and hung up the phone. I got up to change out of my high school uniform and into something more comfortable. After I decided on my pink sun dress, I told Kero of my plans, not that he was listening anyway. I heard my doorbell ring and knew it was Madison. I opened the door and asked,
"Madison, when you called were you on your cell phone a block away from my house?"
"No! It was a block and a half." she responded giggling.
"Bye Dad! Bye Tori! Going to the mall! Be back before curfew!" After that I slammed the door behind me, not waiting to hear any complaints.
*** the mall
*~* author
"Madison why exactly are we here again?" Sakura asked as she and Madison walked aimlessly about the mall.
"I've got to get new material for the dress I'm going to make for you for the dance this Saturday." Madison said cheerfully, and had Sakura been paying attention she would have noticed the evil, devious smile on Madison's face.
"Madison how many times do I have to tell you? I'M NOT GOING!" Sakura yelled causing the other shoppers to look at her strangely. Sakura smiled and giggled nervously. Madison wanted to die laughing at her friend's embarrassment. Sakura just wanted to die.
"You are going Sakura and there's nothing you can do about it." Madison said trying to get the message out to Sakura that the topic was not open for discussion. Suddenly Sakura thought of the perfect excuse.
"I can't go, I don't have a date." Sakura smiled confidently and triumphantly. Madison just smiled back, even more cocky, which got Sakura wondering what she was planning.
"It's a masquerade ball. You're not supposed to have a date. The masquerade ball is the best event of the year. The suspense makes it fun." Sakura was running out of excuses.
"My father won't let me go." Even as the words were coming out of her mouth, she knew Madison had already thought of that.
"You know I already asked him." Madison countered as if reading Sakura's mind. Sakura was out of excuses, so she caved in and let Madison drag her from store to store.
***China
*~*Li
No matter what I did and how long I did it, Sakura would not quit haunting my mind. At the rate I was going I was going to kill myself just trying to forget that angelic face of hers. Even as these thoughts ran through my mind, I was training like the mindless zombie I was brought up to be, but woke up the day I met Sakura. In six years that day has not left my mind.
~~~
*~*author
"Settle down class," Li heard the teacher say through the door. "Today we have two new exchange students, Li Showron and his cousin Meilin Rae. They are from Hong Kong, China." When the teacher had announced their names, Li and Meilin took it as their cue to enter. The two new students glared as they stood in front of their new classmates. Li was glaring around the room when a pair of bright emerald green eyes caught his. The owner was a petite looking girl with golden brown hair and pale delicate skin, but her most mesmerizing feature was her eyes. The teacher's words broke Li out of his deep revere.
"Li you may sit behind Sakura Avalon. Sakura please raise your hand." Li looked out around the room and found his angel was raising her hand. He could not believe his luck, but he knew somewhere down the road Fate was going to demand pay back for its kindness.
~~~
*~*Li
Now I know what that pay back is. Fate gave me a taste of Heaven and then ripped it away as quickly as it had come. Oh well easy come easy go, right? That's what everyone is telling me. "Move on with your life. Forget she ever existed. There are plenty of fish in the sea." Guess what...everyone is wrong. They don't know what it's like to find your soul mate, your destiny. Most of them married because they were brought up to believe it was what they had to do, for the good of the clan. We were all raised to believe emotions made you weak and soft, in reality it's just the opposite. Emotions give you the power and courage to do things you wouldn't have thought you were capable of.
Knock! Knock!
"Come in!" I called, expecting to find my mother coming to make sure I wasn't sneaking a call to Sakura or anything. Instead of my mother, Meilin was there grinning at me.
"Meilin why are you grinning like that? You aren't planning to make me go on another blind date are you? Ever since the engagement was broken off you have been trying to get me a girlfriend and it makes me wonder why." My confession of suspicion didn't even put a dent in her evil looking smile.
"I know you'll love my news." she paused, she loves to keep me in suspense until I'm ready to ring her neck. "We have to go back to Japan for a week." Meilin was obviously very excited, which makes me wonder why. Of course, being the pessimist I am, I voiced this thought.
"Because one of the charities the clan donates to and supports is having a charity ball and your mother decided we should represent the clan and attend." Meilin's announcement was just what I have been waiting three long years to hear.
I guess she must have left, because when I was back from Cloud Nine, she was gone. Finally, I get to go back to Japan. Fate is giving me, us, a second chance. Which makes me dread what pay back it will ask for its generosity this time.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
AN: So what did you think? Do you like it?Love it?Want some more of it? If so R&R ASAP! I tried to make this one a bit longer. Another BIG thanks to all of you who read my last chapter. This is my first time ever posting a story, so as I get more comfortable with it, my chapters will be longer. Later days!
P.S. If you want to e-mail me and get to know me personally, my address is princessmeatballhead2003@yahoo.com or forerunner2000@juno.com E-MAIL ME!!
~*~ AnimePrincess ~*~