I'm gonna try to finish this story because I want to try and finish my other ones too. This story and the Master's Stone were my first real stories. For some reason I just am really bad at writing. Even though I have 50 some reviews, they are mostly just about 10 people reviewing after every chapter. I just wish to make a story that will get many reviews from different people. Then again, those kind of stories usually have very complicated plots and adventures with action and also the author is very good at depicting the action. But I'm not that good with action and adventure. Then again.. I'm not good in general at writing stories. But of course, as my parents always say, practice makes perfect right? (I really doubt it though. Its all in the talent) …
I'm hoping that this chapter will be a little longer. Most of the chapters are only about 7 KB or less. I'm hoping this at least goes up to 10 to 15 … Anyway, this story is just about to be finished and then I'm going to try to finish The Master's Stone. So here it goes! Read on!
When oh When will it Start to Begin?
Chapter 10
Sakura woke up early in the morning by a small shake and heard someone say, " Sakura? Get up." She opened her eyes to see Syaoran kneeling on the floor next to the bed shaking her shoulder.
"Wait a second… How did I get from the couch to the bed?" Sakura asked puzzled. Syaoran chuckled.
"I carried you over. How else?" Syaoran stood up. "Well you should get up if you need to go back to your house to change your clothes before we go to school."
Syaoran left the room. Sakura suddenly remembered about her bruises. Touya would be wondering where she got them and from who. She hurriedly checked her arms but found very faint bruises or no bruises at all. Then she had a grim reminder about her homework.
"Syoaran!" Sakura cried out. Her hands shot up to her scared face. "What about my homework?"
"Don't worry. I did it for you since it seemed like you wouldn't have been able to last night." Sayonara said back. "But! You'll have learn whatever the homework was about or you'll be behind in you work."
"Sure." Sakura sighed. "Thanks."
Syaoran blushed lightly. "No problem. It was easy."
She washed up and Syaoran gave her a new toothbrush since she didn't have her things here. Sakura could keep the toothbrush here if she ever stayed over again.
Syaoran had made french toast for breakfast and Sakura ate it hungrily. It was very good.
Finally they left Syaoran's apartment and went to Sakura's house. Only her father was home so Syaoran stayed outside to wait until Sakura changed her clothes. Sakura said goodbye to her father and met Syaoran outside. Then they walked to school.
They arrived early so they took their time at their lockers. "I'll see you later Sakura." Syaoran said and gave a small kiss on Sakura's cheek. Sakura blushed but they parted to go their separate ways to their different classes.
*~*~*~* Literature class
"I am so happy you got back together!" Serana smiled.
"I am too." Sakura said gratefully.
"No thanks to Hana. She's been like this for all these years and she got away with it. Why can't she get her own boyfriend!" Serana said angrily. (1)
Sakura's eyes widened in surprise and thought. '.. all these years.. ? What does that mean?'
*~*~*~* Lunch time
"So Sakura…"
"Yes Tomoyo?" Sakura raised her eyebrows at her. Tomoyo had known already what happened since Syaoran called her on her cellphone yesterday.
"What song are you going to sing with Syaoran?" Tomoyo asked.
"We don't know." Sakura said slightly embarrassed.
"You don't know? The Winter Wonderland Dance is two days away!" Serana exclaimed.
"Hmm… Can you come over my house today? Maybe we can pick one out and practice. I DO have a kareoke (AN: is that how you spell it? O well…) machine if you don't know the words yet." Tomoyo grinned.
Suddenly Tomoyo's grin faded. "Where's Syaoran?" She looked around again. "Oh no…"
*~*~*~*
Syaoran faced James in the back of the school, away from all the teachers and students.
"You're gonna pay for what you did." Syaoran growled out.
James looked puzzled. "What did I do?"
"Don't lie to me! You know what you did." Syaoran glared at James.
"I seriously don't know what you're saying." James looked at Syaoran as if he was crazy. " I don't know what I did to you but I'm sorry anyway."
"What?! You mean you hurt my girlfriend and you don't remember? Or are you trying to deny it?!" Syaoran glared at him harder.
"Fine. Just to make you go away, I'll say I did it. Except I don't remember doing it. Did you know, the oddest thing happened to me yesterday now that you mentioned it." Syaoran sweat dropped. James got into a thoughtful position as if he didn't realize he was in trouble with a guy that wouldn't hesitate to kick his butt. "I woke up in a park at night time. I had this HUGE, MASSIVE bump on the side of my head. I walked around until late last night. It took me awhile before I got to a house that looked familiar to me. When I went in I remembered that it was MY house."-James chuckled-"Which was why it looked so familiar." Syaoran sweat dropped even more but James didn't notice. "But then don't I have parents? Finally I remembered after looking at a note on the refrigerator that someone left there, I remembered that my mother and father left to take care of my grandmother. Then again, I don't even remember what my grandma looks like. Anyway…" James kept talking on and on about his unusual predicament and didn't seemingly notice that he was just about to get his butt kicked.
Syaoran was starting to back away from James. 'He must have lost his memory about what he did to Sakura when I kicked him in the head. I guess I kicked too hard.'
Syaoran then bumped into someone and he whirled around to face Tomoyo, Serana and Sakura. He pushed them to leave while James was talking. They all raised their eyebrows at him but he shook his head. So they left James talking to himself at the back of the building.
*~*~*~*
"What happened?" Sakura asked as soon as they got back to the lunch spot Tomoyo, Serana and herself had been sitting earlier.
"I guess that James lost his memory about yesterday and he's gone crazy." Syaoran snorted in disbelief at his own conclusion.
Serana frowned. She had really been hoping that Syaoran would kick his butt.
Sakura snorted too. "That stinks."
Then she started to smile. "Wait! Then if only us know, this incident won't be known around school if we keep it a secret and not tell anyone." Then she added as an afterthought. "Besides, my bruises are almost gone and they don't even hurt when I poke them." She pressed the faint dark blotch as evidence and she didn't flinch.
"If people found out what happened, you'd be in big trouble. I don't think you'd want to go through it with people badgering you and asking questions or making fun of you. People take it different ways." Serana said carefullly. Syaoran agreed with Serana on that one.
"Just hope that no rumors circulate." Tomoyo raised an eyebrow while looking suspiciously about at other students. "Or you two will never hear the end of it."
Tomoyo turned back around to face Syaoran. "Sakura and Serana are coming over today to pick a song. You're coming too right?" "We don't want to pick a song that you don't like." Serana quipped.
"I'll be coming. Don't worry." Syaoran smiled in reassurance at the three teen girls.
RING!
"Time to go back to class." Tomoyo sighed wearily as she stood up.
Sakura gathered her belongings up. "I'll meet you all after school then."
"Okay." Serana replied.
"Sure." Tomoyo started walking to class.
"Catcha later." Syaoran waved to all of them as they all walked to their different classes.
*~*~*~*
Sakura and Tomoyo were waiting by the front gate for Syaoran and Serana when they saw someone walk up to them. Hana.
"What are you doing here Hana?!" Tomoyo said, as she looked the girl up and down disgracefully. Hana ignored her and walked up to Sakura. Hana had a frown on her face. "Stay away from Syaoran or you would never hear the end of it."
"*Excuse me? Can you repeat that?*"
Hana turned around to look into a face she did NOT want to see.
Serana.
Her head held high and eyes blazing, she pointed a finger straight in between Hana's eyes. Each step Serana took, Hana took one back.
"*In Hong Kong, you were the most stuck up brat in the school. I had to deal with the fact that you stole my best friend's boyfriend and she wouldn't let me help her because she said I'd embarrass her. I think she was just trying to protect me. She was afraid I'd get hurt by your BODYGUARDS. Now you come here to Japan and try to steal Sakura's boyfriend?! How dare you!*" (1)
SLAP!
Hana fell to the ground hard. She put a hand to her burning red cheek.
"*You better stay away from Sakura and Syaoran!*" Serana yelled out forcefully down on Hana. Other than Hana, only Syaoran knew what she said because everything that she had said was all in Cantonese. Her home language in Hong Kong and her first language.
It was as if she had kept those feelings in too hard, and too long. So everything came out in one blast of red, hot and angry steam.
They all watched as Hana got up to run away. Suddenly everyone around them started cheering and clapping. Everyone had known about Sakura and Syaoran breaking up, although they didn't know why, they were all glad to get the point straight across Hana's face that she couldn't just come up and break up someone's relationship.
Serana turned back around face flushed pink to the group. "Okay. How about the kareoke?"
Sakura and Tomoyo were blinking wide-eyed at their friend. They never knew she had that angriness inside of her.
Syaoran was the first to speak. "Uh… Yeah... At Tomoyo's house."
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So how did everyone like it? Just a few things to clear up.
(1) All the words in asterisks (*) were supposed to be in cantonese. I had wanted to have this little story thing behind this about Serana and Hana. I did clue you in at the part where Serana says '.. all these years..' to Sakura. I think you can kinda tell that Hana stole Serana's best friend's boyfriend even though I didn't really mention it at all in the other chapters. The BODYGUARDS were all those boys who liked Hana. If you have more ?questions¿ I'd be happy to answer them as best I could in the next chapter. = )