Chapter 2: A garter for an Angel.
Later that afternoon Sakura was walking home after a long day of practice to the dance. Tomoyo had alredy started taking measures to make the "dresses", while the other girls practice on the moves and song.
"This is a nightmare..."
"What's a nightmare?"
"AAAHHHH!!!!!"
"I'm sorry, Sakura-chan.... I didn't mean to scare you." Eriol said kindly trying to calm her down before she ran away.
"No, it's ok." She said quietly.
"So what's a nightmare?"
"Oh, Tomoyo came up with this dance for the science week and we were just practicing."
"Really? What are you dancing?"
"It's... it's a secret. Can't tell..." She said while her cheeks turned in diferent shades of pink and red.
"Then, can you tell me why are you blushing?"
This, of course, cause Sakura to blush more deeply.
"I told you that it's a secret... and it's kinda of embarrissing."
Eriol just smiled. "Then I bet that it's something that it's going to leave my cute descendant very shock... am I right?"
"Hai..."
"What's gonna shock me?"
"AAAHHHH!!!!!!!" Screamed Sakura while she jumped into Syaoran's arms, making them both blush furiosly for the second time that day.
"Tomoyo-chan would have love to record this with her camera... to bad..." Murmured Eriol.
"Gomen nasai, Syaoran-kun... I didn't mean to jump on you. It's just that you scared me."
"Hai... you were saying?" He asked putting her on her feets.
"Nani? I didn't said anything!"
"About something that was going to shock me?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"Oh, Sakura-chan is going to dance in the science week." Answered Eriol.
"What?" Syaoran asked looking confuse.
"It's something that Tomoyo prepared for all the girls..." Sakura explained embarrast.
"And why would that shock me?"
"Just forget it, Syaoran-kun... you'll see it the day of the dance. See ya!" And then she took off, heading towards her house.
Syaoran couldn't help but to stare at her while she has heading to her house.
When he first came to Japan he totally hated her because it was her fault he had to leave his family. But after a while they became really close friends, but not enough for him. Somewhere in the middle of the Clow Card Quest he started having feelings for the young mistress and now he was just crazy for her.
The only problems was that he just couldn't seem to tell her how he felt. Why couldn't he just admit it to her? How hard could it be to say three simple words on front of her? What did he needed to say it? Well... a little courage would help a lot.
"You know you could stay there all day just looking at the wind..." Eriol said snaping Syaoran out of his thoughts.
"What?"
Eriol gave him his best evil grin. "If there was a Clow Card name Courage... that wouldn't definitly be for you, cute descendant." And then he walked away, leaving a very confuse Syaoran behind.
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When Sakura finally reached home, Touya was in a very good mood, kami-samma knows why, but he still didn't miss the chance to bug Sakura as always.
"Hey, kaijuu! How was your day?" He asked as she passed in front of the kitchen.
"I'm not a kaijuu!! And my day was fine, thank you for asking."
"Say, I heard about this presentation on your science week... are you doing anything?"
"What? Why you ask? Are you going? Is Yukito going? Is dad going?"
"One question at a time, squirt! I only asked because I thought that maybe you were in a play or something. I don't know about Yuki, but dad isn't going to be here around those days, remember he's off to a dig."
Sakura let a out a sight in relief. She completly forgot about her brother and father. What would they say if they saw me dancing in those clothes? What would they think?... What would Syaoran think? Where did that came from?!?!? She asked herself only blushing at the thought of certain amber eyed boy.
"Right I forgot..." She said and then head off to her bedroom.
"Hey! You didn't answered my question!"
"What?"
"Are you going to be in a play or not?"
"No!" She said and then left the kitchen.
On the meanwhile, Kero was happily enjoying a huge ice cream Sakura left before going to school. When suddenly the door flew open and send him crashing into the wall in front of him.
"Did anybody got the number of that truck?" He asked looking at two Sakuras. "Hello, Sakuras!"
"What happened to you, Kero?" Sakura asked dropping her stuffs on the first chair she saw.
"That's funny... I'm asking myself the exact same question. Anyway, how was your day?"
"Well, it could have been worse!" She said and then burried her head in the soft pillow.
"What happened?"
"Tomoyo came up with this dance and now we have to present it in front of everyone in the school theater."
"Who are we?"
"Rika, Naoko, Chiharu, Tomoyo and of course yours truly!!" She answered in muffle.
"And what are you dancing?"
Sakura lifted up her head from the pillow and then turned to Kero.
"Ever saw Moulin Rouge?"
"Hmmm... no."
"Then it's a suprise!"
"Oh, come on, Sakura! Tell me!!"
"No!"
"Please!"
"No!!"
"What if I do something for ya?"
"Like what?"
"I... umm... I'll do your homework!"
"You always give me wrong answers!!!"
"No, your teacher always gives you wrong answers."
"Yeah, right!" She said covering her head with the pillow again.
"Just tell me!"
"No!"
"I'll give you a million dollars!"
"Hmm... no."
"PLEASE!"
"NO!"
And this carried on until Kero finally got tired and ran out things to trade her for the secret.
"Ohayo, Sakura-chan!!" Greated a very very happy Tomoyo.
"Oh, no..." Murmured Sakura knowing that something bad was going on. "Ohayo, Tomoyo!"
"Guess what?!"
"What?"
"I alredy finished your dress! You have to try it on... you'll look like an angel with it!"
"Boy, I sure would like to know what kind of angels wear garters." Naoko said a little to loud, enough to let Syaoran, Yamasaki and Eriol, who were sitting next to girls, hear the word garter.
"Ne... excuse me, Naoko-chan but.... did you just say garter?" Asked Eriol curiously.
"Ye—" But she was suddenly cut off by Chiharu's hand covering her mouth.
"No, she didn't." Chiharu finished.
"Really? I could have swear that she just did..." Syaoran said looking at all five girls suspiciously.
"Did you knew that the first garters were made by the american indians?" Yamasaki suddenly said. "They were actually use as hair ties for horses and other animals that had really long hair. But many scientifics dicovered in fossils that dinosaurs also wore garters so it's a mistery who was the first one to make them or wear them..." Everybody sweatdropped as he continued his story. "There are many theories about the evolution of the garters, but one of the most importants were given by Charles Darwin, who said that maybe garters were probably first wore by people from another planet. I, on the other hand, support my own theory, I believe that aquatic mammals like the whale were the very first ones to wear them to keep their little whale babies together so they wouldn't get lost."
"Not again!!" Chiharu said smacking him on the head. "How many times have I told you not to tell lies?!"
"But I wasn't lying!"
"He never learns..." Syaoran said.
"Probably... but he has quite a interesting theory about the garters... although I have my own theory..." Continued Eriol.
Everyone groaned and just left Eriol alone with his theory.
