In The Stars
By: Andrea MacFarlane
E-Mail: neo_night_ca@hotmail.com

Disclaimer: Any characters having to do with the anime Card Captor Sakura are in no way owned or leased by the author, though I do wish they were. Any characters not belonging to CCS are the sole property of the author. If you wish to use any of them, please contact the author for permission.

Author's Note: Hey all! Here's chapter two, I figured you'd all like alittle more to chew on perhaps. I'd really love some reviews if you've got the time, anything would be great. Any flames, comments, or praises please send them to neo_night_ca@hotmail.com. Or do the R&R thing if you're reading this at Fanfiction.net.

Oh and I forgot about Sakura's teacher in the list of characters, so here's the extension to the list.

Yoshiyuki Terada=Mr. Terada



Chapter 2: Welcome


Sakura had just arrived in class and taken her seat when Mr. Yoshiyuki cleared his throat to gain the classes attention.

"Okay class settle down. Now I have a surprise for you all, we have a transfer student in our class. We had several last year and this year we gain another. Perhaps another person for you all to befriend as you have last year's tranfer students."

The door to the classroom slid open to reveal a girl with dark blonde hair and vibrant emerald coloured eyes. She wore the traditional school uniform, but a necklace of silver hung from her neck. The main focus being the symbol that hung from the sparkling chain. It looked very familiar to four of the students in the class, or at least similar in some aspects. It was however, definitely a symbol of magic.

"Class please welcome Kurai Akarui. She's just transfered coincidentally enough, from China. Let me see here now Akarui, ah yes you may sit in the desk behind Eriol." Mr. Yoshiyuki motioned towards Eriol to raise his hand and he did so swiftly.

Sakura watched as Eriol and Akarui clashed their eyes cooly towards each other. As Akarui passed by Sakura and Li she paused, between each of their desks to look them both in the eyes. Though Sakura could've sworn she saw a glint of amusement light Akarui's eyes when she focused on Sakura.

Akarui took her desk quickly and the lessoned began immediately after.

Li turned his head slowly to glance back at the new girl, only to find her looking directly at him with a charming smile. He smiled back awkwardly at her and turned in his desk to look at the front of the class.

Akarui smirked as Li turned away from her. 'This has to be a mistake, no way would the Clow Reed I once knew allow such pitiful card captors to collect his cards and keep them. Speaking of which...' she thought as she leaned forward slightly so that only Eriol could hear her.

"You will meet me after school is finished, Eriol, we have much to discuss."

Eriol smiled to himself as he heard the voice from behind him. He nodded his head in acceptance and thought, 'Yes Akarui, we do have much to discuss. The first being why your on Earth.'

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As lunch rolled around Sakura sat eating lunch with Tomoyo, Chiharu, Takashi, Naoko, and Rika underneath a cherry tree and Li was perched up in the trees branchs.

"So like, what did you guys think of that new girl? I mean, she looks kinda scary to me." Rika gossiped.

"Well I heard that she comes from one of those mob families, just the way she looks at you, it's terribly intimidating." Naoko replied shuddering.

Takashi raised his hand in his all to familiar gesture that preceeded one of his tall tales but he was cut short as Chiharu clamped a hand ove his mouth.

"Come on Takashi, you're going to buy me a soda." Chiharu ordered as she dragged herself and Takashi to their feet and began to pull him back towards the cafeteria.

Tomoyo giggled before turning to Sakura. "I wondered why she looked at Sakura, Li, and Eriol so intensely myself."

Sakura shrugged and from up on his perch Li called down, "I think she's got a few loose screws is all."

Sakura frowned up at Li. "Come on Li, I don't think that's fair, maybe she just thought she recognized us from somewhere and was just making sure she was wrong or right."

Tomoyo shrugged smiling. "Yeah I guess that could be it Sakura. Who knows, she could be as friendly as you are Sakura."

The group of friends began to laugh but were interrupted a moment later.

"Could I hear the joke?" came a soft, yet commanding voice.

They all turned to see Akarui standing behind them and they gulped nervously.

"Well it wasn't really that funny, and well uh...Rika can you help me go study for me math test for tomorrow?" Naoko turned to her friend and Rika who was about to deny the afore mentioned test when she caught on and nodded her head vigorously.

"Yeah sure sure!"

Naoko and Rika jumped from their seats on the grass and dashed towards the school.

Tomoyo smiled at Akarui, "Would you like to sit down Akarui?"

Akarui turned to look at Tomoyo and seemed to scan her for a second before nodding and sitting down next to her so that she faced Sakura and sat beneath Li on his little perch.

"So Sakura, I hear you're quite the cheerleader here at school."

Sakura smiled at nodded her head. "Uh huh, do you do any sports Akarui?"

Li looked down pensively as he tried to prob Akarui for any kind of magical powers. He could've sworn he'd felt strong ones when she'd first entered the class that morning, but now he wasn't so sure.

Akarui glanced up at Li and winked, "Oh I do quite a bit of sporting Sakura. In fact I quite enjoy roller blading. Do you blade?" she asked as she turned back to Sakura smiling.

Li was taken aback by Akarui's wink and nearly fell out of the tree.

"Oh Sakura blades alright! She's the best person I know!" Tomoyo proclaimed proudly as she smiled at Sakura and Akarui.

Sakura blushed and laughed, "Well maybe not the best. Hey I have an idea, Akarui why don't you come over to my house after school today! It'd be great, we could even blade there together unless you don't have any rollerblades here today."

Akarui smirked. "Are you kidding Sakura, my blades are like my hip bones, I never leave home without them." she glanced around quickly before bowing her head and standing up. "Well I've got to be going, I'll meet you after school Sakura."

"See ya later Akarui!" Tomoyo and Sakura called as Akarui walked off.

Li jumped down from his tree limb and sat down where Akarui had sat.

"Well I like her, nothing unusual at all. In fact she kinda reminds me of Eriol in some respects. Like the way she looks at you, her eyes seem very old and wise." Tomoyo sighed as she polished off her small lunch of sushi and tofu.

"I don't trust her." Li stated firmly.

"You know Li, that's the same thing you said about Eriol." Sakura replied firmly. "You've got to trust some people enough to get to know them. I think if it hadn't been for us working together to get the Clow Cards you'd never have gotten to know me and we wouldn't be friends."

Li opened his mouth in protest but closed it swiftly when no words came out. He stood up in a huff and ran into the school to sulk.

Tomoyo sighed as she shook her head.

"You two really need to get it together. Being a couple would relieve a lot of this tension between the two of you."

Sakura could only gape at Tomoyo. "WHAT?!"


*End Chapter 2*

So what'd you all think? I wonder who this new girl could be, could she be the person that Yue warned about in Chapter 1? What about the two shadows that had been outside of Sakura's house, could she have been one of the owners of one of those shadows? Wait and see! Comments, suggestions, flames, praises, etc, send to neo_night_ca@hotmail.com

Arigato & Ja ne!