Hello again! Or welcome if this is your first time. I'll save my notes for the end, since I know your all dying to start the story!(yeah right!) I made this one longer since the last one was so short. Well, I hope you enjoy this story! Hope, hope, hope...^.^;
(mumble)Idon'towncardcaptorsakuraoranycharactersaffiliatedwithit,sodon'teatmek?k.
I've Found You
Chapter 2
By: DreaDreamer
'Syaoran Li! He said his name was Syaoran Li!', Sakura thought frantically, dropping her luggage and bringing her hand up to clutch at a necklace around her neck.
Her other hand had gripped the couch near her. Syaoran saw this and asked, "Are you okay?"
"Fine! Where's my room?", Sakura gasped the words out.
"Down the hall, by the window, on the left", Syaoran said looking at her somewhat puzzled.
She ran down the hall panting, stumbling once.
He stared after her, then looked down at the table and saw what Sakura hadn't.
His knuckles were turning white from gripping the table so hard.
'Sakura Kinomoto? Why does that name sound so familiar?', thought Syaoran letting his knuckles relax. He returned to stirring his milk. Honey milk.
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Sakura sat on her bare mattress panting, still clutching the necklace around her neck.
'No! This can't be happening!', thought Sakura. 'You have medicine for this!'
Her head shot up. 'Medicine! Ha!'
Sakura stood up looking for her bags. She groaned and flopped back down on her bed.
'My bags are in the living room with *him*!', She thought hopelessly.
She sat back up and looked around her room. Light blue wallpaper, a ceiling which curved outwards. The ceiling was also light blue, and when she looked closer she realized there was a skylight right in the middle, over her bed. She smiled and looked back at the walls. She looked at the wall facing the street, and saw a big beautiful window. There was a cushy seat, and there were little knobs on the window. She went over to it, and pulled on the knobs. The window opened to a world of sound.
Sakura smiled. She looked over to her right, and saw a little street with shops up and down it the whole way. Since it was Saturday, there had been a little open street market. Since it was 5:00, according to the clock on one of the buildings, the little shops and stands were closing up for the day. She looked directly in front of her.
"Wow...", she breathed taking in the scene before her. There was a little park across from her window. A lot of trees were beginning to turn colors since autumn was approaching. Sakura felt one of the last warm breezes cross her face, and she smiled into it. The park was surrounded by buildings, and complexes, and businesses.
Sakura sighed.
'And now a dreary, gray winter is all I have to look forward to.', she thought.
For a small while, Sakura was content just to stare out at the view before her.
She grinned slightly.
'But this place has surprised me. Maybe it won't be so bad after all.'
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Syaoran Li was starting to feel panicked at the sight of the wriggling back pack in the middle of the living room. At first he had thought the mumbling voices he heard were his imagination, but as he continued to look at it, he realized that movement and swearing could not possibly be all made up.
Syaoran didn't know whether to go up to Sakura and ask her about it, or wait to see what it was.
Or take a bat and beat it before it got a chance to attack him.
All of a sudden a little ball of yellow bounded out of the bundle he had been in and started-flying?- around the room. Syaoran looked at it in utter disbelief.
"AAAhhhhh!", someone yelled.
Syaoran saw Sakura standing in the doorway, and gained enough composure to run and protect her. The little ball stopped soaring around the room and gasped at the sight of Syaoran and Sakura. It stopped in mid-air and...fell lifeless to the ground.
Syaoran went over to it quickly, about to step on it. Sakura pushed him out of the way and bent down to pick up the ('stuffed animal?', thought Syaoran.) 'thing' on the ground. She went about picking up her things on the ground. Sakura looked up at Syaoran glaring. She was much different than when she had walked in.
"Are you going to help me or not?", she asked.
"Uh, yeah. I'll help.", Syaoran said numb with disbelief.
Syaoran helped pick up her suitcases and began bringing them into her room.
"What is that thing?", Syaoran asked pointing at the 'stuffed animal'.
"Oh, um...", Sakura looked a little taken for words. "It's, a, um,....stuffed animal."
"Why did it fly around?", asked Syaoran suspiciously.
Sakura looked at him exasperatedly. "Duh. Batteries."
Syaoran was about to ask something else when Sakura said.
"The batteries ran out of juice. That's why he fell."
Syaoran and Sakura stared at each other for a few seconds. Sakura started to look uncomfortable again.
"So, uh, thanks.", she said.
"Your welcome. Well, I'm gonna go to the store."
He turned to go when he turned back around. "Need anything?", he asked.
"No." Sakura then turned back to her things, un-packing boxes. He gave her a last once over before turning around. She was wearing a black turtleneck and jeans. Her clothes were slim-fitting and looked nice on her. Her hair was long, and she had it down her back in a long messy braid. It went down to slightly above the middle of her back. He realized he was staring when Sakura turned around to look at him.
He blushed and closed the door. In the hallway Syaoran asked aloud, "I blushed?"
Sakura had turned back to her things, and her eyes were wide and her breath was coming out harshly. She started ravaging through her backpack looking for her medicine. She groaned. Remembering her medicine cabinet, the phone ringing, her forgetting to clean it out.
"What's wrong Sakura?", asked a little voice from her bed.
"Kero! You surprised me! Nothing I'm fine." She stood up to sit next to Kero. "Does that guy look familiar to you?" , she asked Kero.
"No. Wait!", Kero said.
"What? What?", asked Sakura eagerly.
"He looked like that big, pink ugly thing on that one video game!", said Kero laughing.
"KERO!"
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(Well that's all for now. Haha! Just kidding! Three pages? Yeah right, even I can do better than that! Okay! Here ya go!)
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Syaoran walked out of the apartment glancing up at the window at the very top of the three story building. On the inside he saw Sakura hanging a poster of a cherry blossom tree by the head of her bed. He turned back around and kept walking to the corner store. He didn't understand why he couldn't stop thinking about her.
'Well, she *is* weird.', he thought. 'Yeah that's it. She's one of the weirdest people I've ever met.' He thought ,instead, of what he needed to buy.
'Milk, honey, bread", he went over a little list in his mind...
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"Well, Kero! That's about all I can do for now.", Said Sakura, putting in the last pushpin on her poster.
"What? It's only 7:30! We still have two suitcases to go!"
Sakura looked at him, her mouth open. "I've been doing all the work! You've just been sitting there!"
"(ahem) I've been 'coordinating'. I have to take it easy! What if that kid walked in again? Ranzaki? Is that his name?"
Sakura looked away. "Uh, yeah. I think that's it." She wasn't ready to tell him what the guy had told her, if she wasn't really believing it herself.
"Listen Kero. I'm tired. Are you ready to turn in?", she asked turning back around.
"You mean to sleep?! Heck no! I want to see all the sights! Tomoyo said that this town comes to life at night. She read it in a book."
"Okay. Be careful, and STAY OUT OF TROUBLE!", she yelled the last words to the little hairball as he shot out the open window.
Sakura walked to the window and looked out over the park, smiling. She hadn't felt this at ease in ages. She looked down the street to see a figure walking out of a store on the corner. She tensed when she saw who it was. Syaoran Li was walking down the street, back towards the apartment building. 'He *is* cute', Sakura thought to herself, dreamily. He looked up unexpectedly to see her staring at him.
"Eep!" Sakura yelped. She jumped up from the seat and closed the window. She walked hurriedly out of view.
Down on the street Syaoran Li was smiling to himself....
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Sakura had had trouble sleeping for the past two years, so when sleep came to her, she had to accept it then and there or never at all.
So when she had felt it kick in at 7:30, she knew she had to go to bed. Sleep was no longer her friend, especially since she had nightmares just about every time she laid down.
'Well, maybe since I'm so relaxed, I'll be able to sleep peacefully.' She was surprised by how tired she felt. She hadn't even put the covers or sheets on her bed yet. She did, however, have her pajamas so she changed into them.
"Oh well.", thought Sakura lying down on the bed with a peaceful sigh. Her stomach rumbled, but she ignored it. She slipped into a calm sleep as the door to the apartment opened...
(Drea's Notes: a lot of these end in .... I wonder why....)
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As Syaoran went by Sakura's room, he saw the light was off. He stood in the hall looking at her door for a second before going into his room across the hall. He would try to ignore her as best as he could. But he couldn't seem to get her face out of his mind. Bright eyes. Bright eyes that had shone when she had first walked in.
'Why is she so angry all the time?', thought Syaoran lying in bed. 'She reminds me of...well-me.'
'And why does she seem so familiar?'
He gazed up at the ceiling until he fell asleep, thinking about the bright green eyes of the girl across the hall.
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"Where am I? What is this?", I said frightened looking around me. It looked familiar. It was the park. The park with the King Penguin slide in my home town. I was laying in the grass, my wand at my side.
'Why am I here? I thought I moved.', I thought. "What's going on?", I asked aloud.
"Don't you remember? This is where you killed him.", said a voice behind me.
I turned, eyes wide, but no one was there.
"Who...who's there?", I asked timidly, my old fear of ghosts kicking in.
"I'm not a ghost. But you should still be afraid. Don't you remember?", said the voice without an owner.
I turned back around to find a man standing in front of me. He was pale under the moonlight, or maybe he was pale to begin with, and had black hair that was thinning at the top. His skin looked very leathery and old. He was wearing regular clothes. Black pants with a white collar shirt. He looked like an every day person, but for some reason he scared me.
"Who are you? What are you talking about?", I asked. I felt better knowing I could see him. "Why am I here?" I tried to stand up and found that my legs ached so bad I couldn't stand. I was wearing one of Tomoyo's odd costumes. Black tights covered my legs, and when I pressed on them I felt the blood seep through the cloth. I looked at my hands as I pressed down. They looked oddly smaller and did not have some of the scars I had managed to get over the years. I looked at my legs again, and realized I was much tinier than I should have been.
"Have you remembered yet?", asked the voice harshly. "I do not have all night."
"Please. I don't understand...Why am I here?", I asked. For some reason my bottom lip was quivering as I said these words. 'Why do I feel like I need to cry?', I asked myself, biting down on my lip.
"Look over there.", said the man pointing over to my right. I looked, and off a few yards away, was a body lying in a heap on the ground. I didn't understand.
"Wha...who is that?", I asked thoroughly confused.
The man gave me a sound of contempt. "You've always been dense Sakura Kinomoto. I don't know why you were ever chosen to collect the Clow cards in the first place."
His tone and words made me angry. "Shut up! Listen I don't know who you are, or why I'm here but we need to help that person on the ground. I can't believe you haven't already."
"YOU SHUT UP!", he screamed at me so suddenly, I was even more frightened of him. "I am sick of your stupidity! You will be killed like you killed him!" He raised his hand as if to strike me, and-
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Sakura sat up, sweating.
She swung her legs over the side of the bed and held herself tight.
"What was that?", she asked aloud. She tried vainly to hold on to the details of her nightmare but they had soon slipped away from her. All that was left, was the feelings she felt about the dream. The feelings were haunting. She was scared and sad all at the same time. She felt her face and realized she wasn't sweating--she was crying.
She stood up and walked to the window. She could see some of the light of the new day coming over a far off hill. She looked over toward the giant clock to see it was 6:20.
She widened her eyes, surprised. 'Wow. Best sleep I've had in ages, a whole 10 hours. I *was* tired. Worst dreams I've ever had though.'
Sakura glanced down to see a woman opening the bakery across the street. She hadn't heard Syaoran come in last night and decided to go down and make the baker's first sale for the day, while he was still asleep. She still didn't want to talk to him.
She opened her door quietly, and listened. Silence. Sakura smiled with satisfaction as she stepped out soundlessly into the hallway. She tiptoed down the hall and into the living room, going to get her coat when-
"Where are you going?", said someone behind her.
Sakura jumped about a foot off the ground and screamed. She turned around, eyes wide, and stared at the person who had spoke.
Syaoran was over a stove stirring something in a pot. Sakura narrowed her eyes at him.
"That's rude to do that to someone.", she said gritting her teeth.
"Hey, I just asked where you were going. It seems your the one being rude."
Sakura straightened up embarrassed. "Can't I go out without you questioning me? I haven't even known you for a day. I was going to the bakery across the street. Are you done now?"
"Done.", he said. Sakura turned around to get her coat, when he started talking again. "But, I do have a question."
Sakura rolled her eyes, and turned back around.
"What is that?", she asked.
He walked over to the breakfast bar, and leaned on it with his elbows.
"Are you really planning to go outside in that?", he asked gesturing at her clothes.
Sakura looked down at once to see she was only wearing a t-shirt that went down just above her knees, and socks.
"Eep!", Sakura yelped looking back at him. He was smiling, eyes still glaring maliciously. Sakura wrapped her arms around herself, and glowed a luminescent red. She hurriedly walked back to her room, and slammed the door.
Syaoran went back to his cooking, laughing loud enough so that he could hear her down the hall on purpose.
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Sakura slid down the back of her door, rubbing her face as if she could get the red out of it.
'I can't believe it. I just can't believe it. If I keep this up, I'll win an award for Most Embarrassing Moments in 24 Hours.'
Sakura could hear Syaoran laughing from the kitchen. She clenched her teeth.
'I'm not going to leave this room until he leaves.' Her stomach rumbled.
Sakura flung herself onto her mattress and put her face into the rough material. Then she let out a nice long scream...
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An hour later, Sakura was leaning brokenly against her door, on the floor. Her face was squished so tightly against it, it looked like she had a deformity.
She inhaled the sweet smell coming from the kitchen, opening her mouth once in a while, as if she could eat the air. She had tried to block out the ever so sweet smell that had been coming from the kitchen for near half an hour now. She had gotten dressed, and tried unpacking again.
She realized she couldn't concentrate when she put her lampshade on the knobs on the window, and her curtains on her lamp. Kero had come back and left her after 15 minutes of the delicious smell to find something to eat.
'Jerk', Sakura thought. She stood up and stared at her door. Then she had taken a deep breath and went into the hallway. She closed her eyes as the sweet smell washed over her like a wave.
She walked mechanically down the hall, as if the smell was making her walk, luring her.
She stopped in the hallway doorway, and narrowed her eyes at Syaoran who was scooping pancakes, eggs, and bacon onto a plate. Sakura lifted her head and sat down on a stool at the bar, raising a magazine to her face, trying to seem cool. She peeked around the magazine when she heard something scrape on the surface of the counter. Syaoran was pushing a plate of delicious food to her.
"I don't want any, thank you." Sakura said this with an icy chip to her voice. As soon as she said this, however, her stomach rumbled very loudly.
Syaoran smiled and turned away. "Your reading that magazine upside down. Now, unless you read things upside down, I'd say your hungry."
Sakura looked at the magazine, un-surprised to see that he was right. She threw the magazine down on the counter and stared at the food he had set before her.
"It's not poisonous.", said Syaoran making a plate for himself.
Sakura glared at the back of his head and picked up a fork and tried some of the egg. Once she tasted the wonderfully delicious morsel in her mouth, she almost died from happiness.
Then she started to shovel food into her mouth, forgetting all grace and letting herself completely submerge into the taste of the wonderful food. She felt nine years old again. She felt good. She looked up to see Syaoran staring at her. He smiled at her. She looked down and kept eating, trying to hide the fact that she liked it when he smiled.
He settled himself across from her and began eating.
Sakura finished, of course, before him. She felt very good indeed, and was happy to feel some strength coming back to her body.
She looked at Syaoran, and now that her mind was clear, she felt a pang of pain in her heart at the sight of him. He looked so much like the real Syaoran. Same dark eyebrows. Messy, brown hair in his forever glaring eyes. He took a sip of coffee and looked up realizing he was being stared at.
He brought down his cup and asked, "Do you want some coffee?"
Sakura shook her head and replied, "It doesn't mix well with my pills."
"Pills?", he asked suspicious again.
"Oh, er, vitamins.", said Sakura covering up her slip.
Seeing that he was about to ask more and not wanting to answer any questions about her 'problem', she tried to start a conversation.
"So, uh, your going to Mizoku too?"
"Uh, yeah.", said Syaoran not looking up from his plate.
"What's your major?"
"I'm not really majoring for anything. I'm studying Chinese Arts and History."
"Blech. Sounds boring."
Syaoran looked at her, bewildered by her statement.
"Well, that's only one of the classes I'm taking. What are you studying that's gonna be so interesting?"
Sakura lit up like a fire-fly. Her eyes twinkled and she sat up straight smiling.
"Glad you asked. I'm going to be working in an Arts program too. Dancing. Boy do I love to dance. I'll be learning traditional and modern. Chinese style and Japanese style are both interesting, and since I know most of Japane-"
"Hey I just asked what classes you were taking. I don't want to know your whole life story."
Syaoran tried to seem cool, but he really *did* want to know all of Sakura's life story. He loved seeing her light up, and he immediately regretted saying anything that would make her face lose that beautiful luster. Her eyes had stopped glowing a bright green, and now they were back to a dark jade color. She had also stopped smiling.
Sakura looked more hurt than angry now.
"Hey, I was just kidding. It really does sound interesting. I would like to watch you, maybe." , said Syaoran pushing his plate away and turning to look at Sakura.
Sakura smiled , and Syaoran could feel an odd, but familiar feeling come to his face. His face felt hot and for some reason he felt embarrassed. This made Sakura smile even wider. She got up and started to walk down the hall.
"Thanks for breakfast.", she said disappearing down the hallway and into her room.
Syaoran turned to clean up the dishes when he glanced into the toaster. His face was flushed a deep red. 'What the...?', Syaoran thought dropping the dishes in the sink and walking up to the toaster to get a better look. He saw that he was truly red.
'Remarkable.', he thought looking towards the hallway. 'She's remarkable.'
(D/N: Well, well, well. What about that? Y'know what movie I like? Coyote Ugly. Har de har har. Oh! Anyway! What about the story, huh? W-I-E-R-D. Yeah, I know. Next chapter I have a wonderful surprise for all of you, that I've been saving. I hope you enjoy it! Alrighty! Bye for now! Love always, DreaDreamer)
(mumble)Idon'towncardcaptorsakuraoranycharactersaffiliatedwithit,sodon'teatmek?k.
I've Found You
Chapter 2
By: DreaDreamer
'Syaoran Li! He said his name was Syaoran Li!', Sakura thought frantically, dropping her luggage and bringing her hand up to clutch at a necklace around her neck.
Her other hand had gripped the couch near her. Syaoran saw this and asked, "Are you okay?"
"Fine! Where's my room?", Sakura gasped the words out.
"Down the hall, by the window, on the left", Syaoran said looking at her somewhat puzzled.
She ran down the hall panting, stumbling once.
He stared after her, then looked down at the table and saw what Sakura hadn't.
His knuckles were turning white from gripping the table so hard.
'Sakura Kinomoto? Why does that name sound so familiar?', thought Syaoran letting his knuckles relax. He returned to stirring his milk. Honey milk.
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Sakura sat on her bare mattress panting, still clutching the necklace around her neck.
'No! This can't be happening!', thought Sakura. 'You have medicine for this!'
Her head shot up. 'Medicine! Ha!'
Sakura stood up looking for her bags. She groaned and flopped back down on her bed.
'My bags are in the living room with *him*!', She thought hopelessly.
She sat back up and looked around her room. Light blue wallpaper, a ceiling which curved outwards. The ceiling was also light blue, and when she looked closer she realized there was a skylight right in the middle, over her bed. She smiled and looked back at the walls. She looked at the wall facing the street, and saw a big beautiful window. There was a cushy seat, and there were little knobs on the window. She went over to it, and pulled on the knobs. The window opened to a world of sound.
Sakura smiled. She looked over to her right, and saw a little street with shops up and down it the whole way. Since it was Saturday, there had been a little open street market. Since it was 5:00, according to the clock on one of the buildings, the little shops and stands were closing up for the day. She looked directly in front of her.
"Wow...", she breathed taking in the scene before her. There was a little park across from her window. A lot of trees were beginning to turn colors since autumn was approaching. Sakura felt one of the last warm breezes cross her face, and she smiled into it. The park was surrounded by buildings, and complexes, and businesses.
Sakura sighed.
'And now a dreary, gray winter is all I have to look forward to.', she thought.
For a small while, Sakura was content just to stare out at the view before her.
She grinned slightly.
'But this place has surprised me. Maybe it won't be so bad after all.'
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Syaoran Li was starting to feel panicked at the sight of the wriggling back pack in the middle of the living room. At first he had thought the mumbling voices he heard were his imagination, but as he continued to look at it, he realized that movement and swearing could not possibly be all made up.
Syaoran didn't know whether to go up to Sakura and ask her about it, or wait to see what it was.
Or take a bat and beat it before it got a chance to attack him.
All of a sudden a little ball of yellow bounded out of the bundle he had been in and started-flying?- around the room. Syaoran looked at it in utter disbelief.
"AAAhhhhh!", someone yelled.
Syaoran saw Sakura standing in the doorway, and gained enough composure to run and protect her. The little ball stopped soaring around the room and gasped at the sight of Syaoran and Sakura. It stopped in mid-air and...fell lifeless to the ground.
Syaoran went over to it quickly, about to step on it. Sakura pushed him out of the way and bent down to pick up the ('stuffed animal?', thought Syaoran.) 'thing' on the ground. She went about picking up her things on the ground. Sakura looked up at Syaoran glaring. She was much different than when she had walked in.
"Are you going to help me or not?", she asked.
"Uh, yeah. I'll help.", Syaoran said numb with disbelief.
Syaoran helped pick up her suitcases and began bringing them into her room.
"What is that thing?", Syaoran asked pointing at the 'stuffed animal'.
"Oh, um...", Sakura looked a little taken for words. "It's, a, um,....stuffed animal."
"Why did it fly around?", asked Syaoran suspiciously.
Sakura looked at him exasperatedly. "Duh. Batteries."
Syaoran was about to ask something else when Sakura said.
"The batteries ran out of juice. That's why he fell."
Syaoran and Sakura stared at each other for a few seconds. Sakura started to look uncomfortable again.
"So, uh, thanks.", she said.
"Your welcome. Well, I'm gonna go to the store."
He turned to go when he turned back around. "Need anything?", he asked.
"No." Sakura then turned back to her things, un-packing boxes. He gave her a last once over before turning around. She was wearing a black turtleneck and jeans. Her clothes were slim-fitting and looked nice on her. Her hair was long, and she had it down her back in a long messy braid. It went down to slightly above the middle of her back. He realized he was staring when Sakura turned around to look at him.
He blushed and closed the door. In the hallway Syaoran asked aloud, "I blushed?"
Sakura had turned back to her things, and her eyes were wide and her breath was coming out harshly. She started ravaging through her backpack looking for her medicine. She groaned. Remembering her medicine cabinet, the phone ringing, her forgetting to clean it out.
"What's wrong Sakura?", asked a little voice from her bed.
"Kero! You surprised me! Nothing I'm fine." She stood up to sit next to Kero. "Does that guy look familiar to you?" , she asked Kero.
"No. Wait!", Kero said.
"What? What?", asked Sakura eagerly.
"He looked like that big, pink ugly thing on that one video game!", said Kero laughing.
"KERO!"
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(Well that's all for now. Haha! Just kidding! Three pages? Yeah right, even I can do better than that! Okay! Here ya go!)
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Syaoran walked out of the apartment glancing up at the window at the very top of the three story building. On the inside he saw Sakura hanging a poster of a cherry blossom tree by the head of her bed. He turned back around and kept walking to the corner store. He didn't understand why he couldn't stop thinking about her.
'Well, she *is* weird.', he thought. 'Yeah that's it. She's one of the weirdest people I've ever met.' He thought ,instead, of what he needed to buy.
'Milk, honey, bread", he went over a little list in his mind...
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"Well, Kero! That's about all I can do for now.", Said Sakura, putting in the last pushpin on her poster.
"What? It's only 7:30! We still have two suitcases to go!"
Sakura looked at him, her mouth open. "I've been doing all the work! You've just been sitting there!"
"(ahem) I've been 'coordinating'. I have to take it easy! What if that kid walked in again? Ranzaki? Is that his name?"
Sakura looked away. "Uh, yeah. I think that's it." She wasn't ready to tell him what the guy had told her, if she wasn't really believing it herself.
"Listen Kero. I'm tired. Are you ready to turn in?", she asked turning back around.
"You mean to sleep?! Heck no! I want to see all the sights! Tomoyo said that this town comes to life at night. She read it in a book."
"Okay. Be careful, and STAY OUT OF TROUBLE!", she yelled the last words to the little hairball as he shot out the open window.
Sakura walked to the window and looked out over the park, smiling. She hadn't felt this at ease in ages. She looked down the street to see a figure walking out of a store on the corner. She tensed when she saw who it was. Syaoran Li was walking down the street, back towards the apartment building. 'He *is* cute', Sakura thought to herself, dreamily. He looked up unexpectedly to see her staring at him.
"Eep!" Sakura yelped. She jumped up from the seat and closed the window. She walked hurriedly out of view.
Down on the street Syaoran Li was smiling to himself....
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Sakura had had trouble sleeping for the past two years, so when sleep came to her, she had to accept it then and there or never at all.
So when she had felt it kick in at 7:30, she knew she had to go to bed. Sleep was no longer her friend, especially since she had nightmares just about every time she laid down.
'Well, maybe since I'm so relaxed, I'll be able to sleep peacefully.' She was surprised by how tired she felt. She hadn't even put the covers or sheets on her bed yet. She did, however, have her pajamas so she changed into them.
"Oh well.", thought Sakura lying down on the bed with a peaceful sigh. Her stomach rumbled, but she ignored it. She slipped into a calm sleep as the door to the apartment opened...
(Drea's Notes: a lot of these end in .... I wonder why....)
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As Syaoran went by Sakura's room, he saw the light was off. He stood in the hall looking at her door for a second before going into his room across the hall. He would try to ignore her as best as he could. But he couldn't seem to get her face out of his mind. Bright eyes. Bright eyes that had shone when she had first walked in.
'Why is she so angry all the time?', thought Syaoran lying in bed. 'She reminds me of...well-me.'
'And why does she seem so familiar?'
He gazed up at the ceiling until he fell asleep, thinking about the bright green eyes of the girl across the hall.
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"Where am I? What is this?", I said frightened looking around me. It looked familiar. It was the park. The park with the King Penguin slide in my home town. I was laying in the grass, my wand at my side.
'Why am I here? I thought I moved.', I thought. "What's going on?", I asked aloud.
"Don't you remember? This is where you killed him.", said a voice behind me.
I turned, eyes wide, but no one was there.
"Who...who's there?", I asked timidly, my old fear of ghosts kicking in.
"I'm not a ghost. But you should still be afraid. Don't you remember?", said the voice without an owner.
I turned back around to find a man standing in front of me. He was pale under the moonlight, or maybe he was pale to begin with, and had black hair that was thinning at the top. His skin looked very leathery and old. He was wearing regular clothes. Black pants with a white collar shirt. He looked like an every day person, but for some reason he scared me.
"Who are you? What are you talking about?", I asked. I felt better knowing I could see him. "Why am I here?" I tried to stand up and found that my legs ached so bad I couldn't stand. I was wearing one of Tomoyo's odd costumes. Black tights covered my legs, and when I pressed on them I felt the blood seep through the cloth. I looked at my hands as I pressed down. They looked oddly smaller and did not have some of the scars I had managed to get over the years. I looked at my legs again, and realized I was much tinier than I should have been.
"Have you remembered yet?", asked the voice harshly. "I do not have all night."
"Please. I don't understand...Why am I here?", I asked. For some reason my bottom lip was quivering as I said these words. 'Why do I feel like I need to cry?', I asked myself, biting down on my lip.
"Look over there.", said the man pointing over to my right. I looked, and off a few yards away, was a body lying in a heap on the ground. I didn't understand.
"Wha...who is that?", I asked thoroughly confused.
The man gave me a sound of contempt. "You've always been dense Sakura Kinomoto. I don't know why you were ever chosen to collect the Clow cards in the first place."
His tone and words made me angry. "Shut up! Listen I don't know who you are, or why I'm here but we need to help that person on the ground. I can't believe you haven't already."
"YOU SHUT UP!", he screamed at me so suddenly, I was even more frightened of him. "I am sick of your stupidity! You will be killed like you killed him!" He raised his hand as if to strike me, and-
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Sakura sat up, sweating.
She swung her legs over the side of the bed and held herself tight.
"What was that?", she asked aloud. She tried vainly to hold on to the details of her nightmare but they had soon slipped away from her. All that was left, was the feelings she felt about the dream. The feelings were haunting. She was scared and sad all at the same time. She felt her face and realized she wasn't sweating--she was crying.
She stood up and walked to the window. She could see some of the light of the new day coming over a far off hill. She looked over toward the giant clock to see it was 6:20.
She widened her eyes, surprised. 'Wow. Best sleep I've had in ages, a whole 10 hours. I *was* tired. Worst dreams I've ever had though.'
Sakura glanced down to see a woman opening the bakery across the street. She hadn't heard Syaoran come in last night and decided to go down and make the baker's first sale for the day, while he was still asleep. She still didn't want to talk to him.
She opened her door quietly, and listened. Silence. Sakura smiled with satisfaction as she stepped out soundlessly into the hallway. She tiptoed down the hall and into the living room, going to get her coat when-
"Where are you going?", said someone behind her.
Sakura jumped about a foot off the ground and screamed. She turned around, eyes wide, and stared at the person who had spoke.
Syaoran was over a stove stirring something in a pot. Sakura narrowed her eyes at him.
"That's rude to do that to someone.", she said gritting her teeth.
"Hey, I just asked where you were going. It seems your the one being rude."
Sakura straightened up embarrassed. "Can't I go out without you questioning me? I haven't even known you for a day. I was going to the bakery across the street. Are you done now?"
"Done.", he said. Sakura turned around to get her coat, when he started talking again. "But, I do have a question."
Sakura rolled her eyes, and turned back around.
"What is that?", she asked.
He walked over to the breakfast bar, and leaned on it with his elbows.
"Are you really planning to go outside in that?", he asked gesturing at her clothes.
Sakura looked down at once to see she was only wearing a t-shirt that went down just above her knees, and socks.
"Eep!", Sakura yelped looking back at him. He was smiling, eyes still glaring maliciously. Sakura wrapped her arms around herself, and glowed a luminescent red. She hurriedly walked back to her room, and slammed the door.
Syaoran went back to his cooking, laughing loud enough so that he could hear her down the hall on purpose.
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Sakura slid down the back of her door, rubbing her face as if she could get the red out of it.
'I can't believe it. I just can't believe it. If I keep this up, I'll win an award for Most Embarrassing Moments in 24 Hours.'
Sakura could hear Syaoran laughing from the kitchen. She clenched her teeth.
'I'm not going to leave this room until he leaves.' Her stomach rumbled.
Sakura flung herself onto her mattress and put her face into the rough material. Then she let out a nice long scream...
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An hour later, Sakura was leaning brokenly against her door, on the floor. Her face was squished so tightly against it, it looked like she had a deformity.
She inhaled the sweet smell coming from the kitchen, opening her mouth once in a while, as if she could eat the air. She had tried to block out the ever so sweet smell that had been coming from the kitchen for near half an hour now. She had gotten dressed, and tried unpacking again.
She realized she couldn't concentrate when she put her lampshade on the knobs on the window, and her curtains on her lamp. Kero had come back and left her after 15 minutes of the delicious smell to find something to eat.
'Jerk', Sakura thought. She stood up and stared at her door. Then she had taken a deep breath and went into the hallway. She closed her eyes as the sweet smell washed over her like a wave.
She walked mechanically down the hall, as if the smell was making her walk, luring her.
She stopped in the hallway doorway, and narrowed her eyes at Syaoran who was scooping pancakes, eggs, and bacon onto a plate. Sakura lifted her head and sat down on a stool at the bar, raising a magazine to her face, trying to seem cool. She peeked around the magazine when she heard something scrape on the surface of the counter. Syaoran was pushing a plate of delicious food to her.
"I don't want any, thank you." Sakura said this with an icy chip to her voice. As soon as she said this, however, her stomach rumbled very loudly.
Syaoran smiled and turned away. "Your reading that magazine upside down. Now, unless you read things upside down, I'd say your hungry."
Sakura looked at the magazine, un-surprised to see that he was right. She threw the magazine down on the counter and stared at the food he had set before her.
"It's not poisonous.", said Syaoran making a plate for himself.
Sakura glared at the back of his head and picked up a fork and tried some of the egg. Once she tasted the wonderfully delicious morsel in her mouth, she almost died from happiness.
Then she started to shovel food into her mouth, forgetting all grace and letting herself completely submerge into the taste of the wonderful food. She felt nine years old again. She felt good. She looked up to see Syaoran staring at her. He smiled at her. She looked down and kept eating, trying to hide the fact that she liked it when he smiled.
He settled himself across from her and began eating.
Sakura finished, of course, before him. She felt very good indeed, and was happy to feel some strength coming back to her body.
She looked at Syaoran, and now that her mind was clear, she felt a pang of pain in her heart at the sight of him. He looked so much like the real Syaoran. Same dark eyebrows. Messy, brown hair in his forever glaring eyes. He took a sip of coffee and looked up realizing he was being stared at.
He brought down his cup and asked, "Do you want some coffee?"
Sakura shook her head and replied, "It doesn't mix well with my pills."
"Pills?", he asked suspicious again.
"Oh, er, vitamins.", said Sakura covering up her slip.
Seeing that he was about to ask more and not wanting to answer any questions about her 'problem', she tried to start a conversation.
"So, uh, your going to Mizoku too?"
"Uh, yeah.", said Syaoran not looking up from his plate.
"What's your major?"
"I'm not really majoring for anything. I'm studying Chinese Arts and History."
"Blech. Sounds boring."
Syaoran looked at her, bewildered by her statement.
"Well, that's only one of the classes I'm taking. What are you studying that's gonna be so interesting?"
Sakura lit up like a fire-fly. Her eyes twinkled and she sat up straight smiling.
"Glad you asked. I'm going to be working in an Arts program too. Dancing. Boy do I love to dance. I'll be learning traditional and modern. Chinese style and Japanese style are both interesting, and since I know most of Japane-"
"Hey I just asked what classes you were taking. I don't want to know your whole life story."
Syaoran tried to seem cool, but he really *did* want to know all of Sakura's life story. He loved seeing her light up, and he immediately regretted saying anything that would make her face lose that beautiful luster. Her eyes had stopped glowing a bright green, and now they were back to a dark jade color. She had also stopped smiling.
Sakura looked more hurt than angry now.
"Hey, I was just kidding. It really does sound interesting. I would like to watch you, maybe." , said Syaoran pushing his plate away and turning to look at Sakura.
Sakura smiled , and Syaoran could feel an odd, but familiar feeling come to his face. His face felt hot and for some reason he felt embarrassed. This made Sakura smile even wider. She got up and started to walk down the hall.
"Thanks for breakfast.", she said disappearing down the hallway and into her room.
Syaoran turned to clean up the dishes when he glanced into the toaster. His face was flushed a deep red. 'What the...?', Syaoran thought dropping the dishes in the sink and walking up to the toaster to get a better look. He saw that he was truly red.
'Remarkable.', he thought looking towards the hallway. 'She's remarkable.'
(D/N: Well, well, well. What about that? Y'know what movie I like? Coyote Ugly. Har de har har. Oh! Anyway! What about the story, huh? W-I-E-R-D. Yeah, I know. Next chapter I have a wonderful surprise for all of you, that I've been saving. I hope you enjoy it! Alrighty! Bye for now! Love always, DreaDreamer)