Learning To Love and Learning From Love
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Chapter 7: Strange and Confusing Feelings
"..." = Dialogue
'...' = Thoughts
~*~ = Scene/time change
~...~ = POV change
-...- = Words in italics (incase the stupid italics don't show up AGAIN)
It was still dark in the early morning as Syaoran woke up staring into the face of Kero-chan. "GOOD MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!" Kero-chan shouted, completely waking up Syaoran now. "Morning Kero-chan." Syaoran grunted, trying to get the ringing out of his ears. "What are you doing up so early?" Kero-chan asked with questioning eyes. Syaoran thought. Why had he? He couldn't really remember...
"I guess I just slept early or something." Syaoran said as-a-matter-of-factly but Kero-chan didn't seem convinced. "Syaoran, you slept at 12:00 last night training. What's wrong?" he asked, a bit concerned for him. "Nothing. I guess I'm just not tired today." Syaoran tried again. Kero-chan, still not fully convinced, let it go. "Ok then. I'll just go play some video games." Kero-chan announced and left the room. As Syaoran dressed, he wondered why he was so sleepless. His dream... he couldn't remember but it was nice. The emotion... it was strange... but nice.
He tried to get a clear picture of the person that came out in his dream. A girl...? Short auburn hair... the eyes... emerald...? They looked familiar yet he couldn't figure where he had seen them. Syaoran closed his eyes and violently shook his head. 'Maybe I should just train to get my mind out of it.' Syaoran thought as he left the room for the training room.
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SLASH! Syaoran's sword sliced the air as he trained, bright and early in the morning. He was up bright and early, two hours before school would even start. Since it was so early, the morning sky was still a bit dark, the sun still making its way to its spot in the sky, and the morning air still had a chill in it. "Syaoran? What are you doing up so early?" Meiling said sleepily as she walked into their training room. Syaoran looked toward his sister. 'Damn, I was trying to get the dream out of my head.' Syaoran cursed.
"What are you doing up so early if you're so tired?" he asked trying to forget and glancing at Meiling worriedly who had circles under her eyes from her lack of sleep. "Oh, I couldn't sleep very well." she admitted, rubbing her eyes. Syaoran's eyes widened. "You too?!" he asked and Meiling looked at him with confused eyes. "I mean, why?" Syaoran said quickly, flushing a bit. Meiling just shrugged and didn't give it much thought. "I was just thinking..." Meiling said, rubbing her eyes and giving a yawn. "About what?" Syaoran said a bit suspiciously. "Oh... about... uh, things! Hehe..." Meiling said quickly, rubbing her hand behind her neck. Before Syaoran could ask more questions, they heard footsteps heading toward the room.
They both turned to look towards the door, Syaoran ready to attack. "You people are up already?" a voice asked from the hallway. Meiling couldn't help but blush slightly as she recognized the voice. Syaoran withdrew the sword he had in his hand and went back into a regular position, although he kept the glare on his face, knowing who it already was. Touya appeared through the door and stared at Syaoran and Meiling.
Syaoran just glared at Touya who eventually glared back. "Yeah, just training." Syaoran answered, still glaring and turned back to his sword. Touya continued to throw a hateful glare towards Syaoran when he noticed Meiling. His gaze suddenly turned from one of hate to worry and sympathy. Touya kneeled down so that he was in eye level with Meiling and looked into her eyes with concern. Meiling turned into an even brighter crimson and her eyes converted its gaze to the floor. "Hey, what time did you go to sleep last night?" Touya asked her. "Usual time." Meiling answered, trying to keep a calm and casual voice. "Then why do you look so tired and why are you up so early?" Touya asked, a bit suspicious. "I-I haven't b-been able to s-sleep last n-night." Meiling replied, stumbling over her words. Touya still looked at her suspiciously but got up and walked out of the room.
Meiling realized that she had been holding her breath and she let it out, a huge sigh filling the room. 'I do not love Touya, I do not love Touya...' Meiling thought to herself. Syaoran placed a hand on Meiling's shoulder which caused her to startle a bit, breaking out of her thoughts. "Meiling, are you ok?" Syaoran asked, trying to keep a smirk from forming. "Oh, um, yeah." Meiling said as she walked over to the corner of the room and took a hold of one of the swords they fought each other with. "Well, want to fight for a little." she asked, smiling a challenging smile. Syaoran smiled back and made a fighting stance. "Sure." he said and the fight began.
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A girl with long brown hair with a single braid and her school uniform on tiptoed down the huge stairs of her house. No, let me correct myself. Of her mansion. She put her hand over her mouth, trying to stop the childish giggles from pouring out of her mouth. She approached the kitchen and peered in to find that Eriol, her master, was preparing the breakfast they were to eat that morning. 'Oh drats! I wanted to make breakfast. Oh well.' the girl thought and she quietly tiptoed onto the kitchen floor. Just a bit more... yes... yes... just a loud "GOOD MORNING!!!!!!!!" and that would finally prove that her master was able to scare. A childish thing to want to do, but what can you expect from plain old Nakuru Akizuki?
"Morning Ruby Moon." Eriol said, knowing that she had entered the kitchen, intending to scare him. "Awwww, I thought that I could enter without you knowing!" Nakuru whined and a small, bluish, cat-like stuffed animal with wings entered, snorting. "You know that Master is at least 1,000,000 time more sensitive and smarter than you." the stuffed animal named Spinel said cooly, sneering at Nakuru. Nakuru broke down into sobs which was painfully obvious that they were fake. "Oh stop your complaining!" Spinel shot at Nakuru and Eriol set the last plate of breakfast on the table. "Let's just start eating." Eriol said, obviously not wanting to hear them argue. Nakuru sat down still bawling with Spinel accompanying the noise by telling her to shut up. Eriol sighed and rubbed his head. He was in no mood for it this morning in particular, having a certain enemy of his lingering in his head... 'I hate her.' Eriol thought simply before stuffing a fork full of pancakes into his mouth.
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-Sakura looked around and saw her in a peaceful garden with small streams and ponds with various flowers, herbs, and blossoming trees. A flowery fragrance filled the air.-
-"Where am I? Where is this place? Where's Big Brother, Tomoyo, or Aunt Sonomi?"-
-She walked on until a voice called out and she stopped, searching for the owner of the voice.-
-"Sakura..."-
-"Who just called my name?! Hoe... the voice sounds familiar... it's a guy's voice but it's soothing... Big Brother? No, it can't be. Sounds too young..."-
-She found the strangers, mostly covered in a shadow. She squinted, looking closely at the figure. Piercing amber eyes looked at her gently.-
-"Sakura, I love you..."-
-Sakura's eyes widened as her heart started racing...-
Sakura suddenly sat up straight in bed, her eyes still wide. Her heart was still pounding like mad and she was slightly gasping for breath. "Who was that?" Sakura asked herself and she put her hand on her heart. It was pounding loudly in her chest and her face felt a bit warm. While trying to get the thought out of her head, she got out of bed, for once not oversleeping even a bit. She glanced at her alarm clock and was surprised to find that she was very early.
~*~
"Hmph." Tomoyo said grumpily as she carefully brushed her hair. 'Damn Hiiragizawa, ruining my life.' she thought miserably as she set her brush down. She set her headband down in her head as her usual hair style and walked out of the door to find Sakura wandering around her huge mansion. "Sakura? You're up already? That's pretty early." Tomoyo exclaimed, surprised that the girl that claimed she had a reputation of waking up amazingly late was probably earlier than-she- had been.
"Oh, yeah Tomoyo. Good morning!" Sakura chirped in her -almost- usual self. Being the terribly clever and sensitive person she is, Tomoyo noticed Sakura's small lack of cheerfulness. "Sakura, is something wrong? You're not as cheerful as usual." Tomoyo asked, concerned. "Um... I just had a weird dream, that's all." Sakura said as if it was no big deal. "You can tell me all about it while walking to school." Tomoyo said as she walked down to breakfast. Sweat started rapidly pouring down the back of her head as she thought 'Oh boy...'
~*~
Syaoran, Meiling, and to both Meiling and especially Syaoran's displeasure, Fang-Fei was with them, clinging to Syaoran's arm. Syaoran tried struggling a bit to
get her off, but not too roughly or he'd hurt her feelings. Even if Syaoran seemed extremely annoyed by Fang-Fei and acted as if he almost hated her, but that
wasn't true. Fang-Fei was still his cousin and practically like a sister to him. He loved her, just not in the way she loved him.
Meiling looked over at Fang-Fei and slightly rolled her eyes. Ever since Meiling and Fang-Fei were young, they had never gotten along. After Fang-Fei and Syaoran were to be engaged, that made Meiling a bit pissed and confused. She found being engaged to a cousin of yours extremely weird. Even if she never really got along with Fang-Fei, she still cared for her. She was still family. Meiling couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for Fang-Fei, considering that Syaoran didn't even have one bit of romantic interest in her. But she knew he still cared.
~*~
"It's quite stuffy in here." Spinel complained from inside Eriol's bag. "You're the one who said that you want to see everyone again along with Kinomoto." Eriol said to Spinel, not turning towards his backpack. "Yeah -SUPPI!-" Nakuru said, emphasizing the name he hated so much. "Oh just shut up!" Spinel said in a muffled voice from inside Eriol's backpack. Eriol rolled his eyes at their fighting.
"Will you two quit fighting for even a second?" Eriol asked, annoyed. "NO!" Spinel and Nakuru shouted, their shout directed towards Eriol, then turned their heads toward each other to continue bickering. Eriol sighed and rubbed his temple. Of course he wasn't really annoyed by them. It was cause his mind was on somebody a bit -too- much. 'Dammit, I really hate her.' Eriol thought, wanting to bang his head on a wall.
~*~
"Come on Sakura. You can tell me." Tomoyo urged Sakura as they were slowly walking to school. There was a little autumn chill in the air as some orange leaves drifted down onto the ground from a tree. Sakura turned her face away from Tomoyo's to hide the blush that crossed her cheeks. "I don't want to talk about it." Sakura said, trying to strain the embarrassment in her voice.
"Was it a nightmare?" Tomoyo asked, trying to get a look at Sakura's face. "No, it actually felt... nice..." Sakura said truthfully. "Go on." Tomoyo directed to
Sakura. "I was in a beautiful garden full of different types of flowers and trees and they gave off a nice smell in the air. There were little streams and ponds all
over the place and it was deserted." Sakura paused for a moment to gather some memory of the tree. Tomoyo thought hard. 'Why does that garden sound
familiar?' Tomoyo asked herself.
"And..." Sakura started again, making Tomoyo shake off her thoughts. "I searched all over the place to see if anybody else was there also. Then..." Sakura trails off, blushing a bright red. A -very innocent- smile crossed Tomoyo's face. She closed her eyes and tilted her head towards Sakura. "Then what happened Sakura?" Tomoyo asked and Sakura gulped slightly.
"Well, a guy was coming my way. I couldn't get a very good look at him. He told me..." Sakura trailed off again, burning even a brighter red. Tomoyo waited, the smile still on her face. "He told me... he... loves me..." Sakura said with extreme difficulty, now her face reaching the boiling point.
~*~
"Hey!" a voice was heard and Meiling froze a bit in her spot. She tried to put up a casual front and turned around to see Touya and Yukito running towards them. They stopped, gasping for breath. "Hey, why don't we walk to school with you since it's right next to ours?" Touya asked, his panting slowly stopping. "Yeah, we could talk about things." Yukito added with his usual smile. "Sure." Meiling managed to say without stuttering.
The group of five continued to walk on, not much being said. Fang-Fei was chattering on about how much in love she and Syaoran was, Syaoran was grumbling under his breath about all this being crap from her fantasies, Yukito talking about what he was going to eat for lunch, Touya occasionally saying he wanted a bike, aware that Meiling was right near him, while Meiling didn't say much. 'I love Eriol, don't I? But... I feel so weird around Touya...' Meiling thought, lost in them. The group eventually reached the school and Touya turned to Meiling.
"Hey, can you teach me some magic today after school? With your brother if you want." Touya said, fidgeting a bit and looking in all directions except Meiling's eyes. "O-Oh, yeah sure!" Meiling said as she smiled at him. His heart skipped a beat. "Ok, then see you guys later." Touya said a bit rapidly and turned around to walk toward his school. Yukito looked at him confusedly and turned back to the younger group to wave a quick good-bye along with a cheerful smile. They waved back and watched Touya quickly walk to his school. "What's with him?" Fang-Fei asked and dragged Syaoran to school with her. Meiling just stared at Touya's retreating back, confused more than ever, and followed the other two.
~*~
"Master, why are you in such a bad mood today?" Nakuru asked suddenly realizing that Eriol was acting a bit abnormal. "You didn't notice til now?" Spinel asked, but Nakuru ignored his comment. "You usually never ever get annoyed with our fighting, but today you're a bit touchy." Nakuru said, a bit worried about Eriol's strange behavior.
"I'm just in a bad mood today." Eriol answered simply, subconsciously knowing that wasn't the reason why. "It wouldn't be because of Daidouji, would it?" Spinel asked from inside Eriol's backpack, smirking. Eriol became angry on impulse. "THAT'S NOT THE REASON WHY!!!" he shouted towards his backpack, catching some people's attention.
Eriol smiled back to the people innocently then faced forward. He continued walking, pretending Spinel had never said a damn thing. "You can't deny it master. Suppi's right." Nakuru said softly, looking at Eriol. "It's Spinel." Spinel snarled, trying not to let his voice rise so much that it caught other people's attentions. "Ok, I admit it. I. Hate. Her. Like. -Hell-." Eriol said, emphasizing each word, the last especially.
"Master, she can't be that bad, can she?" Spinel asked from his backpack. "Yes she can." Eriol answered automatically. Nakuru and Spinel sighed, shaking their heads. "Oh we're approaching school. Let's go before we're late." Eriol said hurriedly. Nakuru and Spinel sighed again. "See you later Nakuru, and I warn you Spinel, don't disturb the class." Eriol said and he and Nakuru went their separate ways.
~*~
"He did?" Tomoyo asked, a bit amused, but she had a feeling of discomfort in her heart. "Did you get a look at how he looks like?" Tomoyo asked suddenly, not expecting the question herself. "Um... well, I know he had bright amber eyes..." Sakura said thoughtfully. Tomoyo's heart broke. Nonetheless, she covered it. "Oh, I see." Tomoyo said, having a small clue who the guy in her dreams might be. "Oh, we're approaching the school." Sakura announced and Tomoyo looked to see the school coming into view. "Let's go!" Sakura said and Tomoyo smiled a bit. The two girls raced towards the building.
Sakura ran straight ahead and Tomoyo noticed that Sakura ran very fast. 'Like Syaoran.' Tomoyo thought. A smile came to her face. Just thinking of Syaoran had that effect on her.
"Good morning, Hiiragizawa, right?" Tomoyo heard Sakura's voice saying. "Good morning, Kinomoto." the voice Tomoyo hated so much said in response to Sakura's greeting. Tomoyo's smile immediately turned into a frown and her eyes narrowed. She slowed down to a walk, not wanting to see Hiiragizawa anytime soon. As Tomoyo reached the place, she and Eriol exchanged glares. "Good morning Daidouji." Eriol said cooly. "Good morning, Hiiragizawa." Tomoyo replied, not bothering to look at him. For a minute there was an intense silence. Sakura decided to break it. "Shall we go now?" she asked, smiling towards the other two frowning ones. They nodded and proceeded to follow Sakura.
End of Chapter
A/N: Corny chapter, I know. I'm sorry for the late posting, so please forgive me. So, here's a preview of the next chapter:
*Preview*
-'HOE!!! Li looks like the guy in my dream.' Sakura thought, her face turning crimson. Syaoran looked at her in confusion. "Kinomoto, are you okay?" he asked and he noticed the sharp emerald eyes. 'Hey... they look familiar... my... dream...?...!!!' Syaoran thought, blushing crimson as well. -
-'But I love Eriol, not Touya... I think?' Meiling thought, watching Touya practicing with a sword. "So, care to go on with the training?" Touya asked, turning to Meiling, who blushed furiously at the sight of him. 'Or maybe I... do...?' Meiling asked herself, getting lost into Touya's dark eyes.
-Eriol noticed tears running down Tomoyo's face. "Daidouji, what's wrong?" Eriol asked, trying to strain the worry out of his voice to no avail. Tomoyo tried to stop the tears in vain. "I think Sakura's in love with Syaoran and Syaoran's in love with Sakura... and the worst part is... I think they're meant to be together..." Tomoyo trailed off, tears freely flowing down her cheeks. Eriol hesitated at first but wrapped his arms around her slowly.-
*End Preview*
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