A/N- Thanks readers and reviewers! This wouldn't have been written w/o ya! Ok, If I remember correctly, I'm on the fourth test… lol, me and my bad memory. Well, here's the fourth one!
Disclaimer- I find this totally ridiculous. Obviously, I do not own CLAMP or it's characters. If I did, I would be out writing stories to get PUBLISHED and stuff, not be writing fanfic for the amusement of others and myself. Happy? So don't sue me, k? **winks**
Here's what we ended with…
Syaoran nodded. "I guess it would be pointless to ask what happens when I drink this…"
Shing smiled. "Of course. That would ruin the surprise."
"The surprise?"
"I hate to give it away… but in the next test… you'll see Sakura," Shing said mysteriously.
Chapter 8- Flowers for my Girl
Syaoran's eyes widened. "I… I'll get to see Sakura?"
Shing replied dryly, "Do you have a hearing problem? That's what I said. So get onto it! Drink the thing and begin the test!"
Syaoran thought for a moment. 'I feel like I should be asking something… or that this is the trap. I didn't think that I'd be able to see Sakura this soon. Oh well! I guess I should be thankful.'
Kero started cheering, "Go you! Hurry up and finish these tests… I'm getting kind of hungry…"
Syaoran shook his head before yelling, "Is food all you can think about?!"
Kero shook his head. "Naw, I think about games and Clow Cards and and… well, pretty much… food!"
Syaoran sweatdropped and reverted his attention back to Shing. He asked, "When are you going to leave?"
"When you drink the bottle," Shing replied, a dead sound to his voice.
"Ok, then. Here goes nothing!" Syaoran said. He opened up the small vile of fluid and tipped it into his mouth. He instantly felt dizzy. 'Wah?' he thought before falling into a deep sleep.
"Heyyyyyyy!" Kero protested to Shing. "I thought you said that Syaoran would be able to see Sakura!"
"Oh, he will, he will," Shing said. An evil glint in his eye shimmered as he smiled cruely. "As for now, let's wait here and see what happens…"
~*~*~*~*~*~
Syaoran woke up on a soft bed, floods of light entering his room through a window. 'I just had the strangest dream, but I can't remember what it was!' Syaoran thought.
As Syaoran began to prop himself up on his bed he heard a black-hair, pigtailed girl enter his room with a scowl on her face. "Syaoran!! What are you waiting for! Get out of bed! We hafta go to school!"
"Meiling?" Syaoran asked, still dazed from sleeping.
"Did you forget me or something? What?" Meiling asked in a careless tone.
Syaoran squinted his eyes together in confusion. "Sorry."
Meiling tsked and said, "Come on now! We're late! Do you want me to drag you out of bed?"
"I'll be ready in a few minutes!"
Syaoran jumped out of bed, a rare smile on his face. "Such a strange feeling, I'm so glad to be awake!" he said to himself.
Meiling shook her head and walked away. In five minutes, Syaoran cleaned himself up and put on a Seijou High School uniform. He had been going there since the start of the school year, coming back from China after a few years. He and Sakura had fallen deeply in love and were living a happy life of girlfriend and boyfriend. Meiling had given up on the wedding and had found herself a boyfriend that she was as obsessed about as she had once been for Syaoran. There were no complaints about life or what it had brought them. Things had been running smoothly for months. 'Life is good…' Syaoran thought to himself, walking out of his room.
Meiling was at the front door. "Finally! Let's go!" she said, beginning to run out the door.
"H-hey, wait for me!" Syaoran hurriedly put on his shoes and caught up with Meiling.
"Since you woke up so late, we are going to be late for school! The teacher is going to punish us!" Meiling whined.
"Sorry," Syaoran found himself saying, for the second time in that morning.
"Yeah yeah…" Meiling muttered. They reached the school within a few minutes.
As the school bell rang, the footsteps of two late kids echoed down the hallway of the school. Meiling and Syaoran entered the classroom a few seconds later, gasping for breath from their exhausting run.
The teacher looked up from his roll call list and said in a very annoyed tone, "You're late, take your seats."
Meiling and Syaoran nodded respectfully and sat down in the designated seats. 'Meiling had nothing to worry about, we made it to school without any other punishment then being scolded!'
Syaoran looked next to him to find Sakura smiling at him. 'She is so beautiful, somehow I feel like this is all a dream. The love of my life is sitting next to me, a smile on her face, awaiting the next day of our future as I am…'
Syaoran smiled back and began listening to the teacher. He saw Sakura dozing off into space, and laughed within himself. 'No wonder she does so poorly in math…'
He began taking notes on different math equations that were being taught. Something in the back of his mind was nagging at him, but he pushed it farther back into his head. 'Whatever it is, it can't be anything important. After all, if it was important, I'd remember what it is!'
The imageless thought pushed itself into the back of his head, and he felt clearheaded. Pages and pages began to fill up with notes. 'Erg! This class is taking too long!' he thought after the 4th page of his written notes. From somewhere in his mind came the reply, 'Patience is a virtue…'
Syaoran blinked in amazement. 'Woah, déjà vu!' He sat blinking in surprise for a few moments before a note was passed to him from Sakura.
"You look stunned… is something wrong? I missed you this morning! I thought that you and Meiling weren't going to come to school because you were late…–Love, Sakura"
Syaoran smiled and regained his composure. He wrote back. "I wouldn't miss out on a chance to see you! I just had this strange feeling, it's nothing. But with all this math that's going on, I should be stunned. It feels like it's never going to end! Talk to ya soon! –Love, Syaoran"
Syaoran stared at his note. His attention was fixed on the "Love, Syaoran" part. 'How come it feels like I never said to Sakura that I loved her? I know I did, I remember it so clearly!' He shrugged off the doubt and handed her the note.
She read the note and looked at Syaoran, a twinkle in her eye. Syaoran nodded and returned his eyes to the teacher again. 'And it goes on and on…' he thought, feeling more and more tired as the time passed.
Finally, the class was over. A few more subjects of terrible droning done by the teachers went by until lunch came. Syaoran sighed a breath a relief and thought, 'School never felt this long before…'
Before he could think to himself anymore, his arm was being pulled by Sakura's amazing strength.
"Hurry! Come on! Let's eat! Our friends are behind us waiting!" Sakura said, a playful smile on her face.
Syaoran was pulled out of his chair and out the room, followed by Tomoyo, Meiling, and the rest of their friends. They all laughed at Sakura's sweet behavior and talked amongst themselves.
Suddenly, Meiling pushed through them and called out, "Shing! Shing! Over here!"
A flash passed through Syaoran's eyes. He stopped dead in his tracks, to stare at Meiling rushing over to Shing. Sakura felt Syaoran's body stop and stopped too. She whispered, "Why did we stop?"
Syaoran replied quietly, "I feel like I know him…"
Sakura giggled. "Silly! That's Meiling's boyfriend. He's a grade above us, and he always wears those sunglasses, remember? They've been going out for months, of course you know him!"
Syaoran nodded. "Oh yeah." He began walking on. Something was still bugging him, but he didn't know what it was, so he decided to keep ignoring it.
"Good afternoon, Li," Shing said in a raspy voice.
Syaoran looked at him in surprise. 'That… voice…'
"What's wrong?" Shing asked, pleasantly.
"No... Nothing!" Syaoran resolved, taking a seat next to Sakura at the lunch table.
Shing took off his sunglasses. "It's so nice outside, I think I want to see nature as it!" he said, smiling at Meiling.
Meiling had hearts in her eyes. "You have pretty eyes… but you rarely take off those glasses," she said, not seeming to notice the people around her.
"And as I say, my darling, your eyes are much more prettier…" Shing replied, with a monotone.
Meiling didn't seem to care about the dry sounding compliment, and she kept smiling at Shing.
Syaoran shook his head at his cousin. 'She's acting like such a clown!' But as soon as the word clown and Meiling entered his mind, something once again flashed in his memory. 'Oh yeah! My dream! Meiling was a clown in my dream last night! And… and… it was really weird…' Syaoran thought. At least he knew why Meiling being compared to a clown was familiar. 'And maybe I was dreaming about Shing too.' Syaoran smiled triumphantly. 'This is all making sense now! There's nothing to worry about!'
Syaoran began to get himself into the conversation, a grin on his face. He was better than he had felt since he woke up. Everything was piecing itself together. All his strange feelings were only because of a creepy dream he had the night before, and nothing else.
Syaoran reminded himself, 'After all, Sakura is sitting right next to me. Everyone is happy, there is nothing to worry about!'
A/N- Oh wow, I didn't mean for this chapter to be so short. I dunno… it just feels… short. So, Shing didn't lie, eh? Syaoran is seeing Sakura! Or at least, he's seeing Sakura in his mind's illusion. Yup, the illusions of happiness, that's the test. Look at that! He even convinced himself that he is in reality! How is he gonna get out of this bind?! Please review, thanks for reading!
Disclaimer- I find this totally ridiculous. Obviously, I do not own CLAMP or it's characters. If I did, I would be out writing stories to get PUBLISHED and stuff, not be writing fanfic for the amusement of others and myself. Happy? So don't sue me, k? **winks**
Here's what we ended with…
Syaoran nodded. "I guess it would be pointless to ask what happens when I drink this…"
Shing smiled. "Of course. That would ruin the surprise."
"The surprise?"
"I hate to give it away… but in the next test… you'll see Sakura," Shing said mysteriously.
Chapter 8- Flowers for my Girl
Syaoran's eyes widened. "I… I'll get to see Sakura?"
Shing replied dryly, "Do you have a hearing problem? That's what I said. So get onto it! Drink the thing and begin the test!"
Syaoran thought for a moment. 'I feel like I should be asking something… or that this is the trap. I didn't think that I'd be able to see Sakura this soon. Oh well! I guess I should be thankful.'
Kero started cheering, "Go you! Hurry up and finish these tests… I'm getting kind of hungry…"
Syaoran shook his head before yelling, "Is food all you can think about?!"
Kero shook his head. "Naw, I think about games and Clow Cards and and… well, pretty much… food!"
Syaoran sweatdropped and reverted his attention back to Shing. He asked, "When are you going to leave?"
"When you drink the bottle," Shing replied, a dead sound to his voice.
"Ok, then. Here goes nothing!" Syaoran said. He opened up the small vile of fluid and tipped it into his mouth. He instantly felt dizzy. 'Wah?' he thought before falling into a deep sleep.
"Heyyyyyyy!" Kero protested to Shing. "I thought you said that Syaoran would be able to see Sakura!"
"Oh, he will, he will," Shing said. An evil glint in his eye shimmered as he smiled cruely. "As for now, let's wait here and see what happens…"
~*~*~*~*~*~
Syaoran woke up on a soft bed, floods of light entering his room through a window. 'I just had the strangest dream, but I can't remember what it was!' Syaoran thought.
As Syaoran began to prop himself up on his bed he heard a black-hair, pigtailed girl enter his room with a scowl on her face. "Syaoran!! What are you waiting for! Get out of bed! We hafta go to school!"
"Meiling?" Syaoran asked, still dazed from sleeping.
"Did you forget me or something? What?" Meiling asked in a careless tone.
Syaoran squinted his eyes together in confusion. "Sorry."
Meiling tsked and said, "Come on now! We're late! Do you want me to drag you out of bed?"
"I'll be ready in a few minutes!"
Syaoran jumped out of bed, a rare smile on his face. "Such a strange feeling, I'm so glad to be awake!" he said to himself.
Meiling shook her head and walked away. In five minutes, Syaoran cleaned himself up and put on a Seijou High School uniform. He had been going there since the start of the school year, coming back from China after a few years. He and Sakura had fallen deeply in love and were living a happy life of girlfriend and boyfriend. Meiling had given up on the wedding and had found herself a boyfriend that she was as obsessed about as she had once been for Syaoran. There were no complaints about life or what it had brought them. Things had been running smoothly for months. 'Life is good…' Syaoran thought to himself, walking out of his room.
Meiling was at the front door. "Finally! Let's go!" she said, beginning to run out the door.
"H-hey, wait for me!" Syaoran hurriedly put on his shoes and caught up with Meiling.
"Since you woke up so late, we are going to be late for school! The teacher is going to punish us!" Meiling whined.
"Sorry," Syaoran found himself saying, for the second time in that morning.
"Yeah yeah…" Meiling muttered. They reached the school within a few minutes.
As the school bell rang, the footsteps of two late kids echoed down the hallway of the school. Meiling and Syaoran entered the classroom a few seconds later, gasping for breath from their exhausting run.
The teacher looked up from his roll call list and said in a very annoyed tone, "You're late, take your seats."
Meiling and Syaoran nodded respectfully and sat down in the designated seats. 'Meiling had nothing to worry about, we made it to school without any other punishment then being scolded!'
Syaoran looked next to him to find Sakura smiling at him. 'She is so beautiful, somehow I feel like this is all a dream. The love of my life is sitting next to me, a smile on her face, awaiting the next day of our future as I am…'
Syaoran smiled back and began listening to the teacher. He saw Sakura dozing off into space, and laughed within himself. 'No wonder she does so poorly in math…'
He began taking notes on different math equations that were being taught. Something in the back of his mind was nagging at him, but he pushed it farther back into his head. 'Whatever it is, it can't be anything important. After all, if it was important, I'd remember what it is!'
The imageless thought pushed itself into the back of his head, and he felt clearheaded. Pages and pages began to fill up with notes. 'Erg! This class is taking too long!' he thought after the 4th page of his written notes. From somewhere in his mind came the reply, 'Patience is a virtue…'
Syaoran blinked in amazement. 'Woah, déjà vu!' He sat blinking in surprise for a few moments before a note was passed to him from Sakura.
"You look stunned… is something wrong? I missed you this morning! I thought that you and Meiling weren't going to come to school because you were late…–Love, Sakura"
Syaoran smiled and regained his composure. He wrote back. "I wouldn't miss out on a chance to see you! I just had this strange feeling, it's nothing. But with all this math that's going on, I should be stunned. It feels like it's never going to end! Talk to ya soon! –Love, Syaoran"
Syaoran stared at his note. His attention was fixed on the "Love, Syaoran" part. 'How come it feels like I never said to Sakura that I loved her? I know I did, I remember it so clearly!' He shrugged off the doubt and handed her the note.
She read the note and looked at Syaoran, a twinkle in her eye. Syaoran nodded and returned his eyes to the teacher again. 'And it goes on and on…' he thought, feeling more and more tired as the time passed.
Finally, the class was over. A few more subjects of terrible droning done by the teachers went by until lunch came. Syaoran sighed a breath a relief and thought, 'School never felt this long before…'
Before he could think to himself anymore, his arm was being pulled by Sakura's amazing strength.
"Hurry! Come on! Let's eat! Our friends are behind us waiting!" Sakura said, a playful smile on her face.
Syaoran was pulled out of his chair and out the room, followed by Tomoyo, Meiling, and the rest of their friends. They all laughed at Sakura's sweet behavior and talked amongst themselves.
Suddenly, Meiling pushed through them and called out, "Shing! Shing! Over here!"
A flash passed through Syaoran's eyes. He stopped dead in his tracks, to stare at Meiling rushing over to Shing. Sakura felt Syaoran's body stop and stopped too. She whispered, "Why did we stop?"
Syaoran replied quietly, "I feel like I know him…"
Sakura giggled. "Silly! That's Meiling's boyfriend. He's a grade above us, and he always wears those sunglasses, remember? They've been going out for months, of course you know him!"
Syaoran nodded. "Oh yeah." He began walking on. Something was still bugging him, but he didn't know what it was, so he decided to keep ignoring it.
"Good afternoon, Li," Shing said in a raspy voice.
Syaoran looked at him in surprise. 'That… voice…'
"What's wrong?" Shing asked, pleasantly.
"No... Nothing!" Syaoran resolved, taking a seat next to Sakura at the lunch table.
Shing took off his sunglasses. "It's so nice outside, I think I want to see nature as it!" he said, smiling at Meiling.
Meiling had hearts in her eyes. "You have pretty eyes… but you rarely take off those glasses," she said, not seeming to notice the people around her.
"And as I say, my darling, your eyes are much more prettier…" Shing replied, with a monotone.
Meiling didn't seem to care about the dry sounding compliment, and she kept smiling at Shing.
Syaoran shook his head at his cousin. 'She's acting like such a clown!' But as soon as the word clown and Meiling entered his mind, something once again flashed in his memory. 'Oh yeah! My dream! Meiling was a clown in my dream last night! And… and… it was really weird…' Syaoran thought. At least he knew why Meiling being compared to a clown was familiar. 'And maybe I was dreaming about Shing too.' Syaoran smiled triumphantly. 'This is all making sense now! There's nothing to worry about!'
Syaoran began to get himself into the conversation, a grin on his face. He was better than he had felt since he woke up. Everything was piecing itself together. All his strange feelings were only because of a creepy dream he had the night before, and nothing else.
Syaoran reminded himself, 'After all, Sakura is sitting right next to me. Everyone is happy, there is nothing to worry about!'
A/N- Oh wow, I didn't mean for this chapter to be so short. I dunno… it just feels… short. So, Shing didn't lie, eh? Syaoran is seeing Sakura! Or at least, he's seeing Sakura in his mind's illusion. Yup, the illusions of happiness, that's the test. Look at that! He even convinced himself that he is in reality! How is he gonna get out of this bind?! Please review, thanks for reading!