Author's Note: Hi it's me, and I wrote the second chapter, so here it is.
Hope you like it so far. Happy reading!
Disclaimer: I don't own CLAMP or any of their things. I am only a fan of their work who's writing a fanfic about it.
Change of Hearts
Chapter 2: Imagination or Reality?
"Hi, it's me, Sakura," a voice said over the phone.
Syaoran's face lit up, "Oh, hi Sakura," he answered looking at his watch. It was ten o'clock in the morning.
"Hey, I was thinking that maybe we could go over to the park today or something," Sakura suggested.
"Sure, how about in an hour?" Syaoran added.
"Okay, we'll meet at the swings. It'll be so awesome!" Sakura said before she hung up.
Syaoran stretched. He remembered that before Sakura had left they had often talked by the swings in the park or by the penguin slide.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The park ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Syaoran approached the swing set and sat on one of them. The rest of them were empty because most kids were either on the slide or monkey bars.
Sakura's figure appeared after a few minutes. She ran over to him and sat on the swing to the right of him.
"Hey, you seem happy today," Syaoran observed, a little surprised at her irregular extra excitement.
"Well why wouldn't I be?" Sakura responded digging her feet into the soft dirt under them.
They just stayed by the swings watching the other kids play for a while. This is just like old times, Syaoran convinced himself, relieved that it must have been himself when Sakura seemed a little more girly.
"This is getting boring, let's go to the penguin slide," Sakura forced herself to say.
What, you mean she doesn't like sitting here anymore? Syaoran thought in surprise as he nodded and got up.
Sakura lead the way up the back of the penguin's back to the top of the slide where there was a little tunnel kind of covering.
Syaoran squatted down next to her.
"So, what'd you think of your first day back in Japan?" Syaoran asked her looking at her.
Sakura grinned and looked back at him, "Well I think it was absolutely perfect!" Sakura exclaimed.
"That's good," Syaoran added staring ahead of them down the slide. He was happy that she felt that way, but for some reason he wished that she hadn't phrased it that way. She never talked like that. During the whole time he had known Sakura she had only heard her say absolutely, and awesome about twice. She also seemed to love when they sat by the swings.
Sakura edged over to the top of the slide, "Come on lets go to the mall," she told Syaoran and slid down the slide without another word.
Syaoran sighed and followed her down.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Mall ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sakura giggled as she pressed her hand against the glass window of a store window. "Wow those clothes look nice," she mumbled.
Syaoran leaned back against the wall and patiently waited for Sakura to finish looking at the shop windows.
"Okay, lets go get some ice cream," Sakura grabbed Syaoran and dragged him over to an ice cream shop.
"You want a chocolate swirl with sprinkles?" Syaoran assumed remembering that she usually got that.
"Yup," Sakura nodded and went to sit down at a bench.
Sakura found an empty bench and leaned back. It was hard trying to be someone that she wasn't. Well she would act different, but she wouldn't change her taste buds. They were the perfect couple. Nothing would break the bond between them. Not even a few years apart.
Syaoran brought the ice cream cones to the bench and they ate them while talking about what they should do tomorrow.
"Oh, and on Monday you're going to school again. You can meet some of the new friends we made while you're gone. There's this girl Amy, and this other guy Conner," Syaoran started to explain, "they're really nice, you'll get alone great," he told her grinning.
"Yay, that'll be so cool to meet them," Sakura told Syaoran excited to meet new people soon.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next Morning ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sakura clicked the buckles on her rollerblades shut and stood up carefully. Suddenly she fell back to the floor with a crash.
"Hey, monster, keep your balance," Toya recommended walking past her calmly, "Tomoyo's here," he informed her opening the door to leave.
"Oh yeah, you're leaving early to meet Yukito before school," Sakura remembered getting up one again and gliding over to the door and out onto the street.
"Morning, Sakura," Tomoyo greeted Sakura as they headed towards the school.
"Morning Tomoyo," Sakura replied swerving around a corner.
"So you guys are going to introduce me to your friends," Sakura reminded her best friend as they entered the school.
Tomoyo nodded, "So what did you think of the party?" she asked trying to open her lock, "damn, this stupid thing isn't opening," she muttered failing to yank it open.
"I was great! Sakura said, stretching her arms out in exaggeration.
"Yeah, Syaoran tried really hard to put the party together. With my help of course!" Tomoyo added finally getting the locker to open.
"Class settle down, we have a new student, some of you may remember her from before she moved away for three years, Sakura Kinomoto," the sensei introduced Sakura.
Sakura entered the front of the room and waved.
After she had told a few things about herself to the class she took a seat in front of Syaoran and in back of a girl with short straight black hair.
"Hi, I'm Amy. Everyone's told me so much about you," the girl whispered as the sensei started to write some math equations on the board.
"Oh, so you're Amy, nice to meet you," Sakura whispered back. She seemed like a nice person, just like Syaoran told her.
At lunch everyone went out and sat by the grass and a tree so they could be introduced.
"This is Conner," Meilin told Sakura gesturing to a tall boy with light brown hair.
Conner crossed his legs and nodded to Sakura, "Hey," he smiled.
"Hi, I'm Amy, like I told you before," Amy said again, waving to Sakura.
Sakura nodded in agreement remembering she was the girl that sat in front of her.
"So, you lived here before right?" Amy asked munching on a rice ball.
Sakura twisted her cap of of the bottle she was holding and nodded, "Yup, I lived here all my life, but had to take care of a family member for a couple of years. And you? I don't remember seeing you before I left," Sakura told Amy curiously.
"Yeah, I lived here all my life also, but I transferred to this school three years ago," Amy explained, "I had a hard time finding new friends at first, but you have great friends that let me be part of their group," Amy responded grinning.
"Yeah, I had a hard time when I moved too," Sakura said, glad that they both had something in common to talk about.
The rest of the day went by quickly as Sakura was introduced to new people and teachers.
On the way home Sakura walked with Meilin.
"You seem different," Meilin blurted out as soon as they were alone.
"Huh, I do? How?" Sakura asked trying to hide it.
"Well, you seem.more sarcastic in a way," Meilin described waving her arms.
"No I'm just like before. Everything's just like before," Sakura told Meilin immediately.
"You're hiding something, I know it. What is it?" Meilin kept pecking.
Finally Sakura gave up and told her, "I decided that I'm going to act different so that Syaoran still likes me," Sakura blurted in one breath fast.
"What? You don't need to change for Syaoran to like you," Meilin insisted.
"Yeah, right," Sakura told her sarcastically.
They finally reached Sakura's house.
"Sorry, I'll talk later, bye," Sakura interrupted making a retreat to her room.
"Okay, but just think about what I said," Meilin advised Sakura watching the door close shut.
Syaoran likes you just the way you are. I hope Sakura doesn't ruin her relationship by being something she's not, Meilin thought to herself as she continued walking to her house.
Syaoran walked by himself back to his house. As he passed the park, thoughts that he had pushed to the back of his mind reoccurred. Sakura is so different now. At least she seemed different, he thought glancing at the swings as he passed by.
"Having a hard time adjusting to Sakura's small changes?" a familiar voice assumed from behind him.
Syaoran didn't have to turn around to know who it was. He had known him since he was ten, and he knew that only one of his friends had a habit of walking up behind people all of a sudden. "What do you want Eriol? I thought you didn't use your magic for your own good," Syaoran asked Eriol as he kept walking.
"Yeah, this is just an instinct," Eriol lied coming up next to Syaoran, "besides, I'm not doing this for myself, it'll help you to,"
"What do you want?" Syaoran repeated, knowing that his friend would keep talking.
"I could just tell that you noticed that Sakura's different now," Eriol told him innocently.
Syaoran sighed and stopped suddenly, "You really think so?" he asked looking to his friend finally.
Eriol looking up, "Well, I have to admit, she does seem a little more enthusiastic and girly and everything,"
"I wasn't sure if it was just me, or if she had actually changed," Syaoran murmured kicking a can to the side of the street.
"Don't worry, change is good," Eriol told his friend.
Syaoran smiled, "Yeah, everyone should change every one in a while, especially you," he said, cheering up.
"Nah, I'm perfect," Eriol stated sarcastically.
When Eriol left Syaoran thought about what his friend had told him. Change is good, change is good for everyone, he told himself over and over. Looking out of his wide window Syaoran stared at the street. Lots of students were still walking home, and it was pretty noisy. He saw some people hi knew from class, and this entertained him for a while. Then came Amy. Hey, it's Amy. Maybe talking to her can solve my problem, Syaoran thought.
"Hey Amy, hold on," Syaoran waved down to her pulling his sneakers on.
Amy turned around and looked up from a book she was reading, "oh, okay," she responded realizing who it was.
Syaoran grinned and went back to his closet to get his jacket. Then he shrugged it on and grabbed his keys off his table and left to catch up with Amy.
Author's Note: Okay, tell me what you think, please review!
Disclaimer: I don't own CLAMP or any of their things. I am only a fan of their work who's writing a fanfic about it.
Change of Hearts
Chapter 2: Imagination or Reality?
"Hi, it's me, Sakura," a voice said over the phone.
Syaoran's face lit up, "Oh, hi Sakura," he answered looking at his watch. It was ten o'clock in the morning.
"Hey, I was thinking that maybe we could go over to the park today or something," Sakura suggested.
"Sure, how about in an hour?" Syaoran added.
"Okay, we'll meet at the swings. It'll be so awesome!" Sakura said before she hung up.
Syaoran stretched. He remembered that before Sakura had left they had often talked by the swings in the park or by the penguin slide.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The park ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Syaoran approached the swing set and sat on one of them. The rest of them were empty because most kids were either on the slide or monkey bars.
Sakura's figure appeared after a few minutes. She ran over to him and sat on the swing to the right of him.
"Hey, you seem happy today," Syaoran observed, a little surprised at her irregular extra excitement.
"Well why wouldn't I be?" Sakura responded digging her feet into the soft dirt under them.
They just stayed by the swings watching the other kids play for a while. This is just like old times, Syaoran convinced himself, relieved that it must have been himself when Sakura seemed a little more girly.
"This is getting boring, let's go to the penguin slide," Sakura forced herself to say.
What, you mean she doesn't like sitting here anymore? Syaoran thought in surprise as he nodded and got up.
Sakura lead the way up the back of the penguin's back to the top of the slide where there was a little tunnel kind of covering.
Syaoran squatted down next to her.
"So, what'd you think of your first day back in Japan?" Syaoran asked her looking at her.
Sakura grinned and looked back at him, "Well I think it was absolutely perfect!" Sakura exclaimed.
"That's good," Syaoran added staring ahead of them down the slide. He was happy that she felt that way, but for some reason he wished that she hadn't phrased it that way. She never talked like that. During the whole time he had known Sakura she had only heard her say absolutely, and awesome about twice. She also seemed to love when they sat by the swings.
Sakura edged over to the top of the slide, "Come on lets go to the mall," she told Syaoran and slid down the slide without another word.
Syaoran sighed and followed her down.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Mall ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sakura giggled as she pressed her hand against the glass window of a store window. "Wow those clothes look nice," she mumbled.
Syaoran leaned back against the wall and patiently waited for Sakura to finish looking at the shop windows.
"Okay, lets go get some ice cream," Sakura grabbed Syaoran and dragged him over to an ice cream shop.
"You want a chocolate swirl with sprinkles?" Syaoran assumed remembering that she usually got that.
"Yup," Sakura nodded and went to sit down at a bench.
Sakura found an empty bench and leaned back. It was hard trying to be someone that she wasn't. Well she would act different, but she wouldn't change her taste buds. They were the perfect couple. Nothing would break the bond between them. Not even a few years apart.
Syaoran brought the ice cream cones to the bench and they ate them while talking about what they should do tomorrow.
"Oh, and on Monday you're going to school again. You can meet some of the new friends we made while you're gone. There's this girl Amy, and this other guy Conner," Syaoran started to explain, "they're really nice, you'll get alone great," he told her grinning.
"Yay, that'll be so cool to meet them," Sakura told Syaoran excited to meet new people soon.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next Morning ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sakura clicked the buckles on her rollerblades shut and stood up carefully. Suddenly she fell back to the floor with a crash.
"Hey, monster, keep your balance," Toya recommended walking past her calmly, "Tomoyo's here," he informed her opening the door to leave.
"Oh yeah, you're leaving early to meet Yukito before school," Sakura remembered getting up one again and gliding over to the door and out onto the street.
"Morning, Sakura," Tomoyo greeted Sakura as they headed towards the school.
"Morning Tomoyo," Sakura replied swerving around a corner.
"So you guys are going to introduce me to your friends," Sakura reminded her best friend as they entered the school.
Tomoyo nodded, "So what did you think of the party?" she asked trying to open her lock, "damn, this stupid thing isn't opening," she muttered failing to yank it open.
"I was great! Sakura said, stretching her arms out in exaggeration.
"Yeah, Syaoran tried really hard to put the party together. With my help of course!" Tomoyo added finally getting the locker to open.
"Class settle down, we have a new student, some of you may remember her from before she moved away for three years, Sakura Kinomoto," the sensei introduced Sakura.
Sakura entered the front of the room and waved.
After she had told a few things about herself to the class she took a seat in front of Syaoran and in back of a girl with short straight black hair.
"Hi, I'm Amy. Everyone's told me so much about you," the girl whispered as the sensei started to write some math equations on the board.
"Oh, so you're Amy, nice to meet you," Sakura whispered back. She seemed like a nice person, just like Syaoran told her.
At lunch everyone went out and sat by the grass and a tree so they could be introduced.
"This is Conner," Meilin told Sakura gesturing to a tall boy with light brown hair.
Conner crossed his legs and nodded to Sakura, "Hey," he smiled.
"Hi, I'm Amy, like I told you before," Amy said again, waving to Sakura.
Sakura nodded in agreement remembering she was the girl that sat in front of her.
"So, you lived here before right?" Amy asked munching on a rice ball.
Sakura twisted her cap of of the bottle she was holding and nodded, "Yup, I lived here all my life, but had to take care of a family member for a couple of years. And you? I don't remember seeing you before I left," Sakura told Amy curiously.
"Yeah, I lived here all my life also, but I transferred to this school three years ago," Amy explained, "I had a hard time finding new friends at first, but you have great friends that let me be part of their group," Amy responded grinning.
"Yeah, I had a hard time when I moved too," Sakura said, glad that they both had something in common to talk about.
The rest of the day went by quickly as Sakura was introduced to new people and teachers.
On the way home Sakura walked with Meilin.
"You seem different," Meilin blurted out as soon as they were alone.
"Huh, I do? How?" Sakura asked trying to hide it.
"Well, you seem.more sarcastic in a way," Meilin described waving her arms.
"No I'm just like before. Everything's just like before," Sakura told Meilin immediately.
"You're hiding something, I know it. What is it?" Meilin kept pecking.
Finally Sakura gave up and told her, "I decided that I'm going to act different so that Syaoran still likes me," Sakura blurted in one breath fast.
"What? You don't need to change for Syaoran to like you," Meilin insisted.
"Yeah, right," Sakura told her sarcastically.
They finally reached Sakura's house.
"Sorry, I'll talk later, bye," Sakura interrupted making a retreat to her room.
"Okay, but just think about what I said," Meilin advised Sakura watching the door close shut.
Syaoran likes you just the way you are. I hope Sakura doesn't ruin her relationship by being something she's not, Meilin thought to herself as she continued walking to her house.
Syaoran walked by himself back to his house. As he passed the park, thoughts that he had pushed to the back of his mind reoccurred. Sakura is so different now. At least she seemed different, he thought glancing at the swings as he passed by.
"Having a hard time adjusting to Sakura's small changes?" a familiar voice assumed from behind him.
Syaoran didn't have to turn around to know who it was. He had known him since he was ten, and he knew that only one of his friends had a habit of walking up behind people all of a sudden. "What do you want Eriol? I thought you didn't use your magic for your own good," Syaoran asked Eriol as he kept walking.
"Yeah, this is just an instinct," Eriol lied coming up next to Syaoran, "besides, I'm not doing this for myself, it'll help you to,"
"What do you want?" Syaoran repeated, knowing that his friend would keep talking.
"I could just tell that you noticed that Sakura's different now," Eriol told him innocently.
Syaoran sighed and stopped suddenly, "You really think so?" he asked looking to his friend finally.
Eriol looking up, "Well, I have to admit, she does seem a little more enthusiastic and girly and everything,"
"I wasn't sure if it was just me, or if she had actually changed," Syaoran murmured kicking a can to the side of the street.
"Don't worry, change is good," Eriol told his friend.
Syaoran smiled, "Yeah, everyone should change every one in a while, especially you," he said, cheering up.
"Nah, I'm perfect," Eriol stated sarcastically.
When Eriol left Syaoran thought about what his friend had told him. Change is good, change is good for everyone, he told himself over and over. Looking out of his wide window Syaoran stared at the street. Lots of students were still walking home, and it was pretty noisy. He saw some people hi knew from class, and this entertained him for a while. Then came Amy. Hey, it's Amy. Maybe talking to her can solve my problem, Syaoran thought.
"Hey Amy, hold on," Syaoran waved down to her pulling his sneakers on.
Amy turned around and looked up from a book she was reading, "oh, okay," she responded realizing who it was.
Syaoran grinned and went back to his closet to get his jacket. Then he shrugged it on and grabbed his keys off his table and left to catch up with Amy.
Author's Note: Okay, tell me what you think, please review!
