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"Your turn," she said sweetly.
I gave a single nod and faced the open area. I raised my hands in the air and started with three summersaults, stood without a single pause and did a no-handed cartwheel, then a flip, then a flip and a half, landing in a handstand and curling into another summersault. I stopped in a squat position, about ready to stand up, and then jumped up and did a backbend landing on my hands, then feet, then hands, and so on, then flipped in the air, landed on my feet directly between Meiling and Syaoran, and slowly did the splits, hands high above my head.
Meiling looked like she was ready to kill. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea. Her whole face was red with anger and determination and it looked about ready to burst. "I'll beat you if it's the last thing I do!"
The bells chose that very minuet to ring and we all stared in horror at the direction of the palace. "Oh, no! We're late for breakfast!" I said unnecessarily.
"Not good," Was Syaoran's only reply.
We ran to the dining hall, not having time to change. I blushed a deep red as we burst through the door. Heads turned in our direction and a few sniggers were sounded around the room. Some girls blushed when they saw the shirt Syaoran was wearing. It was a loose white shirt that was unbuttoned half way. Other girls who were less shy and outright looked him up and down with an appraising eye. Who would blame them? I mean……
"You are late!" Came a strong feminine voice. I winced. I recognized that voice.
"Sorry ma'am," Meiling said, casting her gaze to the floor. Then the door burst open once again.
"There you are!" Tomoyo said, throwing her arms around me. She pulled away and saw what I was wearing. I gulped, ready for an earful. "WHY are you wearing THAT?!?" She shrieked. "SA-KU-RA!!!"
"Um… now is not the best time Tomoyo," I said, motioning to Ms. Ketsuji.
Her face, that had gone to a sour apple green, was now bright red, and then pale. "H-h-hello, Ms. Ketsuji," Tomoyo stuttered.
Ms. Ketsuji smirked. Now she finally had a reason to punish us. "You four will have a lunch detention with me today for keeping ALL of us from eating."
"You could have started without us," I muttered.
She shot me a look and I could tell I definitely was NOT on one of her good sides.
"NO WE COULD NOT HAVE! The rules are that once everyone is seated we will say our thanks and then eat… TOGETHER! Now, because of all of you, our breakfast is cold! WHAT do you have to SAY for yourselves?"
We all mumbled our apologies and sat at our seats with our heads ducked. Breakfast was more silent than usual and the four of us didn't say a word in edgewise. I REALLY did NOT like that teacher!
Today for my classes I had Embroidery, History of the past, and defense. The only class I was actually looking forward to was Defense. At least I could release all of my anger out on a dummy because if I truly beat Ms. Ketsuji to a pulp I would get into a LOT of trouble!
I was relieved that I didn't have History of the Kingdoms today because I wouldn't have to sit through a class of Ms. Ketsuji telling ME all about the kingdom I lived at, and it wasn't even accurate! What next?!? I DID have to deal with her at lunch though! Ugh! I think I'll be sick!
Embroidery was… as usual… completely BORING! History of the Past was okay. Mr. Tokurane wasn't too bad. We were learning about a past Kingdom that was enchanted. That captured my attention, as well as Naoko's. Then I had lunch and was looking forward to it until Syaoran reminded me that we had a detention... with Ms. Ketsuji!
We made our way to her room and she was waiting there impatiently for us. When she saw us… mainly me… she smirked. All the more reason to dislike her.
"Alright, Syaoran, clean the windows, Meiling, sweep the floors, Tomoyo, mop the floor, and Sakura…" She looked around her large room, "Scrub all of the tables and get me my lunch. Then you may serve it to me."
"Serve it to you?!?" I nearly shrieked.
She shot me a glare, "Yes. SERVE it to me."
As we all set about the room to do what we were assigned the same sentence kept running through my head. 'I hate her, I hate her, I hate her, I hate her, I HATE HER!!!!!'
I scowled as I went to get her lunch and serve her. By now all the others were done and had new tasks to fulfill.
"You forgot the napkin," Ms. Ketsuji droned. I sighed and got her a napkin. "I want to eat by candle light."
"It's in the middle of the afternoon!" I shouted, thoroughly fed up with all of this.
"Then close the blinds."
Syaoran closed the blinds, scowling. "Why did I clean the windows if your shutting the blinds," he muttered. Only I heard him.
I went and got her two candles instead of one and then she wanted juice instead of water. Finally, after everything was perfect, she complained that her lunch was cold. I went to re-heat it, clenching my jaw so I wouldn't make a rude remark and get into any more trouble. This was NOT going to be a very good day! Not at all!
*****Syaoran*****
I felt bad for Sakura. That teacher really had it in for her. Why is what I want to know! I had to clean the windows, re-organize the millions of books on her bookshelf, and then dust ALL of the furniture. Meiling and Tomoyo also had to do tons of things! I did NOT like this teacher! What was her PROBLEM?!?
When Sakura finally came back with "warm food" as Ms. Kestuji called it, we were all exhausted. She was just about to order us all to do something else when the bell that signaled the end of lunch rang. We all sighed with relief and practically ran out of the room, then we remembered that she would punish us for a little thing like that so we "walked fast" instead. We all had the same next class together, so we walked there together, complaining about that teacher the whole way.
"I had to sweep the floor FOUR TIMES because Ms. Ketsuji said that there was still dirt on the floor!" Meiling growled.
"Ugh! I know! I had to mop the floor and there was this sticky spot so she made me get on my hands and knees and SCRUB it! Can you believe it?" Tomoyo asked!
"I'd say that Sakura had the toughest job." I said, not trusting myself to show any expression on my face. "There is something that teacher has against her."
"I know!" Tomoyo said. "She was so mean to you Sakura!"
"I kinda noticed," Sakura said dryly.
"We didn't even have time to eat lunch yet!" Meiling groaned. "We have to go to Defense class too!" Her stomach growled, as if on cue. "We will be weak and diiiiieeee!!!" She wailed.
I sweat dropped. "Meiling," I said in a warning voice.
We finally arrived at our Defense class and Mr. Tokuo was taking attendance. We rushed up so we wouldn't be too late. He looked up from his parchment and then went back to roll call. We were panting by the time we finally reached them since they were at the farthest part of the practice courts.
"I told Mr. Tokuo that you were coming Prince Syaoran."
I looked to see who had spoken and realized that it was Kizutsu. "Oh, no." I groaned, "You have this class too?"
She tried to smile prettily but it didn't work. I could tell it was fake, and that she was just trying to get my attention by it. I hated it when Princesses did that. Sakura on the other hand… her smiles were genuine. Not that I noticed or anything. She's just like all the others. She has to be. They are all exactly the same. No matter what. Well, maybe Sakura was different. At least she wasn't that annoying… at all.
We were practicing various kicks and punches in mid-air and I could tell that Meiling, Sakura, and Tomoyo were already tiring because they didn't have any food in their system. I would have been except for the fact that I was used to practicing at all the hours of the day ever since I was three.
When we had to fight against other people Tomoyo and Meiling sat out. I didn't think Tomoyo was that much of a fighter, and Mr. Tokuo could tell that Meiling wasn't feeling too well. I walked up to Sakura. "You should sit out too. If you take too much more of this you might black out. It's hot out and you haven't even had a single sip of water."
Sakura looked up at me. Her forehead was sweating and she looked dehydrated. She swallowed, but I could tell that she was parched. She shook her head. "No. I can't give up. Trust me, I can handle this. You don't need to worry."
I blushed. "No- I mean… I'm not worried… I… it's just… uh…"
She gave me a half smile and I shut up, no longer able to have a conversation. Why did she have this affect on me? "It's okay. It's not like I'm going to die or anything."
She walked away when it was her turn to fight someone, ready, not heeding my words. She was going to overrun herself, I could tell. 'Be strong Sakura,' I thought, not even realizing what I thought until it was too late.
"What are you looking at?" I heard Kizutsu say.
"Huh?" I asked, not bothering to look at her. Mr. Tokuo was about to announce who would fight Sakura.
Kizutsu followed my gaze and I realized what would happen if she saw who I was looking at so I quickly averted my gaze. Not soon enough though. Kizutsu narrowed her eyes when she saw Sakura. "Her?" She asked, not even trying to keep the jealousy out of her voice.
"I'm just looking at who is about ready to fight next," I said, trying to shrug it off.
"I know you Syaoran. You never pay attention to the girls fights because you don't ever care- until now- and you think that just because no one has ever beaten you physically that a girl would never be a threat."
I clenched my fists. "That's not true, and DON'T CALL ME SYAORAN! You are NOT my FRIENDS!"
She fake pouted and Mr. Tokuo said, "Kizutsu, you will be against Sakura."
Kizutsu smirked. "Let's see what you think of that brat when I'm through with her."
I clenched my jaw tight, trying not to comment. Now I was even more worried about Sakura. If she had eaten and not used up all of her strength serving Ms.Ketsuji then I wouldn't be worried at all, but that wasn't the case.
At first the fight was a perfect match. They were both equally strong and would block at the perfect time and strike forcefully. It was too bad that there weren't and swords involved or Sakura would probably have already won. Kizutsu surprises me though, she was stronger than I thought. After a while Sakura was loosing terrible and kept wiping her forehead so the sweat wouldn't run into her eyes. She was loosing her strength fast! She chose the wrong moment and that was when Kizutsu struck. She brought it up and no one saw it coming. The force was incredible strong and I was amazed to see Sakura still standing. Then I saw that that was it. Sakura's eyes slowly started to droop and then they rolled back inside of her head. I ran up and caught her just as she was about to hit the ground, then I glared at Kizutsu.
She smirked. "It looks like your precious Sakura isn't as good as you thought. She certainly is no match for me."
Her pride and self-confidence made my temper flare. "For your information she hasn't eaten since breakfast or had any water!" I yelled. "And SHE was running around all day!"
"What? She hasn't eaten anything?!? She hasn't even had any water?"
I turned to Mr. Tokuo, head down. "No, sir. Only breakfast and juice this morning."
"She shouldn't be fighting if she doesn't have enough energy," Mr. Tokuo said seriously. "Take her to the nurse's chamber. Make sure you tell the nurse everything and get some water into her systema t the least."
"Yes, sir," I said.
As I started to walk away Tomoyo and Meiling ran up to me. "Is she going to be okay?" Tomoyo wanted to know, worry written all over her face.
"She'll be fine," I said reassuringly.
"Do you want help carrying her to the nurses chamber?" Meiling asked.
"No, I can handle it," I said.
Tomoyo and Meiling gave me a look that told me they knew something as I blushed several different shades of red. "Th-that's not what I meant!"
"Sure," Tomoyo said, grinning evilly.
I readjusted Sakura in my arms and retreated before this got even more interesting. I didn't want to know anything else that they thought.
I looked down at Sakura in my arms. Despite everything, I WAS worried. Hopefully she would be better soon. I just hoped. She was so nice, so angelic… so… beautiful.
I AM DOOOOOONE!!!!!! Ooh yeah! Uh huh! You know it! ^-^ Hee hee hee! SOOOOOO?????? Did you like it? I hope so! Tomorrow my friend Louisa and I are going to the mall to do this singing acting thing! It'll be SO MUCH FUN!!!!! I hope I could become famous one day as a singer or a writer. That would be SO much fun! Maybe even both! I know, high hopes. But you know what? You just have to believe. If you have dreams then you can't just sit and wait, you have to do something about it! So….. that's what we're doing! At least we will have tried! It'll be a good experience! Don't you agree? Well, please review!!!!! I hoped you liked the chapter! RRREEEVVVIIIEEEWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE!!!!! Thank you! ^-^
P.S. I DO NOT OWN THESE CHARACTERS OR CARDCAPTORS AT ALL!!! SORRY!
"Your turn," she said sweetly.
I gave a single nod and faced the open area. I raised my hands in the air and started with three summersaults, stood without a single pause and did a no-handed cartwheel, then a flip, then a flip and a half, landing in a handstand and curling into another summersault. I stopped in a squat position, about ready to stand up, and then jumped up and did a backbend landing on my hands, then feet, then hands, and so on, then flipped in the air, landed on my feet directly between Meiling and Syaoran, and slowly did the splits, hands high above my head.
Meiling looked like she was ready to kill. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea. Her whole face was red with anger and determination and it looked about ready to burst. "I'll beat you if it's the last thing I do!"
The bells chose that very minuet to ring and we all stared in horror at the direction of the palace. "Oh, no! We're late for breakfast!" I said unnecessarily.
"Not good," Was Syaoran's only reply.
We ran to the dining hall, not having time to change. I blushed a deep red as we burst through the door. Heads turned in our direction and a few sniggers were sounded around the room. Some girls blushed when they saw the shirt Syaoran was wearing. It was a loose white shirt that was unbuttoned half way. Other girls who were less shy and outright looked him up and down with an appraising eye. Who would blame them? I mean……
"You are late!" Came a strong feminine voice. I winced. I recognized that voice.
"Sorry ma'am," Meiling said, casting her gaze to the floor. Then the door burst open once again.
"There you are!" Tomoyo said, throwing her arms around me. She pulled away and saw what I was wearing. I gulped, ready for an earful. "WHY are you wearing THAT?!?" She shrieked. "SA-KU-RA!!!"
"Um… now is not the best time Tomoyo," I said, motioning to Ms. Ketsuji.
Her face, that had gone to a sour apple green, was now bright red, and then pale. "H-h-hello, Ms. Ketsuji," Tomoyo stuttered.
Ms. Ketsuji smirked. Now she finally had a reason to punish us. "You four will have a lunch detention with me today for keeping ALL of us from eating."
"You could have started without us," I muttered.
She shot me a look and I could tell I definitely was NOT on one of her good sides.
"NO WE COULD NOT HAVE! The rules are that once everyone is seated we will say our thanks and then eat… TOGETHER! Now, because of all of you, our breakfast is cold! WHAT do you have to SAY for yourselves?"
We all mumbled our apologies and sat at our seats with our heads ducked. Breakfast was more silent than usual and the four of us didn't say a word in edgewise. I REALLY did NOT like that teacher!
Today for my classes I had Embroidery, History of the past, and defense. The only class I was actually looking forward to was Defense. At least I could release all of my anger out on a dummy because if I truly beat Ms. Ketsuji to a pulp I would get into a LOT of trouble!
I was relieved that I didn't have History of the Kingdoms today because I wouldn't have to sit through a class of Ms. Ketsuji telling ME all about the kingdom I lived at, and it wasn't even accurate! What next?!? I DID have to deal with her at lunch though! Ugh! I think I'll be sick!
Embroidery was… as usual… completely BORING! History of the Past was okay. Mr. Tokurane wasn't too bad. We were learning about a past Kingdom that was enchanted. That captured my attention, as well as Naoko's. Then I had lunch and was looking forward to it until Syaoran reminded me that we had a detention... with Ms. Ketsuji!
We made our way to her room and she was waiting there impatiently for us. When she saw us… mainly me… she smirked. All the more reason to dislike her.
"Alright, Syaoran, clean the windows, Meiling, sweep the floors, Tomoyo, mop the floor, and Sakura…" She looked around her large room, "Scrub all of the tables and get me my lunch. Then you may serve it to me."
"Serve it to you?!?" I nearly shrieked.
She shot me a glare, "Yes. SERVE it to me."
As we all set about the room to do what we were assigned the same sentence kept running through my head. 'I hate her, I hate her, I hate her, I hate her, I HATE HER!!!!!'
I scowled as I went to get her lunch and serve her. By now all the others were done and had new tasks to fulfill.
"You forgot the napkin," Ms. Ketsuji droned. I sighed and got her a napkin. "I want to eat by candle light."
"It's in the middle of the afternoon!" I shouted, thoroughly fed up with all of this.
"Then close the blinds."
Syaoran closed the blinds, scowling. "Why did I clean the windows if your shutting the blinds," he muttered. Only I heard him.
I went and got her two candles instead of one and then she wanted juice instead of water. Finally, after everything was perfect, she complained that her lunch was cold. I went to re-heat it, clenching my jaw so I wouldn't make a rude remark and get into any more trouble. This was NOT going to be a very good day! Not at all!
*****Syaoran*****
I felt bad for Sakura. That teacher really had it in for her. Why is what I want to know! I had to clean the windows, re-organize the millions of books on her bookshelf, and then dust ALL of the furniture. Meiling and Tomoyo also had to do tons of things! I did NOT like this teacher! What was her PROBLEM?!?
When Sakura finally came back with "warm food" as Ms. Kestuji called it, we were all exhausted. She was just about to order us all to do something else when the bell that signaled the end of lunch rang. We all sighed with relief and practically ran out of the room, then we remembered that she would punish us for a little thing like that so we "walked fast" instead. We all had the same next class together, so we walked there together, complaining about that teacher the whole way.
"I had to sweep the floor FOUR TIMES because Ms. Ketsuji said that there was still dirt on the floor!" Meiling growled.
"Ugh! I know! I had to mop the floor and there was this sticky spot so she made me get on my hands and knees and SCRUB it! Can you believe it?" Tomoyo asked!
"I'd say that Sakura had the toughest job." I said, not trusting myself to show any expression on my face. "There is something that teacher has against her."
"I know!" Tomoyo said. "She was so mean to you Sakura!"
"I kinda noticed," Sakura said dryly.
"We didn't even have time to eat lunch yet!" Meiling groaned. "We have to go to Defense class too!" Her stomach growled, as if on cue. "We will be weak and diiiiieeee!!!" She wailed.
I sweat dropped. "Meiling," I said in a warning voice.
We finally arrived at our Defense class and Mr. Tokuo was taking attendance. We rushed up so we wouldn't be too late. He looked up from his parchment and then went back to roll call. We were panting by the time we finally reached them since they were at the farthest part of the practice courts.
"I told Mr. Tokuo that you were coming Prince Syaoran."
I looked to see who had spoken and realized that it was Kizutsu. "Oh, no." I groaned, "You have this class too?"
She tried to smile prettily but it didn't work. I could tell it was fake, and that she was just trying to get my attention by it. I hated it when Princesses did that. Sakura on the other hand… her smiles were genuine. Not that I noticed or anything. She's just like all the others. She has to be. They are all exactly the same. No matter what. Well, maybe Sakura was different. At least she wasn't that annoying… at all.
We were practicing various kicks and punches in mid-air and I could tell that Meiling, Sakura, and Tomoyo were already tiring because they didn't have any food in their system. I would have been except for the fact that I was used to practicing at all the hours of the day ever since I was three.
When we had to fight against other people Tomoyo and Meiling sat out. I didn't think Tomoyo was that much of a fighter, and Mr. Tokuo could tell that Meiling wasn't feeling too well. I walked up to Sakura. "You should sit out too. If you take too much more of this you might black out. It's hot out and you haven't even had a single sip of water."
Sakura looked up at me. Her forehead was sweating and she looked dehydrated. She swallowed, but I could tell that she was parched. She shook her head. "No. I can't give up. Trust me, I can handle this. You don't need to worry."
I blushed. "No- I mean… I'm not worried… I… it's just… uh…"
She gave me a half smile and I shut up, no longer able to have a conversation. Why did she have this affect on me? "It's okay. It's not like I'm going to die or anything."
She walked away when it was her turn to fight someone, ready, not heeding my words. She was going to overrun herself, I could tell. 'Be strong Sakura,' I thought, not even realizing what I thought until it was too late.
"What are you looking at?" I heard Kizutsu say.
"Huh?" I asked, not bothering to look at her. Mr. Tokuo was about to announce who would fight Sakura.
Kizutsu followed my gaze and I realized what would happen if she saw who I was looking at so I quickly averted my gaze. Not soon enough though. Kizutsu narrowed her eyes when she saw Sakura. "Her?" She asked, not even trying to keep the jealousy out of her voice.
"I'm just looking at who is about ready to fight next," I said, trying to shrug it off.
"I know you Syaoran. You never pay attention to the girls fights because you don't ever care- until now- and you think that just because no one has ever beaten you physically that a girl would never be a threat."
I clenched my fists. "That's not true, and DON'T CALL ME SYAORAN! You are NOT my FRIENDS!"
She fake pouted and Mr. Tokuo said, "Kizutsu, you will be against Sakura."
Kizutsu smirked. "Let's see what you think of that brat when I'm through with her."
I clenched my jaw tight, trying not to comment. Now I was even more worried about Sakura. If she had eaten and not used up all of her strength serving Ms.Ketsuji then I wouldn't be worried at all, but that wasn't the case.
At first the fight was a perfect match. They were both equally strong and would block at the perfect time and strike forcefully. It was too bad that there weren't and swords involved or Sakura would probably have already won. Kizutsu surprises me though, she was stronger than I thought. After a while Sakura was loosing terrible and kept wiping her forehead so the sweat wouldn't run into her eyes. She was loosing her strength fast! She chose the wrong moment and that was when Kizutsu struck. She brought it up and no one saw it coming. The force was incredible strong and I was amazed to see Sakura still standing. Then I saw that that was it. Sakura's eyes slowly started to droop and then they rolled back inside of her head. I ran up and caught her just as she was about to hit the ground, then I glared at Kizutsu.
She smirked. "It looks like your precious Sakura isn't as good as you thought. She certainly is no match for me."
Her pride and self-confidence made my temper flare. "For your information she hasn't eaten since breakfast or had any water!" I yelled. "And SHE was running around all day!"
"What? She hasn't eaten anything?!? She hasn't even had any water?"
I turned to Mr. Tokuo, head down. "No, sir. Only breakfast and juice this morning."
"She shouldn't be fighting if she doesn't have enough energy," Mr. Tokuo said seriously. "Take her to the nurse's chamber. Make sure you tell the nurse everything and get some water into her systema t the least."
"Yes, sir," I said.
As I started to walk away Tomoyo and Meiling ran up to me. "Is she going to be okay?" Tomoyo wanted to know, worry written all over her face.
"She'll be fine," I said reassuringly.
"Do you want help carrying her to the nurses chamber?" Meiling asked.
"No, I can handle it," I said.
Tomoyo and Meiling gave me a look that told me they knew something as I blushed several different shades of red. "Th-that's not what I meant!"
"Sure," Tomoyo said, grinning evilly.
I readjusted Sakura in my arms and retreated before this got even more interesting. I didn't want to know anything else that they thought.
I looked down at Sakura in my arms. Despite everything, I WAS worried. Hopefully she would be better soon. I just hoped. She was so nice, so angelic… so… beautiful.
I AM DOOOOOONE!!!!!! Ooh yeah! Uh huh! You know it! ^-^ Hee hee hee! SOOOOOO?????? Did you like it? I hope so! Tomorrow my friend Louisa and I are going to the mall to do this singing acting thing! It'll be SO MUCH FUN!!!!! I hope I could become famous one day as a singer or a writer. That would be SO much fun! Maybe even both! I know, high hopes. But you know what? You just have to believe. If you have dreams then you can't just sit and wait, you have to do something about it! So….. that's what we're doing! At least we will have tried! It'll be a good experience! Don't you agree? Well, please review!!!!! I hoped you liked the chapter! RRREEEVVVIIIEEEWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE!!!!! Thank you! ^-^
