Clouds of Gray
Written By: Kitten at Heart
Chapter: I – A Lost Heart
Summary: Syaoran is furious because no one will tell him answers about what happened some seven years ago…who will break out and confess? S&S
spoilers from 2nd movie
Disclaimer: I do not own CCS in any way…I only own an eraser, a paper bag, and a bottle top! Don't sue! You won't get much out of it!
He stat in the oh so familiar tree. Yes, it was beautiful. For some reason, he didn't know why. There were plenty of other blooming trees of Oak, Cedar, and Apple. But why did he insist upon sitting in a tree glittering pink? This confused him so.
He gasped once his ears caught sound of a bubbly laugh. His cold amber eyes drifted to the source of the owner of the laughter. He stared at the brilliant honey colored hair flowing in the soft wind. W-wait! Beautiful? He knew not of such a word!
"Konnichiwa Sya-uh-Li-kun!" Said the girl of honey like hair. Sadness was stressed in those emerald eyes of hers as she corrected herself. Ever since he was eleven, he had been confused about everything. Why did Sakura call him Syaoran? He never allowed this he thought. Why was Meilin so consistent on leaving him with Sakura…and not her? This had never happened before, weren't they engaged? What was supposed to be a short vacation, turned into a nearly seven-year retreat. Why wasn't anybody giving him answers? Why must they turn away and hide their tears? Did he cause pain? He is old enough to know now, nearly an adult he is!
"Ohayo Kinimoto." More sadness appeared in her eyes as he replied thus. Why was this once cheerful girl so sad?
"Ohayo Li-kun! We must hurry now! Sensei is assigning partners today!" Said the cheerful friend beside the girl with emerald eyes. She shone her teeth brightly and clenched them as if she was hiding and oh-so-familiar evil laugh. She has been spending too much time around Hiiragizawa he thought.
"I have no idea why Tomoyo-chan is so excited…she woke me up personally to make sure I would come to school today." Said Sakura with many hints of confusion. Sakura was often "sick" and stayed home from school. And other times, she came to school late with puffy eyes and her head low, but today was different. She acted happier than any other day much like the year that he first met her.
"Her and Hiiragizawa must have an evil plan brewing up in their heads." He replied, sliming his eyes into little slivers staring intently at Tomoyo.
"Evil plan is it my cute descendant?" said a very sly creature uncomfortably too close to his ear. Syaoran widened his eyes and let go of his grip to the branch he was sitting upon. He started to fall backwards but luckily grabbed hold of a lower branch as he started to fall.
"HIIRAGIZAWA YOU FOOL!" Syaoran screamed as if some one was tempting to kill him with a knife.
"Such an honor! I have become a fool now! We should have a celebration! I have graduated from an idiot, a jerk, and a coward! Oh joy, oh happy day!" Said Eriol with all of his acting abilities showing, though they were not the best. He grinned just like Tomoyo had earlier but had and eviler look to it adding the suns glare to his glasses so his eyes could not be seen to Syaoran. Syaoran growled and let go of the branch so he could be free from Eriol's hideous face. He safely landed on the ground with his hands only inches away from the soft ground.
"Stop teasing him Eriol-kun. Now can we get to class?" Sakura said as she slowly departed from the group. "I want to see what is so much more important than my sleep." At this, she yawned and rubbed her eye with her free hand for the other was holding her school bag.
Slowly, the rest followed as soon as Eriol departed from the Sakura tree. Syaoran only stared at the girl in front of him holding her head up high and looking at the sky as if she was trying not to think of something on her mind. Why?
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Students were chatting seconds before the bell rang hoping to pass on last minute who liked who, who cheated on who, what number five on the homework was, and how miserable the next project may be conversations. Once the bell sounded, students hurriedly sat in their seats awaiting their teacher. The door slid open to reveal a rather short woman of stature with bifocals resting on the bridge of her nose. Her hair was worn in a tight bun with gray hair spurting out here and there.
"Ah hem…good morning class." Said she, as if she was struggling to be friendly to her students. She laid her briefcase on her desk and peered at the class expecting a reply.
"Good morning Aizui-Sensei." The class replied dully. Many wondered when this old woman was going to retire. She looked like she was of age to.
"You students must be nervous about my upcoming assignment," she paused for a moment expecting any source of reply, like a stifle or a groan, but none carried, "well you should! This counts for fifty percent of your grade! Must I warn you that I will accept no slackers in my class for I am this far away from the teaching award!" She held up her fingers to show about an inch between her thumb and index finger. "So, I have paired you off with a smarter student and a…student privileged of working with the other to make sure that I have high marks in here." She tried to explain using the nicest words possible in her book. Note, tried and nicest. She glanced at the students to see some, including Sakura, with their heads down in shame.
"So, I will pair off the most obvious first." She grinned evilly to show her enjoyment of humiliating students. "Li Syaoran and Kinimoto Sakura." Sakura blushed from the humiliation expecting many to stare but none even looked surprised. Everyone knew that Sakura had the most difficulties with math and Syaoran had top ranks. "Ahhh…well then, Ishu and…" said the teacher slightly disappointed that no one had even laughed or looked at her. "Now you have your partners…go! This is due three days from now!"
Sakura turned her chair around to face Syaoran. He noticed that her cheeks were still red with humiliation and actually pitied her. Pity, he learned a new word today! "So…um…it is obvious we won't get done in class so…should we meet after school at my place?" She said quietly.
"No." He answered sternly. Sakura blinked and made quick eye contact with him.
"Nani?" She asked.
"No. Your brother and that stuffed animal almost ate me alive the last time. We had hardly enough time to work." Said he rethinking the painful memories of that day. He was doing a simple project with Sakura, Tomoyo, and Yamazaki about 'everything about coconuts'. Obviously they didn't get very far with Yamazaki hanging around. So Touya took this chance to torture Syaoran about breaking Sakura's heart. With this, Syaoran was confused…what did he do? "Look Chinese Gaki, you know very well what you did to my sister and you are going to pay for breaking her HEART!" Syaoran then tried to break free of his grip when little Sakura kicked her big brother, which surprised all. "He doesn't know Touya! Let him GO!" No one had ever seen Sakura so…violent before.
"Oh yeah…" Giggled Sakura as she blushed to remember that day. "Touya did try to kill you then, didn't he…what did Kero do?" She asked, curious for Yamazaki has never seen the tiny creature.
Syaoran frowned to remember and looked away. "He snuck up my pant leg and started to bite my leg." Sakura then giggled for now she knew why he wore a sour face that evening. "We will go to my house if you don't mind. That way, there will be no distractions."
"O-o.k. I will have to lie to Touya then." She said sheepishly. She had no idea why her brother insisted on living at home. He had the money for his own place…why must he embarrass her so? "We should get started then, ne?"
"Hai" But all this time, his heart had a sudden surge of happiness through the whole time talking. He did not know why, he always despised this Kinimoto girl for taking the card from under his hands…but why did he help her transform those same cards? He knew not. Why is her beauty slowly eating away his cold heart? Why is her kindness and his coldness not responding as it should be…coldness and hate? Perhaps…she is different form the rest. Perhaps she has the patience to wait for him, when he cannot. Perhaps…
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Kitten: Well, that's it of chapter one! Whadya think? I can take NICE PEOPLE and…not so nice people. *tears* Please be good! This is my first on this account…and I won't tell my other account…probably 'cuz I forgot even my screen name! *blush*