Summary: He's the mysterious son of the new Head of Tomoeda School for Sorcery. She's a rising star, a powerful Sorceress and martial artist…with a secret. The quest for the ultimate power begins in this small town…but how can the world survive when the two destined to save it can't even say one nice thing about each other.
Disclaimer: I don't own Cardcaptor Sakura or any of the characters, the extremely talented Clamp does. Besides you can't sue me anyway, I don't have any money or any possessions worth having…except my DVD's and CD's maybe. Or my very large Anime collection…or my final fantasy stuff. ^-^;
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'Chapter One'
"Hoe! You're not serious," Sakura exclaimed, placing a couple of loose strands of her auburn hair neatly behind her right ear.
"I am. Its gonna be all change around here Sakura-chan," Tomoyo explained, hoisting her book bag back onto her shoulder. They continued walking down the corridor to the banquet hall, passing the numerous paintings of powerful Sorcerers and Sorceresses, students animatedly chatting and swapping the latest gossip. "I wonder what they're like, do you think they'll let Toriya-kun get that rule he wanted? You know the one…actually being able to torture students! Could you imagine it!?"
"No, besides we only have this year left so…" Sakura stopped to open the banquet hall door, "We won't have to put up with them for long anyway. Actually to be honest I'm more concerned about my FSE's…" Sakura took off her coat and draped it over the back of her chair, and then adjusting her skirt she sat down.
"You! Concerned about you're FSE's! You just got honours last term, you're gonna pass with flying colours and you know it!" Tomoyo exclaimed, taking her seat next to Sakura.
"Honours or not, Tomoyo-chan, I'm still concerned. The FSE's are the most important examinations you take, it determines what job you get, what role you will play for the rest of your life! Of course I'm concerned about them!"
"God Sakura-chan you're starting to sound like my mother." Both girls burst into giggles and began to eat their first meal of the new term.
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"Demo okaa-san, this place is so…so…so…"
"Untrained. That is true. But that is why we are here, they must increase their power if our world will ever stand a chance." Yelan sat down at her desk, her ebony black hair swishing at her sudden movement.
"I wasn't gonna say 'untrained' just plain awful. There is nothing to do. I mean there isn't even an adequate training hall!" Syaoran complained, pacing back and forth, making gestures with his hands to emphasise his point.
"Ah then I do believe that you haven't yet reached the third floor. There is a very good training facility there, I do believe you will be most pleased with it."
'Ha that's a laugh' Syaoran thought to himself, 'me! Pleased with anything in this trash heap!'
"Xiao-Lang I do think we should introduce ourselves to the students now. And you my son will participate in the lessons, I need you to see if 'she' is here, so don't complain. This is a very important mission my son; do not disappoint me."
"I wont okaa-san, I promise." Syaoran said, forcing a smile. "But do I have to wear this uniform, it's so uncomfortable."
"Don't complain Xiao-Lang, you look very smart. I want you to be nice, now come along or we shall be late."
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She played absentmindedly with her dinner, flicking the vegetables to the edge of the plate. She placed her fork down and sighed. Grabbing her cup she took a sip of her water, she placed that down and turned to look at Tomoyo. Tomoyo was busy chatting with Chiharu and Rika, so she didn't notice Sakura's sullen mood.
Everyone was talking. The whole banquet hall was buzzing with the gossip; it was very noisy, so noisy that Sakura couldn't concentrate. The students were excited, Tomoeda was going to have a new head, and apparently she was very powerful.
'Yea powerful, so powerful I can't even feel her aura' Sakura thought to herself. Last night she had a dream, it was so weird. She'd been having this dream for so long now and it was starting to worry her. She wanted to speak with Kero, but it was too dangerous to have him here, no one needed to know who she was.
"Sakura-chan, o-genki desu ka?" Tomoyo's melodic voice broke her thoughts. Tomoyo's face was a picture of concern. Sakura gave her a feeble smile and spoke.
"Iie, Tomoyo I've been ha-" Sakura didn't get to finish her sentence; she was interrupted with the doors being opened. Everyone gasped, that couldn't be their new head, she was so…so young. Sakura gasped, she was so beautiful. That wasn't the only reason she gasped, Sakura realised now that she had been concealing her Aura. But now that she was near Sakura could feel bits of it.
Yelan was aware of all the eyes on her, and kept her expression impassive. She was indeed beautiful; her long ebony hair was swept up into a high ponytail. She wore a long white dress, which seemed to float about her feet and sparkled like the night sky. A rope-like belt was tied around her waist and was a deep purple colour. She was also wearing a necklace around her throat, Sakura noticed that the most.
It was shaped like an oval type locket, but Sakura needed a closer look at it. Grabbing her goblet she stared at the water and pictured the locket in her mind. Then whispering one word the water started to ripple, Sakura's eyes turned darker green like she was in some kind of a trance. The water began to calm and Sakura could now see it.
The locket had an intricate design on it, and its colour was a shimmering golden one. Engraved into it, in a sweeping beauty was a symbol, that to anyone else would have been nothing but a pretty pattern, but to Sakura it meant a lot more. It had a sun, with a moon in a circle to the top left hand side of it. The sun was situated inside a large star, and that star was inside a large oval with smaller elemental symbols around the outside. Sakura's heart began beating rapidly, questions racing through her mind, but only one word escaped her lips.
"Clow…" With that one simple word said the trance was broken and the image disappeared. She knocked the goblet and the water spilled everywhere. All eyes were averted to her, and she blushed deep crimson. "Hoe! G-g-gomen nasai, I-I it was…"
People began to laugh; they knew Sakura too well. She always managed to break the tension, whether or not it was intentional. One person did not find it very amusing though, and scowled.
"Err I guess I need some more water then," Sakura whispered underneath her breath, but Tomoyo had heard.
"You look so kawaii when you blush Sakura-chan," Tomoyo said, pulling her camcorder out and turned starry eyed, "I think I'll call this one 'Sakura's embarrassing water spillage' I think I'm gonna get loadsa kawaii moments this year!"
"Hoooe! Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura blushed, covering her face with her hands.
Yelan was watching the scene with amusement, she even giggled at it. This was not how she had expected her entrance to be, but at least everyone seemed a little lighter hearted.
"Students of Tomoeda, welcome to this brand new school year. My name is Li Yelan and I will be your headmistress this year. I would like to introduce to you my son Li Syaoran, he will be entering final year."
A young boy stood up and walked to the front; nobody had noticed him before now. He was tall, Sakura guessed, around 6ft; he had dark chocolate brown hair that was very messy, but suited him well. The uniform seemed to look great on him, he had decided not to wear the black jumper and was tied around his waist. The white shirt accented his well-toned upper body, and the first few buttons were left undone. He also wore plain black trousers, just like every other guy in the school. He wasn't wearing a tie, so Sakura guessed he hadn't been placed yet.
Most of the final year girls stared with longing at the new arrival. Sakura knew what they were thinking; it was so obvious. One particular girl stared harder than the rest, Sakura side glanced at her and gagged; she was such a slut, and it seemed like she had just picked her flavour of the week. Sakura felt pity for the guy; she knew that when Eiko Akizu had her heart set on something she would stop at nothing to get it.
"Well since everyone has already eaten we will begin the placing ceremony. Hidekashi-kun, the Kaidoku Suru, please."
"Of course Li-san," Hidekashi-sensei brought it out, the Kaidoku Suru. It meant decipher, and that's exactly what it did. It deciphered the group that you would be placed for the rest of your time at Tomoeda. At a first glance it looked like any other stone bowl, but if you took a closer look you would see why it was not.
Decorating the outside of the bowl were inscriptions, of the ancient language, and they swerved in a sweeping pattern around the outside. Water was poured into it, and it sparkled and shined in different colours before it settled to a plain one. Syaoran stepped up, his face fixed in a scowl. He seemed to know exactly what to do, which made Sakura wonder if they had this kind of thing in other schools.
Syaoran placed his hand over the water, and said his name out loud. Suddenly the room went dark, the only light was coming from the moon shining through the windows. A blinding white light traced the lines of the inscriptions, like water running through cracks in a pavement. Once the light had covered every last word, it burst outwards encasing Syaoran.
The light vanished into the water. It began to ripple, slowly at first and then more violently. Everyone watched in awe, wondering where this boy would be placed. You could never tire of this ceremony, because it always seemed fascinating, even to a veteran watcher. Colours appeared on the surface, dancing with the ripples as it calmed down. They showed clearly now, and Hidekashi gasped at what he saw. Multi-colours, one for nearly every kind of magic, but the most dominant one being green.
A small wind picked up, carrying one word across the hall.
"Kogeki…" The table erupted into cheers, some even stood up and clapped. The Naoru and Boei tables seemed disappointed, and let out a groan. All the while Syaoran's face hadn't even faltered; it still remained fixed in a scowl.
Syaoran received a tie, in a sandy gold and red colour. He snatched it out of Hidekashi's hand and mumbled something that sounded roughly like "Thanks." He walked over to the table and took the last remaining final year seat, opposite Tomoyo. Tomoyo smiled at him, but his face didn't falter one bit.
"Well now that that's over we shall carry on. Firstly I would like to inform you of some new rules this year," people groaned, Yelan just smiled and continued, "No one shall enter the Training rooms or Shrine without permission from a teacher. No one is to leave their dormitories after 9pm." More groans erupted from the students, annoyed that they now had a curfew, "and the last one is that the restricted area in the library will be available only to final years taking exams. That is all, so I bid you all a good evening." With that Yelan sat down, and began to chat with the teachers.
Sakura stood up; grabbing her coat she placed it on and smiled. Muttering a simple cleaning spell, the water she had spilled earlier disappeared. She tucked some hair behind her right ear and sighed.
"I'm gonna go to the dormitory, anyone else coming?" She asked looking at her group of friends. Most shook their heads, indicating that they would stay here a while longer. Tomoyo stood up grabbing her book bag.
"I'll come, it's boring here anyway." She smiled, Sakura and Tomoyo turned to leave. This was a great opportunity for Sakura to tell Tomoyo about the dreams, and now the locket. Unfortunately for them their plans were about to be dashed as Syaoran stood up too.
"Can you show me where the dormitory is?" His scowl was still present on his face and his request came out gruff and cold. Sakura smiled.
"Sure," inside though she was fuming, her perfect chance to get some guidance was destroyed, but she knew she couldn't exactly say no. "Just follow us, kay."
"Whatever," came the reply, Sakura shrugged and linked arms with Tomoyo. They walked arm in arm down the corridor, Sakura unhooked her arm from Tomoyo's and spun so she was now walking backwards. She smiled at Tomoyo.
"Sakura, don't you think the new head is pretty, and young!" Tomoyo asked, Syaoran's face faltered for a second. It was almost as though he was eavesdropping on a conversation, they didn't even seem to mind if he was there or not. They just carried on regardless.
"Yea, did you feel her aura?" Sakura asked, Tomoyo shook her head-indicating no; Syaoran was now interested. His mother had hidden her aura, so this girl must have been quite powerful to sense a hidden aura. "I only sensed bits of it, it was kinda warm, a red-ish colour. She hid it well, I guess it was just luck that I sensed it. You sure you didn't feel anything?"
"Hai Sakura, some of us still can't sense auras." Tomoyo replied, clasping her hands behind her head. Sakura giggled nervously.
"Hehe gomen ne Tomoyo-chan, I forgot," she gave the most heart warming smile Syaoran had ever seen, but his scowl still remained on his face. "Syao…"
"Li" Syaoran interrupted, he didn't give the liberty of first name use until he got to know a person better…and that wasn't very often or very many people.
"Gomen Li-kun, demo how far did you get in your training in your last school?" Sakura asked, still walking backwards and amazingly avoiding all obstacles that came into her path.
Syaoran smiled inwardly, 'wouldn't she like to know, ha I completed all my training two cycles in advance to everyone else.'
"FSE medium, page 182 third column," He said, knowing full well that none of the students here could have gotten that far; none were probably good enough.
"Honto Li-kun," Tomoyo interrupted, smiling and pointing at Sakura she continued, "Sakura here is FSE Medium, page 520 second column," she smiled once again causing Sakura to blush.
"Ne Tomoyo you know that I'll probably fall behind, I was struggling with advanced telekinesis and telepathy with Morima-san." Syaoran looked baffled, this girl was already doing advanced telekinesis and telepathy. He managed to stutter out.
"T-telekinesis and t-t-telepathy?" He looked shocked, or as if he didn't know what she was talking about either way Tomoyo answered him.
"Un, Telekinesis is movement at a distance from motive cause or agent without material connection and telepathy is communication from one mind to another at a distance other than through known senses." She smiled, looking at Sakura and Syaoran who had frozen in their places. "What?" She asked.
"Tomoyo-chan you-I…did you swallow a dictionary?" Sakura asked, staring at her best friend in disbelief.
"Just because I can't do it doesn't mean I don't learn what it is," she smiled again. Syaoran was definitely surprised; he didn't expect any of the students to be so advanced, especially a girl.
"Well then…" He started he didn't know their surnames, how was he going to talk with them if he didn't even know that. Sakura giggled. "Ano…what are your names?"
"Gomen Li-kun, I'm Kinomoto Sakura, and this…" She indicted at Tomoyo, "is Daidouji Tomoyo."
"Hajime mashite," she bowed smiling, her long, black hair cascading around her as she did so.
"Hajime mashite," he replied gruffly, bowing in return. "As I was beginning to ask Daidouji-san, where are you in your studies?" He asked, supposing she would be around the same point as him.
Tomoyo giggled a bit, "Not all of us are as advanced as Miss Magic over here…" Sakura blushed deeply, obviously very embarrassed. "In fact except for Sakura, final years are all around the end of the Lower part." Syaoran huffed.
"I didn't ask for the rest of the school's position, I asked for yours," he said harshly, folding his arms across his chest. Tomoyo blushed. Sakura let out a chuckle.
"Gomen Li-kun, well I am FSE end-Lower, page 995 final column," she smiled at him then turned to Sakura, who was clearly not paying attention to where she was going. "Sakura-chan…" she started, but was too late all that could be heard echoing down the corridor was…
"Itaiiiiiiii!" Sakura was now in a heap, after walking backwards into the staircase, falling over and twisting her ankle. Tomoyo rushed over to help her up.
"Sakura-chan, daijobu desu ka?" Tomoyo offered her hand to help her up, Sakura took it and muttered.
"Fine…" She smiled at Tomoyo, just to reassure her that she was ok. Syaoran was trying hard to hold in a laugh.
'How could she have not noticed that…?' He thought to himself, 'it's so big, even walking backwards she should have known.'
"I'm so clumsy, ne?" Sakura laughed nervously whilst turning to face the stairs, "I think I'll be walking forwards from now on." She started to ascend the stairs, missing every other step. "Li-kun…"
"Un," he replied gruffly, his arms still crossed over his chest.
"You might wanna watch out for…" She paused as Syaoran's foot went straight through a step, "vanishing steps."
"Coulda warned me a bit earlier," he exclaimed sarcastically.
"Hehe, gomen nasai," She said as they reached the top of the staircase. "Ne Tomoyo…"
"Hai Sakura-chan," She replied flicking some strands of hair over her shoulder.
"What's the password?" Sakura chuckled nervously and gestured to the door. "We can't get in without it…"
"Kawaii Sakura-chan." She replied, now rummaging around in her bag for something. Sakura face faltered.
"Tomoyo-chan I don't think…" The door swinging open, revealing the lounge room of the Kogeki dormitories cut off Sakura. "Ano…Tomoyo. How…what…who…why?" Sakura's face was a picture of confusion. Unbeknownst to Sakura, Tomoyo had whipped out her camcorder and was already filming.
"I think I'll call this one 'Sakura's Final Year Password' you look so kawaii when your confused. Ohohohohoho." Syaoran however also looked confused.
"Ano, Daidouji-san, two questions." He paused, running his fingers through his unruly brown hair. "One, How can you use that camcorder when all electronic things are unusable. And two, why is Sakura in the password?"
"Yeah Tomoyo-chan, why am I in the password?" Sakura asked as they walked into the lounge, the door slamming shut behind them as they were all inside. Sakura lay down on the large red sofa in the corner.
Tomoyo put down her camcorder and smiled. "Easy. I begged Sakura to place a charm on my camcorder so I could use it; I couldn't miss my Sakura-chan's kawaii moments, could I? And I'm a prefect, so I had to pick a password for Kogeki. I couldn't think of anything else."
"Phwa, more like you've got this silly obsession with me!" Sakura flailed her arms above her head, not paying attention to the sparks of pink magic that flew out and almost scorched Syaoran, luckily he ducked in time and it went straight out the window Tomoyo had just opened.
"You want to be more careful with your magic Sakura-chan, you almost burnt Li-kun here."
"Gomen nasai Li-kun, I didn't, I mean I…Oh never mind," She flopped back down onto the sofa, after sitting upright to apologise.
"Well Li-kun, welcome to the Kogeki lounge," Tomoyo said whilst smiling, "Over there," she gestured to the right stair case, "are the stairs to the male dormitories." She sat down in an arm chair next to the sofa and continued, "and over there," she gestured to the left staircase, "are the stairs to the female dormitories. You can't go there…" Both Sakura and Tomoyo chuckled at Syaoran's face, a slight blush had cropped up on him, and he was desperately trying to hide it.
"Where's the luggage?" Syaoran asked, 'They better not have gone through my stuff, I will personally rip the teachers to shreds if they have…'
"Already here," Sakura answered, "They charm it so that no-one can get into your stuff, except for yourself of course. The charm also sends your stuff to your allocated room."
"Whatever," Syaoran replied, turning towards the stairs and walking away from the two, now chatting, girls.
"Oh and Li-kun…" Sakura said, turning her head to face him.
"What?"
"Breakfast is at 7:30, don't be late, kay?" Sakura smiled turning to chat to Tomoyo once again.
"Whatever…"
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Shiroi Maho: Ok guys this is just a taster, things are gonna get a lot tougher and there are gonna be a lot of surprises. But I'm not gonna say any more, I want at least ten reviews before I continue!
Syaoran: Like there gonna give you any reviews, its crap.
Shiroi Maho: Excuse me… Would you care to repeat that.
Syaoran: I said it's crap.
Shiroi Maho: Oh really, I guess you'd like to be a ferret then. So what were you saying?
Syaoran: ……
Shiroi Maho: I thought so. Don't forget to review!
Touya: Where am I? And why is the gaki talking with my sister!
Shiroi Maho: Don't worry Touya, You and Yuki and Kero and Eriol and Meilin will appear soon, oh yea and Kaho.
Kaho: What do you mean by that!?
Syaoran: She means you can't be trusted and you're a terrible actress.
Syaoran and Kaho start cursing each other…literally. Sakura and co step in to try and break it up.
Shiroi Maho: STOP IT OR YOUR ALL GETTING PAY CUTS!!!
Everyone stops and turns into dot eyed scared chibi's
Shiroi Maho: That's better. Please review. See you in the next chapter! ^___^