A/n: Hey you all!!!… Sorry for this very late update... I edited the previous chapters by the way. You can look at it if you want but I'm not sure if you're going to notice the difference. So yeah, here's chapter 7 of The Rebel.

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Chapter 7: Jealousy

The two gangs went to the international band contest's website and found everything there like Oz and Riley told them. They each registered their band names—Sakura's gang: Excluded Angels and Syaoran's gang: The Wolves. The auditions would be two weeks from now and that would be exactly the same day of their exams.

All their schedules were hectic that they didn't even hangout or go to the malls together. Sakura had the hardest schedule of all. She was trying to keep her grades and she had no idea how to do it. She had been in the principal's office so many times that year and she bet she would be again because of the swarming bitches that were looking for a way just to expel her.

Ever since she had been chosen the prom queen of he famous Li Syaoran, everyone hated her. Whenever she went to her classes, a group of girls would be attempting to approach but they couldn't because Syaoran would sometimes be there. They hadn't had the chance to hurt her or anything because of Syaoran. He knew this would happen to her when they would come back to school so he had to keep an eye for her or let Alex do it for HIM. Or is it the other way around?

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[Lunchtime]

[Sakura's gang's table]

"I can't believe the teachers are doing this to us!" Mike complained. "I have a project due tomorrow in history and a review test in Physics!"

"Yeah exactly," Malfoy agreed. "And final exams are next week. I can't believe this. How are we going to practice for that audition thing?"

"We'll manage guys," Tomoyo said softly. She was always the positive thinker in the group. Everyone else just sighed while Sakura took no attention to them. She was busy munching her cookies while reading her book.

"Someone here is out of this earth," Alex commented and poked Sakura, getting her attention.

"What?" she said suddenly. "Is there a problem? Did you guys fail in the math test?"

"We don't know yet," Alex said. "But it's easy Sakura. I'm telling you."

"It's easy for you not for me," Sakura said and continued to study for her math test. Lunch ended and Sakura ran back to her locker to get her PE stuff for her last class.

"She is so tense," Daniel said looking at Sakura's retreating back after saying goodbye to them.

"She's just nervous you know," Tomoyo said. "She was all followed by bitches who were jealous of her for being the prom queen three nights ago. She was dealing with it, yeah because Syaoran had his guard on her but what if Syaoran isn't there? I'm worried, where's my Eriol?" Tomoyo started walking around them looking for Eriol then he just came out of nowhere. "Eriol!" she almost screamed and hugged him quickly.

"You called me?" he asked. "What's wrong?"

"We're worried about Sakura," Daniel answered for Tomoyo.

"Where is she by the way?" came Syaoran's voice. The rest of the gang followed him.

"She went to her locker to get her PE stuff," Alex said. He stared at Syaoran who stared back at him and the same thought flashed in their minds. "Oh my god!!!" they both said and ran to Sakura's locker together.

The two gangs what they were about but the teacher in charge told them to go to their classes.

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"What the heck is the matter with you?" Sakura asked Kaoru who was blocking her way to her locker.

"You stole my name!!!" Kaoru screamed at her making her wince.

"What?" Sakura asked. "Hey, I'm still Sakura not Kaoru!! I don't have your name!"

"Stupid!" Kaoru snapped at her. "I mean, the prom queen!"

"Oh that," Sakura said nodding as if she had no clue what she was talking about earlier. "You can be the prom queen if you want. I don't want to be anyways. You can talk to Ms. Davies and tell her you want to be the prom queen and I quit being that."

"You can't get away that easy!!!" Kaoru again screamed.

"Kirisawa, will you stop shouting please?" Sakura asked. "And I need to go to my locker. Cmon, I'll be late for my math test!"

"Look at me," Kaoru demanded and Sakura muttered that she was looking at her since forever. "Do think I'm going to let you go to your math class? You're wrong, bitch! You're going to see you Creator now." With that, Kaoru locked the door of the locker hallway leaving the two of them there. "I love stealing from school. Do you know that the maintenance is stupid? They didn't notice me taking this key. Yeah anyways, no one will save you now. No Li to protect you." Kaoru then took out a pistol from her pocket.

"What the??" Sakura cursed and backed away. She searched for the security camera on the ceiling but then Kaoru cut her off.

"I turned it off so no matter what you do, you can't get away with this!"

"What the heck did I do to you? Why do you blame me for the votes of the juniors and the seniors? And besides, I don't like Syaoran. You can have him if you want!! Well that is, if he likes you!"

"Shut up!!! Why, do you think he likes you?"

"No. But DO YOU THINK HE LIKES YOU huh? As far as I've heard, the prom last year was a set-up. You told your best friend to make you the prom queen with Syaoran right?"

"And what if I did? At least, everyone's been talking about me and Syaoran as a couple."

"Sure, a very bad couple. In fairness and no offence you don't look good together. I mean, you're way behind for him. As a friend of his, I would want much better girl than you for him."

"Shut your damn mouth, bitch!" Kaoru shouted and pointed the pistol again to Sakura. She then pulled the trigger but Sakura was fast to get away with it. Sakura's book fell to the floor and she didn't show any fear of Kaoru.

Alex and Syaoran then came to the locker hallway but they couldn't go in since it was locked. Kaoru and Sakura looked at them. Kaoru's attention then drifted her attention to the two guys outside.

"So you came to rescue this bitch huh?" Kaoru told them. "Where were you anyway? Why did let me get this bitch? Had your back turn against her huh Li?"

"Let her go!!" Syaoran shouted. They both banged at the door to open it but they couldn't. Sakura was walking towards Kaoru now while she wasn't looking but Kaoru looked at her.

"Trying to get away huh?" Kaoru said. "You can't ok? Can't you accept that?" Kaoru again shot Sakura but she missed again.

"What the heck!?!?" Alex shouted this time. "Don't you dare hurt her or I'll kill you!"

"Who are you?" Kaoru asked. "You're just a stupid friend of hers right? So shut up!!"

Alex banged himself against the door one last time and whispered to Syaoran that he would just get the key from the office Syaoran nodded and let him go. "Oh my god!! Your rescuer just left you bitch!" Kaoru said to Sakura.

"Do you know that you're going to be expelled if you kill me?" Sakura asked.

"Of course, what am I a stupid girl? But you know I'm going to tell them all that you're the one who tried to kill me and I just killed you as a self-defense."

"Do you think they're going to fall for that? God, Kirisawa!! Syaoran and Alex are here as my witnesses."

"But you're going to be dead and the principal would just think that they're against me because they're your friends. And maybe I'll just tell her that they're part of it or something." Kaoru laughed at the idea and tried to shoot Sakura again but she missed.

"Dammit!! Stop it will you?!" Sakura shouted.

Syaoran was banging heavily on the door and was screaming Sakura's name again and again. The classrooms were far from where they were so no one could hear him. Also, the locker hallway was soundproofed.

"Why do you want me to stop eh? Scared now?"

"In your dreams!!" Sakura then stood up this time and walked towards Kaoru. Kaoru was the one now stepping back.

"What are you doing?" Kaoru's voice seemed tense because she couldn't believe that Sakura wasn't afraid of her. She pulled the trigger again then she hit Sakura's shoulder.

"No!!!!" Syaoran screamed from outside the hallway.

Sakura fell but then stood up again holding her hurt shoulder. "Are you serious with this? I mean, you're going to murder someone and fake everything afterwards because you can't have Syaoran?"

"Shut up!! I'll have him, I swear!!"

"Well he doesn't even like you, for pity's sake! Right Syaoran?" Sakura asked Syaoran who shouted 'I don't like you Kaoru'.

"Do you have an idea that saying that, Li, just end Sakura's life?" Kaoru said to Syaoran and aimed at Sakura's chest this time. Sakura was still walking towards her when she pulled the trigger. Sakura got away with the bullet but it passed across her hurt shoulder. Kaoru kept shooting but she missed Sakura all the time because her hands were shaking seeing Sakura still walking towards her with a bleeding shoulder.

The bullets soon were finished and at that time, Syaoran managed to open the door and Alex came back with the school's faculty. "Sorry I took a long time to--," Alex said and gasped seeing Sakura bleeding.

Alex and Syaoran both ran towards Sakura to help her out before she passed out. Kaoru then fell to her knees and looked at the two guys helping Sakura. "You're lucky to be loved, Sakura," she whispered then looked at the principal and the teachers.

"Do you any idea what you're doing?" Ms. Davies—the principal shouted at her. "You're expelled, Ms. Kirisawa and you should apologize to the Kinomoto family for what you've done to her! And you have to pay the school for the money we'll use for her medications."

"Will you stop it and just call an ambulance?" Alex said and the teachers ran to call an ambulance. Syaoran was the one who carried Sakura down the school to wait for the ambulance while Alex just followed them. Ms. Davies then took Kaoru's pistol and took her to the principals' office. Some teachers called Touya to let him know what happened while some called Kaoru's parents.

The ambulance then came and Syaoran and Alex came with Sakura with some teachers.

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[HOSPITAL]     

Sakura stirred and found herself on a hospital bed. It was nighttime, she could say because it was dark outside the windows. She then noticed that the two gangs were there sleeping around the room. Tomoyo was sleeping in Eriol's lap in the couch. Meilin's head was on Takashi's shoulder. While Malfoy, Daniel, Mike and Aki sat on a big couch with their heads on the back of the sofa sleeping. She looked for Syaoran and found him sleeping on her bed. She looked around the room looking for her best friend—Alex.

She looked at the other window on the left side of the room and found him there staring up the sky. He then looked at her and noticed she was awake. He smiled at her and approached her silently—not wanting to wake everyone else.

"Hey, you ok now?" he whispered to her kissing her forehead.

"Yeah, my shoulder still hurts but it's ok now," she whispered back. "I'm so happy."

"Why because everyone's here?" he asked. [They're whispering ok?]

"Yeah and because I didn't take the math test," she said smiling and Alex silently laughed. "Was Touya here?"

"Yeah. He was really worried. He just went home to change clothes and bring you clothes here too for tomorrow."

"What? I have to stay here until tomorrow?"

"You have to," Alex said.

"Fine," Sakura said. "What happened to Kirisawa?"

"She was expelled, of course. And her family will pay everything for your medications."

"What? But that's unfair. I mean, she didn't mean to do it. She just want to be with Syaoran but she can't because he doesn't like her."

"Exactly, she can't that's why she tried to kill you because she was jealous."

"Jealous of what?"

"Sakura, you are so dense. When are you going to change? He likes you ok? Didn't you notice that?" Sakura shook her head looking at Syaoran sleeping head on her bed. "He guarded you in school after the prom night because he knew many girls who like him would go after you."

"He did that because we're friends."

"He likes you more than a friend!"

"That's impossible. Who will like such a stupid girl like me?"

"You're not stupid and everyone likes you. I like you. I mean I love you."

"Whatever," Sakura said smiling at him. "When are you going to stop courting me? But how can you say that he really likes me?"

"Oh my god Sakura!" Alex couldn't believe she really didn't notice it. "He couldn't stop staring at you. He's always happy whenever you're there. He carried you when you passed out. He didn't want anyone hurting you. And! I'm feeling jealous whenever he's around with you!"

"But…" Sakura was about to say something but Syaoran stirred and woke up. "Hey there!" she greeted him and he couldn't believe his eyes that she's finally ok.

"Hey, you ok now?" he asked. That was exactly the same thing Alex said to her earlier.

"Yeah," she said yawning.

"You need to sleep more," Alex said.

"Fine," she said and lied again to sleep. "Don't leave me ok?"

"I won't," Alex assured her.

When she was asleep, Syaoran went out of the room and Alex asked why. "I'll just get something to drink," Syaoran told him and left.

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+Syaoran's POV+

I heard what they're talking about. I can't believe everyone else noticed my feelings for her except her. She is dense all right. Alex is so open to her about his feeling, why can't I do that? Maybe because they've known each other for so long or maybe he was courting her for so long now but she isn't answering him. Because she just treats him as a friend. Yeah that's right, right? I wonder how she looks at me. Maybe friends? Or acquaintance perhaps?

I need to know!

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Within two days, Sakura could go out of the hospital. Touya visited her a lot whenever the gangs have classes. They talked of course and Touya was so happy because Sakura was talking to him like before—as her brother. They made a bro-sis bonding and Touya wondered how long it would last.

"Oh yeah by the way Touya," Sakura said while Touya was about to go out from her room. "Sorry for being a mean sister to you these days. Maybe I was just you know, angry of mom and dad and began hating you too because you always leave me and all for work."

Touya was touched that his sister was saying sorry to him. "It's ok," he said. "I understand." He hugged his sister who hugged him back. Before he left, he kissed her forehead and smiled at her. "I miss you." Now that's my real sister—my sweet and loving sister.

I miss you too, Touya but I really need to run off with the gang. I just can't handle everyone not being around so I have to take refuge to the band. And I hope you know that. Your old sister is just thinking in the dark right now—scared since no one can find her. You found her now but she's going back into the dark since you're gone again.  Sakura looked around the room and saw no one around. She hates being alone but she knew somewhere out there, the gang was thinking about her including Syaoran.

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A/n: That's chapter 7. I hope you're not bored or anything with this. I'm sorry if you are but you can tell me you know. Review please!! Please Please Please!!!!.. Thanks!!!. ;)