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~Chapter 2~
***
After the delivery was made, Sakura went back to the Bakery shop. She went back into the kitchen and saw Syaoran standing there in a pink apron and oven mitts, taking cookies out of one of the many ovens.
"Syaoran! What are you doing here?" Sakura asked with a giggle escaping her lips. She bit her lip to stop when Syaoran turned around tomato red. She couldn't help it, and she burst out laughing.
"Sa– Sakura!" he stuttered out. "What are you doing here?" She rolled up behind him.
"I work here as of today," she said and took one of the cookies off the tray on the counter. She bit into it and made a face. She choked it out. "What ARE these? They look like cookies, but they taste awful."
"There my cookies," Syaoran said and it was then Sakura's turn to blush.
"Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't know." He just laughed. She looked up at him. His laugh... it was wonderful sounding.
//He should laugh more.//
"Well that's the same reaction Meiling gave me when I baked her birthday cake a while ago," he said. "She said that I wasn't aloud to cook anything until I learned how to do it right, and she's been cooking ever since. And her cooking is awful, so I'm trying to learn how to."
"Oh," Sakura said. "So you and Meiling live together?"
"Yeah. We live alone in an apartment a few blocks from here."
"So you have to eat awful cooking until you learn how to bake then?"
"Yup."
"Well then that settles it!" Sakura said. Syaoran looked at her confused.
"That settles what?"
"I'm coming over your house after work today to teach you how to bake!" Sakura said happily.
"You don't have to. I don't want to waste your time."
"No, I insist! Think of it as a thank you for showing me around school today!"
"Oh. Ok then."
"Right!"
"Sakura! Another delivery!"
"Coming! Sakura called. "Alright I'll see you later Syaoran," she said with a smile.
//That definitely can't be the girl. Sakura is so much happier.//
***
After work Sakura met up with Syaoran as planed. Sakura bladed and Syaoran walked.
"So are you a good cook?" Syaoran asked.
"Well when I was little my dad used to make the best cakes and cookies I've ever tasted," she explained. "I always wanted to cook like that so I practiced and practiced and I'd say I'm pretty good at it now."
"That's great because I'm really bad at it he said with a smile. "Here we are." They stopped at an apartment. They went up to the fourth floor and went to room 216. He opened the door and the place was empty. "I guess Meiling still isn't home."
"Wow!" Sakura said with glee. "This place is great!" Syaoran looked at her skeptically.
"Your kidding. This place is small compared to my house back in Hong Kong."
"Nope. I'm not." Sakura said and looked around. "Well let's get started!" she said finding the kitchen.
"You sure don't waste time do you?"
"Of course not! There's never enough so I might as do as much stuff as possible!"
"I agree, so let's get started."
They grabbed a pair of aprons, Syaoran's green and Sakura's light red, and started to bake cookies.
~"No you use soft butter!" "What's the difference?" "It's soft!"
~"Salt! You can't put a cup of salt in cookies!" "That's not salt that's sugar!" "No it's not, taste!" "Well it looked the same!"
~"No! You have to put the mixer on low!" "But I want to hurry!" "No wait!" "Oops. Didn't know that it splatter everywhere..." "Syaoran!"
~"How long have they been in the oven?" "About 10 minutes, why" "What!? Why's the temperature 500? There going to burn! Open the oven!" "I thought they'd cook faster... Fire! There's a fire in the oven!" "Put it out!" "Oh wait it's just smoking..."
Five minutes later they put in another batch of cookies at the right temperature. When it was time to come out they opened it and laid them out to cool. Meiling walked in.
"Syaoran! Why is it so smoky in here?" Meiling called out from the door.
"Uhh, no reason!" he called back. "Just go watch some T.V. or something!" Then Sakura tripped over some spilled cookie dough and fell on Syaoran, who pushed the table, which knocked everything down causing a loud crashing sound.
"Syaoran what are you–" Meiling began, but stopped at what she saw. Sakura was lying on top of Syaoran in her apron. They got up and looked guiltily at her because of the mess. They both had patches of flour in odd spots on them, and cookie dough. It looked like and egg was in Syaoran's hair and burnt cookies were lying everywhere. Meiling looked around the room and then back at them. Then she burst out laughing.
"I guess you tried to teach Syaoran how to bake from the looks of it," she said between giggles.
"Yup!" Sakura said cheerfully swallowing one of the freshly baked cookies. "And it looks like he's finally learning after four tries! Taste," she commanded Syaoran. He took a cookie and bit into it doubtfully. He immediately smiled at the taste.
"Looks like no more bad cooking for dinner tonight!" he said happily.
"And what does that mean?" Meiling asked angrily. "I'm the one that cooks if you don't remember."
"Oh... uh I meant no more GREAT cooking tonight," he stuttered out.
"If it's SO great, why don't you want to eat it?"
"Oh, uh here!" Sakura intervened. Meiling opened her mouth to protest, but Sakura shoved a cookie in it.
"Hey," she said in between bites. "This isn't bad Syaoran. I think you'll be cooking dinner tonight. After you finish cleaning up this mess of course." With that she walked out of the kitchen.
"Oh no!" Sakura yelled causing Syaoran to look at her weird.
"What's wrong Sakura?"
"I have to get home! Bachan is going to kill me!" she yelled throwing the apron off. "I'll see you tomorrow at school. Bye Syaoran, Meiling!" and with that she was out the door.
"Bye Sakura," Syaoran said to the door and turned around to the huge mess in the kitchen that he had to clean up by himself. "Well at least no more of Meiling's bad cooking," he muttered.
"I heard that!"
***
"Sorry I'm late, Bachan!" Sakura yelled as soon as she walked in the door. She took off her blades and walked upstairs to the room she slept in. It was already 9:00 and Sakura was tired. She walked over to her bed and sat down, but jumped back up as soon as a muffled shout was heard. She cautiously moved the cover's revealing the two twins, Simon and Susan.
"Si, Su, get up and go to your own bed," Sakura said tiredly.
"Sakura!" they shouted in union. "We've been waiting all day for you!"
"What?" Sakura said confused. "Why?"
"We wanted you to read us a story," Si said.
"Yeah you're a good story teller," Su praised.
"What are you talking about?" Sakura said getting more confused by the minute. "I've never read you guys a story so how would you know if I was good or not?"
"We can tell," they said together.
"Oh. Well I'll tell you a story tomorrow night," she said and yawned. "I'm to tired to tonight, ok? I promise I will tomorrow." The twins nodded and went to there own bed. Sakura slipped into bed without bothering to change her clothes. She rolled over and looked out the window. Then she screamed and scrambled out of bed. The twins screamed too. Bachan rushed in.
"What's wrong! Why are you screaming?" Bachan asked worriedly. She walked over to the twins who were now looking at Sakura.
"I screamed because Sakura screamed."
"Me too."
Bachan looked at Sakura who pale as a ghost.
"What's wrong Sakura? What made you scream?" she asked and walked over.
"There's someone out the window!" she squeaked out. Bachan got up and looked, but didn't see anything. "I don't see anything out there, Sakura. Plus we're on the second floor. I think you were imagining it. You are tired."
"But I did! There was someone in the tree staring at me!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Nonsense child," Bachan said and walked to the door. "Get some sleep." With that she shut the door and the twins went back to their beds. Sakura took a fearful glance out the window. She HAD seen someone out there and whoever it was had been looking right at her. She closed her eyes and tried to get some sleep, but peace was not to be found.
~Dream~
"Oni-chan?" she asked hesitantly. "Oni-chan, wake up! Don't leave me yet!" she screamed. "Please don't leave me alone..." She cradled his body and cried loudly. "I don't want to be alone!"
"What are you doing?" someone asked. She looked up and saw a boy her age with messy chocolate brown hair and intense amber eyes.
"My oni-chan... they killed my oni-chan," she said and started to cry onto his shoulder. He was taken back, but didn't pull away.
"Shh don't cry. It'll be ok. Here," he said. She looked at him. He took off a silver necklace and handed it to her. On it was a wolf pendant with a small emerald where the eye was supposed to be. "It's my lucky necklace my dad gave to me before he died. I want you to have it."
She looked at it with awe. "Thank you." She then started fumbling with something around her neck. "You can have this," she said and handed him her necklace. It was silver too, and had a pink crystal cherry blossom on it. "My mom gave this to me before she died." He smiled and put in on, while she put on his. "I'll never take it off," she said with a smile.
"And I'll never take your's off," he said seriously.
"Do you promise?" she said holding out her pinky.
"Yes I promise," he said taking her pinky with his own.
~End~
Sakura woke up a few minutes before her alarm clock would go off. She turned it off and laid back down.
//That dream...//
She fingered the necklace she had never taken off.
//I wonder who that boy was. Is he still wearing the necklace?//
She closed her eyes and tried to picture the boys face again. Her brow furrowed as she could only remember amber eyes full of worry and concern.
She was about to get up when she looked over at the window. She shivered and pulled the covers around her. She was going to get up and get ready for school, but she laid back down instead.
//Maybe I did imagine it. ... No I didn't. I saw someone there.//
She drifted off to sleep before she knew it.
***
"SAKURA WILL YOU GET UP!" Bachan yelled up the stairs. Sakura stirred in her sleep.
"Five more minutes..." She fell back asleep.
20 minutes later Bachan went upstairs to check on how Sakura was doing. She opened the door and was surprised to see Sakura still sleeping.
"SAKURA! Get up! Your going to be late for school!" Bachan yelled.
"No I'm not," Sakura mumbled. She looked over at her alarmclock that read 7:41. "OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO BE LATE!" Sakura yelled and flung the cover's off of her. She had 19 minutes to get to school. She scrambled around the room getting her stuff for school as Bachan watched in amusement.
"I swear that girl sleeps like a rock," she said and left. Sakura didn't even noticed as she started to strip and put clean clothes on. She washed her face, and brushed her hair and teeth. She stuffed her shoes in her backpack and put on her roller blades. She rushed down the steps and grabbed a muffin on the way out the door. Skating at top speed she made her way up to the building passing Tomoyo.
"Some things never change," she said with a smile and walked to class.
Sakura burst into the room with her skates still on and took her seat.
"Hey Sakura," Syaoran said and walked up to her.
"Hey Syaoran," Sakura smiled and took off her skates. "Sorry I left you with that mess to clean up, but I had to get home."
"It's alright. It wasn't that big of a mess anyway."
"So how'd the rest of them turn out?"
"Excellent thanks to you. Meiling has promoted me to cook. How can I ever thank you?" he said with a mock bow. Sakura laughed.
"Don't worry about it. It was my thank you to you, remember?"
"Well I thought that you might want some," he said bringing out a small bag. "No point of going through all the trouble of making cookies if you can't enjoy them, right?" he gave her the bag and she opened it. She had a small tinge of pink to her cheeks as she took one out and ate it.
"Well I must say," she said in between bites. "I am a good teacher if I do say so myself." She picked up another cookie and bit into it.
"I would have to agree then," Syaoran said as he bit into one of the cookies. Unfortunately, Naru saw Syaoran giving Sakura the cookies.
"Syaoran! You baked her cookies?" Naru whined. "You never bake me anything."
"I don't think that you would have wanted him to, before I helped him," Sakura said and laughed.
"Quiet you little whore," Naru spat at her. Sakura shut up at once and glared at her. The whole classroom quieted down and watched. Sakura stood up, but Syaoran stepped in front of her.
"Take it back," Syaoran said tightly, his voice filled with anger.
"But Syaoran," Naru said sweetly.
"Call me Li," he cut in, however she ignored him.
"You've seen it yourself. First she attempts to get you, and then she's all over Yamazaki. She's even into girls. You saw how she was all over those lesbians yesterday–" She was cut off by a slap from Sakura, and stumbled back.
"Those are my friends your talking about," Sakura said through clenched teeth. "But of course you wouldn't know about friends, being the bitch you are, would you?"
"I'm going to kill you Kinomoto," Naru said and threw a punch at Sakura. Sakura was hit in the jaw, but being raised in an orphanage and living in some pretty bad places made her recover fast. She lashed back out with a punch to Naru's face and then stomach. She stopped as Naru crashed down to the floor. Just then the teacher walked in.
"What happened here? And Naru why are you lying on the floor? Get up." Mrs. Nami said. Naru picked herself up off the floor and nobody offered an explanation. Then one of Naru's lackey's spoke up after earning a glare from her.
"Mrs. Nami, Kinomoto just attacked Naru for no reason." That caused an uproar.
"No she didn't! It was Naru's fault!" a girl said.
"No I saw Kinomoto hit her first!" a boy said.
"Kinomoto started it!" a girl said.
"Yeah, Kinomoto is dangerous!" a guy said.
"Bull! It was Akimoto's fault!" another boy said.
"Be quiet all of you!" Syaoran shouted. The room stilled. "It's Akimoto's fault. She started it," he stated calmly.
"And who hit who first?" Mrs. Nami asked.
"Sakura hit Akimoto first because Akimoto called her a whore and her friends lesbians."
"She attacked me for no reason, Mrs. Nami. I was just stating the facts!" Naru yelled.
"That's enough! Miss Kinomoto, you shouldn't have hit Miss Akimoto, and you," she pointed at Naru "I do not want to hear such language coming out of anyone's mouth, ever. Both of you go to the office." Sakura looked back at Syaoran and followed Naru out the door.
"This is all your fault you little whore," Naru spat as soon as the door was shut.
"It's your own fault, and don't call me a whore just because Syaoran is my friend and not yours," Sakura replied walking down the hallway.
"You better watch your back from now on Kinomoto, cause I'm going to get rid of you," Naru threatened. However Sakura just laughed.
"That's funny coming from you seeing as how I just kicked your ass," Sakura shot back, laughing.
"You won't be laughing when your getting your ass kicked."
"And who are you going to get to do it since you can't?" Sakura questioned. "Or are you going to gang up on me with all your little lackey's?" Naru didn't say anything. They walked in the office and sat down in one of the chairs.
"Why are you two girls here?" a secretary asked.
"We were sent here for fighting," Sakura said. Just then the principle walked out of his office.
"Kinomoto Sakura and Akimoto Naru, will you please step into my office?" he said and walked back into his office, leaving the door opened a crack. The two girls walked silently into his office. "Miss Kinomoto. I didn't plan to see you back in the office so soon," he said and sat down.
"Umm, I'm sorry, but have we met?" she asked uncertainly.
"Sorry I haven't even introduced myself. I'm Dr. Maehara, the principle of Tomoeda High, and no we haven't met. I saw you yesterday being given your schedule, but before I could talk to you I had a call to take."
"Oh." Was all she said.
"Well then, I got a call from a teacher saying that you two were fighting. Care to explain?" They both started talking at the same time. "Whoa. Hold on, one at a time. Miss Akimoto, please."
Naru straightened up and cleared her throat. "Well I walked into class and saw Syaoran. He had baked me cookies, but Sakura took them from me. I tried to take them back from her, but she hit me. Then she called me a whore and my friends lesbians," she finished. Sakura stared at her in shock. She snapped out of her shock when the principle asked her her side of the story.
"Last night I was over Syaoran's house–," Naru snorted.
"As if he would let you into his house."
"Quiet Akimoto," Dr. Maehara warned.
"Anyway," Sakura started again. "I was over Syaoran's house helping him bake cookies, because he didn't like Meiling's cooking and she wouldn't let him cook until he learned how to bake right because he messed up her birthday cake, and Meiling's cooking is awful he says."
"I don't see what this has to do with the story Miss Kinomoto," Dr. Maehara said.
"Well he brought me some of the cookies that we baked to school this morning. He gave them to me and we were eating them when Akimoto came up and asked Syaoran why he never made her cookies and I said that you wouldn't have wanted one of his cookies before I helped him anyway, and she called me a whore. Syaoran tried to defend me, but then she started making up lies about my friends calling them lesbians because I had hugged them, so I slapped her."
"You shouldn't have done that."
"I know sir. That's when she hit me and then I beat her to the ground. The teacher walked in and sent us to the office."
"That's a lie!" Naru shouted.
"No it's not. I remember you lying on the ground when the teacher walked in. She told you to get up. I think I might have hit you a little to hard if you can't remember," Sakura said with a smile.
"That's enough," Dr. Maehara cut in. He pushed a button on his desk and the secretaries voice sounded.
"Yes Dr. Maehara?"
"Would you please call Li Syaoran to the office?"
"Right away sir." After a few minutes Syaoran walked into the office.
"You called me, sir," he asked.
"Would you please tell me what happened in class today since it seems that you're the cause of it?" Dr. Maehara asked annoyed.
"Sure. I gave Sakura cookies and Akimoto came over asking why I didn't give her any. Sakura said that she wouldn't have wanted any of my cooking before last night anyway, which is true, and Akimoto called her a whore and her friends lesbians. So Sakura slapped her, then Akimoto hit her, then Sakura beat her to the ground," he finished with a smile.
"Alright then Mr. Li, you may go. And you two, I will not tolerate fighting in my school, or that language. You will each serve detention after school today by cleaning the cafeteria and be happy that I'm not suspending you."
"Yes Dr. Maehara," they both said.
"Good now get back to class."
"Yes Dr. Maehara," they both said again and started walking back to class.
//I hope that today isn't going to be one of those days...//
To Be Continued...
***
So let's recap the chapter. Sakura has helped Syaoran master the art of baking cookies, supposedly saw someone lurking out of her window, got in a fight with Naru, has been given a subtle death threat, has a detention after school to clean up the cafeteria, and is hoping that today won't be 'one of those days'. How fun. Did you like the chapter? Tell me by REVIEWING!!! Yay the people finally get to have their voice heard so let's not miss the opportunity! Come on I'd love for you to put your two cents in. So until next time...
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~Chapter 2~
***
After the delivery was made, Sakura went back to the Bakery shop. She went back into the kitchen and saw Syaoran standing there in a pink apron and oven mitts, taking cookies out of one of the many ovens.
"Syaoran! What are you doing here?" Sakura asked with a giggle escaping her lips. She bit her lip to stop when Syaoran turned around tomato red. She couldn't help it, and she burst out laughing.
"Sa– Sakura!" he stuttered out. "What are you doing here?" She rolled up behind him.
"I work here as of today," she said and took one of the cookies off the tray on the counter. She bit into it and made a face. She choked it out. "What ARE these? They look like cookies, but they taste awful."
"There my cookies," Syaoran said and it was then Sakura's turn to blush.
"Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't know." He just laughed. She looked up at him. His laugh... it was wonderful sounding.
//He should laugh more.//
"Well that's the same reaction Meiling gave me when I baked her birthday cake a while ago," he said. "She said that I wasn't aloud to cook anything until I learned how to do it right, and she's been cooking ever since. And her cooking is awful, so I'm trying to learn how to."
"Oh," Sakura said. "So you and Meiling live together?"
"Yeah. We live alone in an apartment a few blocks from here."
"So you have to eat awful cooking until you learn how to bake then?"
"Yup."
"Well then that settles it!" Sakura said. Syaoran looked at her confused.
"That settles what?"
"I'm coming over your house after work today to teach you how to bake!" Sakura said happily.
"You don't have to. I don't want to waste your time."
"No, I insist! Think of it as a thank you for showing me around school today!"
"Oh. Ok then."
"Right!"
"Sakura! Another delivery!"
"Coming! Sakura called. "Alright I'll see you later Syaoran," she said with a smile.
//That definitely can't be the girl. Sakura is so much happier.//
***
After work Sakura met up with Syaoran as planed. Sakura bladed and Syaoran walked.
"So are you a good cook?" Syaoran asked.
"Well when I was little my dad used to make the best cakes and cookies I've ever tasted," she explained. "I always wanted to cook like that so I practiced and practiced and I'd say I'm pretty good at it now."
"That's great because I'm really bad at it he said with a smile. "Here we are." They stopped at an apartment. They went up to the fourth floor and went to room 216. He opened the door and the place was empty. "I guess Meiling still isn't home."
"Wow!" Sakura said with glee. "This place is great!" Syaoran looked at her skeptically.
"Your kidding. This place is small compared to my house back in Hong Kong."
"Nope. I'm not." Sakura said and looked around. "Well let's get started!" she said finding the kitchen.
"You sure don't waste time do you?"
"Of course not! There's never enough so I might as do as much stuff as possible!"
"I agree, so let's get started."
They grabbed a pair of aprons, Syaoran's green and Sakura's light red, and started to bake cookies.
~"No you use soft butter!" "What's the difference?" "It's soft!"
~"Salt! You can't put a cup of salt in cookies!" "That's not salt that's sugar!" "No it's not, taste!" "Well it looked the same!"
~"No! You have to put the mixer on low!" "But I want to hurry!" "No wait!" "Oops. Didn't know that it splatter everywhere..." "Syaoran!"
~"How long have they been in the oven?" "About 10 minutes, why" "What!? Why's the temperature 500? There going to burn! Open the oven!" "I thought they'd cook faster... Fire! There's a fire in the oven!" "Put it out!" "Oh wait it's just smoking..."
Five minutes later they put in another batch of cookies at the right temperature. When it was time to come out they opened it and laid them out to cool. Meiling walked in.
"Syaoran! Why is it so smoky in here?" Meiling called out from the door.
"Uhh, no reason!" he called back. "Just go watch some T.V. or something!" Then Sakura tripped over some spilled cookie dough and fell on Syaoran, who pushed the table, which knocked everything down causing a loud crashing sound.
"Syaoran what are you–" Meiling began, but stopped at what she saw. Sakura was lying on top of Syaoran in her apron. They got up and looked guiltily at her because of the mess. They both had patches of flour in odd spots on them, and cookie dough. It looked like and egg was in Syaoran's hair and burnt cookies were lying everywhere. Meiling looked around the room and then back at them. Then she burst out laughing.
"I guess you tried to teach Syaoran how to bake from the looks of it," she said between giggles.
"Yup!" Sakura said cheerfully swallowing one of the freshly baked cookies. "And it looks like he's finally learning after four tries! Taste," she commanded Syaoran. He took a cookie and bit into it doubtfully. He immediately smiled at the taste.
"Looks like no more bad cooking for dinner tonight!" he said happily.
"And what does that mean?" Meiling asked angrily. "I'm the one that cooks if you don't remember."
"Oh... uh I meant no more GREAT cooking tonight," he stuttered out.
"If it's SO great, why don't you want to eat it?"
"Oh, uh here!" Sakura intervened. Meiling opened her mouth to protest, but Sakura shoved a cookie in it.
"Hey," she said in between bites. "This isn't bad Syaoran. I think you'll be cooking dinner tonight. After you finish cleaning up this mess of course." With that she walked out of the kitchen.
"Oh no!" Sakura yelled causing Syaoran to look at her weird.
"What's wrong Sakura?"
"I have to get home! Bachan is going to kill me!" she yelled throwing the apron off. "I'll see you tomorrow at school. Bye Syaoran, Meiling!" and with that she was out the door.
"Bye Sakura," Syaoran said to the door and turned around to the huge mess in the kitchen that he had to clean up by himself. "Well at least no more of Meiling's bad cooking," he muttered.
"I heard that!"
***
"Sorry I'm late, Bachan!" Sakura yelled as soon as she walked in the door. She took off her blades and walked upstairs to the room she slept in. It was already 9:00 and Sakura was tired. She walked over to her bed and sat down, but jumped back up as soon as a muffled shout was heard. She cautiously moved the cover's revealing the two twins, Simon and Susan.
"Si, Su, get up and go to your own bed," Sakura said tiredly.
"Sakura!" they shouted in union. "We've been waiting all day for you!"
"What?" Sakura said confused. "Why?"
"We wanted you to read us a story," Si said.
"Yeah you're a good story teller," Su praised.
"What are you talking about?" Sakura said getting more confused by the minute. "I've never read you guys a story so how would you know if I was good or not?"
"We can tell," they said together.
"Oh. Well I'll tell you a story tomorrow night," she said and yawned. "I'm to tired to tonight, ok? I promise I will tomorrow." The twins nodded and went to there own bed. Sakura slipped into bed without bothering to change her clothes. She rolled over and looked out the window. Then she screamed and scrambled out of bed. The twins screamed too. Bachan rushed in.
"What's wrong! Why are you screaming?" Bachan asked worriedly. She walked over to the twins who were now looking at Sakura.
"I screamed because Sakura screamed."
"Me too."
Bachan looked at Sakura who pale as a ghost.
"What's wrong Sakura? What made you scream?" she asked and walked over.
"There's someone out the window!" she squeaked out. Bachan got up and looked, but didn't see anything. "I don't see anything out there, Sakura. Plus we're on the second floor. I think you were imagining it. You are tired."
"But I did! There was someone in the tree staring at me!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Nonsense child," Bachan said and walked to the door. "Get some sleep." With that she shut the door and the twins went back to their beds. Sakura took a fearful glance out the window. She HAD seen someone out there and whoever it was had been looking right at her. She closed her eyes and tried to get some sleep, but peace was not to be found.
~Dream~
"Oni-chan?" she asked hesitantly. "Oni-chan, wake up! Don't leave me yet!" she screamed. "Please don't leave me alone..." She cradled his body and cried loudly. "I don't want to be alone!"
"What are you doing?" someone asked. She looked up and saw a boy her age with messy chocolate brown hair and intense amber eyes.
"My oni-chan... they killed my oni-chan," she said and started to cry onto his shoulder. He was taken back, but didn't pull away.
"Shh don't cry. It'll be ok. Here," he said. She looked at him. He took off a silver necklace and handed it to her. On it was a wolf pendant with a small emerald where the eye was supposed to be. "It's my lucky necklace my dad gave to me before he died. I want you to have it."
She looked at it with awe. "Thank you." She then started fumbling with something around her neck. "You can have this," she said and handed him her necklace. It was silver too, and had a pink crystal cherry blossom on it. "My mom gave this to me before she died." He smiled and put in on, while she put on his. "I'll never take it off," she said with a smile.
"And I'll never take your's off," he said seriously.
"Do you promise?" she said holding out her pinky.
"Yes I promise," he said taking her pinky with his own.
~End~
Sakura woke up a few minutes before her alarm clock would go off. She turned it off and laid back down.
//That dream...//
She fingered the necklace she had never taken off.
//I wonder who that boy was. Is he still wearing the necklace?//
She closed her eyes and tried to picture the boys face again. Her brow furrowed as she could only remember amber eyes full of worry and concern.
She was about to get up when she looked over at the window. She shivered and pulled the covers around her. She was going to get up and get ready for school, but she laid back down instead.
//Maybe I did imagine it. ... No I didn't. I saw someone there.//
She drifted off to sleep before she knew it.
***
"SAKURA WILL YOU GET UP!" Bachan yelled up the stairs. Sakura stirred in her sleep.
"Five more minutes..." She fell back asleep.
20 minutes later Bachan went upstairs to check on how Sakura was doing. She opened the door and was surprised to see Sakura still sleeping.
"SAKURA! Get up! Your going to be late for school!" Bachan yelled.
"No I'm not," Sakura mumbled. She looked over at her alarmclock that read 7:41. "OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO BE LATE!" Sakura yelled and flung the cover's off of her. She had 19 minutes to get to school. She scrambled around the room getting her stuff for school as Bachan watched in amusement.
"I swear that girl sleeps like a rock," she said and left. Sakura didn't even noticed as she started to strip and put clean clothes on. She washed her face, and brushed her hair and teeth. She stuffed her shoes in her backpack and put on her roller blades. She rushed down the steps and grabbed a muffin on the way out the door. Skating at top speed she made her way up to the building passing Tomoyo.
"Some things never change," she said with a smile and walked to class.
Sakura burst into the room with her skates still on and took her seat.
"Hey Sakura," Syaoran said and walked up to her.
"Hey Syaoran," Sakura smiled and took off her skates. "Sorry I left you with that mess to clean up, but I had to get home."
"It's alright. It wasn't that big of a mess anyway."
"So how'd the rest of them turn out?"
"Excellent thanks to you. Meiling has promoted me to cook. How can I ever thank you?" he said with a mock bow. Sakura laughed.
"Don't worry about it. It was my thank you to you, remember?"
"Well I thought that you might want some," he said bringing out a small bag. "No point of going through all the trouble of making cookies if you can't enjoy them, right?" he gave her the bag and she opened it. She had a small tinge of pink to her cheeks as she took one out and ate it.
"Well I must say," she said in between bites. "I am a good teacher if I do say so myself." She picked up another cookie and bit into it.
"I would have to agree then," Syaoran said as he bit into one of the cookies. Unfortunately, Naru saw Syaoran giving Sakura the cookies.
"Syaoran! You baked her cookies?" Naru whined. "You never bake me anything."
"I don't think that you would have wanted him to, before I helped him," Sakura said and laughed.
"Quiet you little whore," Naru spat at her. Sakura shut up at once and glared at her. The whole classroom quieted down and watched. Sakura stood up, but Syaoran stepped in front of her.
"Take it back," Syaoran said tightly, his voice filled with anger.
"But Syaoran," Naru said sweetly.
"Call me Li," he cut in, however she ignored him.
"You've seen it yourself. First she attempts to get you, and then she's all over Yamazaki. She's even into girls. You saw how she was all over those lesbians yesterday–" She was cut off by a slap from Sakura, and stumbled back.
"Those are my friends your talking about," Sakura said through clenched teeth. "But of course you wouldn't know about friends, being the bitch you are, would you?"
"I'm going to kill you Kinomoto," Naru said and threw a punch at Sakura. Sakura was hit in the jaw, but being raised in an orphanage and living in some pretty bad places made her recover fast. She lashed back out with a punch to Naru's face and then stomach. She stopped as Naru crashed down to the floor. Just then the teacher walked in.
"What happened here? And Naru why are you lying on the floor? Get up." Mrs. Nami said. Naru picked herself up off the floor and nobody offered an explanation. Then one of Naru's lackey's spoke up after earning a glare from her.
"Mrs. Nami, Kinomoto just attacked Naru for no reason." That caused an uproar.
"No she didn't! It was Naru's fault!" a girl said.
"No I saw Kinomoto hit her first!" a boy said.
"Kinomoto started it!" a girl said.
"Yeah, Kinomoto is dangerous!" a guy said.
"Bull! It was Akimoto's fault!" another boy said.
"Be quiet all of you!" Syaoran shouted. The room stilled. "It's Akimoto's fault. She started it," he stated calmly.
"And who hit who first?" Mrs. Nami asked.
"Sakura hit Akimoto first because Akimoto called her a whore and her friends lesbians."
"She attacked me for no reason, Mrs. Nami. I was just stating the facts!" Naru yelled.
"That's enough! Miss Kinomoto, you shouldn't have hit Miss Akimoto, and you," she pointed at Naru "I do not want to hear such language coming out of anyone's mouth, ever. Both of you go to the office." Sakura looked back at Syaoran and followed Naru out the door.
"This is all your fault you little whore," Naru spat as soon as the door was shut.
"It's your own fault, and don't call me a whore just because Syaoran is my friend and not yours," Sakura replied walking down the hallway.
"You better watch your back from now on Kinomoto, cause I'm going to get rid of you," Naru threatened. However Sakura just laughed.
"That's funny coming from you seeing as how I just kicked your ass," Sakura shot back, laughing.
"You won't be laughing when your getting your ass kicked."
"And who are you going to get to do it since you can't?" Sakura questioned. "Or are you going to gang up on me with all your little lackey's?" Naru didn't say anything. They walked in the office and sat down in one of the chairs.
"Why are you two girls here?" a secretary asked.
"We were sent here for fighting," Sakura said. Just then the principle walked out of his office.
"Kinomoto Sakura and Akimoto Naru, will you please step into my office?" he said and walked back into his office, leaving the door opened a crack. The two girls walked silently into his office. "Miss Kinomoto. I didn't plan to see you back in the office so soon," he said and sat down.
"Umm, I'm sorry, but have we met?" she asked uncertainly.
"Sorry I haven't even introduced myself. I'm Dr. Maehara, the principle of Tomoeda High, and no we haven't met. I saw you yesterday being given your schedule, but before I could talk to you I had a call to take."
"Oh." Was all she said.
"Well then, I got a call from a teacher saying that you two were fighting. Care to explain?" They both started talking at the same time. "Whoa. Hold on, one at a time. Miss Akimoto, please."
Naru straightened up and cleared her throat. "Well I walked into class and saw Syaoran. He had baked me cookies, but Sakura took them from me. I tried to take them back from her, but she hit me. Then she called me a whore and my friends lesbians," she finished. Sakura stared at her in shock. She snapped out of her shock when the principle asked her her side of the story.
"Last night I was over Syaoran's house–," Naru snorted.
"As if he would let you into his house."
"Quiet Akimoto," Dr. Maehara warned.
"Anyway," Sakura started again. "I was over Syaoran's house helping him bake cookies, because he didn't like Meiling's cooking and she wouldn't let him cook until he learned how to bake right because he messed up her birthday cake, and Meiling's cooking is awful he says."
"I don't see what this has to do with the story Miss Kinomoto," Dr. Maehara said.
"Well he brought me some of the cookies that we baked to school this morning. He gave them to me and we were eating them when Akimoto came up and asked Syaoran why he never made her cookies and I said that you wouldn't have wanted one of his cookies before I helped him anyway, and she called me a whore. Syaoran tried to defend me, but then she started making up lies about my friends calling them lesbians because I had hugged them, so I slapped her."
"You shouldn't have done that."
"I know sir. That's when she hit me and then I beat her to the ground. The teacher walked in and sent us to the office."
"That's a lie!" Naru shouted.
"No it's not. I remember you lying on the ground when the teacher walked in. She told you to get up. I think I might have hit you a little to hard if you can't remember," Sakura said with a smile.
"That's enough," Dr. Maehara cut in. He pushed a button on his desk and the secretaries voice sounded.
"Yes Dr. Maehara?"
"Would you please call Li Syaoran to the office?"
"Right away sir." After a few minutes Syaoran walked into the office.
"You called me, sir," he asked.
"Would you please tell me what happened in class today since it seems that you're the cause of it?" Dr. Maehara asked annoyed.
"Sure. I gave Sakura cookies and Akimoto came over asking why I didn't give her any. Sakura said that she wouldn't have wanted any of my cooking before last night anyway, which is true, and Akimoto called her a whore and her friends lesbians. So Sakura slapped her, then Akimoto hit her, then Sakura beat her to the ground," he finished with a smile.
"Alright then Mr. Li, you may go. And you two, I will not tolerate fighting in my school, or that language. You will each serve detention after school today by cleaning the cafeteria and be happy that I'm not suspending you."
"Yes Dr. Maehara," they both said.
"Good now get back to class."
"Yes Dr. Maehara," they both said again and started walking back to class.
//I hope that today isn't going to be one of those days...//
To Be Continued...
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So let's recap the chapter. Sakura has helped Syaoran master the art of baking cookies, supposedly saw someone lurking out of her window, got in a fight with Naru, has been given a subtle death threat, has a detention after school to clean up the cafeteria, and is hoping that today won't be 'one of those days'. How fun. Did you like the chapter? Tell me by REVIEWING!!! Yay the people finally get to have their voice heard so let's not miss the opportunity! Come on I'd love for you to put your two cents in. So until next time...
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