I'm sooooo sorry for not updating soon, but I just got my new room and I
had to move everything upstairs(my room is in the attic) and my pc was
disconnected, and also studying cause of exams and I've had to do a project
for almost every class, but that's over now. The science fair is coming up
soon and my group and I have to work hard on our project to see if we win
one of the places, maybe there's hope. Last year my cousin won second place
with a project he handed in 2 weeks late and he did it in school not at
home and it was on yeast called Foamy, everybody including me is like what
the hell is Foamy??? But of course I'm still gonna update for you. If
anyone would like they could read my friend Genesis fanfics or any of her
siblings ff, just go to archery-princess57. Well I'm like 5 months late but
I'll say it anyways hope you all had a happy new years and I hope your
having a good year. Since I haven't updated in a while I made this one
really long. Now unto the story!!
*Thanks to all my reviewers!!*
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Card captor Sakura or Card Captors they belong to a very creative group called CLAMP. I only own the character's I made up.
*~Hearts of Two Weakened Souls~*
Chapter three:
An old friend returns and a painful collision
'Come come on ring just ring' Sakura kept thinking as she looked at the clock intently. It was the last class of the day and it was her least favourite, math.
She kept looking at the clock and wishing for it to just move, it seemed as if every second was a lifetime away.
"Sakura what is the answer to the question?" the question startled Sakura out of her thoughts.
"Huh? Oh, it's umm it's, wait I know this it's..." her answer was interrupted by the ringing of the bell signalling the end of class.
"Oh well look at the time, I guess it's time to leave, well I'll see you tomorrow sensei!" and she rushed to the door 'woo saved by the bell'.
"Kinomto!" Sakura stopped quickly and slowly turned around "Yes sensei?" she asked nervously hoping she didn't have to say the answer because she wasn't paying attention and didn't know the answer.
"You have to tell me the answer as soon as you get here tomorrow"
"Yes sensei" and with this said Sakura quickly left to go and meet Tomoyo at her class.
As she was walking down the hallway to Tomoyo's class which was language arts she was thinking about what the answer could be, she didn't even know the problem so how would she know the answer, 'hmm maybe she could ask Tomoyo what the question was since she had math earlier'.
Sakura was so caught up in her own thoughts that she didn't see the person in front of her,
"Humph," she said as she bumped into someone and dropped all her books.
"Oh, I'm so sorry I wasn't watching where I was going" Sakura quickly said as she bent down to pick up her books,
"It's ok no need to apologise, it was just clumsy old me who wasn't looking where he was going" Sakura slowly looked up to meet sea green eyes glistening with joy and a smile that held beautiful pearly white teeth in a perfect straight row.
'Those eyes look so familiar' thought Sakura as she got up and looked the person up and down before she recognised who it was.
"Hey Nihiro!! Wow!! I haven't seen you in a while, where have you been?!!" Sakura anxiously asked as she saw one of her friends that she hadn't seen in a long time,
"Well, my dad got a new job but it was in Europe so we had to move there. I was very angry with my dad cause I didn't want to leave all my friends and start all over, but off course if your only 14 years old how would your parents listen to you and actually quit their job just because I lost friends" he said all of this in one single breath
"But you didn't even tell me, the last I saw of you was that day we went to the summer festival and then you lost contact?" She had been worried when Nihiro didn't call her or any of his other friends for a few days.
"Oh that's weird, I told your brother that I was leaving and if he could tell you that I was leaving and that I was going to miss all of you guys very much?"
Sakura as dense as she was just thought that her brother had forgot, but the real truth was that he had remembered but had kept it a secret.
"Oh well that's good, I thought something bad had happened to you, but after a while I thought you got mad at me for some reason and left to another town without telling me?"
Nihiro just sweat dropped and said, "Oh yea, I would leave a town and never tell you just because I was mad at you. You know what Sakura? You think too much" Sakura just looked at him with a confused expression.
Nihiro didn't want to confuse Sakura anymore so he decided to change the subject, "So umm where are the other guys?"
"Oh, Tomoyo and Eriol? Hoe!! They're probably waiting for me!!" Sakura cried as she remembered that she was supposed to meet Tomoyo and Eriol about 20 minutes ago.
"Come on!! We have to hurry or they'll leave us!" She said this as she started to run towards her locker with Nihiro behind her.
She got to her locker and quickly unpacked her books and packed the books she needed and got her lunch, jacket, and skates.
When she was done she was about to start running to the exit but when she turned around she saw that Nihiro was nowhere in sight, "Wha?" she asked to no one in particular.
"Nihiro! Nihiro-kun!! Where'd you go?!!" She screamed louder into the empty halls hoping to find Nihiro, but all she heard was her own voice bouncing off the walls.
"Hey, were you calling me?"
"Ahhhhhh!!!" Sakura screamed as she turned around to find Nihiro with a bag of chips in his hands.
"Oh, sorry did I scare you?"
"No its ok I was just surprised I thought there was no one here since you left me all alone and then I couldn't find you"
"Oh, I'm sorry I got hungry and I went looking for some food and I was lucky enough to come across a snack machine, but the stupid contraption ate about two of my dollars that I used to buy a chocolate bar, but it never came out, so I got chips" he said happily as he took another handful of chips and put them in his mouth.
"Want some?" he asked politely since he didn't want to look rude eating in front of her.
"No thanks, I'm still full from lunch" Sakura said as she rolled her eyes and headed back to her locker to get her stuff.
She then went and grabbed Nihiro's wrist and started sprinting towards the exit.
"Come on, I bet they already left, oh well we could go to my house and call Tomoyo"
Nihiro just nodded and tried to hold unto his bag of chips while being dragged by Sakura.
When Sakura and Nihiro got outside they were surprised to find that Tomoyo and Eriol were still there waiting for Sakura, as Sakura was walking towards them she could hear them arguing
~*~*~*Tomoyo's and Eriol's argument*~*~*~
"Oh come on Tomoyo we've been waiting here for about a half hour, I don't think Sakura is coming" Eriol said in a tired and impatient voice
"Oh come on Eriol, you know Sakura is always late" Tomoyo said trying to defend her not present friend.
"Well yea, but is she always 30 minutes late to get out of school, you know she doesn't like school much, especially since today she had math last period"
"Oh will you just quit it, I'm her friend I shall stay by her side, like she has stayed by my side when I have been in trouble. Besides I bet you she's probably in detention for coming late to class or something along those lines" Tomoyo said in a matter of fact way.
"Well let's hope her detention is over soon, I'm missing my favourite show" Eriol said stubbornly
*~*~*~End of Argument and back to Sakura and Nihiro~*~*~*
"Hey guys!!" Sakura cheerfully greeted her unsuspecting friends
"Hey Saku..." Tomoyo didn't finish greeting Sakura because she saw the boy behind her
"Ooooo, who's the cutie Sakura??" Tomoyo asked anxiously, very curious to know who was the cute guy with Sakura.
"Oh, you guys don't remember him? Remember little boy about 14, scrawny, with braces, and always wore baggy pants and always wore a T-shirt with a hoody on top?"
"Shinoda Nihiro??!!" Eriol asked incredulously
"Oh My God!!! Look at you!!! What happened to the scrawny little boy that we knew back in middle school?!?!" Tomoyo asked just as surprised as Eriol
"Well that little boy has grown up..."
"And gotten much cuter!!" Tomoyo interrupted his sentence to add her own comment
Eriol cleared his throat and looked at Tomoyo, "What did I do???" she asked sounding like an innocent little girl.
"Oh nothing, never mind lets just go and we can catch up on stuff while we walk home" as Eriol finished saying this everyone was already getting their book bags and starting to walk.
Sakura put on her jean jacket and then buckled on her pink and white skates that she had gotten for her birthday; she then skated up to the other teens that were ahead of her.
"So Nihiro why did you leave so suddenly?" asked Eriol who still didn't know why Nihiro had left
"Well like I was telling Sakura my dad got a job in Europe and we moved there, but the company got closed and we moved back her to Japan where he will find another job, we're staying at my aunts house who lives here in Tomoeda"
Nihiro kept talking to Eriol about his adventures in Europe while Sakura and Tomoyo fell back and started their own conversation.
"Wouldn't it be exciting to be able to tour Europe?" Tomoyo went into a dazed look for a few minutes imagining what places she would visit and how much fun she would have.
"Hello, earth to Tomoyo" Sakura said as she waved her hand in front of Tomoyo's face, "Huh? Oh, sorry I got dazed out for a second there."
Tomoyo then looked up front and noticed that Nihiro had looked back and smiled before he turned back around to continue talking to Eriol, she then looked at Sakura and saw that she was also smiling at him.
"Hey Sakura, remember when you had that crush on Nihiro?" Tomoyo asked Sakura
"Yea" Sakura said as her cheeks became warm
"I think that was cute, do you still like him?"
"Come on Tomoyo it's been two years, of course I wouldn't like him"
"Well you never know, feelings can change" Tomoyo said softly and then kept walking as Sakura got slower and slower until she stopped and was just staring straight ahead at Nihiro's back.
'Tomoyo was right Nihiro has changed. He isn't the scrawny little 14 year old, he's more built and isn't skinny anymore. He towers over me at 6'1" and I'm only 5'5". His tangled light brown locks aren't dismantled tresses anymore but short spikes. His braces are off and people can admire his pearly white teeth better and to my surprise he dresses much better, he looks kinda cute standing there with his khaki slacks and T-shirt with a blue polo on top and some leather Tims. But his greatest feature no matter what will always be his eyes; they're a beautiful sea green with a tint of blue in the middle. They always held such joy and fascination for every little thing, but even as great as he might look and how much he could have changed in the last two years he is still the sweet caring boy I knew a long time ago.'
"Hey Sakura!! What you doing all the way back there, come over her we got something to tell you!!"
Sakura was startled out of her thoughts as she heard someone calling her, she got out of her dazed state and looked up to find that Nihiro was calling her from two blocks away.
'Oh my, was I thinking that much to have stayed so far behind?' she heard her name again and looked up to see that Tomoyo was calling her this time.
She quickly straightened herself and started skating at lightning speed towards the group.
*~*~*~With the group~*~*~*
They were talking about what had happened over the last two years and how much each one of them had changed and how the town itself had changed and how different it looked from the towns in Europe.
They were enjoying their conversation just remembering the good times when Eriol came up with an idea to get closer with each other and to fill the missing gaps of the last years and also to show Nihiro how different Tomoeda looked they would invite him to the amusement park then at midnight they would watch the fireworks under the blossoming cherry trees.
Everybody thought it was a great idea, they planned on going this Saturday and since it was Thursday it wouldn't be too far away and it would give them time to get everything ready.
They all agreed, but they still needed to ask Sakura to see if she liked the idea.
"Hey, speaking of Sakura where is she?" asked a confused Eriol
nobody had heard a single word from Sakura for the past 15 minutes, they all looked around for her but then Nihiro spotted her about two blocks away just standing there with her head down looking at the floor.
"Hey Sakura!! What you doing all the way back there, come over her we got something to tell you!!" Nihiro screamed at the top of his lungs to see if she heard him
They all looked at her when she looked up and then went back to staring at the ground This time it was Tomoyo who screamed even louder at Sakura to hurry up and get over to them because they had some exciting news.
Then they all watched as Sakura started skating very very rapidly towards them, that's when they spotted Li on the other block walking straight towards Sakura. He couldn't see her because he was walking with his head down staring at the ground and his bangs were covering his face.
All three of them started screaming at the top of their lungs at the two teenagers who were about to collide.
*~*~*~End of the group and now with Syaoran~*~*~*
Syaoran stayed after school so he could explore it on his own and he signed up for some extra after school activities; he had signed up for soccer and for instrumental class where he would learn to play the guitar.
'This school is more interesting than I thought' thought Syaoran as he walked home.
He then heard some screaming 'ugh this sure is a noisy town, I have a terrible headache and I don't need more noise to make it even worse' he said as he quickened his pace to get home faster and into the silence of his room
"Syaoran!!!" that's when he heard his name being screamed out and looked up to see that it was Daidouji, Hiiragizawa, and some other boy screaming at him,
He saw that they were pointing to the other side of the street that he was on. Syaoran didn't really get what they were trying to say until he got to the corner and looked at where they were pointing to see that Sakura was heading straight for him and if she didn't stop soon they would crash.
Syaoran's eyes went wide as Sakura skidded and crashed straight into him sending both unto the floor, they did a few tumbles until both landed sprawled on the floor next to each other.
*~*~*~ Sakura's POV~*~*~*
Sakura was racing over to her friends when she heard them screaming even louder, she thought they were calling for her and telling her to skate faster.
And that was exactly what she did; she picked up her speed heading faster towards the small group.
All of a sudden a person appeared at the corner, he or she turned and she saw that it was Syaoran standing there.
She saw the fright in his eyes as they widened and the fright rising in herself. She tried to stop but she was going too fast. She tried to use her breaks but they rubbed with the sidewalk and they burned as the friction got higher, Sakura smelt burned rubber and stopped using her breaks.
She then tripped forward and while trying to gain her balance crashed into Syaoran sending both teens into painful contact with the sidewalk.
*~* ~*~Author's POV~*~*~*
Tomoyo, Eriol, and Nihiro watched in horror as both teens landed in the middle of the street.
They rushed to them to check if they were okay. "Are you okay?" all three teens asked with worry evident in their voices. They both just laid there sprawled on the hard concrete.
Syaoran got up and rubbed his head, he felt woozy and his head felt like it had been smashed against a wall. His limbs hurt as he struggled to get up and fix himself. He grabbed the first thing that he felt and pulled himself up using it for support.
He closed his eyes and waited for the dizziness to subside, he felt like crying, but held his tears in. He hadn't taken a great fall, but when they crashed into each other they both fell towards his side and he became the mat on which Sakura landed and then they tumbled until it came to an end.
He looked down to find Sakura half sitting on the floor rubbing her head.
"Oh my god!!! Are you okay?!" he heard voices yell from behind him. He turned to find the same three people he had seen a few minutes ago trying to warn him of what was going to happen.
He inhaled a deep breath and took a big gulp, "Yea, at least I am" he said and looked down towards Sakura. He held his hand out to her and helped her get up.
"Wow you guys took quite a fall!" Eriol said, "Yea, are you sure you're alright?" Tomoyo asked her voice full of concern.
"No it's ok, I'll survive" Syaoran said, "Yea me too, don't worry Tomoyo it was just a little fall" Sakura said with some glee in her voice. "So enough about us, what were you guys calling me for?" Sakura asked trying to change the subject and lighten up the moment.
"Well we have some exciting news!!" Tomoyo enthusiastically said, "We thought oh well since Nihiro hasn't been here for the longest time we decided to go to the amusement park this Saturday!" she finished in one breath.
"Wow that would be great" Sakura said with eagerness. She then looked to the side and saw Syaoran looking confused, he then put his head back down and was about to leave when Sakura grabbed his arm.
"Wait! How can I be so rude" she said to Syaoran while pulling him towards her friends, "I don't think you've met Nihiro yet" she said and smiled at him. She dragged Syaoran back to her friends and introduced him to Nihiro.
"Nice to meet you" Nihiro said with a grand smile, "Yea, same here" Syaoran said less enthusiastically and he carefully looked Nihiro up and down. "Well now you guys know each other, that's great" Sakura said happily, "Wow, look at the time!" Nihiro said worriedly. "I better get home, I had promised my mom that I would come home straight after school and help her unpack" he said quickly.
"Oh ok, well you better get going we wouldn't want you to get in trouble" Tomoyo replied.
"Yea I better get going, I'll see you all tomorrow" and with this said he gave them all a smile and left on a sprint towards his house.
"Well I better get going, too" Eriol said a few minutes after Nihiro left, "Yea me too" said Tomoyo after Eriol.
"Bye Sakura I'll call you tonight k? Bye Li, seeya guys tomorrow" and with this said Tomoyo and Eriol left leaving Sakura and Syaoran alone, once again.
"Ok, well I better get going too" Syaoran said quietly and was about to leave when Sakura grabbed his arm, "Wait, I want to ask you something" she said and Syaoran turned his attention to her.
"I was wondering if you want to go with us to the amusement park on Saturday" Sakura asked in a quiet voice, "I don't know I might be busy and besides isn't only you four friends catching up?" he said, "Well you can come and all five of us can get to know each other better" Sakura said in a hopeful voice.
Syaoran felt a little pressured to say yes because of her innocent hopeful voice, but he wouldn't give in. "I'll think about it" he said and then smiled before he said goodbye and left.
"Ok" Sakura said to no one in particular and she started walking home. It was starting to get dark and Sakura wrapped her jean jacket tighter on her frail body as a cool wind hurled through the quiet town of Tomoeda.
She got home and expected to be greeted by a big hug from her brother, but instead got a yell from Touya. "Oh my god!!! Sakura where have you been, you had me worried all afternoon!! Do you even know what time it is?!" Touya screamed at Sakura.
"Take a chill pill" Sakura said, she knew it sounded cliché but she couldn't think of anything else. "What does that mean?!" Touya asked back sounding insulted.
Sakura rolled her eyes and decided to go up to her room "Where do you think you're going?!" Touya said as she was half way up the stairs.
"Did you know that Shinoda Nihiro came back?" Sakura asked interested in his response, "Oh that kid? I thought he left to Europe" he said without thinking. "Oh, so you did know where Nihiro had gone?!" Sakura asked bewildered.
"Why didn't you tell me?!" Sakura yelled at him angrily "Well I never liked the kid and I don't' think he was good for you" Touya said trying to defend himself. "Oh my god, Touya!! You are helpless one of these days I'm going to run away and see what you do, can't you accept my friends?! Sakura yelled and stomped up the rest of the stairs to her room.
"You better not run away, or I'll chase you myself!" Touya screamed up the stairs as he heard her bedroom door slam and he headed back to the living room to watch T.V.
~*~*~ Sakura's Room~*~*~
Sakura slammed her bedroom door shut and locked the door. She was very mad that her brother had lied to her about one of her best friends. She felt betrayed and alone, ok well maybe that was a little sarcastic, but she did feel mad.
She jumped on her comfortable bed and grabbed her soft pink satin sheets she pulled them up to her face and smelled the sweet scent of springtime lilies or daffodils, which was how the detergent her dad used to wash her clothes and sheets smelled like.
She closed her eyes enjoying the dark atmosphere and hearing the wind howling outside her window. She was close to sleep when the phone rang and she was startled awake.
"Hello" she answered tiredly "Hey!" responded a cheery voice, "Oh sorry did I wake you up?" the voice on the other line said "No it's ok Tomoyo I'm fine"
"So what are you doing" Tomoyo asked "Nothing I just had a fight with my stupid pain is the ass brother, my god do you know what he did?!" Sakura asked
"What did he do this time?" Tomoyo asked unsurprisingly, she had always heard about Touya doing all these bad things to Sakura, so she was used to it.
"Well remember when Nihiro said that he had told Touya about him going away and for him to tell me, well guess what?" Sakura said getting angry just thinking about her brother. "What did he do?" Tomoyo asked again with a little more interest "Well the stupid baka kept the message a secret from me and never told me until now. "Oh my, that wasn't nice, how can he hide you from your own best friends?" Tomoyo asked not believing the level that Touya had stooped to.
"Well too bad cause he did, and I told him if he keeps bothering me that I'm going to run away" Sakura said a laugh was heard from the other side "You run away? I don't think that'll happen any time soon." Tomoyo replied "Hmmm, well maybe not, but you never know" Sakura said in a mysterious voice.
"Ok, well unto other things" Tomoyo said trying to change the subject "I can't wait until Saturday, it's going to be so much fun!" Tomoyo eagerly said "Oh yea, speaking of Saturday, I umm I kinda invited Li to the amusement park" Sakura said uneasily afraid of Tomoyo's reaction. "Oh you did, when?" asked Tomoyo a bit confused yet intrigued "Well after you guys left I felt bad that he was all unfamiliar with what we were talking about and I felt like we had left him out" Sakura said uneasily.
"Oh ok, he is a friend, right? And he should be included, and maybe we can learn more about him" Tomoyo said happily and Sakura let out a relieved sigh "Ok" she said.
"Sakura!! Sakura!!" someone shouted her name and then came knocks on her door Sakura thought it was Touya and excused herself from the phone and screamed at the person behind the door "Go away Touya!! Why don't you go rot in he..." Sakura didn't finish talking because she was interrupted by the person behind the door.
"Sakura! It's dad, wash up for dinner, ok, oh and can you please get off the phone I'm expecting a student to call" "Yes dad!" Sakura called back.
"Sorry Tomoyo I have to go, I'll talk to you tomorrow"
"Bye" they each said to each other and then Sakura hanged up the phone.
She went into the bathroom and washed her hands which were scraped from the fall she took in the afternoon, they stung from the soap, but they were clean and safe from infection. Sakura washed her face and changed from her uniform into some grey slacks and a red tank top.
She put on her fluffy pink slippers and made her way into the kitchen where her dad was finishing up dinner and Touya was washing the dishes. "Oh there you are Sakura, can you please set up the table" her dad told her and Sakura obediently nodded her head and went over to the wooden cabinet to take some plates, silverware, napkins, and cups out and set them on the table.
She neatly set the table and helped her dad serve the food. They all soon sat down together at the table and did a little prayer before they ate.
Dinner went by fast and they only had small talk since Sakura was still mad at Touya, so most of the time it was just Touya and their dad who talked about business matters.
Sakura finished her dinner and excused herself since her brother and father were still eating. She washed her plate and thanked her dad for the wonderful dinner.
She made her way upstairs and did her homework which took awhile since she had double math homework because they were talking in class and she had to write a three page essay on an author and on their background and literary works.
She had started at seven and had finished at nine, she was exhausted from the rough day and made her way into the bathroom.
She filled the tub with warm water and then put bubbles and scented oil into the bubble bath. The hot vapour was already cooling her tense muscles as she got ready to get into the tub. She slowly stuck her foot in and then her whole body, her knees, elbows, and hands stung from the scrapes and cuts she had from the skating accident, but she didn't care she just enjoyed her bath.
She washed herself and then just relaxed and soaked in the water. She didn't know how long she had stayed in there, but by the time she had stepped out of the bathtub and put on her pale pink robe and wrapped her hair in a fluffy white towel the warm water had turned cold and the once fluffy and lightweight bubbles had settled down and were becoming part of the water.
She brushed her teeth and then opened the door to be greeted with cold air that cooled her hot face and the hot vapour made its way slowly out the door.
Sakura made her way to her room which was only two doors down from the bathroom. She got to her room and closed and locked her door. She put on some black boxers and a silk pale blue tank top. She put on some special creams in her hair to keep it straight and frizz free, then she blow dried it. She looked at the time and saw that it was already 11p.m. she quickly got her uniform ready and put it on her computer chair.
She turned off the lights and slipped into her warm covers. She felt a cool breeze blow in from her open window and she slowly closed her eyes and fell into a deep slumber.
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YAY!!!! I finally finished!! Wow this chapter was 12 pages, that's 6 more pages than my last chapter and I was gonna make it longer, but I cut it short. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Hmmmm I wonder what Nihiro will have to do with the plan in the future. The next chapter will come out soon cause I already have it planned and I have it written I just need to type it. I am planning on making another story called either 'Tainted Soul' or 'Cries of the Heart'
This is the summary:
Sakura's lived with the horrible memories of her family's murder her whole life. She takes her pain on her self, but what if a certain boy tries to help her. Will she accept him and let him heal her wounds?
~*~*~*~*~ Ok well tell me what you all think of my current story and about my new one I'm making. If you have any comments or suggestions on my current story or my new story feel free to tell me in you reviews. You can suggest a title or send ideas of what could happen in the future and how Sakura can possibly find out about Syaoran's plans. Feedback is appreciated and all kinds of reviews are welcomed. Remember the more reviews I get the happier I am, the happier I am the more I type, the more I type the more updates, more updates equal more chapters. This is like a cycle, lots of reviews equals a happy author, a happy author equals more chapters, more chapters equal a happy audience, are you kinda getting this? Lol ok I'll shut up now, jus remember to REVIEW!!! ^_~
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Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Card captor Sakura or Card Captors they belong to a very creative group called CLAMP. I only own the character's I made up.
*~Hearts of Two Weakened Souls~*
Chapter three:
An old friend returns and a painful collision
'Come come on ring just ring' Sakura kept thinking as she looked at the clock intently. It was the last class of the day and it was her least favourite, math.
She kept looking at the clock and wishing for it to just move, it seemed as if every second was a lifetime away.
"Sakura what is the answer to the question?" the question startled Sakura out of her thoughts.
"Huh? Oh, it's umm it's, wait I know this it's..." her answer was interrupted by the ringing of the bell signalling the end of class.
"Oh well look at the time, I guess it's time to leave, well I'll see you tomorrow sensei!" and she rushed to the door 'woo saved by the bell'.
"Kinomto!" Sakura stopped quickly and slowly turned around "Yes sensei?" she asked nervously hoping she didn't have to say the answer because she wasn't paying attention and didn't know the answer.
"You have to tell me the answer as soon as you get here tomorrow"
"Yes sensei" and with this said Sakura quickly left to go and meet Tomoyo at her class.
As she was walking down the hallway to Tomoyo's class which was language arts she was thinking about what the answer could be, she didn't even know the problem so how would she know the answer, 'hmm maybe she could ask Tomoyo what the question was since she had math earlier'.
Sakura was so caught up in her own thoughts that she didn't see the person in front of her,
"Humph," she said as she bumped into someone and dropped all her books.
"Oh, I'm so sorry I wasn't watching where I was going" Sakura quickly said as she bent down to pick up her books,
"It's ok no need to apologise, it was just clumsy old me who wasn't looking where he was going" Sakura slowly looked up to meet sea green eyes glistening with joy and a smile that held beautiful pearly white teeth in a perfect straight row.
'Those eyes look so familiar' thought Sakura as she got up and looked the person up and down before she recognised who it was.
"Hey Nihiro!! Wow!! I haven't seen you in a while, where have you been?!!" Sakura anxiously asked as she saw one of her friends that she hadn't seen in a long time,
"Well, my dad got a new job but it was in Europe so we had to move there. I was very angry with my dad cause I didn't want to leave all my friends and start all over, but off course if your only 14 years old how would your parents listen to you and actually quit their job just because I lost friends" he said all of this in one single breath
"But you didn't even tell me, the last I saw of you was that day we went to the summer festival and then you lost contact?" She had been worried when Nihiro didn't call her or any of his other friends for a few days.
"Oh that's weird, I told your brother that I was leaving and if he could tell you that I was leaving and that I was going to miss all of you guys very much?"
Sakura as dense as she was just thought that her brother had forgot, but the real truth was that he had remembered but had kept it a secret.
"Oh well that's good, I thought something bad had happened to you, but after a while I thought you got mad at me for some reason and left to another town without telling me?"
Nihiro just sweat dropped and said, "Oh yea, I would leave a town and never tell you just because I was mad at you. You know what Sakura? You think too much" Sakura just looked at him with a confused expression.
Nihiro didn't want to confuse Sakura anymore so he decided to change the subject, "So umm where are the other guys?"
"Oh, Tomoyo and Eriol? Hoe!! They're probably waiting for me!!" Sakura cried as she remembered that she was supposed to meet Tomoyo and Eriol about 20 minutes ago.
"Come on!! We have to hurry or they'll leave us!" She said this as she started to run towards her locker with Nihiro behind her.
She got to her locker and quickly unpacked her books and packed the books she needed and got her lunch, jacket, and skates.
When she was done she was about to start running to the exit but when she turned around she saw that Nihiro was nowhere in sight, "Wha?" she asked to no one in particular.
"Nihiro! Nihiro-kun!! Where'd you go?!!" She screamed louder into the empty halls hoping to find Nihiro, but all she heard was her own voice bouncing off the walls.
"Hey, were you calling me?"
"Ahhhhhh!!!" Sakura screamed as she turned around to find Nihiro with a bag of chips in his hands.
"Oh, sorry did I scare you?"
"No its ok I was just surprised I thought there was no one here since you left me all alone and then I couldn't find you"
"Oh, I'm sorry I got hungry and I went looking for some food and I was lucky enough to come across a snack machine, but the stupid contraption ate about two of my dollars that I used to buy a chocolate bar, but it never came out, so I got chips" he said happily as he took another handful of chips and put them in his mouth.
"Want some?" he asked politely since he didn't want to look rude eating in front of her.
"No thanks, I'm still full from lunch" Sakura said as she rolled her eyes and headed back to her locker to get her stuff.
She then went and grabbed Nihiro's wrist and started sprinting towards the exit.
"Come on, I bet they already left, oh well we could go to my house and call Tomoyo"
Nihiro just nodded and tried to hold unto his bag of chips while being dragged by Sakura.
When Sakura and Nihiro got outside they were surprised to find that Tomoyo and Eriol were still there waiting for Sakura, as Sakura was walking towards them she could hear them arguing
~*~*~*Tomoyo's and Eriol's argument*~*~*~
"Oh come on Tomoyo we've been waiting here for about a half hour, I don't think Sakura is coming" Eriol said in a tired and impatient voice
"Oh come on Eriol, you know Sakura is always late" Tomoyo said trying to defend her not present friend.
"Well yea, but is she always 30 minutes late to get out of school, you know she doesn't like school much, especially since today she had math last period"
"Oh will you just quit it, I'm her friend I shall stay by her side, like she has stayed by my side when I have been in trouble. Besides I bet you she's probably in detention for coming late to class or something along those lines" Tomoyo said in a matter of fact way.
"Well let's hope her detention is over soon, I'm missing my favourite show" Eriol said stubbornly
*~*~*~End of Argument and back to Sakura and Nihiro~*~*~*
"Hey guys!!" Sakura cheerfully greeted her unsuspecting friends
"Hey Saku..." Tomoyo didn't finish greeting Sakura because she saw the boy behind her
"Ooooo, who's the cutie Sakura??" Tomoyo asked anxiously, very curious to know who was the cute guy with Sakura.
"Oh, you guys don't remember him? Remember little boy about 14, scrawny, with braces, and always wore baggy pants and always wore a T-shirt with a hoody on top?"
"Shinoda Nihiro??!!" Eriol asked incredulously
"Oh My God!!! Look at you!!! What happened to the scrawny little boy that we knew back in middle school?!?!" Tomoyo asked just as surprised as Eriol
"Well that little boy has grown up..."
"And gotten much cuter!!" Tomoyo interrupted his sentence to add her own comment
Eriol cleared his throat and looked at Tomoyo, "What did I do???" she asked sounding like an innocent little girl.
"Oh nothing, never mind lets just go and we can catch up on stuff while we walk home" as Eriol finished saying this everyone was already getting their book bags and starting to walk.
Sakura put on her jean jacket and then buckled on her pink and white skates that she had gotten for her birthday; she then skated up to the other teens that were ahead of her.
"So Nihiro why did you leave so suddenly?" asked Eriol who still didn't know why Nihiro had left
"Well like I was telling Sakura my dad got a job in Europe and we moved there, but the company got closed and we moved back her to Japan where he will find another job, we're staying at my aunts house who lives here in Tomoeda"
Nihiro kept talking to Eriol about his adventures in Europe while Sakura and Tomoyo fell back and started their own conversation.
"Wouldn't it be exciting to be able to tour Europe?" Tomoyo went into a dazed look for a few minutes imagining what places she would visit and how much fun she would have.
"Hello, earth to Tomoyo" Sakura said as she waved her hand in front of Tomoyo's face, "Huh? Oh, sorry I got dazed out for a second there."
Tomoyo then looked up front and noticed that Nihiro had looked back and smiled before he turned back around to continue talking to Eriol, she then looked at Sakura and saw that she was also smiling at him.
"Hey Sakura, remember when you had that crush on Nihiro?" Tomoyo asked Sakura
"Yea" Sakura said as her cheeks became warm
"I think that was cute, do you still like him?"
"Come on Tomoyo it's been two years, of course I wouldn't like him"
"Well you never know, feelings can change" Tomoyo said softly and then kept walking as Sakura got slower and slower until she stopped and was just staring straight ahead at Nihiro's back.
'Tomoyo was right Nihiro has changed. He isn't the scrawny little 14 year old, he's more built and isn't skinny anymore. He towers over me at 6'1" and I'm only 5'5". His tangled light brown locks aren't dismantled tresses anymore but short spikes. His braces are off and people can admire his pearly white teeth better and to my surprise he dresses much better, he looks kinda cute standing there with his khaki slacks and T-shirt with a blue polo on top and some leather Tims. But his greatest feature no matter what will always be his eyes; they're a beautiful sea green with a tint of blue in the middle. They always held such joy and fascination for every little thing, but even as great as he might look and how much he could have changed in the last two years he is still the sweet caring boy I knew a long time ago.'
"Hey Sakura!! What you doing all the way back there, come over her we got something to tell you!!"
Sakura was startled out of her thoughts as she heard someone calling her, she got out of her dazed state and looked up to find that Nihiro was calling her from two blocks away.
'Oh my, was I thinking that much to have stayed so far behind?' she heard her name again and looked up to see that Tomoyo was calling her this time.
She quickly straightened herself and started skating at lightning speed towards the group.
*~*~*~With the group~*~*~*
They were talking about what had happened over the last two years and how much each one of them had changed and how the town itself had changed and how different it looked from the towns in Europe.
They were enjoying their conversation just remembering the good times when Eriol came up with an idea to get closer with each other and to fill the missing gaps of the last years and also to show Nihiro how different Tomoeda looked they would invite him to the amusement park then at midnight they would watch the fireworks under the blossoming cherry trees.
Everybody thought it was a great idea, they planned on going this Saturday and since it was Thursday it wouldn't be too far away and it would give them time to get everything ready.
They all agreed, but they still needed to ask Sakura to see if she liked the idea.
"Hey, speaking of Sakura where is she?" asked a confused Eriol
nobody had heard a single word from Sakura for the past 15 minutes, they all looked around for her but then Nihiro spotted her about two blocks away just standing there with her head down looking at the floor.
"Hey Sakura!! What you doing all the way back there, come over her we got something to tell you!!" Nihiro screamed at the top of his lungs to see if she heard him
They all looked at her when she looked up and then went back to staring at the ground This time it was Tomoyo who screamed even louder at Sakura to hurry up and get over to them because they had some exciting news.
Then they all watched as Sakura started skating very very rapidly towards them, that's when they spotted Li on the other block walking straight towards Sakura. He couldn't see her because he was walking with his head down staring at the ground and his bangs were covering his face.
All three of them started screaming at the top of their lungs at the two teenagers who were about to collide.
*~*~*~End of the group and now with Syaoran~*~*~*
Syaoran stayed after school so he could explore it on his own and he signed up for some extra after school activities; he had signed up for soccer and for instrumental class where he would learn to play the guitar.
'This school is more interesting than I thought' thought Syaoran as he walked home.
He then heard some screaming 'ugh this sure is a noisy town, I have a terrible headache and I don't need more noise to make it even worse' he said as he quickened his pace to get home faster and into the silence of his room
"Syaoran!!!" that's when he heard his name being screamed out and looked up to see that it was Daidouji, Hiiragizawa, and some other boy screaming at him,
He saw that they were pointing to the other side of the street that he was on. Syaoran didn't really get what they were trying to say until he got to the corner and looked at where they were pointing to see that Sakura was heading straight for him and if she didn't stop soon they would crash.
Syaoran's eyes went wide as Sakura skidded and crashed straight into him sending both unto the floor, they did a few tumbles until both landed sprawled on the floor next to each other.
*~*~*~ Sakura's POV~*~*~*
Sakura was racing over to her friends when she heard them screaming even louder, she thought they were calling for her and telling her to skate faster.
And that was exactly what she did; she picked up her speed heading faster towards the small group.
All of a sudden a person appeared at the corner, he or she turned and she saw that it was Syaoran standing there.
She saw the fright in his eyes as they widened and the fright rising in herself. She tried to stop but she was going too fast. She tried to use her breaks but they rubbed with the sidewalk and they burned as the friction got higher, Sakura smelt burned rubber and stopped using her breaks.
She then tripped forward and while trying to gain her balance crashed into Syaoran sending both teens into painful contact with the sidewalk.
*~* ~*~Author's POV~*~*~*
Tomoyo, Eriol, and Nihiro watched in horror as both teens landed in the middle of the street.
They rushed to them to check if they were okay. "Are you okay?" all three teens asked with worry evident in their voices. They both just laid there sprawled on the hard concrete.
Syaoran got up and rubbed his head, he felt woozy and his head felt like it had been smashed against a wall. His limbs hurt as he struggled to get up and fix himself. He grabbed the first thing that he felt and pulled himself up using it for support.
He closed his eyes and waited for the dizziness to subside, he felt like crying, but held his tears in. He hadn't taken a great fall, but when they crashed into each other they both fell towards his side and he became the mat on which Sakura landed and then they tumbled until it came to an end.
He looked down to find Sakura half sitting on the floor rubbing her head.
"Oh my god!!! Are you okay?!" he heard voices yell from behind him. He turned to find the same three people he had seen a few minutes ago trying to warn him of what was going to happen.
He inhaled a deep breath and took a big gulp, "Yea, at least I am" he said and looked down towards Sakura. He held his hand out to her and helped her get up.
"Wow you guys took quite a fall!" Eriol said, "Yea, are you sure you're alright?" Tomoyo asked her voice full of concern.
"No it's ok, I'll survive" Syaoran said, "Yea me too, don't worry Tomoyo it was just a little fall" Sakura said with some glee in her voice. "So enough about us, what were you guys calling me for?" Sakura asked trying to change the subject and lighten up the moment.
"Well we have some exciting news!!" Tomoyo enthusiastically said, "We thought oh well since Nihiro hasn't been here for the longest time we decided to go to the amusement park this Saturday!" she finished in one breath.
"Wow that would be great" Sakura said with eagerness. She then looked to the side and saw Syaoran looking confused, he then put his head back down and was about to leave when Sakura grabbed his arm.
"Wait! How can I be so rude" she said to Syaoran while pulling him towards her friends, "I don't think you've met Nihiro yet" she said and smiled at him. She dragged Syaoran back to her friends and introduced him to Nihiro.
"Nice to meet you" Nihiro said with a grand smile, "Yea, same here" Syaoran said less enthusiastically and he carefully looked Nihiro up and down. "Well now you guys know each other, that's great" Sakura said happily, "Wow, look at the time!" Nihiro said worriedly. "I better get home, I had promised my mom that I would come home straight after school and help her unpack" he said quickly.
"Oh ok, well you better get going we wouldn't want you to get in trouble" Tomoyo replied.
"Yea I better get going, I'll see you all tomorrow" and with this said he gave them all a smile and left on a sprint towards his house.
"Well I better get going, too" Eriol said a few minutes after Nihiro left, "Yea me too" said Tomoyo after Eriol.
"Bye Sakura I'll call you tonight k? Bye Li, seeya guys tomorrow" and with this said Tomoyo and Eriol left leaving Sakura and Syaoran alone, once again.
"Ok, well I better get going too" Syaoran said quietly and was about to leave when Sakura grabbed his arm, "Wait, I want to ask you something" she said and Syaoran turned his attention to her.
"I was wondering if you want to go with us to the amusement park on Saturday" Sakura asked in a quiet voice, "I don't know I might be busy and besides isn't only you four friends catching up?" he said, "Well you can come and all five of us can get to know each other better" Sakura said in a hopeful voice.
Syaoran felt a little pressured to say yes because of her innocent hopeful voice, but he wouldn't give in. "I'll think about it" he said and then smiled before he said goodbye and left.
"Ok" Sakura said to no one in particular and she started walking home. It was starting to get dark and Sakura wrapped her jean jacket tighter on her frail body as a cool wind hurled through the quiet town of Tomoeda.
She got home and expected to be greeted by a big hug from her brother, but instead got a yell from Touya. "Oh my god!!! Sakura where have you been, you had me worried all afternoon!! Do you even know what time it is?!" Touya screamed at Sakura.
"Take a chill pill" Sakura said, she knew it sounded cliché but she couldn't think of anything else. "What does that mean?!" Touya asked back sounding insulted.
Sakura rolled her eyes and decided to go up to her room "Where do you think you're going?!" Touya said as she was half way up the stairs.
"Did you know that Shinoda Nihiro came back?" Sakura asked interested in his response, "Oh that kid? I thought he left to Europe" he said without thinking. "Oh, so you did know where Nihiro had gone?!" Sakura asked bewildered.
"Why didn't you tell me?!" Sakura yelled at him angrily "Well I never liked the kid and I don't' think he was good for you" Touya said trying to defend himself. "Oh my god, Touya!! You are helpless one of these days I'm going to run away and see what you do, can't you accept my friends?! Sakura yelled and stomped up the rest of the stairs to her room.
"You better not run away, or I'll chase you myself!" Touya screamed up the stairs as he heard her bedroom door slam and he headed back to the living room to watch T.V.
~*~*~ Sakura's Room~*~*~
Sakura slammed her bedroom door shut and locked the door. She was very mad that her brother had lied to her about one of her best friends. She felt betrayed and alone, ok well maybe that was a little sarcastic, but she did feel mad.
She jumped on her comfortable bed and grabbed her soft pink satin sheets she pulled them up to her face and smelled the sweet scent of springtime lilies or daffodils, which was how the detergent her dad used to wash her clothes and sheets smelled like.
She closed her eyes enjoying the dark atmosphere and hearing the wind howling outside her window. She was close to sleep when the phone rang and she was startled awake.
"Hello" she answered tiredly "Hey!" responded a cheery voice, "Oh sorry did I wake you up?" the voice on the other line said "No it's ok Tomoyo I'm fine"
"So what are you doing" Tomoyo asked "Nothing I just had a fight with my stupid pain is the ass brother, my god do you know what he did?!" Sakura asked
"What did he do this time?" Tomoyo asked unsurprisingly, she had always heard about Touya doing all these bad things to Sakura, so she was used to it.
"Well remember when Nihiro said that he had told Touya about him going away and for him to tell me, well guess what?" Sakura said getting angry just thinking about her brother. "What did he do?" Tomoyo asked again with a little more interest "Well the stupid baka kept the message a secret from me and never told me until now. "Oh my, that wasn't nice, how can he hide you from your own best friends?" Tomoyo asked not believing the level that Touya had stooped to.
"Well too bad cause he did, and I told him if he keeps bothering me that I'm going to run away" Sakura said a laugh was heard from the other side "You run away? I don't think that'll happen any time soon." Tomoyo replied "Hmmm, well maybe not, but you never know" Sakura said in a mysterious voice.
"Ok, well unto other things" Tomoyo said trying to change the subject "I can't wait until Saturday, it's going to be so much fun!" Tomoyo eagerly said "Oh yea, speaking of Saturday, I umm I kinda invited Li to the amusement park" Sakura said uneasily afraid of Tomoyo's reaction. "Oh you did, when?" asked Tomoyo a bit confused yet intrigued "Well after you guys left I felt bad that he was all unfamiliar with what we were talking about and I felt like we had left him out" Sakura said uneasily.
"Oh ok, he is a friend, right? And he should be included, and maybe we can learn more about him" Tomoyo said happily and Sakura let out a relieved sigh "Ok" she said.
"Sakura!! Sakura!!" someone shouted her name and then came knocks on her door Sakura thought it was Touya and excused herself from the phone and screamed at the person behind the door "Go away Touya!! Why don't you go rot in he..." Sakura didn't finish talking because she was interrupted by the person behind the door.
"Sakura! It's dad, wash up for dinner, ok, oh and can you please get off the phone I'm expecting a student to call" "Yes dad!" Sakura called back.
"Sorry Tomoyo I have to go, I'll talk to you tomorrow"
"Bye" they each said to each other and then Sakura hanged up the phone.
She went into the bathroom and washed her hands which were scraped from the fall she took in the afternoon, they stung from the soap, but they were clean and safe from infection. Sakura washed her face and changed from her uniform into some grey slacks and a red tank top.
She put on her fluffy pink slippers and made her way into the kitchen where her dad was finishing up dinner and Touya was washing the dishes. "Oh there you are Sakura, can you please set up the table" her dad told her and Sakura obediently nodded her head and went over to the wooden cabinet to take some plates, silverware, napkins, and cups out and set them on the table.
She neatly set the table and helped her dad serve the food. They all soon sat down together at the table and did a little prayer before they ate.
Dinner went by fast and they only had small talk since Sakura was still mad at Touya, so most of the time it was just Touya and their dad who talked about business matters.
Sakura finished her dinner and excused herself since her brother and father were still eating. She washed her plate and thanked her dad for the wonderful dinner.
She made her way upstairs and did her homework which took awhile since she had double math homework because they were talking in class and she had to write a three page essay on an author and on their background and literary works.
She had started at seven and had finished at nine, she was exhausted from the rough day and made her way into the bathroom.
She filled the tub with warm water and then put bubbles and scented oil into the bubble bath. The hot vapour was already cooling her tense muscles as she got ready to get into the tub. She slowly stuck her foot in and then her whole body, her knees, elbows, and hands stung from the scrapes and cuts she had from the skating accident, but she didn't care she just enjoyed her bath.
She washed herself and then just relaxed and soaked in the water. She didn't know how long she had stayed in there, but by the time she had stepped out of the bathtub and put on her pale pink robe and wrapped her hair in a fluffy white towel the warm water had turned cold and the once fluffy and lightweight bubbles had settled down and were becoming part of the water.
She brushed her teeth and then opened the door to be greeted with cold air that cooled her hot face and the hot vapour made its way slowly out the door.
Sakura made her way to her room which was only two doors down from the bathroom. She got to her room and closed and locked her door. She put on some black boxers and a silk pale blue tank top. She put on some special creams in her hair to keep it straight and frizz free, then she blow dried it. She looked at the time and saw that it was already 11p.m. she quickly got her uniform ready and put it on her computer chair.
She turned off the lights and slipped into her warm covers. She felt a cool breeze blow in from her open window and she slowly closed her eyes and fell into a deep slumber.
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YAY!!!! I finally finished!! Wow this chapter was 12 pages, that's 6 more pages than my last chapter and I was gonna make it longer, but I cut it short. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Hmmmm I wonder what Nihiro will have to do with the plan in the future. The next chapter will come out soon cause I already have it planned and I have it written I just need to type it. I am planning on making another story called either 'Tainted Soul' or 'Cries of the Heart'
This is the summary:
Sakura's lived with the horrible memories of her family's murder her whole life. She takes her pain on her self, but what if a certain boy tries to help her. Will she accept him and let him heal her wounds?
~*~*~*~*~ Ok well tell me what you all think of my current story and about my new one I'm making. If you have any comments or suggestions on my current story or my new story feel free to tell me in you reviews. You can suggest a title or send ideas of what could happen in the future and how Sakura can possibly find out about Syaoran's plans. Feedback is appreciated and all kinds of reviews are welcomed. Remember the more reviews I get the happier I am, the happier I am the more I type, the more I type the more updates, more updates equal more chapters. This is like a cycle, lots of reviews equals a happy author, a happy author equals more chapters, more chapters equal a happy audience, are you kinda getting this? Lol ok I'll shut up now, jus remember to REVIEW!!! ^_~