HELLO PPLZ!!!!!!!!! I'm baaaaaaac! Yay! I'm so happy, my summer vacation started. Hopefully, I can write more since I have more time. Thank u so much for those who reviewed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kawaii Tenshi no Hikari THANK U SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! Ur da only one who told me how to do it. Sniff thank u!!! Hugs I love u!! =P
Jenn arigatou!! So I'm not losing my touch?
fleur137 mou, what do I have to do, to make you happy? Just kidding. Thank you, I'll try harder to make it really long. Yes, it should b gonbare, I was jus being baka and forgot. About the tomodachi thing, tomodachi means friends, tomo tachi means like a groups of friends, like I explained. Tomo is kinda slang for tomodachi. How do I know? I'm Japanese and fluent. Sometimes I make mistakes, but still, I'm fluent.
Cherryblossom-crystal I don't know who your talking about =D Don't worry, it'll b SS; I don't like any other S pairings.
annie dats such a sweet title!!! After I heard of it, I was like, Perfect picture… perfect picture, and I kept building off of it, and I came up with "Anata no Egao" meaning, your smiling face. Which has nothing to do with a picture, but hey, there can be pictures of the smiling faces, right? So thank you!! Your suggestion was wicked helpful.
Cursed-Mind haha I was just doing it to annoy you... no, I felt like ending there since I ran out of ideas. I'll do my best to finish this.
sweet-captor thank you, I liked that chapter too
Note: Where is my favorite reviewer, lil-cb???? Are you there? Are you ok?
Disclaimer: My mother's brother's wife's grandfather's sister's grandnephew's twin sister's aunt's cousin's stepfather's son's third cousin's great-great grandmother's grandson's niece's niece owns card captor & card captor sakura & tsubasa. SO THERE!!! Just kidding... but hey, it MIGHT be true…
I own the made up characters
Ok one more note DID ANY ONE NOTICED THAT I SAID JAPANESE MODEL THEN ENGLISH????????? THAT WAS A MISTAKE THEY ARE ENGLISH MODELS!!!! Ok???????????
Chapter 8
Kurasa's eyes were all round and bulging… same thing for Xiao Lang.
Shane stood dot-eyed.
Silence followed.
"YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" exclaimed Kurasa, yes not Syaoran. (I'm going to use Syaoran and Xiao Lang. They're the same person, so please don't get mixed up.)
Everyone in the room winced, in fact, everyone in the building, no, the country, why stop there? The continent… the world…. the… you get the point.
Syaoran still just stood there, gaping and awestruck at the sight, but soon composed himself.
"Yes, me."
Kurasa's eyes opened wider, if possible. But she too regained her cool.
"It is very nice to meet you again, Mr. LI."
"Ditto." Syaoran replied with a small grin.
Kurasa, fuming inside, stormed out of the meeting room.
Everyone was still as they processed the scene they had just witnessed. Why would Kurasa act like that? This was the question that was in the mind of all the English crewmembers.
Shane took Syaoran's shoulder. "You know her?"
Syaoran shrugged. " Maybe. What did you say was her name again?"
"I didn't. Her name is Kurasa Namato. Wait till I tell Meiling what you did to her favorite model in the world."
Syaoran didn't reply, after hearing the maiden's name, he had started coming up with a ton of question.
'Kurasa Namato? Who's that? I've never met anyone by that name until now. I swear she's Sakura. Then it must mean that she changed her name. Also, why is she an English model? (I said Jap before, but I wrote a note about that in the beginning.) Isn't she Japanese? Weird…' As Syaoran was contemplating about this Kurasa person, Shane was impatiently waiting for Syaoran to answer.
"Li? Li? Liiiiiiiiiiiiiii????"
Syaoran snapped out of his train of thinking. " Huh? What? Oh yeah, sure." Then he walked out the door also.
Shane, confused more then ever, followed out the door, soon trailed by everyone else who was in the room.
'Darn it, darn it, darn it, darn it!!!!'
Just her lucky day. She had come hoping that she wouldn't meet HIM. But she had jinxed herself, and they were doing a shoot together. Why didn't she notice him before? Why? As Kurasa was pondering, she walked aimlessly in the busy town of Hong Kong.
Don't worry, this time, she didn't get lost, but ended up at the hotel she was staying at. By the time she had reached her room, she had made up her mind. If she had to do a shoot with him, she wouldn't do any. Kurasa nodded and smiled to herself and planned to tell so to Mr. Jordan. She then spent her time watching TV and eating a few snacks. Then there was a knock on her door.
"Who is it?"
"It's me, Mina, may I come in?"
"Of course!!" Kurasa got up and went to the door, where she welcomed Mina.
"Hello," she greeted with a cheerful smile.
"Hello."
"Come on in, do you want something to drink?"
"Nah, not right now, thank you."
The both sat on opposite positioned couches.
"Ok then, what did you want?"
"I wanted to talk… about today's incident."
Kurasa sighed. "What do you…"
"How come you never told me that you knew THE Xiao Lang Li."
"Cause I didn't know that it was him. Anyways, I don't like him much, wait, fix that, I don't like him at ALL!!!!!!!!!!"
"How come?"
"Just because."
Mina's look softened. "Okay, sweetie,"
Kurasa looked at mina. "Thank you." She replied quietly.
"Of course, anytime. So how do you like it so far in this city?"
"I love it!!! (other then that b$trd) I made a new friend, Meiling Li. She's Shane ling's fiancée, she is so kind, unlike SOME jerk."
"Oh, ok."
"By the way, I don't want to do the shoot anymore."
Mina looked startled. "You have to! You're our main model. What would we do without you?"
"You could figure out something."
"I don't think Mr. Jordan's going to be happy about this."
"So?"
"Soooo, you can't cancel it. Besides, this is what you're being paid to do."
"Fine, then I don't care if I get paid, or if I have to pay anything, like this hotel bill. I'll do it. I just don't want to do it."
"Please, you must be feeling bad right now, but our crew needs you. Please."
Sigh. "No."
Mina shook her head. "Ok then." And she quietly left the room.
Kurasa could feel tears forming in her eyes. She blinked them away. She would not cry over such a man, a man unworthy to be even called human. (T-T, I'm sry Syaoran!!!)
She took a shower and then went to bed early.
The next morning, Kurasa woke up late and got up and opened the window curtains. The sun shined onto her, the sky was endless and breathtaking blue. Birds were flying and chirping. The weather seemed to get warmer and warmer each passing day. She smiled. Today was going to be a good day.
She changed quickly into a pink dress made of silk. It was held up by straps and reached just below her knees. It had little gold stars scattered on it, made by, guess whom… Tomoyo. Jus in case it got cooler, she wrapped a white, thin long sleeved, button up shirt around her waist. She slipped into pink sandals and headed out after grabbing her little teddy bear backpack.
She wandered around, this time, going to a playground. She saw many children scattered about, playing. She smiled, it was nice… to be in a place like this. She sat down on a bench in the shade and closed her eyes, relaxing.
Then Kurasa felt a presence with her and so she opened her eyes slowly.
Looking back was a little boy about the age of 7 with amber eyes and brown tousled hair with golden streaks.
Her eyes widened. He looked like… he looked like HIM, when he was little…
The young boy smiled sweetly at her, showing off his dimples. He then handed her a little bouquet of forget-me-nots and almond flowers.
Where did that come from? She wondered.
"XieXie." (That's all I know in Chinese, sorry.)
"Your welcome!" He looked at Kurasa with such innocence and happiness that she felt herself being washed over in this little child's joy.
He looked into her eyes, and asked, "Why do you seem so sad?"
Kurasa was startled by the boy's concern.
"It's nothing."
He tilted his head to a side.
"Do you want a hug?"
And before Kurasa could reply, the boy was hugging her. She was surprised at first, but she hugged back. Then the boy backed up. "Are you better now?"
"Yeah... thank you."
He smiled again, this time, brighter.
"Xiao Long!"
The boy glanced at the woman shouting, presumably, his name.
"Hi Mother."
"Xiao Long! Stop bothering that young woman! I'm sorry, miss."
Kurasa smiled at her. "No, its ok, actually, your son was sweet and gave me these." She held up the bouquet.
"Oh, you did that?"
"Yes. I hugged her too cause she looked sad." The mother smiled gently at her son and with farewells, the two separated from where Kurasa was sitting.
Kurasa sighed and looked at the flowers. Their meanings… true love & remembrance and hope.
She was bored!!! She had NOTHING to do. The past 3 days, all she had done was wander, it was exciting at first, but now it was becoming tedious. Sometimes, she had fittings for clothes she was supposed to model, but not much other then that. She inwardly groaned. At that time, her cellular phone rang. Kurasa picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Hi."
"Um, Kurasa-chan, its Meiling, I was wondering if u wanted to go to the movies with me and a few friends." The voice on the other line sounded nervous.
Kurasa's face lit up with delight.
"I'll be delighted to!!!"
"You will? Cool. Okay, since its like 2:15, why don't we meet at your hotel at like 4? Sound good?"
"Very." Kurasa answered with a grin.
"Okay. Whew, I got through it! I was so nervous…hehe"Kurasa laughed a little, "You shouldn't be nervous, its not like I'm going to bite your head off or something."
"I would hope not."
Kurasa had a feeling that Meiling was smiling. "Well, till then."
"See you." Click
Kurasa turned her cell off and went to pick what to wear and to get ready.
At 4:05 Kurasa arrived to the front of the hotel where there were gardens and well-sculpted fountains.
Meiling and other women were already there waiting. Kurasa sweatdropped, she was staying here and she was still late.
"Hello" Kurasa called out.
"Oh, hey Kurasa-chan!" Meiling replied.
When Kurasa reached the gang, Meiling introduced them to her.
"Kurasa-chan, these are my friends, Rika Terada, Naoko Zheng, and Xiao Hua Mao." (sorry guys, don't know Chinese, making these up.)
Rika had auburn red hair, shortly trimmed, the bottom curled to frame her face. Her eyes held wisdom and kindness.
Naoko was had brown hair which shone brightly. It was also cut short, but straight. It was pretty long in the front, but as it went towards the back it shortened. Her glasses were perched smartly on her nose and behind them were eyes of intelligence.
Last was Xiao Hua Mao. She had a stylish short haircut. It was neat, but sections of hair stuck out here and there. Her bangs was parted so that most of it was going right. (sorry if its confusing) To go with her black hair, she had hazel, brown eyes.
"Guys, this is my new friend, Kurasa Namato."
"Hi!" they chorused together.
"Hello."
"We are so happy to meet you. You're that model, right?"
Kurasa nodded.
"I JUST REMEMBERED!!" Meiling exclaimed.
"What?"
"I am soooooooooooooooooooooo sorry for my cousin. He's a total jerk, but he CAN be nice when he wants to. Although, I don't really know what made you angry at him."
Kurasa smiled. "It's his problem, not yours, you don't have to worry. And… I really don't want to talk about this…"
"Oh, well I guess… I'm sorry"
"Its okay! Lets go then, shall we?"
They all cheered and headed out.
They all watched a movie called "Don't Be Scared."
It was about a girl who got betrayed by a boyfriend and was really upset and so her family moves to China. There, she starts out anew, and makes new friends, true blue friends. At first, she's still nervous, because she doesn't want to get hurt again, but she finds herself falling in love with the first friend she had made in China. He always protected her and was kind to her. One day, the boyfriend who had betrayed her had come back but her new friends beat him up and so it was settled. They became girlfriend and boyfriend and after graduated high school, they got engaged.
(this is a fanfic called "Don't be Scared" by Cutie Blossom. I hope you don't mind I just loved the fiction so much!!!!!!!)
They all came out of the movies and started talking about the movie.
"Yeah, I loved it. Remember that part when this girl was yelling, and then another girl started yelling and the first one told her to be quiet?"
"That was funny" They all laughed and chatted together as they headed to a café. (you have to read the ff to understand)
"Hey, you guys want to eat here?"
"Sure."
So they ate and kept on talking (can you tell that I'm lazy, I'm not writing any of their talks) After paying the bill, they headed back to the hotel.
"Kurasa-chan, this was wicked fun. Let's do this again." Meiling said.
"I agree, but are you guys sure that you want me to tag along?"
"Of course, I do!!" said Naoko.
"I'll be delighted." Said Rika
And Xiao Hua said, "It'll be awesome"
Kurasa smiled and said to call when they had something planned.
Then they parted.
Kurasa was tired and went to bed after changing. The next morning, she took a shower and so on. The two days after going to the movies, the group went to different places, giving Kurasa a tour of the best places in Hong Kong.
And then the dreaded day came. 7 days have passed, and she had to now head to the building, and yet again… see the stupid Li. She sighed. She had tried to convince Jordan that she wasn't needed, but he wouldn't let her off the hook.
'Well, I better get going' She dressed into white capris, a red Chinese styled top. With that, she headed out to the lobby, met everyone and they all headed out to the building.
Once they arrived, Kurasa tried her utmost best, giving it a 200% to avoid Syaoran.
She did a pretty good job. She got in a car with no Syaoran and got in the dressing trailer with no Syaoran. (In trailer, they have multiple changing rooms)
Kurasa's biggest fear was the posing with the stupid Syaoran, since they were both star models and they looked nice together, or that's what they all said anyways. She shivered at the thought. 'If he touches me, he's a dead man'
The first couple of shots were of singles but then they had to pair.
Mina dragged, literally, Kurasa to the scene where the pictures was supposed to be taken. Syaoran watched with a frown on his face.
'Does she hate me that much?'
So Kurasa was reluctantly brought to the scene. They were told to pose. Kurasa, still really really not wanting to do this thought of all the trouble she was causing. She was being foolish, and selfish, thinking of only what she wanted, and so decided to cooperate a little.
Syaoran was wearing beige cargo pants and a white t-shirt, which had two streaks, or green and blue going across it. He had his hands in his pockets and leaning against a tree.
Kurasa was wearing a yellow green skirt, which went to her knees. It seemed to ripple every time she moved. To top that, she had on a soft, light pink peasant shirt, with a flower design. Her hair was up in a ponytail with bangs hanging out on the sides of her face. She stood to Syaoran's left. The picture was taken so that it got the right side of Syaoran. Kurasa leaned inn and look at the camera, so she was half hidden by Syaoran.
So they repeated this with more clothes and more different scenery.
When it was all finished, Kurasa sighed with relief. She could finally relax. She changed into her original clothes and went to see Jordan. Along the way, she met up with a model from the Chinese crew. He had whitish gray hair and golden eyes. He was tall and had a nice figure. He smiled at her.
Kurasa, annoyed at him for getting in the way, said, " Could you move?"
He raised an eyebrow. She sighed. "Please."
He chuckled and held out his hand. "Hello, It's nice to meet you. I am Yukito Tsukishiro."
"Uh, sure." She quickly shook is hand and walked away.
Yukito smiled sadly at her back.
"So………. Mr. Jordan, do we have to do this again?"
Jordan looked sternly at Kurasa.
"Duh."
He then walked off. Kurasa trailed after him, "How many more times?"
"As much as we can."
Kurasa groaned. Jordan stopped walking and looked at her.
"Kurasa, I know you really do not want to this, but… you must its your JOB. I can tell that you really hate this… model, but please do not let this ruin our chance."
Kurasa nodded.
"Good, then, well in 4 days, we're having another shoot, meet in the lobby at 10 and so we can go to the model agency building. See you then."
Kurasa was extremely upset. 'Stupid, stupid, why did he have to become a model too! Why couldn't he have become a math teacher, seeing how good he is at math and torturing people.'
She headed towards a car to get a ride home, and along the way; she met a certain man whom she didn't really want to see….
Did anyone confused over why I put that playground scene in? Wow, this fanfic isn't turning out to be what I expected it to be… I hope you like it though.
Okay, I think that this is the longest chapter I have written in my LIFE. It was rushed and … well it came out bad, I'm sincerely sorry. Don't worry SS fans, there WILL be SS. I don't know when, but there will be. Please review. I'll be sooooooooooo happy! You do NOT know how much these reviews mean to me, it gives me the purpose to write. Well see you next time,
Your humble servant
AKA
Sai-chan
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