Name: Yukimi the Ice Goddess Title:

Lost and found part 2

This might drag on for awhile. It started as a mini-fic, but it got too long. Enjoy!

Five weeks later

The first day at Seijuu high was busy. Chiharu was soon lost in the crowd. Too busy searching for her friends, she didn't notice Yamazaki staring at her from a distance. He looked at her in surprise.

"I didn't expect her to come here..." He murmured to himself. He then smiled. "This is going to be an interesting day."

"Ohaiyo, Chiharu-chan! I'm glad you could come!" Sakura was waving from about ten feet off.Chiharu recognized the boy beside her as Li Syaoran.She didn't want to talk to him, but she knew that Sakura's feelings would be hurt if she didn't go. She walked steadily over to where they were standing. Sakura instantly pulled her friend into a very tight hug.

"I'm so glad you came! I was worried..."Sakura wailed.

Chiharu smiled a little. "Well, I did come, so there was nothing to worry about, was there?" Sakura smiled sheepishly.

The bell rang. "Oh, we have to go, Sakura-chan!" Chiharu said.

Sakura smiled. "All right, let's move! Come on, Syaoran-kun!" Sakura pulled him toward the classroom. Wrenching his arm out of her grasp, Syaoran regained his lost composure and followed the happy girl.

The first thing Chiharu noticed walking into the classroom was that there were many boys there. Even stranger, they all seemed to be clustered around one of them in the corner of the room.

"He must be their leader," she thought. "Wonder what he's telling them?"

As she edged closer she started to recognize the voice of the speaker.

"...and then the sun came out and the water started to evaporate... you know what that is... and then the water turned into crystals. The crystals fell to Earth and embedded themselves in the ground. And that," Yamazaki finished triumphantly, "Is where diamonds come from!"

There where many oohs and ahhs from the crowd. "Wow, that's amazing!" One boy spoke up. "I can't believe that's true!"

Yamazaki grinned. He had fooled yet another audience.

"Telling lies again, troublemaker?" Chiharu stepped into the crowd. "What are you doing here?" she said angrily.

"Well, I do go to school here," Yamazaki replied, smiling at the fact that she had gotten involved yet again.

Chiharu growled. "Don't be smart with me, baka!" The boy kept smiling which made Chiharu even angrier. "Would you stop smiling?!"

Of course, this just made the boy grin more. Even though this girl seemed hostile, Yamazaki was enjoying the fact that his audience was not moving away, even when this girl had interrupted him. "Please, Chiharu, you are scaring away my audience!" he said, causing the people around him to laugh.

Chiharu was infuriated. This boy had dared to call her by her first name!
Yamazaki turned to the group and laughed along with them.

"Hey, Yamazaki-kun, is that your girlfriend?" one boy asked. The whole crowed laughed even harder. Chiharu turned red with fury.

"No, no, this is the girl who found my cat over the summer!" Apparently, Yamazaki knew some of the boys in the crowd.

Suddenly, Chiharu was pushed in the center of the group. The boys were all around her. They started to talk, but Chiharu rushed out of the circle just as the bell rang. "Whew, saved by the bell!" she thought with relief.The teacher entered the class and the lesson began.

Afterwards at recess, Chiharu went to look around campus. She had already located the library and wanted to know where the computer lab was. As she was looking around, she noticed a few of the boys playing basketball.

"Aaaa, this school is full of boys..." she thought, not for the first time that day. They seemed to be playing very hard. Chiharu found it very difficult to look away. She had only seen girls play before and boys were much more intense.
Yamazaki was right in the game. It struck Chiharu as strange that he could see what was happening with his eyes closed. He jumped through the air, batted the ball out of his opponent's hand, and tossed it to his teammate.

"Wow, he's actually good!" Chiharu thought grudgingly. "Maybe I'll watch for a little."

After the game ended (Yamazaki's team won), Yamazaki started to walk toward Chiharu. "No, please no..." Chiharu stood stock still as the boy walked toward her.

"What do you want?" She asked.

The boy smiled. "Hey, how come you don't like me?"

Chiharu was surprised by the question. She shuffled her feet a little. "Well... It's nothing really against you; I just don't like boys very much..."

The boy stopped smiling. He was surprised by the answer. "Why?"

"You wouldn't understand. No one understands."

"Try me," Yamazaki countered.

"What makes you think that you'll understand?" she answered, angry that she had told him anything.

"Because maybe I know how you feel."

Chiharu was confused and angry. "How can you know how I feel?! You don't know me!" She stormed off out of Yamazaki's sight.

Yamazaki sighed. It seemed that the lovely young girl had not come to trust him yet. "But how could she?" he thought smiling. "After all, I do tell lies on a regular basis." He walked away, grinning. He'd try again tomorrow.

The next day, Chiharu made it into the classroom very early. Apart from a few boys and Tomoyo, she was the only one there. The first thing she saw when she entered the room was a huge bouquet of flowers on top of her desk.

"What... flowers?" She looked at the note attached to it.

"Dearest Chiharu-chan," it read, "I bought these for you because I thought that you might like them. Signed, your secret admirer.

Chiharu was confused as to who it was from until she looked on the back of the card.

P.S: Did you know about flowers? A long time ago, back in the early fifties, young men used to court women just by sending them flower bouquets. Each kind of flower meant a different thing. Roses meant that they were deeply in love with that person, lilies meant that they would like to get to know them better...

Chiharu crumpled up the note in anger. She couldn't believe he would do something like that.

"My, what a nice thing to do!" Tomoyo marveled. "I wish someone would do something like that for me."

"Are you crazy? I don't want this!" Chiharu yelled.

Tomoyo just smiled. "But really, he must care for you to get you flowers, from a store no less!"

Chiharu grumped. She stared at the flowers.

"Wait..." Chiharu looked closer at the flowers. "Freesia?"

They were indeed Freesias, and Chiharu was astonished. "How did he know...?" she whispered, "My favorite flower?"

Tomoyo stared at her friend calculatingly and smiled.

At that moment, Yamazaki walked into the room. He noticed Chiharu staring at the flowers and grinned. His plan had worked. "Ohaiyo, Chiharu- chan!"

Chiharu whirled around. "Stop calling me that!"

Later that day, Chiharu was walking around with her friends. She had to admit, it was much more fun being with her friends all the time. Yamazaki walked up alongside the girls and subtly pulled Chiharu away from the group. The girls continued on without noticing that Chiharu had left them.

"What do you want?" Chiharu yelled.

Yamazaki smiled. "Just asking whether or not my flowers had the desired effect. You like Freesias, yes?"

Chiharu gaped at the strange boy. "That's right! How did you know?"

He smiled again. "Well, your friend, Sakura told me."

Chiharu made a solemn vow to get Sakura later for betraying her."Hey, I've got a question for you!"sheasked.

"What's that?" Yamazaki asked back.

"How come you keep your eyes closed all the time?"

Yamazaki stopped smiling. "Well, they're not really closed. It just looks that way," he decided to say.

"And how come you tell lies all of the time?" Chiharu continued doggedly.

He grinned. "They aren't lies, they are stories!"

"Whatever, how come you tell these 'stories' of yours?" she asked irritably.

Yamazaki looked around. Then he whispered in Chiharu's ear. "To tell you the truth," he said, "I just like the attention!"

Her eyes widened in surprise. "Is that really the only reason?"

He smiled mysteriously. "Well, what do you think?"

Chiharu felt very strange at that moment. It was a feeling that she couldn't quite put her finger on, something she hadn't felt before.

"Um... your note... I didn't read the whole thing," she stammered. "What were Freesias on that whole courting thing?"

He grinned. "Those were very special. They meant that the person who received them was cared for very much by the giver, but also that they were considered friends."

For some reason, even though the weather was cool, Chiharu felt very warm. "Ah, I have to get back to my friends. Goodbye," she said leaving the area. Yamazaki stared after her as she fled.

As Chiharu's mind buzzed, all she could recall were the flowers still on her desk and the smile of the mysterious boy...

All right! Part two is finished! How do you like it? Chiharu is starting to come out of her shell. In the next chapter, you'll find out why Chiharu dislikes men. What could be the reason?

I now encourage you to e-mail me! It doesn't matter who you are, I'll except constructive feedback! Ja!