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6: It's about time




The term break was over and school was about to start in..... roughly half an hour.

Sakura's house

"HOEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Sakura had overslept, and her older brother and father had not woken her up. Apparently, her otou-san thought that it was best that she learn how to wake up by herself and be responsible for getting to school on time.

Sakura bustled to the adjoining bathroom she shared with her brother to wash up, and then scrambled to get her school uniform on. After managing to pick herself up from tumbling down a flight of stairs on her butt, stuffing a piece of toast into her mouth and another piece into a paper bag for lunch, and not forgetting to stomp on her onii-chan's foot for laughing at her, she finally left the house, rollerblading as fast as she could in the direction of the school.

-Tomoyo's home-

Damn! Overslept on the first day!! The young Li frantically rushed around his room, getting ready for school, grunting as he fell down on the floor whilst trying to wear a sock, buckle his belt and button the shirt all at the same time.

"The joys of multitasking." He muttered in annoyance.

Eriol and Tomoyo had left earlier that morning, leaving him to sleep since Tomoyo insisted that he looked so contented hugging onto his pillow like that.

Truth is, Li was worn out. He had been kept awake almost all night, thinking about a certain auburn-haired maiden, and had only managed to drift to sleep at about one a.m. in the morning.

Damn that kinomoto. He growled, as he ran down the pathway from Tomoyo's house and headed towards the high school he would be attending.

-In school-

Phew. Just made it in time Sakura rushed into the classroom for 1st period Literature, just as the teacher was about to take attendance.

"Sorry I arrived a little late" she bowed to her teacher, Ichi-sensei, and made her way down the isle to her seat.

As soon as she sat down however, the announcer had gone on and the following message was announced throughout the PA system:

"Would Ms Sakura Kinomoto please report to the general office immediately? I repeat, immediately." Came the bossy voice of the school secretary.

Sakura groaned and signaled to her teacher that she had to leave. Ichi-sensei merely nodded his consent, and proceeded with his lesson...

When Sakura entered the general office, she was greeted by the sight of Ms Belle ( aka the bossy secretary) batting her eyelashes and smiling suggestively at a non- responsive Li, who just stood with his side leaning against the wall, the trademark scowl present on his face.

"Oh. Yes." Ms Belle snapped back to bossy- secretary mode. "Ms kinomoto, you have been assigned to the task of showing Mr Li here, around the school since you're already acquainted, as I was informed by Ms daidouji.-" She cleared her throat "oh, and, dearie, try not to make a mess of things?"

"Yes, alright. Consider it done." Sakura answered, mimicking Ms Belle's obviously fake posh accent. "If you'll excuse us, we'll run along now. Ciao!" And with that, she grabbed Li's wrist and led him out of the stuffy office and into the main hall.

"You don't like that Ms-whatever-her-name-is much eh?" Li queried, an eyebrow raised in amusement at Sakura's impudence towards a member of the staff.

"Yea. No one does. Anyways, you're at senior lever, right?"

"Apparently, I've been demoted. Daidouji kindly filled me in as a freshman, so I'm at your level" Syaoran replied, a tinge of annoyance evident in his tone.

Sakura giggled. "I suppose she did the same for Eriol? The urge to spend more time with him must've been too strong."

Li chuckled in appreciation. "So, are ya gonna lead me to 2nd period or are you going to factory more Eriol- Tomoyo fantasies in your mind the whole day?" He smirked.

Sakura just rolled her eyes- she had gotten use to the 'Li jerk' already. "Fiiiine, follow me."

Sakura led him to the classroom, which co-incidentally was the same one as hers for 2nd period as well. "I guess we're in the same math class then"

She led him into the classroom and explained to their teacher as to why she was late, all the while noticing the envious looks the girls were shooting her for being able to walk into class with such a hot new student.

She just ignored them and made her way to her usual seat next to Tomoyo and tried to hide the sniggers escaping from her mouth when she saw who was sitting right behind her- Eriol.

"Class. Please welcome Mr Syaoran Li! He's going to be with us for a while so make him feel right at home!"

Some of the girls squealed while others started whispering to their friends. The male population wasn't too happy though. He was just another good-looking male classmate to vie for the girl's attention.

-Lunch break-

Find suitable place to eat lunch alone, checked. Li mentally crossed out yet another item on his 'to-do' list, along with 'kill Eriol for leaving me behind in the morning' and 'avoid that weird yamazaki guy', as he approached a tree in the school yards.

"HEYYY!!! It's Li!!!!!"

Irk. Li cringed. It was Tomoyo- tailing behind her was a smirking Eriol, a smiling yamazaki and two other girls whom he didn't recognize.

"Looks like you found our lunch spot" Tomoyo continued. "Come on and join us for lunch!"

Li just scowled.

"Hey! Aren't you THE Li Syaoran? I'd recognize that scowl anywhere." One of the girls piped up.

"Oh yeah, he is! Geez, you've set the records for the most fan clubs in the school- and you've only been here for what, 3 hours?" The other girl, with short brown hair and glasses spoke up.

Li's scowl just deepened

"By the way, I'm Chiharu, that's Naoko, and on my left here is Yamazaki." The curly-haired one spoke, pointing to each of her friends in turn as she introduced them.

"Oh!" Tomoyo added. "And Sakura, quit hiding and come down"

Huh? Li was puzzled- until a rustle of leaves could be heard from the tree they were all standing under, and Sakura jumped off from the branch she had been sitting on and landed perfectly.

For a moment, Li's face brightened at the sight of her. Then he frowned. What's wrong with me...?

Unbeknown to him, both Tomoyo and Eriol had noticed that speck of emotion and their sinister smiles mirrored each other's.

Sakura dusted her uniform while eyeing her two childhood friends suspiciously, not knowing what they were scheming but not really wanting to know either.

I'd better watch my back around those two...







To be continued............................
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