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- Last Chapter –
"Hi, I'm Eriol" the boy said to him with the same, calm, smile.
"Syaoran" he mumbled before taking his seat, looking to the back of Sakura's head.
And only one thought passed his mind...
'What an interesting year this is going to be...'
- Chapter Three –
"Tomoyo..."
"Hmm?"
"What IS that?!"
"What is what?"
"That! It's...it's..." Sakura was sitting in her desk chair, facing her bed with a look of pure horror sewn on her face.
Tomoyo was currently going through her closet, picking out clothes, oblivious to what her best friend was starring at.
"It's what?" she asked.
"Those are clothes?!" she blurted out.
Her door opened and in walked Chiharu, Rika and Yamazaki.
"Oh my god Sakura! Are those for you?" Chiharu squealed as she looked at the clothes on her bed.
"Unfortunately..." she muttered under her breath.
"They're so...original!"
"Thank you Chiharu" Tomoyo smiled.
"Tomoyo..." Sakura started slowly.
"Yeah?"
"Are those...booty shorts?!"
"Yeah...so?"
Sakura groaned.
"You know, back in the 70's booty shorts..."
Both Chiharu and Sakura looked over to the boy with a fixed glare. "Not now Yamazaki!" they chorused.
"Sakura you're very lucky to have Tomoyo make you all these neat clothes..." Rika said with a smile.
"Come on you two, I think we should leave the room so Sakura can change" Yamazaki said with a grin as they walked out the door.
"Remind me to THANK you later Yamazaki" Sakura mumbled with a glare.
The door closed with a snap and she sighed.
"Finally! Thought they NEVER leave!" a male voice said, and soon a yellow stuffed bear with wings flew in front of the girls face.
"You promised me pudding! I don't smell any pudding!" he complained with a glare.
"Sorry Kero...I'll get it later okay?" Sakura smiled slightly.
"Are those your clothes?" he asked, flying over to the bed and Sakura nodded.
"Good work Tomoyo!"
Tomoyo giggled slightly. "Thank you Kero"
"Not you too!" Sakura groaned.
"Now, now Sakura, you ARE a woman aren't you?"
"Yeah..." she said slowly.
"Then you got to start acting like one! You have a great body! Use it!"
"KERO!!!"
"What?! I'm just saying..."
"Kero's right Sakura, you have such a cute figure!"
"So do you! I don't see you in your own designs!"
Tomoyo sighed, feeling like she was trying to bribe a 4 year old to go to the dentist and get his teeth pulled.
"Just put them on will you?"
Sakura growled as she stood up and went over to her bed, snatching the clothes. "Fine...the things I do for you Tomoyo..."
And out came the video camera.
"Wha? TOMOYO!"
"What? I want to get it all on tape!" the raven girl giggled behind the lens.
And pretty soon Kero had flown in front of the lens.
"Hey! Why don't you get a shot of me? We all KNOW that the camera just LOVES me!"
"Whoa careful there Kero, your ego just might blow up" Tomoyo teased.
"Hey! Hey! It's not my fault I was created this sexy!"
Tomoyo laughed as she continued video taping the tiny guardian beast.
"You know what we should do?"
"What's that Kero?"
"Make a video documentary on me! I do have a very interesting life you know..." Kero pumped up proud as he crossed his tiny arms with a smug smirk.
"You see...it all started when I was a little guardian beast...sort of like now...only bigger, with bigger teeth..."
"Er...Tomoyo?"
Tomoyo pressed pause on her video camera and looked over to her best friend.
Starting from the bottom up, Sakura wore knee high black boots, along with dark purple fishnet stockings, and then there was the black booty shorts that Sakura didn't like that much, on the back of them there were two red hand prints. Her shirt ended right before her stomach, along the top it looked like a one strap black shirt, and on the right arm it came down to her elbow before it was slit open and went past her fingertips for a wide open sleeve. On the left arm, attached to the shirt were red, wide fishnets that hugged her arm all the way down to her finger tips where it too had a wide sleeve. And to top off the whole outfit, red seatbelt like straps were placed on her shoulders and went across her body where they were locked together on her bare stomach.
Tomoyo quickly turned on her camera. "Sakura that's so cute!"
"I feel like a Goth!"
"Well that's kind of what I was going for..."
"All this for practice?!"
"Sakura I have to admit you do look pretty damn good...now both of you leave...I have to beat IBM Wars before dinner!"
Tomoyo giggled as she placed her video camera down on Sakura's desk before the two left.
And shortly, after Chiharu and Rika practically 'Ooh'ed and 'Aww'ed over the outfit, the five headed downstairs to Sakura's garage.
About a year ago, Sakura's father, Fujitaka, finally gave into Sakura's pleading and let her have the garage to herself.
This for only one reason.
To practice their songs of course.
Sakura never thought of herself ever being in a band, but here she was, with her best friends, and they were in a band. They were pretty good too.
The only thing that confused Sakura, was how Tomoyo always wanted her to sing, she knew she too had a great voice, but she was always encouraging Sakura to lead the vocals, with Chiharu and herself there for backup.
With Chiharu on bass, Tomoyo on a electric guitar, Yamazaki on drums, and of course, Rika pitching their sound, they were ready.
"Hey, Naoko said that she couldn't make it today..." Chiharu started.
"Why what happened?" Sakura asked while closing the garage door down, on the back of it proudly presented their attempt at graffiti art, in the end it was only Yamazaki who could do it well enough.
"Well, she said she got caught in the computer lab, printing out some horror story about ghosts and she got a detention..."
Sakura paled slightly at the words 'horror' and 'ghosts'.
"That's a bummer..." Rika said softly, flicking on everything, pushing the dials up on the board slowly.
Sakura went over to the mike and adjusted it to the right height for herself.
"So what song should we start off with today?" Tomoyo asked, picking up her deep purple guitar and placed the strap on her shoulder, pushing it down slightly so it didn't hang right in front of her for now.
Chiharu had picked up her gold colored bass guitar and placed the strap on her shoulder as well.
"How about that knew one that Sakura wrote?"
Sakura blinked. "What? Oh no, not mine! It's not that good!"
"Sakura, we all heard you singing it to yourself in the change room..."
Sakura's face flushed a deep red.
"Wha-what?!"
Yamazaki, who was sitting at his drum set, flicking off an imaginary speck of dust nodded slightly. "You're not as quiet, nor alone as you thought you were" he grinned.
"Yeah! Come on Sakura! It's really good!" Rika cheered from her spot on the board.
"Okay..."
"We even got together when you were in detention and got a beat to it, how about we play it and you start whenever you want, we can always make improvements after" Tomoyo said with a grin as well.
Sakura sighed as she turned around to face the mike. "Alright, let's do this then..."
Yamazaki did a count with his sticks before Tomoyo started playing the guitar, and soon the garage was echoing and pounding with a fast, rock beat.
Sakura looked over to them with a small sigh before she gripped the mike and the pole that held it up.
"I don't give a damn about my reputation
You're living in the past, it's a new generation
Hey, a girl can do what she wants to do
And that's what I'm gonna do
And I don't give a damn about my bad reputation
Oh no"
Sakura began singing, and soon both Tomoyo and Chiharu stepped up to the mikes that were in front of her and added into it.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no" they chorused
"Not me!" Sakura added with a grin.
"Me, me, me, me, me, me" they echoed behind her.
Sakura lifted up the mike stand and held it to her side as she continued.
"And I don't give a damn about my reputation
I never said I wanted to improve my station
And I'm only feeling good when I'm having fun
And I don't have to please no one
And I don't give a damn about my bad reputation
Oh no"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no"
"Not me!"
"Me, me, me, me, me, me"
"Oh no!"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no"
"Not me!"
"Me, me, me, me, me, me"
Sakura turned around and faced them, as she took the mike off the stand with a smirk.
"And I don't give a damn about my reputation
I've never been afraid of any deviation
And I don't really care if I'm strange
I
ain't gonna change
And I'm never gonna care about my bad
reputation
Oh no"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no"
"Not me!"
"Me, me, me, me, me, me"
"Oh no!"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no"
"Not me!"
"Me, me, me, me, me, me"
"Break it down!" Sakura sang and Tomoyo stepped up closer to the mike and so did Chiharu to get a louder sound, as Rika still fiddled with the sound and pitch to get the right sound.
Yamazaki was beginning to sweat slightly from the fast beat that they were going at and Sakura grinned at him.
"And I don't give a damn about my reputation
The world's in trouble, there's no communication
And everyone can say what they want to say
It
never gets better anyway
So why should I care about a bad
reputation, anyway?
Oh no"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no"
"Not me!"
"Me, me, me, me, me, me"
"Oh no!"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no"
"Not me!"
"Me, me, me, me, me, me"
"Oh no"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no"
"Not me!"
"Me, me, me, me, me, me"
"Oh no!"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no"
"Not me-!" Sakura sang loud, holding it for a while before stopping and the whole band came to a stop.
Sakura was slightly out of breath and she looked around the group.
"That was awesome Sakura!" Chiharu grinned widely at her.
"Hey! I didn't do that all by myself you know..."
"So what are we going to call that one?" Rika asked, pulling out the CD, she had recorded it all at the same time, just proves how good she was at her job.
"Well that's easy...Bad Reputation!" Yamazaki said from the back, taking out his water bottle and took a long drink.
Rika nodded as she quickly wrote the name onto the CD before placing it in the thin CD case and went over to the wall, where other CD's were. It was a large and fairly long CD rack hanging on the wall, only there was too of them. Labeled above them on the wall it read: "Hits" and the other one read "Standby"
Sakura didn't know why they had a standby, but Yamazaki told her that they could always come back to those songs with fresh idea's and do it over.
"SAKURA!!"
Sakura sighed as she looked up to the ceiling where the kitchen was, and where Touya was yelled at her from.
"Sorry guys...I guess that's the end of practice..." she mumbled before pulling the garage door up and headed into her house.
"Wait a minute Sakura!"
She turned and saw Tomoyo run up to her.
"What?"
"I left my things in your room"
The two walked into the house and saw Yuki standing there.
Sakura smiled at him, feeling a blush slowly form on her cheeks. Yuki was her older brothers' friend, she's known him forever, and got kind of nervous around him. He was just a small crush, but that's all she would let it be...
"Yeah Touya?" she asked as she walked into the kitchen after saying a hello to Yuki.
"It's your turn to cook dinner, dad might be a little late tonight" he informed as he threw an apron at her, covering her head.
"Hey!" she scowled.
Tomoyo returned from upstairs with her bag in her hand, she walked over to Sakura and whispered quietly in her ear.
"Kero's pretty pissed off..."
"Shit! I forgot all about him!" Sakura hissed as she finished tieing the apron.
"Hey, did you guys know that you have a new neighbor?" Yuki asked as he entered the kitchen.
"What? We do?" Sakura asked as she walked over to the window that faced the front lawn, seeing a large moving van in the large house next to theirs.
"I wonder...who they are" Sakura mumbled with Tomoyo standing next to her, holding the drape up for her.
Sakura watched as many VERY expensive looking pieces of art, furniture and other things got hauled into the house.
"Hey look!"
"Huh?"
"Isn't that the Li kid from school?"
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Bwahaha! I'm leaving it there for you! Anyways, I hope I don't get any flames about the band thing, I think it's cool personally, and I've decided to go with a bit of Tomoyo's style and Sakura's own style!!
Anyways, the next update probably won't be for a VERY long time...seeing how I'm going to my dad's for a week (which means no computer) and then I'm off to Toronto! WHOO! First time too!
Going to buy so much manga and clothes...and of course –sighs- school supplies...
Hey! We all knew that summer couldn't last forever...WAH! –cries-
Well anyways...hope you enjoy the chapter...and I'll be updating in September! –cries again-
Oh summer...where for art thou?
Yeah, yeah...I'll stop now...
Coming home to lots of reviews though might make me happy and update quickly! –smiles-
Please review!
And until next time...
M.Parker