-Author's Note- I've decided to update finally. -Laughs- Sorry 'bout the lateness of this chapter! I'll try to update regularly. (Notice the word "try")
Not for Fun
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"I have to talk to you about your dancing." Mr. Terada said, looking at the young pair. "I would like it if you two were our dance team. We haven't had one for several years, and I'm getting really tired of having that other school win! Continually the teacher comes over here and rubs it in my face that we have no dance team."
Sakura smiled upon hearing her teacher's request. "It would be fun! I always wondered what competitive dancing would be like." Sakura told her teacher.
Eriol raised his eyebrows. He sounded kind of desperate. "I don't know…"
"Please Eriol!" Sakura pleaded with Eriol as her emerald eyes begged him.
"I don't know Sakura…"
"Please!" Eriol shook his head.
"Well, If Eriol doesn't want to do it, we could always ask Syaoran." The teacher said with a sly look, knowing full well that Eriol would not refuse.
"No, no, no. That isn't necessary I'll do it." Eriol said, sighing. He would have done it because Sakura asked him. After all, he couldn't refuse the master of his cards could he?
"Thank you so much Eriol!" Sakura said excitedly as she threw her arms around his neck.
"It was nothing." Eriol stated, looking away, not wanting Sakura to see the slight blush that tinted his cheeks.
"It's something to me!" Sakura smiled joyfully as she pulled her arms from around Eriol's neck. "I have to go tell Tomoyo and Syaoran!"
Eriol shook his head. He didn't know what to do with that girl. And he still hadn't asked her…
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Sakura met Tomoyo and Li at Tomoyo's locker. She threw her arms around Li and gave him a giant hug, leaving Li blushing, and grinning like a Cheshire cat.
"Tomoyo guess what!" Tomoyo looked over at her bestfriend since she had first moved here, and smiled in response to her friend's giant grin.
"Mr. Terada asked Eriol and I to be on the dance team!"
"Really Sakura!?" Sakura nodded. "That's great!"
"I know! I'm so excited!"
"Do you know when you start training?" asked Syaoran, who had been standing in the background, waiting for his chance to join in on the conversation.
Sakura looked slightly uncomfortable. "Well, uh, no I don't. I was so excited that after Eriol agreed to be my dance partner, that I came to come tell you."
"Eriol is your dance partner!" Syaoran glared evilly at the locker in front of him. He was imagining it being Eriol shrinking into a small bug so he could squish him.
Sakura looked over at Li. "Yes he is. Is there something wrong with that Li?" asked Sakura, her emerald eyes filled with worry.
Li mentally bashed himself. In just one sentence he made Sakura drop her smile, and her happiness. "No nothing is wrong with that. I was just, uh,wondering."
Sakura smiled. "Ok! Well I'd better go find out when we start training! See you guys next class!" Sakura said, her face radiating with happiness.
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After Sakura left, Tomoyo looked over at her boyfriend. "What was that all about Li?" She asked suspiciously. "You still don't think he's conspiring or anything do you?"
Syaoran shook his head, trying to get Sakura's smile off his brain. "No, no. I just thought it was unusual."
Tomoyo shook her head. "You drive me crazy Syaoran! But I love 'ya anyway." Grinned Tomoyo as she kissed her boyfriend on the cheek.
Li smiled and felt kind of bad that he still loved Sakura. That he still loved Sakura a lot.
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Sakura threaded her way through the crowds, trying to make her way to the gym. She was looking for Eriol at the same time, which really didn't make her job any easier. She hoped he would be in the gym, because she had very little time till her next class started.
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Sakura walked through the open gym doors and looked around. The next class wasn't in yet, which gave some time to find Mr. Terada and ask him about the dance schedule.
Sakura heard the bell ring and sighed. She was going to be late for her next class, and her teacher was evil, and bound to give her extra work.
"Mr. Terada! Mr. Terada!" Called Sakura, poking her head into his office. "Oh! There you are!" Sakura smiled in relief. "I was wondering about our dance schedule. I need it, so I can tell my family…" Sakura asked, trailing off.
"I will give it to you at the practice tonight, and could you tell Tomoyo and Syaoran to come with you after school? I need to talk to them as well." Sakura nodded, but her gym teacher wasn't finished talking. "This isn't for fun Sakura, it is serious."
"I know Mr. Terada. Everything I do has importance, and I would not take this team for granted." Vowed Sakura, her hand over her heart.
"Ok you are dismissed." Sakura nodded and was about to leave the room when her teacher called her back. "And here is a note, as I know your next teacher, is well, to put it nicely, difficult." Mr. Terada grinned, and Sakura rushed out of the room, thankful that she already had all of her books.
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Syaoran sat in class, barely covering his impatience at Sakura not being there. He wanted to ask her something about her cards. If she still had them, still used them. Syaoran sighed, even now that was a painful memory. He also wanted to ask her something else, but his relationship with Tomoyo, and Sakura's 'love the world' personality didn't help much either.
A knock sounded on the wooden door, and opened to reveal Sakura. Her hair was in disarray, and her cheeks were slightly flushed as if she had been running. All in all she looked absolutely beautiful.
Li shook his head, trying to shake off his thoughts of Sakura. He didn't want to think she was beautiful anymore. He didn't want to ask her anything. He just wanted to be friends with her. But something pulled him to her, and it wouldn't let him go. He knew he loved her, knew that they were soul mates. But he didn't think she knew. And he wanted to tell her. Tell her he loved her. Li sighed, and banged his head slightly on the desk.
He had a problem, and no way to get rid of it.
Li felt a shiver go down his spine when Sakura took her desk in front of him. He had one year, and it was already going way too fast.