Hey, everybody, THANK YOU FOR THE REVIEWS! Well this chapter is dedicated to my friend who's birthday is on the 26th of July. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Guess what, we have some very special guests this chapter. But you'll just have to find out who they are! HAHAHA!. Anyway, this chapter was edited and co-written by the other author. It's actually longer too.
'Thinking' "Saying"(Author Notes)
Chapter 5
Plane Ride
Sakura, Touya, and Syaoran rushed into the airport. Their plane was leaving soon and they still needed to get their tickets! Thankfully, no one else was at the counter and everything went smoothly. Of course, that was before Touya saw the seating arrangements.
"WHAT! WHY AM I IN ECONOMY WHILE YOU TWO ARE IN FIRST CLASS?" Touya yelled.
"Meilin helped book our tickets, but she told me we were all sitting in the same area," Sakura said.
"I'm not letting that gaki sit with you, he is going to sit in the back!"
"Meilin told me to take care of him. How am I supposed to take care of him if we're on opposite sides of the plane?" Sakura asked.
"I bet that gaki had something to do with this," Touya muttered. Sakura kicked Touya in the shin.
"He is not a gaki, his name is Syaoran!" Sakura said, tired of bickering, plus a lot of people around them were staring.
"We don't have time for this, our plane is about to leave," Syaoran said, finally joining the conversation.
"HOEEE!" Sakura screamed as she ran for the terminal. They were really cutting it close.
Sakura and Syaoran were sitting in row five. When they got to their seats, they noticed a young teenage girl already sitting in the window seat.
"Hi, my name is Lisa," she said with a cheery voice. Lisa had shoulder length brown hair that was streaked with red highlights. She wore a dark blue cami with tight jeans and a pair of flip-flops. "What's your name?"
Syaoran couldn't speak, as his face turned ten shades of red. He was stunned by the amazing beauty sitting in front of him. When Sakura noticed the stunned look in his eyes and the slight blush that formed on his face, she couldn't help but feel somewhat jealous.
"My name is Sakura," Sakura replied with a dry smile, fully knowing that Lisa's words were not aimed for her. Lisa looked at her darkly, then her dark features disappeared and her sunny smile reappeared again. She ignored Sakura and waved her hand in front of Syaoran's face, saying, "What's your name?"
"Ehh… Li. Li Syaoran." Syaoran stuttered out.
"Hi Syaoran!" Lisa gave him her best smile. "Here, you can sit next to me!" Lisa patted the seat next to her.
"Uhh.. Ok." Syaoran nervously sat down on the blue chair next to Lisa.
"Um-" Sakura stopped herself from saying, 'that was supposed to be my seat.' She reluctantly sat down next to Syaoran, who was in the middle seat. She decided to ask to switch later. Lisa talked animatedly to Syaoran and Sakura just sat there in silence. Finally not able to take it anymore, she tugged on Syaoran's sleeve. "But Syaoran… that was supposed to be my seat." Sakura couldn't believe what she was hearing, she was beginning to sound like Alicia!
"Well, Lisa said it was okay." Syaoran replied, oblivious to Sakura's discomfort. "Besides, you don't really mind do you?" Syaoran turned back around to talk to Lisa again. They were conversing about something she didn't really care for, and it was getting boring.
"But.. fine. I want the window seat though.." Sakura couldn't believe what she was doing. She hated window seats, so why was she whining for it? Well, at least he would listen to her.
"What a baby." Lisa whispered into Syaoran's ear from the other side, obviously perceivable to Sakura.
'Though she probably doesn't care.' thought Sakura. Syaoran shifted uncomfortably in his seat, but didn't say anything.
Lisa finally spoke up, "Fine, you can have the window seat. It sucks anyway." She stood up and stretched, making sure her midriff was visible. Sakura embarrassedly pushed herself over to the window seat, and sat down.
"Please put on your seatbelt as we are readying for takeoff. After takeoff, please do not take off your seatbelt until you see the seatbelt sign turned off. Thank you, and we hope you enjoy your ride." The speaker in the plane said in Japanese. It also then repeated it in English, with an obvious accent, and a couple other languages.
Sakura dutifully buckled her seatbelt, and Syaoran was about to too, until he saw Lisa not moving. "Hey Syaoran, you want to try to keep your seat belt off the whole ride? I tried it before, it's really fun." Lisa said. Sakura turned her head in disgust, not wanting to hear Syaoran's reply, she already knew he was going to agree. He was like some sick puppy willing to do anything his master told him to do. The plane started rocking and it made loud chaotic noises. Syaoran and Lisa rocked heavily back and forth from their lack of seatbelts. Syaoran steadied himself on his chair by grabbing onto the arm rest. Sakura sighed and looked away, and concentrated on the bag of things they gave them.
A pillow, a paper bag, broken headphones, and a blanket full of static sat in her plastic bag. These trips obviously weren't well financed. They started playing a movie about safety in emergencies. Sakura pretended to be interested but failed miserably, and took her headphones and plugged them in. She browsed the given radio stations, but nothing interested her. She sighed and leaned her head back on her pillow. It was going to be a long flight. Only 10 minutes had passed, and she was already bored. She stared out the window into the cloudless sky. The plane was more balanced now, as it steadily progressed upward.
Sakura drifted in and out of sleep, but the only thing that changed around the environment when she woke up was the sky outside the window. Syaoran and Lisa were still talking endlessly, the TV was still playing another boring movie, and the chair was still uncomfortable. She felt miserable, she was bored out of her mind and the two people next to her had easily restarted their earlier conversation, and hadn't stopped talking since the plane took off. She had already finished a cup of ramen, which was passed out a few minutes earlier and was now back to the same tedium. 'Maybe I'll go visit Touya or something.' Sakura thought. She just wanted to get out of her seat. She slowly got up, and pushed past Syaoran and Lisa's legs and walked towards the back of the plane when she noticed a girl reading Angelic Layer.
"Oh my god! I love Angelic Layer," Sakura squealed. Then she noticed the other passengers staring at her.
"Oops, sorry bout that," Sakura laughed nervously.
"It's fine. I'm Haruno Sakura, what's your name?"
"Whoa! That's so cool! My name's Kinomoto Sakura!"
"Really? Wow!" The pink haired girl exclaimed, "So you like Angelic Layer too?"
"Yeah! But, most people I know don't like it so much."
"I know what you mean, even Naruto thinks it's really stupid." Sakura (Haruno Sakura is going to have her name italicized so you can tell the Sakuras apart.) sighed.
"Who's Naruto?" Sakura asked.
"Oh! See the guy who is wolfing down the ramen? That's Naruto," Sakura pointed to a blonde boy sitting in a seat on the opposite side of the aisle. He was muttering something about how good ramen was.
"And this," Sakura pointed to her right, "is my Sasuke-kun!" The guy who she pointed to had black bangs and the rest of his dark hair was spiked back. "Hi! I'm Kinomoto Sakura!" she said cheerily. She didn't know why she was talking to complete strangers, but she should make some friends on the plane as Syaoran visibly did. His dark onyx eyes stared at her and he grunted, obviously not up for a conversation. Sakura leaned in towards Sakura and whispered, "Isn't he just the hottest?" Sakura sweatdropped.
"Let me introduce you to my friend," Sakura said changing the topic," The boy sitting over there with chestnut hair is Li Syaoran."
"Wow! He's really hot," Sakura blushed at Sakura's comment, " But he's not as hot as my Sasuke-kun," Sakura sweatdropped. "No, he's not your Sasuke-kun, he's mine!" a girl with long blonde hair and aquamarine eyes piped up.
'They must really love Sasuke.'
There was a momentary pause, then Sakura asked, "Whose the girl sitting next to Syaoran. His girlfriend?"
"The one with the red highlights?" was Sakura's blatant response.
"Yeah. She's really pretty." Sakura put in, trying to be nice.
"I guess… That's Lisa."
After hours of talking to Sakura, and hours of rejecting Naruto, Sakura finally went back to her seat where Syaoran and Lisa were sleeping. No matter how cute Syaoran looked while sleeping, Sakura couldn't bear looking at the two. Lisa's head was peacefully on Syaoran's shoulder, and Sakura thought, 'She probably put there on purpose.' Lisa unnerved her to no end, but as a consolation, at least Sakura would never see her again after this plane ride. 'Thank God.'
When she sat down, she remembered that she was going to go visit Touya. 'Whoops. Oh well, I don't really feel like going to visit him anymore. I'm too tired. What to do. What to do? Oh!' Sakura hit her head, and reached under her seat to grab her bag. She spilled out the contents her in her bag, and flipped her notebook to a new page. 'Xiaolang never replied to my letter! And when he does, he might send it to the vacation house!' Sakura ripped out a piece of paper and began scribbling down her letter.
Xiaolang,
Sakura stopped her pen on the page, as Syaoran shifted in his seat, and awoke. He peeked open an eye to see what she was doing.
"What are you doing?" His deep masculine voice echoed through her brain and it made her shiver with a pleasant feeling she couldn't describe. His hair had been ruffled from sleeping. The cute look of curiosity in his face added to her nervousness.
"N-nothing." She replied, and he closed his eyes again, content with her answer.
Xiaolang,
How are you? I never got a reply from you. Anyway, I'm going back home now, and my home address is:
Sakura stopped again and thought, 'What if this guy really is a murderer?' she thought, 'If I give him my address, he might come after me and murder everyone ' Sakura quickly crumpled up the paper and flipped to a blank page. She put her pen to the page again and wrote.
Xiaolang,
I never got a reply from you, did anything happen? Anyway, I'm going back home and if I tell you my address, my brother will kill me for sure. So, why don't we keep in touch by e- mail? My e-mail is E-mail me soon!
Wait for your reply,
Ying Fa
'That's better, although if Touya finds out I'm talking to some stranger he will seriously kill me. I wonder what he's doing anyway'
Back of the Plane with Touya
By now, Touya was really fed up. He was tired and pissed off that his little sister was sitting across the plane with some gaki. All he wanted was some peaceful sleep.
"SHUT UP!" Touya yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Yeah, Lizzy," Grace turned to the raven haired girl on her right, "Shut up!" Katie and Grace laughed.
"What! I wasn't doing anything! I didn't even say anything!" Lizzy said with an exasperated look on her face.
"Yeah, Lizzy, you should be more quiet, some people are trying to sleep." Katie said with a serious voice. Lizzy looked at her friends darkly and hit both of them.
"Lizzy is so violent!" Grace yelled.
"I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP!" Touya screamed. The three backed down and started to whisper among themselves.
'Finally some peace and quiet.' Touya thought.
Front with Sakura
'He's probably just sleeping or something.' Sakura yawned at the thought, 'Sleep sounds good right about now," Sakura laid her head on the white pillow and drifted into a dreamless sleep.
A few hours later
"Please return to your seats and fasten your seat belts, we are now preparing to land." The sound woke Sakura up from her deep slumber. She looked at the two teens to her right, they were once again talking animatedly. Sakura clipped on her seatbelt, readying herself for landing. She looked curiously towards Syaoran to see if he had fastened his seat belt too. But, he and Lisa were apparently still caught up in the game of not wearing seat belts.
'Meilin is going to kill me if she finds out I let him do this,' Sakura shuddered at the thought. Who knows what sick and twisted things Meilin could come up with as punishment for not taking good care of her cousin.
"We are now landing. The time now is 6:30 PM. Thank you for flying United Airlines. We hope to see you again soon!" The plane quickly descended into Tomoeda Airport and soon the plane skidded onto the ground.
"Please remain seated until the plane has come to a complete stop. When opening overhead compartments be careful of baggage that may have moved during the flight. Thank you for flying United, we hope to see you soon! Have a good evening." The plane turned a corner and stopped in front of its designated terminal. When the plane came to a complete stop, Sakura jumped up from her spot. Her butt felt really sore from sitting for so long. She reached under the chair in front of her and snatched her bag. She couldn't wait to get out of here.
Sakura and Syaoran followed the line of people out of the plane and into the airport. She was free of the stuffy smell, free of the uncomfortable chairs and pillows, and most importantly free of Lisa. It felt awkward to hate someone you only met 15 hours ago. (I have no clue how long it takes from Hawaii to Japan) She watched as people poured out into the airport when she noticed a pink haired girl walking towards her.
"Sakura!" She hugged her tightly, "Here's my cell number and e-mail address. Talk to me soon!" Sakura already felt like she was missing Sakura, they had become fast friends during the plane flight.
"Don't worry, I'll e-mail you as soon as I get home." Sakura said her final good-byes to Sakura and her group as they headed towards the baggage claim. As soon as they disappeared from sight, Sakura returned to concentrate on the people filing out of the plane. She finally spotted Touya who was followed by a group of loud girls.
"TOUYA! OVER HERE!" Sakura yelled over the crowd. Touya quickly ran to her side and muttered something about getting him out of this hellhole.
As the walked towards the baggage claim, Sakura noticed that Lisa was still with them.
"Syaoran, why is she coming with us?" Sakura asked not even trying to hide the hatred in her voice.
"Lisa doesn't have anywhere to stay and I was wondering if she could stay at your house with us," Syaoran said in a hopeful voice. Sakura badly wanted to say no, and laugh in Lisa's face, but the sad pout that graced Syaoran's features made her rethink the idea.
'Maybe we'll get to know each other and be good friends,' Sakura looked back at Syaoran's face, 'And I can't possibly say no to that face.'
"Fine, I have to ask my brother first," Sakura said. She couldn't believe she was seriously going to ask her brother if Lisa could stay at their house.
"Touya," Sakura began, "Lisa, the girl over there standing next to Syaoran, doesn't have a place to stay, and I was wondering, would it be okay if she stays with us?"
"Do you want her to stay with us, Sakura?" Sakura blinked at her brother, he rarely ever called her by her name, and how did he know that she didn't really want this? She looked back at Syaoran and Lisa, she could see the happiness on Syaoran's face.
"Yeah, I do want her to stay with us," Sakura said softly. Touya knew his sister was lying, but he wasn't going to go against her wishes.
"Alright then, she can," Touya replied.
Sakura left to tell the others, as Touya muttered under his breath, "Why do you do this to yourself, Sakura?"
The four piled into the car, ready to head for the Kinomoto residence. As Syaoran and Lisa continued to talk (About who knows what, geez they are ALWAYS talking LOL) Sakura looked out the window and up at the sky. She looked at the gray clouds that foretold heavy rain.
'This is only the beginning,' she told herself, 'This is only the beginning.'
YES! That was a pretty long chapter. Well, not really but compared to the rest of the chapters it is. If you did not know, the special guests were from Naruto. Except Katie and them. Tell me what you think of the chapter! PLEASE REVIEW!
By the way, did anyone find the Sakura Sakura thing confusing?
