Disclaimer: I don't own CCS CLAMP does and I also don't own this plot it is off the movie Dirty Dancing Havana Nights.
And now the chapter…
Last time…
"Okay then. You're forgiven." She said and then loaded the drinks on to her tray again. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go back to work Mister??"
"Li. Syaoran Li." Syaoran told her and she nodded. As she was walking away he asked her "Wait what's your name?" He didn't no why, but for some reason he was really attracted to her and wanted so badly to know her name.
Over her shoulder she called out to him "Sakura Kinomoto."
Syaoran smiled and whispered to himself "Sakura Kinomoto."
Syaoran headed back to where all his friends were sitting along with the people they just met. They seemed to be having a good time. They were laughing anyway. When he came over they looked at him and as he sat down Megan asked him.
"So you're all starting at our school tomorrow?"
Meiling answered for them. "Yes we are. So what's that school like?"
Naomi was the one that answered her. "It's okay. Not that I really like school that much. Everyone there like, has lots of money. And there is a uniform. But it's not that bad a school. I like it better than my old one."
"Oh well our old school had uniforms to so it's no big deal." Rika told them smiling.
"So Syao what did you need to get? Did you find it okay?" Nalanie asked him trying to look cute.
"Yeah, I got it. It was no big deal." Syaoran told her trying not to clench his teeth when she called him by that stupid nickname she called him. It annoyed him so much when she called him that. But then he found himself thinking 'But I wouldn't mind if Sakura called me that'. He then tried shaking his head trying to get those thoughts out. He didn't know why he was thinking like that, he just met her for god's sakes! And she was pretty rude to him, especially when she called his offer charity. But he still couldn't stop thinking about her. Something about her intrigued him.
"Well I think we should all head back to our rooms now." Takashi spoke up.
"Yeah, Taks right. We still need to get settled in a little more. I mean we just kind of threw our bags in our rooms and came down here." Chiharu agreed.
""I guess so to," Eriol said getting up and sticking his arm out to help Tomoyo up.
"Aww. Can't we stay and have some more fun?" Meiling asked pouting.
"Don't worry Meiling, we'll have plenty of time to come back here. We do live here now after all." Tomoyo told her smiling.
Oh, okay." Meiling spoke giving up on having a chance at staying by the pool.
"Well, we'll see you at school tomorrow! Have a good night." Shawn said as they all got up to leave.
They said their goodbyes and headed to their rooms. Syaoran didn't like that Shawn that much. He gave him a bad feeling. It took everything he had to use his famous death glare on him whenever he looked at him.
"Well they were pretty nice I guess." Naoko spoke while they were walking around.
"Well at least we know we know some people at our school." Jesse told them.
"Yeah, well what did you think of them Syaoran?" Jake asked. When Syaoran didn't answer he called over to him again. "Hey Syaoran! SYAORAN!"
The last yell snapped him out of his daydream. "Huh? What?" he asked. He cursed himself for thinking of Sakura again.
"Wow man. What's up with you? Your not usually the one to not pay attention?" Tomoyo asked him suspiciously.
"Of course he's alright Daidouji! Nothing is wrong with my Syaoran!" Nalanie screamed as she got closer to Syaoran and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Okay Orimoto. I was just asking." Tomoyo said quietly, not in the mood to fight with her right now.
"Yeah, for once can you not be a bitch?" Chiharu asked clearly annoyed at her behavior. 'Seriously' she thought, 'She acts like she's five.'
"Yeah you'd think that moving into a new country and a new city would give you a new attitude." Meiling added rolling her eyes in disgust.
Rika and Naoko all nodded in agreement. Chiharu gave Meiling a high five for helping her out.
"Whatever, once I get Syaoran to ask me to be his, you won't be seeing me or him ever again because I won't let him get anywhere near you whores!" Nalanie screamed back. The guys were behind them so they didn't hear anything that was being said, but they had a feeling they knew they were arguing.
Naoko was getting ticked off at her attitude screamed back "Us? Whores? Yeah right! If anyone's a whore it's you! You probably don't even love Syaoran! You just want to be with him because of his money and looks!"
"That's not true! If I didn't love Syaoran, then why would I stay with him was he's got friends like all of you?!" Nalanie screamed back at Naoko. "I love him and he loves me and I know that he's going to propose to me soon! So There!"
"Yeah right! Why would he want to marry you when he can get someone so much better?" Rika sneered at her.
"Why you little-" Nalanie started to say but was cut off.
"Okay you guys lets just stop this okay?" Tomoyo but in. "Let's not ruin our first night here arguing."
"Yeah, Tomoyo's right. If we fight it'll ruin our first night here." Chiharu agreed.
"Fine." Everyone said in unison a little regretfully.
And for the rest of the night there were no arguments. There was quiet chitchat and everything, but that was about all. The guys didn't really talk about much either. At least nothing really important that anyone would actually care about. That night they all went to sleep wondering what was going to happen at their new school.
The next morning they all got up and put on their school uniforms. The girl's uniforms were white short puffy sleeved blouses with the school emblem on the breast pocket with black skirts that went to just above their knees. The guys were white short-sleeved dress shirts with the school emblem on the chest pocket and black dress pants. They all met in hall and got ready to go to their new school Havana High.
"Well at least we no that these uniforms won't be to hot" Naoko spoke while twirling around in the outfit.
"Yeah well these pants look so dorky! I don't know how I'm going to be able to wear this everyday." Jesse spoke in distaste.
"Awe. There not that bad." Eriol said trying to look on the bright side. Which got him dirty looks from all the guys.
"Hiirigazawa!" They all yelled at the same time. This caused the girls to laugh at poor Eriol who sweat dropped.
"Heh-heh-heh…Oh boy." Eriol laughed nervously at the death glares all the guys were giving him.
"Come on people! Let's get this show on road and go to our new school!" Nalanie yelled at them breaking up the glaring match.
"Okay! Come on and let's go!" Meiling shouted cheerfully as they all headed to their school walking.
They got the school and were introduced to the class. Guys were checking out the girls, while the girls were drooling over all the new guys. Coincidently, they were seat around Shawn, Naomi, and Megan. They greeted them with a smile and said they would show them around the school later.
The day at school went by okay. They already had their own fan clubs and lots of people wanted to try and get to no them. Everyone there was pretty nice and they notice they weren't as big snobbish brats like they thought everyone would be.
When Syaoran was in class trying to get a little bit of homework done so he wouldn't have as much to do at home tonight, Nalanie walked in. She walked up to him and sat down on the desk beside him and just started off a conversation.
"Doing homework already?"
"Well we do have a lot to catch up on. So I thought, do some during brake." He told her while briefly looking up from his work.
"Well I guess that makes sense…" she started to think about it. But then she thought that if people thought she was smart then she wouldn't get as much attention as she was getting.
She then remembered why she came in here for in the first place. "Shawn, Naomi, and Megan invited us to a party at the country club on Saturday."
"Yeah, so?" Syaoran asked confused.
"Well, I said we would go."
"Without even asking me? What if I was busy?" he asked her annoyed. He hated it when she made decisions for him. It drove him crazy!
"Oh please," she rolled her eyes at him, "I know you're not busy. We just moved here, there's no way you would have other plans. And don't say you may have homework because it will be a weekend and you can always do it on a Sunday." She told him in a matter of fact tone.
Syaoran just sighed and nodded giving up. He may have been stubborn, but so was she and if he said he wasn't going she would never shut up.
When she saw him nod, Nalanie squealed and gave him a big hug and then kissed him lightly on the lips. She then said her goodbyes and let with a bounce in her steps.
Syaoran just sighed and continued his schoolwork.
It was now after school and they had to catch the bus to get back home because well… it was a long walk. Everyone went ahead of Syaoran. He was having trouble getting all his homework together. There was just so much! Even spending an hour on it class didn't help him much. They seemed to have come in on the middle of the semester so they had to try and keep up. Syaoran was so used to being at the top his class that he wanted to make sure he kept up with the class so he was a little slow trying to get everything together. And when he finally got all his stuff together he was out just in time to see the bus leaving without him.
"I guess I better start walking." He muttered to himself cursing himself for taking so long.
He started walking and tried to remember the way back home. It was a lot harder then he thought it would have been. As he walked he noticed how beautiful Havana was and enjoyed looking at all the palm trees he walked by. Certain music got his attention. He was walking by the town square when he heard it.
The music had a good beat and when he looked into the square he saw people dancing. But it wasn't just people dancing he saw, he saw her, Sakura…
There she was, dancing with people around her. They all seemed to know each other. The children, teenagers, and adults. They were all having a good time. He could hear them all laughing as they jumped, flipped, and twirled. And he found himself staring at Sakura's smile. Her smile was beautiful and as he saw her laughing he couldn't help but think he laugh was melodic. As he watched they way they all danced he saw that unlike when all his friends and other people from his hometown danced, these Cubans actually looked like they were feeling the music. He thought that was just plain amazing. And then she saw him. She stopped what she was doing and walked over to him. Every once in a while bobbing her head to the music that was being played by what he saw was some men. They mostly just played some drums and a couple of people playing guitars and maracas. 'A very good beat' was what he thought listening to them.
"What's a guy like you doing in a place like this huh?" she asked him. Her happy smile not leaving her face. Today she was wearing a tank top that was black and was decorated with pink cherry blossoms and black capris. (A/N I'm really bad at describing clothes sorry).
He smiled and said "Oh I kinda sorta missed the bus." He said it really sheepishly while rubbing the back of back of his head with his hand. (A/N I always say I kinda sorta whenever I do something stupid, my friends say they always no I that whatever I'm about to tell them is going to be retarded that I did when I start off a sentence with those words lol)
She laughed and looked at him and just plainly asked "Are you serious?"
"Yup. Pretty dumb eh?"
"Well a little, but I've heard worse things." She said with a giggle.
He couldn't resist himself and told her "You're a really good dancer."
She blushed at his compliment and said the only thing she could think of "Thank you. But it's no big deal, it's only for fun."
"You're way to modest." Syaoran grinned at her.
"Well there are lots here better then me. But hey since when did you start having an interest in Cuban music?" she asked him trying to change the subject.
"Well it has a pretty good beat…" he started to trail off.
"Well dancing is something that we all love to do, but you know, you should start trying to get home before your family worries since you 'missed' the bus." Sakura told him giggling.
"Yeah, you're probably right." Syaoran started to think about what he would have to tell his mother. His father probably wouldn't be too worried. As he always said "Li men don't get hurt by those lower than themselves" and Syaoran figured he thought that the Cubans here would count as lowly to his father.
"Come on I'll walk with you." Sakura offered. "You probably will get lost."
"No, that's not necessary." Syaoran told her. "I'll be fine on my, I don't need you to show me where to go."
"Oh please! You're just like my brother! What is with guys and their 'I don't need help from anyone' nature? I mean honestly, is it so bad to get help from a female?" Sakura said annoyed at how guys acted.
"No, it's not that. I just think I can find my own way." Syaoran tried to reassure her since she seemed pretty ticked off at him right now. But as soon as he said that her pissed off face turned to a sarcastic looking one. She than said:
"Oh yeah, you'll find your way. In like what? Days? Weeks? Months? Years?" she asked him and then reached out and took his hand and leaded him out of the town square. As she was doing this she continued to speak to him. "It's a much bigger place than you think. It's very easy to get lost. Come on! Follow me!" and she dragged him away.
They then started to walk down the streets that were crowed with people. All was quiet until Syaoran spoke up. "I've never seen dancing like that before. It's very…" and he started to trail off thinking of a word.
Sakura looked at him and giggled. "Is it, as you would say in your language, cool?"
"Yeah." Syaoran nodded his head agreeing with her. "It's very cool."
"Heh, you didn't even see the best dancers there and you already love it. What you should do is go to the Underground. It's a Cuban club. The best dancers will be there on Saturday." She told him and turned her head to him smiling.
"That sounds cool. But on Saturday I got invited to this country club thing. My friends won't let me miss it." He told her with disappointment in his voice.
"Wow." Sakura smiled at him. "Already, they must really like you there."
"I guess." He said. "But I don't really care." He shrugged.
"Well… If you don't want to go to that country—whatever it's called, then go to it for a couple of hours and then come and I'll meet you in the Underground. It's not that hard to find." Sakura suggested.
"Hmm… I guess that could work." He thought about it. "Okay, I'll meet you there on Saturday."
She smiled and said happily "Great! Than it's a date!"
"Oh, so we're dating now eh?" he asked her smirking his famous smirk.
"I didn't mean it literally idiot. And besides, there is no way would ever date each other." She told him and crossed her arms closing her eyes.
Syaoran didn't know why. But what she said really hurt him. But he kept an emotionless face so she wouldn't be able to tell.
They then walked by some men playing instruments and singing songs in Spanish. They stopped on the street to listen. Syaoran heard Sakura quietly singing along with them.
All of a sudden Sakura heard horses hooves thumping on the ground and screams of people in a distance. She turned to Syaoran, grabbed his arm, and whispered, "We have to get off the road." She then started pulling him along.
While she was pulling him, Syaoran was confused and asked "Why? What's wrong?"
"You don't know what they're singing." She whispered. He was confused at first, but then he got his answer. Men dressed in police uniforms were coming riding in carriages being pulled by horses. They were being lead by a police car. But the thing that freaked people out the most was that they had guns. He then heard Sakura whisper, "Go that way! You don't know what they'll do if they catch you!" and pushed him in the direction she told him to earlier.
He started running and when he looked back he saw one of the men had grabbed Sakura and was tugging her along. He was about to run back and help her she screamed at him "Just run Li!" and he watched as she slipped out of his hold and turned around to face him and kneed him in his special spot. When he dabbled over in pain she ran back to Syaoran and just plainly said, "Happens all the time."
Syaoran looked at her shocked and asked "And you're fine with it?"
She just shrugged while they kept running "I'm used to it. And besides, there's nothing I can do. They do it to everyone, not just me."
They were finally out of danger when they stopped running. Syaoran walked up to Sakura with concern in his eyes. "Are you alright?"
She looked up and smiled. "Of course I am. I told you it happens all the time. Anyway just go down this road and turn to lefts and that where your home is." She pointed straight ahead.
"Thanks. For everything today." He told her. "So I'll see you on Saturday?"
"Of course. But remember, don't dress like your rich, or else you have no idea what some people there will do." Sakura warned him with a serious face.
"Okay I'll remember that." He told her nodding his head.
"Well, goodbye! 'Til Saturday."
"'Til Saturday." Syaoran told her as she waved to him.
He smiled at her retreating figure and turned to head home. "Now I just need to explain to my mother why I'm late." He muttered as he continued to walk…
TBC
A/N I hope you guys liked this chapter. I hope it's just as popular as the first. And if you liked this chapter just as much please let me know when you READ AND REVIEW! :D LOL Ciao.
