Disclaimer: I do not own CCS… that's about it… well, except some made up characters of course. So far… just Aika…
A/N: Okay, my never ending gratitude to everyone who reviewed and patiently waited for this chapter. Sorry it took so long guys…
Summary: Have you ever believed in the cards and what it say your destiny is? Well, Sakura finds out the hard way. When the school starts going crazy about a certain game that answers if your going to end up with a guy, given the name, even a coded one. Sakura refuses to believe and resents the idea. Her best friend, Tomoyo, manage to get her to do it, only, she gives an unknown, coded name. But the results are pretty… interesting… Is it true though?
NOT YOUR ORDINARY PIECE OF CRAP
Chapter 3: First Impressions… Don't Last
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"Eriol… you can all call me Tomoyo by the way…" she informed them. "Unless you'd prefer Daidouji… either way is fine," she added.
"C'mon, let's hurry up… Math's gonna start in any minute," Sakura suggested with a sigh. Yup, she hated Math. "By the way," she suddenly started. "What BUSINESS did you have with Aika?"
"Oh… nothing…" Tomoyo simply replied as she continues eating, a hint of sparkle in her amethyst eyes.
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The day ended as quick as possible, thank God, as Tomoyo and Sakura now walked out of their foresaken high school.
Sakura breathed in the cooling breeze as she stretches her arms wide as if welcoming a new day when in fact the day has come to an end.
"Air! The first day and already it's as boring as it could get!" Sakura remarked her complain as she puts down her stretched arms. "What a way to start the WHOLE new year… bummer," she added in a lower voice.
Tomoyo simply sighed at her friend's pessimistic comment and shook her head tiringly. Sakura wasn't like what she was now. She was before, a cheerful girl with so much optimism in her and the kind of sparkle that seems to have no way of dimming, and yet… Tomoyo let out another sigh.
"What's all the sighing for?" a voice startled Tomoyo out of her gloomy thoughts.
It was Eriol. The new guy from school. A new friend as well.
"O-Oh…Nothing," Tomoyo simply answered as if she was still in her trance.
"Smile… it looks better on you," Eriol commented flirtingly as he walks straight ahead.
"Don't mind him… he's always that flirty," Meiling whispered to Sakura who was walking silently beside her.
Sakura giggled. She was simply surprised that Tomoyo didn't seem to notice Eriol, Meiling, and Syaoran's presence beside them as they continuously walked towards their houses. She had always been the keen one and yet she was the one who didn't notice.
Tomoyo finally blushed after a few seconds of processing the nice remark Eriol gave her. She bowed down to help the heat subside and muttered "Thanks," as she did so.
Meiling, Syaoran, and Sakura giggled under their breath as they tried to make the situation a little less awkward.
"This is my turn," Sakura permissioned herself as she bowed before turning right.
"I'll… walk with you," Syaoran suddenly said as he walked towards Sakura's direction.
Sakura abruptly stopped as if in shock, never turning back from where she came from.
Tomoyo's face dimmed, Eriol noticed as she bit her lips nervosly, the expression 'bad idea' all over her face. She turned to Eriol and as if, pleadingly, warned him of a thing he didn't seem to get.
"Meiling and I will walk Tomoyo home… we'll meet you at the house okay?" Eriol replied to Syaoran hesitantly, his eyes still fixed at Tomoyo who was looking right back at him, in her face was written a big no. But too late, Syaoran already nodded and they were on their way to Sakura's house.
"Why did you do that?" Tomoyo whispered racingly as they started to walk on their own way, still being conscious if Sakura and Syaoran are still just a few steps away from them and that they would hear her.
"Do what?" Eriol asked back innocently as he looked at Tomoyo's worried and concerned face.
"What's the matter Tomoyo?" Meiling joined in the conversation as soon as she realized how Tomoyo actually looked like.
"Why did you let Syaoran walk her home?" Tomoyo cleared her question as she halts from her tracks.
"Why wouldn't I?" Eriol redirected the confusion.
Meiling, being left out with the conversation simply cocked an eyebrow.
Tomoyo moaned as she starts walking again, pouting like a child as she did. "Well you shouldn't have!" she moaned annoyingly.
"Look…" Eriol started as he catches up with Tomoyo. "Syaoran likes your friend and I don't see anything wrong with showing his affections," he explained as he tries to keep up with Tomoyo's fast pace.
"That's exactly why you shouldn't have left him with her," Tomoyo answered with an as-a-matter-of-fact tone of voice.
"Now you lost me," Eriol finally got nothing to answer as they made yet another stop.
"You wouldn't wanna know," Tomoyo simply responded.
"Try us," Meiling finally got the chance to say something.
"Fine…" Tomoyo gave in, putting her right hand on her waist. "Sakura avoids men. She doesn't want to be anywhere around them and she hates it when men shows… well… AFFECTIONS towards her," she explained a short part of her friend's dilemma.
"They why did she acted friendly towards me and Syaoran if he hates men?" Eriol asked, cutting Tomoyo off.
"She doesn't HATE MEN… she simply doesn't like them, I mean… YOU guys treating her special and showing that she's different from all the others," Tomoyo answered eerily. "She befriended you because she thought you would be different from all the other guys that goes all DREAMY about her… she was actually HOPING," she added with a sigh.
"I'm afraid to ask but… how does she act around men she finds… IRRITATING," Meiling asked hesitantly.
Tomoyo sighed. "Depends on how DARING he acts around her," she simply replied.
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"So… Sakura… how long have you and Tomoyo known each other?" Syaoran asked as he tries to break the eerie silence building between them.
"About 10 years," she plainly replied.
"That long?" Syaoran remarked in a friendly voice as he watched Sakura nod. "You have any brother or sister?" he asked again, still unable to make up something worth talking about.
"Just one annoying brother," yet another plain and cold answer.
"I see…" Syaoran murmured. "Hey you wanna…"
"Look Li," Sakura cut him off of what he was about to say as she halts from her tracks. "I'm NOT intrested in men… especially ones like you," she said coldly as she shots him an irritated glare.
Syaoran was taken a back and was shocked of how she told him to back off. She surely wasn't the Sakura he hanged out at lunch. Not even the one he saw behind the door's mirror early in the morning. No. It was like she was a totally different person.
"See? You didn't even shot one insult at me. Have you became so much attracted and in love with just my physical appearance?" Sakura insulted him more. "For god's sake Li! Are you even a man?" she added.
Now she had gone too far.
"And what are you? A woman?" Syaoran insulted her back.
It was Sakura's turn to get shocked. She turned back to him and cocked an eyebrow.
"Who ever told you that you looked good? The man must be stinking MAD! Your body doesn't even look any better than a little girl's! " he continued the never ending insults. "And who said I'm even interested in you? I would rather have dogs' poo for lunch than have you as a girlfriend!" he added, burning with rage.
"Then you shouldn't have offered me a walk home dumbass!" Sakura replied shakingly from anger.
"I offered you a walk home because I thought I could give you another chance and see if your attitude is better than your looks," Syaoran instantly answered. "I guess I was pretty damn wrong!" he exclaimed as he turned his back at her and started to walk the other way around.
Upon hearing her footsteps towards the other direction, he slowed down his pace and sighed. 'How did I even manage to think of her as attractive? Have I got low standards now?' he cursed himself as he continues on her way home.
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"This is my stop," Tomoyo announced as they reached the front gate of a huge mansion.
Eriol bowed in front of her as she did the same and entered the tall iron gate.
Meiling waved at her and soon, she and Eriol was walking on their way back to their own home that was just a few blocks away.
"She was full of…Argh!" Syaoran exclaimed as soon as he met up with the two.
"We know," Meiling remarked as she looked at Syaoran with depressed eyes.
"You do?" Syaoran asked, with a slightly opened mouth. "How?" he asked again as soon as Eriol and Meiling nodded.
"Tomoyo told us," Eriol explained as they reached the front porch of their apartment.
"Well, I don't care how Tomoyo told you, as for me, I'm gonna kick the HELL out of her!" Syaoran told them with a hint of anger as well as determination in his voice.
Never in his life had he encountered a girl such as her. No woman had ever refused him, or even say anything to offend him and yet, this girl is actually getting on his nerve.
'I'm gonna show you…' Syaoran thought to himself.
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'That darn Li!' Sakura thought to herself as she stared at the blank ceiling.
She hated men, yes she did, but never before had she encountered one who actually fighted back. No, all of the other men simply sighed and left her. But this one answered her right back in her face with the same insults!
'Oh… You're a dead man…' she threatened, not a hint of sleepiness.
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'Kinomoto Sakura…' Syaoran thought as he laid in his back on his comfortable green solo bed. With his last shook of the head, he closed his eyes and dozed off to sleep.
What is short? Sorry it took so long… I got so many things going on in my head… and also with the vacation and all… still, hope you like this… sigh… thanks for all those who reviewed again… Thanks guys
