Hey everyone again! I updated again because I felt like it and there is nothing else to do. Then again there is no one reading my story so I feel so alone right now. Thanks to all the reviewers!

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Chapter 3: The Badminton Game

"Please Welcome Sakura Kinomoto to our class." She continued

Syaoran froze as a pair of bright emerald eyes focused on him.

'This cannot be real, she came back…' Syaoran thought as he gazed at the new student. 'No no, this can't be, because I have dreamt of this too many times. It must be the lack of sleep I am getting…'

"Hello everyone, I am happy to be here today and I hope that everyone will help me adjust to this school again" a monotone voice called out as Syaoran snapped back into reality. The voice was emotionless, with a hint of bitterness and coolness.

'This doesn't sound like the Sakura I know at all…' he thought to himself as the teacher talked to Sakura about the rules of this classroom. 'No this can't be her, I won't believe it.'

"For the 3rd time would Mr.Li please out up his HAND?" Mrs.Fujikana said sternly as she leered at Syaoran peevishly. Syaoran jerked his head up and quickly raised his hand before he was on the bad side of Mrs.Fujikana.

"Go now Miss. Kinomoto, you will sit beside him."

'Fuck! She's sitting beside me? I'm not ready yet…'

The raven-haired girl walked calmly towards him and sat down on the empty desk beside him as Syaoran stared at her in disbelief.

"Is there something on my face Li?" The monotone voice asked him

Startled, Syaoran stuttered a bit "N-no, it's nothing' He recovered himself on time and added "you just reminded me of an old friend." 'Who left me 5 years ago' he added bitterly.

"Please do not mistake me as someone else," She replied smoothly as she turned and look at him with her piercing green eyes "because I am not the girl you will think I am."

Syaoran looked shocked as the Mrs.Fujikana started the English lesson. His mind barely on the work in front of him as his head whirled about the girl sitting next to him.

'Is this really Sakura? Who is she? I barely recognize her.' He pondered aimlessly 'No no, I can't get too attached, I vowed not to let anyone get close to me again, ever'

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Lunch came and everyone filed out of the classroom in an un-orderly fashion while Mrs.Fujikana furiously tried to get everyone to calm down. But, like usual no one is paying much attention to her.

Syaoran watched as Sakura slowly stood up and tucked her books into her backpack like she was in a trance. He stood by the door along with Tomoyo and Eriol and talked while contemplating about speaking to Sakura.

"Should we go talk to her?" Eriol asked as he nervously glanced over at Sakura over his shoulder. "I mean this is Sakura right?"

"I don't know" grunted Syaoran as he shifted his eye to Sakura's face as she slowly pushed her hair back.

"Come on man, don't talk like that, you loved her once" he said casually, then added tactlessly "remember?"

"I don't" said Syaoran viciously as he glared at Eriol. 'If looks could kill' he thought to himself. 'He would be dead'

"If you guys don't mind, I'm going to talk to her, so stop bickering like your in grade 5 and come with me if you want." said an annoyed voice coming from Tomoyo.

The boys bowed their head in shame and followed Tomoyo towards Sakura like puppy dogs, whereas Sakura was walking towards them with an expressionless face.

"Sakura is that really you….." Tomoyo started to speak was interrupted by Syaoran who discreetly out

"Where were you all these years? It would've think your family died or something"

They watched as a swirl of emotion play out on Sakura eyes are they settle on bitterness and hate. She spat out

"Watch your tongue Li, because half of my family is dead", with that she brushed past Syaoran's arm and walked out of the class room with a dangerous aura coming from her.

Syaoran caught a scent of gardenia with a hint of lilies when her elbow made contact with his arm. The trio watched as Sakura walked slowly to the door into the bustling hallways of high school.

Tomoyo was the first to break out of the trance,

"How… Why… Who… What's wrong with her?" She choked out as years of emotion finally caught up with her; sobs racked her now fragile body as Eriol wrapped his comforting hands around her.

"Shhh… its going to be okay" he cooed "hush…"

The three teens walked to the cafeteria together, each lost in his and her own thoughts about Sakura.

Lunch passed by slowly as each of them reflected on the incident that showed them this new Sakura.

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Phys. Ed was one of the few classes where Syaoran actually had to work. Him, being in the advanced class wasn't helping really. The teacher or rather coach if you want to call it, worked all the pupils in the class until there wasn't an ounce of energy left in them. It was also the reason why this class was at the end of the day.

Syaoran casually jogged into the gym after emerging from the change room. He scanned around his classmates until he focused on one figure.

Sakura.

She was by herself again, alone, sitting there and leaning against the wall as her long black hair framed her face and fell to her shoulders. Her shorts covered up her knee, but settle on her thigh as she sat with her knees bent. Her eyes looking straight ahead were still cold and bitter as he noticed with a shudder.

Just as he was making his way towards her, the coach blew his whistle

"Come around everyone, we are going to be starting Badminton today" he started as he pulled out the bucket of shuttlecocks and the trolley of rackets. "Every one of ya in this class should know how ta play so since there's an even number of girl and boys, I'm gong to put ya in partners."

As everyone rushed forward to grab a racket, while the coach called out names in pairs. To Syaoran's dismay and relief, he was not matched with Sakura, but was scheduled to play a game against her with his partner Kimki.

Kimki-chan, being the attention seeker she was, always had a crush on Syaoran, and was absolutely delighted to become his partner. She hid her pleasure well as she approached him with a smile on her face while she felt like glowing. Although I wouldn't call becoming his badminton partner in one gym class the best thing in the world.

She, like other females scattered around the school, was always intrigued by Syaoran's mysterious and ambiguous behaviors. He was the one with the 'dark personality'. Only those who know him well –Tomoyo and Eriol, once Sakura- knows that under the cloak is a playful guy who loves his friends dearly and is sweet as sugar.

"Alright everyone, get you your court and start playing. The team who reaches 15 wins first. I want it be fair, and damn it make the other team run." The coach blew his whistle again and all the players went to their respective courts.

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"Syaoran, make her stop smashing it at me!" whined a flustered Kimki as Sakura smashed the birdie at her for the hundredth time. "I can't get it!"

Syaoran just looked at her skeptically and waited for Sakura's partner, Saitoh, to serve.

It was only 10 minutes into the game and already they were losing by 5.

'This is not good' thought Syaoran as he cleared the birdie. 'I shouldn't be losing like this, I have to focus on the game instead of Sakura.' he continued as the birdie came back and Kimki tried to smash it towards Sakura.

'She's going to get hit again if she keeps playing like that, why is this girl here? She can't play at all' he thought and mentally added 'and she keeps trying to get collide into me, it's freaking me out'

Just as he predicted Kimki missed, and swore as she picked up the birdie and throw it to Satoh again for him to serve. She's noticed that Syaoran kept his eye on Sakura rather than on the birdie like he was suppose to. This did help to make her feel better about losing the game. It's almost as if she has him under some sort of spell. It also didn't help to improve her anger.

Out of anger and jealousy, Kimki hurled the racket by "accident" as she tried to clear the next hit, and it was "accidentally" aimed towards Sakura.

Syaoran and Satoh dropped their rackets in horror and gaped as it hurled towards Sakura.

Sakura just watched as it flew towards her. Her eyes focusing on the racket and her body stiff.

I'm just going to leave it here until the next chapter, because I can't write that much in one session. I have writers block … Please review! I'll appreciate it!