Disclaimer- I do not own Cardcaptors or any of its characters.
Author's Note- Well, this is my second fanfic so far. I am also planning on writing one for Gundam Wing and quite possibly Zoids. Well, in this fanfic, Sakura and Syaoran are both in their freshman year of high school. I hope you all like it. So here goes nothing.
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"Wake up Sakura, you're going to be late for your first day of high school."
Sakura jumped out of bed and ran straight to the bathroom for a shower. She nearly pushed her father down the stairs in doing so.
Normally, Sakura would be devastated, being the first day of school and all, but this year was different. You see; this whole summer was a complete bore fest. Most of her friends left to summer camps. Tomoyo was sent to a music and choir camp, Chiharu was sent to a cheerleading camp, and Syaoran went back to China to visit his parents. She hasn't heard a word from him since and was very excited to see how he was doing. Meiling's dad got a new job somewhere in China and they moved before the last school year had ended, so Sakura was all alone during the summer.
Sakura was trying to multi task by brushing her teeth during her shower. As soon as she finished, she dried off and ran back to her room to pick out her outfit. She went clothes shopping the day before so that she could have a few new outfits for the school year, but she couldn't seem to find anything to wear. It took her atleast five minutes to realize that she had already picked out an outfit last night, and sure enough, it was lying on top of her bedside table. She speedily put on her clothes, grabbed her schoolbag, and ran downstairs.
"Bye dad, see you after school."
"Hold on, aren't you going to eat first?"
"No time, I'm gonna be late."
Before Sakura's dad could explain that he had only said that to get her out of bed, she had already ran out the door and was nowhere to be seen.
As Sakura ran through her neighborhood to her new school, she met up with Tomoyo and Chiharu. The three of them walked the rest of the way to the school, talking about what each of them did during the summer. Sakura felt a little left out of the conversation, she stayed home much of the time watching old movies and eating Ben & Jerry's. Luckily, she made sure to get plenty of exercise so that she wouldn't lose her figure.
It turns out that Tomoyo met a boy while at camp.
"His name is Teraku, and he plays the electric guitar. He is absolutely dreamy"
"Well, did you get his number," asked Chiharu.
"What kind of a girl do you think I am? Of course I did."
All three of them started giggling.
"So Chiharu, how was your summer?" asked Sakura.
"Well, to tell you the truth, it was pretty dull. Everything they taught us I already knew. My parents accidentally signed me up for a beginners cheerleading camp. I wish I could've stayed here with Sakura instead," said Chiharu.
"Alright, lets make sure that all of us stay here next summer so that we are all guaranteed a good time. How about it?" asked Tomoyo.
"Agreed," responded Chiharu.
"Sounds great," added Sakura.
By this time, the three of them had already gotten to the school. It was so big, and there were so many people walking around outside the entrance.
Sakura couldn't wait to see if she got in the same classes as her friends. They all made sure to choose the same electives, but that doesn't always work.
Just then Sakura could here someone calling her name from behind her. The voice was a little unfamiliar so she hesitated to turn around, hoping that it wasn't one of those boys from 8th grade that would keep using those dumb pick up lines.
The voice was getting close fast, so Sakura began to turn around, ready to reject another pitiful excuse for a guy. She felt a hand touch her shoulder and she went into offensive mode. She instinctively threw a punch at him but missed and fell face first onto the sidewalk. It wasn't enough to make her cry, but it hurt quite a bit.
She was gently helped up, but neither by Chiharu nor Tomoyo.
"Get your hands off me you creep," shouted Sakura.
"So now I'm a creep am I?"
Sakura looked up to see whom it was speaking to her, but couldn't believe her eyes. It was Syaoran, but not the same Syaoran that she knew before the summer. His voice had changed, not by much, but you wouldn't be able to tell who he was by his voice alone. It also seemed that he hit a sudden growth spurt, and on top of that, he had muscles. He wasn't puny anymore; he was built.
"Syaoran, is that really you?" asked Sakura.
"No, I'm Donkey Kong. Of course it's me Sakura, who else could it be," replied Syaoran.
"B-b-but you look... different," retorted Sakura.
"Oh yeah, about that. You see, when I got back home, my family threw a Welcome Home/Going Away party for me. It seems like my mom had decided to send me to military camp for the summer. I didn't want to, but my mom insisted. She said that it would build character and help me achieve more in life. They were really tough at the camp, and the officer in charge of my squad decided to make me his "special project". He said that I was the puniest boy he had ever seen. It wasn't fun, but my mom was right, it was for the best. I haven't felt this good in a long time," explained Syaoran.
Sakura started to stutter something, but before she could finish, the first bell rang and none of them had gotten their schedules yet. They all ran inside to grab their schedules.
Their plan of getting the same schedule didn't work, but Sakura at least has a class with each of them. Chiharu was in Sakura's Algebra 2 class, Tomoyo was in Sakura's Web Design class, and Syaoran had P.E. with her. The only class they each had together was homeroom, which was all right with each of them. Besides, they can always meet up during lunch to hang out together.
The four of them ran off to homeroom and got in right before the late bell rang. The teacher assigned everyone seats, and as luck had it, they were each assigned at different corners of the class. The teacher introduced herself as Miss Nakamura, and then she proceeded to give some speech about setting goals for yourself and stuff, but Sakura wasn't hearing a word of anything she said. She still couldn't get over how much Syaoran changed in just one summer.
In fact, for the rest of the day, that was all Sakura could think of.
