Author's Note: HI EVERYONE :D Please excuse the fic if the spacing is retarded, for some reason doesn't like spaces. o-O Anyway, Happy Belated Valentine's day!
Disclaimer: I do not own Card Captor Sakura.
Switched Valentines
By: Wings of Jade
Chapter 3: Really Meeting
During math, the sensei said, "Okay, guys - today, we'll be pairing up, and you'll do some valentine math problems, in honour of Valentine's Day, which is tomorrow!" (A.N.: Okay, I realize Valentine's Day was on Monday, but here, it's not. Okay?)
She beamed, expecting everyone else to cheer or something, but all the class managed was a HUGE groan.
She glared at all of them. "WELL, here's something that'll get you all interested - the pair that gets the most number of questions right will get a HUGE block of...VALENTINE'S MILK CHOCOLATE, FROM THE FAMOUS AMERICAN COMPANY NESTLE!" From her desk, she brought out two gigantic blocks of chocolate wrapped in red tin foil decorated with white hearts. Instantly, everyone was interested. Math class? Ew. Math valentine problems? Ew. American chocolate? OH YEAH!
The sensei handed out sheets of paper to certain people, but half the class didn't get it. When she returned to her desk, she said, "Alright - I have picked the pairings for you guys, and you will go find your partner when I am finished reading the list, and you will work on the problems together." She cleared her throat. "Rika and Daisuke. Chiharu and Naoko. Yamazaki and Takai. Sakura and Syaoran. Kanaye and Hana. Botan and Kai. Sei and..." The list went on. Sakura was majorly disappointed, she had been hoping to get paired up with Kanaye.
Oh well, next time.
She had no sheet with her, so instead she drummed her fingers against her desk as she waited for her partner to come and find her. After about 1 minute, a guy with dark brown hair approached her.
"Sakura?" he inquired.
"Hai," she replied, "And you are...?"
"Li Syaoran."
"Oh. Please, sit down." She gestured to the empty chair beside her. He sat down without a word, and slid over the math worksheet, which was on a piece of bright pink paper with little hearts decorating it. She pretended to be interested in calculating x when x represented the number of candiesHiroshi had bought for various girls, but really, she was stealing secret glances at Kanaye, who was smiling and laughing with Hana. She ended up sounding really stupid as Syaoran solved each problem quickly, paying no attention to Sakura.
Mmm...Kanaye...he's so hot...
"Are you really that bad at math?" interrupted a rude voice. Sakura snapped back to Syaoran.
"H-huh?" Sakura blinked at him.
"Oh come on, you haven't paid any attention to any of the problems so far," mused Syaoran. "I've been doing every single one of them."
Sakura went bright red. Haha...
"Gomen nasai," she muttered, "Um...what question are we on?"
Syaoran laughed. She felt herself shrinking...
"I'm done," he replied. "While you were daydreaming, I completed all of the questions."
Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets
"NANI?"
"Well, these aren't hard questions," Syaoran pointed out. "I must have done them a million times in grade 6."
"But - you're finished already!"
"There's only 28 questions." Syaoran had to hide a smile. She was gawking at him in pure awe, her green eyes wide and round, her mouth shaped in an 'O'.
"CAN YOU BE MY TUTOR?" He winced.
"Ah...these questions aren't difficult. I can explain them to you right now, if you want."
Sakura's eyes scanned through the first question.
Numbers x and y are both greater than 100 and add up to 300. What is a possible ratio for x:y?
a) 1:1000
b) 1:9
c)2:3
d)2:1
e)4:1
Sakura's eyes became question marks. "Nani?"
"This one is the easiest of all of them!" Syaoran quickly wrote a couple of numbers onto a piece of scrap paper. "Okay, look, if they're both higher than 100, thenx could equal 101,y could equal 199, or vice versa, and there are many more different possibilities. The highest value of eitherx ory could be 199, and the lowest - well, 101. So then..." He continued on, explaining gradually.
"...And then, you see, 180 and 120 works, because 120:180 is exactly equal to 2:3."
"Kami," breathed Sakura, "That's so simple." Syaoran shrugged his shoulders.
"Elementary, really."
"I bet you practice math every day, ne?" Syaoran smirked.
"Nope."
"You're crazy! How can you know so much math but not practice it?"
"It's really not a lot of math. Some of it shouldn't even be considered math. Look at this question." Syaoran pointed to question number 3.
Hiroshi buys x candies. First, heeats one candy and gives a third of what is left to Rei. Then, he eats another candy, and gives a third of what is left to Hikaru. He eats yet another candy, and gives a third of the remainder to Sasaki. Finally, he only has 6 candies left. How many candies does he buy?
a)30 candies
b)13 candies
c)2 candies
d)26 candies
e)25 candies
"It is sort of easy...that's 25 candies that he bought." Syaoran smiled at her.
"Right on." She blushed. Syaoran was pretty cute, for a guy, although not as cute as Kanaye, of course...
When class had ended, Syaoran had explained each of the questions to Sakura, and she was fast learner, so they spent the rest of class having a spirited conversation.
"Are you Chinese?"
"Hai. Was from Hong Kong, moved to Japan."
"Wow. Your Japanese is so accurate, your accent is so...good." Syaoran laughed.
"I always had a knack for languages."
"Oh really? How many languages do you know?" Syaoran thought for a moment.
"Besides Chinese and Japanese...you want me to say hello in every language?"
"Sure, why not?" said Sakura enthusiastically, genuinely intrigued.
"Hello. Bonjour. Ola. An-nyung. Preevet. Gutengag. Chao. Um...how?"
Sakura was puzzled. "What do you mean, how?"
"It's how you say hello in Indian - you know, Native Americans."
"Oh that's so cool! How do you know so many languages?"
"I pick them up from friends. I went to America for vacation at one point, but then came back quickly. There are all sorts of people in America, of many cultures, and I learned a couple of phrases."
"Wow." That was all she had to say.
The sensei collected their problems about 15 minutes before the end of class, she could mark them all. Sakura and Syaoran were still talking as the sensei took their sheet.
"Do you have a valentine?" Syaoran asked Sakura suddenly.
"...Me?"
"Yes you."
"Well...yes." She turned red. Syaoran almost laughed. She's so cute.
"Well, who is it?" he asked. She flushed deeper.
"Umm...he's...um...this really cute guy...um...he's in my class...well two of them...um..."
"It's okay, um, I think I don't need to know any more," Syaoran said, struggling not to laugh. Sakura was suddenly extremely nervous.
"Haha...well...um...yeah. What about you?"
"Ah..." Syaoran felt himself suddenly speechless. "...Uh...I think I'd prefer to keep her secret." They remained silent for a couple of seconds. Then sensei clapped her hands together.
"Okay, well, the winning pair is...Kinomoto Sakura and Li Syaoran!" Sakura's eyes widened and she squealed and clapped her hands together (A.N.: Her expression is similar to this one: n-n). Syaoran's eyebrows shot up. The rest of the class turned around and glared at both of them.
The sensei, immune the rest of the class's jealousy, said, "Please come up and claim your chocolate, Sakura and Syaoran!"
Both of them walked up to the front of the class, where the sensei smiled at them happily. Each of them carried away an ENORMOUS block of candy chocolate, but then they didn't know where to put it, since it couldn't even fit in their locker!
"Ah..."
"Um..."
"Yes?" said the sensei. "Do you two have a question?"
Syaoran took a breath. "Um...where do we put these? They are wider than our lockers, so where are we going to put them...?"
"Well, you can always eat them."
"EAT THEM?" shrieked Sakura and Syaoran.
"Or, we can keep them in the staff refrigerator if you like, it's pretty large, and then you can claim them afterschool...or any other time. Just make sure it's not too long, or the other staff members will get pissed at me."
"Okay," replied the two, handing the teacher their chocolates.
As the class was dismissed, Syaoran asked Sakura, "What do you plan on doing with the chocolate?"
Sakura turned red as a tomato again. Syaoran grinned. He could get used to this.
"Um...well...I was...kinda...thinking...of giving my chocolate to my valentine, as a Valentine Day's gift," she said, squirming even as she walked.
"Cool. Is he a big chocolate-lover?"
"I...I don't know." Sakura stole a glance at Kanaye, who was chatting animatedly with Hana. "I hope so...what about you?"
A smile formed on his lips. "Oh, same."
Okee, there we go, they know each other! Next chapter, I might just make them meet. :) Yay! Okay, if you WANT them to meet, please review! OR THEY SHALL NEVER MEET EACH OTHER AND THEY WILL BOTH END UP WITH THEIR CURRENT CRUSHES! And you don't want THAT to happen, do you? MWAHAHAHA! I am so evil! But anyway, REVIEW!