In the Shadows
By: YFXL4ever1204
Inspired by "Shadow"
Sang by Ashlee Simpson
Summary: Sakura Kinomoto, age 15, has always been under her brother's shadow. He's always overprotective and great at EVERYTHING. Sakura is an outcast, she only has a few friends, Tomoyo, her cousin, and Eriol, her cousin's boyfriend, are two of her friends. Nobody notices her except one guy...SxS & ExT
("...") Speaking
('...') Thinking
(:::....:::) Some Kind of Noise/ Sound
(A.N.) My Dumb Notes
( ... ) Different Scene
Disclaimer: I do not own anything that involves Card Captor Sakura. But I wish I did...I only own my own characters and setting. CLAMP will always own CCS no matter how much someone wants it...:::grins:::
Chapter 3 – Watch Out!
Replay from Last time:
Now back to Eriol and Tomoyo. And I was right...Eriol did catch up to Tomoyo.
"Now time for the consequence!" said Eriol menacingly.
"Oh whatever did I ever do to you?" said Tomoyo innocently.
"For throwing the pie in my face!"
"Well, you shouldn't have gave up the pie and let Syaoran smash it in my face!"
"Well do you want your boyfriend to die!?"
"Now that you mention it. That could work really well!"
"TOMOYO!"
"SORRY! Now what's my consequence?"
"The consequence will be..........a make-out session with me at my house! And that's that!"
"Okay okay! I surrender! Let's go."
End Replay...
The morning light shined through Sakura's window.
She didn't wake up.
The light was so bright, it filled the room.
Sakura still didn't wake up.
The morning light was shining with bright colors...red, orange, yellow, and pink mixed together. It was a beautiful sight.
But Sakura still didn't wake up...
:::BEEP BEEP BEEP:::
Sakura pressed the hard, but cold snooze button again. This is the 5th time she's done that this morning.
10 minutes later...
:::BEEP BEEP BEEP:::
Sakura finally woke up...
"What is that annoying beeping?..." She yawned.
Sakura turned around to face her clock.
"HOLY SHIT!" she said surprised.
"Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!!!"
Sakura jumped off her bed. She went through her closet, and quickly jumped into the shower. Cold water splashed everywhere on her body making her tingle, but the tingle only lasted for 2 minutes.
Sakura put on a black t-shirt with a cute little tiger that said, "I'm A Lion. Hear Me Roar!" She wore tight black pants with a flare at the bottom. Sakura had promised Tomoyo that she would were ONE of her designs, so Sakura wore the black pants. Sakura also had an emerald pin that matched her eyes in her hair.
"HHHOOOEEE!!!" Sakura yelped as she tripped on her other shoe.
She looked at the counter table where a note was placed...
Dear Sakura,
I left very early this morning. I told Touya to wake you up. I certainly hope he did. ("Yeah right, he did..." said Sakura sarcastically.)" Good luck at school today. See you later.
Love,
Otou-san
P.S. Your brother will be home about 3 P.M. Love you.
She took a look at her watch. "Damn! It's 9:10! Sakura made a run for it. She ran at least 30 miles per hour to school.
At School Where Our "Other" Characters are...
"Where's Sakura?" asked Syaoran. He was very worried that she could not make it to school.
"Oh... She's coming soon. Most of the time she's late when her brother doesn't wake her up," said Tomoyo nonchalantly.
They were sitting down in Calculus waiting for Sakura to come and listening to Terada-sensei talking about some problem from the book. "Tomoyo?" Terada-sensei asked.
Tomoyo's head shot up. "Yes," she answered.
"Are you paying attention? Please answer number twenty-five."
"Um... The answer is...," she was about to say the answer when she heard something in the distance outside in the hallway.
The sound got louder and louder...
"Hoeeeeeeeee," The sound still got louder and a sound of feet shuffling also came around.
Suddenly, Sakura came through the door, breathing heavily. She dropped down to her knees, tired.
"Ahem," Terada-sensei coughed.
"Glad you're joining us Ms. Kinomoto. We're in the middle of Calculus. So if you would please take a seat."
Sakura nodded. "Okay. Sorry I was late. My brother forgot to wake me up and I didn't wake up when my alarm clock rang fiv-," Terada-sensei's face was stern. So Sakura tried to cover it up. "I guess you don't want to know my excuse..."
Terada-sensei shook his head and pointed to the seat next to Syaoran.
Snickers filled the room and Sakura began to get aggravated.
"SHUT YOUR POTHOLES!"
Everybody was silent.
Eriol turned his head in surprise. He never realized that Sakura had such a masculine voice.
Then he asked Sakura when she came by, "Sakura, I never knew you had a masculine voice."
Sakura's face showed confusion. "What are you talking about?"
"Well, didn't you say 'Shut up' to everybody?"
"No, that was Syaoran, didn't you know?"
"Oh, really? I'm so confused..."
:::Sakura sweatdrops:::
"Oh Eriol, you'll never understand life." Sakura patted his shoulder. "Good Luck."
Sakura sat down. Syaoran told her what page they were on and what problem they were on.
"We're on page thirty-two and we're on problem twenty-five. Tomoyo was going to answer that problem before you came in."
"Thanks a lot! For helping me and telling everybody to shut up, I was getting uncomfortable by all that snickering."
"That's alright and I could tell you were uncomfortable."
Sakura blushed a red rose.
The bell rang after 25 minutes of boring Calculus. Sakura barely got any Calculus stuff sink in her brain.
Their next class was co-ed gym. Only Sakura and Syaoran had that class. Tomoyo and Eriol had Philosophy.
Sakura was in the girls' locker waiting for the teacher to call them out. She changed into her sweats. She wore a pink tee and a pair of pink shorts.
Suddenly she heard footsteps coming toward her. Actually, Sakura heard about 3 pairs of feet coming toward her. She turned around. And Sakura saw Keiko and her two flunkies, Mimi and Kathy.
Mimi had blond hair with baby blue highlights and icy blue eyes that anybody could die for, but apparently not many guys go after her 'cause Keiko was always in charge so she would get most of the guys who likes Mimi.
Kathy had light brown hair with bright blond highlights. She had dark, dark green eyes. Not emerald green like Sakura's, but more of a dull dark green. Kathy had a scrawny figure, it's probably because of Keiko who's always bossing her around.
None of Keiko's drones like Keiko very much. They mostly hang out with her because she was popular. Mimi and Kathy think Keiko has a disgusting attitude, but will do her every command to be popular.
Keiko stepped up from the middle of the 3 girls and with her high screechy voice she said, "Kinomoto. You know Li Syaoran?" Sakura nodded. "Well, you better stay away from him because I heard you guys were getting close and I can't believe that. I'm the most popular girl in this whole damn school. One false move, Kinomoto, and I'll have the whole school against you," Keiko threatened.
Sakura backed away. She was scared. 'Okay, Sakura. Calm yourself down. It's just Keiko. She won't do anything. She's just a weak and scrawny girl. Come on girl. You've down martial arts for 10 years. You can just punch her face in.'
Keiko watched Sakura thinking. Keiko smiled mischievously. "Kinomoto, you don't know what you're gonna get yourself into." And with that, Keiko and her two lackeys left without a word.
"Oh! Keiko is gonna get a beating from me! I'll punch her face in and break her delicate nose." You can tell by that, that Sakura was mad.
The gym teacher, Mizuki-sensei, called them to go out.
Mizuki Kaho is the gym teacher. She has known Sakura for a long time. Kaho is Touya's ex-girlfriend. Even though Kaho and Touya broke up, Kaho still loves Sakura like her own sister. She is very found of Sakura, so she'll do anything to make her happy.
They went out and Mizuki-sensei began talking about being more physical outside and playing more sports.
"Now we are going to split up into teams. I'm going to count 1,2,1,2 and you have remember your number because that will be your team. Team number one will stand over by the foul line. And team number two will stand behind me. OKAY!?"
"Yes, Mizuki-sensei..." they said dully.
Mizuki-sensei began counting. Syaoran and Sakura were on the same team while Keiko and her drones were on the other team.
"Today we're playing tackle football."
The teams cheered loudly. "YES!!! WHOOHOO!!!"
"I'm really good at tackle football. I'm a really rough player," Sakura complimented herself.
"Well, good luck to you, Sakura. These guys are really big and tough," Syaoran said.
"Well, like you said before, don't worry. I can handle this," mocked Sakura.
Mizuki-sensei took the teams outside.
Sakura ran when the ball came to her. She caught it. BOOYAH!!! She ran as if her life depended on it. TOUCHDOWN!!!
Syaoran made three touchdowns. The other team wasn't much of a fight. Keiko and her drones were always just standing there, doing nothing, but checking if they broke a nail.
The ball came to Keiko. Sakura went straight at Keiko. Sakura pushed her into the mud.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR, KINOMOTO!!!???" Keiko screeched.
"That's why they call it Tackle Football. Duh! Are you that clueless? And that was revenge," Sakura left her in the mud. Mimi and Kathy just stood there not helping Keiko up.
"Pick me up, you bitches!" Keiko screamed.
Mizuki-sensei heard this cursing mouth of Keiko's.
"Kawasaki Keiko! You have detention with me after school for cursing. PAY ATTENTION NEXT TIME AND GET MORE PHYSICAL OR DO YOU WANT TO FAIL GYM!? Mizuki-sensei yellled to Keiko.
Keiko was angry at everybody, the gym teacher, her drones, Sakura, and everybody else who didn't help her up out of the mud. She went back to the locker room.
Sakura who had left after the 'tackle' she gave Keiko, went to the locker room and changed very quickly.
Sakura left for her next class, which was Chemistry.
A few minutes later...
"KINOMOTO! WHERE ARE YOU??? YOU'RE GOING TO WISH YOU WERE HERE, WHEN I GET DONE WITH YOU!" screeched Keiko.
Now Back to Sakura...
Sakura is walking quickly to Chemistry, so she wouldn't be caught in the wrath of Keiko. Well, she didn't really worry because every time they are in the locker room, Keiko is always taking at least half an hour to do her 'makeup'. Sakura was walking quickly anyway just in case Keiko finished early with her makeup.
Suddenly, Sakura heard footsteps approaching. Thinking it was Keiko, Sakura started to run.
Then she heard someone calling her name.
"Sakura!"
It got louder...
Sakura knew that Keiko would always call her Kinomoto forever.
Sakura turned around slowly...
The figure came closer and closer...
The figure came out to be...
"Syaoran, so glad it was you!" cried Sakura.
"Well, I saw you tackle that girl and once you were gone, she got detention from Mizuki-sensei for cursing," says Syaoran.
Sakura was surprised...
"And I also came to find you because I need to know when I can come over so we could do that wood project thing."
"Oh...Well you can come over after school, but I'm just reminding you that my onii-chan will be home about the same time I'll get home. Be careful."
"Like I said before, 'Don't worry!'," said Syaoran.
They both agreed and left to Chemistry.
The last bell rang for the day...
Eriol and Tomoyo went to the ice cream shop, leaving Sakura with Syaoran.
"Are you sure Sakura's gonna be alright?" asked Tomoyo.
"Of course! Don't worry! Syaoran's a gentleman. And I guess he is a gentle man. Ahaha! Get it? Gentle-man??? Ahaha!!!" cried Eriol.
:::Tomoyo sweatdrops:::
They were sharing a banana split with lots of cherries on top.
"Stop joking! You make bad jokes anyway...Well, I'm worried about Syaoran now...Sakura's big brother, Touya is supposed to come home about the time Sakura comes home. And you remember what happened the night your friend, Kai, came over and volunteered to drive Sakura home. And you know what? Kai was practically married! And Touya saw Kai driving Sakura home, so Touya came out of the house and punched Kai in the nose! Do you know what Touya's gonna do when he sees Syaoran?"
"Oh yeah! I remember that! Kai still has his nose broken! It was so funny. I couldn't stop laughing for weeks at a time!"
"Well, let's go back to Sakura's house before Touya comes, but I have a feeling that Touya's already home."
Tomoyo and Eriol hurried to Sakura's house.
Back at Sakura's House...or...er...On the Way to Sakura's House...
"So what is the object we're doing?" asked Sakura.
"Um...I think it was two teddy bears holding hands or something like that..." said Syaoran uncomfortably.
They made it to Sakura's house. Dark eyes were following Syaoran and Sakura's every move. They mostly focused on Syaoran. The dark eyes were filled with anger, like getting ready to kill someone.
"Oh I got a block of wood in the garage. I'll be back, okay?" said Sakura.
"Okay, sure. I'll just wait out here for you," said Syaoran.
Sakura went into the garage for a while.
The figure who contained the dark eyes, slowly opened the door from inside the Kinomoto house.
At the same time, Tomoyo and Eriol came really close to the Kinomoto house. They saw a tall man getting ready to throw a blow at Syaoran.
Also at the same time, Sakura came out of the garage holding the wood and also saw her brother ready to hit Syaoran...
The tall man got closer...and closer...
He raised his fist, ready to blow...
"WATCH OUT!!!!!!!!"
END OF CHAPTER 3
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(A.N. Hey guys! All the ppl who reviewed me for ch.1&2 are in the Thank-You's list. Some of you had some questions/concerns/problems. The answers are at the bottom. Thank you all for the reviews! I don't mind the flames you give me! As long as you give me reviews, I'm happy! You have encouraged me to write/type more stories with your reviews! Thank you! Love ya!)
Lil LoveStar:
Sorry about the mix-up with the ages and grades. I meant to put them all in the same grade and the same age. And about the eye color of the characters, I'm sorry too, because I wasn't really sure what to put them in as. I don't know what color Nadeshiko Kinomoto's eyes are. And for Touya, I think it is dark eyes unless you have something to suggest or correct me. Thanx for your reviews!
Nanako:
I'm sorry if I confused you with the whole Simpson's song thing. The part about the shadows will probably be on chapter 5-8. Sorry for the mix-up. But that part WILL come...Promise! Scout's Honour! LoLz...But thanx for your review!
Blackwicth:
Sorry again for not knowing much about CCS. I hope you will find out more about them. You can find out about them on different websites. Try going to google for websites or pics on CCS. Thanx for your reviews!