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Lyra Sakura: Okay! Let everything with the "kawaii flare" reign on. My hopes are that you will like this chapter like all the rest. Thanks for reviewing. :)

Pinaygrrl: Request granted. Enjoy!

annouymas: I'm not at all offended by anyone who points out the similarity with my story and kare kano. I will just as well keep writing for you and all others reading this fic! That's my way of showing how rewarding this hobby is. Hehe :-)

sweetloneliness: Continued... Yes!

lIlSAKlI: I know! Isn't that just grand! Lol... I could have used other characters, ones that would have maybe fit that characteristic. Syaoran is the most unlikely person to notice someone and then fall head over heels for that someone (I know him too well). Yet, here I did use Sakura and Syaoran as they are my favorite couple, coupled with all those secondary chracters. But, what I'm really trying to get at, is the moral to the story. To have a quiet, sweet girl in the inside, like Sakura, express her true feelings (like a kaiju) on the outside for readers, just makes it all the more interesting. Please agree... sorry for wasting your time with this long long long long long long... Thanks for the review!

animeflower: hey, I know that story! sounds like mine. hehehe... Yet, what you wrote in the review is only a synopsis. I have the whole thing. :)

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Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy... (contradictoriness) Words are my food and that's why I am wordaphilic.

e.note: contradictoriness and wordaphilic are not words in the enlgish language. I do not want to be the cause for the lowering of IQ points. Not that learning new words from the Mistywingish dictionary can do you any harm. Onwardland friendlies!

Sakura's Pride

Resentment

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.

Alexandre Dumas

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He stripped me of my pride and fame as easily as one would peal the skin off an orange. As long as he was around I made myself analogous to an orange, sweet and tangy at the same time. I never thought of why he came and if I ever did, I told myself it was because he came to steal. That nosy, snobbish, glory-hogging fiend was no better than me as I was better than him. This belief encouraged me to train until I had finally bettered myself physically and mentally. No longer would I have to face his oppression like every other unfit Syaoran Li fan.

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The cheerleading squad practiced in the middle of the track, while the runners practiced on the track. Sakura was a cheerleader and Syaoran was on the track team.

"One! Two! Three! Four! Five! Six! Seven! Eight! Nine! Ten! Eleven! Twelve! Thirteen! Fourteen! Fifteen!" The girls let out a loud cheer for Sakura.

Sakura felt woozy after the fifteenth back flip she performed consecutively with the previous fourteen. So woozy, she needed Rika and Chiharu's help to steady her and keep her standing.

"Wow, Sakura! You're amazing! Good Job!" The girls cheered in unison, forming a circle around her.

Behind the circle, there was a loud scream of squeals that caught Rika and Chiharu's interest. Rika and Chiharu rushed towards the other cheerleaders to get a clearer view at what the others were watching.

Sakura sat in the grass, where the girls had left her, and stared at the track with a flighty gaze. A white blur passed her vision. Sakura shook her head, trying to clear the dizziness that she thought was impairing her sight.

"He's fast!" Rika exclaimed.

"Yeah, like the hare!"

"Or like Flash from the Justice League!"

Sakura shook her head again, this time, more for irritation. She could now see the determined look on Syaoran's face as he ran when her mind cleared up. It was him alright and knowing that, made her feel even worse.

"Wow! A mile in four minutes and twelve seconds, Li-kun. That's a new record for this school," the coach said. Then he paused before he added, "Actually a new record in this district! The shortest time was approximately five minutes and thirty seconds."

Sakura groaned, plopping heavily onto the grass.

"Sakura, I got you on tape. You were wonderful!" Tomoyo shouted as she ran up to her. Tomoyo had been sitting in the bleachers with a good view of the entire field, recording all the action as usual.

When she reached Sakura, Tomoyo sat by the exhausted girl and replayed what she filmed on her camera, which she had bought especially for Sakura. In the recording, you could see in the middle of the field, a girl jumping backwards. However, you could not truly determine that it was Sakura doing back flips. Clearly, what was going on around her on the track was more appealing. A white blur flashing around the track at an astonishing rate won the Oscar. Tomoyo had zoomed into the sprinter and she got a perfect shot of his face for a millisecond, but lost it almost immediately.

"Huh, I didn't know I was still recording," Tomoyo laughed nervously as she spoke.

"Yeah, right. You knew what you were doing Tomoyo," Sakura alleged.

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Ever since he arrived, I was distracted and confused most of the time. I had difficulty focusing on whatever task was at hand. Before he came along, I believed I was capable of multi-tasking, so even when I was doing something physically I never tripped even if something was on my mind. His coming was the epitome of disaster for me!

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In the courtyard of the main school entrance, the girls were lined up in rows of ten. They were evenly spaced out and twirling their batons in the air. Their movements were in harmony after all the months of practicing. No one had faltered or threw off the beat since the last day of the first month of practice.

Sakura noticed the front doors of the school opening. Out came Syaoran, shouldering his knapsack. He stopped at the top of the steps to watch the girls practice. At the same moment, Sakura was staring back at him, with her intense eyes. He didn't seem to notice because his eyes just stared on.

For a split second Sakura missed a beat and lost her focus. She tossed the baton a little too high, so it came down later than the others. Bewildered, she reached for it, but it ended up hitting her head, throwing the whole perfect scene off. The baton bounced off her skull and fell to the ground with a crack.

"No way, she dropped it!" The girl behind her murmured in disbelief.

The girl in front of her had stopped and turned to giggle at Sakura's surprised face.

"She did?" Someone else asked.

"She did!" Another answered.

The surprised whispers grew louder, while Sakura's eyes still turned in spirals. Funny, how it happened when Syaoran was watching. Grating, that there was a smirk on his face having caught Sakura making a mistake.

When Sakura finally came back, she saw Syaoran clearly walk away with his eyes downcast, wearing a goofy grin on his obnoxious face.

That was the last straw, Sakura told her self. She was going to settle the score once and for all. That way she could prove to him, who truly was the best.