Transformations
Chapter 1: The Deal
Author's Note: Okay, here's my new fanfic. Um, hope you like it! Happy reading!
"What'd you think of that science test?" Sakura asked the brown haired boy next to her as the two walked out of the classroom, into the busy and loud hallway.
"Actually, it wasn't too bad. I didn't study much, but I get by," the boy said looking down at her, grinning.
Sakura gazed into his grey eyes and laughed, "Yeah, I guess so,"
A violet haired girl came up from behind them and leaned on their shoulders in between them, "Hey Sakura, hey Brendan,"
"Hey Tomoyo," Brendan said back and nodded his head.
"Oh, Sakura I was gonna ask you if you wanted to come with us to the beach this Saturday with Eriol, Yamazaki, Chiharu, Meilin, her new boyfriend Fred, and me? Oh, and you can come too Brendan," Tomoyo said taking her seat in the next classroom.
Sakura beamed, "Oh, the beach, cool! Yeah, I can come," she said and took her seat.
"And you?" Tomoyo asked Brendan and turned around in her seat.
Brendan ran his fingers through his curly hair looking deep in thought, "Let's see.um, yeah I can come,"
Tomoyo smiled and clapped her hands, "Yay! Okay, so we'll go around 10:00. We can meet by the park, 'kay?"
Sakura and Brendan nodded in agreement. The teacher then started teaching them how to fold napkins. (This is home economics. I know most of us don't have it, including me, but whatever)
"Okay, so let's split up into pairs with whoever's behind you," the teacher told the class waving her napkins around.
Sakura turned around to face her classmate, Syaoran. He wasn't really popular or cool, but not really geeky. "Uh, okay so let's try to make that fan thing out of napkins," she muttered.
Syaoran nodded and whipped out his napkin in front of him.
The two worked in silence for a minute, Sakura's napkin flopping over and un-folding. Syaoran on the other hand had mastered the fan and was trying a flower.
"Uh, Sakura?" Syaoran said interrupting her and causing her napkin to fall to the side.
Sakura sighed and looking up, "Yeah,"
"Uh, well, if you haven't noticed I'm not really popular or anything like that, and I know you're really good friends with Tomoyo and she knows exactly how to make someone look good, so well." Syaoran trailed off.
"Huh," Sakura said, "oh, do you want to umm.err, had do I put it? Uh, change you're look so that girls like you? Uh, I mean not that people don't like you now," Sakura added.
Syaoran looked down and nodded, "Yeah,"
Sakura raised her eyebrow," But why don't you ask Tomoyo?"
"Well, yeah I thought about that, but Tomoyo tends to.not be very good at keeping secrets," Syaoran said poking his napkin.
Sakura bit her lip, "Well, I guess I could," "And you want to keep this a secret?"
"Yeah," Syaoran nodded again. Sakura seemed to be good at this.
"Okay, you can count on me. I know you like that girl Jenny, and I'll make her and any girl in this town fall for you. We may not know each other very well, but I keep my promises!" Sakura said and held her pinky out, "I pinky promise,"
Syaoran almost fell off his chair, "But how did you know that I like,"
Sakura shrugged, "I dunno, it's a gift I guess. But, actually, if I help you out, can you help me with something too?"
Syaoran looked up from his notebook, suspiciously.
"I noticed from behind me in math class that you get 100 on your test mostly. And, well you know that I'm not exactly good at math so could you tutor me?" Sakura blurted out.
Syaoran leaned back on his chair, "Uh, well, eh, yeah, I guess,"
"Okay, it's a deal," Sakura informed and held her pinky out again.
"Gee, what's with you and pinky promises?" Syaoran muttered but held out his pinky.
After that Syaoran helped Sakura with her fan, and by the end of class she had gotten the hang of it.
~~~~~ Lunch ~~~~~
Sakura looked down at her packaged lunch in her lap. It was covered with a pink cloth with bunnies on it holding flowers (if you know the manga "Wish" then you know what they look like) "Hmm.Toya made lunch today. Wonder if it's edible," Sakura smirked as she un-rapped it. She opened it and a warm smell came out, "Oh, rice balls, rice omlets, noodles, and." the smile on Sakura's face faded and was replaced as she pulled up something else, "taro roots, yuck, Toya did this on purpose! He knows I hate that. Oh well, I just hope it didn't stink up the other stuff," Sakura muttered. She picked up the taro roots and made her way to the garbage can.
"Oh, you don't like those? Me neither," Brendan said from behind her.
Sakura flicked the food into the garbage and turned around, "Yup, my stinky brother put 'em in there on purpose,"
Brendan shifted and put his hands in his pockets, "Um, Sakura you know how we're going to the beach on Saturday, and we'll do you want to call it a date?" he muttered.
Sakura blushed slightly but smiled, "Uh, okay, so it's a date. Well I guess I'll see you then," She waved and headed back to her friends by the grass.
"Guess what?" Sakura said grinning as she returned.
Tomoyo turned around, "Huh?"
"Saturday is officially a date with Brendan," Sakura informed her crossing her arms.
Tomoyo beamed, "Oh, finally, you're first date! I'll have to get it all on video. Oh, I remember my first date with Eriol. Let's see, we've been going about for about three months now," Tomoyo murmured thoughtfully.
Sakura sweatdropped, "Well don't make a big thing out of this though, okay? I don't want people to get to excited about anything,"
Tomoyo nodded and continued muttering things.
Sakura sighed, this was perfect, Brendan was a really nice guy and everything was bound to go fine. Let's see, tomorrow's Friday. I can prepare then. Oh, wait, I'm going to Syaoran's place. Oh, well I can still find time, Sakura thought.
~~~~~Friday 5:03 pm.~~~~~
Sakura looked at the different bells until she found the one marked "Li". She rang it and looked up at the apartment building. The apartments looked pretty big and a little fancy.
A minute later Syaoran's voice called out of the intercom and his face appeared on the small screen, "Hello?"
Sakura spoke into it, "Uh, hi Syaoran,"
Syaoran's figure waved at her, "Oh, yeah, come right up. I'm number 57 on the third floor,"
Sakura nodded and the screen turned black. She opened the door and took the elevator to his apartment and knocked.
Syaoran answered the door and led her into the living room. The curtains were drawn open and the wide window was open slightly, since it was surprisingly warm for the end of May.
Sakura sat down on the green sofa and placed a large bag onto the glass coffee table, "I brought some of my brother's old clothes that that you could try," she pulled out a pile of shirts sweatshirts, jeans and other stuff.
Syaoran rummaged through the pile and pulled out a pair of dark green cargo pants. There seemed to be lots of strings cords and pockets everywhere. Then he pulled out a big grey shirt that had the words "Thrasher" on them. "I'll try these," he told her and went to his room to try them on.
Sakura nodded and looked around. On the fireplace mantel there was pictures of four older girls looking very happy and active. Next to it was a photo of a beautiful woman with long black hair lulled into a pony-tail, wearing Chinese style dress. She looking out at Sakura with a serious face, but Sakura could tell she was kind.
The door of Syaoran's room opened and Syaoran walked out.
Sakura barely noticed since she was still focused on the pictures.
"Those four girls are my.weird sisters, and that's my mother," Syaoran said pointing to the picture of the beautiful woman.
"Wow, you have four sisters? That's a lot. I only have my weird brother Toya. And that's your mother? She's so pretty." Sakura looked further down the mantel and saw two familiar faces, "Oh, yeah, Meilin is your cousin right?" she said pointing out a picture of her with a bird.
"Yeah,"
"Hey, is this you?" Sakura asked pointing out a picture of a small brown haired boy in the rain with amber eyes staring blankly into the camera.
"Uh, yeah, when I was five. I think," Syaoran said scratching his head.
"Okay, so let's see how you look," Sakura gaped for a second in amazement. Already she could see a big improvement from before. She examined him and nodded approvingly. "Lookin' good. Jenny will be loving you in no time,"
Syaoran shrugged trying to hide the blush Sakura had formed by mentioning Jenny. He gestured to his large cargo pants that were dragging on the floor in a big pile, "Uh, but I think this is too big,"
Sakura shook her head, "Nope, I think they should fit for a little bit. That's the right size,"
Syaoran crinkled his nose and looked down at the unfamiliar pants, "What? They're in piles on the floor?!"
Sakura's face stayed calm, "Yeah, I know," she said sarcastically, "So?"
Syaoran gaped at her, "They're way too big! You could fit 2 bodies in each leg!!" He yanked his pants legs showing a large amount of extra space.
Sakura shrugged, "That's what other people wear. That's what you asked for." Syaoran sighed, "Yeah, I guess so."
Sakura laughed at his shock about the pants, "Come on, now that you've got some clothes, we're going to the mall. We can get you some of your own clothes, and I can teach you a little bit about how to act," Sakura told him opening the door for Syaoran.
~~~~~The Mall~~~~~
Sakura walked in with Syaoran and looked around. To their left there was a café shop, and to their right, an ice cream shop. Sakura dragged him over to a bench first. "Okay, I'm gonna send you over to that ice cream shop and see how you act and how you manage girls," she told him and pushed him towards the shop.
"Wait, I've never "managed" girls before. What do I do?" Syaoran asked Sakura planting his feet into the ground.
Sakura put her hands on her hips, "Too bad, I need to see how I can improve you. Go!" she ordered him and pointed to the shop.
Syaoran sighed slumped over to the shop and sat down at one of the tables. Sakura could see he was sitting very straight and stiff, and his legs were stuck together like glue.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, he needs self confidence," Sakura muttered shaking her head. For ten more minutes Syaoran stayed at the table without doing anything. Sakura was about to march over to him when Syaoran stood up and walked over to a girl with blonde hair and started talking. Sakura inched over to make sure she could hear what they said.
"Um, hi, I saw you and I was just thinking, "Gee, that girl's almost as pretty as cauliflower," so, can I buy you an ice cream?"
Sakura who was leaning against a nearby wall shook her head sadly, "Damn, he's really bad at this.cauliflower?"
The girl raised her eyebrow as if she thought it was a joke, "Almost as pretty as cauliflower?! Excuse me, but I am much prettier than that, and cauliflower isn't even pretty. You really need to sort out your priorities!"
Syaoran shifted uneasily, "So, can I buy you a chocolate ice cream cone? Or vanilla?"
The girl gritted her teeth at him, "Sorry, but I can't be seen with a dork. Sure, you're cute, but stupid," she said in his face and stormed off.
Syaoran shrugged and sighed walking back to the bench Sakura was at, "So, how bad did I do?"
Sakura had been jotting things down on a notepad, and she reviewed them then responded, "We'll I caught some kinda stupid mistakes so I'll tell you about them while we look for clothes. After that you can practice at home. But I have a date tomorrow so we have to get stuff for me to wear!" Sakura told Syaoran as she dragged him into a clothing store.
Syaoran smirked and grabbed her hand, "So, you have a date? I've known you a couple of years and I've never seen you with a boyfriend. Who is it?"
Sakura blushed, "why should I tell you?"
"Because if you don't I might teach you math the wrong way and you'll fail that class," Syaoran coolly responded with a smirk.
"You wouldn't." Sakura said.
"Maybe I wouldn't, but maybe I would. You don't know me well enough to judge me," Syaoran pointed out.
Sakura grinned, "You're pretty smart aren't you? If you could act like this way with all girls you would be great. Well you'll be able to do that once I'm finished with you," she said, drifting of topic.
Syaoran didn't drop it that easily though, "So? Who is it?" he kept asking all the way until they had reached the woman's bikini section.
"Uh, Syaoran you might look strange here," Sakura said looking at their surroundings, "you can go check out guy's clothes for a few minutes," she said gesturing past ome clothing racks.
Syaoran frowned, "You're not getting away without me knowing who your boyfriend is," he said, and looked around at the skimpy outfits he was standing against. "Uh, I'll get back to that later," he said rushing to the guy's side.
Sakura laughed and started checking out bikinis and swimsuits for her date.
Author's Note: So? What'd you think? How is it? Please review!!
Chapter 1: The Deal
Author's Note: Okay, here's my new fanfic. Um, hope you like it! Happy reading!
"What'd you think of that science test?" Sakura asked the brown haired boy next to her as the two walked out of the classroom, into the busy and loud hallway.
"Actually, it wasn't too bad. I didn't study much, but I get by," the boy said looking down at her, grinning.
Sakura gazed into his grey eyes and laughed, "Yeah, I guess so,"
A violet haired girl came up from behind them and leaned on their shoulders in between them, "Hey Sakura, hey Brendan,"
"Hey Tomoyo," Brendan said back and nodded his head.
"Oh, Sakura I was gonna ask you if you wanted to come with us to the beach this Saturday with Eriol, Yamazaki, Chiharu, Meilin, her new boyfriend Fred, and me? Oh, and you can come too Brendan," Tomoyo said taking her seat in the next classroom.
Sakura beamed, "Oh, the beach, cool! Yeah, I can come," she said and took her seat.
"And you?" Tomoyo asked Brendan and turned around in her seat.
Brendan ran his fingers through his curly hair looking deep in thought, "Let's see.um, yeah I can come,"
Tomoyo smiled and clapped her hands, "Yay! Okay, so we'll go around 10:00. We can meet by the park, 'kay?"
Sakura and Brendan nodded in agreement. The teacher then started teaching them how to fold napkins. (This is home economics. I know most of us don't have it, including me, but whatever)
"Okay, so let's split up into pairs with whoever's behind you," the teacher told the class waving her napkins around.
Sakura turned around to face her classmate, Syaoran. He wasn't really popular or cool, but not really geeky. "Uh, okay so let's try to make that fan thing out of napkins," she muttered.
Syaoran nodded and whipped out his napkin in front of him.
The two worked in silence for a minute, Sakura's napkin flopping over and un-folding. Syaoran on the other hand had mastered the fan and was trying a flower.
"Uh, Sakura?" Syaoran said interrupting her and causing her napkin to fall to the side.
Sakura sighed and looking up, "Yeah,"
"Uh, well, if you haven't noticed I'm not really popular or anything like that, and I know you're really good friends with Tomoyo and she knows exactly how to make someone look good, so well." Syaoran trailed off.
"Huh," Sakura said, "oh, do you want to umm.err, had do I put it? Uh, change you're look so that girls like you? Uh, I mean not that people don't like you now," Sakura added.
Syaoran looked down and nodded, "Yeah,"
Sakura raised her eyebrow," But why don't you ask Tomoyo?"
"Well, yeah I thought about that, but Tomoyo tends to.not be very good at keeping secrets," Syaoran said poking his napkin.
Sakura bit her lip, "Well, I guess I could," "And you want to keep this a secret?"
"Yeah," Syaoran nodded again. Sakura seemed to be good at this.
"Okay, you can count on me. I know you like that girl Jenny, and I'll make her and any girl in this town fall for you. We may not know each other very well, but I keep my promises!" Sakura said and held her pinky out, "I pinky promise,"
Syaoran almost fell off his chair, "But how did you know that I like,"
Sakura shrugged, "I dunno, it's a gift I guess. But, actually, if I help you out, can you help me with something too?"
Syaoran looked up from his notebook, suspiciously.
"I noticed from behind me in math class that you get 100 on your test mostly. And, well you know that I'm not exactly good at math so could you tutor me?" Sakura blurted out.
Syaoran leaned back on his chair, "Uh, well, eh, yeah, I guess,"
"Okay, it's a deal," Sakura informed and held her pinky out again.
"Gee, what's with you and pinky promises?" Syaoran muttered but held out his pinky.
After that Syaoran helped Sakura with her fan, and by the end of class she had gotten the hang of it.
~~~~~ Lunch ~~~~~
Sakura looked down at her packaged lunch in her lap. It was covered with a pink cloth with bunnies on it holding flowers (if you know the manga "Wish" then you know what they look like) "Hmm.Toya made lunch today. Wonder if it's edible," Sakura smirked as she un-rapped it. She opened it and a warm smell came out, "Oh, rice balls, rice omlets, noodles, and." the smile on Sakura's face faded and was replaced as she pulled up something else, "taro roots, yuck, Toya did this on purpose! He knows I hate that. Oh well, I just hope it didn't stink up the other stuff," Sakura muttered. She picked up the taro roots and made her way to the garbage can.
"Oh, you don't like those? Me neither," Brendan said from behind her.
Sakura flicked the food into the garbage and turned around, "Yup, my stinky brother put 'em in there on purpose,"
Brendan shifted and put his hands in his pockets, "Um, Sakura you know how we're going to the beach on Saturday, and we'll do you want to call it a date?" he muttered.
Sakura blushed slightly but smiled, "Uh, okay, so it's a date. Well I guess I'll see you then," She waved and headed back to her friends by the grass.
"Guess what?" Sakura said grinning as she returned.
Tomoyo turned around, "Huh?"
"Saturday is officially a date with Brendan," Sakura informed her crossing her arms.
Tomoyo beamed, "Oh, finally, you're first date! I'll have to get it all on video. Oh, I remember my first date with Eriol. Let's see, we've been going about for about three months now," Tomoyo murmured thoughtfully.
Sakura sweatdropped, "Well don't make a big thing out of this though, okay? I don't want people to get to excited about anything,"
Tomoyo nodded and continued muttering things.
Sakura sighed, this was perfect, Brendan was a really nice guy and everything was bound to go fine. Let's see, tomorrow's Friday. I can prepare then. Oh, wait, I'm going to Syaoran's place. Oh, well I can still find time, Sakura thought.
~~~~~Friday 5:03 pm.~~~~~
Sakura looked at the different bells until she found the one marked "Li". She rang it and looked up at the apartment building. The apartments looked pretty big and a little fancy.
A minute later Syaoran's voice called out of the intercom and his face appeared on the small screen, "Hello?"
Sakura spoke into it, "Uh, hi Syaoran,"
Syaoran's figure waved at her, "Oh, yeah, come right up. I'm number 57 on the third floor,"
Sakura nodded and the screen turned black. She opened the door and took the elevator to his apartment and knocked.
Syaoran answered the door and led her into the living room. The curtains were drawn open and the wide window was open slightly, since it was surprisingly warm for the end of May.
Sakura sat down on the green sofa and placed a large bag onto the glass coffee table, "I brought some of my brother's old clothes that that you could try," she pulled out a pile of shirts sweatshirts, jeans and other stuff.
Syaoran rummaged through the pile and pulled out a pair of dark green cargo pants. There seemed to be lots of strings cords and pockets everywhere. Then he pulled out a big grey shirt that had the words "Thrasher" on them. "I'll try these," he told her and went to his room to try them on.
Sakura nodded and looked around. On the fireplace mantel there was pictures of four older girls looking very happy and active. Next to it was a photo of a beautiful woman with long black hair lulled into a pony-tail, wearing Chinese style dress. She looking out at Sakura with a serious face, but Sakura could tell she was kind.
The door of Syaoran's room opened and Syaoran walked out.
Sakura barely noticed since she was still focused on the pictures.
"Those four girls are my.weird sisters, and that's my mother," Syaoran said pointing to the picture of the beautiful woman.
"Wow, you have four sisters? That's a lot. I only have my weird brother Toya. And that's your mother? She's so pretty." Sakura looked further down the mantel and saw two familiar faces, "Oh, yeah, Meilin is your cousin right?" she said pointing out a picture of her with a bird.
"Yeah,"
"Hey, is this you?" Sakura asked pointing out a picture of a small brown haired boy in the rain with amber eyes staring blankly into the camera.
"Uh, yeah, when I was five. I think," Syaoran said scratching his head.
"Okay, so let's see how you look," Sakura gaped for a second in amazement. Already she could see a big improvement from before. She examined him and nodded approvingly. "Lookin' good. Jenny will be loving you in no time,"
Syaoran shrugged trying to hide the blush Sakura had formed by mentioning Jenny. He gestured to his large cargo pants that were dragging on the floor in a big pile, "Uh, but I think this is too big,"
Sakura shook her head, "Nope, I think they should fit for a little bit. That's the right size,"
Syaoran crinkled his nose and looked down at the unfamiliar pants, "What? They're in piles on the floor?!"
Sakura's face stayed calm, "Yeah, I know," she said sarcastically, "So?"
Syaoran gaped at her, "They're way too big! You could fit 2 bodies in each leg!!" He yanked his pants legs showing a large amount of extra space.
Sakura shrugged, "That's what other people wear. That's what you asked for." Syaoran sighed, "Yeah, I guess so."
Sakura laughed at his shock about the pants, "Come on, now that you've got some clothes, we're going to the mall. We can get you some of your own clothes, and I can teach you a little bit about how to act," Sakura told him opening the door for Syaoran.
~~~~~The Mall~~~~~
Sakura walked in with Syaoran and looked around. To their left there was a café shop, and to their right, an ice cream shop. Sakura dragged him over to a bench first. "Okay, I'm gonna send you over to that ice cream shop and see how you act and how you manage girls," she told him and pushed him towards the shop.
"Wait, I've never "managed" girls before. What do I do?" Syaoran asked Sakura planting his feet into the ground.
Sakura put her hands on her hips, "Too bad, I need to see how I can improve you. Go!" she ordered him and pointed to the shop.
Syaoran sighed slumped over to the shop and sat down at one of the tables. Sakura could see he was sitting very straight and stiff, and his legs were stuck together like glue.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, he needs self confidence," Sakura muttered shaking her head. For ten more minutes Syaoran stayed at the table without doing anything. Sakura was about to march over to him when Syaoran stood up and walked over to a girl with blonde hair and started talking. Sakura inched over to make sure she could hear what they said.
"Um, hi, I saw you and I was just thinking, "Gee, that girl's almost as pretty as cauliflower," so, can I buy you an ice cream?"
Sakura who was leaning against a nearby wall shook her head sadly, "Damn, he's really bad at this.cauliflower?"
The girl raised her eyebrow as if she thought it was a joke, "Almost as pretty as cauliflower?! Excuse me, but I am much prettier than that, and cauliflower isn't even pretty. You really need to sort out your priorities!"
Syaoran shifted uneasily, "So, can I buy you a chocolate ice cream cone? Or vanilla?"
The girl gritted her teeth at him, "Sorry, but I can't be seen with a dork. Sure, you're cute, but stupid," she said in his face and stormed off.
Syaoran shrugged and sighed walking back to the bench Sakura was at, "So, how bad did I do?"
Sakura had been jotting things down on a notepad, and she reviewed them then responded, "We'll I caught some kinda stupid mistakes so I'll tell you about them while we look for clothes. After that you can practice at home. But I have a date tomorrow so we have to get stuff for me to wear!" Sakura told Syaoran as she dragged him into a clothing store.
Syaoran smirked and grabbed her hand, "So, you have a date? I've known you a couple of years and I've never seen you with a boyfriend. Who is it?"
Sakura blushed, "why should I tell you?"
"Because if you don't I might teach you math the wrong way and you'll fail that class," Syaoran coolly responded with a smirk.
"You wouldn't." Sakura said.
"Maybe I wouldn't, but maybe I would. You don't know me well enough to judge me," Syaoran pointed out.
Sakura grinned, "You're pretty smart aren't you? If you could act like this way with all girls you would be great. Well you'll be able to do that once I'm finished with you," she said, drifting of topic.
Syaoran didn't drop it that easily though, "So? Who is it?" he kept asking all the way until they had reached the woman's bikini section.
"Uh, Syaoran you might look strange here," Sakura said looking at their surroundings, "you can go check out guy's clothes for a few minutes," she said gesturing past ome clothing racks.
Syaoran frowned, "You're not getting away without me knowing who your boyfriend is," he said, and looked around at the skimpy outfits he was standing against. "Uh, I'll get back to that later," he said rushing to the guy's side.
Sakura laughed and started checking out bikinis and swimsuits for her date.
Author's Note: So? What'd you think? How is it? Please review!!