hey guys, first, I'd like to thank you for checking out my new story, it's actually going up on
fictionpress too, cuz it's an original, it won't have any magic or anything, well it will...
but ya...on fictionpress I'll just be changing the names, so please enjoy and review!
Sakura rubbed her aching shoulder as her emerald eyes shone with tears that wouldn't fall.
"Are you alright, Sakura?" Tomoyo, her best friend, asked, Sakura smiled at her and nodded. Tomoyo pulled her long black hair into a high pony, worry evident in
her violet eyes, "If you say so," she said and left the girl's changeroom with Sakura right behind her. Sakura's long auburn hair was already pulled back into a bun;
"Sakura! Tomoyo!" a voice called from across the gym, the two girls looked over to see Mica, Rory and Anika running towards them. Mica had her red curls in a bun, Rory's chin-length midnight black hair swished around her face, too short to put up, and Anika's hot-pink curls were pulled into a bun, which used to be blonde.
"Hey, guys, do you know what we're doing today?" Sakura asked them; they all shook their heads, "That doesn't matter anyway, has anyone asked you guys to the dance
yet?" Anika asked, her sky blue eyes flashing. Sakura and Tomoyo sweatdropped,
"Anika, we still have three weeks until the Spring Dance," Tomoyo pointed out, Anike shrugged, then they all jumped as a whistle was blown.
"Ok, slackers, start jogging!" the gym teacher, Mrs.Baren, yelled. Everyone groaned but went off at a jog around the gym,
"Oh my gosh! I have a great idea for the dance," Rory said, her eyes were closed, hiding her forest green orbs.
"What?" Sakura asked,
"Well, you know how it's always so cold at the end of October, and you can never dress up the way you want because it's so cold?" Rory said, opening her eyes, Sakura nodded, "Well, why not make it so you have to dress up, like a Spring Halloween?" Rory finished. Sakura thought it over, then nodded, excitement in her eyes,
"Yeah! Oh, I already know what I'll be," she agreed, Tomoyo giggled and almost fell flat on her face, but Sakura had caught her.
"That's a great idea, Rory!" she gasped out, Mica joined in,
"What're you guys talking about?" she asked, her grey eyes questioning,
"Rory had a great idea for a dance theme," Sakura said, Mika tilted her head, urging her to continue, Sakura explained.
"That's awesome! Oh! And we can put up all kinds of streamers, and make up stupid little contests and stuff," Mica's eyes glazed over as she imagined the gym how she wanted it. They kept running for another five minutes until Mrs. Baren called them to a stop,
"Ok girls, today we're doing gymnastics," she said, Sakura whooped and the others laughed, knowing fully well that was her best. Mrs. Baren nodded, and told them to get the mats out and the benches, since they didn't have balancing beams; they took out the little stacking blocks that made the thing you jump over ((lol how lame, but I dont know what they're called, sorry)). Sakura made her and her friends' jumping thing, and backed away from it, she ran at a sprint, planted her hands on the top block, and vaulted over, the other girls cheered as she landed on her feet.
"Sakura! Over here!" Mica called from an all matted area; she ran over,
"What is it?" she asked, Mica laughed,
"You are too dense, Sakura, it's for gymnastics, you know, flips, cartwheels...?" Mica motioned a flip and Sakura nodded. "I'll go first," Mica volunteered as Rory, Tomoyo and Anika came over, she ran and did a cartwheel and the others clapped. Sakura was next, she ran, started off as a cartwheel, but turned so she wasn't sideways, and landed on both of her feet at the same time ((forget what those are called too, it would help if you guys tell me, she'll be doing more gymnastics, I think,)), the others clapped for her too.
"Rory, why don't you go?" Tomoyo pushed Rory up to the mat, Rory shook her head nervously,
"I can't," she said, the others stared at her, "I don't know how to do a cartwheel, or anything, for that matter," she explained; Sakura shook her head and came forward.
"Here, I'll help you, can you do a handstand?" Sakura asked, Rory shook her head, Sakura sighed, "Ok, try to flip onto your hands, and I'll grab your legs and hold them up for you, you should at least be able to do a handstand before you can do a cartwheel," she said, Rory nodded and walked forward a bit. She lunged forward onto her hands, her legs thrust into the air, Sakura grabbed them before they fell, she held them above her head,
"That wasn't so hard, was it?" Sakura asked Rory, she shook her head. "But now, I'm going to let go, and you have to keep your balance, ready?" she let go and stepped back, Rory stayed up, her face was red with the blood rushing to her head,
"Now what do I do?" she asked, Sakura smiled,
"Just bring your feet down," she said, Rory nodded and bent her body, her feet landing on the ground and her head in the air, her face slowly went back to peach, she smiled,
"Wow, I did it," she said, Sakura nodded and the other girls clapped, "But now I want to do a cartwheel, how do I do that?" she asked, the others laughed and Sakura explained.
"You run a bit, and go like you're going into a handstand, except sideways, and just, land sideways, too," Sakura said, I've never really explained how to do a cartwheel, it's actually pretty hard, hope she understood it, she thought. Rory nodded and backed up on the mat, then ran, thrust forward sideways onto her hands, and landed on her feet, sideways, she came up smiling.
"Did I do it?" she asked, Sakura nodded and clapped with the others, Rory whooped and did her little 'victory dance,' the other girls laughed and Anika stepped up to the plate; she did a cartwheel, then went into a summersault.
"Wow, that was good, it's actually pretty hard for people to do one thing after another, it usually takes a lot of practice," Sakura said, Anika shrugged,
"I've been working on it over the summer," she said, the other girls laughed and Tomoyo followed into a cartwheel of her own.
Sakura had finished her first day of school after the summer vacation, she was now in grade 9, and she didn't even get initiated yet, she ran home, not wanting to have spoken too soon.
"Touya, I'm home!" she called to her fraternal twin brother, they were both born on April 1, 14 years ago, though, being fraternal, they don't look alike; Sakura has long, auburn hair, and bright, emerald eyes; Touya has short, dark brown hair, and chocolate brown eyes; he had stayed home sick today. Sakura ran up the stairs and dropped her bag off in her room, then went next door to where her brother was sitting in bed, playing video games;
"Hey sis, how was your first day?" he asked, pausing the game, Sakura smiled and sat next to him,
"It was great, Tomoyo is in all of my classes, Mica is in one, Anika is in two, and...Rory is in three," I said slyly, Touya's eyes lit up.
"Rory? How did she look today? Was she happy? I hope not, I wasn't there to make her laugh, what did you guys do? Did any guy try to hit on her? I'll kill them
if they did!" Touya overeacted, just as Sakura knew he would, due to his huge crush on one of her best friends, Rory.
"No, Rory wouldn't let anyone make passes at her but you, you should know that, she likes you, too," I said, Touya waved that away, he would never believe it,
"Touya, you're not ugly, like me, you're very handsome, she likes you, and you're a great guy, why don't you ever believe me?" I demanded, he stared at me.
"You? Ugly? HAHAHAHAHAHA! If you weren't my sister I'd be making passes on YOU instead of Rory, and it's not possible that Rory could like me, I'm an idiot, imature, and she's just, amazing, to amazing for me," Touya said, I laughed, and shook my head, then I heard a voice from downstairs.
"Sakura! Touya! I'm home!" Fujitaka, the twins' father, called up the stairs, Sakura raced down the stairs, she tripped on her pantleg, and went tumbling down the stairs. Now, Sakura had fallen down the stairs before, but it never hurt this much before, Sakura cried out as she hit the last step head first, and summersaulted backwards onto the carpeted floor.
"Sakura! Are you okay?" Fujitaka's voice was heard, Sakura looked up into his blurry face, everything was going dark,"Sakura, speak to me," Fujitaka said, Sakura tried to say she couldn't see him anymore, but it came out a strangled moan, and his panicking voice faded into nothingness.
Sakura woke in an all white room, needles sticking out of her arms, and her arms, legs, stomach, pretty much everywhere, hurting unbelievably. She moaned and jumped as Fujitaka came running in,
"Sakura, oh thank god, you're awake, how are you feeling, the doctor still has the tests, what happened? How could you backout just by falling down the stairs? You've fallen down the stairs before, haven't you?" he rambled on until the doctor came in and interrupted him.
"Mr. Kinomoto, can I speak to you please?" the doctor asked, Fujitaka nodded, kissed Sakura's forehead, and walked away with the doctor. Fujitaka followed to doctor into a room, there were overheads of someone's bones, but they were all screwed up,
"Whose are those? And what's wrong with them?" Fujitaka asked, the doctor shook his head sadly.
"Those are your daughter's, and, well, as you can see, there is nothing inside the bones, they are still a bit thick, but they are, well..." the doctor trailed off as he looked up at the overheads, Fujitaka shook his head now.
"What's happening to my daughter?" he demanded, looking closely at the bones, the doctor sighed,
"It's her bones, ever single one of them, they're, they're hollowing out..."
there, sorry if it's short, but yeah, i think I left you a little cliffy,
did i? is a good one? does it leave you in suspense? huh? huh? huh?
please review!
Maki