What lies underneath the mask?
AN: This is a fucked up story isn't it? Can someone please tell me what wrong with my story? I already know that I'm to slow with going to the point, but that was for suspense or something. Whatever, sorry I didn't updated sooner but the teachers in my school gave through the ENTIRE week test that I had to study for. Well I have to thank this person for reviewing my story:
Hoshiko Megami: Thanks for the review!
Well that's all here we go!
Disclaimer: Clamp own CCS, not me.
Chapter 8: For the first time
Around the Kinomoto household happened something strange. The lifestyles had change but also a new thing changed. Sakura wakes up early. She stood up amazed that she woke that early. 'Why is it that I keep waking up early?' She shrugged it off and went to the bathroom to shower. She came back fully dressed and went over to Meiling to wake her up.
"Meilin." She whispered. "Meilin." She said nudging her a little harder.
"Yes, I'd love to marry you Brad…" (AN: From Brad Pitt?) Meilin said in her sleep. Sakura sweat dropped. Then a light bulb formed over her head.
"Meilin." Said Sakura in a low voice. "I know what you did last summer." She knew that Meilin was scared when she first saw that movie, and she still does.
"AHHH! I didn't do it, I didn't threw that man over the bridge!" exclaimed Meilin. Sakura sweat dropped again.
"Meilin, you didn't. You did? Why did you threw Brad over the bridge?" said Sakura playfully.
Meilin glared. "Haha, very funny. Now get out of my way!" yelled Meilin. When she was finished and they ate their breakfast, was Meilin still angry with Sakura.
"Oh come on Meilin, it was a joke!" whined Sakura while they were walking towards school.
"It wasn't a funny joke." Said Meilin. They walked through the park and had a quizzical look on their faces when they saw a camera crew and an ambulance. Sakura went over there and tapped a man's shoulder.
"Excuse me, but what is the big rush?" asked Sakura.
"A forty-year-old was lying dead on a park bench." Answered the man. Sakura was shocked. 'It couldn't.' thought Sakura.
"Sakura, are you all right?" asked Meilin totally forgetting of what happened this morning.
"I have to see him." Was the only thing that Sakura said. She walked through the crowed and saw being Hajitou carried away in the ambulance. Sakura didn't knew what to do. Her mom's boyfriend. Dead.
"Miss, do you knew this man?" asked some guy from the rescue team.
"Yes. He was my stepfather." Answered Sakura.
"Then could you us your phone number of your mother so we can have his information?"
Sakura gave him her mom's number and went to Meiling.
"It was Hajitou, wasn't it?" asked Meiling.
"Yeah." Said Sakura.
"Do you wanna go home? The school will understand if you miss school for a couple of days." Suggested Meilin.
"Alright." Said Sakura.
They walked towards Sakura's house and walked into the livingroom facing a surprised Nadeshiko.
"Sakura, Meilin, why aren't you in school?" asked Nadeshiko.
"Mom. Hajitou. He's…dead." Said Sakura little by little. Nadeshiko was shocked.
"Why…how…how did this happened?" asked Nadeshiko.
"The people didn't know. I gave the ambulance your phone number so they can have more information about him." Said Sakura. Then the phone rang. Nadeshiko went over there and picked it up.
"Y-yes? Who is this?" asked Nadehiko.
"This is from the HKMH.( Hong Kong Medical Hospital.) Are you familiar with the Hajitou Karachi?" asked some guy from the hospital.
"Yes. He's my second husband." Answered Nadeshiko. The people from the hospital asked all sorts of questions of what could've been the cause of this death, since he was to young to die of age and they didn't found any disease in his body. Finally they had stopped and Nadeshiko placed the phone back to its place.
"Mom, are you okay?" asked Sakura.
"Yes." Replied Nadeshiko monotonous. "I'm going up to my room. You two do what ever you want to do. You can order some pizza for dinner."
"Alright mom." Said Sakura. Sakura didn't like how her mother just acted. Her face was emotionless.
A few hours had past and Sakura and Meiling were getting hungry.
"I'll order the pizza." Said Meiling. Sakura nodded but paused.
"Wait a minute, I'll go ask my mom what she wants on hers." Said Sakura and this time it was Meiling's turn to nod. Sakura went upstairs and went straight to her mother's room. She knocked.
"Mom? What do you want on your-" said Sakura but stopped when she saw what her mother was doing. Nadeshiko was lying on her bed, her hair tousled, watching soaps and drinking alcohol straight from the bottle. Sakura also found some medication on the nightstand. It was Hajitou's sleeping pills.
"What are you doing, mom! Why are you drinking? You never drink! And did you take those pills!" asked/ screamed Sakura at the same time.
"Huh?" asked her mother and turned her head to Sakura. She hadn't been paying attention what her own daughter was saying. "What did you say, dear?" asked Nadeshiko kind of drunk.
"What's all this commot- Holy shit! What happened to your mom, Sakura?" asked Meiling coming into the room.
"I was about to ask that to my mom." Said Sakura crossing her arms.
"Sakura you have to understand." Said Nadeshiko.
"What? That right after you heard the news about 'Monkeybreath' that you immediately go to your room and drink and take pills that you aren't supposed to be taking and ignore me when I'm asking you a question?" yelled Sakura.
"Saku, calm down a bit." Said Meiling holding Sakura's shoulders.
"Sakura this is going to be a hard time for me. With him… gone now for forever, how will I ever coup up?"
"The same way what I did when you and dad divorced." Said Sakura surprisingly calmly. And with dad she left.
"Um, I'm gonna go after her, yeah." Said Meiling and went after Sakura.
Meilin searched Sakura in the house and found her gone. 'She must've gone outside.' Thought Meiling.
With Sakura
Sakura walked through the streets aimlessly. She wounded up at the same park she met Tomoyo and Rika when she tried to find the school.
She sat on a swing and thought about earlier. 'How could she do this to me? She knows that she's not allowed drinking while she's pregnant.' (I don't know for sure if that's true but bear with me, please.) She was so busy in thought that she didn't hear someone coming behind her.
"Boo." Said that person scaring the hell out of her.
"Hoe!" screamed Sakura. She turned around and saw Syaoran standing behind her with a smirk.
"So that's how you greet someone?" sadi Syaoran playfully.
"Don't start. I'm really depressed right now." Said Sakura seriously.
"What happened?" asked Syaoran changing from playful to serious look.
"I'd rather not talk about it." said Sakura. Syaoran cupped her chin making her look at him.
"Come on, tell me. You can trust me." Said Syaoran. She didn't know why but she felt that she could tell him.
"Fine, but you promise to never tell this to anyone, alright?" asked Sakura.
"I promise." He said. Sakura raised her hand and stuck out her pinky. Syaoran was confused.
"The pinky-promise, silly." Said Sakura. Syaoran tried his very best not to laugh. Sakura saw this and glared.
"Do you want to hear my story, or not?" asked Sakura still glaring. Syaoran immideatly stopped.
"Sorry." He said and stuck his pinky as well. Their pinkies hooked together signaling that Syaoran had made his promise official.
"Okay. You'll see it in the news tomorrow, but what the heck." Said Sakura. Syaoran was getting interested. 'In the news, huh? I wonder what happened.' He thought.
"My stepfather was an alcoholic and he always would beat me or my mom up, if we go against him or did something wrong." She stared Syaoran was shocked. 'Her stepfather would beat her and her mother? Man the guy has issues.'
"My mom and him had a fight about the way he acts. After that, he left with all his stuff and my mom was so happy. But when Meiling and me went through the park to go to school we saw a crowd around a bench. I asked about whom that man was getting into the ambulance and he described him as my stepfather so I looked at the dead man and…it was him." Finished Sakura her story.
Syaoran was speechless.
"You think I'm weird, right? It's okay, I'm used to it." said Sakura getting up from the swing. But suddenly, two warm arms circled her waist and she was tightly held by Syaoran. He turned her around and before she got a chance to ask what he was doing, he kissed her.
He broke away from the kiss and grinned when he saw her blushing. 'He kissed me.' Thought Sakura over and over.
"Sakura…Wo ai ni."
AN: HA! I finally finished this chapter. I know it's not that long but I just finished and published my first chapter of my new story called: 'Eternal Grudge'. If you don't like horror and mystery, then don't read it, but if you do, please let me know what you thought of it, okay? Please R&R!
AN:(edit) Since the said I couldn't post seperate content that doesn't include the story(which I forgot so sorry!) they deleted it so i'll post it here(that's all right isn't it? This is the same what I said in the seperate post so if you've already read the post there don't bother reading it here) 'AN: This is real hard for me to say but I sadly lost interest in cardcaptor Sakura so I won't be writing any fics of it anymore. i've also broken my vow to write a multi-chaptered story and finishing it, which I didn't and now it's impossible to regain interest now that i've watched all the episodes of it(maybe that's why I don't like watching Tsubasa Chronicle?) I'm not that strong like all of the other writers who can do it without ruining its plot and can finish it. So you can flame me if you want, I deserve it.