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Chapter 3:- The date.
Sakura watched as Syaoran got up and all his followers left her immediately. ' Ah ' , she thought, ' solitude again' .
The minute Syaoran and his fan club had left, Kasumi slid into the seat next to hers and Naoko.
"What's up?" she asked.
Sakura simply glared at the floor and said " I am in a very bad mood. I don't want to talk."
Kasumi clucked sympathetically. "It's okay. You take things too hard. And you have to admit, Syaoran's definitely gotten some great looks, no?"
"No," Sakura growled. "Not at all. He's too tall, too messy haired and too muscular and.. "
Kasumi laughed. "You agree with me then," she snickered.
Sakura raised an eyebrow "Which part of me telling that i can't stand him can't you understand?" she said rather harshly.
Kasumi looked a little hurt, and Sakura instantly felt sorry.
"Sorry, Kasumi " she said quickly. " Syaoran just tends to make me crazy."
"With lust, you mean?" Naoko piped in innocently.
"crazy in looooove " Kasumi said dreamily. Ever the drama queen.
" you guys..." Sakura warned, a dangerous edge coming to her voice.
"Only kidding!" Kasumi said, laughing and getting up. "Now if you don't mind, I'm off to convince Syaoran that he's going to pick me "
Naoko agreed with her "See you in a bit Sakura."
Sakura sighed. "You and everyone else. You know, you shouldn't even bother with that sick..."
Sakura looked up to see that Kasumi and Naoko had already gone.
Suddenly Shiefa Liang appeared in the room. Sakura was puzzled, how can Syaoran turn out to be such a jerk with a sister as nice as her?
She realized that Shiefa Liang had begun to speak and turned her attention to her.
"Girls, it's time! Syaoran, why don't you lead the way "
Syaoran got up and walked inside to where the rose ceremony was going to take place. All the girls followed suit, Sakura bringing up the rear rather reluctantly. Well, at least she would get to go home soon.
She prayed that her brother weren't watching this on TV. And if he was watching, she'd tell him it was all Tomoyo's fault.
Syaoran was beginning his traditional little speech. "This has been a really difficult decision to make," he began. "I mean, I think I have a connection with each and every one of you."
Sakura coughed delicately and Syaoran looked at her with loath in his eyes.
They both knew he was speaking bull shit.
Syaoran picked up the first rose tenderly and called out a name. "Airo Yuki," he said slowly.
Airo smiled, and walked up to Syaoran, accepted the rose, and gave him a hug.
"Kasumi Riyo." Kasumi did the exact same thing. So did the other twelve girls that followed, which included Naoko.
Finally they were down to one last rose. On Sakura's right, a girl was sending a small prayer up. On Sakura's left, another girl that she didn't know was biting her lip in nervousness.
Why did they care so much?
Sakura could not wait until he hurried up and called the last girl and then she would be able to go home at last.
Syaoran inhaled deeply.
'Damn,' Sakura thought. ' He's going to do it slowly. If i could just use the Time card and get this thing over with.'
"Sakura Kinomoto," he said finally.
The girl on Sakura's right burst into tears and the girl on her left bit her lip so hard that a droplet of blood appeared.
Sakura stared at him incredulously. He hadn't just called her, no, damn it, he had.
She walked up to him slowly and heard him ask the repeated question "Will you accept this rose?"
She was quite tempted to say no and poke him in the eye with that rose.
Right as the word was about to roll of her tongue, she had a better idea. So he wanted to torture her by keeping her here? Well, that could be arranged, provided she added a little bit of her own 'fun' ideas.
In fact, this would be quite the blast, to humiliate him on TV with the whole world watching.
"I will," she said, and they both smirked at each other.
The fifteen girls then headed to their room. Everyone rushed in and got the best bed they liked.
Sakura tossed and turned all night, but her dreams were constantly haunted by a glaring Syaoran in his green fighting robes (A/N: u know that green and white fighting attire he has in the anime ) handing her rose after rose.
In the early hours of the morning, Sakura realized that there was no way she was going to have a decent amount of sleep and resorted to staring at her ceiling and imagining she was at home, watching this on TV instead of actually being in it.
She watched her room mate, Ryoko, sleep peacefully. Ryoko was probably having dreams about Syaoran too, except they were fantasies instead of nightmares.
Sakura shuddered. It was quite disturbing, really, the way all these girls lusted after him.
Around seven, Sakura arose from the bed and took a quick shower. She heard noises from the bedroom near hers and peeked in to see Kasumi agonizing in front of her closet.
Sakura sighed as she herself pulled on an old sweat shirt.
She'd brought fancier clothes, but that was before she knew that the bachelor was Syaoran. He didn't deserve nice clothes. He deserves a good kick in the a.
While she waited for breakfast, Sakura pulled out a book and started to read for the next hour or so, while Ryoko bathed. Her concentration was broken, however, by a large sound that droned out any thought. It was Ryoko's blow dryer.
Sakura marched up to her and yelled, "Could you turn it down a little? I'm trying to read!"
Ryoko either did not hear her or pretended not to have heard. She continued to blow dry as Sakura watched, open-mouthed, until her hair had formed into tiny ringlets.
She switched the dryer off and turned to Sakura. "How do I look?" she asked.
For the first time, Sakura noticed Ryoko's attire. She was wearing a low-cut, puke green, lacy, skin-tight... thing. It did not even resemble a dress and it clashed horribly with her red hair.
"It's very... uh, unique.Syaoran will be sure to remember it "Sakura saidusing great control to keep her laughter at bay.
Ryoko practically glowed from what she thought was a compliment. "Really! " she said happily." I hope I get a date with him today."
Sakura frowned as she remembered the outline of The Bachelor. Of course. Dates!
She shuddered at the thought; a date with Syaoran. Gods, It made her past horrifying 9 dates look like heaven. Well, maybe not those dates..
Her body shook further as she remembered that one girl out of every group of girls was picked to go on an individual date.
'God', she thought unhappily,' please, let my luck be a little better than that.'
Breakfast was a quick affair and soon the girls were light-heartedly chatting about Syaoran's stunningly good looks.
" He's so handsome " one of them swooned.
Another chimed in "He's dead sexy ! God, he looked so cute when he was ruffling his hair " .
Yet another giggled. " He's my dream guy! " All the girls let out a sigh of hope and fantasy.
Sakura just wanted to run screaming down the street .
Around mid-afternoon, Kasumi ran into their quarters shrieking like a woman in delivery.
" Oh my gosh! " she screamed, and all the girls looked up from whatever they were doing,
" A date box! Girls, we've got a date box! "
"Whoop-de-doo" Sakura replied sarcastically under her breath.
Everyone abandoned everything at once, except for Sakura, who was just at this most interesting part in her book. Kasumi soon put a halt to that.
"Sakura, we've got a date box! And I'm not opening it until everyone's paying attention" she said slyly.
Sakura quickly put down her book before she was swarmed to death by a horde of angry girls.
A date box was really a letter that told which girls were going on the date and who got the individual date, along with many details.
Kasumi picked up the letter, cleared her throat and began to read in earnest. "It's for ooh, Airo, Naoko, Kourin, Ryoko and Nikki ! " she said excitedly.
"Who gets the individual date? " Ryoko demanded.
Sakura snickered, thankful that she wasn't on the list. It would be awfully fun to imagine Syaoran on an individual date with Ryoko. He'd really admire her puke-green thing (she referred to it as the latest in fashion magazine).
"Airo !" Kasumi said happily.
"All of you guys get to go to the hill resort with Syaoran " Kasumi said dreamily. " Afterwards you'll all have snacks and then Airo will go to dinner with him! "
Everyone 'ooh'-ed for Airo, who looked like she'd just won the Nobel Prize.
Even Sakura congratulated her. After all, she was excited about it, and she took the spot of at least one individual date. Sakura hoped that out of the remaining two individual dates, neither would be for her.
Soon afterwards, the girls going on the date departed, leaving ten girls behind. The girl named Susan soon suggested a round of the ever popular waste-of-time game, also known as Truth or Dare.
" Buuut " she squealed happily, "We'll make it truth or truth! "
" What? " someone asked.
" You'll see " Susan said, her eyes sparkling. "I'll go first. I pick Sakura."
Sakura rolled her eyes. She had many secrets, and none of these girls would really understand that.
" Fine. I suppose I'll have to pick truth."
"Okay. First rule of this version of the game is, all the questions have to be about our bachelor! "
Sakura groaned. Here she was, surrounded by bubbly girls that were all obsessed with Syaoran Li ! How she hated Tomoyo!
"My question to you is, do you really hate Syaoran?" Susan asked innocently.
Sakura pondered the question. Did she really detest Syaoran with every fiber of her being, did she really want to beat him to a pulp and leave him to die, did she really wish him to be dead at that final battle with Yue? .
Unfortunately, all the answers turned out to be no. Sure, she hated his attitude, hated him for not helping her change the cards, hated the fact that he never gave her a chance to prove herself, but not him.
Sakura didn't hate people. She is still has that innocent 10-yr old girl's attitude towards life.
" Well " she said, trying to explain herself "I don't really hate him, i am just mad at him for-"
But she was suddenly cut off by a shriek from another girl." Oh my gosh, girls! " Kasumi cried. " Sakura doesn't really hate our man! It's a tactic! "
Before she knew it, Sakura was being patted on the back by the girls, who were all saying, " Wow, you're so smart, playing hard-to-get right from day one!" and ,
" Wow, you are so wicked ! ", and " That's a great tactic, Sakura!"
Sakura's jaw dropped. " What tactic? " she said hotly. " I swear I can't stand him! I just said I don't hate him because I don't hate anybody! "
Of course, none of the girls believed her. Sakura wanted the floor to swallow her up. This was going from bad to worse.
The girls did not lay off their congratulations until the other four girls returned from their date.
" How did it go? " Kasumi demanded.
Ryoko smiled broadly. "He was awestruck by my outfit ."
Naoko smiled and coughed loudly "coughcough horror struck coughcough "
Sakura, once again, expressed great self-control and did not laugh. The other girls, too, shared their special moments. Only Kourin didn't say anything. She just smiled mysteriously until someone questioned her.
"Kourin! What happened between you and Syaoran?" asked Susan excitedly.
Kourin's smiled broadened. " He kissed me " she said lightly.
All the girls gasped. " Oh my gosh! " yelled Kasumi. " Really! "
" Yes. We were saying goodbye and he kissed me! "
Everyone cheered for Kourin, although Sakura noticed a lot of the girls sported frowns. Jealous, Sakura thought lightly. Already.
Soon Airo came home as well. " Guys " she exclaimed. " It was positively lovely! We talked about everything! And he kissed me good night " she said happily. Everyone sighed dreamily.
The next day, another date box arrived. This time it was Susan who intercepted it, and she screeched in a manner similar to that of Kasumi.
"I'm reading it, girls " she yelled, " So you better listen up! "
All eyes were drawn to her as she read the letter. " Okay, this date is for Kasumi, Taren, Sakura, Katey, and me !" While the other girls called grinned wildly, Sakura's face considerably dropped.
" Who got the individual date? " asked Taren worriedly.
Sakura shut her eyes and hoped that it wasn't her. " It's Sakura !" Kasumi screamed.
So much for that hope. Sakura sighed. She half-expected it, almost. Anything that could go wrong was going wrong.
" You will all be going to a spa with Syaoran! '
Sakura didn't really listen until she heard Kasumi shout, "We get to see Syaoran in his swimming trunks! Yes!"
Only then did she realize what a day she was in for.
A/N:- Thanks to last chap reviewers :- Chinita92 , simplyxkitty, Lucilia-chan ,Develish angel 4eva, Vampire jazzy, Pinaygrrl, Kimura .
Vampire jazzy:- u know that final fight with Yue that Sakura and Syaoran had in the anime? Syaoran went back to China after Saku became the card mistress... he just feels angry towards her because of it...
Chinita92;- ahhhhhh don't kill me! He will fall for her.
Lucilia-chan: Thank u! I will! Ja ne.
simplyxkitty: Sakura drop out of the show and miss humiliating Syaoran? I don't think so... -smiles mysteriously- something will happen...u'll just have to wait and see...oh and i also like it when they first fight and then fall for each other...-sighs- that is soooo romantic...