Disclaimie:
What's a disclaimer? (stares off into the distance...)
Anywho, onto the story…
Chapter: what is this number 6? I think so…
Snow: part onePlot by: The Can-Can group (teehee, that's me! )
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"So, what happened to you?" Toya asks while eating some of the meal Sakura had just finished making, "you look like that you had gotten into a fight with a pole and had lost."
Sakura started to panic, she couldn't remember the 'story' she had told to Syaoran and Briana, so she did the next best thing, "um… yeah, that's what happened. Stupid poles, being in the middle of the sidewalk." She laughed nerviously.
That's not what she told me. Syaoran thought while taking a bite out of the Hamburger Helper. He began to ponder if she had lied to him and the reasons why.
Toya, however, seemed to buy it, "Klutz," He muttered, although in the inside he knew that she had lied and he was upset about it.
"I'm not a klutz. Man you're so mean Toya."
"Unclie Toya isn't mean he just has some problems." Suzo piped up.
Toya nodded, "Yes, that's right, I'm not mean, I'm just-… hey, wait a minute!"
Suzo laughed, she had tricked her uncle and she is now happy and satisfied with the world.
"Why did you lie?" Syaoran asked while the other two had their discussion.
Sakura paled, she was kind of hoping that he wouldn't have remembered what she had said and wouldn't bring up the subject, "Um…" she replied.
"Well?"
Sakura coughed, "I'd prefer if we didn't discuss it, at least not in front of Suzo."
Suzo's ears perked up at the saying of her name, "Did you want something?" she asked.
Sakura shooked her head, "Nope, I was just talking about something."
The chestnut-haired man gave a dramatic sigh, "Lying to your own child, tsk tsk." He grinned seeing the insulted look flash across Sakura's eyes. Her eye twitched as she quickly stood up. Toya and Suzo looked at her confused. "Syaoran, you're doing dishes. Toya, you know were the blankets are, have a good night. Suzo, you've got school tomorrow, and I'm going to Tomoyo's, I'll be back whenever." She announced as she went to the closet to grab her coat."
"What did you say to get her so pissed?" Toya asked as they heard the loud slamming of the door.
Syaoran shrugged, "I, evidently, asked about something that was a sore subject."
(Tomoyo's house…)
"You know what Tomoyo?" Sakura asked as she had a sip of tea. After arriving to her friend's house, she apologized for her earlier behavior, which Tomoyo graciously accepted.
"What?"
"Carl was so easy to understand, he was obedient, strong willed, and the silent type." Sakura sighed.
"Are you talking about the high school gym wall? The one Eriol and I got you married to?" Tomoyo blinked as tried to remember who Carl was.
"That's the one, sure he was a gigolo, but he was an excellent lover, I had three talking fences with him," Sakura laughed at the memory. Whenever one of her friends came even close to touching him she would chase after them. Then one day, Eriol got Sakura and "Carl" married. The next day she was out of school for something and her friends made fun of her, saying that she was on a honeymoon, making little "talking fences". High school was one very interesting time for her.
Tomoyo laughed also, "So what brought this up?" she asked, there was something bigger behind all of this.
"Toya is bugging the crap out of me again and Syaoran is getting nosy." Sakura replied.
"How is he getting nosy again?"
"He's asking about my bruises and about Suzo's crapped up father." She had also told Tomoyo about the bruises, and the truth this time, knowing that she could sniff a lie a mile a way.
"He's just wondering, why are you getting so upset about it? Maybe you're just upset that a guy, aside from your father and brother (Sakura muttered something nasty about the brother part), might actually care for you." The ravened-haired woman deduced while taking a sip of her own tea.
"So," Sakura started off, in hopes to change the subject, "how are you and Eriol doing in your relationship?"
Tomoyo gave a playful glare, "if you won't tell me about yours, I won't tell about mine."
Sakura sighed, "fine…"
Tomoyo picked up a piece of paper and handed it to the auburn-haired woman across from her, "did you know that there's going to be a high school reunion coming up next week? Did you get you an invite? Are you going?"
Sakura nearly spit out her tea; she had been hoping that Tomoyo wouldn't bring up the subject. "Um… yes, yes, erm… no," she replied quietly.
"And why are you not going?"
"It takes awhile to get Tomoeda, Suzo wouldn't be able to get to school, I don't want to intrude on Dad, and I can't afford to lose to much of work." Sakura said, ticking off the reasons of why she couldn't go, aside from the fact that she didn't want to listen to everyone talk about how getting married to Renjiro at an early age had been a mistake.
Tomoyo shook her head, "First off, seven hours is not very far, secondly, Suzo has the week off during which the high school reunion takes place," she said taking a sip of tea. "You know that your dad is always asking you to come and visit him all of the time so that's no problem, and finally you know there is such a thing as sick leave."
"Yeah, but-"
Tomoyo wagged her finger, "no buts about it."
Sakura sighed as she finally gave in. They discussed on how they were going to get there, which ended up as Sakura, Syaoran, Suzo, and Eriol will ride with Tomoyo (who made herself the driver, which made Sakura really scared). Once they made it to Tomoeda, Tomoyo would drop off Sakura and Co. off at her father's house and she and Eriol would go to her mother's house and stay there.
Sakura took a peek at her watch, "well, I'd better be leaving now, got work tomorrow."
Tomoyo nodded as they both got up and headed to the front door. "Ny the way, don't you dare forget the promise you made me, the one with the fashion show," she said before Sakura start to pretend to play dumb.
"I'll see you later, bye!" Sakura replied quickly as she made her way outside. She could briefly hear her friend's shouts from outside as she made her way to the sidewalk.
(Apartment…)
She carefully opened the door, so that she wouldn't wake up her overbearing brother and everyone else. Sakura treaded in carefully, putting her coat in the closet quietly and making her way to her room. However just as she was passing by the kitchen someone called out, "Where were you?" causing her to nearly jump out of her skin.
Sakura nearly screamed as the person put a hand over her mouth. "Will you stop over reacting? Its just me," she recognized the voice of Syaoran's. "Boy do you over react a lot."
She seethed at the comment, "I come into my house, and nearly have a heart attack because you choose to scare me instead of telling me or turning on the lights so that I can see -- do you really think that I'm over reacting?"
"Hey," Syaoran raised his hands up in defense, "I was in here to get something to drink, I don't need light to know were the fridge is, my eyes are used to the dark already. Besides you snuck up on me." He added as a last safety measure.
She was getting herself in position to attack him when the kitchen lights were unexpectedly were turned on, causing the both of them to get slightly blinded, "Why the heck are you two arguing! You woke me up!" yelled Toya as he entered the kitchen.
"Mr. Li was waiting for me to arrive and scared me!" She pointed an accusing finger at the man next to herself.
Syaoran rolled his eyes, "yep, that's me, the person who waits for someone to enter the kitchen so that I can scare him," he said sarcastically.
Sakura nodded her head, showing that she agreed with his statement.
Toya sighed as he said goodnight to the bickering "children" and went back to the couch to get more sleep.
"Oh, by the way, next week, my high school is having a reunion for my class, and I was wondering…" Sakura suddenly blushed.
He looked at her confusingly until he finally understood what she was asking, "and you want me to come with you? Is that correct?" Sakura nodded meekly.
Syaoran shrugged, "Sure why not, I don't have anything major that I have to do at work and I never did went to my first one … wait, why is your reunion being done so early? Didn't you just get out of high school?"
"Tomoeda is weird like that," Sakura replied as she made a small yawn. She gave him the invitation to read. "I'm going to bed now." She entered her own bedroom, leaving Syaoran reading the card.
(Car…)
Sakura watched the trees as they flashed on by. They (they being Syaoran, Suzo, and herself) were all in the back seat of Tomoyo's limo. Tomoyo was in the front seat, driving, she claimed that she wanted to try one of her new outfits for her chauffeur line. Eriol made himself the navigator, so that the driver wouldn't accidentally get lost.
Sakura asked Briana to watch over Kero while they were gone. As they were leaving, Kero tried to get out, to no avail, and Sakura put all the food in hard to reach places (mostly in locked rooms that Briana has a spare key to) so that he wouldn't eat the food.
Her mind began to wonder about her hometown and the changes (if any) that have been made since she was last there. Hopefully, the town grew at least a little bit bigger and wasn't a gossip town anymore. In Tomoeda, one person's business is everyone else's, that's what happens in small town such as Tomoeda. The news about Sakura's bad marriage had spread like wildfire, which was one of the reasons for her leaving in the first place; it was a very embarrassing experience for her.
"Will you stop sighing?" Syaoran asked, breaking her train of thoughts, "you have been sighing for the past five miles and it's starting to get really annoying."
She glared at him, "I'd make a comment about that, but I don't won't to wake Suzo up." She looked towards the sleeping girl. This would be Suzo's first time to Tomoeda and seeing her grandpa. The little girl was pretty excited when Sakura told her where they were going.
Sakura turned her attention to the outside world again, some of the features of the landscape were becoming familiar, and judging by the frequency of the increase of familiarity, they should be arriving soon. Finally, she decided to use the remaining time to take a small nap.
(In front of Sakura's house…)
Sakura woke up to small shakes, "can't I get just five more minutes dad?" she rolled to the other side.
"No you can't Sakura, we have to get you inside."
Her eyes flashed open, "Dad!" She shouted as she quickly, and nearly hit her head on the car's roof as she proceeded to get up quickly. Sakura and her father got out of the car, once outside; she gave him a huge hug. "How have you been?"
"Good and you?"
Syaoran coughed, "sorry to break up this reunion, but Daidoji needs to get home and its kind of cold out here."
Sakura's father nodded in agreement, and led then inside after everyone said bye to Tomoyo and Eriol.
They all took a seat at the kitchen table, while her father went to get some tea he had just made up. "By the way," her father said from the stove, "my name is Kinomoto Fujitaka." He returned to the table, gave everyone a cup of tea and took a seat.
Syaoran took a sip, giving his approval, and replied, "I'm Li Syaoran."
Fujitaka decided this is the time to ask a question that has been plaguing his mind since he first saw the young man exiting the limo, "are you two married?"
Sakura nearly spit the contents in her mouth out. Syaoran blushed, "no, we're not married, I need a place to stay and she offered up," he explained.
The auburn haired woman coughed, "more like conned."
Fujitaka laughed, "Oh that's good, I was afraid that my daughter made another mistake and eloped with you." Sakura, again, nearly coughed at that, "I'd rather get married to Renjiro again, then marry that thing.'
Syaoran gave a pretend wistful sigh, "and to think, I thought we actually had something special going on."
"Not in this lifetime, or the next, will we ever have something "special" going on," she glared.
He gave a hopeful look, "then there's hope for the one after the next!"
Her glare turned even harder, "you don't just give up do you?"
"Nope."
Fujitaka laughed during the whole conversation. His daughter seemed more emotional, like she was before the whole thing with his ex-son-in-law, which is a big improvement considering the person we're talking about.
"You should know that all Li's are very stubborn," Syaoran commented, causing Sakura to become even more irate.
The father nodded at his assessment, his daughter is finally opening up.
(Morning…)
Sakura opened up her unfocused eyes. The ceiling looked different, causing her to lean forward quickly. After a quick look around the room, she remembered that she's in her old room. A knock came at the door.
"Come in," she called. The door opened quickly to reveal Suzo with a happy smile, "morning Mommy!" The little girl jumped into her mothers large bed, "unclie says that only monsters sleep in late."
Sakura's eye started to twitch, "oh he did, did he?" Suzo nodded as her mother got out of her bed.
"Tell him that he had better be gone by the time I'm downstairs, or he'll see a real monster."
"Okie dokie," Suzo laughed as she ran downstairs.
Sakura then got started on her morning rituals while coming up with ideas for torturing her brother.
(Breakfast room…)
Fujitaka shook his head with another sigh. His son and Syaoran were having another glaring contest, this time over who got the last pancake, totally forgetting that Sakura also needed to eat.
Suddenly Suzo came bounding down, making the two grown children break their contest. She smiled seeing that there was one last pancake and took it. The two men's jaws dropped as she had her grandfather help her with the cutting.
"Toya!" came Sakura's loud shout from up the grand stair case, "you're so dead meat!" The sound of tumbling coming down the stairs followed. Sakura entered the kitchen with an angry look.
"Wow, its only seven and the monster is up." The angry girl's brother commented as he got up, "I've got to go, I've got work, bye everyone, bye monster." While walking past his sister, she took the time to kick him in the shin. He tried to restrain himself from yelling out curses as he went out through the front door.
The angry woman sat down in the chair next to her father, who commented, "such a loving family."
"Morning to you too, Dad," Sakura replied as she looks around the table for breakfast. "Did they eat all of the breakfast?" Fujitaka nodded.
Sakura glared at Syaoran, who was trying to look as innocent as possible, "you and Toya better get over this pride thing soon, or I'll be very angry." She stood up and headed for the front door, grabbing her coat and purse, "I'm going to the bakery to get some breakfast."
"Bye," follows the chorused voices as she left the huge mansion.
(A Bakery…)
Sakura entered the bread smelling bakery/ café. There were a few people in there, munching on pastries and sweet rolls, all the while reading the newspaper or listening to the person across from them talk about their plans for the day.
She walked up to the counter to make her selection off of the board hanging behind the registers. A woman with two light-brown pigtails and even lighter brown eyes, wearing a maroon apron with the logo of the bakery on it, asked her what her order was.
"Um… I'll have a cinnamon bun and warm milk with honey," Sakura ordered, smiling.
The woman nodded as she went to fulfill the order. A few moments she returned with the selected items and handed her the tray. She gave Sakura a curious look and asked, "Are you by any chance Kinomoto Sakura? You look just like her."
Sakura nodded, slightly confused and wondering how the woman knew her name.
The woman looked as if she was about to jump up and down for joy, "Its me, Mihara Chiharu. From high school, remember?"
"Wow, really? This is great! I haven't seen you since I left, come and join me at a table." Sakura asked. Chiharu told one of the other workers that she's taking a break.
They quickly went to a table were they immediately talked up a storm.
"Did you and Takeshi ever get together?" Sakura asked, while chewing on her sweet roll.
Chiharu nodded, "yep, we're married with three children."
"Wow, you guys are reproducing like rabbits, aren't you?" The auburn-haired woman asked with out an ounce of tact.
Chiharu blushed as she nodded, "and what about you and the baby girl you had? How is she?"
"How did you know about that, I didn't tell many people."
The woman across from her, shrugged nonchalantly, "this is Tomoeda, the place were news travel fast and sins are a big no no, what else do you expect?"
"How's the rest of the gang, what are they doing?"
"Let's see, Naoko owns a book store, and Rika works at the craft store, then Yamazaki and I own this bakery." Chiharu ticked off with her fingers, in order to help with remembering everyone.
The two continued to chat about what has been happening for the past five years, ignoring the world around them.
(Later in the morning…)
Sakura took a look at her watch, "wow, its almost noon." She started to get up, Chiharu close behind.
"Are you going to the high school reunion?" Chiharu asked Sakura as she put on her winter coat.
"Unfortunately, yes, Tomoyo, once again, conned me into doing something that I don't want to," Sakura gave an exasperated sigh.
"Okay, then I'll see you there," A cry of impatience came from behind the counter, signaling the end of the conversation. The two friends said their goodbyes and went their separate ways.
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Authoress's Notie
Anywho, I'm going to experimenting with the format, since I have just figured out how to keep the bold and italics when posting, so if any thing seems weird… then its weird. --U
Click and the stupid review button all ready and click go…
