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Chapter Three: The Acquiescence

Sakura placed her chopsticks down carefully and patted her lips with a clean, crisp napkin. Her father was finished and draining his cup of water while her brother was still occupied with his meal, attacking every edible thing in sight with his protruding utensils.

She cleared her voice timidly. "Father? I have something to ask of you." She winced inwardly at the sight of her brother looking slightly suspicious while chomping stridently on his repast. Her father however smiled down at her. The skin crinkled at the corners of his kind russet orbs; peering through silver spectacles, dilapidated over time. His hair was a reflection of hers; the soft color of hay merged with a brazen shade of ginger. But as the years have gone by a new color was added to the mixture, the color of gray. Its ashen color symbolized reverence and wisdom.

"What is it Sakura? Is something wrong?" Her father's friendly countenance quickly changed to that of a concerned one.

"Nothings the matter, it's just that, instead of going to the festival with you I thought maybe I could go camping with Seres and a few of our friends." Sakura looked down at her hands, clasped together, softly praying for the answer she was seeking. Touya, however, had by this time finished eating and bore a most unhappy expression. He had dark chocolate eyes that were now glaring upon her. His hair was somewhat spiked and ruffled from the day's work, it was also the color of coal, inherited from their mother.

As his gaze was steadily controlled on her he inquired at the same time, "Friends like Seres? What did she talk you into this time? Wait, I know, your going to go with guys right? That girl has her head stuck up in la la land and the population there only consists of male gender… or clones of her current boyfriend, if you can call him a guy that is." With that much being said he had no idea how close he was to the truth.

"Well we're also taking other girls too so it won't be much of a problem. And don't insult my friends, you have no place in picking my friends and Seres isn't going out with that guy… it turned out he was cheating on her… with a guy, but that's not the point! Dad we just wanted to go up into the mountains to hike and stuff. The festival is annual so I won't miss anything. Please Daddy?" Sakura felt indignant toward her brother for his interruption and verbal abuse and hoped that it hadn't marred her chance to get away from home.

Her father looked pensive for a second then came upon his decision. "I think it'd be alright if you went, as long as you don't do anything… inappropriate, but I trust you, you haven't disappointed me once when it came to honesty and trust." A smile broke across his face once more as his daughter wrapped her slender arms around his waist and burrowed her face into his chest. Muffled and repeated thanks were heard under a blanket of a loud tirade bellowing from Touya.

"Father, she's too young to be out there! She should just come to the festival with us. And how can you trust her and her FRIEND with boys? I don't think we should let her she's only 17…" Touya droned on while Sakura rolled her eyes.

"Er… dad? I think I'll let you handle this, you can calm him down, I can only do the opposite and infuriate him more." With that being said she strode upstairs to her room. With a smile she picked up her phone and dialed Seres's number. She was going to be ecstatic when she hears this.

Yippee another chappie, albeit short, but its another one at least. I accidentally removed the story when I was fooling around, im dumb like that but you know accidents happen. I wasn't going to continue this story but a reviewer changed my mind.

Reviewer

Date

Chapter

Type

smiles

2003-07-05

4

Anonymous

u better update this story! it sounds cool the beginnig. i hate it when ppl start stories n don''t finish it. so please please update this story but more than one chapter at a time! so i hope you update this story!n continue writing stories!!

Ashitaka Himura

2003-06-25

1

Anonymous

Kinda boring but it has the potiential to be awesome.You caught my eye from the summery.Here's some Q.'s for you to answer in the next Ch.
-Who took Japan over?
-How did they get together?
-What are they going to do to save Japan?
PS Please,Please!Put the next Ch. up SOON!^ ^

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Diamond-Star

2003-06-24

1

Signed

Hey!

This is great!!

It is woundeful to finally read some thing that isn't about Sakura admitting her love to syaoran etc... there are so many of those, so many infact their just plain boring however this is really great, good idea's with this!

hope you choose to continue!

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please read and review me (FLAME if you must!XD lol)

- kandi

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Thank you reviewers you brightened my day!!! Im hoping for more reviews soon!!