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Summary: At the age of six, Sakura has one of the kindest hearts out there. When she meets Syaoran, they become instant friends, giving them both their first kiss. Being the daughter of an important leader in Japan has its advantages and disadvantages. One being arranged marriages. Or is that a good thing? Little did she know, her marriage was being arranged to Syaoran, heir to the Li clan in Hong Kong. Though friends for the two weeks Sakura visited at age six, they meet again ten years later to be announced that they are to be married. Sakura and Syaoran must marry out of duty to their parents and their responsibility to the corporations. But is there more to their marriage than just duty?
CHAPTER 4
START OF SCHOOL
A Week Later
Although Syaoran and Sakura have not been bitter, but they haven't gotten closer either. Because it was almost the start of school for them, Sakura constantly went with Tomoyo for new hair accessories, clothes, and shoes. Syaoran however, had martial arts practice everyday, and learning about the Li clan for when he becomes leader.
Sakura POV
At last, school starts tomorrow! I can't wait to go back to school and see Tomoyo! All throughout this week, Syaoran's been very polite, and we barely had a conversation. We will be going to an internationally private school for powerful families. This school had all the latest technology and they used cards as access to practically everything in the school. (AN: If anybody's has read IMADOKI by Yu Watase, their school is the basis of this one ) We got into Syaoran's limo and his chauffeur drove us to school. As we got out, people were staring at us and whispering to each other. I don't know whether it's because there's something on our faces or because we're the heirs to very big companies. Hopefully the latter.
We walked into the school and started walking to the guidance office to get our schedules and ID cards.
"Sakura!" I heard. I turned around and saw Tomoyo running towards me.
"Tomoyo!" I yelled, as I ran over to her.
"Oh my god! It's been so long since I've seen you!"
"Tomoyo, it's just been last week" I said, laughing
"Yeah! Forever!" she said as I chuckled
"So, how's married life?" I asked
"Wonderful. Except for all the business responsibilities, it's a dream come true. So where's your fiancé?" she asked looking behind me slyly.
"Oh yeah, um, Tomoyo, this is Syaoran," I introduced, pointing to Syaoran. "Syaoran, this is my very best friend, Tomoyo."
"It's nice to finally meet you" Tomoyo said sticking her hand out
"The pleasure is all mine." Syaoran replied accepting her offered hand
"Speaking of guys, where's Eriol?" I asked
"Oh, he's registering up for some classes." Tomoyo giggled.
"Oh. Okay. Let's go get our schedules." I said
We walked into the guidance office.
"May I help you?" asked the desk lady
"Oh, we're new to this school so we were hoping to get our schedules this morning." Syaoran said
"Of course you can" she replied.
After she got our names and grade, she looked in her computer files and printed a copy of each of our schedules. We thanked her and left the office.
"Let's compare our class schedule" I looked at Tomoyo's schedule and saw that we had three classes together.
"Cool! We have science, math, and grammar together!" Tomoyo squealed.
"Yeah!" I exclaimed with her. I looked over to Syaoran who was studying his schedule.
"What classes are you taking?" I asked. He handed his schedule over to me and saw that we had six classes together!
"Whoa, we have math, English, Japanese, art, and physics together." I said looking up at him. He stared at me.
"Ummm….." I said warily.
"Cool, uh, do we have first period together?" he asked zoning back in
"Umm…." I looked at our schedules "Yeah, we have art first"
"Okay, let's go then. We don't want to be late for our first day, right?" he asked
"Yeah. I'll see you later Tomoyo." I said waving to her.
"Bye!" she yelled
Syaoran and I walked towards our first class. When we opened the door, the sound caught every student's attention.
"May I have your attention, please" the teacher said "We have two new students, Syaoran Li and Sakura Kinomoto. Please make them feel welcome. You two can sit at the empty table in the back."
We nodded and obediently went to our seats. We sat down in our seats and saw that the students started to whisper.
"Oh my god! Did you see him? He's so hot! I heard he's the heir to Li clan" I heard some girl whisper.
"She's so hot! I wonder if she has a boyfriend." I also heard except it came from a guy.
"Okay class, let's get started" the teacher said, as the class turned their attentions back to the teacher. After class, Syaoran and I headed off to our next class together.
"So how do you like this school so far?" he asked as we were walking.
"It's nice, except for the people who keep staring at us." I said looking at him, making him chuckle.
"Yeah, that IS kind of weird, isn't it?" he said looking back at me.
"Very weird. Why do you think they're staring at us anyways?" I asked
"I have a feeling they know that we're the heirs of the two most powerful companies." He said. He glanced at a bunch of giggling girls and rolled his eyes. I smiled.
"It seems they have a crush on you." I said, nudging him.
"Uh huh, speak for yourself."
"What do you mean?" I asked
"Almost every guy here stares at you when you're in the same room as they are." He replied
"What? No way! You're making that up. I don't see any guys looking at me."
"Uh huh but they are. I've seen them."
"Yeah, well all the girls are looking at you!" I said
"I hope they're girls. If they were guys, that'll be kind of weird." (AN: I don't have anything against homosexuals, just letting you guys know! It's just that Syaoran is straight, so… yeah. Carry on!)
"Haha, come on, we'll be late for class if we keep talking." I said walking ahead.
During last period, Syaoran, Tomoyo, Eriol and I were all in the same class. Tomoyo and I were seated together and Syaoran and Eriol were seated together.
"So how has your day with Syaoran been?" Tomoyo whispered
"It's been okay. There were so many people staring at us… it was kind of creepy." I replied, getting goose bumps just thinking about it.
"That's because you're so pretty!" she exclaimed.
"Oh stop with that Tomoyo, I'm serious. Maybe it's because I'm new." I said.
"Uh huh." Tomoyo said.
"So Syaoran, how's your day so far?" Eriol asked
"Oh, it's okay, I guess, but I don't like the staring either. And don't say it's because I'm pretty." He said jokingly, looking at Tomoyo, who just smiled.
"Ah, look, teacher's speaking" I said, and we all turned to listen.
After school, I went to my locker to get some books to take home. Then the halls suddenly became quiet… I turned around to see what was happening and saw a group of guys walking down. I stood there looking at them. When they were in front of me, they stopped. The leader of the gang faced me and smiled.
"Hey, I'm Toya." He said, sticking his hand out. (AN: not Sakura's brother Touya but another Toya. And there's no Touya in this fan fic. Sorry! I had to take him out or else Sakura would not be the heiress to her father' company!)
"Oh, I'm Sakura." I said accepting his hand.
"Are you new here?" he asked.
"Yeah, actually today's my first day here." I replied
"Really? No wonder I haven't seen you around." He said smiling. I forced a smile, feeling kind of awkward. So I looked around and told him that I had to meet someone
"Okay, see you around" he said and left.
When he left, I could hear more whispers behind me. Oh Great! Now people have something else to talk behind my back about. I walked outside to meet Syaoran, Tomoyo, and Eriol underneath the cherry blossom tree.
"Sakura! Come on! We're going to be late!" Tomoyo yelled.
I started running to her but was intercepted by a group of girls.
"Can I help you?" I asked.
"Yeah, actually, you can." One of them spat.
"Yes?" I asked.
"You're new to this school, right?"
"Yeah." I replied
"Well, let me tell you how things work here. We're the girls who get the guys. And right now, I want your buddy over there that you've been walking with in between every class period. And my best friend here wants Toya." She said pointing to a girl with blue eyes and a long mane of black hair.
"What do you want me to do?" I asked.
"I want you to stay out of the way so I can get Syaoran and she can get Toya or you're not going to want to go to this school anymore." She spat
"Well, I'm not going to do anything to stop your conquest, but I'm also not going to try and avoid them just because of you." I said, sort of getting annoyed.
"Is there a problem?" Syaoran asked. He walked over here with Tomoyo and Eriol when they saw that I was in trouble.
"Um, no! Hi, my name's Mika, what's yours?" they first girl asked, sounding innocent and nice.
"I don't give my name out to just anyone" he replied.
"Oh, that's fine! I'm really a nice person once you get to know me." She smiled VERY fakely
"I'm sure you are." He said rolling his eyes
"So do you have any girlfriends back home?" she asked, purring, and leaning against him.
"Actually," he said "I have a fiancé"
"Oh, who?" she said backing up a little.
"Her" he said pointing to me. Mika glared at me, humphed, and stomped away.
"Whoa, that's one person I do NOT want to be friends with." Tomoyo said looking at Mika's departing form
"Yeah, she just came out of nowhere and started threatening me not to get in the way of their conquest of Syaoran and Toya." I said.
"Me?" Syaoran asked
"Yeah, don't tell me you haven't noticed that Mika was into you." I said.
"Not really" he replied honestly.
"She was all over you man!" Eriol said, slapping him on the back.
"Oh, shut up." He said sounding annoyed
"Who's Toya?" Tomoyo asked me.
"He's this guy I met today. It was kind of random. He was walking down the hall with his friends and they stopped in front of me. He introduced himself and then I introduced myself and then he asked me if I was new, and I said yes. And then I told him that I had to go so, yeah. That's it." I finished, and I looked over at them and saw them just staring at me.
"What?" I asked
"Someone has a crush on you!" Tomoyo squealed.
"No he doesn't!" I exclaimed.
"Aw, that's cute!" Tomoyo squealed.
"You don't know what you're talking about. Let's just go." I said hooking my arm with hers.
Syaoran's POV
Who's Toya? And what's this I'm feeling? I can't be jealous, can I? I haven't even known her for that long. Sure she's sweet, kind, and beautiful, but other than that, I don't know jack about her. She only views me as a friend, that's all. She made it clear that first day we met that she wanted to marry out of love. Gads, what's wrong with me?
"Earth to Syaoran!" Eriol yelled waving his hand in front of my face.
"Yeah, I hear you! You can stop yelling!" I said.
"Come on, the girls are leaving without us." He said pointing to the backs of Sakura and Tomoyo.
We walked over to them and got into the limo that was waiting for us. It took us to the little café that Sakura recommended. It was very modern and clean, and we sat in cushioned armchair sofas. We ordered some cappuccinos and some biscotti's.
"Ah, at least they didn't give us any homework on our first day" Eriol yawned.
"Yeah. We're free for today." I replied
"Hey, let's go to the carnival" Sakura suggested.
"Yeah! The carnival!" Tomoyo squealed.
"Sure." Eriol said
"How about you, Syaoran?" Sakura asked.
"Um, sure." I said, stupidly.
"Okay. It's almost five thirty. Do you guys want to go now?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, let's go." we all said
We stood up and I paid for the drinks and stuff, after a lot of arguing. We went into the limo and had the driver take us to the carnival. When we got out, Tomoyo and Eriol were holding hands, and standing close together.
"They're so cute aren't they?" Sakura asked
"Yeah, I guess." I said. But we'd be cuter. Jeez! What am I thinking?
"I'm so happy for them. Being in love. I wonder how it feels." Sakura said facing me
"So you've never been in love?" I asked.
"Well, no, not really. I've always tried to avoid guys that were beneficial to our family corporation. How about you?"
"I've kind of been the same, but I'll just ignore all people of the opposite sex." I said
"Really? So you don't have any girl friends?" I asked
"No, I also kind of avoid people. There's only Eriol and some other guys from the soccer team that are my friends." I admitted
"That's sad." She said, looking down
"What is?" I asked
"That you don't have much friends" she replied
"What's wrong with not having lots of friends?" I asked mesmerized by her face... wait a second... did I just say that?
"Don't you get lonely? I know! I'll be your friend! We'll be really good friends and I'll be your first girl friend!" she beamed
"Ah, um, okay, I guess." I responded
"Great! So, friend, what do you want to do?" she asked
"I don't care. You choose" I said
"Okay, hmmm… let's go on the Ferris wheel!" she suggested
"Okay."
We walked over to the Ferris wheel and handed our tickets to get on the ride. We then went on the ride. It was kind of like a round cage, where you can see beyond the carnival itself but still confined to safety.
Sakura's POV
"Wow, it's so pretty" I said looking down at the carnival lights.
"Yeah" Syaoran responded. I glance at him and saw his eyes twinkling from the lights.
"So, how do you like me so far?" I asked. Oh god, I can't believe I just asked that.
"What?" he asked
"I just want to know what you think of me so far." I repeated
"Well, I guess you're an okay person. Why?" he asked
"Well, I just want to know if we'll be able to live together after we're married. It's still a sore spot for me, being betrothed and stuff." I said looking back down at the lights
"Yeah. I guess I just try not to think about it."
"How do you think it'll be like, us being married?" I asked
"I don't have a single clue." He responded
"Tell me about your life" I said wanting to know about him
"My life? What is there to know? I was born into the Li clan, I'm the heir to the clan, and now I'm engaged."
"I mean about your childhood."
"Well, I didn't really have a normal childhood. I've been trained to become the leader and I was never able to do things that normal kids would be able to do. I wouldn't be allowed to go to the park and play with some of my classmates. Instead I would train for hours, to get stronger and skillful in order to defend the Li clan if something happened."
"That's so sad. Everyone should have childhood." I said, in the brink of tears.
"Don't cry. (pause) So tell me about your childhood." He said
"Okay, my childhood. Well, I was brought up in a loving family with a mom, dad, and brother. I didn't have any responsibilities and I played outside with Tomoyo everyday. But one day when I was seven, I was waiting for my mom at the curb of our driveway. I saw her coming and immediately stood up, excited to tell her about my day of adventure with aliens." I said smiling a little. And then I continued.
"She saw me waving to her and she waved back, looking at me and then a drunk driver was speeding down, and hit my mother's car. Her car burst into flames. And the drunk driver had a concussion. But my mom died and he didn't. Damnit! He survived and she didn't!" I said crying.
"He was put into prison. But we were all affected: me, my father, my brother. We had a terrible time living without her. She was so perfect. She didn't deserve to die. Sometimes I wonder if I wasn't there distracting her, whether she would have paid more attention to the road and could have avoided the bastard."
"Don't say that. It wasn't your fault. Do you hear me? It wasn't your fault. You couldn't have done anything to prevent what had happened. Don't beat yourself up because of it. Look at me." He lifted my head and looked in my eyes. "It's not your fault. And no matter what you think or what others say, it will never be your fault, okay?"
"Thanks for listening" I whispered.
I looked up and met intense amber eyes…
AN: okay, again sorry about the toya thing... but I'm reading this book that has the main character guys' name Toya, so i just used it...
I have to say that I'm not at all pleased at the way this chapter came out... erm... yeaahh... these first four chapters were pre written a while ago, so now I have to start writing again and coming up with the next chapters.
Sorry about the lack of FLUFF! I promise more in the upcoming chapters!
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