Chapter 2

Card Captor Sakura

By Angel Stardust

What Are You?

Sakura's legs moved swiftly beneath her, transporting her from the track to the finish line in less than twenty seconds. She was the first to finish, out of both boys and girls. She bent over, her hands on her knees, panting with exhaustion, but exhilerated nonetheless. Her mile time had improved from 5 minutes 45 seconds, to 5 minutes and 21 seconds. If only in Cross Country at the end of today she could improve her two mile time to 11 minutes or less...

Coach Takashi was impressed. So far, Sakura was his best althete, above all the boys, too. Duringthe badminton game the other day, Sakura had been challenged to a one-on-one game by Lan Hisaki, Coach Takashi's second best athlete. And guess who won? The girl won, and now Lan was the laughing stock of the entire school. Coach Takashi shook his head at the thought. Lan and his gang would think of a way of getting back at the poor girl...and it wasn't even her fault!

It was for Sakura's athletic excellence that the entire junior year hated her. Though she hadn't done a thing wrong, Sakura had humiliated even the fastest of boys, and when a guy gets mad at someone, so does his girlfriend (well that's how it is at my school).

Sakura grabbed her water bottled from the sideline and drained it in two gulps. She wiped her forehead and looked up...just as Lan was coming in for a six minute mile. When he saw that Sakura had already finished, he sent her a menacing death glare and stalked off to get his water bottle. Sakura sighed and stared after him. Why did he hate her so much? The simple thought of being hated, hurt so much that Sakura hung her head and was depressed for the rest of the day after P.E. class (kinda lame that she doesn't get the point, eh?)

It had been three days since Sakura had found the amber-eyed boy by the side of the road, and she had thought about him all the time. During lunch hour, Sakura had been in the library, sitting in a chair, pretending to be reading when all she was thinking about was that boy. She hadn't even asked for his name...

She was sure that it would have been a nice name. The only problem was that Sakura couldn't think of a single name that would suit this handsome young man. After all, what name would you give to a man with eyes as intense as those amber orbs of his? An American name just didn't fit, an English name just wouldn't match, and there were millions of japanese names out there!

o o o

Sakura grabbed her backpack and began walking out of the front gates. About half the school was exiting too, as Tomoeda High offered a large range of afterschool activities. Sakura winced as she expectedto feel countless pairs of eyes glaring at her, most coming from the girlfriends of all the boys she had beaten at running, or some other sport. Surprisingly however, she felt none. Looking up around her, Sakura could see that all the eyes of the girls were averted in one direction...the direction of a handsome young man standing outside the gates.

His amber eyes were drifting across the sea of faces, searching for a particular one. It was the young man! Sakura felt like crawling into a hole and never coming out. All the other girls were now sending her death glares as she approached the gate. Suddenly, the young man's amber eyes landed on Sakura, and he purposefully strode over to her. More intense death glares...great, humiliation.

"Hi," he said, his face soft and his amber eyes less menacing. HIs voice was fond, yet deep-set, and Sakura looked up at his handsome face and found herself blushing. He was just so handsome...Sakura wasn't sure what to do with him! She caught sight of his clothing, and realized just how odd he looked.

The boy was garbed in a leaf green tunic with a hood. A silver insignia of some sort hung around his neck on a crude peice of dark brown leather. His trousers were a mahogany color, wrinkling at the edge of a pair of dark brown leather boots, that began in the middle of his calves. His messy, chocolate-brown hair blew backwards in the slight breeze, and Sakura could see his amber eyes, flashing dangerously at all the girls around them who were trying to hear what they were saying.

"H-hi..." Sakura replied slowly, uncertain of what to say, "You're...you're better now?"

To her utter surprise the young man grinned at her. His eyes were twinkling with amusement. His face looked ever so nice when he smiled...

"Only thanks to you," he said, still smiling. Several of the onlooking girls pretended to faint, while the others just stared at Sakura with complete jealousy and hatred. So much for having boyfriends.

"Will you come with me? My sensei wants to meet you..." the boy said, oblivious of the stares of the people around him.

Sakura looked around for a second and hastily nodded, seeing that all the girls were ready to say that they would go with him if Sakura wasn't going to. Sakura was in no mood to let them ruin her life. This was the first young man she had ever met who wasn't a complete jerk, and she wasn't going to let them take him away from her.

"Um...okay, so where are we going?" she asked tentatively. The boy didn't answer. He just took her hand and began walking away, dragging Sakura with him. Sakura winced as a volley of death glares penetrated the back of her head. Oh, my.

Sakura looked at her surroundings and saw that they were walking toward the very intersection where she had found him. Cherry Blossom Lane and Crystal Fire Road. Confused, yet curious, Sakura followed him, still holding his hand.

Suddenly, the boy stopped, causing Sakura to walk into him. She gasped and let go of his hand, retreating back a few steps, murmuring her apologies in an embarassed voice. She was such an idiot!

"It's okay Sakura-chan, I'm fine."

Sakura gaped at him. He knew her name! But why...how did he know? She had never told him!

"Y-you...you know my name! B-but h-how do you know?" Sakura stuttered, her voice faltering. The boy simply chuckled at her startled appearance. His amber eyes twinkled with amusement.

"I know things, Sakura."

Sakura simply gaped at him. He knew things? What did he know, and how did he find out? After all, if he"knew things" then wouldn't he be considered a seer or something? Possibly...even an angel?

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