Reaquainted...forever?
SUMMARY - Sakura and Syaoran were the best of friends in their early childhood. When Syaoran went back to Hong Kong, Sakura became insecure, dependant on her only other friends(Tomoyo & Eriol). When Syaoran unexpectantly returns after ten years, Sakura has something new to deal with...
TaG - Everyone, since I wrote such a short chapter last time, I've decided to write an extra long chapter for your benefit! Thanks for the reviews once again!
(A/N) The following will be shown:
Normal Dialouge CHANGE OF SCENE "talking"
inner voice
#character's thoughts#
(author's notes)
'author's thought's'
POV - point of view (What happened previously...)
"Now to make a few annoucements..." Mr Hagashi began with a dull voice,
"The caretaker has advised me to tell all students that all graffiti found on school property is yet again unexceptable and will punish students for doing so. Also, there is the School Fair next week, after the exams which I hope you all do well in. And last, but not least, we have a permanent international student staying at our school, his name is Syaoran Li"
"Urg..." The named bent his head down, trying to ignore the stares from his everyone in the hall.
"So Mr Li, please come up here and introduce yourself please!" The pricipal welcomed him onto the stage.
"Oh damn it..." Syaoran muttered, as eyes fell on him, and one in particular.
"SYAO HONEY! I LOVE YOU!" Screamed a voice, so familiar... Keshia Ruroshi...
CHAPTER FOUR - The Lunch Menu
"Have. To. Go." Syaoran as quick as a fox jumped out of his seat and managed to get to the back door before the principal realised that he had gone. "What the HELL... Why did I think that that obsessive-freak would be back to normal?" He combed his hair annoyedly(not a word, but I just made it up!)with his hand. He leaned against the brick wall and shuddered. "Oh man, what have I gotten myself into, but I mean, just one freak like her gets me all scared of her - wait, not scared, freaked out. What a scary chick."
'You know, you never DID think that Syaoran'
Huh? Think what
'That Ruroshi-chan would change'
Oh yeah... (blinks) It's that "inner voice
'Yeah, which is a part of you! Geez, forget about me huh... So tell me, what happened'
Well, basically, that Ruroshi chick proprosed her undying love for me in assembly
'I don't think it was THAT dramatic'
You were sleeping at the time
'Oh right. Whoops'
Honestly, what does she think she's doing? All the girls are gonna stalk me now... It's a scary thought ya know. Lucky for you though, you're nothing but an "Inner Voice". Nothing else
'Thanks, I feel SOOOO much better. Not'
"Calm down, at least half of the school isn't after you..." Syaoran murmured.
BACK IN THE HALL
Everyone was talking. Again. But no one, except Sakura noticed that Syaoran had slipped out of the crowd, and crept away to look where he had gone. As the noise went back down to a pin drop, everyone looked for Syaoran. Who wasn't around. "Ruroshi-san, in thanks for that insane outburst, you will receive... hm... puts on thinking cap you will have lunch with me!" Hagashi-sensei annouced.
"B-but... But sensei, I was planning to hold a lunch, to reunite the members of the 'I LOVE SYAORAN LI' FanClub!" Keshia begged the principal.
"Lunch? Let's see, well I'll have a think about that. But for now, BACK TO ASSEMBLY Utsuko-san, Chiri-san!" Sensei called to the pair, who were attempting without success to leave the hall. Sensei had forgotten about Syaoran by this time, "I'll be speaking to you two after this." Groans from the pair could be heard as they sat back into their seats. Amongst all this, Tomoyo and Eriol were still where they were, at the back of the hall, in an agitated dicussion:
"But Eriol, shouldn't we go to look for them too? What if someone finds out that BOTH of them aren't here?" Tomoyo worried asked Eriol.
"Don't worry, they're TEENAGERS. Teenagers are suppose to look after themselves..." Eriol reassured Tomoyo.
"They'll get in trouble"
"Oh, you and your goody-two-shoes"
"Hey! I'm being concerned! It may be alright for Syaoran to run off, this IS his first day and all, but Sakura has a perfect record to look at"
"If I was Syaoran though, I would have run off too... Ruroshi-chan can really be quite annoying..." Eriol muttered to himself.
"Huh? Fine, I won't chase them, besides, this is a good time for them to get-togther... (insert evil smile here) Keshia is so full of herself when Syaoran isn't around, hope Syaoran can control her..." Tomoyo laughed.
Sakura's POV
I had saw Keshia-chan call out to Syaoran, and a second later, Syaoran bolting for the door. I quickly followed him, making sure I wasn't seen. Looking behind me, everyone was talking at the usual volume of noise, and I shut the door fast. Outside, the field in front of me looked very green at this time of the year, and I was pleased to note, that the sakura's were blooming on the trees next to the field. I went to the largest tree, and took my time to climb up it. Most of the flowers had bloomed, and they all looked so beautiful. If only Okaa-san was here, she'ld be able to see all the pretty flowers... I took off my satchel, and searched it for the photograph. I found it, cushioned in the secret pocket, and took it out, placing the photograph on a stable branch. Okaa-san smiled at me from the picture; I plucked a sakura from the tree and stuck it onto the frame. I admired the flower, so gentle and smooth, with a beautiful figure... like Okaa-san too. Looking around the school, I saw the hall, which I had departed previously, the field and the trees where I was now, the classrooms all bundled together near the hall and the basketbal court, with the brick wall standing apart from it. I spied a lone figure, leaning on the wall. I went closer to have a look, the figure looked familiar, but who... suddenly I recognised who!
Normal POV
Sakura exclaimed loudly as she saw Syaoran by himself. She packed her satchel, and jumped off the tree carelessly, running as fast as she could to Syaoran. By the time she reached the brick wall, she was puffing slightely, but was glad to see Syaoran was okay. But what was troubling her was that he was talking to himself.
"Calm down, at least half of the school isn't after you"
"Ne? Syaoran-kun, are you okay?" Sakura anxiously asked Syaoran.
"Huh? ... SAKURA-CHAN! What are you doing here!" Syaoran jumped when he realised Sakura was next to him.
"I... I just came to see if you were okay..." Sakura nervously answered, expecting Syaoran to make another outburst again.
"Gomen Sakura-chan, did I frighten you? I'm fine, but could be better if that Ruroshi-chan hadn't said anything about me..." Syaoran sighed, and combed his hair with his hand, "It's just that, everytime she sees me, she acts all psycho and stuff... I mean if the girls in the school like me like this... well I'm worried to think about my sanity or whatever..." "Syaoran-kun, everyone loves you because you have a nice personality, you're smart, athletic, and um... pretty good looking too." Sakura blushed slightely. "Well... um thanks... But I think that those girls are pretty obsessive though if you get my point. They go overboard..." Syaoran stated firmly, then blinked, "Does everyone think I'm like that? I mean, perfect or something? Even you Sakura-chan"
"Um..." Sakura couldn't think of what to say, Syaoran was staring at her, she spoke again, ignoring Syaoran's last comment, "Well... I think we should be going back soon, or else we'll be getting into trouble..." Syaoran just nodded his head and followed Sakura who started walking towards the classrooms. (A/N Assembly has already fnished...) But inside, Syaoran was having (yet another) conversation inside of his head...
Syaoran's POV
Wow... does everyone REALLY think that I'm all perfect? That must be why those FanClub girls go all crazy over me, now why can't they just find another "Mr. Perfect" and go worship him
'You should be happy that so many people worship you, Master. By the time you're in your 20's, every girl will practically wanna marry you'
Hey, this is my thoughts alone IV. And you have an exaggerated view of the future
'What's IV? And didn't you know that I could predict the future'
You can! Oh my gosh!
'I was just kidding. Honestly, I didn't realise that you were so gullible'
Shutup stupid IV
'So what does that mean? IV'
Oh right... IV - I'm Vague
'I am?'
Baka. And you thought I was gullible
'Great minds think alike... What DOES it mean then'
IV - Inner Voice. It's so basic. But now I prefer "I'm Vague" better
'Vague... so we're both vague then'
Not me. Just you
'But we're both the same'
"I don't need you to tell me that, baka."
Normal POV
Now, as Syaoran was having his little "debate with his IV, he didn't realise (yet again) that he had spoken aloud again, this time though, Sakura heard him. Being Sakura, she thought that she had said something to offend him (She was talking -to herself- all the time that Syaoran was talking to the IV). "S-Syaoran-kun? Daijoubu desu ka?" She asked.
"Oh! Gomen Sakura-chan, did I just speak aloud again? Bad habbit..." Syaoran apologised to Sakura. "Iie, don't worry about it, everyone has those kind of things." Sakura assured Syaoran. Syaoran about "everyone", with strange habbits, but HE hadn't aqquired this particular habbit until recently. What's going on? Thought Syaoran to himself, that baka IV has to keep going into my individual thoughts. 'HEY!' IV yelled (inside his head). Syaoran decided to ignore IV, and said to Sakura, "You calm me down, put me in a more relaxing enviroment, whereas most people can never really get to comfort me. When bakas like Ruroshi-chan stuff up my surrounding, you're always there for me. Thanks Sakura. I really appreciate that." Then when he looked at Sakura's suprised face, he stuttered, "Oh! Um, would you um, rather me call you just plain Sakura-chan?" "Daijoubu desu. Sakura is fine by me." Sakura grinned at Syaoran, and he felt himself feeling light-headed. "Well, we better go! Class is going to start! Jonishi-Sensei is quite strict with attendance..." Sakura continued, and pratically dragged Syaoran to their class, until that is...
"ATTENTION STUDENTS! YES THIS IS A MESSAGE FOR STUDENTS YET AGAIN! OR A FEW ANYWAY!" The intercom further ahead of them suddenly screamed out its contents, making a few stragglers getting to class (including S & S) jumped a few metres higher than usual, but Syaoran highest than the rest. The intercom continued, "AND SO TO GET TO THE POINT, HAGASHI-SENSEI WOULD LIKE TO MEET LI-SAN AND RUROSHI-SAN IN HIS OFFICE IMMEDIATELY! HAVE A NICE DAY!"
"What the hell?" Syaoran stared at the intercom which became silently almost instantaneously. He didn't know what to be more suprised, that the school had such a crazy pyscho screaming through the intercom which looked old enough, that everyone in the school hadn't gone deaf yet, or that the principal wanted to meet himself and Ruroshi-chan in his office. It all seemed pretty crazy... "Ah... Gomen Syaoran...kun. The intercom is quite old, and the secretary of the principal is as old as the intercom (Points to the intercom, which has cobwebs all over it, and looked rusted, and pretty beaten up too). But what's this? You have to go with Keshia-chan to Sensei's office? Do you want me to come to?" Sakura looked at Syaoran to see what he would say. He shrugged, "I dunno. You don't really need to come with me, they can't do anything to me which you can't fix. But what they NEED to fix is that munted intercom. Seriously"
"Um, alright then. Tell me what happens after class ok?" Sakura was still blushing from the previous comment Syaoran made.
"Yeah sure. If I survive... Well see ya then." Syaoran looked into her emerald eyes, and then went towards the office - BUT, nearly crashed into Keshia who ran up to him. "SYAO-KUN! SYAO-KUN! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! WE'RE BOTH TOGETHER!" She screamed at the top of her voice. Several doors of the classes in the corridoor opened, and teachers stared at the two who looked dazed -Keshia, because she was with Syaoran, and Syaoran, well because he TRULY realised that Keshia wouldn't be changing her ways for a LONG time- and the teachers smirked: "Get a ROOM." Syaoran was red in the face, he sped off and Keshia ran after him, demanding him to slow down and wait for her - "Syao-kun! Slow down! Are you mad at me? GOMENASAI!" in return, "HELL YEAH, who would wanna stay a second with you". Sakura just chuckled under her breath, and started to go to class. Her phone vibrated in her skirt pocket suddenly, Sakura fished out her phone, a cute pink-and-silver phone with a dangly chain of stars hanging off the phone.
The phone read - 'Message Received. Read?' Sakura selected the ok button and read the message:
'Sakura, where are you? Are you with Syaoran? Sensei is panicking lol. Better get here! Love Tomoyo.'
Sakura thought for a moment, and then decided to tell Tomoyo later in class via notes. She quickly locked her phone and put it back inside her pocket to avoid it getting confiscated, and dashed to class fast. By the time she reached class, she was looking slightely puffed, her hair all messy, flushed face and picking up her books which had fallen out of her satchel. The door opened. 'KINOMOTO-SAN! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? (calming down) I was so worried about you!" Asashi-sensei freaked out when she saw Sakura panting slightely at the door. "Well... um I was... at the bathroom..." Sakura pretended to blush and fiddled with her fingers, hoping that Asashi-sensei would believe her. "Ah... I see. Don't take so long next time though Kinomoto-san." She informed Sakura. "Uh, yeah sure Sensei." Sakura replied and sat next to Tomoyo and Eriol, who were sitting at the back of the room looking at Sakura with big smiles on their face.
Now Sensei continued with her lesson that had begun until Sakura had come. Turned out that they were doing Japanese. Sakura got out her books, and began to scribble down notes as the students in front of her were doing so. As she was in the middle of writing notes down for the exam, she felt a poke on her arm, from the left of her. She turned her head, Tomoyo still had the same big smile plastered over her face, and she was motioning towards the little folded piece of paper which sat at Sakura's arm. Sakura unfolded the paper slowly, and read the message Tomoyo had wrote, along with Eriol, and so they began their conversation: (A/N 'S' Sakura, 'T' Tomoyo, 'E' Eriol)
T - So Sakura, what happened between you and Syaoran? We know you were with him alright, don't deny it!
E - Yeah why you run off before?
S - Huh? I was wondering why Syaoran ran off, so I went to check up on him.
E - You sound like a nurse lol. He doesn't need looking after.
T - But what did you guys do?
E - Tomoyo, you make it sound like they DID something... (Tomoyo pokes Eriol with her pen -"Ouch!" "Is everything alright there at the back? If you don't get this down people, you'll fail your exams!" Asashi exclaimed. "Don't worry about it Sensei, we're writting it down." Sakura answered)
S - Well we just talked.
T - About what?
E - Tomoyo.
S - About stuff. I don't think he'ld want me to tell.
E - If it's about him and Ruroshi-chan, we don't really care about that alright.
S - Oh.
E - So it was? (I don't really care, it's really just Tomoyo)
S - Um, yeah it was...
At this point, when Tomoyo read the last part of their conversation, she shrieked, "NANI! That was ALL!" Asashi-sensei looked to the back of the room again, and frowned at Tomoyo, "Daijoujii-san, if you don't find this information good enough for you, I'ld suggest that you leave this class and find another class which satisfies you and your mother." Tomoyo's mother had always dissaproved of the ways the school had taught the students, and had complained to Asashi-sensei many times. Tomoyo would have moved schools because of the low teaching methods, but she was allowed to stay to acompany Sakura through school. After that little outburst, the trio decided to leave the conversation and concentrate on writing up notes for the exams.
AT HAGASHI-SENSEI'S OFFICE
"So you two, you may wonder why I asked you two to come here?" Hagashi-sensei asked the pair. Syaoran rolled his eyes and thought to himself Why the hell am I still here? I'm suprised I'm not in hell already... Oh wait, I am. Being in the presence of Ruroshi-chan lures me into Hell. Damn! He was sitting on a soft blue seat, with Keshia next to him, listening to Sensei's every word (and I mean Keshia, not Syaoran). "So Ruroshi-san, since you mentioned to me about a lunch before... I was thinking, why not instead of having lunch with me, you have to host your own lunch for Syaoran, and you'll be his guide around the school! Since it IS his first day here..." "WAIT... WHAT. THE. HELL. DID. YOU. JUST. SAY." Syaoran fumed, while Keshia grinned, "Perfect Sensei! I'll have to arrange the lunch right away! And of course, I'll be happy to guide Syao-kun around!" Sensei sighed, "I thought that punishments weren't suppose to be enjoyable"
Syaoran was quite mad at the two of them, "DO YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST TELL ME TO BE WITH HER AND EXPECT ME TO BE HAPPY?" "No Li-san, but because of your recent disappearances, and your outburst, well I think it's fair to say you deserve it. Consider yourself lucky. Most people have to have detentions for what you do." Sensei smirked at him, and Syaoran answered, "But what about Ruroshi-chan? How come you can do whatever SHE wants? She wants to host some crazy lunch-gathering, why do I have to be in it?" "Syao-kun, it's because the FanClub's gonna reform again... in thanks for your return! You're the main reason why we meet! We'ld give up our lives for you and..." Keshia clapped her hands together in delight, and Sensei covered her mouth to avoid her from talking anymore, "See here Li-san, Ruroshi-san can make her punishment into a positive thing, maybe you should try that too..." Sensei told Syaoran, who then asked, "BUT... I can find my way around school by myself fine...(he's calmed down). "Ah, if you insisted Li-san, after all, the Li's are quite the tough cookies aren't they? Yes I know that you're the heir of the throne to the Li Fortress. And I won't tell. I'll let you off this tour guide thing then, but you will HAVE TO go to the lunch I'm afraid." Syaoran looked like hell was ready to spring on him (not a very good look by the way...) when Sensei mentioned the lunch once again. Luckily for Syaoran, the bell rang for interval, and so he ran out of the room very fast. He HAD to tell the others what was going to happen...
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(A/N Well hope that's alright! I hope it develops :) Anyway review and if you have, ARIGATOU!)
Here is a sneak preview of the next chapter: Happy Reading : )
"Guess what... That baka principal of ours has allowed Ruroshi-chan to BRING ME TO HELL!" Syaoran bellowed. Onlookers looked at Syaoran oddly, and whispered excitedly amongst themselves. The quartet were sitting at the sakura tree Sakura was previously at, and Syaoran was telling the others what his prediciment was. "Really? Oh my gosh, it's DEFINATELY the time to bring out my camera!" Tomoyo exclaimed happily and whipped out her camera from her backpack. "No Tomoyo... we don't need that right now..." Eriol couldn't keep up with Tomoyo's excitment, and when the camera shone on his face, he avoided the lenses and moved away from her. Tomoyo made a puppy-face, "Oh Eriol, don't you like my camera anymore?" "No," Eriol replied, "I'm just tired of your camera. I'll get you another one later alright?" "Really! Kakko!" Tomoyo grinned and grabbed Eriol, starting to kiss him. "Umg..." Eriol tried to move away but unsuceeded, and they started kissing pasionately. Sakura and Syaoran looked away from the occupied pair nervously and continued their previous conversation:
"If you don't mind me asking... How can Keshia-chan 'bring you to hell'?" Sakura asked.
"Well I don't mean it literally, but she's gonna go all pyscho over me as usual..." Syaoran frowned.
"Oh... well I'm happy for you, though it may seem strange, but you're lucky to have someone who cares so much about you to want to hold a lunch for you, to celebrate your arrival"
"Really? It's really quite an annoyance though... I don't understand how your mind works sometimes Sakura"
"Mm, you know what you told me about before? About what Sensei said to you about thinking positively? Well, I was thinking that, maybe it WOULD help if you tried that"
"Think positive? You must be kidding me, how can you think positive about THAT! And it doesn't help that it's Ruroshi-chan"
"Change the plot. Like pretend that... um... I'm the one holding the lunch for you"
"What? You mean, you're not coming?" (Syaoran is surprised)
"Huh? Of course I'm coming! But just change your perspective on it"
"So basically pretend you're Ruroshi-chan? That'll never happen. You're too good to be her"
(Sakura is currently blushing)"Nani? No way... I'm sure she's better for you than me"
"Uh..." Did I REALLY just hear Sakura say that? Nup, IV must be playing around with my head... "You're way more better than her, in every way..." Syaoran whispered quietly.
"Um..." Sakura couldn't say anything, but just look into those brown eyes... Vice versa, Syaoran couldn't avoid those emerald eyes of Sakura's... they were leaning closer and closer towards each other... a breath's away from each other...
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Following Translations: (If I'm wrong, do tell me!)
Gomen - Sorry (in short form)
Baka - (Stupid) Idiot
Daijoubu desu ka? - Are you alright?
Nani - What
Arigatou - Thanks
Kakko - Cool