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 - Hey guys! Sorry for not updating in awhile (or more like AGES!), I've been kinda busy with stuff like HW, my musical instruments (piano, violin, flute - quite a bit) and just other things but please forgive me! This may occur more often, so don't expect me to write another chapter till next month or so! LOL So basically: 1 Chapter 1 Month. Though I may feel inspired to write more than one :) Thanks for the reviews once again; they give me encouragement to continue with this:)
(A/N) The following will be shown:
Normal Dialouge
CHANGE OF SCENE
"talking"
'inner voice'
character's thoughts
(author's notes)
POV - point of view
(What happened previously...)
"...I'll let you off this tour guide thing then, but you will HAVE TO go to the lunch I'm afraid. But, I think I'll change it to TOMORROW lunch, that will be more convenient for the teachers and too-short notice." 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 lunch, and so he ran out of the room very fast. He HAD to tell the others what was going to happen...
CHAPTER FIVE - Close Up...
Syaoran practically sprinted out of the principal's office and planned never to go to That Lunch. Damn that Sensei, he's getting on my nerves... He dashed through the corridoors, and found his locker nearby. Emptying his bag into the locker, he shut the door hard and resumed his pace to getting outside... hopefully unlesss...
"Syao-kun! Wait for me 'kay!" Keshia sped up to Syaoran with about a few dozen trailing after her wanting to be showered into Syaoran's affection. He however, sighed, wishing that he had disappeared faster and now just stood there waiting for what Keshia had to say (and become the main eye-candy all of a sudden), instead of running off like his instincts told him to do.
"What is it now..." Syaoran asked boredly, being use to all this back when he use to live in Japan. Keshia brightened up, and cheerfully answered, "Well, um, I was wondering, whether you wanted to eat with me and the FanClub? 'Cos we really can't wait till lunch, and I made you some onigiri as well; so can you come?"
"Huh...? Onigiri... Mm, Onigiri... what the hell? It's just a rice ball... gomen Ruroshi-chan, but I really gotta go now, laters!" Syaoran quickly replied and took off again, with Keshia talking to "Syaoran", the imaginary one anyway with a dreamy look in her eyes which had appeared when he had said her name, and didn't realise that Syaoran had left already... (Yeah, Keshia's kinda dumb aye? lol) And the girls with Keshia were screaming out "I LOVE YOU SYAORAN"'s as he ran past the group. So there Syaoran was, exiting the scene, where many teachers and other students had now gathered to see what the big crowd was all about - "SCRAP!" Just one word and tides of students gathered to see... girls screaming their heads off. Plainly, that WASN'T a scrap. Syaoran had now left the building at this stage and was thinking to himself, How the hell am I suppose to know where they are? 'They', meaning Sakura, Tomoyo and Eriol.
MINUTES LATER...
Syaoran, who had been wandering around the school for awhile now was getting quite annoyed that he hadn't found the rest of the gang, thinking that they had decided to play a game of 'hide and seek' without his consentment.
This is so stupid, I could almost imagine, no wait, I can CLEARLY see it ( Viewing image of Eriol pursuading the others to ditch Syaoran with Eriol looking very hyper, Tomoyo with her camera planning to film it all, and Sakura with a small little frown of uncertainty). Geez... stupid imagination...
'Excuse moi, but that particular iMAGE was created by IV.inc'
You're kidding me right? Seriously... it's branded... -- Syaoran is looking quite amused
'I do not believe it! Master Syaoran doesn't think highly of the iMAGE!' -- IV meanwhile is looking depressed, about to cry
Hey... sorry IV, but THAT was just completly absurb. Anyway, would you have any idea where the others are?
'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?'
Obviously not, get on with it dude...
'I am NOT a dude! But to answer your question, I'm not a computerised-program which can display data when requested. It's gonna take more than that!'
Oh dear... So what's the predicament then?
'None. I'll give you a clue then, what is the name of Japan's Traditional Flower? Good bye now, system shutting down...'
"Oi! Don't you DARE close on me you..." Syaoran shouted unknowingly, and several blank faces stared at him suprisingly, one grabbing the soccer ball the group was playing with and grabbed hold of it tightely. "Did I just say that out loud?" Syaoran muttered to himself, and walked off, leaving the others looking at Syaoran weirdly and decided to continue their game of soccer...
Syaoran's POV
I was still walking around the school looking for them, and I was also thinking about what IV had mentioned... Seriously, what a random 'clue', if that's what you can call it... "What is the name of Japan's Traditional Flower?" Damn, I've heard it SOMEWHERE, but... I don't know where... A flower's a flower, so what does it matter?
- Sudden FlashBack -
"Hey Li-kun, You know you can call me Sakura right? Don't need to be so formal." Sakura smiled at Syaoran, whose cheeks were slowly turning red, "U-uh, sure, if you want me to. Call me Syaoran then 'kay?" He stuttered nervously.
"Hai! I will :) Do you know what Sakura means Syaoran-kun?" Sakura asked, and when Syaoran just looked confused, she continued, "Sakura means 'cherry blossom' in english, and also, it's Japan's Traditional Flower!" She beamed at Syaoran, and he felt his heart flutter...
- End of FlashBack -
I suddenly realised... SAKURA, meaning cherry blossoms, but what did that have to do with here? A sudden thought came into my head, I remembered that I had seen some Sakura trees before we had gone into assembly. Quickly running towards the trees which were directly in front of me I called out loudly, "SAKURA!" Moments later, I heard a reply, by the sound of "HOEE!" I wonder who THAT was...
Normal POV
"SAKURA!"
"HOE!" Sakura jumped very high, when a voice called out her name, and she instantly went into hyperventilating mode. Panting hard, she skitted up the branches of the Sakura tree the rest of them were at. Eriol meanwhile was doing the opposite, he leaned outwards of the tree and looked around, laughing very hard remembering Sakura's high-pitched voice and eventually ended up on the ground laughing and coughing slightely, having one of his 'Laughing Attacks' (Yes, it's offcial everyone... :p). Tomoyo had given up trying to tell Eriol to calm down, even though she had tried plently of times to explain to Eriol, that from a young age, Sakura had begun to become scared of ghosts and things alike, and Tomoyo's prediction was that Sakura had panicked, thinking that it was a ghost was very true... Though why, Tomoyo had no idea, but instead climbed up some branches to greet Sakura at the top who was hugging her knees together, her entire head hidden underneath her layered alburn hair.
"Sakura-chan, daijoubu desu ka? There were NO ghosts okay?" Tomoyo sat next to Sakura, and lifted up her head. Sakura's eyes were a little bit red, and Tomoyo took out a makeup kit from her bag and began to perform drastic changes to Sakura's face, as thought by Sakura anyway. By the time Tomoyo had finished, Sakura's eyes wre gleaming its familiar emerald green and she was smiling just as brightly again.
"Gomen Tomoyo-chan, but you know..." Sakura started, but Tomoyo shushed her with her hands and answered, "No worries, but I think the guys may be. Worried that is. Let's go down now, and no more crying 'kay?" "Nani!" Sakura replied panickly, "Who's there!"
Tomoyo laughed lightely at Sakura's face, "Oh, just my lovely Eriol, and your sweer lover Syaoran." Whilst Sakura blushed slightely, Tomoyo smirked, "I like the sound of THAT!" and snuck out her video camera, taking a shot of Sakura quite red in the face. "TOMOYO-CHAN! I HATE it when you do that!" Sakura yelled, and chased her down the branches while Tomoyo raced down and met the boys in the trunk of the tree laughing her head off. (A/N Well not literally anyway... wouldn't that look pretty weird?)
MOMENTS LATER...
"Huff-huff... Ano, do you know where Tomoyo is by any chance? I'm gonna KILL her!" Sakura panted, having searched the entire group of trees (they are connected, and pretty wide too. Just my crazy iMAGE huh :p) and looked at Eriol, and then saw Syaoran next to him. "HOE! I don't mean k-kill her! I mean..." She began, but Eriol laughed amused, "Gee you're a funny one Sakura, everyone has their 'bad' side remember! Anyway... introducing... TOMOYO DAIJOUJII!"
Tomoyo appeared, and strutted across a branch and met the group, doing a random curtsy where she stood, "Oh goodie! She didn't find me after all!" And Sakura attempted to crack her knuckles in a menacing way, but found herself massaging her hand in pain instead... This was it for Eriol, who suddenly cracked a high and began laughing very strangely... "HAHA HIHI HUHU HEHE HOHOHO... MERRY XMAS EVERYONE!" He tried to impersonate Santa, keyword being 'tried'. Everyone looked away disgusted - "Damn, I should have KNOWN that was coming..." Syaoran blocked his ears while the girls were busy giggling. Anyway, before Eriol started acting like a disorientated Santa and all that other stuff, WHY was I in a rush to get here? Chotto matte... I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVEN'T TOLD THEM YET!
"Hey guys..." Syaoran started, but Eriol was still on his high ("OO LOOK! IT'S THE TOOTH FAIRY WHO'S GONNA GET ME A MILLION DOLLARS THIS YEAR!") attempting to break loose a tooth and wincing in pain just like Sakura moments ago, and the girls, well yes they were still giggling, but it was now turning into shushed laughter. "HELLOOO?" Syaoran raised his voice over Eriol's, the girls shut up at least, and Tomoyo apologised, "I'm REALLY sorry Li-kun, but you know, I gave Eriol some of It before, to stop him from talking about his f-" Tomoyo looked sheepishly at Syaoran when he interupted, "Uh, yeah, you mean his FLUFFY BUNNY he got awhile ago aye...? He's been telling me since last month. I guess I should accept the laughing gas hasn't I... ANYWAY, as I was saying..."
A FEW MOMENTS AFTER THAT MOMENT...
"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. This time, the fascination was not Eriol Hiiragizawa, but (Insert sound of drum rolling)... Syaoran Li... The quartet were -still- sitting at the sakura tree Sakura was previously at by herself, and Syaoran was telling the others what his prediciment was. "Really? Oh my gosh, it's DEFINATELY the time to bring out my camera! Let's celebrate!" 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 look at HIS before huh...), 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...
"OH. MY. GOSH. The 'it' couple were gonna kiss! KAWAII!" Tomoyo gasped in suprised and dropped her camera, and Eriol caught it, and he had a gleam in his eye, "Nice one Syaoran, you're on your way..." He smirked, while Syaoran looking very red asked innocently with (failure), "What do you mean?" then he covered his mouth and shook his head, "Er... nothing. I didn't say anything just then..." Eriol just continued to smile in that mischievious way, and Tomoyo seeing this, took out her heavy maths book and whacked it against Eriol's head.
"ITAI! What was THAT for Tomoyo-chan?" Eriol groaned, and clutched his head pathetically. Sakura, having slightly gotten over the moment laughed cheerfully at Eriol, her emerald eyes brightening up constantly. Syaoran, just had a embarassed look on his face, but he smirked at Eriol and answered, "Watch what you say or your girl's gonna get all violent you know. That's pretty freaky..." The bell rang, and Eriol stood up, without a word to the others left the tree and made his way down and on his way to class. Syaoran blinked in surprise, and called out to Eriol, "Hey, we've got I.T together remember?" But Eriol pretended not not listen (or perhaps he didn't?) and continued on his way. Tomoyo lept up suddenly, and grinned, "Oh - I forgot, I need to go to the music department to get the sheets for the Arts Festival! Laters guys, see ya'll in class!" With that, Tomoyo quickly left the tree, leaving Sakura and Syaoran confused. Now that they were on their own, they decided to forget what had happened (for the moment anyway), and get to class before their teacher marked them late, or truant: same thing. They just made their way to the I.T class as soon as they could, not daring to speak to the other in case of sudden embarassment.
IN THE I.T CLASS
"Late! I won't accept it any longer Daijoujii-san, it's time that you-" The teacher stopped speaking when she saw Sakura and Syaoran looking amused at the door, and decided to sit back down at her large computer desk and go porn-surfing... As the students though anyways, she was really just writing out reports for the class. Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other with relief, and nearly bursting into laughter, decided to get to their seats before the teacher noticed. She only had eyes for Tomoyo and her lateness, which always followed a written apology as she walked through the door. Speaking of which, Tomoyo had just appeared at the door, and in her hand, was about a 10-paged apology of lateness. She, seeing that the teacher had her back faced to the door quietly made her way to her desk next to Sakura, hoping to not be noticed... alas, the teacher DID indeed notice... (A/N I think it would be better for all of I if I mentioned the NAME of the teacher: Kinitsu-sensei. There we go! Now on with the story...)
"DAIJOUJII-SAN! GET TO MY DESK RIGHT NOW YOU B-" Kinitsu-sensei began screaming at Tomoyo, who had an apologetic look to her face, but showing a grin to the class made her way to the main desk as the principal, Hagashi-sensei entered the room. Kinitsu-sensei finished her sentence with a "B-brilliant girl! I wanted to show you your latest letter composition structure AFTER you've TOLD me why you were late!" Kinitsu-sensei finished off, with a triumphant look to her face as she revealed to the principal that Tomoyo was late (as if he didn't have anything else to worry about huh...). Hagashi-sensei responded with a pleasant smile, "Well Kinitsu-sensei, Daijoujii-san is going to work hard for the PERFORMANCE as well as her schoolwork, WON'T you Daijoujii-san?" The mentioned, flushed, and snarled quite evily at Hagashi-sensei. The principal, (pretending to) not notice this began to talk again, "Well, Kinitsu-sensei, I was wondering whether I could borrow Li-san for a moment. I'll return him in fine condition I'm very certain."
Syaoran, who had been listening intenstly to the conversation like the rest of the class groaned, and fell off his chair whilst he was leaning back on it. ITAI! He thought quite annoyed to himself, and IV replied, Well good luck to you Master then. Syaoran sighed, and got up, rubbing his back at the same time. Sakura leaped from her computer chair, going to him and asking concernly, "Syaoran-kun, a-are you okay?" Syaoran managed a "I'm alright," and with an undertone, "if that stalker pricipal would stop leave me alone..." He walked stifly to the door and gave a wave to the class, signalling his departure, and many girls swooned, as usual. Kinitsu-sensei who felt ignored screamed out, "DAMANE! Or else all of you will stay afterschool! Get on with your typing then!" Hagashi-sensei grinned and said (sarcastically), "Oh what a diligent class, well ta-ta then!" disappearing through the door as Syaoran had done. Sakura was back in her seat, and was worried about Syaoran, whether he was extremely pissed off or just always like that. He sure had changed... for the better though? Sakura couldn't tell. She decided to IM Eriol who was sitting at a computer nearby and see what he would say. Tomoyo sat down quickly and grinned to herself, beginning to end the typing exercise as soon as she had started. As in VERY FAST. Anyway... back to Sakura:
Sakura's POV
I pondered on what to write to Eriol, he might be still in his moody moment and just ignore me, but I thought I might as well ask, Tomoyo would just laugh at me and call me the Concernity Princess - whatever THAT is.
06-134: Hey Eriol, would you know what's up with Syaoran?
I sat there, tapping my fingers on the keyboard and decided to get out my iPOD. Slipping it into my pocket, I put the earphone cord out of sight and turned it on.
Now Playing:
Tune the Rainbow
Mayaa Sakamoto.
Okay, that was all set. I just needed to press the 'play' button without anyone noticing. DONE. I glanced back at my computer screen, and grinned as it flashed:
New Message from: Man I LOOVE Laughing Gas!
Man I LOOVE Laughing Gas: What do you mean 'up with Syaoran'? He's your boy isn't he? Work it out. Oh, and change your username: It's very original.
06-134: I'm not going to respond to that. But anyway, HOW do you change your username? I've asked Tomoyo plenty of times and she STILL hasn't told me!
Since Eriol was taking his time with the answer, I continued on with my typing exercise, and was in the middle of the letter exercise when:
New Message from: LOOVIN' MY CAMERA!
LOOVIN' MY CAMERA: Hey 'sup!
06-134: If you didn't notice, I'm in the middle of something.
LOOVIN' MY CAMERA: What, you mean writing up a love letter? (insert sound of laughter, and a scream of "DAMARE" right after that)
06-134: Haha not funny. I'm talking to Eriol.
LOOVIN' MY CAMERA: Oo! Let me join in!
06-134: Fine, and he's gonna tell me how to CHANGE MY USERNAME. Thanks alot.
LOOVIN' MY CAMERA: It's perfecly fine :) Now add me. Oh, and a suggestion for a username? Concernity Princess.
I sighed knowingly to myself, and closed the current window and went back to my conversation with Eriol:
Man I LOOVE Laughing Gas: Well... Just go to Tools on top of your window, and then when the list shows up, click Options, and then go to Security Options and after that go 'Enable User Configuration'. Yeah. Then you should know the rest.
06-134: Uhuh... Thanks then. I'm adding Tomoyo now.
Man I LOOVE Laughing Gas: 'Kay.
Fiddling with the computer, I found the directories Eriol had said, and did as told. Making up my username was simple, and when I went back to the conversation, Tomoyo and Eriol were already at it.
LOOVIN' MY CAMERA: So Eriol, wanna hang out afterschool then?
Man I LOOVE Laughing Gas: Hell yeah! We need to catch up... ya know what I mean ;)
Concernity Princess; with a spice of Serenity: Um... hello?
Man I LOOVE Laughing Gas: Er. Sorry Sakura. Change of plans, why not we go crash at Syaoran's place afterwards? Then we can find out about whatever crap he's in
aye. AND on the FIRST day or so as well...
Concernity Princess; with a spice of Serenity: That ain't nice Eriol! But, I guess we can see what's happened right?
LOOVIN' MY CAMERA: Very true. You guys need to do some catching up too. That wasn't enough! And by the way, I told you Concernity Princess rocks!
Concernity Princess; with a spice of Serenity: Whatever. So who'll ask him? 'Cos he'll be kinda mad won't he?
Man I LOOVE Laughing Gas: Yeah duh! I think I'll vote on you, Sakura-chan on asking. Then we've got the upperhand of the match! (Punches fist into the air, followed by a "Hiiragizawa-san, please STOP with your pathetic gestures, you can do that AFTERSCHOOL if you like!")
LOOVIN' MY CAMERA: Yeah! Sakura-chan, you can go ask Syaoran once he gets back! Isn't that fair!
Man I LOOVE Laughing Gas: Yup! So it's settled, Sakura will go ask Syaoran to let us crash at his place, and at the same time, we'll ask him about what Sensei said to
him!
Concernity Princess; with a spice of Serenity: Ano...
LOOVIN' MY CAMERA: Don't worry about it Sakura-chan, EVERYTHING's alright :)
Man I LOOVE Laughing Gas: SENSEI ALERT! OVER AND OUT!
Concernity Princess; with a spice of Serenity: Jya ne!
I quickly closed the window and looked from my computer screen to see Kinitsu-sensei leaving Eriol's desk to get back to her desk. Suddenly, the door slammed open, with Syaoran yelling, "There is NO WAY I'm gonna GO to that THING!" and the slam of the door closing VERY loudly, and Syaoran with a VERY sour face stomping to his desk and collapsing into his chair with a groan. Everyone started to whisper around him and Kinitsu-sensei screamed (yet again) "THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'M GONNA TELL YA-" And in an instance, everyone shut up and began busily typing again. But as for me, I was only thinking about Syaoran: What ticked him off?
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(A/N A cliff-hanger? Hell yeah... Hope you liked it anyway!)
Definitions: (Again, mostly repeated, I apologise for this, but I'm simply practising my Japanese! And if they're not right, please tell me!)
Sensei - Teacher
Onigiri - Rice Ball
Gomen - Sorry
Hai - Yes/Ok (and hundreds of other meanings...)
Nani - What
Ano - Um
Chotto matte - Wait a minute
Baka - Stupid idiot
Kawaii - Cute
Itai - Ow/Ouch (which ever you prefer I guess...)
Damare - Shut up
Jya ne - See you later