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And now we continue! The moment that pretty much EVERYONE has been waiting for! Read! Enjoy! Review!
--------------------------------Hidden Power: Chapter 10…Kinomoto Sakura
The next morning Syaoran surged out of bed, his heart thumping. He was a little disappointed to have woken up soon. He had been dreaming about that girl with the emerald eyes that kept calling out to him. With a sigh, he hauled himself out of bed, his mind roaming as he pulled a green t-shirt over his head. The color of her eyes….
Both he and the girl were laying in the grass beside a pond underneath a tree. She laughed out loud when he rolled over to her side and poked a finger into her ribs. Then she rolled over onto her side and grabbed his hand.
"Pyro."
"Hm?" Syaoran saw himself roll on his side to give her what he saw was a fuzzy smile.
"Promise that you'll never forget me?"
"What kinna stupid question is that? Do you think you're going somewhere?"
She twirled a forget-me-not flower in her fingers thinking about it, "No. Just promise me that no matter what happens tomorrow you won't forget me, okay?"
For a while he didn't say anything. He seemed to be stunned. The girl looked up at him to see what he might be thinking and he turned away. She whopped him on the head.
"ARGH!" he looked back at her.
"I'll beat you up, if you don't!" she threatened, holding out a tiny fist.
"Okay."
"Promise?" she asked him. Cherry blossom petals flew through the wind and he reached over to grab a petal that had gotten stuck in her hair.
"Yes, I promise to never forget you for as long as I live…"
"Syao-Syao-kun snap outta it!" his sister Futti snapped her finger in his face and he jolted back to reality, a piece of toast in one hand.
"Er…y-yeah," he shook his head. It was gonna be a looong day.
Later on at school, Syaoran groaned in frustration and depression, head down on his desk. bang bang bang went his head as he let it land on the desk. How could this possibly happen? It was bad enough that he had to save the world from Chaos and find the Guardian who would be the only hope for Salvation. And now this?
"Syaoran, it's not as bad as you might think!" Daidouji Tomoyo said sympathetically as she watched him drop his head over and over on the top of his desk.
("Five braincells left…four braincells left….three braincells left…." Skye counted softly.)
"It's just a school dance, that's all," Eriol added.
(Gaia burst out giggling.)
"Yeaaah, JUST a school dance. I feel bad for you Uncle Syao. What girl do you plan on going with, hm?" Gabriel grinned mischievously beside him, having transferred into their class the week after his arrival. He was currently living with his father, as Eriol lived alone with his two Guardians. Gabriel knew for a fact that Syaoran was a shy person and love to push his uncle's buttons.
("-3 braincells left….-4 braincells left….-5 braincells left…")
"That's a freaking understatement, if I ever heard one before," Syaoran muttered darkly. "School dances are optional. This ISN'T! And no Pyro, you CAN'T set fire to the bear's skirt!"
(Pyro had been staring eerily at the flowery skirt of the teacher's Christmas bear, which was sitting on her desk, its glassy eyes staring ahead at them blankly. "That's the ugliest skirt I've ever seen," Pyro whispered.)
"Who's Pyro, Li?" a girl with long black hair rapped Syaoran sharply in the back of the head. Syaoran gave her a look of total annoyance and ignored her until she moved to stand in front of him.
(Gaia suddenly deflated, absolutely exhausted with laughing.)
She was a very tall girl, dressed entirely in black. She was every bit what you might call goth.
"I don't think that you heard me Li Syaoran. I was actually talking to you," she whispered leaning down to his level and he frowned.
"Get the hell outta my face Takana," he pointed a finger in his face.
Takana Emma smirked at the finger and made a move to bite it off. Syaoran withdrew it, not looking to lose any digits.
"I wanted to ask you who you would be going to the dance with," she said matter-of-factly.
However the teacher chose that moment to interrupt her and Emma stalked off, rolling her eyes.
(A/N: And now the moment that everyone's been crying out for, also a very common occurrence in many fics. It annoys me to be following the trend of what may happen next.)
"Class, today we have a new transfer student. Please welcome her today. Come in."
A young lady stuck her head into the classroom, and after a pause, she stepped in.
She was tall, and quite willowy, with red hair and big blue eyes. She seemed to be very nervous. Her eyes searched the classroom nervously. The new transfer student was either an American or someone from Europe, Syaoran thought.
"Er…T-Tanaka-sensei?"
Tanaka-sensei nodded, "This is Walker Emi. Welcome her to the class."
(Haha, just joke!)
And without further ado the door slid open to admit the actual transfer student: a petite girl with short auburn hair.
The red-haired girl stepped up to help the auburn-haired girl into the classroom. She shook her head, "I'm sure I can find my way. Thank you." And without another word, she took out a long and thin-looking white pole. With her eyes closed, she touched alum walking stick to the floor gently, and made her way to the front of the classroom. She was blind, Syaoran realized with a shock.
"I would like to introduce to you all, Kinomoto Sakura. She is our new student. As you can all see Kino..."
"Ano…Sakura. Please call me Sakura," the girl interrupted timidly. And then she opened her eyes and gave the teacher an apologetic smile.
Syaoran gaped. It was definitely HER! Sakura's eyes were the most beautiful emerald green eyes he had ever seen. It was the same girl that he had been dreaming about, if that were cliché enough.
The teacher seemed taken back a bit before a smile lit her own face.
"Thank you. As you can see Sakura is blind. Walker Emi is here to assist Sakura. I would like to ask that you help her as much as possible when needed," the teacher introduced.
"Domo arigatou minna-san. I will work hard and do all that I can do. I hope we can be good friends!" she said and bowed low.
"Please take a seat Kino—Sakura-san. Hmm," and she scanned the room before noticing an empty seat. "The seat next to Li-kun is open." Sakura's assistant, Walker, wasted no time in directing Sakura to the seat that the teacher pointed out.
As Sakura sat down in the seat across from him, boys all around the room were shooting him glares of envy. Glares which Syaoran happily returned. She waited until class started up again before turning to Syaoran.
"Ohayo gozaimasu," she greeted.
Surprised, he didn't respond. Her smile never wavered as she waited.
"Ohayo gozaimasu, Li-kun," Sakura tried again.
Still no reply. Gabriel, who had been watching from behind Syaoran rolled his eyes. Syaoran was either shy or stubborn.
"Hi! I'm Hiiragizawa Gabriel!" he held out his hand for Sakura. Hearing his voice, she turned around to face him. Forgetting that she couldn't see, he let out a soft, "Oh!" and attempted to withdraw his hand. However her reflexes were startlingly quick for someone who was blind. She grabbed his hand with a warm smile and shook it.
"Ohayo gozaimasu, Hiiragizawa Gabriel. My name is Kinomoto Sakura."
"So I've heard. Wow, you've got fast reflexes!"
"O-ohayo gozaimasu…Kinomoto-san," Syaoran whispered softly, facing away from her. But she heard him just fine.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Li-kun," she turned to him and smiled.
Later on at lunch Syaoran was unusually quiet. It wasn't too hard to miss.
"Are you going to eat that snow-wich?" Skye asked Syaoran when he saw that Syaoran was zoning out again.
"It's called a SANDwich, Skye," Aquia piped up.
"Are you going to eat that SANDwich, Syao-kun?" Skye repeated. When Syaoran didn't reply, he proceeded to drag the sandwich across the table (which was quite a feat since the sandwich was bigger than he was) where Eriol and Gabriel sat bickering in a most civil manner about monkeys and marshmallows (don't ask…--).
Tomoyo looked at Syaoran, a little concerned, "Syaoran, are you okay?"
"I think Syao-kun likes Kinomoto-san," Aquia cooed twirling a tiny finger in the little puddle of soup that Tomoyo had provided her.
"No. It's not that. I've…I've seen her before," Syaoran admitted turning a little red.
"In your dreams, right?" Gabriel said with a smile, ignoring Eriol, who had been making his argument at the moment. Annoyed, his father proceeded to chide his son and Gabriel sighed.
"Actua—," Syaoran was then cut off by a coarse laugh. He turned around behind him to see Takana Emma laughing at something that Sakura had said.
The girl was sitting by herself. Many of the students had been too shy to talk to her, and even her assistant had managed to find friends to talk to. But it seemed Sakura had managed to get around the cafeteria and get a plate to eat just fine.
"Are you kidding me?" Emma laughed scornfully. She was leaning across the table pointing at Sakura.
"You're too nice. You've got something up your sleeve, don't you Sakura. I have a feeling that you being such a doll to Syaoran wasn't just courtesy. What're you planning, hm? Going to ask him out to the school dance?"
"There's a school dance? When is it?" Sakura asked, her eyes widening in excitement. She took no notice of the tension that was in the air as people turned to watch what was going on.
"I'm not your damn secretary! Why don't you read the school bulletins…oh wait. You're blind, right? My bad," Emma snorted, obviously not sorry at all. I forgot that you can't read". There were murmurs of outrage and disapproval from around the cafeteria. Neither Emma nor Sakura took any notice.
Emma, however moved closer to watch Sakura closely as she proceeded to deposit a few, large, slimy, and squirming earthworms into Sakura's lunch plate. There were many people around the cafeteria who let out cries of revulsion.
Sakura seemed to not take notice and ignored the insults. She merely smiled, "So there IS a school dance! That might be fun. Though I don't have anyone to go with. Do you know someone that might be interested in going with me?" she picked up her fork and was about to scoop up a little rice when a girl nearby squealed in disgust. Sakura paused and Emma shot a dirty look to the nauseous girl.
"No. Do I look like Cupid to you, you stupid bitch?" Actually it seemed as though Emma were ready to sprout horns any moment soon.
"I thought you just told me that I was blind," Sakura pointed out. And with a smile, she plucked the squirming worm out of her plate and flicked the poor creature at Emma, who frowned.
"You're such a fricking smart ass, Kinomoto. Shut the hell up. I'm warning you for the last time. Stay away from my man!" she yelled and grabbed Sakura's shirt, probably to shake her for emphasis.
She didn't get very far. Waves of fury rolled off of him as Syaoran chose that moment to surge up from his seat and pry Emma off of Sakura.
"GET THE HELL OFF OF HER, DAMMIT!" he roared. "I've NEVER been your man, so I don't know what you're TALKING about! I see you every day but I never say one fricking word to you!"
Surprised with his outburst, Emma backed off. For a while no one moved. Then Emma flew at Syaoran with a cry of frustration.
Instinctively, Syaoran grabbed Emma's arm and used her momentum against her. She totally missed him. Li Syaoran was one of the school's best fighters. However, Takana Emma was certainly no pushover.
While it was true that she had flown straight past Syaoran, she did not falter. Without missing a beat, she had swiveled around and then wound up and landed a punch right on Syaoran's cheek. The blow caught him off guard and he twisted around with the impact to land backwards. Using the tip of his fingers he propelled himself back into the fight, a look of fire, blazing in his eyes.
Sakura took that moment to jump up and lunge at Syaoran to hold him back. It seemed as if everyone was flying at everyone that day.
"No! No! I'm fine!" she assured Syaoran, her arms wrapped firmly around his torso in an effort to avoid any more scrapping (if you would), "T-Thank you!"
"She was ready to freaking JUMP you, Kinomoto!" he cried.
"But she didn't! Thanks to you. I just want to eat my lunch in peace."
"Then why the heck are you sitting alone!" he asked her.
"Because you never asked me to SIT with you!" she told him softly.
"SIT WITH US!" he demanded.
"Thank you, I'd like that," Sakura admitted. Then he realized she was clinging to him and began to turn red. He gently pushed her arms away and guided her to their table of friends.
However half way there, Emma yelled to Sakura.
"I'll find you Kinomoto! You keep your dirty paws offa him, you goody-goody bitch! You HEAR me?"
Syaoran turned around, ready for round two, but Sakura tugged at the shirt that so resembled the vibrant color of her eyes.
"Li-kun don't!" she begged him. His anger faded a little with the sound of pleading in her voice, so he turned around. She was looking at him in a most odd manner and he didn't know why, but it scared him.
"Li-kun…don't…" and with a final gasp she went limp. Eyes wide in shock, Syaoran's arms shot out to catch her.
"Kinomoto? Kino…SAKURA!"
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Argh, I'm so sorry I had to end it there. I was seriously running out of ideas and everything seemed to be dragging on. I've come to realize that my chapters seem so short because of the format I use, so I'm hoping that this one will be pretty long!
Well I most certainly have to thanks some of you reviewers for giving me the encouragement and feedback! I LOVE IT! You've given me the encouragement I needed to get back in here again. It feels good to know that someone is reading my works and enjoying them. Kansamnidda! heart heart (thank you in Korean).
I-am-a-girl-who-never-had-happiness, Anime Flower: thank you both so much for your support! You've really been the inspiration I needed to start writing again! You two were the first to review after I started again and thought I had lost my chance for reviews in this story. I totally mean it (however corny that may have sounded XD)
Alice 19th:Hell yes he has a son! Isn't that so cool:D I've always imagined how a kid of Eriol and XX's might look like and this is what I came up with. Believe it or not, he is actually the youngest, but not the only, child of Eriol and XX's.
A little bit about Hiiragizawa Gabriel- He's the youngest son of Eriol and XX (I already sed that). He has an English name, for Eriol's sake after their daughter's name was Japanese. I already made Eriol's oldest child, a girl, look like her mother with her father's hair and eye color. I figured that I would make Eriol's second child look exactly like him. The only difference between father and son is that Gabriel is not so powerful a sorcerer and not so graceful. Quite the opposite, his magic really sucks in comparison to his sister, who comes pretty close to her father. He's the clumsy one while his sister is more conniving and mischievous like Eriol. Although he and his sister tend to bicker and play pranks on each other, they have a pretty close bond. I think it runs in the family. I think it's a Hiiragizawa thing :P
Syaoran101: FOUR REVIEWS! I LOVE YOU! Haha! I love Eriol too! Call my crazy but I love that mischievous side of him. I'm a sucker for the gentleman type. But of course Syaoran is cute too! Don't blame you THERE! A shy boy with messy hair and magic. KAWAII-ness, right there.
Actually there is a whole reason behind why I had to make Eriol into something of a dork in the beginning of the story (man, Eriol as a dork --.--, it killed me --.--) . Normally I would insist on my characters keeping their official personality but I've decided to keep this story as close to the one I had originally written in the 7th grade.
In the original story, the Guardian of Sky is actually a boy named Aja Killian. Aja is a very shy boy and a close friend with the Guardian of Fire. The fact that he doesn't speak too often, gives people reason to pick on him. He blushes very easily. The closest person out of the whole movie that ever came close to Aja, I felt, was Eriol. It was a shame that I had to use his glasses as an excuse to mold him into a dork, but I had already changed Syaoran into this tough guy, so why not Eriol too?
It's funny that you mention Eriol dying. After I read that I thought you might be one of my two best friends playing a joke on me and posing as an anonymous reviewer, since they're the only ones who I've told the original story to. To be honest: Yes, Eriol is supposed to die, because he is the Guardian of Sky. (XD My beloved Eriol!) Sorry, but whether Eriol dies or not in this story too you won't get out of me! bwahahahaha! However I would highly encourage you to read the story summary part in my homepage if you want more details of Aja's death. It's not really as bad as you might think!