I started writing this chapter - and it occured to me - I completely forgot to find some way to stick Takeshi into the story! AH! So he'll just... randomly appear like he does in the TV show... I guess.
Special thanks to all my readers and reviewers! Invisible or otherwise! I tried to get out this chapter earlier because you all asked me to! Although I got it out late again... so I tried to make it longer! Hope it worked!
Disclaimer: Ah! No! I've lost my creativity for inventing disclaimers! Oh, wait... nevermind. If I owned Cardcaptor Sakura, then the sky wouldn't be blue. That way, no one can ask me why the sky is blue anymore! BUT, since the sky is blue, I obviously don't own CCS. HA! (Or not ha. I have no idea anymore.)
Chapter 5 of 'My Life'Unexpected Happenings
Naoko had begun reading manga, only because she'd grown incredibly bored. She hadn't opted to take part in the card game that Eriol had begun with Syaoran and Tomoyo, or the tarot card reading that Sakura was doing for some random girl that had showed up.
Sakura smiled absently as she watched the girl cut the deck with her left hand. For the reading, Sakura was using her pink Sakura cards. Sakura then took the pile from the girl and put the first few cards down.
"You will meet someone unexpected." Another card down.
"Your life will be turned around." Another card.
"Watch out for the color red." She began scooping the cards together.
"That's it," Sakura said lightly, smiling at the brown-haired girl in front of her.
"Arigatou," the girl said, bowing, before turning to leave.
"No..." Sakura began, but the girl had left. "Problem..." She said, her voice trailing off.
"Naoko-san, do you want me to do you?" For the third time, Naoko shook her head, her eyes never leaving the book. Sakura's face fell, but she quickly covered it with a smile.
"Alright then!" Behind her, Eriol and Syaoran were arguing.
"No way. It's a Six of Spades." Syaoran snapped.
"No, it's a Nine of Hearts." Eriol retorted calmly.
"Six of Spades!"
"Nine of Hearts."
"Six of Spades!"
"Nine of Hearts." Tomoyo let out a sigh.
"Next time you two call a Point of Order during a game of Mao, please try to remember that there are other people playing... and the card on top is the Ace of Clubs."
After the statement from Tomoyo, there were two simultaneous "Oh"s. Then a long silence.
"I still say it's the Six of Spades."
"Nope. It's the Nine of Hearts."
"Just end point already..."
Chiharu had resumed reading her book. Turning a page, she noted that the story was reaching its climax. She leaned back in the seat, against the plush backside, trying to find a comfortable position.
And then her worst nightmare occured.
"Did you know that in -" Her hand immediately shot out, smacking the speaker in the face.
"YOU BAKA!" Takeshi reeled back, his brown eyes closed in pain.
"Itai!"
(A/N: Uh... yay for pointless scenes...?)
After Chiharu calmed down, she turned to glare at him.
"Baka." He just smiled, a bruse swelling on his head. Sakura smiled.
"Do you want me to do your fortune, Yamazaki-san?" Chiharu began waving her arms wildly.
"Don't! If you do his fortune, he'll start -"
"Did you know that fortune telling was invented -"
"- telling lies again..." Chiharu groaned. But Sakura was too engrossed in Takeshi's story to hear the rest of Chiharu's sentence. Nearby, Tomoyo was smiling; her camcorder out and aimed at Sakura.
"Ohohoho..."
Syaoran put another card down at Tomoyo's spot, sweatdropping.
"Five seconds..." Eriol sweatdropped as well.
"I wonder how long it'll take before she realizes it's her turn?"
"Question..." Was Syaoran's reply, putting a card down in front of Eriol.
"Point of order," was Eriol's reply. Syaoran let out a growl of frustration and proceeded to shuffle the cards in an attempt to occupy himself.
He was then jostled by the high school girl that was being followed by the hordes of fanboys, who were listening to her stories of her 'friendship' with Ikumo Arisu.
"She was so like, amazing! And it was like, the best! And - what do you, like, think you are doing?" The last question was directed at Tomoyo, who was trying to videotape Sakura. She looked up.
"Videotaping someone, maybe?" Tomoyo suggested, adjusting the zoom.
"Well, ugh, it'd better not be me! I don't want to, like, get videotaped by an ugly old lady!" Tomoyo rolled her eyes as she focused.
"You're so self-centered. Who'd want to videotape you, other than your fanclub? And anyways, this is how I found most of my models. By videotaping people when I interviewed them."
"I am totally not self-centered! That is like, so not true! And - wait, did you say model? I want to be one!" Chiharu had begun strangling Takeshi.
"That's great, but we need to get back to our card game. Or did you forget, Tomoyo-san?" Tomoyo turned off her camcorder and turned to Eriol, the speaker. The girl froze, her mouth gaping open in horror. She'd just insulted the Daidouji Tomoyo, world-famous fashion designer!
"Oh, right! Whose turn is it?"
"Yours," Syaoran said, indicating the pile of cards that used to be her hand.
Tomoyo sweatdropped.
Rika was browsing the non-fiction section of the store when she bumped into none other than Li Meiling.
"Meiling-san? What are you doing here?"
"Ah! Sasaki-san! Have you seen my cousin? He abandoned me at the airport when we got here! Man, when I find him I'm gonna -" She finished off her sentence by strangling the air rather violently.
"Oh, well, he's over there, playing cards with Tomoyo-san and Hiiragizawa-san," Rika said, indicating their heated card game with an index finger.
"Arigatiou!" Meiling darted off.
In a few seconds, cries of "Hello, Meiling-san!" and "Ah! What do you think you are doing! Itai!" were heard.
Rika sighed. She was never going to find that book on dolphins.
In a faraway corner of the bookstore, were two people. One was a man, and the other was a woman. They were in deep discussion.
"It'll definitely work!" The woman said, glaring at the man angrily. "I'll get her to confess for sure!"
"No. It won't work. This will just be a waste of time!" The man snapped.
"It will work."
"It won't."
"It will!"
"It won't!"
"IT WILL!"
"IT WON'T!" Meanwhile, the small group of onlookers sweatdropped. The news reporter and her cameraman were acting like five-year-olds!
"Er... you two... you know, we kinda need to get back to shooting material..."
"Oh, alright then!" The news reporter stood up, looking irritable. "Let's get this over with!"
The cameraman and the crew began setting up the camera and clearing out a space in the store.
Rika's eyes widened in shock when she spotted someone she'd rather not see.
No way! It can't be! He followed me here! I went through so many shortcuts just to make sure he wouldn't find out where I was going!
She ran off to the nearest restroom in an attempt to hide, abandoning her search for the book that she was looking for.
He can't find me! She thought fleetingly. He just can't!
She yanked open the door of the woman's restroom and went inside, sinking into one of the chairs in the lounge.
Kami-sama, I hope he doesn't find me...
She buried her hands in her face, trying to relax.
"Eh... this book is overrated." Chiharu muttered, flinging another book aside. She'd finished My Life and was trying to find another one.
"What time is she supposed to show up again?" She asked Syaoran, who still looked rather beat up from Meiling's thrashing. Sakura was trying to treat his bruises with a first-aid kit from her purse.
"Point of Order," he told the others. "Three. Right now, it's two-thirty," he informed Chiharu.
"Ugh... I feel like I've been in here for years..." She groaned.
"The store's barred off to others now, but if you need a drink or anything like that, you could just go get one over there," he said, pointing towards the main desk, where a table had been set up, with plates and drinks.
"Oh! I didn't know that," Chiharu said, standing up and heading toward the main desk. Syaoran turned back to the game.
"Who's turn is it?" Eriol pointed at Meiling, who'd joined the game.
"Her."
"Alright, end point." And at that particular moment, Takeshi showed up.
"Did you know that card games are derived from tarot cards, which were used back in the 1600's? People believed..."
"Point of Order!" Meiling cried, seeing as everyone was drawn into Takeshi's story.
And then:
"Ahahahahahahaha - ack!" Chiharu had returned with a soda and a cookie. She was now choking the life out of Takeshi.
"Lies. Total and complete lies." She explained, causing Sakura to go "Hoe?" and for everyone else who believed the story to say "Really?"
Then there was a gunshot. Chiharu released Takeshi in surprise.
"What's going on?" She asked, turning.
"Alright, do I look good? Okay, then!" The cameraman grinned at her.
"In three, two, one -" He made a motion with his hand.
"I'm Channel 7 News Reporter Akimira Kasumi, from Twin Bells! We're all excited to be here, waiting for Ikumo Arisu, in hopes that she'll be here!" She turned to a random person in the store.
"Are you looking forward to it?"
"Of course!" She turned to another person.
"And how about you?"
"I can't wait to meet her! Her books are fantastic!"
"And what about you? What do you think about Ikumo Arisu's arriva -" She was cut off by a gunshot.
"What was that?"
In the lounge, Rika covered her ears when she heard the gunshot.
Oh kami-sama, it is him... she groaned mentally.
He'd better not find me...
Naoko absently turned a page in whatever book she was reading at that point. A shadow suddenly blocked her light, so she looked up.
To see a man with dark hair and dark eyes, glaring down at her. He wore a red shirt and blue jeans. She gasped when she realized who it was. And to her horror, he had a gun. There was a gasp of shock from behind her.
He fired it. It hit the person behind her. She heard the person let out another gasp - the last breath they'd ever take - and hit the carpeted floor with a thud. Turning in horror, she realized just exactly who he'd killed.
It was the person from earlier, the one who had gotten a tarot card reading from Sakura.
She was lying on the floor, in a pool of blood.
She was clutching a copy of My Life, which the bullet had gone straight through - right throught the word 'Life'.
She had a horrified look on her face.
And her eyes were completely blank.
Meaning she was dead.
Completely.
Eh... wow?
I think I'm going to expect flames for this chapter. I have warned myself.