"Falling Head over Kills"
Chapter 9- Secret Preparations And Hidden Decorations
By- Takara Fang(Disclaimer- this does absolutely what so ever entirely and fully not belong to me.)
Would you all prefer the good news or bad news first?" The teacher of Tomoeda High announced to her class. The majority shouted the bad first.
"Alright everyone, sorry to say that the bad news is your projects will have to be delayed." She announced. Everyone groaned.
"Well doesn't that just suck? It's the only thing that kept us all from doing any work at school these days!" Yamazaki furrowed his eyebrows as he whispered to Rika, Chiharu, Akira, Eriol, Tomoyo, Sakura, and Syaoran. They all agreed in silence.
"But the good is that their delayed because of the upcoming spring festival which everyone will be participating in!" All in the classroom applauded and cheered.
"Oh ho ho ho! This is great! I can't wait to film everyone in their ukatas and kimonos and having a good time and helping on the festival and Sakura…" Tomoyo trailed on with stars in her sapphire eyes. Sakura sweat dropped laughing uneasily. Eriol and Syaoran just snickered.
The sensei spoke again. "I'm assigning you all a part in pairs. Chiharu and Rika work on setting up things outside. Akira and Yamazaki will be working on music. Sakura and Tomoyo on food. Eriol and Syaoran on decorations…" She went on telling everyone else their roles in the festival and finished telling them that they will begin tomorrow.
Lunch
"This is…is…is…just absolutely INCREDIBLE!" Tomoyo gloated at lunch to Sakura, Syaoran and Eriol who all decided to just have a private dinner outside under a cherry blossom tree.
"What is just SOOO 'incredible'? No wait! Let me guess, you get to film everyone having a 'great' time?" Syaoran inquired biting into his sandwich.
"Well, actually no." The dark haired girl implied cocking her head to its side.
Both Eriol and Syaoran looked up in shock. Sakura kept eating her favorite food, omelet with rice and noodles.
"Its just absolutely INCREDIBLE for me to get to film my FAVORITE cousin Sakura!"
Syaoran and Eriol sweat dropped. Syaoran glanced over to Sakura for a moment watching her eat. He looked her over going from her eyes to her nose then to her lips, neck, and finally what was hanging around it. The silver necklace with a jeweled lavender blossom on it. It sparkled in the sunlight when Sakura gracefully moved from one food item to the next.
Eriol noticed cousins' focus. "Ah, Sakura! What a beautiful necklace! I can't imagine what it had cost you!" Eriol spoke.
Tomoyo looked on in amazement as well. "It is quite beautiful."
"Yes thank you, but the thanks goes to Syaoran - kun. He gave it to me the other day." Sakura sweetly smiled to him.
Syaoran's eyes bulked a bit and he struggled with his composure. 'Wait! I never told Eriol about the necklace…or where I got it. If he finds out then…" He thought. His amber orbs glanced toward him.
Eriol looked at him with a blank expression. The young wolfs lips slightly parted with fear. Eriol suddenly looked very pleased. "Well that was quite kind of you my dear cousin."
Syaoran relaxed only slightly and continued eating.
"The other unbelievable thing is that are Spring Festival Preparations are TOMMOROW! Can't wait!" Tomoyo spoke with glee.
"Agreed! Neither can I!" Sakura exclaimed raising a fist in air. Everyone just laughed.
SPRING FESTIVAL PREPORATIONS – DAY 1
Everyone went to either the school gym or to the city to help set up for one of Tomoeda's biggest festivals of the season.
Akira and Yamazaki worked on blasting the music and helping catch Chiharu and Naoko from certain death because they'd fall off the stage or from something high.
Syaoran and Eriol had the hardest time setting up the decorations. Neither could agree on well...anything.
"This is better than your dinky thing!" Syaoran spat.
"At least mine looks like a well done paper flower and not just waded paper." Eriol retorted calmly.
"Why you-"
Just then Sakura and Tomoyo walked by holding their laughter. "There like two old women fighting over whose doily looks better." Tomoyo whisper to her emerald eyed friend.
"Yeah, I completely agree!" she whispered back giggling.
"Shut up!" The two cousins yelled at the girls as they both burst into a fit of amusement.
SPRING FESTIVAL PREPORATIONS- DAY 2
"Did you have any idea that butterflies were actually created from butter? Yeah, it's a great story, you see these little fairies would go around and grant all the cows this really special ability to create butter! Now why they chose cows, I don't know, but-"
-WHAM!
"Yeah, Takashi. You don't know to much except how to tell stories!" Chiharu whacked Yamazaki for telling kids lies that were just there to help with the preparations.
Everyone laughed.
SPRING FESTIVAL PREPORATIONS- DAY 3
As Sakura walked around the corner of the gym she heard a small fit of giggling before entering the gym doors. She put her ear next to the side.
More giggling…
As she was just about to enter the door a hand stopped her.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." A strong male voice spoke.
Sakura looked up to see Syaoran. "Hoe?"
Syaoran smiled, grabbed her by the shoulder, and led her in the opposite direction.
"I'll explain everything. So, have you ever heard of a little thing called pre-festival love?" Syaoran began as Sakura looked at him in a shaken way. The young boy just chuckled.
SPRING FESTIVAL PREPORATIONS-DAY 4
Syaoran and Eriol spread through paper decorations on a gym table near the girls cooking room. Suddenly Sakura shot out of the kitchen door and ran behind Syaoran.
He looked in daze as Eriol looked at the kitchen door along with Sakura. The cherry blossom had a slight smile playing on her lush pink lips.
"Sa-Sakura, what the heck are you-"
"SSAAAAAAKUUUUURAAAAAAA!" Tomoyo then rushed out of the cooking room entrance interrupting the boy.
Eriol went into a horrified state while Syaoran's jaw dropped open.
It was Tomoyo; cover in chocolate with a cherry on the top her head about to fall off. She had a sink hose in her hand with a furious look through the chocolate glaze.
"IM GOING TO KILL YOU!" The giggling Sakura ran around the gym with Tomoyo close behind. Eriol chased after them.
"Tomoyo, Dear! STOP!"
Sakura kept laughing as she jumped onto the stage where Yamazaki and Akira were searching for music.
"Dude this song is perfect for-" Yamazaki said right before getting blasted with water. Akira burst into laughter until he to got sprayed. Then Yamazaki turned and cackled back at him. Akira just glared.
Sakura continued running as Tomoyo followed yelling at her with Eriol close behind along with his face of fright.
"I swear Sakura when I catch you your going to wish YOU WERNT BORN!" The chocolate cover girl hollered.
Sakura ran over to Syaoran and behind him.
"WAIT! NOO-" He spoke waving his hands in protest before getting a mouth full of water. Tomoyo stopped along with Eriol whose jaws were wide open in fear and shock. Even Sakura backed away.
Silence…
The young boy wiped his wet chestnut colored locks out of his face. Sakura approached him cautiously.
Amber once again met emerald. "You know Syaoran…you don't look half bad wet. Hee hee." The cherry blossom giggled nervously.
Syaoran only smirked.
'Well…he doesn't look mad at all.' Sakura thought.
The amber-eyed wolf took the petit girl by the shoulders and turned her around. Sakura was confused until she saw what was in front of her. Tomoyo…with a hose.
'Well, Daidouji. She's all yours." Syaoran smiled proudly.
"Syaoran! No! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Sakura looked up spitting out water. "Revenge is all mine, my dear cousin." Tomoyo smirked.
"No…" Sakura said. "Its all mine." Sakura then picked up some of Tomoyo's trailing chocolate and threw it at her. The sapphire eyed girl ducked and the chunk of chocolate landed in Eriol's face. Everyone gasped in horror. Eriol slowly wiped it away from his glasses. One lens at a time.
"Well, I'm not particularly fond of chocolate but in this case…" Eriol picked some up and threw it in Sakura's direction. It hit Akira.
"Oh its on! CHOCOLATE FIGHT!"
After they were all tired they sat. Unable to keep moving.
"So everyone, I am very proud of all of your grand behavior and WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE?" The teacher told the class as she walked into the gym to see chocolate everywhere.
They all just smiled innocently, as Eriol was the first to speak. "Well, sensei, we were just using this unique sense of cleaning up. They say chocolate is supposed to clean better."
The teacher looked at all of them suspiciously. "Eriol, what kind of excuse is that?" Syaoran whispered to Eriol. He just shrugged.
"Well…um…then get the rest of it fixed and were good. That was nice thing to do of all of you." She then finished speaking and everyone went to cleaning.
FINAL DAY OF SPRING FESTIVAL PREPORATIONS
"Well, I guess where done." Syaoran exclaimed in awe while everyone in the entire school studied the finished product in which they created for the whole city to see.
"Its beautiful!" Tomoyo spoke with stars in her eyes.
"Agreed." Eriol answered as Sakura nodded grinning wide.
The festival area was grand. It had magnificent designs hanging all around on booths and on the great stage set out for music and fun. Delicate delights where set out on all the dining tables. Emanating lights would set the festival for a perfect mood. It was all quite a sight.
The teacher gathered everyone around as the other classes went to their teachers. "Alright everyone. You did an excellent job." All cheered. "Now come to the festival looking you're finest and prepare for some fun!"
Tomoyo took Sakura by the hand and squeezed it smiling with greater stars than before in her sapphire eyes. "I get to film you and everyone else. I'm so happy!"
Sakura gripped her hand to and nodded cheerfully in agreement.
In the meantime…
Syaoran and Eriol sat back against a tree resting, watching Sakura and Tomoyo.
"Syaoran, I got a call last night." Eriol spoke quietly, looking in the distance, remaining calm and composed as usual. Syaoran's amber eyes darted toward Eriol.
"I heard that a there's a necklace missing from a group in town called 'The Dogs' who planned to take it from the countess you killed last week. They said it looks of a silver neckless with jeweled pendant hanging from it resembling a lavender colored blossom…" Eriol stopped. Syaoran's eyebrows rose a bit.
"It fits the description of the one Sakura has dangling from her neck." Eriol turned to his cousin who now had his lips slightly parted with his orbs growing wide. 'Where is this going?' The young boy thought.
"Sakura said that you had given it to her. Syaoran…where exactly did you get that necklace?"
Syaoran's fiery eyes darted toward the ground as the wind played with his chestnut colored hair.
End of Chapter
Next Chapter Pending...
Takara Fang: It took longer than I expected. Real sorry about that! But for the delay I made the chapter extra long. I will do what I can to have the next one out as soon as possible! In the meantime, what will happen when Eriol finds out about the necklace and what's the real truth behind why Syaoran even gave it to Sakura anyway? Keep reading to find out! Also, I love the reviews so please keep it up! They truly do help me continue on. Thanks so much!