Disclaimer: CLAMP came to my house and sue me coz I said CCS is mine... (sigh)...
I finally managed to finish my final exam peacefully... (great... I don't need to use the coffin for myself). Anyway... I should start study for the exam to enter a university in my country. And now, here it is... the third chapter of this story... hope ya like it!
An episode ago:
"Syaoran... what do you expect from school? And by the way, putting bombs in school could not called as a project at all,"
A tray fell down to the canteen floor, making the china plates broke into pieces and scrapped. The china let out a shrill noise when it against the cold marble floor. The curry rice was now in the floor, left unwanted. Eriol and Syaoran looked up to the source of noise and met two orbs of emerald eyes looking unmoved from both of them.
Eriol mentally hit his mind. Syaoran quickly looked away, acting as if nothing had happened.
Sakura shuddered and managed to say, "Bombs? Eriol... what are you talking about!"
A Hundred Heart, chapter 3
By green-mermaid
Eriol made his brain thinking quickly to cover everything. He had promised to the school principal that no student would be related into this case beside himself. Not only Sakura but now the whole canteen's attention was on Sakura and him. Syaoran didn't help at all.
'Better make the situation normal first...' He closed his eyes and tried to calm himself.
"Well... everybody... Miss Kinomoto here unintentionally slipped her hands and her food was spilled. Now... you could enjoy your lunch again. Thank you," Eriol spoke up, trying his best to make the canteen turned to the usual crowd.
It seems his method was a success since everybody only mumbled a little and after a few second the canteen turned back like when before Sakura's tray fell down. Sakura still astounded in her position. Eriol looked up to her and sighed.
"Well... good day, Kinomoto-san. Syaoran-kun, let me introduce you to Kinomoto Sakura-san," Eriol kept smiling, hoping Sakura wouldn't ask anything related to what he had spoken with Syaoran before.
"Who let you call me, Syaoran? And I don't need to know this girl," Syaoran smirked.
Eriol sighed. Knowing his attempt to break the ice was a failure; he turned his head to Sakura and using the same method to the emerald eyes girl. "Kinomoto-san, this is..."
"Eriol... what do you mean by bombs?" Sakura snapped his words.
"Now... now... aren't we too tense? How about a cup of milk tea? Or chocolate? I heard that..."
"Eriol-kun!" Sakura's voice increased. Fear and impatient filled her emotions.
Knowing this, Eriol sighed and closed his eyes. He was considering whether to tell Sakura everything or not. But deep inside, he knew that Sakura had inadvertently involved into this thing and he didn't even have choices. He should tell the girl. Sakura may dense. Sakura may not be as clever as her best friend, Daidouji Tomoyo, but she wasn't that stupid to be deceived.
"Please,... have a seat," Eriol pulled a seat for Sakura and placed it between him and Syaoran on the round table.
"You don't mean to tell everything to this dim-witted girl, do you?" Syaoran simpered. Sakura beamed at Syaoran when he said 'dim-witted'.
"She is part of the student council... she may know this problem," Eriol sighed. He clenched his fist and thought where he should start from.
"So... Sakura... you have known about what this guy's sins are, haven't you?" Eriol pointed his thumb to Syaoran.
He was a bit relieved that the girl nodded her head, which meant he didn't need to explain everything from the very beginning. Syaoran winced when Eriol said the 'sin' word.
"I swear... you're my next target," Syaoran muttered under his breath and throwing his best tantrum glare to the other boy.
"It will be my honor. I shall be waiting for it," Eriol replied calmly without removed his smile from his good looking face.
Syaoran replied curtly with a light 'hmph!' before looked away. Eriol went back to Sakura and readied to explain more to the girl.
"So..."
"You're late for 10 minutes, Miss Daidouji," Mr Spinel looked up from his half-moon eyeglasses. His eyes remained tender but cold also. His face was forever-expressionless.
"I'm sorry, sensei..." she sighed heavily, still trying her best to grab the oxygen in the air.
"Never mind,... please sit down," Mr Spinel presented a sofa-chair in front of his table. "Miss Mizuki, you may go."
Tomoyo looked up and met two orbs of pale chocolate from a long brown haired girl. Tomoyo grinned a bit to the girl to break the ice but she replied it with throwing glares to the raven-haired girl. Tomoyo stepped back spontaneously, didn't think that she would get such a reply like that.
"Miss Mizuki? Kaho Mizuki?"
Kaho startled and panicked a bit. The books she held fell down to the floor and made dusts covered the area around there. Tomoyo quickly helped her to pick up the books.
"I... I'm sorry, Mr Spinel," Kaho apologized awkwardly to the teacher.
"Nah... never mind... I am the one who make you startle," Mr Spinel replied her expressionlessly, just like his usual face.
Tomoyo looked up to the bronze-haired eyes while giving her the books she had collected. "Please,..."
Kaho beamed at her and stated arrogantly, "I don't need your help!"
Tomoyo frowned. 'What did I do wrong with this girl! I don't even know her and she acts like that to me! What's wrong with this girl, actually!' Tomoyo rolled her eyeballs and snorted.
Kaho put the books on Mr Spinel's table ("Thank you very much, Miss Mizuki"), bowed a bit to the teacher and once again snapped a glare to Tomoyo before went outside the room. Kaho whispered to the lavender girl, "I'll never forgive you! Never!" and then went outside.
Tomoyo quickly whirled her body to see the girl before she lost from the room. 'WHAT! Shouldn't it be my line! I even don't know you and then you throwing tantrum to me! I even don't know my mistakes!' Tomoyo raised her eyebrows before she faced her teacher because the teacher called her name.
"Yes, Mr Spinel?" Tomoyo spread her grin to the teacher.
"Do you want some cookie? I bet you've not got your lunch," He offered a plate of fresh-from-oven cookie to the girl.
"Pardon?"
"Oh... you don't want the cookie, then. Fine, to the point. Clean the whole things in the History Room," Mr Spinel went back to his book and scribbled a few notes on it.
"Ahh...wait... I mean... I clean it by myself?"
Mr Spinel looked up and met her eyes. "If you get someone to help you, I don't see why you should do this yourself. This is the key and you could do it after school today. Good day!"
Tomoyo sighed heavily. "Sensei..."
"Yes?" Mr Spinel replied her without moving his attention from his thick book of runes.
"If you're not going to eat the cookies, may I have some?"
"Take as much as you can. An annoying best friend sent this to me although he knows I won't eat it," For a while, Tomoyo thought Mr Spinel's face turned a little bit upset about something.
Sakura's mouth opened. She faced her best friend. "The whole History Room!"
Tomoyo quickly placed her fore finger in front of her lips, making the other girl cupped her own lips with her hand and lowered her voice. "Shhh!"
Mr Cerberus' voice still faded in the chattering and crowds of the students in the Kitchen room. Though his voice is usually loud especially when he tasted every food which had been made, but it looked like one voice could be defeated by 30 voices.
"But... tomorrow we're going to have Math test, Tomoyo! And Social paper to be collected,"
"Ah,... that's true... but my social paper is almost finished. Besides, it is the first time I went inside the History Room since it was built six months ago," Tomoyo replied happily. Sakura was sure she saw Tomoyo's eyes sparkling. Sakura smiled. After all, Mr Spinel did never give any detention which was boring.
Eriol looked up from his dough to Tomoyo. Tomoyo noticed his look and retorted to him. "What!"
Eriol sighed. "You don't need to use that tense on me, you know? I just want to ask if you need any help... Sakura, could you pass that mixer?"
Sakura gave the mixer to the navy boy before turned back to her best friend. "I want to help too but I haven't done my social paper... I'm sorry, Tomoyo," Sakura's eyes pleaded.
"No... it's okay... it wasn't your fault, this is because of a certain blue eyes boy who called me a 'silly idiot' and because of that I got detention,"
Eriol looked up once again, looking displeasingly to Tomoyo. "What do you want to say, actually, Miss Daidouji?"
"Nothing. You better do that cake quickly, Mr Hiiragizawa. If not, the three of us will get problems," Tomoyo replied him.
"Then, at least you're helping me, please! Not just standing there, gripping a knife with your hands and do nothing. And by the way, you don't need to cut everything. I don't want someone scream hysterically because her finger scratched by a knife," Eriol inserted the dough into the oven nearby.
"I didn't scream that time. You're exaggerating things, you know?"
Tomoyo grumbled and put a sulking face to the navy boy. Sakura chuckled and whispered to her. "He just doesn't want you to get hurt again. Did you see his face when your finger cut by knife? I believe that his face suddenly turned blue and he quickly ran beside you. Why can't he be honest one time?"
"He isn't like that," Tomoyo washed strawberries and sifted the water.
"But, he stopped your bleeding by sucking the blood and wrapped your cut with his handkerchief," Sakura rinsed the utensils.
"Now that you mentioned it... where did I put that handkerchief?" Tomoyo stopped her work.
Sakura looked up to her, gawking. "You haven't returned it to him?"
Tomoyo scratched her head. "Erm... I think I lost it..."
After that, Eriol scolded Tomoyo again and the girl replied him back. Sakura chuckled but her smile soon faded, remembering what Eriol had told her at break time.
She looked at Tomoyo who happily washed different kind of fruits. Sakura sighed. Should she tell Tomoyo what Eriol had told her before? Could she? But she had promised Eriol not to tell anybody. Sakura shook her head. But, Eriol's voice that time kept echoing in her mind.
'He's putting 16 bombs in school. The bombs are unstoppable but if we could find the main bomb the other 15 bombs will be stopped. If only I know where the main bomb is,... But, this guy doesn't give me any clue.'
Eriol looked at Sakura before turning to the oven and checked the dough.
--- TBC
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