Chap 3- Cherry Trees
"Greens eyes… black hair… beautiful!"
Syaoran gives a happy sigh.
" Would you please stop it already! Mitsuki this and Mitsuki that! GOD! There ARE other girls Syaoran!"
Syaoran stared at Eriol, shock on his face. Eriol, patient and cool, don't usually lose his temper. Especially when it comes to love. And girls. He always had had plenty.
"Deary me! Eriol CAN lose his temper after all!"
Eriol turn a pink red.
" DO YOU LIKE MITSUKI?"
"Of course not!" Eriol exclaimed absurdly
"Are you sure?"
"YES! Gosh! I don't like her!"
"Than who do you like?"
"Someone…"
Eriol coloured a deep crimson red.
" OH! ITS THAT NEW GIRL!"
"Who?"
"SAKURA!"
Eriol still red gives a relieve sigh. Close… but not her…
"No…You mean the girl that spread that rumor about you being perverted?"
" I AM NOT A PERVERT!"
" Oh sorry, you're just… high in hormones, I guess"
"ARGHHH!"
----Syaoran P.O.V-----
Eriol seems so frustrated a moment ago… weird… wonder what's bothering him? I swear that Sakura is too much! Mostly I thought girls are annoying, but she, arghh! It didn't help that I- wait a minute! Isn't that her? SHIT! She's heading my way! Quick quick! glance at mirror Perfect!
---end of P.O.V---
Mitsuki gives a sweet smile. Popular and pretty, she was no doubt wooed by many guys.
Syaoran gives a final check at himself in the window's reflection.
" Hi Mitsuki!"
"Hey!"
Mitsuki give him a brief smile…
Syaoran starry eyes
… and walk right pass him…
" Eriol! Can you come over to my house to study?"
Eriol gulp gulp
Syaoran shot dagger glares at Eriol.
"Erm haha… sure!"
Syaoran gives the I-hate-you-so-much-that-I-want-to-kill-you look
Eriol sweatdrop
"Erm HAHAHAHA! Let's have a GROUP study! I'll bring along Syaoran !"
"Well… sure! But I was thinking… you know… just the two of us…"
Less dagger glares, but still sharp.
"Sure! I guess the more the merrier!"
Eriol gives a huge sigh of relief…
"Ok! Meet you at your house after school!"
---Mitsuki---
That idiot! He ruined my plan! Why is he so stupid? Why didn't he fall under my charm? Why?
---End of p.o.v---
---Eriol's P.O.V---
Strange… that girl Mitsuki… she seems to have an aura. Not visible, but I can feel it. Is she a cardcaptor? But she had been in this school for six years! It's impossible that she could hide it all along! I must be dreaming…
---END OF p.o.v---
Sakura twirled around and round. The drizzling snow creates a romantic scenery . The cherry trees, now frozen, showed crystallized cherries. She hugged herself, a warm feeling in her chest as she look back. The cherry trees looked yummy… frozen cherries…
Flashback
"Sakura!"
"DADDEEEEEE! MAMEEEEE! LOOK AT ME!"
Little Sakura skids happily across the slippery pond. Her smile, sweet and innocent.
"SAKURA!YOU GET BACK HERE THIS INSTANCE!"
"WHEEEEEEE!"
Suddenly a pair of arms scooped her from behind. The laughter of little Sakura was joined by a woman's laughter.
"NADESHIKO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"Fujitaka-san! Don't be a spoil-sport! Come Sakura! Let's skate across to Daddy!"
"NADESHIKO! WHAT ARE YOU DO- NO! I MEAN IT! NOOOOOO!"
Fujitaka resisted stubbornly but finally let on as Nadeshiko and little Sakura tugged on him and little Touya pushes him from behind.
Fujitaka tried to gain balance pushing Touya's head in the process.
Sakura suddenly sneaked up behind and gives a small push at his legs.
"WHAA-!"
Fujitaka dropped heavily on the ice. Touya jumps on him and sat, refusing to get up.
Nadeshiko suddenly started to laugh. Her contagious laugh caused the frown to be rubbed off Fujitaka's face.
Soon they were all laughing helplessly on the slippery ice.
Nadeshiko gets up and rubbed the tears off her eyes.
Touya still refused to get up.
"Touya, you may get up now…"
"NO! Not until you promise to let me go to my friends party!"
"Why you- !"
Nadeshiko turns to Sakura, and whispered softly into her ear.
Sakura grins at her remark.
Suddenly, she breaks of the ice from a nearby tree. A cherry was frozen in it.
She hand it to little Sakura.
"Look at the cherry… how small is it. Yet it can grow so big and beautiful. See those trees over there? One day you'll grow up too, just like mummy and daddy and those trees. But I want you to always remember this moment. I want you to remember me as a strong and beautiful person. And I want you to know that I'm always here (she tapped on Sakura's chest) and here (she taps her head) in your memories.I'll always be there for you. "
--Flashback ends—
Sakura smile at the memory. Sadness, happiness, good times and bad times. When she received the news of her mother, she cried.
Not tears of sadness, but of anger, and deep hatred. She hated her mother for leaving her. She hated her mother for making her father and Touya sad. Most of all, she hated herself for not stopping her mother the night after the skating incident
'I should've known…'
She said angrily to herself…
"She said she was going far far away… How can I be so bloody stupid!"
Little Sakura's anger was like a fire, never ending for four days. Until the last day of the funeral…
The snow season was about to end soon. The cherry trees, decorated with pretty pink blossoms. She plucked the cherry. And she remembered.
"Remember me as a strong and beautiful woman… I'll always be there for you…"
Nadeshiko's voice rings loud and clear in Sakura's mind.
Suddenly, she wasn't angry anymore. All she felt was sadness… because… she understood.
'She wants me to remember that moment, not her funeral. She wants me to keep her alive in my mind so she can still be there for me, whenever and wherever. When I grow up, she wants me to take after her and live my life well and happy.'
Sakura smiles sadly. Nadeshiko had always twist her meanings to a rhyme.
"Sakura! Back to earth! HELLO!"
Tomoyo gives a small nudge.
"Smile to the CAMERA! Not the cherry trees!"
Sakura sweatdropped
"By the way, that girl Mitsuki that I met during my first day at Tomoeda high…"
"What about her?"
"She invited me to a study-group at her house. So I won't be able to accompany you to that dinner party at Rika's "
End of chappie three… hope ya like it! Sorry again if I'm late! Gimme your reviews and flames kay?
By the way, let me settle some things first…
Sakura has JUST RECENTLY move to Tomoeda High.
She studies in another school at first...That's how she met Tomoyo and they are best buds(DUH!).
Syaoran and Eriol are sort of best buds… They studied in Tomoeda High… Mitsuki ALSO study in Tomoeda High.
They're now all in Form 4.. Which means they are all 16 years old…
Syaoran had liked Mitsuki SINCE primary school…
AND I am going on a date with my maybe-going-to-be boyfriend now! So BYEEEEEEEEEEEE!
