The whole class was filled with chatter, some inane and some actually quite intelligent for high school students. Though, it was their first period of the day, so most students could be excused if their brain weren't at their peak performing ability. Some of course were an exception, already breaking school rules and doing things such as plotting pranks on their poor teacher. The teacher was of the sorry lot that truly and honestly did not care much for the kids. It was morning after all. Of course, he didn't really like having to deal with these monsters at any other time, but he had a reason to be grumpier than usual today. For today, another darling little monster will be added to his class. Oh the joy.
"Class." He first said quietly, hoping to not have to strain his voice this early. The teacher glanced around the room and sighed, noting that no one payed attention. That is, until a knock came from the door, and the next participant in his suicide walked in, the new student. The whole class turned quiet and watched the newcomer come up to the teacher to hand him his information.
Sakura was a bit preoccupied and didn't notice the new object of everyones attention. She was too busy conversing with her best friend Tomoyo. "Okay and, you can't believe what he did next! He... Tomoyo?" Sakura noticed that her friend wasn't really paying attention to her, at all. She waved a hand in front of Tomoyo's face, and that proved to be of no help whatsoever. After poking her a few times, and calling her name quietly, the teenager finally noticed that no one else was talking and that they were looking at something in front of the room. Sakura followed everyones stares, and froze.
"Hello everyone, it is a great pleasure to meet you. My name is Eriol Hiiragizawa and I am the new student that will join you for the rest of the year. Thank you." The object of everyones attention said. He glanced around the room, and his eyes landed on Tomoyo, and then Sakura. His lips curled in a slight smile as he noticed an empty seat beside the long haired girl and promptly went to go sit beside her, before even the teacher could say anything.
Meanwhile, Sakura was having a mental breakdown. No, this can not be happening. It just can't. Why are they doing this? Sakura was tense as the newcomer came towards the empty seat beside Tomoyo. "Sakura? Sakura?" Tomoyo whispered to her, after noticing her tenseness.
Sakura turned to her with eyes that were darkened with fear, " Tomoyo, I don't think we should be friends with -"
"Hello? Tomoyo is it?" a deep voice interrupted them. Sakura immediately went quiet and glared at the new boy. Tomoyo's face deepened to a deep blush at being addressed so surprisingly, and quickly turned around to look at the new comer.
"Hello, Eriol is it? It's very nice to meet you," she recovered quickly from her red face and put out a hand for a friendly handshake. Sakura was still giving him a dirty stare, then when he turned to face her, to ask what was wrong, she quickly turned around and wholeheartedly started paying attention to the teacher. Tomoyo cast her a confused glance, and apologized to Eriol. All he did was nod knowingly and turn to his seat to begin his first day of class.
Sakura was walking along with Tomoyo towards the apple tree they sat under together for lunch. Tomoyo wasn't speaking much, and Sakura wasn't complaining. She had a lot to think about. Are you kidding me? Since when did they go to school? Why would they need to?! So many things were happening to Sakura so fast, she honestly couldn't keep up with it. Not only were there fey following her around, for reasons she did not yet comprehend, but there was also one at her school. Not only that, but he had a very powerful aura around her as well. Tomoyo interrupted Sakura by speaking for the first time since lunch started, "So..." she begun, then paused a little sheepishly, "What do you think of the new guy?" Tomoyo avoided eye contact, because she still remembered Sakura odd aversion to him.
"I don't like him." Sakura bluntly answered, and kept walking. "We shouldn't be friends with him, lets leave him alone." Tomoyo was very, very surprised at the way Sakura talked about someone she never even met. She was usually so open to everyone, and very friendly.
"Sakura? What's wrong? You never met him before, why are you so hostile? We should at least give him a chance," Tomoyo was desperate to find out why Sakura didn't like him. She herself didn't notice anything truly peculiar about the new student, Expect that he had the most brilliant eyes-
"Tomoyo. Don't. I, for one, am not going to be friends with him," after looking at Tomoyo's sad and confused face, she added, "Please trust me on this. I do not have a good feeling about him." Tomoyo still didn't understand completely what the problem was, but she was going to find out.
"I'm sorry, anyways, let's talk about something els-" Sakura stopped mid-step as she spied a head of navy blue hair sitting with her friends under her tree. She quickly ran the rest of the way to her friends, and the impostor.
"What do you think you're doing here?!" she practically shouted, and caught everyone by surprise.
Eriol quietly got up, and politely answered her, "I don't think we've been properly introduced. Hello my name is Eriol. And you must be Sakura, funny, they told me you were very friendly," at this, he gave Sakura a slight knowing smirk, "And as to what I am doing here, isn't it obvious? I'm new, I'm meeting new people, new friends." He dragged on the friends part to further ire Sakura, and she would have continued shouting had Tomoyo not caught this chance to place a hand on Sakura shoulder, further silencing her, "Sakura, what has gotten in to you?" she quickly questioned with an annoyed voice. Tomoyo didn't wait for a reply though and apologized to Eriol for Sakura's outburst, claiming 'she didn't know what got into her.' Sakura gave Tomoyo a hurt look and walked away quickly, planning to eat somewhere else today.
School was now over, and as hard as Sakura tried to validate her actions in her head, the outcome was still that she hurt most of her friends by what she did. What was even worse, was that she couldn't explain why she was acting like that, Hey guys, we can't hang around him because he's a nasty, deceitful, conniving fey. Yeah usually you can't see them, but for some reason he wants to be seen. Well, all the more reason to stay away from him! Yeah, that would go along well. Sakura visibly sighed, the days events weighing on her shoulders. With this new piece added to the weird events happening already, it did nothing to help Sakura become closer to knowing what was going on. What was even worse, she couldn't talk to anyone about it. The only person who knew about her gift, was her mother. But she couldn't very well confide in her, could she.
"Hey! There she is!" a shrill voice called out.
Sakura learned early on not to respond to these types of calls, as they might not be from the human pedestrians. She heard the slight rush of wind as fey gracefully caught up with her.
"Psh, she doesn't look all that special."a male voice answered.
Again, Sakura thought, why was I 'special'?
"Yeah well, she probably isn't. Whatever. We still have to watch her."
Sakura recognized the females voice as the one that watched her the previous days. Mei Ling.
"You do, I don't. I don't know why you dragged me all the way over here."
"But Touya! Please, I need some company. This girl is incredibly boring, all she does is go to school then come home. I don't want to watch her!"
"Whatever Mei Ling, I need to get back to Master Li."
The male Fey, Touya, sped up ahead of Sakura, and she caught a glimpse of the male. She stopped in her tracks, and a look of astonishment spread upon her face. The same astonishment leaped over the Fey, bit he quickly concealed it and ran on, but Sakura couldn't shake off the feeling. The feeling that this new Fey, the enemy, had a very, very strong resemblance to the boys picture she saw yesterday. The one of him and her family. Another piece was added to the puzzle, but Sakura thought it only made her go ten steps backward to finding the solution.
"I don't know what happened. I truly don't. Just when I saw her, I felt the need to protect her. Her. A human." Touya was pacing in the room he was in, venting to the only other person there.
"Maybe you ate something bad." The other stranger cheerfully exclaimed.
"Yukito! Stop thinking about food for a second, will you? This is weird, beyond weird. I wanted to defy my Masters orders, I wanted to protect her!"
"Well, isn't that what we're ordered to do? Protect her?" the other answered, watching as Touya rand his hands through his hair.
"No. I mean, I wanted to protect her. From him."
Yukito was silent for a while, then answered, "Oh. Master Li won't be too happy to hear that."
Touya glared at his seemingly 'best friend' and replied, "Of course he won't be happy. That's why you can't tell him. I don't know what this feeling is yet, but I am going to make damn sure it disappears. That's why I told you about it, so you could help me."
"WHAT?!" a terrible roar went through a forest.
"Master Li, calm down. This is not the end, you just have to play along with this. This could be used to your advantage, like I said, Sakura, for some reason, was not particularly fond of him joining the class. It almost seemed like she hated him."
Li melted at the thought, "My new Queen already has a natural aversion to her enemy I suppose."
"You do know what you must do? To not let him have an unfair advantage?"
"Of course Yue, I must join her class as well."