The sun broke through the flimsy curtain that covered Sakura's window, making the room have a slight peach tint to it. The girl in the bed rolled over to meet the bright rays and opened her eyes slowly. Her arms went above her in a stretch and a yawn.
Starting of a new day,
Still thinking of her dream for the previous night, she was distracted when rolling out of bed. Oof.
and I hate it already, she mumbled from her spot on the floor. Sakura breathed in deeply while trying to untangle herself from the covers that decided to wrap around her like a cocoon. Stupid bed, stupid sun, stupid fey, stupid scho- Life is stupid. Clearly, the morning sun didn't really give her the dose of vitamin D it was supposed to in the morning. Sakura looked like a zombie trailing to the bathroom.
While brushing her teeth Sakura started thinking of the puzzle that decided to make her life even more difficult.
So the faerie have started to notice me. Her usual response would be to ignore it, hope for it to go away. But that's difficult. One of them decided to be my classmate. She spit out the toothpaste and rinsed her mouth. Looking back into the mirror, she decided to go through possible plans in her head.
Plan A) Move. - Unlikely.
Plan B) Ignore him. - Unlikely, since he seems to be fitting in well with my friends.
Plan C) Become public enemies. She paused at this plan, No... I don't think I can. It would confuse everyone around me, I can't just hate someone for no apparent reason.
Plan D) Become friends with him. - Ugh.
Plan E) Improvise. Yeah, I like that. Go with the flow, just like the yoga teachers say. Or was it kayakers? Whatever.
Plan set in her head, she headed down for breakfast.
~*~
"Hey Sakura, you feeling better today?" Tomoyo asked once they met up on the corner on their way to school.
No, life is stupid and won't leave me alone. "Yeah, I feel great! I don't really know what got into me yesterday. Sorry 'bout that." Sakura said with a cheery smile.
"You know, it's not me you should be apologizing to..." Tomoyo hinted.
"Oh no? Want to use me as a way to start talking to him today?" Sakura joked back with a glint in her eye, then when Tomoyo was silent, "You know, I still don't like him."
"But why? He just moved here, we met him for the first time, he's done nothing!"
"Tomoyo I'm sorry, can't you just tr- Oh. Hello." Sakura mentioned to the figure behind Tomoyo.
"Well fancy seeing you here, Tomoyo, Sakura." Eriol said with a smile, that seemed to trick Tomoyo but Sakura saw the sarcasm in it, "Would the lovely ladies mind if I join them in their stroll to school?" Now who talks like that? If he believes for one second that either of us is fooled by his 'suave' speech, he should thin-
"Oh of course you can! It would be delightful!" Tomoyo said with a reddening face. Delightful? Really? Sakura then preceded to give a glare to her 'best friend'. With a start, she noticed Eriol's 'bodyguard' behind him, a navy feline sort of fey with butterfly wings. What is with the faerie and cats? Sakura thought to herself as she remembered the other golden lion.
"I'll just walk ahead then, I need to get to school early anyways. To do homework and stuff," and she stomped off in a hurry to get away from the them. She knew they wouldn't bother Tomoyo, Eriol has a role to think of, and her best friend was oblivious to the navy cat.
"She really doesn't like me," mused Eriol, watching Sakura's retreating figure as she hurriedly walked ahead to school. Tomoyo was now taking slight offense to this, and felt extremely bad for her new friend.
"I'm sorry truly, I don't know why she's doing this. In spite of repeating myself, she is truly not like this," Tomoyo said to try and better the situation.
"Oh? Well then I'm sure the fault rests in you my lady, for when we are together your beauty shines even stronger," even he knew that this was total nonsense, but according to Tomoyo's blushing and happy face, he was saying the right thing, "and she just can't help handle being in both our presences at the same time." Eriol finished this grand line with a kiss on Tomoyo's hand. Behind him, the navy feline fake gagged. Eriol kind of wanted to the same thing, but settled for a mental cringe. Meanwhile, Tomoyo was fighting hard to cover up her blush, "Really.. I d-.. Ahem. Let us head to school shall we?" She flustered out eventually.
Eriol smirked, humans.
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Sakura marched her way up to her locker, in a grumpy mood. Not only did she have to deal with the sudden onslaught of mystery in her life, she now knew that her best friend was attracted to the main villain in the story. Life, sucks. Sakura mused on how that was becoming her favorite phrase as of late. She had to admit though, aside from the fact that Eriol wasn't human, he might have been seen as a nice guy in her eyes. Sakura closed her locker door in a sigh, she couldn't really think of anything to do about her situation. He wasn't posing as any threat, maybe he's just a bored Faerie prince wanting to experience something new? She chuckled without humor at the thought.
"Sorry, did I say something funny?" A deep voice interrupted her thoughts.
"Oh!" Sakura whipped around at the noise and placed a hand across her fast beating heart, taking a breath to try and steady it.
"Sorry!" The stranger said and placed a hand on Sakura's shoulder, "I was just wondering if you could..."
Sakura stopped listening to him. A sudden warmth filled her body. It reminded her of being at the beach and the sun caressing every part of her... Things that should definitely not happen when a stranger touches her.
"Don't touch me!" She harshly yelled out while swiping his hand off. The warmth still lingered in her, but was fading away when she was no longer in contact with him. After regaining some sanity, Sakura glanced up at the person in front of her, and gasped.
His eyes... There were no words to describe them. They were happiness, rebirth, sun, flowers, nature, everything about the world that made her think of spring time and summer; the warmth of the earth. They glowed amber in her eyes just for a brief second, then dulled down to a more human brown.
"I'm sorry. Really, I won't do it again. You just seemed kind of flustered after you uhm.. noticed me." The stranger said with sincere eyes that held some amusement.
"No, it's just..." I can't really tell him the truth can I? "You just surprised me, thats all." Sakura didn't want to look at him and busied herself with looking for something in her back pack. "Sorry, is there something you needed...?" she finally asked.
"Oh! Yeah, I'm new here you see, and I was wondering whether you could point out where room 263 is?" He paused, "I'm Li by the way."
Where have I heard that before? "Oh sure, that's where I'm going too! Just follow me!" She risked a smile at him, and it froze in place. Fuck.
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Syaoran felt the girl tense before him, and didn't know why. She's beautiful. He was struck dumb by her features, the auburn hair, green eyes. Definitely fits the look of a Queen.
"Alright, after you then." He tried smiling again, trying to put some warmth into her cold exterior. The girl before him just swiftly turned on her heels and started walking away without a word. Have I done something to make her this mad? Syaoran thought, as he matched the girls brisk pace.
"Umm... Did I bother you?" he asked, wanting to know what was wrong.
Sakura didn't say a word as she headed into her first class of the day, in room 263. Just opened the door and went in, trying to get out of his presence as soon as possible.
Syaoran stepped in after her, a look of bewilderment on his face. He quickly went up to the teacher to introduce himself before the class. As he turned around to the hushed class, he felt every eye on him. But Syaoran's attention was caught on just one person. His jaw clenched tight at the sight of his rival. Hiiragizawa. His glare was met by an all knowing smirk.
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Sakura quickly mover towards Tomoyo, giving her a quick smile before sitting down and dropping her head in her arms. She wanted to scream in frustration. Not only was there two of them now, this one brought a whole different level of complications. When he talked, I felt like just melting into his voice. It took all of my self constraint to walk away from him as I did. Why am I feeling this way for him? Sakura thought desperately, maybe it's one of his magics. At this realization, something snapped inside her, how dare he?! Fury was boiling inside her at the thought of being caught under a spell.
"Sakura! Stop looking so tired, you really should sleep more often," Tomoyo giggled beside her , "You're going to miss all the fun! Look theres a new student and he's a hot-"
"Hello everyone, my name is Li." the student in front of the class introduced himself.
Sakura wanted to cry; she knew what he was and hated him for doing this to her, but she couldn't stop herself from being overwhelmed by the warmth of his eyes as he looked at her.
"Wow, new kids must be a new trend at this school," Eriol said, interrupting her thoughts, "I wonder who we will get tomorrow? A girl I hope..." He said with humor.
Tomoyo laughed at his joke, and teasingly replied, "Why? You don't like what you've seen so far?"
Eriol gave her a smile, "No one could compare to you, love. I was just thinking that since you were taken away, another girl to come would only be fair." Tomoyo flushed such a deep red that Sakura couldn't help but laugh a little, distracting herself from Li. She took a moment to really look at Eriol. He was of a pale sort, with harsh features. His eyes looked cold and dark, like a void. He's so different from Li... Sakura stopped herself from going further.
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Touya watched Kinomoto out having lunch with her friends. He stayed out of sight, under the cover of trees and bushes. She seemed to only be half heartedly paying attention to everything around her. Her friends joked and talked, but Sakura only gave out her responses in nods or short words. She seems preoccupied in her thoughts, but they don't seem good... Touya stopped. He shouldn't care for her goddamn it! She was a human, a pretty one, but that didn't matter! Why did he feel so protective of her? So drawn to the fragile being? He frowned as he caught his master making his way toward Sakura. Maybe it's cause she is our Queen, and as a guardian of the King, my protectiveness transfers to her as well. But that didn't explain why he felt that twinge of anger at his King talking to the girl.
"Pretty isn't she?"a voice interrupted his musings. Touya glanced over and say Eriol standing there.
"Good afternoon, King." He said a bit sarcastically with a small smile on his face.
"No need to call me that! We've known each other long enough, to go beyond those formalities." Eriol said in a pleasing matter.
"As a friend then," Touya began, because he has been wondering, "why are you here?"
"Here right now? Enjoying a pleasant chat," at Touya's frown, he decided to add on to the explanation, "At the school however, is personal business. Maybe I just want the new experience." His companion snorted at the statement. "Rest assured Touya, it is not to harm. In fact, my mission might just as well be done here. I don't see anything in the immediate future that would keep me here..." At this, Eriol looked at the lavender haired teen sitting with Sakura, trying to coax her a conversation with their group.
Touya caught the look Eriol threw to the girl. He raised a questioning brow, but didn't comment on it. He would prove himself a hypocrite to question another fay's attention to a human. He just mutely nodded and watched Eriol take on a human glamour and step out from behind the tree.
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Sakura was walking home that day, not even bothering to look where she was going. So many things have happened that she doesn't even know how to begin to deal with them. The spell she was under, the one who cast the spell, and now, a new mystery had refreshed in her mind. Today at lunch, she glimpsed a fay, the one that looked like the boy in the photo frame her Dad was looking at the night before. The resemblance was striking between her parents and him. This mystery, she couldn't even begin to figure out. With a sigh, Sakura passed her thoughts on something else she observed today, the new fay, Li, seemed to hate Eriol. Even more than she did. But why? They're both from the same... species? Sakura didn't know what to call the faerie. She opened the door to her house and was glad that her father was gone. She needed to be alone right now, to try and sort everything out. Sakura sat herself down in front of a table, got a notebook, and began to write, hoping that when her thoughts and the clues were all in front of her, she would figure something out.
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A figure sat on a grand throne in the middle of a cold room. He looked to be in deep thought, but the frown etched onto his pale face, showed his troubles.
All around the room ghostly figures floated silently. Most were doing some type of menial chore and all had expressionless looks on their faces.
"Need some company?" One figure asked, with a cold voice. The man silently put his attention to the elegant figure in front of him. The figure was see through, but the dark hair and kimono that she wore was still visible. She continued to speak, "The ghosts around here are not very talkative are they?"
"Do not forget you are one yourself," replied the man, in an offhand manner.
"Oh, do not group me with these," she stopped and thought for the right word to use, "low-lives. I have- had, far greater power," she wrinkled her nose, "and have much greater intelligence."
The man smirked at this, "You are right, most of my ghosts cannot keep from their past goals long enough to hold a conversation." He stroked the navy feline resting in his lap, "But that is dangerous in itself. For you, Yelan, have the intellect of your old self, but none of the wiseness. If you had any to begin with, given that you got this way." He chuckled to himself, as if a joke had just been said.
Yelan's mouth tightened in a grimace, but decided to change the subject, "How is your plan coming along?" She said coldly, letting hatred drip from her every word.
"Splendidly," the man replied, "splendidly."