Anything For you
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Author's Note:
Sorry guys, for the slow updates! The weather in Singapore has been getting worse and worse, so that got my flu to worsen! There has been a haze in Singapore for the past few days as well, and that's getting me very restless.
But thank you, precious people to continued reading my story for giving me reviews even though I wasn't updating! That really gave me quite a motivation to get up from my bed and write a new chapter (:
Anyway, since I have not provided any new chapters recently I shall shut up and get on with the story. Thanks and ENJOY~~~ :D
Chapter 7:
*Previously*
A girl about Sakura's height and age slide open the classroom door, and she had long wavy purple hair and the skin colour similar to the one Sakura saw earlier. Sakura and Tomoyo's eyes widened at the sight of the girl.
The girl smiled and bowed politely before introducing herself to the class, "Hello everyone. My name is Nicki Jamieson. I'm from London. Please take care of me from now on!"
The reason why Tomoyo and Sakura were so surprised at the new girl was evident.
The girl, named Nicki Jamieson, held a striking resemblance to Sakura's mother.
*End of recap*
"Miss Jamieson here will only be studying at our school for one semester, because she is here only to get to know about the Japanese culture since she is half Japanese. After this semester, she will be returning to London. Since she will only be here for a short while, I hope that all of you would get along with her and be kind to her." Terada Sensei continued introducing the new girl. He then assigned Nicki to a seat right beside Sakura.
When Nicki settled down in her seat, she turned to Sakura and smiled sweetly at her, "You're Kinomoto-san, right? Wow you're even prettier in person than in those magazines! Nice to meet you!" and Nicki held out a hand to shake hands with Sakura.
Sakura was still astonished at how much this Nicki looks like her mother, but still shook her hands and said, "Erm, yeah, I'm Sakura Kinomoto… Nice to meet you, too." Sakura smiled weakly at Nicki and thought, "Even her hands feel like mom's… Who is she…?"
Classes resumed as per normal after the brief introduction of the new student, but Sakura was distracted by Nicki who looked like an exact replica from her own mother. She felt uncomfortable with such a distraction, so she made up a lie to tell the teachers that she was feeling unwell so she could skip lessons after lunch break ended. Since Syaoran and the rest had not seen a picture of Sakura's mother before, they did not know what was happening to Sakura, so they just decided to leave her alone for the time being. Only when Syaoran asked Eriol, who did research on Sakura and Tomoyo, did he find out that the new girl, Nicki looked like Sakura's mother. He knew that this was a very sensitive matter for Sakura, so he decided not to disturb Sakura for now and let her be. However, when the last bell of the day rang and it was time to go home, he looked up onto the school's roof and saw Sakura's troubled face, so he decided to find a way to make her happier.
He called his personal butler to investigate on Nicki Jamieson and also provide him with a picture of Sakura's mother, Nadeshiko. "Wei, tell me right away when you found out what I just said, alright? It's important."
Sakura also decided to go home when she heard the last bell, so she sighed and walked down the school building to her where her car was. She thought it was just another normal school day, but when she reached the Kinomoto mansion and entered the living room, she saw her father sitting there with a foreigner dressed in a suit. He seemed to be around the same age as Sakura's father, Fujitaka, and they were currently having tea and chatting happily in the living room. "That's strange… Dad never comes home this early, moreover, with a guest… What's going on?"
When Fujitaka noticed that his daughter had finally returned from school and stood up proudly as he signaled Sakura to walk over. "Let me introduce, this is Sakura, my youngest daughter. She attends Tomoeda high school. Sakura, hurry up and greet uncle."
Sakura, though clueless about the situation right now, still bowed politely, thinking that he might be an important guest. "Nice to meet you, Uncle."
"Ha ha ha, yes, nice to meet you too, fine lady. I heard that you attend Tomoeda High as well? Well, what do you know, my little girl as well! I wonder if the both of you have met yet in school today?" The man laughed with a deep voice and smiled and said in English.
Now, Sakura was really confused. She smiled awkwardly at the man, "Erm, excuse me but I don't think I've seen your precious daughter yet, Uncle."
Just right after she finished her sentence, the butler of the Kinomoto household interrupted their conversation, "Master, Miss Jamieson has arrived." And he signaled the servants of the house to open up the door to the mansion. In came Nicki Jamieson, and the moment she entered the mansion, she ran towards the man beside Sakura's father and gave him a hug. "Hi daddy! I'm back from school!"
The man, called Mr. Jamieson, replied with a smile, "Oh, welcome back my dear! Daddy has missed you! How was school today?"
"Japanese schools are so interesting! I found out that most Japanese students bring packed lunches called bentos to school for lunch break! It is so much more fun than in London, daddy!" Nicki exclaimed cheerfully to her father. It was only then when Nicki finally noticed Sakura's presence, "Oh, Kinomoto-san! I didn't realize that you're here! Is this your house?" Nicki let go of her father's hand and turned to Sakura.
Sakura was shocked, so she just simply replied, "Yes, this is my house… Nice to see you again, Miss Jamieson."
"The both of you know each other?" Fujitaka asked.
"Yes! We're classmates! Such a coincidence, right?" Nicki smiled brightly at Fujitaka. Nicki then bounced right beside Sakura, linking arms with her as if they were best friends.
Mr. Jamieson then laughed out loud, "Oh, wonderful! Miss Kinomoto, so you're classmates with my dear girl here! I must ask you to take good care of her in future. Sadly, I will have to leave Japan tonight to London because I cannot leave the company alone. Nicki will be staying at your house for the time being, is that alright with you, my dear?"
Before Sakura could even react to his request, Fujitaka cut in and agreed without even asking for her permission. "Sure, I will assure that your daughter will have the best time in her life with us in Japan. Please rest assured that we will agree to any request that Miss Jamieson here has."
Mr. Jamieson smiled, "Then I'm glad. But I will have to get going now. Can't miss the flight, can we?" and with that, he bid farewell to Sakura and Fujitaka and left the mansion into his limo. Nicki followed along as well to accompany her daddy to the airport.
After seeing them off, Sakura stormed into Fujitaka's room, confused at his weird behavior. "Dad, what's this all about? Why is that girl living with us? Why are you agreeing to this without my consent!"
Fujitaka sighed and explained calmly to Sakura, "Sakura, my dear, Mr. Jamieson is an important investor to the Kinomoto Group. We have to please his daughter to get him to invest in our company."
"But we have other investors too! Why are we even bother doing this? Is there something wrong with the company recently? Is there anything I can do to help?" Sakura asked with a worried expression.
"The company's having a few difficulties recently. But don't worry, if we manage to get Mr. Jamieson to invest with us, the problem will be solved. Sakura, can I trust you to answer to all of Miss Jamieson's needs? I need you to be her escort throughout her stay here. We can't do without this investment."
"But…!" Sakura tried to reason things out with her father.
"No buts, Sakura. We need to do this for the company. We have to feed thousands of employees' families. We can't let the company fail and we definitely cannot disappoint the people who worked so hard for us." Fujitaka looked at Sakura with fierce eyes.
Sakura was speechless. This has never happened to her family's company before, so all she could do was agree. Her father had never been this harsh on her either. "… I understand, father. I shall follow your orders and please Miss Jamieson."
For the next few days, Sakura has been playing the role as Nicki's escort and answered to her every need, even if they were ridiculous requests such as requesting for Kobe beef for lunch during the one hour lunch break suddenly. Because of that, so Sakura had to tell the school that she and Nicki will be excused for a few lessons just to bring her to a one of the Kinomoto hotels and restaurants to fulfill her request. There were also a couple of times Sakura had to run a few extra rounds around school while carrying Nicki during gym class because she claimed to have asthma, but later finding out that she was perfectly healthy. Nicki also forced Sakura to ignore her friends every time they wanted to speak to her, and she also liked to interrupt the conversations between Sakura and Syaoran in class, making Syaoran and the rest really irritated about her. The rest could not do anything about it, because Syaoran also found out why Sakura had to put up with Nicki as he did some research on her, and told the rest about it. They understood why Sakura had to do this because this was inevitable when your company is at stake, so they did not say anything and put up with Nicki's demanding requests too. Being Sakura's best friends, they also tried to help Sakura out by helping her fulfill some of the unreasonable needs, but there were still times that Nicki would specify that she wanted Sakura to do it for her instead of the others. Syaoran was the one to suffer the most besides Sakura, because Nicki kept wanting to get closer to him, and keeps requesting that he go shopping with her. Of course, Syaoran declined her offer, because he had got no reason to please Nicki personally, but saying no would upset Nicki, so he had to be really careful about his words as well. Every time Sakura saw Nicki trying to be with Syaoran, she felt a sting in her chest and she was feeling a bit angry at Syaoran for playing along. "I don't know why I'm angry at him for no particular reason! It's just… frustrating!" She thought as she saw another one of those scenes where Nicki tried to stick near Syaoran, and she wasn't liking any of it. She felt bitter, for some reason, but could not show it in front of Nicki.
But one day, after another one of the acts that Nicki showed her with Syaoran, Sakura could not take it anymore and went to the school rooftop alone, claiming to have a headache and excused herself from class so she could go to the sickbay. However, she went to the rooftop instead and stayed there throughout the whole morning until the bell rang, releasing the students for lunch break. A few minutes later, Syaoran came to the rooftop as well, and he smiled, because he was proud to know he guessed correctly that Sakura would be here. It was their special secret spot after all. But something was different than usual today, and that was because Sakura was frowning as she leaned on the railing. It seems like she was thinking about something really complicated, because she did not even notice Syaoran sneaking behind her and gave her a jab at her sides. She was startled and jumped in surprised after being poked. Sakura blushed at the sight of him, because she was just thinking about why she was so frustrated at Syaoran whenever Nicki got close to him. She then realized what she was doing and immediately turned away from him with a growl.
Syaoran raised a brow at her weird behavior and asked, "A penny for your thoughts, fine lady?"
"None of your business, Syaoran. Why don't you go back to entertaining Nicki?" growled Sakura.
"Hey, that's your job, not mine. Anyway, don't try to change the topic. What's up?" Syaoran continued probing.
Sakura kept silent, but as Syaoran continued to stare at her attentively as if she was some alien, she finally gave in after several moments of silence. "… Fine! Fine, I'll talk so stop staring at me like that. It's weird…"
Syaoran just smirked in reply and said in triumph, "OK, spill the beans!"
Sakura started blushing and started off, "I… I'm not sure why but I'm feeling very stuffy in my chest. It stings whenever Nicki tries to talk to you, and I get mad every time you play along with her. I feel like I'm going to suffocate every time you smile to her, and I feel like killing both you and her together when she links arms with you…!" Sakura's head start to droop as she found her fingers the most interesting things in the world and played around with them nonstop.
Syaoran was rendered speechless as Sakura continued ranting out whatever that was on her mind. "Sakura…! Calm down! Do you have any idea what you're saying right now?" He grabbed onto Sakura's shoulders, trying to calm her down.
"No… Let me finish! I don't know why I'm feeling this way! I don't why every time I see you, I feel like I can't breathe and I do many weird things such as getting angry at you for no particular reason! I don't know why I'm so messed up right now…" Sakura continued with her pace getting faster and faster as if she was shooting out her words like a machine gun. When she finally finished, she heaved loudly as she ran out of breath in the process of ranting. When she looked up from her fingers, she found Syaoran smirking at her, as if he was mocking her.
"…Why are you smiling like that? Did what I say sound funny?" Sakura's head drooped down once again.
"That's because… I like you too." Smirked Syaoran.
Sakura's head shot up in surprise, "W-Who said anything about liking you!"
Before Syaoran could reply her, Sakura's phone rang, interrupting their conversation. Sakura fished out her phone from her skirt pocket and looked at the caller ID. It said, "The brat". Sakura grunted in irritation, "Urgh, I've got to go now. Nicki's calling…" She stood up and pressed the answer button.
"Yes, Miss Jamieson, I'm coming right now. Don't worry, I'll be there in a jiffy. Sorry for leaving you alone." Her voice trailed off as Syaoran continued smiling at her retreating figure. Unknown to him, as Sakura was leaving the roof to meet Nicki, she was smiling to herself as well, "So that's how it is, huh? Well at least I got it off my chest…"
Nicki was waiting at that quiet school building entrance for Sakura, and when she saw Sakura, she pouted, "Don't you know you're not supposed to leave me alone? You friends aren't even interesting. They're so boring!"
Sakura got a bit angry at her comment but decided to keep it to herself instead. "I'm sorry for leaving you alone. It'll never happen again."
"And you! How can you do this to me! Didn't your mother teach you to be punctual and obey orders? Oh, right, I forgot you didn't have a mother." Nicki scoffed at Sakura. "Well I guess it will be ok if I call daddy to cancel the investment now, eh?"
Hearing the mention of her mother, and the last nerve snapped for Sakura. Her expression turned dark and she turned Nicki around, pinning her to the wall of the school building. "What exactly do you want? Who are you to speak about my mother?"
Nicki's cute expression disappeared in an instant and she eyed Sakura darkly, "Oh dear, is this how you treat the daughter of the person who will invest in your company? Besides, is this the right way to treat someone who gave you a present not long ago? I suppose you haven't forgotten the pictures I sent you… Am I right?"
Sakura scoffed at her, "What the hell are you blabbering about? What pictures-" but she stopped halfway and memories starting flashing through Sakura's mind. The pictures of her mother in Paris!
"What. Do. You. Want. From. Me?" Sakura asked with clenched teeth.
The cute smile returned to Nicki's face but Sakura found it extremely revolting. "Simple. I want Syaoran. If you be a good girl and listen to whatever I say and make Syaoran mine, I'll not only make sure that daddy makes your company even more prosperous, I'll also allow you to meet your mother after so many years."
~.~To be continued~.~
Author's note:
Hi there precious people! This is chapter 7… how was it? I'm really sorry for any Nadeshiko fans around for making the nasty girl Nicki look like her and sorry for making her sound like such a bad mother T.T
Anyway! There's another cliffy here. Oh God even though I created Nicki, I really, really hate her. Gosh, if someone like that appeared in front of me, I'd slap her inside out!
Ok, I need to get ready to sleep, so goodbye my precious people! (I'll try to update soon ok (: )
Keep the reviews and subscription coming, ok? CIAO!
Xoxo, Shining cookies.