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Complications Chapter 3

The annual Electives Day was an event that every student looked forward to, all of those excluding Sakura Kinomoto. Her original unperturbed plan for the trip was wrecked entirely because the infamous Syaoran Li had a change of heart to go skating at the very end, which caused the whole school to make-shift overnight.

A school day with his existence was already like a restless wind tunnel. With him at the skating rink, the whole school would go wild and uncontrollable. Whatever made him change his decision has brought Syaoran into her "Hate" Zone once again.

"Why can't he just stay out of this event like the 2 years before, Tomoyo, why?" Sakura asked cluelessly in outrage into her cellphone.

"I don't know Sakura," Tomoyo's voice, as usual, was unbothered by anything. "Whatever his reason, we shouldn't let that bother us." Her attempt to calm Sakura down failed when Sakura groaned loudly. She heard ruffles of Sakura sitting up on her bed, now.

"Ugh, I guess," Sakura gave up in defeat.

"That's the spirit. Get enough sleep, you've got a whole lot to learn tomorrow!"

"Oh great!!" Sakura slapped her forehead.

"Remember to smile at the camera. Sakura-chan's first skating experience has to be video-taped," Tomoyo chirpped animatedly, knowing Sakura would very well blush at the thought.

"No, I'll break your camera if you do."

"We'll see about that, Sakura. See you," Tomoyo replied dismissively, stating the end of their phone call.

"Bye," Sakura pressed the red "end" button on her phone, having heard her friend's significant evilness, the 'hohohohohos.'

"No doubt, that's our bus," Mike lifted up his right hand and pointed at one of the 25 black-and-yellow school bus that was parked in the school parking lot.

The area where the bus was located was especially crowded, to the point that people, mainly girls, spread out all the way to the next 5 buses. They shoved, squeezed, and pushed their way into the one bus where, for sure, Syaoran Li was going to ride in.

This bus was also the bus, for sure, that Rika, Mike, Tomoyo and Sakura would have to ride in because Syaoran was their bus captain. There were two teachers who tried their best to keep the mad girls from blocking the bus entrance.

Without realizing it, Sakura's jaws dropped so low and eyes widened so big that they could almost hit the ground. She was...wordless.

She turned back to look at Tomoyo and Rika. "No, Sakura. You're not hallucinating," Tomoyo whispered dangerously, as if she, too, was experiencing hardship to contain herself.

"I'm so sorry," Rika's bent low.

They squeezed their way into the bus after Sakura recovered from her trauma.

"Sakura, Mike, Tomoyo and Rika are present," Sakura said in an expressionless tone to Syaoran, who ticked off their names. Behind them, the jealousy attacks by the girls drowned out immediately when the bus door closed shut.

"Thank you," Syaoran thanked reluctantly at her tone of voice and handed the attendance to Kei Sensei, a grade 10 Biology teacher who was seated in the first row.

"Mike, you sit in the 6th row on the left. Rika and Tomoyo, you two sit in the first row on the right, and Sakura you sit in the last row on the left," Syaoran instructed them their seating arrangements. Without looking at him, Sakura stolled down the bus faintly, while listening to the chatters of the class mates.

"Sakura!" an urgent voice whispered among the quiet chatters. Sakura looked up from her ipod and found the owner of the voice. Mike's gelled-disarrays stood out in the crowd up front. Three-fourth of his face was covered by the grey seat except for his beautiful, soft brown eyes. "Come sit here, nobody's sitting beside me!"

As she slowly stood up to leave her seat, she suddenly bumped into something which she recognized as a stong-built muscular chest. The person, who smelled so good, stood frozen like a statue. "S-sorry," Sakura apologized, looking up at the person. Simultaneously, voices in the bus started to move in high speed, murmuring things between each other. "Sakura, where are you heading to?" the voice that was so easily to be recognized and could make anybody faint belonged to Syaoran. His fake velvety voice echoed inside her mind like an unescapable haunt. "I'm going to sit beside Mike."

"I'm sorry but no seat-switching is allowed. Plus, the bus is already moving, it's way too dangerous."

"So why are you up?" Sakura asked accusingly.

"That's because I'm your bus partner for the day," he answered nonchalantly.

"Oh."

"Yes, please sit down," he insisted as he sat down beside her in the space that she made for him.

Defeatedly, she slipped out her phone from her bag and texted to Mike, explaining the situation.

I can't sit beside you because "no seat-switching is allowed." Be good Mikey

She closed her phone and replaced it back into her bag. Syaoran scrutinized her every move quietly. "Are you and Mike Tendou dating?" he asked out of pure curiosity, with additional unintentional demand.

"I don't think that's not any of your business," Sakura smiled coldly. She returned to her ipod surfing. After a while, she asked, "Why did you change your decision?" He didn't answer, and she looked up to find him not paying attention to her anymore but to the girls sitting around them.

"What's your favourite food, Syaoran?" a girl with short black curls asked excitedly.

"Hmmm, anything that you can cook pretty," Syaoran replied back in his velvety voice.

Sakura had to admit, his smile was...breath-taking and could make every girl's heart stop. His beautiful amber eyes were especially emphasized that day due to the weather and his always-messy brown hair. The girl looked like she was going to hyperventilate.

'Is he ignoring me on purpose?' Sakura thought angrily.

"Sakura, you and Mike are so cute together. If you guys ever secretly date, please, please tell me. I will support you guys for sure," another girl noted when she saw Sakura listening to their conversation.

"We're just friends," Sakura replied sweetly.

Syaoran turned around to face her after she answered. His eyes were intent. "Did you say something?" Then, they returned back to the normal fake smiles.

'So he was ignoring me on purpose!'

"Nothing," she said in anger without looking at him and retrieved her ipod.

For the rest of the ride, it was quiet between the two. However, the same story might not apply to Syaoran and the girls, who weren't exactly the type who Syaoran would want to date; they're too innocent for his taste.

"Ahhhh!! I'm going to fall Mike!" Sakura shrieked from the top of her lungs when Mike took his supporting hands away from hers on the ice.

Tomoyo quickly skated towards her before she fell onto the ice. Her other friends giggled at her little incident while they skated around them.

Jun was helping Rika just like Mike was helping Sakura to learn how to skate, except for the additional video-tapper, Tomoyo, who has been filming her from when she was putting on her skates. The others were like professional figure skaters. Amongst them, Tomoyo was the best because the heiress always had to learn many things when she was little. When she skated, she was like the damn beautiful angel who fell from the heaven.

Surprisingly, the whole field trip was so far good and...peaceful. Syaorana and his friends were no where to be seen from the beginning, so the fans were very normal. The skating rink was 2 times bigger than the last few years to accomodate the bigger group of students. It could hold a capacity of 2000 people, the size of a professional skating rink for the figure skating performances. This was one of the advantages the students had for attending a rich school.

"If you let go of me again, you won't live for long. Promise," Sakura screeched into Mike's ears.

"You won't learn like that," Mike complained, trying to block his ears.

"Mike, just teach her in a gentle easy way. Look at Rika and Jun. All beginners are like that. They need support until they feel comfortable enough by themselves," Tomoyo cut in, who paused her video camera to talk.

The others nodded in agreement. Sakura looked pleased to find her friends siding with her.

"Okay fine. I won't let go of you unless you specifically say 'I want to skate by myself.' Promise," his poor imitation of Sakura's voice failed. Sakura's eyebrows raised into disbelieve.

"I promise!" Mike's gloved hands stretched out to take Sakura's and looked seriously into her eyes. Unwantedly, she blushed slightly at his cute but serious facade.

"Fine," Sakura smiled in satisfaction.

"I-I can't! OOFFFF!!" After a while, Sakura fell forward, on top of Mike, who made sure that he was on the bottom, keeping her away from the hard ice.

"Hey are you guys okay?" Tomoyo rushed over in concern.

Sakura tried to get up with no success and fell back onto Mike's muscle-toned body.

"Here, I'll give you a hand," unexpectedly, the unmistakable sexy voice of Syaoran Li came out of no where. She looked up from Mike's chest.

Syaoran's expression was cold, emotionless, but still keeping his hot, sexy look. His amber eyes were intent, the right arm was stretched out towards Sakura. Amber met Emerald. Suddenly, an eruption of screams of excitement and murmurs began to fill in the skating arena like a zoo running wild.

"Oh, Syaoran's here!"

"She's such a bitch!"

"Man, the two hottest guys in the school are having a showdown."

"It's showdown, guys!"

"Syaoran! I'm falling! Help ME up!"

"Syaoran Li! Don't help her up! Kiss me!"

As if he's the famous celebrity around, everybody rushed over to where the three of them were. Then, cameras started flashing and the screams went wilder.

Mike held his weight up with the support of his elbows and looked dangerously into Syaoran's amber eyes. Anticipating the intense atmosphere around her, Sakura looked back and forth between the two of them, who stared each other down dangerously, having no idea why a tiny fall on the ice suddenly turned into the worst showdown that could ever happen in the history...

TO BE CONTINUED!

Valkyrie85: Hey guys! That's the end of chapter 3. I'm sorry about last week. I gave myself a week off because it was March Break. I hope you liked the chapter. Please review! The button's right down there! Even one word/letter will doo!! Let's try to aim to 35 reviews this time. Anyways, if you would like me to reply to your review please tell me in the review and I will reply for sure. Stay tuned for the next chapter...showdown!!