The result was not pretty.
It made Sakura burst out all the water out of her mouth and made her look like a water work.
"WHAT!" Sakura screamed at the top of her lungs, "Tomoyo, did you lose some screws? Oh, don't answer that! You're insane!"
And then she started mumbling about some things that Tomoyo couldn't understand non-stop.
"Sakura, I'm only joking" Tomoyo said out of the blue.
Sakura's head snapped towards her "What?"
"I'm only joking" Tomoyo repeated.
"Seriously?" Sakura asked, now calm.
"Of course" Tomoyo said seriously.
"Then why did you say that you were becoming a matchmaker?" Sakura asked puzzled.
Tomoyo shrugged and smiled mischievously "I have my reasons"
Sakura looked at her suspiciously but dropped it.
Since it was already late, Tomoyo dropped Sakura at her house.
"Bye Sakura!" Tomoyo waved from the car window.
"Bye Tomoyo" Sakura replied, as she put the dancing supplies bag on her shoulder.
Sakura was about to open the door but Tomoyo said something that made her stop dead in her tracks.
"Don't forget that after school tomorrow, I'll take you back to the studio to practice again!"
Sakura looked behind her "WHAT?"
But Tomoyo already sped off.
Sakura opened the door to her house and went in.
She found her father, Fujitaka Kinomoto sitting on the table doing some paper work. Kaho Kinomoto, her sister in law, drinking tea while reading a book and her brother nowhere in sight.
When Kaho married Touya, they decided that they will live in the Kinomoto household. They have ideas in moving to another house but not yet. And anyways, Fujitaka doesn't mind, Kaho is like a second mother to Sakura.
Her real mother? Well, she died when Sakura was little because of a sickness. And then her father started doing all the house work, but the Kinomoto children always helps.
"Hey Dad, hey Kaho"
"Hello Sakura" Kaho replied softly.
"Hello, Sakura-chan" Her father looked up from his paper work, "How was work today?"
"Poisonous" Sakura said loathingly.
"Why?" Kaho asked, concerned.
Sakura opened her mouth to say something but was stopped.
"Hey Kaijuu!" Her older brother, Touya, came down the stairs.
"Hello dinosaur" Sakura replied emotionless.
Touya growled at the land of the stairs.
Sakura just stuck her tongue out.
Touya sat at the table beside his wife.
"So how was work today?" Touya asked trying to change the subject.
"It was hell" Sakura said with anger in her beautiful emerald eyes.
Touya smirked "Why? Tomoyo made you wear more animal clothing?"
Sakura stepped closer to her older brother until she was in front of him "I swear to god that it was worse" and she stepped on her brother's foot, hard.
Touya wanted to yell out loud and cuss but his father and wife were watching and he has already passed the stage of an adolescent, he's an adult and adults don't scream.
So all he did was shut his mouth, bit his lip, and winced in pain.
Sakura was satisfied, so she skipped off to the stairs.
She turned around and faced her dad, "Good night Daddy"
"Good night Sakura" Fujitaka replied.
"Good night Kaho" She turned to Kaho.
"Good night Saku" Kaho smiled.
Then Sakura faced her brother, "Goodnight Touyaceratops"
Touya bolted out of his seat and chased Sakura up the stairs.
Sakura gave a scream and ran from her dino-brother.
Fujitaka and Kaho each gave a small chuckle. This brother and sister will never get along.
Being a tall adult with long legs enables Touya to run fast but being an energetic sporty person with excellent athletic grades enables Sakura to run faster than her brother. The only difference was the amount of energy used.
Sakura hauled the door open and locked it shut. She pressed her back to the door, hoping that her brother wouldn't knock it down.
After minutes of banging and threats, her brother finally gave up and went to his and Kaho's room.
Sakura unlocked her door quietly and opened it to a small peep.
When she saw that the coast was clear, she sighed and closed it.
"Baka" She mumbled.
She put down the supply bag and put clean clothes, a new towel and her dancing shoes inside.
She checked her school bag to check if her books and homework were inside. They were. Good.
She opened her wardrobe and took out some comfy pajamas. She changed into them and fell into her bed.
She shook her head and pulled the covers over her body. She turned the lights off and fell into a dreamy slumber.
~Next day~
Sakura woke up and got ready for school.
She slipped out of bed, took a bath, brushed her teeth, etc.
She put on her school uniform, combed her waist-length auburn hair and wore a blue headband. Her uniform consists of a white long-sleeved t-shirt, a black tie, a blue skirt and a light blue jacket.
She ran downstairs to find everybody already down.
Fujitaka was reading the morning newspaper and drinking a cup of coffee. Kaho was packing lunch and Touya was finishing his breakfast.
"Ohayo!" Sakura said cheerfully, taking a seat beside Fujitaka.
"Ohayo gonzaimas Kura" Kaho smiled, putting a tray of food in front of her.
Today Sakura's menu was eggs, sausages, some vegetables and a bit of rice. Being a model, Sakura had to keep a skinny body but enough nutrients and vitamins to keep her fresh and healthy.
"I'm going to eat now!" Sakura said cheerfully.
Sakura may be bold and scary sometimes but that only happens when she's angry. When she's not, she can be genki, cheerful, full of life, and pretty clueless at things.
Sakura gobbled up her breakfast happily.
"You know Kaho, you should cook Sakura less food from now on" Touya talked to Kaho.
"Why?" Kaho asked gently.
"Look at her now, monsters eat way too much food" Touya said.
Sakura pretended not to hear her brother.
"If the monster eats too much food, she'll stomp on all of us" Touya said again.
Sakura acted calm even though she was angry. She glared at her brother who was sitting directly in front of her inside and had an idea.
Sakura still ate but below the table, she stomped on her brother's foot.
Kaho chuckled slightly, knowing what happened.
"Maybe she'll step on you only dear" she said to her husband.
Touya winced and gritted his teeth.
"I'm going now" Touya said, putting the dishes in the sink.
"What about me?" Sakura asked.
"Why don't you just walk this time?" Touya smirked.
"Touya" Fujitaka warned.
"3 minutes" Touya said getting his bag.
"Fine" Sakura glared at her brother, eating faster.
After Sakura ate her breakfast, she grabbed her books and bags, groaning at the dancing supplies bag while grabbing it too.
"I'm going now!" Sakura and Touya chorused and stepping out of the household.
"Have a great day you two" Kaho waved before the door closed.
Outside, Sakura stepped into the backseat of Touya's car.
Touya sat at the driver's seat and out his bag beside him.
"Step on it driver" Sakura ordered.
"Whatever" Touya sighed and sped towards Tamoeda High School.
They arrived at the school district in no time.
"Later Touya" Sakura said, closing the door and walking to the school.
Touya shook his head and drove towards work.
Sakura entered to meet greets and smiles from the students.
"Ohayo Kinomoto-san"
"Good day isn't it Kinomoto-san?"
"Hello Kinomoto-san"
These were only a few of the many greets she got.
Sakura just smiled and waved at all of them.
"Ohayo" Sakura said as she went inside the classroom and walked towards a small group of girls.
However they weren't normal girls, they were her best friends.
There was Rika Sasaki, Naoko Yanagisawa and of course, Tomoyo Daidouji.
"Good morning Sakura-chan" Rika said gently.
"Sakura, morning!" Naoko said with enthusiasm.
"Sakura, did you remember to bring your dancing supply bag?" Tomoyo asked softly.
"Maybe" Sakura humphed.
"Ne, ne, have you heard?" A boy in the table beside them was telling his friends. "We're having a new dance teacher!"
Sakura froze. Ms Tano was her favorite teacher. One of the reasons was that she was kind and her beautiful dancing.
A girl in the boy's group gasped, "What happened to her?"
The boy shook his head, "I don't know, but word says that the new dance teacher is a guy!"
Sakura widened her eyes slightly. That made her remember somebody.
The bell rang signaling five minutes before the morning assembly.
Every Monday, the school has a small assembly to tell the students about the activities for the week.
Everybody filed out of the classroom and from the corridors and into the assembly hall.
The hall was well, a large hall with chairs, a stage and a single podium.
The principal, Mr Katsuya walked onto the podium.
"Good morning students" Mr Katsuya said into the microphone on the podium.
"Good morning" The students chorused lazily.
"Well students, this week the school will have…"(A/N:I don't wanna write about the announcements okay? Nobody really pays attention to it. They aren't really important)
"Well that is all. The last announcement is that our talented dancing teacher, Ms Tano has retired because she has a broken spine caused by her dancing the other day, making her unable dance" Mr Katsuya announced.
A wave of cheers and moans came from the student body.
Mr Katsuya signaled us to pipe down.
"So, we have a new dancing teacher to replace Ms Tano. Please come up" He went to a side, so that the new teacher can pass and show itself.
Sakura widened my eyes and was about to scream if Tomoyo hadn't slap her hand against her mouth. It wasn't the scream of how shockingly hot he was like the other girls. It was the scream of total despair.
The teacher was, well, Sakura can't deny it, hot. But it's not like she'll fall head over heels for him like the other girls. More like hot on the outside but pure evil in the inside.
He had chestnut brown eyes and amber eyes. You guessed it!
There, stood Sakura Kinomoto's enemy: Syaoran Li.
Sakura glared at Tomoyo. Tomoyo just smiled innocently at her. She knew that smile. 'She has something to do with this! I'm sure of it! You see if she doesn't!' Sakura thought.
"Students, meet Mr Li" Mr Katsuya said into the microphone when all the squeals of the female's division quieted down.
"He is a very professional dancer and he has won many competitions. He is very good in dancing and he will teach you well. He was a last minute teacher and this is his first time as a teacher so he isn't very familiar with your dancing skills yet. So please treat him well"
He nodded to Syaoran.
Syaoran came forward and smiled charmingly to everybody.
The girls (Not Sakura's group) stared at him in awe as if he was god or something.
The boys all looked at him with jealousy and hate.
"Good morning everybody. I have many experience in dancing. I'm not that good as a teacher yet. So please forgive me if I hurt your feelings with my words"
He smiled a flashing-winner smile and all the girls (Not Sakura's group) either fainted, or had a nosebleed and fell from their chairs. There were sounds of thumps and crashes from every corner of the hall.
"Oh my" Mr Katsuya said worriedly.
The only people who were calm and not worried about the other girls were Sakura, Naoko, Rika and Tomoyo. So it was easy to spot them out of the thousands of students.
"They'll probably come to in a while" Sakura shrugged nonchalantly to the principal.
"Can we go back to class now Mr Katsuya?" Rika asked kindly.
Mr Katsuya snapped out of his trains of thought "Eh? Yes, yes, of course"
The girls got off their chairs, avoided the bodies and went out of the hall.
"He's not going to hurt their feeling all right. He'll probably make them faint or get a nosebleed first before he can get a word in" Sakura muttered under her breath to her friends.
Naoko nodded, "You got that right"
Rika shook her head, "What is Mr Katsuya thinking? Letting a hot-shot-model in as a teacher?"
"'Hot-shot-model', is that what you think of me Ms Sasaki?" A masculine voice came from in front of them.
They looked up and Naoko and Rika gasped. Tomoyo and Sakura seemed unfazed by their situation.
"M-Mr Li" Naoko stammered.
Syaoran nodded, "Yeah, it's me Ms Yanagisawa"
"Um…I'm sorry for you know…" Rika started shyly.
"Nah. It's okay" Syaoran waved his hand dismissively.
"So what are you girls doing out of the hall?" He asked like a Mr Goody-two-shoes.
"Going to class" Tomoyo answered shortly.
"Really? Do you want me to walk you there?" He asked kindly.
'Him? With Tomoyo? No. I'm not letting him anywhere near Tomoyo' Sakura thought.
"She's already with us unless you haven't noticed Li" Sakura spat with venom.
It looks like this whole time Syaoran didn't notice her till now.
Syaoran froze and looked at her direction. His eyes grew cold at the sight of her.
"Kinomoto" Syaoran seethed.
Sakura nodded and mocked him, "Yeah, it's me Li"
Syaoran glared at her.
"Why are you here?" Syaoran snarled.
"I was walking to class" Sakura said nonchalantly.
"So? Why are you not going to class now?" Syaoran asked, clearly annoyed.
"Hello? I was going with my friends who you were talking to and you're blocking the way to our classroom brainy pants" Sakura snorted.
"Watch your mouth Kinomoto" Syaoran warned.
"I can say whatever I want to say Li" Sakura shot back.
"I'm a teacher" Syaoran started.
"And I'm the star student. No detention since I started. No complaints. No letters. Nothing with a capital N Li" Sakura shrugged.
Syaoran smirked, "Not with your behavior to me, you're not"
Sakura shrugged, "Your own fault for being the one who started this anyway, Li"
"I did not"
"Yes you did"
"No I didn't"
"Yes you did"
"No I didn't"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes I did and that's FINAL!" Syaoran shouted.
The girls giggled while Sakura snickered at how easily their new dance teacher could be tricked.
Syaoran realized what they were giggling about and turned a little pink.
Sakura smirked but decided to keep quiet.
Even though Sakura didn't say it, Syaoran knew that she was blushing and her smirk proved it right.
Tempted to strangle Sakura, but not wanting to do anything to her in front of her friends, he just did a deep growl, "Go to class"
"I would, but you're still blocking the way smart ass" Sakura snarled.
Syaoran glared to the core at Sakura but stepped aside anyway.
Sakura swept through and walked towards class.
"Sakura has a lot of guts to say that to a teacher" Rika whispered to Naoko.
Naoko nodded, "But it looks like they met"
Rika nodded.
~At lunch time~
The bell for class rang and the class went out of the class. Sakura held Tomoyo back because she needed to ask her something.
"Tomoyo,"
"Hm?"
"Why is Li here?"
"I think you know why"
Sakura scrunched her eyebrows, "No. Why should I?"
"Because we discussed about this yesterday night, remember?"
Sakura racked her brain for the conversation they had last night but couldn't remember anything.
"No. When did we discuss this?"
"Oh my god, Sakura, we talked about this with Li at dinner. Remember now?"
Sakura rolled her eyes. No wonder she didn't remember, she spaced out in the whole conversation.
"No, because I didn't pay attention to you 'interesting' conversation"
"You should've Sakura. And you can't change the past, so we gotta adapt ourselves to our new teacher"
"'Adapt' is so not the word for me" Sakura grumbled.
~Time Skip~
~Dance class~
It was dance class now and all the students changed clothes and shoes.
They filed in to the dance hall. The dance hall was a big room with mirrors reflecting the entire room. There were also bars circling the room. Only one wall was not mirrored, instead, it had bleachers.
As Naoko, Rika, Tomoyo and Sakura sat quietly, the female population were all squealing, screaming, staring, nose-bleeding, day dreaming etc. at the teacher.
The boys were all murmuring and scowling among themselves.
"Hello everyone" Syaoran greeted huskily.
The girls squealed except for the four.
"You already know my name, it's time for me to know yours" Syaoran continued, taking out a list.
"We're going to have a roll call, ok everybody?" Syaoran asked sweetly.
The girls all (not the four) nodded dumbly while the boys just murmured "Whatever"s.
"Okay,-"
Sakura blocked out his voice and shook her head. 'This is going to be a long class'
~Time Skip~
"Tomoyo Daidouji?" Sayoran asked, looking up from the list.
Tomoyo raised her hand, "Here"
"Sakura Kinomoto" Syaoran said and paused.
He pursed his lips and scowled.
"What's wrong with my name Li?" Sakura asked nonchalantly.
"Nothing Kinomoto" Syaoran growled.
Sakura shrugged, "Suit yourself"
"Okay, since that's everybody, let's get started shall we?" Syaoran said, his fake dazzling smile pasted on his face.
No replies came out, and instead, swoons answered.
Syaoran must have took it as a yes, because he grinned again and he said, "Who knows anything about the dance called cha-cha?"
Some people raised their hands, and even though Sakura knew about it, she didn't want to go up and explain it to everybody.
But instead of picking someone who raised their hand, Syaoran said, "Come up here Miss Kinomoto"
Sakura grumbled but stood up as he wished.
"Now, tell me what you know about the type of dance called cha-cha" He ordered.
Sakura took a deep breath and explained everything that Syaoran had said about cha-cha the day before.
"Thank you Miss Kinomoto" Syaoran smirked, "I'm glad you remember"
"How could I not?" Sakura said under her breath. Not loud enough for her classmates to hear, but loud enough so Li could hear.
Li just grit his teeth and faked a smile.
"Since you know so much about cha-cha, maybe you should give an example of it" Syaoran grinned.
"I think I rather not" Sakura glared.
"Why not?" Syaoran raised a brow.
Sakura sighed hesitantly.
And Syaoran knew he had won.
"Aw, come on Miss Kinomoto, everybody wants to see you dance" He pressed.
Sakura scowled, but said to him, nonetheless "With music or not…sir?"
Even though she didn't want to, she was forced to call him that.
"Ah yes, we'll be using my choose of cha-cha music for this time"
"Which piece sir?" Sakura gritted her teeth.
Syaoran smirked, "I think you'll know Kinomoto"
As Syaoran pressed the play button, he said, "Hmm…I think I'll give your friends an example too" And he stepped into the dance, with Sakura in the middle.
Sakura glared at him, but danced their routine that they tried yesterday.
Their dance stopped and everyone clapped.
"Why did you pick this song, sir?" Sakura asked.
"To test your memory Kinomoto" Syaoran replied simply.
Sakura rolled her eyes and went back to her seat.
All the girls' eyes were stuck on her, A. Because she danced with the new hottie teacher, B. She danced so well, And C. People were jealous of her talents.
"Well, class, all eyes on me, now" Syaoran chuckled at his joke.
It wasn't really hard for the girls, really, at the first minute, they were at Sakura and the next millisecond their eyes were permanently glued to their teacher.
The 4 girls shook their heads. Was he that great? He's just a teacher for goodness sakes!
~After School~
Sakura tried to avoid Syaoran the whole day, which wasn't difficult, considering that he was also avoiding her. The next challenge was blowing Tomoyo off by trying to run out of school faster, but to no avail.
"Where do you think you're going Sakura?" Tomoyo smiled, already in her limo.
Sakura groaned. "Do I have to?"
"You must!" Tomoyo grinned, pulling her hand and hauling her in.
Once she got in, she groaned again, "Tell me we're not going to go with him?" She said, pointing a finger at the amber-eyed male sitting opposite of her and Tomoyo.
"Sakura, be polite. We're going to the same place anyways" Tomoyo replied.
"No kidding" Sakura snorted, looking out of the window.
In no time, they had reached the dancing studio.
"Come on, go in, come on, go in" Tomoyo ushered.
"We're not dogs Tomoyo" Sakura snorted.
"I know, I just need to make sure you're going in" Tomoyo replied.
"Why? Afraid she'll run out of the studio?" Syaoran joked.
"Thanks for the idea" Sakura brightened and nearly bolted away if it wasn't for Tomoyo. Tomoyo grabbed Sakura by her collar and pulled her back.
"Don't even think about it Cherry, or I'll order guards to look after you 24/7"
Sakura widened her eyes, "You won't dare"
Tomoyo shrugged, "You know oka-san would be happy to hear it. She won't have a problem with it"
Sakura heaved a sigh, "Fine. But no guards. You hear me?"
Tomoyo beamed, "Deal, now go in and start practicing with Li-san like a good girl"
Sakura followed Tomoyo's instructions. She followed Syaoran to room 14 on the second floor while muttering to herself.
Syaoran opened the door to room 14 gentlemanlike and let Sakura enter first, "Ladies first" he half smirked/half smiled.
Sakura managed a half smile/half smirk of her own, "What a gentleman" she said sweetly aloud.
Syaoran chuckled, "I try my best"
And they trained again.
~Time skip~
4 days passed and things weren't that awkward anymore.
At least Sakura and Syaoran weren't that bad anymore. They started acting civil. Sakura and Syaoran's conversation wasn't so…loud…as the first time. They didn't scream and yell or get angry….much.
At school, they don't really glare and retort at each other and Tomoyo, being a genius, suggested that Syaoran teach them the cha-cha dance, training Sakura at the same time. And at the studio, they practiced with effort and Sakura was starting to open up even more, sometimes, giving some suggestions to make their dance routine look better, and even Syaoran had to admit it. Their dance routine was great.
Today was the last day for their practice and tomorrow, was the first round of the competition.
Sakura and Syaoran went to the studio together, as always, courtesy of Tomoyo dropping them off all the time.
When they got in room 14, Sakura just had to smile.
"Why all the smiling?" Syaoran asked.
Sakura shook her head, still smiling.
"Today's the last day for practice of the first round"
Syaoran nodded, "I know that. Your point?"
"Stop acting mean again Li-san" Sakura glared, but it was half-heartedly.
Syaoran shrugged, "Just asking Kinomoto-san"
"Call me Sakura" Sakura's voice said softly.
"What?"
"Call me Sakura"
"Okay, Sakura. In that case, call me Syaoran"
"Sure, Syao"
Syaoran grinned/smirked at the nickname Sakura gave him.
"So, why were you smiling just now?" Syaoran asked.
Sakura shrugged, "I dunno, seeing how far I did, I'm proud of myself"
"I'm proud of you too" Syaoran smiled softly.
"Um, say, Syaoran, what time is the competition?" Sakura asked.
"At night. Around 8:30" Syaoran replied.
"And what time is our turn in the competition?"
Syaoran frowned and shrugged, "I don't know Sakura"
He blushed slightly, her name rolling off his tongue so perfectly.
"Are you sick?" Sakura asked, cocking her head to the side.
Syaoran shook his head madly.
Sakura raised a brow but stayed quiet.
"So, should we practice or not?" Sakura asked, breaking Syaoran's train of thoughts.
"Hm? What? Oh, sure"
Sakura smiled at him.
Syaoran smiled back at her.
Who knew that they could practice so far, with the competition so close?