Beat of the Heart

Story begins.

---Last chapter---

Dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-

"Hello?" asked Tein

"Tein! I'm hungry! Hurry-hurry-hurry!" a girl was heard from the other line.

He chuckled and said "Yes-Yes-Yes, I have you're food I'll come there in a bit."

"YAY!" she cheered. "Come here now Tein!"

"okay"

"Bye"

"Bye Cecilia"

Chapter 7

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--Sakura's house--

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Sakura's P.O.V.

"huh, gosh I'm soo poofed!" I thought as I parked my car in the driveway. Looking at the house before me, I realized a lot of things happen to this house and yet we still live here. Like, when that scary storm came and a stick flew by and broke the window in the living room, then there was a burglar who broke into our house and when Touya found him Touya bellowed at him and made him run scared. Hahah, that was funny yet scary.

I live with my brother and his family and I love them all lots, though I feel like I'm a bother. Maybe I need to find my own place. Yes! I'll find my own place! That's my goal for today.. yawn maybe I'll start when I wake up from my nap.

I smiled and walked into the empty house where they all left to school and for work.

Running up to my bed room and onto my bed I closed my eyes into a deep sleep.

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"ahhh" I sighed. I was in a hot spring, relaxed, calm and comfy. "There could be no better place then to be then here right now." Closing my eyes in the warm water all my crazy thoughts had run wild away from me.

Opening my eyes I didn't feel the warm water anymore. I was clothed in my jeans, a green top and my hair down. I looked around to see my surrounding and found out that I was in a studio.

No sooner a strum of a guitar was heard. It sounded so nice, especially when the person started to sing.

Following the music's echo through the hallway, this studio was no longer a studio but a school?

Stopping at a door, I reached the door handle and before I could opening it completely a blinding white flash came forth and I had to cover my eyes before I could even get a good look at the singer.

When I reopened my eyes I wasn't there any more, and my clothes were replaces with a WEDDING GOWN?

My eyes grew wide of horror. My veil was lifted and I saw…a man….a man with sea blue eyes that was holding my hands. Shortly, after I noticed that this man was no other then the man I once loved, it was Rei. I felt wetness on my face; they were tears, not happy tears but sad ones.

"Why am I crying? Why am I sad? I should be happy right? I get to be with my first love!" I have always dreamed of this day how I could I not want it now?

"Sakura?" I heard from behind me and so I turned around and saw a man wearing a tux yet when I looked at his face there was no face at all. It was all blurred and I could not see. I wiped my eyes to get a better look, but I was soon dropped into a hole where soon……………………………………………………………………………………………

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I woke up.

"Whoa? That was emotional? First I'm all happy then all sad then all confused and frustrated? Talking about mood swings? Hahaha. Oh gosh I'm going crazy!"

Looking at my clock it was 3 0'clock and I had nothing planned today. HOE, this is going to be a boring day!

Getting off of my bed to do some stretching I heard the phone ring. "GOT IT!" I yelled out and ran to the phone downstairs.

"Hello?" I heard from the other line

"Hi? This is Sakura Kinomoto. Who is this?"

"Sakura!" I heard, hmm this voice sounds all too familiar.

"This is Maho"

"O… So what's up? Wait, aren't you at work?"

"Yeah, but I called to say that I was coming home late."

"How late?"

"That, I don't know. My boss wants me to do some extra work and she needs help on some stuff. So it'll take me a while to finish everything."

"Do you want me to pick up Neiko?" I asked listening to the already exhausted Maho.

"No, it's okay Tein is doing that"

"He's coming here?"

"Yeah. So, could you make dinner for them and your brother?"

"O yeah sure, you don't need to ask."

"Yeah, I know but I think Tein might bring a guest too."

"HUH! Is it his girlfriend?"

"Tein has a girlfriend?" Maho asked surprisingly and laughed.

"I don't know, I'm just saying! Don't tell him I told you!" I panicked, knowing well enough that she would bug the living hell out of Tein, and then Tein would bug the living life out of me.

"Well okay then Sakura, I have to get back to work. BYE"

"Bye" and we both hung up.

Walking to the kitchen and opening up the fridge I asked out loud "So Sakura, what shall we make today?"

No later did I hear the front door 'jiggle'. "Maybe it's Tein?" I thought

But then the door started to 'jiggle' a litter harder then before.

"O MY GOD! What if it is a BURGLAR? What if he's here to kill me? It's a MURDER!" I let my imaginations run wild and as I did so I got scared to the part where I could pee in my pants.

Tippie-toeing to the door and grabbing an umbrella from the vase I peeked through the mail slot.

Taking a deep breath I saw…………………..

No one.

Sliding down the door and leaning my back to it I sighed in relief but held the umbrella like it was my life savior. "Maybe it was just the wind" "Yeah! It was just the wind!" I got up from my spot and walked back the kitchen.

Opening the kitchen door expecting to see an empty kitchen I saw the murder.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed

I ran towards him and started hitting him with my umbrella in hand. I heard him moan in pain and he was yelling at me to stop and even pleading!

"WHY WOULD I STOP IF YOU'RE GOING TO KILL ME!" I yelled at him

He turned around and I saw an all too familiar guy in the kitchen. And it was his kitchen actually. He glared at me and I in turned just smiled.

"What in the name of Japan are you on Sakura?"

"HAHAHAHA!" I laughed nervously " I don't think I got enough sleep" I stared at him " Gomen-ne… ano.. daijoubu?"

"I'm fine" It was Touya my older brother. He stood up straight, rubbed his neck and back. "Gosh Sakura, I think you really are a monster"

"And I'm sure you wouldn't mind another beating!" I replied and he ran away up to his room.

"oo! TOUYA! Maho called and said that she won't be coming home because she's cheating on you!"

I heard a rumble down the stairs

"WHAT?"

"Just kidding!" I smiled evilly "She called saying she won't be coming home late because she has a lot of work to do"

"O, okay then" he sighed in relief, he really loves his wife after all. "Don't do that again" he said last and walked back up stairs to take a shower.

I laughed.

"Now where was I?" I thought

"Ahh, dinner. What shall I make?" Thinking of all the foods I've eaten I suddenly had the urge to eat.

"SPRING ROLLS AND SPICY CURRY NOODLE SOUP! YUM!"

"Umm, spring rolls dipped in peanut sauce or hoison sauce! Curry noodle soup with bamboo, cilantros, mushrooms, chicken and" –grrgllll-

"Ugh, I'm hungry; I should stop thinking about food and actually make it."

Looking through the kitchen I could only find a few things that would make my ideal meal.

"Well, gotta get shopping then!"

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-short cut to where she went to the store, bought it, made it and now serving it!

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"Hey Kaijuu? Should I trust your cooking? I've never tried any of these before", asked my so called brother.

"Don't worry Touya; I'm sure it's not that bad. I mean, I don't think she can mistake poison with curry paste", answered my so called friend and brother's brother-in-law.

Twitching of annoyance I was at the point where I was ready to bounce on them as the laughed their heads off.

Taking a deep breath, smiling, I replied "I sure hope I didn't, but I promise you it will KILL your taste buds." That wiped their smiles away.

"Eat up guys." I said the guys, "Come on Neiko, I know you love this too!" she looked at me and smiled and we both dug in, into my gracious cooking!

O you wouldn't know how good it was! YUM!

"Ahem, Sa-Sakura, you didn't put poison in here did you", asked one of the young men sitting in front of me?

I looked at them query, reaching down to a bottle that had a fake label I showed it to them "o, I'm sure I didn't, but I don't know if this was poison or not though. What do you guys think?"

Mouths open wide, I watched them both faint.

"Guys it's only Hoison sauce! See?" I peeled off the fake label the had a picture of a skull and underneath was a label saying "Hoison Sauce, great with pho and etc"

"Guys?" I asked once again "They'll wake up soon enough" I thought and went back to chowing with my cute little niece who didn't seem to notice anything at all.

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--Night at the Kinomoto residence--

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-My P.O.V-

"Auntie Sakura?" asked a little girl with pigtails in bed

"MmmHmm?" answered the aunt

"Could read me that story again?" she asked again, yawning in between

"Sure honey."

Grabbing hold of the book, it had a shine that turned pink then at a certain point you'd think you could've saw specks of green, but really you didn't. The book had a unique design, had markings and textures so smooth and brilliant that you'd imagine you'd find it a book store some where far away.

The title edged bright gold that said "The magic of Clow" on the cover. This book had so many stories you couldn't imagine. There were stories of a boy and girl capturing card that could fight back, stories of time, space and what ever in between. It had stories of fairies, princesses, princes, dragons and witches that go through courageous fights, dark magic and the most precious thing, love.

Sakura looked at it like she was hypnotized by the exotic look.

"Auntie Sakura?" interrupted a voice.

She snapped out of her daze and answered "Yeah?"

Smiling at her favorite aunt she asked "Did you have fun with Mr. Li when you both went out?"

Replaying that day she suddenly remembered that time when they both were sitting and both were looking at each other so closely. She still shuddered of the thought of it. At that time she felt her heart racing, her breath hitched to a stop, her eyes glued to his amber brown eyes then to his luscious lips. She felt her whole body shaken still at every breath he laid on her lips. They were so close!

"Damn that phone!" she whispered out

"What was that auntie? The phone?" Neiko asked now too curious to even think about sleep.

"Oops! Did I say that out loud?" she blushed at the thought, "What else did she say out loud", she thought

"I, I mean. So where were we in the book?" the auburn haired girl asked as she changed the subject to a safer one.

Being easily distracted Neiko replied, "OO! Can we start at the part where she told him that she was really disappointed in him?"

"Okay." She gave a sigh then started flipping through the pages to that part.

"Okay, You ready Neiko?"

Tucking herself more deeply into her bed she shouted out "I'm ready! Let's start! Read-Read-Read!"

"Throughout the whole day the Prince moped around his castle, all he had thought about was how his friend had said. 'I'm disappointed in you'. She told him. She has never been disappointed in him before! They were best friends since forever!

Thinking of how she could just throw those words out like they would give no affect to him, he started to get angry at her.

'Fine! I don't care!" but he did care. You see he's had these feelings for her for so long that he did care. He cared about what she said, what she did and how she felt.

He doesn't know what that feeling was but to tell you, he was in love. Though to him, love was nothing unless he found the girl and he didn't think that his friend would be the one. 'Not her', at least that's what he's been telling himself, 'not her'. He'd whisper to himself to sleep. But deep inside him there would be a voice saying back 'why not?'

As night fell, the prince tossed and turned in his bed. In his mind were only those four words that repeatedly, repeated in his mind. 'I'm disappointed in you.' Was all he heard, his friend's melodic voice 'I'm disappointed in you… in you… in … you!' those words that were soon mixed in with his own words 'not her' followed by 'why not?''

Then he woke up in his sweat for this was a night mare that he could no longer take. 'What a nightmare' he said to himself. Getting out of bed, he decided a walk out in his garden 'Some fresh air would be relaxing'.

Walking out in his private garden, there were more flowers then you could ever imagine. There were lavender roses to pink irises, pink lady slippers to orange carnations. Looking at the ear shaped moon glittered with the surrounding stars; he heard a voice not coming from afar.

They were hypnotic. He snapped out of his trance as soon as he thought 'It's her!' and followed the voice to a path where rows of cherry blossom trees were planted and in the end there stood a tall cherry blossom tree that erupted from the earth in a way that seem magical. There stood the girl he had always thought of and to think he was going to give up!

He came closer to her, hope filling in his chest at every step. She was beautiful. Could you ever imagine an angel so beautiful that would make one cry? Would you ever have thought that this gorgeous person in front of him would be his best friend? That voice popped back up in his head again 'why not?'

His friend turned around ever so slowly to face him as she heard his foot steps come closer. 'No, please don't turn around, I know you don't' want to see me' he pleaded but she turned around to face him. Her eyes were gleaming from her tears, her hair softly laid on her clothing.

They looked at each other for what it seemed for an eternity. Then she spoke in soft words, 'I sang for you' and then the unexpected thing happened she,"

BANG!

"What was that", Sakura yelled out?

"Auntie Sakura?" mumbled out the little girl below

"Oh, shhhh, honey go back to sleep. It was nothing. Oyasumi-nasai", she ushered her niece back to sleep.

Putting the book back into the bookshelf, Sakura walked out into the hallway closing the door gently behind.

In the kitchen there sat Touya and Tein on the floor and in came Sakura through the doorway.

"What in the name of Japan is going on in here?"

Tein answered her "We were only arm wrestling then I sort went out of control."

Silence spread through the Kinomoto residence. In the silence crickets could be heard from the music made from their legs and annoying noises from the bugs, then an eruption of laughter was shared between the two Kinomoto's and Osato.

"You guys are bakas"

"No we're not!"

A/N: whooo! Done with this chapter! Gosh! I'm so sorry I haven't been writing, I don't have internet now! Now I have to do it on one computer, save it on a disk or hard drive then bring it to a computer that has internet and download it to here. Phowee... Its soo much work! (Not really)... So what did you think? Was it good? Ho gosh I'm tired, my eyes are getting droopy. N-ways thanks and SEE YA!

Oo, hey do you guys have any cultural fairytales that you could share with me? I'm gonna write a play for my school's show but I need a story first! It's suppose to have some cultural stuff in it and I'm trying to put variety of cultures. Last year or this year I wrote one a story of 'Gao Nog' a Hmong Cinderella story, next school I was thinking of The monkey king but it's too long. Soo yea what ever… anyway thanks.. see ya!

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