Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ The New Cousin ❯ A New School, Pranks and a Fight ( Chapter 5 )

Dina tugs at her skirt, really disliking them. "I can't believe I have to wear skirts.." She looks up at the junior high school, today her first day, having been in Japan almost a week now. "I just hope I can stay here awhile.."

"Dia, you're going to be late if you don't go in now." Syaoran says, standing next to her. "You're scared aren't you?" He teases her, thinking that'll make her walk off in a huff.

His cousin gives him an amused look and laughs. "There's nothing wrong with being scared, little wolf. And yes I'm scared a little. I know only you, Sakura and Tomoyo." Dina looks down at him and gives a small smile.

The boy frowns and then shrugs. "I'll see you after school then. Bye Dina." He turns to go when his cousin calls out to him to stop and he pauses, looking at her. "Yea?"

"It must have been harder for you, you didn't know anyone here. I'm right, aren't I?" She says, her eyes on him, like she can see right into his mind. "Well, you better go, cousin." Dina turns towards the junior high school again and walks towards it.

Syaoran shrugs as he heads for his school that's next door to Dina's. He turns on hearing something behind him and blushes on seeing Sakura coming up.

"Hi Syaoran!" Comes a shout as Sakura skates up to a stop next to him. "Dina enrolled at the junior high school?" The girl looks at her friend, smiling at him.

"Yea. She spent the pass week getting to know her way around and getting some items in case she needs them, also she had to get skates and her school uniform." Syaoran looks towards the junior high school as he enters his school with Sakura.

Dina goes to the office to get her schedule and to find her homeroom class, then leaves the office wandering down the hall totally lost. "Great..just damn bloody great..first I get lost trying to find my cousin's apartment now I'm lost in this stupid building."

She finally finds her homeroom and enters the room, getting introduced and takes the desk the teacher points out to her and stares at the board as the teacher talks, trying this is so stupid as she sits here.

The girl heads for a spot where she won't be bothered and sits down to eat her lunch when several voices are heard and six older kids, all in the same grade as her, all girls are standing there.

"Look it's the new girl. What? You couldn't find a school that'd take you where you lived?" One mocks her as the girl's friends laugh. "You must think you're hot stuff, walking around like you own the place."

She frowns as one of the girls grabs her backpack and dumps all her books out. "Leave me alone or you'll regret it." Dina stands, eyes narrowing at the other girls. "You don't want me to get angry."

"I don't think so, new girl. You're on my turf and we're going to deal with you for coming here." The first girl speaks back up, glaring at Dina. "You should have never came here and we're going to make sure that you have no friends."

"I'm not here to make friends, stupid. Now get out of my face." Dina goes into a defensive prose as she says that, scowling at the girls and they decide to back off but not without some glares and rude remarks.

She spends the rest of her lunch time gathering all her things up and pushing them back into her backpack with a sigh then grabs her lunch box as the bell rings for the next class.

Dina sighs, bored to tears and jumps up once the bell rings, signaling the end of class and she runs towards the gym, knowing that soon her plan will be put into action. She snickers as she changes into her gym outfit, then heads outside for class.

The Chinese teenager watches the others with an amused expression, still bored but happier to be out of the classrooms and outside where she can at least be active. Her head snaps up when the teacher calls her name out and asks her to do some jumps over barriers.

She stands and walks over to the starting point and starts to run, heading for the first barrier and leaps over it then keeps going, doing each one perfectly, landing. Dina turns and walks back towards the rest of her class, ignoring the shocked looks and whispers.

"Dina, that was great. You should try out for the track team. Try-outs start next week. Are you interested?" The teacher asks her, thinking about getting Dina on the team.

"Maybe, I don't know yet. I don't know how long I'll be here either."

Dina replies, not wanting people to think she's showing off. "I'll let you know, sir." She sits and wraps her arms around her knees, thinking about what to do and if she should try-out for the track team.

"Hey, Dina?" Several other students come up to her, a mix of boys and girls, the teacher helping some students who are having problems with the barriers. The speaker is a boy slightly shorter then her with blond hair and green eyes. "Can we talk to you for a minute? Please?"

She nods, wondering what they want with her, hoping they aren't going to try to fight her or anything, knowing it'll be one-sided since she's a trained fighter. "Go ahead."

The boy looks nervous and swallows. "You're really good at the barriers and the track team has been lacking good jumpers for two years now. We could use you on the team. Please consider trying out."

"I'll consider it, but like I told the teacher, I don't know how long I'll be here. And I don't want anyone to think I'm showing off, that's not how I am. If I decide to try-out, everyone will find out at try-outs." Dina turns to walk away then pauses. "Thanks for asking me and I hope we can become friends even if I don't try-out." With that she trots off, thinking about the track team, the problems happening and what to do.

Finally the teacher lets them go change back into their uniforms and as the other girls are changing into their skirts, Dina grabs her backpack and goes to change in private. She looks down at her outfit and grins, now wearing black shorts with a short silver shirt with a black dragon on the front.

The bell rings, signaling time to change classes and the Chinese girl smirks, trying not to laugh as she secures her custom skates that has dragons on them. "Time to stir up some excitement." With that the girl pushes off and starts to skate, jetting out of the locker room, to the gym and through it and into the hallway where students are hurrying to class.

People jump out of her way as she races down the hallway at top speed. Dina grins, enjoying this and listening to the screams and shouts as people get knocked down. Putting on a burst of speed she speeds for the doors and crashes through them, leaving the high school in an uproar and several teachers chasing after her.

Dina turns, facing them and waves, then spins forward again, going pass the gates and onto the street, dodging cars and people as she crosses the street and leaps onto the sidewalk, speeding down it at full speed, her hair having came free of it's braid.

With a laugh, she skates off, heading randomly in a direction. Dina slides to a halt in front of a store, peering into the window. "Looks interesting and I do have plenty of time to kill." She sits on a nearby bench and changes into her shoes.

She enters the store and starts looking around, picking up figures and inspects them. Dina wanders through the store, gathering several items for her room then heads up to pay for them. She exits the store, pausing a moment and grins on seeing a bookstore, heading for it.

As she's crosses the street, shouts are heard followed by a car's horn, the girl turns, everything seeming to be in slow motion, as the car speeds at her. Dina stands there for a moment then reacts, going into a cartwheel, sliding between two parked cars and hits the sidewalk hard.

"Are you alright, miss?" A voice is coming from somewhere above her, the voice male and concerned. The teenage boy kneels next to her, holding her up some, staring down at her. He has black hair and blue eyes, very handsome but Dina being the way she is doesn't pay any attention to that.

"Yea, I'm fine. What happened?" Dina says, still somewhat confused, having hit her head. She stares at the guy before sitting up on her own and then stands, her head hurting but unable to use her magic until she's alone at the apartment. She shakes her head slightly to try to clear it.

The boy frowns some but helps her stand. "You nearly got hit by a car, but you did a cartwheel and got out of the way though you also hit your head after tripping over the curb. I'm Kikuchi by the way."

"I'm Dina and thanks for helping me." She grabs her bags and walks off, still somewhat dizzy. Dina keeps walking, not sure which direction to go in.

Syaoran standing in front of his school, waiting for Dina to show up when Sakura comes running towards him. "Syaoran! Have you heard?"

"Heard what Sakura?" The young boy looks at her in confusion, trying not to blush, having been doing that a lot around her. "Is something wrong?"

Sakura looks surprised. "Dina caused a riot at the junior high after gym class. From what I was told, she came shooting out of the gym on roller blades and went racing down the hall and outside."

Syaoran groans. "Great..last time she did something like that, she was nearly kicked out of school for a whole year. The clan had to step in to keep that from happening. Now she doesn't have the clan to help her." He looks calm on the outside but inside he's very angry with his cousin doing this. "I'll see you tomorrow Sakura."

The girl watches him race off and shrugs then heads home herself, thinking that Syaoran is getting very weird. Even more so then when Meiling was around but shrugs it off on him just being concerned about everything that's going on.

Dina stretched out on her bed, having put all her new things away, her arm over her face. "One..two..three.." Once the last word comes out of her mouth, her bedroom door slams open to reveal an angry boy. "Hello cousin."

"Don't you give me that Dina. What were you thinking?! The clan isn't going to help you this time around and if you get kicked out of school here you have no where else to go!" Syaoran shouts, fists balled close, glaring at his cousin.

"Little wolf, it is called fun. So stuff it, I don't know what changed you but you're not acting like the cousin I knew in Hong Kong. That boy was happy and always laughing, but the one before doesn't." Dina retorts to him, becoming annoyed herself.

Syaoran goes red in the face partly from anger and partly from embarrassment. "I can't believe we're cousins. You can't even be serious."

The boy scowls at her, letting his anger control him. "Grow up Dina!" He pauses for a moment then glares at her. "I don't want you here. Go home, cousin."

The girl frowns and sits up. "I can be serious if the situation calls for it and we both know that. I don't know what's eating at you but until you figure it out leave me alone. If you don't want me here then I'll leave. Now goodbye cousin." With that she lays down on her side, ignoring him fully.

He shuts the door, nearly at tears, never having heard Dina be so cold to anyone, specially to him and he goes to his room, laying down as he stares out his window. "That was so smart of you. Haven't seen her in almost a year and a week after she shows up you get into a fight with her." Syaoran lies there, mentally beating himself up. "I'm sorry Dia…"

Dina sighs heavily and stands, walking towards her balcony, going outside and looks down at the ground. "He's the only family I have left and if he doesn't want me around then maybe I should leave. There is other places I can go like the United States, it is a really large country and I could start over.." She knows that she can't leave that easily, not with all the stuff happening around here. "Well he might not want my help but Sakura can and will. That reminds me..I told her I'd teach her some spells she can use the cards for."

As silently as she can, the teenager gets her magic books, pushing them into her bag then grabs her skates, heading for the door, moving cat-quiet. Once she's outside she changes into her roller blades and thunders down the sidewalk towards where she knows Sakura lives.

The Chinese teenager slides to a halt before Sakura's house and goes through the gate, to the porch then sits and changes back into her hiking boots, rising and goes to the door and knocks. She looks around the yard, smiling some.

The door opens, a man standing there. "May I help you?" He looks down at Dina with a smile.

"I'm here to see Sakura, sir." Dina answers, unable to help herself and smiles back at him, thinking this must be Sakura's father.

"Are you a friend of her's?" The man seems somewhat surprised at his daughter having a friend who is so obviously much older then her. After Dina nods, he steps back to let her in. "Come in please."

"Thank you." She steps inside, pausing a moment, looking embarrassed then removes her shoes like she's expected to do, following Sakura's father into the living room, looking around as she does. "This is a nice house you have sir." Dina could have kicked herself for sounding so stupid right then.

"I'll go get Sakura for you." He turns to go to get his daughter, heading upstairs and knocks on her door. "Sakura? You have a visitor." Her father opens the door and looks in on her.

"Who is it Dad?" Sakura looks at her father, standing by her desk, looking confused. "No one said they were going to come over." She walks towards her father and steps into the hallway.

"I don't know, she's waiting in the living room though. I think she's around sixteen, she certainly looks like it." He goes back into the kitchen as Sakura goes towards the living room.

"Dina! I didn't know you were coming over. You should have told me you were." Sakura says as she looks up at the older girl, smiling happily.

Dina smiles back, having taken a likening to Sakura, thinking of her as a younger sister. "Is there someplace we can talk in private? I thought we could work on some of those lessons you asked me about." Dina's smile widens as the look of remembering passes over Sakura's face and she laughs softly. "I take it you remember now."

"Yea, we can do it in my room. C'mon." With that the girl bounces up the stairs with Dina following, heading for her room, going inside. "Have a seat, Dina." Sakura flops down on her bed, still smiling. "So what are the first lessons going to be?" She asks as Dina sits across from her.

"First get your cards out, I can't really teach you much but what I can teach you can only be done by using your cards." Dina says, pulling out her magic book and opening it to a page.

Sakura calls out to her cards and they float over to her, landing in a pile in her hands. "Ok I have them. Now what?" The young girl is eager to learn whatever she can, this the first time anyone bothering to teach her spells.

"You might also want your wand to be out. And find the Shield and Silent cards, if you have transformed them yet." Dina scans the spell she's going to teach to the young card mistress. "It won't work if one of the cards aren't transformed."

"Oh..well I have the Shield card transformed but not the Silent." Sakura looks disappointed as she stares at the Silent Card. "Maybe if I transformed it?" She looks hopefully at Dina.

Dina shakes her head. "Transforming it will wear you out and I need you at full strength to learn this spell. But we can wait to actually perform the spell at a later date, after more of the cards are transformed." She pauses, seeing the look of sadness on Sakura's face and places a hand on the girl's shoulder. "Also the spells tend to be in Chinese so I doubt you'll be able to read it. That means my first task is to teach you Chinese."

"Hoe?!" Sakura stares at the Chinese teenager in surprise and smiles brightly again. "Thank you Dina." She hugs Dina who looks surprised and returns it slowly.

"It shouldn't be that hard, Chinese and Japanese are close, just some things are different." Dina digs out a Chinese/Japanese dictionary along with a pen and paper from her bag. "Here this should help." Dina hands the book over and then starts to write stuff down on the paper for Sakura to learn. "We're going to start off easy. Tell me what this means."

Sakura takes the paper and writes down what she thinks it means, looking at the dictionary now and then when she gets confused.