Hi! ^^; Long time no see, ne? Gomen nasi! -_-; I didn't mean to. Hoe…ANYWAY, ^_^ I think this is going to more of a humor fic than anything, but it will still be S+S romance even thought it differently won't seem like it with the way Sakura is. ^^; This also won't be very long chapter wise. I'll try to make it long though…just can't promise anything. This story came to me when I was listening to a CD. If ANYONE can guess the song…CONGRATS! E-mail if you want to know if you are right or wrong. My e-mail is in my profile. Just don't ruin it for the rest of the happy reviewers, please? ^^; The song will be sang in the very last chapter. How bout this? The people that get it right I will list on the last chapter! Sounds good? Also, there's a very short verse of a song in this chapter. For those who can name the artist and the song title will get a CONGRATS in the next chapter! ^_^

ONCE AGAIN…-_-; Sorry everyone! I had to repost the story on THIS account because the same thing happened to that story on Cutie Blossom as My Daughter, the Matchmaker. So…I'll have a new chapter posted next week for this story…and…if you cross your fingers of My Daughter, The Matchmaker. No promises on MDTM though…-_-; I'm sorry I don't have a new chapter done…I've had a busy week. I graduate in one and a half hours. ^o^ I'm supposed to be getting ready. ^^; Wish me luck!! I don't want to trip, but knowing me…I will!

Couple quick shout-outs:

THANK YOU TO LIL' DREAMER FOR PRE-READING THIS!!! *bows* You're so kind!!!!! ^o^

MIRA-SAN!! I MISSED YOU SOO MUCH!! I'm glad you got AIM!!! Now we'll be able to talk!!!!! *hugs fellow Syaoran Angel*

Note: No spelling mistake on the title. ^^; Just wanted to be clear as crystal on that!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything besides my computer. *hugs computer* Mine! I also don't own the song in this chapter or the song that the story is about over all. Okay?

OKAY! On to the fic!

It Never Woulda Worked Out Anyway

Chapter One: Syaoran's Rumors Begin

By: Cutie Blossom

Twenty-three year old Sakura Kinomoto sighed as she entered the restaurant. She's had a rough day at work and all she wanted to do was just relax in a nice warn tub, but what does she get pushed into doing? A stupid blind date that Tomoyo set her up for and only told her about half and hour before it was supposed to begin. At least it was only supposed to be a casual date instead of one to a fancy French restaurants. She couldn't of handled trying to order in French tonight.

"Are you Sakura Kinomoto?"

Sakura turned to the voice to see a gentlemen standing there. He was a nice looking gentlemen she noticed. He wore a jean t-shirt and dark blue jeans that were held up by a belt. She really couldn't his hair due to the tan colored cowboy hat that he had on, but she could see that his hair was a blond color from the hairs that showed.

"Are you Sakura Kinomoto?" He repeated.

Startled that she was caught staring, Sakura smiled nervously at the man. "Yes I am."

The man smiled and that's when Sakura noticed the light blue eyes. He put his and out in front of him to shake hers. "The name's Jeremy Smith."

Sakura shook the man's hand. "Nice to meet you Jeremy."

Jeremy gestured towards a table. "Shall we sit down and get to know each other a little bit better?"

Sakura smiled and nodded as he led her over to their table.

~*~

"Did you guys dance?"

"Yes!" Sakura sighed, dreamily into the phone as she laid down on her bed. "He's such a good dancer! When a country song came on, he taught me a little bit of square dancing!"

"Square dancing was never my favorite way to dance."

Sakura giggled. "Not mine either, but with him it was actually fun!"

"So are you happy that I set you up on a blind date with Jeremy Smith?"

Sakura smirked. "Don't have to brag about it, Tomoyo."

She could hear her best friend laugh. "Yeah, yeah, but I would gladly accept a 'thank you.'"

Sakura smiled. "Thank you."

"No prob, but what about Syaoran?" Tomoyo asked.

"What about him?"

"I thought you liked him," Tomoyo said.

Sakura sighed and looked over at a picture frame that held a picture of her and Syaoran Li. "I think it's about time I gave up on him."

She heard Tomoyo gasp. "Really? Are you sure!?"

She nodded even though her best friend couldn't see it. She looked at the picture with a sad look. "He has too many important things to do."

"I don't exactly call kicking Eriol's butt at Smash Brothers on the Game Cube something things to do."

Sakura laughed. "That's something to the boys."

"They'll never grow up."

Sakura smiled. "True, but I wouldn't want them any other way."

"Neither would I," Tomoyo agreed. "Are you going to see Jeremy again?"

"Yep, I'm supposed to meet him tomorrow at the park to have a 'fun day' as he called it."

"Sounds fun."

"That's why it's called a 'fun day,'" Sakura said, smiling.

"Guess you're right."

"Of course," Sakura said, looking over at her clock on her nightstand. "Crap, I gotta go, Tomoyo. It's already eleven thirty. Talk to you tomorrow!"

"Okay! Night!"

"Night!"

~*~

"We'll raise up our glass against evil forces saying, 'Whisky for my men, beer for my horses,'" two men sang, raising up their glasses and then drank the contents inside the glasses. Both men were laughing hard after they finished.

"I still don't know why Tomoyo doesn't like that song," said the man with blue hair.

"I have no idea," the other said, pushing back a few strands of brown hair. "Eriol, I think your girlfriend's a dud."

Eriol Hiiragizawa smiled and patted his best friend on the back. "Nah, she just doesn't get the real meaning behind the song, Syaoran, old buddy old pal."

Syaoran Li smiled. "There's a meaning to the song?"

Eriol thought for a moment before they both said at the same time, "Nah. Just funny."

"I think she hates it the way we sing it," Syaoran said.

Eriol smiled. "Could be because we sing it a tad bit off tune."

Syaoran snorted. "A tad bit?"

Eriol's smile grew into a devil one. "True."

Syaoran smiled.

"Glad you two are having fun," a voice said behind them.

They both turned to find Tomoyo.

"Ah, my dear Tomoyo," Eriol said, standing up and gave her a kiss.

"Yo! Eriol! Time to get back to work! Break's over!" one of the bartenders said.

Eriol sighed and gave Tomoyo one last kiss before walking over towards the bar.

Tomoyo sat down in the chair that Eriol once sat in.

"I still can't believe you let him work in a bar. I thought you'd totally object to Eriol working in one because it was against your morals or something," Syaoran said.

Tomoyo smiled. "Nah. He makes good money working here because this place is so popular. It's not like you guys are hooked on alcohol. You two only have a couple of friendship kind of drinks, right?"

Syaoran nodded and looked down at his empty glass.

Tomoyo sighed. "And sing that awful song."

Syaoran smirked. "You mean, 'We'll…'"

"Shut up!" she said and covered his mouth with her hand. Once she took her hand off of his mouth, he erupted into laughter.

Tomoyo sweatdropped. "Meannie."

"So I am," Syaoran said, the laughter dying down.

"I came her to talk to you," Tomoyo said.

"Oh?"

"About Sakura."

Syaoran's laughter died right there.

"What about her? Is she in danger? Does she need my help?"

Tomoyo shook her head. "You've wasted too much time, boy. You've lost your chance."

"At what?"

"At getting her."

"Never knew I had a chance."

Tomoyo sighed. "You've had a chance forever, but now she's given up on you and found someone else."

Syaoran's eyes went wide and he stood up from his chair. "SOMEONE ELSE!?"

Tomoyo sweatdropped. "Yes and you can blame me because I was the one who set them up."

"Tomoyo! You know how I feel about her!"

Tomoyo glared at him. "I know but I'm tired of you not taking action. Sakura needs someone and I thought if I put her with some guy, you'll get jealous enough to fight for her, but I never expected Sakura and Jeremy to hit it off so well!"

Syaoran slowing sat back down, his brain full of what he just found out. "I did lose her, didn't I?"

Tomoyo shook her head. "Not yet. There could be away for you to win her back. I just don't know how yet."

Syaoran didn't say anything.

"Syaoran, I'm sorry."

Syaoran shook his head. "It's not your fault. It's mine for waiting too long. I just hope I'm not too late."

"I don't think you are," Tomoyo said, standing up. She put a hand on his shoulder. "I'm going to go. I'll see you later, Syaoran."

"Bye."

Tomoyo walked over to give Eriol a kiss before exiting.

Syaoran sighed. "This is really not good," he said before standing up.

"Leaving?"

Syaoran nodded to Eriol. "I'm tired and I'm starting to feel a headache coming on."

"Okay," Eriol said. "Just remember we have to beat Kero and Suppi at Smash Brothers at 3 tomorrow at my house. Tomorrow is our day…after losing fifty times to them."

Syaoran smiled. "Alright. See you then," he said, walking out the door.

"Bye."

~*~

Syaoran woke up very suddenly when he felt something wet brushed his face.

"What the…!"

He was answered with a bark. Syaoran looked down to the side of his bed to find his golden retriever, Rufus, sitting there, wagging its tail. Rufus was a birthday present from Sakura, Eriol, and Tomoyo on his eighteenth birthday to keep him from being lonely.

Syaoran groaned. "Rufus! How many times have I told you not to wake me up with a French kiss?"

Rufus's answer was another bark.

Syaoran looked up at the clock that was attached to the wall and it showed the numbers 11:33. Syaoran rolled over to go back to sleep, but Rufus jumped up on his bed and attacked his master with kisses.

"Alright! Alright!" Syaoran said, trying to push the dog away. "I'm up! I'm up! Man I wish I had the ability to set you as an alarm clock and to wake me up at a halfway decent time."

Rufus barked twice while Syaoran literally rolled out of bed.

"What? You need to go out?"

Rufus's tail started to wag again as he whined.

Syaoran stood up, but fell back down on his bed. "Let me get dressed."

Not long after, Syaoran and Rufus, who was on a leash, stepped out of Syaoran's apartment and headed towards the park. They went fairly far into the park before Syaoran let his dog snoop around. Syaoran sat down near a bench and waited for Rufus to finish. He looked up at the trees to see that they were turning green again thanks to spring.

"I'm glad we could meet again, Sakura."

Syaoran jumped and looked around.

"Me too! It's such a beautiful day out also."

That was his Sakura's voice! Syaoran looked behind him. The voices were coming from behind the bushes he noticed. He snuck up close to the bushes and peered above them a tad bit to see them walking with ice cream cones in their hands. Syaoran noticed that if the two continued on the path they are now on, they'd come around the bushes to where him and Rufus were any second!! Syaoran picked up his dog into his arms and just before Sakura and the guy with the ugly cowboy hat on came around, he jumped up into a tree where the two wouldn't be able to see him, but he could see them and hear what they were talking about.

"So tell me about your friends," Jeremy said.

Sakura smiled and licked her ice cream. "Well you've already met Tomoyo."

Jeremy nodded. "Yes, I have."

"Well, she has this boyfriend who's a great guy. His name is Eriol. He can be a tad bit on the creepy side, but she loves him and I don't have a problem whatsoever with him."

"That's good."

Sakura smiled. "Yeah, I wouldn't want to get in the way with their relationship."—She sighed—"Another friend of mine is also a great guy even though we certainly didn't hit it off real well in the beginning, but now we're best friends."

"Is he a real secret kind of guy?"

Sakura's smile grew. "Syaoran used to be, but now he's more open. He's a truly great guy."

Syaoran smiled.

"You speak fondly of this Syaoran," Jeremy observed.

Sakura's smile disappeared. "I used to be in love with him, but he never did anything to show that he loves me also so I gave up on him."

"Ah."

Syaoran frowned. Tomoyo was right. She did love him. He, himself, was the reason why they never got together.

Sakura gasped and stopped walking. "You just stepped in…!"

Jeremy looked down at his shoe and saw that he just stepped in dog crap. "Yuck!"

Syaoran looked down at his dog, who looked up at him with an innocent look. He smirked. "I surely taught you well."

When Sakura and Jeremy walked away to clean up the stuff off his shoe, Syaoran jumped out of the tree and put his dog down on the ground. "When we get home, remind me to give you a doggie treat."

His dog barked once before they began to head home.

~*~

"So you think you still have a chance?" Eriol asked.

Syaoran nodded as he attacked Kero's player on the TV screen. "I have high hopes, anyways."

"Sakura still loves you, brat," Kero said as he kicked away Syaoran's player and knocked him off the play area, causing Syaoran to lose a life. One life down of the brat's and about ninety-nine left to go. "Even if I don't like to admit it."

Syaoran smirked. "What do you think Suppi?"

"Personally speaking," Suppi began as he attacked Syaoran's player, "I believe you still have a chance also." Suppi knocked off another life of Syaoran's.

"Hey!" Syaoran shouted. "Quit double teaming! Eriol! You're supposed to be helping me out! After all, we ARE on the same team."

Eriol smirked and looked over at Syaoran. "I'm safe from the two guardians in my little spot while they kick your butt." Just then, Kero had his character kick Eriol's off the arena causing Eriol to loose a life. "That was incredibly low, Kero."

Kero smiled and continued bashing Syaoran's character.

"You deserved it," Syaoran said to Eriol.

"We're on the same team!" Eriol yelled.

"You weren't helping!" Syaoran said as finally he took one of Kero's lives.

Eriol groaned as he took one of his guardian's lives.

Once again, it wasn't their day. Syaoran and Eriol lost to the two guardians. They went and sat down in the kitchen, all four of them famished and wanting food. Eriol looked around in the cupboards and found a couple bags of chips.

Eriol sighed. "So what are you going to do, Syaoran?" he asked as he opened both bags and laid them down for the rest to pig out on.

"About…?"

"Sakura."

Syaoran shrugged. "No idea."

"Sick Rufus on him," Kero thought.

Syaoran smiled. "I would, but I think that would upset Sakura and Rufus would be more likely to kiss him to death then bite him to death."

"True, true."

Eriol smiled. "I must say, I never thought I'd see the day where you two work together," he said to Syaoran and Kero.

Syaoran and Kero smiled at each other.

"Well," Kero said, "I don't want Sakura to be down and I know, like it or not, she loves Syaoran."

"Thanks Kero."

All four of them sat there for ten minutes, thinking and eating chips.

"Why not use your sword, Syaoran?" Kero asked. "One clean cut and voila everything is solved!"

Eriol laughed. "Everything would be solved besides the policemen that would start chasing him all of a sudden."

Kero sweatdropped. "Yeah…forgot about them."

Syaoran sighed. "What if I talked with Jimmy?"

"You mean Jeremy?"

"That too."

Eriol grabbed a potato chip from the bag. "Talk then go in for the kill?"

Syaoran snorted. "Didn't we say that I wouldn't do any killing due to the policemen that would be on my tail?"

Kero shook his head. "No, we just said that it wouldn't clear up everything…just cause more problems."

"And I don't want policemen on my tail so that solves the killing matter."

"Now it does."

"I do believe," Suppi said, "that you can talk to him, Little Wolf."

Syaoran blinked. "You think so? What should I say? 'Hi, I'm Sakura's best friend, but I've had my eyes on her since fifth grade so keep your filthy rodeo hands off her and get your butt moving back to the west where you came from'?"

Silence.

"That works."

"I like it."

"Add something about the hat too!"

Syaoran sweatdropped. "You guys are impossible."

"How bout…" Suppi said, thinking a moment before continuing, "telling him a lie."

"A lie?" Syaoran said. "About what?"

"A lie about Sakura that will make him want to dump her," Suppi said.

Syaoran blinked. "Wouldn't that hurt Sakura?"

Suppi shook his head. "How would it? She'd probably think he's gone wacko and think it would be best to break apart."

Syaoran thought hard for a moment. "I guess it's worth a try."

"How would you even get a chance to talk him anyways?" Eriol asked. "You don't know where he lives or where he works do you?"

Syaoran smiled. "I have a guess."

The three guys looked at him.

"Where?" asked Kero.

"The only place where a cowboy would  caught being."

~*~

Syaoran sighed and straightened out his cowboy hat as he walked up to a one-floor building.

"I can't believe I'm doing this," he said and looked down at his outfit. Flannel shirts just weren't his style and not to mention the dark brown cowboy hat he snagged from Eriol. He sighed one last time before stepping in.

"Hi!" some high voiced cowgirl said as he entered. "Welcome to the 'Cowboys Only Tavern'."

Syaoran sweatdropped. "Howdy."

"Need any help, sugar?"

"No, no, not at all thank you," he said before looking around the bar for Jeremy, but there was no sign of him so far. Syaoran sighed for the third time in the last two minutes and walked up and sat down at the bar.

"Can I help ya?"

Syaoran looked up. "Just a…IT'S YOU!!!!!!" he said, pointing at the bartender's face.

The tavern went silence.

Syaoran laughed nervously. "Sorry…continue on with everything y'all have going on."

Noise filled the tavern again.

Syaoran sighed.

"Do I know you?"

Syaoran turned to the bartender. "No you don't, Jeremy, but I know you."

Jeremy looked at Syaoran strangely. "Are you a stalker?"

Syaoran smiled. "Nope. You're seeing a friend of mine. You know Sakura?"

The name brought a smile to Jeremy's face. "You're a friend of hers? Really? Finally! I get to meet one of you guys! What's your name?"

Syaoran chocked. "M-my name?"

Jeremy nodded, looking a tad bit more eager then he should be.

Syaoran looked around, looking for clues. "Well…it's…um…Goh."

Confusion crossed the bartender's face. "Goh? That's an odd name."

Syaoran laughed nervously. "It's a family name."

"Oh. So…why are you here?"

"Well…because I wanted to threaten you," Syaoran said, but after the words came out, Syaoran winced. That sounds like he was going to kill him!

Jeremy blinked. "Threaten…why?"

"Because…because she's been hurt many times before by guys because…" Syaoran said, stopping to think of a reason, "she had a very bizarre surgery."

Jeremy gasped. "Oh? Was it terrible? What kind of surgery?"

'What is this…twenty questions?' Syaoran asked thought

"Um…the surgery was for…"

'What is a name of a terrible disease?'

"She used to be a man!!!!!"

Jeremy stared at Syaoran like he was crazy.

Syaoran could have slapped himself. How stupid could he be? Used to be a man? Sakura was far from it!

"Oh…" was all Jeremy said.

'I really need to plan things out better!'

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Okay that's all! Okay…T_T yes, that's a tad bit weird, but it's in the song. In fact…here's the lyric:

"Like the time I told that Cowboy

That you used to be a man"

*sigh* I PROMISE THE REST ISN'T THAT BAD! THIS ONE WAS THE WORST! I SWEAR! Syaoran needs to plan out more, ne? ^^; Heheheh! I'm walking away now.

Ja ne!

Cutie Blossom