My Lips Are Sealed

By: Irui

Standard Disclaimer Applied

Summary: AU. They're both good at one thing: acting. So when they're forced to pretend to be an item, no problem! Just survive through a scary brother, matchmaking friends, and family secrets...but most of all, the thing called love. SxS

Author's Note: We need SxS fics to take over the word! First story. Please be kind!

'Italics' -- thoughts

Prologue

"Meet me at Penguin Park. –Rang"

In a dark room with only moonlight and light from a cell phone as light sources, sapphire blue eyes widened in disbelief and shock as the female read the text message over and over, continously to confirm that the message was actually sent from a person named Rang.

'No…impossible. He's dead! He's supposed to be dead! I…'

Seventeen-year-old Rain hesitantly put on a long brown coat and headed out the door. Within minutes, she arrived to Penguin Park. Her light blue hair was swaying in the wind as she walked over to the swings near the penguin slides. She brushed off a leaf that was on one of the swings and sat on it as she recalled some old memories.

-

-

"He was getting too close to her…so I punched him and she got mad at me…"

"It's alright Rang…I'm here for you…" With that, they engaged into a passionate kiss…

-

"I love you! I always did! You knew that! I had once thought that as long as you were happy with her…then I would be happy! But I can't Rang! It's too painful! I can't lose you now…"

"Rain…we were wrong…it was a mistake… I've never thought of you as anything more than a little sister…I…"

Rain covered her ears and shut her eyes tight. "Enough! Enough! You just want your baby that she has now! I can have one with you too you know! So…so please. Don't leave me…please!" Rain pleaded. She opened her eyes as tears framed her delicate face, but somehow the clear liquid made her blue eyes even more stunning.

"Rain…I can't…"

"Then…if…if I'm not going to have you…–she grabbed the closest thing to her and–then she won't either!"

-

-

"So you came…"

The familiar voice snapped Rain out of her memories and she looked up to see a female around her age with long, auburn hair. Most of her hair was down, but two long strips of hair were pinned to the back with a clip. She had a pink scarf wrapped around her neck and her body was hidden in a white, long coat and she was wearing white boots. Her appearance made her look so pure and innocent at the moment. However, the one thing that was making her look mysterious and at the same time, eerie—her auburn bangs that were covering her eyes.

"Cherry…why did you tell me to come here? With his name?" Rain questioned.

"It doesn't matter."

"…Where's Rang?"

"You should know better than I should." Cherry said emotionlessly.

"…I--"

"Killed him?" Cherry finished for her as she looked up to reveal her now lifeless, but once stunning ruby red eyes.

Rain gasped. She had never once in her life seen her best friend with such emotionless eyes.

"I…loved him." She hesitated, waiting for whatever reaction that Cherry would give, but received none, and so she continued.

"Our feelings were mutual…" Rain's voice started to get louder as she started to recall the main reason why she killed him. "He just went back to you in pity! It was all for that child in your womb! All because of you! It's your fault! I tried to make him stay, but he wouldn't… That's why…that's why…" Rain shouted at Cherry with fury, tears straying from her eyes.

"Is that so? Or was it because he never loved you in the first place?"

–she grabbed the closest thing to her and it happened to be…

…a knife.–

"Stop it! Don't you dare try to deceive me!" Rain reached into her pocket and pulled out a knife. The knife that was still soaked in blood, the knife that was covered with Rang's blood and charged towards Cherry.

Blood splattered everywhere, on the floor, on the slides, on body flesh. Cherry's once white outfit, now red… her hands with a knife and dripping blood… Her mouth curved into a small smile and eyes narrowed in satisfaction.

"Remember our promise? Zutto soba ni iru kara…you…me and…Rang."

Blue eyes closed…forever.

-

-

A little house was built near a beach. A woman with auburn hair and bright ruby red eyes was seen hugging a 3 year-old boy with brown hair and brown eyes. Her mouth was curved upwards and her eyes were shining with love and affection for the little boy.

"Zutto soba ni iru kara…" On the rolling waves of the ocean was a floating picture of Rang, Cherry, and Rain in their school days being washed away.

-

-

"Cut!"

"Good job everybody!" The director told everyone.

"Cherry" sighed in relief as she walked backstage. It one the most unique endings that she had ever starred in.

"Sakura-chan! What a beautiful job! You portrayed "Cherry's" darkness fantastically!" A raven-hair girl with amethyst colored eyes ran up to Cherry and gave her an affectionate hug.

"Tomoyo! I'm still in the "bloody" outfit! Now let me go change! And what have we said about cherry blossoms?" Cherry Amamiya replied. Daidouji Tomoyo was Cherry's clothes designer and make-up artist. They were really close as if best friends, but everybody knew that Tomoyo's best, childhood friend/cousin is Kinomoto Sakura.

"Fine, fine…demo Cherry-chan, you're just so kawaii!" Tomoyo exclaimed, stressing the "Cherry" part and had starry eyes as she let go of Cherry. Cherry sweat dropped and went into the changing room and changed into a pink, one-sleeved shirt, the other shoulder part with three straps with a matching pink pleaded skirt and black flats. She took off her eye contacts to reveal her true eye color and put on sunglasses to hide the color of them.

As Cherry was walking out, Tomoyo suddenly said, "…Hey, Cherry."

"Hmm?"

"I was wondering…how were you able to turn your eyes so…lifeless back there? You didn't use the provided eye contacts…"

"…You ready to leave yet, Tomoyo?"

"H-hai. Let's go home now!" Tomoyo said, sensing that it's a subject that Cherry doesn't want to approach.

"Hey, Cherry, Tomoyo! Going already?" Rang asked. Rang Irino was a very attractive guy, with messy chocolate hair and beautiful blue eyes. Currently, Rang and Cherry were the best star and co-star partners. They starred together in nearly all of their productions; from romance to comedy to tragedy…you name it.

"Hai. Ja ne, Rang-kun."

"Alright. But don't forget that we're going to start Sealed With a Kiss next week. Don't forget and don't be late. You know how you're always running late." Rang smirked and teased her. Tomoyo chuckled.

"Oh hush!" With that, Cherry waved good-bye and left with Tomoyo.

"Bye Irino-san." Tomoyo called back to Rang before walking off with Cherry.

As soon as Cherry and Tomoyo was out of sight, Rang took off his eye contacts and revealed his gorgeous eyes. They looked like brown from a distance, but if you look close enough, it was amber.

"Bye…Kinomoto Sakura."

-

01. B e t w e e n – Y o u – a n d – M e

-

Seventeen-year-old Kinomoto Sakura with waist length auburn hair and beautiful, unique emerald green eyes walked into the gates of Tomoeda High School. Sakura left her hair long hair casually flowing down her back. She was wearing a Tomoeda High School uniform, which consisted of a white blouse, red ribbon around the neck, a black, pleaded skirt, black stocking and "Mary Jane" shoes.

Kinomoto Sakura has an older brother named Touya who is very protective of his little sister. Although biologically related to each other, they don't look alike. Compared to Sakura, he has black hair and dark brown eyes. Even though Touya always teases Sakura by calling her a "kaijuu" (monster) and receives a stomping on his foot in return, he cares for her very much. If boys get pesky to ask Sakura for a date and Touya is around, the guy would most likely A) be turned down by Touya or B) should be pitied due to accidental bruises. Most of the time though, Sakura turns down all the offers of dates. Why? Who knows? Maybe she's waiting for 'the right one'. Her father is Fujitaka Kinomoto, a college professor who teaches archaeology. Despite his busy work schedule, he still tries to find time for his children. On the outside, he's on good terms with his children, but truly, he can't help but feel a bit distant to Sakura…

Sakura is popular, got the looks and the body; curves at all the right places. She's nice to everyone, warm, kind, friendly, trustworthy and cheerful. On the outlook, she's well respected and loved by everyone, not just because of her character, but also because she looks like the splitting image of Cherry Amamiya. The only difference is the unique green eyes that only Sakura has, which was inherited from her mother Nadeshiko Kinomoto who had died when Sakura was young. People had once questioned her relativity to Cherry, but she brushed it off with a "we just look similar."

Almost the minute she came in, the news about the latest drama done by no other than Cherry and Rang came up.

"Did you see Cherry-sama and Rang-sama's latest production yet?" Chiharu Mihara asked.

"Yes! Zutto Soba ni Iru Kara, right? I still can't believe that Cherry-sama had to "kill" someone." Rika Sasaki said.

"I know right! It was so sad too…I wonder what she named her child..."

"We can only wonder -sigh…- ah! Sakura-chan! Good morning!" A girl whose name was Naoko Yanagisawa greeted.

"Morning Sakura-chan." Rika and Chiharu greeted.

"Good morning Naoko-chan, Rika-chan, Chiharu-chan." She replied politely with her gentle and sweet voice. Other than Tomoyo who was Sakura's childhood best friend/cousin, Chiharu, Rika, and Naoko had been friends with Sakura since elementary school. They grew up together, went to Junior High together and still are together in High School, so they maintained a close bond with each other.

"Hey Sakura-chan, what brings you here so early today? You're usually late-late." Chiharu teased.

"Hey! I'm not always late…right?" Sakura said as she pouted cutely.

The girls giggled at Sakura's childish behavior.

"Ne, ne. Did Sakura-chan see Zutto Soba ni Iru Kara yet?" Naoko asked her.

"Of course! It was a great production. The ending was shocking and sad though." Sakura replied cheerfully.

"I agree." Rika said.

"Hey, I'll talk to you all later. I need to get my books now. Bye-bye."

"Alright, see you later Sakura-chan."

Sakura proceeded to walk to her locker; she opened it, trying to get her books for her first class.

"Morning, my kawaii Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo greeted Sakura as she hugged Sakura tightly.

Sakura squealed and then laughed at Tomoyo's enthusiasm. "G-good morning Tomoyo-chan. C-can you let go of me now? C-can't b-breathe."

Tomoyo let go of her dearest friend quickly.

"Sorry." She gave an apologetic look before continuing, "But Sakura-chan, you're just too kawaii to not hug!" Tomoyo had sparkling star eyes as she hugged Sakura again, but this time not as tight and killing.

"Oh. My. God. It's Li Syaoran!!" A fan girl screamed as "this" Li Syaoran entered the school building as Tomoyo let go of Sakura to see the daily fan-girls surrounding the front school doors.

Li Syaoran, otherwise known as the prince of China…in other words, someone you definitely don't want to mess with. Li Syaoran means messy but silky chocolate hair, amazing amber eyes, charming smirks, arrogance, egoistical behavior as high as the sky, flirty, and filthy rich prince. In other words a spoiled brat or you can choose the definition that the girls in the school uses: "the prince of seduction"; he always has a girl around him. Like how Sakura looks like Cherry, Syaoran looks like Rang; they even possess the same infamous smirk but once again, the difference is the eye color.

"G-good morning Li-sama." A girl who was in his class shyly greeted him.

He greeted her back with a charming smile. "Morning sweetie. What's with the nervousness? There's no need to be shy around me." Syaoran replied with a deep, masculine voice as he wrapped his arm around her. Girls swooned and shot the girl a look of jealously; boys shot a look of hatred and envy at Syaoran.

Then suddenly, he directed his attention towards the person next to his locker…Sakura. One of the reasons being that her locker was next to his. Second was that he was quite surprised, being the clumsy and over-sleeping person Sakura is, usually she is late to school.

Surprisingly, most of the people around were too busy being jealous to notice his gaze at Sakura, except for a few who were "in their own little world". Chiharu was scolding at her boyfriend, Takashi Yamazaki for talking about nonsense again. Takashi loves giving "lies" about whatever topic that comes up when speaking and usually Chiharu scolds him for doing so. Rika and Naoko was busy talking about their designer project. And Sakura? Well, let's just say no one is perfect and the beloved Sakura-chan has a flaw too: dense. The only person who probably noticed the way that Syaoran was looking at Sakura was Tomoyo, the best friend.

The school bell rung and everyone scattered to their respective classes except for a few girls who were in Syaoran's class who waited for Syaoran to "lead the way" (except Sakura and Tomoyo who don't give a care to his popularity).

"Shall we?" Syaoran asked the group of girls as he and the girls headed to class.

-

-

The ring of the bell signaled the end of the last class for Sakura.

Sakura POV

"Hello Sakura-san." I was at my locker putting away some of my books that I didn't need for homework today and getting some belongings until a guy with ocean blue hair and matching deep blue eyes with glasses framing his face came up to me.

"Hello Hiiragizawa-san." Eriol Hiiragizawa, a typical smart student in Tomoeda High.

'I wouldn't really say "nerdy", just…really smart…fine…you win! Nerdy…sheesh. I see him around Li Syaoran sometimes, but other than that, I never really approached him, neither did he to me. Wonder why he decided to "drop in" today… Oh no…don't tell me he fell for me too or…"the other me"…I know some people call me dense, but hey! I'm really not…ok, ok…maybe just a teeny lil bit.'

"Call me Eriol…"Hiiragizawa-san" makes me sound like an old man." I giggled in response.

"Gomen. So…umm…how was your day Eriol-kun?" I flashed a bright, typical happy-go-lucky-Sakura smile at him and hoped he wouldn't ask me out on a date…

"It was fine. I was wondering…" Eriol-kun started on a sentence.

I gulped. 'Please don't ask me for a date…please…the last thing I need right now is another turn-down-a-guy-nervous-"speech". Though that's better than having Touya do it for me…if he was the one in charge of this "operation"…let's just say…I highly doubt Eriol would ever approach me within 3 feet close ever again…hehe…'

"Do you know where Daidouji-san is? We were assigned a project together and I was hoping to start it as soon as possible. I thought you know where she is, since you're the closest with her."

"I think she's in the music room. Ms. Mizuki had wanted to talk to her for something." I replied, mentally sighing in relief, thanking Kami-sama for hearing my prayers.

"I see. Thank you very much Kinomoto-san."

"Call me Sakura. It's only fair since you're allowing me to call you Eriol-kun." I flashed him a smile.

"Ok, then have a nice day Sakura-san." Then Eriol-kun started to head to the music room. I didn't fail to notice a sparkling glint of…happiness in his eyes. 'Does he have feelings for Tomoyo or something or did I miss something here?'

I suddenly felt uncomfortable, as if I was being watched, so I turned around and looked around, but all I saw were students talking to each other. 'I'm getting paranoid…'

I closed my locker, gathered my books and walked out of Tomoeda High, heading back home. I figured Tomoyo wouldn't be able to accompany me since Eriol-kun wants to start their project. Good thing anyways or Tomoyo would probably drag me to her house and make me try out all these new outfits she made. Not that I don't like them, I just don't feel like trying out clothes today.

As I started to get to the end of the block, someone suddenly tapped me on the shoulder. I flinched, turned around and was about to hit the person with the book in my hands as hard as possible, but then the person must've sensed the forth-coming move or is a psychic and jumped backwards as my book came in contact with only air.

"Whoa…you wanna kill someone with that book Kinomoto-san?" Li Syaoran teased as he flashed me an infamous smirk.

"Sorry Li-san…I thought you were a stalker, or something." I answered truthfully.

-

-

Normal POV

"Never knew you were that cautious Kinomoto Sakura-san…or should I say Amamiya Cherry?" He smirked.

But Syaoran didn't get the shocked reaction that he expected. "So I guess this makes us even, huh?" Sakura replied and she gave a small smile that didn't go unnoticed by Syaoran.

"W-what?"

Sakura smile grew wider. "Will you keep my actress identity a secret if I keep yours, Rang Irino?"

Amber eyes widened a bit in surprise and shock. It was ironic; she was supposed to have the reaction he's giving now, not the other way around. "How did you-"

"The smirk you give me and the smirk Rang gives me is the same as well as your physique. The only difference we both have from our so-called "twin" is the eye color. It makes the whole school practically think that we're Cherry and Rang's double or something. Coincidence? I highly doubt. There are no coincidences in this world…only the inevitable."

Syaoran thought over Sakura's words before responding, especially the last sentence, it seemed to have a double meaning…

"Besides…exposing our "other identity" will lead to newspaper reporters coming after us when we're in school…as if you're not famous enough, Prince of China." Sakura continued.

Syaoran's lips pursed into a thin line, then suddenly turned into a small smile. "Fine…it's a deal. So it's between you and me right?"

"Yes…this secret will and can never-" but Sakura didn't get to finish her sentence as warm lips came crashing down onto her own.

Author's Note: Zutto soba ni iru kara - I'll always be with you. Read and Review? Thank you!

/rui