Consequences, consequences
Koi19

AN: Editing underway.

Disclaimer: CCS belongs to CLAMP and only CLAMP. I claim any characters you don't recognize and any ooc-ness you find or think you find. Oh and the plot, whatever it is...

It all happened so fast.

I was just walking down the street when, BAM, this girl comes crashing into me.

Asked, no begged, me to help her.

I don't know why, maybe it was the way she looked at me. Her eyes were begging, pleading. There was pain in her eyes. Desperation.

I'd promised myself I'd keep a low profile.

And it all went out the window for some girl I didn't even know.

Didn't is emphasized.

There were three guys chasing her. Big guys.

Make that four. There was another one behind them, who is supposedly their leader. But he wasn't as big as the rest of them. He was about my size.

"This is the jerk-off you're trying to leave me for!" The smallest one said.

Jerk-off? Leave him for? What the hell was he talking about?

Then I realized she was straddling me on the sidewalk. Somehow we had ended up like that when we fell. Thank god it was dark outside.

"Please?" she whispered as they started to close in on us.

Before I had a chance to answer her, she was dragged off of me.

The biggest guy there was holding her up by her hair while her ex-boyfriend watched her struggle.

"You got away from us. You were lucky. This time, you'll need a miracle." Then he slapped her in the face. Now, I assume she was only semi-conscious to begin with. That slap knocked her out.

"Let her go." I heard someone say.

"What'd you say?" he demanded as he looked in my direction.

"He said for us to let her go, boss."

"I heard him! So shut it!"

"Who? Me?" I asked him as I looked around. There was no else there. Apparently, my big mouth had gotten me into some kind of trouble yet again.

"Yes, you! Who else would I be talking to?"

"Your imaginary friend?" Damn. There I went again. Why couldn't I just keep my mouth shut?

"You leave him outta this! I mean…. Bruno, Knuckles, get him!" Next thing I know, the other two goons were charging at me.

This was easy enough. They were each coming at me from different sides at about the same speed. So right before they made contact with me I stepped out of the way.

KRACK! That's the sound of two thick skulls colliding.

THUMP! That's the sound of two thick bodies belonging to two thick heads collapsing, unconscious on the ground.

Like I said easy stuff. Two down, two to go.

Me side-stepping his two goons so easily only infuriated him more.

"Butch! You're up. Just drop her, she ain't going nowhere."

"Anywhere." I corrected him. "She ain't going anywhere is the correct way. Nowhere makes the sentence a double negative, implying that she is going somewhere."

"Ohhh." Butch said as he absorbed that. Took a really long time, too. He was standing there for a good ten minutes before the other guy, whose name I later learned was Frankie, said, "don't just stand there, pulverize him already!"

Butch came at me straight on, arm pulled back, ready to punch.

But we all know that didn't happen.

My spin on 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'.

Crouching Tiger: I, well, I crouched. What did you expect?

Hidden Dragon: two seconds before he would have made contact with me, I kicked straight up and sent him flying.

Just Frankie left now. Butch had collapsed on top the other two like a good idiot.

Frankie surprised me. I didn't think he knew any karate but apparently he did. He almost landed a couple of hits on me.

Almost.

I was just too fast for him. Knocked him out in about 3 hits. Didn't want to hurt him too bad.

Little did I know that he would continuously come after me for revenge. If I had known beforehand, I might have taken the long way home that Friday night. But I didn't.

Anyway, I stepped over Frankie and went over to the girl and picked her up. Something told me I would regret this later as I walked the last two blocks to my house with her in my arms.

I didn't know the half of it.

A few days, two or so, after that the girl finally came to.

Seriously, she was out for three days.

Anyway, when she stumbled out of the guest room of my apartment -you didn't think I'd put her in my room, did you?- the first thing she did was almost fall flat on her face.

Almost.

Luckily, I was only a few feet away and managed to catch her. Somehow she had once again ended up straddling me on the floor. For the first time in three days I was able look into the eyes of the stranger I had helped. The stranger who was currently residing in my apartment. That was my choice and it's beside the point.

She had the most entrancing eyes I had ever seen. They were a sort of liquid green color. It would have been nice to firstly keep staring into her eyes, but the floor was getting quite uncomfortable.

"Uh… do you mind?" I said. Instantly her face flamed.

"Sorry." She apologized as she got off of me.

I smirked at her embarrassed state. But she suddenly looked up at me and said, "Um, where are my clothes?" she was wearing a pair of my pajamas. I obviously don't have any girl clothes so it was the best I could do.

It was my turn to blush, but it was an extremely light one. Plus I turned away from before I said, "trash, they were ruined in the fight."

"What happened?"

"Pulverized them, brought you here. You're welcome."

"Oh, I never did thank you, did I?" she said as I got up. Next thing I know I was right back on the floor again. She glomped me unexpectedly. "Thank you, uhhh? Wait I don't know you're name." She said as she got up and pulled me up with her.

"Likewise." I told her.

"Watashi wa Kinomoto Sakura."

"Li Syaoran." I told her then something dawned on me, "you speak Japanese?"

"Hai!" she responded happily. "I'm half Japanese."

"Me too." Once again, I was glomped by her, but this time she didn't knock me over.

"That's so cool Li-kun!" Kun? Where did this come from?

From not knowing each others name one minute to –kun the next. What was going on?I wasn't sure, but I definitly didn't like it.

"Um, Li-kun?" There was that name again.

"Yes?"

"Do you have anything else I could hold, I have a sudden urge to take a shower." She said pulling at the tee she was wearing.

I was losing control of my life, thanks to a girl I had only just formally met a few minutes ago. "Sure, hold on for a minute." I told her as I ran to my room. I figured that I had to have some things in the back of my closet that wouldn't swallow her. I found an old shirt one of my sisters had given me when I was 12. That I have never worn. Ever.

It was a green short sleeved tee that had a teddy bear on it. With a heart. It looked like a fregging care-bear. I can not express in words how disgusted I was when I first saw that shirt.

I turned around to place the shirt on my bed when I saw she had followed me to my room. Shaking my head, I turned back to look for some old shorts. I found some green shorts that I had long since out grown.

"Thanks Li-kun." She said as she took the clothes from me, shyly.

Why was she suddenly so reserved? She was just so bubbly and energetic then...this. I wasn't sure which one I preferred. And I wasn't sure why I cared.

"Sakura-san?" I wasn't sure why I even spoke, butI guess it was just curiosity.

"Hmmm?" She didn't look at me, only fiddled with the clothes she held.

"Why were they after you?" Still, she kept her gaze averted as she spoke.

"I-I. I mean that..." She trailed off, her voice filled with tears and pain. It was inexplicable. Something about her just screamed for me to get as far away as possible, and something different called out for me to comfort her. Somehow I chose the latter.

"Shhh. It's okay. You don't have to tell me anything, not just yet anyway. You're fine here, safe. Understand?" She nodded into the crevice of my neck as tears slid down her face. I wasn't sure what was going on, but something was telling me that there was going to be trouble.