Dodging the Raindrops
*Chapter 1: Rain*
Plot by: Wolf Blade
Disclaimer: If I owned CSS, do you really think I would be writing this? I
own nuttn' except for the comic books that I bought with me own money, and
other various items. But one day *dramatic pause* I will own who ever came
up with the stinking dubbed version and correct what is wrong, and set
everything else right. MWAHAHAH! =D
Anywho, unto the story!
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My mother always told me that you can dodge the raindrops, but there is always going to be at least one that will land on you.
I never figured out what she meant, too late now to ask, she died when I was young.
But I can't help but think that I'm going to figure out what she meant, soon.
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A woman in a dark apartment sighs.
The rain falls down to the Earth as she looks out the window while sipping a cup of hot tea.
"I wish it would stop raining," She says to herself, "I miss going out to the park, isn't that right Kero?"
A golden retriever lifts his head upon hearing his name being heard, he gives her a why-did-you-wake-me-up-look and falls back asleep.
She sighs again.
The phone in the kitchen rings. "I'll let the answering machine get it."
It rings for a few more minutes, and then stops. "Hello, this is Kinomoto Sakura, I'm sorry I can't come to the phone right now, please leave your name, a message, and your number, and I'll get to you as soon as possible." The woman's voice comes from the machine.
"Sakura? This is Koji, you know... from work. Well, since you're not at home or maybe you are there and just not listening, I was wondering if you wanted to go out with me... call me back."
Sakura returns her attention back to the water-logged window. "I don't want to." She says to herself.
Kero perked his ears up. Someone at the apartment door knocks.
Sakura shakes her head and goes to answered it, along with a bounding Kero.
She opens it up, in the doorway stood a woman with long raven hair with a violet accent and smiling amethyst eyes.
"Hello Tomoyo." Sakura greets and lets the woman in. "Would you like a cup of tea? Make yourself at home."
"Thanks, yes please."
Tomoyo sits down on the old leather couch while Sakura goes to the small, nearby kitchen to pour some tea.
"So, what brings you here?" Sakura asks as she returns from the kitchen.
"Two things, actually three things, thanks." Sakura hands here life long friend a cup of tea and takes a seat next to her.
Sakura sips her own tea and gives her an inquiring look. "Oh? Really?"
Tomoyo nods. "Yes, the first thing is a business partner of Eriol's is coming over from Hong Kong and he needs a place to stay."
Sakura pales instantly, knowing where this is going. "And you want me to let him stay here?"
Tomoyo nods with a hopeful look. "Would you?" Sakura nods slowly knowing that Tomoyo would make her take him in anyway.
"Nextly, one of my models is going to be on vacation for awhile and I have a show coming up and I need you to fill in for her."
Sakura pales for the second time that day. "But...Tomoyo-"
"No, you're not backing out again." Tomoyo declares.
"I've got work-" Sakura says trying to get out of the commitment.
"At a retail store?" Tomoyo raises an eyebrow.
Kero jumps onto the couch.
"But... but_"
"No buts," Tomoyo folds her arms over her chest, "you're going to model, whether you like it or not."
Sakura gives in. "Fine, but nothing too fancy."
Tomoyo grins. "Okay, I won't do anything too fancy." Not, she adds to herself.
"And lastly, why do you keep on avoiding guys? Is it because of what happened to you?"
Sakura turns her head to look out the distant window. "I don't know, nor do I want to go out with anybody, they're all just lying sleaze balls with no respect for woman." Tomoyo looks at her friend worriedly.
"Not all men are like that Sakura." Tomoyo shakes her head knowing that Sakura will never give in when it comes to this subject manner.
She glances at her watch. "Well, I've got to go," she stands up, "Bye Kero." She pats the dog on its head, "Bye Sakura. I'll give you the details about the guy and the fashion show later." And with that she leaves.
A bright flash comes from the window, followed by a loud boom.
Sakura goes back to her spot next to the window. Daidoji Tomoyo was Sakura's bests friend from all the way back in elementary school. She would videotape Sakura in what is called "Tomoyo's kawaii videos of Sakura."
She would make more than half of Sakura's wardrobe. Then make her friend become the unwilling model and video tapes her. Later, after high school, Tomoyo was discovered for her talents and was sent to a designer agency. Then a few years later she started her own company and became a famous fashion designer.
Of course, ever since high school, she's been trying to get Sakura to date. She succeeded, but only once, then one night-
"No, I won't think about what happened. That's the past." Sakura says as tears threaten to fall.
The rain stops falling and the clouds break formation, allowing the sunlight to let through.
One of the bedroom doors opens and a four year old enters the suddenly brighter room. "Mommy?" Sakura turns her head to see a little girl with curly red hair with auburn highlights and inquiring emerald eyes.
"Yes Suzo?"
Suzo climbs into her mothers lap. "Can we go out today?" She takes a look out the window also. "Its stopped raining and I think Kero needs some exercise 'fore he gets too huge." Suzo giggles. Sakura's lips start to curve upward. "Sure."
With a happy glee, the girl jumps off, runs to the nearby closet, and grabs a leash. "Kero!"
The dog with a happy yipe jumps off the couch and runs to the girl.
Sakura leaves her spot next to the window; she goes to the closet also. "Put your coat on."
Suzo latches the leash onto Kero's blue collar. "Aw, but mom!"
Sakura gives her a you'd-better-obey-me-or-else-look. "Suzo."
The little girl gives in and puts her coat on as Sakura puts her own on.
"Okay, now we can go." They leave the apartment and Sakura locks the place up nice and tight.
They go down a set of external stairs, their foot taps ring about the vertical hallway.
"To the park!" Suzo exclaims once the reach the ground. Kero starts to tug her towards their destination.
The people around them put away their umbrellas as soon as they realize that the rain had stopped.
"Mommy!" Suzo tugs at Sakura's long skirt. "Kero got away!"
They start to search the immediate area for their recentantly lost dog.
"Which way was he heading in?" Sakura asks her daughter.
"The park."
Sakura and Suzo head to the park and look everywhere.
"Kero! Kero where are you? Don't you like me anymore?" Suzo cries.
"Excuse me, miss?" A man taps Sakura on the shoulder. "Is this your mutt?"
Sakura turns around. The man has short, messy chestnut hair and irritated looking amber eyes. Next to him is Kero growling at him, looking as if he was about to attack him.
"Yes, thank you." Sakura takes Kero's leash from him.
Suzo runs up to them with tears in her eyes. "I-I couldn't find him mommy."
The man gets a surprised look. I thought she was a high schooler.
Sakura smiles. "Its okay this nice man found him for us." She indicates the man behind her.
Suzo rubs her eyes and looks up at the man with relived eyes. "Thank you mister!" She says as she hugs Kero.
The man grunts.
"Com'on Suzo, let's take him for a walk." Sakura says.
"Okay." They leave the man as he answers his cell phone. -----------------------
Sakura sits down on a bench as Suzo plays with some of the other kids on the slowly drying playground. Kero sits down next to Sakura, growling at complete strangers if they get too close.
The cell phone in Sakura's coat pocket rings, she pulls it out and answers it. "Hello?" A pause.
"Oh, Hi Tomoyo! What's up?" Another pause.
"Really? What time?" She waits for an answer.
"Okay, I'll be at the cafe in a few minutes."
Sakura sighs after she says good-bye to Tomoyo and hangs up the phone. "Suzo! Time to go!"
The little girl comes over as Sakura picks up Kero's leash. "Aw, already? But we just got here."
Sakura gives her a sympathetic look. "I know, but Tomoyo wants us to met her someplace. -----------------------
(Cafe...)
Li Syaoran, the most famous person in Hong Kong, the eligible bachelor, leader of the prestigious Li clan and enterprises, has just been reduced down to waiting for Hiirigizawa Eriol's girlfriend's friend.
He drums his finger on the table while waiting. Every once in awhile, Tomoyo, Eriol's girlfriend, sends a sweeping glance through the cafe.
"When's she getting here?" Syaoran asks getting impatient.
A man with navy hair and laughing sapphire eyes covered by a pair of glasses that gives him a sinister/ intelligent/ classy look grins. "My my, dear cousin, aren't we getting impatient."
Syaoran glares. "Shut up Eriol!" Of course, this doesn't faze him.
"Oh! There she is!" Tomoyo stands up to wave someone over.
Syaoran sips his soda and looks up. The girl from the park?
"Sorry I'm late, had to drop Kero off at the apartment." Sakura says out of breath.
"Its okay, take a seat." Sakura takes a small arm chair across form Tomoyo.
They are sitting at a square coffee table, with a chair on each side. Tomoyo sits to the right of Eriol. Syaoran sits to the left of Sakura, who is across from Tomoyo.
"Suzo, go play with the puzzles." The little girl goes to a small table nearby that has a few games, puzzles, and coloring books on it.
A waitress comes over, noticing a new customer. Sakura orders two sundaes.
"How are you doing Sakura?" Eriol asks with his usual smile playing on his lips.
"I'm doing fine, the usual." Sakura shrugs. "So, why was I summond here?"
"Kinomoto Sakura, this is Li Syaoran." Tomoyo indicates the chestnut haired man to Sakura's left.
She turns her head. "You're the guy from the park.
Syaoran smirks. "I'm honored that you remembered."
Tomoyo gets a confused look. "You've all ready met?"
"Kero got away from us, and Mr.Li found him."
"He came out of no where, I called him 'mutt' and he starts to growl at me." He shakes his head at the memory.
Sakura laughs a little. "He tends to think that he's a purebred or something like that."
"Anyway," Tomoyo interrupts, "You remember the discussion from earlier today?"
"Which part?" Sakura asks.
"The first."
Sakura nods, remembering.
"Well, Li here is going to be your new room mate." Eriol says with his trademark grin.
Before Sakura could protest or reply, the waitress comes back with the two orders of sundaes.
"Suzo." The little red head comes over. "Yes mommy?"
"Here's your sundae." Sakura gives her daughter a sundae. With a quick thank you and a giggle, Suzo goes back to her spot at the small table and eats happily away at it.
Sakura sighs and starts into her own.
"Sakura?" Tomoyo asks thinking that her friend forgot about the conversation all ready.
"What? Oh yea, first off, why my place and why at all, no offense." She adds.
"None taken." Syaoran grins. Intriguing...
"He's thinking about starting some oversea businesses, starting here." Eriol answers, seeing that Syaoran wasn't going to.
"Plus I needed a break from my family." Syaoran answers with a twitch and grimace.
Eriol smirks. "Aw, the nieces and nephews wearing you out all ready?"
Syaoran glares. (Which goes unnoticed by the glare.)
"The reason for your place is one, you've got that extra room. Two, its close to the place where he is thinking about setting up. And three, its cheaper than a hotel." Tomoyo explains while counting off the reasons.
Syaoran turns to look at Sakura. "Look, I'll pay for half of the rent or the payments or the bills for the utilities."
Sakura look hesitant. "But-"
"You can't let a person wonder around the streets, all cold and alone, can you?" Tomoyo asks with puppy eyes.
"But-"
The chestnut haired man turns to Tomoyo. "I guess I'll find a box to live in and beg for money and food." He says with a smirk, playing along with the raven-haired girl.
"But-"
"It's okay Sakura, we understand." Eriol comments with his glasses gleaming, he too joining on the fun.
Sakura scowls. "Oh! Fine! You can stay."
Syaoran grins and shakes her hand. "Oh thank you Miss Kinomoto."
Sakura sighs and calls over Suzo, as she finishes her own sundae.
She starts to scribble down something on a piece of paper. "Here's my address."
Tomoyo smiles. "He doesn't need it." She piped up.
Sakura raises an eyebrow. "Oh? Really?"
Tomoyo nodded with convidence. "I all ready told him and his stuff is in my car," With a cocky smiles, she adds, "I knew you were going to say yes."
Oh, gee thanks Sakura thinks to herself.
"Mommy? Are we gone yet?" Suzo asks, tugging at her emerald eyed mother's skirt.
Sakura stood up. "Yes." She turned her head to the smiling (smirking) threesome. "You guys are paying by the way."
"Hey, at least we got her to agree." Eriol whispers with his gaze following the mother and daughter.
Tomoyo smiles while nodding.
Syaoran stood up also. "Drop my stuff later."
His navy blue haired cousin nods. And with that, Syaoran leaves. -----------------------------------
"Mommy?" Suzo asks uncertainly.
"Yes, what is it honey?" Sakura asks looking down at her daughter.
Suzo looks behind. "You know the mister from the park?"
Sakura blinked. "Yes."
"I think he's a stalker, he's following us."
Sakura turns around, sure enough; Li Syaoran is following behind. She waits for him to catch up to them.
"But mommy...?" Suzo asks again uncertainly.
"Its all right, he's not a stalker." Sakura says, smiling.
Syaoran caught up to them.
The little girl looks up at him; confusion clouded her eyes. "Mister, are you a stalker?"
"Suzo!"
Syaoran grins. "I don't know, I might be or not might be, no one knows."
Suzo giggles. "Hee hee, my name is Kinomoto Suzo. This is my mommy, Sakura."
"Nice to met you Suzo."
"Com'on Suzo." Sakura says as she starts to drag her red haired daughter.
"But what about Mr.Li?"
"He's coming with us." Sakura says, looking strait ahead as they continue to walk.
"Really?" Suzo looks up at Syaoran.
He girns, remembering how they swindled Sakura into agreeing. "Yes, Daidoji and Hiiragizawa conned her into it."
They arrive at the apartment building. Sakura leads the two chattering persons up to the fifth floor. She walks to her front door and un-locks it.
Suzo puts the three coats away and turns on the lights, illuminating the whole place.
Sakura gives the new comer the grand tour of the small apartment. The living room is the room you first come into. Along the left wall is a door that holds the closet. A little further along the wall is a small hallway.
To the left, after you turn into the hallway, there are three doors, the first is the bathroom, the next is Sakura's room, and then Suzo's. Across from Suzo's is the guest room.
Finally, next to the guestroom is the kitchen. The kitchen is separated from the living room by a wall that has a large, glassless window (Kind of like a bar or something along those lines.). It has a small table near the bar/ wall thingy.
"Well, this is." Sakura says as she lets Kero from his cage in the living room.
She takes a peck at the clock hanging on the wall. "Four o'clock... Suzo," The little girl looks up at her, "Time for your nap."
"Aw, but mommy..." Suzo pouts.
Sakura gives her a warning glare; Suzo gives in and goes to her room after saying bye to Syaoran and Kero.
"Cute kid." Comments Syaoran as he sits on the couch. Sakura follows and sits down on the blue laz-y-boy recliner, next to the couch.
"She tends to be a handful, sometimes."
Kero, after finishing his meal that Sakura just served him, comes into the room. He notices a new, yet familiar, scent lingering in the air. He sniffs one of Syaoran's pant legs...the idiot... he starts to growl.
"Kero!" Sakura pulls him by the collar and makes him sit next to her. He looks up at her and starts to glare at Syaoran (who then glares back).
Syaoran glances at the "mutt", as he puts it, and continues the conversation. "So, where's Suzo's father?" He asks nochantly.
Sakura turns her head; she looks out the bright and sunny window.
"I don't want to talk about him." She says emotionless, even though tears threaten to fall.
Syaoran, feeling the tension starting up, decides to change the subject. "She reminds me of my nieces and nephews, all sixteen of them."
"Really? That's all lot!"
"Yep, and I'm the babysitter, my four sisters dump them on me when they go shopping or someplace." Syaoran shudders. "Plus, the kids are so hyper, just like their mothers."
"Wow..."
Silence again. (Except for Kero's growling.)
"Gah! This is so frustrating!" Syaoran yells, throwing up his hands into the air.
Sakura looks up at him. "What do you mean Mr.Li?" She asks with a raised eyebrow.
He glares. "Why are you so quiet? I'm trying to make conversation, and all you do is just sit there not talking. Most woman usually can't stop talking about me, or around me."
"My don't we sound conceited." Sakura mumbles.
"What was that Kinomoto?"
"This woman doesn't go ga-ga over some handsome face that I just met. Nor do I obsess over some famous, rich person." Sakura says in a low and dangerous tone.
"Well, it certainly seems that way. What about Suzo? Are you ashamed? Did you get together with someone and forgot to use prote-" Before he could finish the rest of the statement, Sakura came over and slapped him.
Her bangs covered tear filled emerald eyes as she says in a dangerous tone, "How dare you? Don't you ever insult me like that again. I'm not that type of girl that dresses up like some whore and waits at street corners so that I can just screw up that first male human that comes my way."
She raises her head. Anger flashes through her eyes. "I love Suzo, I just absolutely hate the man who is her so called father!" And with that, she storms out of the room, leaving a stunned and shocked Syaoran and a Kero huddling in a corner of the living room.
Sakura bursts into her room and jumps into her bed. There the memories that she had been keeping back start to flood into her mind. Her tears start to fall onto her pillows, like the Earth soaking up the rain.
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Authoress Notie (Tee Hee, dat sounds funny!): Phew, that was a lot! This is the first fanfic that I have ever put on Fanfiction! (Please note I have other stories written up, I'm just to lazy to put them up ^__^UU)
So, anywho... um... yea.
Review! (Or else!) Flames are accepted, if you do send any, I'll send one of my crazy/ weird/ raving lunatic friends on you! Then I'll act as your psychologist ( my mom took a course, so I know what I'm talking about) Then...*another dramatic pause (if you read the authoress notie at the beginning of the fanfic)*... I'll just insult you back! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*cough, cough*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Um... yea... ^__^UUUUUU
So, review. Por favor. (OOh, I'm bilingual) and sorry for spelling and grammer mistakies.
(If you hadn't noticed all ready I like to add 'y' and 'ie' to some words, dunno why though...)
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My mother always told me that you can dodge the raindrops, but there is always going to be at least one that will land on you.
I never figured out what she meant, too late now to ask, she died when I was young.
But I can't help but think that I'm going to figure out what she meant, soon.
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A woman in a dark apartment sighs.
The rain falls down to the Earth as she looks out the window while sipping a cup of hot tea.
"I wish it would stop raining," She says to herself, "I miss going out to the park, isn't that right Kero?"
A golden retriever lifts his head upon hearing his name being heard, he gives her a why-did-you-wake-me-up-look and falls back asleep.
She sighs again.
The phone in the kitchen rings. "I'll let the answering machine get it."
It rings for a few more minutes, and then stops. "Hello, this is Kinomoto Sakura, I'm sorry I can't come to the phone right now, please leave your name, a message, and your number, and I'll get to you as soon as possible." The woman's voice comes from the machine.
"Sakura? This is Koji, you know... from work. Well, since you're not at home or maybe you are there and just not listening, I was wondering if you wanted to go out with me... call me back."
Sakura returns her attention back to the water-logged window. "I don't want to." She says to herself.
Kero perked his ears up. Someone at the apartment door knocks.
Sakura shakes her head and goes to answered it, along with a bounding Kero.
She opens it up, in the doorway stood a woman with long raven hair with a violet accent and smiling amethyst eyes.
"Hello Tomoyo." Sakura greets and lets the woman in. "Would you like a cup of tea? Make yourself at home."
"Thanks, yes please."
Tomoyo sits down on the old leather couch while Sakura goes to the small, nearby kitchen to pour some tea.
"So, what brings you here?" Sakura asks as she returns from the kitchen.
"Two things, actually three things, thanks." Sakura hands here life long friend a cup of tea and takes a seat next to her.
Sakura sips her own tea and gives her an inquiring look. "Oh? Really?"
Tomoyo nods. "Yes, the first thing is a business partner of Eriol's is coming over from Hong Kong and he needs a place to stay."
Sakura pales instantly, knowing where this is going. "And you want me to let him stay here?"
Tomoyo nods with a hopeful look. "Would you?" Sakura nods slowly knowing that Tomoyo would make her take him in anyway.
"Nextly, one of my models is going to be on vacation for awhile and I have a show coming up and I need you to fill in for her."
Sakura pales for the second time that day. "But...Tomoyo-"
"No, you're not backing out again." Tomoyo declares.
"I've got work-" Sakura says trying to get out of the commitment.
"At a retail store?" Tomoyo raises an eyebrow.
Kero jumps onto the couch.
"But... but_"
"No buts," Tomoyo folds her arms over her chest, "you're going to model, whether you like it or not."
Sakura gives in. "Fine, but nothing too fancy."
Tomoyo grins. "Okay, I won't do anything too fancy." Not, she adds to herself.
"And lastly, why do you keep on avoiding guys? Is it because of what happened to you?"
Sakura turns her head to look out the distant window. "I don't know, nor do I want to go out with anybody, they're all just lying sleaze balls with no respect for woman." Tomoyo looks at her friend worriedly.
"Not all men are like that Sakura." Tomoyo shakes her head knowing that Sakura will never give in when it comes to this subject manner.
She glances at her watch. "Well, I've got to go," she stands up, "Bye Kero." She pats the dog on its head, "Bye Sakura. I'll give you the details about the guy and the fashion show later." And with that she leaves.
A bright flash comes from the window, followed by a loud boom.
Sakura goes back to her spot next to the window. Daidoji Tomoyo was Sakura's bests friend from all the way back in elementary school. She would videotape Sakura in what is called "Tomoyo's kawaii videos of Sakura."
She would make more than half of Sakura's wardrobe. Then make her friend become the unwilling model and video tapes her. Later, after high school, Tomoyo was discovered for her talents and was sent to a designer agency. Then a few years later she started her own company and became a famous fashion designer.
Of course, ever since high school, she's been trying to get Sakura to date. She succeeded, but only once, then one night-
"No, I won't think about what happened. That's the past." Sakura says as tears threaten to fall.
The rain stops falling and the clouds break formation, allowing the sunlight to let through.
One of the bedroom doors opens and a four year old enters the suddenly brighter room. "Mommy?" Sakura turns her head to see a little girl with curly red hair with auburn highlights and inquiring emerald eyes.
"Yes Suzo?"
Suzo climbs into her mothers lap. "Can we go out today?" She takes a look out the window also. "Its stopped raining and I think Kero needs some exercise 'fore he gets too huge." Suzo giggles. Sakura's lips start to curve upward. "Sure."
With a happy glee, the girl jumps off, runs to the nearby closet, and grabs a leash. "Kero!"
The dog with a happy yipe jumps off the couch and runs to the girl.
Sakura leaves her spot next to the window; she goes to the closet also. "Put your coat on."
Suzo latches the leash onto Kero's blue collar. "Aw, but mom!"
Sakura gives her a you'd-better-obey-me-or-else-look. "Suzo."
The little girl gives in and puts her coat on as Sakura puts her own on.
"Okay, now we can go." They leave the apartment and Sakura locks the place up nice and tight.
They go down a set of external stairs, their foot taps ring about the vertical hallway.
"To the park!" Suzo exclaims once the reach the ground. Kero starts to tug her towards their destination.
The people around them put away their umbrellas as soon as they realize that the rain had stopped.
"Mommy!" Suzo tugs at Sakura's long skirt. "Kero got away!"
They start to search the immediate area for their recentantly lost dog.
"Which way was he heading in?" Sakura asks her daughter.
"The park."
Sakura and Suzo head to the park and look everywhere.
"Kero! Kero where are you? Don't you like me anymore?" Suzo cries.
"Excuse me, miss?" A man taps Sakura on the shoulder. "Is this your mutt?"
Sakura turns around. The man has short, messy chestnut hair and irritated looking amber eyes. Next to him is Kero growling at him, looking as if he was about to attack him.
"Yes, thank you." Sakura takes Kero's leash from him.
Suzo runs up to them with tears in her eyes. "I-I couldn't find him mommy."
The man gets a surprised look. I thought she was a high schooler.
Sakura smiles. "Its okay this nice man found him for us." She indicates the man behind her.
Suzo rubs her eyes and looks up at the man with relived eyes. "Thank you mister!" She says as she hugs Kero.
The man grunts.
"Com'on Suzo, let's take him for a walk." Sakura says.
"Okay." They leave the man as he answers his cell phone. -----------------------
Sakura sits down on a bench as Suzo plays with some of the other kids on the slowly drying playground. Kero sits down next to Sakura, growling at complete strangers if they get too close.
The cell phone in Sakura's coat pocket rings, she pulls it out and answers it. "Hello?" A pause.
"Oh, Hi Tomoyo! What's up?" Another pause.
"Really? What time?" She waits for an answer.
"Okay, I'll be at the cafe in a few minutes."
Sakura sighs after she says good-bye to Tomoyo and hangs up the phone. "Suzo! Time to go!"
The little girl comes over as Sakura picks up Kero's leash. "Aw, already? But we just got here."
Sakura gives her a sympathetic look. "I know, but Tomoyo wants us to met her someplace. -----------------------
(Cafe...)
Li Syaoran, the most famous person in Hong Kong, the eligible bachelor, leader of the prestigious Li clan and enterprises, has just been reduced down to waiting for Hiirigizawa Eriol's girlfriend's friend.
He drums his finger on the table while waiting. Every once in awhile, Tomoyo, Eriol's girlfriend, sends a sweeping glance through the cafe.
"When's she getting here?" Syaoran asks getting impatient.
A man with navy hair and laughing sapphire eyes covered by a pair of glasses that gives him a sinister/ intelligent/ classy look grins. "My my, dear cousin, aren't we getting impatient."
Syaoran glares. "Shut up Eriol!" Of course, this doesn't faze him.
"Oh! There she is!" Tomoyo stands up to wave someone over.
Syaoran sips his soda and looks up. The girl from the park?
"Sorry I'm late, had to drop Kero off at the apartment." Sakura says out of breath.
"Its okay, take a seat." Sakura takes a small arm chair across form Tomoyo.
They are sitting at a square coffee table, with a chair on each side. Tomoyo sits to the right of Eriol. Syaoran sits to the left of Sakura, who is across from Tomoyo.
"Suzo, go play with the puzzles." The little girl goes to a small table nearby that has a few games, puzzles, and coloring books on it.
A waitress comes over, noticing a new customer. Sakura orders two sundaes.
"How are you doing Sakura?" Eriol asks with his usual smile playing on his lips.
"I'm doing fine, the usual." Sakura shrugs. "So, why was I summond here?"
"Kinomoto Sakura, this is Li Syaoran." Tomoyo indicates the chestnut haired man to Sakura's left.
She turns her head. "You're the guy from the park.
Syaoran smirks. "I'm honored that you remembered."
Tomoyo gets a confused look. "You've all ready met?"
"Kero got away from us, and Mr.Li found him."
"He came out of no where, I called him 'mutt' and he starts to growl at me." He shakes his head at the memory.
Sakura laughs a little. "He tends to think that he's a purebred or something like that."
"Anyway," Tomoyo interrupts, "You remember the discussion from earlier today?"
"Which part?" Sakura asks.
"The first."
Sakura nods, remembering.
"Well, Li here is going to be your new room mate." Eriol says with his trademark grin.
Before Sakura could protest or reply, the waitress comes back with the two orders of sundaes.
"Suzo." The little red head comes over. "Yes mommy?"
"Here's your sundae." Sakura gives her daughter a sundae. With a quick thank you and a giggle, Suzo goes back to her spot at the small table and eats happily away at it.
Sakura sighs and starts into her own.
"Sakura?" Tomoyo asks thinking that her friend forgot about the conversation all ready.
"What? Oh yea, first off, why my place and why at all, no offense." She adds.
"None taken." Syaoran grins. Intriguing...
"He's thinking about starting some oversea businesses, starting here." Eriol answers, seeing that Syaoran wasn't going to.
"Plus I needed a break from my family." Syaoran answers with a twitch and grimace.
Eriol smirks. "Aw, the nieces and nephews wearing you out all ready?"
Syaoran glares. (Which goes unnoticed by the glare.)
"The reason for your place is one, you've got that extra room. Two, its close to the place where he is thinking about setting up. And three, its cheaper than a hotel." Tomoyo explains while counting off the reasons.
Syaoran turns to look at Sakura. "Look, I'll pay for half of the rent or the payments or the bills for the utilities."
Sakura look hesitant. "But-"
"You can't let a person wonder around the streets, all cold and alone, can you?" Tomoyo asks with puppy eyes.
"But-"
The chestnut haired man turns to Tomoyo. "I guess I'll find a box to live in and beg for money and food." He says with a smirk, playing along with the raven-haired girl.
"But-"
"It's okay Sakura, we understand." Eriol comments with his glasses gleaming, he too joining on the fun.
Sakura scowls. "Oh! Fine! You can stay."
Syaoran grins and shakes her hand. "Oh thank you Miss Kinomoto."
Sakura sighs and calls over Suzo, as she finishes her own sundae.
She starts to scribble down something on a piece of paper. "Here's my address."
Tomoyo smiles. "He doesn't need it." She piped up.
Sakura raises an eyebrow. "Oh? Really?"
Tomoyo nodded with convidence. "I all ready told him and his stuff is in my car," With a cocky smiles, she adds, "I knew you were going to say yes."
Oh, gee thanks Sakura thinks to herself.
"Mommy? Are we gone yet?" Suzo asks, tugging at her emerald eyed mother's skirt.
Sakura stood up. "Yes." She turned her head to the smiling (smirking) threesome. "You guys are paying by the way."
"Hey, at least we got her to agree." Eriol whispers with his gaze following the mother and daughter.
Tomoyo smiles while nodding.
Syaoran stood up also. "Drop my stuff later."
His navy blue haired cousin nods. And with that, Syaoran leaves. -----------------------------------
"Mommy?" Suzo asks uncertainly.
"Yes, what is it honey?" Sakura asks looking down at her daughter.
Suzo looks behind. "You know the mister from the park?"
Sakura blinked. "Yes."
"I think he's a stalker, he's following us."
Sakura turns around, sure enough; Li Syaoran is following behind. She waits for him to catch up to them.
"But mommy...?" Suzo asks again uncertainly.
"Its all right, he's not a stalker." Sakura says, smiling.
Syaoran caught up to them.
The little girl looks up at him; confusion clouded her eyes. "Mister, are you a stalker?"
"Suzo!"
Syaoran grins. "I don't know, I might be or not might be, no one knows."
Suzo giggles. "Hee hee, my name is Kinomoto Suzo. This is my mommy, Sakura."
"Nice to met you Suzo."
"Com'on Suzo." Sakura says as she starts to drag her red haired daughter.
"But what about Mr.Li?"
"He's coming with us." Sakura says, looking strait ahead as they continue to walk.
"Really?" Suzo looks up at Syaoran.
He girns, remembering how they swindled Sakura into agreeing. "Yes, Daidoji and Hiiragizawa conned her into it."
They arrive at the apartment building. Sakura leads the two chattering persons up to the fifth floor. She walks to her front door and un-locks it.
Suzo puts the three coats away and turns on the lights, illuminating the whole place.
Sakura gives the new comer the grand tour of the small apartment. The living room is the room you first come into. Along the left wall is a door that holds the closet. A little further along the wall is a small hallway.
To the left, after you turn into the hallway, there are three doors, the first is the bathroom, the next is Sakura's room, and then Suzo's. Across from Suzo's is the guest room.
Finally, next to the guestroom is the kitchen. The kitchen is separated from the living room by a wall that has a large, glassless window (Kind of like a bar or something along those lines.). It has a small table near the bar/ wall thingy.
"Well, this is." Sakura says as she lets Kero from his cage in the living room.
She takes a peck at the clock hanging on the wall. "Four o'clock... Suzo," The little girl looks up at her, "Time for your nap."
"Aw, but mommy..." Suzo pouts.
Sakura gives her a warning glare; Suzo gives in and goes to her room after saying bye to Syaoran and Kero.
"Cute kid." Comments Syaoran as he sits on the couch. Sakura follows and sits down on the blue laz-y-boy recliner, next to the couch.
"She tends to be a handful, sometimes."
Kero, after finishing his meal that Sakura just served him, comes into the room. He notices a new, yet familiar, scent lingering in the air. He sniffs one of Syaoran's pant legs...the idiot... he starts to growl.
"Kero!" Sakura pulls him by the collar and makes him sit next to her. He looks up at her and starts to glare at Syaoran (who then glares back).
Syaoran glances at the "mutt", as he puts it, and continues the conversation. "So, where's Suzo's father?" He asks nochantly.
Sakura turns her head; she looks out the bright and sunny window.
"I don't want to talk about him." She says emotionless, even though tears threaten to fall.
Syaoran, feeling the tension starting up, decides to change the subject. "She reminds me of my nieces and nephews, all sixteen of them."
"Really? That's all lot!"
"Yep, and I'm the babysitter, my four sisters dump them on me when they go shopping or someplace." Syaoran shudders. "Plus, the kids are so hyper, just like their mothers."
"Wow..."
Silence again. (Except for Kero's growling.)
"Gah! This is so frustrating!" Syaoran yells, throwing up his hands into the air.
Sakura looks up at him. "What do you mean Mr.Li?" She asks with a raised eyebrow.
He glares. "Why are you so quiet? I'm trying to make conversation, and all you do is just sit there not talking. Most woman usually can't stop talking about me, or around me."
"My don't we sound conceited." Sakura mumbles.
"What was that Kinomoto?"
"This woman doesn't go ga-ga over some handsome face that I just met. Nor do I obsess over some famous, rich person." Sakura says in a low and dangerous tone.
"Well, it certainly seems that way. What about Suzo? Are you ashamed? Did you get together with someone and forgot to use prote-" Before he could finish the rest of the statement, Sakura came over and slapped him.
Her bangs covered tear filled emerald eyes as she says in a dangerous tone, "How dare you? Don't you ever insult me like that again. I'm not that type of girl that dresses up like some whore and waits at street corners so that I can just screw up that first male human that comes my way."
She raises her head. Anger flashes through her eyes. "I love Suzo, I just absolutely hate the man who is her so called father!" And with that, she storms out of the room, leaving a stunned and shocked Syaoran and a Kero huddling in a corner of the living room.
Sakura bursts into her room and jumps into her bed. There the memories that she had been keeping back start to flood into her mind. Her tears start to fall onto her pillows, like the Earth soaking up the rain.
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Authoress Notie (Tee Hee, dat sounds funny!): Phew, that was a lot! This is the first fanfic that I have ever put on Fanfiction! (Please note I have other stories written up, I'm just to lazy to put them up ^__^UU)
So, anywho... um... yea.
Review! (Or else!) Flames are accepted, if you do send any, I'll send one of my crazy/ weird/ raving lunatic friends on you! Then I'll act as your psychologist ( my mom took a course, so I know what I'm talking about) Then...*another dramatic pause (if you read the authoress notie at the beginning of the fanfic)*... I'll just insult you back! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*cough, cough*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Um... yea... ^__^UUUUUU
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