Sakura's Fire
Chapter 2
Soft light was flooding the room and shining on the pale white walls. The morning sun warmed the bed, waking Sakura. She blinked away the tiredness of her eyes, blinded by sleep and sudden light. With a groan she propped herself up onto one elbow and rubbed her eyes.
"Good morning Chu." An oh-so-annoying-but-recognized voice from her left said, shocking her completely. It also sent a shiver down her spine, so deep and casual.
Hadn't she locked her door?
Syaoran smirked as she chose to fall back into bed rather than reply. In her rush to get away she had locked her door but she didn't check all the doors in the room. Unbeknownst to her One door connected to his room, which was just right next to hers, through the right wall. He stood up and sat on the bed next to Sakura.
"Wake up." he said, shaking her form slightly. Her face only pressed further into a pillow.
A muffled "no" was heard, so weak in comparrison to the loud girl he had brought her the day before. It was amusing. Taking further action he wrapped his arms around her waist and picked her up with ease as she dropped the pillow.
Listening to Sakura whine about sleep, Syaoran shifted so that he was carrying her bridal style and went over to the door to unlock it. She couldn't complain. At least he wasn't throwing her over his shoulder and was keeping her balanced.
Once out of the room he carried Sakura down the stairs and placed her on the couch. Was she ever awake now. But as a few seconds passed she seemed to change, like suddenly there was no choice but to sleep. Sakura just closed her eyes and layed down again.
"I dont want to wake up yet." she groaned. Yet she looked like she was already out she was not. Her breathing was even and her position limp and comfortable, but she had to force herself to look that way.
Syaoran sighed and stared down at her porcelin face. "I only have one more way of waking you up other than pouring very, very cold water on you." he smirked.
"Whatever."
She let herself sink into comfort when he didn't immediately do something, only thinking about what he might of meant by that. The thought quickly faded as she went off to "dream land." Syaoran got up to wake her up the way he was talking about, having to straddle her waist. When she still didn't wake he lowered himself and kissed her, mouth closed and motionless, blocking off Sakura's breathing completely. After a few seconds she pushed him off and, well, woke up.
"What the hell, dog breath!" she yelled as she stood up. Her cheeks were a furocious color of red and she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. How dare he? When she was asleep!
Watching her glare only made him smile more. "I told you that I only had one more way of waking you up." he laughed as he sat back on the couch., making sure to take up enough space so she couldn't sleep again.
"I didn't think that you would kiss me!"
His eyes rolled. "Will you calm down?"
Sakura did calm down and with a scowl on her face she sat next to Syaoran. She wanted to hit him on the back on the head and really make those eyes of his spin. It didn't take long for both of them to fall into a silent state of boredom. Shifting, Sakura was thinking of what she could say, despite being angry at him and not in her own home.
"Since you know so much about me," she started slowly and looked at him, crossing her arms. "Why don't you tell me some stuff about yourself?"
He had no objections to that. In fact, he preferred it to silence. Syaoran never had a problem sharing anything, but contradictory to that he kept secrets the best. Smiling softly he looked at the girl with auburn hair next to him.
"Ask me anything." he replied solemnly.
Imediately "How old are you?" popped out of her mouth.
"I am 16 until December."
"Do you really live hear by yourself? Don't you have family?"
"Yes I live here alone and my family is in China."
"Your lucky." Sakura pouted mentally
The tone of her voice sent a little worry through him, but e pushed it away. "How am I lucky?" Syaoran asked.
"Well, when you guys 'kidnapped' me, I was on my way home." she explained. "I have no family anywhere except for my brother, and we don't have... We're not as close as we used to be, you know?"
His lip twitched. He wanted to put his arm on her shoulder and tell her she never had to go back. But one day she would have to. It wasn't like she was really meant to be anywhere near here, surrounded by gang life when she looked so fragile. "That doesn't make me lucky, does it?"
"It does." She secretly wanted to change the subject. Even mentioning her brother made her heart squeeze and her eyes almst water.
"Anyway, you hungry?"
As if on cue her stomach growled loudly and he laughed as he got up. Syaoran showed Sakura the kitchen then made them both some food.
Then she was confused. the situation was suddenly dawning on her. One night's sleep had made her forget that she was being held captive. "Why are you being so nice to me?" Sakura asked Syaoran abruptly as they sat and watched cartoons on his big screen t.v.
"Because you're a girl." he replied, causing Sakura to fume.
Her nails went to her thigh as she clenched her hand. "That is so typical!" she yelled as she got off the couch and took her school bag to her room.
'Bastard!' she thought rudely as she slammed and locked her door. 'I hate when guys go easy on me because I'm a girl!'
"Sakura." she heard on the other side of the door. It seemed like he was hesitant.
But she didn't wait to yell back at him. "Don't call me that." she barked. "The way you say it makes me wish it wasn't my name."
He let out a heavy sigh. "Fine, but could you come out?"
"No!"
"Then I'm coming in."
She sat on her bed expecting him to break down the door and prepared herself for any loud noises. Instead there was just a soft 'click' from her left and she turned to see Syaoran coming in through the door she had thought was just a closet.
"Is that how you got in this morning?" Sakura asked, her face scrunched up in confusion.
Amusement flasheshed through his eyes. "Yeah. The door leads to my room. I suggest that you never go in there." he replied.
"Yeah, okay." She agreed hotly.
He stepped a little closer then stopped himself, putting his hands in his pockets. "Anyway, I called my cousin and she will be coming over to stay until you leave. She said she would bring you everything you needed, like clothes I guess."
"Anything I need to know about her?"
"Yes, Chu. 1: her name is Meiling and 2: don't worry, it's impossible to get on that girls badside unless you trash her friends."
She smiled. "Is that all?"
"Well she might bring my other cousin Eriol. He's just your typical person."
"I hope he's nothing like you." Sakura whispered, hoping he didn't hear her.
"He isn't." Syaoran smirked before leaving.
The shreik of the door bell wared the two occupants in the house that someone was here. Syaoran got up and answered the door to reveal a very tall, mature girl with pigtails next to an also tall, sweet guy and about seven suitcases.
"Come on in Meiling, Eriol." he smiled. He decided mentioning the over packing would be a bad idea and Meiling smiled.
She gladly slipped passed him, not taking in a thing. "Nice, my cute little cousin. Your hospitality is better than the last time I saw you." Eriol stated.
Eriol had blue, neat hair and alluring saphire eyes.
"Call me that again and I'll show you hospitality." he scowled.
"Calm down and help Eriol with our bags." Meiling smiled joyfully as she assaulted the couch and crossed her legs, her short dress rising a bit.
Syaoran grumbled and took three bags, leaving Eriol to drag in the others. Turning around they saw that the raven haired girl had somehow disappeared on the silently. As she often did. They walked into the t.v. room to see Meiling on top of Sakura, pulling her into a tight hug.
"OH MY GAWD!" she yelled. "YOU ARE SO MORE KAWAII THAN I IMAGINED!"
"Mei! Clam down." Syaoran said.
Meiling got off Sakura and sat next to her with a huge smile. No, her cousin could not ruin her mood. Sakura just gave her a silent raise of the eyebrow, wondering how one small woman could carry that much energy.
"I'm Meiling. You are Sakura right?" she smiled even bigger - if possible, that is - with one hand held out.
Sakura took her hand and replied, "Yeah but you can call me Chu if you want. Because of Syaoran, I'm starting to get used to that."
Meiling frowned and turned towards her cousin. Eriol snorted next to Syaoran.
'You call her Chu?' she mouthed and Syaoran nodded.
Meiling smiled again, though confused, and turned back to Sakura.
"I'll stick to your real name."
