Chapter 2: Unpacking

The next morning the sun was shining bright and there was not a single cloud in sight. It was yet a lovely day in April. An alarm clock rang, and rand, and rang. No one turned it of because no one woke up to it. The owner was sleeping soundly in her comfy bed, dreaming. The dream was definitely a wonderful one, because she giggled and smiled in between pauses.

"Sakura! Hey, Sakura!" a stuffed animal shouted in the girl's ear. She still didn't wake up, so he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Sakura!" A hand shooed him away just like an annoying bug, buzzing by the ear. Now the little guy was really angry. Never before had be been treated like a bug, and certainly not by his master! He stood up. Got ready, and... charged! Just like a warrior charging into the battle on with waepon, armer and on horse. There was an soft impact, resulting in him bouncing off and she opening her eyes.

"Hoe?" she said in her sleepy way.

"It's morning already! Wake up and turn of the stupid alarm!" the bear-like animal shouted. He was flying in the air, just like always did to get in height with her. Sakura looked around the room a bit before her mind could come to terms with that it actually was morning. She then looked at the pink alarm clock in her hands.

"H-hoe!" she shouted and rushed out of bed. "I'm late! Again!" She grabbed her clothes and pulled them on. "Kero-chan, why didn't you wake me up?"

"I did! Thee times, but you didn't wake up!" Kero shouted back at her. He was angry that she was blaming him when it was clearly not his fault, but hers for not waking up.

"What ever. See you later. Bye! Oh, and I won't be home until late today. I'm helping Syaoran-kun unpack some stuff. There's pudding for you in the fridge and dad and Touya won't be home until late either," Sakura informed as she was making her way down the stairs.

"Good morning!" she greeted when she was down. Her father, Fujitaka, was in the kitchen making breakfast and her brother was sitting by the table, eating.

"So, the monster finally woke up?" Touya teased just as he always did.

"I'm not a monster!" the little sister shouted, holding up angry fist, ready to strike.

"Good morning, Sakura-san," her dad greeted with a smile.

"Good morning dad. Good morning mom," Sakura said, holding a photo of her long deceased mother in her hands. As always there was a lovely picture of her mother, Nadeshiko.

"You'd better hurry up and eat. Other wise you'll be late," Fujitaka said and gave her a plate of breakfast.

"Thanks, dad," the girl said happily.

For a few minutes they sat and ate. Sakura ate so fast that she nearly choked of her food, since it was already really late in the morning.

"Thanks for the food!" the girl then said when she was done. "I'll be going now! Oh, and I won't be home until late. I'll be helping Syaoran-kun with some stuff after school."

"That brat again?" Touya said angrily. He really did hate Syaoran after all.

"Late, late, late!" Sakura kept repeating as she ran as fast as she could to school. Ever since she started middle school, she'd been walking, or more accurately running, to school.

"G-good morning!" Sakura panted after getting in the classroom.

"Ah, good morning, Sakura-chan," Tomoyo-chan greeted.

"You're just in time, Sakura-chan," one of her friends, Naoko, said. Sakura smiled and walked over to her seat.

"Syaoran-kun's not here yet?" she asked after looking around for a bit.

"He is here, but he went to talk to the teacher about something," Chiharu answered. Chiharu was now sitting beside Sakura, since they always change seats when a new term begins.

"Oh, I see," Sakura replied, hanging her bag on the side of her desk.

Just the, the door suddenly slid open. Syaoran-kun and Terada-sensei came in. The boy went over to his seat and the teacher walked over to the teacher's podium at the front of the classroom.

"Good morning, Syaoran-kun," Sakura whispered after he'd seated himself.

"Good morning," Syaoran greeted back. They both smiled happily.

"Okay class. In a few days we'll have a math test," the teacher said.

"Eh?! Already?" everyone in class groaned unhappily.

"It's not a big one, just something small to check where yourmath ability lays," Terada-sensei explained. However, even after saying that the students weren't very happy, especially a Little Miss Kinomoto Sakura.

Later, when class was over, she finally exploded in devastation.

"Ah! What should I do? I'm so bad at math," she burst out to her best friend.

"You still hate it even after all these years? And you still suck at it?" Syaoran wondered.

"Y-yeah..." Sakura mumbled. Some things never change, do they? "Help me, Tomoyo-chan."

"I'd love to, but I'm afraid I'm busy the whole week. Sorry," Tomoyo apologized. "Why don't you help her, Li-kun? If I remember correctly you were pretty good at math in elementary school."

"Eh.. Yeah, I guess so," Syaoran answered a bit confused.

"Syaoran-kun, will you help me? Please!" Sakura pleated with that cute look on her face. It could bring anyone down, especially Syaoran-kun. After all, it was the adorable face of the person he'd fallen in love with. There was no way he could ever beat that.

"S-sure," Syaoran managed to squeeze out. His face had began turning a light shade of read.

"Really?" Sakura wanted to confirm, just to be on the safe side. She looked even closer in his eyes.

"Y-yeah. I'll help you, don't worry," Syaoran reassured her. Once again he'd been beaten to the ground by her, even though it was not her intention.

"Yay!" Sakura exclaimed and threw her arms around him. Of course it wasn't really on purpose, only a reflex – something she used to do to Tomoyo. This action made Syaoran blush, and Sakura too, after realizing what she'd just done. She immediately let go.

"A-anyway, thanks a lot, Syaoran-kun," she said.

Hours later when school was over Sakura ran over to the boy who was about to go home.

"Hey, Syaoran-kun!" shouted the girl.

"Oh, Sakura," Syaoran replied.

"Did you forget? After school I was gonna help you unpack a few boxes, since onii-chan made me take over his chores," Sakura bitterly muttered.

"Oh, that's right. I almost forgot that," said Syaoran. "Well then, shall we go?" Sakura nodded and then they began walking.

After walking for some time, they arrived at his apartment. Syaoran took out a key from from his pocket, put it in the door's lock and turned it. The door creaked opened and the two walked inside. Syaoran felt on the wall and hit the light switch. The lights turned on to reveal a hallway full of boxes – some empty and others full.

"It looks just as it used to... except for the boxes everywhere," Sakura pointed out, looking around and walking into the other rooms.

"I guess so," Syaoran answered and followed her, after closing the door behind them.

"Which boxes needs unpacking?" asked Sakura while looking in some of the boxes that stood in the living room.

"Let's see now... These, these, these and those over there too," he said and pointed at some of the boxes in the living room, some in the kitchen and a bunch in the bed room.

"You said that there wasn't that much to unpack, but this is... this is a whole lot actually!" Sakura stated and sighed.

"Maybe..." Syaoran replied and scratched his head.

"Oh well... Either way, I told you I'd help you so I will," the girl said, clutching her hands in a "let's start working" pose.

"Thanks," Syaoran thanked and gave her a smile.

The next few house went to unpacking boxes and putting stuff away in their rightful places: cups, plates, cutlery, books, one or two games, clothes, bed sheets and a whole lot of other things.

"Syaoran, what's this?" Sakura suddenly wondered, holding up a small dangling piece of red thread knotted into a Chinese Knot and with an ancient coin hanging from it.

"Oh that," Syaoran began while walking over to Sakura. She was sitting on the floor, studying the charm like thing. Syaoran walked over to her. He sat down beside her. "If I remember correctly, it's a kind of good luck charm I got from one of my sisters before I left Hong Kong," he explained. She looked at it some more and said: "Oh, I see. Your sister must really care about you."

"Probably..." answered Syaoran, thinking back at all the times his sisters teased, used, but also doted on him. He turned around, finding that their faces were really close to each other. Non of them had noticed it up until now. They turned around, embarrassed and continued unpacking stuff. There still quite a lot of stuff that needed unpacking.

When they were finally done, after a few hours of doing the same thing over and over again, they sat down to take a snack of some sort.

"Sorry, but I don't have that much to offer. I haven't had time to buy anything yet," Syaoran apologized.

"It's okay," Sakura said. "I'll just take a look at what you've got." She went out into the kitchen and opened the fridge. To her amazement... it was almost completely empty. When he said "not that much", he should have said "nothing". "Your fridge is pretty empty, you know? How will you get something to eat?" asked Sakura.

"Order take-out?" stated Syaoran, as if it was the obvious thing.

"You know that's not too good for you," Sakura pointed out.

"Well, I have no choice, do I?" he reminded her.

"I guess so..." she said. There was a moment of silence.

"T-then why don't you come have dinner at my house?" Sakura suddenly wondered. It took a moment for Syaoran to fully grasp her question. After all, she was inviting him home to her. Both of them sat there in silence, there hearts thumping slightly faster than usual.

"S-sure," Syaoran suddenly answered. Sakura blushed a bit then smiled happily at him, making him blush too.

A/N: This was the second chapter. Please review and tell me what you thought about it. ^^

Next chapter will be up shortly (probably) so look forward to it!