To know one another

Author – Trees are Green (TaG)

Note from the Author: Sorry guys! I've been stuck with hw, and activities, I haven't written! (or actually, I had, but I didn't post this!) Well hope you liked this chapter!

Summary - Sakura Kinomoto, the name known all over the school as the popular girl (but longing not to be) with a gentle core (which remains hidden) who all the guys like; Syaoran Li, the new guy at the school who's shy and mysterious. When these two meet each other, will they become one? Read if you're interested... R&R

Disclaimer – As much as I could dream, the mentioned characters don't belong to me. Just the plot...

(What Happened Previously...)

"… Would you be Syaoran Li, son of Kouji Li the richest tycoon in Hong Kong?"

Chapter Two - Syaoran Li

Syaoran's POV

I stared at the raven-haired girl in front of me. Yes, stared. Though not of an act of perversion, but I stared at her in any case. How did this girl know that? It shocked me. How did she found out...? I changed my expression of surprise into a look of blankness:

"Pardon? Kouji Li?" I asked, feinting my profile. But the girl named Tomoyo seemed to guess it.

"Yes, Kouji Li. You look similarily like him." She pressed forward, leaning towards me and studying my face intently.

"Hey lady, keep yourself off me. I have noidea who you are talking about..." I replied, keeping with my storyline, but Tomoyo grinned in triumph. Oh dear. There goes my imagination of not being someone famous in Japan. If Tomoyo knew, plenty of other people around Tomoeda most likely knew my identity as well...

"Mr. Syaoran Li! How could you say that! I know you are a Li alright! I mean, you've got the Li Clan Crest on that chain of yours!" Tomoyo clapped in excitement, and continued before I could speak, "I know that you are trying to hide yourself in Japan, it's all over the media! Though-"

"What do you mean ALL OVER THE MEDIA!" I exclaimed, shocked that my family would have let this piece of information loose with the public, "Oh I'm gonna murder them when I get back home! (Here, Tomoyo was looking very shocked at my words and attempted to interrupt - but I didn't let her) Listen very carefully Miss Tomoyo Daijoujii; if you can hide me in this school population, I'll very happily do whatever you want."

Tomoyo's POV

"...Listen very carefully Miss Tomoyo Daijoujii; if you can hide me in this school population, I'll very happily do whatever you want." Li-san whispered urgently. I was shocked. Very shocked. This guy standing right in front of me, with the chocolate-brown hair and the almost equally brown eyes was the son of Kouji Li, the tycoon of Hong Kong... But I did catch the last of Li's words, and I grinned evilly.

"Anything Mr. Li? Absolutely anything?"

Li threw an annoyed look at me, "Yes Tomoyo-san. 'Absolutely anything' as you have just phrased."

"Alright then! Though I dunno whether hanging out with us would satisfy your, er, needs." I answered slowly. Sakura-chan and I, well we were quiet enough for the Li boy. But, Sakura's fan club certainly wasn't. Perhaps we could get rid of them, for good. Sakura would definitely like that!

"I don't care," Syaoran stated simply, "Just don't stick me on the front page and it's all good."

I swallowed this piece of information with interest. This Li was most likely in the newspaper, though not necessarily the FRONT. I guess we could help him out, and at the same time carry out a plan of my own...

"Well I'll, or rather we will gladly help you out Syaoran." I smiled genuinely at him, and gasped as I saw Sakura approach us with hostility.

"What the hell is that guy doing here Tomoyo? I though you would have kicked him outta here." Sakura sternly nodded her chin towards Syaoran.

Tomoyo only smiled and replied, "Syaoran's gonna be hanging out with us for awhile Sakura-chan." Though Tomoyo was anticipating Sakura's reaction, or really, dreading...

"WHAT DID YOU SAY TOMOYO!" The brunette shrieked at her best friend, "THIS EAVESDROPPER HERE BETTER NOT BE INVOVLED WITH THEM!"

Syaoran covered his ears quickly, and thoughts were rushing through his head like a bullet train:

- Why was this girl screaming his head off at the sight of him?

- Was she normally like this?

- He felt extremely sorry for Tomoyo if the girl was always like this.

- Was he really an eavesdropper when the two girls had been talking quite loud?

and the most pondered upon thought: Who the hell was THEM?

Normal POV

After a short period of time explaining to Sakura that Syaoran would hang out with them, and apologizing to Syaoran about Sakura's attitude towards him ("Who said I was ever sorry about it!" Sakura exclaimed unhappily), they were now sitting down under the tree which Syaoran had been at previous.

"So, so repeat, that guy is gonna be with us... but for how long?" Sakura controlled herself; her father often had told her that screaming her head off wasn't the best plan of action to do.

Syaoran sighed. He didn't actually know himself. His 'dear mother' had insisted on Syaoran staying at Tomoeda, but for how long he didn't know for certain, "Well, it'll be awhile anyway. Don't think that I like it too 'kay?"

"Yeah yeah whatever." was Sakura's answer. Tomoyo looking between the two sensing the lack of relationship-building decided to launch a new conversation:

"Hey Syaoran, you never said, but where are you staying?"

"Er..." Syaoran grabbed his bag and searched through it, before pulling out a crumpled slip of paper. He read: "Nashihiro Drive. Number 55." The two girls stared at him in surprise. "Whaaat...?" He asked, worriedly that they would make a fuss over something. They seemed like the type. Or at least Tomoyo did...

"Wow! I can't believe it!" Tomoyo grinned in excitement, as Sakura dully muttered under her breath at the same time: "You're the one who brought the flat next door..." Notice, though, that while Tomoyo had seemed happy about the fact, Sakura was looking, well to simply put it: sick. Syaoran, looking nervously from the faces didn't know how to respond. On the one hand, yes, he would live very close to the girl-next-door, Sakura Kinomoto who was damn sexy. Though, as he though this, he worried that 'the person above' would be striking him down with the (imaginary) spear for thinking about that about Sakura. For instance, she obviously didn't like his existence, so that wasn't exactly good at all...

On the other hand, Tomoyo had an expression of, pure evil. Well, as evil as a look like that on Tomoyo's face could look. It appeared that she was in deep thought at the moment; you could basically see the wheels turning...

"Well... I guess I am gonna be living next door to you Sakura-chan; though, er, I'm just moving in this afternoon, and well, I frankly have no idea where the said address is..." Syaoran paused, and checked the looks again, Tomoyo's face revealed a very evil grin, and Sakura's showed absolute horror.

"I-if you're meaning that... you w-want help with g-getting b-back... ano (um), I-"Sakura couldn't finish her sentence, due to her sudden appearance of stuttering, which arrived whenever she became nervous.

"Sakura-chan will take you home, sure Syaoran-kun!" Tomoyo grinned, while Sakura gave her the evil eye, "Though I absolutely feel TRAGIC that I won't be able to join you guys, 'cos I've got choir practice after school, so..."

The bell suddenly rang.

"Oh. There goes the bell! Well let's get going to class then!" Tomoyo cheerfully announced, and Sakura stood up very quickly and gathered her things, taking off as fast as a sprinter. Syaoran looked to Tomoyo, who simply grinned, and muttered, "Make sure you keep this thing between you and me Tomoyo." before heading off in the same direction as Sakura.

Tomoyo was all alone then. She laughed secretly, and followed the two, with light bulbs as large as watermelons forming ideas inside her head...

Hm, looks like I'll have to ask Eriol whether he could help me with a little something Tomoyo thought with glee. I'll call him up now and see...

Tomoyo dashed behind the school buildings and took out her cell phone and pressed the speed-dial, hearing the familiar ring while a phone rang continuously...

"Hello?" Eriol, whose voice was sounding slightly weak, answered the phone.

"It's me." Tomoyo replied.

"Hey Tomoyo. Mind me asking why you're calling now?" Eriol, changing his tone of voice back into the normal cheerful sounding one asked curious.

Tomoyo sighed inwardly, and told Eriol about Syaoran, and his current involvement with the group.

"So," Eriol said as he digested what Tomoyo had told him, "You want me to keep an eye on them this afternoon?"

"Yeah, pretty much. Well gotta go now, it's getting late." Tomoyo signaled the end of their conversation, and Eriol added a comment:

"Getting late? You're ringing during class Tomoyo... but that can't be helped. See ya later then Tomoyo-chan."

"Bye Eriol-kun." Tomoyo disconnected the line, and grinned evilly, yet again. This will be the beginning of something she thought mysteriously to herself...