DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN CCS AND THEIR CHARACTERS. SONGS USED IN THIS CHAPTER AREN'T MINE EITHER.

Chapter 1

"It's the way you do the things you do that make me fall in love with you. Sakura, are you in love with me too?"

"H-hoee, Syaoran! Stop it, it's embarrassing!" I squealed as a response to his version of 'Dakota'.

"I'm not gonna stop singing until you say you love me too!" he replied jokingly

"We're in Penguin Park; I'm not gonna say it out loud!"

"So be it! Oh Sakura, I know our love is…" Syaoran sang while strumming his new guitar

"Okay okay! I love you too Syaoran!" I replied as I planted a peck on his cheek.

We blushed madly when we saw that there was a crowd of preschool students who stared at us with innocent-looking eyes.

Just a little background about what happened when Syaoran came back to Tomoeda: he was obsessed with music. Whether it was school or when we were going out together, he always had his ipod with him. When we were in eighth grade, Tomoyo and I decided to buy him a guitar for his birthday. It was just something random Tomoyo and I came up with, but he loved his guitar immensely. He learned different chords from the internet and practiced every day. Playing the guitar was his passion and hobby. After just two months of discovering the 'wonders of the guitar', he was determined to become a professional singer slash guitarist. Well, Yelan, did not see eye to eye with Syaoran's ambition. She thought that it was a ridiculous idea, and was against Syaoran when he wanted to enroll to the newly introduced Music Stream of Seijou High. She did let him go enroll to the music sector after Syaoran's constant begging and promises to excel in non-music subjects as well. Tomoyo and Syaoran both went to the Music Stream; I on the other hand, enrolled in the regular stream as I had zero interest in music. Despite our different streaming and classes, we remained close. We constantly went home together even if that meant waiting for the other for long periods of time. We met each other often in Penguin Park in which he sang my favourite song, 'Purple Rain' by Prince (I know it's old, but I'm obsessed with it!) while I tried to mimic Prince's dance moves.

Anyway, one of the memories that struck me when I accepted Natsume's request to be his girlfriend was a particular late-summer camping trip that both Syaoran and I went to during our sophomore year.

30 months ago

Rika and I were just talking about how our 'boyfriends' were doing when Mr Terada, entered the class and said with his booming voice "Okay, class. Settle down! I've got an important announcement to tell you."

Rika blushed again as she heard Mr Terada's voice, and went back to her seat.

"Two weeks from now, we're going to have our annual late summer camping trip to Mount Fuji!"

Everyone clapped and started to break out into little discussions on which their tent mates would be.

"This year however, we have decided to let the Music Stream to join us! The staff has noticed that the relationship between the Regular and the Music Stream isn't too well" Mr Terada said while staring meaningfully at Shouhei who picked up a fight with one of the Music Stream students.

Mr Terada, with his eyes still fixed on Shouhei ,continued his speech "The teachers of both streams will decide your tent mates, so expect to share your tent with one of those, how did you put it Shouhei? Oh yes, 'snobbish, rich brats'. The staffs are looking forward to a tighter bond between the two streams!"

Our much-awaited camping trip finally came by! The Music students had to share the 3 different buses with us, much to their loathing for us. I sat together with Tomoyo in the bus and we chit-chatted for 3 hours straight without stopping! It was great to finally go on an overnight trip with Tomoyo! Ever since we entered High School, we were both swamped with all sorts of projects and assignments until we barely had time to talk to one another for long periods of time. I didn't forget about Syaoran I missed having him around so much too. There was no one to hold me up when I was about to fall down as I fell asleep during classes! The girl sitting behind me in my sophomore year was, well, let's just saying that she won't notice anything when the world comes to an end.

The most memorable moment of that particular camping trip happened during the night.

The games he teachers organized were very tough, Syaoran's only tent mate, Ikeda, fell upon a bunch of poison ivies during the Scavenger Hunt game and he had to be brought to the nearby clinic for immediate treatment. Apparently, Ikeda was highly allergic to poison ivies. After a long day full of strenuous activities and ridiculous games that included 'smash-the-eggs-on-your-opponent's-backs', we finally had time to rest after dinner. Unfortunately, my classmates decided to hold a Scary Story contest in which the person with the scariest story that freaked others out would win. By nighttime, amazingly enough, the Music Stream students were getting along quite splendidly with the Regular Stream and so they joined in our little competition. Naoko's story impacted me the most as it was set on the very forest that we were staying in. It was a tale of a young man who was killed by his wife by using a gigantic wooden club in the middle of the forest as the man caught his wife cheating on another man. 2 years later, the man turned to a ghost, haunting the particular forest that we stayed in to search for his cheating wife. The wife returned to the forest, stupidly enough with the family she raised with the man whom she cheated with. At the dead of the night, the man's ex-wife was awake as she could not sleep due to the noisy sounds of rustling leaves combined with loud thundering booms. She approached the tree in which the sound was the loudest and saw her dead ex-husband's corpse. The man, now in the form of a corpse-like ghost shouted at her and hit her to death with the same wooden club she killed him with.

I detest horror stories, even until now! The image of the woman's decomposing husband's body stuck through my mind in the night. I came back to my tent late as I was placed on chore-duty. Tomoyo and Naoko were fast asleep when I returned, and so, I had no one to talk with to calm myself down. I couldn't sleep and so I decided to go outside for a little stroll to calm my nerves down. I wore a sweater over my shirt and brought along a torch and my bag of salt just in case I saw some ghosts. I had just walked 6 steps from my tent when I heard a loud rustling sound coming behind the tree. Naoko's story came to my mind as I approached the tree. As I was closer to the tree, I could distinctly make out a shadow of a man with something rather long and big beside him. The rustling sound grew even louder, and I could hear a groan coming behind the tree. I ran towards the tree and chanted a ghost-repelling spell Touya told me once. As I reached the creepy tree, I shouted the spell and sprayed the salt towards the figure behind the tree when I realized that…that shadow did not belong to a ghost, it belonged to Syaoran!

"WHAT THE? Who did that?" Syaoran exclaimed hotly as a response to the salt scattered all over his messy brown hair.

My eyes widened in shock and I started to mumble something incoherent resembling this: "Syaoran? Oh gosh, I am so sorry! I thought you were the ghost from Naoko's story because your shadow looked so creepy and so I decided to sprinkle some salt because dad once said that salt was supposed to shoo off ghosts and Touya said the incantation I just chanted is supposed to scare ghosts away and so I just…"

Syaoran interrupted my mumbling by saying "It's alright Sakura, no big deal, I just can't believe you thought I was a ghost!"

After a brief pause, Syaoran started to laugh uncontrollably and I followed in suit. We laughed until our stomachs and cheeks hurt from all the smiling.

"Are you that scared of Naoko's story?" he mocked.

Suddenly remembering Naoko's story again, I said "Y-y-yesss! Aren't you scared Syaoran-kun?"

He laughed his rough yet melodious giggle and replied all jokingly "Hahahaha! That was nothing Sakura! Wait till you hear scary stories from Hong Kong! Mei Lin tells the best Chinese ghost stories!"

"H-h-eee? Mei Lin? Uuuhh, so, whatcha doing behind a tree at this time?" I said, desperately trying to change the ghost topic.

Syaoran smirked, knowing that I was trying to change the whole 'scary story' topic and said "I was actually composing a song with my 'gigantic wooden club' "He winked at me at this one as the 'gigantic wooden club' I thought he was holding was really just his guitar. "I was just scribbling some lyrics down in my notebook when you attacked me with salt!"

"HEY! That was pretty scary you know!"

"Hahahaha, sure it was, Sakura!"

Trying to shrug the topic off once more, I said "So, how's your song-writing going, Syaoran?"

Just when he was about to reply, rain started pouring off raucously. Gushes of rainwater started falling down between the gaps of the trees and thunders began to boom.

"Oh crap! Come on Sakura, you don't want to get by lightning don't you?"

I followed him to his tent which was nearer rather than my tent which was at the other end of the camping area. I was wet all over and I was freezing cold.

Syaoran threw a dry towel at my direction and said "Here, get yourself dry. You don't want to get sick right? Meanwhile, can you look away for a bit? My shirt's soaking wet and I want to get changed."

I blushed and looked away. I took my wet sweater off and dried myself off with the towel Syaoran gave.

There was an awkward silence between both of us as we did not know what to say to one another. I broke the silence however, when the thunder struck again. I shrieked and pressed my palms against my ears and started rocking myself back and forth. I might be a sophomore, but I was still scared stiff of the sound of thunders. The addition of Naoko's creepy thunderous ghost setting didn't help either.

"Are you okay Sakura?" Syaoran said worriedly.

I was too scared to respond and I remained rocking myself back and forth in a useless attempt to calm myself down. Tears started pouring down my eyes. I continued to do so until I felt Syaoran's warm arms wrapped around my shoulders.

"It's going to be fine. Don't worry, I'll protect you."

As cheesy as it sounded, my nerves cooled down with the touch of his arms around me and his reassuring words. The heavy rain continued, but the thunders died away.

I'm not sure how long we were in the same position but it was a while before Syaoran said "Darn, the rain's not gonna stop now is it? Gaaahhh."

He removed his arms around me and started digging his bag to find a small, travel-sized pillow.

"Hey Sakura, are you feeling better?"

I was still scared as Naoko's story was stuck in my mind but I nodded anyway.

"Here, why don't you sleep? I'll keep watch and wake you up when the rain isn't so heavy anymore."

I was concerned, "Nu-uh, you need to get some sleep to Syaoran. Who knows what the teachers will come up for the games tomorrow?"

"Naahh, it's okay. Just go to sleep Sakura."

"No, you go to sleep, Syaoran."

"Just sleep Sakura."

"No, YOU sleep Syaoran!"

After a while of those 'you do it, no YOU do it!' conversations, we both giggled and decided not to sleep. I was shivering as I felt cold and so Syaoran threw me a blanket and told me to get warm.

Not wanting him to freeze either, I forced him to share the blanket with me as we sat down next to each other. We talked about our Clow Card capturing days and how we used to have crushes on Yukito. After three hours of chatting, I suddenly grew tired and colder for some reasons. I cuddled myself against his warm, built chest and closed my eyes as I heard the sound of his steady heartbeat. He wrapped his arms around me, kissed me in the cheek and said that he loved me.

I smiled and my eyes started growing heavier and heavier. He started humming Purple Rain for me "I never meant to cause you any sorrow. I never meant to cause you any pain. I only wanted to one time see you laughing. I only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain…"

Just minutes after he started humming, I fell asleep.

"Sakura, the rain stopped already"

I slowly opened my eyes and noticed that it was still rather dark outside. I snuggled against his warm body, not wanting to leave.

"Come on Sakura, wake up. The teachers will go ballistic if they caught us."

I forced myself to stand up and thanked Syaoran for being there for me last night. I smiled and leaved his tent.

What do you think guys? Again, I'm sorry for any grammatical errors in my story. I haven't reviewed it again because I'm in a hurry. I will make a few changes if I find any mistakes the next time I review! If you don't understand a part of this chapter, do message me I'll definitely answer! The songs used in this chapter are:

Dakota- A Rocket to the Moon (sang by Syaoran in the first part of the chapter, I edited some of the lyrics though :p )

Purple Rain- Prince

Solana24

You're the first one to review! Thanks soooo much! I'm doing my best to try and make the story in accordance to the end of the Sealed Card movie/the last chapter of CCS. I'll update soon!

NoOneYouShouldKnow

It will get really interesting, and Naoko will definitely show up in the story! You'll find out why Sakura broke up with Syaoran either in the next chapter or chapter 4. And, they'll get back together for sure! Thanks so much for your review, it really meant a lot to me :D