COUNTRY ROADS

AUTHOR'S NOTES: I'm back once again with another boring chapter… Thanks by the way to those who reviewed the last chapter… And so, they are off to Rome and they are already high school graduates… I wonder what'll happen to them in Rome… What the heck is Touya hiding!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Card Captor Sakura… Only the plot is mine…

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LAST CHAPTER:

"H-hai!" Syaoran said not knowing what to say. Did he just entrust Sakura to him!

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CHAPTER FOUR: THE FLIGHT

Four o'clock in the morning, Kinomoto Sakura was roaming around the house fixing her stuff, getting ready for their trip. That night, after Touya had his conversation with Syaoran, she was just too happy to even argue with him and make him tell her what they talked about. Besides, it was their only man to man talk and she wasn't going to interfere anymore… They are growing close, right? That's what she thought.

Thinking about what Touya just told him that night, Syaoran couldn't sleep. He was stuck with the thought that he even dared to entrust Sakura to him who he hated so much since the time that they met. Besides, where is he going? Or, what's going to happen? No one knows. Only Touya knows where he is going to be after a few months. Not even his father knows about this.

Still not getting any sleep, Syaoran gave up and stood up. He walked over to the kitchen counter and got himself something to eat. It was already five o'clock and their flight is at 6:30. After finalizing all his stuff last night, he retired to bed early. Only, he wasn't able to sleep until now. After taking a bath and dressing up, he was on his way to Sakura's. He had promised Touya to take care of his sister and he wasn't going to break that promise, even though it was a promise between him and his worst enemy.

Quarter to six, he was already on his way to Sakura's house bringing with him his convertible car. He was going to leave that car in Eriol's house for the whole trip so that he can drop Sakura off to her house on their way home from Rome.

Ten minutes before six, he was already inside Sakura's living room waiting for her to come down. Again, he and Touya were in a deep conversation. Fujitaka was upstairs helping his daughter with her stuff, or should I say luggage…

"I'm not kidding. When something happens to my sister, you are totally going to pay. You got that!" Touya said starting his old oh-so-protective brother tone.

Syaoran, having another one of their normal conversations, glared at him as if he was really going to do something to Sakura to which of course he wasn't.

"Sorry to keep you waiting….!" Sakura said as she walked towards the last step of the stairs. Syaoran, presently not listening to Touya's speech, was staring at Sakura. She wore a pink tank top and a white jacket since it was cold. Then she had white capri pants that stopped a bit below her knees and was wearing light brown colored Chuck Taylor (Chucks, those famous converse shoes now a days) rubber shoes with matching light pink socks that run through her ankle. She had her hair loose but she did have a pink clip at the right side of her hair.

Noticing that he doesn't have an audience right now, Touya glared at Syaoran who he caught staring at his sister.

Sakura walked towards Syaoran with her luggage being dragged by her. "Ne, Syaoran… You alright?" she asked waving her hands in front of him as she came in closer. She couldn't tease Syaoran by kissing him in the cheek with her brother just right beside him at the moment.

"Huh?" he finally came through. "Uh… Yeah… Shall we?" he asked.

Sakura smiled at him and said her goodbyes to her brother and father who wished them a safe trip. It was odd enough for Touya wishing Syaoran and Sakura a safe trip. But Sakura didn't mind. She thought that he was just trying to be nice to Syaoran because he did pick her up and saving him the trouble of going to the airport.

"Where are they!" Tomoyo asked Eriol as they were waiting for Sakura and Syaoran to arrive at Eriol's house. Tomoyo arrived there thirty minutes earlier to video her cousin and Syaoran together.

Having only fifteen minutes left, Tomoyo and Eriol started to worry. If they don't leave now, they'll miss their flight.

Seconds later, Syaoran turned to Eriol's gate and parked his car at the garage. Tomoyo, having her camera ready, taped Sakura and Syaoran as he drove by the driveway. "What took you guys so long?" Eriol asked as he slowly followed them towards to garage.

"Sorry… We got stuck in traffic…" Sakura said as she stepped out of the car first to start unloading their stuff and load it to Eriol's car which they were having Nakuru to drive them to the airport.

Tomoyo, still not putting her camera away, squealed, "Sakura-chan kawaii!"

Still unloading their stuff now with Syaoran and Eriol's help, Sakura blushed to the thought that Tomoyo was still capturing this. "Ne, Tomoyo-chan, we have to get going…." Eriol stated as he placed the last of Sakura's things. Eriol and Syaoran only had 1 luggage and they had packed all the stuff that they needed in that one luggage. On the other hand, Tomoyo and Sakura didn't have that much convention in mind. They had packed almost one fourth of what their own cabinets could occupy. For short, Tomoyo had 3 luggages and Sakura had 2.

Putting the camera away at last, Tomoyo boarded the car after Sakura did. And, they were off the airport.

o-o-o-o-o- AIRPORT -o-o-o-o-o

"Ja ne, Nakuru-san… Arigato for taking us to the airport…" both Sakura and Tomoyo said before Nakuru could drive away.

Syaoran and Eriol checked them in as Sakura and Tomoyo bought something for them to eat while they were waiting. Well, they didn't have to wait for long anyway, just something to munch on. They got there ten minutes before their flight.

Arriving at their designated gate three minutes before the time, they all sat by the gate and talked. By the time that the voice intercom called on their flight number, they all stood up and walked towards the gate, laughing. Why? Well, Sakura ended up telling them about Touya's mysterious moves these days. They found that funny because Touya would usually grab Syaoran and kill him then if ever he saw Sakura with Syaoran, which was always.

The sudden change of attitude, for Sakura was something that she thought he liked to change since she already was a college student the time she stepped back at Japan. For Syaoran on the other hand, he thought that maybe he finally gave up and trusted her to him. Tomoyo and Eriol, on the other hand, found it funny because of the fact that they never thought that that was actually possible.

It was going to be a long flight. They'd have a stop at India where they'll have to wait for an hour. Their arrangements on their seats were by pairs as Eriol arranged it to be. Sakura and Syaoran were together while he and Tomoyo were in front of them.

Not having enough sleep, Sakura fell asleep and had her head leaning on Syaoran's shoulders a few minutes after. Not minding that even though his heart was racing, Syaoran too felt tired and fell asleep himself.

Bringing a book, Eriol and Tomoyo read for the first two hours, talked for the next hour and slept the last ones. The book that they were both bringing happened to be the sequel and prequel of the books that they had. Eriol truly enjoyed the flight with Tomoyo and was planning on surprising her more. He didn't know that Tomoyo liked the book. Now that he knew what she liked, he's gonna have to revise their schedule. It looks like there were places that Tomoyo didn't want to visit but he insisted to.

The last two hours of the flight to India, Sakura and Syaoran were the ones awake this time. Having known each other for so long, they acted like children teasing each other like they usually did. People who passed by them would think that they were more than friends.

Accidentally, Syaoran didn't have any control on what he was doing at this point, he leaned on Sakura, who was laughing, and kissed her square on the lips. Shocked, Sakura didn't know what to do. A few minutes after, Syaoran moved back and thought of what he just did. "G-gomen…!" he said, now looking at his lap.

Still shocked, Sakura didn't know what to answer. She just stared at Syaoran like he was crazy or something. But deep inside, she knew that he didn't accidentally did that…

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AUTHOR'S NOTES: Still lame updates… I really can't remove this mental-block mode… I just have to remove this before we even start working on our research paper! Anyway, sorry for the lame, boring and short chapter… Please review… Flames are accepted…