My Lips Are Sealed
Disclaimer: I own only my precious story here.
Author's Note: -huggies reviews-
I should indicate some ages shouldn't I? SSET, etc. is 17; Touya & Yukito is 23 (only in this particular story)
This is a definite Syao-Kura fic with hints of Eriol-Tomoyo (towards the end of course).
'Italics' are thoughts or "in the mind"
Mini Recap
The young lady grinned and spoke. "It's been a long while, cousin."
"Yea, Meiling."
And she was greeted by none other than Li Syaoran.
4. K i s u
Monday
Ring ring
Meiling stretched her arms and legs after a long, boring "first" day of school.
"School is mad boring. Glad it's finally over…well, for the time being anyways."
'So why don't we go explore around?! –squealed a devil-looking-like Meiling-'
'What about Syaoran? You were supposed to meet him after school to meet his girlfriend. –asked a calm and collected angel-looking-like Meiling-'
'Oh, we'll just be gone for a few hours…no one will notice…and I'm sure Miss umm…what's-her-name can wait a little while -smirked devil Meiling-'
'But…'
'S-h-o-p-p-i-n-g. Angel dear, you can't past on that! –grinned devil Meiling-'
So after a devil vs. angel debate, Meiling headed to the mall…after changing into something more comfortable first.
"Where did Meiling go?!" Syaoran exclaimed in frustration.
"Calm down Syaoran." Eriol said.
"She was supposed to meet us here right after school…well…me, anyways…"
"Where could she have gone?"
"Lucky I don't have troublesome cousins…" mumbled Eriol.
"What?"
"Nothing. Anyways, you're not a girl, why don't we ask someone who's more professional?"
"…Sakura?"
Diamond is a girl's besttttt friend! (Or so they say, anyways…) What else is a thing that girls like? – What other than shopping?!
Meiling Li walked around holding tons of shopping bags. Hells, she could barely see where she's going, but she really wanted to get that red dress that she just laid her eyes on.
With what seem like a million bags in her hands, she ran through the mall to the other side of the floor with sounds of shuffling bags and the click-clack noise of heels. Boy, can she run… At the moment, all she saw was the shiny red halter. What she didn't see was a guy holding a soda can on one hand, drinking it, and a shopping list on the other, who wasn't paying attention to where he was walking either.
Now, let's picture a rushing Meiling and a calm guy walking steadily. What usually happens in these scenarios?
Crash
'Stupid bags…Maybe I was a bit hyper about that dress…-angel Meiling appears in mind- "Where are your manners, Meiling?"...But my clothes are with sticky SODA!… "Meiling." Fine.' Meiling thought as hereyes were still closed and she was rubbing her head. She then opened her eyes and was about to apologize…
"Watch where you're going!"
As Meiling heard the rude comment, she couldn't help but notice that soda was all over her bags, liquid inside them. And her newly bought perfume that was the last one in stock and she liked it so much, in bitterly, cracked pieces.
'Scratch that. This guy is going down!'
Furious ruby eyes met dark brown ones and she lunged at him.
"Got a picture of her?"
"…No."
Everyone turned to Syaoran with wide eyes. He sweat-dropped.
Sakura elbowed him—hard.
'Itai!'
"Um…black hair and red eyes help?"
"Well…how many black hair girls have red eyes anyways? Shouldn't be that hard." Naoko said.
"Black hair girls usually have—ouch." Chiharu was pulling on Takashi's ears and scolding him as the others gave a nervous laugh.
"Wait…where are we searching?" asked Syaoran.
"Why the mall of course." Sakura said. "What else what a girl love to do when she's new around?"
"And you didn't think of that…" Syaoran said to Eriol and Eriol just shrugged.
"Alright, let's split. Rika and Naoko, go check out the first and second floor. Chiharu and Takashi, go to the third and fourth. Li-san, go with Sakura to the fifth and sixth and Eriol and I will take the top two floors."
Everybody except Eriol and Tomoyo left.
"I have a feeling that Li-san is on the fifth or sixth floor. Don't you think so, Eriol?"
Eriol grinned. "Wanna follow them?"
Tomoyo smiled back.
With Rika and Naoko.
Rika and Naoko's eyes popped out.
There's a black hair girl with red eyes here, there...everywhere.
"You were saying about how many girls have black hair and red eyes?"
"Ahehe…"
With Chiharu and Takashi.
"You know…we should've asked for a better description of his cousin."
"Did you know that descript–" And he was rewarded a punch in the face.
With Syaoran and Sakura
"What does your cousin actually look like?"
"Black hair tied in odangos, ruby red eyes. And I have not a clue of what she's wearing today…"
"Hey, Sakura, why don't we try—"
Syaoran turned around to see no one. Then Syaoran saw Sakura bending down to a little girl who was crying and he walked over to them. Sakura was patting her head and she took out a lollipop and gave it to the little girl.
"Don't worry, I'll help you find your mommy."
"Sakura?"
"Oh, Syaoran, the little girl is lost. Can we help find her mother as well?"
Syaoran nodded, amazed with her gentleness and kindness. He watched as Sakura caressed the little girl's brown hair gently, whispering soothing words, but was then snapped back out to reality with Sakura's sudden raise of voice.
"Hey, what's with all the commotion over there?" Sakura asked as she pointed behind Syaoran. He turned and thought he saw two very long black "pigtails" flying in the air.
"Let's go over there."
Meiling threw a punch at Touya and he dodged it. Well, good guys don't hit ladies, ne?
"Why you bastard! I spent hours buying all that and now it's all stained and broken!"
"It's not my fault you didn't watch where you were going!" Touya said as he evaded another kick; it'd be a real nasty bruise from a high heel if had hit the mark.
"You didn't either!"
"Meiling!"
"Onii-chan!"
They both turned to the familiar voices.
"Syaoran!"
"Sakura!" Then he gritted his teeth, "Gaki."
Meiling scanned Sakura, taking in her features as Syaoran and Touya glared at each other. One for being his sister's boyfriend and the other for the "name-calling."
"Mommy!" The little girl ran to her mommy.
People "awed" at the touching scene and Sakura watched in contentment. Meiling observed in silence as the two males broke their gaze and softened at the reunion of the mother and daughter.
Meiling watched for a few more moments and walked over to Sakura.
"I'm Li Meiling, cousin of Li Syaoran. Nice to meet you." She extended a hand out.
"Kinomoto Sakura. My pleasure, Li-san."
"Call me Meiling; I hate formalities."
"Call me Sakura; I don't like them anymore than you do." Sakura smiled brightly.
"I apologize for your loss because of my brother."
"What! But she-"
Meiling smirked. "It's alright. At least someone is sensible here. Love your girlfriend Syaoran, just hate the brother."
"The feeling is mutual, Meiling." Syaoran replied.
"If you were not a bratty little girl, I would-"
"What did you call me?!"
"I said—"
"Now, can we get out of here first?" Syaoran interrupted, pointing to the stampede of reporters coming their way. When he received no response, he turned around. Except for the crowd of people, Sakura, Touya, Meiling and even Meiling's bags of whatever that was on the floor were missing.
'Again?'
He groaned and then ran for his life.
Tomoyo stopped filming and lowered her camera. She giggled at the scene she just captured and Eriol laughed as they watched behind transparent glass windows from a distant shop.
Li's House-Late Monday Afternoon
After the incident at the mall, Tomoyo called Rika, Naoko, Takashi, and Chiharu to tell them they found Meiling and then they went home because they had plans/homework. The others? Tomoyo, Eriol, Touya, Meiling, Syaoran, and Sakura went to Syaoran's house to "meet" Meiling.
So here we are, in Li's house, not a mansion, Syaoran didn't need that much of a big place anyways. He lived alone with his butler Wei, and now with Meiling too, sitting on the couches, making awkward and random conversations. Meiling had given a very brief introduction of herself and then…silence became golden. I mean, what kind of appropriate conversations can you make anyways?
There's a very scary looking big brother sitting on the couch, glaring at the arm wrapped around his imouto. A starry eye camera girl, not to mention, quite hyper, who's filming this "silent scene", probably naming it "Sakura's Awkward Meeting with the Cousin" or…something similar, sitting at another couch with Eriol next to her. Eriol? He's eating…cake, not giving a care to the world. Meiling was observing the "couple." Syaoran who was looking out the window trying to avoid any conversation and any more unnecessary death glares directed at his arm. Sakura was enjoying life, eating her strawberry cake as if it's the best thing in the world. The picture…looks sooo weird.
"Li-san?" Both "Li-sans" turned to Tomoyo.
"Uhh…can I use the kitchen…table?"
"Sure." Syaoran replied.
"Call me Meiling by the way. Less confusion."
"Ok. Eriol, while they are talking, why don't we go work on our project?"
Eriol looked at Tomoyo, then at the chocolate cake, then at Tomoyo again. "But…"
"Now."
Eriol stood up reluctantly leaving his cake and walked with Tomoyo to the kitchen.
"So… how long have you two been dating?"
Syaoran nearly spit out his soda. As a result, he made weird coughing noises. He knew she came here for a reason, probably because his mother asked to, but popping the question so bold and fast?
"One week before it was exposed." Sakura stated calmly before going back to eat her strawberry and whipped cream cake.
"I see."
5 minutes of awkward silence
"Kaijuu, let's go home."
Flying fork headed over to Touya's direction and missed him by 2 centimeters.
"Onii-chan. Do not call me kaijuu!"
Meiling laughed at the scene and Syaoran chuckled.
"Whatever, we're going home."
"Fine." She put down her plate and went to the kitchen to call for Tomoyo.
"Tomoyo says she'll be staying here a while longer and told us to go home first."
"Whatever."
Syaoran and Meiling escorted them to the door. Touya headed out the door first and as Sakura was halfway out the door, "No 'goodbye kiss?" Meiling asked. Syaoran gave Meiling a look that looked as if he about to murder her.
"That gaki is not kissing the kaijuu!" Touya yelled and then was silenced by Sakura's stomping.
"But Sakura!"
Sakura leaned into Syaoran and gave him a quick peck on the cheek and quickly pushed her way out of the door before Touya can do any damage. Syaoran shut the door in light speed afterwards, in case of Meiling asking for any further affection and to avoid violence from the older sibling.
"I'll get you one day, GAKI!" was heard through the neighborhood as Syaoran turned around to face Meiling, who had a smug look on her face.
"Enjoyed it, Syaoran?"
He gave her a famous 'Syaoran glare' and went to his room.
"I'm going to call this "Bye-bye Kisu!" squealed Tomoyo.
Eriol looked up from his plate of chocolate cake and blinked twice before shoving another forkful of cake into his mouth.
Kinomoto Household
Fujitaka was already home and he was in the kitchen cooking dinner.
"Welcome home, Touya, Sakura." Fujitaka popped his head out from the kitchen and greeted.
"Yea, we're back, Otou-san." Touya replied.
"We're back." Sakura said, lacking emotion as she closed the door.
"I'm going to go shower before dinner. Need the bathroom anyone?"
"No."
"Go ahead Sakura."
She walked up the stairs to her room and gently touched her lips.
Syaoran rested on his bed, tired from the day's events.
He touched his cheek gently, recalling the flashback.
Her lips brushed against his cheek ever so softly. Even if it was just less than half a second… the feel of her warm, soft and sweet mouth—
He immediately sat up and shook his head, making his brown locks becoming more impossibly messy. Syaoran grabbed his green towel and headed for the bathroom, in need of a cold shower to clear his mind.
'Baka Syaoran! This is an act…it always was. Get a grip of yourself!'
"She doesn't seem to be after him for anything. At times, they even seem distant to each other, which means…she most likely doesn't know."
'Ano metsuki…'
The next morning...
Syaoran yawned as he came out to the kitchen and saw a pile of letters on the table. He skimmed through them until he saw a letter from the bank. Syaoran opened it.
'My personal credit card bill? When was the last time I used it anyways?'
Syaoran scanned the details…
"MEILING LI!"
Meiling was putting on her make-up when she heard Syaoran calling her name.
"Uh-oh. The cat's out of the bag. At least shopping without looking at the price was mad fun." Meiling giggled.
'Minus the older Kinomoto that is… -devil Meiling was holding up a fork-'
She was reminded of the encounter with Kinomoto Touya yesterday. "Mou!!"
Then she spotted a flick of gold from her desk.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here… Looks like I forgot to give this precious thing back." Meiling smirked as she held up a gold card in her hand.
Author's Note: Ne wayz, I included weirdo scenes. Cake! XD I'm going to cut out most of the drama parts because I want to focus on the actual story. Reason being, last chapter, had like more than half of the chapter dedicated to the drama so I might "fast forward" the drama and only put some scenes that are important to the story or just for entertainment; the last chapter was supposed to progress the Cherry-Rang relationship, but I overdid it... Doing the drama also requires planning, which I don't want to plan for the drama too, but there is a scene that I already planned & will keep, since it is relevant to the story.
About the Touya-Meiling scene… I just did it for "crappy comedy relief" and to make an "unusual meeting" for Kura-Mei. I did not use Meiling as a fiancé because I merely dislike a clingy Meiling and it's obvious that I already set up a role for her…
Miscellaneous: Itai- Hurt/That hurt; Ano- that/those; metsuki- eyes; expression/look of eyes; Baka- Idiot/Stupid/Foolish
Pardon my mistakes in this chapter; got too lazy to re-read it another time so just left it like it is. Reviews are muchies appreciated. –smiles-
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