Disclaimer: I do not own any of the CCS characters and the events in this story did not happen in the actual series.

Title: Double Lives

Summary: Sakura is a 16 year old dork at her school. She is not very popular and is often teased for being late all the time. She does have one really good friend named Tomoyo Daidoji though who could be the most popular girl in school if she decided to. But, instead she would rather stay with her dear childhood friend Sakura. Syaoran Li is the most popular guy in school, too confident for his own good. He has known Tomoyo and Sakura his whole life and, has teased Sakura ever since she was a little girl. But, little does everyone know, Sakura is the girl that everyone is dying to be friends with, especially the guys. She is a legend on the internet but, a nobody in the school. What could happen?


Chapter Seven: Taking Her Advice

Syaoran's POV

It was morning. I was sitting on the branch of a tree in the Kinomoto's yard and I could hear Sakura running around her house like she was insane. It was quite amusing. I had been sitting there for about twenty mintues now and I was definitely going to be late for school. But, I didn't really care.

Finally the petite girl came gliding out of the front door on her rollerblades and I jumped down from the tree and smoothly fell into step with her.

"Hey Sakura-chan, morning."

I grinned at her as she looked at me out of the corner of her eye. She seemed to be rather distracted at the moment.

"Oh...hi Syaoran-kun..."

And then she did a double take and turned completely to face me, shock written all over her face. I was also staring at her quite shocked from somewhere up there on cloud nine. She actually called me Syaoran...like I'm a friend. If I was a girl, I would so squeal right now. Instead, I mentally slapped myself and grinned lazily at her.

"What are you doing here, Li?"

She had this adorable little expression on her face, a cross between a pout and a scowl. I could have hugged her and never let go, and oh man did I want to.

"Well, I'm here to escort you to class today, Sakura."

She frowned at me and I sighed.

"Yeah yeah yeah...don't call you Sakura, call you Kinomoto, I get it."

She nodded her head and seemed slightly taken aback that I wasn't arguing. So, I took the moment to slip her bookbag off her shoulder, it was a standard Tomoeda High messenger bag, and I started walking ahead of her.

"We're already goining to be late so hurry up and skate your butt up here."

I heard her huff behind me but, I also heard the quiet rumble of her skates gliding over the sidewalk. As she drew level with me, she seemed to be ready to have a heart attack, the poor girl was so confused. I chuckled. She was so short too...even on her skates.

"What are you laughing at?" Her voice was snappish but, that only made it all seem funnier. I started to laugh harder.

She huffed and pouted and crossed her arms.

"Would you shut up, Li?!"

I couldn't help it. I had to do it. I kissed her on the cheek.

"No, I will not shut up, Kinomoto."

The effect was brilliant. Her face was a bright cherry red and her eyes were wide with shock. She turned her face away from me and I almost groaned in dissappointment. Sure, i got to see her blush all the time but, it wasn't often that she did it because of me.

"Just give my bookbag so I can get going, Li."

I shook my head smirking lightly.

"No can do."

She sighed in frustration and I knew that she knew that she might as well give up.

"Fine. Whatever."

I thought about putting my arm around her shoulders but, I figured that if I pushed it and did anything more affectionate than I already had, she'd probably start screaming rape. So, we lapsed into a relatively comfortable silence for the rest of the journey to school.

When we reached the gate. The bell rang. She groaned and held out her hand for her backback.

"I'll take it from here, Li."

I walked past her without a single backwards glance and I knew she was confused. When the second bell rang she snapped out of it and came stumbling after me. She was very confused.

"Li! What're you doing? Give me my bag."

I just ignored her. She huffed and fell quiet. This was actually pretty amusing. After climbing a couple flights of stairs I headed down the hall and stopped in front of her locker, dropped her bag down, and then leaned against the locker next to hers. She quirked her eyebrow and then the thrid and final bell rang. She squeaked and stated fumbling around with her lock in her haste. She kept messing up the combination. I gently pushed her aside.

"What's your combination?" I grabbed the lock ready to spin in the code. She placed her hands on her hips and gave me the dirtiest look I had ever seen.

"Syaoran Li, I knew it the moment i saw you at my door. Do you really think I'm dumb enough to give you my locker combination so you can feel it with dirt, bugs, and all kinds of other foul things?" She shook her head. "No way."

I sighed and gave her a frustarted look. There was a slight plead in my voice. No female can resist me when I do this.

"Just tell me the combination..."

Her face was tinged a light pink. She looked down at the ground.

"4...1...16." She was still staring at the ground. I spun the code in and popped the lock open, opened her locker for her, and stepped out of the way.

She knelt down in front of her locker and transfered a few books from her locker to her bag and vice versa. As she stood up I grabbed her bag again. She turned around to face me, obviously about to protest but, I cut her off.

"We're late." She sighed and followed me to the classroom.

As soon as I opened the door and let her step in ahead of me, whispers broke out among the class. Students were pointing at Sakura and laughing. Sakura paid no mind to this. I was oddly proud of how strong she was. I walked in behind her and gave the class a stern look. "Oh shut it, will you?"

Practically everyone in the classroom gasped and I smirked in satisfaction. Sakura stopped dead in her tracks and turned to look at me, obviously not sure that I had just come to her defense. I just walked past. Headed straight for the back of the room, set her bag on her desk, and sat down in my seat behind hers. Everyone looked a bit confused now.

I watched as Sakura finally started moving again when Mizuki-sensei gave her a pointed stare. She walked slowly to her desk in front of me staring at me in a weird way the whole time. When she sat down she took out a pencil and started playing with it her lap.

"Thanks..." I grinned.

Maybe this was actually working...


Sakura's POV

I looked over at Tomoyo-chan and Meiling-chan. They both looked just as confused as me. Why was Syaoran...grrr...I mean li...why was Li being so nice to me? It made no sense. He couldn't stand me. And why the hell did I have to say Thanks?!

"Hoeee..."

I sighed and rested my head in my arms. Then I felt something hit my head. I sat up and a little paper ball fell of my shoulder and landed in my lap. I blinked, looked around, and Meiling immediately caught my eye. She was grinning from ear to ear. So, it was a note. Not just a paper ball that someone was dared to throw at my head. I uncrumpled it as best as I could and read the message.

Sakkura-chan...can I train you in martial arts? I know this may seem like a weird question but, you need to learn self defense and it will give me something to do, you know? I've been so bored lately. There's hardly anything to do in that big old house and I havn't gotten to see you that much except at school...PLEASE???????????? -gives you the pout- FEAR THE POWER OF THE POUT SAKURA-CHAN!

I reread the paper and sweatdropped. Sometimes Meiling was ever weirder than Tomoyo. I shook my head and wrote something oon the paper and threw it back at her.

Sure, why not? But, don't hit me with the paper again!

I looked back at her and she smiled all big like and she gave me the peace sign. I rolled my eyes and looked back to the front of the room where Mizuki-sensei was going on about the next book on our reading list.

How utterly...dull. Sadly, just like in elementary school and middle school. Tomoyo was the one big on reading, not moi. I am more like Syaoran in that department. I pick the easiest book to read and I only read for school. Wait...I shook my head quickly trying to stop my brain from straying to thoughts of Syaoran. Why am I thinking of him?! I glared at my desk in concentration and bit my lip as I repetitively told my brain not to think of Syaoran. However, I obvioulsy must not be quite as good at multi tasking as I may have thought.

I could hear Mizuki-sensei calling my name but, I couldn't answer her just then. The first thing I would probably say would be 'Syaoran' and if I did that I'd die. I would just die. So, I concentrated harder in an effort to ignore. Bad decision. Very very very bad decision. As all my thoughts were focused on getting Syaoran out of my brain. My brain began to forget to do all other things...such as...breathe.

I suddenly felt quite light headed and at first I thought that this meant that my thoughts were leaving Syaoran but, then, I realized all too late, just before blackness took over. 'Oh wait...I'm not breathing.' And then everything went dark.


Syaoran's POV

I was watching Sakura in a state of amusement. The noises she was making were quite peculiar and she kept shaking her head. It was quite comical really until Mizuki-sensei starting calling her and she didn't answer. At first I thought she was actually daring to defy the teacher but, then as her form slumped over in her desk right in front of me, I knew something was definitely wrong.

I was out of my seat faster than if I'd be electrocuted out of my chair. I quickly swooped Sakura up in my arms bridal style and started for the front of the classroom not giving a single glance to the rest of the students in the classroom. How odd they must think this is. I stopped in front of Mizuki-sensei.

"I'll take her to the nurse's office."

The sensei nodded her approval and I rushed out of teh room and down the hall and down a flight of stairs. I made a right and hurried down to the end of the hall and slammed the nurse's door open. She looke dup at me from her desk quite bewildered as to why a student or anyone for that matter would bang her door open and barge in like that. I nodded my head towards the girl in my arms and she immediately understood.

"Right this way young man, you can lay her down right here." She was standing next to the bed she was indicating so I quickly laid Sakura down and stepped back. The nurse stared at me.

"What?" I was honestly confused as to what she wanted. Shouldn't she be dealing with Sakura right now? Not me?

"Well, aren't you going to tell me what happened? I need to know in order to figure out what's wrong with her."

Oh...so that's why she was staring at me...heh...heh...

"Well, she was just sitting in the desk in front of me and she kept shaking her head and mumbling weird things under her breath and then she just slumped over! I don't get it! Why would that happen?! Id ther something wrong with her?! Was she having a seizure?!" My breath came in long ragged gasps as I stared at the nurse. She shook her head and then smiled at me.

"You like her don't you?"

I blushed and looked down at my shoes. Why did I always get like this when it came to Sakura. I nodded my head in response.

"Well, don't worry, she'll be fine. I've got her records right here. Kinomoto, Sakura. Well, she has no medical problems or anything like that. It was probably just heat. Or maybe even something as ridikulus as she forgot to breathe." She smiled kindly at me as I tilted my head up o look at her.

"Forgetting to breathe sounds like something she might just do." I shook my head. It was so true. And that, just made her all the more adorable to me.


Sakura's POV

I opened my eyes slowly and for a moment I had no idea where I was. Until I recognized the nurse's offie. I goraned as I tried to sit up but, a hand pushed me back down. I blinked in confusion and then looked over in the direction of the owner of the hand. My face blanched.

"What are you doing here?"

He quirked an eyebrow and gave me an amused smirk before bringing his lips to my ear and speaking in a low seductive tone, his breath causing my skin to tingle.

"Why Sakura, the mere fact that I was sitting so close behind you, caused you to forget to breathe, you fainted. And Frankly, I'm flattered that you find me so irresistable."

I mentally gagged before looking at him out of the corner of my eye.

"Li, you have two seconds to get the hell away from me or your family jewels get crushed." I gave him a pleasant smile and watched in satisfaction as he quickly backed away, arms up in a form of surrender. Oh how I had him wrapped around my pinky. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!...Uh...sorry...got a bit carried away there.

Li was about to make some kind of smart allec retort, I know it but, the nurse came in with a super excited Meiling following behind her. The nurse gave me an apologetic look and walked off to let the three of us be alone.

"Hi Sakura! Are you feeling better now?"

I nodded my head and then gave her a confused look.

"Where's Tomoyo-chan?"

I watched in fascination as Meiling's eyes seemed to light up with some sort of mischief.

"Oh...she's having lunch with Eriol-kun. Isn't that nice Sakura-chan?"

I blinked a few times before Meiling's hidden message sunk in. Ohh...So, Tomoyo and Eriol, huh? Well, they'd mak an interesting couple. Perfect for each other. Polite and yet, so very weird at the same time. I laughed.

"Oh...and I have one other thing to tell you Sakura-chan."

I stared at her waiting for her to continue.

"You know how I was supposed to train you in martial arts, ne?"

I nodded my head in response.

"Well, I can't do it...Auntie Yelan has decided that I need to achieve my black belt in all the areas of martial arts I've been taking before I can train anyone else...but, she suggested that Syaoran train since he already has his black belt in everything. Alright? First lesson's tonight at 5. Be prepared Sakura-chan. You too Syaoran." And with that she ran out the door odangos flying behind her.

I looked over at Syaoran, a scowl forming on my face.

"You planned this didn't you?!"

His face was just as shocked as mine however and he shook his head deftly.

"Of course I didn't, I mean who on Earth would want to spend time with you Sakura-chan?" Then he ruffled my hair in a playful manner, winked and ran out the door after Meiling.

I just sat there and watched his back as he disappeared from view. Not long after, the nurse came back in with a note signed by her explaining why I was late to class. I took and she bid me fairwell telling me to come back if I felt light headed or dizzy at all.

I left the room after telling her thank you and I was about to go on to find something to eat when someone jumped out at from out of nowhere. It was Syaoran. I sighed.

"I thought you actually ran off and left me alone for once. Jeez, you're so annoying. Would you just leav me alone?! We're not friends! You hate me! I hate you! So, why the hell do you have to bug me every single day?! Do you think this is funny or something?! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"

I glared up at him my chest rising and falling in tune with my heavy breathing. ANd then something about the look in his eyes made me falter. What was that? Anger or grief? Or perhaps a mix of both? I took a step backwards and he followed. I took a few more steps backwards and he still followed. Pretty soon I was backed up against the wall with bowhere to run and no idea what Syaoran was thinking.

He placed an open plam on the wall on either side of me so that I was pinned. I could've ducked down and crawled away fi he hadn't taken that exact moment to step forward so that his body was pressed against mine. I blushed. His face was so close to mine. And our bodies were literally pressed up against each other. He ws so warm. It actually felt kinda nice. And then my breath caught as he brought his lips closer to mine.

"Do you really think I hate you, Sakura-chan?"

I closed my eyes not quite sure what was going to happen. And I caught myself thinking. 'Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if he kissed me.'


A/N: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Total cliffhanger. God, aren't I just sooooo evil? But, did you liek teh chapter? Didja didja didja? I can't hear you!!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHA! NOw you must all wait for me to update again...hehehehehe!

Angelus: "What'd you go and do that to them for?! That is so unfair! Even I don't write cliffhangers at parts that critical!...sometimes..." -bonks me on the head-

Me: "Owwww...!"

Angelus: "Hah!"

Me: -pouts- "Meanie..."

Oh! And Kyuuki-chan! I luffers you mesh lufferly! And this be dedicated to you!!!!!!!! Okies well, I'll try to update soon, I luffs you all you terrific peoples you!!!!!!!!!! READ AND REVIEW!!!!!!!!!