It has been two weeks since the spaghetti dinner and Sakura and Syaoran are definitely known as going out by their friends. Even though they both had admitted it, (well, not really, but they didn't deny it either) they still haven't...well, kissed yet.
It's kind of ridiculous, you know...well, okay, very ridiculous, almost everyone knows that the first step of a relationship is a kiss...um, mostly anyway. Both people were way too shy to kiss each other, not even a peck on the cheek! And after the first 'date'...they haven't gone out once. Then again, they are too shy.
"You have got to be kidding me." Meiling said ridiculously. " You still haven't kissed?"
Syaoran munched on his lunch while he ignored Meiling's babbling about how important a first kiss is. Even though he was blushing and was trying to ignore the fact that Meiling was actually right, (god, how he hated that) he still pretended to be deaf and paid more attention on his food than he ever did.
"I mean, come on, it's been two freakin' weeks!" Meiling yelped. "You guys have been together for two weeks and you still haven't kissed! What's with that?!"
"Poor Syaoran, Meiling's yelling at you about your relationship again, huh?" Eriol appeared and it gave Syaoran something to glare at.
"None of your business." The brown-haired boy stated and continued eating his food.
"I mean, seriously–"
"Meiling, could you stop torturing the poor Li-kun here?" Tomoyo half-begged as she and Sakura walked over to the three students. Sakura was smiling. Just smiling. Or in Syaoran's case, smirking. Syaoran, at the time, was almost grateful that Tomoyo was backing up for him. "I mean, the shy boy still hasn't matured yet, give him some time!" The respect he had for her suddenly disappeared.
"Maybe you're right, Tomoyo-chan." Meiling said, sighing dramatically. "At least, my little boy has grown up to be in a relationship!"
Syaoran made a face at her while Sakura walked over and settled herself next to him. She took his hand. "Hope Meiling-chan hasn't been too hard on you." She whispered in his ear.
"Well, she was." Syaoran said back with his head leaned forward a bit. "But that doesn't really matter now." The two people smiled at each other sweetly.
"Okay, I did say I want you guys to kiss, but the only thing I'm thinking right now is 'ew'." Meiling stated, and went back to her lunch after the two people gave her a face.
"Say, Syaoran," Sakura whispered after swallowing her home-made sushi, "wanna come over tonight? My dad made some cake."
"Hoohoo..." Meiling whistled, Sakura glared at her playfully, "girlfriend asking out her boyfriend for a date. Wow...time really has changed!"
"Shut up." Syaoran stated, and returned his full attention back to the blushing Sakura. "Sure, I'd love to come, anything to get away from this person." He pointed a finger at Meiling who stuck her tongue out.
Sakura smiled and looked at her watch to Syaoran's confusion. Why was she concerned about the time? Looking up again, she added, "I need to buy some things first and get ready before you come. How 'bout you come over at 6?"
"No prob." Syaoran said and returned back to his lunch, trying his hardest to not show the flame of happiness inside him.
Sakura was doing the same.
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Sakura sat at the dining table doing her homework, while waiting for the pizza in the oven to be finished. She glances up from her work to the clock on her wall, it read: 5:30; hopefully, the pizza will be finished before Syaoran comes.
Kero floated down quietly to the kitchen and smelled the pizza in the oven, hungry, then he glanced at Sakura who seemed to be stuck on some algebra problem with her tongue stuck out on one side of her mouth.
"Sakura?" Kero asked quietly and floated to her side, glancing over her shoulder as he settled himself on it. "Why are you making pizza?"
Sakura smiled in triumph when she finally solved the problem. She set her pencil down and yawned, while looking at Kero with tired eyes. "Syaoran's coming over tonight...Since dad made cake and I can't finish it–"
"I can finish it!" Kero said suggestively as his eyes sparkled in excitement. "When did your dad make it? How come I don't know?!"
"Sush down, Kero-chan!" Sakura exclaimed and covered half his face with her hand. "Remember that we still have neighbors!"
"But why did you have to like that Chinese brat?" Kero said in a muffled voice and pulled himself out of the girl's grasp. "He's your enemy; well, your rival at least. The Li clan is not exactly a nice house!" Sakura didn't care.
"So? That doesn't mean Syaoran's a bad guy!" Kero shook his head.
"If he knows that you're the person he's looking for, he's gonna be mad...And he might take you back to his family and help them punish you! Clow invented me so I know a thing or two about them. Don't even get me started on Yelan, the brat's mother, I've met her before." Sakura looked at him curiously. "She's strict. Very strict." He added.
A chime from the oven interrupted Sakura from her curious thoughts. She walked over to the stove and opened it, revealing a perfectly made pepperoni pizza with heat coming out from the entrance.
"Whaaa!!!!" Kero came over and screeched in her ear dramatically. "Pizza!!!" He reached a paw inside the door and touched the pizza, eventually getting himself burnt and red. The fur on his paw sizzled.
"What are you thinking, Kero-chan?" Sakura asked and picked Kero up, and turned on some cold water in the sink. Kero was almost crying as Sakura let the water soak his burnt up fur. His fur isn't red anymore, but Kero still felt the stinging pain.
"Ow." He mumbled, and Sakura gently dried his paw with a towel.
"Be careful." Sakura said and returned to the oven, taking a towel first before touching it and pulling the tray out. She closed the door, and set the hot pizza on a big cutting board near her. Kero stayed away from it.
Just at the same time, her doorbell rang loudly in the living room, startling Sakura from her place and Kero jumped, too, with his wings. Silently and hurriedly, Sakura signaled Kero to fly back to her room and hide, which Kero agreed. She rinsed her hand swiftly, with no apparent reason, and dried it with her towel before rushing to get the door, smiling.
"Hi, Syaoran." She said shyly and stepped away from the door. "You're, uh..." she looked at the clock, "early! Very, early." Wow, it's only 5:45! She thought silently.
"Yeah," Syaoran shrugged and stepped in, "I just thought being early is better than being late." He pulled out something from behind his back and gave it to Sakura, blushing...really blushing. "I just...thought it would be nice." Sakura accepted it happily.
"Thanks." She exclaimed, and turned to the kitchen to get a vase to put the flower in.
She then took the strawberry cake out from her refrigerator while Syaoran walked around the living room to look at some pictures. He's always liked the pictures in his...girlfriends', house.
"Syaoran!" Sakura yelled from the kitchen and her boyfriend hurried over. Sakura was cutting the cake next to a teapot with steam coming out from the top. Empty cups were near it, and Syaoran knew exactly what to do.
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"Ah!" Sakura gasped as Syaoran smudged some frosting on her face, laughing. She returned back with a handful of cream and smeared it on his face as well, while he turned his head to protect himself, but eventually, she still got him on the eye.
The pizza was still warm, and they only ate about 4 slices. But it was the cake that got their full attention as they started to use the food to attack each other on the faces. The cake was barely eaten, except for the parts where the white frosting is missing that were replaced onto each other's features.
As they were having fun, Sakura's brother has reached the door of the house with his best friend. He heard the two people screeching inside the house...And that frightened him. Without thinking, Toya barged into the house with a loud bang...and a trip on the edge of the door frame...and the sound of glass breaking as he fell and hit a table where a vase was settled on. The two teenagers paused to look at his figure on the ground, both gaping.
"What the heck are you guys doing?!" The girl's brother jumped up and had reached them within a second. Sakura had covered her ears with her hands.
"What the heck are you doing home?" The girl stood up and retorted. Toya looked at her incredulously.
"Why didn't you look at the note on the whiteboard?" He yelled, and Sakura turned her head to look at the little board that was hanging 'innocently' on the wall next to her.
On it said: Hey kaiju, Since tomorrow's my Thanksgiving break, I'm coming home today. I have to work first though and'll probably be back at around 6:30. Make some extra food incase Yuki is coming over, too.
Sakura didn't say a word, her face was flushed and her mouth was opened, hanging. Then she turned to look at her brother who gave her a I told you look.
"Toya, no need to be that angry." Yuki said, his eyes looking apologetically towards Syaoran behind his glasses. Syaoran felt something, Sakura could tell by the look on his face.
"Oh! Yukito-san, you're here!" Sakura exclaimed and jumped over in front of him to block him from Syaoran's gaze. "I've made pizza! I can make more if you're hungry."
"You'd better." Toya mumbled, connecting his glare with Syaoran's cold one. Sweat-dropping, she pulled Syaoran from his seat and stuttered.
"Well, I'll be back right after I walk Syaoran to the door!" Sakura said and pulled the dark-haired boy with her to the door.
"Why are you pulling me away?" Syaoran asked once they reached the door. "I wanna show him some of my martial arts skills." He added half-heartedly.
"I don't want him to kill you!" Sakura said, Syaoran could tell by her eyes that she wasn't kidding. "He's like 5 year older than us and he's been learning karate since he was like 7! He has more experience that any of us!" Syaoran grunted.
"Next time, you're coming to my place!" He said, still glaring at Toya's direction in the house.
Sakura just smiled as Syaoran leaned against the gate of her house while she stood on the stairs so she was the same height as him; they both waited for one of them to talk. After a moment of awkward silence, Syaoran scratched his neck awkwardly and stood up. "Well, I'm gonna go now." He sighed. "See ya then."
Sakura glanced at him, not knowing if whether she should hug him, or walk him to his place, or...
Slowly, Sakura leaned forward, giving him a hint of what she was asking for. He realized what she was doing and grinned, leaning forward also. He placed a hand on her cheek gently, and felt the soft, heated up skin under his palm, enjoying the content blush of his girl. His girl (smirk). Just when their lips are close enough to feel each others breaths...
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Toya bursted into flames inside the house as he saw them almost kiss each other through the kitchen window. Good thing Yuki was there to keep him back from running out of the house with burnt up hair.
Syaoran's head bolted up as he heard the elder boy's yell, his hand was hanging in midair next to Sakura's cheek and she was looking at the window in which her brother was looking through earlier. Her expression was half-way between exasperation and anger. Well actually, mostly despair...
"Toya! Calm down! She's fifteen!" She heard Yuki yell from inside the house, obviously struggling to keep her brother quiet.
"If you dare kiss her," Toya's voice rang, "I'm gonna tear you into pieces, brat!" Syaoran took his hand back and looked angry now. He could see the older boy's face through the glass.
Sakura held him back from bursting into the house and get into a fight with her brother. She's already in a lot of trouble from keeping that cardcaptor secret from her boyfriend, she doesn't want him to hate her more that he probably would.
"Syaoran, just ignore him." Sakura sighed and turned him so he was facing her, although he was still glaring at Toya's form.
After a minute or so, Yuki finally managed to pull her brother away from the window. Syaoran stepped away from the gate now and was really ready to leave.
"Well, I guess I'd better leave now before your brother freaks out again." Syaoran sighed and started walking away. Sakura stopped him before he made another step away.
"Syaoran!" She called out, and Syaoran slowly turned around and smiled at her, expecting her to call out for him.
"Yes?" He asked gently. She fidgetted.
"See you...tomorrow!" She asked, feeling stupid for asking such a stupid question that she thought in her stupid mind without stupidly thinking of what she was suppose to say first stupidly...Okay, you get the idea.
Syaoran looked at her quizzically before smiling and nodding, then he turned around again.
"Syaoran!" Sakura yelled again, watching him turn around again. "Uh, have a safe trip home!" Syaoran looked at her weirdly again.
"I will..." He said unsurely, also wanting to run over to her and take her into his arms...But he knew it wasn't the best idea. "Good night."
"Syaoran?" Sakura asked, this time, gently. He turned around again after sighing gently, expecting his girlfriend to say something to keep him from walking away...
Sakura couldn't hold it anymore. She crossed the distance between them and jumped into his arms right after he turned around. She planted a small kiss on his cheek (to Syaoran's disappointment) and jumped back, blushing fiercely.
"Bye!" She exclaimed and sprinted back to her house, leaving Syaoran standing there, dumfounded, redfaced, and...
Completely under the young girl's spell.
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Well, waddya think? Another fluffy chapter...to bad they still haven't kissed. Oh well, please leave some reviews!!! :)
